As a person who suffered from neurasthenia1 in the entertainment circle, Lu Xuandong’s sleep quality was not good.
Even if calculated according to the birth given by his biological parents, he had only turned 20 years old, and he had recuperated well in recent months, but his limit sleep time was at most 8 hours, and if he exceeded it, he would not be able to sleep any more.
The limit sleep time for Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling was 12 hours and 16 hours respectively, and the daily sleep time was 9 hours. It depended on whether there was enough time at noon to decide whether to take an extra hour nap.
Living together like this, there should be many problems that need to be adjusted, at least Lu Xuandong thought so, but what he didn’t expect was that after actually living together, he immediately successfully integrated into this “family”.
Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling went to the club to train for an afternoon, and when they came back, they brought a bag of vegetables. Qin Chunxiao listened to the Russian broadcast in the kitchen tossing ingredients, while Li Ling took online classes in his room. In the living room, leaning on the sofa, hugging a Hamster plush, watching “The Old Man in the Frost” on the tablet.
At six o’clock, Li Ling wandered out and wandered around the kitchen: “What are we eating?”
Qin Chunxiao: “Rice and vegetables.”
Li Ling: “I asked what kind of food it is.”
Qin Chunxiao: “Roasted chicken legs, fried trout, beef rice, vegetable soup.”
This dialogue was exactly the same as the mother-child dialogue in a sitcom that Lu Xuandong had watched in his early years. He pinched himself to drive the strange thoughts out of his brain.
Before making beef rice, Qin Chunxiao first boiled the beef, and then used the broth to cook various vegetables, including cabbage, radish and wax gourd. After being fished out, it had a meaty taste, which could make Er Leng, who prefers meat, eat more vegetables .
Their diet was actually very light, there was no heavy oil, salt, or spicy food. At most, they added some color peppers with no spicy taste to add color, but it tastes good. How Team Xiaoqin handled it was unknown. The umami and rich meat flavors of the raw materials begin to permeate the taste buds, and the vegetables are also crisp and delicious.
Er Leng was holding the bowl in a daze: “Hurr, snort, snort!”
Qin Chunxiao showed dissatisfaction on the face: “This chicken leg is still delicious. Is it because Russian chicken is not as good as Wenchang chicken, or is my skill bad?”
Er Leng replied vaguely: “Chicken2‘s cooking skills are hard to compare with others. It is said that he lived in Italy entirely because of Fu Xiaoji’s cooking skills. Occasionally he got diarrhea after eating pizza. It’s a pity.”
Qin Chunxiao: “Well, when Chinese go abroad, they either find a reliable restaurant to cook, or they learn to cook by themselves.”
His cooking skills were also honed while playing in Brazil.
Lu Xuandong felt that the tone of the chat between the two was quite pleasant, like a cross talk.
Li Ling looked at Lu Xuandong again: “Brother Lu, I heard that you are going to study after retiring from the circle, where are you going to study?”
Lu Xuandong: “London School of Economics.”
Li Ling: “England? Then you have to practice cooking. I heard that the food in that corner is not good.”
Lu Xuandong was very confident: “I can cook.”
He has practiced the most authentic farm food since he was a child, and he can cook stoves, especially good at making pasta, pancakes and steamed buns. His former manager Long Zitan even praised him, “Dong, you just don’t want to be a singer. A restaurant can also make money.”
In addition, Lu Xuandong could also make fermented bean curd, cured meat, pickled fish, pickles and other food that can last for a long time. Anyway, he belongs to the group that will not die of hunger.
Speaking of pickled vegetables and bacon, the three of them had something to talk about at the table.
Qin Chunxiao said: “My mother doesn’t know how to bacon, but she can stuff sausages, you know Cantonese-style sausages…” Right?
Because he looked at Lu Xuandong in the second half of the sentence, his words suddenly stuck in his throat, and Qin Chunxiao coughed twice.
Li Ling answered naturally: “Auntie’s sausages are delicious, but unfortunately we can’t eat more, you haven’t learned this skill, and neither can my mother, and she cooks like a salt prince, with a delicious taste.” It’s so heavy, I can’t get used to it.”
Lu Xuandong: “I can also infuse incense… cough cough!”
