Dead but not stiff

Shen Bai, who came back for the third time, stood at the door of Gu Xien's house and knocked on the door. After waiting for more than a minute, there was still no movement inside.

"Gu Xi'en?" Shen Bai tried to call out, reached out and twisted the doorknob, but the door lock clicked and opened in response.

Shen Bai was slightly stunned, and then gently opened the door.

Behind the door, Gu Xien stood at the dining table not far away, looking at him quietly, the corners of his eyes were slightly red.

Shen Bai understood in an instant that the person in front of him had already quietly walked over and unlocked the lock when he knocked on the door for the first time. He refused to take the initiative to open the door for him, but he could patiently stand behind the door and wait for him to open the door. Turn the lock and push the door in.

It seems that in this emotional game, it seems that Shen Bai has always been taking the initiative, but secretly, it is Gu Xien who keeps giving the other party opportunities to sneak in.

Shen Bai walked over without saying a word, but Gu Xi'en watched him take half a step back, Shen Bai immediately picked up his arm decisively, brought it into his arms, and locked it tightly in his arms.

"Don't back away." Shen Bai's lips lightly touched the other's cool forehead, soothing in a low voice: "I'm here, where else do you want to go?"

The next moment, Shen Bai's shoulders suddenly sank, and it was Gu Xien who put his head on his shoulders, and leaned against him quietly, silently.

Shen Bai patted his head, "Cry if you want to cry, don't hold back in front of me."

After a while, I heard Gu Xien whisper softly, "I don't want to cry."

Shen Bai sighed: "Oh, I think you want to."

Gu Xi'en punched him on the shoulder, stretched out his hands to wrap his arms around his neck, and whispered seriously in his ear: "You're here, I don't want to cry."

Chen Bai followed his posture, picked him up, put him on the table behind him, put his forehead against his forehead, looked into his eyes and said slowly: "This sweet talk is not enough, the injury on my arm still hurts." It's on."

Sure enough, Gu Xien's eyes were full of guilt and distress, but he replied relentlessly: "...you deserve it."

"But it really hurts..." Shen Bai raised his arm in front of Gu Xi'en, showed him the two deep cuts of blood that had scabbed over it, and continued to add embellishment and said, "I'm already like this, you still have to get rid of it." I was, physically and mentally, battered at the same time, you know I was—”

Gu Xian grabbed his arm and looked at it, then jumped down and walked to the bedroom, "I'm going to get the medicine box."

Shen Bai: "...I haven't finished yet."

Gu Xien continued to walk forward without looking back, "I'll talk about it later."

"There's no reason to say half of a love story and keep half of it." Shen Bai reluctantly followed into the bedroom together, but bumped into the bedroom bed facing him head-on, the messy sheets and the air seemed to be empty. He stopped in his tracks, turned his head to Gu Xien who was bending over to take the medicine box from the drawer under the cabinet, and asked, "Are you all right? Do you feel unwell?"

Gu Xien slammed the drawer, his face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, he stood up and walked out quickly, and replied vaguely: "No."

Shen Bai followed closely behind and walked out, and said happily as he walked: "It's really thanks to my timely cleaning up for you last night, that guy Jiang Yingyue also said that I was inexperienced for the first time, Tsk, I am very talented—"

"Shut up." Gu Xien finally couldn't bear it any longer and turned around to reprimand, his face was already blushing.

This time, Shen Bai remembered eating and beating, so he immediately silenced, walked obediently to the sofa, sat down next to Gu Xien, stretched out his injured arm and raised it in front of him, smiling like a wolf with a big tail stealing : "Thank you, daughter-in-law."

After Gu Xi'en bandaged Shen Bai's arm, it was almost noon, and the reason why the bandage took so long was naturally because during the process, Gu Xi'en had to avoid someone's words and body expressions from time to time. Unbelievable and unexpected harassment.

Shen Bai touched the gauze on his arm, clicked his tongue twice, and said quite proudly: "Daughter-in-law, what do you mean if this is love?"

