dumb boy

Shen Xia warmed his head to the fire and stopped talking, the atmosphere between the two of them that had just eased up suddenly froze again.

Qin Yanqian squeezed his hands a little helplessly, took out another orange from the fruit plate next to him, and asked the boy, "Do you want to eat it? I'll peel it for you."

"Don't eat." Shen Xia said angrily, "It's so sour."

Qin Yanqian put the orange back again, thought for a while, and took out two pieces of chocolate from his pocket: "Then eat this."

He's hypoglycemic now and packs candy with him.

The chocolate wrapped in gold leaf quietly lay in the palm of the man's hand, making those big hands with sharp bones even paler and slender.

Shen Xia didn't move.

Qin Yanqian peeled off the chocolate, and took the initiative to give it away, before Shen Xia straightened up and took it away.

It was too cold, the chocolate was frozen hard, Shen Xia felt like she was chewing ice cubes, the cocoa powder slowly melted in the mouth, the taste was sour and bitter.

He suspected that something was wrong with Qin Yanqian's sense of taste, otherwise why the snacks he ate tasted so strange.

Shen Xia swallowed with difficulty, and asked with a strange expression: "Are you taking revenge on me for letting you eat oranges, and intentionally tricking me?"

"No." The man said inexplicably.

Shen Xia was so bitter that her little face wrinkled. Seeing the man's innocent expression, she peeled off another piece and stuffed it directly into his mouth.

Qin Yanqian froze for a moment, opened his lips slightly, and subconsciously touched the boy's slender and warm fingertips with the tip of his tongue.

Shen Xia's face suddenly turned red, and she quickly withdrew her hand: "You can try it yourself."

Qin Yanqian chewed it twice and got it.

What he took today was dark chocolate, and the taste was indeed not suitable for children with a sweet tooth.

Qin Yanqian showed a little embarrassment on his face, no longer stiff like a dead person, and said: "Next time, I will bring you some other candies."

Shen Xia didn't bother to talk to him anymore.

It was warm by the fireplace, and the sofa under him was soft. After curling up on the sofa for a while, he felt sleepy again.

But looking at the watch, there is still half an hour before the new year's eve.

Qin Yanqian watched him yawn sleepily, and said, "Sleep when you're sleepy."

Shen Xia wrapped herself in a blanket and snorted: "I'm going to celebrate New Year's Eve."

Qin Yanqian looked at his sleepy cat who couldn't even open his eyes, and slightly pulled the corners of his lips: "Sleep, I will call you when the time comes."

Shen Xia's work and rest have been very regular during this period of time, and she usually goes to bed before ten o'clock, and she has already performed supernormally if she can survive until now.

The boy was really sleepy, so he closed his eyes reluctantly, and told him, "Then don't fall asleep too."

"Do not worry."

Shen Xia took off her shoes, curled her feet up in the warm blanket, and nestled obediently on the large sofa like a kitten, breathing evenly and lightly, and fell asleep.

Qin Yanqian sat beside him quietly, looking at Shen Xia's peaceful sleeping face.

On the boy's clear and tender face, the tip of the nose and the rims of the eyes were a little red, like the marks left by crying, which aroused pity.

Shen Xia used to cry a lot. He was often irritated by his crying. He couldn't figure out why a boy loved to cry so much.

During the period when he was ill, he vaguely felt the hopelessness of powerlessness.

He seems to have returned to his childhood, he can only rely on others for almost everything, he can't do anything by himself, a little thing can make him collapse, and he often doesn't know that he is crying.

But the child in the past has been trapped in that state. At that time, he was the person he was most dependent on, but he treated him like that. How sad the child must have been at that time.

Qin Yanqian frowned uncomfortably, thinking of the past felt like a knife piercing his heart, wishing to kill his former self.

The man lowered his head, his broad and thin shoulders trembled slightly, the orange flames in the fireplace flickered and danced, and the creaking sound of the burning firewood inside covered the slight sobbing outside.

Half an hour passed quickly, and it was about twelve o'clock. Qin Yanqian calmed down, stood up, and leaned over to wake Shen Xia up.

Before reaching out to touch the child's body, she retracted it hesitantly, and only called softly: "Xia Xia."

Shen Xia opened his eyes in a daze, the short sleep made him feel that everything that happened just now was like a dream.

He saw the man again in his dream, the man was so real this time, not only did he talk to him, they also sat by the fire and ate oranges together.

Shen Xia was still immersed in this sweet dream, her consciousness hadn't come back yet, she stared blankly at the man in front of her, and suddenly opened her arms to embrace him, and said in a crying voice, "Qin Yanqian... don't go ,OK……"

The boy's body was soft and warm, sticking to it warmly.

Qin Yanqian was stunned, subconsciously wrapped his hands around the boy's soft waist, and said in a trembling voice, "Xia Xia..."

Xia Xia, his Xia Xia.

In fact, he also hates him, right?

Qin Yanqian's eyes were red, he hugged the child tightly, kissed the corners of his red eyes, and said in a low voice, "I won't go, I won't go..."

When Shen Xia touched the man's slightly cold and stiff body, he realized that this was not a dream, but he couldn't care less about it anymore. The separation of nearly two months was also tormenting him, and he couldn't bear the suffocating pain anymore. Feeling lonely, the delicate little Rose would rather return to the airtight glass cover, only cuddling with his master.

His tears kept flowing down, he hugged the man tightly with his arms, and eagerly kissed the man's lips: "You can't leave me again, don't leave me..."

