driftwood

Zhou Chen carried Chen Xing to the entrance of the hospital, reached out to hail a taxi, and stuffed Chen Xing into the back seat.Sitting in the co-pilot.

After the car started, Zhou Chen suddenly turned his head and said softly, "Sit up straight, don't lean."

"En." Chen Xing slowly straightened his back.

"Do you know those guys tonight?" Zhou Chen looked in the rearview mirror.Chen Xing looked at Zhou Chen's back and laughed twice: "I don't know him."

Chen Xing did not know those people, but he felt that he might know the people who hired them.

"Oh." Zhou Chen looked away and stared out of the car window.

"What are you going to do with them?" Chen Xing hesitated for a long time and asked Zhou Chen tentatively. He beat people hard, but Zhou Chen hit them harder. If they were sent to the police station, he and Zhou Chen would also Can't take advantage.

"What can I do, people must have run away now. Master, stop here."

"Okay, a total of 31, you can just give thirty."

"Thank you." Zhou Chen paid, and when he turned his head, Chen Xing was already standing by the side of the road.

"My legs are really fine, I really don't need to carry them." Chen Xingsheng was afraid that Zhou Chen would squat down again and try to carry him. On this street, one big guy asked another big guy to carry him. Chen Xingguang thought it was too embarrassing.

Zhou Chen didn't object this time, but just nodded slightly.

"Where are you going?" Chen Xing didn't feel it in the car just now, but now that he got out of the car, he felt the wind was blowing and it was cold. He glanced at Zhou Chen, who stood tall and straight, and his expression didn't change.Chen Xing silently praised the physical fitness of the people's police in his heart.

"My house." Zhou Chen hesitated after finishing speaking: "Going?"

"Yeah." Chen Xing nodded, there was no one in his house now, he didn't want to be alone.At night, he didn't want to bother Xu Xin anymore.

"You lead the way."

Zhou Chen walked slowly in front, and there was a distance of one meter between Chen Xing and him. After walking for about 5 minutes, Zhou Chen stopped.Chen Xing looked up and saw an old-fashioned residential building, similar to the one in his house, with a total of six floors. Except for the third floor, the rooms on the other floors were all lit.

Chen Xing raised his eyebrows and asked Zhou Chen, "Is it the third floor?"

"En." Zhou Chen's voice was low, if there was a gust of wind, it would definitely be blown away and scattered in the wind.After Zhou Chen pressed the password, the anti-theft door opened slowly. Zhou Chen pulled the door and raised his chin towards the door: "Go in." After Chen Xing stepped into the door, Zhou Chen followed closely, and the anti-theft door was slow. closed.

Zhou Chen took a deep breath when he turned on the light. After seeing clearly that Ergou didn't seem to have committed any crime, he let out a sigh of relief, and turned to let Chen Xing out the door.

When Zhou Chen walked into the living room, he felt that he was so naive. He forgot to collect the cup after drinking the milk in the afternoon, and what he saw now was a pile of glass shards lying on the ground.

Standing in the living room, Chen Xing asked with a smile, "Have burglars entered your house?"

Zhou Chen sighed: "Find a place to sit first."

Chen Xing went to the sofa and sat down, Zhou Chen turned and went into the kitchen.Chen Xingzai looked at this house carefully. The living room is not big, just two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom.The house is quite old but clean with wooden floors.

Zhou Chen came out with a broom and dustpan in his hand, walked to the coffee table, bent down and swept up the debris and dumped them into the trash basket.After finishing this, he went to the bathroom to wash his hands, and when he came out, Chen Xing sat on the sofa and looked at him upright.

Zhou Chen went straight to Chen Xing's side, bent over and stretched out his hand towards Chen Xing's neck, Chen Xing subconsciously retreated: "What are you doing?"

Zhou Chen stopped and smiled: "Take off the cloak."

"I'll do it myself." Chen Xing began to explain while speaking.Zhou Chen stood up without speaking, and looked at Chen Xing silently.When Chen Xing untied it, he looked up and Zhou Chen was gone.

Chen Xing looked towards the kitchen, the light was on.

