Dead but not stiff

Days passed and it was Friday again. Early in the morning, Shen Bai received a call from his father, ordering him without explanation to go home for dinner at night.

Shen Bai had 1 rejections in his heart. He originally planned to live a two-person world with Gu Xien, so he booked the restaurant three days in advance.

As a result, Cheng Yaojin was killed halfway, and Shen Bai felt extremely depressed.

"...Dad, didn't I just go home and eat last week?"

"What you ate last week was from last week. Did you stop eating after lunch and dinner?" Look, what a familiar line, Shen Bai picked out his ears and said helplessly, "But I really have something to do at night."

"Don't lie to me, your mother sent a WeChat message to ask your colleague Xiao Gu, you are both fine tonight." Shen's father betrayed Shen's mother and Gu Xi'en at the same time without hesitation.

Shen Bai: "???" Gu Xien, since when did you have such a close relationship with my mother?

"So my mother also invited Gu Xien to our house for dinner?" Shen Bai grabbed the point and asked back.

Father Shen chuckled, "I see that your mother and that little Gu hit it off quite well. If he wants to come, you can bring them together."

Shen Bai muttered in his heart: What kind of fate, my mother is clearly the upper body of the fan girl.

But this time he kept his eyes open and asked Shen's father directly: "Will Uncle Wu and his daughter go?"

Father Shen's sudden silence told Shen Bai the answer directly, and the father and son were silent for a while at the same time, before Shen Bai spoke again, with a serious and helpless tone, "Dad, why do you insist on tying me up with that Wu Jiaying?"

Father Shen's answer made Shen Bai suddenly feel powerless and irritable, "Can't you try to hang out with her?"

"No, Dad, unless I die and reincarnate, I won't be with her in this life."

Shen Bai heard his father's rapid and heavy breathing over there, he thought his father would throw a fit of anger like before, scold him and hang up the phone, so maybe he wouldn't have to go home at night.Unexpectedly, after Shen's father calmed himself down, he sighed heavily, and said to Shen Bai: "You should come back at night first, and we'll talk when you come back."

After hanging up his father's phone, Shen Bai stared at the fine dust floating up and down in the light coming in from the sun, thought for a moment, then picked up the phone on the table and called Gu Xien.

This time the phone rang twice and was picked up, Gu Xien's soft voice floated into his ears: "Shen Bai?"

Hearing this voice, Shen Bai involuntarily raised the corners of his mouth, raised his eyebrows, and asked with a smile, "What are you doing?"

"I'm going to the construction site, but you suddenly called, is there something wrong?"

Shen Bai immediately started to return to the topic and asked the teacher: "When did my mother add your WeChat, why didn't I know?"

"It was added when I went to your house for dinner last time." Gu Xien replied calmly and truthfully.

"Why didn't I see, what are you two doing under my nose?"

Gu Xien was silent for a moment and spoke again, still saying flatly: "Can't you add it? Then I'll delete it, and you can say sorry to Auntie for me."

"Don't, don't, look at you, I didn't say anything, and you were in a hurry again."

Gu Xian: "...Then what's the matter with you?"

"My dad called and told us to have dinner at home tonight." Shen Bai then changed the subject.

"Well, my aunt sent a WeChat message in the morning to ask me if I'm free tonight."

"Why didn't you make a confession with me in advance, I booked a restaurant for the evening to spend a two-person world with you."

Gu Xien didn't answer, but Shen Bai made some calculations in his heart. Last time he made a mistake, he underestimated Wu Jiaying's strong inner endurance. Since he knew in advance that Wu Jiaying would also go this time, he definitely wouldn't take him with him again. He appeared in front of that woman with Gu Xien.

This didn't involve any guilty conscience, he and Wu Jiaying were quite clear, and they refused quite clearly.He just wanted to protect Gu Xien, prevent him from suffering any harm from his own side, and wanted to cut off all the thorns on the way for the two of them without Gu Xien knowing it at all.

Gu Xien naturally heard Shen Bai's hesitation, so he asked, "What are you embarrassing for? Just speak up if you have something to say. If you hold back, don't you give me a chance to think wildly?"

"My daughter-in-law is smart." Shen Bai caught the opportunity to flatter her, and continued to say: "I'll go back alone tonight. You get off work at night and ask the driver to take you home. What do you want to eat? Order takeaway for you, okay?"

