Chapter 16 Do you want to come in and sit down?

It's okay to squeeze two people at the low table, but it's a bit reluctant for three people. The table is only full of four dishes, and the rice bowl can only be held in the hand.

Among the four dishes, two were cold dishes that Yan Shanhua bought specially when he went out, roast chicken and beef with sauce; two were home-cooked dishes, cucumber and fish. If I hadn't made a surprise visit, this fried cucumber and braised fish would have been their dinner tonight.

Really shabby.

From the moment I entered this home, there was a shabby feeling everywhere. The chopsticks were stained with strange colors, the bowl for the rice was chipped, and the three pairs of legs under the low table had nowhere to put them, so they could only sit up uncomfortably. The only thing that can be called an advantage is probably "silence".

As night fell, the birds returned to their nests, and this dilapidated residential area lost its last bit of vitality. Except for the sound of chopsticks and dishes, and the sound of the clock walking on the wall, there was no other movement. The streets and alleys outside the house seemed to be asleep, although it was obviously in the city, but the noise that belonged to the city could not be heard at all.

"Little... Mr. Sang, you eat, eat more." Yan Shanhua put a piece of roast chicken in my bowl.

Don't give face at all, will Ji Chenfeng's impression of me get worse?

It took some mental building to finally put that piece of chicken in my mouth. The skin can't be chewed at all, the meat is very woody, and there is a disgusting smell of oil... It's more difficult to swallow than dry swallowing medicine without water.

Chewing hard, looking at Ji Chenfeng, the bowl of white rice that had been piled up like a hill in his hand turned out to be only half a bowl left.

He can grow so tall by eating this kind of food. He must be the kind of person who only eats white rice without vegetables, right? Surprisingly well fed.

"Doctor Ji, I asked my aunt, and she said she didn't tell you my identity. How...how did you know that I lent you the money?" I put down the rice that was barely touched, and my meal was over.

Yan Shanhua looked a little nervously at me and then at Ji Chenfeng, shrank his neck and didn't dare to interrupt.

Ji Chenfeng paused for a moment when he grabbed the rice, and only answered my question after swallowing the food in his mouth.

"saw."

"Did you see it?" I frowned and wanted to keep asking, but Yan Shanhua couldn't help but say, "Where did you see it? What did you see?"

Seeing Ji Chenfeng eating attentively, I glared at Yan Shanhua and motioned her to shut up. The woman was stunned for a moment, but she successfully received my message, pursed her lips, lowered her head and said nothing.

"On the day after the surgery, I saw it as soon as I opened my eyes. I saw him saying that 300,000 yuan doesn't need to be paid back." Ji Chenfeng said here and looked up, "Neither a relative of our family nor a friend of mine, then It can only be the creditor."

After the surgery... wasn't that three years ago? It was revealed so early.

I made a lot of guesses before, and even thought about whether this guy had a lot of heart and mind, and followed Yan Shanhua. Now it seems that I think too much. How could a baby with only food in his head do such a thing.

After eating, Yan Shanhua got up to clean up the dishes and left Ji Chenfeng and I in the small living room.

Ji Chenfeng sat opposite me, he didn't speak, so I looked at him without speaking. The two looked at each other for a moment, then he suddenly propped up on the low table and tried to stand up.

"Drink tea?"

"Don't drink."

He sat back again and fell silent again.

"Are you nervous?" With my elbows on the table, I slowly bullied the other side with my upper body, and I stopped at a somewhat ambiguous distance.

Instead of answering my question for the first time, he first went to the kitchen where the sound of water was constantly heard.

With some intentional elements, I didn't deliberately lower the volume: "Your mother doesn't know yet, you like men..."

His lips were firmly covered by the dry and hot palms, and Ji Chenfeng's normally dull eyes flashed a trace of anxiety.

"Please." Like a request, and like a sigh.

There is a very faint smell of disinfectant between the nose, which should be an unpleasant smell, but for some reason, the brain seems to be stimulated to shudder if smell it too much.

I always feel... Does the body remember the feeling of that night, a little bit of marrow? Now when he is alone with him, the whole person will be inexplicably restless.

Cheap scents, rough palms, the same gender, alone or together, nothing but disgust. But if you add the option "Ji Chenfeng" to the premise, everything will turn into a dizzying aphrodisiac.

Even though I wasn’t wearing tight pants, if I stood up at this moment, I would definitely be found out—I’d put up my tent when I was talking to myself.

