Out of place

I don't know how long Cheng Boyan has been cooking this plate of fried grasshoppers, and how he did it, but this is probably the best cooking Xiang Xi has made since he met Cheng Boyan.

The grasshoppers were fried golden and crispy, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, and a few lettuce leaves were carefully served on the side.

Xiang Xi was sitting on the sofa with a plate in his hands, eating with red eyes while dropping crumbs on the sofa.

"Just eat half of it," Cheng Boyan sat next to him and kept picking up the crumbs from the sofa. "It's dry now, and it's easy to get angry."

"You can't keep it, it will soften if you keep it, and it won't taste good if it's soft," Xiang Xi said with a nasal voice, "There's not a whole lot in this plate, I can eat it all."

"Eat less, it will be soft when it is soft." Cheng Boyan continued to pick up the scum, "There is still a big bag in the refrigerator... Can you eat without dropping scum?"

"No," Xiang Xi boasted and bit down, "I'm crying out loud."

Cheng Boyan sighed: "If I had known that you could cry like this on a plate of grasshoppers, I would have bought silkworm chrysalis."

"Silkworm chrysalis is good," Xiang Xi sniffed, the corners of his eyes were still moist, "Silkworm chrysalis is delicious, let's buy some more silkworm chrysalis."

"...Just this two catties of grasshopper has already killed half of my life, you can just think about the silkworm chrysalis." Cheng Boyan took a newspaper and spread it out on Xiang Xi's leg to pick up the scum.

"Bought so much?" Xiang Xi looked at him, and with some worry turned around and sat cross-legged facing him, "Did you buy a live grasshopper?"

"Well," Cheng Boyan frowned, "he's still jumping."

"Then how did you do it?" Xiang Xi picked up a grasshopper and looked at it, "Has the head and wings gone? What did you do?"

"Let the boss deal with it, how about I can buy two catties, and he won't help if I buy less." Cheng Boyan sighed.

"It's really hard for you." Xiang Xi moved her head to his side and rubbed against his arm.

"Hey," Cheng Boyan pushed him away, "Don't rub your oil on me."

"You have played with grasshoppers before," Xiang Xi laughed, "Do you still care about this?"

"I can't help it, I just don't change my mind," Cheng Boyan patted him, "Eat slowly, I'll take a shower, I'm sweating all over."

Xiang Xi didn't finish the whole plate of grasshoppers, he only ate half of it. He just ate so much yesterday, and he ate again today. He was really worried that he would get angry.

Putting half a plate of grasshoppers back into the kitchen, he carefully tidied up the sofa and the floor. After making sure there were no residues, he went to the bathroom door, knocked on the door, and opened it.

"Tell you something." Xiang Xi leaned against the door frame.

"...Let's talk." Cheng Boyan was probably helpless at his behavior of chatting at the bathroom door when he had nothing to do, and said while washing.

"Brother Hai sent me back today," Xiang Xi looked at his butt, "ask me if you are my boyfriend."

"What?" Cheng Boyan turned his head in surprise, and the foam on his head almost fell on Xiang Xi's face, "How did he know? What did he say?"

Xiang Xi was a little surprised by Cheng Boyan's surprised reaction. In his impression, Cheng Boyan was calm about everything except "unhygienic".

When I first said the phrase "I am the pervert you mentioned", I was as calm as I was doing the most ordinary self-introduction.

Seeing him like this, Xiang Xi was stunned: "He said he saw us downstairs... He didn't say anything, just said that it's good to have someone he likes."

"Oh," Cheng Boyan was obviously relieved after hearing this, turned around and continued to scratch his head, "That's fine."

"Your reaction is bigger than mine." Xiang Xi said softly.

"I'm worried," Cheng Boyan turned on the nozzle to flush the water, "You never know how strangers will respond to these things."

"Are you afraid that he will think we are perverted?" Xiang Xi asked.

"It's not us, I don't care," Cheng Boyan turned to look at him, "I'm afraid he might say something bad to you."

"Why?" Xiang Xi asked again.

"What why?" Cheng Boyan said.

"Why don't you care?" Xiang Xi scratched the frame of the door.

"I already cared about it more than ten years ago," Cheng Boyan smiled, "It doesn't matter now."

"I don't care either." Xiang Xi rubbed his nose.

"That is to say, it is not necessarily true if we meet." Cheng Boyan said.

