The mother and son looked at each other in blank dismay.
The room was very warm, but Meng Li was still wrapped up three layers inside and three layers outside.
She put on thick fur in November, and the pink and white fringe made her face look small and white, giving her the appearance of a sickly beauty.
Lu Xiao carefully put Ye Cheng down, looked at her, but supported Ye Cheng with her backhand to prevent him from falling down.
He waited until Ye Cheng had completely landed before letting go of his hand.
Meng Li noticed his small movements, and her eyes flashed. It was unheard of when her son was so meticulous.
"Xiaoxiao, don't you want to introduce it to your mother?" She said softly.
Unexpectedly, Lu Xiao's face did not become relaxed, but became more tense.
He pulled Ye Cheng, pulled him behind him, and said stiffly: "My classmate, come and stay for one night."
"What about you, why did you come back early?" He subtly brought the topic over.
Meng Li subconsciously brushed his sideburns, although there was no broken hair there, and said softly: "They said that I have basically stabilized, and I can come back for a while to recuperate."
When she talks, she can't stop her hands.
Either I can't help touching my hair, or I rub it between my fingers.
Lu Xiao approached to observe her state carefully, with imperceptible worry on her face, she seemed to want to say something, but she held back.
Ye Cheng was in a daze, and poked out a head from behind him.
Under the watchful eyes of his son, Meng Li felt a little restless.
When he saw the furry head popping out from behind him, he burst out laughing suddenly.
"What is this child doing, come and sit down." She patted the seat beside her, and looked at Ye Cheng curiously.
Lu Xiao seldom brought friends home, and she knew the reason well. After all, it was hard to say that there was such a mother in the family, and she blamed herself many times for this.
Ye Cheng was the first one to stay at home for the night besides Jiang Jin.
Lu Xiao opened her mouth, just about to say, "Let's go up first."
In the next second, Ye Cheng passed him, jolted over, and sat down.
When he was drunk, his walking posture was also different from normal, crooked, like a toddler.
Lu Xiao took a breath.
"Hey, what a beautiful child," Meng Li's eyes lit up when he saw him up close.
She couldn't help touching the back of his head, and asked softly, "How old are you? What's your name?"
Ye Cheng put her hands on her knees, and a red scarf seemed to grow out of nowhere around her neck. She replied obediently: "My name is Ye Cheng, the leaf of the leaf, the orange of the orange. I am about... twenty-seven years old, almost twenty-eight."
Except for his flushed face and illogical speech, he didn't look like he was so confused that he didn't even remember how old he was.
Lu Xiao: "..."
Meng Li thought he was talking nonsense, covered her mouth and laughed tremblingly: "Why did you drink like this, Xiaoxiao, you don't stop me a bit. Xiaocheng, I will ask Mrs. Wang to make you a bowl of hangover soup later."
"Thank you mother-in-law." Ye Cheng said politely.
In the dialect of Nandu, "mother-in-law" means both "grandmother" and "husband's mother".
Obviously, Meng Li thought he was the former.
She smiled so that her eyes curled up: "I'm not that old, you can call me auntie."
Ye Cheng nodded sensiblely and said, "Thank you, Auntie."
Meng Li hadn't been in such a happy mood for a long time. Looking at Ye Chenghong's flushed face, she finally remembered where she had seen him.
"Xiaoxiao, is Xiaocheng your deskmate? Did I talk to him during the parent meeting last time?" She asked.
Lu Xiao mocked her and said, "You didn't say a word to them back then."
Meng Li's memory chain was finally connected, as if he didn't hear what he said, he continued: "The one you said is going to the winter camp with you, it should be him."
Lu Xiao found fault with two of every three sentences: "It's rare that you still remember that I was going to the winter camp. I thought that day, you were thinking about how to hang yourself with a hemp rope."
Meng Li's face finally sank: "Can you stop saying this in front of outsiders? Don't you think it's all my fault?"
Her voice became unsteady, with a hint of excitement.
If it was normal, Lu Xiao would have already quarreled with her.
But today when Ye Cheng was sitting beside her, Lu Xiao looked at his bewildered expression, and could only swallow the words that came to her lips.
But Meng Li refused to let go, as if he had touched an emotional switch, he covered his face and choked up.
"You are just like your father. You always think that I think too much and make a fuss out of a molehill. Do you care about my life?!"
Lu Xiao couldn't make sense to her, and stepped forward to pull Ye Cheng away.
Meng Li's shoulders twitched, and suddenly he felt a hand gently stroking his back.
That hand was very soft, and the palm was warm, but it was not scorching hot.
