Bamboo Horse Cultivation Manual [Rebirth]

Qiu Mu looked at Ye Li with a smile.

Ye Li: "...what's wrong with you."

Qiu Mu showed an expression that you don't need to put on any more, and said to Ye Li: "You still deliberately lied to me, you think it's fun to tease me, don't you?"

Ye Li: "What am I kidding you about?"

Qiu Mu: "Let me misunderstand that you are interested in Xiaoping, and then make me anxious."

Ye Li asked in surprise, "I'm interested in Miss Xiaoping, why are you so anxious?"

Qiu Mu suddenly choked.

Ye Li said again: "And I'm so boring, I deliberately misunderstood you, do you have nothing to do? What good will it do me?"

Qiu Mu slowly opened his eyes wide.

Ye Li: "Besides, it will be a matter of time before I fall in love, right? Will you continue to fight with me like yesterday? The question is not whether I like Miss Xiaoping or not, but you."

Qiu Mu: "..."

Ye Li: "You've been a little strange lately."

Qiu Mu was speechless.

The little bit of relief that finally rose up easily dissipated like fog.Only the still heavy burden was left on his shoulders, making him tired and exhausted.

He didn't know how to answer Ye Li's rhetorical question, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did.

"But you are avoiding me, and it is a fact to keep a distance from me." Qiu Mu said, "You don't even talk to me—I can also practice oral English with you."

Ye Li questioned: "How do you know I'm practicing oral English? Did I tell you? You should ask Miss Xiaoping."

Just don't respond positively to Qiu Mu's proposal.

Qiu Mu explained with reason: "I just found it strange, so I asked."

Qiu Mu stopped Ye Li twice and three times, telling Ye Li not to stick with Xiaoping all day long, and Ye Li finally became impatient.

He said: "Is who I'm with bothering you? Why do you always meddle in my affairs."

Qiu Mu: "I care about you."

Ye Li said helplessly: "You are not my mother, you care about what I do."

Qiu Mu frowned, lowered her head and said nothing.

Ye Li said, "It's as if you're eating Miss Xiaoping's jealousy."

Qiu Mu's eyes widened: "Why should I be jealous of her?"

"I don't know what you do." Ye Li said: "You are really strange, you say that I ignore you and say that I have less time to talk to you, and now you still care who I get in touch with. You are not talking to me. When you date, don’t say a few words so you care about what to do.”

Qiu Mu said in a daze: "What, where do I have..."

"If you have time to think about these things, it's better to do more work." Ye Li said: "Don't waste time."

Qiu Mu couldn't help but said: "What do you mean? I think about it. You look like this all day, I can't do other things at all. If you weren't so indifferent to me, would my mood be so changeable? .”

Ye Li just looked at him.

Qiu Mu felt wronged: "You deliberately tortured me, made me restless, thinking about things. If you don't like it, you don't like it. If you misunderstand it, just tell me it's wrong. You have to hide it from me."

Ye Li: "What did I torture you for?"

"You—" Qiu Mu thought for a long time, but couldn't think of any way to clearly point out Ye Li's "mistake". In the end, he could only pretend: "Anyway, it's because of you that I'm in such a bad mood."

"..."

"..."

Ye Li said: "Then I apologize to you?"

Qiu Mu was even more annoyed: "What!"

Who needs Ye Li's apology.

It was as if he provoked trouble for no reason and insisted that Ye Li give way to him, like a naive child.

Ye Li: "Then what do you want me to do?"

Qiu Mu: "Go away with Xiaoping, don't get clingy in front of me."

Ye Li couldn't help but said, "Why did you ask me to do this? I was just talking, and I didn't do anything immoral. It's too unreasonable."

Qiu Mu reluctantly said: "But I don't want to see you talking to her, can you even listen to me?"

Ye Li said: "Sorry, I can't listen to you, it's not fair to Miss Xiaoping."

Qiu Mu's voice became louder unconsciously: "Can't you agree to such a small request!"

Ye Li kept his bottom line unshakable: "I can't give in to this step, otherwise I will get closer to anyone in the future, and you will talk endlessly."

Qiu Mu's lips parted slightly, and she found that she couldn't say "I will definitely not do this in the future".

Ye Li: "I suggest you stop thinking about what I should do, but sort out your attitude. Think about why you did this, and see if something went wrong."

"..."

Qiu Mu lowered her head, her tone lost: "Okay, I'm sorry."

He turned and walked back to his bedroom, shutting himself in.