Gu Xi'en smiled and said, "No need, it just happened that Zhongli WeChat invited me to have dinner tonight. I was still hesitating just now. If that's the case, I'll tell her to have dinner together."

Shen Bai knew that Gu Xien was stepping down a step for himself, and suddenly felt moved and guilty. He wanted to say something nice, but his brain short-circuited and he didn't know how to speak clumsily. In the end, he just stumbled and said: " Then...well, do you want me to book a restaurant for you? Why don't you go to the one I booked..."

"The couple's restaurant you booked, are you sure you want me and Zhongli to go?"

"Bah, pretend I didn't say anything." Shen Bai returned to his rational position, and immediately changed his words, "Then where are you going to eat?"

"We are two adults, can't find a place to eat yet? Just leave it alone, it's time to do your own business and drive carefully."

"Okay," Shen Bai said softly, "I'll see you that night."

Gu Xien was surprised: "Are you back?" He thought that Shen Bai would just sleep at his parents' house and not run back like last time.

Shen Bai raised his eyebrows: "My wife is waiting at home, can I not come back?"

Although he didn't bring Gu Xi'en with him, Shen Bai didn't go back alone. He turned to Shen Xi's school halfway, and brought the girl Shen Xi back to his parents' house.

Since face-to-face refusal and cold treatment didn't work, let's just pretend that this person doesn't exist, and bring the girl Shen Xi as a shield, so that Shen Bai can at least avoid the possibility of being alone with Wu Jiaying at his parents' house.

When they arrived at their parents' house, the father and daughter of the Wu family were already there. Wu Jiaying heard the sound of the door opening and came out of the kitchen. When she saw Shen Bai, she had a virtuous and gentle smile on her face as always, as if the relationship between the two was really as father Shen hoped. It's like being intimate.

"Auntie just said that the few dishes you made tonight are all the dishes you liked when you were young. I am learning from Auntie." Wu Jiaying said with a smile to Shen Bai who took off his coat and walked into the house.

Shen Bai glanced at her expressionlessly, then turned to ask Shen Xi: "What did you just say?"

Shen Xi had already been instilled by Shen Bai in advance with the idea of ​​being a competent shield. After changing his shoes, he stood up straight, and said with an ah, "I said I'm going to find something in your room, come with me bro."

Shen Bai was dragged by Shen Xi's arm, leaving Wu Jiaying behind and directly went up to the second floor, on the way Shen Xi smacked his tongue and whispered to Shen Bai: "Am I going too far, will uncle hit me?"

"You have done more extreme things since you were young, and my father never beat you."

"Hey, I'm a friendly army now. Is it really okay for you to treat your friendly army like this? Be careful of my betrayal."

"The next time you see your sister-in-law, please look into his eyes and repeat what you just said."

"Wow, you useless man, you actually use your own wife as a shield."

The two murmured all the way into Shen Bai's room on the second floor. Shen Xi walked to the bedside, stretched his arms and spread his body, plunged in and merged with the bed.

After a while, her head was still buried in the quilt, and she said in a low voice, "When will you have a showdown with my uncle and the others?"

Shen Bai sat on the chair and looked at his mobile phone, and returned to her without raising his head when he heard the words: "It's still too early."

Shen Xi got up, took off his shoes and sat cross-legged on the bed, continued to break the casserole and asked the end: "Then when do you plan?"

Shen Bai raised his eyes from the phone speechlessly, "Are you finished? Why do children ask so many questions?"

Shen Xi grabbed the pillow and beat it twice, then said to Shen Bai earnestly: "I just think it's quite dangerous for you to do this. If something happens to the east window one day, you can only choose one of the two. Are you standing on my side?" Sister-in-law's side is my uncle's side?"

"Why do you make such a simple question of who should be rescued first when the daughter-in-law or parents fall into the water?

Shen Xi angrily grabbed the pillow and threw it at it, "You are so boring!"

Shen Bai grabbed the pillow and was about to throw it back when there was a knock on the door.

Shen Xi, who was lying on the bed with his head covered, looked at Shen Bai suspiciously, Shen Bai's face darkened, and he asked in a deep voice, "Who?"

Sure enough, Wu Jiaying's voice came from outside: "Shen Bai, it's me."

