On the weekend, Yan Qiu came to the Li family's ancestral house as usual.

Usually only Mr. Li lives here alone. Yan Qiu has been here so many times, but he has never seen Li Zhi's grandmother who likes the yellow eustoma in Coloma 3. Thinking that Mr. Li is already eighty years old, it is estimated that the old lady has passed away.

But this is just his own guess. After all, it is not easy to ask this kind of question, so he can only suppress his doubts.

But although he has never seen Mr. Li's grandmother, he can often see Shen Guxuan's old man.

Holding his frighteningly expensive chessboard made of mahogany inlaid with silver wire and the pair of chess pieces made of Hetian jade, he came to find Mr. Li to play Go.

After getting along for this period of time, Yan Qiu finally knew that Shen Guxuan's boss and Mr. Li had been friends for decades. Although they looked older, they were actually younger than Mr. Li.

No one else is allowed to enter the Li family's ancestral house, so it is deserted all year round.

Only when he and boss Shen Guxuan come, will it be more lively.

Yan Qiu came here today with two dark circles under his eyes.

The task Mr. Li gave him last week was to make him imitate the pair of five generations of wood-carved statues of Bodhisattvas that Christie's auctioned in 2019. He also specially gave him an extremely expensive piece of incense sandalwood for him to carve.

Leaving aside how high the requirements of the engraver are for this piece of wood carving, the price of the piece of wood that Mr. Li gave him is priceless?

Therefore, Yan Qiu carved each knife carefully, for fear of wasting the piece of wood. Because the progress was extremely slow, he had to stay up late almost every night.

In addition, there are still company affairs to be busy during the day, so Yan Qiu has been relying on coffee to survive this week.

After finally finishing carving this standing Bodhisattva, I brought it over to "hand in homework" on weekends.

When he came, Mr. Li was playing chess with Shen Guxuan's boss.

Yan Qiu knew their habits, so he didn't bother, and sat quietly by the side and waited.

They waited until they finished talking, and then said to Mr. Li: "Master, I have already carved the statue of the Bodhisattva you asked me to carve."

"It's so quick, bring it here and let me have a look." Mr. Li had just won a round, and he looked in a good mood, his brows relaxed a lot.

Yan Qiu was afraid of being scolded at first, but he was relieved when he saw this, and quickly handed over the statue of Bodhisattva.

Mr. Li took it, held it in his hand and looked at it carefully for a while, and then talked about the proportion, knife workmanship, layout and other aspects one by one.

Yan Qiu originally thought that his recovery should be okay, but after listening to Mr. Li's words, he realized that he still had so many problems.

Originally, Mr. Li wanted to say a few more words, but seeing that he looked a little discouraged, he hesitated for a moment and didn't continue.

Yan Qiu seems to have such an ability, which always makes people feel unbearable towards him.

Therefore, the boss Shen Guxuan on the side also said: "You have too high demands on Xiaoqiu. I think he is better than you at the beginning if he can achieve this at his age."

Yan Qiu was flattered to hear it, and subconsciously wanted to shake his head.

However, I didn't expect Mr. Li to pick up another black stone and put it on the chessboard, and said unhurriedly, "Don't you take a look and see whose apprentice this is?"

Yan Qiu was taken aback when he heard the words, and looked at Mr. Li.

Then I heard him continue to say: "I won't imitate it this week. Carve a Bodhisattva myself and bring it to me next week. There is a piece of sandalwood in the drawer on the right. Go and get it yourself. Carve it carefully and don't waste it."

Upon hearing this, Yan Qiu immediately replied, "Okay, Master."

When Yan Qiu came out with sandalwood in his hands, it was almost dark.

It's a bit far from the old house, but Mr. Li sent a car to pick him up every week. Usually, the car was already waiting at the door when he went out.

However, what he didn't expect was that when he came out today, the elegant black Bentley was parked outside the door.

The license plate was the string of five eights that was a bit ostentatious, so Yan Qiu instantly realized that it was Mr. Li.

Sure enough, as soon as Chen Ye saw him, he got down from the driver's seat and opened the car door for him respectfully.

The car door opened, and Li Zhi was sitting inside.

Yan Qiu was so busy that he was dizzy during this period, so it seemed that he hadn't seen Mr. Li for some days.

They have experienced so many things together, and there is no strangeness between them when they first met.

So Yan Qiu got into the car immediately and naturally, and asked, "Mr. Li, you...why are you here?"

"Let's take a look around. I heard that you are also here. I just happened to drop by to see you off."