Ye Li stood quietly, watching Qiu Mu walk into the room.It was not until he could no longer hear the sound coming from inside that he lightened his steps, raised his palm and gently touched the door panel of the bedroom.

Looking at the small brown door in front of him, it seemed as if he could see Qiu Mu in distress through the door.The corners of the mouth are slightly bent.

After staying there for a while, Ye Li turned his head, fixed his eyes on the place where Xiaoping might be, and walked there.

Xiao Ping was growing flowers in the courtyard with the old man, Ye Li stood in the distance and waved to her, Xiao Ping trotted over with a happy expression.

Ye Li led her out of the courtyard to a quiet corner.

"Xiao Mu came to chat with me just now." Using Qiu Mu's matter as a topic, Ye Li said: "He said some good things about you, Miss Xiaoping, saying that you are very nice and excellent, if you become someone's girlfriend , that person will be very happy."

Xiaoping raised the corners of her mouth and said joyfully, "Really?"

She didn't expect Qiu Mu to help her.

"Then..." Xiaoping said, "Then what do you think?"

It is impossible for Ye Li to talk to her about this kind of thing for no reason, and there must be something waiting for her later.So he couldn't help looking at Ye Li with expectant eyes.

If Ye Li confesses his love for her at this time, Xiaoping thinks that it is not impossible to try to get along for a while to see if the two get along well.

But Ye Li said: "I don't know if I misunderstood, Xiao Mu seems to be implying that I might have a crush on you."

Xiaoping's smile froze unconsciously.

What does it mean?

Ye Li said: "Maybe it's because I seldom get along so closely with girls. Xiao Mu thinks I'm interested in you—although I have nothing to do with you, but Miss Xiaoping, you're a girl. It's not good if you get misunderstood." Yes. So I thought of coming here to apologize to you, if I was rude in any way before, don't take it to heart."

The smile on Xiaoping's face had completely disappeared, and she looked at Ye Li in a daze.

"I also explained it to Xiao Mu. After that, he won't talk about things that make you feel uncomfortable. Don't worry."

Xiaoping's lips were pursed into a straight line, she was thinking about the meaning of Ye Li's words.

"That's it..." Xiaoping's expression was natural, she didn't see any unpleasantness, she asked seemingly casually: "Speaking of which, when you first came here, Xiaoli The two times I came to see me, it seems that each time I came here because of Xiao Mu."

Ye Li seemed to think of something because of Xiaoping's words, and laughed dumbly: "You mean, Xiao Mu might have done this on purpose? I mean, why was he so lazy that day, he insisted on asking me to help him get it?" This and that - I really love to worry about it."

He intentionally concealed the fact that the two of them got along like this when they were at home, and said something that Xiaoping misunderstood.

The calm expression on Xiaoping's face was completely broken.

Her tone was a little unstable: "After that, you said you wanted to cook porridge...and you rarely cook."

Ye Li tilted his head, as if he didn't understand what Xiaoping suddenly said: "Ah...because at home, every time Xiao Mu got sick and took medicine, she would lose her appetite, so Huang and I Auntie can cook porridge for Xiaomu, maybe he just didn’t want to drink it that day. I actually like cooking, but because Auntie is here, I don’t have much chance—otherwise I wouldn’t bother Miss Xiaoping to teach me. "

"..." Xiaoping was speechless for a moment.

Ye Li said with a smile: "Now the misunderstanding has been resolved, it's that guy Xiao Mu who made a fuss, I'll go back and talk about him later."

What else could Xiaoping say at this time, apart from embarrassment and a little bit of regret, she couldn't think of anything else.

Nodding uncomfortably, Xiaoping said, "Yes."

Ye Li looked at Xiaoping's face, and suddenly said seriously, "I'm sorry."

Xiaoping shook her head and said, "It's okay, you didn't do anything wrong."

Ye Li narrowed his eyes slightly, and then said with a natural expression: "Hehe, yes, it was all a misunderstanding."

Qiu Mu found that the time Ye Li and Xiao Ping spent together was significantly less.

Occasionally, when there is a conversation, I just briefly say a few necessary things, as if the two of them are avoiding something, and they no longer chat casually like before.

It was supposed to be a joyful thing, but Qiu Mu couldn't relax at all.

Ye Li really was for him, even if it was such an unreasonable request, he acted according to his idea with a good temper.

But what's the use of this, he can't ask Ye Li like this all the time, let Ye Li do things he doesn't want to do.

And even though Ye Li and Xiao Ping spent less time communicating, Ye Li did not return to his usual attitude, chatting with him and getting along naturally.

