Butterflies Fly Over Winter Chapter 60
byChapter 60 Ensemble Tide
Even though the two of them had agreed in advance that they would not meet each other if something happened, Chu Yiqi always rushed back, even if he just met once and had to leave again.
Even though they have been separated for two years, they are not completely in contact. They always send birthday wishes and greeting cards during every holiday.
For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival that year, Chu Yiqi was recording a program in another place, while Xi Ai was in Beicheng and caught a cold for some unknown reason.
So they all said not to meet each other.
But that night, when President Xi Ai looked up from her computer and was about to drink medicine, she heard the sound of the door opening.
A moment later, through the orange light, she saw Chu Yiqi standing at the door, with his shawl just half taken off.
After talking to each other for a moment, Chu Yiqi spoke in a calm tone, which seemed vaguely unkind: “So is this what Teacher Xi’s good night is like?”
“Why are you still back?” Xi Ai immediately changed the subject and stepped forward to take the gift box from Chu Yiqi’s hand.
“Dragon Boat Festival, here to deliver rice dumplings to you.”
“We have to record tomorrow, why are we so tired?” Xi Ai had a nasal voice and her tone of voice was weak.
Like coquettishness.
Chu Yiqi glanced at her and changed his shoes: “Are you unhappy?”
“No.” Xi Ai said, leaning forward to kiss the side of Chu Zhizhu’s face, touching the corner of her lips.
Chu Yiqi took a half step back, as if angry, and said, “Don’t infect me.”
Xi Ai was silent for a moment: “It’s not that I want to hide it from you, but…”
“Can you treat yourself a little?”
Xi Ai calmed down, but stretched out her hand, looking pitiful and fragile in need of a hug.
Chu Yiqi looked into those eyes, but still couldn’t say anything harsh, so he could only hug Xi Ai and ask her if she hadn’t taken the medicine yet.
So Xi Ai stuck to her, followed her step by step, and heated up the Chinese medicine before it was finished.
Two very similar words were pulled out of memory, and turned into the tone that Chu Yiqi repeated a few days ago.
Xi Ai looked at Chu Yiqi who was already asleep, lowered her eyes, and just gently shook Chu Yiqi’s hand.
She couldn’t explain why she subconsciously wanted someone to accompany her during the festival, and she couldn’t understand how Chu Yiqi could see her thoughts, even though she had never mentioned it.
In fact, Chu Yiqi couldn’t tell clearly, she wasn’t sure.
But at that time, I saw Xi Ai sitting alone by the window. There was a hazy moonlight outside Lanxie’s floor-to-ceiling window. There were lights in the garden, which reflected on the lake, as if the lights were dim. Chu Yiqi was holding milk, and the man was sitting with his back to her, lost in thought.
For a moment, she actually felt that Xi Ai was lonely.
That day happened to be the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Chu Yiqi then felt that at least she had to accompany Xi Ai on meaningful festivals.
In a sense, Chu Yiqi was comparing her feelings with others, but luckily, she could always touch the softness hidden in Xi Ai’s thoughtfulness.
Whether it was intentional or not, after all this time, Chu Yiqi was the only one other than his family to do it.
Only Chu Yiqi, standing beside the single figure, said to her: “We are four people now, my dear.”
Only Chu Yiqi, when she was trying to pretend to be calm, turned off the lights, held the child in his hands after a few seconds, and said, “If you really miss her, then cry, I can help you block it.”
After all, Chu Yiqi’s evaluation of Xi Ai was particularly pertinent – a person who was cultivated as an heir always puts consideration first, considering the people around her first, the people he cares about, and then himself.
If you want to treat yourself as a precision-operated instrument, you will inevitably go too far.
When Xi Ai woke up, Chu Yiqi had already gone downstairs. By some strange coincidence, Xi Ai took out a bracelet from the bag she was carrying.
The day before they broke up, Chu Yiqi told her, “I want to change my bracelet and wear it for a while, is that okay?”
Xi Ai then took the bunch of heart-shaped ones and handed the butterflies on her hand to Chu Yiqi.
——It turned out that I had already planned it. I knew I was leaving, so I left a souvenir for myself.
Xi Ai curled her lips, tightened the ties of her pajamas and headed downstairs.
