Two pots of water

Even though Chen Linguo said he was inviting them to dinner, Jiang Chu paid the bill when it was time to pay.

He doesn't have the habit of asking the opposite sex to pay after several people eat at one table.

Chen Linguo was really a little embarrassed. He fished it out of the sea and said, "Don't I owe you another meal, brother Chu, or I'll invite you to watch a movie?"

Tan Zui lowered his head and kicked a candy stick with the tip of his shoe. Hearing this, the corners of his mouth curled up calmly.

Jiang Chu glanced at him and said, "Another day. Don't you want to buy something, the supermarket will be closed later."

"That's fine." Chen Linguo immediately said with a smile, she didn't know if it was because she had a good temper or was really careless, but she wouldn't be embarrassed.

What Chen Linguo wants to buy is nothing more than potato chips, coke, biscuits, beer, food and drink, all of which are available in the farmhouse, but the price has to be doubled.

She pushed the cart and walked ahead, Jiang Chu and Tan Zui followed unhurriedly behind, Tan Zui would reply a message from time to time, and Jiang Chu would glance at him from time to time.

"What are you looking at?" Qin asked without raising his head.

"See when you can bump into the shelf, and calculate how much I have to pay the supermarket." Jiang Chu said.

Qin Zui smiled and put away the phone.

"If you want to eat anything, you can also push a small cart." Jiang Chu said again, "Brother will buy it for you."

As soon as he said this, Tan Zui stared at him for a while instead.

"What are you looking at?" Jiang Chu wanted to laugh inexplicably when he said these three words, thinking that the two brothers were a little crazy.

Tan most ignored him, just passing by a row of small cars, he reached out and pulled one, and put a piece of toilet paper inside.

Jiang Chu couldn't remember how much paper towels were left at home, and there was a canned food area next to him, but he remembered that the canned yellow peaches he bought last time, Qin Zhijie seemed to like it, so he put a few more bottles in the car.

Chen Linguo pushed the cart around the food area, and Jiang Chu reminded her: "Disposable towels and so on, and when you girls go out, there are small disposable bottles, filled with shampoo and skin care products that you are used to, Take it with you."

"Ah, yes. Sister Baoli asked me to buy that too." Chen Linguo went to buy some disposables again, and the total amount was almost the same, so she pushed to check out.

The three of them bought two big bags, and Chen Linguo specially ordered a small bag to store her disposable towels.

"Where is your home, let me take you back." Jiang Chu asked.

"No need." Chen Linguo shook the phone at him again, "It's not on the way, my house is in another district, I've already ordered a taxi, and it'll be there in three minutes."

Jiang Chu said with a smile on his face, "It's okay", planning in his heart that he would call Da Ben later and scold them. It's nothing, so he told Chen Linguo his home address.

"But just put the things I bought in your car, Brother Chu." Chen Linguo said again, "Brother Daben said that I will take your car tomorrow, so that I won't have to take it all over again."

"Okay." Jiang Chu nodded, "Go back tonight and discuss the route with them. I'll let you know where to pick you up at what time tomorrow."

Taking his car must be a certainty, and Chen Linguo didn't need to tell him that he could guess it.

"Okay, then let's see you tomorrow," the driver called. Chen Linguo answered Jiang Chu and Qin Zui while waving, "Bye, brother!"

On the way home, Tan Zui's cell phone rang twice, but he didn't take it out.

Jiang Chu was still figuring out the clues connected by Chen Linguo's words during the meal, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Tan had some "secret".

Even the first time he heard Tan Zui's "brother Xiao Zui" leaked from his broken cell phone, he didn't think it was a normal address among boys of this age.

People are like this, either they don’t think about anything, and once they feel that something is wrong, they can string together countless details to support their thinking.

When they got home, Qin went to take a shower first, Jiang Chu changed his clothes, sat on the sofa, listened to the TV and flicked his mobile phone.

When Tan Zui came out again, Zhou Teng yelled around him twice, Jiang Chu turned his head to look at it, and said, "You must be hungry."

Qin Zui went to buy some cat snacks for it, and squatted there with his knees bent to feed it with refreshing moisture.

Jiang Chu looked at him from the edge of his hand, and felt that Tan Zui had a very magical quality.

Although he has attracted [-] to [-] people, regardless of whether he knows his mother, his stepfather, a man or a woman, but he is a very careful person in his bones.

Especially for Zhou Teng, a little useless cat who was raised at home since childhood and basically has no ability to survive without people. Although he was silent every time he took care of him, and I never saw him yelling "Mimi Mimi" or hugged him, but It's just patience, it just makes people feel very...gentle?

In fact, he also has this kind of meaning for people, like being annoyed by Lu Yao in the evening, he still reminded her of the collar.

In the evening, I ate hot pot with Chen Linguo, and I added squid and pig brains to her.

Jiang Chu felt that Liang Xiaojia's endless phone calls and WeChat messages might also be counted.

Thinking about this "Liang Xiaojia" again, Jiang Chu changed into a comfortable position, leaned into the sofa with his legs crossed, held up his mobile phone and continued to chat with Da Ben and the others, and asked in a casual tone: "Qin Zui, Have you ever been in love?"

From the corner of the eye, Tan Zui looked up at him first, and then asked him, "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, just curious." Jiang Chu threw the phone away, and sat up straight again, "Why, no matter what I ask you, you have to ask 'what's the matter' first, and your friends in your hometown don't follow me. Are you chatting about Dashan?"

