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It was late at night, the sound of breathing was even, one person was sound asleep and the other was awake, Xiao Qiuyuan always supported Zhou Shangli's back with one hand, preventing him from unconsciously rolling over and crushing his injury in deep sleep.

Xiao Qiuyuan was very sober. In the dark, he focused on Zhou Shangli's sleeping face. His index finger gently traced from the earlobe to the chin. It was a perfect arc. He remembered the first time he saw Zhou Shangli, slender With a tall and vigorous figure, wearing a fisherman hat, wearing sunglasses on the bridge of the nose, carrying a backpack, standing between two rows of flower baskets, holding a camera to take pictures of the newly opened photo studio, after the shooting, he turned his head and looked The surrounding environment revealed a bright smile.

Xiao Qiuyuan was standing by the window at that time, seeing him smile, his mood suddenly brightened.Xiao Qiuyuan envied and yearned for such a pure and complacent smile. Many years ago, he also had such a smile.

Not long after, Xiao Qiuyuan found that he often appeared in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the studio, sometimes standing, sometimes sitting on a chair, sometimes tinkering with the camera, or stretching, he didn't seem to be in a hurry when there were no customers in the studio, The smile is as bright as ever.

Xiao Qiuyuan was trapped in the ice cellar, and needed such a person who was radiant and warm from the inside to the outside. Now, Xiao Qiuyuan regretted it, and he was afraid to drag Zhou Shangli into the ice cellar.

I hurt my back, and I won’t go to the photo studio for the time being. When I don’t have a job, Zhou Shangli is very homely. He spends all day on the sofa playing games or watching travel videos. Chef Xiao Qiuyuan prepares three meals a day. Not to mention how moisturizing, in his words, it's nice to have a boyfriend.

The even sound of knives cutting the chopping board came from the kitchen. Zhou Shangli was scrolling through Weibo and shouted to the kitchen: "Chef Xiao, what are you eating today?"

"Braised lion's head, fresh meat dumpling soup, crab yolk egg custard, and stir-fried vegetable broccoli." Xiao Qiuyuan stood at the kitchen door and looked at him, "Do you want to eat anything else?"

"I still want to eat you." Zhou Shangli looked at Xiao Qiuyuan and smiled.

"It's a good idea." Xiao Qiuyuan took two steps back, then turned around and opened the door with a smile, "I'm a dessert, not a staple food."

Zhou Shangli kept laughing, Xiao Qiuyuan asked him to wait, the meal will be ready soon, Zhou Shangli continued to browse Weibo, and suddenly found a video of his ex-boyfriend, a travel photo of Yunnan Pudacuo, a place he hadn’t seen for several years. It's worth going again.

In the video, the ex-boyfriend has a new boyfriend. Apart from being short, everything else is pretty good. The two of them are very sweet. Zhou Shangli wanted to comment, "So you are so good." After thinking about it, I thought it was unnecessary. Xiao Qiuyuan shouted, "Chef Xiao, shall we go on a trip?"

Xiao Qiuyuan asked in the kitchen, "Where do you want to go?"

Zhou Shangli walked towards the kitchen with his mobile phone, and when he walked to the door, he saw Xiao Qiuyuan holding a kitchen knife and gesticulating with his fingers. Zhou Shangli's heart beat faster, but he joked quietly, "Isn't there not enough fresh meat?"

Xiao Qiuyuan slapped his hand when he heard the words, raised his head and smiled at him, and replied, "I'm researching various methods of cutting vegetables."

Zhou Shangli put away his mobile phone, walked over to take the knife in Xiao Qiuyuan's hand, and said seriously: "I'll teach you a way to cut meat with a random knife, so that every piece of meat is not only different in shape, size, and thickness. It's a craft, learn it."

Xiao Qiuyuan stood aside and said with a smile: "Okay, Master Zhou."

