The next morning, Ye Cheng fell asleep and woke up naturally.
Since he started preparing for the exam, he hasn't slept more than eight hours a day for a long time.
The moment he opened his eyes, all the muscles in his body felt sore and weak as if they had been broken up and reorganized.
This feeling is inexplicably like excessive indulgence...
He covered his sleep-drunk aching head, and barely got up from the strange big bed.
The dark gray silk sheets rubbed against her bare legs.
He glanced under the quilt, he was only wearing a loose T-shirt.
Ye Cheng is different from Lu Xiao, he basically won't break up after drinking too much, and he can still remember some details very clearly.
For example, he called Meng Li "mother-in-law" one by one;
For example, in front of Meng Li, he lifted Lu Xiao's ear and reprimanded him;
For example, before he went to bed, he thought the floor heating in the room was too hot, so he refused Lu Xiao's proposal to wear pants for him.
…
Ye Cheng took a few deep breaths, and patted her cheek expressionlessly.
It doesn't matter, as long as you don't feel embarrassed, they are the ones who are embarrassed.
Haha, isn't it just drunk, who hasn't been drunk a few times.
It took him twenty minutes to do sufficient mental preparation, and was about to get out of bed to wash up when Lu Xiao opened the door and came in.
"Are you awake? I thought you had passed out." A malicious voice sounded.
Ye Cheng looked up.
Lu Xiao wore a black low-necked sweater, which thinly propped up her pretty shoulders, revealing half of her collarbone, and her loose trousers were piled up at her feet.
With his hands in his pockets, he leaned against the door and looked lazily at Ye Cheng.
Even if it doesn't clean up much, it is enough to make a person refreshed and enlightened.
However, the dark circles under his eyes showed that the master didn't seem to be resting very well.
Ye Cheng slowly slid down from the bed, pretending nothing happened, and said nonchalantly, "You woke up so early."
Lu Xiao smiled indifferently, raised her index finger and shook it: "No, it's not that I got up early, it's that I didn't sleep at all."
"Ah? Are you insomnia?" Ye Cheng wondered.
Lu Xiao gritted her teeth with a smile and said, "Ye Cheng, do you know how bad your sleeping appearance is?"
"Kicked me off the bed three times, stuck my feet in my face five times, talked in my sleep, drooled, and called me a shameless bastard."
When he said this, he was so angry that his nostrils were twitching. It was obvious that these were not fabricated.
Ye Cheng was stunned, and immediately grabbed his words to retort: "How is it possible, your bed is so big, I can kick you down?"
The king size in the bedroom is really big, several adults can roll on it without falling off.
Lu Xiao became even more angry: "You keep sticking to me, forcing me to a corner and kicking me off the bed. Ha, I doubt you are awake at all? You just want to kick me, right?"
Ye Cheng avoided his glaring guiltily, "I don't know what you're talking about."
In the name of washing up, he fled and locked himself in the bathroom, and locked Lu Xiao outside with a bang.
The only thing that made Ye Cheng happy was that when they went downstairs to eat, Meng Li had already gone out.
Fortunately, he didn't have to face her, otherwise he would rather go hungry for a day than take half a step out of this door.
Mrs. Wang once again offered her specialty crab roe dumpling and warmly greeted them for brunch.
Under Lu Xiao's glaring gaze, he endured his boredom and ate up all the steamed buns.
After eating, Ye Cheng took a little tour of this unfamiliar house.
He never knew before that Lu Xiao lived in this area.
In my impression, there is only the Lu family's old house, which is grand and majestic inside, but there is always a gloomy atmosphere in the dead of night.
Back then, he didn't control Lu Xiao and let him force his opponent into bankruptcy. Later, he was retaliated against and almost had an accident.
The old man punished the two of them to kneel in the ancestral hall all night, and made them face the wall and reflect on their mistakes.
Outside the ancestral hall is a corridor with antique lanterns hanging, and it is raining lightly outside.
