Bamboo Horse Cultivation Manual [Rebirth]

In the afternoon, Aunt Huang came to cook. There were only Qiu Mu and Ye Li at the table, and the atmosphere was strangely silent.

Qiu Mu thought about it, and took two bites in front of Aunt Huang, and then as soon as she left, she immediately put down the bowl and chopsticks and got off the table.

Ye Li chased after him and said, "Eat more."

Qiu Mu played his temper and ignored him.

Ye Li: "..."

After eating, Ye Li took the little black dog out for a walk. He dragged the fat and lazy guy around the nearby streets and alleys for two big circles. The puppy who refused to move on the ground returned home.

Qiu Mu was in the same state as Ye Li before going out, still locked himself in the room, and the food on the table did not move.

Ye Li frowned, loosened the leash around the dog's neck, and came to Qiu Mu's door: "Xiao Mu."

I knocked on the door, but there was no response.

Looking down at his watch, the time was not at the time when Qiu Mu usually went to bed, Ye Li continued: "It's impossible not to eat at night."

After shouting several times in a row, Qiu Mu finally replied, although the tone of the reply was not friendly at all.

"I do not want to eat!"

Ye Li continued his efforts: "Then what do you want to eat, I'll make it for you."

"I can't eat what you made!"

Ye Li said with a good temper: "Then I'll buy it for you."

"..."

"What to eat?"

Qiu Mu was silent in the room for a long time, and then deliberately said: "I want to eat the bento from Yoshida's family."

If you go there by bike, it will take at least an hour.

"Okay." Ye Li didn't pause, as if he didn't know how far Yoshida's house was, and quickly agreed.

There was a pause inside for a while, and then there was a rustling sound.

"...Are you really going?" Qiu Mu whispered.

Ye Li: "Well, if you want to eat, go buy it."

He lowered his head and glanced at the little black dog lying on the ground, squinting his eyes and trying to sleep, and touched its buttocks with the toe of his slippers: "Go, little black, go shopping."

The puppy let out a groan.

Of course Ye Li won't spoil him.People are not tired, how can animals with better physical strength be tired.It's just that he is too fat and doesn't want to leave, so he doesn't want to understand the mood of a lazy dog.

Putting on the shoes he wore when going out again, Ye Li dragged the puppy with its drooping tail out the door.

Going out to buy lunch for Qiu Mu, of course it wasn't a deliberate play for Qiu Mu to watch.If this can make Qiu Mu feel better, Ye Li doesn't mind making such a trip at all.

Although he knew it was Qiu Mu's willfulness, but Ye Li didn't hate this kind of willfulness, and even enjoyed it a little bit morbidly.

It's very troublesome to run around, and you have to be at the mercy of Qiu Mu's words, and you are ordered by him for no reason, but so what?

This kind of "unreasonable" that only targets Ye Li is actually a special treatment.If one day Qiu Mu starts to be polite to him, or turns to make such requests to other people, Ye Li will feel unhappy, even jealous.

He likes to be ordered by Qiu Mu, and he even wishes that Qiu Mu can be willful and lazy to the point where he can't even wear his own clothes or eat by himself.In this way, he can "fairly and helplessly" take over Qiu Mu, and do this and that for him, so that he will never be able to leave himself.

Because I like it, many things can be ignored, and I can dig out a lot of happy things from unpleasant things, and then entertain myself.

For example now.

In the living room behind him, where the light should have been turned off by him, a light came from the room.

Qiu Mu came out of the room, opened the front door, and a voice came from the door: "Xiao Li."

Ye Li and the puppy stopped in their tracks.

"I don't want to eat again, you come back."

Ye Li: "I'm fine..."

Halfway through the conversation, the puppy seemed to understand the conversation between the two, and as if he had found a savior, he ran desperately towards home, even Ye Li, who was holding the rope, was staggered and had to be held by the puppy. Take it back.

Qiu Mu stood at the door. It was still cold outside. He was not wearing a coat, and he curled up with his arms clutching his arms.He said to Ye Li, "Come in."

Ye Li hurried in, then closed the door, blocking the cold night wind outside.

"I'll go and reheat the food," he said.

"Yeah." Qiu Mu didn't look at him, she lowered her head and took the rope around the puppy's neck, and unbuttoned it.The little black dog circled around Qiu Mu's body, as if suddenly very happy again.

