Flight of the Bumblebee

Chapter 14 chapter 14

He Qi came in from the bathroom while wiping his hair with a towel. Xing Yan was standing in front of the closet, taking off his T-shirt. Find clean clothes.

The rain had stopped, the setting sun emerged from behind the dispelled dark clouds, and the sky was filled with long-lost fire clouds, dyeing everything red wherever it went.The door was open, and there were still puddles of water on the roof, and a long light and shadow came in from the outside and spread on the wet floor.

After He Qi came in, he sat down on the chair, opened the beer he hadn't drunk before, took a sip, let out a satisfied sigh, put it back on the table, and shifted his gaze to Xing Yan who had been staring at him since just now: " You still don't take a bath? If you don't take a bath, you will catch a cold, there is hot water in it."

Xing Yan hugged the clothes and went out without saying a word.

He Qi drank a few sips of wine, suddenly remembered that the evening meal had not been settled, ran out and said to Xing Yan in the bathroom through the door: "What shall we eat tonight?" It took a long time before I heard the reply inside: "I After buying vegetables, if you want to eat early, you can go downstairs and buy them, whatever you want."

Then there was the sound of splashing water inside.

He Qi decided to go downstairs to buy it, but he didn't want to go out by himself after taking a shower, and was going to send Xing Yan there later.

He brought chairs and a table and sat down facing the sunset.

The cool breeze after the rain gently lingered on him. He sat with his thighs open and his chin resting on the table. He felt an unbelievable coolness on the inside of his thighs, and only then remembered that he didn't seem to be wearing underwear.I don't know where the corners of the blue underwear are pressed at this moment. I'm afraid I will go to work with my buttocks naked tomorrow.But he didn't care too much, at most, the zipper would get caught accidentally when peeing, just pay attention.So who hasn't worn underwear for decades, doesn't he sing well?

He, who is tone deaf and has no five senses, naturally cannot be compared with others.Isn't it just squeezing the subway without wearing underwear?He didn't believe that there would be salty pig hands who would fall in love with a big man like him.It was not awkward at all when he thought about it, he opened his thighs wider, and sang an out-of-key song in his heart: Blow, blow, my pride and indulgence, blow and blow will not destroy my pure garden...

After the sun had completely set, Xing Yan came out of the bathroom, so impatiently waiting, he almost fell asleep lying on the table.Hearing the sound of the door opening, his head bounced off the table, turned his head and asked Xing Yan, "Why did you take a bath for so long? Is there a hot spring inside?"

Xing Yan stopped wiping his hair, looked at him with wide eyes, and said, "It took a little time. Are you waiting for me?"

"I'll wait for you to go out to buy food! I'm about to starve to death!" After speaking, he slumped on the table again and didn't move.

Xing Yan hurriedly hung the towel back in the bathroom, and said to He Qi: "Sorry, I'm going to buy it now! Wait for me, it will be soon!" As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't wait to run downstairs. After a while, He Qi peeked out from the railing Looking out, he saw Xing Yan running out of the building, and he stopped him loudly from above.

"Hey--!"

When Xing Yan heard someone calling him, he subconsciously stopped and raised his neck to look upstairs, and saw He Qi's head.

"You don't have to run so fast, be careful!"

Xing Yan nodded towards him, showed a happy smile, and ran away with a smile.

He Qi withdrew his head from the railing and whispered, "Didn't you tell him not to run away? Why is this man so stupid?"

While waiting for dinner, he turned on the light on the balcony, lit a mosquito coil by his feet, and lay down on the table again, like a salted fish that can’t turn over, exposed to the moonlight just emerging from behind the thin clouds Down.

After the surrounding quieted down, melancholy came back to him again.He Qi closed his eyes and imagined that he was blue under the moonlight, wandering in the river or ocean, with a huge fish tail growing out of his legs, and slapping the white waves on the reef.

He really wanted to get out of here, this huge empty city.

Suddenly a little girl's voice came from below, he tried his best to prop up his body, and leaned down.Niuniu who lives downstairs is playing glass balls on the main road, and the parents don't care about it at night, it's too much!

