When Ye Cheng went out, the hour hand on the wall pointed to ten o'clock.
There was only one dim wall lamp left in the living room, and Gao Qiulan had already fallen asleep.
He took a taxi from Baize to Yongguang Road, listening to Jiang Jin's complaints on the phone.
The phone vibrated a few times and received several new messages.
Jiang Jin woke up a little bit, and his tone was very resentful: "Damn, these guys really can drink, and everyone is blowing on the bottle! Brother Xiao also got home today, playing a game and losing a game."
Ye Cheng snorted: "It's all self-inflicted. If he doesn't want to drink, can others force him?"
There was a muffled sound from the other end, mixed with Jiang Jin's "Fuck, Brother Xiao, calm down, and don't do anything if you have something to say."
Ye Cheng hung up the phone speechlessly, it seemed that she was really drunk.
The taxi stopped at the bustling bar street, and there were doormen soliciting customers in front of the doors on both sides.
The bar has a variety of styles, the decoration of the light board is exaggerated and gorgeous, and there is a deafening dance music from inside.
Ye Cheng was familiar with this area, and soon found a group of people on the curb.
Several men and women with colorfully dyed hair were standing on the side of the road talking.
Lu Xiao sat by the curb, propped her head without saying a word, and rested her elbows on her knees.
Although surrounded by several people, he was the most conspicuous one in the crowd.
Standing next to him was Jiang Jin, and a girl with curly hair.
Ye Cheng walked over in two or three steps and stood in front of him.
"Brother Cheng, you are here!" Jiang Jin Wanru saw the savior, and hurriedly waved to him.
Seeing this posture, Ye Cheng understood why he was looking for her.
Probably because they were afraid that these women would eat Lu Xiao up.
Those people stopped chatting and looked at him curiously, obviously feeling that they shouldn't be traveling together.
Lu Xiao raised her head slowly, moving her gaze upwards from the shoes in front of her.
A little higher is the long legs wrapped in black school uniform pants.
A little more, it is the pair of cold eyes in the impression.
Seeing that Ye Cheng didn't speak, Jiang Jin hurriedly said, "Let me help you take Brother Xiao to the car. He's too drunk to let anyone touch him."
As she said that, she wanted to pull Lu Xiao's arm.
His face was blushing, and he didn't know if he had been accidentally injured just now.
Ye Cheng raised her hand to stop him.
Jiang Jin looked at him a little at a loss.
Lu Xiao's drunkenness can be divided into two situations, the first one is slightly drunk.
Whenever this time, he will act until you cry.
Shamelessly acting coquettishly and threatening, and recklessly doing things that he would not dare to do normally, this is also when Ye Cheng annoys him the most.
The second type is like now, drunk like a dead fish, his eyes are frozen, staring at him without blinking.
At this time, Lu Xiao seemed harmless, but his attack power was off the charts.
No one is touched except those close to him.
The above two have one thing in common. The former talks a lot, while the latter talks a lot.
In short, it is too much.
After he was drunk for an hour, this characteristic would be infinitely magnified.
Ye Cheng looked at the slap marks on Jiang Jin's face, and said thoughtfully, "I'll do it."
The curly girl hesitated to speak, Jiang Jin opened his mouth.
The next second, he grabbed Lu Xiao by the back collar and pulled her up from the ground.
That movement is extremely skilled, as if it has been done many times.
Everyone was dumbfounded.
Jiang Jin gasped in fright, and had a premonition that Ye Cheng would soon be hit with an iron fist.
However, what he feared did not happen.
There was an even more jaw-dropping scene.
After Lu Xiao was pulled up, her whole body exuded an aggressive aura.
But when he glanced at the approaching person rather unhappily, the arrogance around him dropped little by little visible to the naked eye.
Ye Cheng looked at him for a moment, reached out and pushed him from behind, and said bluntly: "Go, go back."
Lu Xiao let out a low growl, as if she wanted to resist, but was pushed again.
"Hurry up, the master is still at the intersection."
Jiang Jin: "..."
Everyone watched them go away dumbfounded, and became dumb for a while.
Jiang Jin swallowed, and suddenly regretted: "Brother Xiao will be fine, why do I feel that his reaction is so slow..."
Another person said: "Isn't that Ye Cheng still rumored with him? Brother Xiao must be really interested in him, and he doesn't resist at all."
"Spread your mother's gossip." The curly girl gave him a blank look with a very aggressive tone.
"Hehe, just kidding, just kidding."
At the intersection, Ye Cheng stuffed the person into the back seat, then opened the co-pilot and sat on it.
