After Fu Shize went downstairs, he sat on Yun Li's left, and Xu Qingsong sat beside him.
Yunli felt that the presence of the person on his left was too strong, and he involuntarily leaned towards Fu Zhengchu.
Fu Zhengchu: "Sister Lili, why are you so close?"
Yunli whispered back, "I feel at ease sitting with you."
When Xia Congsheng saw Fu Shize, he was shocked: "Uncle, you look so handsome today. I didn't know Qingsong's clothes actually suit you so well."
Although Yunli thought it was appropriate, he was also confused as to why he suddenly dressed like this.
Fu Shi gave a reasonable excuse: "I didn't bring any spare clothes."
"I think it's suitable too," Xu Qingsong said with a smile, "Have you decided what to play?"
Xia Congsheng replied: "We just dismantled a set of uno."
Xu Qingsong: "Okay."
Chen Renran suggested: "Let's play grab 0, it's more exciting."
Everyone except Yunli seemed to understand the rules and answered, "Yes."
"That's fine with me."
Seeing Yunli's confused look, Chen Renran explained, "After someone plays a '0' card, everyone should quickly cover their hands on the card, and the last person to cover their hands will draw two cards."
The game went on smoothly. Yunli found it quite simple after getting started. She just followed the player before her and played cards of the same suit or number.
After someone played the first "0" card, everyone quickly covered their hands and stacked them together. Yunli didn't react in time, and by the time he realized it, he was about to draw two cards.
After touching the cards twice, Yunli became alert and kept paying attention to the cards played by others. Until someone played a "0" in the second round of the game, Yunli quickly covered his hand alertly, and the others followed suit.
Lu Yu's reaction speed was about the same as Yun Li's. He followed her by one step and put his hand on hers.
This time Fu Shi was the last one.
Yunli secretly applauded himself for his extremely fast reaction speed.
Once again, Yunli played the "0" card herself, and she quickly covered her hand, and Fu Shi followed closely. Until the last person was separated, the two of them kept their palms together.
Yunli could feel that Fu Shizhe's hand was loosely placed on the back of her hand, but even so, the contact made her heart pound.
She secretly glanced at Fu Shi Ze, his expression still as calm as water.
In the next two times of this game, Fu Shi covered Yun Li's hand after him.
Yunli felt that her heart could not bear it any longer. After this round of game was over, she wanted to say that she didn't want to play anymore.
Before she could speak, Fu Shi said, "Change the game."
Yunli looked at him in a daze.
The few people present who had good relations with him respected his proposal and agreed directly.
Chen Renran was not having fun and asked, "Why? We are all having fun."
Fu Shi held his chin with one hand and said casually, "I'm used to memorizing cards, I won too quickly, and I don't have any gaming experience."
Chen Renran: “…”
Others: “…”
Chen Renran: "Since you don't play Uno anymore, what should you play?"
Deng Chuqi suggested: "Let's play a game of draw. The person who draws the biggest card can ask anyone present a question." Everyone agreed.
"By the way," Chen Renran said; "Since we are playing this, we might as well have some wine to enjoy ourselves. I brought two bottles of wine, I'll go get them."
After Chen Renran took the wine, he handed a bottle to Lu Yu, and then poured it for everyone sitting next to him.
When he reached Fu Shize's position, Fu Shize said, "No, thank you."
Yunli was a little surprised to hear his refusal. In her impression, Fu Shizhe and alcohol were almost tied together.
The game started, and everyone drew their cards and showed them. Yunli didn't get a big card, so she breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to ask anyone, nor did she want to be asked.
After looking at the cards, Chen Renran shouted, "I definitely have the biggest number!" Then he showed his cards.
King of Spades.
There really isn’t a bigger one.
Xia Congsheng: "Then pick someone to ask."
Chen Renran had a clear purpose, and said to Yunli, "Is there anyone here that you like?"
All of a sudden, everyone looked at Yunli.
Yunli couldn't stand the gazes of the crowd and replied, "No."
Chen Renran then asked, "What if I force you to choose one?"
Yunli: “…”
Xia Congsheng interrupted, "No, you can only ask one."
Chen Renran spread his hands: "Okay."
Then the rest of the people also touched the biggest one one after another, but the questions they asked were generally about some embarrassing things that happened in the past.
Until Lu Yu touched the biggest one, he wanted to help Chen Renran, thought for a while, and asked: "Who do you think is the most handsome among the people present?"
Chen Renran: “…”
He felt speechless and stepped on Lu Yu in private.
Yun Li didn't expect that the two of them would keep asking questions. He struggled weakly for a while and locked his eyes on Fu Zhengchu: "Fu Zhengchu."
Fu Zhengchu opened his eyes wide and asked embarrassedly: "Really?"