Qiu Mu smiled and stretched out her hand to touch the puppy's head, and was licked by its tongue until her hands drool.

Ye Li said dissatisfied: "It's too dirty."

Qiu Mu: "I'll just wash my hands later."

Ye Li had no choice but to stop talking. Looking at the puppy that suddenly became lively and took away Qiu Mu's attention and gaze, he secretly thought that the next time he walked, he must extend the distance a little longer.

Put the hot dishes and rice in front of Qiu Mu, and Ye Li sat next to Qiu Mu.

"Are you still angry?"

Qiu Mu refused to admit that he was having a fight: "I'm not angry."

"Well, you're not angry." Ye Li said, "I really don't like Ma Bin."

"Hmph." Qiu Mu still didn't believe it: "You don't need to explain to me."

Even if you don't like it, it must be somewhat ambiguous. The words and deeds of these two people are really suspicious.

Knowing that Ye Li may like men, Ma Bin is still willing to get in touch with him; it’s good to hide and hide from Qiu Mu to prevent them from knowing their relationship; It's also good to meet each other; it's also good to go shopping together on Valentine's Day.

All kinds of things accumulated together, so that Qiu Mu couldn't do without thinking too much.

Ye Li really couldn't explain this, because no matter what he said, it might reveal the secrets of the two of them, and it would be easy to make mistakes if they said too much.

I can only explain nothing, lest things become more and more complicated.

Not long after the Valentine's Day incident, Ma Bin found Qiu Mu, who was in the same class.

"Tomorrow is my sister's birthday, do you want to come?"

Qiu Mu said, "Ma Li?"

He and Ma Li just met and said a few words, and they were not familiar with each other, so it seemed a bit strange to make such a request.

"Did Mary ask you to invite me?"

Ma Bin: "Not really."

it is as expected.Qiu Mu said: "Forget it then, you say happy birthday to Ma Li and me, I will prepare a gift for her later."

Ma Bin: "I didn't come to ask you for a gift—won't you come?"

Qiu Mu nodded: "Yes."

Ma Bin: "Okay then, I thought Ye Li would come over, so I asked you to come along."

What kind of logic is this?Qiu Mu looked at him strangely.

Ma Bin said: "You know my sister is crazy about playing, so she will definitely stay up all night. Ye Li probably won't be able to go back until noon the day after tomorrow—don't you just live together now?"

Since it will become a situation where only Qiu Mu is at home, let's talk to Qiu Mu and ask him if he wants to come together—Ma Bin probably thinks so.

Qiu Mu slightly raised his attention: "Will he stay at your house overnight?"

Ma Bin: "Yes, we can't let him go back in the middle of the night."

"..."

Ma Bin: "If you don't go there, forget it."

He turned and walked to his seat.

"Hey!" Qiu Mu subconsciously called out to him.

Ma Bin looked back in doubt.

Qiu Mu's eyes flickered, and he said, "Do you have many guest rooms?"

"Ah?" Ma Bin wondered, "Why are you asking this?"

"Ma Li's friends, most of them must be girls. If they live in your guest room, where will Ye Li sleep?"

Ma Bin didn't think about this at all, but this is indeed a very likely thing to happen, so after thinking about it, Ma Bin said: "Should sleep with me."

"..."

Ma Bin didn't care about this kind of thing at all: "Forget it, it's just a matter of one night, just squeeze in."

Qiu Mu stared straight at Ma Bin, with a little scrutiny and criticalness in her eyes, as if she was looking at a thief who planned to plot against her treasure.

Ma Bin was seen as unclear.He always felt that Qiu Mu seemed to have something to say: "What's wrong, can't you?"

Qiu Mu looked away and said, "That's not true...I suddenly want to go, add me."

Ma Bin was stunned: "Oh, well..."

Didn't you just say no to it?really weird.

On the way home, Qiu Mu and Ye Li mentioned about Ma Li's birthday on Saturday.

Ye Li: "Yes, that's right—I thought you wouldn't be interested, so I didn't tell you."

Qiu Mu suggested: "If it's too late at night, let's find a hotel and stay overnight."

Ye Li: "No ID card."

Qiu Mu was taken aback.

Yep, almost forgot this.

"Maybe I will sleep with others, don't you mind?" Ye Li thoughtfully said: "Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't go."

