The Midnight Owl

"Why didn't you tell me when you got back to Beijing?" Chi Zhuolin frowned at the small double room in front of him as soon as he entered the door, but he didn't ask "do you want to change to a deluxe room for you", which would obviously be slapped in the face.Chi Yingxue has a card that can be swiped at will, and there is only one reason for staying in a standard room-I am happy.

"I didn't tell you, you've already positioned yourself precisely." Chi Yingxue pulled the only chair in the room.

Just as Chi Zhuolin was about to step forward, he found that his younger brother sat on it naturally.

He immediately felt relieved and confirmed that this was his real brother.

Hanging the coat on the wall, Chi Zhuolin looked left and right. Apart from the chair, there were only two beds with rolled quilts in the room.

"Which bed is yours?" Chi Zhuolin asked.He was never the kind of person who wronged himself to stand without a stool, but it was not polite to sit on someone else's bed.

"Both are mine." Chi Yingxue said as a matter of course, with a childish overbearing.

Chi Zhuo had a headache.

The key reason why he has never had a family and no children is Chi Yingxue - raising a younger brother is exhausted, and he absolutely does not want to raise another child.

"How long will you stay in Beijing this time?" Chi Zhuolin picked a relatively uncluttered bed, lifted the quilt, sat on the corner of the bed, naturally straightened his back, raised his legs, and crossed his fingers on his knees. Sitting on the corner of the bed felt like a boss chair.

"A day or two," Chi Yingxue raised her chin slightly in the direction of the next door, "Look at them."

"So in a hurry?" Chi Zhuolin originally wanted to arrange some entertainment for Xu Wang and the others. It was a regular thank you and reward. You must know that this team of donkey friends is the team that Chi Yingxue has been with for the longest time, and Chi Zhuolin After doing some investigation, the four people's backgrounds are all clean. Chi Yingxue's playing with such a person won't make people worry too much, "Where are you going next?"

Chi Yingxue opened a pack of fruit jellybeans on the table, and threw an orange-flavored one into her mouth: "Guizhou."

"Guizhou?" Chi Zhuolin frowned, "Do you really think you are Xu Xiake?"

Shaanxi, Anhui, Henan, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Guangdong, Hunan... A map of China emerged in Chi Zhuolin's mind. Half of the country and mountains on it had already printed his little brother's footprints.

Chi Yingxue yawned as if bored, and threw a second strawberry-flavored one into her mouth: "Didn't you say that, idleness is idleness, traveling is better than fooling around, keeping fit, and less expensive." Carbon-friendly.”

"That's not to let you travel endlessly." Chi Zhuolin was helpless, he just hoped that he would go out to breathe fresh air.

Chi Yingxue raised her eyebrows and glanced at him casually: "I'm staying in Beijing, don't you find it annoying?"

Chi Zhuolin raised his face and said seriously: "I never found you annoying."

Chi Yingxue said: "I find you annoying."

Chi Zhuolin: "..."

Chi Yingxue was overjoyed. Although there was nothing practical to come out of the verbal dispute, he was happy to see Chi Zhuolin at a loss for words.

Who let this person always put on airs to educate himself all day long, so that every time he meets each other, he feels like he is a generation shorter, which is a disadvantage.

"You, don't always think about managing me," Chi Yingxue sat upright, and took out Chi Zhuolin's tone and posture, and patted her brother on the shoulder kindly, "Manage the company and property well, if you still If you have extra energy, get married and have an heir..."

"Are you persuading me or cursing me?" Chi Zhuolin just unscrewed a bottle of water, and upon hearing that, he didn't want to drink at all—for fear of choking.

Chi Yingxue spread her hands out, a look of grievance that "good intentions are not rewarded".

A hint of subtlety suddenly flashed in Chi Zhuolin's mind. Although Chi Yingxue was usually furious, "emotional problems" never belonged to the category of ridicule by his younger brother.

Slightly squinting his eyes, he looked around the whole room again without any trace, and it was true that there was no trace of a second person, but driven by curiosity, he still made a surprise attack: "Are you in a relationship?"

Chi Yingxue had just thrown the third grape-flavored jellybean into her mouth, when she heard this, she subconsciously swallowed the gummy candy.

The soft candy hadn't completely softened yet, and her throat was so stuck that it hurt. Chi Yingxue frowned, resisting the urge to grab the bottle of water that Chi Zhuolin had just unscrewed before she had time to drink, and secretly swallowed a few more saliva. Smooth the fondant down completely.