Lu Xiao had no intention of facing the wall at all, so she pushed him into a corner and asked him to help her with his hands, taking advantage of the darkness inside.
Originally, Ye Cheng didn't have to kneel with him, but in order to make Lu Xiao feel bad, the old man had to punish him to kneel together.
Last night he was so drunk that he thought he had returned to the old house.
After visiting the house, Lu Xiao dragged Ye Cheng to make up lessons for him.
Due to Ye Cheng's presumptuous behavior yesterday, she could only follow his request.
Lu Xiao's examination textbook was finally turned into tatters, and the pages were all copied from his notes.
Ye Cheng ate the pastry made for him by Mrs. Wang, and sat on the desk to read "28 sets of optimization" he had made.
"This question is too wrong." He pointed.
Seeing him eating snacks with Erlang legs crossed, Lu Xiao felt unbalanced when she had to listen to his admonition while scratching her ears and cheeks.
It was Ye Cheng who was making up for him, how could it be the other way around
"I want to eat too." He protested dissatisfied.
Ye Cheng snatched all the snacks away, and said in a non-negotiable tone, "I'll eat it for you when I'm done."
"Hey, this is my house." Lu Xiao was bullied by him riding on her head, but she didn't feel too angry.
"Sister-in-law Wang made this for me." Ye Cheng didn't fear him, "You eat it every day, but you still want to grab it from me."
Lu Xiao said casually: "How can I eat every day, she just came back."
Ye Cheng asked: "Does she not live here?"
There is a special nanny room on the first floor, and Mrs. Wang seems to be quite familiar with him, not like a part-time worker or a temporary aunt.
Lu Xiao was silent for a moment, and didn't seem to want to answer this question.
Ye Cheng didn't continue to ask, as if thinking of something, she asked, "By the way, will it be inconvenient if I move here during the winter vacation? Your mother has already returned."
Although he was dizzy yesterday, he still remembered that there was a faint noise downstairs.
"It's okay." Lu Xiao said indifferently, "My mother will go to California to find my father every winter. I don't know when this year will go. There should be only the two of us at home."
Ye Cheng tentatively asked: "How is your relationship with your parents? Why doesn't your father stay in the country?"
Lu Xiao sneered: "Relationship? Hmph, I'm clinging on to a relationship that hasn't been divorced yet. They had an arranged marriage, and after giving birth to me, they played their own way, and they didn't have any family values."
He said it so bluntly that Ye Cheng didn't know how to answer it.
But he was a little puzzled, if they were playing their own games, why did Lu Yaoshan still commit violence against Meng Li
As far as yesterday was concerned, Meng Li was indeed very unhappy, but she covered herself tightly, and she couldn't see any scars on her body.
Could it be that Jiang Yirong guessed wrong
Seeing his expression, Lu Xiao thought he was just curious.
Then he explained: "My mother doesn't seem to care on the surface, but in fact she still responds in her heart. Fortunately, my father only flies back once or twice a year, otherwise I would go crazy hearing them quarreling every day."
Ye Cheng has never experienced a quarrel between his parents, but he can understand his feelings.
He touched Lu Xiao's head and said, "Don't be sad."
"I'm not sad." Lu Xiao looked at him strangely, "Can you stop petting me like a dog every time?"
Ye Cheng withdrew his hand unnaturally, he has been troubled by some habitual movements recently, and always forgets that he is facing the seventeen-year-old him.
After Lu Xiao was stared at by him and completed a set of questions, she was rewarded with a piece of butterfly cake.
When Ye Cheng held the butterfly crisp between two fingers and fed it to him, Lu Xiao felt like he was feeding a pet again.
But this time he endured it, probably because the Butterfly Cake was so delicious.
Forget it, don't argue with him.
Soon, Nandu entered January.
Accompanied by the first snow in early winter, it is a vigorous exam.
Why do I say it is so vigorous? It is because there are many situations during the exam.
