Chapter 35
As soon as I opened the door, the room was filled with noisy voices.
Xia Lanzheng peeked inside and saw only three people: Chu Linyu, Li Ping'an, and a dull man she didn't recognize, who looked like a hotel employee.
The music was played very loudly, and no one knew where the sound came from. In a trance, Xia Lanzheng thought the beach concert had not ended yet.
"What are you playing?" Xia Lanzheng entered the house first.
"I'm back." Chu Linyu's eyes lit up and he said to the hotel boy beside him, "Thank you, thank you. Sorry for the trouble. I'll stop here today."
"No, it's no trouble," the young man seemed even more excited than him, and was reluctant to leave when he walked out. "Boss Chu, just call me next time if you need anything!"
Chu Linchuan brushed past the young man, went into the house, closed the door, glanced at the carpet, and immediately wanted to call Xia Lanzheng to leave.
However, he was a step too slow. Chu Linyu pulled Xia Lanzheng over and sat down first: "Come, come, old rules."
Li Pingan and Chu Linchuan both looked accustomed to it, while the latter had an expression that looked a little bit unbearable. Only Xia Lanzheng was confused. What old rules were they?
"Can you be a little more creative?" Chu Linchuan stuffed the skewers into Chu Linyu's hands and took the initiative to take over the conversation. "You always drag people to play this at every party. Did you ask for leave for that intern just now?"
Chu Linyu was so drunk by the aroma of the skewers that he said, "Of course I'll treat you... Stop scolding me. What's the matter with you playing puzzles all day?"
Li Pingan suddenly came over and held up a piece of paper: "Boss Chu! The barbecue oil got on my house!"
Xia Lanzheng looked at the curled-up paper props on the ground, and a big exclamation mark appeared on her forehead.
The original book mentions cocktail parties and gatherings more than once... After each meeting between the protagonist and the bottom, a group of supporting characters will be assigned to "go to the room upstairs".
He originally thought this was a foreshadowing.
After all, the room upstairs of the high-end banquet hall doesn't sound simple.
It seems that Chu Linyu dragged him to play Monopoly?
"What are you laughing at?" Chu Linchuan knocked him. "Here, do you want to throw it or should I?"
He tossed the dice in his hand and caught it again. Xia Lanzheng took a look and said, "You throw it. I have bad luck."
Chu Linchuan laughed after he finished speaking. Chu Linyu was biting the skewer, his eyes paused, and he reached out to stop him without wiping his hands.
Chu Linchuan quickly threw the dice, and it landed on a six. Xia Lanzheng counted silently, and then suddenly she was happy too.
Chu Linyu swallowed what he had in his mouth and yelled, "It's not fair! Chu Linchuan, go open a separate one."
Li Pingan sat on the side, watching the show and fanning the flames: "Hey, Mr. Chu, there's no point in making a fuss. It's time for you to go to jail. Do you want to pay bail?"
If the person in jail chooses to pay bail, he or she can leave immediately. On the contrary——
Chu Linyu waved his hand and said, "If you don't give it to me, I'll wait for Chu Linchuan to throw it to me, collect the toll from him, and make a killing from him."
Chu Linchuan scoffed: "Then you stay in jail."
Xia Lanzheng and Chu Linchuan worked together to take over the property of the hotel interns.
They were on the verge of bankruptcy, but the numbers Chu Linchuan threw out were always just right, pulling the game from seven to nine.
"How do you throw so accurately? Have you practiced?" Xia Lanzheng leaned over and asked while Chu Linyu wasn't paying attention.
Chu Linchuan looked down at him. Xia Lanzheng didn't wait for his answer and hinted bluntly: "Can you go bankrupt quickly? Throw him into jail or the tax bureau."
Xia Lanzheng hooked her finger at Chu Linchuan, waited for him to spread out his hands, and then put the dice into his palm.
Chu Linchuan's palm felt like it was rubbed by a feather, and it felt numb and tingling, so he subconsciously clenched it.
"Who of you two will come?" Chu Linyu asked after replying the message.
Li Pingan was so sleepy that he sat up straight with a start: "Who? It's my turn?"
"No, it's our turn now," Xia Lanzheng chuckled and pushed Chu Linchuan's arm, "Of course it's my brother who's here."
