Chapter 2454 Another Me 1
On the third day after arriving here, Li Chi took a leisurely walk in the mountains and returned to the courtyard of the B&B in the evening.
The yard was much busier than usual.
Although it was still midsummer, the nights in the mountains were chilly. The owner of the B&B lit a bonfire in the middle of the yard. The dancing flames dispelled the chill of dusk.
Many guests sat around the campfire, chatting and laughing.
As soon as Li Chi stepped into the yard, he heard someone greeting him warmly. The voice sounded familiar.
"Hey, handsome! Over here! Come play with me!"
He looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was indeed the two girls who had invited his brother to go hiking with them at the door on the day he just moved in.
Li Chi subconsciously wanted to refuse. He was not used to such lively gatherings of strangers.
Jinchen's gaze passed over the jumping flames and fell on Lanshan who was standing opposite the campfire.
He seemed to be sitting there casually, playing with the camera in his hand, but his eyes would glance over here from time to time.
Jinchen's vigilance was aroused.
This person took the initiative to talk to me again and again, yesterday in front of the drawing board and here again today. It seems that his purpose is a bit strong.
"Xiao Chi, it's better to go over and take a look."
When Li Chi heard his brother's words, he sighed in his heart.
He thought Jinchen wanted him to blend in with the crowd and experience the excitement of ordinary people. Although he was a little puzzled, he would not refute his brother.
Li Chi walked over silently and found a quiet place outside the campfire to sit down.
The fire crackled and the owner began to tell the story of her and this B&B.
Her voice was not loud, but it carried a bit of the rusticity of the mountains and the accumulation of time.
She said that she and her fiancé grew up here together and were inseparable since childhood, but later they started their own lives and left the town for nearly five years.
Li Chi listened quietly.
The boss's story flows slowly like a mountain stream.
After many twists and turns, she and her fiancé returned here and opened a B&B together. They stayed together for another five years, but her fiancé died unexpectedly one month before their wedding.
Li Chi's heart tightened slightly.
The light from the bonfire reflected on his face, alternating between light and dark.
Human life is so short and full of impermanence.
He and his brother are connected in spirit, closer than any other relationship in the world.
But because of this, he is even more afraid of losing.
If one day, he could no longer call his brother... he wouldn't even know where to look for him.
The tourists around began to share their stories, some heartwarming, some funny, and some regretful.
Li Chi listened quietly, with no intention of speaking, just being a quiet listener.
The sufferings he had gone through in the past were not worth recounting on this occasion, and there was no need to reopen the scars that had already been healed by his brother.
And it is even more impossible to tell anyone about the existence of my brother.
At this time, Lanshan moved over again and sat down in the empty seat next to Li Chi.
He raised his camera and pressed the shutter button towards Li Chi's profile.
"Handsome guy, I took this photo yesterday and printed it out today. I'm giving it to you."
The photo shows Li Chi sitting under a locust tree and drawing yesterday. The outline on the drawing board looks particularly gentle in the setting sun.
Li Chi took the photo, glanced at it, and his eyes fell on the bright color on the drawing board. "How much?"
"No money." Lanshan waved his hand, his smile still bright, but his words were a little dense.
"I'm a pretty good photographer. You can ask your boyfriend to come along and I'll take some commemorative photos for you."
Lan Shan paused and asked casually, "By the way, where's your boyfriend? You're not... really traveling alone, are you?"
Every word of this question touched upon something that Li Chi didn't like.
Li Chi lowered his eyelids, his eyelashes covering the displeasure in his eyes, and said to Jin Chen in his mind, "Brother, this person is very annoying."
Jinchen deeply agreed.
This kind of familiarity is too much, and it doesn't seem like the kind of conversation that ordinary tourists would have.
"Xiao Chi, ask him to go alone to the old tree behind."
Li Chi followed his words and looked up at Lan Shan, "Mr. Lan, can we chat for a few minutes alone?"
He pointed to the old tree with gnarled branches in the corner of the yard.
Lan Shan seemed a little surprised, but immediately smiled and said, "Of course."
He happily stood up and followed Li Chi out of the campfire circle and into the relatively secluded shadow behind the ancient tree.
The noise around was blocked by the shadows of the trees and became blurred.
As soon as he stood behind the tree, the boy's eyes changed and became sharp in an instant.
"You're deliberately approaching me."
Jinchen's voice also turned cold. "Who hired you to do this? Or do you have other intentions?"
Lanshan was stunned and instinctively felt that the aura of the person in front of him had completely changed, and he was like a beast showing his fangs in an instant.
He felt uneasy, and couldn't understand how a person could change so much in an instant. He just thought that the other person was in a bad mood.
He tried to play it off with a laugh, "Brother, you're... a bit too serious, aren't you? We're just out and about, making friends. I see you have a unique temperament..."
Before he finished speaking, Jinchen turned his head slightly.
Those eyes looked at me from the shadows, without any warmth.
Lanshan's next words were blocked, and a chill rushed from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. He subconsciously took a step back, and his back hit the rough tree trunk.
"You...what's wrong with you?"
Damn, it’s scarier than seeing a ghost late at night!
Jinchen took a step forward and said, "I'll give you a chance. Tell the truth."
Lan Shan's scalp tingled when he looked at her. His handsome face looked particularly dangerous under the moonlight.
He turned his head away abruptly, not daring to look into Jinchen's eyes again, and almost blurted out, "Okay... okay! I'll tell the truth!"
"I... I just think you're so pretty! I want to get to know you! I didn't expect you actually have a boyfriend..."
Jinchen: "..."
Jinchen almost couldn't help but punch him in the face.
After all this time, he turned out to be a horny idiot.
"Stay away from me. If I see you get close again, I'll beat you up."
As soon as he finished speaking, a dead branch was broken by the shock and fell straight down, hitting Lanshan on the head. It was scary enough.
"Ah!" Lanshan was so frightened that he turned around and ran away, crawling and tumbling, not daring to look back.
Jinchen shook his hands and looked at Lanshan's embarrassed fleeing back, and the coldness in his eyes slowly dissipated.
"It's okay. If you feel tired, we can go back and rest."
Li Chi regained control of his body and looked at the dead branch that had fallen to the ground, feeling a little surprised.
I didn't expect that my brother asked him to come over for this.
He curved his eyes and asked, "Brother, are you jealous?"
"Hmm." Jinchen didn't deny it.
Li Chi: "Brother, you are so cute."
"..."
