Let Me Ruffle Your Fur a Little - Chapter 54

Chapter 54 The Truth

When Mu Muer woke up the next day, Bai Yao was not by his side, and he was alone in the room, which seemed a bit deserted and lonely.

Mu Muer lay on the bed for a while, stared at the ceiling in a daze for a long time, and then went out to look for him after a long time.

Bai Yao was sitting on the sofa in the living room outside, his hair was a little messy, not tied up, and a few strands fell down the side of his face. There were a lot of cigarette butts accumulated in the ashtray on the coffee table, and the cigarette held by his fingertips was almost burned out.

His mind was full of thoughts, Bai Yao didn’t hear Mu Mu’er coming out of the room, and without even raising his head, he put the cigarette to his lips and took a deep breath, holding it for two seconds before letting it out.

Seeing his gloomy face, Mu Muer stood at the door of the room and hesitated for a while, not daring to go over.

“Yaoyao.” He yelled in a very low voice, rubbing his hands together, at a loss.

The room was filled with the smell of smoke, Mu Mu’er was choked and coughed, fearing that she would disturb Bai Yao, she coughed halfway and forced herself to hold it back.

When Bai Yao heard the voice, he recovered his senses and looked up, and saw the boy standing there with aggrievedness at the door. Mu Muer drooped her head, her loose T-shirt fell a little from her shoulders, and she could see her collarbone fossa.

He put out the cigarette in the ashtray, got up to open the window, and rubbed Mu Muer’s head when he passed by.

“morning.”

Mu Muer didn’t like the smell of cigarettes on Bai Yao’s body, and felt that it was different from usual. Bai Yao didn’t smoke often, even if he had a good time occasionally, he would definitely avoid him. After smoking in the yard, he went upstairs to change his clothes before going to him.

But today the smell of cigarettes in the living room was choking. He didn’t like it. He felt that Bai Yao was fierce and cold today. Mu Muer followed him like a tail, walked two steps to the floor-to-ceiling window, and followed Bai Yao back to the sofa after opening the window.

Bai Yao sat down on the sofa, and Mu Muer stood in front of him, looking down at Bai Yao’s face secretly.

He glanced at the pile of cigarette butts in the ashtray again, licked his lips, and asked his most curious question: “Where’s brother?”

Mu Yi didn’t say anything else last night, after hearing Bai Yao’s sexual orientation, he just kept silent for a long time, and then went back to the hotel. After he left, Bai Yao sat in the living room until late at night before going back to his room to sleep, and woke up before seven o’clock in the morning.

Bai Yao slightly raised his eyebrows at Mu Muer: “Miss him?”

“I don’t want to.” Mu Mu’er immediately shook her head, thought for a while, then lowered her head to observe Bai Yao’s expression, “Yao Yao is not happy.”

He wasn’t asking a question, but just telling what he saw, with a flattering tone, and carefully guessed: “Is it because of brother?”

Bai Yao looked at Mu Muer’s appearance of a child who did something wrong, sighed softly, pulled his wrist to let him lean into his arms, and rubbed his back twice: “I’m not unhappy, I’m not hungry. Hungry?”

Mu Muer shook her head slightly.

He didn’t eat much last night, and now he has no appetite, Bai Yao is a little worried.

You can do whatever you want, but Mu Muer can’t do it if you’re hungry.

He got up and went to make a cod salad and seafood stewed egg for Mu Muer, and he was relieved after watching him eat all of them.

At half past ten in the morning, Mu Yi came over.

He still drove the Maybach, but without the three bodyguards, he came by himself and parked behind the restaurant, completely out of sight from the street.

When Mu Yi came here yesterday, he was wearing a suit, but today he changed into casual clothes, a simple low-key black T-shirt and jeans, he doesn’t look so cold, but he still looks like an elite ascetic.

When Mu Yi entered the store, Mu Muer was sitting on a chair in the corner playing Moon Rabbit Adventure on Bai Yao’s mobile phone. She was having so much fun that her head was almost buried on the screen.

There is a gashapon machine in the game. If you have a ticket, you can twist the toy out. Mu Muer found a donut bread last time, which was his favorite thing, and he always thought that Moon Rabbit could eat it when he was hungry.

He also wanted to see if he could get something good. He was concentrating on clicking on the gashapon machine icon on the screen, but he heard a sound coming from the door.

Mu Muer raised her head curiously, and saw that it was her brother, she was a little flustered, her eyes widened, and she almost missed the phone.

He wanted to get up and go to the kitchen to look for Bai Yao, but Mu Yi was standing in the way, so Mu Muer poked his head to look at the kitchen, and finally sat there without daring to move, and even shrank back a little.

Mu Yi called him: “Mu Mu.”

It took Mu Muer a long time to realize that it was calling him, and he hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn’t help correcting: “It’s not Mu Mu, it’s Mu’er.”

“Um.”

Mu Muer really wanted to go to the kitchen, so she huddled pitifully on the stool. His expression is particularly like a kitten whose tail has been grabbed. He wants to run but can’t. He can only bend down and pretend that he doesn’t exist at all.

