I'm in Delingha tonight

After squatting on the ground and playing with the puppy for a while, Chi Nian's ankles felt a little numb, and he finally remembered his business here.

He stood up, walked to the entrance in two or three steps, took the medicines brought back from the hospital to the living room, looked around, but couldn't tell where there was a locker in Xi Shan's overly clean house, and asked the person on the sofa: "Xi Shan Brother, where is your medicine box? I put the medicine for you. "

"Just put it on the coffee table." Xi Shan opened his eyes and blocked the harsh cold light with his hands.

Chi Nian hesitated, thinking that Xi Shan didn't like other people rummaging around, so he put down the bag.At the feet, the puppy named "Sprite" was tired from playing, and ran back to the kennel by the sofa to lie still. Chi Nian lost all fun and immediately didn't know what to do.

He rubbed his belly, walked to the sofa to see that Xi Shan had no intention of stopping, then sat down, and took out his phone again.

"Brother Xi, what do you want to eat?" Chi Nian opened the takeaway software, "There are a lot of things around here, take a look, but it should be lighter... If there is really no one, I will buy it."

"McDonald's." Xi Shan said weakly.

Chi Nian: "Eh?"

Xi Shan added: "Grilled Chicken Drumstick Set, Coca Cola Iced—Tsk, I can only eat this."

This Chongqing native couldn't live without spicy food, and he was so wronged.Chi Nian laughed: "Okay, then I'll eat McDonald's with you. Let me take a look, the nearest one takes half an hour to deliver..."

An arm's length away from him, Chi Nian sat in a well-behaved posture, seriously thinking about whether the French fries should be less salted or ordinary salt, and his eyes fell into his eyes, "If you have something to do, you can go home first" The words stuck in Xi Shan's throat.The tip of his tongue pressed against the root of his teeth, swollen, and the occasional pain in his toes reminded him that these were real.

"... Ordered." Chi Nian confirmed the address and placed the order, and looked around without treating himself like an outsider, "Brother, I want to drink water, where is your water dispenser?"

Xi Shan pointed in the direction of the kitchen: "Water purifier and electric kettle, if you want to drink hot, heat it yourself."

Chi Nian said that hot water is not needed.

"Well, there are drinks in the refrigerator, go and see if there is anything you like to drink?"

"Okay." Chi Nian smiled at Xi Shan.

The light in the kitchen is the same cool color as the living room, and the kitchen utensils seem like they haven't been used much since they were just bought, and they look [-]% new.The stove has been polished, and the only traces of life can be seen in the instant noodle packaging in the trash can.

How did you get along so well?Chi Nian wrinkled his nose.

The freezer has double doors and has a lot of space, but apart from a little beer and drinks, and half a bunch of grapes, there are only two or three bottles of vitamins in it.The bottle body is translucent, Chi Nian wanted to pick it up to have a look, but it was more private and had to give up.He smoked a can of peach sparkling water, washed the grapes and put them in a glass bowl.

"I saw Kyoho grapes, and I was hungry. You didn't say you couldn't eat them, did you?"

"Yes—" Xi Shan just smiled.

Chi Nian put it on the coffee table, took one into his mouth and began to peel it whole.

Xi Shan tilted his head and half-closed his eyes, pretending to be asleep, watching Chi Nian concentrate on eating grapes from a crack.

Perhaps because he studied fine arts, Chi Nian's fingers are not very delicate, they are slender and well-defined. He nimbly unscrews the grapes and peels off the top skins, stuffs them into his mouth, and occasionally eats them directly without peeling the skins.The fingers of his right hand holding the pen may have calluses. If he holds it, he can feel the temperature and texture completely different from that of girls.

A man's hands are like a flexible tree with the temperature of fire, not soft, and rarely have the lingering fragrance of skin care products.Xi Shan likes to observe other people's hands, he squinted his eyes and was a little lost in thought for a while.

