He untied Shi Yun’s bandage, and on his fair arm, a large piece of scabbed over, but still a bit red and swollen wound suddenly appeared.
An Huaixu couldn’t help but slow down his breathing.
He, who had always been used to quick battles, was afraid of hurting someone for the first time.
Shi Yun sat there honestly, his drooping eyes glanced at An Huaixu again and again, seemingly inadvertently.
An Huaixu’s eyelashes are so long…
He shifted his gaze, rubbed the sheets, and turned back again, and couldn’t help but wander down from his eyes, stopping at the man’s skilled fingers.
An Huaixu is so nice…
But—
Thinking of the content he saw on his phone just now, Shi Yun pursed his lips a bit lonely, and couldn’t help but ask:
“Teacher An, are we friends now?”
An Huaixu nodded without hesitation.
Now Shi Yun had a reason to be angry: “Then how can you still say that you are not familiar with me?!”
A trace of confusion flashed in An Huaixu’s eyes: “What?”
Shi Yun didn’t realize that he was questioning him, and randomly buttoned the sheets, like a frosted eggplant, withered and said: “I saw your Wei Tie.”
An Huaixu recalled what he was talking about, and the movement of tearing off the large band-aid stopped, and he vaguely realized that Shi Yun’s tone seemed to be a bit aggrieved.
Shi Yun was still reasoning with him: “Teacher An, you don’t know, I was really sad when I saw it, um…of course, it was a little bit.”
He gestured, pretending to be generous: “But Teacher An, don’t care, familiar or not, I treat you as a friend!”
An Huaixu chuckled twice, put the band-aid on Shi Yun’s wound, and murmured: “I didn’t expect it.”
He dug a big hole for himself.
Shi Yun didn’t hear what he said, and subconsciously leaned forward: “Huh?”
An Huaixu supported his head with one hand on the edge of the bed, and the distance between the two suddenly shortened.
He stared at Shi Yun seriously: “Premature, ripe.”
Shi Yun didn’t recover, and stared at him motionlessly, maintaining this social distance that had exceeded that of a normal friend.
“Teacher An…”
An Huaixu interrupted him: “Why don’t you call me by my name?”
Shi Yun stared blankly: “Huh?”
An Huaixu couldn’t tell what his psychology was now, but he actually moved forward another inch.
He clearly smelled the fragrance of grass on Shi Yun’s body, and the restlessness in his psychology vaguely faded away.
“Aren’t we friends, apart from work, you haven’t called my name.”
Shi Yun ohed, and used to think that An Huaixu was a big star, and had a sense of distance from himself, so he subconsciously called Teacher An or An Yingdi.
Later, when he was familiar with him, he got used to it, and never considered this issue again.
Shi Yun thought that An Huaixu didn’t care about this matter, but he didn’t expect that he would take the initiative to mention it, and a few happy bubbles popped up in his heart.
“Then…” He thought for a moment: “Huaixu Brother.”
An Huaixu’s fingers froze as he was organizing the medicine box, and he asked a little incredulously: “What did you call me?”
Shi Yun first repeated it blankly, then blinked his eyes, and suddenly realized: “I didn’t make you sound old, did I!”
An Huaixu shook his head.
Shi Yun patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief: “That’s good, that’s good.”
He remembered one thing and asked him abruptly: “An… Huaixu Brother, are you injured?”
An Huaixu always stayed slanted since he finished the task, and his eyebrows seemed to be a bit uncomfortable.
“Is it the shoulder?”
An Huaixu just wanted to deny it, but when he looked back at Shi Yun’s worried appearance, he suddenly nodded: “I accidentally bumped into it.”
Shi Yun walked over eagerly: “Where did you bump, let me see!”
An Huaixu didn’t think it was a big deal: “It’s okay.”
Shi Yun rarely grabbed An Huaixu stubbornly, and his tone carried a bit of pleading ending that he hadn’t even noticed:
“Huaixu Brother…”
He frowned and muttered in a low voice: “Why don’t you let me see if it’s okay, I won’t mess around?
If you don’t let me see, I won’t be able to sleep tonight. If I can’t sleep, I won’t be able to work well tomorrow. No…”
An Huaixu couldn’t stand his tone when he was a child, but he didn’t expect that he would still be held to death when he grew up.
