Under meals

Tao Mingzhuo hadn't listened to several lectures since he was a child.

Class time is his painting time.What others write on the desk is a cheat sheet, while Tao Mingzhuo relishes drawing the distorted face of the teacher on the podium due to anger.

The desk is the drawing board, with a pencil and an eraser, Tao Mingzhuo can complete a high-quality sketch in one class.

He doesn't have much talent in learning. Instead of memorizing or copying the inherent knowledge, Tao Mingzhuo prefers to innovate based on his own feelings and explore the unknown without restraint.

This is one of the reasons why Tao Mingzhuo likes painting.

Kissing is the same for him, Tao Mingzhuo is so stupid, he can't understand it, but he always wants to play freely.

At the beginning, he tried his best to imitate the way Jing Ci kissed him just now, and put his lips on carefully and gently. This step can be regarded as a pass.

However, as soon as he started to go deep, Tao Mingzhuo turned the delicate interdependence between lips and teeth into extremely clumsy gnawing, without skills, it was all emotion.

Jing Ci knew that Tao Mingzhuo was a thin-skinned person, so even if he noticed that he was kissing too hard at the beginning, she didn't point it out directly, but frowned and tried hard to bear it, and gave him the greatest response.

In the end, Jing Ci really couldn't bear it anymore, because the other party's biting element was far more important than kissing, so he flinched slightly in pain.

Tao Mingzhuo was shocked when he noticed Jing Ci's movement.

He didn't dare to kiss anymore, so he quickly stretched out his hand to support Jing Ci's shoulder, and then saw Jing Ci raised his hand and touched his lips.

It was only then that Tao Mingzhuo noticed that Jing Ci's lips were a little red from being bitten by him.

He hesitated and asked, "Are you okay, I... Did I push myself too hard?"

Jing Ci covered her mouth, raised her eyes, and looked at Tao Mingzhuo's face quietly.

After a while, he turned his face away, his shoulders shook slightly, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Only then did Tao Mingzhuo realize that he was ashamed of an adult.

He was so embarrassed that he almost had no place to rest his hands and feet, subconsciously took a few steps back, and even thought of grabbing the door and fleeing in an instant.

Jing Ci vaguely guessed what he was thinking, tried her best to restrain the smile on her face, and quickly took Tao Mingzhuo's hand.

"It's okay." He comforted in a warm voice, "Let's take our time."

Tao Mingzhuo was so embarrassed that he couldn't even speak.

He blushed, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then suddenly said: "Can you give me one more chance and let me try again?"

After hearing this request, Jing Ci was taken aback.

He looked into the young man's earnest and expectant eyes, and although he realized that his mouth might suffer again, he finally bent his eyes and nodded to him.

Tao Mingzhuo took a big breath, rubbed his hands together, and after silently saying "this time we must be less energetic" three times in his heart, he walked in front of Jing Ci again.

This time he even breathed softly to the extreme, carefully touched Jing Ci's face with his hands, lowered his head, and was about to kiss again when the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

Both of them were taken aback for a moment, and after a while, Jing Ci took the initiative to put a distance between them and said, "Go ahead and answer the phone, maybe there is something important."

Tao Mingzhuo hesitated for a moment, and felt that the future would be long anyway, and there would be more opportunities for him to practice, so he nodded.

He took out his cell phone and connected the call.

Jing Ci could vaguely hear a female voice coming from the other side of the phone, and Tao Mingzhuo kept replying "ummm" or "okay", and occasionally "don't scold me, don't scold me".

After a while, the person on the other side hung up the phone first. Seeing Tao Mingzhuo put the phone back in his pocket, Jing Ci seemed to let out a sigh of helplessness.

"It's my sister." Tao Mingzhuo said, "She said she wanted to meet me today."

"I haven't seen her for a long time, I have to go see her after get off work today." He looked at Jing Ci's face and hesitated, "So tonight..."

Tao Mingzhuo has been screened by all kinds of delicacies made with air fryers on the small video software in the past two days. He has been itchy all the time. Although he knows that it may be a promotion trap of consumerism, he feels that spending more money on food will always be worthless. Not a loss, so I followed suit and bought a large air fryer.

He originally planned to have a feast of deep-fried skewers with Jing Ci tonight, and the two of them prepared the required ingredients early, and even bought skewers of bamboo sticks.

Jing Ci knew what he was thinking, shook his head, and said with a smile: "It's okay, the ingredients won't expire so soon, and we can make it tomorrow, let's go see my sister first."

Tao Mingzhuo gave a "hmm" and said, "If I go to see her immediately after get off work, I should be back before dinner."

"But it's not easy to say, my sister is quite good at chatting." Tao Mingzhuo thought for a while, and then added, "Well, when you get home, you can cook and eat by yourself first."

Jing Ci said, "It's okay, I'll wait for your return."

Tao Mingzhuo: "No, no, you must eat first when you are hungry. Don't think about waiting for me to come back, but don't be hungry just because you are waiting for me."

Jing Ci said, "I won't be hungry."

Tao Mingzhuo froze for a moment: "...what?"

