Chapter 46 - Down jackets

Zhai family.

Papa Zhai Mother Zhai looked at each other, looked at each other, and then looked across at Huo Cheng.

Huo Cheng looks at the two of them awkwardly and unobtrusively.

" Xingchen he ...... "

"Oh, he's just sent a friend out. He's not back yet. You're a bit late, you know that friend, you're on the show together."

When Huo Cheng heard this, Hu Ying and Yan Zhi immediately came to mind.

"Is that so?" He asked with a smile, "Yes ......"

"Pei Xu." Mother Zhai said.

Huo Cheng froze for a moment.

I never thought it would be Pei Xu. Why is he here, passing through? Or did the crew have some secret filming assignment?

" Pei Xu?" He asked.

As soon as the words left his mouth, he heard the door open.

Papa Zhai stood up and said, " Xingchen is back."

Di Xingchen put down his keys and froze for a moment when he saw a pair of leather shoes in the entrance hall.

He puts on his slippers and goes in to see Huo Cheng standing in the living room.

Di Xingchen: "......"

Huo Cheng grinned, " Xingchen ."

"Why are you here!" Di Xingchen asked in surprise. Huo Cheng smiled and said, "I have nothing to do, I came over to play with you."

Huo Cheng came at a bad time, they had just finished dinner and the four of them were chatting in the living room for a while when Papa Zhai asked, "Has Mr. Huo eaten yet?"

Huo Cheng said, "Uncle, you don't have to be so polite, just call me by my first name."

He smiled brightly and said frankly, "I was planning to go out with Xingchen for a meal. I didn't think I'd be out looking for so long."

Papa Zhai got up immediately at that, "Then I'll go out and buy some vegetables."

"Uncle Zhai, you don't have to be busy, I'll go out with Xingchen later, I'll eat outside." Huo Cheng said and looked at Di Xingchen: "Shall we go?"

"Let's go out to eat." Di Xingchen said to Zhai's father.

He went to change his shoes, saying, "You should have come a bit earlier, Pei Xu just came too."

"I've heard."

Huo Cheng said goodbye to Papa Zhai and Mother Zhai and came out together with Di Xingchen. Papa Zhai and Mother Zhai hurriedly went back to carry the things he had brought and asked Di Xingchen to bring them back to him, and when Huo Cheng saw this, he said, "Uncle, auntie, if you keep doing this, I won't dare to come here again.

He is a good-looking man with a more straightforward personality, which is completely different from Pei Xu.

Papa Zhai smiled and said, "Next time come straight away and don't break the bank so much."

The gifts were so expensive, all high-end goods, that those who didn't know thought the new son-in-law had come to the house.

Pei Xu is here, Huo Cheng is here, when has the Zhai family ever had such an important guest.

The couple watched Di Xingchen and Huo Cheng walk away.

Huo Cheng is a little taller than Pei Xu, almost as tall as a basketball player, but he is well-built and looks good, with broad shoulders, long legs and an inch of hair, a young man who is spry and sharp.

Mother Zhai commented, "You look so much slimmer and younger than on the video."

He best fits the aesthetic of a straight man like Papa Zhai: "The boy is so handsome."

The back of Di Xingchen and him, one tall and one short, is a perfect match.

Mother Zhai has mixed feelings.

What to do, she found each of these guests more handsome than the other!

Is it really just friendship when they all come over to their house one by one?

she could only say that these rich people were better than she thought. she was worried that her son would be marginalised in the pile of rich kids, and she couldn't even sleep for the first two days.

she was worried, but knew that being on TV was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a dance student.

Now you can be completely at ease. Whatever the reason for the guests' visit, it at least shows that Di Xingchen gets on well with them and gets on well.

It's nice to make a few more friends too.

It's only been two days since I saw Di Xingchen, and Huo Cheng is so happy to see him again.

The joy was so overwhelming that it came out in a torrent, and just looking at Di Xingchen made his eyes fill with light.

"What do you want to eat?" Di Xingchen asks as he walks.