Like a needle of soothing medicine, it was injected into the chest along the spine.
"Auntie, don't cry." A clear voice rang in my ears.
Meng Li raised his head in a daze, with a few teardrops still hanging on his face.
By the way, Ye Cheng wiped her face with the back of his hand, and gently wiped away her tears.
It was the first time Meng Li was touched by a stranger like this, and he shrank back reflexively. But the child was not aggressive, which made her gradually let her guard down.
She blinked, holding back tears, feeling a little ashamed.
She's so old, she still needs a drunk child to comfort her.
"Auntie didn't cry." Meng Li wiped her face twice, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, I made you laugh."
Ye Cheng's thinking was still stuck on the words, and she answered her dizzily but seriously: "I didn't laugh."
Meng Li was amused by him again, crying and laughing for a while, and she felt like a psychopath.
Lu Xiao couldn't stand it anymore, dragged Ye Cheng up from the sofa, and said to her: "I'll take him upstairs first, you go to bed early."
Meng Li quietly watched them turn around, maintaining the posture just now, sitting motionless in the original position.
Lu Xiao walked a few steps, and finally turned around and said: "Don't think about it all day long, take sleeping pills if you can't fall asleep, and take less."
Then, he left with Ye Cheng.
Not long after they left, Mrs. Wang walked over from the kitchen carrying a bowl of dark things.
"Ma'am, it's time to take your medicine."
She put the bowl of things on the table, and took out a pill storage box from the cabinet, which contained various colorful capsules and white pills.
Meng Li walked slowly to the table, his face became fierce without warning like a thunderstorm.
Pointing at the medicines, she cursed, "What are you giving me? You want to kill me too, don't you?!"
Her expression was completely different from the gentle look just now, she looked like a shrew who was swearing at the street.
But Mrs. Wang was not shocked at all, and pushed the medicine forward without any surprise: "Madam, if you don't drink it, you will be cold."
"You all want to kill me! If I die, he can marry that bitch!" Meng Li screamed.
She picked up the medicine bowl and threw it onto the fireplace next to her with all her strength.
Ye Cheng followed Lu Xiao to the second floor, and suddenly heard the sound of broken porcelain downstairs.
He shuddered.
Lu Xiao held his hand tightly and comforted, "Don't be afraid, it's fine."
Ye Cheng reminded him in a low voice: "It seems that someone is arguing."
"Well, people in my family often quarrel." Lu Xiao said expressionlessly.
"... Then aren't you afraid?"
"Don't be afraid, I'm used to it."
He originally wanted to take Ye Cheng to the guest room, but after hesitating for a moment, he took him into his room.
Ye Cheng said, "You are so pitiful."
Lu Xiao thought that he was going to feel sorry for herself, but he added: "Living under noise for a long time will reduce IQ."
"Shut up. Don't think I won't beat you up if you drink too much." Lu Xiao's subordinates pushed him into the room with a little force, and slammed the door shut.
The light in the room was not turned on, Lu Xiao touched the switch with his hand, and heard him scream.
"Ah!" Ye Cheng was startled by the sudden darkness and ran around, bumping his head against the door, making a loud noise.
Lu Xiao quickly turned on the light and reached out to catch him: "Fuck, what are you running around! Did you hit it? Let me see."
He lifted Ye Cheng's Liuhai, and sure enough, there was a red patch on his white forehead.
"I thought... this is the ancestral hall." Ye Cheng's eyes panicked, and he turned his head to look at the surrounding environment uneasily.
Lu Xiao lost his temper by him, and said amusedly, "My family doesn't have an ancestral hall, but my grandfather's does have one."
Ye Cheng ignored his explanation, and said to himself: "If you make a mistake, you will be imprisoned in the ancestral hall, the kind that kneels all night."
"How do you know our family's rules?" Lu Xiao raised her eyebrows in surprise, "Wait, I think your thinking is quite clear. Are you drunk or not?"
Ye Cheng murmured and repeated: "Kneel all night, kneel all night..."
"Okay, I know you're drunk." Lu Xiao was speechless to him.
He placed Ye Cheng on the bed, bent down and rubbed his forehead, looked into his eyes and said, "Can you stay in this room by yourself for ten minutes? I'll come right after I take a shower."
Ye Cheng nodded bluntly. Although she still looked boneless, she could barely sit still.
Lu Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he looked quite sleepy, and he should fall asleep while sitting.
He pointed to a doorway in the corner of the room: "There is a study room inside, and there is an English dictionary you like. If you are bored, you can go there and memorize words."