"What's the matter?" Shen Bai's cold voice made Shen Xi shiver uncontrollably.

"Can you open the door?" Wu Jiaying begged persistently.

"Miss Wu, don't you understand whether men and women can kiss each other?"

"Then why is Shen Xi in there?"

Shen Xi who was named had a look of incredulity. Shen Bai was worried about Shen Xi's presence, afraid that Wu Jiaying would say something unpleasant, so he walked over and opened the door, with a very impatient tone: "What's the matter?"

Wu Jiaying who was outside the door suddenly rushed in and put all her weight on Shen Bai's body. Shen Bai was caught off guard by her pounce, staggered and took two steps back.As a result, before he could stand still, Wu Jiaying immediately started the next move. She stretched out her hand and pressed the back of Shen Bai's head forcefully. This force forced Shen Bai to lower his head, and then she saw her tiptoeing her head up, just so directly Kissed him on the mouth.

Shen Xi at the side gasped, covered her mouth and widened her eyes, her face was full of panic and death.

After reacting, Shen Bai pushed it away without hesitation. Wu Jiaying was pushed hard by Shen Bai, and her back hit the door directly, and with a bang, the door was closed heavily by the force of the impact.

She stared blankly at Shen Bai, then her eyes turned red, she covered her face and slowly squatted down, sobbing and crying.

Shen Bai's face was ashen and furious, he never expected that Wu Jiaying would play this trick, and he would be slapped by a girl.

"Shen Xi!" Shen Bai yelled at Shen Xi in a rage, and the one called was Shen Xi who jumped off the bed, and Shen Bai said coldly: "Go and pull her up."

Shen Xi did as soon as she heard the words, she walked over and stretched out Wu Jiaying's arm to try to pull her up, but the other party didn't cooperate, she just squatted on the ground and continued to cry by herself, Shen Xi said in embarrassment: "Sister Wu, you first stand up……"

Several old people downstairs also ran up when they heard the commotion. Father Shen asked anxiously outside the door: "What's wrong? What happened?"

Shen Bai walked over, stretched out his hand mercilessly and pulled Wu Jiaying up from the ground, Shen Xi pulled Wu Jiaying aside with great winking.

Shen Bai opened the door, and the old people outside the door saw Wu Jiaying who was crying inside, and Shen's mother became anxious immediately. She cast her eyes on Shen Bai and asked repeatedly: "Oh, what's wrong with this child? Shen Bai Did you bully others?"

Father Shen was shocked and annoyed, he stared at Shen Bai and asked, "You bastard, what have you done?"

Furious and distressed, Father Wu went up to pull his daughter to his side, and said to Father Shen heartbroken, "Old Shen, what are you doing?"

"Let her say it herself." Shen Bai frowned and his eyes were cold. His expression and what he said made the old people start to guess that things might not be that simple, so they turned their eyes to Wu Jiaying again. What responded to them was Wu Jiaying's more high-pitched and excited crying.

Shen Xi who was on the side couldn't stand it anymore, and took the initiative to stand up and explain: "Uncle, it was this sister Wu who broke in suddenly, hugged my brother and kissed him without saying a word, we were all shocked."

"This..." Shen's mother was stunned, Shen's father was also embarrassed and shocked, and Wu's father was even more ashamed when he heard the words, shaking his daughter again and again and asking: "Is what she said true? You speak!"

Wu Jiaying felt as if she was about to cry, and she said intermittently while sobbing: "I...I can't help it, I like him, but why...why did he reject me, what did I do wrong... I You can change it, change it to what he likes...as long as you can be with him...I can do whatever you want...it doesn't matter..."

Shen Xi's heart: Fuck...it's awesome...

Shen Bai's heart: I fucking want to hit a woman right now.

Shen's mother has obviously never experienced such a thing, but she knows that her son is Mo Ruomu, and she knows that from this moment on, this marriage between the Shen and Wu families is completely impossible.She glanced worriedly at Shen Bai and then at her husband, and said first, "Okay, oh, this kind of thing is all about your love and my wish. Old Wu, this time we are sorry for your family , I messed up the mandarin ducks without making it clear, and made Jiaying feel wronged. Jiaying, Auntie apologizes to you, stop crying, ah."

