Chapter 106 [Out of sight, invisible together]
Ever since he knew that Zhou Jibai was the blind man who healed him for an entire summer five years ago, Shi Huai felt inexplicably complicated in his heart, and felt a little inexplicably shy when looking into Zhou Jibai's eyes.
This was the fifty-sixth time that Shi Huai had secretly glanced at himself out of the corner of his eye when he woke up this morning.
Zhou Jibai simply put down the tablet in his hand, pulled the chair opposite Shi Huai and sat down, put his feet on the coffee table like a master, folded his arms, raised his left eyebrow, and said with an expression as if to say "let you enjoy watching it"
As a result, when he sat in front of Shi Huai, Shi Huai turned his face away arrogantly and refused to look at him.
"Why don't you watch it anymore?" Zhou Jibai asked with a raised lip corner.
Shi Huai glanced at him and said, "I don't want to watch it anymore."
"You've been peeking at me since you woke up this morning, and now you say you don't want to watch anymore?" Zhou Jibai sighed softly and shook his head helplessly, "You say one thing and mean another."
Shi Huai: “…”
No matter what he said, Zhou Jibai had plenty of ways to respond.
Shi Huai curled his lips and ignored it.
I can't win the fight.
But after a while, Shi Huai realized that Zhou Jibai's eyes were still glued to him and would not move away. He said a little uncomfortably: "I won't even look at you, and you don't look at me either."
It sounded like he was angry with Zhou Jibai.
Zhou Jibai laughed: "Beyond sight, invisible and carried together."
These words blurted out made Shi Huai's heart suddenly skip a beat.
I didn't expect Zhou Jibai still remembered this sentence.
In the midsummer when he was sixteen, Shi Huai liked to listen to Stefanie Sun’s songs.
At that time, she had just met Zhou Jibai. Zhou Jibai touched the white gauze covering his eyes and smiled bitterly.
If only I could see your face
Shi Huai's eyes blinked. She could not empathize with Zhou Jibai, and could not understand the despair of a lively body and a dark soul.
She said her favorite line of lyrics to Zhou Jibai.
[Beyond sight, invisible together]
At that moment, the touch that reached deep into his soul made Zhou Jibai's heart skip a beat.
The hot wind of midsummer passed by his ears, and he felt the layers of heat waves in Guangnan. The bright and flamboyant girl broke into his world, making him feel a little dazzling.
The heart of the blind and inferior boy was pried open by the bold and rebellious girl.
In his heart, Shi Huai will always be a guest of honor.
Shi Huai touched his face and said, "I didn't expect you still remember it."
Zhou Jibai couldn't forget that summer in Guangnan.
This is the most vibrant color in his life.
The blindness of endless darkness.
A girl with vibrant colors.
【Guangnan weather forecast is sunny.】
[Mr. Blind, please come out for a walk again tomorrow.]
[I am still waiting for you under this sycamore tree.]
Zhou Jibai: "I'll never forget it in my lifetime."
Shi Huai deliberately moved closer, and in Zhou Jibai's eyes, Shi Huai's facial features were magnified countless times.
"Then why don't you say it?" Shi Huai stood in front of Zhou Jibai, pointing his finger at him and questioning him.
Zhou Jibai raised his eyelids lazily, raised his hand to hold the hand that Shi Huai was pointing in front of him, and easily pulled her into his arms.
"What?" Zhou Jibai buried half of his face in Shi Huai's shoulders and neck, sucking in the goose pear fragrance on her body.
Shi Huai bit her lip, her fingers circling back and forth. After struggling all night, she finally couldn't help but ask, "I still want to know, you clearly knew I was Zhizhi from the beginning, but you still didn't recognize me."
Zhou Jibai raised the corners of his lips slightly, and replied lightly: "I thought you had forgotten me."
Shi Huai answered Zhou Jibai with the same words.
"I'll never forget it in my life."
A fatherless boy became an orphan.
He became blind due to an accident.
Two tattered hearts accidentally met and mended each other, just like stray cats that would stop and lick each other's wounds when they saw a fellow cat injured.
How could I forget this?
Shi Huai puffed up his cheeks: "You are definitely not telling the truth."
Zhou Jibai raised his eyebrows, but agreed readily: "Yeah."
"Speak!" Shi Huai pinched his chin and asked with a frown.
"Why did you know who I was after regaining your sight, but kept it to yourself and refused to meet me?"
Zhou Jibai grinned, it seemed that he had to speak today.
"Are you sure you want to hear it?"
Shi Huai nodded affirmatively.
"Then don't be impatient later."
Shi Huai said disdainfully: "Oh! Why would I be so angry?!"
What Zhou Jibai said next made Shi Huai's face turn red. Before he could finish his words, Shi Huai immediately covered Zhou Jibai's lips with his palm.
