Chapter 34: Under the table
Chapter 34
“Ahem—”
Zheng Yuting walked over, pulled out a chair and sat down next to Yan Jue. He propped up his arm and looked at him, asking maliciously, "How was your afternoon? Our lovely Wenwen was pried away from her job by you to play with you. How much praise do you plan to give her?"
Yan Jue raised his eyes to look at Wen Xi who was whispering goodbye to his friends while stealing glances at them, and closed the book: "Ten points."
"Full marks," Zheng Yuting looked at Wen Xi with a smile, deliberately teasing the blushing Wen Xi, "Where's Wen Wen? How would you rate your afternoon trip?"
Wen Xi blinked: "Nine o'clock nine."
"Strange, why is there a little less?"
Wen Xi leaned on the guardrail, looking past Zheng Yuting and meeting Yan Jue behind him. The man raised his eyebrows.
Cen Tan came over and patted Zheng Yuting on the shoulder, and answered for both of them: "Because they are both a little speechless about you."
"My heart is broken, damn it!" Zheng Yuting said exaggeratedly: "If I had known earlier, I would have continued to be a light bulb with you guys."
The four of them ate at a long table. Wen Xiyanjue sat face to face, while Zheng Yuting and Cen Tan sat next to them respectively.
Yan Jue pointed at the menu on the table and asked, "We ordered some in advance. Do you two want more?"
Cen Tan opened it and was about to add some things when Zheng Yuting paused with his finger: "Wait, there's someone over there who looks familiar—"
"Come, come, come." Zheng Yuting waved to the side and said affectionately: "Come and eat together."
Wen Xi subconsciously turned his head to look in the direction the person was coming from. When he saw the person's appearance clearly, Wen Xi's pupils dilated, he took a breath of cold air, turned his head back with a stiff neck, lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, pretending that if he didn't see the other person, he couldn't see himself.
"Xiao He, you are here too."
"Uncle Cen, Uncle Zheng, I'm here for my dad."
The familiar voice of the roommate reached his ears from above his head. Wen Xi's fingers on his legs were clasped together tightly, and his fingertips were pinched red.
Help! Why are Yan and Su here too? He is not ready to expose his feelings to others.
"Uncle, you are here too."
Wen Xi quietly raised her eyes to look at Yan Jue, who frowned, as if he didn't know that Yan and Su were also on the boat.
Yan greeted Su Yiyi and looked at the only boy in the corner who didn't respond: "Who is this?"
"This belongs to your uncle—"
Zheng Yuting's calf was kicked by someone, and he changed his tone: "Um... a friend."
A friend indeed, a friend who is about to become a boyfriend.
Wen Xi lowered his head, trying to find a crack in the ground to escape immediately.
Yan and Su looked at each other's clothes and body shapes and felt more and more familiar. Their eyes fell on Yan Jue's face, whose expression was still distant and cold, not very human, but his eyes were on the boy opposite who didn't even look up.
An impossible possibility couldn't help but come to mind. Yan Hesu took out his mobile phone and sent a message to his WeChat contact.
[Prince Yan]:?
“Ding Dong.”
A message notification voice suddenly sounded.
Wen Xi looked at the two mobile phone screens and closed his eyes with a feeling of despair.
Zheng Yuting continued: "Let me introduce him to you. His name is——"
Yan Hesu walked straight to the boy in the corner who was looking down and not looking at him, put his hand on his shoulder and patted him: "Wenxi?"
Zheng Yuting stopped talking: "Hmm?"
"My 18-year-old roommate and my 28-year-old uncle who just returned to China have developed a relationship beyond blood relationship."
I don’t know how much of a mental impact this would have on my roommate if he found out about this.
Fortunately, Zheng Yuting didn't say any ambiguous words just now, otherwise Wen Xi really wouldn't know how to explain the current situation to his roommate.
Yan and Su tilted their heads to see the face and confirmed again that they had not recognized the wrong person.
"Why are you here?"
Wen Xi's brain was working rapidly, his knuckles were unconsciously red from his fingertips, but his expression looked natural. He said to Yan and Su calmly, "I told you, I have to go on a business trip. This is my workplace."
Yan and Su were stunned for a moment: "Are you working at Niye?"
"I work as a waiter in Area A. I usually serve drinks and create atmosphere. Actually, when I said I was on a business trip, I was going to the sea to help with the anniversary celebration." Wen Xi said vaguely: "I just happened to meet my uncle, so we slacked off together with pay."
"Oh, I was wondering why you have so many part-time jobs at night and have to go on business trips." Yan and Su didn't suspect anything.
Zheng Yuting propped up his head and asked curiously, "Do you two know each other?"
