Chapter 50

“Everything is pretty good. My voice is too quiet?” Feng Fei covered the phones microphone and whispered “Hai Xiu is still sleeping right now… that’s right, you (T/N: respectful you aka nin and btw every you he says to his mom is respectful but I don’t want to put a whole bunch of translator notes) should think about what time it is.”

At 6 in the morning Feng Fei was dragged into an argument with Lu Haoli. Fortunately Hai Xiu wasn’t awakened and Feng Fei picked up his phone and continued talking while going downstairs.

Feng Fei leaned on the sofa and lazily said “Him ah, he went home on the 30th, and his mother took a holiday on the 30th.

Feng Fei laughed and reassured Lu Haoli “We agreed earlier, I’ll go to my brother’s place. My sister-in-law also called me yesterday and asked me what I wanted to eat. She prepared in advance, en, don’t worry. “

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While Feng Fei was talking he saw Hai Xiu dazedly walking down the stairs in his pyjamas. Feng Fei pointed to his phone and mouthed ‘my mom’.

Hai Xiu was instantly startled awake and obediently walked over and sat on one side of the sofa, not making a single sound.

Feng Fei smiled and continued talking “I know, I didn’t go out and go crazy with them. I come home on time now and my sleeping schedule is now regular.

Lu Haoli on the other end of the phone slightly relaxed and asked again “How come I heard your brother say you were attending some kind of cram school? Is it real or fake?”

“Of course it’s real!” Feng Fei frowned “What’s with the tone you’re using? My brother also… that day I begged him to help me and he kept on asking questions for a long time.”

Lu Haoli laughed loudly “Think about why we would doubt you yourself.”

“Even if you don’t believe it you still have to believe it. Or do you guys want to ask Hai Xiu?” Feng Fei glanced at Hai Xiu “To be honest I didn’t want to go. The cram school was from our own school and made specifically for the top 30 people in the grade. We originally didn’t even know about it! Hai Xiu? Hai Xiu is definitely in the top 30 ah. Didn’t I tell you that in the monthly exams he got 1st place again? 1st place! He got 146 points in math! The second place in our grade only got 130 points. And there’s also his STEM (T/N: 理综, basically the point total of his physics, biology, chemistry, math. If it’s wrong you can comment below or @ us on discord) grades…… ”

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Hai Xiu covered his face and desperately gestured to Feng Fei. Feng Fei felt that it still wasn’t enough and continued the topic “Ah, he has good grades so the teacher talked to him in private and said that they would specifically create a cram school for those people. He begged the teacher asking whether he could let me in too. Our teacher originally really wanted to give him some respect and agree to his request but she couldn’t promise him. Which is why I went to find my brother. You think I wanted to go find him ah? He gave our director a 2000 yuan shopping card at the end of the year and he even said that he would put the bill on my account!” 

After Lu Haoli heard she strongly praised Hai Xiu commending how he was willing to bring Feng Fei along to do everything (T/N: Cause Feng Fei’s grades are bad so without Hai Xiu he wouldn’t be able to go to a lot of these event thingies). Feng Fei turned on the speaker on the phone and after Hai Xiu listened he felt extremely embarrassed and tried to hide burrowing into the sofa.  

Feng Fei grabbed Hai Xiu fishing him back out and continued “Do you know how hard it was to take that class? With my kind of grades do you know how stressful it is to mix in with them? My self esteem…”

Lu Haoli hurriedly said that it really wasn’t easy and following Feng Fei’s words also scolded Feng Xuan. Feng Xuan promised to give some more allowance. Telling him to properly go to class with Hai Xiu and not to think about it. 

Only then was Feng Fei satisfied. After intentionally or unintentionally boasting about Hai Xiu for a long time he purposefully asked Lu Haoli how she was doing and whether her lower back hurt when she was tired…. 

Hai Xiu looked at the time and guessed that the call wouldn’t end any time soon. The two of them would have to go to class in a while and the time was a bit tight. Hai Xiu whispered to Feng Fei “I’ll go first and cook breakfast.”

Feng Fei nodded and let go of Hai Xiu. Hai Xiu carefully and quietly went to wash up, and after organizing himself (T/N: like changing out of pyjamas into normal clothes) put on an apron and prepared breakfast.