"Okay, stop talking!" Shi Huai's voice sounded a little dizzy.
Zhou Jibai: "Hmm..."
Seeing that Zhou Jibai seemed to still be unwilling to give up and wanted to say something, Shi Huai quickly stood up and said, "I'm going to go see how Huanyu's birthday party is going. You should calm down first!"
After saying this, Shi Huai ran away as fast as a rabbit.
Zhou Jibai looked at her quickly leaving figure and stood up quietly, "Slow down."
Halfway through the run, Shi Huai turned back.
"What's wrong?"
It just happened to be opposite Zhou Jibai.
Shi Huai: "I forgot to bring Huan Yue's birthday present."
Shi Huai had been embroidering clothes whenever she had some free time. Having spent so many years by her grandmother's side, she'd been influenced by her work. While her embroidery wasn't as ornate and stunning as her grandmother's, it was still exquisite and beautiful. Each stitch of handmade clothing was filled with heart.
Zhou Jibai also teased Shi Huai at that time.
"You can slap a bitch with your hands and chop people with a knife. You can also use an embroidery needle to do handicrafts. Xiao Zhizhi, you are quite versatile."
Shi Huai hummed: "Of course."
After returning, they took the clothes in the gift box. The young couple stopped making a fuss and went to the main hall of the house together.
On the way, Shi Huai asked Zhou Jibai.
"What did you give Joy?"
Zhou Jibai was about to speak when Shi Huai interrupted him: "Don't tell me you're going to give me another 30 million!"
Zhou Jibai gave Shi Huai a look and said, "You guessed it right."
This made Shi Huai somewhat dissatisfied. "After all, Huanyu is only two years old, and you only gave her three words of blessing? Is this the proper behavior of an uncle like you?"
"Tsk, is this who I am in your eyes?"
Shi Huai glared at him, as if to say, "What do you think?"
Zhou Jibai asked Shi Huai to walk on the inside of the corridor, while he stood on the outside to block the snow and cold wind blowing in from outside the corridor for her.
"An apartment at Chang'an No. 1, 39 million." Zhou Jibai said calmly, "It's unfinished, undecorated. When she's older and has her own ideas and wants to move in, I'll give her the money and let her decorate it herself."
Shi Huai was slightly stunned.
Then, Zhou Jibai said in a hurt tone, "I never thought that in the eyes of our Zhizhi Baoer, I would be this kind of person. Oh, I'm so sad."
Shi Huai quickly stepped forward to comfort the sad little white baby: "Oh, don't be sad, don't you have a criminal record?"
"Tsk, what about the most basic trust between people?"
Shi Huai chuckled, raised his hand and gently patted his belly hidden under his down jacket, "Here it is."
Looking at Shang Shihuai's sweet smile, Zhou Jibai's eyes were filled with tenderness and he rubbed her head.
…
Half a month before her happy birthday, Ruoyu sent a message to her aunt and cousin, inviting them to attend.
Both of them gave ambiguous answers, saying they would come over depending on the situation.
Ruoyu didn't expect too much, as it wasn't the first or second time she had been rejected.
Ever since she married Zhou Xu, she has basically cut off contact with her family.
Her parents divorced early in life and soon after each started their own families. She was like a discarded old doll, thrown away wherever it was meant to be, with no one caring about her.
Over the years, my parents rarely send me messages.
The messages they sent were just insignificant greetings, and after she replied, they would disappear without a trace.
Before, she thought that after her parents knew that she was marrying into the Zhou family, one of the richest families in Changjing, they would try every means to get some valuable help from her.
Even if she didn't have any contact with her parents, Ruoyu had a clear account of what kind of people they were.
But they didn't seek help from themselves.
Ruoyu blamed herself in her heart for thinking about her parents like this.
Ruoyu stood on the windowsill in a daze, unaware that someone was approaching from behind.
It wasn't until the warm cashmere shawl fell on her shoulders that she came to her senses and looked back at the man behind her.
Looking into Zhou Xu's eyes, Ruo Yu forced a smile, "Why are you here?"
"Just ask the servants to do the other small things." Zhou Xu replied calmly.
Ruoyu nodded slightly, and nothing else happened.
Then Zhou Xu asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Ruoyu's eyes did not move away from the snowy scene outside the window, her eyes were gentle: "I didn't expect Huanyu to be two years old already."
Zhou Xu: "Time flies."
"Um."
With Ruoyu's "hmm", the atmosphere fell into silence again.
Both of them are not talkative.
One is aloof and serious, never smiling. The other is mild and shy, not good at speaking.
Everyone once thought that the two of them were so different in character and family background that they would not be able to go long.
Unexpectedly, they have now gone through six years of spring, summer, autumn and winter together, and their child is already two years old.
"Where's Happy?" Ruoyu remembered her daughter belatedly.
