In Xu Xinghe's memory, since he knew how to use a spoon, it seems that he has never been fed by anyone.
He grew up in the Union Welfare Institute. Although most of the teachers and nurses in the orphanage are very gentle, it is impossible for one person to take care of more than a dozen children in the class and feed them one by one. And Xu Xinghe is the kind of obedient and strong since childhood, so he doesn't need to be fed.
At this moment, Xu Xinghe looked down at the spoon stretched out in front of him, and then looked up at Ling Changfeng with a serious face, feeling an indescribable weirdness in his heart.
Some behaviors are probably only suitable to occur at a certain age, and he has missed the period when he needs to be cared most in his childhood.
Xu Xinghe swallowed, and stubbornly said: "I'm not hungry."
As soon as the words fell, the spoon in front of him was passed forward again.
Ling Changfeng held the spoon in one hand, and knocked on the side of the bowl with the other hand: "I've only eaten half a bowl, so I'm full?"
Xu Xinghe insisted: "I'm full."
Ling Changfeng looked at him without saying a word, until Xu Xinghe felt inexplicably guilty.
Just when Xu Xinghe was about to give up resisting and persuaded himself "forget it, it's okay to take a bite", Ling Changfeng suddenly sighed softly, and put the spoon back into the bowl: "Forget it, don't eat if you don't want to eat." have eaten."
Marshal Ling, who has always been one-of-a-kind, found helplessly at this moment that he really seemed to have nothing to do with his little spouse.
He sat down beside Xu Xinghe, his tone was still gentle: "Is there still no strength?"
Xu Xinghe shook his head, and whispered: "No, it's much better."
Ling Changfeng turned his eyes to the potted orchid placed on the bedside, and after a moment of silence, he suddenly said, "I'm sorry for making you go through this."
Xu Xinghe blinked: "Don't be like this, I just wanted to thank you for coming."
Ling Changfeng looked sideways slightly: "Thank me for what?"
"Thank you for saving me." Xu Xinghe lowered his head and twirled his fingers, "I almost thought I was going to die in a foreign country, but when I woke up, I came back to Floating Star City. It feels good to be alive."
After speaking, under Ling Changfeng's complicated and unpredictable gaze, he picked up the spoon again and finished the remaining half bowl of nutritional supplements quietly.
Then whispered: "I'm really full this time."
Ling Changfeng suddenly felt his heart soften into a ball.
It seemed that the little hedgehog in front of him put away his prickly coat and exposed his soft belly to himself.
There seems to be an outlet for the words that have been brewing all the way.
Ling Changfeng took a deep breath and let it out slowly.
"I have something to tell you..."
"What happened to those kidnappers?"
The two spoke almost at the same time, and the staggered voices sounded in the quiet ward.
Ling Changfeng was slightly taken aback, his expression became a little complicated.
The colorful clouds in the evening filled the sky, and the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the two of them like a dream through the glass window.
Under such a beautiful and romantic scenery, I should have done some beautiful and romantic things and said some beautiful and romantic words.
Talking about kidnappers at such a time is like a fly flying over suddenly, which is really unpleasant.
However, when Ling Changfeng raised his eyes and met Xu Xinghe's resolute yet worried gaze, the phrase "we'll talk about this topic later" suddenly couldn't be said.
He knew that his little spouse, as the first victim of this incident, needed an explanation.
Ling Changfeng sighed in his heart, and compromised again: "The three kidnappers at the airport killed one on the spot and captured two alive. After interrogation, they said they were sent by an old enemy of mine... But I don't think they To be honest, or rather, that's all they know."
Due to some confidentiality involved, Ling Changfeng did not say the whole story. His so-called old enemy was General Baron Ives, the original commander of Capital Star.
Eleven months ago, with the victory in the frontier battlefield, Ling Changfeng officially returned to the capital planet, and General Aivis was therefore faced with the choice of handing over power. But he has been a coward for too long, and he doesn't want to hand over power just yet.
After several overt and covert struggles, Ling Changfeng still used an iron fist to give the capital's star army a big change, and General Ives seemed to swallow his anger and dormant. After all, he has been in such a high position for many years, and he can't catch his too obvious mistakes, and Ling Changfeng can't just find an excuse to forcefully transfer him away from Capital Star.
Several forces have reached a strange balance in this situation, and they have been living in peace for a while.
After learning that Xu Xinghe lost contact, Ling Changfeng didn't think about this possibility.
But such a blatant kidnapping is really not in line with Admiral Ives' usual cautious style, not to mention that the two kidnappers who were captured alive confessed so quickly, as if they had prepared their confessions early in the morning.
Xu Xinghe asked: "Then how did you find me?"
Ling Changfeng said: "It's all thanks to your perseverance in sending out the distress signal. People from the Security Bureau found the suspected kidnapper's abandoned car next to the Z-98 National Highway, and immediately launched a comprehensive search within a radius of 200 kilometers. Peripheral surveillance images. Then I received a suspicious report from Giles Airport 50 kilometers away. I found the young man you were calling for help at the airport, and I transferred him to my personal guard."
Xu Xinghe nodded: "Then I'll have to thank him face to face after I'm discharged from the hospital."
Ling Changfeng pursed his lips: "He has relatively poor foundation and still needs some systematic training. You won't be able to see him in about three months."
Xu Xinghe continued to nod, suddenly remembered another matter, frowned and asked: "Gu Nai... haven't caught it yet?"
Ling Changfeng shook his head: "No. This person may know more, but he is still at large. I have issued a first-level arrest warrant for him globally. The deputy general manager of the personnel department who arranged for him to enter the Ark , was just found dead on the outskirts of Nice yesterday."
Xu Xinghe was silent, Gu Nai has not been caught yet, which makes him always feel that this matter is not over yet.