While packing up the medicine box, Gu Xi'en replied, "Love's offering, then ask about suicide."

Shen Bai: "???"

Shen Bai leaned against the door frame of the bedroom, watched Gu Xien put it back into the medicine box, and then took out a brand new set of home clothes from the cabinet and handed it to him: "Go take a shower and change your clothes, you smell too much of cigarettes gone."

Shen Bai received it in surprise, and asked in disbelief, "You bought it for me?"

Gu Xien's eyes wandered for a moment, and he replied casually: "Well, didn't you say you would come."

Shen Bai rushed over and hugged Gu Xien, kissed him hard on the forehead, before he pushed him away, he immediately got up consciously and rushed into the bathroom.

Gu Xien watched his back disappear behind the bathroom door, and whispered: "Stupid."

When Shen Bai came out of the shower, there was no sign of Gu Xien in the bedroom or the living room. He searched around, and vaguely heard the hum of the washing machine coming from the balcony. Shen Bai walked through the bedroom towards the balcony, and was about to reach out Pushing open the sliding door of the balcony, he heard that Gu Xien seemed to be on the phone with someone.

Shen Bai paused, pricked up his ears to listen, and heard Gu Xien say something to the other party: "You tell him to go to your place tonight, don't mention me, just say that you have something to do with him."

The reason seemed to be asked over there, and Gu Xien replied: "Calculate."

For some reason, Shen Bai had an intuition that it had something to do with that Li Huan from last night. He really didn't want Gu Xien to hide himself about that person, so he decisively stretched out his hand and opened the balcony sliding door.

As soon as Gu Xien looked up and saw him, he didn't show a look of deliberately avoiding him, and continued to say to the person opposite: "Well, sorry to trouble you, see you tonight."

The other party seemed to complain about something, Gu Xien chuckled lightly, and said in a good voice: "Okay, next time you have something to do, I will try my best to help you."

After talking on the phone, he put down the phone, looked at Shen Bai and asked naturally: "Where are the dirty clothes?"

Shen Bai was stunned for a moment, then turned around and hurriedly ran to the bathroom: "I'll get it, I'll get it."

Gu Xien looked at Shen Bai's back, picked up the phone again, and said to the side that hadn't hung up, "By the way, I'll take someone there with me tonight."

Lu Chuening asked over there: "Who is it?"

Gu Xien smiled and replied, "My family."

Gu Xien drove Shen Bai through the receding night streetscape of City C, and they went to Lu Chuening's bar together.

Shen Bai propped his elbows on the edge of the car window, propped his head and stared intently at Gu Xien's side face, finally at a certain red light intersection, Gu Xien turned his head unbearably and protested: "Can you look at something else? Don't keep staring at it." I."

Shen Bai justly refused: "Nothing else looks good to you."

"No matter how beautiful it is, it will get tired of looking at it."

"Being tired can only mean that it is not good-looking enough. Anyway, in my eyes, my daughter-in-law is fresh every second."

Gu Xien gave him a serious look in surprise, "Is this still you from Baidu with a hundred love words?"

"Oh." Shen Bai replied to him seriously: "Maybe because I recently switched to Google."

The car was parked outside the bar. Lu Chuanning was standing at the door smoking a cigarette. When he saw Gu Xien and Shen Bai getting off the car, he raised his eyebrows and said to Gu Xien with a smile, "Here we are."

Gu Xien hummed and asked him, "Where's Li Huan?"

Shen Bai noticed that after hearing Gu Xien's question, Lu Chuening glanced at himself meaningfully, and then raised his chin inwardly: "It's just been a while, and I'm sitting at the bar over there. I see that The boy is also very preoccupied, what happened to you and him?"

Gu Xien said with a sinking face, "You'll know in a while." After speaking, he walked in and asked Lu Chuening: "Do you have anything here that can be used to beat people?"

Lu Chuening was only stunned for a second, and then he slapped his hands as if watching the excitement: "It really is!"

Gu Xi'en paused, raised his chin: "Bring it to me."

