Chapter 15 Knowingly and intentionally

Zhu Shan slept extremely uncomfortablely, and in a daze she felt that her earlobe was painfully hit by a hard object.

She reached out and touched it, then took off the small daisy earrings.

I turned over and felt uncomfortable again, so I reached out and unbuckled my underwear.

My head is also dizzy, which is caused by the unwelcome rubbing and grinding of a hangover...

Zhu Shan finally opened her eyes.

Familiar ceiling, familiar cream style chandelier.

It's in her room.

The room was dark, with only some light coming from the window.

Zhu Shan reached under the pillow and felt around, but couldn't find the phone, so she sat up.

The phone was on the bedside table. I picked it up and saw that it was already ten o'clock in the morning.

She was still a little sleepy, so she lay down and planned to continue sleeping, but something didn't feel right.

For example, she habitually puts her cell phone under her pillow.

Afterwards, Zhu Shan remembered the drinking with Ling Yue last night.

Her first reaction was that Ling Yue dragged her back to her room.

Zhu Shan was worried, so she put on her underwear and prepared to go out to investigate the 'scene'.

The lights were not turned on in the living room, but a beam of light came in from the balcony, printing a warm rectangle on the ground.

The mess from last night has been cleaned up, and the whole space doesn't even smell at all.

Zhu Shan picked up the wool blanket on the ground, folded it and put it on the sofa, then breathed a sigh of relief.

It was also at this time that she heard the sound of water in the bathroom.

She speculated that Ling Yue should be taking a bath.

Zhu Shan was no longer sleepy, raised her hand to smell the alcohol on her body, and planned to take a shower.

She went back to the house to get a change of home clothes, and sat on a high stool at the bar to read the news.

After working at a TV station, reading news has become her habit.

After about five or six minutes, Ling Yue came out.

He was only wearing pants, the same pair of gray casual pants from yesterday. He was naked from the waist up, with a new towel he bought at the supermarket yesterday on his head.

Zhu Shan raised her eyes and said, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, you actually have abdominal muscles."

Ling Yue was wiping his hair when he heard the voice and immediately turned his back, tilting his head and said awkwardly, "Can you be a little shy like a girl?"

It looked like he was afraid of being looked at and suffered a loss.

Zhu Shan was amused and joked, "Then why don't you wear clothes?"

"I just woke up and wanted to take a shower. Who knew you, a pervert like you, were waiting outside?"

"..." Zhu Shan was very speechless.

"Yesterday's clothes were too smelly. If I had known you would get up, I would wear them no matter how smelly they were." Ling Yue covered his chest with a towel for wiping his hair, looking funny, "I said, can you stop looking at me? I'm going to go. I stole some clothes from my brother’s house to wear.”

Zhu Shan laughed twice and waved her hands, "Okay, okay, I won't look at you anymore."

Ling Yue then turned sideways and walked carefully from behind Zhu Shan.

Before he passed the bar, there was a crisp "click" of the door opening in the back room.

Zhu Shan had a lot of thoughts for a moment and quickly looked inside.

Ling Xiao seemed to have just woken up, and there was a sleepiness between his eyebrows and eyes, and he looked extremely impatient.

Zhu Shan and Ling Yue were stunned at the same time.

When did he come back?

Ling Xiao's eyes swept over lightly and settled on Ling Yue. His voice was low and hoarse, "Are you a monkey in the zoo?"

? ? ?

Ling Yue was stunned for a moment, then pointed at himself in confusion, "Me?"

Ling Xiao, "The monkeys in the zoo now wear clothes and perform!"

Be quiet for two seconds.

Zhu Shan couldn't help laughing.

Ling Xiao raised his chin and said in disgust, "Go to my room and find something to wear."

Zhu Shan didn't look back and heard the sound of Ling Yue running quickly into the room kicking off her slippers.

She was enjoying herself when Ling Xiao came over.

Ling Xiao sat on the high stool next to Zhu Shan and slowly poured a glass of water.

Zhu Shan pursed her lips and picked up her clothes. Before her toes touched the ground, Ling Xiao suddenly made a sound.

His voice was very calm, "What did you eat last night?"

Like a polite word early in the morning.

Zhu Shan moved her butt back and whispered, "Hot pot."

"Why does it smell like barbecue?"

Does he have a dog nose? Zhu Shan opened her mouth indifferently, "Barbecue for late night snack."

"Drinking?"

"Have some drinks for late night snack."

Ling Xiao raised his head to drink water, and there was no sound for a while.

Zhu Shan was a little confused, turned her head, and met Ling Xiao's eyes unexpectedly.

She grasped the clothes in her arms with her little hands and said calmly, "What's wrong?"

Ling Xiao chuckled, "Drink it at home?"

