The man looked at her, Xia Yitong suddenly closed her eyes and turned her face towards Lu Yinbing. All kinds of different voices emerged in her ears, as if many people were talking to her.
Lu Yinbing's breath sprayed on her neck, but it was not warm, but cold, and her hair stood on end. Xia Yitong's teeth chattered, and she closed her eyes tightly, telling herself: This is an illusion. Don't listen, don't look.
The room was crowded with people, the curtains were flapping, the windows were rattling, and the hoarse sound of the wind was roaring around her, nailing her limbs to the bed. She struggled hard, her joints cracking, but the restraints on her body suddenly disappeared.
She felt like she fell asleep so relaxed, and when she opened her eyes again it was already daybreak. She got up and opened the curtains. Surprisingly, the sunlight was very bright, warm and gentle today.
"Tongtong."
She had her back to the room and heard someone calling her like that. The voice was so gentle that it made her want to cry. She turned around and looked at the woman in a plain dress. Her lips moved and she called out a strange name in a familiar way: "Mom."
"Mom." She rushed over and hugged the woman's legs, not high enough to reach her waist, and looked up at her and called sweetly, "Are we going to the zoo today? I got up so early on purpose."
"The baby is so good." Mother Xia picked up Xia Yitong, "Daddy is making breakfast, shall we go and see him?"
"good!"
Xia Yitong lay obediently in the woman's arms, looking down at the ground which was still very high for her current height. After thinking for a while, she said, "Mom, I want to eat ice cream later."
"You can only eat half, and leave the other half for dad."
"I know that if I don't give it to Dad, he will be jealous."
"You're still jealous, you clever little fellow."
Mother Xia touched her forehead lovingly and carried her out of the room. There was a wind chime hanging on the door of the children's room. When she touched it with her fingers, it made a tinkling sound, which was crisp and pleasant.
"Teacher Xia!"
Xia Yitong turned her head and blinked slowly. A mature-looking woman, about the same age as her mother, was sitting on the edge of the bed and rushed over with an anxious look on her face.
Lu Yinbing was really fast asleep and was woken up by the voices. The only light in the room was coming in from the window. Xia Yitong was standing beside the bed, chatting freely with the air. Later, he was walking towards the door, laughing as he walked. I was so scared that I lost two of my three souls and jumped up.
"Mom..." Xia Yitong murmured. She stood there in a daze, her body suddenly stretched out. The sun and the wind chimes disappeared. The sudden light made her close her eyes and look out the door. Mother Xia was still there. She shouted in surprise, "Mom."
Another person grabbed her hand and asked anxiously, "Teacher Xia, where are you going?"
Xia Yitong smiled and said, "I'm going to the zoo."
The man asked, "Do you know who I am?"
Xia Yitong tilted her head and said, "Lu Yinbing, my girlfriend."
"It's my fiancée." Lu Yinbing pointed at the door and said, "There's no one there. Who are you talking to?"
Xia Yitong said: "My mother."
Lu Yinbing held her hand tightly and said, "But your mother died twenty years ago."
Xia Yitong shook her head and said softly, "I saw her."
Lu Yinbing held her face with both hands and made her look into his eyes: "Look at me, only I am real, those are just your illusions."
Xia Yitong was stunned for a long time. When she turned around, her mother was still waving at her: "Baby, come here. Your dad is waiting for us to have breakfast. He made your favorite scallion pancakes."
She tried to move her legs to the other side, but Lu Yinbing held her tightly and forced her to turn her face back: "Look at me!"
Xia Yitong looked at her with his eyes unfocused and without any focus at all.
Lu Yinbing had a plan in mind. He covered her eyes forcefully with one hand, then lowered his head and kissed her lips despite her resistance.
Ten minutes later, she led the well-behaved Xia Yitong back to the bed and put her arms around her. Xia Yitong lowered her head, her long hair falling on the side of her face, and she said nothing.