"You know the place, you can arrange it. Just have a bowl of noodles or something, I have other things to do this afternoon." Huo Cheng said.

Di Xingchen said, "Then I won't treat you to a big meal. How about some noodles? There's a lobster noodle place here that's so famous, there's a queue every day."

Huo Cheng nodded: "OK."

It's a narrow alleyway, but there are a lot of pedestrians, and from time to time people cross it on their motorbikes.

Di Xingchen asked, "Didn't you go abroad and come back so soon?"

"I'm back after a busy day. I wanted to have dinner with them, but I didn't have their contact details, so I came here to try my luck. Huo Cheng says, "Pei Xu and the others are easy to find, but I don't think it's a good idea to drop in on them. It's better to find you and feel comfortable."

That's true, that's the good thing about a commoner like him, I guess.

Unlike the Zhou family and the Hu family, where you might have to make an appointment to go to their house, there is pressure to enter their house. He understands.

But he found Huo Cheng a bit different from before.

Just eat the noodles and keep looking at him and smiling.

Di Xingchen then asked, "Why do you keep looking at me?"

Huo Cheng smiled and said, "I haven't seen you for two days and I still miss you."

Di Xingchen just laughed.

He'll miss everyone too.

Perhaps the recording of a variety show is so impressive that it leaves a mark and a psychological impact that is far more profound than in everyday life, making it hard to forget.

"Have you not slept well lately, the dark circles under your eyes are obvious."

Huo Cheng said, "I haven't slept well because I've been running back and forth between home and abroad, so I'll get a good night's sleep when I get back. Are you okay this afternoon? If you're not, go shopping for clothes with me and help me with advice."

Di Xingchen said, "If we both go shopping now, we'll be recognised, right?"

Huo Cheng asks, "Will it?"

"I heard from the show that the heat is pretty high. I'll go buy two masks later." Di Xingchen said.

He had been at home for two days and really wanted to get out and get some air.

After eating, the two of them took the car to the Hua Jiang Building.

For someone of Huo Cheng's stature, and buying clothes to wear on the show, it's only natural to buy big brands, and there's no more extravagant place in the whole of South City than the Huajiang Trade Building.

As they entered the lobby, they suddenly saw a group of young girls flanked by a beautiful girl coming out from inside, wearing sunglasses and followed by two bodyguards, all carrying things in their hands.

"It seems to be the who." Di Xingchen said.

A very famous little flower.

"I often bump into celebrities here, some for shopping, some for business events." Huo Cheng, used to it, says, "Let's go to the first floor."

They both went up to the men's section on the first floor.

Di Xingchen at first thought he was a staff member of a clothing brand, but later heard that the person was a shopper who came to serve Huo Cheng.

"You've got a counsellor and you're asking me to come." Di Xingchen said.

"You must have a better eye." Huo Cheng sends the man away and takes Di Xingchen to buy clothes.

He bought a lot of clothes, shirts, trousers, even ties and socks, and he let Di Xingchen choose them all for him.

"I'm a country boy, I can't do aesthetics." Huo Cheng said, "I see that the netizens are saying that I am the least fashionable and the most dowdy of the eight guests."

Di Xingchen said, "Don't read those words and don't take them seriously, no one is perfect, it's obvious how good you are, isn't it?"

Huo Cheng was even happier when he heard this and felt that it didn't matter if the whole world scolded him.

He took off his shirt in front of Di Xingchen, revealing his firm, toned waist and stomach.

Male dog waist, shark muscles, like a swift cheetah.

Di Xingchen laments that Longma's body is Qidian's soul.

Finally they went shopping for duvets.

Huo Cheng bought a super famous brand, a down jacket costs tens of thousands of dollars.

Huo Cheng is tall and well-built, so no matter how bulky the down jacket is, it looks like it's made to measure on him.

"Have you bought a down jacket?" Huo Cheng asks.

"I have the duvet."

"What brand?"

Di Xingchen just said a sign.

