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Zhong Qin turned around, took the dog leash and dragged Xi Yan into the bathroom, then picked up the disinfectant alcohol watering can - and sprayed his resentment towards instant noodles towards Xi Yan.

Xi Yan suddenly felt that Zhong Qin was not gentle anymore, holding a watering can was like holding a murder weapon, and he was sprayed like standing under a shower head, which made him almost drunk.

Xi Yan couldn't help but waved his hand in front of his face, squinted his eyes and sneezed: "Do you want to disinfect or destroy me..."

Zhong Qin raised his eyebrows.

Xi Yan's itching nose and exhaling vigorously gave him the illusion that he was bathing the dog.

When Zhong Qin finally put down the watering can, Xi Yan pulled the hem of the clothes with both hands, and stretched the sweater tightly for Zhong Qin to see.

"It's dirty," Xi Yan began to show Zhong Qin the dog's paw prints on the clothes, "I'll take them home and wash them for you, well, find me a new one."

Seeing his dirty appearance, Zhong Qin slightly raised the corners of his mouth: "Wash yourself first."

Xi Yan raised his eyes and saw the faint smile on the corner of Zhong Qin's mouth, and his heart skipped a beat.

Xi Yan touched his nose, hoping that this person would stop laughing like this again.

That look is like looking at a little mud dog.

Xi Yan looked away from Zhong Qin's face, and muttered: "...you have so many guests outside, how can I wash?"

Zhong Qin put the watering can on the sink, as if he didn't care about his dirtiness: "Go upstairs."

The little boss ignored so many customers downstairs, and went upstairs with the stray dog ​​Xi Yan who had washed his hands and feet.

Butter had tried to poke his head out of the wooden fence early on, and greeted them with a whimper.

Xi Yan's heart instantly collapsed.

... When there were a lot of people in the store, Chen Meng and the others were indeed told to put the little boy upstairs.

Xi Yan was exhausted. After arguing with Butter for a while, he took off his sweater and threw the dirty clothes on "his" kennel: "I'm so sleepy."

Zhong Qin stared at Xi Yan's bare white back, and threw the clean clothes on the face of this little classmate who continued to play hooligans after he came back: "Dirty, sleep with the dog."

Xi Yan quickly got into the soft cotton T-shirt, untied the dog leash around his waist and pulled it out, and the waistband of his trousers collapsed again.

... Zhong Qin really couldn't bear to look directly at him.

Zhong Qin didn't look at him, Xi Yan took off his pants even more chicly.He put on the black shorts he wore for sleeping, climbed onto the bed comfortably, and announced, "I don't, I want to sleep with the dog king."

Zhong Qin: "..."

Zhong Qin wants to ask who the dog king is.

But his intuition told him that it was better not to know the answer.

What a dog brother... what a fairy.

At Zhong Qinchang's age, he has never met someone who dared to be so arrogant after giving him random nicknames.

Zhong Qin took off his clothes, and directly put on the coat that Xi Yan was hugging to sleep last night.

Xi Yan rolled his eyes slowly, and secretly took a look at Zhong Qin's muscular and handsome upper body: "...you also like to be in neutral."

"..." Zhong Qin glanced at him and sat down at the table, "Your paper is gone."

Xi Yan was caught, and was as quiet as a chicken for a second.

Zhong Qin casually took a paper from the table to write, the sound of brushing the nib of the pen was lost in the noise of the world downstairs.

Zhong Qin wrote for a while, and put down the pen before finishing a paper.

Xi Yan made trouble with him by not talking, but he...wasn't used to it.

He thought that Xi Yan was asleep, but when he looked back, he found that Xi Yan was not asleep, but was sitting cross-legged on the bed, and he had been in a daze hugging the blanket for an unknown amount of time.

Zhong Qin suddenly lost his mind for a moment, and divided his mind to think about where he should find a quilt for this person if the temperature cools down tonight.

"If you have nothing to do," Zhong Qin glanced at the weather forecast on his phone, and said to Xi Yan, "Just order a takeaway, and I'll bring it up later."

Xi Yan groaned, got off the bed with bare feet, fumbled through his pants on the floor for a long time before finding his phone, squatted down and ordered takeaway, returned to the bed and started to daze.

... For the first time, Zhong Qin, who was able to concentrate even in the vegetable market, was unable to calm down completely.

Obviously this person is obedient and obediently staying behind him, as if he has no mental activity, but Zhong Qin always feels that he should want to talk to him.

Until Xi Yan finally said: "... Zhong Qin."

Zhong Qin stopped writing.

Zhong Qin turned around, leaned against the back of the chair, looked sideways at Xi Yan: "What?"

Xi Yan pursed his lips for a long time. He was at a loss for words for the first time, so he could only choke out a sentence: "I want to chat with you."

Zhong Qin: "..."

