Lu Zixiao looked at him gravely, with a few big words written all over his face - Do you think I'm joking?
"Okay, I know you're serious," Lin Ze smiled. "But we've known each other for so many years, and you've been really a hidden talent. I didn't know my wife's fighting ability was so high."
Lu Zixiao snorted lightly and raised his chin slightly: "Of course, how can I be your husband if my fighting ability is not high?"
Lin Ze chuckled, leaned over and touched his cheek which was a little red from the cold, then placed a light kiss on his soft thin lips.
"Still thinking of a counterattack? Okay, I'll be waiting."
"Stop joking and get down to business." Lin Ze pulled his arm and looked him over. "Are you hurt? Even a bump or a scrape counts. Let me take a look."
"It's just a minor injury..."
As Lu Zixiao spoke, he slowly stretched his hands out from the pockets of his down jacket. The four Band-Aids on the bony backs of his hands were extremely obvious.
Lin Ze nervously grabbed his hand and said with a look of distress, "I knew you couldn't be unharmed! Look, you're hurt in several places!"
Lu Zixiao hadn't taken it seriously at first, but seeing him looking so worried, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "It's just an accidental scratch, nothing serious, and it doesn't hurt."
"A scratch is still a scratch," Lin Ze muttered with a frown, "Even if it doesn't hurt, I still feel bad..."
"Next time you have a fight, call me and I'll help you charge into battle while you just stand by and give the orders."
"You?" Lu Zixiao questioned, "Forget it, I'd rather spend a day at the police station than stay in the hospital for three days."
Lin Ze sighed and said, "Wait for me to get a gym membership and find a place to practice boxing. I don't believe I can't protect you."
After saying that, he held Lu Zixiao's hand, lifted it up slightly, and kissed the injured area devoutly and tenderly.
Lu Zixiao's heart softened, but they were still on the street after all, and there were many people coming and going around. Lin Ze's sudden action made him blush instantly, and he quickly pulled his hand back.
"It's a bit cold, let's not stand here anymore"
"Okay," Lin Ze said, "where do you want to go?"
Lu Zixiao thought for a moment, then turned to look at him: "Are you hungry?"
When Lin Ze heard him ask this, he subconsciously touched his stomach which was full from eating at home, and then said calmly: "I'm hungry."
Lu Zixiao naturally noticed his little trick, but did not expose him. He suppressed his smile and continued to ask, "Then what do you want to eat?"
Lin Ze automatically translated this sentence into "Guess what I want to eat?"
"Then..." Lin Ze thought very seriously, "Barbecue?"
"Okay," Lu Zixiao agreed happily.
The two smiled at each other, found a relatively famous barbecue restaurant nearby, and sat in a relatively quiet corner.
Lu Zixiao usually leaves the task of ordering food to Lin Ze. After all, he knows exactly what he likes to eat and he almost never makes mistakes in the food he orders.
"...Let's have these skewers for now. For the main course, I'll have a bowl of their signature noodles with an egg."
"Okay," the waiter wrote down everything. "Would you like some drinks or beer?"
"drink……"
"beer"
Lin Ze had just opened his mouth when Lu Zixiao interrupted him. He looked over in surprise and saw that the man had a very determined expression and was saying to the waiter, "Please bring me six bottles of Snow Flower, thank you."
After the waiter left, Lin Ze folded his arms and looked at him calmly: "You're already drinking Snowflake, I think you're not far from brave enough to venture into the world."
Lu Zixiao ignored the teasing in his words, handed him a cup, and asked softly, "Would you like to drink with me?"
"...Okay," Lin Ze said helplessly, "but let me make it clear in advance, I can't drink much and I tend to get drunk and crazy."
"It's okay, just drink less." Lu Zixiao sighed, "I feel... not very well."
Lin Ze hummed: "I see, it has something to do with this fight, right?"
Lu Zixiao nodded and looked at him: “Aren’t you going to ask me why I fought?”
"I won't ask, you will tell me when you want to." Lin Ze's eyes were full of tenderness, "No matter what the reason, I will stand by you unconditionally."
Lu Zixiao lowered his eyes, opened a bottle of beer and poured two glasses, then told him briefly about the teacher's "glorious" deeds.
When Lin Ze heard that Lu Yuxuan had been beaten and scolded by the teacher for several days, he was so angry that he started cursing.
The two of them cursed the teacher for three minutes, and drank a bottle of beer quietly.
Every time he talked about this matter, Lu Zixiao couldn't help but think of Lu Yuxuan's red and swollen arms, and he felt very upset.
He opened another bottle with a slightly irritated look, filled his own cup and drank it all in one gulp. Then, as if he had finally let go of something, he spoke in a somewhat fragile voice.
"Lin Ze, do you think I'm a good brother?"
"Of course you are," Lin Ze answered him without hesitation, "You've been both a father and a mother for the past few years, doing everything from washing clothes to cooking, and raising them while working part-time to pay for your studies..."
"No," Lu Zixiao interrupted him and shook his head, "That's not what I meant."
Lin Ze fell silent instantly and listened to him quietly.
Lu Zixiao took a sip from his wine glass and said with a somewhat depressed look, "I don't just want to give them a good life. I also hope that I can be careful and strong enough to protect them well. But I suddenly realized that I don't seem to be doing enough..."
"Because Yuxuan is usually a carefree person, he's so heartless that he doesn't seem to care about anything. So even though he was clearly feeling wronged for several days, I didn't notice it. I thought he just didn't like studying."
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