On this day, Ruan Qi got up earlier than usual.

These days, she is always anxious about Wang Yue Linting going to college, and often stays up late checking her phone to browse university forums. If you stay up late and go to bed late, you will wake up late. The sun was almost beating down on her buttocks, so Ruan Qi got up from the bed. Because of this, she didn't know what time Xi Jiu got up these days.

Until today, Ruan Qi suddenly got up early in the morning.

It was not yet seven in the morning and she woke up.

Ruan Qi opened her eyes, but before she could fully wake up, her hand habitually moved towards the other side of the bed.

During the days when she returned to the village, Xi Jiu would sneak in and sleep with her every night. The Ruan family all turned a blind eye. Occasionally they encountered Xi Jiu sneaking into Ruan Qi's room, but they all pretended to be blind and didn't see it.

And Ruan Qi is also used to sleeping in Xi Jiu's arms every night. She got up so early today, but found that Xi Jiu was not holding her. This made Ruan Qi a little uncomfortable, and she subconsciously touched the bedside.

As a result, I got nothing.

The bed was ice cold, and there was not even a shadow of Xi Jiu.

Ruan Qi's sleepiness suddenly became energetic.

She sat up from the bed, her eyes swept over the other half of the bed, and then looked at the bathroom in the bedroom.

There was no sound of washing in the bathroom, so Xi Jiu probably wasn't there.

But it’s just less than seven o’clock, where can Jiujiu go? Did he go for a morning run?

Full of doubts, Ruan Qi opened the quilt and got out of bed, changed her clothes and opened the bedroom door.

On the first floor of the villa, most of the Ruan family members have already gotten up.

Nie Beilou, the second elder of the Ruan family and Mr. Xi were doing Tai Chi in the yard to the music. Ruan Fengmian and Ruan Munan were cooking in the kitchen, while Yang Liu and Cheng Jinyan were sitting in the restaurant picking vegetables.

Ruan Qi walked down the stairs and scanned the first floor, but surprisingly did not find Xi Jiu.

"Brother, where is Jiujiu?"

Ruan Qi's questioning voice came into the restaurant.

Cheng Jinyan, who was picking vegetables with his head down, suddenly raised his head, with a look of surprise on his handsome face.

"Xiao Qi, why are you awake?"

Ruan Qi:? ? ?

Why is Brother's tone so strange?

Ruan Qi was confused by the question and asked Cheng Jinyan blankly: "Shouldn't I wake up?"

Cheng Jinyan: "..."

Cheng Jinyan knew he had lost his composure, so he coughed quickly and calmly made up for himself: "No. What I mean is, I didn't expect you to wake up so early. Don't you usually wake up after nine or ten o'clock? Why is it not seven o'clock today?" Did you get up at 0:00? Didn’t you sleep well last night?”

Cheng Jinyan, who has always been a man of few words, rarely spoke so much at once.

Normally, Ruan Qi would have noticed something unusual about him. But today, she was so focused on Xi Jiu who had disappeared so early in the morning that she didn't notice anything strange about Cheng Jinyan.

"I slept very well last night and didn't stay up late, so I got up early today. Brother, have you seen Jiujiu? I didn't see him in the bedroom."

Ruan Qi's question made Cheng Jinyan stiffen again.

He said 'uh', hesitated for half a second, and then said vaguely: "He...he's out."

"Going out?" Ruan Qi walked down the stairs and frowned, "Where have you been? Did you go for a morning run?"

Cheng Jinyan was not very good at lying and was worried about how to answer Ruan Qi. When he heard Ruan Qi's words, he immediately nodded.

"Yes," he said, "Xi Jiu went for morning exercise and will be back in a while. Xiao Qi, are you hungry? Breakfast is not ready yet. Do you want to drink some milk first to cushion your stomach?"

Knowing that Xi Jiu had gone to do morning exercises, Ruan Qi no longer worried about him. She rubbed her flat belly and her attention was drawn to her breakfast.

"Okay, I'm a little hungry. I'll listen to my elder brother and drink a glass of milk first."

Ruan Qi said, going to the kitchen to heat milk.

When Cheng Jinyan saw this, he immediately put down the vegetables and stood up: "I'll help you heat it up. There is oil smoke in the kitchen and it's very fuzzy."

After saying that, he opened his long legs and entered the kitchen in a few steps.

Ruan Qi was deprived of the right to enter the kitchen, so she had no choice but to wait outside the kitchen door and watch her father and two brothers busy in the kitchen.

But as she looked at it, her eyebrows wrinkled again.

"Brother, where is Coyotito?"

Men in the Ruan family have always cooked, so both the Ruan family and his son, as well as Nie Heng, have good cooking skills.

On weekdays, unless there is something special, Ruan Fengmian and Ruan Munan usually cook dinner. Breakfast was completed by two juniors, Nie Heng and Ruan Munan.

But today, Ruan Qi did not see Nie Heng in the kitchen, but Ruan Fengmian, who was responsible for cooking dinner, appeared in the kitchen.

Ruan Qi felt a little strange. She was worried whether Nie Heng was sick, so she asked.

Unexpectedly, her question made the three men in the kitchen stiffen.

It was not obvious that Ruan Fengmian was cooking with his back to the kitchen door, but Cheng Jinyan, who was holding a milk cup, and Ruan Munan, who was washing the dishes, trembled and almost dropped the cups and plates in their hands to the ground.

"Uh..." Cheng Jinyan quickly grasped the milk cup and made up reasons at the speed of light in his mind, "Nie Heng... Nie Heng, he, he..."

"He also went for morning exercises." Ruan Munan spoke in time.