Haixiu put slices of bread into the toaster and turned around to heat a pan. He poured some oil on the pan, cracked 2 eggs, and pinched a little bit of salt carefully sprinkling some on the egg yolk, trying to spread it evenly,

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Feng Fei smiled “Our number one in the grade is making me breakfast right now.”

Hai Xiu didn’t know when Feng Fei had walked over and jumped in shock. Feng Fei said into the phone “Yeah, usually he cooks after all, I don’t know how to cook.”

On the other side of the phone Lv Haoli scolded Feng Fei saying that since he didn’t know how to cook he probably didn’t know how to buy groceries either and that he needed to bother other people for help with everything. Feng Fei perfunctionaly hummed his agreement promising that he would be better with only the scene in front of him in his mind… 

Hai Xiu had hastily and loosely tied on an apron earlier and it had just shifted a bit. Hai Xiu was constantly worried about burning the poached egg and had quickly tied the apron before retying it tighter which let Feng Fei notice his waist which he normally didn’t pay much attention to. 

Feng Fei listened to Lv Haoli’s nagging 心猿意马, and moved behind Hai Xiu putting his arm around Hai Xiu’s waist. 

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Hai Xiu “!”

Feng Fei used his arm to measure Hai Xiu’s waist and emotionally sighed in his heart. It’s so thin it’s pretty much the same as a girl. 

Hai Xiu nervously sweat closed his mouth tightly and pushed hard at Feng Fei’s arm. Feng Fei didn’t budge and even inched closer and put his chin on Hai Xiu’s shoulder. 

While talking on the phone and watching Hai Xiu fry eggs his hands were naughtily(?) moving and rubbing Hai Xiu’s waist.

Feng Fei’s entire body was stuck onto Hai Xiu’s back, Hai Xiu could even hear Lv Haoli speaking. Hai Xiu stiffened for a moment, not daring to speak for fear of being discovered by Lv Haoli and could only struggle to signal to Feng Fei to stop messing around.  

Feng Fei also knew that Hai Xiu didn’t dare to make a sound and was thus fearless and dealt with Lv Haoli while taking advantage of Hai Xiu.  

“You can relax, I treat him pretty good.” Hai Xiu slyly put the phone by Hai Xiu’s ear and said “My mom keeps on saying that I’m bullying you. How about you tell her whether I’m good to you or not.”

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Hai Xiu was shocked to the point of almost exploding (T/N: don’t ask me….) he hurriedly wiped his hands dry and held the phone saying “A-auntie.”

Lv Haoli smiled and said “Feng Fei is too insensible. He’s taken up so much of your time with you helping him with his homework and always accompanying him, even letting you cook for him. He’s been spoiled by us. But he is still good inside. He is constantly telling me about how good you are. If he bullies you just tell me and I will scold him for you. As for the food I’ll tell the housekeeping about it and trouble her to come over earlier and cook breakfast for you two or prepare it in advance. How could I trouble you.”

Hai Xiu quickly shook his head “It’s no trouble, I also don’t know how to make anything else, it’s all very simple meals….”

Hai Xiu gritted his teeth. Feng Fei, just now he…”

Feng Fei licked his lips. Just now he had pinched Hai Xiu’s buttocks.

Haixiu’s face turned red and he put his hand on the counter. He didn’t speak for a while and Lu Haoli thought that the signal was bad and immediately asked “Hai Xiu? What’s wrong?”.

“No-nothing……” Hai XIu coughed and said “The breakfast was done cooking. Just now…… I took the poached eggs out from the pan.”

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Lv Haoli was very embarrassed and quickly said “Ai, he actually let you make this. I’ll call the auntie in a moment. How can you waste your time doing these kinds of things. You should leave some time and study well or take a rest. The Gaokao is coming up and time is very valuable.” 

Hai Xiu lowered his head and reluctantly said “you… you’re too polite.”

“Ai let’s not talk about this anymore. You guys hurry and eat your breakfast before it gets cold and go to your classes once you’re done. Don’t come back to the house in the afternoon and just let Feng Fei take you to go eat wherever you want to eat. Let him invite you to eat whatever you

Hai Xiu nodded his head, something seemed to have happened on Lv Haoli’s side and she 嘱咐 2 more sentences before hanging up in a hurry.

Feng Fei smiled and put the phone off to the side “My mom she… hmm? What’s up with you?”

Hai Xiu pursed his lips and lowered his head, not looking at Feng Fei.

