If it was not related to their going out, he didn't care very much, so he changed the subject and asked Xu Chu for his opinion: "Do you still need to continue looking at his computer?"
"Farewell, farewell," Xu Chu pushed the boat smoothly, "Let's read the rest of the study room map."
Huo Changzhi hummed, spread out the picture in the study room, found the part mentioned in the morning, and continued to talk around the picture.
Below the desk is the key wiring area, colorful and chaotic, Huo Changzhi didn't know how to describe it, and the hand holding Xu Chu's moving fingers also stopped.
"What's wrong?" Xu Chu asked.
Huo Changzhi said: "This piece..."
"Very complicated?"
"yes."
"Then let's go around first, I probably know." Xu Chu rubbed the paper with his hand.
Huo Changzhi turned his head and saw Xu Chu's bangs drooping down, which seemed to interfere with his sight. He realized that he was probably a bit obsessive-compulsive. Even though he knew Xu Chu was invisible, he still couldn't control his hands to help Xu Chu Scoop the hair behind the ears.
Feeling Huo Changzhi's actions, Xu Chu quickly grabbed Huo Changzhi's hand before he could stretch it out, and thanked him with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Thank you, Brother Huo."
"You're welcome." Huo Changzhi withdrew his hand uncomfortably.
"Brother Huo's body temperature is very high, my hands are warmed by you." Xu Chu felt that Huo Changzhi's serious look was very funny, and became addicted to teasing him, so he leaned towards him.
"Xu Chu," Huo Changzhi refused, pressing his shoulder to prevent him from coming, "Huo Jiuan called you senior?"
"Huh?" Hearing Huo Jiu'an, Xu Chu lost his strength and stopped laughing with Huo Changzhi.
"How old are you?" Huo Changzhi looked closely at Xu Chu's face and expressed his doubts. Xu Chu's complexion was almost transparent, his lips were red and his teeth were white, like a college student who didn't like to go out during the summer vacation.
"I'm two years older than Huo Jiuan," Xu Chu replied, "You're not only one year older than him, are you? Is it your brother Huo?"
"...I'm four years older than you." Huo Changzhi said.
"A difference of four years," Xu Chu thought thoughtfully, "According to our Chinese zodiac, a difference of four years is the best match. Brother Huo, what is your zodiac sign?"
Huo Changzhi didn't want to tell him, lest he start talking about foreigners' astrology again, pretended not to hear, and continued to explain the design to Xu Chu.
Xu Chu listened cooperatively to the rest of the design drawings.
Going around the part under the desk, the next steps are similar to the previous ones. After Huo Changzhi finished speaking briefly, Xu Chu said: "The part we skipped just now, why not talk about it with me, listen to me, right? "
"Doesn't the bus branch have a thin red line with a quarter on the outermost circle..."
What Xu Chu said was very accurate, Huo Changzhi felt relaxed, and he didn't find any problems after listening to him. All the lines went exactly as Xu Chu expected. After Xu Chu finished speaking, Huo Changzhi didn't raise any different opinions, and his expression became a little disdainful.
"The keyhole just now should be under the desk, and the host of the program is placed here," Xu Chu said, "I thought Huo Jiuan would make a room for the host, I overestimated him, just open it and turn off the power. Let’s lift the carpet under the desk first.”
He jumped off the chair, supported the tabletop with one hand, and groped with the other on the floor stall. Huo Changzhi also accompanied him in the carpet.
After touching for a while, I couldn't find the gap like the carpet above the keyhole just now.
"Do you want to remove the carpet in the whole room?" Huo Changzhi stood up and looked around the room.
Xu Chu asserted: "Impossible."
Xu Chu knelt down on the carpet for a while with a sullen face. Huo Changzhi wanted to pull him up, but he waved Huo Changzhi's hand away: "How many drawings are there?"
"Seven A3s and one A0." Huo Changzhi counted and told him.
Xu Chu still couldn't get up from below, Huo Changzhi dragged him by the back, forcibly lifted him up, and placed him on the chair.
"Do all the seven cards have names?" Xu Chu was swayed by Huo Changzhi as if he didn't realize it.
"A0 has no name, and A3 has a living room," Huo Changzhi flipped through one by one, "bedroom, this one has no name... dining room... Xu Chu."
Huo Changzhi finished flipping through the pictures, and suddenly called him: "There are two pictures that don't look like a design for a room, but they are..."
"My handcuffs and anklets?" Xu Chu helped him.
"Yes, there are still three design drawings that haven't marked their positions," Huo Changzhi classified the drawings and put them on the table.
"Brother Huo, can you briefly describe the basic appearance of the three unknown pictures?" Xu Chu said in a hurry, and had an idea in his words.
Huo Changzhi carefully looked at the three pictures, all of which had a feeling of deja vu. He took one of them and looked at it together with the picture of the study room, and put the other two pictures together with the pictures of the bedroom and living room, and compared them for a while. Cai said: "Looking at the outline, it is a flipped version of the design drawings of the study, bedroom, and living room... but the wiring is different."