The uncle driver looked at the rearview mirror anxiously, and said, "Handsome guy, why don't you sit in the back and take care of him? I'm afraid he'll spit in the car."
"No, he will vomit in the middle of the night if he wants to vomit." Ye Cheng said calmly, and put on the seat belt.
The uncle driver was still a little worried, shook his head, and stepped on the accelerator.
The inside of the car was filled with the smell of alcohol, and the people in the back seat were panting heavily, leaning against the window slightly annoyed and weak.
Just now they were so close, Ye Cheng could tell that what he was drinking was tequila.
Tequila sunrise, his favorite point.
The reflection of the night scene outside the window flickered, and the summer night wind brushed against the hot cheeks with a touch of restlessness.
This kind of Lu Xiao was so familiar that he was in a trance for a moment.
It seemed as if he had returned to more than a month ago, when he drove to pick up a drunk man, and let him hug himself on the street whimpering.
Of course, the current Lu Xiao would not hug him and rub against him, she would only look like a beast whose territory had been invaded, with vigilance and resistance in his eyes.
He leaned against the car window and looked at Ye Cheng's profile, as if he was judging whether this person was a danger to him.
The atmosphere in the car was very strange for a while, the uncle driver looked between them from time to time, but he didn't dare to speak.
After arriving at the gate of the community, Ye Cheng helped Lu Xiao out from the back seat.
He originally wanted someone to walk on his shoulders, but Lu Xiao didn't appreciate it and threw him away.
"Who are you, don't touch me!" He frowned inarticulately, with the arrogance of a three-year-old child.
Ye Cheng's face suddenly darkened—it started.
An hour after Lu Xiao got drunk, his true nature was gradually revealed.
As early as a long time ago, Ye Cheng complained in an interview with "Ten Best Couples".
At that time, the reporter asked him at the end: "Mr. Ye, do you have any expectations for your spouse?"
Ye Cheng sincerely said to the camera: "I hope he quits drinking."
It's so fucking annoying every time I get drunk.
The reporter's face became flustered.
"Smoking less, don't snore when you sleep." Ye Cheng continued.
"If I could go back to when he was young, I would definitely help him correct these bad habits." His tone was polite.
The director hastily switched shots.
Damn, this is an interview with the "Ten Best Couples", not a "Couple Tucao Conference", how can you say this!
Ye Cheng stared at Lu Xiao's wobbly back, feeling the urge to kick this guy into the artificial lake.
He was too lazy to talk nonsense with a drunkard, so he went up and dragged him to his house forcibly.
Although Lu Xiao usually has a lot of strength, he can't exert 30% of it now.
While being dragged away unwillingly, he looked around suspiciously, his eyes blurred: "Are you home? That basketball court looks familiar, and you're really home..."
Ye Cheng patted him on the back when he was talking nonsense and walked up the steps: "Keep down, my grandma is asleep."
Lu Xiao also patted him on the back, and said solemnly: "Keep your voice down, don't disturb grandma."
"Shall we play basketball later?" He looked back at the basketball court in the distance and lowered his voice.
Then I was a little excited: "I can touch the rebound, do you want me to teach you?"
There were times when Ye Cheng had to kick him out of the house because he couldn't stand his unconstrained nonsense.
One moment he can be entangled with why their golden retriever is shitting everywhere, and the next second he can decide to transport the shit to Siberia to be used as fertilizer.
Ye Cheng looked into his blank eyes, and said word by word: "If you say one more nonsense, you don't have to go in."
Lu Xiao realized who was the master, looked at the basketball court with grievance mixed with regret, and followed Ye Cheng into the house with her head drooping.
The guest room hadn't been tidied up, so Ye Cheng put him on the sofa.
He went to the kitchen to make a glass of honey water, and when he came out, he saw Lu Xiao wrapped himself into a worm with the tablecloth on the coffee table.
Ye Cheng pressed the twitching temple, and pulled out a blanket for him.
"Use this." He tried to tear off the funny floral tablecloth.
Lu Xiao stepped back on the sofa vigilantly, her long legs rubbed against the leather surface, making a "poof".
He immediately widened his eyes and looked at Ye Cheng: "Did you fart?"
He kicked his legs twice, and there were "poof" and "poof", his expression became serious: "Why are you still letting go? You really have no quality."
Ye Cheng was about to go crazy, and threw the blanket on his face casually: "Whether you like to cover it or not."
If he pays attention to this guy again, he will be out of his mind.
