Chapter 17: Heat up

During the winter solstice, the temperature dropped to a few degrees overnight on Monday. When Zhou Yizhi got up the next day, Aunt He took out a thick cashmere coat and scarf from her closet and hung it in the hallway for her to wear before going to school.
Zhou Yizhi curled up in a daze in the warm bed nostalgic for a while before getting up. After brushing his teeth, when he went downstairs for breakfast, he saw his brother also put on thick clothes.
He was wearing a black coat today, and his skin became paler and colder.
On the gray sky, a layer of hoarfrost condensed outside the French windows.He looked up and watched her come down the stairs. His eyebrows were clear, and he was clearly handsome to a somewhat deserted look, but I don't know if it is because of the soft morning light. It looked like the ice was first melting there.
Zhou Yizhi had a nightmare about his previous life again last night, and his heart was filled with a strong sense of heartache and irreversibility. But when I saw my brother there early in the morning, I felt better. She couldn't help but walked quickly to the boy, raised her head and smiled: "Morning!"
Although the two have been getting along like normal relatives and friends since these days, Xue Xi still feels warm in his heart when they are caught off guard to get a full "morning".
He lowered his eyes to look at her and saw that her smile was full and her eyes flickered, and he subconsciously wanted to raise his hand and rub her head, but he raised his hand halfway and suddenly dropped again, and said to her: "Go eat."
Zhou Yizhi noticed her brother's movements, and was immediately overjoyed. Under her persevering efforts, her brother already wanted to touch her head? Does it mean that my elder brother in his teenage years has begun to think she is cute? !
Isn't this a great progress? !
She immediately held Xue Xisi's half-dangling hand with excitement, and leaned her head over like a rogue: "Then...Brother, rub it if you want, don't bear it."
Xue Xi was taken aback, patted the back of her head lightly, and said: "Hurry up and eat."
"Okay." Zhou Yizhi couldn't control the upward movement of the corners of her mouth. He turned to eat breakfast at the table, and put two mouthfuls of porridge in her mouth. She still stared at Xue Xi: "Don't worry, wait for me."
Xue Xi said: "Don't worry, you eat slowly."
He leaned down to change his shoes and took a step back covertly, letting the hallway block his expression. The young man fastened his shoelaces uncomfortably, and his ears were a little red from the cold wind blowing in from the open door at the entrance.
Zhou Yizhi did not go to Cong You's birthday, and turned it off for a whole day. When it was turned on again, there were many text messages and missed calls in the phone.
Cong You in this life seems to be much more persistent than in the previous life.
Zhou Yizhi analyzed the reason, probably because in the previous life, before his brother beat him, he didn't say those cruel words to him, which made him feel that-it's not that he can't catch up, but that he doesn't want to catch up, and Gao Lingzhi is about to get it. The flowers became dull. But in this life, I looked at him with disgust, but he couldn't stand it anymore.
If you say you like it, in fact, boys at this age don't know how to like it at all. It's just the fierce competition in the bones.
In fact, Cong You did not do anything bad. Although he did not know the severity and hurt himself a little bit in his previous life, from the perspective of Zhou Yizhi after his rebirth, this kind of sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy is a Tiehan, and he is not What an unforgivable person.
If Zhou Yizhi continued to be cold and frosty towards him, he might chase him more vigorously, or even entangle him tightly. Instead of that, it would be better to find an opportunity to talk.
After coming back to life, Zhou Yizhi really didn't want to put his extra energy on people who didn't matter. She looked at a lot of messages in her mobile phone's inbox, and just wanted to resolve the matter as soon as possible.
So after school that day, watching Cong You, who was blocked by herself, sent a text message using someone else's mobile phone, she responded well.
She didn’t lie to Xue Xi either. After the last get out of class, she walked to Xue Xi and told him about it:
I have something to do after school. Brother, go home by yourself. I told Uncle Li. The car is outside the school."