Ye Cheng blinked and looked at him, her light brown eyes were clear to the bottom, and she nodded her head like a chick.
Lu Xiao squinted her eyes, straightened up, took off her coat and went to take a bath.
He didn't drink much at night, and his mind was very clear at this time.
Previously, she mistakenly thought that when Ye Cheng invited him alone, she was still a little distracted.
Now that he was really sitting on his bed, he got up timidly again, feeling that he couldn't be rude to that person.
In Lu Xiao's limited knowledge system, Ye Cheng always reminded him of a sentence.
—It can be seen from a distance but not played with.
Just like the one described in "Ai Lian Shuo", he looks so cold and noble.
Not someone who can be touched casually.
Ye Cheng accidentally made the wrong call today, and the other party was a distant relative of his.
He opened an entertainment company, and was always confused with the starlets under him.
Lu Zhanyang is only a few years older than him, so he can play better with young people like them, and he also prefers some young boys who have just grown up.
People in their circle are not taboo against men and women, but they also have deep-rooted prejudice against homosexuality.
I always feel that homosexuality is just for fun, and in the end I still have to find a woman of the right family to marry and have children.
The cold water poured down from his head made Lu Xiao's thoughts calmer.
He felt more and more that Ye Cheng was different from those people. Even if Lu Zhanyang brainwashed him a hundred times, the difference is the difference.
While he was thinking wildly, the bathroom door was suddenly pushed open.
Lu Xiao opened her eyes suddenly, and looked through the transparent frosted shower glass.
Ye Cheng lazily leaned against the door, and said weakly, "Lu Xiao, I want to take a bath too."
This scare was too fierce, Lu Xiao touched the switch with a trembling hand, and the hot water made him scream.
"You, why did you come in?" He even broke his voice.
Frantically reaching for the bath towel hanging on the wall, the shower fell and hit his head with a bang.
Lu Xiao covered her head and did not move.
Through the frosted glass, Ye Cheng couldn't see clearly, only heard the chaos inside.
He felt that he seemed to have done something wrong, and asked a little cautiously: "Is it not possible?"
Didn't this person always like to take him to take a bath together, and also like to press him in the bathtub and let him sit on it and move by himself.
"No, of course not! You go out first, go out!" Lu Xiao wrapped herself in a bath towel in a panic, almost on the verge of collapse.
Ye Cheng reluctantly said "Okay", then turned her head and went out indifferently.
Lu Xiao leaned against the slippery wall washed by water, his heart beating so loudly that he suspected that an ambulance should be called.
No way, no one will die suddenly because of too fast heart rate, right
This guy is completely lawless when he is drunk, which is quite different from usual. No one knows what kind of things he will do.
In Lu Xiao's life, except for her parents and the doctor who delivered the baby, she has never been naked in front of anyone else. It doesn't count how much she compared with others when she was a child.
He was so excited that his head was dizzy now, and his whole body was hot as if he was about to burn at any time.
I thought I would calm down after a short rest, but it didn't help at all. After five minutes, my heartbeat still accelerated, which was abnormally fast.
So he turned on the shower again and drank cold water for ten minutes before he calmed down.
After taking a few deep breaths, Lu Xiao got dressed, opened the bathroom door and went out.
"I'm done washing, you can..."
Halfway through his speech, he stopped.
—the room was empty.
After a lot of tossing, Meng Li finally vented his dissatisfaction in his heart.
She was going crazy in the living room, while Mrs. Wang was watching, and when she got tired from the quarrel, she packed up the pieces and went to cook a second bowl of medicine.
She sat for a while without speaking. Feeling tired and thirsty, he opened the refrigerator and poured a glass of ice water, sat at the table and drank slowly.
Mrs. Wang turned off half of the lights in the living room, leaving only one above her head, and the surrounding light was very dark.
Meng Li took a few sips and suddenly felt a figure behind him.
She immediately turned her head to look over, and saw Ye Cheng standing behind her in a daze, the beam of light pouring down from the top of her head, making him extremely creepy.
"Cough, cough, cough..." Meng Li swallowed a sip of water into the intake pipe, and coughed violently while clutching his chest.
Ye Cheng lowered his eyes, watching her cough calmly.
Meng Li was full of tears, and it took him a long time to stop. He wiped the corner of his mouth and asked him, "You... why did you come down, do you need anything? Cough cough, I'll ask Mrs. Wang to prepare for you."
For some reason, when she saw this child, she felt restless, even a little gentler than Lu Xiao.
Ye Cheng looked at the tears choking from the corners of her eyes, and said slowly: "Grandma, you are crying again."