In the field of vision, a grape came under his eyes, the skin was half peeled, and the bottom was held by the fingers he was staring at.Xi Shan seemed to be caught in the middle of a peep, and trembling, he was stiff, and heard Chi Nian's brisk voice: "It's so sweet, I'll give you one."

"Ah?" Xi Shan opened his eyes, pretending to be drowsy, and muttered, "Almost fell asleep."

Chi Nian stretched out his hand persistently, but turned his head away from him: "Hurry up and eat, my hands are sore from holding it like this."

After speaking, he spit out another piece of grape skin.

The peeled flesh of Kyoho grapes was crystal clear in front of his eyes, and the tangy fragrance made people salivate. Xi Shan stretched his hand halfway and changed his mind.

He leaned forward, lowered his head and quickly took the grape from Chi Nian's fingertips, then pressed Chi Nian's wrist bone with his hand very naturally, and tapped, signaling him to retract.

"I got the juice." Chi Nian complained, as if he didn't realize that he took it with his mouth just now.

Xi Shan said "Well" without expressing his opinion, the grape pulp was bitten between his lips and teeth, and the plump juice dripped into his heart, sour and sweet.It was clearly cold, but his heartbeat speeded up for a while inexplicably.

The second grape that was peeled to the middle soon came again, Xi Shan didn't go directly to Han this time, but took it with his hand.

Chi Nian's fingers changed shape to spread out, and he snorted suspiciously: "Huh?"

"What?" Xi Shan still had the grape skin in his mouth, speaking as if he had bitten his tongue.

Chi Nian smiled: "Why, you don't spit grapes when you eat them?"

He actually wanted him to spit directly into his hands.

Xi Shan was shocked by his intentions whether it was intentional or incidental. No matter how he thought about it, the way they got along now was too strange, not like ordinary friends.He hadn't known what an "ordinary" friend was for a long time, and thought that Chi Nian was like this to everyone, but he didn't have the nerve to do it directly.

Patting Chi Nian's palm, Xi Shan said, "Aren't you disgusting?"

Then he straightened up, took two steps forward, took a tissue to spit out grape skins, and sat side by side with Chi Nian.Chi Nian lowered his head sleepily, and stopped peeling the grapes for him. Xi Shan couldn't figure out why the other party suddenly changed his temper. Fortunately, he has hands and feet—although his feet are not very flexible at the moment—he just reciprocated and gave Chi Nian peel.

The first one was handed over, and he suffered a great setback first.

Chi Nian squinted at him with disgust on his face: "I don't eat what you peeled, it's pitted."

Xi Shan: "..."

Xi Shan: "I haven't hit you in the past few days, your skin is itchy, right?"

"Nonsense! You keep pinching my face..." Chi Nian waved his hand and complained.

At this time, the doorbell rang, and he jumped up as if on a spring, happily went to open the door, and took a large bag of McDonald's takeaway.

He even hummed a few lines of the song very happily because of eating junk food. The melody was familiar. Xi Shan identified it, and it seemed to be "Landscape" by Kitty Chen.He loved listening to it for a while, and he didn't comment on the more widely circulated Mandarin version of the same tune. At this time, he found that Chi Nian's non-standard Cantonese pronunciation was his favorite song——

"The beautiful scenery that travels all over the world is your tenderness as long as I remember it."

"It was you who made my eyes happy for love."

The oddity fit his mood at the moment, though not entirely.

There was someone at home at night, something he hadn't seen in too long.

Xi Shan and Chi Nian divided McDonald's, halfway through because he followed the doctor's advice, he only drank a little Coke, and Chi Nian poured the rest into his own cup - not at all cautious as a first-time guest.

They don't care about food and drink being mixed at all, and they don't have any cleanliness towards each other.

Attracted by the smell of fried food, Sprite came to beg for a treat.It completely forgot how ferocious it was to Chi Nian an hour ago, and found that the face-faced boy in front of him seemed to be more talkative than his own father. Finally got some chicken wings.