Maybe, because of this matter, he became even more impatient with him.

Thinking of this, Qiu Mu felt that his eyes were gloomy, as if the world had lost its bright colors, and he was not interested in anything.

He never thought that just because Ye Li didn't talk to him could make him feel so depressed.Because the time we spent together was so pleasant in the past, I didn't even think about the possibility that the two of them might have conflicts in the future, and disagreements fell into a cold war.He might lose his best friend, a partner with whom he could confide his thoughts and secrets in peace.

In the previous life, because there was no such person around me from the beginning, even though I was lonely, I would not feel uneasy because of it.

But now, having experienced the joy and ease of being with Ye Li, when he suddenly thought that he might lose him, fear and fear came to his mind.

This feeling of panic, although it can't compare to the despair when Gu Yu called and told him that he decided to get married.But it was longer and deeper, like shadows everywhere, entangled him, making him unable to feel at ease for a moment.

The current situation is obviously worse than the alienation half a year ago, and Ye Li's dissatisfaction with him has reached a very blatant level.If something is not done, he may literally lose this friend.

What to do, what to do, he can make Ye Li forgive himself.

Does an apology work?Is it useful to please?Can strong coercion be effective?It would be better to lower your figure and beg for reconciliation.

Qiu Mu didn't know.

Because he didn't know, he could only try one by one.

Ye Li felt the reconciliation intention from Qiu Mu, but he maintained the attitude of "I'm not angry with you" from the beginning to the end, which made Qiu Mu completely helpless against him.

That night, Qiu Mu came to Ye Li's room, blocked the time when Ye Li was going to sleep, no excuses to leave, and made up his mind to settle this matter today.

He had had enough of Ye Li's ambiguous attitude.

Ye Li still said the same way: "I'm really not angry with you."

Qiu Mu said: "You are just pretending that you are not angry."

Ye Li's eyes were helpless: "If I am angry, will I still talk to you so calmly? What do you want, what do you want to do, I have never satisfied you, and I will never deliberately treat you coldly. What do you say today? If you want to eat hairy crabs, I will go to the vegetable market to buy them for you; if you say you want me to cook for you, I will do it; if you ask me to pick out the meat for you, I didn’t say no——what on earth do you think I am? I gave birth to you."

"I—" Qiu Mu was anxious: "Did you keep a distance from me on purpose? Don't you know it yourself? When you are at home, are you like this?"

Ye Li insisted on his attitude: "I am like this."

Qiu Mu's blood surged, and she impulsively threw the pillow on Ye Li's bed and hit him in the face: "You lied, you did it on purpose!"

Ye Li was hit straight, looked down at the pillow, picked it up and put it behind him: "Calm down, why are you acting like a child."

Qiu Mu was too angry to speak.

Ye Li: "You weren't like this before, why have you become more and more eccentric recently?"

Qiu Mu felt her eye sockets swollen, her heart was suffocated, her head was messed up by her disturbed emotions, as if she was drunk, she didn't know what she was talking about or what she was doing.

"Please, I don't know what I did wrong. Tell me, can I change it?" Qiu Mu said, "I feel really uncomfortable when you're like this. I can't do anything. I don't even know myself. Why did it become like this, I was going crazy."

"..." Ye Li looked at Qiu Mu's red eyes and said, "Do you really regard me as a friend?"

Qiu Mu looked at him puzzled: "Of course I——I regard you as my best friend!"

Ye Li said: "As a friend, is there something I haven't done well enough?"

Qiu Mu shook her head helplessly: "No, but—"

Ye Li's tone was inducing: "Then what do you want me to do for you? How do you want me to treat you?"

"..." Qiu Mu's shoulders collapsed weakly: "I don't know, and I don't know what I want to do."

I just feel that this is wrong, this is not okay, and I want everything to return to the original state.

He couldn't find the reason, so he blamed Ye Li for all the problems, thinking that as long as Ye Li made changes, he would be able to return to his original life with peace of mind.

It's so irresponsible, Qiu Mu despises herself so much.

In Ye Li's eyes, there was a disappointment that Qiu Mu didn't understand.He said: "Then let's talk after you think it through."

"Don't!" Qiu Mu opened his eyes wide: "You must—"

"What do you have to do?" Ye Li said, "You can tell me a specific request. As long as I can do it, I will try my best to do it. This way the head office will do it."

"..." Qiu Mu opened his mouth and looked at Ye Li with a hurt expression.

He didn't know what he was making trouble for.

