Chapter XI

Princess hug

The meal was a great meal.

Ling Xiao drank a lot of wine, and the pink on her fair face showed that she was slightly drunk, but her expression was still clear, and it was obvious that "the amount of alcohol was acceptable" was not a lie.

Both men were drunk and couldn't drive, so they asked the hotel to find a substitute driver and take someone to the parking lot to pick up the car.

Ling Xiao and Shen Qing stood at the gate of the hotel waiting for the bus.

At this time, the night was still a little cold, Shen Qing was only wearing a dress and a thin coat, standing at the door and being blown by the wind, he subconsciously shrank for a moment.

The next moment, a coat that still had body temperature fell on his shoulders - Shen Qing raised his eyes and saw that Ling Xiao beside him had lost his original coat, and was only wearing a black long-sleeved shirt and ankle-length skirt.

Without the white coat, her whole body was completely black at this time, but she did not show the slightest gloom in this night; The cuffs of her shirt were not buttoned, and the sleeves seemed to have been rolled up by her hand, revealing her slender and white forearms—not only not gloomy at all, but she was dressed in black, and she looked like she was ...... in the night

The moon is shining.

It's the exact opposite of dark and gloomy.

She had never seen anyone like it.

After a while, Shen Qing seemed to have finally slowly recovered from his daze. Realizing that she was wearing someone else's coat, she hurriedly wanted to take it off and give it back to her, but as soon as she moved, her shoulder was held down by a hand.

The force from her shoulder wasn't great, and she didn't feel any pain at all, but she didn't know why she couldn't break free all of a sudden.

"Deeper and heavier, put it on, don't catch a cold." Ling Xiao smiled at her and withdrew his hand unhurriedly.

Shen Qing nodded subconsciously for some reason, instinctively wrapped himself in his coat, looked sideways at Ling Xiao, hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask her:

"You...... Do you live with Brother Ye Lin now? ”

"Huh?" Ling Xiao seemed to be a little surprised that she would ask about this, and glanced sideways at her, and saw that the little girl's face was slightly red, and there was an inexplicable entanglement and complexity in her gaze when she looked at her. Ling Xiao tilted his head slightly and thought about it, and couldn't help but laugh low and respond casually, "Hmm." ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the delicate face of the little girl next to me was almost wrinkled into a bun, and her expression was full of distress.

Ling Xiao didn't speak, just smiled and quickly turned his head.

Ye Lin and Shen Zhan soon returned to the door, the two girls got into the car separately, and the four of them said goodbye to each other and went home.

Ye Lin sat in the back seat of the car, slightly turning his head to look at Ling Xiao on the side.

Ling Xiao looked sideways out of the car window, seemingly a little distracted.

"What are you thinking?" Ye Lin asked her in a low voice.

He also drank a lot of wine, and although he wasn't drunk, the alcohol still made him a lot more presumptuous than usual—at least in normal times, he wouldn't ask Ling Xiao such a question.

They never spoke, and always did, not to snoop into each other's private affairs.

Ling Xiao, who had drunk the wine, seemed to be more good-tempered than usual, and he was not angry when he heard the words, but just raised his eyebrows and replied casually without much concern: "I don't know, it's about homesickness." ”

Ye Lin suddenly fell silent.

Ling Xiao didn't care, she held her head and looked out the window absentmindedly, until the car drove into the community and stopped downstairs in Ye Lin's apartment, she turned around and was about to ask Ye Lin to get out of the car, but she was stunned for a moment-

The man next to him was leaning back quietly in his chair with his eyes closed.

――I guess I've been busy with work these days, and I've been drinking again today, so I don't know when I've fallen asleep.

"We're here, you can go back." Ling Xiao nodded at the substitute driver who turned his head to look at him, obviously asking for advice from him, and paid the money again, until he saw him get out of the car and leave, then turned his head sideways and looked at Ye Lin, who was still asleep.

The cyan under his eyes stood out in the warm yellow light of the car, and it was obvious that he had not had an easy time recently.

Ling Xiao leaned forward, followed Ye Lin's usual movements, put out the fire and took it down, then sat back in place, tilted his head, stared at the man who was still asleep, and thought about it for a while, and soon made a decision.

--Pushed the car door, but didn't wake up the man, just got out of the car, stood where he was, and glanced around.

At this time, it was late, the community management was strict, there were no idle people waiting to enter and exit, there was no one around, and the surroundings were quiet.

Ling Xiao stretched his waist and stretched his body, bent down and leaned back into the car, stretched out his hand, and then-

simply hugged Ye Lin out, locked the car door, and strode upstairs with a natural expression.

Ye Lin's recent days have not been easy - or rather, his life has never been easy. He is twenty-three years old this year, and it has only been a year since he graduated, and although his father is only a subsidiary of the Ye family, he is still too young after all, and it is not easy to serve the public.