Li Ling had no choice but to say, “Why don’t both of you talk to me, and suddenly choke in the middle of the words, and I feel bad for you.”
Both Qin Chunxiao and Lu Xuandong were a little embarrassed, and then they took out their tablets one after another: “Watch a movie and watch a movie.”
Lu Xuandong liked to watch Hong Kong movies, Qin Chunxiao liked to watch sci-fi movies, and Li Ling sat cross-legged in the middle as the referee: “You two, scissors and hammer paper, whoever wins will watch whose movie.”
Qin Chunxiao won, so he watched “Alien” tonight.
Li Ling hadn’t seen this before, the reason was “I’m afraid”, with Qin Chunxiao and Lu Xuandong around, he was strong enough to finish watching the movie, it was the ghost roaring and screaming when the alien appeared, Qin Chunxiao was not frightened by the alien, but almost frightened by him.
When the time came to 21:00, the three of them went to bed on time, Lu Xuandong thought he was ready, but the truth was that he was not.
Qin Chunxiao had taken a shower when he got home, in order to completely get rid of the smell of sweat on his body, now only Lu Xuandong needed to wash.
He took a change of clothes into the bathroom, lowered his head, and let the hot water pour over his head.
If Qin Chunxiao outside was just an ordinary same-sex friend, Lu Xuandong would never be so cautious, but it was still the same reason, when the world said “soulmates should be a couple”, everyone would always be affected.
But when he came out of the shower, he found that Captain Qin had fallen asleep.
The Hamster Club was well aware of the space needs of these big volleyball players. The beds in the players’ apartments were all 2mX2m.
Lu Xuandong walked to the side of the bed, the young man hugged the black and blue checkered quilt and breathed evenly, behind him was a duvet that had just been turned out, wrapped in a patterned quilt cover made of pure cotton brushed, it looked thicker than the quilt on Captain Qin.
Really fell asleep.
Lu Xuandong knelt on one knee beside the bed, quietly looking at Qin Chunxiao’s sleeping face.
He looked at Qin Chunxiao’s skin, which had tiny fluff under the orange light.
There were also thick eyelashes, which cast a feather-like shadow on the cheeks.
There were also Qin Chunxiao’s deeper eye sockets, red lips, and snow-white neck than ordinary people…
There was no ambiguity or intimacy in Lu Xuandong’s heart, he just felt that it would be great if the child could be healthy and happy all the time, and he could fall asleep when he said he fell asleep.
Yes, he was probably too matured by the wind and frost of life, many of his peers were too ignorant in the eyes of Lu Xuandong, he has experienced so much more than those people.
So he took it for granted that Qin Chunxiao was called a “child” in his heart, because Team Xiao Qin was only 16 years old and had been studying and playing games all the time. From his age to experience, he had always been a little prince living in an ivory tower.
But he was so brave, passionate, and daring to fight hard, and he was confident, independent, principled, and had mature views on feelings.
This child’s healthy personality and strong body were what Lu Xuandong admired, but he was not jealous at all.
He said silently: “You must not know how much courage you have given me.”
Outside the window was the winter wind from the north, and the whirring sound of the wind came to their ears through the crack of the window. Lu Xuandong lightly turned off the light, climbed into bed, got into the warm quilt, and closed his eyes.
Good night.
The next morning at six o’clock in the morning, Qin Chunxiao got up on time. He stretched first, then got up in a hurry, picked up the temperature gun and pressed it on Lu Xuandong’s ear.
Temperature gun: “Drop! 37.5!”
Lu Xuandong was awakened by his movement, and saw Team Xiao Qin quickly wash up, change into sportswear, turn on the TV to listen to news in Russian that only he could understand, and went to knock on Li Ling’s door again.
“Li Ling, get up and memorize vocabulary! Your mother said it! You haven’t passed CET-4 yet! You have to take CET-6 in the future, so don’t slack off!”
Li Ling screamed and rolled out of bed: “I’m up, I’m up!”
He also tapped his mobile phone to instruct Lu Xuandong to [Go and dry the clothes in the washing machine.]
Lu Xuandong obeyed the order and tidied up everything in the washing machine before getting up to wipe off his sweat. Qin Chunxiao put the cold medicine on the table.
