It gets dark early in winter, and after returning to the old house and eating, it was already dark.
Chu Yunrou, dressed in work uniform, came back in a hurry. It was obvious that she had just finished handling the follow-up work of the Investigation Bureau.
She did not comment on Bai Yu's arrival. She did not even pay attention to the three juniors. As soon as she came back, she pulled Grandpa Chu straight to the study.
"Dad, there are some things I need to discuss with you."
"It's work again. No wonder you came back so late this year. It seems you are really busy."
"Yes and no. Some of it is about problems I encountered at work and I need some help. The rest is about your youngest son. Come on, after we finish talking, I have to hurry back to handle official business."
The two elders disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the wooden door of the study was closed with a "click". The two brothers at the dining table continued to eat as usual, and after finishing their meal, they stretched out their hands at the same time.
"Rock, Scissors, Paper, Dark Night Crow, you lose, you go wash the pots and dishes."
Chu Zehuai clapped his hands and watched Lin Mo, who looked like a defeated rooster, walk into the kitchen with a bowl in his hand, and then pulled Bai Yu out of the room.
"There are no hotels nearby, but there are still many guest rooms in the old house. You can choose any one. I'll help you see if there are any new quilts and pajamas. I remember there should be quite a few in the closet..."
...
...
Chu Zehuai walked and talked, and when he passed the yard, the hand holding Bai Yu suddenly encountered great resistance.
"Bai Yu?"
Chu Zehuai turned his head in confusion and saw Bai Yu standing in the middle of the yard, staring at the climbing trellis in the corner.
It was a purely handmade climbing trellis. The main metal surface was painted a beautiful white and was bent into countless triangular pyramids of different sizes. The large ones were placed inside the small ones, and the whole looked like many small pyramids stacked up.
The metal poles that make up the trellis are carved with delicate patterns, and on the outermost poles there are butterflies made of metal.
Bai Yu: I am moved and want to climb jpg
"You like this?"
Chu Zehuai saw the affection in the eyes of the person next to him and asked.
"Yeah, I think it's very beautiful. This is the first time I know that a climbing trellis can be so beautiful."
It looks like a work of art, which is very consistent with the aesthetic of plants.
Praise humanity.
“I see.”
Chu Zehuai walked forward and took a closer look, focusing on the connection method and general shape.
"This is what my grandfather made for tomatoes. I also know how to do this. If you like it, I can make one for you when I get back."
"Oh, no need, I'll go back and search online..."
"It doesn't matter. It won't take long to experience, and it can be a perfect New Year's gift to you—"
"Brother, something big has happened!"
Before Chu Zehuai could finish his words, Lin Mo rushed out with foam on his hands and a look of disbelief on his face.
The latter stood in front of the two and calmed his heartbeat which was too fast due to running:
"After grandpa and my mom finished talking, my mom went back to her room to rest while grandpa took a walk around the house to digest his food. He found that the roofs of many houses had collapsed under the weight of the snow."
Grandpa Chu, who was walking nearby, also came over with a look of fear on his face: "Yeah, yeah, I was really scared. If I hadn't been able to run fast, I might have been hit by the flying tiles."
Chu Zehuai frowned slightly. He clearly remembered that the roof had just been repaired and reinforced last winter, but his concern for his family still overcame his doubts: "No one was hurt?"
Grandpa Chu put his hands behind his back and shook his head: "No, the collapsed rooms are those that are not usually occupied. Maybe it's because they have been idle for too long that no one noticed that the roof was broken. Alas, we really haven't had guests in our house for many years."
After Chu Zehuai realized what was happening, a trace of surprise flashed across his eyes: "Wait, doesn't this mean that—"
Grandpa Chu smiled and said, "Yes, we don't have that many rooms left. You and your friend can just make do with this for one night."
Chu Zehuai and Bai Yu opened their eyes wide at the same time.
Lin Mo's eyes lit up and he raised his hand actively: "I want one too. I want to sleep with you two!"
In this way, wouldn't he be able to hold his brother in his left hand and Xiaobai in his right hand and enjoy the peak of happiness in his life?
Grandpa Chu used his hands, which were originally behind his back, to hit Lin Mo with a poppy without hesitation, causing the latter to cry out "Ouch". He looked at his grandson with a pair of peregrine eyes, looking at him with disapproval:
"You can go to the same room with your mother, or come and keep an old man like me company."
"Why?" Lin Mo looked at his grandfather blankly and stubbornly.
"After your father passed away, your mother fought with the Lin family for your custody..."