Everything is like a chaotic farce, he is like a lunatic, disturbing Ye Li's restlessness.

"Just talk to me more." Qiu Mu said with her head down.

"Okay." Ye Li quickly agreed.

Qiu Mu suddenly felt very boring, he didn't understand the meaning of what he did.

Maybe the two of them will always maintain such an unsalty relationship in the future, and they will never go back.Thinking of this, my heart throbbed.

......

Insomnia overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, Qiu Mu sat blankly on the sofa in the living room, her eyes wandering.

Seeing Qiu Mu like this when the old man got up early, he couldn't help but said, "Mu'er? What's wrong with you."

With two bruises under Qiu Mu's eyes, she said to the old man, "Xiao Li and I had a quarrel."

The old man looked at Qiu Mu in surprise: "Xiao Li?"

It's normal for brothers to quarrel, but it's a bit too rare for Qiu Mu and Ye Li.Seeing Qiu Mu and Ye Li have lived together for so many years, the old man couldn't imagine that these two precocious and sensible children could have any unreasonable conflicts in their hearts.

Looking at Qiu Mu's exhausted appearance, the old man said, "Why are you arguing?"

Qiu Mu shook her head slightly, with an uneasy expression: "I said he and Xiaoping got too close, let him stay away from Xiaoping."

The old man understood Qiu Mu's meaning and said, "It's normal between them."

From the eyes of the old man, it should be like this.

Apart from Xiaoping and him, it is estimated that no one would take a few more words with someone, causing a little misunderstanding, and take it seriously.

So Qiu Mu said: "It is true that I misunderstood, but Xiaoli listened to what I said before, and still did as he said, and did not talk to Xiaoping again."

The arc between the old man's eyebrows became a little unhappy, and he looked at Qiu Mu with dissatisfaction.

He felt that Qiu Mu's approach was very incomprehensible.

Qiu Mu said: "That's fine. But Xiaoli later told me that he would never get in touch with anyone in the future, saying that I was weird. How could I be weird? I drove away those around him who were not good enough for him What's the matter with leaving, I'm also doing it for his own good - in the worst case, I just don't do it again, but why did he suddenly refuse to talk to me? Deliberately alienate me. "

As the old man listened, he suddenly felt something was wrong.Looking at Qiu Mu's eyes, there was a sense of scrutiny.

Qiu Mu sighed, rubbing her face with her hands, exhausted physically and mentally: "I really don't know what to do."

"Between friends, don't be so restrictive." The old man said, "Are you also like that child, Gu Yu?"

Qiu Mu said without hesitation: "How can he be the same as Xiao Yu."

The old man narrowed his eyes dangerously.

As soon as he finished speaking, Qiu Mu suddenly said to himself: "No, I should do the same to Xiao Yu..."

In other words, what should be concerned about is the people around Xiao Yu who try to get close to him, not Ye Li... Is there something wrong?

The old man said: "You three, what is your usual relationship? Who do you care more about?"

The old man wanted to say, since you don't have such a strong desire to possess Gu Yu, then don't make such a request to Ye Li.

Unexpectedly, Qiu Mu gave an answer completely different from what the old man imagined: "Xiao Yu."

Old man: "Oh?"

"I care more about Xiao Yu than Xiao Li."

"How?" asked the old man.

"Sometimes I would quarrel with Xiaoli because of Xiaoyu." Qiu Mu said, "For example, two weeks ago, when we were still in Guangling, Xiaoli's project was signed, and the three of us had dinner outside to celebrate. At that time, Xiaoyu said that he thought it was enough to get into a good school in the college entrance examination, and there was no need to study the homework so deeply. It would be a waste of time to learn it if it would not be useful in the future. Xiaoli said his idea was wrong , Learning knowledge is a waste of time, so playing games is not a waste of time? In short, the atmosphere is a bit unpleasant."

The old man nodded and signaled Qiu Mu to continue.Qiu Mu said: "Then when I went home, Xiao Li said that Xiao Yu was wrong to do so, I spoke for Xiao Yu, saying that Xiao Yu has his own ideas, some people want to learn, some people want to relax, this is normal. Xiao Li was upset, saying that I was always facing Xiao Yu, and it was unfair to do so."

The old man paid attention to the word "unfair" and raised his eyebrows calmly.

Qiu Mu suddenly remembered: "That's right! It seems that since that night, Xiao Li didn't talk to me very much. After arriving here, he got a little bit better, but it started again in the past two days!"

The old man thought for a while and said, "Did Mu'er deliberately favor Gu Yu?"

