Warm Water Spirits

Pei Zhe didn't get out of the car.

In the afternoon, the heavy snow stopped at twilight. At this time, the snow on both sides of the street was piled up to half a person's height. The blurred and flickering neon lights along the street and the flashing dazzling car lights stayed long and short on the gloomy snow, condensing into ice with a dull, rough surface.

Lin Xiyao could barely walk, Jiang Yunqi cooperated with her pace and helped her carefully bypass the snowdrift.

Pei Zhe heard Jiang Yunqi say: "It's okay, I'll take you back, just remember how to open the house."

Lin Xiyao giggled: "Jiang Yunqi, I have a clear head, okay, I know how to get back after you throw me here."

Jiang Yunqi looked down at Lin Xiyao's face: "That's good. Remember to call Xu Ruijing when you get back. She told me many times, let me remind you."

Lin Xiyao couldn't help laughing again for some reason.

Jiang Yunqi didn't understand Lin Xiyao's smile, thinking that she had drunk too much and couldn't control her emotions.

Pei Zhe looked away.

Jiang Yunqi helped the man to the front, and said to Pei Zhe, "Brother Pei, this is my classmate. She drank too much. We live very close. Can you send her back first?"

Pei Zhe looked ahead, tapped the steering wheel with his index finger almost invisible, and said nothing.

Jiang Yunqi poked his head and blinked his blue eyes: "Brother Pei?"

Pei Zhe turned his eyes to look at him, speaking as if he was interrupted in the middle of the meeting: "Go and sit down."

Jiang Yunqi: "Oh."

Jiang Yunqi glanced at the co-driver, thought for a while, and helped Lin Xiyao sit in the back seat together.

Pei Zhe stared at Jiang Yunqi from the rearview mirror.

Jiang Yunqi asked Lin Xiyao, "Do you want some water?"

Pei Zhe was here, and Lin Xiyao was embarrassed, sitting more upright than in class, holding the phone for a while, as if she didn't understand, and said awkwardly after a few seconds: "Ah, no, no need—anyway, I'll be there in a while. Thank you Ah." As she spoke, secretly looking at Pei Zhe's back, she was extremely silent and serious, making Lin Xiyao even more restless.

Before Lin Xiyao said no, Jiang Yunqi had already got up and went forward from the middle to pull out the mineral water in the passenger drawer. The down jacket was chubby, squeezing Pei Zhe's side, holding Pei Zhe's seat with his left hand, and pressed his four fingers tightly On the back shoulder, the outstretched right hand rummaged through the drawer for a long time.

With an almost invisible sound of "tsk", Jiang Yunqi thought he was hallucinating, stopped vigilantly like a small animal, turned around and stared at Pei Zhe who was sitting upright.

Pei Zhe didn't look at him.

The interior of the car was not very clear, the light was weak, and Pei Zhe's high nose bridge was smacked with emptiness, and Pei Zhe's solemn and quiet appearance made the light tremble with fear.

Only Jiang Yunqi couldn't figure it out.

After finally getting back a bottle of mineral water, Jiang Yunqi sat down and handed it to Lin Xiyao: "Drink it."

Lin Xiyao whispered: "You don't want to drink?"

Jiang Yunqi seemed to have just remembered, got up, the down jacket was going to squeeze Pei Zhe again: "I'll get another bottle—"

Before he finished speaking, Pei Zhe quickly reached out and took out a bottle of mineral water and stuffed it back.

Jiang Yunqi took it and smiled: "Thank you Brother Pei."

Both of them drank, and now they will raise their heads to pour water, and their movements are a little funny.

Pei Zhe took a look and drove away.

Gradually, the whispered voices in the back seat were rustling, more regular than the traffic.

Lin Xiyao whispered: "Why isn't your brother talking?"

Jiang Yunqi took a big gulp and said, "He doesn't like to talk."

Lin Xiyao felt relieved, and asked again: "Is your brother always like this?"

Jiang Yunqi thought for a while: "Yes, it's usually like this."

