Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 32
byChapter 32: Diverting trouble to the east
That was when she and Xi Ai took a break and went to sea on a cruise ship. There was an auction that day. Chu Yiqi saw a piece of calligraphy and sat up straight to take a closer look.
“Want to buy that one?”
“Yeah.”
Xi Ai said with a smile: “Why?” Chu Yiqi gave Xi Ai an angry look.
This kind of person is so annoying. You know why you still have to ask.
“You don’t care.” Chu Yiqi looked away and responded calmly.
Xi Ai didn’t ask, she just said: “Then why don’t you change it to another one? If you really give this calligraphy and painting to the old man, you’ll think you don’t like him.”
Maybe it’s because Xi Ai talks too much in plain language, or maybe it’s because Xi Ai’s tone is too frivolous and she can’t tell the truth from the lie. Anyway, Chu Yiqi doesn’t believe it.
“Why?” After Chu Yiqi asked, he felt it was not enough and added, “You are not allowed to talk nonsense.”
“This really doesn’t exist.”
Xi Ai leaned closer to Chu to look forward to it, almost murmuring: “He likes calligraphy and painting, but… he can dislike his own words eight hundred times, but he has to worry about you even if you say half a word.”
“Nonsense.” Chu Yiqi was not very used to being overly intimate in these public places, so he turned slightly and said, “Grandpa… his handwriting is so beautiful.”
Xi Ai noticed Chu Yiqi’s title, and laughed to herself for a while, then said, “Let’s use an analogy. He is quite funny. Anyway, trust me, if you give him calligraphy and painting, he has to think that you are connoting that his calligraphy is not good.”
Chu Yiqi stared at Xi Ai carefully, hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to believe Xi Ai.
“Then… let’s talk about it later.”
“Then let’s go for a walk?”
“Okay.”
So in the end, after they came back, they customized a string of agarwood bracelets, and then went to the temple together to ask the master to consecrate them.
I don’t know if it’s useful, but Chu Yiqi gave it to the old man on his birthday, and the latter was quite happy.
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Maybe everything in the dream was too perfect to be real, so Chu Yi hoped to wake himself up and avoid the withdrawal reaction after excessive intake.
Dream more next time.
She sat up and turned a little.The notebook’s power was exhausted, but Chu Yiqi still saw a few messages.
From her mother.
Feeling a little bored for a moment, Chu Yiqi simply stood up and went to the kitchen to get a bottle of wine.
It’s green and jasmine flavored.
As soon as I turned around, I found that Xi Ai had come down from upstairs at some point and was still leaning against the wall a few steps away, trying to look at her whether she was smiling or not, and then at the wine in her hand.
Finally, Xi Ai returned her gaze to Chu Yiqi’s face, and asked her, “Why aren’t you asleep yet?”
Chu Yiqi looked at each other silently, without speaking, and he couldn’t say that it was because of a dream.
——You Xi Ai’s dream was too beautiful, so she opened her eyes and saw the chicken feathers flying all over the world. She was so depressed that she couldn’t sleep.
So Chu Yiqi asked, “Have you just finished your work?”
“Not even close.” Xi Ai spared Chu Yiqi and also took a bottle of tipsy wine.He turned to the side and opened the lid, took out a bottle of heated milk, and handed it to Chu Yiqi.
Xi Ai said: “We are all back. Don’t be like Nadia and others, sipping wine when you can’t sleep.”
Chu Yiqi always felt that Xi Ai meant something, but he didn’t make any guesses, so he could only take it dryly, and then said dryly: “Thank you. Don’t blame Nadia, you know who she is.”
Xi Ai put the wine away from Chu Yiqi and said, “Then I must be a very self-aware person.”
“By the way, why did you…”
How did you reconcile with Milk?
“I just came down to put the watermelon in the bowl, and I saw that you didn’t turn off the light.” Xi Ai said calmly, placing the bowl of hot water with one hand and opening the easy-pull ring with the other.
Chu Yiqi felt the heat transfer, and the chill he felt just after seeing the news was also banished.
“Thank you.”
This person is always like this, seemingly not caring about anything, but always preparing a lot of things in advance.
All the calmness is due to preparation.
