Chapter 81: Dinner
Linjing City, town and hotel private room.
When Xie Liang and Xu He walked into the restaurant's private room, everyone was already sitting around the dining table.
As soon as they sat down, Li Dong stood up with his glass of wine in hand.
"Well, thank you very much Brother Liang and Brother He for coming. I'll toast you a glass." Li Dong seemed to be in a good mood. He drank the sorghum wine in the glass with a flushed face.
Xie Liang lowered his head and muttered to Ji Ranzi who was sitting next to him, "Did he win the lottery? He's so excited?"
Ji Ranzi stammered, "This, this..."
Xie Liang looked up and saw that her face was also red, so he asked: "Have you drunk too much?"
"I didn't drink!" Ji Ranzi said.
Xie Liang felt strange that she was no longer hesitant, so he said, "Your face is very red."
"Brother! Do you have any insight? They are obviously having an affair behind our backs!" Lu Bubu yelled.
"Keep your voice down! What are you yelling about?" Shi Xiaoyin said as she slapped him on the head.
Only then did Lu Bubu notice that Ji Ranzi's face was flushed. He patted his mouth and said, "I'm just not shy about my words, but I don't mean anything else. Sister, I'll drink a glass of wine as punishment. Don't take it to heart."
At this time, Ji Ranzi stood up confidently, raised the sorghum wine in front of her and said: "This glass is for Brother Liang and Brother He. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid I wouldn't be alive." After that, she drank the wine in the glass.
Xie Liang picked up the wine in front of him and said, "I don't deserve it. It's all luck." Then he drank it all in one gulp.
Li Dong stood up and refilled his and Ji Ranzi's glasses with wine. The two stood together holding their glasses.
Li Dong put his arm around Ji Ranzi's shoulders and said, "We are together now. I don't know what to say, but I am very happy today. Let me toast to everyone!" Then he finished the wine in the glass.
Ji Ranzi also said: "Yes, we are together. I am not a shy person, but I know what shyness is after meeting this guy. It's nice to meet you all, and I'll toast to everyone!"
As the toasts went on, Xie Liang didn't know how many glasses he had drunk. He usually only drank a few beers, and this was his first time drinking baijiu.
He only vaguely remembered that when the party ended, Lu Bubu was already drunk and refused to leave, and kept clamoring to drink Li Dong's wedding wine.
Xie Liang remembered that he was carried home by Xu He. While in the car, he lay in Xu He's arms and rubbed against him, and even vomited all over him.
His head was still dizzy and everything was spinning around him.
At this moment, he was lying on his bed, wearing a clean set of pajamas, which should have been changed by Xu He.
Someone came towards him with a glass of water and asked, "Are you still feeling bad?"
Xie Liang couldn't see clearly and was still dizzy, but he knew it was Xu He from the voice. He muttered, "Hmm... dizzy."
He heard his voice was a little hoarse, and suddenly he wanted the person in front of him to accompany him, just like his parents always accompanied him when he was a child.
Thinking of this, he moved sideways on the bed to make room.
Xie Liang said softly: "Brother He, sleep with me tonight."
Xu He didn't say anything, sat down beside his bed, helped him up and gave him some water.
After a while, Xu He pursed his lips and said, "Why do you want me to sleep with you?"
"Because... because..." Xie Liang said "because" several times but didn't finish his words.
Xu He did not urge him, but patiently guided him: "Why?"
"Because..." Xie Liang suddenly turned sideways and hugged Xu He's head, "Brother He is the best to me!"
Xu He raised the corner of his mouth slightly: "Where is good?"
Xie Liang thought of Xu He's kindness to him, the kind of kindness that only parents can have, and said without hesitation: "The kind of kindness that parents have!"
Xie Liang vaguely saw that Xu He's pupils seemed to tremble, and the corners of his mouth gradually drooped.
Xu He didn't say anything, as if he was pondering the meaning of that sentence. After a while, he raised the corners of his mouth again, and his thin lips gradually enlarged in Xie Liang's eyes.
Xie Liang didn't remember whether Xu He kissed him first or he kissed her first, nor did he remember whether he took off his clothes or Xu He took them off for him.
The night is deep outside the window, and inside the window a room is whispering...
A few days later, Xu He booked a private room at the Qinhe Hotel and invited everyone in Xie Liangla's group to have dinner there.
That night, the group exploded.
Lu Bubu: Damn! What's with all the treats? Bro! Bro! Are you guys also having an affair behind my back?
Shi Xiaoyin: The person above, if you can’t speak, don’t say anything. This is called a happy marriage!
Li Dong: No! I usually just clamor to be He Ge's concubine. Brother Liang, you really are the one!
Xie Liang: ...
A few days later at noon, Xie Liang woke up with his sore waist in his hand. Xu He was already tidy and sitting beside his bed.
Seeing that he woke up, Xu He picked up the clothes prepared beside him, helped him put them on, and took him to the bathroom.
Xie Liang took the toothbrush with toothpaste squeezed on it and started to wash. After washing, Xu He drove him to the Qinhe Hotel.
When Xie Liang and Xu He walked into the private room, Lu Bubu and the others were already waiting.
"Young man! Old man! Come and sit here!" Lu Bubu shouted at them enthusiastically.
After the two of them sat down, the waiter beside them asked softly, "Hello, would you like to order?"
"Yes, yes!" Li Dong said carelessly.
Ji Ranzi, who was beside him, saw him like this and laughed.
In addition to what they ordered on the spot, there were also many dishes that Xu He had ordered in advance.
Before everyone had sat down and chatted for a few minutes, rich delicacies were served on the gilded carved rotating round table one after another, and the aroma filled the air.
No one was in the mood to chat, except Xu He. Everyone picked up their chopsticks and poked at the plates of delicacies like hungry wolves.