"Not talking to you either?"

"Yes. But it's because I talk to him more often."

Pei Zhe: "..."

Lin Xiyao asked about the meeting with Boyu again, Jiang Yunqi said that he would contact him again in the next few days: "I don't know where Li Kun has gone, Eric has also gone home, Boyu will not stay in Yunfu Ladder forever."

Lin Xiyao said: "Li Kun should be under a lot of pressure. In fact, there are many people who scold him online, saying that he can't handle the team's affairs well, and Song Shao's affairs are also the same-Song Shao's blog post still has fans' support."

Jiang Yunqi didn't speak, and after a while said softly: "We will find evidence."

Lin Xiyao nodded: "Yes."

The content of the chat ranged from the e-sports arena to the school in the same city. The two spoke very softly, as if they were sneaking away from the adults.

Lin Xiyao asked again: "When do you start school?"

"What about you at the end of February?"

Jiang Yunqi was slow to drink, and his mouth would feel dry, so he unscrewed the bottle cap and took another big sip of water.

Lin Xiyao turned on her phone to look at the calendar: "I'm about a week earlier than you, and I can't spend the Lantern Festival at home. By the way, you don't have military training until the end of your freshman year, right?"

"Well. One month of military training."

"Last year we trained in the Dinghui Temple. It's a wild field with a lot of mosquitoes, and you are all poisonous mosquitoes. The University of Foreign Affairs should be the same. Remember to bring more mosquito repellent when the time comes."

Jiang Yunqi leaned against the car window and smiled: "I don't attract mosquitoes."

Lin Xiyao opened her eyes wide, amused: "Isn't it? Not at all? The mosquitoes there are not picky."

Jiang Yunqi: "If you don't believe me, ask my brother. Right, Brother Pei?"

Pei Zhe ignored him.

Jiang Yunqi coquettishly took advantage of his drunkenness to show a little bit, seeing that Pei Zhe was silent, he stepped forward and hugged the back of Pei Zhe's chair, pestering him: "Is it right? Brother Pei?"

Pei Zhe glanced at him in the rearview mirror and said perfunctorily, "Yes."

Lin Xiyao silently observed the two, and felt that Jiang Yunqi and his brother should have a good relationship.

The material of the down jacket snorted, and Jiang Yunqi tried his best to look at Pei Zhe's face. After searching for a long time, he found nothing unusual, so he sat back down again, but looked at Pei Zhe in the rearview mirror from time to time.

Pei Zhe didn't look in the rearview mirror any more.

The car was quiet for a while.

After Lin Xiyao arrived home, Jiang Yunqi was still sitting in the back seat drinking water with his head up.

After filling a bottle of water in a short while, Jiang Yunqi slumped on the seat with his upper body tilted, completely relaxed, not sitting properly.

Pei Zhe didn't drive away immediately, paused for a moment, and said in a tone that had to actively interrupt the meeting: "Sit down."

Jiang Yunqi half-lyed on the chair and looked up at him: "Huh?" Then he yawned and muttered, "Brother Pei, I'm so sleepy."

Pei Zhe's face darkened: "Jiang Yunqi, sit at the front."

Jiang Yunqi felt that the full name was really strange, but he obediently got out of the car, opened the passenger door and sat in, reporting: "Sit down."

Pei Zhe: "Seat belt."

Jiang Yunqi pulled out his seat belt and fastened it, and reported again: "Here."

Pei Zhe drove away.

Speechless all the way.

When he got home, Jiang Yunqi fell asleep on the chair.

Pei Zhe tapped Jiang Yunqi's forehead twice: "Get out of the car."

Subconsciously, Jiang Yunqi closed his eyes and reached out to hug her.

Pei Zhe opened the door and got out of the car.

Jiang Yunqi: "..."

The snow is very thick, stepping on it makes a deep impression with each foot.

Jiang Yunqi got out of the car and stomped on the spot for a while, excitedly shouting: "Brother Pei!"