"Mom, why do you keep apologizing? Shouldn't this Miss Wu apologize to me?"

Shen's mother slapped Shen Bai's body with a slap, and said angrily, "Are you out of your mind? She's an innocent girl, just kiss you, and you're still acting up?"

"A female hooligan is not a hooligan?"

Wu Jiaying's crying became louder.

"You, you, you..." Shen's father finally couldn't listen anymore, pointed at the door with trembling hands and said to Shen Bai: "Get out!"

"Okay." Shen Bai responded very simply, and then walked around a few people decisively and went downstairs with a graceful figure, strode to the entrance, picked up his coat and opened the door, waved his sleeves and disappeared like this Under the dumbfounded eyes of others.

Shen Xi who was left behind: Brother, did you forget something?

Just when Shen Xi was thinking about whether she should go after Shen Bai or stay to comfort her uncle and aunt, Wu Jiaying at the side suddenly broke away from her father's hand emotionally, ran downstairs like crazy, and opened the door Just rushed out.

"Jiaying!" Father Wu only had time to call out his daughter's name before the door was slammed shut and forced him to refrain from the rest of the sentence.

He became anxious all of a sudden, and while calling Jiaying, he wanted to chase after him. Father Shen quickly stopped him and persuaded him: "Old Wu, don't worry!" Then he turned to look at Shen Xi: "Xixi, hurry up and chase after me!" Go out and have a look."

As the only able-bodied young man left behind, Shen Xi became a coolie without hesitation. With a cry, she quickly ran downstairs and chased him out.

Shen Xi chased all the way to the outside of the yard, but found that even half of the person was gone.Shen Bai and his car, as well as Wu Jiaying, seemed to have used teleportation, and they were all gone.

"Oh, I'll go." Shen Xi rubbed her stomach that was about to run out of breath, and took out her mobile phone to call Shen Bai.

The phone was picked up quickly, and Shen Xi roared angrily, "Where did you go?"

Shen Bai's tone was quite inexplicable: "I'm going home."

"Your uncle! What about me!" Shen Xi stomped her feet angrily.

"Oh," Shen Bai seemed to suddenly remember that there was still Shen Xi, and said very embarrassedly: "I really forgot."

Shen Xi was so angry that he stood on the side of the road and rolled around, "You are ungrateful! You kill the donkey! You are a dead dog!"

"You belong to a donkey and a dog. What kind of animal are you?"

"Anyway, I don't have a brother like you!"

Shen Bai had enough of teasing, and said to Shen Xi: "Okay, you can sleep at my house tonight, and be a little padded jacket for me, anyway, tomorrow is the weekend."

Shen Xi actually didn't think about going to his house with Shen Bai again, after all, the taste of light bulbs is not good, but being ignored like this makes her really angry.

After venting here, Shen Xi remembered the business, and said to Shen Bai: "By the way, not long after you went out, Wu Jiaying chased you and came out, did you see her?"

Shen Xi heard him sneer, and said lightly: "I didn't see it, what's the matter? It takes more than 24 hours to report the disappearance, so wait."

Shen Xi: "You are too heartless..."

"Treat the enemy as ruthlessly as the autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves."

"But Wu Jiaying isn't considered an enemy, isn't she just liking you..." Perhaps as a girl, she felt an inexplicable sympathy for each other, so Shen Xi spoke good words for Wu Jiaying.

"It wasn't counted before, but after tonight it will be."

"Hey, you are such a big man with such a small mind, why is she sorry for you?"

"She didn't feel sorry for me, but if I don't do this, I will feel sorry for your sister-in-law."

"...For a while, I didn't know whether to praise you or scold you."

"Put away all the boasting and scolding first, don't stay outside, go back quickly."

"Oh."

After hanging up the phone, Shen Bai hummed a little tune in a surprisingly cheerful mood and drove all the way to the city.

He didn't notice that in a taxi behind him, Wu Jiaying was sitting in the co-pilot, her eyes fixed on the black Cayenne in front of her, and she said to the driver, "Follow the car in front."

Gu Xien followed the project team to work overtime until after seven o'clock in the evening. The driver routinely sent the others back to the hotel, then turned around and sent Gu Xien to Yinhai Community.

The car was stuck at an intersection where the red light was too long, Gu Xien accidentally received a call from Shen Bai.