The food was not finished until they were all exhausted and could not eat any more.
Lu Bubu leaned back in the soft chair, clutching his bloated stomach, and said with emotion, "It's worth coming all this way here. This is the best meal I've ever had in my life."
Li Dong nodded in agreement. "Me too! I'm already looking forward to the wedding banquet when Brother He and Brother Liang get married!"
Shi Xiaoyin looked at Xie Liang with envy, then at Xu He, and said with emotion, "I'm tired of saying the word 'envy'."
Xie Liang smiled and said, "Miss Xiaoyin will also find her own happiness."
At this time, Lu Bubu leaned over to Shi Xiaoyin and said, "Look, they're all together now. Would you like to consider being with us? Even if we spend all our money, we'll still treat you to a meal here! What do you think, sister?"
Shi Xiaoyin rolled her eyes at him and said, "You stinky man, you only know how to make empty promises. Treat me to a meal first!"
"That won't do. What if we spend all our money to treat you to a meal and you don't want to be with us? We will lose a lot!" Lu Bubu said seriously.
"Go away!" Shi Xiaoyin pretended to reach out and hit him, but Lu Bubu quickly retracted his head.
"Brother Bu! Why does what you said sound like the usual tactics used by scumbags on the Internet to pick up girls?" Li Dong laughed to himself as he spoke, "Hahahaha... scumbag..."
Everyone enjoyed the meal very much and they chatted for a while after the meal.
When the party ended, there were still a lot of dishes left on the table, some of which had not even been touched.
Lu Bubu asked the waiter standing by to pack up the untouched dishes, and several people took them away.
During this period, Long Qingye once went to see Xie Liang because of insomnia, but after seeing the mark on Xie Liang's neck, he seemed to understand and never came to see Xie Liang again.
However, the roses were still delivered to Xie Liang's door on time every day. For this reason, Xie Liang called Long Qingye many times to ask him not to waste time and money on him. However, the other party did not care at all, saying that he was making a long-term investment and waiting for the day when Xie Liang and Xu He broke up.
As the days passed, Xie Liang and Xu He spent some peaceful, lazy and happy time.
Time flies, and as the vortex symbol on Xie Liang's chest gradually decreases, a year has passed unknowingly.
That night, Xie Liang dreamed of Su Yubai again.
Still on that lonely beach, the haggard Su Yubai stared at Xie Liang's neck.
On it, there were the marks of strawberries that Xu He had planted for him last night.
Su Yubai's eyes were red, as if he was suppressing some kind of anger: "Who is he?"
Xie Liang didn't know how to answer, so he just let him watch calmly.
"Xiaoliang, I'm asking you who he is!" He seemed to be interrogating Xie Liang.
"You don't know him." Xie Liang lowered his voice, trying to calm Su Yubai down.
After a while, Su Yubai loosened his clenched fists and laughed at himself: "Yeah... How could I, a long-dead person, know him!"
"Don't be like this, I don't want to see you unhappy." Xie Liang said.
Su Yubai reached out and unbuttoned the first button of Xie Liang's collar, and touched his skin with his cold hands: "It's the man with the black sword on his back."
After he said that, Xie Liang remembered that Su Yubai had met Xu He once, in that small world full of pig monsters.
At that time, Su Yubai saved him once while wearing a white tiger mask.
"Yeah." Xie Liang responded.
Su Yubai said unwillingly: "If I had known earlier, I should have killed him!"
Xie Liang looked at him and said, "You should have your own life."
Su Yubai looked at him and smiled mockingly: "There's no you in that life, is there?"
Su Yubai lowered his hands and looked at the sea in the distance.
"That person - I met him a long time ago." Su Yubai's voice was full of certainty.
"Are you talking about Xu He?" Xie Liang asked in surprise.
"I don't know his name. He was the one who put me into this sea." Su Yubai said.
Xie Liang looked at him in shock: "Impossible!"
Upon hearing this, Su Yubai pressed Xie Liang's shoulders in anger and said, "Are you so eager to excuse him? What good would it be for me to lie to you?"
Xie Liang's mind was in a mess. He brushed away Su Yubai's hand on his shoulder and asked, "When did you come to this sea area?"
Su Yubai calmed down a bit, curled his lips and said, "It's been many years. After I died, that person brought me here."
"Do you still recognize him? His appearance hasn't changed at all over the years?" Xie Liang asked.
"No change." Su Yubai said with a look of grievance, "Xiaoliang, I didn't lie to you. I really met him."
Xie Liang thought he might be angry or jealous, so he said: "Well, I believe you, let's not talk about him, let's talk about you."
"Me?" Su Yubai looked at him in confusion.
"Well, I was wondering if there was any way to get you to reincarnate so that you wouldn't be alone forever."
"I don't want to be reborn. I just want to be with you." Su Yubai said stubbornly.
Xie Liang pulled him to sit on a nearby rock: "Your spirit seems to be getting worse and worse. I don't know how to help you."
Su Yubai laughed: "Just kiss me and I'll be fine."
Xie Liang: ...
"No matter how many times I kiss you, you won't feel better. If the vortex gate is gone, you will be free..." Xie Liang said.
Su Yubai leaned his head weakly on Xie Liang's shoulder. This time, Xie Liang did not push him away and let him lean on him.
"If the vortex gate is gone, I will be gone too." Su Yubai's voice was soft, and he looked like he would be blown away by the wind at any time.
Xie Liang felt that he was about to wake up, and hurriedly said to Su Yubai: "Don't waste your energy to see me, you have to take care of yourself!"
Su Yubai seemed to sense that he was about to leave, so she turned sideways and hugged him tightly in her arms.
When Xie Liang woke up in bed, the cold warmth of Su Yubai's arms seemed to still remain on his body.
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