As soon as I reached the stairs, I saw three people sitting in the living room. There was a violin on the table, a plain white cello leaning against the sofa, and sheet music already placed on the pink crystal piano by the floor-to-ceiling window.
Chu Yiqi put down his bow, and the three of them raised their heads together, obviously smiling, but no matter how they looked at this situation, they had bad intentions.
Xi Ai said “Morning” stuck in her mouth, turned around and wanted to go back, but couldn’t get out “I’m going to a meeting” smoothly.
Shen Lanjin called to her: “Shiny, come down quickly, we’ve found the music score.”
“I can’t.” Xi Ai tried to act cute and get through.
Chu Yiqi silently adjusted the video to record the entire process of Miss Xi’s escape from failure.
“The one you studied was written by me, “Moonlight Tide.”
“But grandma, don’t you think my pajamas are not suitable for that pink crystal?”
“How could it be? Shiny, don’t you happen to be wearing this pink set of Song Dynasty pajamas today? It’s very suitable.”
“…”
Chu Yiqi smiled slightly and continued to add fuel to the fire: “That’s it, come on, you are the only one missing.”
Xi Ai accepted her fate and went downstairs.
It used to be like this, every time we went on vacation together, there would always be an ensemble every day.
From being just Xi Ai, to bringing Chu Yiqi along with them, then to Xi Ai and Chu Yiqi being side by side, and finally, it became them together.
Xi Ai glanced at the music score after sitting down. This main melody was composed by the piano. So she and Chu Yiqi looked at each other, and Xi Ai started playing the music without saying hello.
This kind of Sande behavior means that you follow the rules of the family – you are not allowed to stop the main tune after it starts. If you can’t keep up or make the wrong note, you have to round it out by yourself.
The cello followed closely, and Shen Lanjin didn’t need to join in for the time being, but he smiled and said nothing. Only Cheng Suhuai glared at Xi Ai, and skipped two bars and adapted it on the spot, which was finally not so abrupt.
Xi Ai was really bad at it, and she made a wrong pronunciation in the middle. Her face changed without changing, and the remaining half of the line changed. However, Chu Yiqi smiled and followed Xi Ai’s pronunciation.
Due to the inertia of running in for several years, the two people’s methods of reform are very similar, but they seem to be more spiritual.
Only part of the score was excerpted, so the last note was settled just in time for the dumplings to be cooked.
“What kind of stuffing is this?”
“Corn and mushrooms.” Chu Yiqi patted away Xi Ai’s hand that was about to lift the lid, but paused for a moment when he saw the bracelet. Finally, he retracted his hand, turned to the chopsticks, and said, “Take a handkerchief to cushion it.”
“Okay.”
Xi Ai glanced at the second frame and muttered: “It’s stuffed with cabbage that has no right to be dumplings.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Chu Yiqi hurriedly covered her mouth. Unfortunately, it was too late and he couldn’t block the last three words.
He also couldn’t stop Shen Lanjin from hitting Xi Ai’s shoulder with his chopsticks.
So when Xi Ai felt aggrieved and actually acted coquettishly, Chu Yiqi didn’t have time to take his hand back, and a little lipstick touched his palm, staining it with a little cherry color.
After lowering his eyes for a moment, Chu Yiqi calmly put away his hands and turned around.
Shen Lanjin: “Still scolding cabbage stuffing.”
“I just miss my grandma’s fake anger a little bit.”
Xi Ai is blessed with a face that is similar to her parents. She is uniquely beautiful. When she wants to pretend to be well-behaved and get away with it, no one can refuse her.
Chu Yiqi smiled and said to her: “Don’t believe this Xi Ai, she is just pretending.”
“Look, such a well-known reputation.” Shen Lanjin glanced at Chu Yiqi, suddenly smiled, and changed the topic, “I said you should leave her alone, and even specially prepared corn and shrimp for her.”
Chu Yiqi didn’t say anything, just kept silent and took the chopsticks to pick the dumplings on the plate.
Xi Ai was interested, and while busy, she nuzzled up to Shen Lanjin.The composer applied a facial mask to himself while directing the violinist to get vinegar.
