Under meals

In the morning, they drank seafood porridge.

The porridge was white and sticky. Tao Mingzhuo drank half of it, stared at the porridge left on the spoon for a while, then raised his eyes subconsciously, looking at Jing Ci's lips.

Jing Ci lowered her head and drank quietly.His soft, reddish lips were slightly parted, stained with a little white porridge.

Tao Mingzhuo felt in a trance for a moment, he couldn't help but recall last night, Jing Ci half-kneeled in front of him like this, lowering his eyes to himself...

Tao Mingzhuo's body became tense in an instant, he forced himself not to focus on Jing Ci's face, but he still couldn't stop himself from recalling the unprecedented and extremely exciting experience last night over and over again.

Sensing Tao Mingzhuo's gaze, Jing Ci raised her eyes and asked, "What's wrong?"

Tao Mingzhuo said dryly: "It's nothing...it's nothing."

Tao Mingzhuo abruptly looked away, and his Adam's apple moved with difficulty.He lowered his head, only to realize that he scooped for a long time but only filled a bowl of air.

Fortunately, Jing Ci was concentrating on drinking the porridge with her head down, but Tao Mingzhuo didn't notice any clues. Tao Mingzhuo cleared his throat and hurriedly filled the porridge.

Before getting acquainted with Jing Ci, Tao Mingzhuo had heard a little about his high efficiency and wise decision-making.

Since Jing Ci took office, the turnover of their projects has continued to rise. Not only Tao Mingzhuo's popular game projects, but also some relatively unpopular projects have been turned back by him. Through various activities, they can be called "" A medical miracle".

So Tao Mingzhuo knew that with Jingci's ability, since he said he would find a suitable place for Tao Xue to live in, then this place would definitely not be too bad.

But he never expected that this place would be Li Lan's home.

Jing Ci is not the kind of person who will show off his wealth. Except for his residence and the extraordinary handwriting he shows when ordering takeout, Jing Ci usually is the type of person who is low-key and simple to the extreme no matter whether he is wearing clothes or traveling.

As a result, Tao Mingzhuo didn't feel how rich he was during the two people's daily relationship, and sometimes even forgot the fact that he was actually his immediate boss.

Until Tao Mingzhuo suddenly remembered that Li Lan was Jing Ci's mother.

At this moment, Tao Mingzhuo watched blankly as Li Lan opened the door of the luxury car in front of him.

She was wearing a gemstone ring with an unknown number of carats, and when she got off the car, she was in such a hurry that the crocodile leather bag in her hand fell to the ground without holding it firmly.

Li Lan: "Oh."

Tao Mingzhuo was terrified watching it, and quickly ran two steps forward to help her pick up the bag.

In his impression, this kind of bag needs to be displayed with gloves on at the counter. Tao Mingzhuo asked quickly: "Check it quickly, isn't it scratched?"

Li Lan took the bag over, patted the dirt on it carelessly, and waved her hand nonchalantly: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay to scratch, the old one won't go away and the new one will come."

Tao Mingzhuo: "..."

Fate is such a wonderful thing. Tao Mingzhuo and Li Lan have known each other for a longer time than he and Jing Ci.

Li Lan has a straightforward temper and has nothing to say to Tao Xue. The two are not just ordinary customers, but more like close friends.

After learning about Tao Xue's experience, Li Lan seemed even angrier than Tao Mingzhuo's own brother. She wished she could scratch Tang Lijie's face with her fingernails, and the avant-garde words of the scolding made the young people feel a little terrified when they heard it.

Jing Ci's proposal is to let Tao Xue have a baby at Li Lan's house. Li Lan has her own private villa in the suburbs, not only has a garden and a swimming pool, but also has drivers, nanny, doctors and cooks.

While ensuring safety, it is undoubtedly a good place to take care of your body and change your mood.

Li Lan also thought it was a good idea.

"What's the matter at the Xiaoxue booth? The cheating stinky man will rot sooner or later." Li Lan cursed, "Don't worry, I usually live alone in this house and it's boring, tell her to move here quickly , just live in peace of mind and take care of your body.”

While talking, she took out her mobile phone and started to send voice messages to others: "Hey, Xiao Yang, right? Yes, I am Sister Li. I want to order some bird's nest and ginseng from you. Yes, it is best to send it to me before this afternoon. ..."

Tao Mingzhuo hesitated to speak.

He sighed, turned his head and said to Jing Ci: "Thank you and your mother for your kindness, but my sister is stronger and thin-skinned. Going to other people's house for free to eat and live...she definitely won't Agreed."

Jing Ci smiled and said nothing: "She will find a way."

Tao Mingzhuo quickly understood the meaning of Jing Ci's words.

Li Lan's plan was very meticulous. She asked Tao Mingzhuo to call Tao Xue and asked her to go to the nail salon first with her luggage.

Tao Xue always thought that she was going to move to Tao Mingzhuo's previous apartment, and she hadn't visited the store for several days, so she didn't think much about it. After packing her luggage, she went to the store in the afternoon. A trip to the nail salon.