Yan and Su: "Roommate."
"That's fate," Zheng Yuting continued, "I thought it would be awkward for two people to have a meal together who didn't know each other, but now it seems like we are a family."
The three words "family" are deliberately emphasized, which are meaningful and have a double meaning.
The roommate, who knew nothing about it, didn't notice Zheng Yuting's deep meaning. He pulled out a stool and sat naturally in another empty seat next to Wen Xi. He said to Yan Jue in a very natural tone: "Wen Wen and I have a good relationship. My uncle is his uncle, and we have met several times before. If I had known that Wen Xi was on the boat, I would have taken him out to play. I'm sorry that you took up the time to take care of him."
This is what was said, and this tone.
Cen Tan and Zheng Yuting couldn't help but exchange glances.
ah.
It turns out that my nephew didn’t know that his roommate was dating his uncle.
*
Two playful glances wandered between Wenxi and Yanjue, and Wenxi felt uneasy.
Unlike the last time when she was wearing a little red dress in the bathroom and video-chatting with Yan Hesu and his uncle behind his back, this time it was a feeling of cheating in front of Yan Jue.
And this person is none other than his nephew.
Although Wen Xi had thought about taking action against Yan and Su, he died before he even started. He really had no thoughts about Yan and Su anymore and was only concerned about Yan Jue.
I clearly didn't do anything, but I have a good relationship with my roommate. At this moment, I have an inexplicable feeling of guilt.
Wen Xi's eyelashes trembled, and he clasped his fingers to release the inexplicable pressure. He turned his gaze to Yan Jue's face.
The sky was hot and the sea breeze ruffled the man's collar. Yan Jue's eyes showed no emotion as they slowly slid from Yan and Su's faces to Wen Xi's fox eyes.
In a blink of an eye, it seemed to say, I am just an innocent little pig who has never told anyone about my own affairs and knows nothing else.
It was long and narrow, yet bright, but the emotions were complicated, three parts aggrieved, five parts nervous, and two parts guilty. The corners of her lips were slightly pursed, and the tip of her nose was also red pitifully. Her wandering gaze swam around like a little fish, flapping its tail, and drops of water hit people's hearts neither lightly nor heavily.
Yan Jue's cold and abstinent face showed no emotion, his words were unusually calm and steady, he said lightly: "You're welcome."
Although he said so, Yan Jue was clearly answering his nephew, but his eyes were always fixed on Wen Xi. His brows were deep and his pupils were dark, and when he stared at people, his eyes were unfathomable.
The fingertips resting on the table bent, and the pair of fingers with bulging veins, which had been intimately intertwined with Wen Xi not long ago, knocked on the glass table accidentally, just like teaching a billiard player not long ago.
Their eyes met, and Yan Jue suddenly spoke again, his tone casual but revealing a thrilling feeling.
"It should be done."
Wen Xi was stunned, and within three seconds, his scalp went numb.
The frightened little fish swam away immediately.
Yan Jue took the menu slowly and handed it to Yan Hesu, who looked slightly surprised and had a look of "How did you suddenly become so human?" in his eyes. He said insincerely, "Now that you're here, just order some food."
Yan and Su took the menu, looked through the dishes that had been checked, and finally filled in only one dish.
Regardless, the matter is over.
Wen Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
After the food was served, a plate of vegetable salad was placed in the center of the table.
Wenxi was struggling with a crab, and Yan Hesu opened the shell for him with natural and familiar movements, and chatted about other roommates' travel. It was obvious that the two had a very good relationship, and Yan Hesu took good care of Wenxi, acting like a good brother.
Cen Qin looked at Yan Jue who was picking out fish bones slowly with his eyelids drooping, and suddenly picked up the salad with chopsticks and put it on the other person's plate.
Facing his friend's cold gaze, Cen Tan smiled sincerely: "When you get older, you should eat more vegetables--"
"After all, I am young and healthy."
*
The beginning of the meal was a bit awkward, but fortunately Zheng Yuting was very good at livening up the atmosphere. Yan, Su and he mainly talked about playing games, so the meal was not so dull.
A few of them chatted and laughed, talking about their time in college, and it was quite harmonious.
The waiters cleaned the table, replaced the tea with appropriate water, and digested the food in the sea breeze.
The mature men were chatting about investment business, etc. Yan and Su were staring at the sky lazily, when suddenly the cell phone in their pockets rang.
[I haven’t finished eating yet. I’m a little bored.]
[Come to me quickly.]
Yan and Su got back on their horses, leaned back in their chairs, and touched Wenxi with their shoulders.