Xu Chu's heart cooled down.
"Then," he said slowly to Huo Changzhi, "take a look at the design drawings of my handcuffs and shackles, are there four places that are similar to the lines under the desk in the study drawing just now, interlaced?" Line blocks, lined up together, how many lines are connected in the middle?"
According to Xu Chu's question, Huo Changzhi checked the drawings carefully and confirmed what Xu Chu said: "Yes."
Xu Chu was quiet for a moment, and reluctantly said: "I see, let me think about it."
Huo Changzhi saw that Xu Chu was down, not quite used to it, so he comforted him: "Don't worry, we don't lack time."
"It's not a matter of time..." Xu Chu replied, and suddenly lay down on the table, pressing his face against the table, and shouted bitterly, "It's so troublesome, Brother Huo!"
Huo Changzhi didn't know what to say, he rarely felt helpless in the face of Xu Chu's complaints.
"If only I could read pictures." Xu Chu said again.
Everything will be fine, Huo Changzhi wanted to say this, but he still didn't say these things, he just asked Xu Chu: "What will happen if this house is broken open from the outside?"
Xu Chu was stunned for a while, and then said word by word: "Then, probably, it can be considered a solution."
Huo Changzhi nodded, thinking that Xu Chu couldn't see him, so he added a good word.
Xu Chu's hair half covered his face, Huo Changzhi didn't notice, Xu Chu's expression was forced when he answered, even with a trace of pain.
6:30pm
Xu Chu was so annoyed that he didn't even have any interest in making dinner. He kept competing with Huo Changzhi on who could sit still longer. In the end, Huo Changzhi was defeated. He stood in front of the refrigerator and thought about life—it's not as simple as cleaning the kitchen. .
After Huo Changzhi walked to the kitchen for a while, Xu Chu followed, weakly accusing Huo Changzhi of "starving him to hypoglycemia", and saying: "I can't think even if I have low blood sugar."
Huo Changzhi remained silent, Xu Chu said to himself again: "Could it be that Brother Huo is not in the kitchen, but in the toilet."
Huo Changzhi forcefully opened the refrigerator, made a sound to indicate that he was there, and then made a pot of boiled noodles in white water. Under Xu Chu's guidance, he adjusted the soup base and poured it into the noodles. It's too heavy, but at least it's edible.
After eating the noodles, Huo Changzhi asked Xu Chu again if he would not read the drawings at night.
"The school will give students a few days off before the big exam," Xu Chu said, "Teacher Huo doesn't even give me a free night for self-study."
"I'm not..." Huo Changzhi realized that he had been dragged in by Xu Chu again, and stopped after saying a few words. After Xu Chu ate something, he had the strength to joke again, which made Huo Changzhi feel relieved.
"But my dad used to say that it's irresponsible to take time off." Xu Chu pushed the bowl away and asked Huo Changzhi to pick another bowl for him. "Students should study like a soldier until the last moment before going to the examination room." .”
"Xu Chu, what about your family during the time you were locked up?" Xu Chu mentioned it, and Huo Changzhi thought why no one found out that Xu Chu had been locked up for so long.
Xu Chu said without hesitation: "When I came out to my family in junior year, my parents severed ties with me."
Huo Changzhi was at a loss for words again.
"Coming out means being gay and confessing your sexuality to your family." Xu Chu thought that Huo Changzhi didn't understand, and explained it to him like a blueprint.
Xu Chu still let go of his evening self-study vacation, Huo Changzhi turned on Huo Jiuan's computer again, found an old movie, and played it for Xu Chu.
9:30pm
Xu Chu sat cross-legged on the bed, and Huo Changzhi covered his wet hair with a towel again.
He wiped it obediently. Huo Changzhi took a biography book from the study and sat on the side of the bed.
When he was flipping through the book, he glanced at Xu Chu inadvertently. Xu Chu was wiping his hair from bottom to top, revealing the back of his neck. He was wearing irregular pajamas, and a red mole on the back of his neck followed his movement of wiping his hair. It is peeked up and down the neckline.
Huo Changzhi watched, and old memories suddenly appeared in his mind. He finally remembered why he felt familiar when he first heard Xu Chu's name. He and Xu Chu had a one-night relationship.
It was the kind of one-night relationship that would dry out one's tongue.
About seven or eight years ago, a luxury cruise ship owned by Huo Changzhi's shipping industry made its maiden voyage. It set sail from Xiangdao to Okinawa for ten days. Of course, he was also on board.
That inaugural voyage was very popular due to various reasons, and it was hard to get a ticket. It was also called the Oriental Titanic by domestic newspapers. Huo Changzhi's grandfather didn't like this name very much, thinking it was too ominous.
On the last night before the end of the voyage, in order to celebrate the successful ending of the maiden voyage of the cruise ship, a free masquerade ball was held on the cruise ship, which was set in the largest auditorium of the cruise ship, as long as the guests of sea view class and above can participate , Thousands of people came to the venue.
Huo Changzhi was worried that there was something wrong with the security at the scene, so he asked his assistant to give him