As soon as Gu Qingchi got home, he put all the hermit crabs he picked up into the fish tank one by one.
He has not forgotten to find the little crab that was too fat. He also remembers that the little crab could not retract its legs into its shell when it was sleeping.
Gu Qingchi picked and chose from his bucket for a long time, and found a small shell with beautiful patterns and suitable size. He took it out separately, watched it change its shell, and then went upstairs to take a shower with satisfaction.
He held the cell phone in one hand and held the railing with the other, running very fast.
Mrs. Gu called him downstairs.
"Don't run, be careful not to fall. We'll be eating soon, so don't stay too long."
Gu Qingchi shouted without stopping.
"I've eaten outside and want to take a shower and go to bed."
Before Mrs. Gu could respond, Gu Qingchi had disappeared, looking very energetic.
She shook her head.
“This child.”
Gu Qingchi ran upstairs, but stopped just as he reached the railing on the fourth floor. He stood there, motionless, with a soft light shining from behind him, and shadows intertwined on his face. He seemed like a robot that had run out of power and could no longer move.
He should be happy today, he was happy just now, but not now.
Gu Qingchi walked slowly into the room without turning on the lights or even closing the door. He then fell sideways on the bed, and the phone in his hand fell onto the bed due to inertia.
His body rose and fell twice with the mattress, and then stopped moving. He looked at his fingers that were naturally bent and slowly curled up.
The cell phone next to him started ringing. Gu Qingchi moved his fingers a bit, but in the end he didn't get up.
The cell phone automatically hung up and fell silent, not ringing again. A few seconds later, the landline started ringing.
Gu Qingchi finally moved.
"What's wrong?"
"I was just taking a shower. Um, I'm a little sleepy. I won't talk anymore. I'm going back to my room to sleep. Leave your phone outside so you can see the messages tomorrow. The landline is also outside so you may not be able to hear the call later."
Finally he emphasized.
"I'm really sleepy."
Everything seems normal.
But Gu Qingchi was lying. The phone was in his bedroom. He just didn't want to communicate with anyone and pretended to be fine.
Xie Luyu had just returned home and took off his shoes. Gu Qingchi hung up the phone. Xie Luyu called Gu Qingchi again for some unknown reason, but no one answered. He stood at the entrance thinking for a few seconds, grabbed the car keys thrown on the cabinet, and rushed out the door without even changing his shoes.
Xie Luyu didn't have the phone number of Mrs. Gu and Gu's father, only Gu Xie. He and Gu Xie had exchanged business cards before, and he rummaged through the boxes a few days ago and found them out and kept them solemnly.
The number Gu Xie gave him was a work number, and it was his assistant who answered the call at first.
"Hello, the president is in a meeting. If you have anything to say, please tell me first and I will write it down."
Xie Luyu held the steering wheel with one hand and held his cell phone with the other.
"Give the phone to Gu Xie. Something happened at home."
The assistant was a little hesitant; it was the first time he had heard such a call.
"Sir, you can call the president's home number. The president will answer the home number 24 hours a day."
"I'm his brother's boyfriend, Xie Luyu. I'll take care of anything that happens. Remember this. Tell him now to call home and go see what his brother is doing."
Xie Luyu spoke every word very clearly.
After hearing this, the assistant thought it was very true. If someone called and made such a strange request, it was likely that there was something real. So he agreed.
"Okay, I'll go right away."
The assistant seemed to be burdened with some important mission. He bravely interrupted the meeting and tried to be brief in front of the stares of a table of elites.
“President, the matter regarding your family seems to be very urgent.”
Upon hearing this, Gu Xie walked out quickly. As soon as he closed the door, the assistant immediately said.
"Mr. Xie Luyu just called you and asked you to call home as soon as possible and let your family see what your brother is doing in the room."
Without having time to ask more questions to confirm the authenticity, Gu Xie immediately took out his cell phone and instructed his assistant while waiting for the call to be connected.
"The meeting is suspended. I'm going home. I'll let the manager handle the rest."
The call was connected just after he finished speaking. Gu Xie strode towards the elevator, intending to go home, talking as he walked.
"Hey, Dad, go check on what Xiaochi is doing. Hurry up and I'll explain it to you later."
Father Gu was cooking with Mrs. Gu at home. He was wearing an apron and holding a spatula. He had just been discussing with Mrs. Gu whether to cook eggplant, in case Xiao Chi got up and was hungry later.
He answered the phone and ran upstairs without even putting down the shovel. Mrs. Gu found it strange.
"What are you doing, one by one?"
She was too lazy to climb the stairs, so she took the elevator, but Father Gu was faster than her in the elevator.
Father Gu turned on the light and stood at the door. Gu Qingchi was curled up on the bed, his clothes still on, with a quilt covering his lower body.
"The eggplant is almost ready, let's go down and have something to eat."
Gu Qingchi didn't even turn his head, and only answered his father's question after a while.
"I want to get some sleep."
"Okay, but Daddy wants to take a look at you."
Father Gu walked over slowly and looked at Gu Qingchi. Gu Qingchi looked really tired, and even his blinking was slow.
He didn't seem to care what Gu's father was going to do. Both of Gu Qingchi's hands were exposed, no problem, there was no wound on his neck, and there was no medicine on the bedside table.