Yunli suddenly felt sorry for him: "Of course."
After answering the question, Yunli felt relieved. She wanted to take a sip of the drink, but the orange juice was already empty. She looked at the glass of wine next to her and hesitated.
Suddenly, a hand appeared in sight.
Fu Shi took her wine away and put the orange juice he hadn't drunk in front of her.
He drank the glass of wine in one gulp: "You guys play first. I'm going to smoke a cigarette."
After Fu Shizhe left, Yunli also became distracted while playing.
She looked at the orange juice in front of her and her mind went blank.
Deng Chuqi noticed her abnormality and tried to smooth things over by saying, "It's already so late, why don't we take a rest first?"
Xia Congsheng echoed, "Indeed, and there is a hot spring in the room, let's go back and relax early."
The group dispersed.
Xia Congsheng wanted to go find her parents first. After Yunli returned to the room, she went to the balcony to add water to the outdoor hot spring pool. The temperature was low, and the water flowed into the pool with steam rising.
Deng Chuqi removed her makeup in front of the mirror and said with emotion: "Today, this beautiful girl from Gaoling put on a floral shirt and at first glance, she actually looks like a young master. I used to think that only Xu Qingsong had this kind of temperament."
Yunli moved a chair and sat next to her, and also took off her makeup.
Seeing that she was worried, Deng Chuqi gently pushed her and said, "Hey, you're not going to be obsessed with him again just because he changed his clothes, are you?"
"I'm not the kind of person who is tempted by beauty." Yunli glanced at her and walked towards the balcony holding his bathrobe.
The two took off their clothes and went into the pool.
His body was quickly filled with warmth. Yunli scooped some water and poured it over his shoulders. The diffuse mist seemed to hit the wooden partition, making Yunli's thoughts a little vague.
She approached Deng Chuqi and whispered, "Didn't I tell you before that he was planning to date a girl he had known for many years?"
Deng Chuqi: "That's right..."
Yun Li leaned his head against the edge of the marble and said in confusion: "But I asked Fu Zhengchu, and he said that those who have known each other for a long time are all related by blood..."
Not quite understanding what she meant, Deng Chuqi thought for a long time: "Would Uncle Xia Xia like this?"
“…”
Not knowing what Deng Chuqi was thinking, Yun Li denied it: "That's not what I meant." She asked unconfidently: "That's it, do you think I misunderstood him?"
Deng Chuqi took a towel and put it behind her to avoid the cold corner of the pool. She disagreed, "Even if this is a misunderstanding, it's a fact that he has always rejected you."
Deng Chuqi: "Lili, my colleague likes you very much. You should know that you are a very popular person."
Yunli: "Don't mention your colleague..."
Deng Chuqi: "Why don't you just ask him directly? You keep guessing and it only makes you feel bad."
Yunli put the pillowcase over her eyes and said, "I've been rejected so many times, how dare I ask again?" She murmured, "Isn't this just asking for humiliation?"
Soaking in the warm water, Yunli's pores dilated due to the heat, and her whole body relaxed, temporarily forgetting the troubles of the past month.
Yun Li came back to her senses when Fu Shi Ze's shadow appeared before her. She supported herself on the edge of the marble with both hands, pushed herself up and sat on the edge of the pool, reaching for the towel beside her.
As soon as he got outside, the cold air was overwhelming, and Yunli went back into the pool with a thud.
Deng Chuqi stared at her with ill intent: "Lili, your figure has changed in recent years..."
Before he could finish his words, there were two sudden thuds on the wooden board.
“…”
The two fell silent.
Deng Chuqi: "Did you hear any sound just now?"
Yunli: “…”
The two of them climbed out of the hot spring pool tacitly, put on their bathrobes, rushed back to the room, and closed the balcony window tightly.
Yunli felt creepy: "Next door to us is..."
Deng Chuqi: “Oh my god…”
…
When Xu Qingsong returned to the room, Fu Shi was lying on the edge of the pool playing with his mobile phone. Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Xu Qingsong scooped some water and poured it directly on his head in a funny way.
"You have to quit smoking. This is only half the game."
Fu Shi wiped the water from his eyes with a towel, said nothing, and moved aside to continue playing with his phone.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Xu Qingsong cooperated and didn't ask any more questions. He took off his clothes and soaked in the hot spring pool. He was tired after a day, and he felt sleepy in less than two minutes.
When water was being poured into the next room, every sound could be heard clearly through the wooden board.
The tranquility of the two was broken by the sudden intrusion of chatting.
It was the voices of Yunli and Deng Chuqi.
Fu Shi tilted his head and looked towards the source of the sound. He moved, moved towards the source of the sound, and knocked on the wooden board.