Salty tears fell on the lips of the two who touched each other. The two of them were short of breath, and neither of them could remember how to kiss. They simply pressed each other's lips with their lips and hugged tightly. Together.

The bell rang at twelve o'clock, and the hosts on the TV were all smiling and wished each other a happy new year beamingly.

The two people in front of the warm fireplace were crying badly. Qin Yanqian's face was also wet with tears. He gently held the child's flushed face with his big hands, rubbed the tip of the child's nose with his straight nose, and said softly: "Happy New Year, Xia Xia."

"Happy New Year, Qin Yanqian." Shen Xia choked up.

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Except for the living room, the rest of Shen's house was covered with dust, and the quilt had long been flooded.

Qin Yanqian pulled off his long down jacket to wrap the child, Shen Xia put the blanket over the two of them, snuggled into the man's arms, smelling his unique scent again, and felt unprecedentedly at ease.The two slept on the sofa for a night.

But the next day when he opened his eyes, the thick down jacket and blanket were still covering him, but the man had disappeared.

Shen Xia's heart suddenly went blank, before she had time to put on her shoes, she ran outside the house, wanting to see if the man's car was still outside.

Qin Yanqian, who went out to smoke secretly, saw him coming out, quickly pinched his cigarette, and reached out to catch the child running towards him: "What's wrong?"

He originally wanted to pick up the child, but his body was too weak and thin, and the child became heavier due to pregnancy, so he couldn't pick Shen Xia up from the ground for a while.

Shen Xia threw herself on him, only then did she feel that the man's tall and straight body was now so thin that only bones remained, and it was frighteningly crumpled.

He wrapped his arms around Qin Yanqian's waist and asked in surprise, "Why are you so thin?"

Qin Yanqian was ashamed because of his decline in physical fitness, so he was silent for a while before saying, "I'm not used to eating abroad."

In fact, he couldn't eat anything at all a while ago. There were not many muscles left on his body, he was skinny, and he was so weak that he didn't even have the strength to stand up. With the advancement of treatment, he can barely eat something every day. She lost a little weight and got rid of the horrible skeleton-like image before.

He was only wearing a loose sweater, which felt very cold to the touch, Shen Xia hurriedly dragged him into the room, and asked the man to put on a down jacket.

After Qin Yanqian dressed himself, he put on Shen Xia's shoes, and then took the boy back to the hotel where he was temporarily staying to wash up.

After taking the medicine in the bathroom, he went out to see Shen Xia sitting on his bed, looking curiously at the place where he lived: "You live here?"

"En." Qin Yanqian found a thick scarf from his luggage and wrapped it around him.

Shen Xia raised her neck and obediently asked the man to wear a scarf for herself, and asked, "You gave me all the money, how do you have the money to live in a hotel?"

Qin Yanqian smiled: "That's right, I don't have any money, so I can only pay on credit."

As a low-key rich man, Shen Xia proudly said: "Please beg me, I will help you pay off the debt."

Qin Yanqian just laughed and didn't speak.

Laughing so much, Shen Xia pushed him angrily: "What are you laughing at?"

Qin Yanqian didn't dare to say that he was laughing at the child's stupidity, so he wrapped the scarf tightly around the child, and kissed him on the forehead: "Please."

Shen Xia really didn't understand those complicated laws, and only thought that Qin Yanqian should be penniless now that he left the house.

He blushed a little, took out his wallet from his pocket, drew a card from it and gave it to the man, and said proudly, "Spend whatever you want."

Qin Yanqian was not polite either, and put the card into his pocket with a smile like a boy eating soft food, kissed the child again, and said softly, "Go to eat?"

Yu. Playing Shen Xia nodded: "Okay!"

The boy now has a dedicated nutritionist to prepare every meal, but he didn't want to eat those bland meals today, so he took Qin Yanqian to eat hot pot in the morning with great interest.Qin Yanqian didn't say that his stomach couldn't bear that kind of irritating food, he just drank a few mouthfuls of multigrain porridge and watched the child eat.

After dinner, he accompanied the child back to the apartment.

Pork Belly still remembered him, and jumped on him as soon as he saw it, meowing.

Qin Yanqian bent down to hug this soft little thing, a soft feeling rose in his heart.

His mood suddenly became particularly good, and he laughed almost all day long, sweeping away his gloomy and dull appearance before.

The man took Shen Xia to visit the grave of old man Shen in the afternoon, and after returning, he went to the nearby gym to apply for a card, wanting to exercise well and restore his previous physical strength as soon as possible.

He felt a spirit like never before, full of hope for everything in the future.

Seeing his rare energetic appearance, Shen Xia was also very happy from the bottom of his heart. He thought that the man's depression was already much better, and if this continued, he would definitely be cured soon.

But this good state lasted only about four days.

Qin Yanqian came to him early in the morning and said that it was snowing outside.

Shen Xia hurriedly opened the curtains and saw that it was really snowing outside, and the ground was completely white, so she happily dressed and followed the man outside to play in the snow.

When we arrived at the park, many people were already having snowball fights there.

Shen Xia was young, and as soon as he entered, he was besieged by several naughty junior high school students, who threw snowballs at him.

Shen Xia was hit in the face unexpectedly, and frowned uncomfortably.

He was a little uncomfortable and wanted to leave this place, but the face of the smiling man beside him suddenly changed suddenly, and he couldn't help but move forward to fight those people.