Same light

That night, Alfred did not come back until late at night.

When he returned to the bedroom, Xiu was already sitting on the bed reading a book and waiting for him.

The bedroom door rang, and Xiu looked up, only to see Alfred wearing a nightgown, with half-dry hair, who seemed to have just finished washing next door.He pushed the door open with one hand and entered with what looked like a large burrito in the other.

Hmm, how come there is such a big burrito?

Xiu looked at the things in Alfred's hand in bewilderment, and when Alfred greeted him and approached the bed, Xiu saw some kind of light golden filling on the end of the burrito.

After watching for a few more seconds, Xiu suddenly realized that this was not a burrito, but his son.

"Alfred," Xiu felt the veins on his forehead throbbing, and shouted, "Don't hold him with one hand like that, put him down!"

"It doesn't matter what, he is so small, I can hold enough with one hand." Alfred said nonchalantly.

Having said that, he put the baby on the bed anyway.

Hugh unwrapped the baby so that the baby could move its arms and legs, and Alfred got into bed and lifted the baby onto himself.

The child was awake, and I don't know if it was jolted awake when Alfred brought it over. He has a pair of light-colored golden eyes, big and round eyes, very similar to Alfred when he was a child.

This realization made Xiu very happy. He turned the book upside down on the quilt, and reached out to touch the child's soft golden hair.

"What are you reading?" Alfred leaned over to read the title, it was "One Hundred Tips for Baby Care".

Xiu pointed to the bookshelf on the side of the bedroom, and said, "I asked someone to dig it out from the Dawn Palace, and I haven't had time to organize it into the bookshelf."

There are several books temporarily piled up at the foot of the bookshelf, and they all look a bit old.

Alfred asked in amazement, "How can there be such a book in Dawn Palace?"

"It was a book I read as a child." Xiu patted the child lightly, looked at Alfred as a matter of course, and said, "Twenty years have passed, and I have almost forgotten it."

The baby who was taken care of by Xiu more than 20 years ago said with emotion: "I will take a copy away tomorrow morning and read it with you."

On him, the real baby grabbed Xiu's finger.

"Ca..." Xiu called halfway and got stuck. He looked at the child carefully again, and after realizing that he really couldn't recognize who it was, he even observed the child's clothes.

However, the baby's jumpsuit obviously does not distinguish between the crown prince's style and the ordinary prince's style, so Xiu found nothing.

This made Xiu feel a little remiss, he couldn't tell his own child.

"Is this Carlo or Karin?" Xiu asked Alfred with some guilt.

"I don't know." Alfred squeezed the child's little hands and feet with great interest, and said, "Whatever, just take one."

build:"……"

He took back the guilt.

"Why did you bring the child here?" Xiu asked helplessly.

Alfred paused for a moment and said, "Let's play. I haven't played with them these days. By the way, why did you go there in person today? Didn't you say to send a priest from the Holy White Tower to do it?"

"It's just a one-knife thing, and it's not troublesome." Xiu said, "Besides, he is your cousin. If he said something disrespectful or disrespectful to you before he died... I thought about it, or I do it myself—what are you doing?"

"What did I do?" Alfred asked.

Xiu Hao laughed and said, "Why are you covering his ears?"

"We are talking about imperial secrets." Alfred said seriously, "If this is Karin, he has no permission to listen."

He is taller than ordinary people, and his hands are naturally big. The child is too small, and his two hands almost completely cover the small head inside.

The child thought he was playing, and was so happy that he danced and danced.

Xiu was amused by this scene, and he said, "Okay, I'm done."

Only then did Alfred let go, picked up the baby and pretended to be stern warning: "Karin, you can just pretend you didn't hear what you heard just now, do you understand?"

The baby grasped the strap of Alfred's nightgown ignorantly, and tugged, but the strength was too weak to do so, and let out a milky "ahah".

"Yes, that's right, as long as you know." Alfred talked to him seriously.

Xiu leaned over and took the strap of Alfred's nightgown out of the child's hands, preventing him from playing with his father's clothes.

To reach the baby on Alfred's body, he had to get very close, some long black hair rubbed against Alfred's neck—they hadn't been this close in bed for a long time.

