Cheng Fengtai played with Shang Xirui on and off the table all night with his arms around Shang Xirui, but it didn't feel like it was enough. It wasn't until the sky was bright and the sellers of frozen persimmons on the street began to shout, that they both fell on the bed and fell asleep exhausted. They were so tired that they didn't even have a lingering word, their limbs were intertwined and their breathing was intertwined, and they slept together in a picture of soul and dream. But he couldn't sleep for a few hours like this, after 11:00 noon, Shang Xirui woke up hungry with his stomach rumbling, opened his eyes and stared at Cheng Fengtai's sleeping face for a while, finally couldn't bear it anymore Hungry, he punched Cheng Feng on the shoulder socket: "Second Lord, Second Lord, I'm hungry."
Cheng Fengtai turned over: "Go find Xiao Lai something to eat, I'll sleep for a while."
Shang Xirui sat up and stared blankly for a while, then scratched his hair, put on his clothes, and jumped up and down a couple of times, feeling a little hot from behind, but his body was still fit and energetic. Cheng Fengtai, who usually looks like the kind of young master who is addicted to drinking and lack of exercise and is weak, is quite fierce in this matter, but he fell asleep after finishing the work, unconscious. Unlike Shang Xirui, who is at his mercy when doing things, but after the work is done, he is a good man.
Shang Xirui wore an old homely dress and went to Xiao Lai to beg for food. Xiao Lai was distracted all night, woke up late, and was not in the mood to cook, with braids untied, looked at Shang Xirui hesitating to speak, very unhappy. Shang Xirui has always been in awe of her, and knowing she didn't like Cheng Fengtai, he did that with Cheng Fengtai at home yesterday - he never slept at home with men in the past. Seeing that Xiaolai's face is not happy now, he is about to leave the room to find another food.
Xiao Lai called him back with a cold face, and said in a gentle voice as much as possible: "Boss Shang, how do you feel?"
Shang Xirui said truthfully: "Nothing, just hungry."
Xiao Lai held his arms, pinched and caressed them, and asked closely, "Did he hurt you during the big commotion last night?"
Shang Xirui grabbed her arm with his backhand and replied earnestly: "It didn't hurt me, I just feel hungry."
Shang Xirui, once his stomach is empty, he will become dull and stupid like a starved ghost possessed by him, he will lose all thoughts except foraging for food. Xiao Lai resigned his fate with two sentences, knowing that he would not listen to what he said now, and when he asked the third sentence, he must be impatient, so he sat in front of the mirror and braided his long hair into a new braid. Shang Xirui said: "It's too late to cook now, I'll go to the restaurant in the alley behind and buy you a dry-roasted duck breast, purple crispy pork, and fried lamb, okay?"
Shang Xirui heard that there was nothing wrong with eating meat, so he just urged Xiao Lai to hurry up. Because the sun at noon melted the snow at night, the road was slippery, and it took a while to go back and forth. When Xiao Lai came back with the food box, Shang Xirui's eyes turned green from hunger. A few dishes were picked up and eaten, Shang Xirui wiped out the rest, he couldn't swallow as fast as he chewed, his cheeks bulged into two big bulges, like a rabbit chewing a carrot. No one can believe that such a famous actor is acting behind his back.
Xiao Lai looked at him, suddenly smiled, and lowered his head to eat a piece of rice with chopsticks: "Boss Shang is finished eating now, why don't you leave some for him?"
It's rare for Xiaolai in a thousand years to say such words of concern for Cheng Fengtai, but Shang Xirui felt a little embarrassed: "Oh, I forgot, let's go out to eat when he wakes up."
Xiao Lai nodded, changed his previous melancholy, smiled and said: "Boss Shang got up and walked around when he was full, I will clean up the dishes." I thought Shang Xirui was still the original Shang Xirui, it was she who thought about it serious. After last night, it doesn't mean that he will be more devoted to Cheng Fengtai and make more sacrifices. Do you think he still eats and drinks on his own and doesn't know how to take care of others? But if it was many years ago, when he and Jiang Mengping were even better, no matter how hungry he would be, he would have to eat more than half of the food for his senior sister. After being heartbroken, Shang Xirui has learned to be smart, and will not be so dedicated to others. Shang Xirui treats Cheng Fengtai differently, perhaps just to distinguish him from good friends like Commander Cao Xue Qianshan.
