Endless Fall

  Chapter 27 His excitement

  The dark clouds covered the sunset, and there was no clear color.

  The sultry wind blew through the trees on both sides of the road, blowing the green leaves full of branches with a swishing sound.

  The street lamps emit light without waiting for dark, and a few strands of interwoven light shine through the branches and sprinkle on the men and women walking side by side.

  Lin Jiao stepped on the light shadow reflected at her feet, followed Pei Zhi to catch up with Xiaodouding who ran into the unit building, and disappeared behind the elevator door.

   In order to avoid the heat wave, the first thing she did when she got home was to close all the windows and turn on the air conditioner to adjust the temperature to the right temperature.

   "Sister, I want to watch cartoons."

   "Let my brother help you find it."

   Pei Zhi took over the remote control: "What do you want to see?"

   "Bears haunt."

   "Which season?"

   "Adventure diary." Xue Jing sat on the sofa and tore open the snack bag: "Episode 2."

   Pei Zhi pressed the right button and turned back.

   He clicked on the play page, turned up the volume, picked up the ingredients on the coffee table and walked into the kitchen.

  The sound of water flow mixed with the throbbing of shrimps and crabs attracted Lin Jiao who came out after changing clothes.

   She stood at the door of the kitchen and looked at the man whose outline was softened by light and shadow. He was wearing a light blue apron that did not match his, and his sleeves were rolled up, revealing thin wheat-colored arms.

   He held down the shrimp in the pool, and the water droplets that splashed on the wrist bone brushed the few blue veins on the back of his hand with this action, and then quietly dripped from the fingertips and merged into the pool.

  Lin Jiao stared at him intently, there was nothing else in his mind except the word 'sexy'.

   Her overly focused gaze made Pei Zhi, who felt a sense of it, stop what he was doing.

   He turned his head, flicked a few drops of water in her direction, and said with a smile: "Don't look, help me get two plates."

   "Okay." Lin Jiao pinched her ears, and spurned herself in her heart.

   She handed him the plate, and while he was cleaning the shrimp line, she turned on the rice cooker: "Uncle, have you cooked before?"

   Pei Zhi responded lightly: "I did a lot when I started my business, but then I did very little."

   "How long ago did you start your business?"

"twenty one years old."

   "So early?" Lin Jiao was a little surprised.

   She hadn't paid much attention to him before, and Pei Yilan didn't like to mention it, so that her understanding of him was very shallow.

   "It's not too early." Pei Zhi twisted the shrimp shell stuck to the back of his hand: "A classmate from my department started a business at the age of nineteen."

   "What about him now?"

   "Not sure, we didn't get in touch."

  Lin Jiao boiled the washed rice and cared more about him than the unimportant things: "It should be difficult at that time, right?"

   "Well, still very poor." Pei Zhi turned on the faucet and washed the stains on his hands.

   His expression was as calm as ever: "For a while, I only ate a bowl of plain noodles every day, and I couldn't even add meat."

  Lin Jiao felt a little uncomfortable.

   She will put the bleak picture that comes to her mind, put it aside, and go to get another apron: "Don't you have startup capital?"

   "Yes, my dad gave me two hundred thousand."

"loss?"

   "I was deceived." Pei Zhi put down the cutting board standing by the wall: "Since then, I have never asked them for money."

   His light-hearted appearance made Lin Jiao even more unpleasant, and he couldn't be as calm as him.

   She frowned: "How did you get deceived?"

   "I bought a batch of chips through a friend's recommendation. There was no problem with the inspection, but they were stolen and replaced that night."

   Pei Zhi summed it up succinctly.

   The sadness in it is only known to him.

   "It's shameless!" Lin Jiao gritted his teeth in anger, and even those fox eyes were stained with anger.

   She asked eagerly, "Did you call the police?"

   "I reported it, but I didn't get it back."

   "They left the country?"

   "Hmm." Pei Zhi lowered the emotions in his eyes, never mentioning their tragic situation abroad.

   He took a step forward, wrapped his arms around her waist, which was barely grasped, and tied the belt for her: "It's okay, it's all over."

   Lin Jiao, who had not yet returned to her thoughts, did not notice how strange their postures were.

   She swallowed the malicious curse words to avoid bringing back bad memories of him, and she didn't ask any more questions.

   "Are you still angry?" Pei Zhi distanced himself, and Yu Guang glanced at her clenched hands.

   He had a strange excitement about the fact that it could affect her emotions, and contradictedly didn't want her to worry about it again.

   "No." Lin Jiao took a deep breath.

   She picked up the kitchen knife, cut the vegetables on the cutting board nimbly, and changed the subject: "Did you bring in the wine?"

   "Take it."

   "Then go and add water, and leave the rest to me."

   "Don't you need my help?" Pei Zhi unscrewed the lid of the liquor and poured it all into the bowl.

   At the end, I stuffed some minced **** in it, and the heated water shook the bottle gently, so that the rich taste gradually disappeared.

   "No." Lin Jiao cut the vegetables, bent her arms and put her wet elbows against his back, pushing him out all the way.

   She smiled and said, "I'll call you later."

   "Okay." Pei Zhi didn't insist on staying.

   He walked to Xue Jing's side, followed his line of sight and looked forward, and happened to catch a glimpse of two bears serving the bald head.

   This is different from the picture in his impression.

  You remembered that every time Qu Shao watched the bears with his mobile phone in his arms, he could hear the screams of Bald Qiang being teased.

   Pei Zhi suspected that he had found a fake film, so he asked Xue Jing: "Their relationship has improved?"

   "Only now."

"why?"

  Xue Jing swallowed the potato chips in his mouth: "Because Bald Qiang is now a tour guide, I won't cut down trees anymore."

  “…” No wonder.

   "Brother, do you like watching this too?"

   "Qu Shao likes it." Pei Zhi picked up the scraps that fell on the sofa, and wiped his mouth again: "He still has a lot of figurines at home."

   "What is a figure?"

"Collection."

   "I don't have any..." Xue Jing lowered his head, calculating in his heart whether he had enough pocket money to buy it.

   Pei Zhi smiled and said, "I'll buy it for you."

"Really?"

"certainly."

   "Brother, you are so good!" Xue Jing jumped up from the sofa and rushed towards Pei Zhi again.

   didn't know what to think, he clutched his sleeve and asked quietly, "Do you want to be my brother-in-law?"

   Pei Zhi, who was not prepared, was obviously startled.

   He glanced in the direction of the kitchen, and his voice couldn't help lowering: "A set of figures, you sold your sister?"

   "I won't sell it!"

  Xue Jing retorted very quickly.

   He tightened his grip on his sleeve: "You are better than that person and more suitable for my sister."

   Pei Zhi knew who 'that person' was.

   He was silent for a long time, then put his palm on Xue Jing's back and patted twice: "These things will be discussed later."

   "Then what do you want?"

   "I said it doesn't count."

   Before Xue Jing's mind could turn around, he was distracted by the jelly he fed in front of him.

   He took a bite: "Brother, don't you want to eat?"

   (end of this chapter)