Chu Linchuan was amused by his flattering manner, and this time he threw a four, and the two of them went to jail happily.
Chu Linyu never tired of this game, and seeing Chu Linchuan finally get defeated, he was even more delighted: "Chu Linchuan, I finally caught you."
But when he turned his head, he saw Xia Lanzheng and Chu Linchuan standing very close to each other, talking to each other in a low voice. Chu Linchuan ignored him completely.
"Where did you two go just now?" Chu Linyu felt something was wrong the more he looked at it, and asked inexplicably.
"There's a market by the beach," Xia Lanzheng looked up and pointed at the empty barbecue box, "That's where you buy the skewers."
Chu Linyu obviously didn't want to say this.
It's strange that after these two people went out, their relationship became different when they came back.
Xia Lanzheng didn't understand, but Chu Linchuan did.
"We watched the sunset, and we can go with Mom and Dad tomorrow." Chu Linchuan rolled the dice again. It was an odd number, meaning he would have to stay in jail. He asked Xia Lanzheng as if no one was around, "Why don't you go take a shower first? By the time you're done, we'll be practically bankrupt."
Xia Lanzheng waited for this sentence for a long time and stood up hurriedly.
Chu Linyu said "eh", but couldn't get a word in.
Xia Lanzheng took out pajamas from the suitcase. There were three bathrooms in the suite, and his luggage was placed in the inner room.
Once the door is closed, the music outside can no longer be heard.
The voices faded away, and he was suddenly the only one left in the empty room. The game just now seemed to be just an illusion.
Xia Lanzheng opened the door a little, letting the sound of Chu Linyu's music come in, and only then did she feel relieved.
The bathroom was filled with steam. He stood in the shower and shook the sand out of his shoes. The bathtub was full, and he slowly sat in.
The phone was placed beside him, and messages came in from time to time, from Su Cheng, Cheng Lan, Yu Jiawei...
Xia Lanzheng closed her eyes and put her chin in the water.
A strange feeling welled up in my chest, heavy, as if it were filled with water.
Crash——
He leaned out of the water and his cell phone happened to light up, which he took a quick look at.
【Chu Linchuan (evil version): It’s over【Picture】】
[Chu Linchuan (evil version): I'm bankrupt. Take a shower and rest.]
Xia Lanzheng breathed a sigh of relief. If Chu Linchuan hadn't let her win, the game would have lasted until midnight.
He got out of the tub and shook himself like a drowned cat.
A clicking sound came from outside the door. Xia Lanzheng clapped her ears, but the sound was getting closer and closer.
By the time she reacted, it was too late. The pure white bath towel was only half wrapped around her. Between the upper and lower parts of her body, Xia Lanzheng decisively chose the former.
The door was opened and the mist immediately drifted out.
The man outside was obviously surprised as well, and his figure paused in the mist. However, it all happened like slow motion in a romantic love movie. When the mist dissipated, the eyes of the two people inside and outside met.
Xia Lanzheng held the edge of the bath towel tightly. When she saw that the person coming was Chu Linchuan, she first breathed a sigh of relief, and then her face turned red.
Why didn't this person knock when entering someone else's room?
Chu Linchuan remained calm, not closing the door, but he didn't leave either. However, his voice was a bit faster than usual: "Xia Lanzheng, what are you doing?"
Xia Lanzheng pulled up the towel and asked, "Did you walk into the wrong room?"
Of course he is taking a shower, is that hard to guess?
Chu Linchuan watched his little movements silently. His mermaid line was completely submerged in the bath towel, but his two legs were directly exposed to the air.
The bath towel was white, and Xia Lanzheng's skin was also white. After taking a bath, her skin was a little red. Her whole body was wet, and water droplets flowed down her calves to her ankles.
Chu Linchuan paused, and suddenly wanted to say "I'm sorry." But this was too strange. What was he sorry for? It felt particularly awkward.
Xia Lanzheng was his younger brother, and they had bathed together when they were young...
At that time, this person went to play in the yard in the rain, came back covered in mud, and stood at the door of his room to ask him what to do. Xia Lanzheng was afraid of being criticized by the adults, and Chu Linchuan knew that Yang Yuxiao and the others would not do it, but he just wanted to tease him.
