CH 28

Xiao Siye’s home is on a large flat in the city center. Jiang Zhao has heard people recommend a house in that neighborhood before. The security measures are extremely strict, but the price is high. Most of the people living here are businessmen and politicians.

Jiang Zhao always felt that the city center was too noisy, so he chose to live in a villa area. But when he came to Xiao Siye’s house, it was not bad to stand on the floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floor, especially when there were no buildings better than here.

“What do you want to drink?” Xiao Siye walked to the bar next to the free-standing kitchen and took an upside-down transparent glass.

Jiang Zhao sat on the soft cloth sand, hugged Sister, and said, “Ice water, thank you.”

He used to think that it was an accident that Xiao Siye could also have such a good cooking skill, until he came to his house

The design in the room is warm tones, and the selection and visit of every object can be seen to be carefully thought out. There are a lot of green plants beside the windows and the TV. There are two layers of curtains beside the floor-to-ceiling windows, one layer is shading, and the other layer is pure white gauze.

Sister’s cat climbing frame and a small hanging basket hang at the other end of the living room. There are also two beanbags where you can sit directly and bask in the sun, and a small low table with a few books scattered on it.

In Jiang Zhao’s mind, he could almost imagine how Xiao Siye was living in this room—lazy, comfortable, holding a cat and turning a page or two of a book, bathing in the warm afternoon sun.

“Here.”

Xiao Siye also took the ice water and came to the side. Jiang Zhao stopped the cat stick that he was playing with Sister, took it, and drank half a glass.

After drinking, he noticed something: “Did you put lemon?”

“Well,” Xiao Siye said, “Do you like it?”

Jiang Zhao happily leaned on the sand backrest: “It’s okay.”

What he said was okay, meaning he liked it very much.

Xiao Siye curled his lips, sat down beside him, and heard him ask again, “By the way, why do you live alone and put two small seats over there?”

Xiao Siye looked to the side of the cat climbing frame, and answered meaningfully: “Probably, I think someone will sit there with me in the future.”

Jiang Zhao was stunned for a moment.

He forgot one thing – Xiao Siye, has a white moonlight[1] he wanted but can’t ask out.

The other place for these two seats is naturally reserved for that white moonlight.

“I said,” Jiang Zhao rubbed the funny cat stick in his hand, “The person you like…a man or a woman?”

Xiao Siye: “Male.”

Jiang Zhao choked: “Then he saw you with me?”

He didn’t know who the other party was, but he always felt that he must be someone who had contact with their line of work. Maybe one day he would see him and Xiao Siye together.

Especially since the other party was still a man, if he was really caught, Xiao Siye would not be able to wash the Yellow River if he really jumped at that time.

Xiao Siye smiled: “It’s fine, he won’t mind.”

Jiang Zhao immediately tasted a bit of loneliness from his words. Why won’t he mind? Of course, it was because the other party didn’t care about Xiao Siye, so he wouldn’t mind these things. He thought that Xiao Siye had spent all these years in a poor and unrequited love.

Tsk, how miserable.

As the gold owner, Jiang Zhao patted him on the shoulder sympathetically: “Sometimes in life, you have to look at it for a while. Bye-bye, and the next one will be more obedient.”

Xiao Siye smiled and said, “Well, you’re right.”

Jiang Zhao knew that a few words would definitely not change his mind, so he shook his head and continued to sit on the carpet and tease the cat.

Sister’s spirit has improved a lot, and she fluttered the feather bell lively. It seems that the food has been digested, and there is no major problem.

When she got tired of playing, she ran to Jiang Zhao’s lap, snuggled up comfortably, and fell asleep.

Jiang Zhao lowered his head and combed her hair patiently. Puppet cats are too easy to lose hair. Once they are combed, there is a lot of hair, and they are easy to stick. They are all cat hair which is pretty interesting.

Xiao Siye asked casually, “If you like it so much, why don’t you raise it yourself?”

Jiang Zhao didn’t answer immediately.

But after thinking about it, Xiao Siye talked about the secrets of the people he likes just now, so it seems that he should also say something.

He took another sip of ice water before saying, “I raised one when I was a child, and then… it died.”

“Killed by cat abusers.”

