Chapter 86
After a few days, Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli finally finished their last exam.
After enduring this for several days in a row, Pei Zhao felt completely drained.
"I must have a big meal tonight, take a comfortable bath, and sleep well." Pei Zhao turned his head to look at Zhou Yuli, and seeing that he looked indifferent, he tilted his head and said, "What's wrong, classmate Zhou, didn't you perform well?"
Zhou Yuli pursed his lips. But there was something else in my mind.
In a few days, Sudi will be moving in.
Will he say something unpleasant again that is...hard to accept?
Zhou Yuli couldn't help but sigh.
Even if it was true that he was a puppet, he couldn't accept being constantly criticized with cold words.
Zhou Yuli frowned, thinking that if Sudi came to live with him, he'd better find an excuse to leave early and come back late, so as to avoid being caught.
Pei Zhao narrowed his eyes and tried to smile. Zhou Yuli had no idea how obvious the depressed look on his face was to others.
Pei Zhao used his kneecaps to think and knew what Zhou Yuli was worried about.
But Pei Zhao didn't tell Zhou Yuli that he had actually asked Bai Zhou to book a hotel nearby for Sudi and the others, and the room fee would be paid from the income of the puppet shop.
Whatever the reason, Sudi's hostility towards Zhou Yuli was too obvious. Although Zhou Yuli didn't say it last time, Pei Zhao knew that if Su Di's words hadn't been so harsh, Zhou Yuli wouldn't have preferred to be beaten rather than tell him.
Now Zhou Yuli is obviously worried about living together, but Pei Zhao is not going to comfort him. The little wooden puppet is not well behaved and should be punished.
When they returned to the puppet shop, Lan Ji was the only one there, directing the delivery workers to deliver things upstairs.
Pei Zhao walked up to Lan Ji and asked casually, "Where's Bai Zhou?"
Lan Ji and Bai Zhou have basically reconciled.
Their quarrel ended with Bai Zhou, in a fit of rage, throwing the model of Hall's City into a coffin that was believed to be directly connected to the abyss space.
Bai Zhou said: "Okay, now no one can think of reviving Hall City, unless Miu Yi grows up and can control the abyss space."
Vampires have had the abyss space since childhood, but they can only control it freely when their abilities reach a certain level.
There is still a long way to go before we can fully master the fallacy. It will take at least one or two hundred years.
So Lan Ji couldn’t continue arguing with Bai Zhou - let’s wait a hundred or two hundred years before arguing again!
Lan Ji smiled at Pei Zhao and said, "He went to the supermarket not long ago. If you want to buy anything, I'll send it to him."
"No need." Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli looked at each other and smiled. Pei Zhao took Zhou Yuli's hand and said, "Shall we go to the supermarket too?"
Zhou Yuli naturally agreed.
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"Speaking of which, if we are going to fight, wouldn't it be best to prepare some compressed food?"
Pei Zhao and Zhou Yuli walked around the snack area for a long time, and Pei Zhao suddenly thought of something.
"If Xiaorui can give you the time travel permission, we should be able to fight during the day and come back here to rest." Zhou Yuli took a look at the ingredients of the compressed biscuits - they didn't look very delicious.
Pei Zhao blinked: "Why does it feel like I've found a job? Fighting is divided into nine to five?"
Zhou Yuli raised his eyebrows, without comment, and took a few bags of Pei Zhao's favorite snacks and put them in the shopping cart.
Turning around the snack area, Pei Zhao bumped into an acquaintance and raised his hand to greet him: "Bai Zhou!"
"We actually ran into each other." Bai Zhou smiled, "Lan told me you were coming, I thought I would just miss you."
Pei Zhao smiled: "You two are back to your original relationship now."
When talking about this, Bai Zhou looked helpless: "Well, let's live one day at a time. At worst, I can take Lan back to Hall City when I want to retire. It will take at least a hundred or eighty years, so there's no rush." Bai Zhou looked at the things in Pei Zhao's car and couldn't help but be amazed, "That's all you prepared? Aren't we going to fight a war?"
Pei Zhao: "Fight during the day and come back to rest at night."
Bai Zhou gave him a thumbs up: "You are very thoughtful."
"It was Zhou Yuli's idea." Pei Zhao still smiled. Although a war was about to start, Pei Zhao inexplicably did not feel nervous at all.
Pei Zhao looked into Bai Zhou's shopping cart and saw some compressed videos. In addition, there was also...
"Why did you buy this?"
Bai Zhou said as if it was a matter of course: "This is a reasonable demand, and I specially bought new flavors and brought them to you out of kindness..."
Pei Zhao was simply speechless.
But Bai Zhou was right... He and Zhou Yuli should indeed prepare something...
"How about this, since you guys are here too, let's just split up and prepare. I'll prepare daily necessities, and you guys go buy some food. Remember to buy more food with a long shelf life! Otherwise, if we get busy later, we may not have time to go shopping. It would be best if we can buy enough for the whole holiday!" Bai Zhou said, putting all the things in his car on the cart that Zhou Yuli was pulling, and then clapped his hands, "It's a happy decision!"
"Okay." "Don't worry."
The two groups acted separately, and soon, Zhou Yuli's car was piled up like a small mountain. They also bought food for the evening - fresh vegetables, meat, meatballs.
Bai Zhou, Lan Ji and others liked the hotpot very much last time, so Pei Zhao decided to make it again.
"There's no need to prepare the hot pot base. I guess we don't have time to cook hot pot." Pei Zhao lamented.
"You can also buy some. If you really want to eat it, you can ask the delivery man to deliver it to the store in advance. Now some delivery men can help load the refrigerator." Zhou Yuli took two plates and put them in the already full shopping cart.