Hai Xiu’s cheeks were still red but there was no smile on his face. Feng Fei laughed “What’s wrong? Angry”

Hai Xiu’s head was still lowered and he whispered “Just now you, why… that…”

Feng Fei twisted his fingers unconsciously and smiled “I couldn’t control my hand, don’t be angry, okay?”

“En…”Hai Xiu whispered “Let’s eat.”

Hai Xiu sandwiched the fried poached eggs and ham into the toasted bread, and then added in some vegetables, spread on some mayonnaise (T/N: it says salad sauce but I don’t normally eat salads and ranch sounds kinda weird) and put it on a plate before giving it to Feng Fei.

Feng Fei took it and carefully looked at Hai Xiu’s expression knowing that he had played too much and that Hai Xiu was a little unhappy now. He put the plate aside and pulled Hai Xiu over apologetically saying “I was really bad. Baby?”

Feng Fei looked at Haixiu inquiringly. Haixiu still didn’t want to see Feng Fei and looked down at his shoes. Feng Fei smiled (T/N: like an “I’m sorry” smile you have when you did something bad I think)  and said “I didn’t intentionally make trouble for you, I… I just couldn’t hold back, I was wrong, okay? Really, I won’t do this again in the future.”

Haixiu’s lips moved but he didn’t speak. Feng Fei lowered his head to look  at him and said, “I like you too much, I always can’t help but think… How about you slap me a couple times?”

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“No…” Haesu wasn’t willing. He opened his mouth and paused “Your mother is on the other side. If she hears it, she’s not here yet, how troublesome would it be. How could you…”

Hai Xiu was anxious and his speech was even messier. Feng Fei understood instantly though and immediately said “Okay, I know now. I will definitely be more careful in the future.”

Feng Fei felt regretful inside. He had just let Ni Meilin know about him and yet he was not as cautious as Hai Xiu.

Hai Xiu stopped pursing his lips and whispered “If auntie had guessed something she definitely wouldn’t dare to ask you. She won’t be able to see you for a while, how worried would she be.” 

Feng Fei looked at the true appearance of Haixiu (T/N: As in he’s showing his worries on his face), and was both moved and wanted to laugh. He took Haixiu’s hand and promised, “It will definitely not happen in the future.”

Only now did Hai Xiu feel relieved. He looked at Feng Fei apologizing so sincerely and was a bit overwhelmed. He recalled his earlier attitude and the more he thought about it the more he felt that he was being too annoying. He felt uneasy once again and apologized “I shouldn’t have spoken to you in that tone earlier…”

Feng Fei laughed “No, it was my fault.”

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Haixiu shook his head furiously, seriously introspecting: “I, I will properly talk to you in the future, I… just now I just…”

Feng Fei patted Hai Xiu’s head with a smile “You were angered by me, okay, there’s no more problem.”

Hai Xiu sat down and ate a bite of his meal but still felt a bit sorry inside and tried to find something to say “The movie tickets… are at when again?”

Haixiu’s careful thoughts were written all on his face and it couldn’t have been easier to understand what he was thinking. Feng Fei resisted smiling and said, “It’s at eight in the evening.”

“Oh.” Hai Xiu nodded his head “That time is just right… it’s just after dinner.”

Haixiu remembered that Feng Fei reserved a lovers seat, and said that he would kiss him after turning off the light… Haixiu was a little annoyed. With his attitude just now would Feng Fei not kiss him?

But originally he could be kissed ah!

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Haixiu raised his eyes and looked at Feng Fei and hesitatingly whispered after a long time: “What I meant just now…”

Feng Fei looked towards him “Ah?”

Hai Xiu lowered his head and with a voice no louder than that of a mosquito said “Just now what I wanted to say was…. When we could be discovered by our family you can’t do that. But other times… it… it’s still okay…”

Hai Xiu finished speaking with a red face and his head was almost lowered to the point of being under the table.

Feng Fei gulped down 2 mouthfuls of cold water to calm down and with closed eyes and gritted teeth he threatened “If you don’t want to be late then stop speaking otherwise don’t even mention the afternoon. I can let you be unable to walk outside right now.”

Hai Xiu very sensitively filtered and analyzed Feng Fei’s tone and was able to discern that he would still get kisses in the afternoon and was relieved and very shy. He continued eating seriously and didn’t dare speak again.