The last time, the last time I had already entered the bedroom door, it was interrupted by something about the child...Xiu leaned on Alfred's shoulder, grabbing the belt with the child in his hands—the child just wanted to Wants to play with his father's belt—but his thoughts have drifted to something really unsuitable for a child.

"Send him back, our room is cooler than the baby's room." Xiu whispered, "It's bad if this is Carlo."

Alfred was also a little absent-minded. He said, "It's not much lower. I'll wrap him up with his little quilt."

Ever since he fell asleep in the ward while taking care of Carlo that day, Alfred realized something.That is, as long as the child is in his arms, if Xiu wants to take a closer look at the child, he will naturally cling to him, and even take the initiative to cling to him to sleep.

Just like now, Xiu took the initiative to lean in his arms again.

After hearing Alfred's words, Xiu was silent for a while, he was a little annoyed that Alfred couldn't understand the hint, so he could only hold back his shame and said: "I think he is tired from playing, let's send him back to sleep, here... It's also inconvenient."

Alfred thought Xiu meant that there was no cot, and immediately said: "It's okay, just sleep on me. I can also control his temperature, so he won't catch a cold."

After hearing this, Xiu felt even more uncomfortable.

He remembered the previous night on Xueli, Alfred burned his golden pupils, and used his body temperature to save himself from the brink of hypothermia.Today, this is no longer his monopoly.

That's fine, but Alfred gave up being close to himself in order to be close to the child—he actually wanted to keep the child to sleep in their bed.

Disappointed and dissatisfied, he silently retreated to his side of the bed: "That's fine."

For Xiu, when he could clearly hear that he was unhappy, it meant that he was already very unhappy. Alfred was taken aback, he didn't expect Xiu to be so repulsive about sleeping with the child.

In Alfred's view, even without his own little thoughts, it is very warm for couples to sleep with their children. He heard that this is the norm among the people.

Maybe Xiu couldn't accept the fact that they were a small family of four after all.He loves these two children who look very similar to Alfred, maybe, as much as he loves his nephew... No one wants to sleep with his brother and nephew.

Alfred wanted to take this opportunity to get close and cultivate a relationship, but Xiu was so repulsive...

"...I'll call someone to pick it up." Alfred said.

He used the paging bell beside the bed to notify the internal line, and the night guard maid quickly came in and took the prince away.

The child left, Alfred was in a slump, Xiu was holding his breath, the two chatted a few words about tomorrow's political affairs, and quickly turned off the lights and went to sleep.

Probably because he was too tired during the day, Alfred's breathing quickly became stable, Xiu lay quietly, unable to fall asleep no matter what, and following the steady breathing of the person next to his pillow, he became more and more angry.

Alfred actually, really fell asleep like this.

Just now they were wearing thin pajamas, their bodies were pressed together, so intimate, so ambiguous, this is the middle of the night, in their bed!Alfred actually fell asleep like this? !

Xiu couldn't believe that Alfred lost interest in him, it was just because the child was taken away, he was disappointed, so he didn't want to do other things.

After all, it’s because of the kids.Children are more important than him in Alfred's heart.

After the baby was born, Alfred never asked that question again.Maybe they all forgot?

Xiu couldn't lie down anymore, and sat up on the bed, feeling aggrieved and somewhat regretful.It would have been nice if I had answered earlier—now, Alfred stopped asking, how could he speak?

In the darkness, he looked down at the young emperor who was sleeping next to him. He had grown into a handsome and mature man. In the darkness, his outline was less sharp and more hazy and soft.

This is a gesture that can only be seen by very close pillow people.

This is his husband, the father of his children, his sovereign...

Xiu was full of sweetness for a while, but also sad and unwilling.

Under the cover of darkness, he mustered up his courage, bent down, and all the thoughts he was ashamed to express turned into a soft kiss, which fell on Alfred's lips lightly like a butterfly falling.

Score at the touch of a button.

Xiu's ears turned red in the dark night, and he was about to withdraw when suddenly, a strong hand grabbed his shoulder tightly.

Alfred suddenly opened his eyes, there was no sleepiness in the pale golden pupils, but some kind of extremely dangerous eyes.

"Brother, what are you doing?"