Secretly heaving a sigh of relief, he changed the subject directly: "The King of Hades is gone."

Chi Zhuolin originally calculated the timing and was going to make persistent efforts to see if he could swindle out something, but this sudden sentence disrupted the rhythm.

"What did you say?" He asked again cautiously, for fear that he might hear it wrong.

Chi Yingxue raised her eyes and looked at him quietly: "Yan Wang, I'm gone."

"Is...forever—gone, or temporarily..." Chi Zhuolin's voice trembled slightly with excitement.

"Here," Chi Yingxue pointed to her chest, "I can't find him."

Chi Zhuolin could clearly hear his own heartbeat, beating like a drum.

In the past, even if Yan Wang was asleep, Chi Yingxue could find him accurately and even wake him up, not to mention that Yama did not sleep most of the time, but had a tug-of-war with Chi Yingxue in his heart.

So Chi Zhuolin knew the meaning of the words "can't find".

But he didn't understand: "Why all of a sudden..."

Chi Yingxue smiled at him, under the dim light, it was almost ethereal: "Just think that I had a long, long dream, and now I'm awake."

Chi Zhuolin couldn't restrain his distress, and reached out to pat his head: "Just wake up." These four words made him feel inexplicably at ease, so he couldn't help repeating, "Just wake up."

He didn't receive any substantive evidence, just because Chi Yingxue's upper lip touched his lower lip, but Chi Zhuolin was willing to believe, or rather, he hoped more than anyone else, that it was true.

The younger brother who is always switching between personalities is both distressing and strange, even if he has read countless psychology books, even if he keeps telling himself that another personality is also a younger brother, but it is difficult to actually do it. .

It was difficult for him to regard Yan Wang as his younger brother, and Yan Wang never regarded him as his elder brother.

The treatment was also shelved because of Chi Yingxue's resistance.Although the treatment ideas of some psychiatrists really made him slander, "treatment" itself was the only way Chi Zhuolin could rely on.

"So," Chi Yingxue supported her head with one hand, and smiled at Chi Zhuolin, "You don't have to feel indebted to me anymore."

Chi Zhuolin's brows slowly frowned, as if puzzled.

Chi Yingxue looked at him lightly: "At that time you were in boarding school, and you didn't know why I was afraid of him, but you still sent me letters within your power. Strictly speaking, you didn't owe me, but I should owe him money." your."

Chi Zhuolin finally understood, but his brows frowned even deeper, and his tone sank: "Do you think I'm doing this to you now to make up for what I owed you back then?"

Chi Yingxue slightly raised her eyebrows, as if asking "Isn't it?"

Chi Zhuolin glanced at him mercilessly: "You think too much. At that time, I didn't have the slightest ability, and I couldn't talk at home. Even if I knew that he treated you so well, what else could I do besides being uncomfortable with you? "

"You heard me clearly," Chi Zhuolin looked at him fixedly, with an unquestionable majesty in his tone, "I treat you well for one reason - you are my younger brother."

Chi Yingxue was silent for a few seconds, then suddenly smiled: "Then you divide the family property with me in half, we separate the family, and you don't have to worry about me as a burden in the future."

"I refuse." Chi Zhuolin didn't hesitate at all, and refused so simply and confidently, "I'll give you as much as you want, as you can only go in and out, lie down and squander, and end up sleeping on the street."

Chi Yingxue smiled, "You still can't bear it."

Chi Zhuolin snorted softly: "The card I gave you has no upper limit, you can spend as much as you can to make me poor."

A mischievous light flashed in Chi Yingxue's eyes: "Don't regret it when the time comes."

Chi Zhuolin tilted his head to look at him, and smiled gracefully: "If the speed at which you spend money can catch up with my ability to make money, you win."

"..." Chi Yingxue finally knew how her teammates felt when she usually felt good about herself.

Chi Zhuolin's eyes fell on the fudge on the table inadvertently. He frowned, and just wanted to tell Chi Yingxue to eat less sweets, but the other party suddenly lowered his eyes and let out a soft breath.

"Sometimes, I feel like he's gone forever," Chi Yingxue's voice was low and vague, "Sometimes, I feel like he's never gone..."

Chi Zhuolin's heart tightened, of course he knew that "he" was referring to the "King of Hades".

"Didn't you just say that you can't find it..." Chi Zhuolin's words came to an abrupt end when Chi Yingxue raised his head suddenly.

