Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 17
byChapter 17 The waves in the sea
Yu Nianxi came down soon, wearing yoga clothes, fanning herself and asking: “Then what are we going to eat this afternoon?”
“How about some seafood?”
Almost at the same time, Chu Yiqi and Meng Yike spoke at the same time, rejecting the proposal.
“Xi Ai is allergic.”
“Someone may be allergic.”
Xi Ai raised her eyes to look at Yu Nianxi and received a message from Yu Nianxi: “I will go to the premiere then.”]
Xi Ai glanced at it and put it down, and then like Santa Claus, she made their wish to eat seafood come true: “But, I have to go out later to have something to do, so you can go and eat seafood.”
Shi Yunshan said: “No, how could this be done on the first day!”
Xi Ai looked at her, then looked at Nie Chuiying next to her, and said, “You’re so good, aren’t you? You’ve been sneaking around in the room all afternoon.”
“You don’t understand,” Nie Chuiying was speechless. “A camera was actually placed in the room and turned on. Although Sister Luo said it was only for today, someone would come to record the event tomorrow.”
“Oh.”
Chu Yiqi laughed, then, forced by Nie Chuiying’s gaze, and adding a little bit of the buff of the actress being close to him, he turned into a serious and regretful look in the blink of an eye, and said, “Then you are very miserable, and Sister Luo is also very bad.”
For that moment, Shi Yunshan really wanted to say something, hoping to laugh at fifty steps… No, he was spurned at fifty steps by slowness at one hundred steps.But the words changed again: “What about Qiqi, do you eat seafood?”
This sentence asks…
Xi Ai laughed, and after a strange silence, Chu Yiqi coughed and said, “What, I have to go out with Xi Ai.”
Meng Yike was sitting across from him. In order to ease the embarrassment of the children, he knocked on the table and changed the subject: “Well, following Sister Luo’s orders, tomorrow morning I will be filming Linnie’s new endorsement for the first season. I will go out before seven o’clock.”
“Okay.”
“I have received the order——”
“Okay, okay, go out quickly, wait for the evening rush hour.”
Nie Chuiying pulled Shi Yunshan and said, “I, I, I have to go get something, Xi Ai, you go first.”
Yu Nianxi looked at herself and said, “Oh, I still have to change clothes.”
Meng Yike was speechless, but after thinking about it, he felt that their arrangement was very good: the children who were having trouble just needed a little space between the two of them.
“By the way, there is one more thing. Sister Luo said that there is a group of people who are particularly uncooperative this afternoon, but we will be open tomorrow.”
“Isn’t the live broadcast of the Taro King enough to give it a sense of variety show?”
“Change your name to Shi Yunshan!”
“Oh.”
“There must be some preservation of post-editing.”
The six people looked at each other and got the code, then they looked at the camera together, as if they had rehearsed, and said, “Don’t worry, Sister Luo, I promise to complete the task.”
After Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai finished speaking, they stood up and ran out of the door.
Xi Ai walked two steps faster and opened the passenger door before Chu Yiqi chose the back seat.Chu Yiqi looked at Xi Ai, but the other person’s expression was the same, so she couldn’t say anything.
“Have you changed cars?”
“No, the old man thought I was too showy, so he switched with me early in the morning.”
Chu Yiqi was speechless and thought to himself, isn’t this car much more high-profile than yours?
Xi Ai glanced at her, as if she had seen through Chu Yiqi’s thoughts, and added: “Although the price doesn’t indicate that it is low-key, the color should be a little plain.”
Chu Yiqi was silent, and Chu Yiqi sighed.
“If you’re sleepy, take a nap. It might be a bit congested since it’s Friday again.”
In fact, she has always been like this, getting sleepy when she gets in the car, but today she wanted to see Xi Ai more. After all, she missed seeing Xi Ai again after a long absence.
Chu Yiqi didn’t fall asleep. In the rush of traffic, he looked at Xi Ai who happened to be looking at her.
They are separated at the first touch, but always tainted with memories.
*
Chu Yiqi looked away, remembering that earlier she was also sitting in this position looking at Xi Ai but was caught in the act. Xi Ai teased her with a smile at that time: “Teacher Chu, you can just watch. There is no charge for me to be in the camera when I am not working.”