Zhou Chen leaned against the cabinet sideways, staring at the ground in a daze, and knocked on the side of the cabinet with his slender fingers.The milk in the milk pot was boiling. Chen Xing leaned on the door frame and watched for a long time. Seeing that Zhou Chen didn't intend to turn off the fire, he walked to the gas stove and turned off the fire.Only then did Zhou Chen come back to his senses: "Ah, it's open."

Chen Xing sighed: "Next time you watch the ignition, don't just be in a daze, it's dangerous."

"En." Zhou Chen answered, bent down and took a glass from the cupboard, poured milk into the glass and walked out of the kitchen. Chen Xing looked at Zhou Chen's back, as if... Hungry again.

Zhou Chen sat cross-legged on the sofa, with a book on his lap. He held the milk in one hand and pressed the book in the other, reading it seriously.

"Do you still have food at home?" Chen Xing stood at the door of the kitchen, hesitating for a long time before calling out this question. He only did this to Xu Xin when he asked others what they wanted to eat. He felt... It's embarrassing.

"Hungry?" Zhou Chen's lazy voice came from the living room, and Chen Xing thought to himself: Isn't this nonsense? If I'm not hungry, why should I look for something to eat?But in the end he just opened his mouth and answered: "Yeah."

Footsteps sounded in the living room, and Zhou Chen walked over slowly carrying milk.

He walked up to Chen Xing, grabbed Chen Xing's arm and pulled Chen Xing to the side, opened the refrigerator door, and rummaged in the refrigerator for a long time, Chen Xing knew that there was no hope when he saw this.Zhou Chen kept searching here and there, and after a long time, he pointed at Chen Xing to a handful of dried noodles in his hand.

"Would you like noodles?"

Chen Xing nodded vigorously, as long as he had something to eat, he couldn't care less about picking.

Zhou Chen put the noodles on the chopping board, turned his head and looked at Chen Xing seriously: "Can you cook?"

Chen Xing nodded: "Yes." When grandma was around, her eyes were not good, so Chen Xing often had to cook for him and grandma.In the end, his parents came back, and his mother didn't cook, but ate outside. Sometimes Chen Xing got tired of eating, and occasionally he would cook for himself.

Zhou Chen let out a long breath: "Then you do it."

Chen Xing sighed, just this handful of noodles, no matter how you do it, it won't taste good.

"Do you have eggs and tomatoes?"

Zhou Chen looked blank, and turned to open the refrigerator door: "I'll look for it."

Zhou Chen searched very quickly this time, and there happened to be a small tomato and a dozen eggs in the refrigerator.

"How many eggs do you want?"

"One... two."

Zhou Chen took two eggs and the tomato and put them on the chopping board. He slowly walked out of the kitchen door with the milk in his slippers. When he walked to the living room, he came back and said to Chen Xing: "Be careful, don't Blow up the house."

Zhou Chen felt that Chen Xing did not look like someone who could cook, until Chen Xing brought the bowl of noodles in front of him, Zhou Chen felt that he was not at all accurate in judging people, not at all.

Chen Xing made tomato and egg noodle soup. Zhou Chen thought that this might be the most delicious noodle that ever appeared in this house. Although he didn't eat it, it looked delicious just by smelling it. It's delicious too, I don't know what it tastes like.

Chen Xing sat on the sofa next to Zhou Chen, pulled the bowl in front of him and ate it with his head buried.After taking a few mouthfuls, Chen Xing felt the burning eyes from the side, he raised his head, and Zhou Chen was staring at the noodles in his bowl intently.Chen Xing pursed his lips: "Are you eating?"

Zhou Chen hesitated: "Is there any more?"

Chen Xing pointed to the kitchen, lowered his head and continued eating noodles.He boiled the whole handful of noodles just now, only to find that there was a bit too much when he took them out, so he made them all into soup noodles, which can hold two big bowls, and now there is still one bowl left on the chopping board.

Zhou Chen went to the kitchen to bring out the bowl of noodles and sat down on the sofa and started eating. Both of them were eating the noodles intently, and neither of them spoke.

After a long time, Chen Xing got up with the bowl and went to the kitchen.There was a sound of water in the kitchen.