"No -" Zhu Shan unconsciously clutched her clothes, "I drank at the food stall."

Ling Xiao nodded, there was nothing wrong with his expression, he looked away and said "Oh".

Zhu Shan felt guilty for no reason, but thinking that Ling Yue had eliminated all the evidence, she bit the bullet and added, "We are all so familiar, and we know your taboos, how could you knowingly violate them?"

Ling Xiao raised his eyebrows and replied meaningfully, "Yes."

Maybe because she lied, Zhu Shan felt like running away.

She did the same thing, quickly jumped off the high stool, hugged the clothes and ran to the bathroom.

The shower head was turned on, and the comfortable heat lingered in the bathroom, clearing away the hangover discomfort in my head bit by bit.

With her head clearer, Zhu Shan suddenly felt that the conversation she had just had with Ling Xiao was a bit strange.

But I can't tell what's strange about it.

But then I thought about it, he had always been a weird person.

When he was in school, he would go to black Internet cafes to play games and skip classes to form a basketball team.

Call him a bad student, he will study all night long.

Let's just say he has excellent grades and is a good student. He was even called a parent because of a fight.

He has always been a contradictory being.

After Zhu Shan took a shower, she was about to dry her hair when she heard someone knocking on the bathroom door.

Zhu Shan opened the door and saw Ling Yue, and said directly, "You should go to Ling Xiao's bathroom first."

"No." Ling Yue sneaked into the bathroom, closed the door, and whispered, "I'm here to check your confession."

"What?"

"If my brother asks what we had for dinner last night, just say grilled fish."

? ? ?

Zhu Shan was wrapping her hair in a towel. She paused with her little hands and immediately noticed the clue, "You didn't say it already, right?"

Before he could answer, Zhu Shan's little face wrinkled up, and the next second she slapped Ling Yue on the shoulder with her Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, "I already told you about the hot pot we had."

Ling Yue was beaten and retreated, but he had no way to retreat because of the wall behind him. He raised his hand to stop, "Now is not the time for internal strife."

Zhu Shan stop.

This makes sense.

The two of them analyzed it for a while and felt that since things were already like this, they might as well just say they drank some wine and forget about it.

Anyway, the point is that you don’t have barbecue and drinks at home.

Zhu Shan raised her head and sighed, with a faint tone, "Why does Ling Xiao have such a strange mysophobia about his own space?"

"You said it was his own space."

Right!

Zhu Shan sighed again, "Just as you said, he refuses to admit it. He has no evidence. After all, the law requires that the suspect be exonerated beyond a reasonable doubt."

"right."

"Fortunately." Zhu Shan patted Ling Yue on the shoulder and said luckily, "Fortunately you packed up that pile of things yesterday."

"Didn't you accept it?" Ling Yue's face was pure confusion.

Time seemed to have been paused suddenly, and the two of them were instantly frozen by a magical force.

A few seconds passed.

Zhu Shan blinked first, "When did I clean up? I'm drunk. At most, I crawl into the room and sleep by myself. How can I clean up?"

"But when I wake up in the morning, the living room is clean!"

The space was silent again for two seconds.

The two asked each other in unison, "When did Ling Xiao (my brother) come back?"

When things develop to this point, the two of them are not fools.

Zhu Shan raised her hand and patted her forehead, and concluded, "Ling Xiao took it."

"is it possible......"

Zhu Shan waved her hand to interrupt Ling Yue, "It's impossible. What he just said was very strange. I can already confirm it."

Zhu Shan thought, Ling Xiao is too stupid.

Is he a pervert?

Why do you like to pretend to be confused and watch others fumble.

Zhu Shan was brainstorming, wondering if there was any way to solve this mess, when she suddenly received a heavy tap on the shoulder.

She raised her head and met Ling Yue's "heroic death" face.

Ling Yue's loyal Botian said, "Don't worry, it's all up to me, I'll take care of it."

Zhu Shan felt a little guilty, but not much. She nodded, "Zhengyi! I will remember this feeling!"

"Blow dry your hair first, don't catch a cold." Ling Yue pointed outside and said solemnly, "I'll go meet my brother."

"good."

After Ling Yue went out, Zhu Shan pulled off the towel on her head, started to dry her hair, and prayed for Ling Yue in her heart.

He is his biological brother, and he is leaving after only three days of vacation. He can't afford to be beaten, right?

He's not a gangster.

The buzzing of the hair dryer was in my ears, my scalp was wrapped in heat, and my thoughts gradually became clearer.

Zhu Shan rolled her eyes, turned off the hair dryer, and placed it on the sink. She ran out of the bathroom without even combing her messy hair.

Ling Xiao sat at the bar with sandwiches on the plate, and he ate slowly.

Zhu Shan's gaze instantly swept across the entire space.

