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The author has something to say: Xixi is really only angry with Zhou Yichao... (the so-called evil in the nest)

【5】

"Can't you even serve wine well?"

"Of course, we must give priority to recommending the main product!"

"Why are you standing there? Quickly remove all of this!"

"The lost money will be paid out of your salary this month."

"Get the hell out of the apartment!"

The ear-piercing sounds of different timbres alternated and merged in one place in the dream. Ye Xi sat up on the bed in a cold sweat, and his vision extended from the soft quilt to the beige woven bag in front of him.

The night lights and the books you have read are neatly stacked on the top, and the clothes underneath are sorted into different storage bags.

It is clear at a glance whose handwriting it is.

Ye Xi blinked his eyes slowly, and raised his hand to wipe off the fine sweat that oozed from his forehead.

Clothes, it's time to change.

Ye Xi opened the door of the room, and stepped on the stairs barefoot with slippers.

Sitting on the sofa on the first floor, Zhou Yichao frowned slightly when he saw Ye Xi going downstairs.

"Why barefoot?"

"I'm afraid I'll make you rest..."

After stepping on the last flight of stairs, Ye Xi lowered his head and put on his slippers, grabbed the hem of his shirt and whispered——

"Thank you for helping me find my luggage...have you seen my pajamas..."

"Thinking that you might wear it today, I washed it for you yesterday."

Zhou Yichao got up and went into the bathroom, and handed the dried pajamas to the little rabbit with slightly swollen eyes.

The hot compress last night was still meaningful.

"Thank you, may I use the washing machine..."

Zhou Yichao frowned, and nodded to Ye Xi.

"In the room I just entered."

"Thanks...um."

Zhou Yichao's cheek was pinched, Ye Xi swallowed the remaining half of the word "Thank you" in the other's obviously displeased eyes.

"Working rules one, don't thank me."

Zhou Yichao let go of his hand and took out the other party's charged mobile phone from his pocket, his expression still not very good.

"Your phone calls are so loud that I can't sleep at all."

Ye Xi hurriedly picked up the phone and looked through the call history, and found that the top row was full of unfamiliar numbers, and some of the calls showed the status of being answered.

Ye Xi counted the numbers, and suddenly felt an ominous premonition. He clicked on the address book, and as expected, only the list of creditors remained.

The first phone call last night was loud.

The bar owner raised his voice to compete with the DJ's fast-paced background music, and asked Ye Xi why he didn't come on time to serve drinks to the guests.

"Do you like the late shift very much?"

Zhou Yichao's chest was stagnant, and he subconsciously touched the candy in his pocket. When the package was torn in half, he suddenly grabbed the collar vigorously, and the hard candy in his hand rolled down on the floor.

With red eyes, Ye Xi desperately tugged at the cloth in her hands, and the washed pajamas in her arms fell off in response—

"Why! You know what I do and decide for my life? You know how I get that money..."

"I do not want to know."

Zhou Yichao lowered his face and threw away the candy wrappers in his hands.

"Since you agreed to my proposal yesterday, you should know how special your job is, and what to do and what not to do."

Ye Xi seemed to have been poured a basin of cold water while standing in the snow, his hands trembling involuntarily.

There was a sound of electronic password keys being pressed in the entrance, and Zhou Yichao's manager held a kraft paper bag and raised his voice as he walked——

"I've done what you said, here is all the cash, and some transfers..."

The unspoken words stopped abruptly after seeing the scene of the two confronting each other and grabbing their collars.

"..."

Do naive middle school students fight?

Zhou Yichao slapped Ye Xi's hand away with a cold snort, went up a flight of stairs, turned back and picked up the pajamas he had baked for a long time last night and stuffed them into his arms, then went upstairs without looking back.

You don't know anything, you just know that the nest is fierce.

Ye Xi hugged his pajamas with cold hands and feet, and there was a buzzing in his ears, until the manager waved his hands in front of his eyes, the buzzing gradually faded away.

"Do you have time to talk?"

"..."

"This is the rent you have deposited for half a year. The wages for working in other places are remitted in the form of transfer. You can check to see if there is any shortage."

Ye Xi lowered his gaze, the color block with the received orange number on the phone was extremely dazzling.

Not a lot.

Not only that, but even the employment expenses, which were more than ten times higher than the market price, were also transferred into the account.

Ye Xi stared at Zhou Yichao's headshot in the practice room before his debut, hung his head and said nothing.

