With a little bit of guilt towards Pei Che, Jiang Miao did his best to prepare a large table of dishes. Pei Che did not act as a hands-off boss today, and followed him to peel some garlic and so on.
When Xiao Shitou and Pei Mu came over after washing their hands, they were surprised to see a large table of dishes. Xiao Shitou whispered in Pei Mu's ear: "Brother is partial. When Brother Pei Che comes, he makes so many delicious dishes!" These days, Jiang Miao tried his hand at the breakfast shop, so he made a lot of food in the morning, but the dinner was a bit perfunctory. In the past two days, there were only noodles, no wonder Xiao Shitou said so.
A hint of doubt flashed across Pei Mu's eyes. What is biased
Little Stone understood his expression: "Biased is, Big Flower gave birth to so many kittens, but you only touch Little White Dot and only give Little White Dot food."
Pei Mu nodded thoughtfully. Little White Dot is different, so his brother is also different in Brother Miao's heart.
Pei Che didn't realize that his younger brother had grown up quietly in places he hadn't noticed, and even learned to think independently. He was completely different from the empty puppet doll before.
The four of them rarely got together, and they had a very happy meal. After the meal, Jiang Miao made some hawthorn tea for everyone to digest. Seeing that the pot of tea was almost finished and Pei Che had no intention of leaving, Jiang Miao said, "It's getting late."
Pei Che raised his head and looked outside: "It's really late." Having said that, he still sat in the chair calmly, without any sign of moving.
"It's getting dark, and it's not convenient to travel. Why don't you go back?" After his hint failed, Jiang Miao had to make it clear.
"I'm not leaving today." Pei Che raised his cup and took a sip of the sweet and sour hawthorn tea, not caring at all how shocked Jiang Miao was by his words.
"You're not going back? You're sleeping here?"
"Yes!" Pei Che was firm. It was neither the New Year nor a festival, and if he rashly returned to the Duke's Mansion, he would definitely be questioned by his grandmother. It would be better for him not to leave and go back to the Imperial College tomorrow morning.
A few years ago, because the students of the Imperial College had a lax attitude and often went out to wander around when they had nothing to do, they later got into trouble and angered the emperor, who demanded that all students must live on campus and were not allowed to take holidays except during the New Year holidays, and even saved them the opportunity to take rest days.
Jiang Miao sighed: "Brother, look around for yourself, is there any place for you to sleep here?" There was a bed in two rooms, and there was already an adult and two children sleeping on the bed. If there was another person, the bed would collapse.
"I'll just stay in the study for one night." Pei Che said nonchalantly.
"Please, there is nothing in Xiao Shitou's study except tables and chairs. Do you think there is a couch in your study?" The ancients were not used to staying up late. If they stayed up all night like this, could they still go to school the next day
"Why don't you stay at an inn outside?" Jiang Miao suggested.
Pei Che stopped, frowning, remembering something, his face full of resistance.
Thinking that he skipped school because of him, Jiang Miao compromised and said, "Forget it, you sleep on the bed."
"Can you sleep well?" Pei Che was a little excited. He had never slept in the same bed with anyone else.
"It can sleep two kids and one adult, plenty of room." Jiang Miao compared them quietly and found that this guy was only a little taller than him and not fat, so how could he not have enough space to sleep
"What about you?" Pei Che raised his eyebrows. He thought Jiang Miao meant that everyone should sleep together.
"Me? I can just sleep on the floor." Jiang Miao said that when he first started out to make a living, he didn't have much money, so he stayed in a house rented by a friend for a few days, and he slept on the floor at that time.
"Sleeping on the floor? Sleeping directly on the floor? Never mind, I'll go to the study to read." Pei Che thought that it should be okay for him to sleep through the night.
"It's not like I'm sleeping directly on the floor." Jiang Miao went out several times, carried in a large pile of straw, found a corner against the wall, and spread a thick layer of straw. Then he took out a mat and a quilt from the cupboard and spread them on top one by one.
Little Shitou ran over excitedly, jumped up and rolled over. He was familiar with this floor mat. In previous years, when he went to visit his maternal and maternal relatives to pay New Year's greetings with his adoptive uncle and aunt, everyone slept on the floor because there were too many people.
Pei Mu followed, pressed the soft straw mat with his hand, and tentatively sat down, his face full of surprise. In his world, he had never seen such a bed before.
"Brother, I will sleep on the floor with you tonight, and let Little Mu and his brother sleep on the bed together, okay?" said Little Stone.
Pei Mu's little face drooped quickly, and his upper body fell down, expressing his dissatisfaction with practical actions. He also wanted to sleep on the floor!
"Okay, you guys can sleep downstairs with me." Jiang Miao looked at the spacious room and thought it was okay to sleep there occasionally. He opened the cabinet and took out a large quilt to cover himself with later.
Pei Che looked at the lively scene over there and couldn't help feeling excluded. Although the bed was his, all the people on it had run away.
Jiang Miao came out with the two children after washing up, and found that Pei Che, who had come in earlier, was already lying on the floor.