Then there were the sounds of Yunli and Deng Chuqi leaving the pool and running back to their room.
Xu Qingsong woke up, leaned against the pool, and stared at Fu Shizhe leisurely.
Yunli and Deng Chuqi did not mention any names, and Xu Qingsong did not listen very seriously, but he could probably guess what it was about. He curled the corners of his lips and did not ask any more questions.
Seeing that he seemed to have encountered something interesting, Fu Shi glanced at him and said in a slightly accusing voice: "I asked you about the restaurant before..."
Xu Qingsong hadn't thought of this question just now and was stunned for a moment: "Did Xiao He tell Yun Li?"
He splashed some water and said with a smile, "Isn't it just to block the peach blossoms for you?"
Fu Shi closed his eyes and ignored him.
But in his heart he was thinking about what Fu Zhengchu had said to him today, as well as the conversation between Yun Li and Deng Chuqi just now.
What a ridiculous misunderstanding.
…
After returning to the room, Yunli was in a state of collapse.
She wiped her wet hair in despair, and Deng Chuqi comforted her: "Don't think too much, maybe you didn't hear anything... Even if you did hear it, it's okay..."
If I really didn't hear it, I wouldn't have knocked on the wooden board to remind them.
Yunli lowered his head in annoyance: "Kill me."
After comforting Yunli for a while, Deng Chuqi said that Chen Renran asked them to go downstairs to play mahjong. Yunli was extremely autistic and stayed in bed, staring at her phone, and said dejectedly: "I'm not going."
The next day, Yunli got up at eight o'clock and planned to call Xia Congsheng and Deng Chuqi to have breakfast. The two of them played until one or two in the morning last night and drank a lot of wine. At this moment, they were sleeping soundly in **.
Yunli had no choice but to go out by herself. Not long after she closed the door, she heard the sound of a door closing behind her. She turned around and saw Fu Shi walking out of the room.
Fu Shize: "Going to have breakfast?"
Yunli: “Hmm…”
Fu Shize: "Together."
The restaurant is in another building. The self-service breakfast only has a simple toaster and an omelette maker, and the rest are a few warm plates filled with Chinese breakfast.
"Would you like some toast?" Fu Shize stood beside her. Yunli nodded. He took the tongs from her hand and put two slices of toast into the toaster.
Yunli was still waiting nearby, and Fu Shi glanced at her and said, "Go to your seat first."
Yunli put the breakfast on the table and sat down. Before he could even get comfortable, Chen Renran and Lu Yu came over with their plates from another table and asked, "Can we sit here?"
Yunli nodded: "Fu Shi is waiting for toast over there..."
She looked up and stared at the back. He waited there for a while and transferred the toast to the plate.
Chen Renran asked tentatively: "Oh, are you in the ambiguous period?"
Yunli choked for a moment and shook his head quickly: "No..."
This answer made Chen Renran feel that he still had hope. He placed his plate in front of Yunli. Seeing that there was nothing on her plate, he asked, "You didn't get anything to drink? I'll get it for you. What do you want to drink?"
Before Yunli could refuse, Fu Shi came back with the food tray. He sat next to Yunli and answered for her: "No, I'll take it."
After sitting down, Fu Shi picked up two slices of toast from his plate and put them on her plate, and also picked up a poached egg for her.
Fu Shi opened the plastic seal of the milk carton and used the straw to pierce the aluminum foil before handing it to Yun Li.
The milk is warm.
He said calmly: "I soaked it in hot water for a while, which took some time."
His own breakfast consisted of two slices of toast and a cup of Americano.
Chen Renran looked at the intimate actions of the two and thought about Yunli's denial just now, with a strange expression on his face.
They only chatted for a few words during the whole breakfast. After finishing the meal, Yunli walked outside and found that her small bag was left on the seat. Fu Shi asked her to wait there for a while and turned back to the restaurant.
Since yesterday, Chen Renran felt that Yun Li was protected very closely by Fu Shi Ze. Although Deng Chuqi repeatedly emphasized to him that there was no emotional connection between them, he couldn't help but have doubts.
Taking this opportunity, he asked Yunli again: "Are you and Uncle Congsheng really not in the ambiguous period? Or are you already in a relationship?"
Yunli shook his head.
Chen Renran felt a little uncomfortable, and regardless of Lu Yu's presence, he said frankly: "Yunli, I actually have a good impression of you. If you don't want to develop a relationship, you can just say so directly. You don't need to ask Uncle Congsheng to help me back out."
These words confused Yun Li. She said blankly, "What?"
"You and Uncle Congsheng don't seem to be ordinary friends. If you are being ambiguous with him in front of me in order to reject me, then there is really no need to do so."