The slightly squinted gaze was direct and sharp, like a knife.

Chi Zhuolin's heart sank to the bottom, he was too familiar with this expression: "Yan Wang..."

The corners of the mouth of the person on the opposite side raised, first it was a mocking arc, and then the smile couldn't hold back anymore, it became really proud: "I'm teasing you."

"..." Chi Zhuolin looked at Chi Yingxue who became Chi Yingxue again in an instant, and didn't know whether to be angry or grateful.

But there is one thing he can be sure of—revenge is definitely revenge for his "rhetoric talk about making money" just now!

"Tuk-tuk-"

The knock on the door without warning interrupted the "warm time" of the two brothers.

Chi Zhuolin didn't understand, so Chi Yingxue got up, walked over naturally, and opened the door without asking.

"The captain asked me to ask you to go out for supper. Brother Qian found a very delicious food nearby..." Kuang Jinxin's voice stopped after seeing Chi Zhuolin in the room, and he was stunned for two seconds before finally Unexpectedly, "Boss Chi?"

Chi Yingxue turned her head to look at Chi Zhuolin, and looked at him quietly without saying a word.

Chi Zhuolin received the silent eviction order accurately, stood up gracefully, took the coat and put it on his arm, and walked straight to the door: "You guys eat, I'll go back first."

Kuang Jinxin looked at Chi Yingxue, then at Chi Zhuolin, not knowing what was going on, and instinctively said politely: "How about we eat together?"

Chi Yingxue took Kuang Jinxin into the room with one arm, and pushed Chi Zhuolin out the door with the other arm: "His company still has business."

"Oh." Kuang Jinxin nodded in a daze, and then looked at Chi Zhuolin, his eyes turned into respectful congratulations.

Chi Zhuolin felt sorry for himself silently, but seeing how good Chi Yingxue and Kuang Jinxin were, he couldn't help but feel happy and relieved that his brother had made friends.

Watching Chi Zhuolin disappear at the elevator entrance, Kuang Jinxin wanted to turn around and continue telling Chi Yingxue about supper, but the other party stretched out a hand and closed the door.

Kuang Jinxin just came to deliver a message, and planned to leave after the message, but Chi Yingxue's closing of the door caused a subtle change in the atmosphere.

Also strange was Chi Yingxue, he didn't speak after closing the door, his eyes were lowered, and all his emotions were hidden in the shadows under his eyelashes.

"What's wrong?" Kuang Jinxin asked softly, feeling that it had something to do with Chi Zhuolin.

What did their brothers talk about just now?What about Hades?Childhood thing?A series of question marks popped up in Kuang Jinxin's head, together with those dark nightmares in the 9/23 level.

The body was suddenly hugged.

A simple but solid hug.

"Don't move, let me hug you for a while." Chi Yingxue's voice was above her head, but it sounded far away.

Kuang Jinxin remained motionless quietly, letting Chi Yingxue hug him, but he didn't hug her back.

He could clearly feel that Chi Yingxue didn't need his reaction. The person holding him at this moment only needed something to hold him. This thing was enough to bring some warmth. It could be him, Kuang Jinxin, or a doll. Or a throw pillow.

Kuang Jinxin heard two heartbeats, one was steady and powerful, which belonged to Chi Yingxue, and the other was rapid and chaotic, which belonged to him.

Chi Yingxue didn't want to say anything at first, but he had talked too much with Chi Zhuolin just now, and now he felt empty, and just wanted to hold something like this for a while.

But the room was too quiet, so quiet that Chi Zhuolin's voice came back again.

【Are you in love? 】

Things that Chi Yingxue had never thought about were just like this jokingly brought up by Chi Zhuolin.

It was like throwing a fudge in his heart, it melted little by little, it was so sweet that it tickled people.

"Little Sijin," Chi Yingxue said suddenly, he was still hugging him, his chin lightly resting on the top of his head, as if he wanted to last this hug for eternity, "Have you ever talked about a girlfriend?"

"No." Kuang Jinxin turned his face sideways and looked at the wall next to him. There were some faint gray spots on the wall. If you didn't look carefully, it was easy to ignore, and mistakenly thought it was a piece of snow white.

"Where's your boyfriend?"

"No."

"Want to talk?"

"think."

"That……"

"But I don't want to talk to you."

Chi Yingxue pulled the person away and raised her eyebrows with some dissatisfaction: "Am I bad?"