Fearing that Tan would stand up again after feeding the cat, he went back to the room. Before he could answer, Jiang Chu put his feet up and wanted to kick his thigh: "Go and open a can for me."

Tan Zui grabbed Jiang Chu's ankle neatly, stood up and looked down at him.

"Are you going to break me again?" Jiang Chu raised his eyebrows, and the other foot was about to push his vitals.

The hem of his t-shirt was rolled up because of his baldness, revealing a section of his undulating belly.

Tan Zui glanced over, paused, and suddenly and inexplicably thought of being bitten when he stuffed mochi into Jiang Chu's mouth in the evening.

He shook off Jiang Chu's leg, subconsciously stroked his right index finger, turned around and went to the kitchen to open a can,

Even with canned food behind him, Tan Zui and Jiang Chu were sitting on the sofa watching TV and eating together, but Jiang Chu couldn't come up with anything.

When Jiang Chu asked Tan what kind of girl he liked the most, Qin stopped for a while with a yellow peach on his fork, turned his head and looked at Jiang Chu sharply, and said, "What do you want to ask?"

Jiang Chu looked at him, unable to say what he wanted to ask for a while.

Why do you keep in touch with that Liang Xiaojia?

Do you two have any special relationship?

Are you...more interested in boys than girls?

Jiang Chu couldn't ask, but after all, it belonged to Tan Zui, and he was just an outsider who took in Tan Zui after all—the "brother" relationship between him and Tan Zui was worse than that between Tan Zui and his own mother. The formal mother-child relationship is still fragile.

If Qin Zui opened his mouth and said "Does it have something to do with you", he would have nothing to say.

Moreover, Jiang Chu didn't think that Tan Zui really "likes boys"... Let's put it in layman's terms, it's so exaggerated to the point of "gay".

This is too that, too "another world".

He just finds it strange.

The more I think about it, the weirder it gets.

However, Qin Zui's reaction deepened the "strangeness".

The two stared at each other for a while, and the guests inside burst into exaggerated laughter.

Jiang Chu looked away, ate another mouthful of canned food as if nothing had happened, and found a reason to say, "I want to ask if you think Chen Linguo is suitable to be your sister-in-law."

Hearing what Jiang Chu said, Tan Zui breathed a sigh of relief.

Immediately afterwards, a very subtle irritability surged up, making him a little uncomfortable.

Just like when Chen Linguo sent Jiang Chu "Chu Ge" out of the blue that day.

Chen Linguo is definitely not the girlfriend that Jiang Chu planned to develop before, at least not before he came to Jiang Chu's place.Judging from the rhythm and attitude they get along with each other today, it can be seen that they haven't known each other for long.

I haven't known each other for a few days, so I'm considering getting married and starting a family, and I'm considering being his "sister-in-law"?

"Ask me why, you don't know what you like?" He replied to Jiang Chu.

Jiang Chu leaned back into the sofa, dragging his legs long on the ground, and said casually: "Yeah, I never knew what I really like, if I don't know, I won't refer to your opinion." what?"

Tan Zui didn't speak, stared at the TV, chewed and swallowed the last half of a yellow peach, stood up and went back to the room, and said to Jiang Chu: "I don't know."

"The temper is like a wild boar." Jiang Chu "tsk" on the sofa, reminding him: "Take two clothes and change them. I will call you tomorrow morning."

Back in the room, Tan Zui threw himself on the bed, put the back of his hand on his eyes, and took a deep breath.

In fact, he shouldn't be so impatient with Jiang Chu, Jiang Chu took the initiative to ask him such questions because he regarded him as one of his own and a normal person.

But he is not.

And this kind of "no" seems to be getting more and more serious recently, and even goes a little bit off track.

The cell phone that was thrown by the bed before taking a bath "buzzed" twice again, Tan Zui fished it out a little annoyed, news from Liang Xiaojia.

Liang Xiaojia: I'm sorry, little brother

Liang Xiaojia: I won’t talk about that anymore, don’t be angry with me

Tan Zui frowned while holding his phone, not knowing what to reply to Liang Xiaojia.

After being dazed for a while, the screen of the mobile phone automatically turned off, and he moved his finger to light it up. What caught his eyes was the hem of Jiang Chu's clothes lifted up, and the abdominal muscles that were shot down from top to bottom.

The last time Jiang Chufa got nervous and set up the desktop for him, Tan Zui originally planned to replace it, but somehow he didn't move it.

The TV was still playing in the living room, and Jiang Chu was walking up and down, probably going to the kitchen to put away the cans and bottles after eating.

Qin Zui put the phone upside down on his stomach and closed his eyes.

The part of Jiang Chu's lower abdomen that was exposed on the sofa just now resurfaced in his mind in accordance with the phone wallpaper.

From the lower abdomen to the top, it was Jiang Chu who drank too much that day and came out of the bathroom naked, with water droplets hanging on his chest, and his nipples were swollen by the cold air from the air conditioner; on the neck and ears when laughing and talking; and...

Tan Zui moved his fingers on his lower abdomen, and the finger bitten by Jiang Chu flicked slightly.

He sighed, and lay on his side, burying his face in the pillow.

You really shouldn't ask me.

Qin Zui said silently in his heart.

I can't answer the question of what kind of girl I like.