Yan Qiu spent the whole afternoon in Mr. Li's study, and never saw Li Zhi come in.

So maybe just come back and get something.

But when they came back, they didn't even have a basic greeting. It seemed that the relationship between their grandparents and grandchildren was really as bad as in the legend.

"I'm bothering you again." Yan Qiu said shyly.

"No trouble, just drop in."

There are not many common topics between them. Recently, the only thing that can be said to be together seems to be the cooperation of the two, so Yan Qiu changed his mind and took the initiative to report to him about the work.

But he had already stayed up all night, Chen Ye's car was driving too steadily, and the topics they talked about were also boring.

So Yan Qiu said he was sleepy after a while.

But it was not easy to sleep in Li Zhi's car, so he lowered his head immediately when he was sleepy, yawned quietly while Li Zhi was not paying attention, and then raised his head again to continue reporting.

But how could such a small move be concealed.

Li Zhi looked at his sleepy eyes, chuckled lightly, and asked, "Sleepy?"

Yan Qiu wanted to say no, but he yawned when he opened his mouth.

It would be hypocritical to say otherwise, so he was so embarrassed that he could only nod his head along the way, and replied, "A little bit."

"Sleep when you're sleepy." Li Zhi said slowly, "I'll call you when we arrive."

"Okay." Strange to say, the difference in status between them is like a natural barrier, but in front of Li Zhi, Yan Qiu seems to never have to pretend to be reserved, so he immediately followed his heart and fell asleep against the window.

Yan Qiu was probably really sleepy, so he fell asleep quickly, with his arms tightly hugging the wood in his arms, his body turned to the left, and his whole body was almost curled up.

He was already thin, but when he shrinks together, he becomes even smaller, like a bullied bunny.

This is a very insecure position.

Although it was already May, the temperature difference between day and night was still huge. Li Zhi was worried that he would catch a cold, so he took off his coat and put it lightly on him.

Yan Qiu seemed to feel something, his body moved slightly, his slender eyelashes trembled slightly, as if he was about to wake up.

When Li Zhi saw this, he couldn't help but stop the movement of his hands for a moment, but luckily, Yan Qiu didn't wake up, he just pursed his lips a few times, as if he was saying something.

Naturally, Li Zhi didn't hear clearly.

However, just as he was about to turn around after putting on Yan Qiu's clothes, he heard a murmur, "Mr. Li."

Then, the shirt on his body suddenly sank, Li Zhi lowered his eyes, and then saw Yan Qiu's fingers grabbing the hem of his clothes at some point.

Yan Qiu's fingers are beautiful, white and thin, very similar to the jade he played with when he was a child, the joints are slightly white because of the force and bending.

At that moment, Li Zhi couldn't tell what he was feeling. There seemed to be many thoughts flashing through his mind, but when he reached out to grab one, he found it was blank.

He has always been organized, this is a rare loss.

So he even forgot to turn sideways, and just let him drag him all the way.

I don't know how long it took, and finally arrived at the old house of the Fu family. Chen Ye braked to stop, and because of inertia, Yan Qiu slid to the right.

Seeing this, Li Zhi quickly reached out to cover his head, but didn't know whether it was intentional or not, but he didn't put him back to the original place, but took advantage of the situation to let him lean on his shoulder.

Yan Qiu moved his head, but he didn't seem to notice any changes. He found a comfortable position on his shoulders and fell asleep again.

Something seemed to be muttering in his mouth again.

"Sir?" Chen Ye turned his head to remind him.

However, when he saw Li Zhi's eyes, he immediately turned back and looked out of the window.

The car was very quiet, Yan Qiu's head rested on his shoulder, and his breath sprayed on his neck. This was probably the closest moment since they knew each other.

The windows on both sides reflected their silhouettes.

Li Zhi's mind reappeared the sentence he murmured in his sleep just now, "Mr. Li."

For a while, couldn't help but feel a little curious.

So, he looked sideways at Yan Qiu who was sleeping soundly, and asked silently, "What did you dream about?"

"Why did you call me in your sleep?"

"Is your dream about me?"

Naturally no one answered.

There are countless people who have tried to pounce on him for so many years, and there are countless methods.

But none of the unconscious murmurs in his sleep moved his heart.

Li Zhi knew that he had been killed in the end, but he refused to admit it, so while Yan Qiu was asleep, he pushed all responsibility to the past.

"Yan Qiu." Li Zhi lowered his eyes and called him in a low voice, "You crossed the line first."

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