"Okay, okay, I got it. I'll go find my mom right away."
Lin Mo walked away dejectedly. Grandpa Chu put his hands behind his back again and looked at his back with a smug look in his eyes.
Alas, this little diamondback crow whose feathers haven't even grown fully yet is indeed not as sharp-sighted as this old peregrine falcon.
**
At night, in the room.
[System, I feel like Chu Zehuai's heartbeat seems to be a little fast. I can hear it clearly here.]
Bai Yu opened his eyes, looked at the ceiling, and chatted with the system.
[Maybe it's because of being homesick. I've read in a book that people who haven't been home for years will be so excited that they can't sleep on the first night they return home.]
The system flipped through the books it had stored and said seriously.
[Maybe. Speaking of going home, I think of my copy space again.]
[Isn't the meteorite brought back from Nanzhou a fragment of the dungeon space? ]
[I don't know. I tried it when I just returned to Dongzhou. There is indeed a space inside, but I couldn't open it with the energy I had at the time. I will try to use the energy of blue crystal when I go back.]
The main body of the copy space is constructed by the main god. The main god's energy is a rule-based energy, which cannot be opened by him alone. It just so happens that the blue crystal also contains a trace of rule-based energy, so maybe it can match exactly.
Bai Yu was chatting with the system, from the copy space to former colleagues, from the main god to the players, until he felt his fingers exposed outside the quilt being gently touched, and a warm touch and warm breath came from the other side.
"Bai Yu, are you asleep?"
Chu Zehuai turned his golden-orange eyes around. It was already midnight, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
There was no way he could fall asleep with the obvious plant fragrance filling the room.
"Not yet, Captain Chu, are you still not asleep?"
Bai Yu focused his attention on the real world and turned around.
He is a plant and does not need that much sleep. In addition, he had slept for more than ten days in a row at home. At this moment, he was not sleepy at all. He could only lie in bed and chat with the system.
"Well, maybe I'm not used to it yet. For example, it's my first time sleeping with someone else today."
When he was very young, his parents were away from home for work, and Chu Zehuai was used to sleeping alone. After joining the Four Continents Alliance, he became like a cold knife. He had no companions or comrades, and spent most of his time killing pollutants. When he was tired, he would just take a rest at the mission site.
"Huh?"
Bai Yu blinked his eyes.
"But didn't Captain Chu sleep with me yesterday?"
The other person fell asleep very quickly last night and he couldn't wake him up even when he called him.
".....This is different."
He drank so much yesterday that he can't be said to be unconscious, but it's just that there is no difference between him and not being conscious.
"What's the difference? The difference is that I was the one who took off Captain Chu's clothes yesterday, but I wasn't the one who took them off today?"
Bai Yu recalled and compared the differences between the two nights and asked.
Chu Zehuai: ...There’s no room for chatting today.
In the darkness, he could feel the other person's eyes on him, and he could feel the tips of his ears and neck turning red.
"I'm going to sleep first. I'm so sleepy."
He pulled the quilt over his head, changed direction, and turned his back to Bai Yu.
"good."
Chu Zehuai had no idea till the end how he fell asleep surrounded by the plant scent on Bai Yu. When he woke up, it was already dawn outside and there was no one on the bed next to him.
The quilt was neatly folded with pajamas on top, but the sheets were cold.
Did he sleep so soundly last night that he didn't even notice when the other person left?
Chu Zehuai rubbed his eyes, first glanced at the ceiling and the surrounding walls to make sure that no one was clinging there, then he lifted the quilt and changed his clothes with confidence.
After doing all this, he pulled open the curtain on the side and saw the vines entangled around the railing.
The early morning sunlight shines through the glass, and the emerald green leaves bathed in the light sway slightly, appearing full of vitality.
It turns out that he slept here.
Chu Zehuai randomly picked a leaf that looked the tenderest and patted it gently: "Bai Yu, do you want to sleep here? What do you want to eat in the morning?"
There was no response.
Chu Zehuai clapped twice more, but the leaves still did not respond. The sunlight cast shadows on them, as if they were silently mocking something.
until--
"Captain Chu, why did you take pictures of the green plants that grandpa keeps indoors?"
With a creak, the door opened and Bai Yu's puzzled voice came from behind.
Hearing the familiar voice, the hand that was clapping the leaves suddenly froze in the air.
After a moment, Bai Yu looked at the figure and green plants standing on the windowsill, and finally reacted. His tone changed from confusion to shock:
"Captain Chu, I've been inside you before, and you still can't tell the difference between my vines and leaves?!"
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