"..." Qiu Mu: "No, I want to go."

Ye Li didn't say anything more: "Okay then, if you feel awkward then, just lie down next to me, and I'll give you some space so I won't touch you."

Qiu Mu: "Yes."

As expected, Ma Li was just as she appeared on the outside, she was a crazy girl through and through.

Walking into the door of the KTV private room, the long table is filled with densely packed various drinks.

I also know that they must be planning to drink later.

It wasn't too early for Ye Li and Qiu Mu to arrive, there were already more than a dozen people sitting inside, and obviously more people would come over later.The seats are still half empty.

Because of Ye Li's arrival, there was a small climax in the private room, and a crowd of people gathered around one after another, pulling Ye Li to ask him to play together.

Someone proposed to let Ye Li sing a song, Ye Li saw that everyone said so, so naturally he would not be disappointed and refused: "Okay, what are you singing?"

The girls chattered about a lot of song titles, you have your own opinion and I have mine, arguing with each other, but they couldn't come up with any results at all.

Ye Li simply chose a song by himself: "That's it."

Everyone applauded and sat in their seats looking at Ye Li expectantly.

"The cold coffee left the coaster, and the emotions I held back are far behind... The most beautiful thing is not the rainy day, but the eaves where I once hid from the rain with you."

The moment Ye left his mouth, the weird tone made everyone's expectations instantly cool down.

When Ma Li and the other girls heard the first line of the lyrics, their faces were filled with embarrassment.But when the bustling atmosphere around began to quiet down unnaturally, a group of people spontaneously became active again in an instant.

"Yo yo~ It sounds so good!" Ma Li rang the noisy bell and accompanied Ye Li: "The most beautiful thing is not the rainy day~ but the eaves where you and I escaped the rain~~"

The others also reacted one after another, and ran away from the singing, but Ye Li, who was singing very attentively, helped sing with a serious face, making the voice that was very strange at first hearing become a little normal because of the chorus.

Qiu Mu sat on the side covering her mouth and giggling.

The secret that only he and Gu Yu knew until now is finally known to everyone.

Ye Li is actually a full-fledged music idiot, and he is not ashamed at all. Every time he sings, he sings very happily, and it is completely impossible for people to take him against him.

After singing a song that can only be described as "embarrassing", Ma Li and the girls frantically jumped up and down beside Ye Li, constantly praising Ye Li for singing really well, and his voice is so charming, so that others feel embarrassed after hearing the compliment After getting up, Ye Li accepted it calmly.

Qiu Mu looked at the reactions of the people around her, laughing until her stomach ached.

After singing, a girl brought Ye Li a glass of wine, Ye Li hesitated for a moment.

Ma Li has been sticking to Ye Li's side, seeing that Ye Li's reaction is not right, she immediately said: "Don't you like drinking?"

Ye Li said: "Alcohol paralyzes the brain and makes thinking unclear. I don't like it."

If someone else said this, it is estimated that Ma Li and other teenagers would immediately refute, and then laugh at or force the other party to drink.

But since it's Ye Li, it seems that it's hard to say anything, because I feel a little bit of pressure, and at the end of the conversation, it will only be me who can't hold back.

So Ma Li and the girl who delivered the wine didn't say anything, thinking that Ye Li didn't plan to drink.

Unexpectedly, after Ye Li said "I don't like it" just now, what he said was completely opposite to what he did, and he reached out to take the wine glass.

Ma Li was surprised: "Do you want to drink?"

Ye Li raised his wine glass, indicating that this is not obvious: "Drink."

Ma Li said with a smile: "I thought you guys definitely don't like drinking, you think we are like this..."

She didn't say the latter words, but Ye Li knew what she wanted to express.

It's nothing more than that it's unreasonable for students to drink alcohol, and things are too "rule" and so on.

Ye Li said: "As long as you can take responsibility and promise not to cause trouble to others, it doesn't matter whether you drink or not, as long as you are happy."

He has always thought that being able to drink is also a skill. Drinking is a skill that must be mastered in interpersonal communication when he grows up, and he must drink sooner or later.

It's just that after drinking, the brain's thinking will become dull, and this kind of thing is what Ye Li dislikes the most.

So he said: "Drink, don't worry about me. It's my first time drinking today, so drink less if you're afraid of getting drunk."