There were really no partitions in this house, leaving her no room for imagination.

But she still asked, "Where is Ling Yue?"

Ling Xiao seemed to have just noticed her. He slowly turned his head and said in a light voice, "Let's go."

gone? ? ?

gone! ! !

Zhu Shan didn't seem to understand, but also didn't believe it, so she asked, "Where did you go?"

Ling Xiao put down the sandwich and took a sip of coffee.

His movements were slow, but Zhu Shan felt that she had been tortured in just ten seconds.

His thin lips moved, "I said there was something going on at the court and I went back to Beidu."

I fucking...

Zhu Shan couldn't help but slap her thigh, "I want to break up with him!"

Ling Xiao just said "hmm" and took a sip of coffee.

He heard Zhu Shan go back to the bathroom, and then the sound of the hair dryer sounded again.

Ling Xiao lowered his head, his smiling face reflected in the coffee cup.

After a while, Zhu Shan came out, her hair draped softly on her shoulders. She lowered her head slightly, her hair covering her round cheeks.

Ling Xiao pointed at the bar, "Come for breakfast, oh no, it should be counted as lunch."

Zhu Shan thought for two seconds and shook her head.

Ling Xiao advised her very gently, "Eat something. What should I do if I'm hungry?"

Zhu Shan raised her head, her face full of confusion, "..."

Ling Xiao stood up and said, "Come to my room after you eat. Let's clean up the desk first."

After saying that, he slowly returned to the room.

Zhu Shan rolled her eyes at his back.

According to what he meant, she would take care of this month's hygiene.

Also comes with a "little brother" who can be driven at will.

It’s not a big deal.

Thinking of this, Zhu Shan still felt a little childish, why she was still playing with things from her childhood.

This kind of rule established since childhood is so familiar that people feel a strange sense of relief despite their discomfort.

Zhu Shan had her lunch and cleaned everything up. Then he stood in front of Ling Xiao's room and took a deep breath, adjusted his facial expression before knocking on the door.

After getting the answer, Zhu Shan pushed the door open and went in.

She only glanced at his room from outside the door on the first night she moved in.

If not for this time, she would never have entered his room.

His room is huge.

To the right of the entrance is a U-shaped top-ceiling wardrobe with an aluminum frame and glass door, and you can see the neatly stored clothes inside.

There was an invisible door next to it, and Zhu Shan concluded that it should be the bathroom.

Inside is a two-meter-wide dark gray bed with a black bedside stool and a thin blanket with a geometric pattern on it.

Next to the window is a simple and elegant desk, next to it is a bookshelf on the top. On the bookshelf is a blue file storage box with small labels on the side.

Ling Xiao was sitting on a black computer chair, typing on his laptop without even raising his eyes.

Zhu Shan walked over and exchanged greetings first, "It's really hard for Attorney Ling to work during the holidays."

"I believe it will be easier with your help."

Zhu Shan almost stopped breathing and asked directly, "What should I do now? Make you coffee?"

"There's no rush." Ling Xiao picked up a blue document storage box and pointed to the label on the side. "The naming formula is the case number, plus the name of the case, the cause of the case, and the court of trial. You summarize these first."

Zhu Shan didn't quite understand. She looked at the label, then picked up the documents on the table, and slowly figured it out.

It wasn’t too difficult. It took half an hour for Zhu Shan to sort out the pile of things, "Do you want to put them on the bookshelf?”

"Um."

After putting the file boxes in order by number, Zhu Shan picked up a strange photocopied photo.

She spun in several directions without understanding what it was.

It's right-angled, with a pointed little horn on it, like a tail.

Seeing that Ling Xiao was busy, Zhu Shan grabbed his cup and walked out.

After walking a few steps, Ling Xiao asked deeply from behind, "What are you going to do?"

Zhu Shan turned around, held up the quilt and said with a sweet smile, "Thank you for your hard work, Counselor Ling. Make a cup of coffee for Counselor Ling."

Ling Xiao's brows relaxed and he nodded with satisfaction, "You're sensible."

Zhu Shan stood in front of the cooking table, feeling depressed. She watched the coffee gradually fill the cup and just wanted to put something in it.

Finally, she added two more spoons of creamer and childishly cursed, "You're so fat."

Putting the coffee on the low table next to the desk, Zhu Shan pretended to be interested in the things on the table. She watched him sip the coffee and frown before turning to the window.

There is a massage chair by the window.

Zhu Shan sat on it, studied the buttons on the control panel, set the mode and intensity, and clicked "Start".

The limbs are stuck in the depression, slowly squeeze, then relax, and tap the acupuncture points from time to time.

Zhu Shan looked out the window happily.

The window faces the atrium of the community. There is a small artificial garden in the center, and there are children playing beside the wooden fence.

so comfortable.