The word was simple and vague, and it was separated by a door, and even the sound was a little unclear, but it still made Chu Si's back straight in an instant, and his face changed.
He stood motionless, for a moment, he couldn't even hear other sounds, the nerves around his body seemed to be alive, and he got out of his body, and went straight through the door into the room, so subtle that he could ignore the slightest movement. It can make his body more rigid.
The sound of footsteps in the room suddenly appeared, and it seemed that someone was pulling his slippers away from the door.
There was no movement from the door lock that rang, perhaps because the person in the door didn't hear the answer and changed his mind.
Sometimes you are so familiar with a person that you can tell whether it is him or not from a few simple footsteps.
At the moment when the footsteps were about to leave, Chu Si opened his mouth subconsciously and replied, "Me."
The voice was dull and hoarse because of the daze and stiffness, rolling down the bottom of his throat, so low that he couldn't even hear it clearly.
Just as soon as he said it, he laughed at himself. A simple answer like "I" is only applicable to the closest person. The other party will know who it is when he hears it, otherwise it will only add embarrassment.
But who is he now? To the people in the door, he is just a face with a strange voice, a stranger who doesn't know each other. How could he be qualified to answer like this.
It must look stupid... Chu Si laughed at himself.
But he was stupid, but he was not worried that he would be turned away. After all, the man at the door was quite a good-natured person. Back then, a neighbor's fingerprint lock failed and he couldn't go home for a while, so he also let them in. It seems to have stayed for a long time. Although he has not yet figured out why Jiang Qi, as a person who had messed around in the war, was so unprepared.
The footsteps paused, then suddenly became clearer, and it sounded like they were walking back to the door.
"You're nervous." Sae Yang suddenly whispered in Chu Si's ear, as if he was whispering something.
"No." Chus replied.
However, it was not until he said this sentence that he realized that he had been holding his breath, and the hand hanging by his side had unknowingly clenched into a fist.
Sae Young was right, he was really nervous and he didn't even realize it.
The door lock made a soft click from inside again, but this time it didn't stop abruptly.
The metal door shaft turned slightly, and the door was opened like this. The man in the door was wearing the simplest shirt and trousers, with a casually open neckline, one sleeve was folded to the elbow, and the other was just halfway up.
He had the neatness of a soldier, the bookishness of a researcher, and a slight, relaxed tiredness.
Jiang Qi…
Although he had already guessed in his heart just now and had been mentally prepared for a while, Chu Si was still at the door when he saw him, showing an expression that was almost blank.
He suddenly didn't know what year he was in.
Familiar clothes, familiar faces, nothing has changed, as if Jiang Qi just had a long errand, and after finishing things, he packed up at will, and just went home.
"You are..." In the door, Jiang Qi's eyes came over, and after I don't know how many years, it fell on Chu Si.
The moment he heard Jiang Qi speak, the bones on the side of Chu Si's face moved, and it seemed that he subconsciously gritted his teeth.
He frowned, lowered his head and pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers, and raised his head again after the heat around his eyes subsided.
Jiang Qi was slightly taken aback and asked, "What's the matter?"
Such a tone was too familiar, so familiar that Chu Si was stunned for a moment before coughing at the bottom of his throat, then cleared his throat and said, "We live upstairs, the fingerprint lock is out of order and we can't enter the door temporarily. can… "
At this time, Chu Si had no extra attention to think of new excuses, and the only thing that came to mind was the words of the two neighbors back then.
After he said it, he regretted it a little, and he didn't know if the same reason would sound a little suspicious to Jiang Qi.
Jiang Qi didn't respond immediately, but just looked him up and down again, and finally his eyes fell back to his eyebrows, as if to confirm their goodwill or not.
He glanced at Sae Yang by the door again, and finally turned sideways to make way, smiled and said, "The underground energy pool is malfunctioning, and the property is already being repaired. Come in first."
There are two emergency lights with soft light in the room, one is placed at the corner of the sofa and the other is in the entrance.
When he stood in this apartment again, Chu Si's feeling was very complicated, it was a contradictory feeling intertwined between subconscious relaxation and rational restraint.
After Sae Yang entered the door, he showed great interest in this place. He glanced at the general layout and layout of the house, then patted Chu Si on the shoulder, leaned over and asked in a low voice, "Dear. "
"Huh?" Chu Si's eyes kept following Jiang Qi's back, and he didn't even realize what Sae Yang was saying.
After another two seconds, he glanced at Sae Young after realizing it: "..."
"There are only two people living here?" Sae Yang continued to ask.
Chu Si could only respond angrily: "Yeah."
Jiang Qi folded the other sleeve and asked, "What would you like to drink?"
"Water is fine, thank you." Chus tried his best to make himself and Sae Yang look like normal neighbors.