Pei Zhe stood a few steps away and stared at Jiang Yunqi, as if he was thinking about something, but his eyes fell on Jiang Yunqi, and he seemed to be a little away from Jiang Yunqi.

Jiang Yunqi lowered his head and slammed on the snow, looking very enjoyable, while passing his hand forward, he said happily: "Do you want to walk together hand in hand?"

Pei Zhe didn't move.

Jiang Yunqi had stepped on enough, saw no one was holding his hand, raised his head, Pei Zhe had already walked a few steps forward, his back looked a little lonely.

This time he won't hold hands, and won't hug him when he gets out of the car. Jiang Yunqi became anxious and shouted at Pei Zhe, "Hey! You don't want your baby anymore!"

Rao was a little irritable in his heart, but he couldn't help laughing because of this coquettish sentence.

Pei Zhe turned around and strode towards Jiang Yunqi.

Jiang Yunqi was a little displeased, and when Pei Zhe walked in front of him, he withdrew his hand: "It's overdue." The look of looking up at people seemed to be serious.

Pei Zhe hugged him without hesitation: "If it expires, it will expire."

Jiang Yunqi pursed his lips and remained silent, lying on Pei Zhe's shoulder and looking at the snow-white everywhere.

Pei Zhe walked very steadily, and the sound of stepping on the snow was very steady.

The air was cold, and the exhaled breath wandered in the air like a white mist, and it took a long time to disperse.

Jiang Yunqi tilted his head and hit Pei Zhe's neck. The tip of his cold nose touched Pei Zhe's carotid artery. The heat of his breath mixed with the heat of the blood under his skin, like a person.

Jiang Yunqi took a small breath, listened to Pei Zhe's voice stepping on the snow, and said after a while, "I want to kiss Brother Pei."

Pei Zhe put down Jiang Yunqi, and before he could stand still, he lowered his head and kissed him.

Jiang Yunqi was kissed in a hurry, stepped back and leaned against the tree trunk, the snow shattered between the branches and fell into Jiang Yunqi's down collar, Jiang Yunqi whimpered: "Cold..."

Pei Zhe pressed the person into his arms, and when he supported Jiang Yunqi's back neck and kissed again, Jiang Yunqi fell under Pei Zhe's figure, completely covering him.

Later, Pei Zhe's broad shoulders and back were covered with fine snow.

A somewhat oppressive and lingering kiss.

Jiang Yunqi reached into Pei Zhe's coat and stroked Pei Zhe's back through several layers of fabric.

For a moment, Pei Zhe pressed against Jiang Yunqi's wet and warm lips, and whispered, "Jiang Yunqi, I gave you a chance."

Jiang Yunqi looked up, didn't understand, but subconsciously stretched out the tip of his tongue to lick Pei Zhe's slightly cool lips.

Looking into Jiang Yunqi's dark eyes, Pei Zhe closed his eyes, and kissed him urgently.

The blowing force made Jiang Yunqi's legs weak in an instant.

Tracks are easiest to follow in the snow.

With deep footprints and clear directions, people with clear goals will follow and will not get lost until the next snow falls.

Jiang Yunqi remembered what he had said to Pei Zhe a long time ago.

He asked Pei Zhe how many people he had to know and how many friends he had to make before Pei Zhe would like him and fall in love with him.

Pei Che didn't answer him at that time.Maybe Pei Zhe didn't know it himself.

But at this moment, Jiang Yunqi found Pei Zhe's answer.

But before he thought about it, Jiang Yunqi heard Pei Zhe say to him again: "There is no chance. There will be none in the future. Jiang Yunqi, you can only be mine, stay by my side, and you can't go anywhere."

Jiang Yunqi patted Pei Zhe on the back: "Yes!"

Pei Zhe smiled: "Yun Qi, do you know what I'm talking about?"

Jiang Yunqi said: "I know, you said you love me, and I love you too——I loved you a long, long time ago."

Pei Zhe paused.

The fine snow is still falling.

A person with a clear goal is fortunate that he has firmly grasped what he wants before the next snowfall.