Chapter 10
After washing his hands in the bathroom and finding a pair of disposable chopsticks from the drawer, Shi Xuze knelt down in front of the coffee table and imitated the Japanese gesture of starting to eat.
He closed his eyes, concentrating on feeling the aroma of the food filling his nostrils, then opened his eyes with anticipation, "I'm going to eat."
Tearing a slit in the packaging of disposable chopsticks, Shi Xuze moved his gaze from the vegetables to the scrambled eggs, and then to the braised meat.
Everything is so brightly colored that you won’t know where to start.
With his Adam's apple rolling and swallowing the saliva that was drawn out, Shi Xuze finally locked onto his target.
It turns out that we should eat meat first.
But just as he stretched out his chopsticks, his cell phone rang at an inopportune time.
With a curl of his lips, Shi Xuze put down his chopsticks heavily, sighed deeply, and answered the phone.
It turned out that Luo Jiayou had arrived.
Shi Xuze's joyful mood of eating was interrupted, and he was still depressed and didn't want to go downstairs to greet them.
Luo Jiayou didn't need him to greet him.
He had done his best by getting up from the sofa and pressing the remote control to unlock the door.
"I'll open the door from the top, you can go upstairs by yourself."
Hot air carrying fragrance rose from the lunch box on the coffee table, blew towards the door with the wind, and entered Shi Xuze's nostrils.
He couldn't help but take a deep breath.
The elevator door opened, and Luo Jiayou's first action after stepping out was to sniff wildly, "What smells so good?"
"My lunch is about to start and you're here." Shi Xuze felt inexplicably proud. "Isn't it delicious?"
"You actually have lunch." Luo Jiayou raised his arm. A plastic bag hung on it, containing two boxed lunches. "I thought you didn't get up so early, so I was afraid you wouldn't have time to go out and buy some, so I brought you some lunch."
Shi Xuze: "Thank you. I have food today."
"I know you have food." Luo Jiayou pushed Shi Xuze aside and walked inside. "Let me see which restaurant's takeout smells so good. Next time I'll also..."
He paused, turned around, stared at Shi Xuze with wide eyes, and asked in shock: "Love bento?"
It’s not a charity lunchbox, “it’s relief food.”
Shi Xuze answered truthfully.
"Did your neighbor give it to you?" Luo Jiayou asked.
Shi Xuze nodded.
"Have you paid?" Luo Jiayou asked.
"No."
"Then why should they deliver food to you every day?"
“I don’t eat it every day.”
Shi Xuze counted on his fingers.
"This is only the first, second, third, third time."
Three times is enough, and it’s only been less than a week!
Luo Jiayou: "There is no kindness without reason in this world. You'd better be careful."
"Miss Yao saved my life twice and cooks delicious food. How could she be a bad person?"
Luo Jiayou raised an eyebrow: "Before I came out, Sister Chang asked me to observe your interactions with the neighbors. I originally thought it was unnecessary, but now I think Sister Chang was right."
"What's wrong?"
Luo Jiayou: "You seem to have fallen in love."
Shi Xuze frowned. "Don't joke like that. I just enjoyed this meal. I even considered paying Miss Yao to bring me a portion when she cooks in the future. But I thought it would be too much trouble for her, so I didn't do it."
Luo Jiayou didn't say anything, but just narrowed his eyes and looked him up and down.
Shi Xuze: "What are you looking at? That expression is scary."
Luo Jiayou looked away, put the food he brought on the coffee table, and sat down. "If you say it's not, then it's not."
This sentence sounds sarcastic.
Shi Xuze curled his lips and sat down opposite Luo Jiayou.
Such a delicious bento can’t be left to get cold.
The aroma was endless, and the person in front of him was eating with his mouth full of oil. Luo Jiayou was eager to use his chopsticks.
"How delicious is it? Let me have a taste."
"Don't steal it from me!" Shi Xuze had no time to protect himself and could only watch Luo Jiayou take away a piece of braised meat from his lunch box.
