Chapter 27
In the end, Su Qiong still couldn't fall asleep. When she closed her eyes, she could only see the scene of Mu Yunting licking her fingers. When she opened her eyes, her mind was empty. She sat up and paced barefoot around the room, sometimes to the window, sometimes back to the bed.
Finally, he quietly opened the door and tiptoed to the living room to check on the mung bean sprouts.
I planted the mung bean sprouts yesterday afternoon, and in less than half a day they had already grown into sprouts half the height of a thumb.
Su Qiong didn't turn on the light, but she could make out two green leaves in the dim darkness. She squatted beside the plastic basin, counting them one by one. She paused for a moment, then started counting again from the beginning. These few mung bean sprouts managed to keep her busy for quite a while.
The sky was turning white, but Su Qiong didn't notice the sky gradually getting brighter. She felt her feet numb from squatting, and she was already sitting on the floor, supporting her chin with her palms.
“Click—”
There was the sound of a doorknob turning not far away, and Su Qiong came back to her senses and looked over.
Mu Yunting was standing at the half-open door in his pajamas, his hair slightly messy, holding a water cup in his hand, staring down at him in surprise.
"Are you up so early? Are you suffering from insomnia?" He walked out slowly and bent down to look at the bean sprouts he planted yesterday.
Su Qiong exclaimed, "Well, I had a, um... nightmare." Seeing Mu Yunting at this moment, she had a strange feeling and tried hard to dispel the embarrassment in her heart.
The mung bean sprouts in front of him were growing so fast. Mu Yunting watched for a while, then stood up and went to the kitchen to get the sprouting potatoes. "Even though there's no soil, if we drip water on the place where it sprouted every day, it should still grow, right?"
The potatoes had been left uneaten for too long, and many sharp sprouts had sprouted from the potholes. Their skin had turned green, and it was obvious that they were full of toxins. The potatoes were placed next to the plastic pot of bean sprouts, and the two were moved together to the balcony to bask in the sun.
Mu Yunting cooked this morning and we just agreed to have eight-treasure porridge.
Su Qiong returned to her side-bed to wash up. The cool water splashing on her face woke her up considerably, and even her dreams faded a bit. After changing, she walked around the room a few times, picked up her phone, opened "Fate," and clicked on the friend icon with a red dot to receive the energy sent by Mu Yunting. After lying on the bed for a while, she brushed up on the level materials, and the friend icon popped up in the lower left corner again. Su Qiong clicked it, and it was a message from Mu Yunting.
Muyunt: Come out for dinner [send flowers]
Su Qiong got up and secretly turned off her cell phone.
The mung beans and potatoes were growing well, and Mu Yunting's "Destiny" was slowly rising to nearly level 50.
Today is a sunny day. Mu Yunting is holding a pair of scissors in his hand. Su Qiong is squatting beside him with mung bean sprouts as tall as chopsticks in front of him.
"It should be the young sprout in the middle." Su Qiong pointed to the small tip between the only two leaves. They were planning to top the mung bean sprouts; if they didn't prune them, they would grow too tall and collapse.
Mu Yunting was steady and careful, and in just a few strokes he cut off the tips of the buds one by one.
The two of them admired the mung bean sprouts and potato sprouts on the balcony, looked out at the still deserted city streets, and breathed in the fresh air.
Su Qiong clicked on today's epidemic distribution map. Sure enough, it was still a sea of red. Hmm... the situation was still very serious. She shut off her phone and accepted it calmly. After living here for a month, she'd gotten used to it.
"Do you want to play games? I'm done with work for the day." Mu Yunting turned his eyes away from the chat history on his phone. He just saw Chen Chuanbai asking him if he had seen his game card, and then he remembered that he had two controllers at home.
Chen Chuanbai sometimes comes to play games with Mu Yunting during holidays. He is a senior game fan and plays many games. He found it troublesome and simply prepared two sets of equipment at his house.
Su Qiong wasn't a big gamer. Growing up, she'd only dabbled in online B-games, and that wasn't until college. After a moment's hesitation, she figured she had nothing to do anyway and felt like playing. "Sure! What do you want to play?" she asked. When she touched the controller, she was surprised to discover there were games that could be played with it.
In the screening room, Mu Yunting swiped the controller, and games flashed across the screen. Su Qiong was a novice, having never touched a controller before; he was just playing with Chen Chuanbai for fun. He relied on Chen Chuanbai for guidance, and his own skills were pretty poor, so he wanted to pick a game that was easy for both of them to play.
"How about this?" Mu Yunting stopped the joystick.
Su Qiong didn't understand, so naturally she had no objection. She looked at the poster of "It Takes Two" on the cover of the game on the screen and replied, "Okay." She was dazzled by what she saw. She didn't expect that in addition to watching dramas, the screening room could also be used to play games.
They would occasionally watch TV in the projection room and then do a thorough cleaning. Su Qiong had always thought that the glowing machine was a set-top box or a WiFi device, but she didn't expect it to be a game console. She also didn't expect that there were several different types of game consoles in the cabinet.
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