twenty one
After dinner, the two of them packed the luggage they had brought with them in Li Kai'an's bedroom.
Li Kaian put on thick home clothes and cotton slippers. He pulled out an electric heater from under the table and turned it on. He couldn't help but rub his hands in front of the heating net and said, "It's really cold. It seems to be even worse than over there." cold."
"It's colder than over there." Chu Yu spread the quilt on the bed, hugged Li Kaian from behind, and asked softly like a baby, "Then should I sleep on the floor?"
"You want to freeze to death? Of course you have to sleep in bed in this weather." Li Kaian grabbed Chu Yu's hands and tried to pry them off his waist, but his hands were as cold as ice cubes, so Li Kaian made a move. He simply held Chu Yu's hand without moving, and added, "There is no spare room in the house. It's not that I want to live with you."
Chu Yu hummed obediently, maybe because he was cold, and had a soft nasal sound.
Li Kaian suddenly felt that he was bullying a small animal, so he slapped himself in the face for a second: "But it's good to live with you. It's warm to sleep together."
After finishing speaking, before Chu Yu started to get excited and lose his IQ, Li Kaian quickly shook him off and strode out of the bedroom, saying: "I'll go out to get something, and you can heat it on the electric heater for a while."
Chu Yu giggled to himself for a while at the electric heater, then got into the ice-cold quilt, gritted his teeth, and lay down in it.
Ten minutes later, Li Kaian opened the door and came in.
Chu Yu hurriedly moved into the bed and greeted him with bright eyes: "Quick, lie down in, I'm just covering up the heat."
Li Kaian was holding a hand warmer in one hand, feeling funny and distressed at the same time: "Who asked you to warm my bed? It's so cold in bed. Why are you so anxious when I charged the hand warmer?"
As he said that, he turned on the desk lamp and turned off the overhead light, got under the quilt and kicked a hand warmer under Chu Yu's feet, and stuffed another one into Chu Yu's arms. His tone was very domineering: "Cover both of them for you. Just now my hands are warm." So ice."
"This one is not as warm as mine..." Chu Yu said harshly while hugging the hand warmer shivering.
"Yeah." Li Kaian smiled, "The bed is so warm."
Chu Yu moved forward proudly, took the opportunity to kiss Li Kai'an on his left cheek, and said, "Then reward him."
Li Kaian lay down and let him kiss her. He showed no unpleasant reaction and didn't even move his eyebrows. Only his Adam's apple rolling up and down revealed his nervousness.
So Chu Yu went one step further and kissed him on the right cheek: "Two rewards."
"Three rewards... Four rewards... Five rewards..."
"Okay, I know you can count my brother!" Li Kaian couldn't bear it and pushed Chu Yu against the wall, and wiped his face, which was wet with saliva, with his sleeve.
Chu Yu clung to him shamelessly, stretched out his legs under the quilt to press Li Kaian's legs, hooked one arm around Li Kaian's waist, and pressed his face against his neck, then said with satisfaction: "Good night."
"You are safe, but I can't." Li Kaian's voice was slightly hoarse, and he pushed Chu Yu's legs down, "I don't like being pressed."
"Then you press me, I just want to touch you." Chu Yu quickly retracted his leg, raised his hand to pick up Li Kai'an's thigh and put it on his stomach, "Good night."
Li Kaian quietly put his hand into his pajamas, pressed his dishonest brother impatiently, and said harshly: "...don't touch my thigh!"
twenty two
On New Year's Eve, the family finished the New Year's Eve dinner and sat together in front of the TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala. Chu Yu fell asleep on the sofa while watching it. The New Year's Eve timer ended and he did not wake up.
So Li Kaian picked him up and carried him back to the bedroom. Chu Yu was tall and had tight muscles. He was so heavy when he picked him up. Li Kaian couldn't keep his center of gravity and accidentally put Chu Yu's ankle on it when he entered the door. There was a knock on the door frame, but Chu Yu was unconscious in his sleep and didn't even hum.
Li Kaian was so funny that he put the person down heavily on the bed. The bed board creaked under the pressure. At the same time, there was an earth-shattering sound of firecrackers outside, but Chu Yu was still asleep.
"Hey, puppy Chu." Li Kaian poked Chu Yu's face, "Wake up quickly, puppy Chu is about to sleep like little pig Chu... Shall we go out to watch the firecrackers?"
Chu Yu snored a little in response.
A smile appeared on Li Kaian's lips. He stared at Chu Yu's handsome and peaceful sleeping face for a while, then slowly bent down, carefully kissed Chu Yu's forehead, and said softly: "Happy New Year."
Chu Yu opened his eyes instantly!
Li Kaian was startled: "Fuck."
The knock on the doorframe didn't wake me up, the blast of firecrackers didn't wake me up, but a kiss actually woke me up!
"Kiss me!" Chu Yu covered his forehead, sat up straight as if he had discovered some shocking conspiracy, and screamed, "Kiss me secretly!"
Li Kai'an's face was hot with embarrassment, and he gritted his teeth and said, "If you speak louder, do you need a loudspeaker? Why don't you shout on the News Network?"
Chu Yu followed the good example and roared into Li Kaian's ear: "You just took the initiative to kiss me!"
"Well, we kissed, or something." Li Kai'an rolled his eyes at him, "I'm a ghost."
Chu Yu scanned Li Kai'an with wide eyes: "There is nothing wrong with you, don't make excuses."