He left Lu Xiao alone in the living room and went back to his room.
After taking a shower, I found that there were several new messages and missed calls on my phone.
Ye Gaoyang: [Xiao Cheng, I seem to have left my coat at home, check to see if it is in the study.]
Ye Gaoyang: [My ID card is in the pocket of my coat, can you help deliver it to the hotel?]
Ye Gaoyang: [Did you go to sleep so early? When you see it, call Dad back.]
At this moment, the sound of the combination lock opening the door came from outside.
Ye Cheng was so excited that she ran out immediately without even wearing her shoes.
But it was still a step too late.
In the living room, Ye Gaoyang and Lu Xiao stared wide-eyed.
One is standing and the other is sitting on the carpet.
Lu Xiao was wrapped in a floral tablecloth, and frowned at him, her eyes a little fierce.
Ye Gaoyang was stunned for several seconds, then turned his head and saw Ye Cheng, the corner of his mouth twitched and said, "This is your classmate? Why did you let him sleep on the floor?"
Ye Cheng didn't want to look at this picture again, so she said quickly: "Dad, your coat is on the chair in the study."
Ye Gaoyang was still examining him.
Lu Xiao suddenly got up from the ground and walked towards him.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ye Cheng hurried forward and pushed Ye Gaoyang into the study.
Lu Xiao stood where she was, with low air pressure all over her body, as if she was protecting her own territory: "Who are you, why are you here at my house?"
Ye Gaoyang looked at him in shock, with a rare expression on his face.
"Dad, he drank too much, don't worry about him." Ye Cheng had given up struggling, and said while holding his forehead.
With strange eyes, Ye Gaoyang turned and went into the study.
When he came out with his coat, Lu Xiao, who was domineering just now, was sitting on the sofa with a displeased expression on his face.
I don't know how Ye Cheng calmed him down.
"Xiao Cheng, I'm leaving first." He suppressed his curiosity and said to his son.
Ye Cheng sent him to the door, but he finally couldn't hold back and said, "Father doesn't want to interfere in your life, but no matter how stressed you are, you can't go out and drink."
Ye Gaoyang coughed, "Don't let that child sleep on the floor, what does it look like, I really can't make do with you for one night."
"Understood." Ye Cheng was extremely embarrassed.
When he returned to the living room again, Lu Xiao had already fallen asleep on the sofa.
That handsome face was pressed against the tablecloth, with thin lips slightly parted, looking harmless to humans and animals.
Ye Cheng stared at his sleeping face, and bit his back molars.
Why don't you get drunk.
Early the next morning, Lu Xiao woke up to the smell of rice.
He opened his eyes with a splitting headache, and saw an unfamiliar ceiling and chandelier with medieval oil paintings of angels painted on them.
The morning sun floods the living room, and the furniture is all European-style rural style.
Creepers and sycamore leaves hang outside the glass windows, and the chirping of birds and cicadas comes in through the half-open windows.
Ding ding dong dong sounded in the kitchen, and the scent of preserved egg and lean pork porridge mixed with fried food wafted in the air.
Lu Xiao's stomach growled.
"Grandma, good morning."
While arranging the collar of her school uniform, Ye Cheng came out of the room with her schoolbag on her back.
In the twilight of the morning sun, her lips became redder and her teeth whiter.
As soon as he raised his eyes, he met Lu Xiao who was on the sofa.
Lu Xiao sat up and said awkwardly, "Good morning."
His hair was messed up in sleep, and his expression was drawn and cool, which looked a little funny.
Ye Cheng put down her schoolbag and glanced at him casually: "Morning."
The two came out of the house and walked to the subway station together.
The atmosphere is wonderfully quiet.
Lu Xiao looked at the surrounding environment in surprise, and seemed to want to say something, but held back again.
When he was about to walk to the subway entrance, Ye Cheng took the lead and said, "Did you break up last night?"
Lu Xiao cleared her throat and glanced at him: "I don't really remember what happened, but thank you, I didn't cause you any trouble, did I?"
He was rarely polite.
Ye Cheng squinted her eyes: "It's not too troublesome, but it's just running around the room in a drunken frenzy, and almost had a fight with my dad."
Lu Xiao paused and turned to look at him.
Ye Cheng raised her phone: "The evidence of the crime has been recorded, how do you plan to redeem it?"
"No way," Lu Xiao asked tentatively, "Did I really do that?"
Ye Cheng looked at him without saying a word.
Lu Xiao's voice gradually lowered: "I'm sorry... you can make up for whatever you want."