The quiet and warm embrace, just like this, was brought to a hasty end that was not commensurate with the process.

Or, he didn't care about it at all.

"You're not bad, you just can't figure out what you want." Kuang Jinxin wanted to smile at him, but failed, embarrassment flashed across his eyes, but the conversation continued, but fortunately his voice stabilized, "You I just want to find someone to accompany you. No matter who it is, as long as it can accompany you, that's fine."

Chi Yingxue was inexplicable: "That's why I found you."

Kuang Jinxin sighed, not knowing how to communicate with the other party: "When you are in love, you must like each other, like the captain and brother Sheng." He tried to slow down his voice, hoping that Chi Yingxue would not be angry and listen, "You want to find Accompanying you personally is not liking, but loneliness.”

Chi Yingxue stopped talking, but the temperature in her beautiful eyes was dropping.

Still angry.

Kuang Jinxin was annoyed.

In fact, Chi Yingxue's character is very simple, if he follows him, he will be happy, if he goes against him, he will be irritable, especially when he doesn't want to bear it, he will never wrong himself and restrain his temper.

But this matter was different from other things, and he couldn't follow him.

Otherwise, Chi Yingxue would be at ease, and he would really be unable to escape.

As long as Chi Yingxue wanted to be with her, she could only give her company, but Jinxin wanted something else, knowing that she would not come, she fell headlong into it, it was too painful.

Kuang Jinxin is selfish, he doesn't want to suffer.

"I, Captain, Military Advisor, Brother Qian, we will always be with you," Kuang Jinxin said softly before Chi Yingxue's eyes fell to freezing point, "Even if we leave Owl, we will always be friends."

Chi Yingxue blinked lightly, under the dim light, she couldn't see her emotions clearly.

"Xiao Sijin, do you know what I hate about you the most?" He finally spoke, his voice was softer than that of Kuang Jinxin, almost gentle.

Kuang Jinxin was stunned.

Chi Yingxue spit out two words slowly: "Hypocrisy."

Kuang Jinxin felt a pain in his heart for no reason.

Chi Yingxue continued on her own: "No matter how annoying people are, you can say a lot of beautiful words. It seems that everyone is struggling in the quagmire, and you stand on the shore and feel compassionate."

"Actually, you may have scolded Kuang Jinxin countless times in your heart, but when the beautiful words come out of your mouth, they seem very sincere and credible." He took a step back as he spoke, carefully looked at Kuang Jinxin's face, and finally nodded, "Well, Thanks to this face, it is too honest and deceptive."

Kuang Jinxin blinked, his eyes were a little dazed, and he flinched a little.

Reason told him that Chi Yingxue was angry because of being rejected, so just listen to what he said and don't take it seriously.

But emotionally, he thought, maybe this is Chi Yingxue's sincere words, that's how he sees himself.

"Tuk tuk tuk—"

The careless knock on the door made Kuang Jinxin tremble.

But he immediately reacted and quickly turned around to open the door.

Qian Ai was outside the door, and when he saw that it was Kuang Jinxin who opened the door, he immediately complained: "Why can't you call someone!"

After finishing speaking, he saw Chi Yingxue who was also standing in the entrance slowly, and he was slightly taken aback, his eyes went back and forth between the two of them: "What's the situation with you two? You are not active in eating, so why don't you chat at the dinner table?" , what are you doing here?"

"Oh, that, Mr. Chi came here and left." Kuang Jinxin couldn't make up nonsense, so he could only prevaricate with the truth.

"Chi Zhuolin?" Qian Ai's attention was drawn as expected, "Why don't you keep him for supper?"

Before Kuang Jinxin could answer, he had already figured out the answer by himself: "Understood, boss, he must be busy."

"Okay, change your clothes quickly, we'll wait for you in the lobby downstairs." After Qian Ai and Chi Yingxue finished speaking, they pulled Kuang Jinxin out. Kuang Jinxin came to Chi Yingxue after changing his clothes. In Ai's mind, of course he had to go downstairs with himself who was also prepared.

Chi Yingxue frowned subconsciously as she looked at Qian Ai's hand on Kuang Jinxin's shoulder.

Qian Ai didn't notice it, and thoughtfully closed the door for his teammates from the outside with a "bang".

During this supper, Chi Yingxue had no taste for it. Occasionally, when she glanced at Kuang Jinxin, the other party was engrossed in eating.Until the end of the supper and back to the hotel, Chi Yingxue still didn't catch a look from the other party.

Volume Four