Lu Yinbing tucked her long hair behind her ears and asked, "Can you still see?"
Xia Yitong glanced at the door and nodded. She could see it, but she knew it was fake. Her hair, which had just been combed, fell down again. Lu Yinbing took the trouble to comb it again, tilted his head and kissed her earlobe: "Don't sleep tonight. I'll take you to see a psychiatrist tomorrow."
Xia Yitong felt a little uncomfortable with her closeness.
Lu Yinbing raised an eyebrow and said, "What? You don't love me anymore? Why are you hiding from me?"
Xia Yitong shook her head again.
"Come and kiss me."
Xia Yitong kissed her on the cheek, his expression changed twice, and Fang whispered, "Go to sleep, I'll watch over you."
For her, who had just had a hallucination and it had been going on all the time, this sentence seemed unreliable, but Lu Yinbing agreed anyway. She held Xia Yitong's hand with one hand, leaving no gap at all, rested her head on her thigh, and closed her eyes.
"Don't turn off the lights." Lu Yinbing closed his eyes and stopped her.
Xia Yitong withdrew the finger that was pressing the bedside lamp, lowered her head and stroked Lu Yinbing's face with her fingers.
She didn't know how long it had been, but when she raised her eyes again, the person at the door had disappeared and the door was closed.
The second half of the night passed peacefully. Xia Yiting fell asleep leaning on the head of the bed. Lu Yinbing saw her quietly, opened his eyes, put her down, and carefully held her in his arms. She slept until noon.
If Xiaoxi hadn't knocked on the door, I might have slept until the afternoon.
Lu Yinbing shouted towards the door: "Right away."
"Morning..." Lu Yinbing glanced at the bright sky, kissed Xia Yitong's trembling eyelashes as she was about to wake up, and smiled and changed the subject, "Good afternoon."
Xia Yitong felt tickled by her blowing, but couldn't bear to avoid it, so she replied, "Good afternoon."
"It's time to get up." Lu Yinbing said.
Xia Yitong said: "Well, get up."
No one got up. The four of them looked at each other. Lu Yinbing said, "I have an appointment with a psychologist. If I don't get up, I'll be late."
So she got up lazily, and Xia Yitong's laziness was stretched out again. She had been tired for half a year and now she finally had a break and didn't want to move even a hair. Lu Yinbing helped her wash and dress herself without complaint.
Xue Yao didn't tell her anything about Lu Yinbing. She had her own reasons for not saying anything, and Xia Yitong didn't ask, feeling that now was not a good time.
After going downstairs, Xiaoxi and Fang Hui were working in and out of the kitchen, one serving dishes and the other serving rice. Lu Yinbing whispered to Xia Yitong, "Do you think they have any feelings for each other?"
After a good night's sleep, Xia Yitong felt much better, and she basically didn't have an attack during the day. She wanted to chat with Lu Yinbing about gossip: "Tsk, it feels a little off."
"It's almost interesting. It's been so long and it's still this interesting. It's boring."
"If you want to be interesting, then go and make something interesting."
"What? The whole world?"
Xia Yitong held the bowl and smiled: "Sorry, I've been in the Northeast for too long and I got lost."
Xiaoxi and Fang Hui just looked at the two artists opposite quietly. No one knew what they were whispering about. They started laughing when they disagreed with each other. It was definitely a show of affection.
Fang Hui picked up Xiao Xi again. Xiao Xi buried her head in the rice. While eating, Fang Hui gave her a piece of pork ribs: "I know you are not happy eating dog food. Come on, let's make dog food ourselves."
Fang Hui: “…”
Xiaoxi was so straightforward and carefree, "Eat it quickly, dear, it will get cold soon."
Fang Hui: “…”
Xiaoxi: "You still want me to feed you, ah."
Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong smiled at each other and said that it was almost there, and then they immediately added some meaning to it, which was interesting.
Xia Yitong said: "Eat it. It's not easy for Xiaoxi to cook a meal."