Zhou Shangli's knife skills are really not that good, and Xiao Qiuyuan really can't stand it anymore. After he cuts a lump of meat, he will be two hours late for dinner, and he will be very hungry. Xiao Qiuyuan won't let him show his skills.

Zhou Shangli stood watching from the side, then asked, "Shall we go on a trip?"

"Okay, where do you want to go, you make suggestions, I will contribute money and effort, okay?" Xiao Qiuyuan chopped the meat into pureed meat, added some flour and eggs, put on the seasoning cut into froth, and used a special spoon to form one by one evenly The meatballs are prepared on a plate.

Zhou Shangli watched his movements, thought for a while, and said, "How about we drive around the country?"

"Okay." Xiao Qiuyuan placed the pot on the gas stove and pointed to the outside, "Go out and wait, don't get covered in oily smoke, don't forget you can't take a bath."

Zhou Shangli shook his head and said coquettishly, "No, I'll miss you so much if I don't see you."

Xiao Qiuyuan stuffed a tomato into his mouth and pushed him away, "Get out, be good."

Zhou Shangli backed out of the kitchen and said, "You have to be good too."

Xiao Qiuyuan smiled and said, "Got it, baby."

Zhou Shangli sat on the sofa, did nothing, stared at the direction of the kitchen with all his attention, and there was no movement for a while, he shouted: "Chef Xiao, your baby is hungry!"

Xiao Qiuyuan was stunned, when he heard Zhou Shangli's voice, he quickly turned down the fire, and replied: "Okay."

Zhou Shangli was not at ease, but he was afraid that being too vigilant would make Xiao Qiuyuan uneasy. He couldn't sit still, so he got up and walked around the living room, always paying attention to the movement in the kitchen.

The food was delicious, Zhou Shangli forced himself to be as enthusiastic about the delicious food as before, and almost choked, Xiao Qiuyuan hurriedly handed him water, he didn't laugh at him, let alone speak.

Zhou Shangli finished drinking the water, held the cup in silence for a while, put the cup on the dining table, shook his head and smiled wryly, "This won't work, you have to tell me you're fine."

Xiao Qiuyuan picked up a meatball for him, then put down his chopsticks, looked at him and said: "I admit that I am not in good shape, I am often afraid, especially after you were injured, I found that I am unable to protect you, I... I'm afraid it will be hard for you to be with me."

"It will be even harder if I'm not with you," Zhou Shangli stretched out his hand, motioning for Xiao Qiuyuan to give him his hand, and holding both hands, Zhou Shangli smiled and acted coquettishly: "Is this good? Let me take care of you now, wait You're in good shape, let me protect you instead."

Xiao Qiuyuan's condition was not good, his sleep and diet were greatly reduced, his cheeks that had grown some flesh were sunken again, and the eye sockets were the most obvious. Zhou Shangli couldn't stand him looking at him with self-blaming eyes on such a thin face. look at yourself.

"Boss Xiao, give me a chance to settle down in this city, okay?" Zhou Shangli shook his hand.

Xiao Qiuyuan nodded: "OK."

Zhou Shangli said with a smile: "Okay, let's eat."

The injury healed faster than expected, and the activities were not much affected. Due to Xiao Qiuyuan's poor condition, Zhou Shangli's original plan to go to the store was postponed for another day. The two of them nestled on the sofa, Xiao Qiuyuan hugged Zhou Shangli , Watch him play mini-program games.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Zhou Shangli received a call from Li Tao. There was a lot of noise on the other end of the phone. Gu Wenwen's voice was particularly prominent, and a man's forbearing voice was added.

Li Tao told Zhou Shangli about the matter on the phone in one breath, took a deep breath from her exhaustion, and said: "Boss, you should come to the store to have a look, that person looks so fierce, I'm afraid He hit people with his hands."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Shangli told Xiao Qiuyuan about the situation, and said helplessly, "Did I commit a crime this month? Why do I keep losing money?"

Xiao Qiuyuan said, "I'll go with you."

