Ch12 - Just Like Him

Editor: Zoya001

From childhood to adulthood, Ning You has never been so troubled by a pair of pants before. 

It’s just a change of environment, but a simple task suddenly turned into a complicated one.

It’s not that he didn’t consider clipping the waistband of his pants, but the truth is the clothespins simply can’t bear the force of his pulling as he walks around.

He did think of finding a rope to use as a belt, but this way of wearing it was too crude, so he extinguished the thought as soon as it emerged.

Finally, he took Li Mu’s advice — to wear a plaid shirt alone. As a result, due to the ambiguous atmosphere Li Mu insisted Ning You wear pants. Ning You, who was so worn out, nearly lost his temper. Would you stop doing that? 

“Is this okay?”

Ning You switched to wearing Li Mu’s black T-shirt, whilst wrapping his waist with the plaid shirt, turning it into a shirt skirt.

In fact, human beings have always had various ways to cover up, but it was the first time Ning You encountered such a situation, and his wealth limited his imagination, so he finally found the best solution after repeated trial and error.

Li Mu eyed Ning You from top to bottom . His wide black T-shirt and looming knees still attracts infinite imagination, but they were better than the “free gift” just now.

“Okay.” Li Mu turned his head and continued cutting the potatoes in his hands.

After finally resolving this embarrassing situation, Ning You put the dirty clothes into a supermarket plastic bag and asked Li Mu, “Are you going to patrol the mountains later?”

“Yes.” Li Mu answered with his back to Ning You.

“Then please help me deliver my clothes to the dry cleaners at the foot of the mountain.” Ning You said, hanging the plastic bag on the hook at the entrance, “Can you ask them to deal with it urgently and help me get it back after you finish patrolling the mountain in the afternoon?” 

The sound of cutting potatoes stopped abruptly, Ning You was afraid of causing trouble, and added: “If you need to add money in an urgent way, let them add as much as they want.”

“You are really thoughtful.” Li Mu said.

“I wanted to talk to you when I called you just now.” Ning You knew it would make Li Mu take a long detour, but he trusted Li Mu to do him this favor, “But you hung up the phone before I had a chance to talk.”

“Then maybe you should give me another call.” Li Mu turned around to face Ning You, his body leaning on the kitchen countertop, his hands propped up at his side, “Who told you there was a dry cleaner at the foot of the mountain?” 

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“No,” Ning You looked at the thick coat in the bag, “How can I wash this by myself?” 

“If the sink is not enough for you, there’s still that big yard outside.” Li Mu turned around and continued to cook his lunch.

Ning You was flabbergasted. He only washed his handkerchief in elementary school physical labor class. How could he wash such a thick soft feathers jacket?

A demon suddenly appeared in Ning you’s ear and whispered faintly: Don’t wash it, isn’t it good to make do with it?

But another angelic figure immediately forked the demon villain away and reprimanded righteously: You fell flat on your face yesterday and got dust all over your clothes and pants! 

In the end, Ning You took a deep breath and carried the bag to the sink.

Of all the clothes, underwear is the best to wash first. Last night, Ning You was still resisting using Li Mu’s soap, but now he had to smear the soap all over his underwear.

It didn’t take much time to wash his underwear, Ning You wrung out the white cloth on his hand and put them aside, and then washed up his light green short sleeves.

The workload suddenly increased by several fold. Li Mu’s side has already cooked shredded potatoes, and Ning You’s side has been cleaning the foam on his short sleeves. 

“Are you massaging your clothes?” Li Mu put the plate on the dining table, and walked to Ning You’s side, took the short sleeves in his hand, and rubbed it, “Washing clothes requires force, how long are you going to keep washing it?”

The big hands sloshing in the pool were indeed very powerful, and Ning You can clearly see the bulging veins on the back of the hands and the muscles moving on his forearm.

The foam on the short sleeves were cleaned swiftly, just as Ning You was pressed into the corner of the sink, he looked up at Li Mu eagerly, his thoughts unconcealed on his face.