“Go to bed early, good night.”
Xi Ai turned around and said these words very softly.
Chu Yiqi took another cherry tomato, which was brought back by Xi Ai.
“Good night.” After several steps, Chu Yi hoped to reply to her.
“Good night good night.”
Have a good night’s sleep.
It’s like Xi Ai’s good night really has some magic power, it’s like a spell.
Or a blessing.
Chu Yiqi held the milk and stood leaning against the kitchen door for a while. His eyes seemed to be focused on the wall lamp, but also seemed to be scattered.
They spread out and looked towards a long time ago.
Maybe it was the dispute about whether the barbecue was spicy this afternoon, so she suddenly remembered that in the past when she and Xi Ai went out to eat, there would always be some strange interactions.
Xi Ai waited for the waiter to exit, then took off her mask, fanned it and smelled it. It was spicy fish with pickled vegetables.
Then she looked at the tomato soup in front of Chu Yiqi maliciously.
Chu Yiqi looked at her warily and moved the small pot a little closer to him very carefully.
“Okay, Teacher Chu, wait for me.”
“Uh-huh.” Chu Yiqi scooped up a spoonful of soup and blew on it. The scattered white air covered his eyes, and even the decorative glasses he wore today became unreal.
Xi Ai put the phone aside, reached out and took off Chu Yiqi’s glasses, so Chu Yiqi finally saw the person behind him.
Xi Ai looked at her with a smile and said, “Can you let me wear it?”
“That’s not possible.”
Xi Ai pushed back her fogged glasses again, and then said: “Then Miss Chu Yiqi, would you like to have a glass or a spoon?”
“Okay, hurry up and record.”
“Okay.”
Of course, Xi Ai’s mischief would not stop, so after touching the spoon, she poured half a spoonful of soup into Chu Yiqi’s bowl.
Chu Yiqi raised her head for a moment, and her body movements were much faster than her thinking – she poured her own spoonful of clear soup into Xi Ai’s bowl almost without hesitation.
So the two ladies looked at each other, and Xi Ai quickly came to the rescue: “Teacher Chu, please quickly scoop out the red soup in your bowl.”
Chu Yiqi was in a hurry, but he was extremely sober.She was extra sober and gave the extra spoonfuls of clear soup to Xi Ai.
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It seems extremely childish now.
But that seemed to be the period of time when Chu Yiqi was least burdened and most comfortable.
The next morning, Xi Ai was still the earliest one to get up. Of course, it could not be ruled out that Xi Ai had no option of sleeping at all.
While yawning, Xi Ai walked downstairs to make a cup of coffee. She even thought about what flowers to draw, but when she walked to the coffee machine, she saw that not to mention the flowers, all the coffee was missing.
Xi Ai curled her lips and gave a soft “tsk”. She had no reason to suspect someone on the first floor, but the person was not there now and there was no place to question.
Xi Ai walked to the wine cabinet, thinking about making some red wine first, and then saw the post-it note on the wine cabinet.
Sure enough, there are beautiful little gradient butterflies and neat block letters: “No prizes for guessing who took the coffee, prizes for guessing where the coffee is hidden.””
Xi Ai’s face was calm, obviously she had been tortured and was particularly experienced.
In that moment, Xi Ai even thought about whether Chu Yiqi would let Xiao He’s assistant take the coffee away directly, or that Linna would help hide it – both of them were obviously easy to collude with Chu Yiqi.
With a cold face, Xi Ai decisively gave up wine and coffee and chose the passion fruit in the refrigerator.
Linna and Chu Yiqi came in together. The latter was obviously early and went for a run.
It seems that I had a good rest yesterday.
Chu Yiqi’s habit was very clear to Xi Ai – if he was not in a good mood, he would go to bed, and then go for a morning jog if he was well rested.
Xi Ai happened to be talking on the work phone, so Linna silently greeted Xi Ai and pointed to the camera.
Xi Ai waved and then shook her head to indicate that it was fine if she didn’t.Walking to the side, his eyes fell on Chu Yiqi unconsciously, and then moved away.
Perhaps the relationship was different. Now Chu Yiqi was not as calm as he had been so many times in the past, so he quickly looked away pretending to be casual.