"Who likes to talk about it? It's not like I haven't been told. When you first met me, didn't you say something nice to me?" Xiang Xi said indifferently, "I'm not going to lie down today? What do you say? Yes."

Cheng Boyan laughed: "Did I say that?"

"Don't pretend," Xiang Xi pointed at him, "I remember what you said, but I didn't feel anything when I heard it. At that time, my self-esteem was stuffed in my butt pocket and I didn't take it out."

"So," Cheng Boyan turned off the water, walked up to him, and tapped the mole on the corner of his eye with his finger, "It's different now, anyway, I can only say anything, and others can't do it, try to avoid letting it go My son is irritated."

"Fortunately, I have been very careful since I was a child, and I am very self-aware," Xiang Xi laughed happily, "If you let you be so blind and used to it, you might become a bear. I know those brats How did you come here, a doctor who looks quite Kochi..."

"Let me take a shower first?" Cheng Boyan sighed, "Why are you talking so much?"

"Excited," Xiang Xi clicked his tongue, waved his hand and walked out of the bathroom, "Go ahead and peel your skin, Dad."

be excited.

The feeling that life has settled down is exciting.

The past is gone, and the longing is coming.

Status, job, people you like, and a good life.

A week passed very slowly, Xiang Xi would take out the ID card slip from Cheng Boyan's wallet every day to read it, in case he missed the time, and then folded it and put it back.

When it came time to collect the ID card, Cheng Boyan happened to be resting, so he took out the note from his wallet and looked at it: "Fortunately, it's seven working days, otherwise it would take two months if you rush it, you've been grinding this day, and this note takes I can't get any proof."

"Let's go." Xiang Xi has quickly packed up and is ready to go out.

"Walk, walk, walk." Cheng Boyan pushed him outside the door, and when he came out after changing his shoes, Xiang Xi had already pressed the elevator button to urge him.

It is very simple to get the ID card. When you arrive at the place, pass the note, and the staff will take out one from a row of envelopes, open it and look at the photo, and then check the fingerprints and issue the certificate.

Xiang Xi took the envelope containing the ID card, carefully squeezed it and walked aside, Cheng Boyan followed: "Let me see."

"Let me see first." Xiang Xi turned sideways and took out his ID card from the envelope.

Cheng Boyan had to wait on the side. After standing there for about 2 minutes, Xiang Xi turned around, wrinkled his nose with a smile, and handed him his ID card with two fingers: "Look."

"I want to kneel down and take it." Cheng Boyan took the ID card.

"I'm so handsome." Xiang Xi was very happy, it was a cool day, and there were tiny beads of sweat on the tip of his nose.

The ID card was very new, with a film that hadn't been torn clean, exuding a special smell.

Looking at Xiang Xi's photo on the ID card, Cheng Boyan couldn't help but twitched his lips: "It's true."

There are very few photos of Xiang Xi, except for the ones taken by Fang Yin before, almost only the ones taken by Song Yi's mobile phone are left. They are all handsome, but they are different from this ID photo.

Xiang Xi in the photo is smiling slightly, his eyes are very bright, his pointed chin makes him look small, and his expression is confident. Although the clean smile can still faintly reveal the unruly ruffian before, but it makes him He looks more attractive.

"What about yours, take it out and let me have a look." Xiang Xi said.

"Do you want to be more handsome?" Cheng Boyan smiled and took out his ID card.

"Look, it's exactly the same. My ID card is real." Xiang Xi put the two ID cards together and held them up for a look.

"Nonsense," Cheng Boyan said happily, "Can the Public Security Bureau's certificate processing hall still issue a false certificate for you?"

"Isn't this my habitual thinking?" Xiang Xi smiled happily, and raised his chin at the ID card again, "Look at these two people."

"Well," Cheng Boyan nodded, "what?"

"Is it a good match?" Xiang Xi asked with a smile.

"It's a match made in heaven, the most successful couple God has matched in my life." Cheng Boyan took the ID card and put it in his wallet, then put his arm around his shoulder, "Let's go, come to my house."

"Your house? Are you going to show off my ID card to Director Xu?" Xiang Xi followed him out, still immersed in the excitement of the ID card.

"Go shopping with Director Xu, didn't you say you went shopping with her last time, all kinds of nourishing ingredients?" Cheng Boyan pinched his earlobe, "By the way, I'll talk to her again."

"Well," Xiang Xi nodded, "Do you want me to give you some pointers?"