Xiao Lai comforted himself like this, and saw Cheng Fengtai coming out of the bedroom wrapped in a coat outside his pajamas, rubbing his ears with his palms, and said: "Has the snow melted? It's really cold today. What are you eating, Boss Shang? I'll try it." He leaned over and opened his mouth, waiting for Shang Xirui to feed him.
Shang Xirui put a piece of winter bamboo shoots into his mouth, satisfied: "Eat meat!"
Cheng Fengtai ate crispy and refreshing food, poked his neck to see, how could there be a shredded pork in several dishes? He smiled and said: "Okay, I'll start dinner before I wait. Where's the meat?" While reaching into Shang Xirui's collar, he pinched his neck.
Shang Xirui shrank his neck in ice: "I've eaten all the meat!"
Cheng Fengtai was really hungry too, it was freezing cold, Lao Ge hadn't come yet, he was impatient to go out to eat in a rickshaw, there was only rice on the table in the grass nest, it was still hot, so he filled Shang Xirui's bowl by himself After eating the rice, mix it with the sauce of the stew, and eat it with a little sliced winter bamboo shoots and dried day lilies with tofu. This surprised both Shang Xirui and Xiao Lai. Shang Xirui's heart was warm and a little sour, although he didn't know why seeing Cheng Fengtai eating his leftovers made his heart feel warm and sore, he just stared at Cheng Fengtai intently. Xiao Lai looked at this young master with admiration, but at the same time felt that this man was very difficult to deal with, he didn't know what to do, he couldn't kick him or leave.
Cheng Fengtai felt Shang Xirui's and Xiao Lai's surprised eyes on him, smiled and said: "Why, do you see how fresh I am eating?"
Shang Xirui nodded: "You're hungry!"
Cheng Fengtai said: "Yes. Isn't there something to eat when you're hungry?"
Shang Xirui looked at him without speaking. While eating, Cheng Fengtai continued: "You still think of me as a young master like Sheng Ziyun? When I was his age—two years younger than him, I followed my buddy to return goods outside the customs. What did I eat along the way? Wild vegetables and mushrooms Boiled salt, cornmeal that is too hard to stick to the teeth. Occasionally, you can only eat meat when you meet a village. But you know, country people generally don’t kill donkeys and cattle, and they don’t kill them when they are paid. They have to keep them for hoeing. Old and dead cattle and donkeys, the meat is really good... Don’t you still eat it for a few months? If you are trapped in the woods in bad weather, what will you eat? What a fart! Half a steamed bun a day, soaked in cold water to soften Not only to eat with salt, but also to guard against all kinds of poisonous snakes and beasts, and also to guard against bandits."
Shang Xirui was dumbfounded with his arms folded. Cheng Fengtai raised his head and finished picking up the meal, pinched his face, and patted him twice: "Boss Shang is not really hungry, he just picks his mouth to eat."
When he said that, Shang Xirui didn't accept it: "I've been hungry! When I was young, there was a severe drought in Pingyang, and I was hungry for days!"
Cheng Fengtai just smiled and said: "You were injured, it doesn't mean you have really experienced the pain of starvation."
Shang Xirui couldn't distinguish between the two concepts, but in retrospect, after being bought into Shang Juzhen's hands by a man, he really never went hungry. Sometimes the whole troupe was starving, except him. Shang Juzhen gave her son cabbage to eat, but also tried to find a way to get him meat, saying that he sang martial arts, and that if he eats better, his muscles and bones will grow stronger. Shang Xirui hardly ever goes three days without meat. When he was twelve years old, Xiao Lai was assigned to take care of him. He didn't even have to wash his clothes, and he only knew how to focus on learning opera every day. Compared with his peer Zhou Xiangyun's life in Yunxi Class, although Shang Xirui's childhood was hard, he was soaked in honey, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to develop his innocent personality.
