A bloody knife

The room was emptied, leaving only the overwhelmed joy of "Ah Ning received the milk tea".

……

"This is for me?"

Qiao Ran swallowed, suppressed the tension in her heart, stared straight at the person in front of her, and asked cautiously.

The person holding the milk tea did not show any abnormality on his usual indifferent face: "No?"

Qiao Ran was afraid that he would go back on his word, so he quickly stretched out his hand. The action was too hasty, but he accidentally touched the opponent's hand.

The temperature of the man's body is completely different from his attitude towards others.

Qiao Ran was born with a cold body, and her body would start to get cold after autumn. She was healthy, but her hands that looked like they had been soaked in ice water could easily make people misunderstand that she was sick.

So when he touched the warm hand, he was so greedy that he forgot to retract it for a moment, and stood still for about a minute before realizing it, hurriedly took the thing, and withdrew his hand.

Immediately, he changed the positions of the things in both hands, and as usual, slowly sent the cup of milk tea he bought to Zhao Ning's hands.

The milk tea was taken away.

Qiao Ran was stunned again, and heard Zhao Ning's cold voice: "Don't buy it in the future."

The uplifted mood suddenly fell because of these words, and he buttoned his coat with his neatly manicured short nails, and he asked sullenly, "Don't you like it, Ah Ning?"

But there was no reply from the other party.

The milk tea that Zhao Ning gave seemed to warm his heart with the warmth of his body, and Qiao Ran quickly cleared away his negative emotions.

"Ah Ning, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, where are you going to celebrate the New Year?"

"I won't go back this year, will Ah Ning go back to accompany Auntie and the others?"

"If A-Ning doesn't go back, this year's Chinese New Year, I'll come to see A-Ning, okay?"

"We can make dumplings together. If Ah Ning doesn't want to make dumplings, I'll do it. I won't bother Ah Ning for a long time. I just want to have a meal with Ah Ning, can you?"

If you ask, ask all the way to the entrance of the community.

Qiao Ran said goodbye to him as usual, and waited for his back to disappear before opening the milk tea Zhao Ning gave him. He took a sip and smacked his lips in aftertaste. cute.

Snapped.

The milk tea that had been tasted fell into the trash can again.

……

The annual leave starts on the 28th, and I have to go back to work on the fifth day of the lunar new year.

The refrigerator at home was still full, and Zhao Ning stayed in the house for several days without going out.

New Year's Eve came so quietly.

Early in the morning, someone rang the bell outside the door.

Zhao Ning went to open the door and saw people from the community without any surprise. The other party smiled and said happy new year to him, and gave him one of the packets of blessing characters and couplets in his hand.

This is a gift that residents in the community can receive every year.

Zhao Ning glanced at the opposite door, and the word "Fu" on the door was almost unrecognizable - it was pasted by the resident last year, and it is estimated that this year's will be changed soon.

Your own door is clean.

Zhao Ning also had no intention of posting the word "Fu" this year, so he took something into the door and put it on the shoe cabinet in the entrance.

Night falls.

Zhao Ning took out a pack of wontons from the freezer, thought for a while, and took an egg from the freezer.

When the water was about to boil, the phone rang.

"Ah Ning, have you eaten yet?"

There was a little tenderness in the answering voice: "Well, I'm doing it."

"What did you do?"

The water in the pot began to boil, Zhao Ning turned on the hands-free, put the mobile phone on the stage, and poured the unpacked wonton bag into the pot, the boiling water was bubbling, and there was no movement immediately.

"I bought shrimp, killed a fish, and fried a few dishes."

Zhao Ning reported a few things without changing his face, and closed the lid of the pot smoothly.

The woman breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. I thought you were eating those unnutritious frozen foods again. Listen to Mom, those foods are not good to eat, so try not to eat them, you know."

"Ah."

"Your dad is here, do you want to have a word with him? Ah Ling, it's Ah Ning..."

There was an unclear dispute coming from the other end, Zhao Ning didn't listen carefully, and when Zheng Qin read his name, the call was cut off without warning.

He was not surprised. The wonton was not yet cooked, so he took the mobile phone, transferred most of the money on the card to an account, and then turned off the phone.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Zhao Ning leaned on the sofa in the living room for a while.

Stayed until almost ten o'clock.

Zhao Ning seldom drank alcohol, and secretly tasted it a few times in the name of rebellious period in high school.

Now you can enjoy it as you like, but you have lost interest.

It was rare to have the idea of ​​having a bite tonight, and as soon as this idea came to mind, he executed it neatly.

When he opened the door, he found a long and thin black figure drawn out in front of the door.

He subconsciously turned his head and met the person who was sitting on the ground against the wall and playing with his mobile phone.

The light in Qiao Ran's eyes was as bright as a star in an instant: "Ah Ning, you are really going out!"

As he spoke, he leaned against the wall and wanted to stand up, but his legs were numb from maintaining one movement for a long time, and the movement of getting up was too fast, and he stabbed straight at Zhao Ning's position in an instant.