Xi Ai almost wanted to laugh, but then she actually snorted, causing the special assistant lady opposite to be stunned.
Mingmingchu hoped that when he came back, he would be good at pretending to others, but every time he came to Xi Ai’s place, he would always fail, like a bad student being questioned by the teacher, and his extremely poor acting skills could not be hidden.
Chu Yiqi’s eyelids twitched slightly, and she quickly comforted herself in her heart: “Believe in science and reject superstition. It’s just that my eyelids are a little cramped, nothing happened at all.”
The lady on the other side of the phone was still making arrangements for these two days, when she suddenly heard a very familiar name: “Shi Yunshan!””
Xi Ai was also frightened by Nie Chuiying’s shout and almost threw out the computer she had just closed.
“It’s okay, bye bye.”
Shi Yunshan raised his eyelids while pouring water and looked upstairs: “What’s wrong, ancestor?”
“Excuse me, where is my box of matcha cakes?”
Shi Yunshan pointed at himself in disbelief: “Are you asking me?Do you think it’s funny?”
“But I just remembered that I put it on the small table in the practice room.”Nie Chuiying is obviously not that confident anymore.
“You remembered it wrong.”
Nie Chuiying walked downstairs and looked at Shi Yunshan, “It’s impossible…”
“Okay, don’t blame me first, I’m looking for where I put the string of agarwood yesterday.”
“Captain!”
Hearing Yu Nianxi calling for someone again, Chu Yiqi and Xi Ai became numb. They looked at each other and saw different meanings.
One is asking: “Isn’t this you?””
Another person also asked: “Isn’t it similar to what someone like you would do?”
“But I forgot where I put my Bluetooth headset.”
“Bluetooth headphones are the hardest to find. I’m the captain, not the nanny.”Meng Yike replied to her.
“…Let’s see again.”
When everyone gathered in the living room, Lina finally revealed a shocking secret mysteriously.
“Today’s lucky one is among you, are you all missing something?Now things are in this yard, or in the common area of the living room, kitchen and balcony.”
“The scope is so huge…”
“Can gentle and beautiful sister Lina be nice to me?”
“Don’t worry, you might actually find a hint if you’re lucky.”Lina smiled and announced the start of the game in a very formal way, “Now please start your treasure hunting journey to find the lost part of yourself.Don’t forget to look for undercover agents, look for more than one undercover agent.”
“…Is it you?”Yu Nianxi immediately turned to Xi Ai.
Xi Ai pointed to herself and Yu Nianxi. She was silent for a while and said, “Please look at the coffee machine.”
Chu Yiqi silently rubbed a small butterfly on the manicure of his little finger.
Xi Ai glanced at her, but she didn’t reveal anything. On the contrary, she diverted the trouble: “I still think this kind of disguised role is more suitable for Miss Shi.”
Xi Ai had something to say, Shi Yunshan choked and pushed back the turntable: “You don’t have to give in too much, don’t be humble.”
“Come on, you two, isn’t the captain very suitable for this kind of thing?”Chu Yiqi started talking nonsense and muddying the waters.
“Me?”Meng Yike couldn’t believe it. He didn’t know whether he couldn’t believe that the fire burned him or that the fire came from Chu Yiqi.
“Could it be me?”Yu Nianxi asked back, “Please feel free to send me a private message where the headphones are. What’s the difference between not having headphones and not having ears?”
“Are you a headphone expert?”
“The difference is half-deafness and total deafness.Xi Ai walked up to the camera and whispered something that was not a whisper, “Today’s theme is to reveal who the hidden thief is.””
After Chu Yiqi finished hurting Yu Nianxi, he stood beside him calmly and answered the words in a familiar tone: “Today’s title: Shock!For 8 were collectively stolen, who is the hand hiding in the dark?”
“The invisible hand—who is at fault.”Nie Chuiying answered with a smile, then silently took out the phone from the bag, put it behind her, and punched Shi Yunshan.
When Yunshan received Nie Chuiying’s signal, she lowered her eyes calmly, quickly logged out of her Weibo account, switched back to her own account for Nie Chuiying, and changed the inexplicable WeChat note.