Chu Yiqi simply closed his eyes and said, “I actually fell asleep.”
Xi Ai looked away and looked at the road: “I have a driving recorder.”
“Oh.” Chu Yiqi opened his eyes and said, “Just look, how would I know I looked at you if you didn’t look?”
“At least I don’t deny it.”
“Then you are truly a gentleman and magnanimous.”
“Of course.”
“…”
We were stuck in traffic for a long time that day, so Xi Ai took off her seat belt with the help of the car window.
The person beside him leaned over and caught the butterfly.
So the butterfly kissed a Phalaenopsis.
*
Xi Ai didn’t say a word, just looking at the orange red in trance.
It wasn’t anything important, but Xi Ai suddenly remembered that Nadia had sent her a photo earlier.
——It was Chu Yiqi who had just finished a course of treatment and she went to pick her up. Chu Yiqi put on a coat and fell asleep in the back seat.It was nighttime, and the light only came from the slightly complicated lanterns outside.
After falling asleep, Teacher Chu always behaves better, but he is not very stable and frowns a little.
It must be a coincidence. Xi Ai was receiving glucose in the hospital when she saw the photo. She listened to the old man’s murmurings on the earphones. Then she repeatedly promised not to make an exception and left all matters abroad to Xi Yuchuan before letting the old man stay in Beicheng with peace of mind.
After hanging up the phone, Xi Ai looked through the window at the bustling center of Haicheng City, and her fingers unconsciously landed on Chu Yiqi’s eyebrows.
Xi Ai exhaled, finally peeling off a fresh version of herself from her memories, and looked at the person next to her seriously.
She had ordered a Huaiyang restaurant, so she got out of the car and checked the masks and hats of the two people, hoping to go there with Chu fully armed.
When they sat down by the window, the dishes were already placed. Chu Yiqi was obviously stunned for a moment and did not pick up the chopsticks.
Because she found that this table was full of food she liked more.
In fact, Chu Yiqi’s preferences are very stable, but it’s not easy to guess.I just don’t know why, but Xi Ai can always find clues through many details.
But every time Chu Yiqi asked Xi Ai, Xi Ai just said deliberately: “I don’t know, I guess.”
Or once or twice, Xi Ai answered: “I think it’s very obvious.”
So at that time, Chu Yiqi suspected more than once that his likes and dislikes were obvious, but no one else except Xi Ai thought of them.
After finishing the meal, Xi Ai raised her head and asked, “What time is the appointment?”
“It will still be a while, but we can walk over slowly.” Chu Yiqi looked at her phone – she and Xi Ai are really similar in this regard. Except for the period of endorsements, they usually don’t like to wear anything on their hands.
The two of them walked slowly and said a few words about the direction of writing the lyrics this time.
“Probably we’ll start from a very subtle point.” Chu Yiqi paused and said, “Didn’t we go to the orphanage before? I quite liked what a kid said at that time.”
At the Ciyu Welfare Home, Xi Ai took a little girl to play the piano while Chu Yiqi and other children watched from the window.
A child took Chu Yiqi’s hand and said, “Listen, sister, it’s the sound of spring.”
Chu Yiqi knelt down and said, “Well…can you describe it to my sister?”
The girl thought for a long time and said, “Maybe it’s blue, mixed with white.”
“Why?”
“Because, listen, what the beautiful sister played reminds me of the clear spring stone, the blue sky, the flowing clouds, and the gentle waves of the sea.”
Xi Ai nodded and silently considered the tone of her song.
“What did you write?”
“I haven’t thought about it yet. I’ll tell you when I think of it.”
“Oh.”
Chu Yiqi stood in front of the operating table and looked at Xi Ai next to her with half her face in a daze, so he asked her: “Aren’t you going to pick out a gift?”
“I was thinking,” Xi Ai made an excuse for herself without changing her expression, her heart not beating, “I’m contracting a design company.”
“What are you giving me?”
“Send me a set of Hanfu. There is a high chance that it will be made in Tang Dynasty style.”