"I know what to say, you just go out and buy with her." Cheng Boyan said.

Cheng Boyan called his mother and said he was going there, but before his mother could speak, he heard Xiaoxi's voice on the phone: "Is that brother?"

"I'm at your grandma's place. Li Yan has something to do today, so I put Xiaoxi here too," the mother said, and said softly to Xiaoxi, "It's not brother, it's uncle."

"Is uncle coming?" Xiaoxi asked again.

"Are you coming? Are you with Xiang Xi?" His mother asked him.

"Is old aunt here?" Cheng Boyan also asked.

"Not here, I took her grandson to play." Mom said with a smile.

"Then I...Ask Xiang Xi," Cheng Boyan whispered in Xiang Xi's ear, "My mother is at grandma's house, come over?"

"Go ahead," Xiang Xi replied without thinking, "I've seen it before, what are you afraid of?"

Cheng Boyan smiled, and every time he saw Xiang Xi's ignorance, he thought he was very cute.

Downstairs at grandma's house, as soon as the car was parked, Cheng Boyan heard Xiaoxi's voice from upstairs: "Brother!"

"Call me uncle," Cheng Boyan raised his head, was startled when he saw Xiaoxi lying on the window sill alone, and quickly shouted again, "Go back! Who told you to climb the window sill!"

"Brother come up!" Xiaoxi continued to shout.

"Hey! It's up, brother will go up immediately, you go back to the house!" Cheng Boyan took Xiang Xi and ran into the corridor, and called his mother while running, "Why did you let Xiaoxi sit on the window sill alone! Anti-theft window, what to do if it falls!"

"I'm holding her feet by the side." Mom said.

"Then why didn't you make a sound when I yelled for a long time?" Cheng Boyan slowed down as he ran upstairs, "Scared me."

"I'm talking to grandma, I'm too lazy to move." Mom said.

"...I'm coming up." Cheng Boyan said.

Grandma Cheng Boyan lives in an old-fashioned house with seven floors and no elevator. Grandma's house is on the fifth floor. Xiang Xi followed Cheng Boyan up the stairs.

This kind of old-fashioned house made him feel familiar and solid. After more than ten years of growing up in Zhaojiayao, some things were really carved in his bones.

When Cheng Boyan reached the stairs on the fifth floor, he yelled, "Grandma!"

The door next to him opened, and Xiang Xi heard grandma's voice: "Come to the west?"

"Yes, I'm here," Xiang Xi replied immediately before seeing his grandma, "Hello grandma! Hello auntie!"

"Hello." Director Xu said.

"Come in." Grandma clapped her hands.

"Brother!" A childish voice sounded in the room, probably the little girl who was lying on the window sill before.

"Xiaoxi, uncle." Director Xu said.

Konishi?

The address is suddenly so kind?

Uncle?

Why is there still an uncle here?

Cheng Boyan stood in front of him, and he couldn't see anyone in the room, so he hesitated for a while and then followed suit and called out: "Uncle!"

"Uncle!" The little girl's voice sounded at the same time as Xiang Xi's voice.

Xiang Xi was taken aback for a moment.

"Hey, Xiaoxi is good." Cheng Boyan responded, turned his head to look at him, and a smile quickly spilled from his eyes to the corner of his mouth.

Xiang Xi suddenly wanted to find a corner to squat and dig the wall for two hours.

Grandma and Director Xu both laughed in the room. When Xiang Xi lowered his head and entered the room, grandma hadn't finished laughing yet: "Now there is a brook at home, what should I call it?"

"This is Cousin Boyan's child. It's called Xiaoxi, the stream of Xishui," Director Xu said to her with a smile, and waved to Xiaoxi again, "Xiaoxi, come, it's called..."

"Brother." Xiaoxi called out lying on the sofa.

"Xiaoxi is so good." Xiang Xi smiled, feeling like she was praising herself.

"Xiaoxi, who am I?" Cheng Boyan pointed to himself.

"...Uncle!" Xiaoxi replied loudly after a pause, "Uncle!"

"What about him?" Cheng Boyan pointed to Xiang Xi again.

"Brother!" Xiaoxi said.

"Hey, uncle will take you to buy candy later." Cheng Boyan laughed uncontrollably.

"You are the worst," grandma slapped Cheng Boyan on the back, and said with a smile, "How did your mother teach you! So bad!"

