Nanke Yifu Chapter 34
byLiving in the Wind and Staying in the Rain (6)
“I don’t know what to watch.” Yan Laixi said, “I don’t often watch movies or anything like that.”
“Then what do you like to do when you have nothing to do?” Halfway through the words, Feng Su suddenly remembered and asked, “By the way, I haven’t asked yet, is your job okay?”
“No problem.” Yan Laixi glanced at Feng Su and added two more words, “Should.”
“Should?” When the other party didn’t answer, Feng Su took back the remote control and continued to watch his animal world.
He was just asking casually and had no intention of continuing the conversation. Yan Laixi said “should”, and his curiosity about humans that he had pretended to be aloof for almost thirty years suddenly came out again and asked: “What do you do?”
“Write a novel.”
After Yan Laixi said these three words, there was nothing more to say. Of course, the curiosity that rarely bubbled up could not be calmed down so easily. Feng Su asked, “Is that so? What kind of novel is it? Can I read it?”
“Write everything.” Yan Laixi replied, automatically ignoring the second half of the sentence.
Feng Su is not a person who likes to read. In other words, there are very few things that can fascinate him, and very few things that can arouse his special interest. Occasionally he sees an interesting clip and tries to look for it. After a minute at most, he gives up if he can’t find it.
But now the more Yan Laixi doesn’t say anything, the more he wants to know.
“Can’t you show it to me?” Feng Su asked. Yan Laixi’s head tilted to the other side, very slightly, probably unconsciously.Sitting on the sofa hugging his knees, putting his hand on the shoulder close to Feng Su, it was a kind of vague resistance, or shyness would be more appropriate.
“Or…” Thinking of Yan Laixi’s eyes looking at him and then quickly looking away, Feng Su had a flash of inspiration. He rolled his eyes, glanced at Yan Laixi without any trace, and asked with the corners of his lips curled up, “Does what you wrote have something to do with me in your dream?”
The head that was just slightly tilted unconsciously was turned away consciously, which was like telling Feng Su with actions: “You guessed it right.”
“Did you guess it right?” Feng Su kept asking in a particularly annoying way, “The character’s prototype? Or is the plot of the story related to your dream?”
Yan Laixi replied to him like a mosquito: “All of them.”
This unfortunate thing also pretended to be deaf: “What? I didn’t hear clearly.”
“It’s nothing.” Yan Laixi didn’t want to talk to him anymore. He turned his back and curled up on half of the sofa. He put his hands on his neck to block his red cheeks and ears, and excused himself: “I’m sleepy and want to sleep for a while.”
No matter how thin Yan Laixi is, he is still an adult man. The space on the sofa is not spacious to begin with, but now he has to leave half of it for Feng Su, who is sitting next to him, curled up in an awkward position. But maybe because he is too thin, he doesn’t look that uncomfortable.
It doesn’t look uncomfortable, but it looks very fragile.
Feng Su maintained his proper sense and patted the person on the shoulder. Even though he knew Yan Laixi was just making an excuse, he still asked, “Do you need me?”
He only moved the back of his head and said, “No, I’ll just squint for a while.”
Feng Su didn’t say anything, just turned off the volume and sat down to the side so that Yan Laixi could straighten his body a little and continue to watch his animal world.
Not long after, there was movement around him again. Feng Su leaned on the back of the sofa, without even moving his head, he just turned his eyes.
Yan Laixi turned over and was still curled up. From Feng Su’s point of view, he couldn’t see the expression on his face, or even whether he had his eyes open.
He stood up and pretended to want to get a glass of water. As he passed by, he inadvertently glanced at Yan Laixi. Sure enough, his eyes were closed.
The water poured into the cup and wetted his lips. Unknown to Yan Laixi, Feng Su could see his face in the mirror from where he stood now.
He opened his eyes and looked at the TV, with no expression on his face and no emotion in his eyes. It seemed that he was just watching the TV and not watching the content being shown on it. If you show him Animal World, he will have this expression, and if you show him a horror movie, he will probably still have this expression.
I tapped my fingernails on the wall of the cup twice. Well, it’s plastic, not glass, so I can drop it.