Cheng Jinyan nodded quickly: "Yes, yes. He went to morning exercise with Xi Jiu."

Ruan Qi:? ? ?

That kid usually has to be whipped away even when practicing martial arts. How can such a lazy person get up so early to do morning exercises?

The sun rises from the west?

Ruan Qi always felt that something was not right.

Is it because she woke up too early and didn't get enough sleep?

Why do you always feel like Big Brother and the others are weird?

Ruan Qi frowned, and the doubts in his eyes almost overflowed. Cheng Jinyan and Ruan Munan were afraid that she would continue to think about it, so one of them pushed her to the restaurant, and the other gave her the hot milk.

"The milk is ready, drink it quickly. Breakfast will be ready soon. Eat more later."

Ruan Qi's attention was immediately drawn away by the delicious breakfast.

When she reacted again, the entire Ruan family was already sitting at the dinner table.

"The dishes are all here, let's start dinner." Ruan Munan put the last pickle on the table, then took off his apron, pulled out a chair and sat down.

Ruan Qi, who was holding a cup and drinking milk, made a move.

"Dinner is about to start, why haven't Jiujiu and Xiaozizi come back yet?" She looked up at the clock on the wall, "What time did they go out? Does morning jogging take so long? How about I go look for them?" Bar."

The Ruan family members who were busy eating suddenly froze in their hands holding chopsticks.

"Ah... There's no need to look for it. What could happen to these two grown men? They'll definitely be back soon." Mr. Xi said as he gave Ruan Qi a bun. "Xiao Qi, eat quickly and leave them alone."

Ruan Qi was still a little worried: "But Jiujiu and Coyotito..."

It's really abnormal that I haven't come back from my morning exercise until breakfast time.

Ruan Qi was worried and wanted to go look for it. But before he finished speaking, the door of the villa was opened.

"I'm back!" It was Nie Heng's voice.

Ruan Qi immediately raised his head. Across the dining room and living room, she saw Nie Heng standing at the door changing shoes. Standing behind Nie Heng was Xi Jiu, who had disappeared early in the morning.

Seeing the two people coming back, Ruan Qixuan's heart finally dropped.

"Why do you two take so long to practice in the morning? I almost want to go find you."

Nie Heng, who was changing his shoes, heard Ruan Qi's words. Without thinking, he subconsciously asked: "Morning exercise? We don't have morning... Uh-huh!"

Before he finished speaking, Xi Jiu, who was standing behind him, shot like lightning and covered his mouth.

Ruan Qi:? ? ?

"Jiujiu, why are you covering Coyotito's mouth? What did Coyotito just say? Did you do anything?"

Nie Heng also reacted at this time and shook his head in panic, not knowing how to answer.

Xi Jiu released her hand covering his mouth, put on her slippers, and said calmly as she walked to the restaurant, "It's nothing. Nie Heng wanted to say that we didn't go for a morning jog, but went to the back mountain to do some stretching."

Ruan Qi suddenly realized.

"It turned out that I went to the back mountain. No wonder I came back so late. But there are stretching equipment in the small square. What are you doing in the back mountain?"

"The air in the back mountain is good." Xi Jiu lied without blushing. He looked calm and calm, but he even held his chopsticks backwards.

Seeing Xi Jiu about to pick up the buns with the thick end of the chopsticks, Ruan Qi quickly stopped him: "Jiujiu, you are holding the chopsticks backwards."

Xi Jiu made a movement, and then calmly turned his chopsticks in the face of everyone's teasing eyes.

He picked up a bun mechanically and had just taken a bite when he heard Ruan Qi next to him ask again: "You and Coyotito have been working out for so long, why don't you sweat? You don't even smell of sweat."

"..." Xi Jiu's heart, which had just calmed down, began to beat wildly again.

He tried to keep his expression steady and said calmly: "I passed by a river and jumped in to take a bath when no one was around. The sweat was washed away."

Ruan Qi:? ? ?

Two grown men jumped naked into the river to take a bath in broad daylight?

Aren't you afraid that passers-by might see you?

She couldn't imagine how Xi Jiu could take off his clothes and take a bath in the river with such a cold temperament.

How much sweat did you sweat? Can't wait that much?

Ruan Qi didn't understand, but was greatly shocked.

The other Ruan family members were also shocked by Xi Jiu's words.

Ruan Munan, who was sitting on Xi Jiu's right hand, endured it again and again, and finally pinched his thigh hard before he could barely resist the urge to laugh.

Ruan Qi took a long time to recover from the shock of Xi Jiu jumping into the river to take a bath for most of the day.

She calmed herself down, coughed, and advised softly: "Although few people go to the back mountain, it's not good to bathe in the open-air river under the clear sky. Next time you and Coyotito do morning exercise, you'd better go home. Wash it."

Xi Jiu stiffened her body, nodded, and said 'hmm' without any expression.

Seeing that he agreed, Ruan Qi felt relieved.

She lowered her head again and was about to eat when Xi Jiu suddenly said: "Baby, do you have time tonight?"

"Huh?" Ruan Qi took a bite of the buns and raised her eyes in confusion, "Tonight? I have time. What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"

Xi Jiu said 'hmm', with an imperceptible nervousness in her voice: "There will be a movie in the small square tonight. I have never seen an outdoor movie in the village, and I want to see it. Can my baby accompany me?"

Open-air movies are often played in the village, and Ruan Qi has watched them since she was a child.

So when Xi Jiu said this, she did not become suspicious, but raised her head in surprise: "There is an outdoor movie tonight? Okay, I'll go watch it with you. Mom and Dad, do you want to go together?"

Coming

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