Meng Li couldn't laugh or cry when she heard this address. She had just finished spitting, and she really didn't have the energy to correct him.
"Did Lu Xiao bully you?" Ye Cheng asked.
He vaguely remembered that before going upstairs, the atmosphere between the mother and son was not very good.
Meng Li said helplessly: "It's not a day or two since that bastard likes to piss me off. I always have nothing to do with him."
Hearing this, Ye Cheng's brows were deeply frowned, and a wrinkle appeared between her brows.
Seeing his wrinkled face, Meng Li felt as if he had seen Lu Xiao when he was a child.
She just wanted to touch her hand twice to tell him that she was fine.
There was a sound of footsteps on the stairs, and the two turned their heads to look, only to see Lu Xiao rushing down from above, really rushing.
His hair was still wet, his dripping clothes were covered with water, he was wearing a homely T-shirt and shorts, and flip-flops were hurriedly on his feet.
"Why did you run down? It made me search for a long time!" He ran up to Ye Cheng, his tone a little rushed.
When he found out that Ye Cheng was missing just now, he was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. His first reaction was to look at the window to make sure that he didn't jump out of the window.
This person is usually polite, but he didn't expect to be so troublesome when he was drunk.
Just as Meng Li was about to explain, Ye Cheng suddenly raised his hand and grabbed Lu Xiao's ear.
He scolded sharply: "Who told you to bully your mother-in-law? She is crying, and you still make her angry. "
Ye Cheng's voice was full of the words "of course", which shocked the mother and son on the spot.
Lu Xiao was even more dumbfounded, her ears hurt from being pulled, and the tall man was bent under his pressure, her knees bent in shock.
After a few seconds, he remembered to cover his ears and shouted, "Pain, pain, pain! Take it easy!"
Meng Li got up in a panic and wanted to stop him: "Xiao Cheng, let's calm down, don't be as knowledgeable as him..."
She didn't feel sorry for this son too much, after all, he has beaten all neighbors and invincible opponents since he was a child, and his skin is rough and fleshy.
He was just worried that if Lu Xiao was annoyed, he would give this skinny and tender child a big beating.
But Ye Cheng turned a deaf ear to it, and even pushed her hand away, saying righteously: "I'll teach him a lesson, don't worry about it, you can't bear to disrespect your mother."
"Do you know what's wrong?" Ye Cheng's subordinates pulled hard, and his ears turned red.
Lu Xiao almost knelt down in pain: "Got it! I know I was wrong! Don't dare to do it next time!"
Meng Li: "..."
She has raised this little bastard for more than ten years, and has never heard him apologize to anyone or give in.
Even when his father threatened to break his legs, he never gave in.
Ye Cheng turned to her, eyes blurred but articulate: "Grandmother, I'll take him up and talk to him about the truth."
After all, she turned around holding Lu Xiao's collar.
Lu Xiao was dragged staggeringly by him, and was led away with her body bent.
Meng Li looked at them dully, and murmured: "Okay, okay, we should be reasonable..."
Ye Cheng dragged Lu Xiao back to the room, and accidentally tripped herself when entering the door.
Lu Xiao wrapped his arms around his waist with quick eyes and hands, so as not to let him fall into a shit.
Ye Cheng, who stood firm, immediately turned his face and refused to recognize anyone.
He moved Lu Xiao's hand away, and said with a straight face, "Kneel down."
Lu Xiao: "???"
Ye Cheng grabbed his ear again, very angry: "Can you kneel down and hear? Do you have to ask me to bring a washboard?"
He's drunk, he's drunk, he's drunk.
Don't argue with him, don't argue with him, don't argue with him.
Lu Xiao hypnotized herself a dozen times in her heart over and over again. The veins on her forehead were throbbing, her fists were clenched tightly, and then she knelt down on one knee bearing the humiliation.
Put on a show, anyway, kneeling on one knee is not kneeling.
Unexpectedly, Ye Cheng was very strict: "Bend that leg too, kneel down for me."
Lu Xiao let a hundred swear words drift by, so she had to kneel with her legs together.
"Why, you look very unconvinced?" Ye Cheng was seriously angry, "Are you proud to talk back to your mother? She cried when I went down!"
Lu Xiao sneered: "Are you sure she's crying, not crazy?"
Ye Cheng kicked him: "Are you still talking back to me?"
Lu Xiao fell silent.
Ye Cheng crackled and educated him, from Mengmu's three moves to mother-in-law's tattooing, and when he was tired, he drank saliva before continuing.