Feng Su had some bad thoughts again.
Yan Laixi’s existence seems to have aroused not only his previously barren curiosity about his kind, but also turned a part of him into an annoying teenage child, childish, ignorant of etiquette, and illogical.
Like a deliberately mischievous cat, Feng Su placed the cup on the edge of the countertop, placed his fingers on the rim of the cup, and pushed down.
“Bang”!Accompanied by a faint sound of water being spilled, Feng Su and the innocent Xiao Xi looked at each other in shock.
Yan Laixi almost jumped up and asked him if he was burned or if he spilled hot water.
The first question is whether it is hot, as if the cup is filled with scalding hot water that has just been boiled.
He really wanted people to give him a reaction, but Yan Laixi’s reaction was a bit too big, something didn’t seem right, and the anxiety and worry on his face were too much.
“No, it’s cold water.” Feng Su said, picking up the wet hem of his clothes, “I just need to change clothes.”
“Ah…” The expressions and body parts all relaxed after hearing Feng Su say it was cold water. Yan Laixi returned to his normal look and said, “That’s good.”
“Did I wake you up?” Feng Su had not forgotten the original purpose of his drama, and only then did Yan Laixi realize that he had been “exposed”.
“No, not asleep.” Yan Laixi said.
“Are you having random thoughts?” Feng Su asked, thinking of Yan Laixi’s words during the day, “Would it be better to have some noise?”
“Maybe.” Yan Laixi said, pointing a finger at his clothes that were soaked by the water, and reminded, “Do you want to change your clothes first?”
“That’s right.” Feng Su’s voice was a little unclear through the bedroom door. He asked, “Let’s go to the furniture store tomorrow and pick out a cabinet. You have to add clothes and other things. There will be no place to put them.”
This is the default that people want to live in their own parents.
“No need.” As expected, Yan Laixi refused simply, “It’s nothing.”
“There needs to be a place to put everything even if it doesn’t matter.” Feng Su said. He was afraid that Yan Laixi couldn’t hear clearly through the door panel, so he raised his voice. He was a little tired when he spoke, “At least I need a few clothes. It’s inconvenient for you to put them in my closet, and it’s in the way of putting them on the sofa.”
“Just fold it and put it on the back of the sofa.” Yan Laixi refused to agree. No matter what the dream, the Feng Su in front of him just met him and was willing to take him home. To be able to do this now, even Yan Laixi himself wanted to remind him to be wary of strangers. Things like cabinets take up too much space. Looking at the layout of Feng Su’s home, he should be the kind of person who doesn’t like the house to be too full.
Feng Su: “How much room is there on the back of the sofa? If you turn over in the middle of the night, your face will fall off and I’ll cover you up.”
“It’s enough to have a change of clothes. It doesn’t take much space.” Yan Laixi said.
There was no movement in the room. Yan Laixi was wondering if he had refused too directly and was a little confused. The doorknob turned and Feng Su, who had changed his clothes, came out.
“Do you have to make yourself look like a poor kid?” Feng Su asked jokingly.
He just thought that he would be able to come out soon, so there was no need to shout through the door.
“Don’t always think that you can just live. You have to live with me for a while.” Feng Su had already found an excuse for his decision to “detain” the person. “At least until you are in better health and can eat and sleep normally, I won’t let me get any more news about you because you were seen vomiting blood on the roadside. After calling the police, I found that the only place you had been to besides wandering around was my home.”
He didn’t wait for Yan Laixi to speak, and continued: “Also, Xiao Xi’s mother has shown full curiosity about you and wants to visit you when she is free in two days. Do you want to visit her?”
To be curious, maybe a little bit, but to visit or be visited, there is no need.
“Just tomorrow at noon, how about it?” Returning to the issue of the cabinet, Feng Su asked, “You come to me, just in time to take Xiao Xi out for a walk, or should I just buy one?”
Yan Laixi: “No…”
“Don’t say no.” Feng Su interrupted him. He has now basically mastered the way of raising Yan Laixi. At this time, he only needs to use words such as “I don’t like” and “I don’t want to” to block the other way, and he has to agree. “I like the house to be tidy and I am not used to having everything on the open side. Then you can bring Xiao Xi to see me at noon tomorrow, and that’s it.”
