After Xu Zhi came out of Wen Shuyao’s hospital, he sent a message to Zhou Mu, telling Zhou Mu that he was on his way home. Zhou Mu quickly replied: Waiting for you.
So Xu Zhi sat in the back seat and said to the driver, “Boss, please hurry up.”
Xu Zhi arrived outside the residential community twenty minutes later. He did not enter immediately but instead called Zhou Mu directly to ask him to come out.
But Zhou Mu’s phone prompts that the call is ongoing.
Xu Zhi turned up his voice to confirm that he was indeed on a call.
Zhou Mu’s mobile phone was only delivered to his home in the afternoon. The new phone should only have his contact information. It seems suspicious that Zhou Mu is on the phone at this time.
Xu Zhi frowned, hung up, and called again.
This time, Zhou Mu answered quickly.
“Just arrived?” Zhou Mu happily asked Xu Zhi on the phone.
“Yes,” Xu Zhi responded and asked unhappily, “Who were you talking to on the phone just now?”
“The operator company called to sell Internet packages.” Zhou Mu must have gone out. Xu Zhi heard the sound of the door being gently closed, “Where are you?”
Xu Zhi felt that he took Zhou Mu too seriously, so he said coldly, “At the gate of the residential community.”
After saying that, he quickly hung up the phone, but he didn’t know why he breathed a sigh of relief.
There is a primary school across the road from the residential community. It is dismissal time, so there are many people.
While waiting for Zhou Mu, Xu Zhi stared boredly at the crowd and found that the owner of the porridge shop, where he often bought food, also went to pick up his children from school.
But the owner didn’t see him.
Xu Zhi thought again that the porridge made by Zhou Mu was much better than the porridge sold in the porridge shop. If Zhou Mu was willing to cook porridge for him all the time, then he would never go to the porridge shop to buy porridge again.
Just as Xu Zhi was thinking about it, Zhou Mu came out.
Zhou Mu quickly stood next to him and asked him: “Where do you want to bring me to eat?”
After coming out of Wen Shuyao’s hospital that day, Xu Zhi took Zhou Mu to buy two sets of clothes, both of which were solid-color basic T-shirts and casual pants.
One of the black T-shirts Zhou Mu is wearing now was bought by Xu Zhi at a store he often buys. Xu Zhi also has the same shirt, but he didn’t wear it today.
“What do you want to eat?” Xu Zhi asked, “Aren’t you asking me to come back quickly and take you out to eat?”
The tone was like coaxing a child who wants a new toy, and the role of the serious and earnest parent was played by Master Xu Zhi.
Zhou Mu laughed and said, “Yes, I want you to take me to dinner.”
Master Xu pursed his lips, and cracks appeared in the parent’s expression.
He tried to flatten the corners of his mouth that were turned up for no apparent reason but failed, so he had to laugh shamelessly.
Xu Zhi usually only moves within a radius of about ten minutes around the community, centered on his home, so he also doesn’t know where to take Zhou Mu to eat.
“Then let’s go buy some vegetables,” Xu Zhi suggested, “You can cook them for me.”
Zhou Mu agreed, asked Xu Zhi in which direction the supermarket was, and walked there with Xu Zhi.
Xu Zhi usually doesn’t like eating very much. He didn’t find out what Zhou Mu liked for the time being, so he had to tell Zhou Mu, “You can buy whatever you want.”
Zhou Mu smiled again and asked Xu Zhi, “Do I have to pay back for the food I eat?”
“No need,” Xu Zhi said with a cold face, “I can still afford to support you.”
“It’s better let me pay,” Zhou Mu walked to the entrance of the supermarket to get a cart and followed Xu Zhi slowly, “What if I pay off the money too quickly and you drive me away?”
Xu Zhi ignored him and continued to walk forward, but he still couldn’t help but say to him, “Your service price is so low. Why do you think you will pay off the money quickly?”
Zhou Mu looked at him frankly and said seriously, “After all, I want to kiss you every day.”
Today’s specials were being played on the large hanging screen in the supermarket. Xu Zhi watched it for a few seconds, took the cart from Zhou Mu, and walked towards the vegetable section.
His heartbeat was very fast, and he needed to stay away from Zhou Mu.
Zhou Mu caught up with him, pushed the car into his hands again, and said seriously, “Think about it now.”
It is now around six o’clock in the evening, the supermarket is crowded, the environment is noisy, and it is not at all discreet.
Xu Zhi thought a little distressedly, why is Zhou Mu so clingy? There must be different occasions for acting coquettishly.
So Master Xu scolded him with a straight face like a conscientious parent, “Bear it.”
They strolled around the vegetable section for a while, and then Xu Zhi walked to the toiletry area. He usually doesn’t visit supermarkets much, and the household cleaning products were stocked up several months ago. Since he’s shopping with someone today, Xu Zhi decided to buy more.
The cart was quickly filled with daily necessities, and the last thing Xu Zhi put in was a bottle of shea-scented shower gel.
When they were pushing the cart to the cashier, they were stopped by a very young girl in the mall.
The girls were wearing fruit-green promotional overalls exclusive to the mall, standing next to the booth of a certain brand of family planning supplies to sell them the ultra-thin, non-sensory condoms that had just been launched.