By the time Zhou Chen finished eating the noodles, Chen Xing had already finished washing the dishes and was sitting on the sofa.Zhou Chen pushed the bowl to the middle of the coffee table, fell down and leaned on the sofa. He is quite supportive now. He drank a glass of milk and ate a large bowl of noodles. He used to drink a glass of milk at night, and he could eat a few more at most. A slice of bread is enough.I don't know what happened tonight, he felt very hungry when he saw Chen Xing eating noodles, but this noodles are really delicious.

Chen Xing looked at Zhou Chen and Ge You lying slumped on the sofa, and raised the corner of his mouth: "Is it delicious?"

Zhou Chen nodded sincerely: "It's delicious." Zhou Chen really thought it was delicious. Yang Qiu was busy with work. He used to eat it in the school cafeteria. Zhou Chen always thought that the food in the school cafeteria was for feeding pigs.But Zhou Chen himself doesn't know how to cook. He tried to cook, and in the end he almost blew up the kitchen, so he never took the risk again.

When Chen Xing heard this compliment, his eyes turned into crescent moons with a smile, so bright that people couldn't move their eyes away.Zhou Chen turned his head to look at Chen Xing, then immediately turned his head away, stood up and ran to the kitchen with the bowl in hand.

When Zhou Chen came out after washing the dishes, Chen Xing was no longer on the sofa.He tentatively called out: "Chen Xing?"

"Ah." Chen Xing's laughing voice came from the balcony. Zhou Chen walked over quickly. Chen Xing squatted on the ground and scratched Ergou's stomach. Ergou lay on the ground, purring comfortably, with his tail Sweeping back and forth on the ground.

Hearing footsteps at the door, Chen Xing raised his head and looked at Zhou Chen with a smile: "This is your cat."

Zhou Chen nodded, walked over and squatted beside Chen Xing, "Call Ergou."

Chen Xing looked at the gray cat in front of him, a little helpless: "You, why do you call the cat Ergou?"

Zhou Chen stood up holding Ergou's lunch box, raised the end of his eyes slightly, and smiled a little badly: "It's silly to bully it."

Chen Xing looked at Zhou Chen's back when he went out, and felt that this person was really interesting.

After Zhou Chen brought the cat food to Ergou, he closed the balcony door.Chen Xing leaned on the sofa, groped in his pocket, only found a box of matches, and then he remembered that he didn't seem to bring any cigarettes this afternoon.

Chen Xing looked up at Zhou Chen and stopped talking for a long time. After a long time, he said, "Well, do you have a cigarette?"

Zhou Chen didn't speak, stood up and walked towards the bedroom. When he came back, he held a pack of cigarettes in his hand and threw it in front of Chen Xing.

"Thank you." Chen Xing said in a low voice. He was actually a little guilty. After all, he was still a high school student, and Zhou Chen was a policeman. He didn't usually smoke at school, so it was troublesome to be discovered.But now he has nothing to do, the wound on his back still hurts, and he can't concentrate at all.

Chen Xing took out a cigarette, took a match and lit the cigarette with his head tilted. He felt relaxed only after the light blue smoke rose in front of his eyes.Zhou Chen kept looking at him with his arms folded. After Chen Xing finished half of his cigarette, Zhou Chen slowly said, "Why don't you use a lighter?"

Chen Xing exhaled the smoke, turned his head to look at Zhou Chen's face and smiled: "I'm afraid of an explosion, I have to cherish my life."

Zhou Chen stared at Chen Xing's eyes, the black pupils were deep and quiet, like a well without waves for a thousand years, extremely calm.

"Are you still afraid of death?"

Chen Xing put away his smile, turned his head and extinguished the cigarette: "Why aren't you afraid?"

Zhou Chen closed his eyes, leaned on the sofa, and said lazily: "Next time you'd better do less, especially for others." Zhou Chen paused, his voice soft, with a trace of Ruoyou Ruowu sighed: "It's not worth it."

For someone like me, you are not worth it, and no one is worth it.