He picked it up in surprise, and heard Shen Bai asking in a hurry: "Where are you eating with that girl Zhong Li?"

Gu Xien got stuck, asking Zhongli to have dinner was just a gimmick, but Shen Bai actually took it seriously.

He asked back with a guilty conscience: "What's wrong?"

"I'm going to find you now."

Gu Xian: "Ah...?"

"Ah, what, I just came out of my parents' house, how about this, you just send me the location."

Gu Xien didn't know how to answer it for a while, so he replied hello, hung up the phone and sent the location to Shen Bai bravely.

Half a minute later, Shen Bai called again: "This is clearly the way back to our house, why are you two squatting on the curb to eat?"

Gu Xi'en: "Well... I didn't invite Zhongli to dinner, I'm working overtime tonight."

What Gu Xien didn't expect was that Shen Bai's nagging mouth did not express any opinion on this, but just said: "That's just right, I'm almost home too, if you arrive first, wait for me at the gate of the community In a while, I'll take you to dinner."

The bewildered Gu Xien replied hello, hung up the phone, passed the red light, the driver stepped on the accelerator, and the car quickly drove towards the Yinhai community.

At the gate of the community, Gu Xien got off the drive and said goodbye to the driver, and stood alone by the roadside waiting for Shen Bai.

After a while, Shen Bai's car came swiftly from the opposite side, and stopped firmly in front of Gu Xien. He rolled down the window and said to Gu Xien with a smile, "Get in the car."

Gu Xien opened the car door and sat in. Before he could sit still, he was suddenly pulled by a huge force. Shen Bai held his shoulders with both hands, and rubbed him into his arms involuntarily.

Gu Xien's eyes widened in astonishment. Just as he was about to break free, he heard Shen Bai, who had buried his head in the crook of his neck, saying in a very aggrieved voice, "Daughter-in-law... I miss you so much..."

The breath of air he exhaled while speaking scratched Gu Xien's neck and made it numb like an electric shock. Gu Xien stopped struggling, stretched out his hand and patted his back comfortingly, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay." Shen Bai's breath was filled with Gu Xien's smell, mixed with the smell of the bottle of men's shampoo in his bathroom on the tip of his hair, it all belonged to him.Like a drug addict, he took a deep breath and said slowly, "Let me hug you for a while, just for a while."

The two hugged quietly in the car, and the traffic was surging outside. Everyone was immersed in their own world, and no one would pay attention to them deliberately.

Except for Wu Jiaying who just got off the taxi on the opposite side of the road, she stood there quietly, looking at the two men who were embracing each other in the black Cayenne opposite with a blank expression.

After a long time, she forced a sneer from her throat, turned around and walked slowly back along the way she came, gradually disappearing into the crowded neon night.

In the car, Shen Bai who let go of Gu Xien suddenly frowned, leaned out the window and looked around vigilantly.

"What's wrong?" Gu Xien asked.

"I think someone was staring at us just now." Shen Bai looked around and guessed: "Could it be that girl Shen Xi who came here?"

"Shen Xi? Didn't you go back to your parents' house?"

Shen Bai didn't notice the deepening suspicion in Gu Xien's eyes at all, and he kept searching around.

Gu Xian pulled him back into the car, and asked him with a straight face, "What the hell did you do?"

Shen Bai, who was dragged back into the car, was stunned for a moment, then fixed his eyes on Gu Xien, who had an overly serious expression, and immediately defended: "I'm really home, I'll send four."

"Then where are you acting?"

Asked by Gu Xien, Shen Bai recalled the grief and indignation of being kissed forcibly in his mind, he immediately grunted like a golden retriever reprimanded by his master, took Gu Xien's hand and said: "You let me first Give me a kiss and I'll tell you again."

Gu Xien stared at his face for two seconds, then shook off his hand, sat upright and looked ahead indifferently, with a calm and unwavering tone: "Forget it if you don't say anything."

"Gu Xi'en, you are too heartless..."

"Treating liars is as ruthless as the autumn wind sweeps away fallen leaves."

Shen Bai: "..."

Faced with such a familiar sentence, Shen Bai didn't know for a moment whether he should be happy that Gu Xien and him had the same language understanding, or should he be sad that the same words would retribution on him so soon?