Nanke Yifu Chapter 36

Living in the Wind and Staying in the Rain (8)

“Good morning.” His voice was still hoarse as if he had just woken up. Feng Su casually lifted a mess of bangs hanging in front of his eyes and said to Yan Laixi, who was nestled on the sofa.

“Morning…” Seeing someone coming out, Yan Laixi seemed to want to straighten his legs and get off the sofa. However, he couldn’t straighten his legs because he had curled them up for too long, so he couldn’t stand up. His throat was a little rusty from being used for half a night, and he couldn’t say anything.

“Why are you mute again?” Feng Su asked while walking to the bathroom, “Does it hurt?”

Yan Laixi cleared his throat. He was still a little hoarse, but he could barely speak. He supported his legs and moved his knees, so that his feet were on the ground. He asked, “What?”

Feng Su squeezed out the toothpaste, leaned against the door, pointed at his throat, and said, “Does your throat hurt?”

Yan Laixi shook his head, followed Feng Su’s gaze into the kitchen, opened the lid on the pot, took a plate, and took out something from it.

Sheng Wan turned around and saw Feng Su before he remembered and asked, “It should still be warm. Do you want to warm it up?”

Feng Su shook his head, returned to the pool to spit out the foam in his mouth, and asked vaguely: “Breakfast? Did you make it?”

The throat was uncomfortable, the person speaking had a hard time, and the listener probably had a hard time as well. Anyway, Feng Su was looking at him, so Yan Laixi nodded directly, held the plate, picked up the cutlery, and explained in advance: “I’ve eaten it for you.”

The layout of Feng Su’s house is a bit strange. The kitchen can be considered semi-open, but there is a door. The half-open wall is the wall near the sofa in the living room. There is the stove on the left and the bar on the right. It can be used to put some things and can also be used as a dining table. However, Feng Su usually doesn’t eat here. It’s not like there is a dining table next to it. His coffee table is the dining table.

In a small apartment, unless there are a lot of people living together, or guests come from time to time, at least half of the other items will start to develop new functions after a year. For example, the most common dining table becomes a shelf. As for those who live alone, the entire dining table is either for good looks or for living – at least for people who are relatively sophisticated in the dining environment. This kind of thing usually also lays out a tablecloth to display flowers or something, or it can be used as a multi-functional table for eating and working.It’s enough to write all the stuff on the floor, or you just buy it without thinking, no matter where you buy it, or whether you use it or not, you just buy it if you want to. For someone like Feng Su who has never been involved in three things and has never – well, let’s exclude Yan Laixi – who has never taken the initiative to invite people to stay in his home for more than an hour before, buying that thing is just money to buy. Not to mention the space, you have to pack at least one more table and one more chair when cleaning – it is called a brain disease.

But Yan Laixi is accustomed to eating at the dining table, although this habit only came about after living with Chi Fu.

Chi Fu is not a very refined person, but he is definitely an energetic person, and he can be regarded as an energetic idler. However, this energetic idler is still a young man who has not grown up, and of course he has a considerable degree of enthusiasm for things like ritual.

What is one of the representatives of ritual sense?That’s rice.Nice-looking rice, nice-tasting rice, nice-tasting and nice-looking rice.

A table of exquisitely plated meals is crowded on the coffee table. One is sitting on the sofa with his back hunched over, and the other is sitting on the bench with his legs curled up. What does that sound like?

In short, driven by Chi Fu’s half-force and half-coquettishness, eating at the dining table became one of Yan Laixi’s subconscious reactions.It’s not that you’ll get weird if you don’t eat at the table, but you will subconsciously think that the food must be brought to the table. Just like now, when he came out with a plate, maybe the first choice did not exist, and the remaining two choices were indistinguishable. His mind was still a little unclear. On the left side of the coffee table and on the right side of the bar, Yan Laixi was stunned because he didn’t know where to put it. He held the plate and asked Feng Su: “There is no table, where do you usually eat?”

Feng Su was confused by this sentence. After two or three seconds, he pointed to the side of Yan Laixi and asked with a little foam hanging from the corner of his mouth: “Isn’t that the table?”

“…Ah!” Yan Laixi reacted, curled his eyes apologetically, put down the things in his hands, rubbed his eyes, and said, “I was too sleepy to react.”

“You’ve had breakfast and you haven’t woken up yet?” Feng Su joked, following Yan Laixi’s movements to the plate with food, and then back to the still pale face.

The fried eggs with crispy edges were covered with soy sauce fried rice sprinkled with chopped green onions. They looked very appetizing, but Feng Su remembered that the smoke machine in his home was not silent, so he probably wouldn’t be able to wake up even if the smoke machine was turned on outside, and the oil fumes could not be removed even if the smoke machine was turned on.

