Lin Yuxi was halfway through eating when Zhou Yanjing came back.
Zhou Yanjing's facial features are deep and handsome. Compared to his elder brother Zhou Sheng'an, who is calm and steady, Zhou Yanjing has the dissolute energy of a wealthy and romantic young man.
The temperature today is lower than the previous few days. He wears a black coat outside his gray suit. The deep color tone neutralizes the leisure and casualness, giving him a more mature male charm.
Lin Yuxi didn't expect that he would come back suddenly. After staying for a few seconds, Zhou Yanjing had already walked in, took off his coat and put it on the back of the dining chair.
He glanced at the dishes on the table and raised his lips: "When Mrs. Chen comes back, the level of food is different."
One sentence made Mrs. Chen very happy.
"I thought you wouldn't come back to eat today. My wife has almost finished eating. I'll make two more dishes!"
Lin Yuxi could understand Mrs. Chen's joy very well. She had also had this kind of moment before, when she was so coaxed by Zhou Yanjing that she didn't know what to do.
Mrs. Chen served Zhou Yanjing rice. He didn't say that he had already eaten outside, so he sat down and picked up his chopsticks.
Lin Yuxi looked down at the cat on her lap. It was covered by the dining table and Zhou Yanjing hadn't noticed it yet.
She thought for a moment and decided whether to pick up the cat immediately and send it back to the room, away from Zhou Yanjing's sight; or continue to hide it, as he might not be able to see it and cause trouble.
But she didn't expect that Zhou Yanjing's sharp ears raised his eyes when he heard her snoring voice.
"Sister-in-law Chen's cooking skills are already so good. A tractor can also make dishes."
Lin Yuxi: "..."
Before she could say anything, the calico cat twitched its ears and jumped from her to the dining table. Its eyes looked at Zhou Yanjing curiously and warily.
Zhou Yanjing's smile that was still on his lips a moment ago faded, and his eyebrows narrowed slightly: "Why is this thing still here? I didn't ask you to send her away."
Animals have spirits. The cat can feel people's emotions and flinched back.
"You can eat." Lin Yuxi picked up the cat and went back to the room. Instead of returning to the dining room, she took a book and sat in the living room waiting for him to finish.
Zhou Yanjing felt disappointed. When Mrs. Chen prepared the dishes and brought them out, he had already put down his chopsticks.
"Are you ready to eat now?"
Zhou Yanjing wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "I'm so angry with Mrs. Zhou."
"I didn't mean to make you angry."
It was obvious that he could not come back, but Lin Yuxi died unjustly: "I didn't know you would come back suddenly."
Zhou Yanjing chuckled: "You mean, I shouldn't come back?"
Lin Yuxi didn't want to have such a meaningless argument with him anymore. She was silent for a few seconds and put down the book: "Are you free now?"
"No time." Zhou Yanjing said slowly, "I'm digesting the gas in my stomach."
"..."
Lin Yuxi said: "I have something to talk to you about. You are always busy and have no time. Can we talk now?"
Zhou Yanjing stared at her for a few seconds without meaning, then leaned back on the chair and folded his long legs, with a cold look on his face.
"Say it."
Lin Yuxi looked at Mrs. Chen who was still standing next to her: "Let's go back to the room and talk."
She got up and walked upstairs. Zhou Yanjing sat on a chair and watched her slender back disappear on the spiral staircase.
He took out his cigarette, tapped the end of the cigarette case with his index finger, took out a cigarette, bit it between his lips, and then took out his lighter.
Purple-blue flames flickered, igniting the smoke.
He put the lighter down on the dining table, took a deep breath, took it out with the cigarette between his two fingers, and put his hand on the edge of the table.
Blue-gray smoke swirled upwards, half-obscuring his brows and eyes.
Mrs. Chen couldn't distinguish his expression, and she didn't know why the atmosphere between the two suddenly became tense again, and they stopped eating.
Zhou Yanjing swept the hot dishes on the table: "How do you make eggplant and bamboo shoots?"
Mrs. Chen was stunned and felt a little aggrieved: "Huh? Don't you like to eat? What I cook is what you like to eat."