After eating, Luo Jiayou's eyes lit up and he arrogantly took away another piece of scrambled egg.
Shi Xuze could only glare at him.
"Oh my god, this is super delicious. My barbecue rice doesn't even smell good anymore," Luo Jiayou said. "Being able to cook such delicious food, I believe Miss Yao is not a bad person. I also want to have a good neighbor like this who can cook delicious food and bring me food."
Suddenly, two large pieces of food were missing from the lunch box. Shi Xuze said unhappily, "Don't even think about it. Not everyone has the same good luck as me."
Luo Jiayou chuckled twice, but didn't put his chopsticks into Shi Xuze's bowl. He even opened the extra lunch box he had bought, "Let's eat this as a side dish."
After finishing his meal and washing his lunch box, Shi Xuze left Luo Jiayou at home and went out with his lunch box and bag.
"I'm going to return the lunch box and see if there's a chance to thank you in person."
Luo Jiayou: "Wait for me."
"I'm not taking you."
Yao Yingmo was changing clothes when the doorbell rang. The fumes on her body were so strong that she could only tolerate it until after dinner. She really couldn't stand wearing clothes that were soaked with fumes all day.
She raised her voice and called out from the room, "Xiao Yu, go open the door."
"good."
Zhou Yu put down the half-washed dishes, rinsed and dried his hands before opening the door.
As soon as the door opened, his face immediately darkened.
Hat T, mask, it's Mr. Shi from next door.
Why is he ringing the doorbell? Isn’t it enough for him to eat for free? Does he want to break into the house?
Zhou Yu looked at him with an increasingly hostile look. If he had a physical body, he would probably stab him to death on the spot.
Shi Xuze rang the doorbell and waited for two or three minutes. When the door didn't open, he thought no one was home. When he was about to leave, the door was opened.
A young boy with an immature appearance and a gloomy expression stared at him with a terrifying and bitingly cold look.
Shi Xuze shuddered.
Is this... Miss Yao's boyfriend?
The thank you that I had prepared in advance and was on the tip of my tongue was swallowed back into my stomach and turned into an incoherent sentence: "I, I'm here to return the lunch box."
Zhou Yu scrutinized Shi Xuze's performance critically.
He stuttered and avoided eye contact, and it was obvious that he was not a good person.
He would never let him in the door.
Zhou Yu snorted, grabbed the bag, and pretended to close the door. "You can leave now."
The weight on his hand was gone, and Shi Xuze was stunned for two seconds before he reached out to stop Zhou Yu before he closed the door.
Zhou Yu: "Anything else?"
It's so cold and so scary.
Shi Xuze shuddered, mustered up the courage to ask, "Excuse me... Miss Yao who lives here..."
Zhou Yu: "She's busy."
"Oh, oh, I'm busy. Sorry to bother you."
Feeling unwelcome, Shi Xuze took a step back.
The door in front of me was immediately closed.
Yao Yingmo quickly changed her clothes, but all she heard was the slam of a door closing.
She quickly came out and asked, "Xiao Yu, who rang the doorbell just now?"
Zhou Yu: "Your neighbor."
Yao Yingmo then noticed the light grey bag Zhou Yu was holding. "It's Mr. Shi. Did he say anything?"
Zhou Yu lowered his eyes: "No."
His face was calm, the corners of his mouth were turned down, and the fingertips of his left hand were pinching the corner of his clothes, exactly the same as his usual reaction after being forced to socialize.
But Yao Yingmo's intuition told her that things were not that simple.
I knew it from the sound of the door slamming shut just now.
"Did you say anything to him?"
Zhou Yu: “No.”
Of course there is.
Yao Yingmo was in a state of confusion, not knowing whether it was Zhou Yu who scared Mr. Shi or Mr. Shi who scared Zhou Yu.
What is certain is that the brief meeting just now was definitely not pleasant.
"He didn't say thank you."
Yao Yingmo was unable to react to Zhou Yu's sudden words for a moment. After thinking about it for a while based on his expression, she realized that he was trying to seduce her.
