Chapter 69 Showdown
Zhu Ci opened the boxes one by one. Everyone saw what was inside the boxes clearly and looked at each other in tacit understanding.
Xu Zhiyang blinked: "It should... not be poisonous, right?"
Qin Shiyu: "It's not poisonous. If he wanted to kill us, he would have shot us long ago. There's no need to poison us."
"What's that smell... so fragrant..." Li Huiyin squinted her eyes and climbed up from the sofa.
Lu Nian in the corner moved his nose, smelled the aroma of meat, and swallowed secretly.
"The meal was sent over by Luo Cheng." Xu Zhiyang took a look at the meat dish and had no appetite.
It is potatoes and meat stewed together, similar to braised pork.
The remaining boxes contained rice.
Qin Shiyu took the chopsticks and carefully examined it for a moment, "Don't worry, it's pork."
"...What else could it be?" Li Huiyin asked with a puzzled look on her face.
Xu Zhiyang glanced at the girl who had always been simple and had not forgotten her original intention. "It's okay, eat. Haven't you been clamoring for rice for a long time?"
"Yeah! Come on, eat!" Li Huiyin took a pair of chopsticks and waved at Lu Nian: "Come on, Lu Xiaonian! Eat some meat!"
Lu Nian: "Okay..."
Xu Zhiyang gave up her seat to Lu Nian and went to the bathroom.
"The chef at this base cooks pretty well!" Li Huiyin took a bite of rice and saw that Lu Nian liked to eat meat, so she picked up several pieces for him.
"Thank you..." Lu Nian hadn't had a full meal for a long time. During the time when he was locked up in the laboratory, Song Yuan only had someone throw him a bag of compressed biscuits every three days.
He couldn't eat enough, so he had to turn back into a fox so that the food could last longer.
Except for Zhu Ci Mu Ke and Li Huiyin, the others in the team are all unhealthy skinny people.
Lu Nian took small bites of the meat, reluctant to finish it in one bite. He secretly observed for a while and found that there was a largest piece in the bowl, which he hid under the rice to leave for Xu Zhiyang.
After a long time, when Li Huiyin was almost full, she suddenly realized that Xu Zhiyang had been staying in the bathroom and had not come out. She put down her bowl and chopsticks and shouted.
Xu Zhiyang said in a muffled voice: "I'm fine, no need to save any for me. I don't like rice and pork, you guys eat it."
Xu Zhiyang came out of the bathroom after everyone had finished eating. She glanced at Lu Nian's bowl and smiled at him, "You eat. I'm not hungry. If you're not full, I have some bread, ham, and other things here. You can help yourself."
Lu Nian smiled shyly, touched the tip of his nose and stuffed the last piece of meat into his mouth.
The more Xu Zhiyang looked at Lu Nian, the cuter he seemed to her. This boy couldn't hide anything, and his thoughts were all written on his face.
Zhu Ci followed Xu Zhiyang's gaze, his face darkened, and he stood up and said, "Everyone, go to bed early."
After saying that, Zhu Ci grabbed Xu Zhiyang's wrist and led her into one of the rooms.
"what?"
"I need to talk to you about something."
Li Huiyin laughed on the sofa and said with a look of regret: "Alas... if you go in... you won't be able to come out..."
Qin Shiyu suppressed his laughter and pretended that he didn't understand anything.
Mu Ke coughed and said, "Okay, good night everyone."
"What do you want to talk about?" Xu Zhiyang looked around the room, walked to the window, opened the curtains and looked out. Outside the window was a vegetable field, and what was planted there looked like radishes.
"Why aren't you eating again?" Zhu Ci opened his backpack and took out Xu Zhiyang's favorite blueberry jam bread and gave it to him.
Xu Zhiyang hesitated for a moment before taking it: "I'm not hungry. I won't be hungry if I don't use any energy."
"Yeah." Zhu Ci reached out to hold the wall behind Xu Zhiyang, forcefully trapping him there.
Xu Zhiyang stepped back, pressing her back against the wall. "What's wrong?"
"What do you think of Lu Nian?"
Zhu Ci originally wanted to ask Xu Zhiyang whether she liked Lu Nian, but was afraid of hearing an answer she didn't want to hear.
