Chapter 23 Chapter 23 "Dad?"
Si Cheng came in. He had just returned from the company and had taken off his coat. He was wearing a smoky gray shirt and trousers, with two buttons on his collar undone.
Xia Tian was as if granted amnesty. He immediately dropped his chess pieces, pushed the chessboard aside, and said happily, "Brother! You're back!"
The old man bared his teeth in anger, "You little bastard, you always cheat when you're about to lose."
Si Cheng rolled up his shirt sleeves, revealing his slender arms. "What do you mean you're about to lose? Grandpa, I'm coming with you."
When the old man heard this, he imitated Xia Ji's cheating and pushed the chessboard away. "Then I won't come either."
Xia Ji laughed to death: "Grandpa, you're still blaming me. When you were about to lose a game of chess with your brother, you also cheated. I learned that from you!"
The old man blew his beard and glared, "You are so good, Ji Ji, you don't want to learn from the good things, but you try to cheat me, right?"
Xia Ji shook his head proudly.
In mid-August, with a week until his engagement to the girl, Ye Ning had already arranged a date in his group chat with his friends to go to the island manor. They were all wealthy, free people with nothing to do, and they jumped at the chance.
Li Siya happened to be free, so Xia Ji invited him and his girlfriend to go together. In addition to the two of them, Liang Xuan and Ouyang Xin would also go.
J City is about a two-hour flight away from the island. The manor covers a large area and has a private beach with the best scenery. It is a very good holiday destination.
Sunshine, beach, coconut trees, friends, wine and music.
Ye Ning called more than 20 people, both men and women, all in their teens to 20s, and many of them flew here specially.
After dinner, we played volleyball on the beach before it got completely dark, took a walk, and then went indoors to chat in the living room.
Si Cheng couldn't have fun after work, and often had to go back to his room to attend meetings and deal with emails. After dinner, he took a call and returned to his room.
Xia Ji and Li Siya were sitting on the sofa in the corner, chatting. He told him how he met his girlfriend and some interesting things that happened abroad.
Xia Ji complained about some things that happened during filming.
"According to what you said, your movie will definitely win an award?" Li Siya was wearing beach pants and a floral T-shirt, drinking a glass of wine, revealing a pair of legs in woolen pants.
"That's what the tour guide said. With the film's configuration, if nothing unexpected happens, I will definitely win the Best Actor Award at the Star Film Awards. Unless I'm unlucky, there will be many good domestic films this year." Xia Ji said with a smile, lying on the sofa.
"Hey, what is this?" Li Siya pointed at Xia Ji's waist.
One side of his T-shirt rolled up a little, revealing a small spot on the side of his waist, which was half covered by the clothes, and was vaguely visible and a little difficult to see clearly.
As he said that, he reached out to lift up his summer T-shirt.
"Oh, my mole." Xia Ji explained with his head down.
"I thought it was a tattoo—"
Just after he teased her a little, Li Siya's hand was pulled away forcefully, and Xia Ji was also pulled up at the same time.
"Hey? Brother, have you finished your work?" Xia Tian asked in surprise.
Si Cheng grabbed his T-shirt and pulled it off, "What are you two doing in this corner?"
Li Siya was still a little scared of Si Cheng, like a dog seeing a wolf, feeling like he had done something bad and didn't dare to refute. Seeing Xia Ji get up, he couldn't sit still and quickly stood up, "Chat, chat."
"He thought I had a tattoo," Xia Tian said.
Si Cheng stared at Huangmao, said nothing, and took Xia Ji to sit with the main group.
Someone took the microphone and started singing, yelling and screaming just to vent his feelings, destroying everyone's ears. He was soon driven off and replaced by a guy who sang beautifully and loved to sing like a peacock.
Si Cheng took Xia Ji to sit next to Liang Xuan. Ouyang Xin was also there. Several people were playing finger-guessing games, and a few others were playing cards.
"Hey, the kids only come here if they are accompanied by their parents?" Liang Xuan joked. His rimless glasses reflected the white light, and he didn't look like a good person.
"What are you talking about!" Xia Ji complained. "You're beating around the bush. Can't you just say what you want to say directly?"
"Do you know what he just said?" Liang Xuan said to Si Cheng with a smile, as if complaining, "I just called him over to play, and he said he didn't want to play with people like us who drink, as if we would eat him up."
"He doesn't drink." Si Cheng replied, then raised his hand to rub the back of Xia Tian's neck, and said in a deep voice with a hint of praise, "Well done, just don't play with people who drink."
Liang Xuan was so angry that he yelled "Fuck!" Ouyang Xin looked at him speechlessly, "You should drink less too. I'm here to have fun, not to take care of drunks."
Liang Xuan put down his wine glass indignantly.
The four of them were playing cards. Si Cheng fed cards to Xia Ji several times. Liang Xuan and Ouyang Xin couldn't beat them and screamed in anger.
"No, no, no, Sicheng, we couldn't beat you in the first place, and now we can't even beat Xia Ji. If you continue like this, we won't play with you anymore." Liang Xuan said.
"He's a teammate." Ouyang Xin said helplessly.
"Do you still want to play? If not, change someone else." Si Cheng said.
"I can't argue with you." Liang Xuan said, looking at Xia Ji with ill intent. "Ji Ji, let me ask you a question."
"What's the problem?" Xia Ji looked at him.
"Taking care of you once or twice is like being a brother, right?"