Xiao Siye was also stunned for a moment, and said, “I’m sorry.”

Jiang Zhao wrote it off lightly: “It’s okay, it happened many years ago.”

Although he saw that it was light and cloudy, he knew very well how badly it had hit him when he saw the bloody patch in the warehouse.

The little milk cat that had rubbed against his trouser legs the day before and was lying in his arms affectionately, turned into a blur of flesh and blood in an instant.

He was only nine years old when he went back, and he was so frightened, and he didn’t recover for several days. Later, Mrs. Xu and the others also asked if they would adopt another cat for him, but he refused.

He never had a cat again.

“Has the cat abuser been caught?” Xiao Si also asked.

Jiang Zhao nodded, his eyes were a little cold: “It’s our gardener. I thought he was an honest person, but I didn’t expect to do such a thing behind the scenes. Later, my mother found the best lawyer and sent him to prison for three years. .”

The culprit of this year has already been punished, but the shadows he brought, and the lives he once hurt, will never come back and can’t be made up for.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Siye took the ice water from Jiang Zhao’s hand: “I’ll pour you another glass?”

Jiang Zhao yawned lazily: “Okay.”

When Xiao Siye came back with the ice water, Jiang Zhao took a nap on the sandbag in just one minute.

His eyes were so sleepy that he could hardly keep them open. He came out trying to fight the drowsiness, but little by little his chin seemed to fall down in the next second.

Xiao Siye laughed, and he lightly patted Jiang Zhao’s arm: ” go to bed?”

Jiang Zhao reluctantly supported his eyelids, his eyelashes were sleepy, and he pulled down, trembling obviously: “No, I’m just… a little sleepy.”

Xiao Siye helped him to stand, “Sleep for a while, I have a guest room at my house.”

Jiang Zhao took two steps, and his whole mind was chaotic. He was led all the way to the guest room by Xiao Siye. Almost instantly the moment he touched the bed, he lost consciousness.

He only slept for three hours last night, and this morning he went to the veterinary hospital, and he was really sleepy.

Xiao Siye looked at his legs that were still hanging by the bed, sighed lightly, hugged his waist, and carried him to the center of the bed. Then he helped him change his slippers, covered the quilt, and carried Sister, who had just woken up and wanted to jump on the bed, out of the room.

“Shh,” he touched his sister’s head, “Brother is asleep.”

Sister looked around the room, then turned her head to parkour on the cat climbing frame. Xiao Siye stood at the door of the guest room, looking at Jiang Zhao, who was sleeping peacefully on the bed and stood quietly for a long time.

Until Jiang Zhao frowned, his eyelashes trembled slightly, and then he kicked the quilt very dishonestly.

Xiao Siye: “…”

Such a big person even kicked the quilt.

He walked back to Jiang Zhao’s bed with a bit of amusement. Jiang Zhao was muttering something in his sleep, and he continued to tug at the rest of the quilt with his hands.

“What?” Xiao Siye leaned down to listen to Jiang Zhao’s sleep talk.

A few seconds later, he heard the young man’s voice that was different from the usual one, with a bit of a sticky nasal tone, and even a hint of coquettish laziness:

“……hot.”

Xiao Siye’s expression froze.

Looking at Jiang Zhao’s sleeping face, he was silent for a long time before reaching out to cover him with the quilt again.

Then he used the remote control to lower the floor heating temperature in the room, tightened the curtains, and turned on the humidifier.

After doing all this, he walked out of the room, closed the door with his backhand, and exhaled softly.

Indeed… very hot.

–

When Jiang Zhao woke up from a hazy sleep, he vaguely felt like he had a good dream.

The specific details were forgotten the moment he opened his eyes, he only remembered that he was standing in a sea of ​​flowers under the sun, and the tip of his nose was still filled with a faint floral fragrance, which was very warm.

However, when he sat down and saw his surroundings clearly, he realized that this was not his home.

Jiang Zhao briefly recalled what happened before going to bed, probably because he almost fell asleep on the sandbag and was brought here by Xiao Siye.

He rubbed his eyes, got out of bed and saw the neat slippers next to him, and felt that he didn’t take them off himself.

… It wouldn’t be Xiao Siye who helped him too.