“Actually…” Yan Laixi whispered, and wanted to say that finding a box would be enough. Anyway, he only needed to take Xiao Xi for a walk. There was nothing much to do, so naturally he didn’t need a lot of things.
“Don’t you know?” Feng Su said, “At this time, I won’t give in no matter what you say. Let’s see what you need to buy, or should I help you buy it?”
Passively recalling what he said when he first woke up, even though it was nothing, Yan Laixi was still embarrassed and stuttered: “I, I bought it myself.”
“Well, tell me if you need anything. If you can’t buy it now, use mine first… By the way.” His eyes happened to fall on the hanging coat, and Feng Su said, “I’ll find you some thicker clothes. Just live for a while first. Yours is too thin.”
Not just the jacket, but when he was carrying Yan Laixi back, he touched his pants. They were so thin that his hands felt cold even to the touch.
After all, Yan Laixi rushed out of the house directly. Thanks to his poor health, he was very afraid of the cold these days. He wore clothes suitable for going out at home, and his brain was not completely shut down. He still remembered to change his shoes and grab a coat, so as not to freeze into an ice sculpture and be picked up by the police.
“It’s not very cold.”
Yan Laixi felt that if he were the little puppet in the fairy tale whose nose would grow longer when he told lies, then if he sawed off the lengthened nose, it might be enough to build a small wooden house.
He grabbed Feng Su, who had just sat down and was about to get up to find clothes for him, and said, “Don’t bother, I don’t go out very often. I can just buy new ones and they’ll be here soon.”
“If you place an order now, the express delivery will not be delivered until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.” Feng Su said, standing up and returning to the bedroom, but this time he left the door open. “Then what will you wear when you go out tomorrow? Are you freezing? And then you will have a fever at night and can’t eat anything?”
You can just grab any jacket. For winter clothes, it doesn’t matter if they are a little bigger. You shouldn’t need a top. The problem is the pants.
Although Yan Laixi didn’t say anything, Feng Su was not blind, so he could naturally see that his clothes were a little fat on Yan Laixi’s body.After rummaging around for a while, I only found pants with drawstrings at the waist, which might be better. He wasn’t fat anyway, so Yan Laixi should be able to tighten the belts when wearing them, at least they wouldn’t fall off while walking.
The person who had just said that he didn’t like putting things on the open surface just pulled out a place on the coffee table and put his clothes on it.
“And it’s just a matter of getting some clothes. The distance from the sofa to the bedroom is no trouble.”
“Thank you.” Yan Laixi said. He was sitting on the sofa, still hugging his knees so tightly that Feng Su felt tired for him.Xiao Xi jumped onto the sofa at some point, and nestled a furry ball at Yan Laixi’s feet, clinging so tightly that she was almost lying on Yan Laixi’s feet.
Lin Yuyou seems to have said that in winter, if you get cold on the road, you can pick up Xiao Xi. The little guy is like a warm baby. Holding it will keep the person warm and the dog warm too.
Like a little warm baby?
Feng Su was wondering if the puppy would take the initiative to act as a warm baby when humans were cold if it was treated like a warm baby too much.
He suddenly reached out to hold Yan Laixi’s hand, and it turned out to be cold.
“I don’t know how to talk when I’m cold.” Feng Su pulled aside the quilt that was neatly folded and placed. It seemed that what he picked up was not a person, but an endless worry.
Yan Laixi was so frightened by him that he shrank back. He didn’t realize what was going on until the quilt was flung open and draped over him.
The puppy was occupied by the quilt again, and glanced sideways at Feng Su with his dark eyes. He was probably dissatisfied again, but he returned to his den obediently.
“I’m not cold.” Yan Laixi tried to quibble even though he was wrapped in quilt.
“My hands are so cold and they’re still not cold.” As he said that, he touched Yan Laixi’s other hand, which was equally cold.
For a person who works with pets all day long, human hands and feet are probably the same as a dog’s front paws and hind paws. A puppy that can touch with its front paws can generally touch with its hind paws.