The examination room of the thirteenth middle school is in the relatively remote seventh middle school, and everyone needs to take the school bus to go there.
On the day of the checkpoint, the school bus forgot three people in No. 7 Middle School.
During the exam the next day, two people did not bring their admission tickets, and one person lost his temporary ID card.
Fortunately, Xu Chao had the foresight to think that this group of people did not seem to have the ability to take care of themselves.
So on the night before the exam, everyone's admission tickets and ID cards were collected.
On the day of the exam, he stood in the lobby on the first floor and handed out one by one.
Every time you send someone, you must shout: "Come on! I wish you success!"
No other class was escorted by a teacher, and class 20 became a unique landscape.
After everyone got the documents, they surrounded Ye Cheng in the innermost place, and Shihasha breathed in desperately, trying to bathe in the radiance of Kao Shen.
In the end, one of them touched him, and each went to the examination room contentedly. The other classes were envious.
Lu Xiao and Jiang Jin were assigned to an examination room, and they were still fighting before entering.
"Touch again, and your hand will be chopped off." Lu Xiao punched him in the head.
Jiang Jin accidentally touched Ye Cheng's waist just now, making him almost jump up.
Jiang Jin was extremely wronged: "I'm not the only one who touched it! You have the ability to chop off their hands!"
Lu Xiao raised her fist: "Are you fucking reasonable?"
"If you want to do well in the exam, you should touch him too!" Jiang Jin dropped a sentence, and he was so cowardly that he rushed into the exam room.
... Seems to make sense.
After Lu Xiao entered the examination room and sat down, she twirled the 2B pencil boredly.
He was sitting by the window, and a light snow drifted outside, falling finely on the window sill.
The end of the new year is approaching, and the place is remote, so the sound of fireworks and firecrackers can occasionally be heard outside the examination room.
After living for seventeen years, this winter is the most exciting for him.
After these two days of exams and the end of the term, the winter vacation will officially begin.
Ye Cheng said that after the exam, he will live in his house. If he gets 3 A's in the HKCEE, feel free to ask him anything.
And Meng Li will leave in a few days, he can stay alone with Ye Cheng for several days, hehe.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiao was full of expectations for this winter.
He hasn't celebrated the New Year very well since he was a child. He always goes to other people's homes with his nanny and auntie. This year he can finally experience the atmosphere of the New Year.
He laughed out loud by the window, causing the invigilator to look at him like a monster.
"Students, please take a look at the sealing degree of the test paper bag..." the teacher said on the podium.
Lu Xiao withdrew her attention and arranged the documents one by one.
The pens in the pen bag were all used by Ye Cheng, and he collected them in every possible way.
There is an unwritten custom in class 20, that is, if you use the test pen, you will get an ideal result in the test.
Lu Xiao is not a superstitious person, but this time she couldn't help but believe it.
It wasn't until he got the papers and began to answer the questions that he realized how important the training Ye Cheng usually gave him was.
The first is proficiency—his reaction speed to the questions is nearly twice as fast as before.
With about half an hour left, he had already finished writing.
The second is pertinence, he thought that what Ye Cheng gave him was a sea of questions tactics, the kind that cast a wide net.
In fact, it was not the case. Almost all the test points in his notes were covered.
After the exam, Jiang Jin was going crazy.
He pulled Lu Xiao to the back, tried to lower his excited voice, and said, "Fuck! Brother Cheng is too amazing! I borrowed his notebook yesterday, and wanted to sprint, but Nima actually hit two questions!"
"There is also the third last question, and it turned out to be a copy!" Jiang Jin was about to burst into tears, "Woooooh, brother Cheng is my father, brother Cheng is so awesome."
He was still immersed in the ecstasy of betting on the right question, but Lu Xiao looked straight ahead as if his soul had been captivated.
Finally, Jiang Jin found that no one responded to him, and asked in a daze, "Brother Xiao, what's wrong with you?"
