Sleepy
Qiu Zimu hadn't slept the whole time. When he heard them coming back, he ran out immediately. He saw that both of them looked unwell, especially Ye Jingan, who looked pale, even his lips were bloodless, and he looked very weak. Qiu Zimu asked softly, "What happened?"
"I'm so tired and want to sleep. Let's talk about it tomorrow." Ye Jing'an looked listless and moved back to the room in small steps.
"Well, you have a good rest." Qiu Zimu opened his mouth to ask Liu Muze what happened, but saw that his face was as cold as ice, and his eyes stopped at Ye Jingan and never moved away. He didn't dare to ask, so he just shut up. "Brother Liu, you should go and rest too."
"Yeah." Liu Muzhe withdrew his gaze and walked back to the room with an expressionless face.
He lay in bed feeling uncomfortable all over, feeling a surge of frustration in his heart. He ran out to buy a few bottles of liquor and sat on the balcony outside the hotel to drink. After several bottles of liquor, he still felt a pang of anger in his heart. After so many years since Ye Chenyi's death, this was the first time he had encountered such an uncontrollable event, and the first time he had experienced such a huge emotional fluctuation.
"If I had known this, I would never have taken him with me." Liu Muze held the pink chalcedony, sighed and whispered, "There's no such thing as knowing this earlier. It's wrong, it's wrong."
In his dream, Ye Jingan returned to the little girl's room and recalled the pain of skin peeling again.
Liu Muze heard Ye Jing'an's voice and hurried to his room. As soon as he entered, he saw him curled up on the bed, trembling and crying. Liu Muze put his hand on his head and gently helped him sit up: "Ye Jing'an, wake up."
Ye Jingan opened his eyes, but couldn't see anything? Everything was blurry.
"Ah?" He stretched out his hands forward, touched Liu Muzhe's hand, blinked, and could see now.
"Are you okay?" Liu Muzhe was stunned, thinking that Ye Jing'an had cried his eyes blind, and waved his hand in front of his eyes twice.
"Oh, I'm not blind, my eyes are blurry with tears." Ye Jing'an covered his face and rubbed it twice, giggling.
"What's wrong with you?" Liu Muzhe was not scared by the ghost, but was scared by Ye Jing'an.
"Ah? It's okay. I just think that action just now was like a blind man groping in the dark. It was a bit silly. Hahahahaha..." Ye Jing'an laughed while wiping his tears.
This kid is really scary! If he really gets hurt and becomes stupid, how can I explain it to Ye Chenyi? Liu Muze looked at him with a bitter face, unable to express himself, and asked, "What did you see in the haunted house?"
"I became that little girl and watched her father dismember her mother. Afterwards, her father found the little girl, tied her to the bed, and skinned her alive." Ye Jingan pursed his lips, "I know why she put her mother's head on the TV cabinet."
"Why?" Liu Muzhe has always been curious about this question. The resentment needed to make that head is more than that needed for the furniture in the entire living room.
"Her mother's head was smashed there, and she said she would never see her again..." Ye Jing'an's words were interrupted by vomiting. The scene was too bloody, and the brains were blown out.
Liu Muzhe listened as his fist clenched tighter and tighter, and the wound that had been scratched and stopped bleeding before began to bleed again.
"Brother Liu, it really hurts. A grown man like me can't bear it, and she is just a little girl. How could her father be so cruel?" Ye Jing'an frowned tightly as he recalled the pain at that time.
Liu Muze remained silent, wondering why he didn't sympathize with him. Wouldn't it be more satisfying for him to suffer for Ye Jing'an than now? The pain would pass if he just endured it. It was not something that could be coaxed into a child.
"Brother Liu, I'm sorry, I..." Ye Jing'an opened Liu Muzhe's clenched fist to prevent him from pinching him any further.
"Stop talking and sleep a little longer. I'll be here, everything will be fine." Liu Muzhe helped cover the quilt and sat beside her to watch over her.
Ye Jingan nodded. He felt dizzy and really tired, and fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
"Ye Jingan, are you awake? Are you okay?" Qiu Zimu woke up early, but did not come to see Ye Jingan until after eight o'clock, wanting him to sleep a little longer.
Liu Muze opened the door and said, "Not good, what's wrong?"
"Liu, Brother Liu? Good morning. I don't have anything to do. I just came to see Ye Jing'an. How is he?" Qiu Zimu found that Brother Liu's complexion looked worse than yesterday.
"Still sleeping. Come back later." Liu Muzhe glanced into the room, turned his head and stared at Qiu Zimu, thinking that he had something else to say.
Qiu Zimu also looked inside, and looked at the expressionless Brother Liu, feeling a little confused. Their eyes met, and no one spoke. Qiu Zimu smiled awkwardly and said, "Well... Brother Liu, go have some breakfast and rest for a while. I'll take care of him."
Liu Muzhe hummed softly and walked downstairs.
Qiu Zimu breathed a sigh of relief, poured a pot of warm water on the table, and sat by the bed to look at Ye Jingan. His face was still very pale. He was fine when he went there yesterday, and he was only gone for more than three hours. How did they become like this after returning?
“Ahem…”
Seeing that Ye Jing'an had woken up, Qiu Zimu handed him some warm water and asked him to drink some first.
"Where's Brother Liu?" Ye Jing'an's eyes were swollen and his voice was hoarse.