Yunli had given up pursuing Fu Shize for a while. She didn't know if there were any lingering thoughts in her relationship with Fu Shize that she was not aware of, which led Chen Renran to have such thoughts. After a pause, she asked, "Why do you say we are not just ordinary friends?"
Chen Renran felt more and more that Yunli was trying to hide his intentions, and laughed angrily: "How can ordinary friends get along like this?"
Fu Shize just happened to come back. He didn't know the topic of their conversation, so he lowered his head and said to Yun Li, "Let's go."
Yunli couldn't sleep last night because of the hot spring bathing incident. Now thinking about what Chen Renran said, he was full of things on his mind.
Fu Shi glanced at her and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Yun Li was startled and said casually: "I'm thinking about how to treat ordinary friends..."
However, this sentence had a different meaning to Fu Shi.
He said nothing, but pointed Yunli in a direction: "Tonight is Christmas Eve, there are lights over there."
There were faintly some light strips and Christmas decorations on the tree. Fu Shi paused for a moment and continued, "The lights will be turned on after nine o'clock."
Yunli nodded absentmindedly.
Deng Chuqi and Xia Congsheng slept until the afternoon, and Yunli simply did not go out. When they woke up, Yunli found out that Fu Zhengchu also drank too much late last night.
After they sobered up, they decided to go downstairs to play cards tonight. Yunli was not very able to fit in with this kind of drinking party, and he didn't seem to be getting along well with Chen Renran, so he made an excuse that he had to edit a video tonight.
Deng Chuqi probably heard something from Chen Renran, so he didn't force it.
Yunli stayed in her room until 10 o'clock, feeling bored. She could hear the laughter of several people downstairs from time to time, and she couldn't fall asleep early. Thinking of what Fu Shizhe said today, Yunli got up, changed her clothes, and put on her camera.
Seeing that the temperature outside was only one degree, Yunli filled the hand warmer with boiling water, wrapped it with flannel, covered it with his hands, and went out.
At the door, you can hear the sound of classical music coming from Fu Shizhe's room.
Not sure who is there.
Yunli went downstairs, and several people were playing cards and chatting. Fu Shize and Xu Qingsong were not there. Avoiding Chen Renran's sight, Yunli said hello and went out under the pretext of taking pictures of the villa. Not long after, she rejected Fu Zhengchu's idea of accompanying her.
After going out, Yunli walked in the direction that Fu Shizhe had mentioned during the day.
The lights were near the restaurant, a few hundred meters away from the small villa they lived in. When approaching the woods, Yunli could already see the faint warm yellow light strips winding around the treetops.
Further away, you can see the sky is gray-blue, with clouds dotted like dye.
She turned on her camera and took a picture from a distance.
Yunli pulled his coat closer and moved closer while holding the hand warmer.
A hammock was hanging from a thick branch, about half a meter above the ground. As Yunli walked forward, the hammock moved slightly.
She paused.
The person lying on the bed flicked on his phone screen and put it aside. Although it was a short moment, Yun Li could recognize that it was Fu Shi Ze.
She hesitated for a moment and then slowly approached.
He was sleeping curled up in the hanging bed, with a bottle of wine and a glass next to him, the bottle only half full of wine.
It was so cold, he wasn't wearing much and his lips were pale.
I feel a little sad.
Yunli squatted down and moved closer, poking his shoulder.
Fu Shi opened his eyes and looked at her, his eyes were sleepy. He sat up and said softly, "You're here."
Are you here?
It sounded as if the two had made an appointment in advance to meet tonight.
The temperature outside was extremely low, and Yunli could feel frost forming on the tree trunks. Fu Shi looked up at her, his eyes clear and different from his usual demeanor. The corners of his eyes had lost their sharpness, and instead he looked like a teenager.
He lowered his eyes to look at the empty space beside him and said softly, "Sit for a while."
Yunli stood there without moving.
After a moment, she said, "You've drunk too much."
Yunli handed him the hand warmer. Fu Shi stared at it for a long time, then reached out to take it. His hands, which had been numb from the cold, felt a little better. He insisted, "Sit for a while."
Not wanting to argue with the drunkard, Yunli sat next to him helplessly.
The hammock became an inverted triangle due to gravity, forcing the two people to get closer.
Fu Shi lowered his eyes, pulled her wrist, and put the hand warmer back into her palm. The warmth in her palm and the coldness on her wrist formed a huge contrast, but Yun Li's attention was completely focused on the cold touch.
Fu Shi did not let go.
He pulled Yunli's other hand over and placed it on the hand warmer.
Time seems to be frozen in this picture.
She saw the boy she first met seven years ago looking at her.
He slowly moved closer, placing his lips next to her right ear.
"You're not chasing me anymore?"
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