He took a handful of water to wash away the toothpaste foam from the corner of his mouth, looked at the porcelain wall of the pool, and thought of how Yan Laixi had vomited so much yesterday.

So he stuck his head out and glanced at Yan Laixi, who was already nestled in the corner of the sofa. He then deliberately looked back at the pool and asked, “Did you vomit again at night?”

Yan Laixi seemed to have really not woken up from his nap. His eyelids were slightly lowered. He had to think for two seconds to understand the meaning after hearing the words. Then he opened his eyes completely, stood up immediately, and said, “Didn’t I clean up? I’m sorry.”

He was already in a hurry, so he just raised his head to look at Feng Su, and knocked his calf against the corner of the coffee table. With a loud sound, the chopsticks originally resting on the plate were shaken off, and it hurt to hear it. However, Yan Laixi just staggered, pursed his lips slightly, and his brows seemed to want to come together for a moment. After just a moment, they all turned back to each other. Other than that, there was no other reaction, and he didn’t even look at it.

“Slow down and be clean. I lied to you.” Seeing this, Feng Su immediately explained, “I’m afraid you won’t tell the truth if I ask directly.”

After that, he turned sideways to make way for Yan Laixi, who had already come over, so that he could check and confirm for himself. When he saw the other person’s eyes looking in, he patted his shoulder and motioned for him to go back.

Anyway, Fengsu’s goal has been achieved.

He washed his face, wiped away the water stains, and strolled into the kitchen slowly. During this period, he glanced at Yan Laixi silently. The man seemed to be slow to react. After a while, the pain should be gone, so he raised his hand and gently stroked the place where he had hit.

After adding water to the cooked rice and cooking it on the stove, Feng Su opened the refrigerator, took a look, and asked, “Do you want to eat the preserved eggs?”

No one responded for a long time. He leaned back and looked at the dazed person on the sofa, and called out again: “Yan Laixi?”

“Huh?”

Feng Su raised the hand holding the preserved egg, shook it, and asked Yan Laixi: “Do you want to eat it?”

Yan Laixi thought he was asking if he wanted to eat now, so he shook his head and then noticed that Feng Su was cooking something.

Perhaps the breakfast he made was not to his liking. Yan Laixi bit the inside of his lip and cursed himself for the unnecessary step.

There was a sound of opening and closing the refrigerator door and a plastic bag, and then Feng Su came out of the kitchen, sat down on the sofa, picked up a spoon, took a mouthful of rice and put it in his mouth.

“The uncooked rice you put in needs to be cooked for a while, and remember to watch the fire. I don’t know what you won’t eat. You can put it in later. Take out the pork shreds that you packed before. It’s too late to defrost. If the porridge is almost ready, just throw it in and cook it. It’s not much anyway. It can be cooked.”

He didn’t say it tasted good, nor did he say it didn’t taste good. Anyway, the spoon didn’t stop, so it must not be too unpalatable at least. Yan Laixi didn’t understand. If it didn’t suit his appetite, why would he cook the porridge? Isn’t it not enough?

But he still hummed and nodded.

Until Feng Su washed the used tableware, changed his clothes and tidied himself up, went to the door to change his shoes, and bent down to stroke Xiao Xi’s head. He stood up and told him: “I can’t bear the greed for two days. It’s quite tasteless to just eat these soups and water. But don’t you vomit after eating something else? If you want to try something else, don’t be so greasy. Remember to come to me at noon.”

Only then did Yan Laixi realize that the porridge was cooked for him. He nodded again and said nothing.

He is not greedy, and his ability to vomit has nothing to do with what he eats.

It was like he just wanted to do something to make himself useful, but he just smelled some oil fumes and rushed to the toilet.

The toe of his shoe hit the ground, and he held the doorknob with his knuckles. He was about to press it when someone called him to stop.

“Fengsu.”

“What’s wrong?” Feng Su withdrew his hand and stood relaxedly by the door. He even went in a little, looking leisurely and unhurried.He really wasn’t in a hurry, anyway, no one would deduct his salary even if he was a little late.

“Well, I’m going somewhere else at noon, so I won’t look for you. Let me know when you’re going home in the evening, and I’ll bring Xiao Xi back.” Yan Laixi said, “After that… I won’t bother you anymore.”

After a day and a night passed, no matter how lucid his mind was, it was time for him to come to his senses. He didn’t know why Feng Su hadn’t shown any intention of driving him away yet. It didn’t matter that he hadn’t found the opportunity or he hadn’t reacted yet. In short, it was all a matter of time. There was no need to ask for trouble. He might as well take the initiative and set a stage for both parties.