So, after touching his hand, Feng Su naturally wanted to touch Yan Laixi’s feet to see if they were cold, but Yan Laixi was not a puppy.
If it weren’t for the back of the sofa and the wall behind him, Yan Laixi might not have jumped off the sofa.
Seeing the man’s rapid retreat and widened eyes, Feng Su finally remembered that human limbs and dog limbs were incomparable.
This person made no secret of his inner thoughts regarding people as small animals, saying, “Sorry, I’m used to seeing cats and dogs every day.”
Yan Laixi, or most normal people, couldn’t understand what it had to do with suddenly reaching out to touch people’s feet and kittens and puppies, but he still nodded to show that he understood and didn’t mind.
“Just tell me if you’re cold, hot, thirsty, hungry or whatever.” Feng Su said, “Look, I can guess it without you telling me, so just don’t let me go to that trouble.”
Yan Laixi nodded and wrapped the quilt tightly around him.The TV screen was also covered in ice and snow, and the camera was focused on a bird with white feathers. Yan Laixi didn’t know what kind of bird it was, or whether it felt cold. Anyway, he wasn’t cold now and was very warm.
The hour hand pointed to eleven, and the documentary played on TV also came to an end – although Yan Laixi didn’t quite understand how it decided to switch to the next biological node, nor did he quite understand why it didn’t separate the sea, land, air, snow, grass, and sand since they were all separated.
Feng Su took out another quilt and placed it at Yan Laixi’s feet, letting him cover him up when he was cold at night.The ceiling light in the living room was turned off, leaving only the light leaking from the bedroom door frame.Yan Laixi was lying on his back on the sofa with his hands on his abdomen. Feng Su had something to say that he didn’t know whether to say.
I always feel that I am not helping to sleep, but preventing corpse fraud.
So he spoke without blushing and without a beat: “Lie more comfortably. If you are more relaxed, the effect of my abnormality should be better.”
Hearing this, Yan Laixi turned over, lying on his side, curled up slightly, holding the corner of the quilt with his fingers, burying half of his face in it, raised his eyes and asked, “Is this okay?”
“As long as you feel comfortable.” Feng Su leaned over Yan Laixi and said softly, “I will make the abnormal effect weaker than the previous one. If it doesn’t work, or you wake up in the middle of the night and want to sleep again, you can wake me up. It’s okay.”
Yan Laixi nodded, but Feng Su knew that this person would definitely not wake him up, so he added: “If you really wake up in the middle of the night, there is a red package of dried meat on the shelf over the window sill. You can feed Xiao Xi a little. Just give it a little surprise reward at that time. But don’t get up specially to feed it, it won’t be considered a surprise.”
That package of dried meat is Xiao Xi’s favorite snack. Every time she picks it up, she starts running around the room and having fun before even putting it in her mouth. Feng Su is not that heavy in sleep, so he should be able to hear it.
“Which one?” With that said, Yan Laixi was about to get up to confirm, but Feng Su pushed him back.
“We’ll wait until you really wake up. That one has a red package, and you’ll know if it’s right when you pick it up and see Xiao Xi’s reaction.” He pressed the person’s shoulders, tucked the quilt back in, and said, “Go to sleep now.”
“It’s easy to get a fever at night. If you feel bad, there’s a medicine box inside the TV cabinet.” Feng Su finished his instructions and asked Yan Laixi as if he was performing some kind of ritual, “Are you ready?”
“Yeah.”
He brushed his fingers through his hair, tucked the strands of hair hanging on his face behind his ears, then followed the auricles, earlobes, chin, and back to his cheeks, stroking them gently.
As his consciousness gradually faded, Yan Lai thought to himself that Feng Su had no idea about his abnormality at all.
It may be that he has never tried using anomalies on himself, or it may be that anomalies are ineffective on him. In short, Feng Su himself must have never experienced his own anomalies.
It’s not like a sedative at all, and it’s not like a drug. The effect of the drug will not be so gentle and comfortable.It feels like I’m back when I was a kid, being held in my mother’s arms, with nothing to worry about and nothing to be afraid of.