Xu Zhi was not good at dealing with this situation, so he waved his hands awkwardly and turned his attention to Zhou Mu for help.
Zhou Mu looked at him, as if he had completely received Xu Zhi’s signal. He confidently made a calm gesture toward Xu Zhi and turned his head to look at the promoter.
“What do they smell like?” Zhou Mu asked.
Xu Zhi’s eyes widened.
Girls seem to be asked this question often. She answered smoothly, “Floral, fruity, and mint. I recommend the peach scent. This one is very popular.”
“No, we don’t…” Xu Zhi struggled incoherently.
“Are there any promotions?” Zhou Mu interrupted Xu Zhi and continued to ask.
“Yes,” the girl walked to the back of the platform, took out a box of peach-scented ones and a box of light, pink-flavored rose-scented ones, and showed them, “Limited-time event; buy one, get one free.”
“Zhou Mu.” Xu Zhi tugged at the hem of Zhou Mu’s T-shirt and reminded Zhou Mu that they did not need to buy condoms.
“Ah,” Zhou Mu blinked at Xu Zhi and said innocently, “It’s a limited-time event; buy one, get one free.”
Until they paid at the checkout counter and left the supermarket, Xu Zhi didn’t even realize why he agreed.
On the way back, Zhou Mu still had a very calm expression. Even though he was carrying two large supermarket shopping bags, he still looked very elegant and noble.
Just looking at the appearance, you can’t tell that this person would buy something completely unnecessary just to buy one, get one free.
Xu Zhi, on the other hand, was very frustrated. He hesitated to speak all the way. Until he got home, he finally couldn’t help but ask, “We don’t need it, so why should we buy it?”
“Don’t you need it?” Zhou Mu was taking something out of the shopping bag. He paused after hearing this, “I thought you might need my service one day.”
“I don’t need it!” Xu Zhi started to get angry again. He was so angry that he went back to the bedroom and closed the door without waiting for Zhou Mu.
Zhou Mu didn’t follow, and it sounded like he was busy in the kitchen.
It’s very hot to walk outside in the summer. Xu Zhi turned the air conditioner to the lowest temperature. But even after being blasted by cool air for almost ten minutes, it didn’t get cold. A burning sensation flared up inside him, and his heart was on fire.
He couldn’t understand why it was so hot this summer.
After a while, Zhou Mu knocked on the door and came in, asking Xu Zhi, “Where is the knife at home? I searched for a long time and couldn’t find it.”
It is unknown if it’s because he rarely feels the care from his family, but he likes it when Zhou Mu calls this house his home.
Xu Zhi stopped arguing with Zhou Mu. He stood up and walked towards the kitchen: “I locked it in the drawer that day.”
Xu Zhi walked to the kitchen, opened the drawer, took out a few kitchen knives inside and placed them on the knife holder, and asked Zhou Mu, “Which one do you want to use?”
“Vegetable knife,” Zhou Mu said, and then asked, “Why were the knives locked away?”
Xu Zhi took the vegetable knife and handed it to Zhou Mu. He turned around and said, half-jokingly, “I was afraid you might kill someone for money.”
Zhou Mu didn’t laugh. He took the knife and put it on the chopping board. He came closer and asked Xu Zhi, “What about now? Are you still afraid?”
“Afraid,” Xu Zhi smiled wickedly, “But it doesn’t matter; you won’t kill me; you can’t live without me.”
His tone was very confident, but his fingers were secretly fidgeting downward, feeling nervous about his own statement. After all, it seems like there has never been anyone who couldn’t do without him.
Zhou Mu didn’t make him nervous for long.
“Yes,” Zhou Mu raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, “Xu Zhi, I can’t live without you.”
Xu Zhi opened his mouth but didn’t know what to say, so he could only look at Zhou Mu without saying a word.
Before Xu Zhi came to the kitchen, Zhou Mu cooked a pot of porridge. It was already making a gurgling sound. Zhou Mu glanced sideways and reached out to turn down the heat.
Then he looked down at Xu Zhi.
His eyes are very dark but very clear, and Xu Zhi absentmindedly thought that if Zhou Mu falls in love with someone, these should be a pair of eyes that can conceal a lot of love words.
“Ah,” Zhou Mu suddenly took a step closer to Xu Zhi, their bodies almost touching each other, “I remembered something.”
Xu Zhi was squeezed to the kitchen counter and leaned back. He subconsciously put his arm around Zhou Mu’s shoulders.
Zhou Mu’s dark eyes were half covered by his drooping eyelashes, making it hard to tell where he was looking.
Xu Zhi stuck out the tip of his tongue, licked his lower lip, and asked stammeringly, “What’s the matter?”
Zhou Mu lowered his head and blocked Xu Zhi’s mouth, which was very good at finding trouble.
He paid off a very deep debt of one yuan.
It wasn’t until Xu Zhi pushed him gently because of difficulty breathing that he separated slightly.
“I just remembered,” Zhou Mu said against the corner of Xu Zhi’s mouth, “I have been holding back the kiss I didn’t receive in the supermarket until now.”
Doc4: On July 14th, Zhou Mu made this summer hotter.
The author has something to say: The plot has been progressing slowly these days, so I can accumulate a bit to use later. (I originally wanted to use an emoticon, but I can’t find one. By the way, I’ve lost 1.4 kilograms, hahaha).