So the two of them went into the bathroom together, and Chu Linchuan was covered in mud. In the end, he simply took off his clothes.
Although these are two different things, Chu Linchuan subconsciously thinks that he should not have any special reaction.
Xia Lanzheng also paused, not noticing Chu Linchuan's complicated expression. But when he caught sight of the suitcase in the room from the corner of his eye, his composure suddenly waned.
He forced a smile through the corners of his stiff mouth: "Uh, you... I..."
"I told Ms. Yang a long time ago that she doesn't want identical suitcases." Chu Linchuan retracted his gaze, took off his glasses and wiped the mist off them. "This is my room. Put on your clothes before you come out."
Xia Lanzheng nodded repeatedly. Chu Linchuan's figure disappeared quickly, but in just two seconds, he returned.
Chu Linchuan didn't even look at him and just threw a few clothes at him. With a bang, he closed the door again.
"Tsk, why are you using so much force?" Xia Lanzheng muttered in the pile of clothes, "I haven't even said anything yet..."
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At four o'clock in the morning, Xia Lanzheng woke up from her bed.
I didn't close the curtains last night, so there was already a faint light outside the window. The sky had a blurred edge and was indigo blue.
My heart rate soared, and the sheets beneath me were soaked with sweat. Even so, my body felt a lightness I had never felt before.
It's like the soul and the body are completing the final integration.
He relaxed for a while, but was no longer sleepy. He put on some clothes and left the room quietly.
The soles of your feet step on the beach and are wrapped in soft fine sand.
He had many bizarre dreams last night, but he couldn't remember any of them. Strangely, his memories of his childhood gradually became clearer.
Like the puzzle in Chu Linchuan's room, the last piece fits perfectly into the corner, filling the gap.
Xia Lanzheng stood out of the reach of the waves and fell silent.
He suddenly remembered an incident in the past. When he was a teenager, Chu Linchuan took the shower head and doused him with water.
Chu Linchuan's voice was clear at that time, but his personality was still "bad".
"Zheng Zheng, have you gone to eat grass?"
"How did you get covered in mud?"
"You can't wash it off. What should I do? You're going to turn into a dirty little lamb."
Xia Lanzheng raised her hands high, about to cry: "Don't tell Dad, okay? And don't tell Chu Linyu either. Let's just keep it a secret between us."
Chu Linchuan looked at him and smiled, then put down the shower head, took off his clothes, and stepped into the shower room barefoot: "Okay, this is a secret."
The few remaining stars in the sky disappeared, and the blue gradually became lighter, like a balloon being blown up, becoming more and more transparent and higher and higher.
Xia Lanzheng laughed to herself.
He was so stupid when he was little that he couldn't even tell that Chu Linchuan was teasing him.
He could faintly hear another sound of footsteps behind him. He turned around, but saw no one, only a landscape stone standing not far away.
As sunrise approached, the guest living in the small villa next door opened the door and heard a lot of noise.
Xia Lanzheng looked back again.
I always feel like someone is looking at me from the side.
illusion?
The guests on the other side were walking onto the beach. They were a family of three. The child was holding a bucket and a sand shovel in his hands and jumping around.
Xia Lanzheng took another look, then looked at the dawn sky spreading upwards on the horizon, then turned and walked towards the room.
In a room on the second floor right in front of me, the window was suddenly pushed open.
Xia Lanzheng looked up and saw Chu Linchuan standing by the bed, shirtless but with his glasses on.
He seemed to be still unconscious, the air pressure on his body was extremely low, and his eyebrows were slightly wrinkled.
Xia Lanzheng opened her mouth, not knowing whether she should say hello to him.
However, Chu Linchuan spoke first, his voice a little hoarse: "Zheng Zheng, come up, go back to the house."
Xia Lanzheng: "...What's wrong?"
Chu Linchuan glanced elsewhere downstairs, was silent for two seconds and then spoke again: "Come up first."
"Oh," Xia Lanzheng threw away the shell she had been playing with for a while, "It's coming right up!"
He ran back to the door and shook his shoes as usual, and a lot of sand fell off.
Not far away, Su Cheng's eyes followed his figure until they were separated by the cold door.
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