Well of Mystery

After several hours of cold treatment, Jiang Chenglu seemed to have let go of the dispute in the morning.He nodded towards Li Kun first, and soon became concerned about Bai Xiuqi's foot injury.

"You're back, are your feet okay?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore, it's okay."

Although he felt that Jiang Chenglu was a little strangely calm, Bai Xiuqi didn't ask any further questions, but just pointed to the ingredients on the ground: "I bought food, please open the door for me so I can put it in the refrigerator."

"You bought so many? Don't tell me, can you put it in the small broken refrigerator at home?"

Looking at the large and small bags on the ground, Jiang Chenglu frowned slightly, but he still took out the key and opened the door.

As he said, the old single-door refrigerator couldn't bear Bai Xiuqi's "crazy" purchasing power, and only about half of the ingredients were stuffed in, and the door almost couldn't be closed.

But Bai Xiuqi was obviously not worried at all.

"It's okay, I'll eat these tonight."

Having said that, he mentioned to Jiang Chenglu about the dinner he wanted tonight.

But who knew, Jiang Chenglu, who had always been obedient to his advice, flatly rejected this suggestion.

"Tonight? No, absolutely not."

"Why?" Bai Xiuqi's eyes widened.

Jiang Chenglu also pointed outside dissatisfied: "Tonight is the full moon, and it is the time when the evil spirit is the most blazing in a month. After the sun sets, the front and rear doors of the apartment must be locked. Those above the third floor and below the first floor All floors are prohibited from entering and leaving. You said that you still want to treat guests to dinner at this juncture?"

"Ahem...it's getting late, you guys talk slowly, I'll go first."

Li Kun shivered and seized the time to apply oil on the soles of his feet.Only Bai Xiuqi and Jiang Chenglu were left staring at each other in the room.

There was silence for four or five seconds, and finally Bai Xiuqi made a compromise: "Forget that I have too much to do... Burn some of these dishes casually today, and let's talk about the rest tomorrow."

He had already planned to calm down the matter, but who expected Jiang Chenglu to be in a bad mood, and muttered for the first time: "The master opened his mouth, and the servant broke his leg."

Please, I'm the one with the broken leg now!

Bai Xiuqi's eyes widened again. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Jiang Chenglu stretching out his hand: "Did you buy your mobile phone? Can I return my old mobile phone?"

Patience, patience, don't turn good things into bad things.Bai Xiuqi silently took a few deep breaths, took out the newly bought one from his pocket and threw it over to him.

"Here!"

Jiang Chenglu caught the high-end smartphone and was stunned: "For me?"

"Buy one get one free." Bai Xiuqi didn't even know why he told this lie.

Jiang Chenglu lowered his eyelids and continued to ask, "What about my old mobile phone?"

"lost."

When Bai Xiuqi uttered these two words, it was a little fun, but he did not forget to attach an explanation: "However, all your data and information have been transferred to the new phone."

After saying this, he stopped and waited for Jiang Chenglu to fiddle with the new mobile phone, or to say a few innocuous witticisms... But all he waited for was silence, death-like silence.

Jiang Chenglu held the mobile phone and threw it on the table without even looking at it.The brand-new mobile phone collided with the hard and greasy table, and the sound pierced Bai Xiuqi's ears.

There was also a "thud" in his heart, as if he had bumped heavily on a stone.

Oops, stepped on mine.

Sure enough, Jiang Chenglu's voice sounded again, and it seemed to have changed back to the tone when the two were not familiar with each other.

"Thank you, but I'm used to my broken mobile phone, and I don't want or want others to replace it for me. Also, I lent you the mobile phone out of trust in you, not for you to dispose of it at will."

"But I just..."

Bai Xiuqi's throat choked, as if he wanted to explain something, but he stopped abruptly, and just stared at Jiang Chenglu unwillingly.

Knowing that Bai Xiuqi was on the edge of a corner again, Jiang Chenglu sighed, but felt relieved.

"...Let's be clearer, I know you want to treat me well. It's not that I don't appreciate it, but are you being too lenient? I call you a little boss, but it doesn't mean that you It’s really the manager here. Yes, I’m interested in you, but that doesn’t mean I have to let you arrange everything, does it?”

He finished these words in one breath, finally stopped and took a deep breath, ready to listen to Bai Xiuqi's response.But just like he left Bai Xiuqi silent just now, Bai Xiuqi's response at this moment is also blank, blank for a long time.

The young painter leaned against the wall with a cane, and his slightly bent posture due to his foot injury made him look like a lonely but stubborn little tree.It seemed that she was getting ready to get close to others bit by bit, but she stiffened instinctively.

After another five or six seconds, he put his hand into his pocket, took out Jiang Chenglu's old and broken mobile phone, and put it gently on the table.Then he gently picked up the new mobile phone that Jiang Chenglu had left on the table, and put it back in his pocket.

After finishing all this, he took a deep breath, turned around and limped out of the room on crutches, and walked towards the stairs.

"……Hey!"

Jiang Chenglu followed, trying to stop him.

But Bai Xiuqi never looked back, nor did he stop.

The sound of crutches "duk tuk", and soon reached the stairs.Seeing Bai Xiuqi about to go downstairs, Jiang Chenglu couldn't help but stepped forward and grabbed his arm.

"Where are you going? The door will be locked soon!"

Bai Xiuqi was forced to stop, he turned his arms slowly, and broke away from Jiang Chenglu's hand in a non-violent but very firm gesture, and finally answered a word.