He didn’t use his mobile phone to type, and Lu Xuandong knew that he had to take medicine by himself.
Li Ling had already opened the window, reciting the words aloud to the cold wind outside: “abandon!”
There was a barking of dogs upstairs, probably scared by him.
Li Ling stopped reciting the words, and raised her head and shouted: “Soso! Get up! Your dog needs to be walked, otherwise it will have to defecate at home again!”
There was a burst of yelling from upstairs: “Two Leng! I fucking reminded you not to yell early in the morning! Honey was scared to pee by you again!”
Qin Chunxiao took the phone and explained to Lu Xuandong [Honey is the name of the dog in Soso’s family. She is a Beagle. She was snubbed by an elephant in a circus before. After that, she was a little timid. Will pee when scared.】
After a while, someone was crying and howling outside the door, and then the whole building began to curse.
“Anton! Don’t hang your throat early in the morning!”
“Anton! You sing so badly!”
Anton yelled back unceremoniously: “You still make people live, you can’t practice your voice in the morning, and you can’t practice it in the evening, so when can I practice my love song and confess to Anastasia?”
Qin Chunxiao raised the phone [Anastasia is Anton’s classmate in college. 】
Soso yelled loudly: “If you really sing to Anastasia, then you will never be able to catch up with her in your life!”
Lu Xuandong: “…”
Are they always so crazy every morning?
Lu Xuandong guessed right, the Hamster club players’ apartments were so lively every morning, most of the players had a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, Soso’s dog even needed to be walked early in the morning, and Er Leng had to recite vocabulary every day, but no one knew when he would be able to break through the barrier of “abandon” and memorize the next word.
However, if Er Leng succeeded in the postgraduate entrance examination in the future, the biggest contributor must be Qin Chunxiao.
Qin Chunxiao rushed to make breakfast again. Potato cakes and oatmeal were the staple food, as well as steamed eggs with minced meat. Avocado, cherry tomatoes, apples, oranges, and strawberries were all cut up, and mixed with yogurt and nuts into a salad.
Lu Xuandong found out yesterday that Qin Chunxiao’s cooking was particularly generous, and it wouldn’t be enough if he didn’t stuff people to 100% full, but the ingredients were all very healthy.
He was carrying the rice bowl and working hard to cook the rice. After chewing the well-matched and delicious food, it slided over the taste buds and entered the stomach along the esophagus. The hot porridge warmed the body, and the sweetness of the salad made the brain send a happy signal.
Li Ling sighed: “I was looking forward to eating pork balls, but you still only make beef balls.”
Qin Chunxiao: “Before I retire, there will never be pork on my table.”
In order to better control body fat, Qin Chunxiao doesn’t eat pork, so naturally Li Ling, who is with him, can’t eat it either.
Qin Chunxiao still had a cleanliness habit, but after returning home from training every day, he had no energy to clean up. Early morning was the only time he could take care of housework.
So after breakfast, Lu Xuandong saw Team Xiaoqin pull out vacuum cleaners, mops, rags and other equipment, and began to clean the apartment.
At this time, Lu Xuandong couldn’t stand still any longer. He silently rolled up his sleeves, washed all the dishes and chopsticks, then put on his gloves, took detergent into the kitchen, sprayed the stove, and began to wipe hard. Er Leng also worked tirelessly to clean the toilet.
At eight o’clock in the morning, Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling set off on time, ran to the Hamster Club with their teammates in the same apartment, and started formal training.
On this day, the temperature in St. Petersburg was minus 18 degrees.
Standing on the balcony, Lu Xuandong looked at the Hamster club players assembled downstairs, and found that this group of people only wore sportswear, and there were at most two pieces of clothing on them, not even a sweater.
Aren’t they cold?
Alexander stood up, took off his coat and threw it on his shoulders, beat his chest, and let out a battle roar, and the strong men ran with him, shouting slogans that Lu Xuandong couldn’t understand while running, and Qin Chunxiao mixed in with them.
Lu Xuandong was wrapped up like a bear, facing the cold wind, and sighed expressionlessly: “I really came to a magical place.”
