Feed the dog, argue, and date at 8.

Probably because of his injury, Chi Xiaochi is dreaming again.

In the dream, he and Lou Ying were feeding the dogs on the east corner of the silo.

In the late afternoon of July, the sun's vigorous heat baked one's back with numbness and itchiness. Chi Xiaochi sipped on a half-salt-water lollipop in her mouth, holding Lou Ying's bowl of beef strips that she had made for lunch and tossed with hot rice, which had a fragrant aroma.

The yellow dog loves this big meal and eats it hot and savory.

Chi Xiaochi took the opportunity to call it, "Dog meat."

Dogmeat gave a busy owl.

Chi Xiaochi turned to Lou Ying and said, "Look, he's happy I call him dog meat."

Lou Ying looked rather helplessly at the half-grown teenager, "It's because you feed it. You call it Buried Buried, and it also ......"

As if he heard heard someone calling his name, Dogmeat barked smoothly, "Ow."

Chi Xiaochi: "Wow, so heartless. No more food."

He makes a move to snatch the bowl away, and Dogmeat, sensing something is amiss, sticks his face in the bowl and chomps on it.

Chi Xiaochi was just playing with him, lifting the bowl and tilting it towards him so that the blind dog could eat more easily and smoothly.

He maintained this posture, narrowing his eyes and smiling at Lou Ying.

But behind Lou Ying, a taller figure unexpectedly appeared, almost swallowing Lou Ying whole.

The man's face wasn't very visible due to the backlight, but his tone was rather gentle, "Xiaochi, feeding the dog again."

Chi Xiaochi stood up holding the bowl and glanced at Lou Ying extremely fast , as if she had done something wrong, "...... Mr. Zhu."

The man he called Mr. Zhu was about forty or fifty years old, tall, elegant in appearance, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, carrying some cheap daily necessities in his hand.

He was unusually gentle with Chi Xiaochi: "What time do you want to come this afternoon? The usual time?"

Chi Xiaochi tried to be as concise as possible, "Well, three points."

Mr. Chu said, "Don't forget to bring your math book from the second year of junior high. We're talking about functions today."

Chi Xiaochi: "Uh-huh."

After Mr. Zhu left, Lou Ying stared at his back for a long time with a slight frown on her brow.

Chi Xiaochi was so nervous that his fingers itched, rubbing the back of his hand against the seam of his shorts, he simply didn't look at Lou Ying and squatted down, holding the bowl up to continue feeding the dog meat.

After a long while, he finally heard Lou Ying's voice: "Are you tutoring with him now?"

Chi Xiaochi gave a muffled "ah".

Lou Ying looks at his nervous little face and reaches out to rub his hair.

After waiting for another half a day and realizing that Lou Ying really didn't seem to have any intention of digging deeper, Chi Xiaochi, on the contrary, became a bit unable to sit still: "...... Why don't you ask ah."

Lou Ying: "Ask what?"

"It's my parents who made me Mr. Chu's house for tutoring. ...... They won t let me find you." Chi Xiaochi was really so vain that her toes tapped on the baked yellow mud land.

He was just about to say, It's okay, I won't listen to them, when Lou Ying cut him off.

"I know, is it because of the tape recorder thing the other day?" Lou Ying curled her mouth, "If it was that incident, it was indeed something I did wrong."

Chi Xiaochi put down the bowl with a clang.

The dog stopped chewing in fear and his glassy eyes rolled blankly, unable to see what was happening to his two food masters, only wagging his bald tail in place and realizing that the bowl was not being served before following the aroma and carefully continuing to lick the grains of rice at the bottom of the bowl with the flavor of beef.

Lou Ying looked at Chi Xiaochi, who was playing with his temper, and only felt amused and soft-hearted.

He had always treated the boy like a brother.

He said, "Feed it well, don't scare Buried."

Chi Xiaochi is not happy: "No more feeding."

Without waiting for Lou Ying to say anything else, Chi Xiaochi became agitated, "...... Who are they?"

The other day, something happened to Lou Ying.

He has a good relationship with Mr. Huang, the owner of a nearby junkyard, who will take some electronic products for Lou Ying to repair when he collects the junk. The TV in Mr. Huang's house and the red-and-white machine that his son plays are all second-hand goods that Lou Ying has repaired. Of course, he doesn't let Lou Ying fix them for free, but once he has something he doesn't need, he will give it to Lou Ying.

Boss Huang opened a small store selling second-hand electrical appliances, which are repaired by Lou Ying's hands, semiconductors, game consoles, hair dryers, fans, heaters, speakers, MP3s, etc., and the things needed for repair are all provided by Boss Huang, and the money earned is split 30/70 between the two of them.

Lou Ying is a hobby mechanic, in order to practice, and secondly, there is also selfishness. As he was living under a roof, he had to have some financial resources of his own, so as to minimize the trouble he caused to his sister-in-law's family.