Xia Ji nodded without thinking too much about it.
"Then what has been taking care of you?" Liang Xuan asked with a smile.
All three of them looked at Xia Tian at once. Xia Tian recalled some internet memes from when he was in college, when he wanted to ask his roommate to turn off the lights or bring something back, he would call out, "Dad?"
Si Cheng said coldly: "Did your father take care of you?"
Xia Tian suddenly realized and immediately flattered him: "It's my brother!"
"Oh my god! I told you that your way of thinking is different from others." Liang Xuan burst into laughter and slammed the table.
Ouyang Xin also swayed back and forth, unable to close his mouth for a while.
Si Cheng raised his hand to cover his forehead.
"What's wrong? Am I wrong? It's so funny?" Xia Ji couldn't help laughing, but he didn't know why they reacted like this.
Liang Xuan laughed so hard that tears almost came out. He patted Si Cheng's shoulder to comfort him, "Sometimes I feel sorry for you too. How long will it take for you to come to your senses?"
Si Cheng brushed his hand away, "No need to play substitution."
"Who can't afford to play?"
"You!" Xia Ji said. Of course he had to speak up for his brother.
Liang Xuan was speechless, and Ouyang Xin patted him.
Before, Liang Xuan and Ouyang Xin could occasionally win a game, but now they haven't won a single game at all, and both of them look worried.
The summer room is next to the city hall, on the third floor, facing the sea. The view is great. When you open the window, you can hear the sound of the tide and the waves hitting the beach, going back and forth, rolling up a lot of white foam.
After playing for a day, Xia Ji fell asleep as soon as he touched the pillow.
I slept until dawn, opened the window, and could clearly hear the sound of the waves. After washing up, I went to look for Si Cheng, but Si Cheng was not in the room.
Thinking that his brother had the habit of exercising in the morning and might have gone for a run, he went downstairs directly.
He went to bed early last night, but it was different from the others. They all stayed up until eleven or twelve o'clock before returning to their rooms. It was only a little after seven in the morning, and the villa was very quiet.
He went down to the second floor and passed by a large terrace with many plants. He heard voices over there and walked over there.
Walking along the path, he could see Liang Xuan and Ouyang Xin through the overlapping leaves. They were standing by the railing, facing the sea with their backs to him. Liang Xuan had his hands on the railing, while Ouyang Xin had his arms folded.
The tone of voice was not very good and they spoke quickly, as if they were arguing.
The sea breeze was very strong in the early morning. Xia Ji was far away and couldn't hear clearly what they were arguing about. They were obviously very harmonious yesterday. He wanted to go and talk to them, but felt a little awkward. Just as he was about to leave, he saw the two of them hugging each other, mouth to mouth.
Xia Ji took a breath, took a step back, and bumped into Si Cheng's chest.
"Brother? He, they?" Xia Ji tilted his head.
Si Cheng grabbed Xia Ji's wrist and left.
Liang Xuan and Ouyang Xin actually had this kind of relationship. He had always thought that these two were good brothers. After all, "The Ups and Downs of Business" is a classic terminal novel that absolutely puts the relationship between men and women first.
Whether it is the protagonist Si Cheng or his younger brothers, there is no homosexual tendency in the original plot, but there is a lesbian couple.
The two of them went downstairs and went to the first-floor restaurant for breakfast. Xia Ji was still shocked, but Si Cheng's reaction was indifferent.
"Brother, why aren't you surprised at all?"
Si Cheng ate the fried eggs on the plate and asked, "What's so surprising?"
"You knew this a long time ago?" Xia Ji put down the glass of milk with a thud. His face was full of accusations that you knew this secret a long time ago but didn't tell me.
"Yeah." Si Cheng said, "Everyone knows it, but you just can't see it."
summer:"……"
Is this the reason? Everyone knows it, but he doesn’t?
"Eat yours."
"oh."
Because of this incident, Xia Ji was worried all day long. In the original plot, after Si Cheng was reborn, he had a white moonlight girl. That girl was called the heroine by book fans, and soon a supporting actress would appear. This supporting actress also appeared in the previous life. She was very good to Si Cheng at first, but later betrayed Si Cheng and was lured away by Xia Ji.
Xia Ji has never been in love in his life, and he is a little confused about what love is.
Anyway, in his previous life, he had a liking for girls with good grades and clean looks. He was willing to be with them. He had a good impression of them, but it was not enough to say that he loved them.
In short, he has never been in a relationship and is still a single man.
Since Si Cheng was reborn with the memories of his previous life, he also remembered that his original incarnation had snatched his woman away in his previous life. Given his suspicion and revengeful nature, Xia Ji felt a little uncomfortable.
In the evening, everyone set up a screen on the beach, pulled up light strips, watched movies and had barbecue.
They also sat together with Liang Xuan and Ouyang Xin. Xia Ji did not rule out homosexuality, and he did not feel embarrassed to see them, but he was obviously worried, and even took Si Cheng's cup by mistake several times.
Si Cheng was drinking wine, and when he saw Xia Ji pick it up, he immediately replaced it with his own coconut milk drink.
"It's you this morning, right? On the terrace." Liang Xuan asked with a smile.
"Yeah." Si Cheng drank while using tongs to put the grilled lobster into Xia Tian's plate.
"Congratulations, I guess you're finally getting the idea." Liang Xuan smiled cunningly.
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