Lu Xiao didn't dare to interrupt him, she was almost in a trance when she heard it.
Ye Cheng closed his mouth only after he was completely wilted.
Lu Xiao thought the torture was over, so she stood up and planned to coax him to sleep. When he fell asleep, he would be quiet, and when he fell asleep, everything would be fine.
Unexpectedly, Ye Cheng opened her arms naturally and said, "Help me take a bath, I'm sleepy."
That posture and demeanor, like a high-ranking emperor.
Lu Xiaozhen felt that this night was like riding a roller coaster.
His mood went up and down with the winding track, ups and downs, ups and downs.
He said tactfully: "I'll take you to the bathroom. You can simply wash your face and take a shower tomorrow morning."
There are two reasons: first, he does not dislike it. Second, he is afraid of being tough.
Ye Cheng was probably too sleepy, so he didn't make things difficult for him any more, and nodded in agreement with the suggestion.
However, after Lu Xiao took him into the bathroom, he started again.
"Brush my teeth for me," Ye Cheng sat in front of the mirror and commanded lazily, "I just carried you for a long time, and I can't lift my arms."
Lu Xiao was about to faint, so she resigned herself to finding a new toothbrush, squeezed toothpaste on it, and handed it to his mouth.
It was the first time for him to do this kind of thing like taking care of children. Although he was half a head taller than Ye Cheng, he could easily wrap his arms around him from behind, but his hands were still trembling because of being too nervous.
Before Ye Cheng opened his mouth, he accidentally rubbed toothpaste on those two lips.
The mint in the toothpaste makes the lips feel tingly and uncomfortable.
Ye Cheng rolled that bit of white into her mouth in disgust, and opened her mouth slightly for him to brush his teeth.
The tip of the pink tongue is brushed with white toothpaste, which makes any man think crookedly.
Lu Xiao felt that he was about to have a myocardial infarction. This nima was not brushing his teeth, but torturing him.
He avoided looking at the mirror, and brushed his two rows of white teeth gently by feeling.
"Well, you're so stupid..." Ye Cheng was poked on the cheek twice in a row, and scolded him vaguely with foam.
Lu Xiao was complained about, and immediately said humbly: "My first time... I'm sorry, I hurt you, and I will do better next time."
Ye Cheng hummed and chirped twice, spit out the foam casually, and rinsed his mouth with water from his cup.
Lu Xiao looked at him from the side and saw that the foam on his lips had not been cleaned, so she took a cleansing towel to help him wipe it off.
Although these are trivial things that he would not be able to do for another person in his life, but while doing it, he actually noticed a little bit of fun.
Ye Cheng like this seems to be unable to accomplish anything independently, and everything depends on him, as if he cannot do without him.
Lu Xiao took the initiative to help him wash his face again, holding his chin and carefully drying off the water.
"I don't have a change of clothes for now, can you wear mine first?" He was tossed all night, but his voice eased several degrees.
Ye Cheng naturally followed his arrangement: "Yes."
Lu Xiao completely forgot about being pulled ears and punished to kneel, and happily ran to the cloakroom, and brought him a large white t-shirt and a pair of trousers.
He doesn't like to wear pajamas very much, either sleeping naked or wearing short sleeves.
After putting the clothes on the bed, she turned her caringly and said, "You change it, I won't look at it."
The corner of his mouth was raised high, and his left ear was red and swollen, but he didn't feel any pain at all.
Three minutes later, he asked softly, "Have you changed it?"
No one answered, and even breathing sounded in the room.
Lu Xiao turned her head and almost bit her tongue after seeing the scene on the bed.
Ye Cheng was only wearing a white t-shirt, lying on the bed sprawled and sleeping soundly.
The two white and straight long legs were just so wide open, and when they were placed on the dark gray bed sheet, the contrast became more and more harsh, making people's nosebleeds.
Lu Xiao's clothes were one size too big, and the hem of the clothes just covered his buttocks, and the scenery in the middle was faintly visible.
Lu Xiao was almost driven crazy by him, so she hurriedly picked up the trousers thrown under the bed, climbed onto the bed and tried to put them on for him.
"Don't sleep first, get dressed before going to sleep."
He stepped forward and fumbled to put the trouser legs on his bare legs, Ye Cheng turned around, stretched out his arms, and hugged his head.
Lu Xiao was caught off guard and pulled over by him, the tip of his nose hit the soft and warm white T-shirt, and there was a smell of sea salt mixed with bellflowers.
Ye Cheng hugged his head in his arms, and said in a daze, "Hey, stop making trouble and go to sleep."