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Early in the morning of the Chinese New Year, Zhou Yantong and Zhou Yanhang knocked on the door, carrying large and small bags in their hands. Judging by the tender greenness, they were probably just bought vegetables in the morning market.

"Brother, come and pick me up." Zhou Yantong only took off half of his shoe, and hurriedly hung a large bag on Xie Jingnian's hand.

After changing his shoes and sitting on the sofa, he remembered to ask Chen Xi what he was doing.

Just now when Xie Jingnian opened the door, he passed by the door of Chen Xi's bedroom and saw that he was still asleep under the covers.It was indeed too tiring for a while, and Chen Xi had dark circles under his eyes.He secretly wanted Chen Xi to sleep a little longer, so he didn't call him.

The three of them watched TV side by side on the sofa, watching the morning news with gusto.

Chen Xi slept until noon, and Zhou Yantong dragged him to wash the vegetables as soon as he came out of the shower.After washing for a long time, I was still disliked for being unclean, and finally I was ordered to chop meat stuffing.

I just woke up, my eyelids were drooping and I didn't have much energy, and I couldn't chop meat stuffing.

"Bro, let me come."

Xie Jingnian washed the dishes and put them aside, just as he reached out to take the kitchen knife, Chen Xi hid him for a moment, his palm completely covered the back of Chen Xi's hand, the skin felt cool and greasy with water.

The back of the man's hand was very rough, and it was a little itchy when his palm rubbed against it.Xie Jingnian curled his fingers, quickly retracted his hand, and went to the side to help Zhou Yanhang with his work.

Chen Kui reacted slowly and twitched his fingers, staring at Xie Jingnian's figure running around in an apron and raising his eyebrows, his eyes filled with a smile, he was already excited about mincing meat, and Zhou Yantong was startled by the bang sound jumped.

"You're sick!" Zhou Yantong wiped his face, and his voice was so sharp that it could poke a hole in the floor.

"It's Chinese New Year," Chen Xi held a kitchen knife in his hand, pointed at Zhou Yantong obliquely, and said threateningly, "Don't recruit me."

No one paid any attention to Zhou Yantong's angrily screaming.Zhou Yanhang adjusted his glasses, and turned his head to talk to Xie Jingnian: "Brother Jiu is in a good mood today?"

"what?"

Bro, is he... in a good mood?Xie Jingnian glanced over, didn't quite see it, turned off the tap and hummed in response to Zhou Yanhang.

"I found it really hard to talk to you." Zhou Yanhang sighed with a smile, straightened up and thumped his lower back, "You just talk too much in front of Chen Xi."

The kitchen is not big, and even the whispers of a few people can be heard clearly, not to mention that Zhou Yanhang didn't deliberately control the volume at all.

"That's right." Zhou Yantong leaned over in agreement, wrapping his arms around Xie Jingnian's neck, "My younger brother is just too bored, I need to learn from Yu Ning more when I have time. Be a little more cheerful, kid."

"He's doing fine."

Chen Xi didn't know when he had a cigarette in his mouth, and his sleeves were rolled up to reveal his two colorful arms. He used a lot of force when chopping the minced meat, and the shaking of the ash made people afraid of falling into the minced meat.

"You are like this," Chen Xi took the cigarette and blew on Zhou Yantong, all of which fell on the latter's face, "It's annoying."

Zhou Yanhang watched the two bickering with great interest, and couldn't help talking to Xie Jingnian: "The two of them have been arguing like this since they were young, and my brother has never won."

When encountering a topic of interest, Xie Jingnian naturally became more talkative, and asked, "What was Brother Jiu like when he was young?"

"Take a kid." Zhou Yanhang smiled, "I saw him for the first time when I was in elementary school, and I was so scared that I had nightmares for two nights."

"Back when brother Jiu was in high school..." Xie Jingnian suddenly remembered the love letter he threw away last night, "There must be a lot of people chasing him."

"That's a big deal." Zhou Yantong exaggerated, "I can go from our school to the next city!"

Xie Jingnian smiled, and continued to ask: "What about the university?"

After the words fell, even Chen Jiu's voice of chopping minced meat stopped, and there was no sound in the kitchen for a while.

"he……"

"I'm done chopping, I'll go to sleep later." Chen Xi put down the kitchen knife, and returned to the room with his slippers on.

Li Ming was the only patient in the hospital ward, and the remaining two beds were pulled over to serve as seats.

Yao Xi thought it was hot, so he took off his clothes, but there was still only a short suspender under the down jacket.Sitting next to her, Qian Ke put her arms around her shoulders, and rubbed Yao Xi's bare skin once and for all.

"Why, be honest." Yao Xi shrank his shoulders and drew two white marks on Qian Ke's face with his flour-stained fingers.

Yao Xi wiped the flour with disgust on his face, withdrew his hands and leaned there in a daze.

Xie Jingnian had never made dumplings before, and all the dumplings he made were crooked.The strangely shaped dumplings couldn't stand upright, and they leaned against the old dumplings.

Li Ming was half-sitting and leaning on the hospital bed, his complexion became much ruddy, and he could chat with them occasionally.

Finally, Zhou Yanhang and Zhou Yantong took the wrapped dumplings home to cook.

Not far from the hospital is a residential building.Fireworks had been set off in the neighborhood long ago, crackling and exploding in the air, and the flashes of multicolored light and shadows were all gathered in Chen Xi's dark pupils.