Mu Yi could see this appearance, he could see that he was really uncomfortable, he didn’t force it, he retreated to the corner of the restaurant calmly, gave up a little space, and watched Mu Mu’er get up and run into the kitchen with relief.

“Yaoyao.” Mu Muer pulled the corner of Bai Yao’s clothes, instinctively wanting to shrink into Bai Yao’s arms, but Bai Yao was facing the table, and he couldn’t squeeze in.

Bai Yao was cleaning the fresh conch in the pond with a brush, without turning around, he said, “Well, are you hungry?”

Mu Muer didn’t answer for a long time, Bai Yao felt strange, just about to turn around, he heard him whisper, “Brother is here.”

Bai Yao put down the things in his hand, turned around and glanced through the window on the kitchen door, “Mu’er go out to accompany brother first, Yaoyao will be here soon.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at Mu Muer’s eyes and suddenly became aggrieved. The boy shook his head vigorously, and got closer to Bai Yao again.

“What a coward.” Bai Yao scratched Mu Mu’er’s nose, had no choice but to pour a glass of water, and walked out of the kitchen with him.

After Mu Yi heard the voice, he raised his head and nodded his chin to Bai Yao.

“Sit down, what do you want to drink?” Bai Yao put the water on the table, speaking in a somewhat distant tone.

Mu Yi didn’t care about Bai Yao’s polite tone towards the guests, sat down in the booth where he sat yesterday, and said, “I’ll come and see him.”

He took out a sea otter plush doll from behind as if by magic, placed it on the table, let it sit facing Mu Muer, but didn’t say anything.

The doll is a bit old, but it is washed very clean, as if it has been washed again and again, and it is slightly faded.

Mu Muer poked his head out behind Bai Yao, and after Bai Yao sat in the booth, he followed and sat next to Bai Yao.

After sitting down, he looked curiously at the doll on the table, obviously wanting to pick it up to have a look, but he didn’t dare, he glanced at Mu Yi, then at the doll, his eyes were filled with longing.

Mu Yi waited for a while, seeing that Mu Muer didn’t intend to reach out to take it, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, he picked up the doll and handed it to Mu Muer himself.

The doll little sea otter is very cute, a small round one, about the size of a basketball, soft and soft, holding it in his arms is like holding a cloud in the sky.

Mu Muer hugged her and didn’t want to let go. She even pinched the beard of the little sea otter twice, and couldn’t hide the liking on her face.

It was a bit hot in the store, Mu Muer hugged the doll with one hand, and inadvertently brushed up the broken hair on the forehead with the other hand, exposing the coolness of the forehead.

There is a three-centimeter-long scar on his forehead, which is very close to the hairline, and the hair on his forehead can usually cover it tightly. With this flick, the scar can be seen much more clearly.

Bai Yao remembered that he had seen it before, but he didn’t pay attention to it at the time. After all, Mu Mu’er had too many scars to count, and he just regarded it as being bullied by other sea otters.

But Mu Yi had never seen this scar before, and was about to speak when he was attracted by Mu Muer’s forehead. He frowned, stared at it for a while, and raised his hand to touch: “How did you do this?”

Seeing Mu Yi stretching out his hand suddenly, Mu Muer shrank back reflexively, avoiding his touch, with a little panic in her eyes.

Mu Yi’s hand was still hanging in the air, and finally fell slowly.

Both of them looked at him, Mu Muer swallowed, and suddenly felt a little nervous. He didn’t like the feeling that all the attention was on him, and his heart began to beat faster.

Bai Yao squeezed his hand under the table, coaxing him softly: “It’s okay, Yaoyao is here. Mu’er wants to talk.”

Mu Muer frowned and thought for a while, then slowly said: “I got lost, I couldn’t find my brother, fell down, and just… fell into the water, that long, long sea.”

“Bumping your head, it hurts so much.” Having said this, Mu Muer turned to look at Bai Yao, with a little bit of grievance in her eyes.

Bai Yao thought for a while before he understood what he was talking about.

The long sea in the city can only be the river running through the center of the city.

The river in the center of City C was pitch black at night, only a small piece of water was illuminated by the occasional ferry. The place near the river bank is full of big rocks. Mu Muer fell from the bank and was lucky not to break her arms and legs.

He spoke very slowly, jumping out a few words, stopping and resting in the middle of a sentence, and it took him a long time to continue.

Neither Bai Yao nor Mu Yi urged him, they quietly waited for him to finish speaking.

Mu Mu’er had never said so much in one breath, and she gradually let go of it and her voice became louder.

“I can’t remember how to change into a human being. The sea otter is fine. Mu’er is looking for friends. There are friends by the sea, so many, such a big group!”

Mu Mu’er is actually not afraid of Mu Yi, but when he sees Mu Yi, he can’t help but think of the scene when he couldn’t find a home and was wandering outside.

Lost, can’t find the way home, and doesn’t even remember how to change form, so he has to be a real sea otter all the time.

He wasn’t born mentally handicapped either, it was because of an injury.