Clear stream

The sunshine after the rain is rare and precious, and it has coated the stagnant water on the road with shining gold powder.The scenery outside the window flashed by quickly, Xi Qingxi leaned on the car seat, staring at the reflection in the raindrops on the car window.

The middle-aged man in the driver's seat was still chattering, his dull voice was like a monk chanting scriptures, making him drowsy.Xi Qingxi also couldn't understand why his mother's suitor would come to make friends with him.

"Uncle Wang." Xi Qingxi interrupted him while touching his forehead, and said tactfully, "My mother is not very anxious about remarriage."

Uncle Wang smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, disapprovingly: "Hey, I know! By the way, the daughters of some of Uncle's friends are also old. Would you like to get along with them?"

Xi Qingxi choked slightly, and refused decisively without thinking: "I don't have time, so forget it."

Uncle Wang opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but the car had already driven downstairs in the community.Xi Qingxi unbuckled his seat belt, thanked him politely, and turned to leave, but Uncle Wang also got out of the car.

He handed the luxury gift box in Xi Qingxi's hands, and narrowed his small eyes: "I heard that your mother likes this brand of jewelry. I asked someone to bring them back from abroad, and I can't usually contact her. You Hand it over to Uncle."

Xi Qingxi stood there holding the gift box, feeling very complicated.How should he remind the other party that the warehouse is almost full of gifts received by Xi Qin, and she doesn't care about these things at all.

He weighed the gift box, and decided to take it home and talk about it. No matter what, at least let his mother know that there is such a person.

When Xi Qingxi opened the door, Fang Ruogu blocked the door with his arms crossed. His gaze slowly shifted to the gift box, like a bolt from the blue, pointing at Xi Qingxi "you you you" for a long time without uttering a complete sentence.

Fang Ruogu pondered for a long time, then took a deep breath: "You don't want to work hard anymore?"

Xi Qingxi: "..."

He pulled people into the house silently and then closed the door, and asked in a deep tone: "Aren't you too?"

Fang Ruogu: "..."

"It's different, and I didn't pay anything practical." Fang Ruogu advised earnestly, "Although I have no right to interfere with your choice, as a friend, I still hope that you can live for yourself..."

"You talk a lot of nonsense." Xi Qingxi didn't bother to explain, and went straight across Fang Ruogu to lie on the sofa and turned on the TV, then picked up a bag of popcorn from the drawer under the coffee table and ate it.

"But having said that, I think there might be something wrong with my benefactor." Fang Ruogu also sat up and pointed to his head.

Xi Qingxi paused, and then crunched the popcorn into pieces.

"The show I'm working on will wrap up next week, and there are two other popular variety shows that want to invite me to be a flying guest. This can't be based on the resources I got by myself, and I can tell with my toes. That one's light. But I have been dancing for so long, and no one came to the door, you are too strange."

Xi Qingxi was silent for a while, took out potato chips and stuffed them into Fang Ruogu's mouth, and said nonchalantly, "The meal is ready?"

Fang Ruogu slapped his forehead suddenly: "Oh, the vegetables are still soaked in water, I forgot." After speaking, he stepped on his slippers and rushed into the kitchen to do some work.

"I'll help." Xi Qingxi rubbed off the icing sugar on his hands, then took out a wet tissue and wiped it carefully again.

"No, it will be fine soon."

Xi Qingxi sat back on the sofa, unlocked the screen with her fingerprint, and browsed the stock market information at a glance.Stock trading is his hobby and one of his sources of daily expenses.

Before turning two pages, the aroma of the food came to the nostrils, and Xi Qingxi's stomach growled a few times in response to the occasion.He wondered whether he should be paid according to the market price after eating and drinking for nothing at Fang Ruogu's house for so long, so as to better stimulate the enthusiasm of the employees.

With this in mind, he took the initiative to raise this question at the dinner table: "How should the rent and living expenses be calculated?"

Fang Ruogu pawed at the white rice, and said vaguely: "Whatever, you can see. I just received the magazine filming fee yesterday, and a sum of money will arrive after the filming of the show. It is not a big problem to support two people."

"That's it." Xi Qingxi was thoughtful and said no more.

In the evening, after he came out of the shower, he transferred [-] yuan to Fang Ruogu's account. Immediately, there was a muffled sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Immediately afterwards, the bedroom door was pushed open, and a panicked face came into view.

"Where did you get so much money?" Fang Ruogu angrily transferred 10 yuan back to him, the cracks on the screen showed the tragic experience of the phone just now, "You won't have to do something to pay back my living expenses, will you? I can't accept this money, you take it and return it to him, and then sever the relationship."

Xi Qingxi was baffled by this. The monthly salary of a servant in Xi's family was at least 20 yuan. So far, he has lived in Fang Ruogu's house for three months. Isn't it reasonable to pay [-] yuan for rent and living expenses plus labor costs?

He didn't know what absurd plot Fang Ruogu had made up in his brain, so he explained belatedly: "I don't have a financial backer."

Fang Ruogu was full of disbelief: "Are you bluffing me? Who is the man who drove you home in a luxury car? He also gave you luxury goods. Where did the money come from? A mere security guard can't earn so much, can he?"

"This is my private matter. As for the source of the money, I can guarantee that it was obtained through formal channels."

"Can……"

"Shut up, get out." Xi Qingxi stared at Fang Ruogu indifferently, "I don't want to repeat it again."

Fang Ruogu's face was suddenly shaken, and his anger also burst into flames: "You figured it out, this is my house, you let me go?"

The gloom on Xi Qingxi's face was even worse, and his eyes were as sharp as hooks. He couldn't help sneering: "You're right, I'll get out."

"What kind of crazy are you? Is it necessary?" Fang Ruogu grabbed his wrist and stopped him from rushing out.

Xi Qingxi turned around and flung Fang Ruogu away, then grabbed him by the hem of his clothes, and pressed him against the wall aggressively, unable to move. Due to the violent movements, the crescent-shaped scar hidden under the forehead was unreservedly exposed to Fang Ruogu. before.

Fang Ruogu had never observed Xi Qingxi so closely before, his eyes were bloodshot, and his entire eye sockets were red.The warm breath shuttled back and forth from his slightly parted thin lips, rushing and heavy.

The two looked at each other quietly for a minute, Xi Qingxi was suddenly discouraged, he let go of Fang Ruogu, inserted his fingers into his hair in boredom, and sat down slumped.

"Sorry, I want to be alone for a while."

Fang Ruogu looked at him worriedly, and after standing there for a long time, he resigned himself to his fate and exited the room, closing the door by the way.

Xi Qingxi wiped her face, and staggered out of the drawer of the wardrobe to find the lithium carbonate sustained-release tablets.His hands trembled uncontrollably, and he almost shook out the pill. After swallowing the pill for a few minutes, his mood stabilized a little.

The screen of the mobile phone placed by the bed blinked for an unknown amount of time, and the caller ID was Director Chen.

"Mr. Xi, next Saturday our film crew will wrap up the production banquet, would you like to do me a favor and have a light meal?"

"Okay, send me the address when the time comes." Xi Qingxi hung up the phone after finishing speaking, without giving the other party a chance to say a word, he put his hands on his eyelids, feeling the darkness of nothingness.

That's the end of the role-playing game, he's tired of it.