Chapter 58
The countryside is far from being like the city; everything becomes completely silent after eight or nine o'clock.
The couple lived downstairs, and the second floor of the old house was kept very clean. The couple planned to give the room to their son, but as his son hadn't been back for more than half a year, the room has been vacant ever since.
There was a cool mat on the bed and the quilt was also brand new.
It has a warm, sun-baked smell.
Xi Siyan took a shower downstairs, and when he came up, Chen Mo was leaning against the wall, browsing on his phone.
"Sleep inside or outside?" Xi Siyan shook his hair, the towel on his shoulders was still damp.
Chen Mo looked up at him from the phone interface, then looked at the bed under his butt, "Whatever."
Xi Siyan decided for him, "Then you go inside."
The bed is not wide, but two people can still sleep comfortably.
Chen Mo put down his phone. When Xi Siyan sat on the bed and his arm accidentally touched Chen Mo's knee, Chen Mo was stunned. The next second, he reached out and touched his arm, surprised: "Did you rinse it with cold water?"
"What's wrong?" Xi Siyan turned around: "I see uncle just used it to fetch water directly."
"Are you stupid? There's hot water on the stove, you can just add some." Chen Mo resisted the urge to hold his forehead and said to him, "Uncle and his family are used to it all year round. Can you stand the cold water from the well?"
Xi Siyan reached out and held him down.
"fine."
"fart."
Xi Siyan chuckled, put his hand on Chen Mo's shoulder to stop him from getting up, and said, "It's quite cool, and the quality of sleep will be better. Go to sleep quickly, uncle said that there will be a car from the village to the town tomorrow, so we have to get up early."
Chen Mo couldn't move, so he grabbed the quilt next to him and threw most of it towards the other person, saying, "Cover yourself up. The temperature will drop significantly at night."
The two turned over and lay side by side, the warm yellow light above their heads illuminating the small room.
No one spoke.
This wasn't the first time they shared a room.
But it was the first time we slept in the same bed.
The quilt was not thick and felt light and weightless when covered on his body. Chen Mo stared at the mosquito net above his head but did not feel sleepy at all.
"Turn off the lights." Chen Mo reminded.
The next second, snap, the room fell into darkness.
Two minutes passed.
Chen Mo thought to himself that it would be better not to turn it off. He didn't know if Xi Siyan could adapt. The dark night magnified any movement and details, such as breathing and the sound of the bed frame when he moved a little. Not only did he feel that the presence of another person next to him was too strong, but he also felt a little bit of subtle embarrassment.
It was unclear whether half an hour or ten minutes had passed when Chen Mo began to feel stiffness and discomfort in his back. Noticing Xi Siyan's normal breathing, Chen Mo wanted to lean sideways, but he stopped as soon as he raised his foot.
His foot touched the calf of Xi Siyan next to him.
Both of them were wearing shorts, which made Chen Mo dare not continue.
He stood there in a strange posture.
The next second he noticed that the person next to him turned over and faced him. Just as Chen Mo was about to ask him if he was also asleep, he felt a hand around his waist.
Xi Siyan didn't hug him, but moved him towards himself.
He raised his left hand and placed it under Chen Mo's neck. His other hand naturally stroked Chen Mo's back. His chin rested on Chen Mo's forehead. His voice was hazy, as if he was awake and asleep at the same time. "Go to sleep. I'll hold you while you sleep."
"It's very hot." Chen Mo was stunned for a few seconds before he found the voice.
"Let me cool you down." Xi Siyan had no intention of letting him go, and even pulled him into his arms again, and then said, "Didn't you just say that my skin is cold?"
Chen Mo was speechless.
Because Xi Siyan had taken a cold shower, his skin temperature was indeed lower than mine.
But Chen Mo had never slept so close to someone before, not to mention that their current posture was no longer close. He was completely held in Xi Siyan's arms.
But Chen Mo didn't push it away.
Chen Mo originally thought that he would have to stay up stiffly for most of the night.
The fact is, he fell asleep soon after.
And I slept very well, without any weird dreams.
The next day he was awakened by the barking of dogs at the entrance of the village.
People in the countryside get up very early. As soon as the sky outside turns a little gray, there is movement in every household.
The first thing Chen Mo saw when he woke up was Xi Siyan's face, which was magnified close to him, through the dim light outside the window.
His arm was still under his neck, probably numb and insensitive. Chen Mo was worried that he couldn't bear it, so he grabbed his wrist and tried to take his hand out.
As soon as my palm touched it, I thought to myself, "Oh no!"
The temperature was obviously abnormally high.