Originally I wanted to make fun of him, but it seemed that I was the only one who was embarrassed in the end.

Stepping back, I cleared my throat and said, "Pour me a cup of tea."

Ji Chenfeng seemed to be relieved: "Wait a moment." After saying that, he quickly stood up and walked to the kitchen.

With my legs crossed and my hands propped up behind my back, I looked up at the yellowed ceiling above my head, counting the corpses of bugs in the warm yellow ceiling lamp, discarding distracting thoughts, and waiting for the swelling to subside.

"Chenfeng, come and take a look, it seems that it is blocked again, and the water can't go down..."

"Let me see……"

The kitchen was silent for a moment, and Ji Chenfeng rolled up his sleeves and came out.

"Wait a second."

When passing by me, he hurriedly said something and squatted on the balcony to rummage. After a while, he returned to the kitchen with a roll of steel wire in his hand.

I stood up and followed.

The kitchen area is small and Ji Chenfeng is in it, so Yan Shanhua has to come out.

"Old house, the sewers are too narrow and blocked all day long." Seeing me coming, she took the initiative to step aside and explained to me with a smirk.

I was leaning against the door, and from this angle I could only see Ji Chenfeng's tall and straight back.

The neat shirt was splashed with sewage, the muscles on his arms were tense, and even the naked eye could feel the power contained in it without touching it.

The kitchen was cramped and stuffy, and the pipes might have been blocked badly. In the end, Ji Chenfeng worked for a long time to clear it, and the clothes on his back showed traces of sweat.

After rinsing his hands and re-rolling the utensils leading to the sewer, he looked back at me, stunned, and then glanced down at his clothes.

Seemingly rude, he pleaded, "Can you wait a little longer? I want to take a shower first."

I waited once or twice, and it's not bad to wait a little longer.

"Of course." I stepped out of the way.

Yan Shanhua hurriedly said, "I'll go get you clothes!"

Not wanting to be alone with Yan Shanhua, while Ji Chenfeng was taking a bath, I put on a pair of slippers that looked like Ji Chenfeng and went out to the corridor outside to blow air.

The night wind was cold but not biting, and the whole slum was ups and downs, and it was patchwork. Looking out from a high place, you could see the neon phantom in the distance, and the darkness and silence in the vicinity.

Smoking an electronic cigarette, Yan Shanhua suddenly came out and placed a cup of hot tea on the small table in front of me.

"This is... barley tea, it energizes Qi and won't make you fall asleep."

Is my complexion so bad that I can tell at a glance that I need qi?

Staring at the steaming cup of tea and exhaling a puff of white smoke, I asked, "Did you know he's gay?"

Indeed, Ji Chenfeng asked me, but I did not agree.

"Same..." The smile froze on his lips, Yan Shanhua was unprepared, stared, opened his mouth, and accepted my blow to the sky.

For an old-fashioned rural woman, the most outrageous thing she has ever done in her life is probably to exchange Ji Chenfeng and me. Men like men, she was afraid that she would never appear in her life without breaking her head.

With a little smile, I said maliciously: "Why is this expression, it's not biological, he likes men or women, what does it have to do with you whether he will have children in the future? Are you qualified to control him?"

Yan Shanhua tightly clutched the clothes on his chest, as if he was going to be out of breath anytime, anywhere.

"I...you, how did you know?"

Does it matter if a stolen child is gay? Does she still want to help him start a family and start a business, so that her children and grandchildren will wrap around their knees in the future?

It's really beautiful to think about, and Yan Shanhua's dreams in this world are almost exhausted by himself.

"I know everything about you." Slowly approaching her, I whispered in her ear, "Everything."

Yan Shanhua's body trembled visibly, as if he was afraid.

At this time, there was a sound of the bathroom door being pushed open from the half-opened blue iron door. Ji Chenfeng first took a few steps inside, then turned and walked towards the door.

The iron gate opened slowly, and Ji Chenfeng appeared in front of me and Yan Shanhua in a short-sleeved white T with half-dry hair.

Holding the doorknob, he glanced at the barley tea on the table, and went back into the room again without saying a word.

freak.

I murmured in my heart and stuffed the e-cigarette back into my pocket. I told Yan Shanhua that I was leaving and went inside to change my shoes.

"Are you gone?" Ji Chenfeng's voice sounded from behind.