He Qi felt a scorching righteousness running through his chest, and he was immediately filled with righteous indignation at the pair of irresponsible parents downstairs, and the depression that filled his chest before disappeared.Just when he decided to go downstairs to protect the little girl, he heard Xing Yan's voice.He just came out of the corner, holding two boxes of bento in his hand, how could he forget to tell him that he wanted to eat fried rice.

He poked his head silently, observing the situation below.

Niu Niu was wearing a small floral dress, squatting on the ground, and colorful transparent glass was scattered around her, all of which were her treasures.She didn't mind the skirt corners scattered on the dirty ground, she jumped on the ground, talking to herself.It wasn't until Xing Yan came over that she raised her concentrated head, saw Xing Yan's face, and showed a big smile.

"Would you like to play with me?"

Xing Yan squatted down in front of her, pulled her up from the ground with one hand, pointed at the corner of the dirty skirt, and said softly: "The little flower skirt is dirty, don't you know?"

The little girl's face changed when she heard it, and she pouted her lips angrily, "A Yan, are you going to scold me?"

"I didn't mean to scold you. A girl's skirt must be clean, otherwise it won't look good."

Niu Niu sadly grabbed the corner of the dirty skirt and rubbed it with her hands, making her hands muddy. Xing Yan stopped her in time: "Look at you, your hands are dirty again, you have to wash your hands."

"It's you who said that the little flower skirt is dirty if it's dirty." The little girl's voice was crying, probably about to cry.

"But Niuniu looks good! So it doesn't matter whether the clothes look good or not."

"Really?" The little girl looked at him happily, and said happily, Xing Yan nodded with certainty.

How can it be seen from the above that he has a splitting headache, and if he continues like this, he will be regarded as a pervert by the people around him. This man even shamelessly said such things to the little girl, isn't he afraid that the parents will blow his head off?

Just as he was about to call Xing Yan up, he heard him ask: "Why don't you come home so late, isn't grandma here?"

He Qi closed his mouth and listened quietly.

"Grandma fell asleep watching TV, and I'm waiting for mom and dad to come back."

Hearing this sentence, He Qi's heart almost melted.What a cute little child!Parents who wait on the street late at night, even if they say they hate their parents the most, they still love them in their hearts.Thinking of this, He Qi's eyes are moist.He has always been very resistant to such stories, and he can't control his tear glands just by watching them from a distance.

Xing Yan probably thought so too, He Qi heard his voice soften a lot, and said to the little girl: "Then let's go upstairs and wait, come, I'll take you home."

After speaking, he picked up the little girl from the ground, and walked into the stairs with their dinner in his hand.

He Qi waited for a long time but didn't see him coming up. Just as he was about to go down to find him, a little girl's voice came from the corridor.

"One, one, two, two... three..." He Qi saw the girl named Niuniu holding Xing Yan's hand and jumping up the steps all the way, chanting slogans happily.He couldn't help standing up from the chair, went forward, and said to Xing Yan: "Why did you bring her up? Didn't you want to send her home?"

Xing Yan was a little embarrassed and said: "The TV in the living room is too loud. I knocked on the door for a long time, but no one came. Looking inside from the anti-theft door, Niuniu's grandma was sleeping soundly on the sofa. brought her up."

He Qi leaned into his ear and whispered, "Are you sure you're asleep? No..."

"..." Xing Yan followed his example and whispered in his ear, "No. I saw her snoring."

He Qi said "Oh", the little girl below grabbed Xing Yan's hand and tried to pull the two of them away, with an angry look on her face.He squatted down, looked at her with both eyes, did not speak or blink, just looked at her like this.It didn't take long for Niuniu to pout her mouth angrily, with tears in her eyes, and she still looked back at him reluctantly, determined not to divert her gaze.

He Qi smiled, stretched out his hand and pressed it on her head pretending to be angry, and said, "Why do you scream every time you see me? I'm not a monster."

Niuniu hugged Xing Yan's thigh with tears in her eyes, hid behind, and looked at him with resentful eyes.