"That won't do, you don't know how cold it is in the North, it's thirty to forty degrees below zero right now." Huo Cheng finally said what he wanted, "Pick one, I'll give it to you."

"I don't need to."

"You really don't know how cold it is there." Huo Cheng said and beckoned the two ladies to come over, "Pick out a suit for him."

The two sales girls were also very enthusiastic and immediately introduced Di Xingchen to the store with great enthusiasm.

Di Xingchen said, "I really don't need it."

He looked at Huo Cheng, who saw that he was a bit embarrassed, so he asked the shopper to walk a little further away and whispered, "I want to give you a gift, so you should say yes. I brought you here because I want to buy you a suit too. You don't have to be embarrassed, just like when I went to a restaurant with you and you invited me, I wasn't even polite with you."

"It's only how much a bowl of noodles costs." Di Xingchen says with a smile.

"I'm not trying to be a big spender either," Huo Cheng says, "you really don't know how cold it is over there. This is warm, you may not be able to wear anything else."

"I was very well prepared for warmth." Di Xingchen said. "Really."

Huo Cheng cocked his head at him for a moment and said, "That really got me fired up."

Di Xingchen smiled and said, "I know what Brother Huo wants."

"You don't know shit." Huo Cheng said.

He didn't know if he was doing the right thing, but his heart was in the right place and he wanted to be good to Di Xingchen.

He's not as good at talking as Yan Zhi and the others, he's not very emotional, he has a simple brain.

When he earns money, he wants to spend it on the people he loves, on his parents, on his younger siblings, on the people who have helped him.

Isn't that what making money is all about? Isn't that what loving someone should be like? When you love someone, you want to treat them well, work hard and give them all the best in the world. I don't care if other men are like this, but he, Huo Cheng, is.

But Di Xingchen wouldn't take it, and he understood him perfectly.

It's not like he's his boyfriend. The two of them are just normal friends.

Huo Cheng didn't hold out any longer, he went back to buy scarves, trousers and jumpers, several of each.

Shopping at the mall was most time consuming and it wasn't long before it was evening and they both had another meal together and time seemed to pass extraordinarily quickly, when it was clear that yesterday he thought how the twenty-four hours of the day had gone by so long.

After dinner, Huo Cheng drove him home.

"Would you like to come in and sit down?" Di Xingchen asked.

"No." Huo Cheng said.

He looked to Di Xingchen and said, "I'll see you in the North then."

Di Xingchen nods.

Huo Cheng wanted to go up and give Di Xingchen a hug, but he resisted.

His heart was so soft, it had never been so soft in his life. He looked at Di Xingchen and he wanted to cry, ridiculous or not.

Just felt so much like him.

"Let's go." He said.

Di Xingchen saw Huo Cheng walking back, and only then did he go upstairs, where it was already completely dark, but the lights in the hallway were still on. When he returned home, Mother Zhai got up from the sofa and asked, "What took you so long?" "I went shopping for clothes with Brother Huo." Di Xingchen said, "Where's my father?"

"Went out for a drink with friends."

Di Xingchen had just taken off his shoes when he heard a knock on his door.

"Eh." He responded, turning back to open the door, and saw a shopping bag sitting in the doorway.

It looks like he bought it with Huo Cheng.

He froze for a moment, put on his slippers, grabbed his shopping bags and came out. He heard someone running down the stairs and chased after them, running out of the building to see a car parked just below them, lights on and not even turned off. Huo Cheng just got into the car.

" Brother Huo!" Di Xingchen shouted.

Huo Cheng smiled and waved a hand at him, leaning over and shouting, "Let's go, Di Xingchen!"

Three words he called out clearly and forcefully, and he often called him by his full name with a flavour that no one else could. The street lights suddenly all came on, from south to north, and the world was suddenly bright.

Di Xingchen shuffles to a stop, sighs and looks down at the shopping bag, which contains a white down jacket.

In the barbershop next door, a very hushed song played from a broken speaker, singing

[Xingchen Bright and dark, bright and dark, silent and bystander, you are the brightest of them all].