The get out of class bell has already rang, and the boy is standing on his seat, putting the textbooks and homework in his schoolbag, and there are some materials mixed in it. Zhou Yizhi couldn't help but glance at the thick materials that his brother was reading recently. There are a lot of unintelligible terms in the information, she didn't care about it in her previous life, but is it possible that her brother had already begun to study medical content in high school?
Hearing this, Xue Xi paused with his hands in packing his schoolbag. He was about to ask something, but Zhou Yizhi had already explained it by himself very well.
There were still many classmates in the class who didn't leave. She clasped her fingers on her brother's table, leaned forward slightly, and whispered: "Cong You hasn't given up on me these days. I have eaten, so I agreed... …"
Originally wanted to say the second half, but Zhou Yizhi stopped and watched his brother's expression.
Xue Xi lowered his eyes slightly, his dark gaze fell on Zhou Yizhi's face for a while, as if to say something, his thin lips moved.
Zhou Yizhi looked at him expectantly.
Seeing that my brother was silent for a while, he continued to pack up his schoolbag. When he zipped up the schoolbag with his fingers, his finger bones unconsciously exerted some force.
Then he threw the schoolbag on one of his shoulders, nodded to Zhou Yizhi, and said softly: "Don't come back too late. Let Uncle Li wait for you. I'll take the bus back."
Zhou Yizhi:...
this one? ! Brother, that's all you want to say?
Zhou Yizhi's heart was gloomy. The younger brother really didn't know what to do. Hearing that he and Cong You were eating out, wouldn't he be jealous at all? When will he like himself? Zhou Yizhi stood in place with his teeth gritted, trying to recall some clues from the previous life...
Was it the time when I gave myself dysmenorrhea medicine in college? Or was it the time when he buried a snowman in the yard with him unwillingly that winter? After thinking about it, Zhou Yizhi couldn’t remember when his brother started to like him in the last life. If he can remember, just repeat the moment that tempted him, but the problem lies in the last life. She is so indifferent to her brother...
Zhou Yizhi originally planned to say "I'm going to tell Cong You clearly that I don't like him". Suddenly, he couldn't say it to his elder brother --- elder brother still doesn't like himself, and he just treated himself like a younger sister. It doesn't matter if you don't say it. Said it rather deliberately.
This is not a question of whether she can proactively confess to her elder brother, but in the eyes of her elder brother in this life, she is just a sister of a deceased family friend. Although kind, she has no feeling of heart-warming at present.
She understands her brother's personality. Although it seems gentle, she is actually a bit alienated. In the last university, my elder brother often came to find himself, but he refused to see him. My elder brother is so handsome and a top student in the medical school, it is difficult for a girl to be unmoved, so the girl who slept with Zhou Yizhi confessed.
Zhou Yizhi saw with his own eyes how cold his brother, who had always been gentle, was.
It's the same now, if once he pierced his mind and he didn't like himself, it would be embarrassing to stay at Zhou's house in the future.
Zhou Yizhi tried to conceal his depression, and said to his brother: "Okay, I will go home after I have eaten."
Xue Xi looked at her and nodded, but his heart was a little irritable unconsciously.
In the evening, the sky darkened quickly, and the school after school was full of youthful vigor and noisy. Xue Xi walked out of the school gate with his schoolbag. His long legs were always striding, but at this time he was walking a bit slowly. He twisted his eyebrows and glanced toward the restaurant street outside the school.
The monitor of the class saw him walking towards the bus stop, and chased him in three steps and two steps, and asked: "Xue Xi, didn't you go home with Zhou Yi today? Let's drop in, or maybe we should be together. You can talk about the winter games, the basketball team in the class--"
Before he finished speaking, the phone in Xue Xi's trouser pocket vibrated. Xue Xi said "sorry" to the monitor, and took out the phone from his trouser pocket.
He didn't save the sender's number, but he knew who it was by looking at the content.
