Chapter 33 Chapter 33 Why are you behind?
The next day, Ji Maili was woken up by Tao Sijie's chattering.
He didn't sleep well that night. The tent was small and dark, and there was a sense of terror everywhere. When Tao Sijie was still awake and making all sorts of noises, he wasn't that scared. Later, when Tao Sijie fell asleep, he felt that everything inside and outside the tent was scary.
"Brother Maimai was completely wrapped in the sleeping bag, even his head was inside. I was shocked when I got up. His body looked exactly like the bags used to hold corpses in TV dramas!" Outside the tent, the little girl's vivid voice reached Ji Maili's ears.
Shen Lu's voice was so gentle compared to when he yelled at him last night: "Your brother Mai Mai is a coward."
Ji Maili is still holding a grudge. You're such a coward! You're saying bad things about me to the kids behind my back. If you have the guts, say it to my face!
Tao Sijie had just washed her face, and her hair was still wet. She wiped it to the sides and said, "I think so too. He called me last night and asked me to go to the bathroom with him, but I was too sleepy to pay attention to him."
Ji Maili: “…” I don’t care about face at all, right?
Chen Lu instructed Tao Sijie, "Go check if Mai Mai is awake."
Tao Sijie ran to the tent door and looked inside. Ji Maili quickly crawled back into his sleeping bag. Tao Sijie then said, "He might have woken up. He crawled deeper than before. If he's still asleep, he'll probably suffocate."
Ji Maili felt that this child would definitely become a forensic doctor in the future.
There was a rustling sound, and someone came in. Ji Maili huddled in his sleeping bag without moving.
It's better to suffocate to death than to be embarrassed.
After a while, the rustling sound disappeared, Tao Sijie stopped talking, and Ji Maili slowly began to feel a little breathless.
"Not boring?"
Hearing Shen Lu's voice, Ji Maili paused in his attempt to get out.
Shen Lu: "Does your back still hurt?"
Ji Maili finally couldn't bear it anymore. He stuck his head out and took two deep breaths. He glared at Chen Lu and said, "You only remember to ask now. If I had died last night, I would have recovered from the rigor mortis by now."
Shen Lu laughed: "You even know about rigor mortis. You know a lot of useless knowledge."
Ji Maili didn't want to pay attention to him: "Tao Sijie, at her age, already knows what a body bag looks like, so what's so strange about me knowing rigor mortis?"
Since he was discovered, Ji Maili was too lazy to pretend anymore. Shen Lu boiled some mineral water for Ji Maili to brush his teeth and wash his face. He wrung out a towel and turned around to see Ji Maili squatting two steps outside the tent brushing his teeth.
Shen Lu shook the towel and said, "You peed here yesterday and you're brushing your teeth here today. Do you have a special liking for this place?"
"Cough——" The toothbrush bristles seemed to scrape across his throat, and Ji Maili felt nauseous...
Ji Maili vomited twice and ran to the side to rinse his mouth. Chen Lu handed him a towel and said, "I thought your mysophobia was cured."
Ji Maili wiped his face and threw the towel at him: "You are deliberately disgusting me."
Shen Lu said, "You were squatting there brushing your teeth."
Ji Maili glared at him. "How do you know I peed there? Were you spying on me?"
Chen Lu glanced down, "Why would I need to peek? Didn't you take the initiative to show me?"
After Chen Lu helped wash his face, he helped Ji Maili eat. Tao Dacheng, who was chewing bread on the side, couldn't understand: "Why did he lose his temper yesterday? Today, he has to be coaxed by servile means."
Lin Shifei hadn't seen a little boy in love for many years, and it was quite nostalgic. He said, "You, a single dog, don't understand romance."
Tao Dacheng refused to agree. "They're not together yet. Aren't they single? Besides, how can the young master be gay?"
Lin Shifei shook his head, "It's hard to say."
Ji Maili sat on a folding chair and ate instant noodles, complaining as he ate, "Why were you so fierce last night? You brought back bad memories for me."