“Who knows, I hope I’ll be here just in time for us to wake up and bring dumpling wrappers.” Shen Lanjin took a small piece of cucumber from Xi Ai and continued talking, “We wanted to call you, but I hope you worked overtime yesterday and asked you to sleep a little longer.”
“Really? Our Chu Yiqi likes me the most.”
Chu Yiqi couldn’t stand the two people chatting away, so he gave Xi Ai a piece of biscuit he baked in the morning, trying to stop Xi Ai’s mouth.
“Hurry up and get the bowl.”
“Oh.”
The dumplings were on the table, and Mr. Xi had just done his morning exercise – after his walk, he came directly here after receiving the news.
After the meal, it was time for Xi Ai to reply to her work news. Without avoiding anyone at all, Mr. Xi asked her directly: “Did you set this up?”
Xi Ai felt helpless for a moment. In the blink of an eye, she saw Chu Yiqi peeling the grapefruit slowly and laughing at the same time. All the irritation in her heart was wiped away, and she just said: “Am I so vicious in your hearts?”
“You are indeed not a good person.”
Chu Yiqi nodded silently and twisted the grapefruit peel with one finger. It was obviously a boring job, and usually the aunt would just peel it off before taking it. However, Chu Yiqi still liked to do it by himself, slowly and carefully peeling off a complete piece of grapefruit peel as a “art piece”.
There was once a pile of flowers wrapped in grapefruit peels on Xi Ai’s desk, valuable pearls were removed as flower stamens, and enamel-embedded jewelry was always changed to green leaves.
Chu Yi hoped that when he had the leisure time, he could make a bunch of flower vines for her and hang them along the corner of the table.
Xi Ai thought and deliberately broke off a small half of the grapefruit, disrupting Chu Yiqi’s careful arrangement.
Chu Yiqi gave a “tsk” sound, stuffed the remaining half of the grapefruit to Xi Ai, and said, “solve this failure by yourself.”
Xi Ai smiled and continued to change the topic back to the topic, saying with a clear-minded attitude: “Although Xi Yan’s team has always had a plan B privately, this kind of project is very delayed, so there is no need to trick it like this.”
Chu Yiqi would never deliberately avoid Chu Yiqi when discussing official matters, so Chu Yiqi would always be caught and intervene in conversations that did not involve confidentiality.
So Chu Yiqi said smoothly and naturally: “Is this a more cost-effective dirty trick of yours?”
“Shh-”
How can this kind of thing be said openly?
Xi Ai coughed and said: “Really, I promise I just mentioned it in Nian Chu. I have always had a team to follow the data flow. Who knew they were so unscrupulous…”
“Then you will take advantage of the situation and get it done?” Mr. Xi snorted coldly.
“It doesn’t matter.”
After a few words of explanation, Chu Yiqi finally laid out the plan without anyone delaying the progress of the project.
A pink and green porcelain plate with several small flowers connected in the middle, with stems and leaves connected in series. It is slightly abstract but beautiful in the end.
Xi Ai stretched out her hand to disrupt Chu Yiqi’s perfect work and chose a petal that Chu Yiqi thought was the most perfect.
Chu Yiqi gritted his teeth secretly: “I’m really angry.”
“Hehe, my work cannot be interrupted.”
After biting her ear, Xi Ai continued to speak righteously: “I received a warning about the abnormal data flow. The moment he deleted the data, he also kept a backup. But I waited for some time, but I didn’t expect that their movements were bigger than I thought, and they even bit back.”
“Do you still remember the importance of this project?” Mr. Xi knocked on the table and said, “What can you do to make up for the miscalculation?”
“At least one step ahead?”
“What about next time?”
Chu Yiqi looked at Xi Ai’s expression, but he didn’t see any displeasure. He just listened calmly.
“I know you are calculating every step carefully, but it also means that you are trying to steal the tiger’s skin every step of the way. I have asked them to change the system.”
“Okay.”
Xi Ai stayed in the company all morning and saw that the group had already started discussing Chu Yi’s first episode of the variety show.
The program team is very efficient. The recording three days ago was broadcast last night, but a few people were busy and postponed it until this morning to watch it collectively.
[嘤嘤嘤: It’s the 17th new skill get.]
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The well-modified Saimo just listened and took off his helmet. Chu Yiqi held it with one hand and casually grabbed his hair with the other hand.