“What to do?” Feng Su asked.

“Get something.” Yan Laixi said. It was just a casual question in a polite way. There was no need to explain it too clearly. It would just look like someone was trying to show pity.

“Are you going back to get your certificate?” Feng Su asked, “Why did you suddenly change your mind?”

“It’s just…it’s quite inconvenient.” Yan Laixi’s voice became lower and lower, his head lowered lower and lower, and he clasped his fingers like a child who had made a mistake.

Feng Su nodded and said, “I don’t have any other room in my house. I can only sleep on the sofa and I can’t get a good rest. It’s really inconvenient for you.”

“No, no.” Yan Laixi quickly denied it. He couldn’t afford to beg someone to take him in and still despise their environment. “It’s just… you see, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, and if Xiao Xi’s mother wants to come, it won’t be convenient for me to be here. It will be quite a hindrance.”

Feng Su frowned and said in confusion: “Let’s not talk about the New Year. Xiao Xi’s mother will not come, so why are you in the way?”

Yan Laixi blinked his amber-like eyes that were covered with a thin layer of fog. He couldn’t control himself well, and the words skipped his mind and went straight to his vocal cords: “She is not like you…”

“No!” Every time Yan Laixi said another word, Feng Su’s eyes widened a little wider, and finally his eyes widened to the limit. If the next word came out, he couldn’t get any wider, interrupting Yan Laixi’s words.

He knew what Yan Laixi wanted to say. Anyone with normal intelligence could guess it. It was nothing more than a relationship between lovers. If his brain circuit is magical, it would not be impossible to guess a relationship between brother and sister. But no matter which one, Feng Su got goosebumps when he thought about the girl Lin Yuyou. He shuddered and asked Yan Laixi: “Why do you have such scary thoughts?”

Knowing that he had misunderstood, Yan Laixi felt a little embarrassed. He rubbed his nose with his knuckles and his eyes drifted to the side: “Just… a wild guess?”

“Don’t make such a shocking guess.” Feng Su said, “And I remember I said I was single.”

Yan Laixi muttered in a low voice: “Maybe you were just kidding me then.”

Feng Su sighed, letting his frightened little heart calm down, and then said: “In short, it is not any weird relationship you think. The two of us are just ordinary friends, and stabbing each other in two ways is not considered. We can only stab each other twice.”

“Then what else is in the way.” Yan Laixi said, his eyes still wandering elsewhere, not looking at anyone, “The Chinese New Year is coming soon, family and friends, get together, etc. It will be inconvenient to suddenly have a stranger in the house.”

Yes, a stranger suddenly appeared in the house during the Chinese New Year. It would be more reasonable to change the plot to a strange ghost, but Feng Su said: “Don’t worry, I am a bit withdrawn from humans. I don’t have that many friends to come and play with me during the Chinese New Year.”

“If you just like to be alone, wouldn’t it be more of a hindrance for me to be here…”

“Tsk.”

With an inconspicuous smack of the lips, Yan Laixi immediately fell silent and squinted his eyes to secretly glance at the expression on Feng Su’s face.

“Yan Laixi, you’re almost done.” Feng Su was indeed a little impatient at his rebuttal – a person who could be said to have asked him to be taken in at the beginning, but after he actually took him in, he persisted in trying to leave, especially when you knew that he didn’t really want to leave, nor was he pretending to be pitiful.He really felt that he was so inappropriate and troublesome. Feng Su believed that it would be a real problem if someone was not annoyed at all when faced with this situation, not to mention that there were people who had already refused, and it was because he had to take the stranger home for no reason, such an idiotic premise.

Even so, this annoyance is not enough to make him sneer at people directly. Most of it is just pretending, just to scare Yan Laixi, so as to save him from sitting there and compiling a book “108 Possibilities of Getting in the Way”.

“If that’s the reason, come to me honestly at noon. Stay here with peace of mind, and wait until you feel better before doing whatever you need to do. If you go now, I’m afraid you’ll die if you get some stimulation and can’t recover.” Feng Su said, pressing the doorknob.The cold wind poured into the room, and he spoke faster, not giving Yan Laixi a chance to reply, and left the last sentence, “Remember to take Xiao Xi for a walk later, and wear thicker clothes. There is a pet park in the community. If you feel tired, you can go there and let it play by itself.”

His movements were fast but not heavy. The sound of the door closing failed to call Yan Laixi’s soul back. He stared at the door for a while, turned back, and silently looked at each other for a while with the puppy standing opposite, tilting his head and looking at him.