He said that even in the hot summer, most people could not stand the coldness of well water.
"Xi Siyan." Chen Mo propped up his upper body and pushed him.
Xi Siyan raised his hand to his forehead. It was unclear whether he was feeling uncomfortable due to the fever or because his hand was numb. Chen Mo saw that his brows were deeply furrowed.
But he quickly opened his eyes and asked him in a hoarse voice without being fully awake: "What's wrong?"
"It's not me." Chen Mo lowered his head and put his forehead against hers. He found that the temperature was higher than he thought. He urged, "You have a fever. Get up quickly. I'll take you to the hospital in town."
Xi Siyan let him get close to him, and when Chen Mo moved away a little, he put his hand on his forehead and said, "It's okay, just take some medicine for this condition."
Chen Mo also knew that it would take some time to get from the village to the town.
After thinking for a while, he didn't refute and said while lifting the quilt: "Okay, then you sleep for a while, I'll go to the village committee clinic and get you some medicine."
Chen Mo was originally sleeping inside, and after saying this, he was about to turn over and step over Xi Siyan.
As a result, he was blocked by Xi Siyan halfway through his flip.
Chen Mo thought he was still joking and clapped his hands: "Let go, stop making trouble."
"I'll go with you." Xi Siyan held him back and half-sat up.
Chen Mo immediately said, "What are you going to do at this time? It's not far. If I run there, I can be back soon."
"Then I'll go with you." Xi Siyan held Chen Mo's hand and had already put his feet off the bed.
Chen Mo didn't know why, but at that moment he suddenly understood why Xi Siyan insisted on accompanying him. He recalled what he had casually told Xi Siyan about when he was having his leg treated at the Chinese medicine clinic.
It turns out he has always remembered it.
Chen Mo was still kneeling on the bed, and Xi Siyan, who was putting on his shoes with his back to him, had messy hair. He held his hand on the bed and held it tightly. This was Xi Siyan, the legal heir of the Xi family in Suicheng, the Xi God in the eyes of so many people in the experimental class, the young man who sat in the car arrogantly and disdained to get out and set foot here in Chen Mo's original impression, and the President Xi who was kept away from strangers at the wine table and in the business world.
None of the impressions left Chen Mo as deep as the scene before him.
He accompanied him on the bumpy ride.
Praise Auntie for her excellent cooking skills.
She accompanied her uncle to take cold showers, and even when he had a fever, she refused to leave him alone to get medicine.
But Chen Mo wanted to say that he was seventeen and would soon be eighteen, and what's more, he had already been an adult for a long time, no longer a seven or eight-year-old child staggering in the snow.
But at that moment, the feeling of my heart tightening was so strong.
Chen Mo had never known this person so clearly, but he also knew that some affection could remain only on the surface, while some emotions could go straight to the soul.
"Fuck." Chen Mo cursed inwardly and raised his arms to cover his eyes.
The next moment, he grabbed Xi Siyan's shoulders, pushed him back onto the bed, and pressed forward.
Unexpectedly, Xi Siyan reacted quickly and stopped him, "What are you doing?"
"Can I kiss you?" Chen Mo was exaggeratedly straightforward.
Xi Siyan was obviously stunned for a moment. The light in the room was still a little dim. He lay under Chen Mo and stared into his eyes for a few seconds before he smiled and said, "Although I don't know why your enthusiasm is so sudden, but no, it's contagious."
Chen Mo didn't care about anything and bent down to kiss her again.
Xi Siyan turned his head away, laughing so hard that his chest shook.
He even grabbed Chen Mo's chin and warned him, "Stop it. I can hear the uncle and aunt downstairs getting up."
"Xi, you..."
Chen Mo was still in a hurry to get the medicine for him, so he didn't kiss him. Instead, he lowered his head and bit the muscle on Xi Siyan's shoulder near his neck.
He bit it very hard and Xi Siyan's groan could be clearly heard.
And the phrase: "Little mad dog."
It was almost eight o'clock when I got the antipyretic medicine from the village doctor.
The village doctor had been replaced a long time ago. It was no longer the old man that Chen Mo was familiar with, but a young doctor, about forty years old, wearing glasses.
When he saw two young men coming in, he was stunned.
I took my temperature and it was 39.2 degrees, a high fever.
Perhaps it was because of his young age that when Xi Siyan refused to have an IV or an injection and only wanted to take medicine, the doctor did not object. He prescribed medicine for him, watched him take it once, and reminded him of some precautions.
Xi Siyan was probably afraid of being infected, so he asked the doctor for a mask and put it on his face whenever he went out.
On the way back, I met a lot of people.