Qiu Mu hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Yes."

Old Man: "Why do you do that?"

In the eyes of the old man, Ye Li is obviously more worthy of Qiu Mu's friendship than Gu Yu.

Qiu Mu didn't know how to explain: "But Xiaoli knew from the beginning that I was good to Xiaoyu, and he didn't have any objections. He even let Xiaoyu go along with me. That day Xiaoyu quarreled with him, and Xiaoli kept holding back. refute."

Having said that, Qiu Mu seemed to understand the reason.

His eyes were suddenly filled with a sense of awakening.

"Is it because of this that Xiao Li feels uncomfortable!" He couldn't help but ask.

"Stupid," said the old man.

Qiu Mu couldn't help but said: "But this is different, I..."

The old man looked at Qiu Mu and asked him to continue, but Qiu Mu couldn't go on.

He said dejectedly: "How can this be compared? There's no way to compare. How can Xiaoli be angry with me because of this."

The old man felt that Qiu Mu's words were very harsh, he snorted and said, "Xiao Li also has a good temper, so he has been able to endure you for so many years, and he didn't get angry until now."

Qiu Mu stared blankly at the old man.

The old man stood up and said to Qiu Mu: "Xiao Li did the right thing. If you don't change your attitude, you can't blame others for being indifferent to you."

Qiu Mu looked at the old man in distress.

The old man turned and left without looking back.

Sitting quietly on the spot alone for a long time, the grandfather clock in the living room began to clang to tell the time at the hour, Qiu Mu got up, finally made up his mind, and walked to the door of Ye Li's room.

He stretched out his hand to try to open the door, just like when he was at home, Ye Li didn't lock the door.

Gently pushed open the door and walked in uninvited.

Closing the door behind his back, he walked slowly to Ye Li's bedside, watched Ye Li's state when he was asleep, and stared silently for a long time.

For some reason, he raised his finger, wanting to touch Ye Li's eyebrows, and trace the shape of his face.

Because of the itchy touch on his face, Ye Li moved the corners of his mouth and eyebrows unnaturally.

Qiu Mu raised her finger subconsciously, quietly observed Ye Li's reaction, then put down her hand and wanted to touch it again.

Ye Li suddenly opened his eyes.

Qiu Mu was so frightened that he took a small breath and put his hands back behind his back.

Ye Li was also taken aback by Qiu Mu's sudden appearance, his body moved slightly on the bed, and then he relaxed his nerves.

Sitting up from the bed, Ye Li looked at Qiu Mu and said, "...Is there something wrong?"

Qiu Mu glanced left and right, and then turned her gaze back to Ye Li: "I—"

Ye Li immediately interrupted: "You didn't sleep last night?"

Qiu Mu didn't speak, and subconsciously touched her face with her fingers.

His complexion must not be very good-looking.

Ye Li was a little anxious: "How can you not sleep!"

Qiu Mu deliberately said: "I had an argument with you, and I can't sleep."

Ye Li really showed a guilty look: "I'm sorry...I didn't expect this to happen."

Qiu Mu's heart moved, as if he had found a solution to the problem.My mind turned sharply, without showing it on my face, I said to Ye Li in a very tired tone: "Actually, I haven't slept soundly for a long time. Since your attitude changed, I have been depressed and often wake up in the middle of the night. Come here. Then it will take a long time to go back to sleep."

Ye Li opened his mouth, a little at a loss: "It's like this..."

Qiu Mu became more and more sure that this method was effective, he sighed: "Last night, I couldn't sleep at all, and I'm really useless."

Ye Li couldn't help but lifted the bed sheet, moved his position, sat on the edge of the bed, looked at Qiu Mu with a worried expression, and said, "This can't be done."

Qiu Mu said helplessly: "I can't help it, it's because I can't untangle my heart, and I can't blame anyone."

"..." Ye Li frowned, staring at Qiu Mu closely.

Qiu Mu said: "I've thought about it for a long time, but I still can't figure out the reason. If you are willing to tell me why, maybe I can figure it out and feel better."

"..."

Qiu Mu said disappointedly: "Well, if you don't want to say it, forget it."

He took a small step back on purpose, as if he wanted to leave.

Ye Li reached out and grabbed Qiu Mu's wrist.

"Wait."

Qiu Mu's eyes widened unconsciously, and a surprised smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He thought that Ye Li would finally have a good talk with him.Who knew that Ye Li suddenly pulled him over with his palm, and then pressed him on the bed under his surprised gaze.