White Swan

Chapter 31

In the early morning, Qiao Fei was awakened by the sound of rain hitting the window outside.

The mattress under him, the light white curtains, and the crystal lamp above his head were not familiar. He opened his eyes and looked at the gray ceiling of Shi Xubai's bedroom, but he didn't realize where he was.

With a little hangover groggy in her head, Qiao Fei slowly sat up on the bed, holding her head and trying to recall what happened last night.He only vaguely remembered that his head was very dizzy, and he felt like he was spinning after watching for a long time, but there was a person who kept hugging him, comforting him, and even told him a story.

He seemed to remember that Shi Xubai was hugging him, but it seemed that He Haoyun was also there, the devil wanted to snatch his white sun and the little stone, but failed.

The pajamas on her body were also very strange, Qiao Fei looked down, the sleeves and trouser legs were too long, several sizes larger than the size he was wearing.Qiao Fei suddenly realized that he couldn't have put on the clothes by himself, his face was blushing, and he was clutching the fabric of the collar tightly, as if afraid of being looked at by someone.

For a moment, Qiao Fei couldn't help but glanced at the hiding place in the room, wondering if it was possible to get in and never come out again.

He searched around the bedroom, but couldn't find his clothes, so he had to give up.There was no movement outside, Qiao Fei lay on the door and listened for a while, hesitating if it was possible to escape if she just ran out.

Probably not, he was still wearing pajamas, so he could easily be regarded as a lunatic.

Qiao Fei walked around the room twice, and opened the door slowly until she couldn't stay any longer.

As soon as he looked up, he saw Shi Xubai sitting at the dining table, writing something with a notebook.

Shi Xubai looked up when he heard the sound of the door opening, and smiled when he saw Qiao Fei.He walked around the table to Qiao Fei and kissed him on the forehead.

"The floor is cold, why are you barefoot?"

Qiao Fei's mind went blank, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He lowered his head and glanced: "I forgot..."

"I can forget it, how old I am, and still so worried, what should I do if I'm freezing?" Shi Xubai sighed, squatted down in front of Qiao Fei, let him hold his shoulders, and lifted his feet up. to his lap and put a pair of socks on him.

"...I can wear it by myself..." It's still in vain, the socks are already on the feet.

"Your feet and your legs are your life, you know? Protect them from now on."

It might be because of Qiao Fei's expression, Shi Xubai smiled and rubbed his head, comforting him: "It's okay, I'm used to it."

Qiao Fei took advantage of Shi Xubai's turning around to look around the living room quickly, but he didn't find his clothes, so he looked down at the pajamas on his body and fiddled with a button on his chest.

When he looked up, Shi Xubai was leaning against the dining table and looked at him with a half-smile: "Does my pajamas still fit me?"

Qiao Fei breathed a little faster, and stood in the middle of the room at a loss: "We..."

Before he finished speaking, Shi Xubai interrupted him by knowingly asking: "What are we?"

"That's the one……"

"We slept, is there a problem?"

"No, no problem." Qiao Fei shook her head quickly, but immediately felt that something was wrong, what was he talking about, "It's not... there is a problem... I mean..."

Seeing Qiao Fei's incoherent speech and flushed face, Shi Xubai suppressed a smile, finally let him go, and asked, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"

Qiao Fei relaxed visibly, and said softly, "I'm not hungry."

The ugly duckling drooped its head, and its gray down had lost its luster.

"Here." Shi Xubai pushed a cup of banana honey milkshake in front of Qiao Fei, "I just finished it, sober up."

"For me?" Qiao Fei raised a little interest, walked to the dining table, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Shi Xubai laughed: "If I don't give it to you, who else can I give it to?"

The milkshake is sweet and the consistency is just right, and the combination of banana and honey will not be too sweet.In front of Shi Xubai himself was a cup of freshly ground hand-brewed coffee, exuding a tempting aroma. Qiao Fei smelled the aroma and glanced curiously.

Qiao Fei was drinking her own milkshake, but kept secretly looking at Shi Xubai's cup. He had never smelled such a fragrant coffee, as if passing by a coffee shop.

"Want to drink?" Shi Xubai looked at Qiao Fei's eager eyes with a smile, and asked him.

Qiao Fei was a little embarrassed, and just about to shake her head, Shi Xubai had already poured a glass and handed it to him.

The mug in his hand was at a comfortable temperature, Qiao Fei raised it to his mouth and took a sip.It smells fragrant, but after drinking it, he finds that it is a bit bitter. He never drinks coffee, so he is not used to this unique bitter taste.

"Is it bitter?" Shi Xubai asked him.

"Hmm...not bitter, delicious."

Shi Xubai smiled and shook his head.Little thing, his eyebrows are wrinkled like that, and he still says it's not bitter.