"I'll go downstairs and sit down."

A very calm tone, neither angry nor sad, but that's what makes people more worried.

As if he was a little afraid of detonating the seemingly calm explosives, Jiang Chenglu stopped reaching out to pull him, but continued to dissuade him: "Don't go, it's getting dark."

Bai Xiuqi didn't answer this time.

Leaning on crutches in one hand and leaning on the wall with the other, he slowly stepped down the steps.The serious and stubborn attitude is just like when he exchanged the two mobile phones just now.There were twenty steps from the second floor to the first floor, and he moved down bit by bit like this.

After finally reaching the flat ground, Bai Xiuqi realized that Jiang Chenglu had been following behind him all along, following every step.

Li Kun had already oiled the soles of his feet, and there was no other means of transportation in the yard except for a few tattered bicycles in the shed.Bai Xiuqi didn't have any other plans in mind for the time being, so he just kept his head empty and walked all the way to the edge of the ping-pong table, and tried to sit on it with the support of his arms.

Jiang Chenglu also stood only four or five steps away from the ping-pong table, neither daring to approach nor leaving.

It was Bai Xiuqi who stretched out his hand and waved it twice: "Go do your work, I'm really fine."

"Little boss..." Jiang Chenglu wanted to say something else.

"Don't call me that." Bai Xiuqi suddenly raised her voice, "Don't associate me with my grandpa...please."

This objection caused commotion in the Taobao store next door. Le Yaochun poked his head out, but no one paid any attention to him.

After Bai Xiuqi said this, he reached into his pocket again and began to dig.This time, he took out his cigarette and lighter, lit one, and took a long drag.

This was the first time Jiang Chenglu saw him smoking, which proved that Bai Xiuqi was really upset to the extreme.

That's true—from Bai Xiuqi's point of view, not to mention repairing and maintaining the facilities of the apartment at his own expense, he dragged his injured leg to buy a mobile phone in person early this morning, and came back with so many ingredients to invite everyone to dinner. Was splashed with cold water.He must not feel well in his heart.

Thinking of this, Jiang Chenglu thought that the injured should be the most important thing after all, so he took the initiative to apologize.

"I'm sorry, today I..."

Bai Xiuqi raised his head immediately after hearing the three words "I'm sorry".

"You don't need to apologize at all. The one who should really say sorry is actually me."

His eyes were serious, his tone was calm, and there was no irony at all.

"...Think about it carefully, from the very beginning when I took you to the Skytree Tower, you have been patient with me, haven't you? But instead of stopping, I continued to force you, and made my own way to tell you what to do... If If I say that I am dissatisfied now, it is just my own disappointment, and it has nothing to do with you."

After saying this, Bai Xiuqi smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's so embarrassing, even that guy Li Kun once warned me not to let me touch your mobile phone. Now that I think about it, he still understands you better, really Not reconciled."

Jiang Chenglu laughed because of his "unreconciled".

"No, it's not that he understands me, he just keeps a safe distance that a stranger should have."

With that said, he finally walked in front of Bai Xiuqi, and whispered a name he was not very familiar with.

"Li Kun said, your nickname in college was Daffodil. Because you have never really liked others since you were a child, and you don't know how to release your kindness. So what you did to me was actually everything. It’s what you want in your heart.”

"..."

Bai Xiuqi instinctively wanted to refute, but he opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Jiang Chenglu was right.I really want to be cared for, even if it is a bit strict; I want the feeling that "you can be forgiven quickly"; I want a home.

So he sighed: "I just thought that if I were grandpa, I could do something for this apartment and for you. But in fact, I not only couldn't learn from him; I also made myself a neurotic Control freak."

"Of course you can't be like him. My taste is not that strong."

Jiang Chenglu also sat next to Bai Xiuqi on the ping-pong table, grabbed his right hand to smoke out the cigarette, and hooked his slender fingers.

"Actually, after you left this morning, I was in a bad mood and repaired several windows in a row. It wasn't because you took my mobile phone away, but because you didn't listen to my advice and must go to the city to find those friends .”

"But those are my important people." Bai Xiuqi flexed his fingers and scratched Jiang Chenglu's palm as a threat: "Don't try to cut off my connection with them."

"I know, so I was also reflecting on myself in the morning."

Jiang Chenglu signaled him to be calm and not to be impatient: "The result of introspection is that I finally found that what you did to me and what I thought of you were based on the same reason, although they behaved differently. We are based on Contradictions based on unanimity can be completely reconciled, so it is not a big deal at all.”

"Then you dropped my phone just now?!" Bai Xiuqi finally got excited again, raised her head and stared at him.

"How can you have such a thorough comprehension without falling?" Jiang Chenglu smiled proudly, and patted the back of Bai Xiuqi's hand again: "Okay, okay, let's go home and add food tonight. Tell me, what do you want to eat? ?”

"It sounds good, I bought all the dishes." Bai Xiuqi sneered, took out the newly bought mobile phone from his pocket, and stuffed it into Jiang Chenglu's shirt pocket: "I'll give it back to you, the data in it has already been returned." It’s imported, you don’t have to use it as you like.”

He paused at this point, but admitted his mistake very readily: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have made the decision and disposed of your mobile phone at will."

"If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. You're still a good boy." Jiang Chenglu patted Bai Xiuqi's head, and smacked his lips abruptly.