Xu Zhiyang has never explicitly said who he likes, but every time he looks at Zhu Ci, his eyes are extremely passionate. Zhu Ci is not sure whether he has the same feelings for her.
"He's quite good, a very well-behaved boy with a good personality. Although he's a little timid, he's a gentle person."
Xu Zhiyang casually praised Lu Nian, then he looked at Zhu Ci again and pretended not to care, "Why, do you like this?"
Congratulations: "I don't like it."
He then asked, "What about you? Do you like this?"
"Ah..." Xu Zhiyang was stunned for a moment, then thought seriously for a moment and said frankly: "It's okay. After all, everyone likes to be with gentle people..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhu Ci's face was already so red that ink could drip. He suddenly lowered his head and moved closer to Xu Zhiyang, rubbing the small mole at the end of the boy's eyebrow with his fingertips, turning it red.
Xu Zhiyang's breathing suddenly slowed down and his heart beat like thunder.
"Do you know..." Zhu Ci murmured softly.
"What?"
Zhu Ci lowered his eyes and looked at the young man, his breath hitting Xu Zhiyang's ear.
His voice was deep and penetrated Xu Zhiyang's ears. "You were drunk that night in Luohu Village, and there were some things I didn't tell you because I didn't want to embarrass you."
"What's the matter?!" Xu Zhiyang was a little panicked. Could it be that he was vomiting all over himself?
Or is it grinding your teeth, snoring, or farting?
Any one of these is enough for him to crawl into the ground!
It would be better to just say that! It wouldn't be so embarrassing!
Seeing that he was actually daydreaming, Zhu Ci raised his hand and knocked on Xu Zhiyang's forehead.
"You forced a kiss on me that night."
He just threw out a trump card, which made Xu Zhiyang dizzy.
"Who? What's strong?"
"Forced kiss."
"What are you kissing? Who is stronger? Who are you kissing? Me?" Xu Zhiyang spoke incoherently.
"Yes, it's you." Zhu Ci gently pinched Xu Zhiyang's chin and made him look up at him.
Xu Zhiyang's eyes were erratic, and she wanted to run away: "You're talking nonsense! How is that possible! Am I that kind of person?"
"Your mouth doesn't hurt anymore, right?" Zhu Ci rubbed the corner of Xu Zhiyang's mouth with his fingertips, and the wound disappeared.
"That night you kissed me and bit me... The wound on the corner of your mouth was my revenge."
Xu Zhiyang suddenly realized!
No wonder he had so many wounds on his mouth those days! He thought they were from falling down while drunk!
It turns out that it was done by a hooligan!
Seeing that Zhu Ci didn't seem angry, Xu Zhiyang made a bitter face and hesitated, "...then what if..."
"How about I kowtow to you and apologize?"
Congratulations: "..."
"Is this the point?" Zhu Ci said with some gritted teeth.
Xu Zhiyang was dumbfounded: "Then what do you want?"
Not sure if this person was really stupid or just pretending, Zhu Ci pinched Xu Zhiyang's cheek angrily and said, "I don't want to do anything. I just want to tell you one thing."
"What?"
"I like..."
Halfway through his speech, there was a knock on the door.
"Brother Zhu, I'm Captain Wang, Wang Hao."
“Bang, bang, bang!”
"Brother Zhu! Are you asleep?!"
Xu Zhiyang frowned: "Why is he here?"
Zhu Ci took a deep breath, very unhappy about being interrupted, "It must be something bad."
"Open the door then?"
"Since he knows we live here, and we're going hunting in the mountains in a couple of days, hiding isn't an option."
Zhu Ci pinched Xu Zhiyang's cheek unwillingly again and buttoned his clothes to the top button.
Zhu Ci's possessiveness towards Xu Zhiyang was very obvious, almost undisguised, "Stay by my side for a while."
Xu Zhiyang nodded: "Yeah."
Zhu Ci took Xu Zhiyang out through the door, and whispered to everyone else not to come out, except Mu Ke.
According to Zhu Ci's words, Mu Ke is the only adult who can be regarded as capable.
The tool man Mu Ke cooperated very well. He asked Zhu Ci to sit on the sofa and pose, and then he went over to open the door and invite Wang Hao in.
It was quite late, and Xu Zhiyang wanted to yawn but held it back next to Zhu Ci, with tears welling up in her eyes.
"Hey, why are you crying, little beauty?"
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