"Okay." Lu Chuening replied, and ran to the storage room, avoiding Li Huan's sight at the bar, and came back with a baseball bat after a while, and handed it to Gu Xi'en, "This thing is the last time a group of young people from society fought and left it at my place. Next, I'm thinking about keeping a souvenir, and it will come in handy today."

Shen Bai, who was following behind Gu Xien, carefully compared the lethality of that baseball bat with that of the bedside lamp in the morning, and finally came to the conclusion in his heart that I was indeed the right wife, and then he tilted his head smugly. up the tail.

At this time, Lu Chuening just cast his gaze on Shen Bai, and asked Gu Xi'en, "Would you like to introduce me?"

Gu Xi'en was weighing the weight of the weapon in his hand, and he replied casually after hearing the words: "Let's talk about it when we're done." After saying that, he walked towards the bar with his things in his hands.

Lu Chuening smiled and glanced at Shen Bai, then turned and walked behind Gu Xien.

Li Huanzheng was leaning on the bar counter and drinking his wine absent-mindedly. In fact, he had already begun to feel a little restless in his heart.

Lu Chuening made a phone call to ask him for something. From the tone of his voice, he didn't seem to know that he had drugged Gu Xien. With Lu Chuening's violent temper, if he knew, he would have greeted his ancestor ten times on the phone. Eight generations.But if he didn't know, how could he call himself to the bar out of nowhere? To put it bluntly, the friendship between Lu Chuanning and him was entirely based on Gu Xi'en, the central link.

Li Huan took a sip of his wine, put down his glass, and prepared to wait another 5 minutes. No matter what excuses that guy Lu Chuanning used to keep him, he would go first.Thinking of this, Li Huan secretly breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the cup and took another sip.

As soon as he put down the wine glass, there was a voice behind him that made his heart skip a beat: "Li Huan."

Li Huan bit the bullet and turned his head slowly, and sure enough, he saw Gu Xien standing behind him expressionlessly, with one hand naturally hanging by his side, and in the other hand, he was holding a baseball bat shockingly.

Li Huan immediately jumped off the bar chair in fright, and begged for mercy while stepping back: "Brother Xiaoen... I was wrong, I was really wrong... That thing is actually not mine, it was given to me by someone else..."

"Given to you by someone else?" Gu Xi'en looked at him with a half-smile: "Li Huan, someone gave you the thing, when you used that thing to bully me, did someone hold your arm and make you do it? "

Li Huan had a sad face, but he had the courage to admit his mistake: "I was also temporarily obsessed. I was wrong, and I really knew I was wrong."

While he was distracted by his words, Gu Xien swiftly moved towards him, swung the baseball bat in his hand, and swung it down without any hesitation. There was a muffled sound wrapped in Li Huan's wailing, and Lu Chuanning smiled. The other people who looked around and looked around waved their hands: "It's okay, it's okay, you should have fun."

Immediately afterwards, another stick fell, and Li Huan bowed his waist and hugged his head to beg for mercy, "Brother Xiaoen, you are merciful, I really dare not, really."

Gu Xien kicked him to the ground, and the baseball bat grazed the opponent's cheek with a thud and stuck it on the ground. He looked at Li Huan who kept wailing and begging for mercy, and said slowly: "Li Huan, three years [-] months, I beat you up, only for [-] years and [-] months, should I praise you for your good memory or poor memory?"

Li Huan rubbed his red and swollen arm and said aggrievedly: "I really know I was wrong, Brother Xiaoen..."

Pointing the baseball bat at the tip of his nose, Gu Xien replied in a cold voice: "Three years and eight months ago, you said the same thing, the you at that time, and the you now, from the demeanor of the lie to the content of the lie, They are all the same. Li Huan, have you heard the story of the wolf coming?"

It was only then that Li Huan finally realized the seriousness of the situation. Gu Xien no longer believed in him. Gu Xien's self-proclaimed flawless acting skills were already full of loopholes.

