Xu Xinghe changed his clothes and went downstairs.
When he walked into the restaurant, his younger brother and younger sister were already sitting on the left side of the long table.
The orderlies arranged the tableware and thoughtfully helped Lili change a pair of small forks and small bowls.
But Ling Changfeng was not there.
Xu Xinghe let out a "huh", raised his hand to look at the time, turned around and asked He Han, "Did you see your marshal?"
He Han was slightly taken aback: "Marshal just went to find you."
"Oh... He said he would go downstairs and wait for me first." Xu Xinghe paused, but took his seat first, "He should be here soon, just wait for him."
As soon as he sat down, Chu Yufei approached stealthily: "Hey, did you smell anything just now?"
Xu Xinghe's heart skipped a beat, the residual heat on his cheeks had just subsided, and now that he was asked this question, he thought he had exposed himself.
An inexplicable sense of guilt came to my heart, but on the surface she remained calm: "What's the smell? Can't you smell my pheromone?"
The corners of Chu Yufei's mouth curled up, and he looked at him with an "unapologetic" face: "That's right, I'm not talking about you, so what's wrong with you?"
"...It's nothing." Xu Xinghe turned his face back silently, and continued the topic just now: "What did you smell?"
"That's right, then who—" Chu Yufei winked at him, then pointed to the empty main seat.
"What happened to him?" Xu Xinghe asked.
"His pheromone just exploded!" Chu Yufei said, stretching out his hand in a gesture of explosion, "I almost thought his susceptibility period had relapsed!"
After hearing this, Xu Xinghe was stunned for a few seconds, and finally he picked out the question he was most worried about and asked: "Then how is he doing now?"
"It's much better now. His pheromones recovered very quickly... Uh, it only took about ten minutes." Chu Yufei's expression was a little hard to describe when he said this.
In the end, he winked at Xu Xinghe: "What did you guys do just now? Is that what I thought?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
"Adults, children don't interfere." He reached out and pushed away his brother's big head, then picked up the cup at hand, and pretended to take a sip of water.
"I'm not a child!" Chu Yufei said angrily, "Do you need me to describe it in detail? You can't stop the smell! He... um! Woo woo, um!"
Xu Xinghe didn't want to hear his "detailed description" at all, so he covered his chattering mouth quickly with quick eyesight and quick hands.
"Be quiet and eat." Xu Xinghe licked his back teeth and warned in a low voice.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!" Chu Yufei's eyes widened, as if he was very dissatisfied.
The two were in a stalemate when they suddenly heard the voice of an orderly from the door of the restaurant: "Marshal!"
Ling Changfeng came down after taking a cold shower.
As soon as I stepped into the restaurant, I saw such a funny scene of "brothers and brothers respecting each other".
And little Lili was sitting aside with a smile, holding her chin and watching them slapstick, her expression almost made her applaud.
Ling Changfeng: "..."
With his appearance, the farce in the restaurant temporarily came to an end.
Xu Xinghe put down his hand in embarrassment, and before letting go, he still warned his younger brother in a low voice: "Don't talk nonsense!"
And Chu Yufei snorted softly, and actually calmed down.
Although he is often outspoken, he still has a sense of what he can say to whom and what he must never say—
If he said in front of Marshal Ling that he only had ten minutes, he would definitely be killed!
Ling Changfeng walked to his seat without making a sound, sat down silently, and motioned for the orderly to start serving food.
Xu Xinghe sized him up from head to toe and asked, "Are you okay?"
Ling Changfeng raised his eyes and glanced at him: "What do you mean?"
"It's nothing... let's eat." Xu Xinghe lowered his head and started to cook.
Dinner was a little silent at first. Several people were thinking about the things in their hearts, but they didn't take the initiative to speak.
Until Chu Yufei, a small chatterbox, couldn't sit still anymore, and started to chatter.
So, a dinner is also lively.
Although Ling Changfeng had no interest in eating, he ate a little more rarely amidst the laughter.