I just took a screenshot of level 6671 of Candy Crush Saga and secretly shared it with Wen Xi who was at the banquet across from me. I tapped my phone, tilted my head and whispered, "What's wrong?"
Yan Hesu: "There will be a dance party later. I will take you to play? We won't waste my uncle's time."
Wen Xi was stunned: "Ah?"
The moment Yan and Su finished their words, Wen Xi immediately felt several gazes staring at him.
The burning gaze and the curious wait for the answer were like the embers of a fire in the sky above his head burning Wenxi's back, making him feel overwhelmed with a sense of crisis. In an instant, he relived the time in middle school when he was doing homework and the teacher was standing behind him to watch whether the steps of the solution were correct to judge whether he had listened carefully in class.
Cen Qin tilted his head and saw Yan Jue sitting lazily with drooping eyelids, one hand on the table, his bony fingertips casually stroking the edge of the wine glass.
Cen Qin was stunned for a moment, surprised by Yan Jue's cold attitude, so he shifted his attention back to Wen Xi.
"You...don't have a female companion?"
"have."
"Is it inappropriate for me to go?"
"It won't delay my taking you out to play. You and my uncle can't hang out together, so I'll take you to the dance party, and then we can all play something else together."
Now that things have come to this, Wen Xi actually has no reason to refuse.
But Cen Qin watched Wen Xi hesitate with his eyelids half drooping. He didn't know what he was thinking. He felt that Wen Xi's body trembled slightly.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Yan Hesu narrowed his eyes and saw that Wen Xi's ears were red and her face was flushed unnaturally. He frowned and said, "Are you allergic to seafood? Your face is so red."
“No allergies.”
The boy's voice was a little low, and he didn't sound very confident. He frowned slightly and said, "It was blown by the wind. I won't stay with you anymore."
Zheng Yuting, who was standing next to him, saw that he was getting excited when his coat hanging on the seat suddenly slipped to the ground. Zheng Yuting subconsciously bent down to pick it up.
He grabbed his coat and was about to stand up when his eyes inadvertently glanced at the scene under the table.
Under the table with nothing blocking the view, the boy's trouser legs were lifted up by the tip of a shoe, revealing his pink and plump leg flesh through his loose black pants.
Yan Jue crossed his legs casually, and the tip of his shoes rubbed Wen Xi's calves just a little bit. His movements were careless, and the two calves were silently entangled together.
White legs and black shoes, a slight touch will make the frightened owner tremble nervously.
Zheng Yuting stood up stiffly and saw Yan Jue still sitting lazily, carelessly turning the ice cubes in the wine glass. His fingertips were red from the ice and the purple veins on his arms were faintly visible.
It's hard to believe, but the fact is, the seemingly expressionless Yan Jue was secretly seducing Wen Xi with his feet behind all of their backs.
There is nothing blocking the view here. Passersby only need to lower their eyes a little to discover the hidden ambiguity and intimacy sitting there.
"Why not go?" This was said by Yan Jue.
Zheng Yuting felt that Yan Jue was an absolute lunatic.
"I feel a little uncomfortable. I've been staying up too late recently and I want to rest for a while."
"Okay, you can sleep in my room?"
"No, I'm alone in my room, so I won't go to yours. I'll just sit there for a while and get some fresh air, then I'll go rest. I hope you and your girlfriend have fun."
"Okay, then contact me if you have anything. I'm leaving first." Yan He pulled away the bench and said goodbye to everyone one by one.
Zheng Yuting tilted his head and saw Wen Xi's red ears. He breathed a sigh of relief, then glared at Yan Jue shyly.
Yan Jue slowly wiped the wine off his hands, a faint smile appearing on his cold and indifferent face.
"Want to watch the sunset?"
Wen Xi, who was originally angry, suddenly lost her temper, pursed her lips and said, "Okay, I suddenly don't feel so sleepy anymore, so I'll go with you to take a look."
It looks like a poisonous creature with the most colorful and deadly flowers, but in fact it is just a poor and innocent mushroom that can be easily cured.
The first genuine smile of the evening finally emerged in Yan Jue's dark and deep wolf eyes, but Zheng Yuting felt a chill.
"What do you see?"
The two looked at each other, and Zheng Yuting was speechless. He took a breath and then said in a deep voice: "Hooked legs. It was Lao Yan who moved his feet."
Cen Tan looked at the backs of the two people leaving hand in hand in front of him and said casually, "I was wondering why you look so indifferent."
"Do you think Yan Jue will find a partner today?" Zheng Yuting was curious.
"You should have said—"
Cen Tan smiled and said, "I wonder if Wen Xi will be eaten alive at the banquet tonight, skin and flesh, leaving not even a bone or residue."
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