That night, Chen Xi sat on the flower bed at the entrance of the hospital and smoked a lot. Later, when he returned to the ward, a group of people gathered around to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, and he also drank a lot of wine.

Xie Jingnian looked at the last cigarette left in his cigarette case - it was a wishing cigarette from a long time ago.

He kept it all the time and didn't want to smoke it.

The New Year's bell rang from the TV in the ward, and Xie Jingnian's cigarette flickered to extinguish the last spark.

Chen Xi lay on the bed and slept deeply, his neat side face sunk into the soft pillow.Xie Jingnian took advantage of the moonlight to carefully look at every part of Chen Xi, and even boldly stretched out his hand to touch his hot skin.

The sleeping man moved, turned over and rushed forward, so scared that Xie Jingnian immediately withdrew his hand.

What wish did he make before?The butt of the wishing cigarette was brought back by him, and it lay next to Chen Shi's cigarette butt in the box.

He himself couldn't remember what the wish was, in short, it was related to Chen Xi.

When will the wish take effect?

Xie Jingnian thinks it can take effect now.

So he bent down, hesitantly touched his lips to Chen Shi's.The moment he touched it, fireworks exploded in Xie Jingnian's mind.It was even more splendid than the big grand scene, which made him dizzy.

Xie Jingnian tentatively tasted the bitterness with a hint of wheat aroma.Just a little bit of it and he was almost drunk.

No wonder Brother Xiu didn't let him drink - his drinking capacity was really bad.

In the early hours of the morning, Chen Yu suddenly woke up for a while, and was stunned when he saw Xie Jingnian lying beside the bed.

The young man's already fair skin was warmed by the night light by the bedside.It was probably hot, and there was still a blush on his cheeks.

Drowsy after drunkenness, Chen Xi reached out his hand to brush Xie Jingnian's hair that was scattered around his ears, and he saw his red earlobes as well.

Chen Kui's fingers touched the tip of his ear, went down the pinna, and finally touched the piece of soft flesh as he wished.

His mouth was full of a mixture of tobacco and alcohol, and the breath exhaled from his nose also had a strong smell of alcohol.Even the little idiot next to him was not spared, as if he had soaked in a beer can for days.

After Chen Xi took a shower, he patted Xie Jingnian to wake him up: "Go take a shower, go back to sleep in your room."

Xie Jingnian woke up in a daze, his lower back was sour from lying on his stomach for a long time.

"Brother Yan is sleeping on my bed." Xie Jingnian rubbed his eyes, still not fully awake, "I have nowhere to go."

Chen Xi took off the alcohol-smelling bed sheet, threw it aside, and replaced it with a new one: "You are here, I will sleep on the sofa."

After he finished speaking, he went to the living room and walked around, only to see Zhou Yanhang crooked on the sofa with his clothes disheveled, his glasses fell on the floor and he almost stepped on him.

When Chen Kui returned, Xie Jingnian had already taken a shower.The person was only wearing a pajamas top, holding pants in his hands, and seemed to be getting ready to put them on.

Xie Jingnian's legs were also very white, long and thin.He didn't seem to be wearing underwear, and a small piece of flesh-colored flesh slipped out from the hem of his pajamas, and under the light, Chen Shi couldn't move his eyes.

The little pervert who didn't wear underwear was looked hot by others, and explained in a panic: "I, my clothes are all in the closet..."

Enthusiasm surged up again, Chen Kui's throat was throbbing, and the roots of his teeth were itchy.

"I'll get it for you, where is it?"

Xie Jingnian felt that he was going crazy.

Just now, Chen Xi was holding his underwear in his hand, walking towards him step by step.

He didn't remember how he put it on with his legs limp, and he didn't remember how he lay next to Chen Xi and shared the same bed with him.

The tip of the nose is full of the laundry detergent smell of new sheets, as well as the faint mint-scented shower gel on Chen Xi's body.

Xie Jingnian lay there staring at the back of Chen Xi's turned head, the place on his underwear that Chen Xi touched seemed to be on fire, and the scorching heat was constantly eroding him.

Xie Jingnian's hands surrendered to desire again.His movements were very light, clenching his teeth for fear of being discovered by Chen Jiu.He couldn't help it, so he couldn't help but let go of the heavy breathing that was almost uncontrollable in his nasal cavity.

There were fireworks outside the window, and the sound covered most of Xie Jingnian's movements, making people even more unscrupulous, so that they didn't realize that the man had already turned around.

Xie Jingnian felt hot air on his face, and when he opened his eyes, he met someone's gaze.A moment of panic caused him to wet his palms uncontrollably.

"Brother Jiu, I..." Xie Jingnian struggled to sit up, his hands were still in his pajama pants, it was inappropriate to put or take them out, so he could only sit there in embarrassment.

Chen Kui reached out and took a few pieces of paper from the side and handed them to him, while he left the room with a cigarette and a lighter.

Xie Jingnian tidied himself up, his heart was in a mess.I couldn't quite see Chen Xi's expression just now, but he must be a little unhappy.Is it even possible to loathe him and find him disgusting because of this?

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, sitting on the edge of the bed thinking about how to face Chen Xi in the future.

Xie Jingnian sat for a long time, but Chen Xi didn't come back until he heard the sound of the door closing.Xie Jingnian hurried to the window of the living room to have a look, but in the end he could only see the blurred figure of the person under the flash of fireworks, and he could only watch Chen Xi go further and further away.

He suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness—Chen Shi might never come back again.