He Qi had no choice but to raise his head, and asked Xing Yan for help, dumbfounded: "What should I do? I seem to be hated by her."

Xing Yan turned around, put the lunch box in his hand on the ground, squatted down in front of Niu Niu, and said earnestly to her: "Brother He Qi is a good guy, not a bad guy, so get along well with him."

After hearing his words, the little girl lowered her head as if she had been reprimanded for doing something wrong, rubbed the cloth on her stomach, and said sadly to Xing Yan: "But...but he didn't smile, and he didn't talk to Niuniu. I've talked..." She sniffed, and a bean-sized tear fell down.

He Qi's heart is about to break.He didn't remember that he had done anything to hurt her. If he could—"I would like to apologize." He said, "Can you forgive me? I will greet you well in the future."

Niuniu threw herself into Xing Yan's arms, buried her small face into his neck, and cried out sullenly: "No!" As if the tears just now were an illusion, she was dumbfounded no matter how hard she saw, Xing Yan felt sorry for him. She smiled helplessly and said, "She is like this, she will be fine in a while."

"Speak as if you are her own father!" He Qi was a little angry, and said in a low voice: "Do you know that if a little girl stays with two grown men at night, we will be regarded as suspects of child abduction?"

Xing Yan showed a embarrassed expression, and said to him: "Then what should I do? We can't throw her on the road, but her grandma sleeps so hard..."

Hmph, this family has no sense of responsibility at all!He Qi cursed in his heart.

He stretched out his hand, picked up the lunch box from the ground, went to the table and put it down, turned around and said to the two people who were looking at him, one big and one small, "wait here, her parents will come back later. Sneak her down before they go upstairs, and don't let people find out that she's always hanging out with you."

"Why?" The one big and one small said in unison.

There were faint veins on He Qi's forehead, he held back the mania in his heart, pulled out a "warm" smile with great effort, and replied: "Because they will say you are a pervert, silly boy."

After dinner, He Qi and Xing Yan sat on the table, staring at the city lights in the distance in a daze, and Niuniu sat between them, eating the much cuter food that Xing Yan had just rushed out to buy for her.It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and her parents still hadn't come back, and the grandma at home didn't show any signs of waking up.

"Did he pass away unfortunately?" He Qi looked at the endless stream of lights and asked expressionlessly.

Niu Niu was trying her best to turn herself into a little cat and didn't hear what he was talking about.

"Uh... I just went downstairs to take a look, and I was still breathing." Xing Yan said with a little embarrassment.

"I can still sleep without my granddaughter, and my nerves are too big. It's about time." His eyes had turned into dead fish eyes, and he was staring blankly into the distance.

Xing Yan laughed twice, and replied: "The old lady is getting old."

Niu Niu suddenly jumped off the table and shouted downstairs: "Mom!"

A woman was walking up from the long slope, when she heard the sound, she stopped under the street lamp.He Qi quickly pulled her back from the railing, frantically wiped off the ice cream on her face with the back of his hand, and said to her with a serious expression: "Don't tell your mother that you are with us at night, do you understand?"

Niu Niu was frightened by his appearance, she was stunned and could not speak, the relationship that had been eased was about to return to the original point.At this time Xing Yan came out, touched her head, and said to her: "It's okay, you can say whatever you want after you go back."

After hearing what he said, He Qi said angrily: "Did you make a mistake? Do you know what it means? What if her family misunderstood?" He lowered his voice and said to Xing Yan: "Last time... you were complained Did you know? If it wasn't for later... you might have been caught by the police."

Xing Yan couldn't understand what he said, he replied: "I haven't done anything myself? Why worry about this and that?" After finishing speaking, he picked up Niuniu from the ground, and said to He Qi who was worried: " I handed her over to her mother and came back."

He Qi thought: You still want to hand it over to her mother?Do you want to send it to her personally?Can't you put it at the door and sneak away by yourself?In case the little girl goes back and talks nonsense, and her family is someone who doesn't know what's going on... Just imagining it makes him shudder.

Niuniu obediently lay on Xing Yan's back, stuck out her tongue before going downstairs, and gave him a big grimace when he was stunned.