He took some sugar from the cupboard and milk from the refrigerator, stirred it for Qiao Fei, and passed it over.

"Drink less, you shouldn't drink coffee when you're hungover, finish your milkshake before drinking."

Qiao Fei nodded obediently, holding the cup of milkshake in her hand.He thought for a while, finally summoned up his courage, and said, "Yesterday...were you the one who brought me to your house?"

"Yeah." Shi Xubai's expression was a little puzzled, "I have given you medicine for your injury, rest more these two days, and don't exercise strenuously."

The room was a little quiet, Qiao Fei carefully observed Shi Xubai's expression anxiously, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you curious about where my injury came from?"

Shi Xubai was cleaning the coffee making utensils and putting them into the cupboard, when he heard this, he looked up, with a hint of comfort in his smile: "I won't ask you if you don't want to say it."

Qiao Fei lowered her head and whispered again: "Thank you."

Shi Xubai vaguely felt that Qiao Fei's eyes were a little red. He was about to say something, but was interrupted by the ringing of the mobile phone beside him. He glanced at the screen of the mobile phone, frowned slightly, but immediately Smiling at Qiao Fei: "Wait for me, I'll answer the phone."

He walked to the living room window with his mobile phone and kept his voice down as much as possible.But because the apartment was very quiet, Qiao Fei still heard a few words.

"...is treating..."

"I know...doctor..."

"Will be back……"

"After a while... I see, I'll tell you..."

Shi Xubai didn't spend long on the phone, only a few minutes.He hung up the phone and went back to the restaurant, and turned on the phone silently.

Qiao Fei knew it was impolite to ask someone about the content of the phone call, but he was still curious, so he glanced at Shi Xubai from time to time, not realizing that the expression on his face revealed his thoughts completely.

Shi Xubai didn't wait for him to ask, and took the initiative to explain: "It's my uncle."

There was too little information, and Qiao Fei didn't know what to say, so she didn't answer.

"Ask me how I'm doing in the country."

"Oh." Qiao Fei wrote all over her face, "I didn't ask, you told me yourself."

Shi Xubai looked at Qiao Fei, secretly thinking it was funny, the ugly duckling showed something on his face, and said to him, "Ask whatever you want."

Qiao Fei didn't know how to speak, she thought about it, and asked cautiously: "Then will you go?"

"No, I've settled down in China." Shi Xubai smiled and assured him, "You see, I've already bought a house."

"really?"

"What? Do you think I'm annoying?"

Qiao Fei was taken aback, and sincerely apologized to Shi Xubai: "That's not what I meant..."

Shi Xubai smiled and said, "I'm just kidding, don't worry, I won't leave."

Qiao Fei felt relieved a little, but at the same time felt that Shi Xubai was hiding something from him, but he couldn't ask.

He clearly heard Shi Xubai say the word "doctor".

-

When Qiao Fei arrived home, the villa was deserted.

After asking the housekeeper, he found out that He Haoyun hadn't returned all night and was busy with business in the company.Something seems to have happened to the company recently, and He Chijie came to He Haoyun that day because of this.

Qiao Fei doesn't care about He Haoyun's troubles at work, but just faces him happily without fear.He was slightly relieved, went upstairs to take a shower, and put some concealer on the fading bruise on his face.

She didn't notice it when she first entered the room. Qiao Fei took two steps towards the window and saw a gift box wrapped in sky blue wrapping paper on the desk, tied with a bow with a ribbon.

There was a card next to the gift box, and Qiao Fei recognized He Haoyun's scribbled handwriting.

[To compensate you, is it okay for the head office? 】

Just this sentence, nothing else.

He Haoyun always feels that a gift is enough to comfort a canary whose wings have been broken. He is used to filling the wounds cut by sharp knives with cotton wool, and dousing the raging fire with a handful of water.

A proud lion will not bow his head, let alone apologize.

Qiao Fei's ribs were still aching.He originally thought of throwing the box and its contents into the cabinet together with the name tags that He Haoyun gave him that hadn't been cut off, but he was afraid that He Haoyun would ask him if he liked it, so he had no choice but to take it apart uninterestedly. open the box.

I thought it would be some new clothes or new shoes, but it was a box full of exquisite hard candy, grape flavored, placed in the middle of a white velvet cloth.

It is a very expensive brand, considered a luxury in candy.

He Haoyun wants to buy the most expensive everything, even a box of candy.It's great to be rich, Qiao Fei doesn't care about his stinky money.

But at least this time it wasn't flowers.

Don't eat for nothing.Qiao Fei took one, tore open the package and threw it into her mouth, biting the hard candy angrily.

The sugar is very sweet, a bit too sweet, it's too greasy, and it doesn't taste good at all.

Qiao Fei dumped the whole box of candy into the trash can.