She really couldn't figure out whether Zhou Yu was wary of strangers or a defensive behavior because his status was threatened.
She still knew which was more important, the neighbor or her brother.
Yao Yingmo: "Is that so."
If Mr. Shi wants to say thank you, Zhou Yu must give him a chance.
He must have just raised a finger to retrieve the bag and then locked the person out.
Yao Yingmo clearly didn't take it to heart. Zhou Yu curled his lips and turned away, "I'm going to take a nap."
After watching his brother enter the room, Yao Yingmo walked out of the house carefully, turning the doorknob and closing the door very gently.
After caring about Zhou Yu, I also need to care about Mr. Shi and confirm his physical condition.
*
The grease on the coffee table has been cleaned and replaced with two laptops and a stack of paper documents.
Luo Jiayou had a candy in his mouth.
The candy was placed alone on the TV cabinet. Seeing that it had not expired yet, he picked it up and ate it.
As soon as the candy wrapper was thrown, Shi Xuze came home. It was faster than he expected, and he looked like he had received a huge blow.
Luo Jiayou: "Why are you so dejected after going out? You didn't see anyone?"
Shi Xuze shook his head. "I saw someone, but it wasn't Miss Yao. She has a male college student at home."
Luo Jiayou almost spit out the candy in his mouth, "There is a big boy in the family? This sister is good, she knows how to live."
Shi Xuze didn't respond.
He was really worried that he had caused a lot of trouble to the young couple next door.
He was always eating and drinking for free, and almost hindered Miss Yao's escape. No wonder the boy's face turned sour when he opened the door and saw him.
"You still say you don't like me." Luo Jiayou complained in a low voice.
Shi Xuze didn't hear clearly, but he understood Luo Jiayou's expression. He glanced at him and held out his palm with his palm facing up, "Give me a piece of candy."
Luo Jiayou spread his hands and said, "I don't have any candy."
Shi Xuze: "Then what are you eating?"
Luo Jiayou raised his chin and gestured, "You put it on the TV cabinet."
Shi Xuze immediately realized what kind of candy Luo Jiayou was eating.
He raised his voice and asked, "Why did you steal my candy?"
Luo Jiayou raised his eyebrows, "Usually when you come to my house, you can eat all the candies and biscuits on the table as you like, so why can't I eat your candies?"
"But..." That was the candy Miss Yao gave me.
Luo Jiayou really didn't understand what Shi Xuze was thinking. "Did you plant this there to grow new sugar?"
Shi Xuze: "No! That was a gift from Miss Yao."
"It's just a candy."
Shi Xuze curled his lips.
Luo Jiayou was about to speak when he heard the doorbell. He changed the subject and said, "Your doorbell rang."
The bickering paused, Shi Xuze walked to open the door, and was surprised to find Yao Yingmo standing outside his house.
"Hello, hello."
He was not wearing a mask.
Yao Yingmo hid the surprise in his eyes and greeted politely, "Mr. Shi, good afternoon."
Under the mask, he was just as handsome and delicate as Yao Yingmo had imagined, and he was no less handsome than the male celebrities on TV. However, he lacked any aggression, which made him less imposing.
Appearance is determined by the heart, which is mostly related to his personality.
Thinking of the stuttering hello just now, Yao Yingmo decided to shorten the conversation.
Zhou Yu had just scared him, so she shouldn't put too much social pressure on him.
"Actually, I wanted to apologize to you. My brother is shy and might not be very polite. If he offended you, I apologize on his behalf."
Shi Xuze only heard one key point, "He is... my younger brother?"
"yes."
"Um."
The eyes of the person in front of him brightened instantly. Yao Yingmo didn't understand why and thought that his apology was accepted, so he put the matter aside and brought up the real point.
"Do you like today's lunch?"
"tasty."
"Are you feeling better?"
"have."
"I cook every day. If you do the same thing as yesterday next time, you can come and ring my doorbell."
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