Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

I just want to take a bath..." Xu Rui picked up a corner of the cloth curtain that fell on the ground, and couldn't get it off after a long time.

Standing outside the bathroom, Lin Pai was speechless. He walked into the bathroom, took the shower head and sprayed water on the glass, and then directly pasted the fallen cloth curtain on the glass, "Just use it, If you feel... think it's going to fall, add some water to it..."

"Oh..." Xu Rui stared blankly at Lin Pai walking out of the bathroom.

Lin Pai connected the charging cable to the phone, took out a piece of bread from Xu Rui's bag, and gnawed on it.

The sound of running water in the bathroom behind him rang intermittently. He opened the search bar of his phone and entered the three words "Shi'an City".

All kinds of information rushed to his face, most of which introduced which district in Shi'an City, or various real estate advertisements in Shi'an City, and some city promotions.

Regarding the project mentioned by the hotel owner, after all, it happened ten years ago. In addition to the ambiguous words of the little old man, he was obviously unwilling to mention more. Lin Pai turned over more than [-] pages and found no useful information.

The sound of water flowing behind him suddenly became sharper. Lin Pai turned his head subconsciously and saw Xu Rui was spraying water on the glass with the shower head.

"Why is this piece of cloth so disobedient..."

Xu Rui directly rushed the water up, and the whole cloth curtain slid down along the water flow, only the corner fixed on the ceiling was still hanging stubbornly.

The water rushes through the transparent glass, blurring the spring scenery behind.

36. Chapter 36

Lin Pai turned his head quickly, pretending to be nonchalant and continuing to swipe his phone.After a while, the sound of water running behind him stopped abruptly, and after a while, he heard Xu Rui walking out of the bathroom.

"I've finished washing, you can go in." Xu Rui said to his back, "This train really smells of everything..."

Lin Pai responded, and turned around to see that Xu Rui was only wearing pants, looking around the room, "Can't you put on your clothes?"

"The clothes are outside, and the place is very heated..." Xu Rui walked to the bed, took the backpack next to Lin Pai, and pulled out a piece of clothing from it, "I just said where is the bag, it's with you .”

Lin Pai hastily arranged the changed clothes, got up and walked to the bathroom.

"Lin Pai!" Xu Rui called to him, and said to him with a smirk, "It's the first time I saw you blushing..."

Lin Pai ignored him, opened the bathroom door and walked in. Xu Rui yelled outside, "Did you see something just now? Did it look good?"

"No." Lin Pai shouted to him through a layer of glass.

"Then why are you blushing?"

“Too much heating!”

This is an undeveloped area in Shi'an City. Coupled with the recent rain and snow, few people go out except to make a living.

The grocery stores and small restaurants on the street are open as usual, with only one or two customers occasionally, and acquaintances only meet for a little greeting, so it is not noisy during the day.

Xu Rui unplugged the phone that had been charged all night, and it was almost noon.

He stared at the ceiling for a few minutes, turned his head to see Lin Pai's peaceful sleeping face in the next bed, and finally woke up completely.

The skin is very fair and the eyelashes are very long. Xu Rui has known these for a long time, but Lin Pai's cheeks are still faintly blush at this moment. Could it be that the heat is too high, and he blushed all night?

Xu Rui kicked off the quilt two or three times, got up and opened a window facing the street, the cold air outside the house immediately poured in, and after being stuffy in the heating room all night, he felt very cool now, he opened the window slightly Gotta be bigger.

"It's so cold..." Lin Pai complained vaguely, turned over and wrapped the quilt tighter.

"What did you say?" Xu Rui turned around, walked to his bed and squatted down.

Lin Pai closed his eyes, his eyelashes fluttered uncomfortably. He shrank under the quilt, stretched out a leg and kicked Xu Rui, "I said it was cold to death."

Xu Rui leaned back, almost sat on the ground, got up and closed the window again.

He complained as he walked to the bathroom, "Lin Pai, I think you have become irritable recently, especially after getting off the train. When I was eating last night, I just glanced at the coriander in your bowl. You stared at me, and I I didn't let you eat it, did I..."

After Xu Rui brushed his teeth and came out, Lin Pai was still sleeping there, with a thin layer of sweat oozing from his forehead, and he felt something was wrong.

Xu Rui tried the temperature on his forehead, then touched his own, it seemed a little hot.Not sure, he simply leaned over and pressed his forehead.

"What are you doing?" Lin Pai opened his eyes, with his foreheads touching, Xu Rui's eyes were only a few centimeters away from him, and he retracted his eyes in a panic.

Xu Rui stood up, bowed his head and said to him, "You seem to have a fever, I'll go downstairs and ask if there is a thermometer."

