Do You Remember My Name? Chapter 17

Chapter 17

The two slept until nine o’clock in the morning.

Feng Fei was the first one to wake up, and when he moved, Hai Xiu followed and woke up as well.

“What time did you sleep yesterday?” Feng Fei yawned after asking this, got up and looked at his clothes on the floor for several seconds, before turning his head and looking back at Hai Xiu. “Did you take off my clothes or did I take it off by myself?”

Hai Xiu was still rubbing his eyes, he suddenly felt guilty when Feng Fei asked. “I… I took it off.”

Feng Fei smirked: “You didn’t take advantage of me while I was drunk?”

Hai Xiu’s sleepiness instantly vanished upon hearing it, he lowered his head and did not dare speak again.

Seeing that Hai Xiu had no intention of replying, Feng Fei did not take it to heart. He walked to the French window and lifted the curtain to take a look outside, he frowned while shaking his head: “This is over… we can’t use the car today.”

Hai Xiu followed and looked out of the window, he was pleasantly surprised when he saw the situation outside: “There… There are lots of snow!”

It snowed down heavily last night, causing it to unexpectedly covered the road with a half foot thick of snow. That was why they couldn’t use the car. Feng Fei peered at his cell phone, and sure enough, there were several messages from the auntie. He let out a helpless smile: “Auntie asked for a leave, so we can’t go out. What to do?”

He then looked at Hai Xiu with a little regret: “I still want to buy shoes with you.”

Hai Xiu was moved by Feng Fei’s words, so he houghtfully asked: “Do… Do we have to rush today? You have so many shoes…” Because he knew that Feng Fei had a separate cabinet only for his tons of pairs of shoes.

Feng Fei couldn’t help but sigh: “You don’t understand a man. I only have a few pairs in the shoe cabinet…”

Hai Xiu laughed out loud and suggested, “So we will go out? Walk for a while and then find a bus? I don’t mind.”

Of course, Feng Fei minded. He usually ran when going to school, but he wouldn’t feel happy if he let Hai Xiu walk that far on his own. He thought for a while then said: “Forget it. Wait for a while, some people should deal with the snow on the road later. We won’t be able to descend down the mountain if the winding road isn’t cleaned. Just look at the situation, it’s too dangerous to go out. Eat breakfast first. See? We are still lucky that we bought many things yesterday.”

Hai Xiu nodded. Feng Fei was afraid that Hai Xiu would get cold, so he adjusted the thermostat inside the house.

The living room was in a mess. Originally, the auntie would help clean it around this time, but now that she couldn’t come, Feng Fei had no choice but to clean everything. With a dispirit heart, he packed up one by one, tablewares and saucers were thrown into the dishwashers. The living room was already clean and tidy as ever by the time Hai Xiu went downstairs.

“What do you want to eat?” Feng Fei laughed, “Don’t think too hard. The weather is bad, we can’t order a takeout.”

Hai Xiu hesitated for a moment, then: “How… about I cook?”

Feng Fei was quite surprised: “What will you cook?”

“Cook noodles.” Hai Xiu honestly said, “I can only do this. If you don’t want…”

Feng Fei quickly said: “I’ll eat whatever you cook.”

Hai Xiu actually wanted to say that if Feng Fei didn’t want to eat noodles, he would eat it by himself and would make something else for Feng Fei. But after Feng Fei interrupted him with those words, his heart felt sweet and he ended up swallowing the latter half of his sentence.

Fortunately, they left lots of vegetables yesterday, so Hai Xiu could use them today. He looked under the refrigerator, found a bundle of noodles and then two eggs.

Hai Xiu put on an ap.r.o.n, washed the vegetables and filled the pot with water. Feng Fei was leaning on the table, and wherever Hai Xiu went, his eyes would also follow.

“Why… Why are you watching me?” It really made him feel embarra.s.sed. “It will take a while.”

Feng Fei took a cherry tomato to eat and said: “You don’t want me to watch? Just do what you have to do, I’ll just watch.”

When the water boiled, Hai Xiu put the vegetables and noodles in the pot. Then he put two poached egg with a dash of oil, salt and vinegar. The leftover hotpot spices from yesterday was also added in the noodles.

Feng Fei exclaimed: “Smells good ah!”

Hai Xiu smiled: “That’s from… the hotpot.”

“Who said that?” Feng Fei picked up another cherry tomato to feed Hai Xiu. “It smells really good.”

Hai Xiu lowered his head to eat the cherry tomato, causing his lips to accidentally rubbed against Feng Fei’s fingertips. Feng Fei’s hands trembled due to the contact.

He immediately put his hands inside the trousers’ pockets and clenched them unconsciously.

The straps on Hai Xiu’s ap.r.o.n were hastily fastened, and because he was moving a lot, the straps were loosened. Feng Fei walked behind Hai Xiu to fasten it and ridiculed slightly: “Look at how your waist is so thin.” After tying the strap, Feng Fei tried measuring Hai Xiu’s waist by hugging him with one arm. “Almost two feet?”

Feng Fei’s action of hugging Hai Xiu startled him and made his hair stand on end. He pushed Feng Fei’s hand and stuttered: “You… Don’t disturb me…”

“When you were doing the problems and I needed to ask something, you told me to not be afraid to bother you. But I’m not allowed when you are making a meal?” Feng Fei really felt unhappy after being pushed by Hai Xiu, “You, don’t talk to me. Look at the poached eggs, it’s already on the surface!”

Hai Xiu didn’t know whether to laugh or cry as he set off the fire into low. “I’m afraid that I’d burn it… Cause if I do, we can’t eat it. Are you hungry?”

