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Qi Hao said, "I can't sleep."

Xiao Qing asked, "Why can't you sleep?"

Qi Hao said: "I'm the only one at home, I'm not used to it anymore."

Xiao Qing asked: "You sleep in yours, I sleep in mine, why are you not used to it?"

"I just think there should be two people in the house. You're not here, so it's deserted." Qi Hao seemed to cover his mouth under the quilt, his voice fluctuating from near to far.

Xiao Qing suddenly felt a little drunk, and said with a smile, "Why is it deserted? Didn't you always live by yourself before?"

"It wasn't deserted before, but it's deserted now. I used to be alone, but now I'm not." Qi Hao lowered his voice and asked, "Do you like living with me?"

"I like it." Xiao Qing said softly. He closed his eyes, only to feel that the lazy voice from the phone made him want to fall asleep at ease.

"Are you going to sleep?" the voice asked him.

"Well," he said, "you can sleep too, we sleep together."

"Okay," said the voice, "good night."

"Good night."

(30)

During the trip to the United States, Qi Hao planned to stay for more than half a month. Except for the busy few days at the beginning, he had no special arrangements for the rest of the time. He just wanted to take this opportunity to have a leisurely and relaxing time with Xiao Qing. s holiday.

This is not the first time for Xiao Qing to go to the United States. He has been there many times because of his work.However, the schedule of that kind of work is very tight, even if you sneak around the scenic spots while you are busy, there is always a string in your mind.Therefore, Qi Hao's extremely casual and unplanned plan is very suitable for Xiao Qing's appetite.

When it comes to packing luggage, Xiao Qing has always been a pragmatist who takes a streamlined route.The temperature in California is suitable, and the time is not too long, and there is no need to bring too much clothes, and for people like them who travel on business as usual, they have gained experience in packing their luggage, completely according to the usual business trip Business standard, simple, complete and standardized.

Qi Hao's luggage is much more than his. Apart from some work-related things, he has brought back a bunch of various things one after another for two consecutive days, including a tea set that takes up a lot of space.The result was that the normal-sized suitcase couldn't fit at all, so he had to use an oversized suitcase, which made Xiao Qing suspect that he was going to go for half a month, at least half a year.After asking, I found out that these were basically brought to his father.

Qi Hao sat on the floor of the living room, packing the expensive tea set little by little, sweating profusely, and complained: "My dad has been having a crazy fit lately, so he told me several times Come back, let me bring this to him! It’s still a custom-made one for him by some master, dead heavy!”

"What master? It's quite expensive, isn't it?" Xiao Qing said, picking up a small unwrapped tea bowl and looking at it.

"Death is expensive, death is expensive!" Qi Hao said through gritted teeth, took a look at the transfer record of a small hundred thousand, and added with great pain, "And I paid the money, my heart is in my heart." Bleeding..."

Xiao Qing put the small tea bowl back to its original place, silently walked to a place far away from the pile of "little babies", and asked, "Are you going to your father's house for Christmas?"

"Why did you tell me to go? If I want to spend the holidays with them, I will definitely bring you with me. You don't want to hide by yourself!" Qi Hao said, turning his head to look at him, and added, "They said they were going to Christmas. I'm on vacation in Hawaii, and asked me if I want to go, I'm really too lazy to go... Hey, do you want to go to Hawaii?"

Xiao Qing quickly shook his head.

Seeing his nervous look, Qi Hao laughed out loud.

Enough laughing, Qi Hao pulled back the man who stood a little far away, handed him a pile of sponge wrapping paper, patted him on the shoulder very boldly, and said like a grandpa: "Work hard! Brother won't Let you spend the holidays alone."

In the few days after Christmas, the weather in California has been very good, changing from the continuous rain in the previous few days.

The two have been living in a laboratory near Silicon Valley for the past few days. It is said to be a laboratory, but it is actually a small building with complete facilities. There is a room for people on the first floor, which does not interfere with the work area.Only when Xiao Qing arrived here did he realize that this is the true "headquarters" of GoGoWIDE.

Qi Hao's company was established here a few years ago. The small team gathered here and spent the first year here.Later, although the main part of the company moved to China, the laboratory was not shut down, but continued to have a technical research and development team stationed here.

They spent Christmas at the home of an old friend of Qi Hao's local area.After a few days of luxury, the two fell into a emptiness of doing nothing—they had already visited some of the nearby attractions in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there were still a few days before the New Year, so what should they do?