Chen Xing ignored him, stared at the floor with his head down in a daze.He is actually not a person who likes to meddle in other people's business. Even if his classmates encounter such troubles, Chen Xing feels that he will definitely turn around and leave without hesitation. Chen Xing never thinks that he is kind, and he doesn't want to be kind, because useless.Others will not appreciate you at all for your help, and some people will even bite you back.He also doesn't want to get too close to others. He has Xu Xin, a good friend of more than ten years, by his side. If there are too many friends, it will be troublesome.Chen Xing also didn't want to think about what he was thinking tonight. If he thought too much, he would get a headache.

After the two of them were silent for a long time, Chen Xing felt that both eyes could hardly be opened.He stood up on the coffee table and glanced at Zhou Chen. Zhou Chen folded his arms, his eyes were closed, and he was probably asleep.

Chen Xing walked lightly to the bathroom, he wanted to wipe his body before he fell asleep, he couldn't take a shower, but he couldn't just fall asleep covered in sweat.He walked to the bathroom and turned around to close the door. Zhou Chen at the door gave Chen Xing a big jump, and Chen Xing yelled angrily: "Is it interesting for you to pretend to be a ghost in the middle of the night? You don't even make a sound." !"

Zhou Chen just woke up, his brain reaction was slower than usual, he was not angry when he heard Chen Xing's words, he just leaned against the door frame and asked in a daze, "I just remembered, do you want to call your parents?"

Chen Xing shook his head: "No need." His parents are still out of town, so there is no time to take care of his life.

"Oh." Zhou Chen nodded, turned around and took two steps, then stopped belatedly, and turned to ask Chen Xing: "What are you doing?"

Chen Xing was stunned, and it took him a long time to realize what Zhou Chen was asking.

"bath."

Zhou Chen frowned: "Didn't you say you can't wash it?"

Chen Xing was very helpless: "Then I have to cover up the smell."

Zhou Chen stood at the door, lowered his head and thought for a while, then slowly walked into the bathroom, turned on the faucet to fill the bathtub, Chen Xing stood behind him, and the corner of his mouth twitched: "What are you doing?"

Zhou Chen said slowly while testing the water temperature: "You must not take a bath, I will wipe your upper body for you, and wash the rest yourself."

Chen Xing didn't speak, Zhou Chen put the water in, sat by the bathtub and turned to look at Chen Xing.

"No, I'll do it myself." Chen Xing lowered his head and didn't look at Zhou Chen.

"Touch it and look behind me." Zhou Chen sat by the bathtub without moving, just staring at Chen Xing.As soon as Chen Xing raised his arm and put it on his waist, he felt the pain from the wound on his back as if being torn open. He gritted his teeth and wanted to raise it higher, but Zhou Chen who stood up slapped his arm down.

Zhou Chen's voice rang in his ears: "Or don't wash it." He lifted his legs and walked out.

Chen Xing also knew that he couldn't lift his arms above his waist at all, so he couldn't force it.Isn't it just to wipe his upper body, it's not a big deal, he often takes a bath with Xu Xin, just treat Zhou Chen as a scrub master.Thinking of this, Chen Xing felt much more comfortable.

"Okay, then you..." Chen Xing turned around, and Zhou Chen had long since disappeared.

"Fuck" Chen Xing cursed in a low voice, and walked out of the bathroom door. Zhou Chen just came out of the bedroom, holding a pair of underwear in his hand, passed Chen Xing into the bathroom, and hung the underwear on the hook on the wall.Turning around and beckoning to Chen Xing who was stunned by the door: "Come here." Chen Xing took two steps forward and stopped, Zhou Chen stood still, looked at him and smiled: "Can you take off your clothes by yourself?"

Chen Xing thought this is not nonsense, he didn't see where his arms could be lifted just now.

"Can't take it off."

"Oh." Zhou Chen nodded, went out of the bathroom, and came back with a pair of scissors after a while. Before Chen Xing could react, Zhou Chen had completely cut his T-shirt and threw it on the ground.

"Okay, let's get into the bathtub." Zhou Chen put the scissors on the sink and pointed to the bathtub.

Chen Xing stood still, hesitating whether to take off his pants.Gritting his teeth for the last time, he took off his school uniform pants and entered the bathtub in his underwear.