"Brother! Help! Zhizhiken has dinner with me, do you know what she likes to eat? I have to order some of her favorites! Otherwise, she will have a worse impression of me!-Cong You."
This kid Cong You is familiar with himself. Everyone at the school, including him, regards Xue Xi as Zhou Yizhi’s far-reaching brother. He actually holds the idea of ​​wooing Xue Xi, and asks Xue Xi for more information. Zhou Yizhi's preferences.
Xue Xi frowned and stared at the phone screen.
The monitor inexplicably felt that the people around him were a little depressed. Xue Xi had always treated people kindly, but at this time, a handsome face was expressionless and upset. He suddenly threw the phone back into his trouser pocket without saying a word, and walked towards the street of the hotel with his schoolbag.
The squad leader wanted to say something, but Xue Xi walked very fast, annoyed from his back, and soon disappeared.
Xue Xi didn't go to the bus station, did not go home, but couldn't help but walk towards the street where Zhou Yizhi and Cong You ate.
When he reached the street, he stopped in front of a bookstore.
A young man with long legs and outstanding temperament in school uniform, the bookstore owner couldn't help but greeted him: "Come in and take a look."
"Sorry, I'm waiting, can you let me wait here for a while?" Xue Xi turned around and said.
The bookstore owner hurriedly said: "You are free!" Seeing the boy standing in front of his store for a while, several young girls from the school looked over there. The bookstore owner was overjoyed.
Xue Xi was not talking, threw his schoolbag on a chair, lowered his head and quickly sent text messages.
"Where?"
Cong You replied: "Sichuan Restaurant, I still know that Zhizhi likes spicy food, but I don't know if she has any restrictions, brother, hurry up, we'll order food soon."
At the Sichuan restaurant, Xue Xi frowned and looked at it, and found that there was only one Sichuan restaurant on this street. It should be right there. He couldn't help but walk towards that side, but he stopped after taking two steps. He clenched the phone tightly and returned to the door of the bookstore a little distractedly. He looked down at the gloomy sky outside. He looked down at the phone, making people unable to see his expression, but just dull.
The tall and tall young man stood here, his figure revealing a thick chaotic mood that he couldn't even vent.
How can he interfere with her first love? The position of a brother who is a family friend, the position of a poor man who is left behind? Or the position of a greedy boy who knows that beautiful glass beads are unattainable but still wants to hold them in his hands?
In this life, she has finally refused to reject him. If he showed his dirty possessiveness, would she immediately retreat?
Xue Xi sank.
After a long while, he still sent Cong You over: "She likes spicy, but not too spicy, otherwise her stomach will be uncomfortable. Don’t order coriander, don’t fish, it’s too fishy, ​​and don’t have anything related to almonds. She is allergic."
Xue Xi remembered Zhou Yizhi's dietary taboos by heart. In the previous life, Zhou Yizhi often ate outside because she rejected him, but she herself did not pay attention to taking care of her body, so that she often had stomach pains in college. Xue Xi had to text her friends one by one to make them be careful not to let her touch her food.
After sending this text message, Xue Xi hung down his cell phone, waited in the bookstore, and sat down in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass window where he could see the Sichuan restaurant opposite. He took the book, but his fingers were a little white, and he didn't turn a page.
Cong You didn't wait for Zhou Yizhi to come to his birthday party. He was extremely disappointed. He didn't know what to do anymore. He also apologized. He had been stalked and stalked. Zhou Yizhi just stayed unmoved.
So when Zhou Yizhi replied to the text message, saying that he met after school and said that he was a little flattered. Before school was over, he skipped class and went back to his villa in advance, changed his outfit, and put hair gel on his head. To school.
This time he learned well and didn't brag about it with his friends. He went to the agreed place by himself and prepared the confession in advance.
It was Zhou Yizhi who agreed to meet and the location set was too simple. The Sichuan restaurant was so spicy and uninteresting. Cong You originally planned to take her to a western restaurant and ordered a violin, but she asked her to suggest here. At the nearest school, he had no choice but to agree.
