bullets and roses

Luo Muxiao ran here and there, quickly arranged everyone clearly, turned his head and found Gu Zhubai sitting in the living room peeling garlic.

Even when peeling garlic, Gu Zhubai peels it handsomely.

Luo Muxiao held his face and admired him for a while, when the doorbell rang suddenly, he was stunned for a moment: "Hey? Is there anyone else? Aren't these the only ones we have a good relationship with?"

Luo Muxiao hurriedly ran to open the door, but there was a woman standing outside the door, who looked familiar.

"Xie Xiyu!!" Lu Zhen rushed out of the kitchen suddenly, hugged the woman tightly, and hung on her body like a koala. Li Sijin didn't care what he looked at, "Aren't you Say you are not coming, what are you doing!"

The woman named Xie Xiyu smiled: "Old Gu's birthday, such a rare event in a thousand years, of course I also want to come and have fun with you."

Xie Xiyu pulled Lu Zhen off her body, and met a pair of curious eyes.

She held out her hand: "Hi, I'm Xie Xiyu."

Luo Muxiao shook hands with her perfunctorily, always feeling that this woman had an unusual relationship with them, but he didn't know it.

"We've seen it before." Xie Xiyu shrugged slightly and said, "In the hot spring."

Luo Muxiao suddenly remembered, isn't this the proprietress who came to find him when he was lost!She is actually friends with Gu Zhubai?Luo Muxiao subconsciously glanced at Gu Zhubai.

"It's you." Luo Muxiao looked back at her again, always feeling that something was wrong, "You two knew each other back then?"

"Yeah. I'm sorry I didn't have time to introduce myself." Xie Xiyu smiled, "But it's okay, now I finally have a chance to get to know each other—I've known you for a long time, Mu Xiao."

Luo Muxiao was a little uncomfortable with the sudden intimacy of the other party, until Gu Zhubai said in a deep voice: "Lu Zhen, Li Sijin, and her, I grew up together."

"Oh." Luo Muxiao teased, "So there is another female knight among you three musketeers."

Xie Xiyu covered her mouth and smiled.

Xie Xiyu belongs to the kind of character who can take care of others. Luo Muxiao noticed it within half an hour of her arrival. She almost took care of all the work here, so busy that her feet didn't touch the ground. She instructed to pass something from time to time, busy in an orderly manner.

Luo Muxiao and Gu Zhubai also failed to escape, and she asked her to fry a few eggs.

Luo Muxiao doesn't know how to cook, frying an egg is enough to kill him, the eggs on Gu Zhubai's side have already been put into the pan, and he is still studying how to peel the eggs completely out of the shell.

Gu Zhubai looked at him for a while, turned the egg over, and said, "Come here."

Luo Muxiao then rubbed over: "How did this thing come out intact? If I beat it directly, wouldn't the egg liquid be my hand?"

Gu Zhubai didn't care what he said, just raised his hand to nibble, the egg was broken, and his hand inevitably rubbed some egg liquid.

Luo Muxiao frowned.

Gu Zhubai threw the egg into his own pot without any hassle, and then turned the previous one over, his movements were smooth and smooth, as if he was very good at cooking.

Luo Muxiao looked at Gu Zhubai adoringly: "You are really amazing, you can do everything."

Gong Yuyang on the side said quietly: "Xiao Xiao, I'm the one who can be your favorite spicy chicken, why don't you praise me?"

"The culinary skills you have practiced for many years are different from Gu Zhubai." Luo Muxiao said, "Gu Zhubai is a novice, and a novice can have such a level, which shows that he is very talented."

Gong Yuyang: "..."

Xie Xiyu couldn't hold back a "puchi" laugh: "Old Gu, I finally know why you have a birthday party. It will be very happy to be with someone like Mu Xiao every day."

Gu Zhubai curled the corners of his mouth and said nothing.

Having hot pot for dinner, Xie Xiyu also cooked a few small stir-fried vegetables, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, diced chicken with spicy sauce...it looked very rich.

Luo Muxiao specially found a comedy movie to play, and several people sat around the table, it was lively, as if it was Chinese New Year.

Gu Zhubai got to his seat, looked around, and suddenly felt a little emotional.

Before Luo Muxiao lived in this house, it had always maintained the usual frigid decoration style. Living here would even make you feel cold. The three colors of black, white and gray make the world's warmth impenetrable at all.

But now it is very different.

I don't know when it started in the room. Luo Muxiao has filled it with green plants. There are even two bouquets of flowers they brought today on the balcony. Luo Muxiao changed into a warm yellow color, adding a touch of brilliance to the entire cold room.

The TV is always on all year round, playing some funny variety shows or movies, and there is laughter in the whole room.

Especially today, the people around the table all have happy and relaxed expressions on their faces. The hot pot is steaming with white mist rising upwards, and in the bubbling and boiling pot, countless foods are floating back and forth. Once a batch is ready, countless pairs of chopsticks will reach out to snatch up the food, and then the second batch will be placed.

What is contained in a small pot is warmth and home.

Gu Zhubai looked at Luo Muxiao, the corner of his mouth was full of oil, his mouth was bulging with food, he was chewing hard, as if he wanted to put the whole pot into his stomach.

But when he sees Gu Zhubai, he will send his favorite food to his bowl and let him eat quickly.

"This group of people are like hungry wolves, don't be so reserved, hurry up and eat! You are the protagonist of today, you have to eat enough." Luo Muxiao said while sending shrimps to his bowl.

On the side, Gong Yuyang stretched out his chopsticks to dig out other shrimps in his bowl, but Luo Muxiao opened his hand suddenly: "What are you doing, what are you doing! You're going to be a thief after a meal."

Gong Yuyang burst into tears: "Luo Muxiao, I treat you so well, is there anyone with such obvious double standards like you!"

Luo Muxiao made a face, then smiled at Gu Zhubai: "Why are you looking at me stupidly, eat quickly."

Gu Zhubai withdrew his gaze and sighed, it was the first time someone called him stupid when he grew up so big.

Still, it's cute.Gu Zhubai smiled.

While eating, Lu Zhen winked at Li Sijin and said: "Look, look, look, old Gu is smiling."

Li Sijin looked back: "I saw it."

Xie Xiyu joined the eye-to-eye dialogue between the two: "I really never thought that Lao Gu would have this day... So it seems that Luo Muxiao is not an easy kid at all. It is obvious that Lao Gu fell into it."

"What winks are you making?" Luo Muxiao, who saw the movement, looked over, "What's interesting, tell me and let me have fun too."

Lu Zhen: "...Pfft." He choked several times, nearly coughing out his lungs, and then waved his hands and said, "It's nothing, I just think you two are really good for each other!"

Luo Muxiao looked back shyly: "Thank you."

Gu Zhubai paused: "...Do you need more food? I'll go in and get some more."

"I'll be with you!" Luo Muxiao hurriedly got up to push the wheelchair.

The author says:

I'm still working overtime, I can only rely on the appearance of saving manuscripts, and I don't dare to spend the weekend as a worker, after all, I have to work overtime for two days on weekends TT