After dinner, Marshal Ling went back to his study to deal with affairs, and Xu Xinghe took his younger siblings for a walk in the manor. It was not until after eight o'clock in the evening that I finally returned to the room.
As soon as the door opened, there was a "meow", and Xiao Qi, who hadn't seen him for a long time, ran over with small steps, excitedly circling around the owner.
"Meow~meow!" Xiao Qi stretched out his fluffy front paws and scratched Xu Xinghe's trouser legs.
"You still know how to come back." Xu Xinghe smiled, bent over and hugged Xiao Qi, straightened his arms and raised them high, "Come on, let me see if I have gained weight these days."
When he returned home in the afternoon, Xiao Qi was not in the room. After asking the orderly, I learned that this guy hangs out with Aaron all day, and spends most of his time outside.
Xu Xinghe thought that the two cats would come back after having enough fun, so he didn't send anyone to look for them. He didn't expect that it would be dark after waiting.
Xiaoqi flicked its big fluffy tail, and covered the key parts with some embarrassment.
Xu Xinghe: "..."
He hugged Xiaoqi into his arms, reached out and rubbed the cat's head.
"Come on, let's play with your favorite laser pointer."
For the next hour or so, Xu Xinghe basically spent playing with cats and reading books...
Until half past nine, the alarm rang.
When Xu Xinghe saw that the time was up, he put down his book, got up and went out.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the house, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.
Xu Xinghe almost bumped into it, and hurriedly slammed on the brakes, his low cry suppressed in his throat.
He raised his head in shock, only then did he see clearly that it was Ling Changfeng who came.
Marshal Ling was wearing dark gray silk pajamas, but he had actually been standing outside the door for a while.
He is hesitating.
If it was normal, he must have knocked on the door and entered.
But now, although his emotions have calmed down, and the residual heat of the susceptibility period is gradually fading, but...he doesn't know whether he should test himself like this.
The smooth and delicate skin on the back of the young man's neck flashed involuntarily in his mind, and the different pupils dimmed accordingly.
Just as Ling Changfeng was debating whether to knock on the door, his little spouse came out by himself.
As a result, the strange brilliance in the eyes of the mandarin ducks was replaced by a trace of satisfaction and relief.
Ling Changfeng's voice was still faint, but his tone was a little more relaxed and casual: "Don't come out, I will come to you."
Xu Xinghe was slightly taken aback: "Huh?"
Ling Changfeng said with his hands behind his back, "Let's go in and talk."
Xu Xinghe was completely out of shape: "Say what?"
Yitong swept over faintly, and Ling Changfeng asked back: "What did you want to ask me?"
Xu Xinghe had question marks all over his face: "No... I want to ask you something? I'm going to tell Lily a bedtime story."
Ling Changfeng: "..."
Xu Xinghe asked him: "What are you doing here?"
Ling Changfeng pursed his thin lips and said, "I'll accompany you."
"Uh... tell me a bedtime story?"
"Um."
"ah?"
"Let's go."
"… oh."
When Xu Xinghe and Ling Changfeng entered, Lily was already lying on the bed with her doll in her arms.
The intelligent robot has turned on the baby-care mode and is singing strange lullabies.
Hearing the knock on the door, Lily turned her head happily, and was surprised to find that there were two people telling the bedtime story.
So they clapped their hands excitedly: "Can I listen to two bedtime stories tonight? Brother Xinghe tells one, and Uncle Ling tells one."
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Ling Changfeng: "..."
Lili, who was told "don't call me sister-in-law casually", chose a more common address this time—anyway, she used to call people of this age all uncle.
But soon, she saw something was wrong from the expressions of the two of them.
"What's the matter?" Lily asked in a low voice, and then added in a waxy voice: "Just one thing..."
Xu Xinghe felt that it was time to clarify a suitable title.
He nudged Ling Changfeng with his elbow, and put the problem aside: "What do you think she would call you?"