Before Zhou Yizhi came, Cong You rarely felt a little nervous, and while madly texting Zhou Yizhi's brother and Yuan Mei and other Zhou Yizhi's classmates, and inquiring about Zhou Yizhi's preferences, he waited eagerly.
After a while, a girl wearing an off-white coat and a pure black scarf pushed in.
Cong You immediately stood up: "Hey, sit down!"
Zhou Yizhi sat down, waited for him to finish ordering, and then took a few mouthfuls in silence.
Seeing Cong You's order, it was his liking that eight/nine were all his own. Zhou Yizhi raised his eyebrows, a little surprised. She could see that the second generation ancestor actually had some intentions. But who told him his preferences? It can't be told by the butler, right?
Zhou Yizhi looked up at Cong You, Cong You stopped chattering, and smiled at her: "You can see that I am serious, right? The bet is just exposed, OK?"
"Okay." Zhou Yizhidao, but before Cong You was surprised, she said again: "But I don't like you too."
"Why?" Cong You was dumbfounded, tolerated, and asked a little impatiently: "Before you knew the bet, your attitude towards me--"
"I have someone I like." Zhou Yizhi took a sip of the soup calmly. I have to say that the taste of this store is very good.
Cong You breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't believe it at all, only that Zhou Yizhi was trying to trick him. Zhou Yizhi is very indifferent to the boys around him. How could she suddenly have someone she likes? She has such a temperament, it is impossible for her to fanatically chase stars or something. Isn't this coaxing him?
What else did he say, Zhou Yizhi gave him another blow: "So don't send text messages, don't let the people around you come to me, or I will go to the police station to report harassment."
Cong You: "..."
This sentence hurts more than anything, and Cong You was speechless for a while.
He didn't even think about the chopsticks, and watched Zhou Yizhi take a few bites--she didn't seem to have any appetite, so she simply ate a bit and got up and left. Cong You couldn't help but said, "I also tried my best. I know what you like to eat, so I ordered something specially. Don't you eat two more bites?"
Zhou Yizhi was a little strange at first, who Cong You asked, and he found out his eating habits. She also got closer to Yuan Mei in class, but she didn't eat in the cafeteria, and Yuan Mei didn't know what she usually taboos. The butler has seen Cong You several times. Out of concerns about his own body, the butler might have told Cong You.
But Zhou Yizhi had an irritating guess in her heart. She couldn't help but turn her head and asked: "How do you know what I like and what I can't eat?"
Cong You couldn't understand why she said this sentence with anger. He was taken aback and replied: "I asked your brother, he beat me last time, but I apologized privately -"
Before finishing speaking, Zhou Yizhi closed the door and left.
Zhou Yizhi came down from the upper floor of the Sichuan restaurant, and a cold wind greeted her, blowing her hair flying. As she walked towards the car depressedly and tied her hair up, her footsteps were a bit irritable. Her brother was really good. Even if you don't like yourself, you still help others to chase yourself? !
Although he knew that his starting point might be the same as that of a housekeeper, he was afraid that Cong You would take something he shouldn't eat, and he would have a stomachache when he turned around. If this matter was told by the housekeeper to Cong You, Zhou Yizhi would think the housekeeper was very caring, but when he changed to his brother, Zhou Yizhi was very angry.
Ah, he doesn't need to be jealous or jealous, but he still helps others? !
Zhou Yizhi came out angrily from the Sichuan restaurant, and Xue Xi stood up for the first time.
He walked out of the bookstore and saw her safely walking to the car on the corner of the street. Lao Li came down and pulled her back seat. She got in the car, and the car quickly drove away. Xue Xi only breathed lightly.
He stood at the door of the bookstore for another moment, when some light rain suddenly fell from the sky, the young man stood silently for a moment, his figure a little unspeakable annoyance or astringency. After a while, he bought a transparent umbrella and then turned to the bus station.