"So advanced!" Pei Zhao exclaimed.
Zhou Yuli nodded.
The two walked out of the supermarket. Bai Zhou used the store's account to pay for both trucks, but still said, "These probably won't be enough for five people to eat for the entire holiday, but I just saw that there seems to be a large order here. Let's go back and make a list and have them deliver it directly to the store."
"That's fine." Pei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, he didn't have to rely on manpower to move the things back.
That night, we still had hotpot, and the five of us sat around in the restaurant on the second floor.
Pei Zhao recounted his encounter with Xiao Rui to everyone, "This is what happened. The risk factor of this operation may be extremely high. We will be working with many puppeteers - and perhaps puppets. I hope everyone will not be too individualistic during the mission. Survive as long as you can. Only by surviving can there be a future."
They are not going to resist any foreign enemies. Strictly speaking, they are going to mediate a fight. It is enough for them to help. We cannot expect them to change the world. They are fighting against gods from higher planes, which is no joke.
"Understood." "Don't worry." "Yeah." The three of them agreed readily. Miu was so happy eating a bag of pig blood that he only had time to nod.
Pei Zhao breathed a sigh of relief, "Sudi should act with us, and we can all live in harmony."
"Don't worry, I have already booked their hotel for three months!" Bai Zhou said.
"Sudi doesn't live with us?" Zhou Yuli was stunned.
"Of course, there's no place..." Bai Zhou was puzzled.
"Those two beds upstairs..." Zhou Yuli went upstairs earlier and saw two beds next to the coffin. He thought they were for Sudi and his puppet to live in.
"Oh, that's to prevent us from being kicked out late at night." Bai Zhou scratched his head.
Zhou Yuli was speechless.
He had never been kicked out by Pei Zhao, but Bai Zhou had been kicked out by Lan Ji several times.
These two people... stick together when things are going well, but when they quarrel, the sky falls and the earth collapses.
Bai Zhou turned a deaf ear to it.
Pei Zhao looked at Zhou Yuli with a teasing expression: "What's wrong? Are you finally relieved?"
Zhou Yuli pursed his lips, knowing that Pei Zhao had seen through him, "Yeah."
Pei Zhao stretched out his hand and pinched his ear: "Don't hide it from me next time. You can't hide anything even if you suffer yourself."
Zhou Yuli looked at Pei Zhao's doting eyes and didn't say much. Although Pei Zhao had grasped the wrong point, but... let the words Sudi said to him rot in the mud.
Everyone has their own thoughts while eating.
That night, the four of them stayed in two separate rooms. Pei Zhao listened to the sound insulation which was much quieter than before and asked in surprise, "Did Bai Zhou and the others renovate the apartment?"
Zhou Yuli was spreading the quilt for Pei Zhao. Hearing this, he sat down beside the bed and said, "Well, Bai Zhou said that one time when they were sleeping in the room, they woke up Miu Yi outside, so they simply contacted the decoration company and stripped the wall to do some sound insulation."
Pei Zhao sighed: "No wonder the walls feel new."
Zhou Yuli laughed: "I feel like I can stay a little longer."
In the previous room, he could hear even the slightest conversation clearly, but now, if it wasn’t called an apartment, Pei Zhao would have thought it was an old residential building with excellent sound insulation.
Pei Zhao put his arm around Zhou Yuli's neck and hung limply on him: "Hold me."
Zhou Yuli turned around and hugged Pei Zhao without any hesitation.
Pei Zhao buried his head in Zhou Yuli's neck. Zhou Yuli had just taken a shower and his body was filled with the pleasant smell of shower gel, which was different from the usual woody scent.
"Zhou Yuli, I still prefer your taste." Pei Zhao said.
Zhou Yuli laughed: "The smell will disappear in a while."
Pei Zhao arched his head and said, "Zhou Yuli, you want to..."
Pei Zhao's face turned red before he could explain clearly. Zhou Yuli lowered his head, looked at Pei Zhao's trembling eyelashes, his Adam's apple moved, and whispered, "Are you tired?"
Pei Zhao nodded hesitantly: "A little tired." He snuggled into Zhou Yuli's arms again, "But, we haven't had a long time..."
Zhou Yuli understood and dragged Pei Zhao's butt to turn off the lights.
The moonlight shone into the room through the curtains, and then I realized that Bai Zhou had also changed the curtains.
The snow-white, fine gauze swirls in the wind.
Gently gather, rub, wipe and pick.
…
"Good night, Pei Zhao."
After finishing, Zhou Yuli carried Pei Zhao, who was already sleeping, to the bathroom to clean up, put him on the bed, and covered him with a quilt.
Zhou Yuli lay on his side, and Pei Zhao snuggled into his arms.
"Zhou Yuli..." Pei Zhao muttered, as if in a dream.
"I'm here." Zhou Yuli said softly.
"Don't ever...leave me."
Zhou Yuli lowered his head.
Can he give Pei Zhao a guarantee?
Under the moonlight, Pei Zhao's sleeping face was so gentle and peaceful.
If possible, he would like to keep it forever.
But he is just a puppet...can he really do it?
In his sleep, Pei Zhao seemed to be haunted by something. He frowned and grabbed Zhou Yuli's arm with both hands.
"week……"
"I'm here." Zhou Yuli was awakened from his confusion. He immediately hugged Pei Zhao into his arms, and all the previous uncertainty disappeared.
"I'm here, don't be afraid, I will always be by your side, always and forever."
Pei Zhao gradually felt at ease in Zhou Yuli's arms. Zhou Yuli, whose heart was entirely filled with Pei Zhao, did not notice that the corners of Pei Zhao's mouth were slowly curling up in the dark.
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