Ling Changfeng: "..."
Marshal Ling, who has always been omnipotent, also encountered difficulties at this moment.
Logically speaking, if Lily called Xu Xinghe brother, she should also call her brother.
However, looking at the little girl who was several rounds younger than him in front of him, he couldn't open his mouth.
After hearing their conversation, Lili realized that it was still a matter of address. She thought for a while, then tilted her head and said, "So that's brother-in-law?"
Xu Xinghe: "..."
This title, Ling Changfeng thinks it is acceptable, Xu Xinghe thinks it is not.
The latter was silent for a few seconds, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "No more."
"What's that called..." Lily frowned, and thought hard for a while: "Is it okay to call me Brother? Brother Changfeng?" She said with her fingers, "The Uncle Qin I met during the day also asked me to call him Brother. of."
Ling Changfeng: "..." In terms of being shameless, it has to be Qin Yuan.
However, since the girl proposed this title, Marshal Ling accepted it with the cheek.
Although it feels a bit strange.
"Then can we start telling bedtime stories?" Lily looked at the two expectantly.
"Okay." Xu Xinghe sat down beside the bed and asked, "What kind of music do you want to hear?"
"As long as it's something you haven't heard of before." Xiao Lili smiled and stretched under the quilt.
"Well, I just found a collection of bedtime stories from the Yunyin platform, and there are many, many fairy tales in it."
Lily blinked and expressed concern: "My brother used to find a lot of bedtime stories from the Internet..."
"Don't worry, I have over two hundred pieces in this collection..."
Lily tilted her head and asked, "Two hundred and eighteen articles?"
Xu Xinghe, who just opened the collection of bedtime stories, looked at the number "218" in brackets and fell silent.
He looked up and asked, "Have you heard this?"
"If it's the collection of 218 popular bedtime stories on the Yunyin platform, then I have indeed heard all of them..."
"all??"
Lily nodded her head.
Xu Xinghe was shocked.
"Then I'll look for others..." He closed the collection and started looking for new targets.
However, this search took half an hour.
Xu Xinghe finally understood what happened to Chu Yufei's gloating expression when he heard that he was coming to tell his sister a bedtime story.
Lily has heard thousands of bedtime stories, it doesn't matter if she has heard too many, the key is, she still remembers all of them!
In the blink of an eye, Xu Xinghe almost rummaged through the list of stories, but couldn't find anything she hadn't heard.
"I have a bedtime story."
Just when Xu Xinghe was at a loss, a deep and magnetic voice suddenly came from beside his ear,
The next moment, the two brothers and sisters turned their heads together and looked at Ling Changfeng.
Lili's gaze was filled with anticipation, while Xu Xinghe's gaze was shocked: "You still tell bedtime stories?"
Ling Changfeng nodded, and then opened his mouth under the eager gaze of the two: "Once upon a time there was a big house, and there lived a little girl in the house. The little girl was listening to the adults tell stories, and she went to sleep after the story was over. .”
Xu Xinghe: "..."
Lily: "..."
Lily waited for a long time before she was sure that he had finished speaking, and for a while her world view seemed to have been impacted.
She asked weakly, "Is this also a bedtime story?"
"Forget it." Ling Changfeng nodded seriously, and said solemnly: "The story has a protagonist, a plot, and a happy ending."
"Okay." Lily nodded in a daze, "Then I'm going to bed, and you guys should go to bed too."
Xu Xinghe: "???"
what's the situation! It's so easy to coax?
Then he can tell hundreds of such stories casually
Xu Xinghe looked at the two speechlessly.
However, since his younger sister said it was okay, he would not take the initiative to find something for himself to do.
"Good night, Lily."
"Good night, brother."
After finally coaxing the child to sleep, the two quietly retreated from the bedroom.
Then stood at the door and fell into a new round of silence.
Xu Xinghe tentatively asked: "Shall we... go back to our houses?"