Under meals

After Tao Mingzhuo uttered these words, not only Jing Ci beside him fell silent, but even the doctor Wen who was playing alone next to him seemed to understand, and looked at him dully with his tail wagging.

Jing Ci suspected that he might have heard wrong, he hesitated and asked, "What?"

When he saw Tao Mingzhuo blushed suspiciously.

Immediately afterwards, Tao Mingzhuo became confident again, and said with his head held high: "Everyone has desires, and your greatest desire now is to eat. As for me... I don't want to take any material things from you, so I don't want to take anything from you. There was no other choice, we just took what we needed."

In fact, even Tao Mingzhuo himself didn't understand what he was talking nonsense just now.

Jing Ci stared at his face, blinked his eyes after a while, smiled as if he understood something, and said, "I understand."

Tao Mingzhuo's heart was actually empty.

He thought for a while, and then he choked out a sentence: "Then...help me wipe the sweat off my face, this is the breakfast just now."

Jing Ci said, "Okay."

Tao Mingzhuo found that when the domineering president in the comics said something like "exchange with your body", he was always full of momentum.

But when he came to him, instead of losing any momentum, Tao Mingzhuo felt extremely ashamed after knowing it.

In addition, he couldn't say anything harsh to Jing Ci, so not only did he not show any sadomasochistic feeling of forced love, but there was a kind of... Kindergarten play house video with kisses and hugs in exchange for food feel.

While in a daze, Jing Ci had already pulled out a tissue from the paper drawer beside her, raised her hand, and gently wiped the sweat off Tao Mingzhuo's forehead.

Jing Ci's movements were very gentle.

Tao Mingzhuo's nose was inexplicably sour, and he suddenly felt that he was worthless.

He found that he couldn't get angry with Jing Ci at all. As long as Jing Ci was a little nicer to him, Tao Mingzhuo began to wonder if he was too fierce when he spoke just now, and his tone was too heavy, and he couldn't bear it. I really want to hold Jingci's hand, tell him that I didn't mean to say that, and ask him if we can reconcile right now.

While in a trance, he heard Jing Ci ask: "Can I prepay for today's lunch in advance?"

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment.

He actually didn't understand what Jing Ci meant, but he still hesitated and said, "Okay."

Jing Ci nodded, then put her hand around Tao Mingzhuo's neck, and kissed his mouth lightly.

It was a very light and short kiss, but it was this feeling of disconnection that made Tao Mingzhuo's soul almost float away in an instant.

Just when Tao Mingzhuo could not bear to kiss back, Jing Ci let go of his hand and leaned back slightly.

Jing Ci smiled and asked, "Is this okay?"

Tao Mingzhuo stayed in a daze for a long time, lowered his head in a panic to hide his unfinished thoughts, and coughed: "Yes, it's okay."

Tao Mingzhuo found that he didn't regret it so much all of a sudden, he thought it would be a good idea to wait a few days before reconciling.

He pondered for a while, then added hoarsely: "But the decision-making power is in my hands. Next time, it's best to ask me if it's feasible before taking action, understand?"

Jing Ci smiled.

He said, "Yes."

Tao Mingzhuo was very energetic, and he produced a complete "Guide to Changing Meals 1.0" the next day.

Tao Mingzhuo pointed to the rules and regulations he had made, and said: "Breakfast is relatively simple, and can be exchanged for relatively simple physical contact such as helping to dress, kissing in the morning or touching the head."

Jing Ci nodded.

Tao Mingzhuo coughed and turned a page: "For lunch, because we usually eat at the company most of the time, the environment will be more limited, but your office is not private, so I will kiss and hug you." Choose one of these two... Do you think it is reasonable?"

Jing Ci said, "It's reasonable."

Tao Mingzhuo let out a "huh" and turned to the last page with reddish ears: "As for dinner, it's more complicated, because I personally feel that dinner is the most important meal of the day, so..."

Looking at his face, Jing Ci said with a smile, "Actually, even if you don't accompany me to eat, I'd still like to do these things with you."

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment.

Five seconds later, Tao Mingzhuo blushed, and began to speak incoherently: "I, I didn't say that I like to make out with you, I just feel that if you let you watch me eat for nothing, I seem to be at a disadvantage, but I And I don't want you to use material compensation or exchange, so I can only reluctantly let you and me..."

Jing Ci: "..."