Xi Yan lowered his voice: "Is that okay?"

Zhong Qin threw away the pen completely: "The mouth is on your face, and you don't look like someone who will obey me if I tell you to shut up."

In normal times, when Zhong Qin teased Xi Yan, he would definitely jump up and bark his teeth.

But now Xi Yan not only did not intend to refute at all, but drooped his head and lowered his eyes, even his voice sounded a little low: "...I'm still thinking about the cats and dogs on the base."

Young people's joys and sorrows are always coming and going in a hurry, today's joys and sorrows will be taken away by sparrows jumping out of the window on the treetops tomorrow.

Like Ding Xuan and the others, after a busy day, they will be able to forget about feeling sad and worried about stray animals in a few days.

Only Xi Yan, a "pseudo-boy" with an overloaded mental age, will quietly feel sad for a long time in the quiet after the excitement.

Zhong Qin was not surprised, but still sighed.

He hadn't planned to take Xi Yan to the base.

Xi Yan himself is a character who likes to join in the fun and is full of curiosity. If Zhong Qin didn't see his sincere love and affection for small animals, Zhong Qin might not have to wait until today to "dismantle" this so-called base The identity of the responsible person.

"You don't have to think so much, just do your best," Zhong Qin thought for a while, then said meaningfully, "If you decide to raise them, just be responsible to the end."

Xi Yanfu understood the beautiful meaning contained in "one companion" and "another companion".

Although the old, weak, sick and disabled in the base really made Xi Yan feel sad, but he was not depressed simply because of this.

Xi Yan jumped out of bed, dragged the kennel given to him by Zhong Qin to Zhong Qin's legs, then picked up Butter, and sat cross-legged in the kennel on the ground.

Butter's paws were pinched, and he narrowed his eyes in comfort, looking drowsy.

Zhong Qin had no choice but to look down at Xi Yan: "What are you doing if you don't sleep on the bed, puppy Xi."

Xi Yan's heart was actually a little beating.

He has only known each other for a short time, but the young man in front of him almost responds to his requests, he makes jokes and jokes casually, with a cold face but he doesn't show the slightest bit of impatience towards him.

Lend him clothes, give him a place to sleep, let him copy his homework, and buy things for his... dog.

It may be because the friendship at this age is pure, simple and easy to establish, and they have the same love for small animals, so even though Zhong Qin's cynicism is indispensable when getting along, Xi Yan knows...

The cold-faced scumbag Zhong Qin is as gentle to himself as he is to a dog.

If someone else said this and compared himself with Zhong Qin's dog, he might really be putting money on his face.

Only the stubborn Xi Yan didn't think so.

Zhong Qin's inaccessibility only stays in "appearance". Only when he is as shameless as Xi Yan breaks into the magnetic field of others, can he have a chance to be attracted by his part except the appearance, and then he can discover how, what a good person he is. .

When Xi Yan looked into Zhong Qin's peaceful eyes, he wanted to tell Zhong Qin about himself.

Even if his "self" has been overthrown and restarted as time goes back.

Xi Yan held the dog in his arms, lowered his head, and slowly poked his forehead on Zhong Qin's knee.

When Zhong Qin lowered his eyes, he could only see the soft top of his hair and the back of his neck.

Before Zhong Qin asked what was wrong with Xi Yan, Xi Yan said, "I used to have a dog, um, my mother and grandma... If you have a chance to meet them, don't ask about it, you can Don't tell them that I picked up butter for you to raise."

Zhong Qin nodded in agreement.

"It is very obedient, just as obedient as Butter. It looked exactly like Butter when it was a child, and it is very obedient and human."

"One night, in order to save... well, save me, I was hit by a car and killed."

"I will never forget the day I took it to your hospital for euthanasia."

Zhong Qin was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect such a thing, but he understood in a flash——

Why does Xi Yan care so much about Butter, and can't let go of it, and even wants to get the chance to come and see Butter, even at the expense of begging for nothing.

Why did Xi Yan react in such a trance when he was taken to the hospital that time.

Why did he look so, so sad when he saw the stray animals being hurt, and seemed so, so at a loss.

Xi Yan and Zhong Qin got connected because of cream.

But Zhong Qin couldn't know from Xi Yan's half-true words that Xi Yan's so-called "before" dog was not "like" butter.

It is cream.

Xi Yan also picked up a dog before he came back through the soul.

At the beginning of the first year of high school, on the grass in Honglin.

That little dog was not afraid of people, and tried to trade its cuteness for something to eat, which won Xi Yan's favor, so he took it home and raised it.

At first, Wen Xia and Xi Yan's grandma were not happy to keep this dirty little thing, until Xi Yan cleaned it at home, revealing its original milky white appearance, Wen Xia and his grandma were finally attracted by the cute creature. conquer.