Many people knew Chen Mo. After all, in their eyes, he had just left here a year ago, and he left in such a sensational way. On the contrary, Chen Mo had to think carefully for a long time before he could match the names of many people in his memory, and his greetings were all kinds of strange.
For example: "Everyone in the village is saying that you're back, but I don't believe it? Chen Mo, where are your parents?"
Chen Mo: "Well...I think he's eating at a government restaurant."
The other party: “Ah?”
For example: "Chen Mo, you have made great progress. Come to my house for dinner when you are free."
Chen Mo: "Okay."
For example: "Did you get into college? They say you are the only young person to have walked out of this mountain valley. You must study hard, don't you hear me?"
Chen Mo: "I passed the exam. I'm listening, Grandpa."
Then he turned around and explained to Xi Siyan: "Old people are old and sometimes they get confused."
Most of the people around Chen Mo were curious about his current life and whether the rumors about him were true or false. Many people also asked about Xi Siyan, after all, everyone saw him as a superior young man.
Especially in certain contrasts.
At that time they stopped by the roadside and talked to an uncle on the ridge of the field.
Suddenly there was a loud roar on the road, and then I saw three or four dirty and muddy motorcycles going around the bend at a very fast speed and coming towards this side.
They were all young men with hair of varying lengths and dyed colors, and two of them were accompanied by girls.
The uncle on the ridge of the field gasped with anger when he saw it.
He said to the two people, "Nowadays, the young people in the village are getting more and more outrageous. They fight with people in the town all day long, smoke and drink. They don't look like students at all."
Xi Siyan glanced at the oncoming convoy and said, "After all, they are only in their teens, so it's inevitable that they will be impulsive."
"I didn't expect you to be so tolerant." Chen Mo glanced at him and said.
"It's not that I'm too tolerant. It's not you who did this." Xi Siyan glanced at him and said, "Besides, I'm not their father. Why should I care so much?"
As a result, several motorcycles approached quickly.
It looked like it was about to speed past them, but the car in front suddenly braked.
The boy driving the car flipped up his helmet mirror.
Shocked: "Brother Mo?!!"
Chen Mo stared at him for several seconds, then slowly called out his nickname: "Little Maozi?"
"Fuck! It's me!" The other person jumped out of the car excitedly.
As soon as he got off, all the other cars stopped.
Many.
"Brother Mao? Who is that?"
"What happened to Brother Mao?"
The little Maozi, who seemed to have become the big brother of the village, put his hand on Chen Mo's shoulder and introduced him, "This is my brother. Back then, your Heige and I were bullied outside, and it was my big brother who settled it for us. He was very fierce in fighting, and Erhuzi and his men in the town were all afraid of him. Come on, come over and call for help."
A group of people with a full sense of middle school mentality surrounded us.
"Brother Mo."
"Hello, Brother Mo."
"Brother Mo, come here and have a smoke."
Chen Mo stood there, not saying a word, hiding his achievements and fame.
In fact, Chen Mo only felt a little embarrassed. After all, he fought for Xiao Hei because of his parents. But helping one person is helping, helping two is also helping, it is just a matter of convenience.
At that time, he was really filled with anger and couldn't find an outlet, so he just kept swinging his fists, causing a group of people to chase him and call him brother every day. In fact, he didn't even remember a few faces.
At this moment, the person who offered him the cigarette discovered that the cigarette had indeed been taken away.
Just not the eldest brother’s eldest brother.
He was a boy with a mask on, so his face couldn't be seen. But let's call him a boy, because he had such a good temperament. His eyes were deep and black, and he had a faint and cool aura. He was very tall and had very good skin.
He said politely, "Thank you. I'll take it for him. Do you mind?"
"I don't mind... I don't mind." The person who handed over the cigarette suddenly felt awkward and timid in contrast, and he even stuttered when speaking.
Xiao Maozi was also stunned and asked Chen Mo: "Brother Mo, what is this?"
Chen Mo came to his senses and saw that Xi Siyan was clearly a patient, but he stood there politely, which made people feel ashamed. He had a little mischievous thought and said, "He is my younger brother, a new recruit, so just call him Xiao Xi."
Brother Mao: "Ah? Ah."
Then, he met Xi Siyan's gaze and couldn't even bring himself to call him "Xiao Xi".
Finally, after mumbling for a long time, he said inexplicably obediently: "Brother Xi."
"Hello." Xi Siyan nodded.
The little Russian suddenly felt admiration for him.
I thought to myself, awesome, he is worthy of being my brother Mo, all the younger brothers he recruits have this kind of bossy temperament.
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