As a person who suffered from neurasthenia1 in the entertainment circle, Lu Xuandong’s sleep quality was not good.
Even if calculated according to the birth given by his biological parents, he had only turned 20 years old, and he had recuperated well in recent months, but his limit sleep time was at most 8 hours, and if he exceeded it, he would not be able to sleep any more.
The limit sleep time for Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling was 12 hours and 16 hours respectively, and the daily sleep time was 9 hours. It depended on whether there was enough time at noon to decide whether to take an extra hour nap.
Living together like this, there should be many problems that need to be adjusted, at least Lu Xuandong thought so, but what he didn’t expect was that after actually living together, he immediately successfully integrated into this “family”.
Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling went to the club to train for an afternoon, and when they came back, they brought a bag of vegetables. Qin Chunxiao listened to the Russian broadcast in the kitchen tossing ingredients, while Li Ling took online classes in his room. In the living room, leaning on the sofa, hugging a Hamster plush, watching “The Old Man in the Frost” on the tablet.
At six o’clock, Li Ling wandered out and wandered around the kitchen: “What are we eating?”
Qin Chunxiao: “Rice and vegetables.”
Li Ling: “I asked what kind of food it is.”
Qin Chunxiao: “Roasted chicken legs, fried trout, beef rice, vegetable soup.”
This dialogue was exactly the same as the mother-child dialogue in a sitcom that Lu Xuandong had watched in his early years. He pinched himself to drive the strange thoughts out of his brain.
Before making beef rice, Qin Chunxiao first boiled the beef, and then used the broth to cook various vegetables, including cabbage, radish and wax gourd. After being fished out, it had a meaty taste, which could make Er Leng, who prefers meat, eat more vegetables .
Their diet was actually very light, there was no heavy oil, salt, or spicy food. At most, they added some color peppers with no spicy taste to add color, but it tastes good. How Team Xiaoqin handled it was unknown. The umami and rich meat flavors of the raw materials begin to permeate the taste buds, and the vegetables are also crisp and delicious.
Er Leng was holding the bowl in a daze: “Hurr, snort, snort!”
Qin Chunxiao showed dissatisfaction on the face: “This chicken leg is still delicious. Is it because Russian chicken is not as good as Wenchang chicken, or is my skill bad?”
Er Leng replied vaguely: “Chicken2‘s cooking skills are hard to compare with others. It is said that he lived in Italy entirely because of Fu Xiaoji’s cooking skills. Occasionally he got diarrhea after eating pizza. It’s a pity.”
Qin Chunxiao: “Well, when Chinese go abroad, they either find a reliable restaurant to cook, or they learn to cook by themselves.”
His cooking skills were also honed while playing in Brazil.
Lu Xuandong felt that the tone of the chat between the two was quite pleasant, like a cross talk.
Li Ling looked at Lu Xuandong again: “Brother Lu, I heard that you are going to study after retiring from the circle, where are you going to study?”
Lu Xuandong: “London School of Economics.”
Li Ling: “England? Then you have to practice cooking. I heard that the food in that corner is not good.”
Lu Xuandong was very confident: “I can cook.”
He has practiced the most authentic farm food since he was a child, and he can cook stoves, especially good at making pasta, pancakes and steamed buns. His former manager Long Zitan even praised him, “Dong, you just don’t want to be a singer. A restaurant can also make money.”
In addition, Lu Xuandong could also make fermented bean curd, cured meat, pickled fish, pickles and other food that can last for a long time. Anyway, he belongs to the group that will not die of hunger.
Speaking of pickled vegetables and bacon, the three of them had something to talk about at the table.
Qin Chunxiao said: “My mother doesn’t know how to bacon, but she can stuff sausages, you know Cantonese-style sausages…” Right?
Because he looked at Lu Xuandong in the second half of the sentence, his words suddenly stuck in his throat, and Qin Chunxiao coughed twice.
Li Ling answered naturally: “Auntie’s sausages are delicious, but unfortunately we can’t eat more, you haven’t learned this skill, and neither can my mother, and she cooks like a salt prince, with a delicious taste.” It’s so heavy, I can’t get used to it.”
Lu Xuandong: “I can also infuse incense… cough cough!”