Ma Li's eyes lit up, and she smiled even more happily: "Really? This is your first time drinking!"

The girl who brought wine to Ye Li was very excited: "Wow, wow!"

Ye Li took a sip of wine in front of the two of them, then frowned.

There was a feeling in the nose and throat, whether it was spicy or something, and after tormenting the nerves for a while, something like a "air current" rushed straight to the top of the head, making people dizzy.

——Sure enough, this feeling is very annoying.

Ye Li calmly disliked the things in his hands, and didn't speak.

After sitting back to their original positions with wine glasses, everyone started singing again.Hearing the deafening loud volume, Ye Li walked to Qiu Mu's side.

Qiu Mu is drinking wine carelessly, he seems to be very used to these things, judging by his behavior and reaction, there is nothing uncomfortable at all.

Ye Li couldn't help but said, "You know even this."

What else is there that Qiu Mu will find difficult after getting started, and it is too omnipotent.

Qiu Mu was puzzled: "What?"

"Drinking." Ye Li said: "You seem to be very skilled, have you ever drank before?"

"Ah, this... I haven't drank it before." Qiu Mu looked at the wine glass in his hand and said, "I don't mind, but you should drink less."

Ye Li: "I know."

Of course he won't drink too much outside and cause trouble to others, as long as he refers to Qiu Mu's amount.It's the first time for both of them to drink alcohol. It makes no sense that Qiu Mu thinks it's not much, but he will get drunk.

And even though it was a birthday party, in fact, it didn't feel much different from going out to play with the usual classmates.It's just that the people who played this time were more open-minded than usual, and also played a little better. Ye Li was unknowingly infected by the atmosphere, his expression and tone of voice became a little different from usual, and his behavior was more casual.

Qiu Mu was by the side, noticing Ye Li's changes.Thinking about how rare it was for Ye Li to play like this, he didn't say anything.

Several people were playing cards, and whoever lost would drink. Later, Ma Li felt that this was not exciting enough, and asked them to replace the punishment for losing the game with truth or dare.

Ye Li and Qiu Mu sat on the other side and didn't participate in it before. Later, a girl lost in a card game and was appointed by Ma Li to take a big adventure, so the two of them passively joined in.

"Ye Li, do you have someone you like?"

Although it is something that some people know well, it can just be used as an introduction to inquire about intelligence.

The girl stood in front of Ye Li, pretending to be indifferent and asked.

Ye Li narrowed his eyes and looked at her, feeling his face was very hot.The light of the box in the field of vision is getting more and more blurred, the body is floating, as if losing weight, and the chair is leaning on the sofa.

Because the lights are too dim, everyone can only get a rough look at others, and there is no way to distinguish the color of the face, so even Qiu Mu didn't realize that Ye Li was actually flushed and drunk—because Just now, when he was talking to Qiu Mu, his tone and logic were good, as usual.

It wasn't until answering the current question that Qiu Mu realized that something was wrong.

"Yes." Ye Li nodded.

The group of people on Ma Li's side was eerily quiet for a while, as if they were listening carefully.

The girl's face suddenly became very lonely, she turned around and walked back without saying a word.

"Stupid! Why don't you ask more questions!"

Qiu Mu heard someone say so anxiously in a low voice.

"..."

After watching the girls go back, a group of people tacitly lost their cards on purpose, speeding up the pace, and then someone came over within a minute.

"Are you already together?"

Ye Li took a sip of his wine and said slowly, "Not yet."

"Does she like you?"

Ye Li burped: "I don't know."

"who is she?"

Ye Li smiled and said, "He is—"

When he said this, Ye Li suddenly woke up, and the movement of sitting up straight from the sofa quickly shocked not only himself, but also the group of people around him who were staring at him and reacting.The movement of retreating back and forth in unison is truly spectacular.

Ye Li looked like he was awakened from a dream, his eyes widened, he looked around, and then covered his mouth with his hand.

Qiu Mu: "Are you drunk?"

"..." Ye Li nodded after a while, with lingering fears in his heart: "Yes."

I didn't notice it at all.The fact that he didn't even know that he was drunk was the scariest thing.

Ye Li didn't like the feeling that his brain thinking was out of his control, like a samurai losing his handy weapon, it couldn't be worse.