The two rushed to the store, and both sides had calmed down. Gu Wenwen stood at the door with her arms folded, as if to prevent the man from leaving. When she saw Zhou Shangli, she called out to the boss softly, then lowered her head, not daring to look directly at him. Zhou Shangli's eyes.

Zhou Shangli asked, "Are you all right?"

Gu Wenwen shook her head, Zhou Shangli asked, "Where's the person?"

Gu Wenwen pointed to the lounge, Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan walked towards the lounge together, Li Tao and Fan Pingping stood at the door of the dressing room, seeing them, Li Tao hurried up to greet them, and pointed to the lounge. The man said: "It's him. He stared at our wedding photos before. Today, he won't take pictures and wants a refund, but we have already purchased the wedding dress according to his request. If he doesn't take pictures, we will lose money." , Wenwen refused to let him refund the fee, saying that he could change it to something else at the price, but he didn't want to, so they started arguing."

Zhou Shangli nodded and asked, "What's your name?"

"Chengxiu."

Zhou Shangli was about to open the door and go in, Xiao Qiuyuan had already opened the door first and walked in, Zhou Shangli smiled, seeing that he was the first to bear the brunt, he regarded the other party as a dangerous person.

Cheng Xiu looks really dangerous, about 1.9 meters tall, big and muscular, if the fist greets him, let alone Gu Wenwen and the girls, even the two big men Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan can't stand it .

Xiao Qiuyuan entered the door and stood aside like a bodyguard, Zhou Shangli then extended his hand to say hello: "Hello, my name is Zhou Shangli, the person in charge of the studio."

Cheng Xiu reached out his hand politely and shook his hand, his tone was very polite: "Hello, Cheng Xiu."

Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan sat down across from each other, Cheng Xiu glanced at them, and said with a smile: "It seems that those girls described me as fierce, you have brought bodyguards."

Zhou Shangli was a little embarrassed, and introduced: "My boyfriend."

Cheng Xiu nodded very calmly: "Fresh man, it seems that things have turned around." Then he glanced outside the lounge and clicked his tongue, "The girls in your store are all beautiful, but they are also very beautiful. Fierce, especially that one, I'm still dizzy now."

Zhou Shangli smiled and said: "Thank you for the compliment," and then said seriously: "You want a refund, may I ask the reason?"

Cheng Xiu tapped his fingers on his knees, as if unwilling to say anything, Zhou Shangli said, "I don't mean anything else, I just want to know if it's our problem? If so, what kind of problem is it, so we can improve it as appropriate. "

Cheng Xiu waved his hand, looked at Xiao Qiuyuan at the side, and asked, "Have you ever broken up?"

Zhou Shangli shook his head, Xiao Qiuyuan said: "We haven't even had a fight, let alone a breakup."

Cheng Xiu smiled, then sighed, "Envy, okay, there's nothing you can't say, my fiancée broke up with me, so we won't take wedding photos."

Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan were a little embarrassed for a while, they didn't know what to say, comforting seemed not good, and not comforting seemed not good either.

Cheng Xiu seemed indifferent, and asked proactively, "Do you want to know why we broke up?"

It was even more difficult for the two of them to speak, Cheng Xiu smiled and said, "It's nothing, I've talked to four people, and the reasons for breaking up are all the same, I told you, maybe it can be helpful to you."

Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan looked at each other, there were only three men in the lounge, two of them were couples, and the single one wanted to tell the couple the reason for the breakup, saying that it would be helpful to them, it had to make people think too much.

At this moment, the same guess appeared in the minds of Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan - the matter of men.

Seeing their strange expressions, Cheng Xiu quickly clarified, "No, no, it's not what you think. I'm fine with that, and I'm very powerful."

Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan couldn't help laughing, this man was straight and fast, in order to relieve Cheng Xiu's embarrassment, Xiao Qiuyuan asked: "What is the reason for the breakup?"

"Is there one thing you can't let go of no matter what?" Cheng Xiu looked at the two of them, "Even a perfect lover can't let you let go, is there?"