He saw Lu Xiao's expression and followed his gaze.
It is not allowed to wear school uniforms in the HKCEE, everyone wears their own clothes.
Ye Cheng put on a short light-colored lambswool coat, revealing the white turtleneck sweater inside.
Standing in the corridor covered with crushed snow, he looked more and more picturesque, so beautiful that people looked sideways.
That kind of feeling is like a person in a landscape painting, walking out.
Ye Cheng originally planned to come to the examination room here to find Lu Xiao, but was stopped by Yu Kun halfway to answer the question.
At this time, he was talking to him with his head down, his hazel eyes focused and serious.
Lu Xiao walked over quickly and squeezed in between them.
Ye Cheng's attention was immediately attracted by him: "You came out so soon, how did you do in the exam?"
"It's good, let's go eat, I'm starving to death." Lu Xiao turned him over, hooked his shoulders and walked towards the stairs.
Yu Kun stood there dumbfounded, and said to himself: "No way, I'm going to cut you off, I haven't finished asking my questions yet."
Jiang Jin passed by him, and said sympathetically and sincerely: "Why don't you ask me, I think I can get an A in the exam."
Yu Kun has never seen such a brazen person, "..."
Due to the early Chinese New Year this year, the final exam was arranged a few days after the exam.
This winter vacation should be the busiest one, because they won't have a few days off before going to winter camp.
Ye Cheng packed clothes into a suitcase at home, and Gao Qiulan was also packing clothes.
The way the grandparents and grandchildren packed their luggage together was inexplicably funny.
Seeing that he had brought a lot, Gao Qiulan asked strangely, "Didn't you only go for three days? Why did you bring so much?"
"After I went to Lu Xiao's house, I went directly to the winter camp." Ye Cheng sat on the suitcase and finally pressed the lid on, "I'm too lazy to come back and collect it again."
Gao Qiulan told him: "When you go to someone else's house, don't trouble them. I put the bird's nest and everything on the table. Remember to bring it to Auntie Meng."
Ye Cheng nodded: "Don't worry, grandma. When will my dad pick you up?"
Gao Qiulan glanced at the clock: "He said he'll be there at one o'clock, but now it's almost three o'clock, and there's no one around."
"Let me give him a call." Ye Cheng was afraid that she would be worried, so he picked up the phone and said.
He had just dialed the number when the doorbell rang outside.
Gao Qiulan hurried over to open the door, and the wind and snow hit her face, Ye Gaoyang's head and face were covered in snow.
"Mom, Xiao Cheng." He took off his coat as he entered the door, and greeted the two of them.
Ye Cheng called "Dad" indifferently, then turned to do her own business.
"Why did you arrive so late, is the plane late?" Gao Qiulan asked him.
Ye Gaoyang sighed, looking very tired: "No, Qiaoqiao suddenly had a high fever, so I had to change the flight."
Ye Cheng put away the bird's nest and put it in a bag.
Gao Qiulan glanced at his back, didn't ask much about Ye Qiaoqiao's situation, and comforted him, "Children are weak, and it's normal to have a cold and fever in winter."
Ye Gaoyang shook his head and said: "It would be fine if she just had a simple cold. She has been suffering from nosebleeds these days, and she went to the hospital a few times to find out what's wrong."
"What? Is it so serious?" Gao Qiulan said, "Then why don't I go there, so as not to cause trouble for you."
If it wasn't for Ye Gaoyang's begging, she wouldn't want to go to Shengzhou, and now she just found an excuse.
"Don't, Mom, I've come all the way back to pick you up." Ye Gaoyang persuaded.
Ye Cheng turned her head and said, "Grandma, you should follow her to see her."
In fact, he was quite puzzled. In her previous life, Ye Qiaoqiao's body was as strong as a cow, but now she has become a medicine jar.
"Xiaocheng, you should also go to Shengzhou with Dad." Ye Gaoyang took the opportunity to say.