"I..." Li Huan said dejectedly, "I lied to you, but Brother Xiaoen, I really like you too."

Before Gu Xien could react, Shen Bai, who was standing by the bar, jumped up before him: "Li Huan, I see you fucking don't remember to eat or beat? How dare you say who you like?"

Only then did Li Huan notice that Shen Bai was also there, and his dejected expression suddenly became a little more panicked and frustrated. He was still lying on the ground, but he still stretched out his finger and asked in a trembling voice: "Brother Xiaoen!" , you, you, you...you and him...you..."

Shen Bai sneered: "It's just what you think, little stutterer."

Li Huan seemed to have been humiliated, he was even more speechless immediately, his whole face was flushed, he looked at Gu Xi'en and then at Shen Bai, with an expression as if he was about to cry.

Gu Xien turned his head and said to Shen Bai: "Shut up."

Shen Bai nodded repeatedly, and covered his mouth with his hand.

Gu Xien turned around and said firmly: "Li Huan, you better be clear, no matter who I am with, this is not a reason for me to reject you. The only place left for you by my side is a friend or a younger brother. If you don't , then I can only say sorry."

Li Huan looked at Gu Xien sadly, and Gu Xien gave an ultimatum in a cool tone: "This is the last time I will forgive you, Li Huan, listen, I will give you a minute to think, continue to be friends or, from now on The rivers and lakes are gone."

At the bar next to it, Lu Chuening, who was watching the play, took the time to hand Shen Bai a glass of wine. Shen Bai took it and politely said thank you.

Lu Chuening smiled, and replied, "You're welcome."

Shen Bai took a sip, put down the cup, and asked him, "What's your name?"

"Miangui's surname is Lu, Lu Chuanning."

"Oh." The old god Shen Bai responded on the ground, and then asked: "How long have you known Mr. Lu and my family, Gu Xi'en?"

"..." Lu Chuening abruptly swallowed the complaints that were about to come to his lips, and replied truthfully: "According to the calculation, it has been about five or six years."

Shen Bai looked at him sincerely, and humbly asked for advice: "Then you should know a lot about his past."

With an exquisite mind like Lu Chuening, he naturally knew what he was thinking, so he followed his words and said, "It's average, but I should know a little more than you."

Shen Bai rolled his eyes in his heart, but his face was still full of smiles, "Then, can Mr. Lu?"

"I'm afraid I can't." Lu Chuaning's favorite trick was to whet his appetite, and pour a basin of cold water down. He watched Shen Bai's face turn from joy to anger after his words, and took a sip of his wine happily .

However, at the next moment, Shen Bai smiled meaningfully, and slowly said to Lu Chuening: "I know someone who is the current head of the Lu family in S city. His name seems to be Lu Chuanbu. Have you heard of Mr. Lu?" this person?"

Lu Chuening's face turned pale, he lowered his voice, stared fiercely at Shen Bai in front of him, and said coldly: "What do you want?"

"Simple." Shen Bai showed a triumphant smile like he always succeeded, "You tell me a secret, and I will help you keep a secret. Barter and trade fairly."

"Shameless, insidious and shameless." Lu Chuening came to the conclusion without thinking.

"You can't catch up with your daughter-in-law." Shen Bai smiled, took out his phone and raised an eyebrow at Lu Chuening, "Add a WeChat first, and I will ask you privately later."

While the two of them were talking, Gu Xi'en said "Get lost", Li Huan got up from the ground, looked at Gu Xi'en for the last time in aggrieved and frustrated way, then turned and left obediently.

When Gu Xien came back, Shen Bai went up to meet him, exaggeratedly squeezed his shoulders, and said flatteringly: "It's hard work educating the bear."

Lu Chuening, who was threatened by Shen Bai just now, rolled his eyes, snorted coldly, and turned to Gu Xi'en, "What did Xiao Huanzi do wrong? You beat him hard enough."

Gu Xien didn't want to mention it again, so he replied perfunctorily: "It's back to normal."

