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Gu Chou didn't sleep well last night. After drying his hair and returning to the room, he felt a little restless in his heart, but as to why he was not calm, he couldn't explain why.

In the middle of the night, he fell asleep chaotically, and he didn't know what time he fell asleep. When he opened his eyes again, he was awakened by severe heart palpitations.He propped the bed on his elbows and sat up slowly.Cold sweat dripped down his back, for a moment, Gu Chou could only hear the muffled beating sound of his heart hitting his chest.He scratched his fingers, gathered some strength, and leaned his upper body to pull the bedside table.

The small drawer on the bottom shelf of the bedside table is full of medicines.

In a pile of large and small bottles and jars, there are also many medicine boards covered with aluminum foil.

Gu Qiu judged his own situation based on experience, and took out a small white round bottle from the drawer. After opening it, he poured two bottles into his palm. He frowned and stared at the medicine for a long time before swallowing it raw. go down.

When the lid was screwed on and the medicine was put back, Gu Chou knocked his knuckles against the corner of the cabinet. The strength in Gu Chou's hand was already a little weak. After knocking, his hand loosened, and the medicine bottle fell to the floor, rolling around As they spoke, there was a rustling sound of swaying particles.

Gu Chou's heart rhythm was irregular, his chest was tight and short of breath, and he felt very uncomfortable. Hearing the rustling sound, he even had a headache. He pulled the quilt over his head and covered himself tightly.

It was past six o'clock in the morning, and Xi You had already woken up. When he went to the bathroom and passed under the stairs, he vaguely heard a short sound of something falling from the direction of Gu Chou's room.

But the voice was extremely soft and unreal, as if it was his hallucination.

He stood by the stairs for a while, the surroundings were very quiet, and there was no more sound. Finally, he raised his hand and rubbed his ears with his fingertips, and went into the bathroom to wash up.

When Gu Chou woke up again, it was past ten o'clock in the morning. He grabbed his hair and walked downstairs. When there was still one step left, the door of the second bedroom on the side suddenly opened from the inside.

"I'll go!" Gu Chou was startled, and took a step back, "Scare me!"

He let out a breath of shock: "I'm sorry, I forgot that there are still people in this room."

Xi You looked at him for a while and asked, "Did you sleep well?"

"Where did you see it?"

"You don't look very well."

Gu Chou didn't say anything, and walked towards the kitchen.

Xi You followed and walked in front of him: "I made porridge, would you like some?"

Gu Chou took a step back and looked at Xi You: "You did it?"

"Yeah." Xi You walked into the kitchen, turned on the rice cooker that was kept warm, took out a small bowl from the cupboard, and lowered his head to serve Gu Chou with porridge.

Gu Chou leaned against the door frame of the kitchen and poked his head: "What kind of porridge?"

"Purple potato porridge."

"Was it a waste of time?"

"No fee." Xi You filled a small bowl, found a spoon and put it in, walked out of the kitchen, brought it to the dining room, and put it on the table.

Gu Chou followed him over: "When did you get up? Even the porridge is ready?"

"Hey," he sat down at the dining table, stirred it with a spoon in his hand, and suddenly realized, "I don't think there is such a thing as purple sweet potato in my house? Have you ever gone out?"

Xi You said, "Well, I went to the vegetable market."

Gu Chou had just scooped a spoonful of porridge to his mouth and hadn't eaten yet. Hearing Xi You's answer, the spoon dropped back into the bowl: "Is there a vegetable market near here?"

"kilometer."

"You walked over?"

"Ah."

"..."

"It's morning exercise."

"Why don't you go to the supermarket?" Gu Chou scooped up a spoonful of porridge again, "There's nothing in the supermarket..."

The purple potato porridge entered the mouth, and the thick, sweet but not greasy taste melted between the teeth. Gu Chou raised his eyes in surprise: "Damn it, it's a bit delicious."

Xi You was sure for the ten thousand and one time that the young master in front of him was really otherworldly. He smiled and said, "The supermarket doesn't open until ten o'clock in the morning."

"Is there such a rule?"

"mostly."

"Oh, you usually cook by yourself?"

"Occasionally."

Gu Chou drank the porridge, raised his eyes to look at him, and said with admiration: "It's also very powerful."

Xi You saw that he was drinking sip after sip, his appetite was very good, and his mood became relaxed. He chatted and said: "I see that when you have lunch at school, someone will come to deliver the meal. Is it not delivered on weekends, or only breakfast No delivery? No one came this morning."

"Breakfast is not delivered." Gu Chou said without looking up, "Usually it is too early for school, so there is no need for people to toss back and forth. On weekends, I sleep in from time to time, and it would be a waste to deliver it."

Xi You nodded and concluded, "So the refrigerator is filled with instant food."

"Convenient." The porridge in his mouth tasted so good that Gu Chou couldn't help making up his mind, "Brother Xi."

"Ok?"

"Will you often make breakfast in the future?"

"How often do you do it?"

"Just the weekend."

"As long as there is no night shift, do it."

"I'm a guy."

"How to get in?"

"I can pay for the money and the ingredients."

"Oh, I'm investing in technology, and you're investing in capital?"

"..."

This word is enough to force the king.

Gu Chou followed him and said, "No problem."

Xi You agreed very readily: "Deal."

Taking advantage of the good atmosphere and the harmonious chat, Gu Chou asked casually, "What's the situation with your part-time job now?"

Gu Chou asked a little vaguely, but Xi You understood, and said, "I help out at the barbecue restaurant at night on [-], and I usually take time out once a week to clean the equipment room of the gymnasium and the music classroom of the complex building, and there is also a tutor who is doing it. .”