"Come and sit." Jiang Qi took two glasses of water, walked over and placed it on the glass table, then walked around to the two-seat sofa and bent down.
After entering the room, Chu Si hardly paid attention to anything else, and only then did he realize that there was a child nestled on the double sofa.
He looked less than ten years old, wearing a light gray long-sleeved home shirt, curled up so that the bones of his shoulders and back were prominent and he looked very thin.
He buried his face in the pillow and covered his forehead with his arms. He couldn't see his facial features, but he could only see that his hair was black and his skin was extraordinarily white.
"So, that little thing sleeping in a ball is..." Sae Young asked again knowingly.
Chu Si turned to look at him: "..."
Sae Young looked back at him innocently.
Chu Si was afraid of being heard by Jiang Qi, and said with a frozen face: "Do I have to thank you for not using the word "little fool?"
Sae Young laughed, and the light-colored eyes brightened when they were bent.
Jiang Qi tried to pick up the curled child, but the child buried his face deeper with the pillow and said something vaguely.
"You love the sofa if you don't sleep on the bed, you kid..." Jiang Qi didn't insist, just raised his hand to probe the child's forehead, and muttered, "Are you sick?"
The child shook his head with his face buried in it, and finally said a clear word, "sleepy." The voice has not changed, with the softness that is unique to a child.
"Okay..." Jiang Qi stood up helplessly, turned his head and smiled at Chu Si and Sae Yang, "My son, I'm not happy to move the nest when I fall asleep, it's a joke."
Sae Yang smiled and said lazily, "It's okay, it's interesting."
Chus: "..."
He is probably the most embarrassed person in this apartment. Jiang Qi and Sae Yang are so eloquent. Every sentence is piercing his face, and his emotions of seeing his old friends are washed away. Clean, nothing left.
Jiang Qi seemed to have just arrived home at that time and space. He motioned for Chu Si and Sae Yang to sit on the sofa for a while, and said, "I'll go get this kid a blanket."
Sae Young didn't mean the slightest bit of politeness, and just picked a seat near the double sofa and sat down.
Jiang Qizhuo pulled his slippers and walked into the bedroom. Chu Si glanced at his back, turned to look at Sae Yang, and showed a slightly warning look in his eyes.
However, as long as the shrunken version was curled up beside him and slept in the dark, the effect of all warnings would be greatly diminished.
Sure enough, Sae Young smiled meaningfully.
Chus: "..."
But to be honest, in the current situation, no matter what this bastard does or says, Chu Si will not be impatient or angry.
"You look very happy." Sae Yang squinted at him, "even a little excited, but not relaxed."
I have to say that this person is sometimes as sharp as a beast, and can smell the slightest emotional changes—
Chu Si was really happy because he saw the only Jiang Qi who could be called family again, and he really did not relax because he knew that it was all temporary.
"You're a... weirdo." Chu Si snorted and sat down beside him.
With such a keen sense of emotion, empathy is surprisingly indifferent.
The voices of the two were not high, but the child curled up on the sofa moved. He raised his eyes from the pillow and gave them a frowning look in a rather impatient look.
There was still weariness in his eyes, and he didn't seem to be fully awake. Those eyes were neither soft nor soft, and Sae Yang didn't know which sinew was wrong, but he actually waved his finger at him, smiled and said in a low voice, "Hello, little sir."
Chus: "..."
The child curled up on the sofa frowned even more, as if he felt that this person was sick, his squinting eyes quickly closed, and he buried his head in the pillow again.
"The habit of looking for something to bury your face as soon as you go to sleep has been cultivated since then," said Sae Yang.
Chu Si opened his mouth to choke back, but suddenly remembered something.
In his memory, he vaguely remembered that two neighbors were put into the door by Jiang Qi because of a faulty fingerprint lock.
That day, Jiang Qi was scheduled to go to another place to hold an academic research conference for about three days.
He suddenly had a headache while reading on the sofa, and because no one at home was too lazy to go back to the bedroom, he just curled up on the sofa.
As a result, when he was groggy in pain, Jiang Qi came back because he forgot to bring something.
Because of the headache, his memory of that night was vague and incoherent. He only remembered that when he opened his eyes again, there seemed to be two more people on the sofa.
He didn't even see what the other party looked like when he was young or old, he only vaguely remembered that the man had said a word to him, called him a sir or something.
He once thought that the next scene was the result of mixing up dreams and reality. After all, it is impossible for anyone to call a boss to a child. Now it seems... The two neighbors who have always had a slight impression of him are simply Sae Young. and himself.
But if what happened at this moment was what he remembered, then...
"I know what I need to look for." Chu Si looked at Sae Yang.
"Tell me about it." Sae Yang straightened his long legs and changed to a more comfortable position.
Chu Si lowered his voice and said, "A draft."
In his memory, something happened after the two neighbors left—an important draft of Jiang Qi's research was lost.