Suddenly, Xiao Xi’s eyes turned to the side, and Yan Laixi also looked over. It turned out that the screen of his mobile phone turned on.

It was Qiuye, asking him how he was and whether he would consider coming to play with him for two days. In fact, he had asked him last night, but Yan Laixi went to bed early yesterday and didn’t look at his phone after getting up.

It’s not yet eight o’clock, and when I see Qiuye who is awake at this time, he is either busy or not sleeping, which means he is not asleep yet.

He explained the situation to the other party, rejected the other party’s invitation to have fun but was actually concerned about it. He only said that he would go to him after a while and turned off the phone screen.

It was already dawn outside, and Yan Laixi remembered that it was still dark when he met Feng Su yesterday. Maybe he came out a little early because he wanted to take Xiao Xi for a walk.Even today, considering the distance between home and workplace and the fact that the workplace is a pet grooming salon, Fengsu went out a little too early.

However, Yan Laixi didn’t think much about it. Maybe the door opened at nine o’clock. It would be nice to go there half an hour and an hour early to get ready. It was not his business after all.

When replying to Qiuye’s message, you will inevitably catch a glimpse of some other dialog boxes, such as Chifu who has not even dragged off the red dot in the upper right corner.

The red dot is still there, but there is no new information. It should be that the memory about myself has been cleared again.

Yan Laixi quickly clicked in, in order to eliminate the red dots and remove the pin. After completing these two tasks, he quickly closed the background of the chat software.

On the one hand, Yan Laixi told himself that this would be good for both of them. Chi Fu would one day throw away the diary and those unexplained photos, and one day he would no longer feel his chest getting clogged when he thought of Chi Fu’s name.On the other hand, Yan Laixi still couldn’t help but think that he had abandoned Chi Fu without permission.

In the end, he became the one who abandoned everyone.

Her throat was a little tight. Yan Laixi took a deep breath to suppress the heat that was about to surge into her eyes. She wiped the empty corners of her eyes and stood up to change clothes.

He didn’t touch the clothes Feng Su found for him, put on the clothes he changed into yesterday, took off the hanging leash, squatted at the door and clapped his hands towards Xiao Xi.

The puppy that had to be tricked into going out yesterday by “looking for its mother” ran over very happily today.

The moment when you first walk into the cold is always the coldest. Yan Laixi curled up his neck and pulled up his collar. He felt the traction rope wrapped around his legs and lowered his head to check Xiao Xi’s position.

Feng Su raised his head, retracted his gaze from the raised road brick that had just tripped him, and put it on the road in front of him, wondering why he couldn’t find the right way to do anything.

He got ready early, opened the door early, and then sat looking at the sky and the earth with nothing to do.

After all, except for special circumstances, few crazy people would bring kittens and puppies to bathe or have their hair cut after eight o’clock in the morning, or come to a store that usually only opens at ten o’clock. As for those special circumstances, they are special, and naturally they cannot be more.

As for the door opening at ten o’clock, why did he go out so early yesterday… In order to escape Xiao Xi, Feng Su did go out a little earlier in the past two days, but the time yesterday was actually an accident.

Although Feng Su said that he was a bit withdrawn from humans, he was not so withdrawn that he had no friends at all. It was just that most of his friends had small pets at home.

For example, yesterday, a friend called me early in the morning. The other person said that it was rare for him to get up early to take his child out to play, but the child jumped into the mud. He begged him to go to work early, and finally reached an agreement at three times the price plus a series of unequal treaties. As a result, this guy was unable to deal with the furry creature that was covered in mud and couldn’t be twisted. It took a long time, so the agreement was basically in vain.

As for today… he got up early because he was used to going to bed early and getting up early. In addition, he was startled by Yan Laixi in the middle of the night, so he probably didn’t sleep much at all this time.It’s early to go out…

Although he didn’t want to admit it, the fact was that he could be said to have escaped.

…A little, a little, just a little, I feel that if I continue to stay with Yan Lai with wide eyes and small eyes, it will gradually become awkward, and finally run away.

Moreover, vaguely, Feng Su felt that he didn’t want Yan Laixi to leave.Why?He doesn’t know either.But he knew that if he looked at Yan Laixi again, the problem would become clearer and clearer, so Feng Su came to the conclusion that it would be better to come out earlier. Anyway, he was sitting wherever he sat, it was the same.

Just sit and sit, and the difference will come.

“Why did you open so early today? Did you fall in love at first sight and then become lovesick overnight?”