Shen Lu looked at him: "What memories?"
Ji Maili glared at him. "What do you think? Think about it yourself. When was the last time you spoke to me so loudly? What did you do after that?"
Needless to say, Shen Lu had only spoken loudly to him twice in his life.
Shen Lu tried to coax him, but he didn't intend to indulge him on this matter. If he didn't learn his lesson, he would rush forward again if something like this happened next time: "Can you blame me? You're so irritating."
"I took a beating for you, and you didn't thank me, and you even said I was mad at you?" Ji Maili yelled, "Who's mad at who?"
Chen Lu: "Next time you see something like this, don't rush forward like an idiot. Who would rush forward and get beaten?"
Ji Maili: "If he hadn't hit you, would I have rushed forward to fight him? Do you think I'm stupid and would resist anyone who gets beaten?"
Shen Lu sighed: "Don't fight for me next time."
Ji Maili snorted: "Next time, next time, there are so many next times, how can you meet me every time I fight?"
Ji Maili was muttering to himself.
It's wrong to take the beating for you. With your small body, it won't hurt you to death if I hit you!
Before Ji Maili finished eating, Shen Lu and the others had already started packing up the tent. Ji Maili ate his noodles slurpingly and followed Shen Lu, "What are you doing?"
Shen Lu said, "Let's go back."
Ji Maili was stunned. "Go back? It's not even noon yet. Didn't we say we were going for a drive?"
Shen Lu glanced at him and said, "Why are you still wandering around when you can't even stand straight?"
Ji Maili stood up and straightened his back, "I can stand straight."
Shen Lu was too lazy to talk about him.
Ji Maili followed Chen Lu back and forth, holding the bowl. Chen Lu glanced at him and said, "Have you finished eating? Give me the bowl."
Ji Maili handed him the bowl and said, "Play with it for a while."
Shen Lu washed the dishes and put them away without saying anything about playing for a while.
Everything was almost packed up, Shen Lu carried the two helmets and put Ji Maili's into the distant car.
Ji Maili pressed the car door shut and said, "What are you doing? My face will be blown crooked if I don't wear a helmet."
Shen Lu pulled his hand away and opened the car door: "You take Brother Yuan's car."
"I won't!" Ji Maili yelled, "If you don't take me for a ride and don't let me ride in your car when we get back, then I won't leave."
Tao Sijie came over holding Ji Maili's bag and said, "Brother Mai Mai, we're all gone. It will be scary for you to be here alone at night."
Ji Maili said stubbornly, "I'm not afraid."
Shen Lu: "Are you sure?"
Ji Maili glared at Shen Lu.
Shen Lu coaxed him: “Be obedient and go to the hospital for a check-up. If the doctor says you are fine, I will take you somewhere else to play.”
Bianyuan closed the trunk and asked, "Have you discussed it?"
Chen Lu rubbed Ji Maili's head and said, "Okay, he'll take your car."
Tao Sijie put on her pink helmet and showed it off to Ji Maili, "Then I'll sit in the back seat of my brother's car."
Ji Maili got into the car angrily, closed the door, and never gave Chen Lu another look.
......
When coming from a distant place, it is at the back, and when leaving, it is still at the back.
Ji Maili was sitting in the back seat. At first he was sulking, but then he somehow remembered that he saw Bian Yuan and Lin Shifei in the grove last night. A feeling of embarrassment came over him, and he glanced at Bian Yuan who was driving.
Ji Maili: "Um...Brother Yuan, can I open the window?"
"Okay," Bianyuan asked him, "Are you carsick?"
Ji Maili opened the car window and said, "No, I just want to get some fresh air."
Bian Yuan: "Oh, I thought you wanted to see Shen Lu."
Ji Maili was still angry, and when he mentioned Chen Lu, he sneered, "What the hell, he's driving so fast..."