Zhou Shangli thought for a while and asked, "Are you talking about knots?"

"Yes, heart knot." Cheng Xiu smiled, looking helpless, "I have."

Zhou Shangli looked at Xiao Qiuyuan and asked Cheng Xiu: "Is it related to your breakup?"

"It should be said that it was the reason why I broke up again and again." Cheng Xiu looked at the empty glass in front of him and asked, "Can I have another glass of water?"

"I'll pour it." Xiao Qiuyuan got up and walked out.

Cheng Xiu looked at his back, lowered his voice and said to Zhou Shangli, "Your boyfriend has a heart knot."

Zhou Shangli said nonchalantly: "Everyone has it." Then said with a little pride: "His heart knot is me."

Cheng Xiu laughed, and when Xiao Qiuyuan brought water to him, he drank it in one gulp, and then said: "Actually, I have a knot in my heart that I can't let go of, but I have to do it. I have a younger sister who is two or three years old. When I went to the vegetable market with my dad, I got lost. Because of this, my parents had a very unhappy fight. Although they were not divorced, they were no different from strangers. I grew up in a family atmosphere shrouded in clouds. In fact, I am quite afraid of marriage, but I long for love, this is the only time I am ready to step into the palace of marriage."

Zhou Shangli said: "It seems that you love your ex-fiancée very much."

"This is a good use of the front character." Cheng Xiu laughed again. He actually likes to laugh, and his smile is quite charming. He touched his chin, and then said: "Three years ago, my father was seriously ill. Hold my hand tightly, let me find my lost sister no matter what, and beat him to his grave and say a word so that he can rest in peace."

Xiao Qiuyuan asked, "Have your parents been looking for you for so many years?"

Cheng Xiu nodded, was stunned for a while, and said with a little sadness: "I never gave up. My mother couldn't bear it, so she left early. Before she died, she held my father's hand tightly and made him swear to continue looking for him." , that was their first intimate contact in so many years, and later my dad passed it on to me," he smiled again, looked at Zhou Shangli and Xiao Qiuyuan who were opposite him, "Do you know? The matter of my younger sister has become a kind of inheritance in our family, it may be wrong to say that, but the fact is, it is like an unfinished great cause left by our ancestors."

Zhou Shangli sympathized with the big man in front of him, and asked, "So your fiancée won't let you find your sister?"

"Looking for someone all over the world, and someone who has been lost for more than 20 years, regardless of money, the time and energy required are very affordable. When we were planning to get married, I received a message about my sister. Regardless of whether it is true or not, I have to go and see, my ex-fiancée, she not only knows everything about me, she is also a math teacher, she knows how small the probability of success in this matter is, she persuaded me to give up, she Said that if I persisted, the family we built would disintegrate in this meaningless persistence. In this case, it is better not to build this family. We disagreed at first, then tried to persuade each other, and then analyzed calmly. I have It was my father's last words that had to be done. She couldn't win over a dead person, so we broke up peacefully."

Zhou Shangli said: "Perhaps your ex-fiancee is right."

"Actually, in the past few years, I have received some news about my sister one after another. Every time I am happy for nothing, I know she is right." Cheng Xiu said melancholy: "Let's put it this way, there are some things that you clearly understand. I know there will be no results if I persist, but I still have to persist, so it is called hardship.”

Zhou Shangli nodded: "Understood, okay, I will refund you the fee."

Cheng Xiu said with a smile: "Thanks, I just spent almost all my money in a waste of time, and I will use this money to help my stomach."

Zhou Shangli got up, Cheng Xiu also got up, Zhou Shangli reached out to shake his hand again, "It's not easy, I hope you can find your sister soon."

Cheng Xiu said: "I also wish the two of you forever."

Hearing what Cheng Xiu said, Xiao Qiuyuan recovered from his own thoughts, stood up, shook hands with Cheng Xiu, and thanked him.