A female voice approached as the wheelchair climbed up the stairs. Feng Su glanced at Po’er, who was sitting next to him, and comforted himself, thinking that this wasn’t the first time he was meddling in his own business. At least this time, the nosy he was meddling in was not purely his own.

He had built that slope not long after he met Lin Yuyou, thinking that it could be used by other customers with inconvenient legs and feet in the future. Even so, Feng Su could not help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw Lin Yuyou next time.

Not only can people’s wheelchairs climb stairs, they can also get stuck on them.

Later, after the two got acquainted with each other, they mentioned this while chatting. Feng Su learned that the day Lin Yuyou first came here, only his usual wheelchair had been sent for repair, and the ordinary one was a temporary replacement. Lin Yuyou had never walked up that slope since then, even in a wheelchair that could not climb stairs.

It’s human nature to go to the trouble of giving your friends some harmless little trouble.

“Lovesickness is nothing.” Feng Su cursed, wrinkled his nose at the person looking in, and said, “Stop poking your head, I’ll be stretching my giraffe in a while, and no one is here.”

“Let’s go.” Leaning forward and leaning back on the chair, Lin Yuyou sounded a little disappointed, but not surprised.

Then the unexpected happened.

“I’m not leaving, I’m at home.” Feng Su said, preventing her from making up a reasonable explanation for him, and added, “My home.”

“Oh, back to…at your house?!”

“Tsk.” Feng Su frowned, pretended to plug his ears with two fingers, and said slowly: “Why are you so surprised? I didn’t take him to your house.”

“No.” Lin Yuyou was confused. He thought he didn’t understand the situation and asked, “You didn’t know him before yesterday.”

Feng Su nodded: “Yes.”

“Then you picked the person back up.”

“Yeah.”

“And you took the person home for the night.”

“Yeah.”

“And now you are outside and he is alone in your house.”

“Well.” This time it was not just the same sound, but also a supplementary explanation, “And your Xiao Xi, didn’t you notice that your son is not here?”

“So, you picked up a stranger on the roadside yesterday morning, then took him home, and this morning you left a person you only knew for a day alone in your house, and then went out by yourself?” If it weren’t for the inconvenient height of the wheelchair, Lin Yuyou felt that he should be holding Feng Su’s collar now, “Not completely alone, you also left my Xiao Xi there!”

“What are you throwing there? My family is not a jackal or a tiger, nor is there no one to take care of it.” For the sake of his own personal safety, Feng Su stepped back and kept a distance from Lin Yuyou. “If you ignore something, do you need to confirm it a third time?”

He himself was quite curious, even though they had only known each other for a day, why did they – at least one side of him – feel like they had been living together for a long time.

It’s very unreasonable, very unreasonable, and I can’t find an explanation at all. If there is an answer, Feng Su himself would like to see it.

“Were there any donkeys among your customers yesterday?” Lin Yuyou asked.

Feng Su: “My head is fine. I haven’t been kicked. I don’t need you to worry about it.”

“Oh.” Lin Yuyou said, “Then go to the hospital one day to take a X-ray to check. If there is no external injury, it is probably internal injury.”

Feng Su gave her a roll of his eyes and stopped talking about it. He asked, “Why are you here? Are you done? Then go to my house to rescue your son and Shui Huo.”

“It can’t be rescued. It’s just passing by and it hasn’t been cleaned up yet. Soon, it will be the day after tomorrow.” Lin Yuyou sighed deliberately and said, “My poor Xiao Xi, I can only hope that the evil bather’s mind is not too completely broken.”

“Isn’t it more pitiful that Mother Twoleg didn’t rescue it even though she knew it was in fire and water?” Feng Su sneered, “And who sent it to the evil bather?”

“I didn’t wash it anyway, it doesn’t remember my grudge.” Lin Yuyou said, controlling the wheelchair to go out, “Okay, I’ll leave if you don’t have anyone to see. Try to keep the person for two more days, and then wait for me to come to your humble home.”

Feng Su also stood up, followed her to the door, leaned half against the glass door, and asked, “Really don’t you want to rescue her? If you don’t go, it might be too late.”

“No need to rescue you.” Lin Yuyou said without looking back, “Even if you were really kicked in the head by a donkey, you wouldn’t suddenly have a convulsion and change your personality to do such a completely stupid thing. There must be other reasons. I don’t know the details. I’ll wait for you to tell me the story later.”

As he said this, he waved his hand with his back to the person. Feng Su thought to himself that he was pretending to be cool while sitting in a wheelchair.

It’s a pity that whether Xiao Xi is in the fire or water is completely determined by the stranger who was picked up. As for the “other reasons” that her mother thinks… there are some, but none of them are tenable.