Seeing Jing Ci, he seemed to pause slightly.

After a while, Jing Ci raised her eyes and showed a gentle smile to Tao Mingzhuo: "I mean, the takeaway for lunch has not been delivered yet, so we will finish lunch late today, so we shouldn't be hungry at night." It has to be quick."

"But if I'm hungry at night, I'll eat first," he said.

Jing Ci replied impeccably, and Tao Mingzhuo didn't think too much about it. He looked at him and nodded: "Okay."

Tao Mingzhuo got stuck at work today.

The bond of blood between siblings is very wonderful. Tao Mingzhuo and Tao Xue have similar personalities. For example, they both like to speak hard, so what they say can be understood by taking the opposite meaning.

Although Tao Xue repeatedly emphasized on the phone "Don't buy me anything, you boy" and added a very threatening sentence "Don't force me to smoke you when the time comes", Tao Mingzhuo completely left these words behind. Into the ear and out of the right ear.After get off work, he went to a bakery and bought a few colorful cakes that Tao Xue usually likes to eat the most.

Sure enough, as soon as Tao Xue opened the door, she saw several bags of things in Tao Mingzhuo's hands, and raised her hand to greet Tao Mingzhuo's head.

Tao Mingzhuo hurriedly put the cake in front of him, and pointed at Tao Xue's swollen belly: "Sorry, please don't be sentimental, do you like to eat or not, are you buying these for my little nephew?"

Tao Xue was amused by him.

"Young poor." She took the cake and said, "I'll put the cake in the refrigerator first. You're sweating profusely. The air conditioner is on in the living room. Sit down and sweat."

Tao Mingzhuo responded, sat down on the sofa, and looked at the time on the clock on the wall.

When he went to the cake shop just now, the school next door was over after school. The shop was crowded with people, and it took almost half an hour to check out.

Tao Mingzhuo didn't expect that it was already 07:30. He made a conservative estimate and felt that it would be eight or nine o'clock when he got home.

Recalling the conversation with Jing Ci at noon, Tao Mingzhuo was still worried that he would wait for him to go home for dinner, so he sent Jing Ci a message.

Tao Mingzhuo: "I will definitely be late when I get home tonight, so don't wait for me to eat."

Tao Mingzhuo: "[Little Frog Beats]"

After a while, Jing Ci replied with a "little frog nodding" expression.

Only then did Tao Mingzhuo feel relieved and put down the phone.When he raised his head, he saw Tao Xue with his hips folded, looking at him delicately.

Tao Xue snorted: "Together?"

Tao Mingzhuo let out a "hehe".

Tao Mingzhuo's thoughts have always been written on his face, Tao Xue looked at him looking silly at his mobile phone just now, just like a silly boy who is in a period of passionate love and cannot extricate himself.

Tao Xue rolled her eyes, and couldn't help laughing along with him: "...the mouth is almost grinning to the sky."

Tao Mingzhuo coughed, and suppressed the smile on his face: "What's the matter, you can't even smile anymore?"

"No one is stopping you, be careful of dislocated jaw." Tao Xue sat down next to him and said, "After 520, you kid never called to harass me again, so I think you two should be successful."

Tao Mingzhuo couldn't help but started to giggle again: "Hey."

Tao Xue looked at Tao Mingzhuo's face full of happiness, and she was also happy with him in her heart. She shook her head with a smile and asked, "Are you going to talk to your parents? Or should we just wait and see?"

Tao Mingzhuo nodded: "If you want to say it, you can say it as soon as possible."

Tao Xue gave a clear "hmm".

She knows Tao Mingzhuo too well, she knows that he has the kind of temper that cannot be hidden as long as he likes someone.

"I knew it." Tao Xue said, "But you kid is not careful enough. I guess when the time comes, you may take him home without even thinking about it. I can't stand the impact."

"So about the gender of your future partner... I have already hinted to them two days ago." Tao Xue said, "You don't have to worry too much now, they should already know it in their hearts."

Tao Mingzhuo was dumbfounded.

His pupils shrank slightly, looked at Tao Xue, and said in disbelief after a moment: "No, why did you just...then how did they react at that time?"

"And it's not right," Tao Mingzhuo felt strange again, "Why didn't both of them look for me these days for such a big matter?"

Tao Xue said: "Because after I finished talking about you, I immediately pressed another matter to distract them a little."

"So they shouldn't be in the mood to care about you now." She said to Tao Mingzhuo, "Don't worry."

Tao Mingzhuo was taken aback, but still felt that something was wrong.He raised his eyes to look at Tao Xue's face, and found that she had set her gaze on the TV that was not turned on, and at the same time covered her stomach with her hands.

Her expression looked very calm.

The calmer Tao Xue's expression became, the more uneasy Tao Mingzhuo felt.

He asked Tao Xue: "...what's the matter?"

Tao Xue was silent for a while, then said, "It's not a big deal, it's just that it may be a little troublesome for a while, so I need you to help me."

"Your brother-in-law cheated." She said lightly, "I want to divorce him, a bastard."