Gu Chou was tilting the bowl, using a spoon to pick up the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl, when he heard this he raised his head in shock: "Are you sure?"

After asking, he frowned: "Don't you still have work at DOUBLE on Saturday night?"

He met Xi You twice at DOUBLE, both on Saturday night.

Xi You said: "Double's job is to help a senior he knew when he was a tutor to take over as a substitute. He had some trouble at home some time ago, but now he is fine, and the work over there is temporarily over."

"Eliminate this, it's terrible." Gu Chou frowned, "You are now a sophomore in high school, and you still have a year to go to the college entrance examination. The most important thing is to go to school. Your energy allocation is too ridiculous, and it's not like you are short of money. a way to make money."

Gu Qiu stopped eating the porridge, and asked, "If I remember correctly, barbecue restaurants are usually open until two or three o'clock in the morning, so sometimes you don't come to self-study early because you stay up late to do this?"

Xi You gave a faint "hmm".

"I have to do it?" Gu Chou asked, "Is it really so short of money?"

Xi You didn't deny it, he lifted his slightly drooping eyelids and called out, "Master Gu."

The voice was soft and low, like the porridge that Gu Chou was holding in a bowl, it was dense and soft.

Gu Chou was a little dazed by his yelling: "Huh?"

"I'm short of money." Xi You looked into Gu Chou's eyes and said frankly, "I can't stop."

Gu Qiu didn't ask him why he was short of money, but only said: "You can afford it with your youth?"

Without waiting for Xi You to answer, Gu Chou immediately asked, "Are you usually in good health?"

Xi You said, "Not bad."

"A good body is not for squandering and overdrafting." I don't know what he thought of, after a short pause, the irritability between his brows and eyes piled up at a speed visible to the naked eye, "We just use the brain to consume energy for the body. It’s already very big, if you don’t have enough rest time, if you accumulate it over time, who the hell will say which one will come first, the college entrance examination or the sudden death from overwork.”

With an expression of "Fuck, this guy is an idiot" on his face, Gu Chou said words that were not so auspicious, but what he expressed was sincere concern.

Xi worried, and pursed his lower lip.

"Speak up if you have something to say." Gu Chou deliberately urged him to speak out about his difficulties.

Xi You pondered for a moment, then rubbed the very old Seagull watch on the wrist of his left hand with his right hand, and said, "I am in debt. Last year my grandma was seriously ill, and the operation cost a lot of money.

"My mother and my grandmother have always had a bad relationship. She felt that my grandmother was patriarchal and neglected her since she was a child, so she put all the blame on supporting my grandmother and pushed it all to my uncle. My uncle is a rascal. , I am afraid of my wife, I listen to my wife in everything, when I was young, I had trouble dividing the family, and I didn't care about my grandma except for a little money every month.

"Whether my grandma is patriarchal or not, I have no direct experience, and I don't make any comments. I only know that since I was very young, I was placed in the country by my mother most of the time, living with my grandma and grandpa, and they treated me Very good. So when my grandma was sick and my mother and my uncle wanted to give up treatment, I couldn’t sit idly by. I almost forced them to loosen their pockets a little, and I made up half of it myself, and finally let me Grandma received treatment, and it turned out that my insistence was correct, and she is recovering well now.

"I borrowed the money from Lao Xue, and I will pay him back some every month, but I haven't paid much so far."

"Old Xue? Our old class?"

"Well, his wife is in business, and Lao Xue is not short of money."

"Does Lao Xue know that you are working so hard to pay back his money?"

"He knows, he can't control it."

Gu Chou choked on his throat, he couldn't get up, he was silent for a moment, and tentatively said: "Your grandfather..."

Xi You tapped the watch on his wrist with his fingertips: "This is left by my grandfather. He left when I was in the first year of junior high school. When he left, he told me to take good care of my grandmother, saying that my son and daughter are unreliable and should rely on me." This grandson."

Gu Qiu finished the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl, and after swallowing it, he said with a little tastelessness, "It's not easy for you."

"It's passable."

"You and your family..."

Xi You knew what he wanted to ask: "The relationship is not good." But he obviously didn't want to say the reason.

Gu Qiu asked, "Did they give you money when you moved out?"

Xi You didn't want to tell Gu Chou too much about himself.

He is now renting here in Gu Chou, the rent is not high, the environment is superior, no matter it is not far from the school or part-time jobs, and he can save a lot of time on the road, these are the cheap things he picked up from Gu Chou.On the surface, Gu Chou looked cold and hard, but in fact he was hot and soft inside.Xi You felt that there was no need to let Gu Chou know all the smudges and unwillingness that had been attached to his body since birth. The more Gu Chou knew, the softer his heart would be. The easier it is to be watered by the nourishment of sympathy.

Xi You didn't want this.

He hopes that the relationship between him and Gu Chou, no matter how good or bad it is, is at least pure, without any other emotions attached.

So for Gu Chou's question, although he always answered every question, but the answer was superficial, not in-depth, and he didn't go into details.

Xi You walked over and picked up the empty bowl in front of Gu Chou: "Yes."

Gu Chou raised his face and asked him, "Is it enough?"

Xi You walked to the kitchen: "Almost."

Gu Chou is not an idiot either, when asked here, it was obvious that Xi You didn't want to say more, he bit his lower lip and stopped talking.

Until the sound of running water in the kitchen sounded, and the spoon and the bowl collided together to make a crisp sound, Gu Chou still couldn't hold it back. He walked over, leaned against the kitchen door, and said to the handsome figure with his back facing him washing the dishes: " If it's not enough, just say, Master Gu has nothing else, just more money."

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Generally speaking, the pace of this story is quite fast, and the plot you want to watch should not be too long~