Chapter 108 There's a ghost outside
Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale…
Lu Youyou didn’t know how long she had recovered, but when Gu Qingye came back, he only saw a slightly undulating cocoon.
He walked around to the other side of the bed and was about to sit down, but suddenly he paused. He was now wearing an ordinary pair of training pants with a pocket on the side and a metal snap on it.
Gu Qingye glanced at the cocoon behind him, stood up, found a pair of smooth, non-cumbersome pants from the closet, turned around and left the room.
When I came back, the cocoon on the bed was still motionless. Lu Youyou had already fallen asleep without realizing it.
Gu Qingye hesitated for a few seconds, but finally gently lifted a corner of the quilt and rescued the sleeping beauty.
Lu Youyou's frowned brows were soothed by the fresh air. Looking at her peaceful sleeping face, Gu Qingye suddenly felt at ease.
This is not a shabby room in a guesthouse. Although Dongzhou Island is unfamiliar, it is their home.
His fluctuating emotions were quietly calmed down.
It's late at night
Lu Youyou couldn't stand the restraints while sleeping and broke free from the cocoon.
On one side was her usual pillow, and on the other side was a familiar yet unfamiliar temperature. She subconsciously chose the one she liked more.
The moment the octopus entangled him, Gu Qingye opened his eyes.
Perhaps it was because today's "pillow" had no buttons to hinder it and felt softer and closer to the skin, Lu Youyou hugged it tighter than last time, pressing half of her body forward.
Gu Qingye smiled bitterly and helplessly, wondering whether the room should be separated and whether he should have another bed.
“Knock, knock, knock—”
Suddenly, there were a few knocks outside the glass window, and a vague figure appeared on the windowsill. After a while, there were two more "knock knocks".
Lu Youyou woke up suddenly, her eyes half-open, and she saw a dark shadow outside the window in a trance. She exclaimed "there's a ghost" and closed her eyes and hid towards the "wall".
Before Gu Qingye could say anything, a soft body came into his arms, with limbs and torso attached, the whole person pressed tightly against him.
A soft voice sounded in his chest: "There is a ghost..."
Gu Qingye almost subconsciously hugged her, patted her trembling shoulders gently, and looked up to meet the uninvited guest outside the window.
"Don't be afraid, it's Xiao Huihui."
The world is silent.
The knocking on the window stopped, and breathing also paused, leaving only an overspeeding heartbeat dancing on another unsteady pulse.
The sleepiness disappeared without a trace, and Lu Youyou had no place to hide her embarrassment at the moment.
She didn't dare to look at Gu Qingye's expression, nor was she too embarrassed to get off him. Any movement would remind each other that there was no gap between them.
Lu Youyou quietly moved her hand from behind Gu Qingye to the front, grabbed a piece of cloth, and buried her face in his clothes.
The person who has always disdained to play ostrich has admitted defeat. Now she doesn't want to see anyone. She can't care about what's going on outside!
The laughter came from deep in Gu Qingye's chest, low and vague, and his shirt trembled along with it, but no matter how he moved, Lu Youyou didn't come out.
"Are you going to lock Little Gray outside for the whole night?"
A buzzing response came through the clothes: "Who made it scary in the middle of the night?"
Outside the window, Xiao Huihui looked like he had done something wrong and was so aggrieved that he was about to cry.
Gu Qingye looked out the window, chuckled and said, "Okay, then just leave it alone and let it reflect on itself outside for a night."
Lu Youyou was silent for five seconds, but still opened the "mask" to an imperceptible degree.
"Let it in."
After saying that, he turned around and crawled into the quilt as quickly as possible, and a long and thin cocoon appeared again.
Gu Qingye paused as he stood up. So what if the owl stayed outside all night? Wasn’t his kindness a bit unnecessary?
The window was opened, and Little Gray jumped over the window frame with his head buried. He moved step by step to the head of the bed and tried to stick his head under the quilt to apologize to his mother.
It didn't mean to come back so late. It thought that it should survey the terrain when it came to a new place, so it flew around the island a few more times and found some fat rabbits and pheasants. It gave its mother as many as she wanted.
The little fur ball grumbled in grievance, and Lu Youyou instantly softened her heart. She lifted the fig leaf and rubbed the little gray ball's head.
"You can't be so late in the future, okay? It's okay if you don't come back, but you have to tell me in advance."
Xiao Huihui nodded vigorously. In fact, if the window was open, it would fly in by itself. It would need to be trained to chase the wind in the future. It can do things like opening and closing windows by itself.
When Gu Qingye returned to the bed, Lu Youyou was already half an arm's length away from him.
He listened quietly to her breathing, which gradually became calm from irregular.
His thoughts drifted far away, but eventually they came back and entangled around her like a magnet.
Gu Qingye stretched out his right hand, and his fingertips slowly moved closer, touching the cascading long hair and separating.
He didn't know when his heart was moved. The only thing he was sure of was that Lu Youyou had grown in his heart, his bones, flesh, blood and his heart. No matter where he went, he would eventually return here.
The next day, Lu Youyou slept until her stomach growled. She looked at the time and it was already half past ten.
I haven't eaten for more than ten hours, no wonder I woke up from hunger.
Lu Youyou staggered into the living room in slippers. There were familiar lunch boxes and notes on the table, just like she was still in the Ancheng family compound.
"The porridge and buns are warming on the stove. I won't be back until later this afternoon, so you don't have to wait for me for dinner. - Gu Qingye."
Lu Youyou opened the lunch box, and inside were shells that were not much bigger than melon seeds, soaked in thick sauce, looking like small pickles to go with porridge.
Her stomach was growling with hunger and she couldn't wait to eat the staple food, so she just picked one up with her hands.
It was salty, fresh, and had just the right amount of sea smell. It was a taste she had never tasted before and must be a specialty of Dongzhou Island.
She sniffed several times before walking towards the kitchen, where she found Zhuifeng lying by the door with a tiny flame burning in the stove.
Lu Youyou didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Gu Qingye was quite good at assigning tasks!
She hugged Zhuifeng and gave him a good pat: "You have been watching here the whole time? You have worked hard!"
Zhuifeng pointed at the pot with his paw and checked to see if the water had dried up. He could only look at the fire but could not do anything except add water.
Lu Youyou held back her laughter and lifted the lid of the pot. There was still half a cup of water inside, which seemed enough for her to sleep until noon.
Sometimes I have to admire the tacit understanding between Gu Qingye and Zhuifeng. The key is that Zhuifeng is absolutely reliable and there is basically no task assigned to it that cannot be completed.
Good kids naturally need to be rewarded, and we had agreed before that we would celebrate their achievements, so a big dinner would be arranged at noon.
Beef fillet, lamb legs, pork liver, chicken hearts, ostrich necks, turkey wings... Zhuifeng and Xiaohuihui had a Michelin three-star feast.
After the meal, Zhuifeng received a huge teething stick as a reward. Xiao Huihui smelled it and gained a deeper understanding of Zhuifeng's hobby.
No wonder it wasn’t interested in the small bone Zhuifeng gave it before, it turns out it likes the big one!
(End of this chapter)
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