"Tsk, Xiao Huanzi is really infatuated with you." Lu Chuanning smashed his tongue, deliberately disgusted and Shen Bai, and added: "Otherwise, you should try to be with Xiao Huanzi, at least give it a chance."

"Lu Chuening." Gu Xien turned cold, and called him by his first name, "Don't make such jokes."

Lu Chuening followed the good advice and immediately raised his hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, I was wrong, I was wrong."

Gu Xien knew that he was just joking casually, so naturally he didn't mind too much, so he smiled at him, and then he remembered, reached out and patted Shen Bai's shoulder, and said to Lu Chuening: "Let me introduce, this is my boyfriend, Shen Bai. Bai." Then turned to Shen Bai, "My friend, Lu Chuening."

Lu Chuening clasped his hands together and said, "Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you."

Shen Bai replied in the same way: "It's easy to say, easy to say."

Gu Xien, who didn't know the truth: "..."

"So, Xiao Huanzi chose to be your younger brother in the end?" Lu Chuening changed the topic and asked Gu Xien.

Gu Xian glanced at him inexplicably: "Didn't you just listen to it?"

"Uh..." Lu Chuening shot himself in the foot with a rock, he couldn't say, I happened to be adding WeChat to your boyfriend at that time, so I didn't hear it, so he said haha: "...I God left."

Fortunately, Gu Xien didn't pursue it, and nodded: "Yes."

"Tsk, you're so infatuated." Lu Chuening sighed, "Actually, I think you have—"

"He has me." This time, it was Shen Bai who interrupted Lu Chuaning in time, a warning signal flashed in his eyes, and Lu Chuaning, who was caught by Shen Bai, choked back the following words, picked up the wine glass and smiled. Touched Chen Bai's cup gently, and praised: "It's great that Gu Xien has you."

Shen Bai picked up the wine and drank it down, agreeing: "It must."

Gu Xien looked at the two of them, frowned and said, "What charades are you two playing?"

Shen Bai immediately cleared himself up: "No, daughter-in-law, can we leave now? The gays in this bar are so gay, it's not good to stay for a long time, we'd better leave quickly."

Gu Xien & Lu Chuening: "..." Aren't you fucking gay yourself?

Saying goodbye to Lu Chuening, Gu Xien drove out of Bar Street, checked the time, and asked Shen Bai: "It's still early, you don't come to City C often, do you want to go somewhere?"

Shen Bai refused: "I'm not going anywhere, just go home."

Gu Xien asked with some surprise: "Is there no place you want to go?"

Shen Bai was confident and confident: "My daughter-in-law's home is the place I most want to go."

Gu Xian: "..."

"Let me take you somewhere for dinner." Gu Xien turned the car around and drove in the opposite direction of home.

Shen Bai: "Can't we go home and order a takeaway?"

"No." Gu Xien ruthlessly refused.

Gu Xien took Shen Bai to the snack street near the University City of C City. There was a northern restaurant that Gu Xien frequented when he was in college.

At that time, I probably never would have imagined that a few years later, he would have the opportunity to return to this restaurant with his lover, and sit in the same place and taste the dishes he once liked. Warm a pot of old wine and talk about the stories in the old days.

"I often came to eat with Huang Yiwen at that time, but since he and Tong Ying met, he seldom left the dormitory." It seemed that because of revisiting the old place, Gu Xien was obviously a little excited and excited, and began to talk more , the eyes looking at him were sparkling, which reminded Shen Bai of a previous night when the two of them stood under the street lamp and ate the same roasted sweet potato.

Shen Bai took a sip of tea, and while he wasn't paying attention, stretched out his hand to scratch the tip of his nose, seeing Gu Xien's cute and startled expression unexpectedly, he said, "Do you know what you look like now?"

"what?"

Shen Bai looked at him, he was the only one in his eyes, and said with a smile, "Like a kitten sitting on the shore waiting for fish."

Gu Xien frowned, looked at him and asked, "Then are you a fish?"

Shen Bai shook his head: "No, I'm the one fishing for you."