Half an hour after Zhou Yizhi returned home, the sound of opening the door came from the hallway. It should be his brother who had returned.
Because she was sulking in her heart, she was holding the remote control and constantly changing channels. The sound of the TV was noisy. She didn't even look into it, listening to the movement in the hallway in her ears.
Hearing the sound of the umbrella handle gently leaning against the entrance, Zhou Yizhi couldn't help but quickly turned his head and glanced at him.
The tall boy was dry, but some rain was inevitably splashed on the khaki trouser legs. It seemed that the rain outside suddenly became a bit heavy. There was also a faint hint of moistness in the tips of his hair, his dark hair and dark eyes lifted up and looked towards this side.
Zhou Yizhi hurriedly turned her head back and kept changing channels. She could see her unhappiness just by looking at her messy ponytail.
She pressed the remote control hard and didn't say hello.
"Yizhi, are you in the rain?" Xue Xi asked.
Zhou Yizhi felt angry and ignored it and continued to press the remote control.
Xue Xi stood at the entrance and was stunned. I don't know why she suddenly became angry. Seeing that Cong You was not going well, what happened? When she came out of the Sichuan restaurant, she seemed to be in a bad mood. Could it be that Cong You did something?
Xue Xihu started from his heart, his voice became cold, and he said Shen Shen: "What did Cong You do? You can tell me--"
Zhou Yizhi interrupted him: "Do you really treat you as my own brother?"
Xue Xi froze upon hearing this.
During this period of time, the relationship between the two has indeed eased. She would laugh at him, act like a baby to him, eat and go to school together, and even watch TV together on the sofa. Although he was concealed in his heart, he didn't know when this time would disappear, but he thought that she really regarded him as her relative in this life, and he could also take the initiative to approach her ---
but.
The figure of the young man stood silently in the hallway, and the tall and tall figure cast shadows on the ground under the light of the light. There was a little rain on the tips of his hair, and there was no expression on his face. He just looked at Zhou Yizhi silently.
As soon as Zhou Yizhi said this, she found that she was a little bit open-minded.
She was a little angry and aggrieved. Her elder brother in the previous life obviously liked herself so much, but in this life he helped others to chase herself, as if she didn't care if she liked others at all. He seemed to really treat her as a dear sister, hoping for her well, but he didn't like her.
In fact, he can dislike her, but he can't push her to others like this.
Her nose was sore, she was almost crying, but after she had said this, the young man behind her had not made a sound for a long time, and she was fidgeting again.
The atmosphere stiffened for a while.
Zhou Yizhi was sad and angry, still a little bit like sitting on pins and needles. She forced her face, dropped the remote control without saying a word, and walked upstairs.
After walking a few steps, her mind was messed up.
Nothing happened in the hallway.
Zhou Yizhi couldn't help turning his head and saw that his brother was standing there with his coat still stained with moisture. He raised his eyes and looked at him. There was no angry mood in his dark eyes. He opened his lips as if he wanted to tell himself. Sorry.
He stood there, alone.
Zhou Yizhi's heart was stabbed with needles, and she couldn't restrain her feelings of distress and regret. She turned around, walked downstairs quickly, sniffed, and said "I'm sorry" first, and she said, "Brother, I was too Impulsive, not intentional."
Zhou Yizhi in the last life rarely apologized, and almost never apologized. Her self-willed personality is annoying. Even she herself hates herself, but her brother alone does not hate herself.
So Xue Xi was a little surprised when she heard her apologize first.
Zhou Yizhi looked up at him, half complaining and half discouraged: "I am angry because I don't like Cong You, and you helped him chase me."
Xue Xi looked down at Zhou Yizhi, his eyes widened slightly, his breathing was slightly suffocated, and he seemed a little dazed--he always thought that Zhou Yizhi liked Cong You a little, otherwise, why would he have trouble with himself in his previous life.
Zhou Yizhi looked at his pitch-black and silent eyelashes, and said, "I like it--"