"It got crooked by accident, and I often wonder." Director Xu poured out a glass of water and handed it to Xiang Xi, "Drink water, sit down for a while."

"Thank you, Auntie." Xiang Xi hurriedly took the cup, he was not thirsty, but still poured half of the cup with his head raised, and then wiped his mouth.

"Are you wearing a watch?" Director Xu saw the watch on his wrist, "It looks good."

"It's very suitable," Xiang Xi shook his hand, "I wear it every day, and when I have nothing to do, I just wave my hand to call a bus or something, and I must wipe my sweat with my left hand."

"This mouth." Director Xu smiled.

Xiang Xi also smiled a little embarrassedly, and sat down on the sofa.

Xiaoxi was lying on the other side of the sofa. As soon as he sat down, he immediately crawled over, grabbed his arm and tugged: "Watch!"

"Well, a watch." Xiang Xi had never been in contact with a child before, and was grabbed by Xiaoxi's soft hand. She didn't know what to do, so she could only watch her scratch and pick at her wrist.

"Xiaoxi and uncle to buy candy, okay?" Cheng Boyan came over to scoop up Xiaoxi's belly, picked her up and hugged her in his arms.

"Okay! Caramel," Xiaoxi said immediately, "fly away."

"Fly away?" Xiang Xi didn't understand.

"That's it..." Cheng Boyan stood up with Xiaoxi in his arms, "Fly like this."

"This is a pocket." Xiang Xi looked at Xiaoxi who was smiling happily in Cheng Boyan's arms.

"Do you like it?" Cheng Boyan bent down and whispered in his ear, "I can also carry you like this."

Cheng Boyan startled Xiang Xi when his grandma and Director Xu appeared to be too close, and pushed him away with a slap: "Go to the side."

The plan was to accompany Director Xu to buy things, but when we went out, there were four people and one child. Grandma wanted to follow, saying it was a treat, and after a while everyone finished shopping and went to have a big meal of coarse grains.

"Coarse grains?" Xiang Xi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered Cheng Boyan's miscellaneous bean porridge, feeling sad, "Is it just cornmeal and all kinds of beans?"

"Yes, it's nutritious, but it's made with coarse grains," grandma explained immediately, "it's delicious."

"Nutrition has been lost in the process of careful preparation." Director Xu said behind him.

"Don't interrupt," Grandma turned her head, "Anyway, they are miscellaneous grains, and those of you who are engaged in nutrition are long-winded."

"Yes, yes, I will take you to eat later." Director Xu said with a smile.

"I treat you guys, I treat you." Grandma reiterated.

Cheng Boyan carried Xiaoxi and walked behind with Director Xu, while Xiang Xi walked in front holding his grandma's arm. Grandma was very interested in buying supplementary ingredients and walked very fast.

"Grandma, your legs are really sharp," Xiang Xi said, "you walk so steadily."

"I move around every day. I do it when I get up in the morning, and I do it at night," said grandma, and then she looked back and lowered her voice. "I used to hit trees, but Boyan wouldn't let me. I dance Yangko together with others."

"Bump into a tree?" Xiang Xi was taken aback, "Head?"

"Oh, silly boy," grandma laughed. "It's actually quite comfortable to hit your back. Boyan refused to let it go, saying it hurt your bones... If there are more doctors in the family, there will be more things to do."

"I heard that my back hurts." Xiang Xi rubbed his back with his backhand, "You should twist Yangko, it's so good, it looks good."

"Look, you have learned from the doctor too." Grandma sighed.

Grandma doesn't like to go to the supermarket, but likes to go shopping in the market. When she dragged Xiang Xi into the market, he looked back at Cheng Boyan worriedly, afraid that he would not be able to bear it.

However, this market is okay and smelly, but the ground is quite clean. As long as he doesn't visit the fresh food area, Cheng Boyan should be able to handle it.

Cheng Boyan had been talking to Director Xu, both of them had smiles on their faces, but Xiang Xi couldn't hear what they were talking about. When he turned around, Cheng Boyan smiled and winked at him, but he didn't understand that this was a what spirit.

It wasn't until Director Xu started to pick things up that Cheng Boyan walked up to him and handed Xiaoxi over: "Hold me for a while, my hands are sore."

Xiang Xi took Xiaoxi and hugged him well, and asked quickly in a low voice, "How is it?"

"Are you still worried about me?" Cheng Boyan smiled, "It's good, don't worry."