"I have a fever?" Lin Pai sat up from the bed in bewilderment, feeling dizzy for a while, he shook his head, put the back of his hand on his forehead, and didn't take it seriously, "Maybe it's just a little acclimatization."

"Take your temperature and we'll talk."

Xu Rui came back soon, and Lin Pai came out from the bathroom after brushing his teeth, and saw that he really took back a thermometer, but the look on his face seemed very embarrassed.

"This...there is a thermometer, but the grandfather downstairs said...he said..." Xu Rui hesitated and couldn't explain why.

"What did he say?" Lin Pai wiped his face and reached for the thermometer, but Xu Rui avoided it.

"He said it was used by his grandson, you know it's used by children, right? It's... put it below, if you want to put it in your mouth, it seems a bit disgusting?"

Xu Rui moved his eyes down, and tapped Lin Pai's waistband with his fingertips, "Or you... make it up?"

Lin Pai moved a few steps to the side to avoid Xu Rui, and raised his hand to take off the sweater he just put on. After a crackling static sound, only a loose shirt was left on his body, and he stretched out his hand towards Xu Rui, " give it to me."

"Are you sure you don't need me to help you?" Xu Rui hesitated and handed out the thermometer.

"Don't you know there is another place called the armpit?" Lin Pai almost snatched the thermometer, he unbuttoned two buttons, flicked them in the air a few times, and then stretched in from the neckline.

The mercury thermometer usually takes more than 5 minutes to measure. Lin Pai sat on the edge of the bed with his head bowed, kicking the toe of Xu Rui's shoe on the opposite side in boredom, and suddenly felt a scorching gaze fall on his head.

He raised his head suddenly, only to realize that the line of sight was not on the top of his head, but on his chest.

Lin Pai tightened his neckline helplessly, "What shameful things are you thinking about every day?"

"I'm thinking of you." Xu Rui smiled and shrank his legs back, out of Lin Pai's reach, "You're blushing again, you didn't blush before."

"I have a fever." Lin Pai looked away and stopped talking.

After about six or seven minutes, Xu Rui got up and walked to Lin Pai, and stretched out his hand to him. Lin Pai took out the thermometer from his clothes and handed it over without looking at it.

Xu Rui squinted his eyes and looked for the mercury line in the thermometer, "37 degrees eight, is it considered a low fever?"

"I just said that I don't feel much..." Lin Pai nodded, and began to put a sweater on his body, his muffled voice came through the wool, "You can go out after changing your clothes, you go and return the thermometer Bar."

Xu Rui stood there without moving, and waited until Lin Pai changed his clothes before tentatively saying, "Why don't you rest for another day, wait until the fever subsides before going out, and don't be in a hurry..."

Lin Pai looked at him and paused, then turned around and looked for his backpack to pack it up, "No, let's go back early and return the thermometer when we go downstairs."

"Lin Pai!" Xu Rui grabbed his shoulder from behind and pushed him back onto the bed, "You're almost burning to 38! You can't run away from the house, don't say anything if you run away." Now, even if you travel to yesterday, it’s useless.”

"I don't need it, so I don't need it!" Lin Pai pushed his hand away vigorously, just about to stand up, but was pressed back to sit back.

"Then let's take a step back..."

"How do you want me to take a step back? It is my dad who is missing now, not your dad!"

"I know you're in a hurry, do you think I'm not in a hurry?"

"What do you have to worry about? Isn't it enough to travel and relax! What does it matter to you whether someone's whereabouts are unknown?"

"Lin Pai, please speak carefully, don't speak in a weird way! What am I worried about? I'm so fucking worried about you! I don't know the place here, so what if you burn it out?"

Xu Rui suddenly regretted that he was only yelled at by Lin Pai, but he didn't know where there was an unknown fire, and now he is arguing with him...

Lin Pai raised his head and stared at him, panic flashed in his eyes, he opened his mouth, and finally stopped arguing.

Xu Rui turned his head away and took two deep breaths, and when he calmed down, he put his hands on his shoulders again, resting on Lin Pai's neck, rubbing his thumbs against his face, "I'm sorry... I'll go buy some food first , when your fever subsides in the afternoon, we will go out, is that okay?"

Lin Pai lowered his eyes, fluttered his long eyelashes twice, as if he was frustrated with his master, drooping and not moving.

He nodded silently.

The door of the room was opened and closed, Lin Pai glanced at the crack of the door that had just been closed, his eyes flickered a little, in fact he should apologize, but the fact is that he chose to remain silent just now.

He leaned back and fell on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze, thinking how awkward he was.

Shi'an City seemed to be a huge magnetic field. Ever since he got off the train, every inch of his skin seemed to be covered with a layer of roughness.