Chapter 59 What’s my uncle’s phone number?
Dusk came in through the gaps in the blinds, casting mottled light and shadows on the corner of the sofa.
Xiao Qihao repeatedly wiped the screen of Xiao Tiancai's phone watch with his sleeve, and the plastic shell became hot from rubbing.
His fingertips hovered over the virtual keys like a butterfly entangled by invisible threads.
"This positioning function must have been cracked by Ye Xiang,"
Xiao Qihao suddenly lowered his voice, and the cold sweat on his neck slid down his collar into his clothes.
"I hope it can still make calls. I just checked and the SIM card is still there."
Shen Qing caught a glimpse of Xiao Qihao's Adam's apple rolling violently as he was flipping through the application software and program settings in his watch one by one.
Time has stretched so long that he has forgotten how to operate the phone watch that he loved so much back then.
When they finally found the dial-up interface after digging through the layers of menus, the shadow of the sycamore tree outside the window had already climbed over half of the wall.
It was getting dark and Ye Xiang came back without knowing when. Time was running out!
Xiao Qihao's thumb pressed on the number key for a long time, and the jumping cursor was reflected in his pupils, like a firefly trapped in a cage.
Seeing that he was hesitant, Shen Qing urged him,
"Go ahead and fight, why are you hesitating? Are you still afraid that the team will scold you?"
"I.....what's my uncle's number?"
His voice suddenly became weak, as if someone had grabbed his neck.
"I remember saving it to my phone the day before yesterday..."
Shen Qing grabbed the man's wrist fiercely, leaving two red marks on the silicone strap.
"What did you say?!"
How can someone be so stupid as to not even remember his own uncle’s phone number!
Xiao Qihao looked at Shen Qingze in embarrassment and asked him
"Teacher Shen, do you remember my uncle's number?"
He trembled as he handed the phone watch in his hand to Shen Qingze, but the other party's expression was even uglier than his.
"Don't look at me...I never look at the number when I answer the phone..."
The two looked at each other and smiled, and saw unspeakable disgust in each other's eyes.
Shen Qing didn't give up. He tried hard to recall the numbers he remembered and tried to put them together.
Fragments of memory are throbbing in my temples. I have never regretted so much that I have the bad habit of making phone calls without looking at the number.
The two of them thought about it for a long time, and Xiao Qihao suddenly realized,
"That's not right! We can just call 110!"
The two of them suddenly understood, and Shen Qingze suddenly realized why he had become slow because of Xiao Qihao's guidance.
Just as they were about to press 110 on the screen, they heard the sound of a car shutting down outside the door.
Xiao Qihao dug his nails deep into his palms. The blue light of his phone watch seemed particularly dazzling in the suddenly tightening darkness - Ye Xiang, humming the last tune of the song, had stopped at the door of the living room.
He quickly turned off his watch and stuffed it into the gap of the sofa. Shen Qing cooperated with his action and sat up, nervously trying to cover up the possible strangeness of the gap in the sofa.
Ye Xiang pushed the door open and walked in. Xiao Qihao stood up and looked at him with resentment on his face.
Ye Xiang naturally put down the car keys and said in a gentle voice
"Are you hungry? I'll cook something for you."
"Why did you come back at this time?"
Ye Xiang put the large amount of food in her hand on the dining table, and replied to him while tearing tissue paper to wipe her hands.
"I'm not going home after get off work, what are you having for dinner?"
“Oh, I’m hungry.”
Xiao Qihao was not angry at all, and he did not think that there was anything wrong with him asking the owner of the house to return to his home.
Anyway, he didn't intend to be nice to Ye Xiang.
Ye Xiang casually threw the tissue she had used to wipe her hands into the trash can, and as she approached Xiao Qihao, she asked him,
"What did you do today?"
"Thanks to you, I didn't do anything."
He got angry when he mentioned this. If Ye Xiang hadn't confiscated all his electronic products, he wouldn't have been so bored as to play treasure hunt in the house, and finally come back to catch him after studying a phone watch. Was she doing this on purpose? !
Xiao Qihao ignored him angrily.
Shen Qing was standing aside, and felt Ye Xiang's gaze instantly gloomy when he approached and saw him, so he thought he might have to avoid him.
He stood up and said awkwardly,
"Um...you guys chat first, I'll go back to my room first, come find me if you need anything."
After saying that, he didn't dare to look at Xiao Qihao again, and ran back to the room that was converted from a storage room.
Xiao Qihao still felt resentful about Ye Xiang's breakup and was thinking about getting up.
"Teacher Shen, you and I..."
Before he could finish, he was stared at by Ye Xiang who instantly blocked Shen Qingze's back.
"Where are you going?"
Xiao Qihao wanted to push Ye Xiang away, but he grabbed his wrist and held his waist tightly.
The crystal chandelier cast tiny spots of light above Ye Xiang's head. Xiao Qihao stared at his lips, but it was as if he was looking through a layer of frosted glass and could not hear anything clearly.
His back was pressed against the edge of the sofa, his tailbone was hurting, cold sweat kept oozing out from between his fingers, and he had no intention of dealing with Ye Xiang.
"That's not what I meant last night..."
Ye Xiang's voice was filled with sadness. He reached out to grab Xiao Qihao's arm, but he dodged as if he had been electrocuted.
Xiao Qihao's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he caught a glimpse of the cold light shining from the belt around his waist - it was the one he had carefully selected at the mall last week, but now it was like a time bomb that could explode at any time.
"I don't want to argue with you about these things"
He suddenly spoke, his voice so hoarse that even he was shocked.
It would be a lie to say that he didn't care, but rather than questioning him about this, he was more worried about the phone watch hidden in the gap between the sofas.
His body was stretched like a bow, and even his breathing became cautious, for fear of pulling the sofa cushions and revealing his true identity.
Ye Xiang stood there in a daze, with water droplets still on her eyelashes, but Xiao Qihao didn't dare to look at her any longer.
His eyes were fixed on the photo frame on the chest of drawers behind him. It was a photo of them taken at the beach, but now it felt like a hot iron.
When Ye Xiang took a half step back, Xiao Qihao almost held his breath.
He pressed his thighs tightly, digging his nails into his jeans, praying that the phone watch in the gap between the sofas would not make any noise at this moment.
The wind outside the window suddenly blew dust onto the glass, and he felt that the moment was thrilling.
Ye Xiang followed his reaction and looked at the sofa behind him.
"Qihao, you didn't do anything behind my back, did you?"
As he spoke, he pulled Xiao Qihao's arm and walked towards the corner of the sofa.
The closer he got to the place where the phone and watch were hidden, the more sweat appeared on Xiao Qihao's hands.
"Ye Xiang...I, I have something to tell you"
"What?"
Ye Xiang turned around and looked at him with an inquiring look, which was full of coldness and seemed to carry a deep chill. His words were stuck in his throat, and he didn't know how to start.
Ye Xiang held Xiao Qihao's hand with a cold face, as if she was seriously swearing,
"If you do something wrong, you can tell me and I will help you solve it,"
"But if I find out that you are trying to escape, I will be very angry, Xiaohao."
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