Yuan Zhen

Chapter 26 Painting Exhibition

"Cough cough cough—"

Yuan Xiao got up and left the bedroom, choked to tears by the thick smoke in the living room, and could vaguely see Cheng Duo's busy figure in the kitchen through the smoke.

"Why are you up? My meal isn't ready yet." Cheng Duo frantically fiddled with the smoking kitchen utensils, and it was hard for him to find time to greet him.

The kitchen island was in such a mess that it looked like it had just been in a dogfight.

Yuan Xiao frowned, "Brother, what are you doing?"

He rushed into the kitchen and turned off the stove, turned on the range hood, and dragged Cheng Duo out of the kitchen.

"Ahem—I wanted to cook you a meal, but I didn't expect it to be a technical job." Cheng Duo wiped the oil stains on his hands.

"What kind of enmity do I have with you, you cook for me?" Yuan Xiao couldn't laugh or cry.

"You really have no conscience, my lord." Cheng Duo gave him a brain-breaker.

The two sat facing each other and drank the porridge that Li Ji took out.

Yuan Xiao mechanically poured the porridge into his mouth mouthful, glanced at the person in front of him, and couldn't help thinking about what happened last night.

Although it is not good to recall some too sweet scenes early in the morning, he can't help it. Cheng Duo on the bed is really a bit of a collapsed person, unreasonable and authoritarian, and he is completely different from the handsome guy in front of him who eats porridge with a heartless heart. two people.

Cheng Duo reached out to touch Yuan Xiao's cheeks and ears, and rubbed the tip of his ear, the extremely thin piece of skin now covered with blood, "I'll go to work later, do you want to go back?"

Yuan Xiao nodded.

The boss didn't go back to Yuan's house for a while last night, and to be honest, he was very guilty. If he didn't go back today, Lao Yuan might have something wrong.

"Are you coming back that night?" Cheng Duo asked.

"Take it easy, Mr. Cheng." Yuan Xiao raised an eyebrow.

"I miss you too much," Cheng Duo laughed angrily, and rubbed Yuan Xiao's earlobe vigorously, "I was thinking, if you don't come back at night, I'll go back to my dad's place."

When Uncle Cheng was mentioned, Yuan Xiao couldn't help being a little embarrassed, "Did your father know about our relationship?"

"It's not too early, it happened a while ago." Cheng Duo said calmly.

"Didn't you tell me that he is your father?" Yuan Xiao put the blame on Cheng Duo in a blink of an eye.

"I said, Tangyuan, let's be reasonable. I don't know that you have met my dad. How can I remind you?" Cheng Duo smiled.

"Then...should you remind me that your father and master are also good friends?" Yuan Xiao seized the right to speak.

"I, didn't I tell you?" Cheng Duo asked knowingly, pretending to be stupid, "They have been friends for decades, and I thought I told you."

"Come on, it's your fault anyway." Yuan Xiao said.

"Okay, it's mine." Cheng Duo nodded, he didn't care, it was because Tang Yuan'er was too thin-skinned that he thought it was a big deal.

After Yuan Xiao finished her porridge, she put down the bowl and spoon, and ran out the door. The movement was so fast that Cheng Duo didn't have time to greet him, and he ran out.

After a while, Yuan Xiao entered the room with a gift bag in his hand, put the bag on the table, "here."

"What?" Cheng Duo raised his hand to touch the bag, trying to open it.

"Don't move," Yuan Xiao grabbed Cheng Duo's hand to stop him from moving, "Give it to Uncle Cheng for me when you get home, and say sorry to him by the way, I didn't hide it from him on purpose."

Cheng Duo stared at Yuan Xiao for a while, with a smile in his eyes, he grabbed Yuan Xiao's wrist and dragged him over to hug him, "What do you mean? To please the future father-in-law?"

"Fuck you, why don't you say that I am filial to my future father-in-law?" Yuan Xiao raised her hand, ruffling Cheng Duo's hair that she hadn't had time to manage in revenge.

"It's fine, I don't mind anyway." Cheng Duo put his arms around Yuanxiao and asked him, "What did you get?"

"The decorations I made before were originally intended to be given to Uncle Cheng. It just so happens that you go over and give them to me." Yuan Xiao said.

Cheng Duo remembered the pottery works that were given away as gifts that he found in Yuanxiao's circle of friends before, and he asked Yuanxiao if he would always give something he made when he gave gifts to others.

"Every time I pinch something, I have to think carefully about it. I don't pinch it casually, so the person who can receive the gift I pinch is at least someone I like to see." Yuan Xiao answered seriously.

"Then why haven't I?" Cheng Duo deliberately teased him, and pulled Yuan Xiao's hand to his lips, kissing his fingertips, "Don't you like me?"

Yuan Xiao couldn't stand his teasing, so she squeezed Cheng Duo's mouth into a duck's mouth with her hands, and said through gritted teeth, "Of course I - like - you the most! So you should be more careful about your gift, it's under production, maybe it's Master Yuan is my pinnacle work."