"What's wrong with your voice..." Qiu Zimu pursed his lips, "Brother Liu just went out. Did he stay with you all night?"
"Yeah." Ye Jing'an felt uncomfortable in his eyes, so he simply closed them.
"You rest for a while, I'll go buy you breakfast and throat lozenges, and be back soon!" Qiu Zimu didn't want to ask any more questions seeing how weak he looked.
Ye Jing'an didn't continue sleeping. He quickly washed up and ran out to look for Liu Muzhe. He searched everywhere near the hotel where he might be, but didn't see anyone.
"Why did you run out? Go back to the house and have breakfast first." Qiu Zimu ran into Ye Jingan after buying breakfast. Seeing him holding on to the stairs, it seemed like he would faint at any time.
Ye Jingan looked at the sumptuous breakfast, all of which were his favorites, but he had no appetite. As soon as he opened his mouth, the scene of the little girl's mother's death appeared in his mind.
"Why don't you eat? Look at your lips, they're so pale. Eat something quickly, otherwise you'll have to go to the hospital to get glucose." Qiu Zimu frowned.
Ye Jingan shook his head and said, "I can't eat it."
"Then drink milk." Qiu Zimu inserted the straw and handed it over.
The white milk was the same color as the brain matter, and Ye Jingan tilted his head and began to retch.
Qiu Zimu was stunned. This was Ye Jing'an? Seeing him not even moving his chopsticks was fine, but he was also retching? He hurriedly cleared the breakfast away and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Ye Jing'an felt dizzy and fell backwards, his head spinning and a sharp pain.
"Ye Jing'an!" Qiu Zimu supported him and slowly laid him down flat on his back. "I'll make you some sugar water."
He didn't feel sick after drinking the sugar water, and he went back to sleep after drinking it.
When I woke up at noon, my face had some color.
"Wake up." Qiu Zimu handed him another cup of sugar water. "What happened to you? You don't know how scary Brother Liu's cold face is."
Ye Jingan told Qiu Zimu what happened last night.
"Fuck, he's a human? How can he have such a father?" Qiu Zimu's blood boiled, and his parasite began to stir. "If you want to deal with him, be sure to take me with you. Let my baby chew him to death."
"What is Brother Liu doing? Why hasn't he come back yet?" Ye Jing'an was worried and kept looking outside the door.
"I don't know. He didn't tell me. I'll go look for it." Qiu Zimu ran to the balcony and looked down.
Ye Jing'an followed him out. They called and texted, but Liu Muze didn't respond. They searched everywhere but couldn't find him. The two of them sat at the door chatting and waiting for him.
"Hey hey hey, I'm back, I'm back!" Qiu Zimu poked Ye Jingan's arm with his elbow.
The two ran downstairs.
"Hmm?" Qiu Zimu saw that his face looked even worse than this morning, and he was frowning. "Brother Liu, are you feeling unwell?"
"No, I didn't sleep and I'm a little sleepy." Liu Muze raised a faint smile and asked Ye Jing'an, "How are you?"
"Much better." Ye Jing'an said, "Brother Liu, what did you do this morning? Have you eaten?"
"Something happened and I haven't eaten yet." Liu Muzhe climbed the stairs quickly, not as calm as usual.
"Then have something to eat and then take a rest. The food has been bought and is waiting for you to come back to eat." Ye Jingan took two big steps and walked to the same row with him.
Liu Muze was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Okay."
Three people shared a table with four dishes. Ye Jing'an and Liu Muze sat facing each other, with Qiu Zimu in between. The meal was incredibly strange. Ye Jing'an couldn't eat anything, picking at the white rice grains and putting them into his mouth one by one, his eyes fixed on Liu Muze.
Liu Muze stared at the dishes without even looking up, picking up the four dishes in turn, never messing up the order. Feeling a little uncomfortable being stared at by Ye Jingan, he raised his eyes and asked, "Why are you always looking at me? Why aren't you eating the dishes?"
"What's wrong with you?" Ye Jing'an put down his chopsticks.
Liu Muze also put down his chopsticks and sighed, "I didn't sleep all night, didn't eat breakfast, and dealt with things all morning. What do you think is wrong with me? You still treat me as your ancestor? Am I not a human being?"
"What's the matter?" Ye Jing'an saw that his tone was not very good and his face turned cold when he asked.
Seeing that they were about to fight after a disagreement, Qiu Zimu put down his chopsticks and said, "Brother Liu looks really sleepy. Let him go and rest first. Ask him when he wakes up!"
Liu Muzhe glanced at Qiu Zimu and said "hmm" softly, thinking that this child was really sensible.
"Okay, I, Ye Jing'an, don't like to owe favors to others. If you stay with me for one night, I will repay you." Ye Jing'an pulled Liu Muzhe and walked towards the room.
"..." Liu Muzhe held the door open, "I'm really sleepy, no kidding. I'll just sleep for six hours, okay? Don't bother me."
Ye Jingan promised not to make any noise and would definitely not disturb his sleep, then he bent down and went into the room.
"I can't sleep with someone next to me." Liu Muze grabbed Ye Jing'an's clothes and stopped him from going in. "You can take this opportunity to buy me some delicious dinner and the milk tea from last time, okay?"
Ye Jingan narrowed his eyes, as if he was really just tired. He agreed, "Okay, I'll call you in six hours."
Liu Muze nodded, locked the door, and said with a long sigh of relief: "This kid will be even more difficult to deal with when he grows up."
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