Ye Cheng refused without hesitation: "I'm going out right away, my friend is waiting for me."
Ye Gaoyang looked at Gao Qiulan in confusion: "What friend? Is Xiaocheng going out too?"
Gao Qiulan knew that he didn't want to see Lu Xiao, so she hesitated and couldn't speak.
Ye Cheng pulled the suitcase and walked past him gracefully.
"Bye, I hope you have fun." Then he slammed the door shut.
It was snowing heavily outside, falling like goose feathers.
Ye Cheng walked briskly, and it was only when she went out that she remembered that she forgot to take her umbrella. But he really didn't want to stay under the same roof with Ye Gaoyang, so he had to bite the bullet and walked into the heavy snow.
He left in a hurry, his hat and scarf were all in the suitcase.
The wind wrapped snowflakes and blew his cheeks, and the biting cold made him shiver, as if he had been splashed with a basin of ice water from head to toe.
Damn it, Lu Xiao promised to come pick him up, but he didn't know where he went.
Ye Cheng dragged her suitcase out of the community, only to see a tall figure standing outside the door holding an umbrella.
As soon as Lu Xiao saw him, she ran over immediately.
"Damn, why don't you open an umbrella." He raised the umbrella above Ye Cheng's head as fast as he could, and the hot air he exhaled condensed into a white mist.
"No… "
Before Ye Cheng could say the words "I didn't come in time", she was covered with a scarf.
The brown cashmere scarf firmly covered the tip of his nose, and the heat that hit his face made him close his eyes reflexively, and his whole body relaxed.
The scarf carried Lu Xiao's body temperature, as well as a faint scent of orange blossom and sandalwood.
"You're looking for death, right? Forgot the last time you got caught in the rain and had a fever?" Lu Xiao tied up the scarf viciously, her technique was as good as Gao Qiulan's.
The item that was originally quite fashionable was surrounded by him like a country uncle.
"Ahem." Ye Cheng choked on being tied up by him.
Lu Xiao immediately seized the opportunity to teach him a lesson: "Look, they're all coughing."
"You're not finished yet," Ye Cheng pulled his hands away, and said unbearably, "I agreed to pick me up at the door, if it wasn't for you, I would be frozen like this?"
Lu Xiao's voice became softer in an instant: "I saw your father coming, so I found a place to hide."
Only then did Ye Cheng remember that there was a time bomb at home.
He didn't want Ye Gaoyang to find a chance to force him, so he pushed Lu Xiao to leave quickly.
The second time I came to Lu Xiao's house, it was much more natural than the first time.
Although it was only a three-day stay, Meng Li still invited a Michelin-starred chef to prepare dinner.
She changed from the sick and lazy look she met before, her hair was loosely tied in a bun, and she wore a wine red dress, looking very good.
"Try this beef sashimi, it's delicious." Meng Li greeted Ye Cheng, "Xiaoxiao always dislikes my cooking, so I had to ask someone else to do it."
Ye Cheng smiled, and Lu Xiao said unhappily, "Can you call me by my first name?"
Being called "Xiaoxiao" in front of him made him feel uncomfortable somewhere.
Meng Li ignored him and continued: "Xiaocheng, I'm really sorry, I'm going to California tomorrow, and I wanted to entertain you well."
"It's okay, auntie, I'm the one who bothered you." Ye Cheng said gently.
Meng Li pursed her lips and laughed: "You won't call me mother-in-law this time? The next day after you called me, I hurriedly made a Remaji."
Ye Cheng knew that she had misunderstood, her face blushed: "You... are not old, you are very young."
Meng Li said indifferently, "I'm already in my forties, how can I not be old?"
At this time, Mrs. Wang came to serve the dishes with a plate, and she reminded: "Are the quilts in the guest room ready? You can take Xiaoye over to have a look after a while, and change to others if you are not satisfied."
"Ready, ma'am," said Mrs. Wang.
Lu Xiao immediately put down the knife and fork and said, "Who said he was going to sleep in the guest room?"