He had always been modest in his spending, and with the wages from his part-time jobs at the pet store and hardware store, as well as the various side businesses he had developed privately, the accumulation of assets on his books surpassed even some of the middle-aged people in the silo.

It's because of his own petty cash that he's able to take Chi Xiaochi out more often so he can eat two cones at a time.

However, half a month ago, Lou Ying casually placed a newly repaired semiconductor on the window sill, but attracted the attention of Auntie Chu, who also lives in the same silo.

...... That was the semiconductor she threw away a month ago.

I don't know whether she had forgotten that she had thrown things away, or whether she resented Lou Ying for making money from the things she had thrown away, and she declared to the public that Lou Ying looked good, but she would steal things from other people's houses and sell them for money.

Of course, she also said thoughtfully that Lou Ying, who lost his father and mother when he was young and had no family to teach him, loved to take other people's things, which was quite normal.

Rumors spread and caused a lot of trouble for Lou Ying.

Lou Ying's sister-in-law is always busy with the family's livelihood, and Lou Ying is not a troublemaker, so she is always relieved to see her nephew.

The side effect of "peace of mind", however, is a lack of understanding.

After a fight with her husband, she went to Lou Ying and asked him to find and throw out all the things he had "made up" and not to take other people's things in the future.

Lou Ying only returned the semiconductors, without apologizing, along with a receipt from Mr. Wong, proving that they were scrap from the scrapyard.

He had always had a gentle personality and had no intention of making a fool of Auntie Chu in public, but only used the receipt to imply that she had discarded it herself and asked her to be careful with her wording.

Auntie Chu, however, was enraged by this, and the gossip about Lou Ying spread even more vigorously.

With only three floors in the silo, rumors could go up and down in half a day, and the rumors of Lou Ying's stealing were getting more and more outrageous, and Chi Xiaochi's parents heard about it and asked Chi Xiaochi at the dinner table to stop playing with the person who was stealing, and to stop playing with the person who was stealing, and that no matter how good one's grades were in school, his morals were corrupt, and he couldn't be saved.

Chi Xiaochi, who heard the rumors, was so angry that he threw away his chopsticks and almost rolled up his sleeves and hit the door of the Chu family.

As it happened, Lou Ying went to look for Chi Xiaochi with the textbooks he had left at his home and intercepted him halfway.

After asking him where he was going, Lou Ying put his arm around Chi Xiaochi's waist, lifted him onto his shoulder, and flew up to the top floor.

After putting him down, Lou Ying advised him, "Don't make a scene. After all, it's just a semiconductor."

Chi Xiaochi was so angry that she pushed his shoulder, "No. I'll go to her! I'll find her! It's not over!"

Lou Ying again to hold him back, see really can not control, can only be embraced in the arms, jacking the back of the neck and coaxed gently: "Well, well, not angry, you see I'm not angry."

Chi Xiaochi was so angry that she had tears in her eyes, "No way!"

Seeing that the little crybaby with the shallow eye sockets was about to burst into tears, Lou Ying pulled him down to sit on the edge of the building, unwrapped a packet of Jumpers, poured it into her hand, and brought the pink crumbs of candy to his mouth.

An exasperated and crying Chi Xiaochi opens her mouth and lets him pour the candy into her mouth.

Lou Ying's palms were lightly scented with the lemony fragrance of hand soap and the sweet scent of candies, which made Chi Xiaochi want to lick them, but refrained from doing so.

Candy crumbs exploded in the warmth of his mouth, crackling and numbing his cheeks, and Chi Xiaochi could only keep his mouth shut. Just in the time it took for him to quiet down, Lou Ying calmly said, "No need to get too worked up with them. We won't stay here later."

With tears in her eyes Chi Xiaochi turned her head to look at him, "'We'?"

Lou Ying didn't know why he had subconsciously bound Chi Xiaochi to himself, but after he thought about it, it didn't seem wrong.

He folded the edges of the remaining half of the bag of jumping jacks and stuffed it into Chi Xiaochi's pocket, "Well, we."

Chi Xiaochi is reluctantly convinced, but his parents are already strict, forbidding Chi Xiaochi to go back to Lou Ying and enlisting the help of Zhu Shoucheng, a middle school teacher who lives next door to the Chi family, to help him with his homework this summer.

Chi Xiaochi never told Lou Ying about the incident for fear that he would think too much about it.

At the same time, he had that little hidden expectation.

He was intrigued by Lou Ying's proposal for "us". He wants to catch up with Lou Ying and go to Lou Ying's high school, so that he can be closer to "us".

But Lou Ying still looked at Chi Xiaochi with the eyes of a child, "I was wrong about that."

"There's a ......" a fart that cried out when Chi Xiaochi saw Lou Ying's eyes, and her mouth and heart softened together, "... . you're not wrong."