Li Kaian: "..."
Chu Yu's eyes were deep: "You are in love with me."
"I'm just kissing him for fun." Li Kaian picked up a pillow and put it on Chu Yu's handsome face. He turned around and ran out of the bedroom, ran downstairs, pulled on his cotton slippers and went outside to watch the fireworks.
"He fell in love with me! He kissed me!" Chu Yu hugged the pillow and rolled violently on the bed until he hit the wall with a loud bang!
Five minutes later, Li Kaian returned to the bedroom with a cold air and the smell of firecrackers. He turned off the light and got into bed without saying a word.
"I think we should talk about what happened when you kissed me just now..." In the darkness, Chu Yu sat up awkwardly, his eyes shining brightly, and he could almost act as a night light.
"Sleep!" Li Kaian was furious.
"you… "
Li Kaian suppressed Chu Yu completely under the quilt with a cold air: "I let you ask, I let you ask!"
"You feel so cold!" Chu Yu exclaimed, using his hands to tickle Li Kai'an.
Not to be outdone, Li Kaian also fought back. The two grown men laughed and made a fuss on the narrow wooden bed. You came and I went, evenly matched. The old bed in disrepair creaked endlessly, as if it was... What's there...
After tickling each other for ten minutes, the two of them collapsed on the bed exhausted, both laughing until their brains were starved of oxygen.
Chu Yu stared at the ceiling with a blank expression: "Who am I, where am I, and what did I want to ask just now..."
"God knows, good night, I'm exhausted." Li Kaian turned over and fell asleep soon.
Chu Yu pressed forward like an octopus, wrapped his arms around Li Kaian, and closed his eyes with contentment.
Really, so happy.
twenty three
On the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household gets up early and sets off firecrackers. The crackling and loud firecrackers interweave with the deafening double blast of firecrackers. The whole town is immersed in the sound of firecrackers. Li Kaian and Chu Yu were so noisy that they couldn't sleep. They rubbed their eyes and got up to watch the excitement outside.
After the second uncle set off the firecrackers, he returned home happily. Grandma burned Buddhist tea. My sister-in-law neatly stacked the tributes on the incense table. The family worshiped their ancestors and worshiped gods in the central hall.
In the past, during the Chinese New Year, Li Kai'an was the most impatient with this set of old rules of coming and going, but this year he didn't dare to do it anymore. Living gods were by his side every day. It can be seen that this set of rules was not entirely fake, so he respectfully said Along with the incense and kowtow, I wish in my heart that my family will be safe and the new year will go smoothly.
Chu Yu didn't know where he went when he was worshiping the gods, and no one called him. Li Kaian found him in the bedroom after the ceremony.
"Chu Yu, go down to eat..." Li Kaian suddenly choked up in the middle of his words, because Chu Yu was talking to himself with his back to him, and his expression seemed like he was talking to some invisible person.
"Then please, thank you in advance." Chu Yu smiled kindly.
Li Kaian asked cautiously: "...What are you doing?"
"Bye bye." Chu Yu waved his hand in the air. After a while, he turned to look at Li Kaian and said mysteriously, "That was the land father-in-law and the kitchen god just now. They have left."
Li Kaian was stunned: "Wow."
"I stuffed two balls of red thread into them and asked them to take them back to make my wife happy." Chu Yu's black eyes narrowed slyly, "Then I asked them to take good care of your home in the future and don't let bad things in. Bless you You and your family are safe."
Li Kai felt happy: "We have been worshiping downstairs for a long time, and it turns out that we are all here with you."
Chu Yu smiled proudly: "Am I useful?"
"Yes, you are the most useful." Li Kaian sat next to him, stuffed half of the uneaten Bazhen cake into Chu Yu's mouth, patted his face, and said, "One reward."
While chewing, Chu Yu continued eloquently: "They happen to have this book of life and death in their hands, borrowed from the underworld. I took a look and found that your whole family is quite long-lived, especially your grandma. To ninety-two.”
Li Kaian didn't expect him to say this suddenly, and let out a soft sigh.
"Last time you said you were afraid that you would become famous too late, and grandma wouldn't be able to see you, and you wouldn't have time to enjoy the blessings." Chu Yu swallowed the cake, his eyes gentle and bright, "Don't worry this time, I'll definitely make it in time."
"Yes." Li Kaian smiled and nodded, feeling a lot more at ease. The impatience and anxiety caused by not getting a good job some time ago suddenly disappeared a lot.
I originally wanted to ask myself how long I could live, but after thinking about it I swallowed it back.
"... You will also live a long life. Although mortals always die, you don't have to be afraid." Chu Yu seemed to have seen through what he was thinking, and reached out his hand to carefully wrap his arms around Li Kaian's shoulders, "I know how many more people there are in heaven. Gods fall in love with mortals, and they will follow them wherever they reincarnate. Then I will follow you like that, and then I will tell you how you treated me in your last life, the life after that, and the life after that. Zhongqing, why are you so shameless in pursuing me... Anyway, you won't remember it by then, so whatever I say will be whatever it is."
"Damn it, Little Dog Chu, you are shameless! It's obvious that you fell in love with me at first sight and pursued me, okay?" Li Kaian became completely relaxed, pretending to be angry, pulling Chu Yu's face, and said teasingly, " Let’s go downstairs to eat, eat more, and try to regain your shame as soon as possible!”