Half an hour later, Li Lan, wearing a small Chanel suit and high heels, pushed the door open and entered.

Seeing Tao Xue who was tidying up the table, Li Lan showed a look of surprise and joy: "Oh, Xiaoxue, you are back! I came back to look for you after a trip a while ago, and every time you were not around, I couldn't help it. I know how many times I ran for nothing!"

Li Lan looked at Tao Xue's luggage at her feet, and said "Aiya" again: "Are you going to move? Where are you going? Or where are you going to travel?"

With excellent acting skills, Tao Mingzhuo who was sitting next to him could only try his best to control the expression on his face.

Tao Xue was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said, "Sister Li, it's not a trip. I have encountered some troubles recently, so I live in another place."

Li Lan clapped her hands pretending to be surprised, and said, "Wait, what a coincidence, what a coincidence, if you want to move today, I just want to talk to you about something."

Before Tao Xue could react, Li Lan whispered in her ear mysteriously: "When I was traveling a while ago, I went to see a lot of oil paintings in the exhibition hall of the country U, although I know the master It is difficult to surpass the level of painting, but compared with the ones I painted before, the gap is still too big, and when I show my works to my sisters in the future, I feel embarrassed to show them."

"I think maybe it's because I don't work hard in class, so I haven't painted my own style, so I want to find a private artist to practice oil painting for two months." She said.

Tao Xue was startled: "Personal painter..."

Li Lan said: "Yes, come to live at my house, sooner or later you can give me guidance, the kind of hands-on teaching, I came to you today just to talk about this matter.

"A professional oil painting teacher is too strict, so it's better to stay with you comfortably." Li Lan smiled, "So just think I owe you a big favor, I think you just packed your luggage, and my driver is also there Outside the door, you can just move to my house right now, what do you think?"

It took Tao Xuemeng a long time to recover: "Sister Li, either it's impossible, or it's too sudden, I..."

Tao Xue hesitated, and showed a look of asking for help to Tao Mingzhuo beside her.

Tao Mingzhuo raised his eyebrows nonchalantly: "Actually, I think Sister Li's proposal is quite good, why don't you help her?"

"Oh, let's talk about it." Li Lan couldn't help but began to push Tao Xue's luggage into the driver's hand outside the door, "By the way, Xiaoxue, bring your nail polish to my house by the way, nail polish I haven't done it for a long time, look at the dead skin on the edge of my nails..."

"It's too arrogant."

After returning home at night, Tao Mingzhuo couldn't help sighing: "Your mother is really awesome."

"I know better than anyone else the fighting power of my sister's mouth. When she scolds me, I don't even have the strength to fight back." Tao Mingzhuo shook his head, full of emotion, "In the end, she just said a word in front of your mother. He didn't even say anything, and was just abducted in a daze."

At this time, Tao Xue has successfully moved into Li Lan's villa, and just sent a picture to Tao Mingzhuo, saying that Li Lan cooked a big pot of sea cucumber porridge for her.

Tao Mingzhuo took a closer look and saw that the pot was so black that it was full, and for a moment he couldn't tell whether it was full of millet or sea cucumber.

Tao Mingzhuo was drinking the ordinary seafood porridge left in the morning, which he thought could still be eaten, but now he suddenly found it tasteless.

Tao Xue: Is it an exaggeration or not, a bowl of your sister's nosebleeds can cost me two catties.

Tao Xue: Not much to say, I'm going to drink the porridge first, and I'm going to extend Sister Li's nails after I'm done, so go to bed early.

Tao Mingzhuo: [little frog applauds]

No matter how you look at it, it was their trouble for Li Lan, but Li Lan's sentence "teach oil painting to make manicure" easily reversed the situation, turning Tao Xue from a party who owed favors to a party who sold favors.

Not only can Tao Xue live in the past willingly, but she can also live comfortably and steadily.

Tao Mingzhuo took a sip of the porridge, and began to thank Jing Ci solemnly: "I know you don't want to hear me say this, but I really appreciate you and your mother to such an extent that I can't repay you."

Jing Ci put down the spoon, smiled faintly, and handed the bowl in front of Tao Mingzhuo: "If you want to repay, then serve me another bowl of porridge."

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment, then took the bowl.

They haven't had dinner together for a long time, and Tao Mingzhuo found that Jingci's appetite is very good today, this is already the third bowl of porridge he drank tonight.

Obviously, he made too much leftover porridge in the morning, but Jing Ci's appetite remained undiminished, and Tao Mingzhuo felt a little strange.

"Is it because I haven't had dinner with you for too long recently?" Tao Mingzhuo said triumphantly as he put the porridge in front of Jingci, "You miss me so much, so when you see me, Appetite also improved along with it?"

Jing Ci was startled, looked at him, and didn't speak for a long time.

Tao Mingzhuo also felt that what he said seemed a bit too shameless, and he felt embarrassed belatedly, and when he was about to say something more, he saw Jing Ci's eyes bent.