Meng Li scolded: "You two boys, if you live in one room, you won't be afraid of being crowded."
Ye Cheng also remembered that last time he complained about his poor sleeping posture, so he nodded,
"I'm also worried about disturbing Lu Xiao's rest, so Auntie Lao will worry about it."
Lu Xiao laughed angrily at the two people, and said to Ye Cheng, "I said you would disturb me? If you don't sleep with me, what should I do if I encounter problems that I don't know?"
"Usually I don't see you love studying so much, but now you're excited." Meng Li interrupted him, "It's late at night, and you don't sleep by yourself, Xiaocheng still needs to rest."
Lu Xiao was so angry that she couldn't eat anymore. Once she lost the spoon, she didn't want to drink the soup anymore.
"Leave him alone, we will eat ours." Meng Li said to Ye Cheng.
Lu Xiao frowned and looked at her, thinking why don't you go to California now.
He counted the stars and looked forward to the moon until today, just to sleep with Ye Cheng.
Of course, this "sleep" is simply "sleep". He even prepared the projected video and soda popcorn.
I also bought a bunch of small night lights online, turned off the main light, and turned on the night light, the atmosphere in the room was so romantic.
Even if you don't do anything, staying in the same room with Ye Cheng is enough to make you feel happy and satisfied.
However, the plan that had been prepared for half a winter fell through.
He poked the steak with a fork angrily, and ate it with a grim face.
After Ye Cheng returned to the room at night, she realized that Lu Xiao was abnormally quiet.
Neither texted him nor called him.
Seems to be really angry.
He tossed and turned on the bed in the guest room, but finally couldn't fall asleep.
This kid is too naive, and he can get angry like this if he doesn't sleep in the same room with him.
After thinking for a long time, Ye Cheng decided to go to him.
He opened the door lightly, and there were a few wall lamps in the corridor, and the house was very quiet.
This guest room is some distance away from Lu Xiao's room. There are too many rooms on the second floor of their house, which is as big as a maze.
Ye Cheng stood on tiptoe, and walked towards Lu Xiao's room as lightly as possible, relying on memory.
Just as he was passing a room, he suddenly heard a scream from inside.
Because the surroundings were too quiet, the scream was particularly obvious, accompanied by the sound of glass smashing.
Ye Cheng was startled, and immediately recognized Meng Li's voice.
Before he had time to think about it, he quickly knocked on the door and said, "Auntie, are you okay?"
"Why do you say that? Come when you let me come, and leave when you let me go? Why, why?!"
The yelling inside was even more piercing, and there was a bang, as if something had fallen.
Ye Cheng didn't care about anything else, and immediately went to turn the door lock.
Unexpectedly, the bedroom door was unlocked, and he opened it all at once.
"Auntie, what happened..."
He was just about to step into the room, and before he could finish speaking, a porcelain vase landed at his feet.
There was a loud bang, and the tiles exploded under his feet, shattering to pieces on the ground.
The room is very warm, Ye Cheng only wore a pair of sandals when she came out.
The cracked porcelain jumped onto his instep, cutting a small gash in his fair skin, and blood seeped out.
The scene in the bedroom was messy, and the strong smell of perfume penetrated into the nose, making people dizzy.
The bed curtain was ripped off on the floor, and broken perfume bottles and cosmetics were scattered beside the bed.
Meng Li was wearing a nightgown, his eyes were so red that they were about to bleed, his hair was messed up, he was talking on the phone, and he was panting heavily.
Ye Cheng was worried that she would step on the glass, so she called out cautiously: "Auntie?"
Meng Li didn't respond at all, and the hand holding the phone slowly dropped, and the other end seemed to be hung up.
Ye Cheng stood outside the door for a few seconds, and finally decided to go in and have a look.
As soon as he lifted his foot, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and grabbed him, pulling him away from the tiles.
"Be careful." Lu Xiao's low voice rang in his ear.