The nerves are too tense during the day, and at night after drinking and relaxing, I am extremely tired, plus ...... There seemed to be a fragrance of flowers around him, which made him unconsciously settle down, and he fell asleep unconsciously.

In the haze, he felt that the fragrance of flowers he smelled before going to bed seemed to slowly become clearer, no longer the original seeming nothing, but still sweet and quiet, and there seemed to be an ironing warmth around him, which made people feel extraordinarily relaxed......

Ye Lin slowly opened his eyes with some reluctance, and then suddenly met a delicate and familiar eyebrow.

There was a momentary blank in the man's mind.

"Are you awake?" The gaze finally met the pair of phoenix eyes, and the girl's soft voice sounded from the top of her head, as calm as if nothing had happened.

Nothing really happened - how could it be! Ye Lin looked at the little girl's eyebrows that were close at hand, lowered his head and looked at the hand on his waist and the distance that was obviously rising from the ground.

It's good, not only was it hugged by a little girl, but it was also a standard princess hug!

Ye Ershao's whole body froze, and he didn't know whether to say that it was red or black enough to drip ink on his face, and he gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice: "Let me go." ”

In just four words, almost word by word, squeezed out of between the teeth.

Ling Xiao nodded "oh", and didn't say much when he saw that he woke up, just put him down casually, found the key, opened the door and entered the house with a familiar look, looking like he was going to wash and rest.

Ye Lin closed the door, looked at the little girl who was like a person who had nothing to do with a dark face, and after a long time, he could only reach out and touch his nose, shake his head and sigh helplessly - the tip of his nose seemed to be able to smell the reassuring fragrance of flowers just now, as if there was nothing.

……

Although there was one more person in the family, they got along quite happily - of course, if we put aside the occasional episodes that made Ye Lin angry and not laugh or laugh, such as the princess hug that day.

Ling Xiao is smart, hardworking, adaptable, and rarely very knowledgeable - never asking and prying into his private affairs. With such a "roommate", life seems to gradually become interesting and lively, and it is no longer the same day after day as before.

Maybe it's because this kind of getting along is really unexpectedly harmonious, until one Saturday, when Ling Xiao took out a pill at breakfast, Ye Lin was a little stunned for a while, and he couldn't react to what it was.

"The day after tomorrow is the night of the fifteenth full moon," Ling Xiao sat down at the table, flipped his hand, and a black pill had already appeared in his palm, "This is the antidote to this month." ”

Ling Xiao came just after the full moon of the previous month, and now she had been here for almost a month - and soon the full moon night would be again.

Ye Lin paused slightly with a happy look on his face, lowered his head and stared at her white palm steadily.

They got along so naturally that he almost forgot about it all - this kind of life actually started with her threat of poisoning.

"You ......" Ye Lin opened his mouth, as if he wanted to ask something, but when he opened his mouth, he felt that he didn't know what to say, and he was silent for a while, but he still reached out and took the pill from her palm, and swallowed it without hesitation with the hot water that had just been poured in the cup.

The atmosphere of breakfast suddenly took a turn for the worse, and suddenly became a little silent and depressing.

The two of them seemed to be unaware of it, or they both knew it, and they looked down and ate the breakfast in their bowls without saying a word.

After a long time, Ye Lin put down the dishes and chopsticks and said in a low voice: "I want to go home and come back tomorrow night." ”

"Okay." Ling Xiao drank the last mouthful of porridge in the bowl, took a tissue, wiped his mouth delicately, and nodded as usual, "I know." ”

Ye Lin cleaned up the table, washed the dishes and chopsticks, changed his clothes and went out.

Ling Xiao returned to the room, held his pen and was stunned for a while, then found his notebook and read it for a while, and then used his mobile phone to check some information on the Internet, and finally for the first time, he did not read the book as usual, but packed up the wallet key and went out.

In the past few years, housing prices have grown like rockets, and real estate agents have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, opening one after another. It was only a few minutes of walking, and Ling Xiao had already passed by two of them—the girl stopped at the door for a while, and soon headed for the bus stop again.

Ling Xiao is already familiar with the bus now, and got off at the station of Guanchao Street - Guanchao Street is a famous "antique calligraphy and painting street" in Jiangcheng, with both antiques and modern and contemporary calligraphy and paintings, but the slightly remote alleys are lined with shops, large and small galleries and antique shops. The industry of cultural play has always been deep, and if you are lucky, you can get rich overnight if you pick up a leak, and if you are unlucky, you can buy a fake and go bankrupt in an instant.

But people are lucky. Even if only one person out of a hundred people is lucky and ninety-nine people are unlucky, there will always be people who can't help but wonder who they are.

Probably with this mentality, Guanchao Street has always been very lively.

Ling Xiao got out of the car and quickly disappeared into the crowd of people.