Ji Maili stuck his head out of the window and suddenly heard a motorcycle horn. He was curious about where the sound came from when he saw the blue motorcycle chasing him from behind.
Shen Lu glanced at Ji Maili, who had his head resting on the car window with a dazed look on his face, "What's wrong?"
Ji Maili glanced back: "Why are you behind me?"
Shen Lu didn't even wear a helmet, and it was obvious that he didn't intend to ride too fast: "Stay behind."
Tao Sijie didn't even need to hold onto Shen Lu at this speed. The little girl said with disappointment, "If I had known earlier, I would have taken my brother's car. My brother drives faster than this. Alas, what a mistake."
The man who had ridden his motorcycle so high that it flew when he arrived now looked like he had run out of gas. Ji Maili looked at Chen Lu, "Are you waiting for me?"
Shen Lu: "No."
Ji Maili: "Then why are you riding like a snail?"
Shen Lu: "I'm afraid you'll be bored."
Ji Maili said stubbornly, "I'm not bored. I still have Brother Yuan. I can chat with him."
Shen Lu said, "I'm afraid you'll feel awkward with Brother Yuan."
Ji Maili: “…”
Wouldn’t it be more embarrassing for me if you told me that?
Bianyuan rolled down the car window: "You are so thoughtful."
Shen Lu smiled and said, "It's okay."
Ji Maili was speechless. He glared at Chen Lu fiercely before closing the car window. Chen Lu still didn't drive too fast and kept following their car.
The awkward atmosphere in the car was even more serious than before. Ji Maili felt that this was not a good idea. It was awkward anyway, so he might as well make it clear: "Brother Yuan, you and Brother Fei..."
"We've been together since high school." Bian Yuan didn't want to see him continue to feel miserable. Seeing Ji Maili moving around behind him as if he had thorns all over his body, he went straight to the point to save him from beating around in circles.
Ji Maili paused for a moment: "Yes, what does being together mean?"
Bian Yuan said, "It's just what you imagine. I've been with him since high school, college, and until graduation. It's been many years."
Hearing him say that they have been together since high school, Ji Maili actually felt a little envious: "Have you never been apart?"
Bian Yuan: "We were apart for a while. I was studying medicine and he graduated before me. During that time, we were in different places."
Bianyuan gives people a fierce first impression, but after getting to know him, you will find that he is very emotionally stable and always speaks in the same tone, worthy of being a doctor.
Ji Maili thought of his own achievements and said enviously, "That's great."
Bian Yuan glanced at him in the rearview mirror: "What about you? Why did you take that blow for Shen Lu yesterday?"
Ji Maili's back still hurt slightly: "Otherwise, he is so weak, if that hit him, he might have died."
Bian Yuan raised an eyebrow and glanced at him, unsure if he meant Chen Lu or Tao Sijie by "fragile." "Are you talking about Chen Lu?"
Ji Maili: "What else?"
Bianyuan was really curious: "How do you know he's so weak?"
Ji Maili said: "That's right. He has never been able to fight since he was a child. He was always bullied. I was the one who stood up for him."
Although Bian Yuan didn't understand where Chen Lu's fragility came from, he didn't expose him. He nodded and said, "Your movements when taking a beating are quite handsome. It turns out that you practiced for it."
Ji Maili felt that this sentence did not seem to be a compliment to him.
Bianyuan said, "Have you ever thought that maybe he won't be the same as he was when he was little when he grows up?"
Ji Maili also noticed it, and he said, "It's true that he doesn't look like me anymore. When he was little, he never yelled at me. You don't know how good he was when he was little. He always listened to me. Now that he's grown up, he always wants to control me."
Bianyuan smiled.
Ji Maili: "What are you laughing at?"
Bian Yuan: "You are so cute."
Ji Maili was startled and quickly hid back, "No, no, if Brother Fei knew about this, would I still be alive?"
Bian Yuan: "You think too much."
Ji Maili didn't want to think too much about it, but there was nothing he could do since he saw them kissing yesterday.
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