Jiang Zhao’s idea was only born for 0.0001 seconds, and it was directly rejected by him – how is that possible.

He pushed the door and walked out of the room. Xiao Siye was sitting on the sandbag reading a book. When he saw him, he was a little surprised: “I thought you would sleep through the night.”

Jiang Zhao glanced at the wall clock on the wall, it was already three o’clock in the afternoon.

Going to visit someone else’s house, only to fall asleep, is a bit embarrassing no matter who it is. Jiang Zhao uncomfortably tugged at his wrinkled sweater: “I woke up early this morning, so I felt sleepy.”

Xiao Siye stood up: ” Do you want anything to eat? You haven’t had lunch yet.”

Jiang Zhao just wanted to say that he was not hungry, but his stomach let out a very cooperative sound.

Jiang Zhao: “…”

Xiao Siye turned around in time to hide the almost revealing smile on the corner of his lips.

Jiang Zhao originally wanted to say that he would just order a takeaway, but Xiao Siye opened the refrigerator in the kitchen as if he was responding, “Is there anything you want to eat?”

Jiang Zhao’s thoughts changed. After all, he was the gold owner, and it was also right for Xiao Siye to cook for him.

So he also sat at the table with peace of mind: “cilantro, spinach, houttuynia, onion, cucumber skin…”

He said a long list of the names of the dishes, and then added: “I don’t eat any of these.”

Xiao Si also nodded, “Okay.”

Jiang Zhao couldn’t help but wonder, “Do you remember?”

Xiao Siye looked back at him, and repeated Jiang Zhao’s name of the dish just now, word for word.

Jiang Zhao: “…”

The brain is pretty good.

Not long after, Xiao Siye took a bowl and placed it in front of Jiang Zhao.

When he was boiling the soup, Jiang Zhao had already been seduced by the fragrance. He was hungry, but the bowl in front of him had a crystal clear soup head, and small, thin, and rosy soup. The moist pork ribs are placed in a small bowl, with sliced ​​marinated eggs and green small rapeseed, and a small handful of chopped green onion on the top, and the aroma comes.

Jiang Zhao’s Adam’s apple rolled, and he buried his head and started eating.

Even when he was extremely hungry, he still looked good when he was eating, but there was no sound when chews, only his cheeks were slightly moving, and his lips were rosy and crystal clear because of the soup. In the blink of an eye, he ate a clean meal with soup all night long.

Jiang Zhao happily put down the bowl, and Xiao Siye took it and turned around to wash the dishes.

Is this what it feels like to be a gold master?

Jiang Zhao, who eats in a private kitchen takeout all the year-round, expressed his satisfaction and will come again next time.

“By the way, what about Sister?”

After eating and drinking, Jiang Zhao started looking for the kitten in the living room.

Xiao Si also put the washed dishes in the cupboard: “It may be in the study, you go inside and its two rooms on your right.”

Jiang Zhao heard the words and walked over. The door of the study is half-closed, and the one with the master bedroom faces south. The sun is very good. There is a small bay window in the farthest corner, and Sister is lying on top, squinting and basking in the sun.

But Jiang Zhao’s eyes were not fixed on the kitten. He looked to the other side of the study, where there was a pure black grand piano.

Xiao Siye asked him if he wanted to play the piano, but he really didn’t bluff him.

Jiang Zhao couldn’t help but stepped forward, dragged the bench out from under the piano, and lifted the lid of the piano.

Eighty-eight black and white keys are displayed in front of him, both familiar and unfamiliar. The slender and beautiful hands rest on the keys, forming a very beautiful painting as if they were born here for performance.

It’s just that the fingertips haven’t dropped yet.

Jiang Zhao was absent-minded for a long time, and he didn’t know when, a shadow shrouded him behind him, his big hand on the back of his hand, and pressed it down lightly.

“Do—”

The sound of the piano broke the silence, and Jiang Zhao immediately raised his head.

Xiao Siye turned his face to the side, his cheek was very close to his, and Jiang Zhao could even see his own reflection in those amber eyes.

A vague atmosphere was flowing in the study, and Jiang Zhao suddenly had a strange idea.

Does Xiao Siye want to kiss him?

Translator”s Note:

Every single gesture of Xiao Siye shows how much he loves Jiang Zhao.