Chu Yiqi nodded. Nadia had a very standard European and American appearance. After all the calculations, only the Tang style was the most suitable. In an era of inclusiveness, it seemed to match the best.
In fact, while walking along the way just now, Xi Ai would stop and look at it from time to time, and then make gestures at Chu Yiqi if she felt something.Chu Zhizhi attributed this to the fact that she and Nadia were of similar stature.
Chu Yiqi listened and picked slowly while Xi Ai raised her head to look at it for a while, and then was called back by work news.
“By the way, are Sapling and the others together?”
Xi Ai raised her head and looked at Chu Yiqi. She originally wanted to record a vlog, but suddenly she was glad that she hadn’t started yet.She said, “What did you see?”
“This morning, Nie Chuiying came out of Shi Yunshan’s room.” Then she quietly ran up the stairs outside the camera.
“Hmm, it’s been more than a year.” Xi Ai remembered it very clearly. She happened to be recording an album that day. She was going to the company from the hospital. When she went there, she saw Nie Chuiying stuck to Shi Yunshan’s shoulder.Xi Ai didn’t fall over in one breath, holding on to the glass door and coughing for a long time.
“Then who mentioned this?”
Xi Ai deliberately teased Chu Yi in the hope of saying more: “Who did you spot before you left?”
“Nie Chuiying, maybe, but it’s not clear.”
Xi Ai’s smile was even more obvious, and she deliberately lowered her voice,
Said: “Then I must be the first person to spot Shi Yunshan.”
“Is it really a sapling?” Chu Yiqi dropped the rose he had just scooped up, feeling both happy and surprised at the same time that he could not believe it.
She suddenly understood why those people were speculating about her and Xi Ai’s affairs – it was because of the sense of participation and the nature of watching the excitement.
Xi Ai helped her put some roses and said, “Believe me, this melon must be ripe.”
Chu Yiqi was very meticulous in every step, but because of her proficiency, it ended quickly, so she and Xi Ai had to sit and do nothing.
By some mistake, Chu Yiqi added mugwort powder to another plate.Xi Ai’s eyes lit up and her gaze fell on Chu Yiqi’s wrist.
It seems that every outfit Chu Yiqi wears is long-sleeved, and today is no exception. He wears a white suspender belt with a pink cardigan, and the cuffs are ruffled, which perfectly covers his wrists.
In the past, when the relationship between Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi was not so good, she had wondered why, but she didn’t ask.Later, Xi Ai would arrange everything without leaving any trace.
——Just like several summer events at that time, a subsidiary of the Xi family was represented by Chu Yiqi, so Xi Ai went through all the designs for that season, and finally each dress was equipped with gloves or wrist ties.
Later, when Chu Yiqi went abroad, Xi Ai would always quietly drag a few common friends to watch such an arrangement – but after Xi Ai’s arrangement that year, the wrist ribbon was like some kind of anti-counterfeiting sign for Chu Yiqi. Before every event, there would always be many posts discussing what Chu Yiqi was wearing today.
Xi Ai looked back and asked, knowingly, “Then who is this for?”
Chu Yiqi bit his lower lip, and after a while he answered naturally: “Take it as a thank you gift, you have come with me on this trip for nothing.”
Xi Ai didn’t ask any more questions, let alone expose Chu Yiqi’s subconscious habits. She just said happily: “Thank you, Teacher Chu.”
Xi Ai ended the video recording and put the phone aside.
Originally, Xi Ai knew that Chu Yiqi knew how to make incense and came here often because Chu Yiqi once took the initiative to drag Xi Ai to go shopping, and then mixed some incense for Xi Ai here. From beginning to end, she didn’t ask Xi Ai what she liked, and just mixed it according to her own impression of Xi Ai.
As for the incense burner they used to burn incense at home, of course it was one they bought back from a previous trip to the sea.
They carried their things out and arrived at the point where Haicheng was about to become prosperous.
The evening breeze in late summer is not that hot and feels very comfortable.
“Xi Ai.”
“Yeah.”
“When is the premiere of that literary film?”
“You want to go see it?”
Chu Yiqi asked her: “Will you go?”
“Do you wish I was here?”