After starting to buy vegetables, Cheng Boyan has been walking side by side with Xiang Xi, while Director Xu and grandma are arguing and picking.

Xiaoxi was not very honest, twisting and turning in Xiang Xi's arms, and finally lay on Xiang Xi's shoulder and began to nibble on his collar.

"Ouch," Xiang Xi had already chewed on it for a long time when she found out, "I said it's so wet!"

"I should buy her candy first." Cheng Boyan took out a piece of chewing gum in his pocket for a while, "Xiaoxi eat..."

Director Xu turned around and saw the chewing gum in his hand, and slapped it: "Why do you let her eat this? What if you swallow it?"

"She has eaten all her clothes." Cheng Boyan said, putting the chewing gum into his mouth.

"I have it here." Director Xu took out two toffees and gave them to him.

"This little fat guy's?" Cheng Boyan laughed when he saw it, "You took his?"

"I took all the remaining ones. He's not here anyway, so he won't bother me if he finds out when he comes back," Director Xu said, and looked at Xiang Xi again, "What time is it?"

Just as Xiang Xi was about to raise his hand, Cheng Boyan took out his mobile phone: "Ten soon..."

"I didn't ask you," Director Xu looked at Xiang Xi, "What time is it?"

Xiang Xi immediately raised his arm and looked at his watch with a wave of his hand: "It's almost twelve o'clock."

"Then it's time to eat," Director Xu nodded, and asked again, "What time is twelve o'clock?"

Xiang Xi raised his arm again with a wave: "52:[-]."

"Enjoy it?" Cheng Boyan said with a smile.

At noon, grandma treated guests, and Cheng Boyan followed her instructions and drove to a coarse grains restaurant. There were quite a lot of people, and they waited almost 10 minutes for an empty table.

Grandma and Cheng Boyan took Xiaoxi to the backyard of the hotel to look at the pollution-free vegetables that they said were grown by themselves, and Xiang Xi was left behind by Director Xu.

The mood, which was quite comfortable at first, gradually turned into tension as Cheng Boyan's background disappeared at the door leading to the backyard.

Director Xu has always been very kind to him, would talk to him with a smile, and would make jokes, but because of this, he was still unable to judge Director Xu's true attitude towards him, nor could he make adjustments accordingly.

Now there are only him and Director Xu left, and he suddenly looks like he has thorns all over his body.

"Bo Yan said that you are officially going to work in the tea house now?" Director Xu asked him after taking a sip of tea.

"Well, starting from this week, three times a week," Xiang Xi held the cup and spun it on the ground. "Two days are evenings, and one day is afternoons."

"That's pretty good, it's easier," Director Xu nodded with a smile, "Isn't the income better than in the supermarket?"

"It's much better." As soon as the money was mentioned, Xiang Xi felt less nervous again, "It's almost tripled, and I'm embarrassed to take it."

"What's so embarrassing about it? If you have a skill, you need to have the confidence to get money." Director Xu smiled. "Since the job is good now, let's work hard."

"En." Xiang Xi nodded vigorously.

"Xiang Xi," Director Xu paused for a while, looking at him, "Auntie doesn't tell you too much, Boyan told me a lot, now I think it's enough to just emphasize one point."

"Auntie, tell me." Xiang Xi immediately put down the cup and sat up straight.

"Bo Yan has never been in a formal relationship, and I have basically never heard him say that he has a crush on anyone," Director Xu said, "I was surprised by his attitude this time. He didn't say something clearly, but I can feel it." To...he cares about you."

Xiang Xi didn't speak, but looked at Director Xu nervously.

"I think you should be able to feel it too." Director Xu looked at him and said.

"I can feel it," Xiang Xi nodded vigorously again, "I can feel it very much, very much."

"While I am surprised, I also feel a little distressed. This kind of distress... I can't say it. Maybe all mothers are like this." Director Xu smiled, "So I hope that you must cherish his feelings."

Xiang Xi lowered his head and was silent for a long time before raising his head to look at her again, "Auntie, I'm not very good at talking, but...he filled in all the feelings in my life, all..."

He wants to be my dad.

I still want to be my uncle.

"I am a person, apart from 'ordinary life', I have grown up so much, there is no other person or thing that can make me so unwilling to let go," Xiang Xi squeezed his fingers together, looking into Director Xu's eyes, " He's the only one left, let me put it this way, in fact, if you really refuse to agree in the end...I won't care about it either. "