Zhou Yanjing raised his eyebrows: "When did I say that I love eggplants?"
"I made grandma's stuffed eggplants before, and you praised them for being delicious. There were also pickled bamboo shoots. Didn't you like to eat them in the past?"
Zhou Yanjing had no idea what happened in the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, so he had no memory at all.
"You do it often?"
Mrs. Chen's expression was stern: "Ang..."
"No wonder she's getting thinner every year."
Zhou Yanjing raised his eyes.
He always has a smile on his face, and he has a loose and romantic attitude, which makes people think that he has a good temper and is approachable.
But when you don't smile, that innate aura of keeping away from strangers will be revealed, which is very intimidating.
"She's a picky eater and won't eat eggplant or bamboo shoots. Don't you know?"
"I think you like to eat..."
"How many meals can I come back for a year?"
Zhou Yanjing asked indifferently, but he was faced with a cold and sharp sense of oppression.
Mrs. Chen was a little frightened. She clutched her hands at a loss and her voice became softer: "Then I, then I won't do it in the future?"
Zhou Yanjing didn't answer. He wanted to put out his cigarette, but remembered that there was no ashtray at home.
Most of the cigarette was inserted into the stuffed eggplant.
He didn't answer, got up and went upstairs.
The master bedroom on the second floor is a large suite. When entering, there is a living room. Lin Yuxi is sitting on the grape purple velvet sofa, leaning her head against the headrest and looking blankly.
She sat and waited for a while before she heard footsteps going upstairs.
Zhou Yanjing walked in and lowered his eyes on her.
Lin Yuxi raised her face, and a section of her neck was exposed to the bright light. It was white and slender, like smooth white jade, and complemented the green and clear jadeite buckle perfectly.
Zhou Yanjing still remembered the soft and fragile touch when his palms touched it.
Lin Yuxi was staring at the lamp in a daze, her eyes hurting a little from the light. It took her a few seconds to realize Zhou Yanjing's existence.
She came back to her senses and sat up straight. Zhou Yanjing's eyes had slipped away from her indifferently.
"you……"
Just as Lin Yuxi was about to talk about business, Zhou Yanjing looked past the wooden screen behind her and towards the double bed in the inner room.
"What are you hiding under the quilt?"
"I'm not hiding anything..." Lin Yuxi subconsciously turned her head and took a look inside.
But there was indeed a bulge in the middle of the neatly spread quilt on the bed. It wasn't there when she changed her clothes when she got home. She didn't go in when she got up, so she didn't notice the change at all.
Zhou Yanjing walked over and lifted the quilt. Inside, there were several colorful kittens and cubs, sleeping together.
Lin Yuxi had no idea when the calico cat secretly hid her children under her bed.
I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The door to the room downstairs was locked and could only be opened with a key from the outside. Where did she pick the lock and escape?
Zhou Yanjing immediately frowned, threw away the quilt in his hand, and took two steps back, his expression showing obvious disgust.
Lin Yuxi immediately stood up and went over, fearing that he would throw the cat cub out of the window in anger.
Zhou Yanjing's tone was patient: "Lin Yuxi, even if you don't like me and want to kill me, you still have to use some clever means."
Lin Yuxi was a little speechless. How could the little milk cat kill him? Is it so cute?
"A few kittens can kill you, and you're too fragile."
"Am I fragile?" Zhou Yanjing laughed angrily. Just as he was about to say something, he blurted out a sneeze.
He quickly took two steps back, covering his nose with his hand, but kept sneezing one after another.
Lin Yuxi reacted: "Are you allergic to cat hair?"
Zhou Yanjing sneered: "You just know?"
"You didn't tell me, how would I know." Lin Yuxi felt a little guilty, "Whether you believe it or not, I didn't hide them here."
"You didn't hide it. Could it be that I hid it?"
Lin Yuxi couldn't explain where the female cat escaped from prison. She was so bold and well-planned that she brought her children into the bedroom and hid them under the quilt in an attempt to give Zhou Yanjing a fatal blow.
