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Chen Xi's tattoo shop is close to the street, and it is fixed at the corner. The pure black outer wall is painted with white patterns, which is particularly conspicuous on the street of the same color.

There is no signboard in this store, and there is an iron notice board on the side of the narrow glass door, with a series of numbers written on it—it is the phone number that Xie Jingnian has already memorized by heart.

Apart from a transparent glass door, there are only two small windows in the store, but the interior is not as dark and depressing as imagined.Probably because Chen Xi installed many chandeliers.

Chen Xi in the attic on the second floor heard the sound of the door opening and looked down, his hands were still wearing black gloves, it must be that a customer was busy.

Xie Jingnian raised his face and smiled at Chen Xi, obediently walked to the sofa in the living room on the first floor and sat down.

The interior decoration is pure white, which is the opposite of the outside, with occasional embellishments of other colors.For example, the sofa under Xie Jingnian's buttocks is black.

There are no patterns on the walls, and all the hangings are old tattoo manuscripts, which are nailed to the wall with small black pushpins one after another.

The dense and beautiful patterns almost covered the entire wall.

Just as Xie Jingnian was stupefied, Chen Kui bent his knuckles, tapped lightly on the black wooden fence, and looked down at him from upstairs: "Pour me a glass of water."

"Oh, good." Xie Jingnian got up slowly, looked around blankly, and couldn't find where to fetch the water.

Chen Xi told him to go forward—but he was surrounded by the walls of the living room, and there was no way to go.

"Brother Rotten, there is a wall ahead." Xie Jingnian stepped back and raised his head.

Chen Kui didn't turn his head this time, and laughed and cursed amidst the humming noise of the machine: "Look carefully, secret door, you idiot."

Xie Jingnian's ears felt hot with embarrassment.This is the same as the last time Chen Xi took him to the bar, but he couldn't find the door.It's just that it was much better this time, at least it didn't hit the wall and hurt my forehead.

He groped for a while on the wall under the attic, and finally pushed open the secret door that almost merged with the white wall.

The space inside is surprisingly large.On the far left is a single bed, a table, and a water dispenser.On the right is the shower room and toilet with transparent compartment.

Xie Jingnian once thought that living in a tattoo parlor was as difficult as a beggar sleeping in a bridge hole, but he never thought that the reality was far from what he imagined.

Chen Xi's guest was a young-looking man, wearing a white shirt and looking very refined.Xie Jingnian glanced at the picture he made, and he didn't match Sven at all.

It is estimated that it is almost finished.A long black and green snake was entangled on his forearm, and the deep red snake eyes were quietly staring at Xie Jingnian.

He froze for a moment, then handed the water to Chen Xi.

Chen Xi didn't answer, so he took a sip from his hand: "You can lie down if you want, and order takeaway when you're hungry."

"Yeah." Xie Jingnian put down the water, and went straight to Chen Xi's single bed without even thinking about it.

The first time he came in and saw it, he wanted to lie down on it.

Sinking into the soft pillow, the tip of his nose is filled with the smell of Chen Shi.

Xie Jingnian heard Chen Xi see off the guests, then ran upstairs and sat while watching him pack the utensils, then touched his flower arm, and said softly: "Brother Jiu, give me a tattoo too."

Chen Kui frowned and turned his head to look at him, without saying a word, he changed the subject in a flat tone, saying that he was going to swim in the swimming pool after dinner.

"I can't swim." Xie Jingnian realized that Chen Xi probably didn't like to hear that he wanted a tattoo, so he paused and said, "...I don't have swimming trunks either."

"Go there and ask your brother to buy it for you." Chen Xi took a cigarette in his mouth, held it between his fingertips, and threw his mobile phone into his arms, "The braised chicken is not spicy."

"Oh."

After the two of them finished eating, they took a taxi to the swimming pool. Zhou Yantong had already changed his clothes and got into the water to swim in the pool.

"Yo!" Zhou Yantong floated on the shore, raised his head to look at Xie Jingnian, held water in his palm and licked him, "My brother is so white!"

"Brother Yan!" Xie Jingnian took a step back, leaning on Chen Xi behind him.

The temperature in summer is already high, even after taking a shower, there is no way to dispel the heat from Chen Xi's body.Xie Jingnian's back was pressed tightly against Chen Xi's chest, and the skin-to-skin contact made people feel hot and uneasy.

Chen Kui found a floating board for Xie Jingnian and asked him to hold it and play in the pool.

Xie Jingnian watched Chen Xi and Zhou Yantong swim in the water like a competition, and the splashed water hit him in the face.

After wiping his face, he couldn't see Chen Xi's figure, only Zhou Yantong was still circling around like having fun.

"how did you make it?"

Chen Xi's voice suddenly came from behind, and then Xie Jingnian felt a heat source on his back.

Probably Chen Xi's hand.Touching his bumpy scars one after another, along the shoulder blades all the way down to the waist.

Those were all made by Xie Laosan when he was drunk before.It was scratched by a broken beer bottle.

He rarely looked at his back, and those scars had healed long ago.But now that he was touched by Chen Xi again, he felt his back throbbing, and the water splashed down from his body like blood from them.

"I used to get into fights with people." Xie Jingnian hugged the foam board tightly, feeling the rough fingertips moving gently on his back, and his half-closed eyelashes trembled uncontrollably.

"En." Chen Xi's deep voice seemed to be wrapped in a layer of sparkling water, and it stayed in Xie Jingnian's ear for a while.

"Back then, when I mentioned tattoos to you, I just wanted to cover them up." Xie Jingnian felt too hot after soaking in the cool water, and smiled, "Brother Rotten, are you charging too much? How long do you have to save?"

Chen Xi withdrew his hand, and there was no sound. After a long time, Xie Jingnian almost couldn't help turning his head to look.

"Not expensive." Chen Xi said.

After finishing speaking, he dropped Xie Jingnian, turned his head and buried himself in the water, and his face burst into water again.

"Brother, come here, come, brother will teach you how to swim!" Zhou Yantong swam over and pulled Xie Jingnian's foam board, leading him to float from the edge of the pool to the middle of the pool.

There are few people during this time period, leaving a large space in the center of the swimming pool.

Zhou Yantong probably really wanted to teach him, and his mouth was so dry that he wanted to lower his head and take a few sips of water from the swimming pool.

"Why did Chen Xi go?" Zhou Yantong looked around and said, "Why is he still swimming? Did he take gunpowder today?"

"I don't know." Xie Jingnian rested his chin on the foam board, stroked the water with his fingertips, and from time to time, a few strings of water splashed on Zhou Yantong's face.

Can Zhou Yantong do that?He has to come back.It's just that it was a little bit of effort, and it directly poured the hair of the person through.

Chen Xi glared at Zhou Yantong, and led Xie Jingnian to find a place to dry his hair.

Xie Jingnian stood in front of the mirror, while Chen Kui sat on the bench behind and looked at him.

He kept staring at the lines on the young man's white and clean back.He only knew the scar on the man's arm, the bloody wound from the night they met.

Like a piece of candy with a soiled rind.Those stains couldn't hide his beauty, and it always made people want to take a bite, but when they put it in their mouths, they found that even the core was sour.

This sourness shot straight from the tip of his tongue into Chen Jiu's heart, making him ache.