Ye Cheng raised her eyebrows and said, "Really?"
"… real."
Although Lu Xiao is a rebellious person, he still respects his elders according to his family tradition.
Just now at his home for breakfast, Gao Qiulan served him porridge, and he said thank you several times.
He was in a very serious mood about the disturbance last night.
Ye Cheng nodded and said, "Then you should be in the top 500 in the mid-term exam. If you pass the exam, I will delete the master tape."
Lu Xiao looked at him suddenly, only to find that there was a smile in those light brown eyes.
He pursed his lips: "You lied to me."
The voice was not in the slightest annoyed.
"You can do whatever you want." Ye Cheng said.
Lu Xiao couldn't help laughing, and said "Tsk", "Why are you so interested in my grades?"
"Happy to help, no way."
"alright."
They scanned the QR code and entered the subway station, and the subway line 2 entered the station slowly.
Across the crowd, two teenagers stood near the door chatting with their pockets in their pockets.
Why are you so interested in your grades
Not helpful.
It's because someone once held him in the middle of the night and complained: "What should I do, I always feel that I am not good enough for you."
"Why do you think so?" Ye Cheng hugged him back.
Lu Xiao was a little depressed: "At your classmate reunion at night, all of them were above 680 in the college entrance examination, and your monitor even said that the guy with glasses chased you."
Ye Cheng chuckled, and smoothed his hair: "Why, now I regret that I didn't work hard in high school?"
"Regret. I really want to go to college with you. I'm not kidding." Lu Xiao buried her face in his neck, rubbing her tall nose lightly against him.
"I want to go to class with you, go to the library to occupy a seat, participate in the student union election together, and win prizes in competitions together." His voice was dull.
From the moment Lu Xiao returned to China, all the time that followed was related to Ye Cheng.
However, the four years of Ye Cheng's life were the best years he missed.
In other populations, Ye Cheng, who was in college, was vigorous and free and easy, with a little childishness in his aloofness.
Just by listening to the description, you can imagine how dazzling it is.
Passionate and bright.
That was a pronoun that Lu Xiao had never seen before.
Since you have such an obsession, let me fill your regret this time.
Ye Cheng looked up at the disdainful person: "You seem quite confident."
"The first five hundred, it's too easy." Lu Xiao leaned against the car door with her arms folded, her long legs bent lazily.
"Oh? If you fail the exam, what should you do?"
"If you pass the exam, what should you do?"
"You can ask for anything."
"It will be all right?"
"Ok."
From the day he entrusted Lu Xiao to Ye Cheng, Jiang Jin began to feel that something was wrong.
On weekends, he asked Lu Xiao to go to the Internet cafe, but he was rejected.
The reason is that he has to do his homework.
Jiang Jin felt that there was a bolt from the blue, and Lu Xiao wanted to do homework
Didn't he always transfer 300 yuan on WeChat and ask someone to write it for him
The physics teacher was also deeply shocked because he had not fallen asleep in class twice.
What was even more frightening was that one time when Jiang Jin wanted to turn around to borrow a pen, he saw Lu Xiao asking Ye Cheng a question.
He shivered, and asked in the melon group: [uu guys, do you know what symptoms will appear when your head is lowered?]
Tiga is light: [?]
Lu Xiao whispered: "I have no problem with this solution, why is the answer different from yours?"
Ye Cheng leaned over to look at his problem-solving ideas, and it took a long time to realize that it was a wrong formula.
He picked up the pen, passed under Lu Xiao's arm with his right hand, and began to write on the draft paper.
"It's not right here. This line is not a tangent. You can't use the distance formula."
This posture is actually a bit awkward, but he will be very involved as soon as he solves the problem, completely ignoring his own movements.
The moment Ye Cheng approached, Lu Xiao's muscles tensed up.
There was a cup of bitter orange latte on his table, and when he was talking about the topic, the faint scent of bitter orange lingered in his nose.
Lu Xiao remembered the bottle of bluebell shampoo she saw in the bathroom of his home last time.
He glanced down at Ye Cheng who was approaching, as if he hadn't cut his hair for a long time, the black hair half covered his eyes, and the faint fragrance of bluebells enveloped the surroundings.
Lu Xiao subconsciously twitched her arm, trying to move away.
Ye Cheng hooked his arm: "Don't move, it's almost finished."
He froze in place.
"Connect these two points and you can continue to do it, will you?"
What the hell, Lu Xiao thought irritably.
Jiang Jin turned his head again, and the phone slammed down on the table: "Brother Xiao, why is your face so red?"