Putting down the wine glass in his hand like a hot potato, Ye Li and the people around him explained "I'll go and make it easier", then quickly got up and left the crowd.

Ma Li and the others watched Ye Li walk out of the private room, and then they looked up to the sky and lamented without any concealment: "It's almost there!!"

"I didn't expect Ye Li to actually have someone he likes..." Hearing it personally was still very shocking.

"But we're not together yet, right? That means we still have a chance."

Qiu Mu: "..."

Someone asked Qiu Mu: "Qiu Mu, do you know who that person is?"

Qiu Mu replied: "I also really want to know."

But if Ye Li really said that person's name, Ma Li and the others probably turned green instead of mourning and regretting.

"You shouldn't ask so directly. If you ask something else in a roundabout way, you can probably guess who it is." A girl who looks very smart, dresses very purely, and is slightly out of tune with Ma Li and her party said: "For example Ask how many characters are in the name, how good is your academic performance, whether you are pretty, what are your specialties, etc."

Qiu Mu sat on the side, thinking silently, if he hadn't noticed Ye Li was drunk so quickly just now, he would have watched the fun with peace of mind like everyone else.Maybe through this, they can guess who Ye Li likes.

But if he really wanted to do this, Ye Li would definitely be annoyed afterwards why he sat next to him and didn't help to interrupt, so that he would say that name out.

So although I want to know, it is still impossible to know.

Ye Li left his seat this time, as if there was a sign that he would never return. Several people discussed the matter for a long time, but because of the absence of the protagonist, the enthusiasm finally subsided.

They started the follow-up of the event just now. Ma Li and the others found all the friends in the box, and everyone came to play together.

Naturally, Qiu Mu couldn't avoid it.

It's just that his ability to play cards is not bad, and he can count the cards in his hand and the cards of the remaining players very clearly. Basically, when it's his turn, he can't lose no matter how he plays.

Ma Bin suddenly said: "It's no fun to play like this, so let's just draw cards, and see who is unlucky, and go on a big adventure."

Among the group of people, Ma Bin was the kind who could speak well, so when he put forward such an opinion, everyone easily accepted it without much objection.

After playing like this for about two or three games, Qiu Mu saw that something was wrong.

He found that when this group of people drew cards, several of them would suddenly laugh inexplicably, and then look at each other knowingly.The expressions and eyes seem to express that they are cooperating with each other tacitly.

Qiu Mu knew that this group of people often played together, so there might be some secrets in private that others would not know.Just like Qiu Mu knew that Ye Li was actually a sound idiot, they might also have one or two little tricks in playing cards that others didn't know about.

For example, there may be a gap or scratch in the corner of the joker card, or it may be fixed on the last few cards.

No matter how much Qiu Mu guessed this, he couldn't guess the result.

Seeing that there were only the last two cards left, Ma Bin snatched one away before Qiu Mu. After looking at it, he said, "Who has the ghost card?"

Everyone shook their heads and replied, "I don't have any here."

"not me."

"..." Qiu Mu walked over under the gaze of some people, and lifted the last card on the table.

The colorful ghost cards with one half crying and the other half smiling are especially obvious under the dim light.

Although he knew it was a fraud, it would be boring to expose it on this occasion, and he could escape the "punishment" but it would easily make the atmosphere cold. Qiu Mu showed a surprised expression in the eyes of the people around him, picked up the joke card and said with a smile: "It's me. .”

"Haha! It's finally your turn." Ma Li said with a smile, "You always won the card game just now, so it can't be compared with luck."

Qiu Mu said with a smile: "After all, it is a matter of probability, there is no way."

Ma Li said: "Then I'll let you go on a big adventure—to find out who Ye Li likes, that's fine!"

Qiu Mu thought for a while, and cooperated: "It's enough to ask about the number of characters in the name."

After all, there is a lesson learned from Ye Li's choice of evasion when he asked too directly just now. Although Ma Li is not satisfied and can only know the information, she still said: "Well, enough."

Qiu Mu planned to say a few words casually when she went out later, and then just fooled this so-called "big adventure".

But Ma Bin said: "It's always Ye Li, Ye Li, all the interesting things are taken up by you girls, who wants to know these! Change to other interesting things."

Qiu Mu's heart moved slightly, and he observed Ma Bin's expression calmly.

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