Father Gu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, Dad first--"
His eyes swept over Gu Qingchi's lower body, and then he paused. The quilt was thin in summer, and the dark red color was faintly visible on Gu Qingchi's legs.
"What's going on?"
As Gu's father was speaking, he was about to lift the quilt. Gu Qingchi reached out to stop him, but Gu's father grabbed his wrist. He didn't use much force, but it made people feel that he could not be refused.
The pants he wore were very loose and could reach his thighs if he lifted them up. Now, just above his knees, the pants had been stained a dark color.
Father Gu didn't say anything. He carefully pulled Gu Qingchi up and let him sit on the edge of the bed.
Then he found the medicine box, opened it and quickly found what he needed, then carefully lifted up Gu Qingchi's pants. There were two scars on his thighs, not too deep or too shallow, which were still slowly oozing blood.
Mrs. Gu also arrived at this time. As soon as she entered the room, she saw Gu Qingchi with his head down and his father half-kneeling on the carpet, treating the wound on his leg. She screamed in surprise.
Walk in and hold Gu Qingchi’s hand.
"Baby, what's wrong?"
Gu Qingchi lowered his head and spoke only after a while.
"Just accidentally."
Mrs. Gu seemed to have easily believed this clumsy lie. She frowned and gently patted Gu Qingchi's hand.
"How can you be so careless?"
Then she stared at Father Gu, as if the wound was on her body.
"Lighter, lighter."
Gu Qingchi was very different from usual, as if he had just woken up, but he still remembered to comfort Mrs. Gu.
"It doesn't hurt, Mom."
Mrs. Gu got angry when she heard what Gu Qingchi said.
"How can you lie? Xiaoguai is afraid of pain. This must be very painful. You must remember this lesson."
When the wound was half treated, Gu Xie and Xie Luyu also arrived.
Several grown men were crowded in the room, and the originally spacious room now seemed a bit crowded.
As soon as Xie Luyu entered, he went to Gu Qingchi's side. He had some experience in dealing with this kind of external injuries and had specially learned it before. So he went over and dealt with it with Gu's father.
So many people gathered here for Gu Qingchi. Gu Qingchi was obviously a little uneasy, with his lips tightly pursed.
Mrs. Gu watched as Father Gu wrapped the bandage, glanced at Gu Qingchi, then glanced at Gu Xie, and pulled Gu Xie out. As she left, she looked back every few steps and did not forget to instruct Gu Qingchi.
"Chichi, don't move. Mommy will find you a wheelchair."
Father Gu was no longer as anxious as he had been at the beginning and he packed the medicine box slowly and methodically.
From beginning to end, no one blamed Gu Qingchi, and no one asked what had happened.
Xie Luyu looked at Gu Qingchi's legs.
"Can I have a private conversation with Xiao Gu? Just for a moment."
Father Gu looked at Gu Qingchi, and waited until Gu Qingchi nodded before agreeing.
Before leaving, Father Gu extended his hand to Gu Qingchi.
"Give it to me."
Gu Qingchi lowered his head and put a sharp little shell from his pocket into his father's hand.
He was relieved only when Gu's father left. Gu's father had never doted on his children as much as Mrs. Gu did. In the education process of Gu Xie and Gu Qingchi, Gu's father had always played the role of disciplining.
Not long after Gu's father left, Xie Luyu, who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet, suddenly spoke.
"There is one more."
"there is none left."
Xie Luyu stood up and held him down to prevent him from struggling and hurting his wound. He reached into his pocket and pulled out another small shell, holding it tightly in his hand.
"Then it's mine if I find it."
Xie Luyu pursed his lips tightly, looking like a sulking child.
Xie Luyu helped Gu Qingchi to sit up, then he sat cross-legged on the carpet. He was not wearing shoes. He had been in a hurry when he came here and did not change his shoes. He thought his slippers were not fast enough, so he took them off.
He looked at Gu Qingchi's wound.
"Does it hurt?"
Gu Qingchi looked a little numb, and he made a soft sound from the tip of his tongue.
"It doesn't hurt."
Xie Luyu took the small shell and scratched the same place on his leg, and then again.
"fraud."
He raised his head and looked at Gu Qingchi with red eyes.
"It obviously hurts."
Gu Qingchi turned his head to look at Xie Luyu. He seemed a little slower than usual. When the blood gushed out and stimulated his vision, he gradually became more sober and no longer so confused. He remembered to get the medicine box.
Xie Luyu stood up and hugged Gu Qingchi tightly with tears in his eyes.
"I know you're sad, I know you're tired, but can you please save some energy to call me? Then I'll come right over, we'll go play, we'll go eat delicious food, we can do anything that makes us happy, we'll go pick up crabs, eat ice cream, I won't stop you, you can have two ice creams."
"I don't know how you feel. I only know that bleeding hurts a lot. This is the only way I can get closer to you. It's okay if you can't help it next time. I'll be with you, but I'm afraid of the pain. Can you call me first?"
Gu Qingchi's thoughts were in a mess. He only felt a warm feeling on his back. It took him a while to slowly realize it.
Xie Luyu cried again.
He raised his hand and clumsily patted Xie Luyu on the back, trying to comfort Xie Luyu in a clumsy way.
"I'll try my best."
"I'll call you."
Finally he said a little distressedly.
"I didn't know you were so afraid of pain."
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