“Impossible.” Li Mu raised his eyebrows. He naturally saw that Ning You wanted him to help wash the rest of the clothes. He put his hands around Ning You’s waist and pushed him back to the middle of the sink, saying non-negotiably, “Wash it yourself.” 

“I can’t wash it.” Ning You looked at Li Mu.

“Then seriously, wash it.” Li Mu insisted, “I’ll cook for you and wash your clothes. Do you really think of me as your personal servant?”

Ning You looked at the apron on Li Mu and knew he had no reason to make any requests. He whispered, “No, I’m very grateful to you.” Then he honestly washed up the black cotton sports pants.

Li Mu went over to the kitchen to fry another dish, Ning You distractedly looked at Li Mu’s busy back and curiously asked, “Li Mu, how come you are so capable?” 

Li Mu didn’t turn around: “What capable?”

“Do you have so many siblings in your family?” Ning You guessed, “You’re the eldest and you have to take care of them, so you can do everything.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Ning You felt that this guess was wrong. He ignored the coffee machine. If Li Mu was born in a difficult family, he wouldn’t have such luxury goods.

“No.” Li Mu, as always, was too lazy to talk about his personal affairs. 

“Then how come you can do everything?” This time Ning You abandoned the art of chatting and chose to continue asking insensitively.

“If you mean washing clothes and cooking,” Li Mu said, “Then any normal person can.”

Ning You doesn’t think this is something everyone can do, at least his parents still can’t cook even though they are so old.

But it also made him realize one thing, his social circle naturally can’t represent the whole world. 

Outside the bustling city made of reinforced concrete, there are forests and grasslands under the blue sky and white clouds, where there is inexhaustible fresh air without air purifiers, and there is a quiet environment isolated from the world without soundproof glass.

There are no work calls and no interaction in the office here. He has a lot of time to enjoy life and experience new things that he has never been exposed to before.

When you think about it like this, washing clothes becomes less boring.

In the end, the little demon in Ning You’s mind still defeated the little angel. He decided to continue wearing the thick coat —— after all, he really didn’t have the confidence to wash it clean. 

Neither the short sleeves nor the trousers could be twisted dry enough, just as Li Mu had finished preparing lunch, Ning You twisted the short sleeves on his hands, turned his head and said to Li Mu, “Li Mu, come help me twist it. ”

Li Mu took off his apron and came to Ning You’s side. He picked up the white underwear on the side and twisted them hard. As a result, a hand suddenly snatched the underwear from his hand with lightning speed.

“I didn’t let you twist this!” Ning You blushed.

Li Mu was simply baffled. In fact, he squeezed out a lot of water indicating that Ning You didn’t squeeze dry the underwear. He came over to help with pure kindness, but somehow provoked this daxiaojie again. 

Hold on.

Li Mu suddenly realized something was wrong.

He picked up Ning You and took him home as if he had picked up a white swan. He would help if he could, and take care of him if he could. In short, in his eyes, Ning You was no different from the small animals he had rescued before. He occasionally teased Ning You, but only the same way he teased small animals.

But now looking at Ning You’s blushing face, he suddenly realized something. 

This white swan… is bent.

He didn’t know if it took too much effort to wash the clothes, but Ning You’s neck was seeping with fine beads of sweat, and his both hands were blistered red by the icy tap water.

Li Mu inexplicably had the feeling that the white swan in front of him suddenly transformed into a specific human form, wearing his t-shirt and wrapping his shirt.

He couldn’t help frowning and asked, “Are you sure you don’t want to stay at the foot of the mountain?” 

Ning You was stunned by the question, he didn’t expect that Li Mu would kick him out after he had merely chided him. He admitted that his tone just now was not very good, but Li Mu was not entirely right, who let him be so uncouth and touch his underwear at will?

“No.” Ning You replied stubbornly, “I will stay here with you.”

Li Mu was silent for a moment and said: “… All right.”

The author has something to say:

Ning You: Why are you so capable?

Li Mu: I haven’t done it yet.

Editor’s note: the subtle insinuations are becoming more and more exciting