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The kitten looked back frequently and even stopped to wait for him.
Under this stimulation, Cui Peng gritted his teeth and followed closely in the footsteps of Li Mu and Brother Nan.
Li Mu asked him several times to take a rest before continuing, but he refused.
The price he paid was that when he returned to the yard, his legs were so sore that he could not stand up from his seat.
Brother Nan washes the vegetables, Li Mu cooks, and Maoer and the cubs make fire.
For a moment, he was the only idle person in the yard.
In order to ease the embarrassment, Cui Peng took out his mobile phone and took pictures of the night sky.
There is a moon and a sky full of stars tonight.
The bright moonlight made the gauze-like clouds floating in the sky clearly visible.
"How are your legs?" Li Mu was stewing pork tripe and chicken in a pot with yogurt burning on the fire. He had some free time, so he walked over and sat down next to Cui Peng.
"It's a little sore."
Cui Peng smiled bitterly, "I really admire you guys. You walked such a long mountain road without any problem. Compared with you guys, my height is really in vain."
"It's nothing." Li Mu looked at Cui Peng and said calmly, "Just like you are good at writing news and articles, but I am not. We are in different industries and are good at different things. It's just that everyone has their own specialties."
"I find you're quite good at comforting people." Cui Peng grinned, revealing a row of teeth. "You're really a very gentle person."
".Is that so?" Li Mu always felt a little weird when being praised by a man suddenly.
"Although we have only been in contact for one day, my instinct as a reporter cannot be wrong."
Cui Peng pointed at the kittens and cubs burning by the fire:
“If you are a bad person or you don’t really care about them, animals won’t trust and rely on you.
"It's not just these cubs, the golden monkeys, golden eagles, female wolves and Siberian tigers in the yard also trust you.
"They live in harmony in your yard and share food with each other, which is unlikely to happen in the wild.
"There is only one possibility for this situation to happen, and that is that there is an anchor that the animals trust and rely on unconditionally, supporting all of this. I think that anchor is you."
"Is that so?" Li Mu looked at the kittens burning by the fire. "I didn't think so much. I just treated them with my heart, and they treated me with their heart in return."
"See, I told you you're a gentle person."
"Thank you." Li Mu accepted the compliment calmly and smiled at Cui Peng.
At the same time, my impression of Cui Peng was refreshed.
Anyone who can work as a reporter at CCTV does have something extraordinary about them.
Although he looks tall and honest, he is actually a man with sharp intuition and a meticulous mind.
“The environment in the mountains is really great.”
Cui Peng looked up at the Milky Way in the night sky and said, "In the city, let alone the Milky Way, you can hardly see many stars."
“The Milky Way is indeed rare, but the stars can still be seen.”
Li Mu also looked up at the starry sky. "It's just that people in the city are used to the fast pace and only care about rushing on the road with their heads down. They don't even think about looking up at the stars."
Cui Peng was stunned for a moment.
Looking back, it is true.
Day and night, I am either on my way to work or working overtime at home. I can’t remember the last time I looked up at the night sky.
The two stopped talking and quietly admired the starry sky.
After a while, Li Mu was called by Brother Nan and the meal was ready.
The dishes were placed on the table, and the aroma filled the air.
"Do you drink white wine?" Brother Nan distributed the dishes and turned to Cui Peng and asked.
"Well, not much, except for some wine and beer occasionally."
"Oh." Brother Nan was a little disappointed. "From the look of you, I thought you were a big drinker."
"Due to my job, I may be called in for an interview suddenly, so I don't dare to drink."
"I have nothing to do tonight, so I can drink a little." Nan took out her Maotai, "You two can drink beer."
Li Mu and Cui Peng each opened a bottle of Yongchuang Tianya.
"Come, have a drink." Brother Nan poured a glass of white wine and raised it up.
Li Mu and Cui Peng picked up their beers and clinked their glasses with Brother Nan's.
Brother Nan was very generous. He tilted his head back and drank up the white wine in the glass.
"Okay, now that we've clinked glasses, we're officially acquainted." Brother Nan looked at Cui Peng and said, "No more clinking glasses from now on. Drink slowly and measure your alcohol tolerance. By the way, how old are you?"
"33, 34 in lunar age."
"Oh, we are all young people, don't be so formal."
“Okay, thank you.” When Cui Peng was told that he was young by two young men in their early 20s, his age anxiety instantly disappeared.
"You're welcome, come and eat!" Brother Nan waved his hand and invited Cui Peng to start eating.
Li Mu picked up a piece of pork belly, blew it cool and put it in the small bowl in front of the kitten.
The cat lowered its head and began to eat.
"Cats have their own eating bowls?" Cui Peng couldn't help but ask when he saw this scene.
"Hey, yogurt is Li Mu's favorite." Brother Nan took another sip and downed the glass of white wine.
"Drink slowly, don't drink so fast." Li Mu persuaded Brother Nan.
"You're so nagging." Brother Nan muttered impatiently, but he took small sips of the wine.
Cui Peng ate his meal in silence, looking back and forth between Li Mu and Brother Nan.
I feel so conflicted.
He originally thought that Li Mu and Brother Nan were a couple, but after spending a day together, he felt that something was not right.
After thinking for a while, he asked quietly, "You two have just been together for a short time, right?"
Li Mu paused with his chopsticks.
"No, who told you that we are a couple?" Brother Nan said after glancing at Li Mu.
"Isn't it?"
"No, we just have a good relationship. He is my younger brother."
"No wonder, I noticed that you two didn't have any intimate contact like other couples." Cui Peng smiled shyly.
"Oh, that's it. Keep using your chopsticks and eat your food."
Under Brother Nan's invitation, most of the dishes on the table were eaten.
Perhaps because there were outsiders present, Brother Nan did not lean back in his chair and stare blankly as usual after eating.
Cui Peng took out his cell phone and invited Brother Nan and Li Mu to play Landlord.
In fact, Brother Nan and Li Mu didn’t really want to play. Brother Nan felt that playing Landlord without money was really boring.
Li Mu was not very interested in playing cards. His understanding of Landlord was limited to knowing the rules.
In the first round, Brother Nan took out three bombs.
The second time, he drew four more.
After playing a few rounds, Cui Peng looked at the happy beans that had returned to zero and suddenly felt that this game was boring.
Then Li Mu cleared the dishes and went to wash them.
Brother Nan picked up the kitten and checked his phone.
Cui Peng glanced at Brother Nan and his heartbeat gradually quickened.
It is rare to find a girl like Brother Nan who is tall, generous, and very beautiful. He was attracted to her the moment he met her.
But he suppressed the idea because he thought Brother Nan and Li Mu were a couple.
But after hearing Brother Nan say that she and Li Mu were not a couple, she couldn't suppress this thought.
After demonstrating it in his mind several times, Cui Peng plucked up the courage, looked at Sister Nan, and prepared to ask her for her WeChat.
Just as he was about to speak, he saw Brother Nan sit up straight, turn his upper body, point his phone at Li Mu who was washing dishes at the stove, zoom in the camera, and take a short video.
Cui Peng saw that the short video seemed to be a special effect of making people look ugly.
After the filming, Brother Nan turned around and noticed Cui Peng's gaze. He smiled at him, then lowered his head and laughed at Li Mu on the screen.
She even showed it to the kitten lying on her lap, "Do you think Li Mu is ugly?"
"Meow."
"I think so too. This guy is actually as good-looking as Ben Nan. The ugly special effects don't work well on him."
"Meow~"
Cui Peng silently withdrew his gaze.
Thanks to the sharp knife for the monthly ticket! Thanks to the book friend 20231225761_AE for the monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)