Feng Fei’s mood got better when he heard this, he said with a smile: “Actually, I wasn’t really hungry. But the noodles you’re cooking smells good and it makes me hungry.”

Hai Xiu lowered his head and smiled: “Don’t lie.”

“Really? How can you not believe it?” Feng Fei gave a free rein to his imagination as he said the next words: “Once we go to college and rent a house, we must choose a house with a big kitchen and also have a large cooking station. Although, once we live together for long, you won’t be able to cook again.”

Hai Xiu shook his head gently: “I… want to…”

Feng Fei’s mind t.i.tillated, he lowered his head to whisper in Hai Xiu’s ear: “Are you sure?”

Hai Xiu nodded, his face was somewhat red due to the embarra.s.sment. Feng Fei grinned: “Rest a.s.sured, even if you want it or not, I couldn’t bear to let you cook. I’ll study how to cook, so if you want something to eat, I’ll cook it for you. But if I’m too tired to cook, we’ll just go out to eat.”

Hai Xiu turned around and continued on cooking, so that Feng Fei would not be able to see the happy expression on his face.

He waited for seven to eight minutes for the vegetable noodles with poached eggs to be cooked, before putting off the fire and filling up the two bowls with the noodles.

Hai Xiu’s vegetable noodles were really not that delicious, but Feng Fei was hungry and coupled with “Hai Xiu personally cooked it for him”, it only took Feng Fei a few minutes to empty the large bowl.

Hai Xiu hesitated first before asking: “Do you… still want more?”

“No need.” Feng Fei pulled out a paper towel and wiped his own mouth, “I’m already full. Eat quickly, we will sweep the snow in the yard after you finished eating.”

He didn’t know where Hai Xiu’s energy came from, the kid hurriedly emptied his own bowl. After he finished eating, Feng Fei took their bowls and washed it.

It was still snowing outside, although the temperature was no longer cold, Feng Fei was still not a.s.sured. He searched for his thickest jacket and thick scarf, and handed them to Hai Xiu. Once the two were finally dressed well, they went out of the house.

Feng Fei went to the storage room to get the shovel and broom. He gave the broom to Hai Xiu before shoveling the snow in the front.

Hai Xiu followed behind Feng Fei with so much diligence. He didn’t deal with the snow, he just swept them to the side.

The two were busy for a while, and finally, they were outside the gate and clearing the middle of the road. Feng Fei stopped and stared down the road while shaking his head, “It seems they haven’t started using the snowplow… Though, if they already started it, it would be slow and it would take them noon to come up here.”

Hai Xiu felt that it was okay, “Let’s just stay at home. We have food anyway, and we can do the homework together.”

Feng Fei turned his head and silently watched Hai Xiu, after a long while: “Alright…”

Feng Fei also wanted to clean up the front of the garage, but the snow was too thick and too many, they gave up after cleaning up for a while. Hai Xiu then rolled two s...o...b..a.l.l.s and happily made a little snowman.

Feng Fei also did the same. He piled a little snowman and snuggled it closer to Hai Xiu’s, the two small snowmen looked incredibly harmonious.

Then Feng Fei returned to the house to get carrots and cherries—carrots for the nose and cherries for the eyes.

“Alright, let’s go back inside.” Feng Fei glanced at Hai Xiu’s exposed red nose. “Don’t freeze.”

Hai Xiu shook his head and smiled: “It’s not cold. I’m actually sweating.”

Feng Fei was also sweating since he spent a lot of time shoveling the snow and ice, but sweating outside would get them easily frozen, so he pulled Hai Xiu back to the house.

The inside and outside of the house both had the same temperature, the two boys left their wet clothes on the porch and was only wearing thin clothes inside.

Feng Fei took a towel and pa.s.sed it to Hai Xiu. Hai Xiu wiped his snow-wet hair, his eyes were sparkling when he said: “It’s not cold. We can still play for a while.”

“In the afternoon.” Feng Fei stood before the French window and gazed outside, “In the afternoon, we’ll see if we can go out. Or else, our weekend will only be wasted at home.”

Hai Xiu looked around while listening to Feng Fei, then he said: “I… I want to drink some cold water. It’s really hot.”

Feng Fei thought of Hai Xiu’s set of clothes and he couldn’t help smiling: “I know you’re hot. Do you want to eat ice cream? There’s an ice cream in the refrigerator.”

Hai Xiu nodded, Feng Fei took one out and handed it to him, “Eat and then change your clothes.”

Hai Xiu frowned: “You… You don’t want to eat?”

Feng Fei shook his head: “I don’t like eating sweet.”

Then he went upstairs to take their homeworks. The two boys sat close together with a blanket while watching the snow outside, eating and doing their homeworks.

Feng Fei didn’t copy Hai Xiu’s homework nor did he ask, instead he did it by himself. Hai Xiu only looked at what he was doing, then spread his own English textbook to read while eating the ice cream. Since Feng Fei gave him a large tab of ice cream and he was eating slow, there was still remaining half of the ice cream. Feng Fei laughed when he saw Hai Xiu stopped moving, “You don’t want to eat anymore?”

Hai Xiu shook his head: “Nope. I just have a little cold… Sure enough, eating this in winter is still too—you, what are you doing?”

Feng Fei took over the spoon from Hai Xiu’s hand and ate the remaining half of the ice cream. It took him a few seconds to stuff it all into his mouth before saying: “Okay, it’s not very cold.”

Feng Fei swallowed the ice cream, then he took the water nearby and drank a few mouthfuls to dilute the sweet taste in his mouth.

Hai Xiu looked at his empty right hand, he was very disappointed and at the same time, his face was red.