All the weight fell on Zhao Ning's legs, Qiao Ran took a breath, then raised her head, begging softly with some grievances: "Ah Ning, my legs are numb, can you give me a hand?"

two

"Why are you going out, Ah Ning? Are you going shopping?"

After Qiao Ran entered the room, his eyes kept rolling. He looked around Zhao Ning's room carefully before entering the kitchen.

The man was boiling water, and when he heard him ask, he nodded.

Qiao Ran didn't expect that Zhao Ning would answer him. When she saw his movements, her face lit up with joy, and she leaned over to him, and continued to ask, "Have you not eaten yet? Did A Ning just wake up?"

Zhao Ning stopped answering, and narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the bubbling kettle.

Qiao Ran started talking to himself again.

"Actually, I just came here to try my luck. When I came, I asked Uncle Wang, and he said that you haven't gone out for several days..."

"Ask Uncle Wang?"

Unexpectedly, Zhao Ning would speak suddenly, and Qiao Ran's mouth was stuck with a string of words that had not been uttered. After tasting the three words of Zhao Ning in his mouth, he felt a little doubtful, and scratched his head: "Well, actually, I've been downstairs these few days, but!"

He raised his head, and the light in his eyes flickered like a candle: "I don't know if you went out in the middle of the night, so I didn't lie to you, I really asked Uncle Wang."

The man stopped talking again, Qiao Ran glanced at him anxiously, not sure if it was an illusion, but he always felt the corner of his mouth twitch slightly for a moment.

He raised his hand and wiped his eyes, but before he recognized him again, the man turned sideways, Qiao Ran watched him unplug the kettle, and asked, "Ah Ning, did you laugh just now?"

Naturally, Zhao Ning would not answer. He took the water cup and poured it into Qiao Ran's hands.

The water in the water glass was only half filled, and Qiao Ran held the upper half of the glass tightly, so that the temperature he felt was just right, not too hot, but also able to dispel the chill from his hands.

He interpreted this as the man's silent thoughtfulness, and thanked him happily.

From Zhao Ning's position, one could see the young man holding the water glass tightly, with his head slightly lowered, and the joy on his face was clearly visible. He breathed softly, and when he felt that it was almost done, he put his lips against the edge of the glass and took a small sip. Drooling.

Like some kind of animal, harmless and cute.

"Ah Ning, my phone is out of battery."

After drinking the water, Qiao Ran remembered another thing.

Zhao Ning took the water glass in his hand, put it under the water and rinsed it briefly, put it back in the middle of the other water glasses, turned and walked out: "Come out."

"Huh? Oh, good."

Qiao Ran quickly followed him, looking at the bedroom door that was facing him wide open, and seeing Zhao Ning's posture of going straight forward, he was instantly stunned by the surprises that came one after another.

A hand grabbed his sleeve suddenly, he came back to his senses, and blinked, where is he?

"Where?"

A deep voice sounded beside him. Qiao Ran turned her head and found that Zhao Ning was already sitting on the sofa. As soon as he stopped, he quickly retracted his hand.

Qiao Ran realized that she had misunderstood, and glanced in the direction of the bedroom, and then sat next to him, shaking her head: "No, I will be where Ah Ning is."

As he said that, he took the charging cable handed over by Zhao Ning, and just as he was about to find an outlet, he handed over a power bank with 58 batteries left.

Qiao Ran: "..."

After charging the phone, Qiao Ran put the things aside casually, glanced at the distance between himself and Zhao Ning from the corner of his eye, and silently moved a short distance towards him.

It seemed to be too close, Zhao Ning stood up, Qiao Ran turned pale, hesitantly wanted to sit back, but Zhao Ning just took the remote control on the coffee table and handed it to him: "Choose it yourself."

While Qiao Ran took it, she made an effort to get closer, and now the two of them were so close that there was no gap at all.

He was still uneasy, and after he sat down, he quickly turned his head, and pretended to be distressed, and began to press the remote control: "What should I watch? I should watch the Spring Festival Gala on this day, but in fact I have no interest in the Spring Festival Gala. Ah Ning wants to watch the Spring Festival Gala." ?"

"Ning probably doesn't like it either, right? Let's watch a variety show. There's a variety show that's very popular recently, so let's just watch that one, shall we?"

Qiao Ran waited for a few seconds, then bent her lips: "If Ah Ning doesn't say anything, I'll pretend to be Ah Ning and agree. I'll look for it, and it's really popular, and there's a home page!"

He clicked on the variety show, and when he was waiting for the advertisement, he put the remote control aside and glanced aside pretending not to care. The man was standing upright, staring at the TV screen in front of him expressionlessly.

Looking down, Qiao Ran was satisfied.

He and Ah Ning are still sticking together.

Ah Ning did not hide.

At the end of the commercial, Qiao Ran finally remembered the reason why he was able to meet Zhao Ning today.

"Aren't you going shopping? Sorry,