Ling Changfeng looked at his twisted hands, and suddenly said: "Don't be afraid, I am here, and I will never let you be taken away by anyone again."
Xu Xinghe was taken aback, raised his head, and met those deep and quiet eyes.
Ling Changfeng, even without powerful pheromones, can always give people a sense of security. As if this is his innate ability, without any reason.
Xu Xinghe suddenly laughed, leaned back on the soft cushion, and said "hmm" in a nasal voice.
Then asked in a relaxed tone: "What did you just want to say?"
Ling Changfeng: "..."
For the first time in his life, Marshal Ling realized that he was not very courageous.
Some emotions probably need enough emotional precipitation and brewing before they can confide to the end in one go at the best time. Once interrupted, it is inevitable to be a little discouraged.
After all, it was just because he didn't have much confidence in that answer.
Ling Changfeng's gaze drifted out of the window, the setting sun had already disappeared behind the horizon, leaving only the setting glow shining on the sky.
Turning to look at Xu Xinghe, the latter yawned unconsciously.
This might not be a good time, Ling Changfeng thought, after all the sun has set.
He calmly sighed inwardly, and put the quilt back on for Xu Xinghe: "It's nothing, if you're sleepy, go to bed early."
Xu Xinghe looked at him: "What about you? Are you going to be busy?"
Ling Changfeng said: "Not busy, I'm here to accompany you."
Xu Xinghe thought, Ling Changfeng was a little too talkative tonight.
He didn't know if the other party saw his uneasiness. He had just escaped from the kidnappers, and he was eager to find someone to accompany him, like after watching a horror movie, like every night after being drunk.
Xu Xinghe slid into the bed, looked at Ling Changfeng, and smiled like a little fox: "Can you tell bedtime stories?"
Marshal Ling was slightly taken aback: "A bedtime story?"
"Yeah." Xu Xinghe wrapped himself in a quilt, only his fluffy head was exposed, and he looked at Ling Changfeng with wide eyes, "Let me tell you something."
Ling Changfeng: "..."
At this age, he has never been asked to tell a bedtime story.
But he couldn't say "no" to the little spouse in front of him.
He asked Xu Xinghe: "What kind of story do you want to hear?"
Xu Xinghe thought for a while, and it seemed a bit too embarrassing for Marshal Ling to tell fairy tales, and he was too old to like to listen to stories, he just wanted to be accompanied for a while.
"Why don't you tell me about your own experience." Xu Xinghe said.
Ling Changfeng was silent for a while: "In my experience, there seems to be no interesting stories."
"How come?" Xu Xinghe looked at him, "You are the youngest among the four marshals, and everyone says your experience is legendary."
Ling Changfeng smiled nonchalantly: "Which passage do you want to hear? I can tell it to you. But you probably won't like those stories about beatings and killings."
Xu Xinghe tilted his head and said: "I can't say which part, but I've always been curious about what you went through to become like this."
Ling Changfeng's eyes flickered slightly, and he looked sideways at him: "What has become?"
"Fearless." Xu Xinghe concluded, "You seem to be afraid of nothing."
When Xu Xinghe said this, he silently lowered his eyes, and suddenly said: "When they gave me sleeping pills, I was actually quite scared. I was afraid that when I woke up, I would go to a completely strange place and never return to Floating Star City. , I can’t see a familiar face.”
After hearing this, Ling Changfeng fell silent.
Xu Xinghe thought he was thinking of something to comfort himself, and was about to say "I'm fine now", when Ling Changfeng said, "I also have something to be afraid of."
"Huh?" Xu Xinghe became interested when he heard it, changed into a more comfortable position under the quilt, and looked up at him, "What are you afraid of?"
Ling Changfeng didn't answer his question directly, but asked instead: "Do you still remember the scar on my back?"
Thinking of the deep and shallow scars on his back, Xu Xinghe was suddenly taken aback: "I remember that you have... many scars on your back."
"The longest one was left on the 376 battlefield, and it continued from my left shoulder to here." Ling Changfeng pointed to his right waist, and then suddenly told the story, "That is The closest I was to death, the bomb exploded next to me, and I couldn’t hear anything the next moment, but I could still feel my body temperature losing rapidly, and my body suddenly became very cold... "
Xu Xinghe couldn't think of any connection between this and his last question, but he was still breathless by his dangerous experience, and forgot his words for a while.
"But at that time, I didn't feel scared." Ling Changfeng said.
Xu Xinghe exhaled lightly, and asked Ling Changfeng in a low voice: "So, are you born with a lack of fear gene?"
After thinking about it, he denied it himself: "No, didn't you just say that you also have something to be afraid of?"
"En." Ling Changfeng responded lightly, then turned his head and looked out the window.
After sunset, the sky is full of bright stars.
The night was just right at this time.
Perhaps there is no need for deliberate deliberation. He is sincere in every word and every word he faces.
"During the few hours you disappeared, I was very scared." Ling Changfeng said slowly.
Xu Xinghe's brain suddenly couldn't turn a corner, and after a while, he asked blankly, "Why are you afraid?"
Ling Changfeng turned his head to look at him, silent.
Xu Xinghe swallowed, suddenly feeling nervous for no reason. When I was nervous, I started talking nonsense: "You are not afraid that things will spread, and everyone will say that you have killed your wife, right? Don't worry about this, this pot will definitely not get rid of you..."
Ling Changfeng interrupted him directly: "I am afraid that I will never see you again, and I am afraid of losing you."
Xu Xinghe froze, completely gave up thinking, and still stammered and asked: "Why, why?"
What is the reason for this
Ling Changfeng looked into his eyes, as if staring at the whole galaxy: "Because I like you."