Xi Yan looked at Wen Xia's half-eaten mousse cake on the table and had a flash of inspiration, and named it "Cream".

Butter grew slowly when she was young, and the family thought it was just this big, but suddenly one day, Butter suddenly grew up. To be honest, Xi Yan didn't expect it to grow so big.

Except that the face is slightly more pointed and longer than that of a purebred white Labrador, it is hardly recognizable as a little wild dog.

Butter doesn't know how many days he has been wandering outside, and he doesn't know if he has had a full meal. Now he finally has a home, and even becomes a "grandmother's dog", which is loved and thrived.

Healthy and safe.

It may also be because it was originally a stray dog. Butter cherishes every ration, every drop of water, and every toy, and it loves its nest. balls, squeezed into the soft nest that makes it extremely secure.

Xi Yan once wanted to change butter to a bigger nest, but it was not happy.

At home, my grandma cooks, and the butter seems to understand that every bite is hard-won. Every morning, I will wait at the door with a basket in my mouth, and accompany my grandma to buy vegetables.

In the evening, Wen Xia and Xi Yan were paralyzed after eating, not wanting to move, and Butter took on the task of accompanying grandma downstairs for a walk.

Spring and autumn come, day after day.

When he was more than one year old, Cream already had the appearance of an adult dog, extremely smart and sensible.

In fact, it has only been a member of this family for a little over a year.

until one winter night.

Butter walked with grandma downstairs in the community as usual. When grandma walked near the gate of the community, she suddenly heard the yelling of small vendors outside the gate.

The crisp aroma of the omelet made the old lady and the dog unable to move their legs.

This is the first time that Xi Yan's grandma walked out of the community with it after a meal.

Just this once, and the cream never came back.

A drunken car was driving at high speed, turned around the intersection and rushed straight up the street, knocking over the cart of the peddler. Fortunately, no one was seriously injured, but Butter was lying in a pool of blood and never returned to that place to make him feel at ease nest.

——The car would have hit Xi Yan's grandma.

At the critical moment, Butter stood up and pushed Grandma Xi Yan out with two strong front legs, but she couldn't dodge it.

His grandma fell on the side of the street and was sent to the hospital by Wenxia who arrived later. The injury was not serious, but her knees touched her, which made her walk difficult all the time.

But when Xi Yan sent Butter to the hospital, its organs had already begun to fail, and there was no need for rescue.

Before the injection, there was a little light in Butter's eyes like black glass balls. It tried to stick out its tongue and licked hard on Xi Yan's palm.

It was as if it was looking for something to eat when it met Xi Yan for the first time.

This is its last consolation, the last time to express its gratitude and love to Xi Yan.

The euthanasia was signed by Xi Yan himself.

From that day on, Xi Yan's life changed subtly.

Of course, Xi Yan's family doesn't know any "cream" now, so Xi Yan prevaricates it by saying that he doesn't want to mention it and make his family sad.

Zhong Qin nodded, thinking that it was reasonable for Xi Yan not to bring butter home and not tell his family that he picked up a dog again.

When Xi Yan picked up the cream again, he really felt the time has passed.

But Xi Yan was unwilling to take it home.

He told Zhong Qin that his grandma had bad legs, but he was actually afraid of going back to that day.

Xi Yan is also unwilling to name it "Cream".

Because he superstitiously believes that the name is a magical symbol.

It seems that if you change your name, you can change your fate—you can grow up safely without any bad luck.

Fortunately... I met Zhong Qin.

Going round and round, Mr. Butter is still Mr. Butter.

Accompanying it to grow up will still be Xi Yan.

Although it doesn't have a grandma in this life, it will live a more special life with Zhong Qin by its side.

For Xi Yan, Zhong Qin and everything related to Zhong Qin is the only first encounter in his life.

The same goes for cream.

"Do you know?" Xi Yan, as if he didn't know the pain, hit Zhong Qin's protruding kneecap with his forehead, "The drunk driver even said after getting off..."

"That bastard actually said..."

"...Fortunately, it was a dog."

"Fuck... Fuck... Is this a fucking thing..."

Xi Yan wanted to cry.

Even if Xi Yan holds the ignorant, lost and found cream in his arms, he still wants to cry.

Zhong Qin didn't speak.

Zhong Qin just kept silent, spread his palms, and took advantage of the gap when Xi Yan raised his head to hit his knee again, and put his palm on Xi Yan's forehead.

"Cream will grow up safely." Zhong Qin said, "It will be happy and healthy, I promise you."

Xi Yan was silent for a moment, and finally couldn't help it, covered his eyes in Zhong Qin's hands, and cried under his throat.

His tears crept into Zhong Qin's fingers, and the little loneliness and carefully hidden fear that he suddenly restarted his life were also delivered to Zhong Qin's hands.