With such questions in mind, Qi Hao asked another friend in the local area for advice. The senior AI engineer thought for a while, then suddenly slapped his thigh and exclaimed excitedly: "Oh! You can watch elephant seals mating! Now is the time!"

So now, the two of them stand in Piedras

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Seal

On the cliff of Rookery, facing the whistling sea breeze, looking at the black sandy beach covered with chubby big seals.

"There are so many..." Xiao Qing sighed, "I can't see clearly...it's too far away!"

"I can't help but come here.

State

Park is closed. "Qi Hao said as he opened the big bag he brought, and said proudly, "It's easy to see clearly, we have a magic weapon!" "

"My God! You still brought a drone?" Xiao Qing exclaimed in surprise when he saw the contents in his bag.

"Hey, to be precise, it's called a quadcopter."

After Qi Hao adjusted it, he could already see a very clear picture on the computer. Expert Qi sighed while debugging: "Thanks to my new lens, I can definitely see every detail after shooting it in a while!"

Qi Hao was almost done, and handed over the remote control to Xiao Qing.The wind at the seaside was a bit strong, Xiao Qing's clothes were blown by the wind, and they were tightly attached to his body. Under the clothes, the thin figure was clearly visible. I always felt that if the wind was stronger, this small body would be blown away.

"I checked some information yesterday," Qi Hao walked to Xiao Qing's side, and while helping him out of the wind, he leaned into his ear and explained in a very serious manner, "Did you know that elephant seals are polygamous, and males are polygamous? Elephant seals are much larger than females. Male elephant seals that win duels can even have wives on the beach, while elephant seals that lose duels have no right to mate. Every year, there are many male elephant seals that cannot find wives. Able to live alone as a virgin."

Xiao Qing was inexplicably hit by his last sentence, and laughed a few times, but a gust of wind blew in front of him, his feet were unsteady, and he slipped sideways and was about to fall.Qi Hao quickly grabbed the front of his jacket and pulled him back, hugged him, and exclaimed: "I was scared to death... I'm going to die alone when you fall..."

Just now, Xiao Qing was also taken aback, and almost threw the remote control in his hand, but now his thoughts returned, and he felt even more frightened.He was tightly bound by a pair of arms, Xiao Qing raised his head to look, and met Qi Hao's face and eyes full of concern, who were close at hand.His cheeks were a little pale from the sea breeze, but his lips were flushed red.

Xiao Qing raised his hand and rubbed his lips, and said softly, "I won't let you die alone forever."

"Then it's settled." Qi Hao bent down, and drew his arms tighter.

There was a roar from the beach in the distance, probably another elephant seal was the winner.

(31)

In the evening, Xiao Qing finally saw the roof of the small laboratory building, and then heard Qi Hao blowing a slogan beside him, and then heaved a sigh of relief.They raced all the way today, and finally made it back before the sun went down.

Today is the last day of the year, the sky is getting dark, and the crowd has started to gather towards the city center one after another, preparing to join the ranks of tonight's New Year's Eve carnival parade.The carnival here is already in its third year. It is said that this year’s scale and number of participants are also unprecedented. Many performance teams started preparations and rehearsals long in advance.

There was still some time before the performance started, and the entire main street was already packed. Xiao Qing and Qi Hao "squirmed" with the crowd for a while, and couldn't help sighing: "It seems that everyone in the city has come here!"

Qi Hao said: "I don't usually see so many people here, but now I finally found a bit of the feeling of our subway in the morning rush hour, which is very good."

Xiao Qing said: "When you go to work, you have already passed the real morning rush hour. Next time you get up an hour earlier to try and deepen your experience!"

Qi Hao said: "No problem, then I will definitely take you with me!"

Just as he was talking, a big fat man squeezed through the crowd carrying a ladder. The big ladder looked rather heavy, with hard edges and corners, and the people around him rushed to avoid it.Xiao Qing stood aside and looked at the parade floats in front of him with interest. Seeing that he was about to be hit by the fat man, Qi Hao quickly hugged him and turned around, blocking the outside with his back.

"I'm watching, he can't touch me." Xiao Qing glanced at the fat man walking past, put his arms around Qi Hao's neck and said with a smile.

"I just want to hug you for a while." Qi Hao said as he tightened his arms, buried his face in the collar of Xiao Qing's open sweater, and rubbed against each other.

Xiao Qing was slightly protruded from his chin