Nowadays, Zhou Xu spends time with his daughter whenever he has free time. Now that he has some free time, he should come to me happily.
Zhou Xu: "Shi Huai and Ji Bai are here, let them help take care of him."
"Oh...Is that so?" Ruoyu turned slightly to the side. "I'll go down and find them."
As soon as I turned around, I found that the road in front of me was blocked by Zhou Xu.
Ruoyu raised her eyes slightly, a little puzzled and asked: "What's wrong?"
Zhou Xu pursed his lips and said nothing.
Seeing that Zhou Xu had no intention of giving in, Ruoyu bit her lip and stretched out a trembling finger to push Zhou Xu's chest: "Please move aside..."
In Zhou Xu's eyes, this subtle little action was no different from flirting.
Zhou Xu lowered his eyes and looked through the lenses at Ruoyu's palm-sized face, which was slightly pink, but he remained unmoved.
Instead, he took a step forward, completely trapping her on the windowsill.
Ruoyu's ears turned red and she complained in her heart.
It’s already the 29th day of the lunar year after the Chinese New Year. Can’t you be more frugal?
Ruoyu: "What are you going to do..."
Zhou Xu leaned forward slightly.
Ruoyu was a little timid. She glanced back at the window where the curtains hadn't been drawn yet, which was so clean it looked as if it didn't exist. "Zhou Xu, no. Not here."
Hearing Ruoyu's rejection, Zhou Xu's lips inadvertently rose, and he pressed his chest against Ruoyu's. He leaned close to Ruoyu's ear and whispered in a low voice: "Ruoyu, you are not happy, are you?"
Ruoyu blinked and answered tremblingly: "What's there to be happy about here?"
Zhou Xu was amused by his wife's words.
He stood up slightly and looked Ruoyu in the eye again, "Teacher Ruo, I'm not talking about what happened in bed."
"I'm asking about your mood."
Ruoyu: "..."
Awkward……………………
Ruoyu really wanted to find a hole to bury herself in.
She didn't dare to look directly into Zhou Xu's peach blossom eyes, which could show so much affection even to a dog. She looked away and remained silent for a while.
After a while, he said, "I'm not unhappy."
"Homesick, huh?"
Ruoyu was slightly stunned.
She found that after being married to Zhou Xu for so long, she couldn't even tell a lie.
In front of Zhou Xu, I am transparent. Nothing can hide his affectionate eyes.
Ruoyu: "I don't miss home."
She has no home anymore.
Dad has a family.
Mom also has a home.
"I was just wondering if my aunt and uncle would come." This time Ruoyu did not lie and answered honestly.
In front of Zhou Xu, he was just an elementary school kid, and he was the master of extermination in the school.
When facing him, don't even think about lying. You can only be honest and abide by the law.
Zhou Xu asked softly, "Do you want them to come?"
Ruoyu: "It doesn't matter if they don't come."
She is always like this, good at standing in other people's perspectives to understand others, thus ignoring her own feelings.
Zhou Xu kissed Ruoyu's eyebrows and said, "According to your idea."
Ruoyu hummed softly and took the initiative to bring up what happened four years ago: "I still remember that four years ago, only my aunt and my aunt came to see me."
"They are the only ones who would contact me intermittently and care about me." Ruoyu pursed her lips.
Zhou Xu: "They are all very good people."
"I know they didn't contact me because they were considering me." Having said that, Ruoyu sighed again.
Then, the corner of his right eye turned red. "Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't consider me."
Zhou Xu held Ruoyu in his arms and patted her back to comfort her.
Ruoyu didn't cry, but her emotions came over her and she couldn't control them.
After being coaxed by Zhou Xu for a while, his mood improved a lot, "Let's go downstairs to find Huanyu."
Zhou Xu: "Someone is leading it."
Ruoyu lowered her eyes, "But."
"You've been suffering from insomnia these days." Zhou Xu had no intention of letting her go.
Ruoyu was stunned. She didn't expect Zhou Xu to notice this. Although she couldn't sleep, she didn't get up to make any noise.
"I'm not sleepy."
"Take a nap." His tone left no room for refusal.
Ruoyu: "I'm really fine."
Zhou Xu glanced at the pale blue color under her eyelashes and said, "Sleep with me for a while. I'm sleepy."
So he took Ruoyu's hand and walked back to the bedroom, lying on the bed together, holding her tightly in his arms and not allowing her to have any other moods.
Ruoyu: "...Okay. Then remember to wake me up."
"Um."
As I said this, I closed my eyes and soon felt sleepy.
After a while, he fell asleep.
The person in his arms breathed softly and steadily. Zhou Xu stared at Ruoyu's sleeping face, the pain in his eyes gradually overflowing: "Thank you for your hard work, Ayu."
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