Lou Ying, however, said unexpectedly, "You can actually come to me less often in the future, and don't clash with mom and dad head on. You have one more year to go to high school, there is no need to have conflicts with your family ......"

Chi Xiaochi's face turned red with anger, took away the bowl, which had been licked clean by the dog, and raised his feet to leave.

Lou Ying: "Hey, Xiaochi ......"

Chi Xiaochi walked to the entrance of the building and shouted back, "Dead! Can't find you anymore!"

Lou Ying's gentle and helpless voice sounded behind her, "...... come back."

Chi Xiaochi's heart thumped angrily, originally wanted to go away with a bang, who thought that Lou Ying called out, he softened his heart, but could not pull his face, so he majestically walked back, picked up the little blind dog that was lazily licking its paws, and shoved the bowl back into Lou Ying's hand: "The dog meat belongs to me. The dog food bowl is yours."

Dog meat: ????

Lou Ying took him by the shoulders and patiently explained, "I mean, you don't have to come to me, I'll come to you."

Chi Xiaochi, who had been trying to hold out for a while, was stunned.

Lou Ying asked gently, "Did Mr. Zhu tutor you well."

Chi Xiaochi: "......"

Lou Ying's muzzle remains the same: "How does it compare to me?"

Chi Xiaochi hugged the dog and stiffened, "Much better."

Lou Ying : "So tonight, the two of us will go to the penthouse together for tutoring, and you won't come?"

Chi Xiaochi was nervous and happy, and a little flower had blossomed in her heart, "No more."

Lou Ying smiled and took out a piece of chocolate from his pocket that was half melted by the heat. Because of Chi Xiaochi's teenage body heat, he was afraid that if he gave it to Chi Xiaochi earlier, a good piece of chocolate would be completely warmed up by his body heat, and there would be no way back.

He stuffed the chocolate into his front breast pocket, moving skillfully, as he had done countless times before, "Eight p.m., rooftop rooftop, I'll be waiting for you."

......

The real Chi Xiaochi opened his eyes.

He stared fixedly at the ceiling dipped in blackness, looking slightly dazed.

061 notices that he has woken up, "Xiaochi?"

Chi Xiaochi mumbled, cluelessly, "Has ...... gotten to eight yet?"

"It's only three o'clock." 061 said, "Why don't you get some more sleep."

The tone of 061's speech overlapped with the voice the man in his dream had heard, and Chi Xiaochi, momentarily stunned, subconsciously reached for his front breast pocket, which, while empty, caused a stabbing pain in his chest.

He thought, "I've lost my chocolate.

The frantic heart drummed against the wounded ribs, but it too subsided as the fretting time wore on.

Chi Xiaochi rolled over and hugged the sleeping panther, trying to recapture the feeling of cuddling a dog in his dreams.

061 seemed to feel something and asked him, "What did you dream about?"

"Zhu Shoucheng."

061 was stunned, the name sounded familiar, "Who?"

"You don't recognize it." Chi Xiaochi buried his face in his boss's stomach, rubbing it comfortably, and calmly said, "The first person I took out."

061: "......"

He doesn't remember having a resume in Chi Xiaochi's life.

But he knew it wasn't the time to get to the bottom of it, so he asked, "Wanna see a movie?"

Chi Xiaochi came to life: "Well, look."

One person and one system watched a movie on one display, and halfway through the movie, Panther woke up for a moment, cuddled up to Chi Xiaochi for a couple of sucks, and ambled back to sleep next to him.

After a two-hour movie had completely finished, Chi Xiaochi counted the minutes and got up to wash up briefly.

Just as he was applying the hot towel to his face, there was the sound of hurried footsteps from outside, along with Sun Yan's whispered but anxious "What are you doing, Lieutenant Gu" and a fierce knock on the door.

Chi Xiaochi hitched the towel back up to the towel rack before walking over to the door and pulling the bolt.

Gu Xinzhi was almost planted, but his gaze on Chi Xiaochi was like a wolf's with a horrible green light, which made one's heart numb.

Chi Xiaochi's attitude was gentle, and he said to Sun Yan, "Wait outside for a moment."

Despite his disbelief, the soldier's nature of obeying orders made Sun Yan close the door and stand on guard outside; after all, Gu Xinzhi's mental state seemed very worrisome to him.

After the idlers left, Gu Xinzhi pinched his arm, and his tone was one of extremely suppressed ecstasy and trembling, "Qiuyun, is it really you?"

Chi Xiaochi was instantly cast as Ding Qiuyun.

Or, rather, the identity of Ding Qiuyun, who has been "reborn" and remembers everything that happened in his previous life.

He sat down on the edge of the bed, stroking his bed boss's tail with one hand, and blandly responded to his nervous question, "What do you think?"