He heard Jing Ci say: "Yes."

This was the first time Jing Ci had dinner in the past ten days.

It was a bit funny to say, because she was used to Tao Mingzhuo being by her side all the time, and the two of them ate the three meals together before, Jing Ci actually almost forgot that she had this strange disease.

They can eat breakfast and lunch together, and Jingci actually can't feel hunger, so skipping a dinner doesn't have a particularly big impact on his life.

When I was alone, I still couldn’t eat no matter what, so Jing Ci made dinner every night, messed it up with chopsticks, put it in the refrigerator as if it had been eaten, and then told Tao Mingzhuo that it was leftover from his own food. dishes.

In doing so, there will inevitably be some omissions.

In fact, when Tao Mingzhuo questioned why he had two eggs yesterday, Jing Ci had the idea of ​​confessing to him.

But when Tao Xue called, Jing Ci realized that now might not be a good time.

If he told Tao Mingzhuo about his illness now, it would be as if he was forcing Tao Mingzhuo to make a choice - either to accompany him to dinner after get off work, or to accompany Tao Xue.

At that time, from Tao Mingzhuo's point of view, he would not be able to accompany Tao Xue when he went home to eat with him, and if he did not go home to eat with Tao Xue, he would have to wait until he came home to eat.

Based on Jing Ci's understanding of Tao Mingzhuo's character, the result of confessing his illness at this time is that no matter what, Tao Mingzhuo will feel guilty towards either himself or Tao Xue.

Jing Ci didn't think it would be a big problem to eat less than one meal a day, and Tao Xue's situation was much more severe than his own, so he didn't want Tao Mingzhuo to be embarrassed at this juncture.

He decided to wait for Tao Xue's affairs to settle down, wait until Tao Mingzhuo was no longer so busy, and then find a suitable time to confess to Tao Mingzhuo.

After the meal, they slumped on the sofa together and spent a relatively rare leisure time.

Jing Ci was processing the documents, and Tao Mingzhuo was sticking next to him, sketching on the tablet, and the object of the sketch was naturally Jing Ci.

Jing Ci said: "Shouldn't the sketch sit farther away, so that it can be observed?"

While sketching on the tablet, Tao Mingzhuo put a sticker on Jing Ci's body without blushing and heartbeat: "The reason is like this, but you have a better partner with me, so you can draw like this."

Jing Ci: "..."

Tao Mingzhuo coughed, and changed the topic: "Speaking of which, I have painted so many times with your mother before, and I know she can speak well, but I didn't expect to be so good at it."

As if thinking of something interesting, he said with emotion again: "And your mother is really interesting, she didn't know that we were together, and before leaving today, she secretly pulled me aside and said that we You can be more familiar, and you said that I am two years younger than you, just let me call you brother directly, it is really familiar..."

Jing Ci let out an "ah", looked away from the document, and said with a smile, "Why don't you call now?"

Tao Mingzhuo immediately turned his eyes away with a red face: "No, I want to draw now, so don't disturb me."

Obviously the person who was talking just now was Tao Mingzhuo himself, but now he said dryly, "Don't disturb me", Jing Ci wanted to laugh.

After finishing the work at hand, the two watched another movie together.

The youth love campus movie is about the love between ignorant teenagers.

This time it is not like the previous criminal investigation film, the state of the two of them can be said to be polar opposite, Jing Ci's eyelids are heavy, but Tao Mingzhuo, who is next to him, watched the whole process with relish, and frantically stuffed small things into his mouth while watching. snack.

When he was about to see the end, Tao Mingzhuo suddenly said: "The feeling of unrequited love is so sour... Fortunately, they finally came to fruition."

After a long time, he heard Jing Ci beside him softly "hmm".

Tao Mingzhuo looked sideways, only to realize that Jing Ci had already closed his eyes and entered a half-dream and half-awake state, probably not hearing what he was saying clearly.

His face looked a little tired, Tao Mingzhuo paused for a moment, picked up the blanket covering the two of them, and carefully covered Jing Ci.

Tao Mingzhuo said to him again very softly: "Thank you."

Jing Ci didn't seem to hear it, Tao Mingzhuo turned his head, looked at the screen for a while, and suddenly said without thinking: "Jing Ci, I... I will treat you well."

At this moment, Jing Ci was extremely tired, he could faintly hear what Tao Mingzhuo said, but his brain couldn't think about what the people around him said.

Jing Ci answered vaguely.

Tao Mingzhuo was quiet for a long time again, and then he said shyly: "I don't mean anything else, it's just because we are together now, and you are so kind to me, I have always been curious, that's why I want to ask you..."

In fact, Jing Ci was not completely asleep, he opened his eyes slightly, and tried hard to hear what Tao Mingzhuo wanted to ask.

But after a long time, Tao Mingzhuo didn't speak again.

It was so long that Jing Ci was drowsy, he closed his eyes again, and was about to fall into a comfortable dream again.

In a daze, he suddenly heard Tao Mingzhuo ask himself softly: "Jingci, at that time...why did you like me?"