Li Ling had no choice but to say, “Why don’t both of you talk to me, and suddenly choke in the middle of the words, and I feel bad for you.”
Both Qin Chunxiao and Lu Xuandong were a little embarrassed, and then they took out their tablets one after another: “Watch a movie and watch a movie.”
Lu Xuandong liked to watch Hong Kong movies, Qin Chunxiao liked to watch sci-fi movies, and Li Ling sat cross-legged in the middle as the referee: “You two, scissors and hammer paper, whoever wins will watch whose movie.”
Qin Chunxiao won, so he watched “Alien” tonight.
Li Ling hadn’t seen this before, the reason was “I’m afraid”, with Qin Chunxiao and Lu Xuandong around, he was strong enough to finish watching the movie, it was the ghost roaring and screaming when the alien appeared, Qin Chunxiao was not frightened by the alien, but almost frightened by him.
When the time came to 21:00, the three of them went to bed on time, Lu Xuandong thought he was ready, but the truth was that he was not.
Qin Chunxiao had taken a shower when he got home, in order to completely get rid of the smell of sweat on his body, now only Lu Xuandong needed to wash.
He took a change of clothes into the bathroom, lowered his head, and let the hot water pour over his head.
If Qin Chunxiao outside was just an ordinary same-sex friend, Lu Xuandong would never be so cautious, but it was still the same reason, when the world said “soulmates should be a couple”, everyone would always be affected.
But when he came out of the shower, he found that Captain Qin had fallen asleep.
The Hamster Club was well aware of the space needs of these big volleyball players. The beds in the players’ apartments were all 2mX2m.
Lu Xuandong walked to the side of the bed, the young man hugged the black and blue checkered quilt and breathed evenly, behind him was a duvet that had just been turned out, wrapped in a patterned quilt cover made of pure cotton brushed, it looked thicker than the quilt on Captain Qin.
Really fell asleep.
Lu Xuandong knelt on one knee beside the bed, quietly looking at Qin Chunxiao’s sleeping face.
He looked at Qin Chunxiao’s skin, which had tiny fluff under the orange light.
There were also thick eyelashes, which cast a feather-like shadow on the cheeks.
There were also Qin Chunxiao’s deeper eye sockets, red lips, and snow-white neck than ordinary people…
There was no ambiguity or intimacy in Lu Xuandong’s heart, he just felt that it would be great if the child could be healthy and happy all the time, and he could fall asleep when he said he fell asleep.
Yes, he was probably too matured by the wind and frost of life, many of his peers were too ignorant in the eyes of Lu Xuandong, he has experienced so much more than those people.
So he took it for granted that Qin Chunxiao was called a “child” in his heart, because Team Xiao Qin was only 16 years old and had been studying and playing games all the time. From his age to experience, he had always been a little prince living in an ivory tower.
But he was so brave, passionate, and daring to fight hard, and he was confident, independent, principled, and had mature views on feelings.
This child’s healthy personality and strong body were what Lu Xuandong admired, but he was not jealous at all.
He said silently: “You must not know how much courage you have given me.”
Outside the window was the winter wind from the north, and the whirring sound of the wind came to their ears through the crack of the window. Lu Xuandong lightly turned off the light, climbed into bed, got into the warm quilt, and closed his eyes.
Good night.
The next morning at six o’clock in the morning, Qin Chunxiao got up on time. He stretched first, then got up in a hurry, picked up the temperature gun and pressed it on Lu Xuandong’s ear.
Temperature gun: “Drop! 37.5!”
Lu Xuandong was awakened by his movement, and saw Team Xiao Qin quickly wash up, change into sportswear, turn on the TV to listen to news in Russian that only he could understand, and went to knock on Li Ling’s door again.
“Li Ling, get up and memorize vocabulary! Your mother said it! You haven’t passed CET-4 yet! You have to take CET-6 in the future, so don’t slack off!”
Li Ling screamed and rolled out of bed: “I’m up, I’m up!”
He also tapped his mobile phone to instruct Lu Xuandong to [Go and dry the clothes in the washing machine.]
Lu Xuandong obeyed the order and tidied up everything in the washing machine before getting up to wipe off his sweat. Qin Chunxiao put the cold medicine on the table.