"What are you doing?"
"As a guest, how can I occupy someone else's nest?" Pei Che asked.
"speak English!"
"I want to sleep here."
"What about you? Do you want to sleep on the bed or here?" Jiang Miao was too lazy to fight with him and only asked the two younger ones.
Xiao Shitou and Pei Mu were in a dilemma. Emotionally, they preferred to sleep with Jiang Miao, but reason told them that they only had one chance to sleep on the floor and if they missed it, they would never know when they would have the chance again.
The two kids made their choice. Jiang Miao watched them lie down, tucked them in, and ran happily to the big bed. He almost forgot how long it had been since he had slept alone. It must be said that it felt so good to be able to move his hands and feet around freely.
Jiang Miao blew out the candles and went to sleep contentedly. Pei Che got what he wanted and was very excited at first, but when the two children fell asleep, the nightmare began.
Either Pei Mu put his hand on his face, or Xiao Shitou kicked him. He had a lot of trouble to get the two of them to sit still, and they would stay quiet for less than a quarter of an hour before they would go back to their old ways.
Pei Che stared at the dark roof with lifeless eyes, feeling exhausted. He could hear Jiang Miao's happy and comfortable breathing from the bed, and the more he listened, the more uncomfortable he felt. After he was attacked by the little octopuses again, he turned over and stood up from the floor.
After tucking the quilt for the two of them, Pei Che climbed onto the bed quietly. Jiang Miao's arms and legs moved wildly before going to bed, but he behaved very well after falling asleep. It should be because he slept with the two children for a long time, so he subconsciously restrained his movements.
The moment his head touched the pillow, Pei Che felt a wave of tiredness coming over him. He closed his eyes and fell into a deep and sweet dream accompanied by the sound of soft breathing beside him.
Jiang Miao was in a daze when he felt someone pushing towards him. He thought it was Xiao Shitou or Pei Mu, so he reached out his hand to pick them up and pat them on the back.
But after touching it for a while, I felt something was not right. How come the back was wider than him
Jiang Miao opened his eyes sleepily. It was still dark around him. In the faint light, Jiang Miao saw an enlarged handsome face appear beside his pillow. He was so scared that he leaned back and hit his head against the wall. He could not help but cry out "Ouch".
Pei Che also woke up at this time. Seeing Jiang Miao's eyes full of tears, he covered the back of his head and stared at him. He was a little confused about the situation.
"Hey, what are you doing here on the bed?"
Pei Che said confidently: "Before falling asleep, how could I know that they sleep so badly?"
"Then just carry them up." Jiang Miao was still very unhappy. Who could stand waking up to find two grown men around him
"If someone disturbs someone while they are sleeping soundly, they will definitely be unhappy. Rather than disturbing them, I'd rather come up myself. I heard that it is common for friends to sleep with their feet touching each other. Why are you making such a fuss?" Pei Che was a little confused, as this was often mentioned in books.
He still had the nerve to be confused? Jiang Miao rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "From the tone of your voice, do you often sleep with those Han guys?"
"Are you talking about Han Qin and the others? That's not the case." Pei Che couldn't help but think about what he said, and then he felt a chill in his heart.
"That's it. What about friends sleeping with their feet touching each other? That's all a lie." It's normal for girls to sleep together, but Jiang Miao always felt a little awkward when two men slept together.
"Not really," Pei Che suddenly said with a teasing look, "It's not that I don't want to sleep next to them, it's just that each of them has a guest room at home." Only in Jiang Miao's place would they have to sleep on the floor because there was only one more person.
Jiang Miao was speechless: "Okay, then next time you can go find your friends who have guest rooms at home, don't sleep here!"
"You're angry?"
"Why should I be angry? Isn't this the fact?" Jiang Miao snorted coldly.
"If you're willing to stay at Jiang's house, there won't be no shortage of guest rooms." Pei Che said.
"Don't!" Jiang Miao was afraid when he heard about Jiang's house. "Those people are still thinking about meeting the man who was married to the prince. If I live there, wouldn't it be a confession? Then people will stare at me wherever I go. How boring."
"I thought you didn't like it there because they didn't serve you well."
"That's a little bit true, but it's not that the service is inadequate. It's that the service is too attentive. Even a handkerchief is ready for me. It's too depraved!" Jiang Miao was afraid that he would be corrupted by the sugar-coated bullets. He couldn't live with such a capitalist life.
"Degenerate?" Pei Che was puzzled. He was born to be served by others, so he naturally didn't understand why Jiang Miao regarded this matter of course as a sign of degenerate.
"No, I'm used to being poor and can't adapt to this kind of life." Jiang Miao had no intention of saying something like everyone is equal. He was just an ordinary citizen, so how could he have the ability to talk about this? He would talk about it when he was reincarnated as an emperor in his next life.
"People say it's easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it's hard to go from luxury to frugality. But you're different." Pei Che said with a smile.
The two of them lying on the bed, chatting naturally, look more harmonious than those couples who sleep in the same bed but have different dreams.
(End of this chapter)