Chi Nian made it happy. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the cat climbing frame on the balcony and asked, "Brother Xi, doesn't Coke live at your house?"

"I was supposed to pick it up at night, but the store doesn't close until nine or ten o'clock at night, and occasionally I stay in the store when the time doesn't match. Now it is a mascot, and it needs to generate income for the store." Xi Shan joked and carried Sprite into the store. Rubbing the soft white hair on its neck in his arms.

"Then you still have a dog? Do you like small animals?"

"Hmm...well, Sprite is... when I took Coke for vaccinations in July this year, the pet hospital just rescued it. There is something wrong with this leg, but it's not serious, and it may have been abandoned. I want to say that raising a small Dogs can still have a companion at ordinary times, so we can discuss with the pet hospital whether we can adopt them."

When Chi Nian ate a hamburger, his cheeks were bulging and he wanted to express his opinion: "Ah, I hate people who abandon puppies casually!"

Xi Shan smiled: "But I just went to pick it up when I came back from Qinghai, and now it's been a little over a month since I got home... Well, it's my birthday present, I've always wanted to raise a puppy."

"So it's still called 'Sucking Sprite'."

Xi Shan took Sprite's front paw and patted Chi Nian's arm: "This brother is very bad, he gave us random nicknames."

"Hey, why are you still taking advantage of me?!"

"You reacted very quickly today."

"Brother Xi - too much!"

Xi Shan touched the dog's paw and patted Chi Nian again.

There are still many untold stories, and the starting point of "always" wanting to raise a puppy also started on a rainy day.I am afraid of disappearing at any time, and I am unwilling to establish an intimate relationship with people, so I hope to have a moving and warm puppy by my side, so that I can give myself a hand anytime, anywhere.

But at that time, Xi Shan couldn't even take care of himself well, until now his condition has improved, and he happened to meet Xue Bi, who has a disabled left front leg.He only hesitated for three seconds before making up his mind to take it home.

On the first day when Xuebi arrived home, Xi Shan found out that everything he had done since he was 23 years old - tattoos, kneeling down to beg Bai Xiaowan for a divorce, choosing to start a business, refusing to go to Sixian's memorial service to quarrel with Zhu Yiming, driving himself in Qinghai once a year - — all for one reason.

I want to protect myself, I want to live.

To some extent, Zhu Yiming is right, he is indeed very selfish.

Unaware that the night was getting dark, Chi Nian glanced at the time: "It's almost ten o'clock!"

Xi Shan raised his head in surprise, and suddenly realized that Chi Nian would "go" - Chi Nian is not a person who lives here, of course he will leave when the time comes, and it is an exception for him to stay for so long.

But he was a little bit reluctant, and the mood of asking the other party "do you have a place to live" and "do you have enough money to pay the rent" went back and forth.Xi Shan thought those were impulsive, and he was wrapped up in similar emotions for the second time. He had to seriously examine himself, whether he really wanted to keep Chi Nian unconsciously.

"How is the condition of the house?"

"It's far enough away."

"Is there enough money?"

The subtext is: or, you come and live with me, I am alone.

Confused, Xi Shan's eyes followed him.

Chi Nian quickly cleaned up the trash can, walked to the entrance with a bag of wrapping paper, and did not forget to tell him about the wound: "I'm leaving today, and if I can't catch the last light rail later, I can only take a taxi... Brother Xi, You'd better not take a bath tonight, lest the scrape touch the water, the doctor said it's easy to get infected—"

"Chi Nian."

At the entrance, the young man who had already stepped on a sneaker leaned over, with an innocent and innocent expression: "Huh?"

Embarrassed by blankness, when Xi Shan saw Xuebi beside him, an excuse immediately jumped into his mind and seized his tongue: "Look, I can't walk these days, I have to walk the dog sooner or later..."

"what?"

"Do you want to move here?"