Shang Xirui was a little suspicious that Cheng Fengtai was joking with him, because now Cheng Fengtai is so delicate and expensive, it's really hard to think about the hardships he has suffered. Shang Xirui simply stopped thinking about it and said: "Second Master, I'm all sticky, I need to take a bath!"
Cheng Fengtai said: "Hey, tomorrow is Xiaonian, the bathhouses are probably closed. Let Xiaolai go and boil the water."
Shang Xirui quit: "You're going to freeze me to death! I want hot water!"
Bathing in a Chinese-style room in mid-winter is strangely cold. Cheng Fengtai followed the principle that whoever ruins cleans up, picked between his teeth and tried his best to find a place where Shang Xirui could take a bath, and looked at his pocket watch: "Old Ge, you must be lazy today! When he comes, Let's go to the Liuguo Hotel to open a hotel to take a bath! There is a hot tub and a big bathtub, so you won't be frozen."
Shang Xirui silently did not answer. Xiao Lai came in with a rag to wipe the table, without raising his eyelids, he said, "It's not convenient for Boss Shang to go to that kind of place."——especially with you. Xiao Lai didn't say the second half of the sentence.
Cheng Fengtai immediately and keenly thought that Shang Xirui must have given the tabloids a handle on the hotel room in the past and received ruthless gossip. Turning his head to look at Shang Xirui with a half smile but not a smile: "Boss Shang is very famous, if he goes to that kind of place for no reason, it's easy to be gossiped about."
Shang Xirui is in a hurry to want what he wants, and when he gets anxious, he almost rolls on the floor: "I don't care! I have to take a bath anyway! Oh, I'll die if I don't take a bath! How can I celebrate the New Year!"
Old Ge had already arrived outside the door, and he honked the horn three times as a signal. After thinking about it, Cheng Fengtai shook his head, slapped his thigh and got up and said, "Go! Go take a shower!"
Xiao Lai hurriedly took off Shang Xirui's clothes, fetched a snow blue brocade gown for him to put on. Shang Xirui fastened the buttons, said: "Is it warm?"
Cheng Fengtai hugged his shoulders: "It's very warm!"
Xiao Lai packed some clothes and towels and waited to follow, Cheng Fengtai said with a smile: "He said he is a young master who is used to being blessed, but he still doesn't admit it. Why do you ask Xiao Lai to accompany you when you take a bath. Leave it to me, I will serve him !" Then he picked up the things and went out the door side by side with Shang Xirui. Xiao Lai didn't go far to send them off, as soon as they went out, they closed the door.
Lao Ge opened the car door for them, and said with a smile: "Boss Shang is really energetic, you look delicate, fair and clean, as if you have put on powder, you look so good!"
Shang Xirui touched his cheek: "Really?" He lowered his head and got into the car.
Cheng Fengtai smiled and said: "Really! I said you look good and you didn't take it seriously, Mr. Ge is not fake."
Lao Ge has figured out the temper of these two people, as long as Cheng Fengtai and Shang Xirui are together, he will wipe his mouth with honey when he sees Shang Xirui, no matter how much he praises, as long as it is a good word, Shang Xirui Rui accepts all flattery. When Shang Xirui was happy, Cheng Fengtai was naturally in a good mood, there was nothing more easy to talk about. Lao Ge then pleaded guilty: "I'm sorry Er Ye, I'm late today."
Cheng Fengtai snorted: "New Year's is coming soon, and every household has a lot of things to do. You will have your vacation tomorrow! This year, you will receive double red envelopes! You have worked the hardest."
Lao Ge raised his brows with joy, thanked him and asked, "Second Master, where are you going?"
Cheng Fengtai said: "Go to the small mansion."
Lao Ge felt bald in his heart, thinking that he had heard wrongly, he turned his face to look at Cheng Fengtai. Cheng Fengtai must have forgotten what was kept in the small mansion, right
Cheng Fengtai nodded his chin, indicating that he heard correctly: "Let's go."