Since their own artist had spoken, Fang Hui "reluctantly" opened her mouth and bit off the spareribs on Xiaoxi's chopsticks. After eating, she seemed to comment objectively: "Too much sugar was added."
Xiaoxi made a sweet and sour dish with a lot of sugar. She had just eaten spareribs, which were generally sweet. Suddenly she thought of the differences between the north and the south, and understood: "You don't like sweet food? Then I'll put less next time."
But don't most southerners like sweets more than northerners? Or maybe she didn't learn geography well and remembered it wrong.
Another southerner, Xia Yitong, said, "It's OK, not very sweet."
Xiaoxi: “Ah?”
So should she put more sugar or less sugar
Lu Yinbing put a piece of pork ribs towards Xia Yitong's mouth. Xia Yitong took a bite, smiled, and looked at Fang Hui: "It's too sweet. Too much sugar."
Fang Hui's ears turned slightly red and she ate a bite of vegetables as if to cover it up.
Xiaoxi didn't react at all, and slammed the table angrily: "I won't eat this dog food, and you won't let me go even if I have a meal."
Lu Yinbing and Xia Yitong laughed together in tacit understanding.
Showing off one's affection without realizing it, Xiaoxi's EQ is basically no longer a skill for showing off one's affection.
Fang Wei couldn't stand it anymore, so she pulled Xiaoxi's sleeve. Xiaoxi saw her face flushed red, and she heartlessly imitated the characters in TV dramas and joked: "What's wrong with you? Did you get your face scalded by boiling water?"
Fang Hui: “…”
Yeah, I want to burn my brain and reflect on why I fell for a fool like you.
Lu Xia and the other person were laughing so hard that tears were about to come out.
But this was the last meal Xiaoxi cooked for the two of them recently.
"I won't leave." When Lu Yinbing persuaded Xiaoxi to return to the company, she still said this, being very stubborn.
Lu Yinbing was about to be defeated by her. She used to cry out when she heard about paid vacation, but now she kept making excuses. It would be fine if she was a workaholic, but she was obviously not: "Are you stubborn? Xia Yitong is back. We don't want to live in this house anymore. We have to move to another one. It's not convenient to bring you with us."
Xiaoxi: "I'll go ask Mr. Xue for instructions."
After consulting Xue Yao, Xiaoxi came back dejectedly and asked, "How long will my vacation be?"
Lu Yinbing was vague: "Let's talk about it later."
Xiaoxi reluctantly went home, taking Fang Hui with her. On the way, she wiped her tears and said to Fang Hui: "It's not that I don't want to go back to the company. Who doesn't want to take a vacation? I'm just afraid that I won't be able to come back."
Fang Wei held the steering wheel and listened to her muttering. She couldn't help but ask, "What happened to Mr. Lu?"
Xiaoxi instantly turned into a gourd with a sawed-off mouth and kept silent.
She knew what she could and couldn't say, otherwise she wouldn't have stayed with Lu Yinbing for so long. She couldn't say this, even if it was her biological mother or wife. Bah, what biological wife? Teacher Lu was almost turning her gay. It was time for her to take a long vacation and come back.
Fang Hui sent Xiaoxi home according to the navigation system she had set. Xiaoxi unbuckled her seat belt and her mood improved in just half an hour. She said, "See you next time."
Fang Hui suddenly said, "Actually, Teacher Xia also gave me a holiday."
Xiaoxi stopped pushing the door in mid-air: "Ah."
Fang Hui: "But my parents are traveling, so I'm too lazy to go home, and I don't have many acquaintances in Beijing..."
I'm sorry, mom and dad, and I'm sorry to all my acquaintances in this city.
Xiaoxi was stunned for a moment, then she enthusiastically suggested, "What a coincidence, you can stay at my house for as long as you want, and then we can go to work together at the company."
Fang Hui pretended to be reserved: "Thank you, sorry for bothering you."