"You're so useless, this is the peak?" Cheng Duo teased him.

"What do you know? It's because I love you so much!" Yuan Xiao freed her hands, and held Cheng Duo's cheeks with both hands, rubbing them back and forth.

When Cheng Duo heard this half-joking confession, he didn't catch it for a moment, and after a few seconds, he laughed again, and Yuan Xiao laughed too.The two laughed together for a while before packing themselves up and setting off to their respective destinations.

Yuan Xiao was surprised when she saw Yuan Tu's car parked in Yuan's garage.

Yuan Tu hadn't been back to Yuan's house since Yuan Xiao was discharged from the hospital last time, so Yuan Xiao also met Yuan Tu in the hospital that time, and never saw him again.

During this period of time, Yuan Tu didn't live in Yuan's house, nor did he go to Lanting, so he didn't know where he lived.

Yuan Xiao was somewhat curious about this, but he didn't care, because Yuan Xiao was still a little bit stuck in his heart about the surveillance video incident last time, and... now he didn't know how to face Yuan Tu.

After he entered the house, he went straight back to his bedroom on the first floor, just to change into a dress with a less open neckline, so as to cover the marks on his neck that Cheng Duo had gnawed on.

Coming out of the bedroom, she saw Aunt Hong anxiously pacing on the stairs on the second floor, Aunt Hong turned around and saw Yuan Xiao, so Yuan Xiao had no choice but to go up the stairs and walk in front of Aunt Hong.

"Aunt Hong, what are you doing here and there? Lao Yuan lost his temper again?" Yuan Xiao asked tentatively.

Aunt Hong sighed, "I don't know either. Your father called Yuan Tu back early in the morning. The two of them have been in the study for almost half an hour. I heard what they said on the phone as if the company had some kind of project. It’s messed up. What do you mean by a project? I’m worried about your dad’s high blood pressure, and I’m afraid he won’t be able to control his emotions.”

Yuan Xiao: "Isn't Yuan Tu in there? He knows how to stabilize Lao Yuan's mood, don't worry."

Yuan Xiao didn't take it too seriously, he fully affirmed Yuan Tu's ability to help the old man feel relieved.He advised Aunt Hong not to worry too much, and the company's affairs would not make Lao Yuan too angry. As long as he didn't contradict Lao Yuan, Lao Yuan's illness would most likely be cured.

Almost half an hour later, Yuan Tu came out of the study and saw Yuan Xiao lying on the sofa on the first floor.He didn't go up to talk to him, but stood at the stairs on the second floor silently looking down at the person on the sofa, recalling the previous conversation with someone in his head.

It wasn't until he heard the sound of Lao Yuan coming out of the study behind him that he looked away, said something to Lao Yuan, and then went downstairs to the door without looking back after returning to the company.

The two were relatively silent as they passed by the sofa.

Yuan Xiao recalled that day, when she ran into Jiang Zhengfeng in the garage by chance, he was still the annoying character, Yuan Xiao didn't want to see him, so he tended to go to him.

"You are really haunting and annoying." Yuan Xiao expressed her disgust for him mercilessly.

Jiang Zhengfeng was probably used to hearing this kind of talk, so he didn't care at all, "Hey, Yuan Xiao, no matter how annoying I am, I won't be as disgusting as Yuan Tu, right?"

Yuan Xiao thought that Jiang Zhengfeng also knew about the surveillance video, "None of your business."

Jiang Zhengfeng shyly grinned and said, "Why is it none of my business? Is the photo I took okay?"

Yuan Xiao turned around to leave, but stopped when she heard Jiang Zhengfeng's words, "What photo?"

"Ah, so you don't know?" His voice was loud, and he excitedly took out his mobile phone and flicked it, "Come on, I still have it, let me show you."

The moment she saw the photo, Yuan Xiao froze in place.

The two people in the photo are him and Yuan Tu.He was lying on the sofa in the living room on the first floor of Yuan's house, sleeping with his eyes closed.Yuan Tu squatted down beside the sofa, very close to him, and Yuan Tu's lips were touching his cheek.

"Is it possible that Yuan Tu likes you?" Cheng Duo's words that day played back in Yuan Xiao's mind.

Jiang Zhengfeng fanned the flames next to him, with a humble face, "Did you see that? I told you that Yuan Tu is not a good guy. He is just a dead gay. He pretends to be aloof all day long. What's the big deal... .”

Yuan Xiao raised his hand and punched Jiang Zhengfeng, causing him to step back and lean against the wall, covering his face with disbelief, "What are you doing? I'm fucking calling you a pervert!"

"What about Yuan Tu, it's not your turn to talk about him, you don't deserve it."

The memory came to an abrupt end here, and the sound of Yuan Tu closing the door brought Yuan Xiao back to reality.

They are in the same space, but the situation of zero communication often happened before.In the past, because of anger and hypocrisy, I was unwilling to talk to the other party.But now, because each has a lot of secrets in their hearts, they don't know what to say anymore.

No silence has ever made him more uncomfortable than now.