While scolding himself for being so cheap, he sat back on the chair, lifted his clothes, closed his eyes and lay on the back of the chair in front of him.
After Shi Yun saw An Huaixu’s back clearly, he was suddenly dazzled by the light, and couldn’t tell whether it was an illusion or reality—
An Huaixu’s arms were tense, and a large area of ecchymosis mixed with bloodshot eyes fell on his smooth back, which was a bit scary.
“This…”
Shi Yun didn’t expect it to be so serious, and was so surprised that he lost his voice for a while.
He couldn’t help but tremble his fingers and gently touch the edge of the ecchymosis.
He felt pain just by looking at it, but An Huaixu was able to endure it for so long without saying a word.
Shi Yun’s unbelievable mood turned into sourness, filling his pounding heart.
“Wait for me, I’ll apply some for you, it will recover a little faster.”
Shi Yun didn’t wait for An Huaixu to answer, so he ran to bring a basin of water back.
“It may be a bit cold, please bear with it”
An Huaixu listened to his tone of coaxing a child, and twitched the corners of his mouth almost imperceptibly.
This feeling doesn’t seem bad either.
Shi Yun sat on the bed, watching without blinking, feeling distressed and angry at the same time.
“Why didn’t you tell me?”
An Huaixu said subconsciously: “Small injury.”
After he finished speaking, he heard that there was no movement behind him, and he couldn’t tell where it was itching.
After enduring it for a few seconds, he said again: “Why don’t you talk?”
The only thing that answered him was Shi Yun soaking the towel, the sound of rushing water.
Only then did An Huaixu belatedly realize that Shi Yun was angry.
He laughed a few more times.
Shi Yun said sullenly: “What are you laughing at?”
An Huaixu: “Nothing.”
If he didn’t say it, Shi Yun couldn’t ask any further.
Forget it, his self-esteem is so strong, how could he take the initiative to tell himself.
Shi Yun took a deep breath, calmed down, and then noticed that—although the area of the injury on An Huaixu’s back was large, only the left half was newly added, and the rest seemed to be old injuries…
Has An Huaixu been injured before?
Shi Yun didn’t like to keep it in his heart, so he asked it straightforwardly.
An Huaixu felt a little better, didn’t rush to answer, but asked him instead: “How did you get the injury on your back?”
Shi Yun was stunned: “I don’t have—” He reacted and oh-ed knowingly: “Are you talking about that scar?”
An Huaixu nodded.
“I can’t tell you.”
An Huaixu’s heart sank when he heard Shi Yun’s words. Before he could ask, Shi Yun continued: “Because I don’t remember either.”
An Huaixu ruled out the option of ‘fire burn’, but instead of feeling relieved, he became more afraid.
He said seriously: “What do you mean?”
Shi Yun took the towel and soaked it again: “I should have told you that I hit my head when I was a child, and lost some of my memory since then.
This scar has been with me since I had consciousness. I asked my father and mother, and they said I got it while playing.”
He put the towel on again, and didn’t rush to leave his palm, but gently rubbed An Huaixu’s back.
An Huaixu finally couldn’t help it, and asked that sentence: “Have you ever suspected that you are not your parents’ biological child?”
Shi Yun didn’t have any surprised expression, but praised: “Huaixu Brother has good eyesight, you can see it at a glance!”
He recalled: “This matter was a gift from my father and mother on my 18th birthday, and they let me let go and find my biological parents.”
An Huaixu’s heart beat: “And then?”
Why didn’t you go?
Shi Yun: “They are the people who have raised me for so many years, and in my heart, they are my biological parents.”
He smiled wryly: “Maybe I’m not likable, and I was thrown away by my biological parents, find it back—”
An Huaixu suddenly lost control and turned around, holding his shoulders, his eyes scarlet and retorted: “No, they…”
He felt so distressed that he couldn’t say that sentence—they have always missed you so much.
Shi Yun was startled by him, not understanding what he was doing, bent down to pick up the towel on the ground, and smiled:
“Okay, it’s not early, Huaixu Brother, you should rest early too.”
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