Lao Ge nodded, and started on the road with the mentality that if you dare to die, I will dare to bury you. On the way, I heard Cheng Fengtai telling lies, his performance was no worse than that of Shang Xirui on stage.
Cheng Fengtai glanced at Shang Xirui: "Old Ge! Stop!"
Lao Ge didn't understand, so he braked the car and listened to his instructions.
Cheng Fengtai said: "Let's change to another place, instead of going to the small mansion."
Lao Ge thought to himself, Second Master, you finally know how to take care of yourself and avoid getting into trouble, so he agreed very happily with a hey.
Shang Xirui was surprised: "Why don't you go to the small mansion, where is the small mansion?"
Cheng Fengtai gave him another look with mixed feelings, wondering: "Oh, it's hard to say. I will tell you in detail when I have a chance later—Old Ge, turn the car around!"
Shang Xirui knew there was something going on with the gossip sensitivity he had cultivated in Liyuan for many years, his eyes gleamed, and he put his arm around Cheng Fengtai's arm: "Ah! Second Master, tell me quickly I'm not going anywhere unless you tell me!"
Cheng Fengtai pretended to be steadfast for a while, finally succumbed under Shang Xirui's fists and kicks, he glanced at Lao Ge warily, Shang Xirui followed him with a glance at Lao Ge, and then moved his ears knowingly , for fear of letting him hear the secret. Lao Ge thought to himself, what the hell is this doing to me? Cheng Fengtai's mouth is so mushy that he can't tell the truth, do you think I want to hear it
Cheng Fengtai said in a low voice: "Do you know why my brother-in-law is in his twenties and hasn't gotten married yet?"
Shang Xirui thought for a while, then hesitated: "Because... because he likes men?"
Cheng Fengtai was amused: "Where did you hear this gossip? Don't talk nonsense. Hey! It's because he likes a woman!"
Shang Xirui was surprised: "Oh? A married woman who sings an opera? Could it be she's still sister Yao?"
Why did Shang Xirui ask this question, it turned out that Fan Lian was also restless. As early as when I met Shang Xirui, I was in Pingyang Liyuan, he was very generous, he was a famous ticket piled up by the ocean, he was sociable, and his temperament was calm, anyone would like to make friends with him, so it was inevitable A love debt is attached to the buttocks. But he has always kept a low profile, he had a relationship with a female actress in Shuiyun Tower in the past, Shang Xirui knew more about it. Now that he has a sweetheart, Shang Xirui habitually thinks in these directions.
Cheng Fengtai sighed: "It's almost...it's Miss Wu."
Shang Xirui didn't know such foreign words, he nodded seriously: "Which family's Miss Fifth?"
Cheng Fengtai said in his heart that we two are talking about cross talk, and I'm still the one who flatters him: "It's not about being ranked fifth at home. It's about dancing with others in the ballroom."
With that said, Shang Xirui understood.
"When I first came to Beiping, I bought a house in Dongjiaomin Lane for investment. Fan Lian didn't dare to take Miss Wu home, so she asked me to borrow the house. It's been almost three years."
Shang Xirui exclaimed: "Second Master Fan has been raising her for three years! We haven't heard anything about it! Isn't this Yan Xijiao's Oolong Court!"
Lao Ge secretly laughed there, thinking it was true.
Cheng Fengtai said: "So you must keep it a secret, don't talk too much when you meet people later, don't stare at them too much. Let's visit Fan Lian's Yan Xijiao, take a shower and leave."
Shang Xirui nodded, then asked a lot of gossip about Fan Lian and the dancing girl. Cheng Fengtai answered half-truths and half-false one by one, leaving himself completely out of the way, as if he is not only a landlord who does not collect rent, but also a brother-in-law who protects his brother-in-law, anyway, no matter which role he is, he is very loyal , and there is also a duty of confidentiality. Lao Ge had to admire his second master, and kept those words firmly in his heart by the way, don't wait for Shang Xirui to remember and ask, and dress him up himself.