Putting on his shoes, he looked back, his eyes touched the black instrument on his auricle, and he suddenly realized that he had just returned to the house to wear a cochlear implant, after all, this thing is not waterproof.

"Are you going to stay with me for the night?" I asked him with a smile.

"You won't be used to it, here." Not being fooled by my frivolous attitude, he turned around and took a thin sweater jacket from the coat rack, and said while wearing it, "It's too dark outside, I'll take it off for you."

I did not refuse and went out the door with him.

Yan Shanhua was still standing there. Seeing that I was leaving, he didn't hold back. He just said goodbye with a slightly stiff smile and watched us leave.

It's really dark without street lights, and if you don't turn on the lighting function of your mobile phone, you can't see the stairs at all.

Staggering a distance, Ji Chenfeng walked in front of me, and the hand holding the phone tilted towards me, illuminating a small area on the bottom of my feet. Although the light is weak, it is not completely useless.

"Are you still angry?"

If he was pushed off here, his neck would probably break.

"You came today to confirm this?" Ji Chenfeng asked.

Very far away, the faint barking of dogs could be heard. Besides, the only voices of Ji Chenfeng and I were on the long dark stairs.

"If I don't confirm it, I won't even be able to sleep well." He raised his hand and squeezed the back of his neck, which was particularly dazzling in the dark, and kneaded gently, "Pretend you don't know you, just because you are afraid that you will take me as Benefactor. Doctor Ji, why don't you understand my good intentions?"

As if he could feel the tiny goose bumps occupying the back of his neck, Ji Chenfeng raised his hand and took a few steps to escape my "clutch".

Standing on the steps below, he turned his face slightly, frowning slightly: "Please don't touch me without my consent."

One day, let you cry and beg me to touch you.

"okok." Raising my hand, I surrendered.

The long steps finally came to an end, and when it was almost to the end, Ji Chenfeng suddenly stopped, and then rushed down the stairs with a skilled and fast running attitude, towards my sports car.

"Hey!"

Only then did I see that there were two children about thirteen or fourteen years old next to my car, not sure if they were stealing or scraping the paint.

Hearing Ji Chenfeng's angry shouts, the two children didn't hesitate at all and ran away. Obviously, this was not the first time they had done such a thing.

Ji Chenfeng chased after two steps, looked back at me, and gave up. When I got closer, I found that the ground was covered with broken glass, and the window of the passenger seat was smashed.

Poor little bastard.

Walking to Ji Chenfeng's side in a leisurely manner, the two figures quickly disappeared against the complicated terrain. The sky is so dark and there is no surveillance, so it should be impossible to find it.

Ji Chenfeng checked the broken car window and asked me to confirm whether I had a small amount of money. After saying that, I would call the police.

I hurriedly pressed his hand: "You don't need to call the police for this trivial matter, it's too much trouble. There's no money in the car, how many little brats can be locked up if they are caught?"

Ji Chenfeng didn't seem to agree: "In this way, they will become more and more unscrupulous."

Then be reckless. Do the rats that run wild in the slums still want to break free from their fate and become a noble swan?

Ji Chenfeng has always been a minority. Most of the people who lived here were little villains when they were young, and became big villains when they grew up. Even wearing a suit could not cover up the stench in their bones, and they only deserved to rot in the gutter.

And Ji Chenfeng can become a special case, not a criminal, in addition to genetics, think Yan Shanhua also has a credit.

But why?

Raising him up, feeding him school, caring about his life...why? Guilt?

What about her to me? Have you ever felt guilt?

"What does it feel like to have parents?" Without thinking, it was too late to take it back.

Ji Chenfeng didn't keep up with the rhythm of my changing topic, and tilted his head in confusion: "What?"

In a panic, even with a bit of anger, I quickly said, "It's nothing." I unlocked the car, and I sent him, "Go back, anyway, it's not the glass of the cab that's broken, so it can be opened."

Ji Chenfeng looked at me for a long time, without asking any further questions, he slowly retreated to the side of the road: "Be careful on the road."

He didn't go back right away, as if he planned to wait until I was sure I was safe to leave before going back.

Even if he was born in a quagmire, he is a pure white swan. He stood there as if to tell others that he didn't belong here. He was not born here.

"Doctor Ji..." Holding the door of the car, I hesitated for a while. I raised my head and asked Ji Chenfeng, who was not far away, "Would you like to come in and sit?"