"I think you know how special the nature of Yichao's work is. I don't need to say more about keeping it secret. I hope you can ensure that he has a balanced nutrition and at the same time don't let him overeat. Calories are fatal to a star, and there is -"

The manager's eyes stopped on the unpacked instant noodle bucket and the newly opened glass sugar bowl last night, and said to Ye Xi in a deep voice——

"I hope you can help him quit sugar."

Ye Xi stood at the entrance with a sullen face and watched the manager go out, without making any promises from the beginning to the end.

After the door was closed, Ye Xi went back to the living room, tidied up the candy wrappers and the bucket of instant noodles and stuffed them into the trash bag. He walked into the bathroom with his pajamas in his arms and changed into his shirt and trousers. He kicked the rabbit in front of him, and his voice instantly rose a notch because of his grievance.

When the door was pushed open, Zhou Yichao was furiously attacking the zombie in front of him.

When the fight was in full swing, the VR glasses and earphones were both ripped off. Zhou Yichao looked at Ye Xi, who looked downcast and looked limp in a fluffy pajamas, and squeezed out two words from his lips——

"what?"

"You are sick."

Originally thinking that the other party was here to apologize, how did Ye Xi know that this was what he said when he opened his mouth.

Zhou Yichao directly choked his throat, but the person concerned was still bowing his head without knowing it and outputting——

"Why is my name appearing in a general interview?"

"Are you showing off your excellent memory to me?"

"The reporter beat my phone until it ran out of battery and turned it off, so I couldn't even swipe the bus electronic card, let alone go to work the night shift. I finally talked about the rent of the house in the second half of the year. My life has changed because of you. It's a mess."

"Do you think you are a god? The kind that can save all sentient beings?"

"Since I have achieved this level, I should accept my worship from above. Why do you want to help me pack my luggage like a housekeeper? Who hired whom?"

"I paid first if I didn't have a job. What if I take the money and run away? Do you lack the beatings of the society?"

"Why do you want to treat someone like me who is in debt..."

Ye Xi choked, tears fell on the floor one after another, making a soft "pa-ta-pa-ta" sound, his eyes were blurred, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Crying and trembling against his own brown hair, Zhou Yichao's anger that stalked his throat disappeared instantly, and there was only the sound of tears dripping in the room.

Regret was born almost instantly.

It shouldn't be so hard.

Zhou Yichao took a step forward and hugged Ye Xi, who was trying his best to endure, into his arms, and patted the little rabbit's back lightly to help it calm down.

The sobbing sound became louder and louder, and finally turned directly into wailing.

Zhou Yichao breathed a sigh of relief, and raised his hand to caress the back of the little rabbit's head.

——Because it's you, it's worth it.

There was water stains on his shoulders, and the amplified cry contained a heart-piercing pain.

That was the six years that Ye Xi lived alone without even knowing about it.

Zhou Yichao patted Ye Xi's back as if trying to put him to sleep, and after the other person's emotions calmed down completely, he led him to the bathroom downstairs and applied a hot towel to his face.

Zhou Yichao took out Ye Xi's shirt and trousers from the washing machine, took the hanger beside him and carefully unfolded it to hang it up.

Ye Xi's eyes were red and swollen after crying, and now he felt embarrassed after venting his emotions, covering half of his face with a towel in both hands, and even hid his eyes after meeting his gaze in the mirror.

Zhou Yichao rubbed his stomach, and gave a little rabbit a step down at the right time——

"I'm hungry."

"……What to eat?"

"Meat."

Ye Xi put down the towel and washed his hands, then quickly walked out of the bathroom and opened the refrigerator.

Ye Xi took out vinegar and soy sauce from the cupboard. After opening the bottle, he poured out a small plate of each, then cut half a carrot, broke half a seaweed ball, and the quick-frozen dumplings filled with three delicacies came out of the pan in no time. .

Zhou Yichao took two sets of tableware and put them on the dining table, and helped Ye Xi pull a high stool, sat down and scooped one into his own bowl.

The umami is strong.

"Did the manager say anything else this morning?"

"Don't cook high-calorie food for you, let me help you quit sugar."

Zhou Yichao let out a dissatisfied "tsk", lowered his head and took a bite of a dumpling with Ye Xi, and continued to ask——

"So? You promised him?"

Ye Xi chewed on the dumpling wrappers, muttering inarticulately——

"He doesn't pay me wages..."

Zhou Yichao couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The message sent by the agent was lying under the upside-down mobile phone, and the time happened to be the time when the other party drove away this morning.

—You both have the same virtue.