He didn’t use his mobile phone to type, and Lu Xuandong knew that he had to take medicine by himself.
Li Ling had already opened the window, reciting the words aloud to the cold wind outside: “abandon!”
There was a barking of dogs upstairs, probably scared by him.
Li Ling stopped reciting the words, and raised her head and shouted: “Soso! Get up! Your dog needs to be walked, otherwise it will have to defecate at home again!”
There was a burst of yelling from upstairs: “Two Leng! I fucking reminded you not to yell early in the morning! Honey was scared to pee by you again!”
Qin Chunxiao took the phone and explained to Lu Xuandong [Honey is the name of the dog in Soso’s family. She is a Beagle. She was snubbed by an elephant in a circus before. After that, she was a little timid. Will pee when scared.】
After a while, someone was crying and howling outside the door, and then the whole building began to curse.
“Anton! Don’t hang your throat early in the morning!”
“Anton! You sing so badly!”
Anton yelled back unceremoniously: “You still make people live, you can’t practice your voice in the morning, and you can’t practice it in the evening, so when can I practice my love song and confess to Anastasia?”
Qin Chunxiao raised the phone [Anastasia is Anton’s classmate in college. 】
Soso yelled loudly: “If you really sing to Anastasia, then you will never be able to catch up with her in your life!”
Lu Xuandong: “…”
Are they always so crazy every morning?
Lu Xuandong guessed right, the Hamster club players’ apartments were so lively every morning, most of the players had a good habit of going to bed early and getting up early, Soso’s dog even needed to be walked early in the morning, and Er Leng had to recite vocabulary every day, but no one knew when he would be able to break through the barrier of “abandon” and memorize the next word.
However, if Er Leng succeeded in the postgraduate entrance examination in the future, the biggest contributor must be Qin Chunxiao.
Qin Chunxiao rushed to make breakfast again. Potato cakes and oatmeal were the staple food, as well as steamed eggs with minced meat. Avocado, cherry tomatoes, apples, oranges, and strawberries were all cut up, and mixed with yogurt and nuts into a salad.
Lu Xuandong found out yesterday that Qin Chunxiao’s cooking was particularly generous, and it wouldn’t be enough if he didn’t stuff people to 100% full, but the ingredients were all very healthy.
He was carrying the rice bowl and working hard to cook the rice. After chewing the well-matched and delicious food, it slided over the taste buds and entered the stomach along the esophagus. The hot porridge warmed the body, and the sweetness of the salad made the brain send a happy signal.
Li Ling sighed: “I was looking forward to eating pork balls, but you still only make beef balls.”
Qin Chunxiao: “Before I retire, there will never be pork on my table.”
In order to better control body fat, Qin Chunxiao doesn’t eat pork, so naturally Li Ling, who is with him, can’t eat it either.
Qin Chunxiao still had a cleanliness habit, but after returning home from training every day, he had no energy to clean up. Early morning was the only time he could take care of housework.
So after breakfast, Lu Xuandong saw Team Xiaoqin pull out vacuum cleaners, mops, rags and other equipment, and began to clean the apartment.
At this time, Lu Xuandong couldn’t stand still any longer. He silently rolled up his sleeves, washed all the dishes and chopsticks, then put on his gloves, took detergent into the kitchen, sprayed the stove, and began to wipe hard. Er Leng also worked tirelessly to clean the toilet.
At eight o’clock in the morning, Qin Chunxiao and Li Ling set off on time, ran to the Hamster Club with their teammates in the same apartment, and started formal training.
On this day, the temperature in St. Petersburg was minus 18 degrees.
Standing on the balcony, Lu Xuandong looked at the Hamster club players assembled downstairs, and found that this group of people only wore sportswear, and there were at most two pieces of clothing on them, not even a sweater.
Aren’t they cold?
Alexander stood up, took off his coat and threw it on his shoulders, beat his chest, and let out a battle roar, and the strong men ran with him, shouting slogans that Lu Xuandong couldn’t understand while running, and Qin Chunxiao mixed in with them.
Lu Xuandong was wrapped up like a bear, facing the cold wind, and sighed expressionlessly: “I really came to a magical place.”