Tao Mingzhuo is very obsessed with this way of getting along like a small trading game.

After getting up in the morning, Jing Ci was ironing clothes, Tao Mingzhuo stumbled on the bed for a while, then got out of bed, took a shirt cover from the closet and put it on.

Halfway through the buttons, Tao Mingzhuo suddenly remembered something, and immediately cheered up.

Tao Mingzhuo turned his head and saw that Jing Ci was facing away from him, so he secretly unbuttoned the buttons he had fastened just now.

Jing Ci turned around, and saw a tall young man with a shirt hanging loosely on his body, standing in front of her with his chest open, and openly opened his arms.

Tao Mingzhuo said confidently, "Come to exchange for your breakfast."

Jing Ci: "..."

Every day after dinner, Tao Mingzhuo would ask Jingci to weigh herself once. During the weighing, she was not allowed to wear shoes or hold a mobile phone, and he would strictly record it and observe the increase on a weekly basis.

Jing Ci stared at the number on the scale and said, "I'm almost two catties fatter."

Tao Mingzhuo looked displeased: "Is there something wrong with this scale? After so many days, why do you still gain weight so slowly while watching me eat every day?"

He pondered for a moment, then looked at Jing Ci hesitantly: "Am I still eating too fast these two days? Or... we usually sit too far away when we eat, you can't see my food clearly. face, so the effect is not good?"

Jing Ci didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "...it takes time to gain weight."

Tao Mingzhuo naturally knew this truth, but he was still not satisfied with Jing Ci's growth rate.

When they were cooking together in the kitchen, Tao Mingzhuo still seriously warned: "You just eat too little, you have to know that you are eating not only for yourself, but also for me. After all, I am tied by you now." Stop it, if something goes wrong with your body, not only will you feel uncomfortable, but I will also take the responsibility together, and thus indirectly suffer from the condemnation of my conscience..."

Jing Ci found that Tao Mingzhuo's words were really interesting.

Obviously what I want to express is "you need to eat more", and then I have to add such a long string of hard words to cover up my concern. Don't be awkward, it seems that I can't express my feelings well.

Jing Ci shook her head.

What is Tao Mingzhuo's intention in this so-called "exchanging body for food" transaction between the two, Jing Ci is not clear.

But he knew that Tao Mingzhuo became so twisted, in the final analysis, because he had no sense of security. It was like a way for small animals to protect themselves. Externally, I will no longer suffer any harm.

Jing Ci is willing to play such a game with Tao Mingzhuo, but he also knows the crux of the relationship between the two, and he realizes that he still needs to do something.

He sighed silently in his heart, and then his eyes fell on a small plastic bag placed in the corner of the kitchen countertop.

It seems that this bag has been here for a day or two, and I haven't had time to clean it up. Jing Ci thinks it should be some ingredients that Tao Mingzhuo bought from the supermarket.

Opening the bag and seeing the contents inside, Jing Ci was slightly taken aback.

Tao Mingzhuo put the cut vegetables on the cutting board aside, and asked casually, "Do you want to boil some water first?"

However, Tao Mingzhuo waited for a long time, but he did not wait for the reply from the people around him.He raised his eyes and found that Jing Ci's back was facing him.

Jing Ci didn't speak, he stood in front of a plastic bag, as if looking down at something.

Tao Mingzhuo stepped forward to take a look, and his brain exploded immediately.

The two small boxes in Jing Ci's hands were the ones he picked up when he bought fruit snacks for Tao Xue and Li Lan...

When paying the bill last time, Tao Mingzhuo packed them separately from snacks like chewing gum in two different plastic bags.However, too many things happened in the past two days, and a lot of new kitchen utensils were added to the kitchen, so many things were piled up in a mess, and Tao Mingzhuo forgot about it.

He saw Jing Ci pick up one of the small boxes, looked at it for a while, raised his head, and asked thoughtfully, "Did you buy it?"

Tao Mingzhuo's scalp was numb with embarrassment, and his brain began to work rapidly.

In the past two days, Tao Mingzhuo has been showing in front of Jingci that "I am ruthless, I have no desires, and all the intimacy between you and me is just a transaction." This is as hard as steel mental outlook.

As a result, Jing Ci dug out such a thing from the shopping bag in the supermarket with her own hands, and the figure that finally stood up was crumbling in an instant.

Even though it was only two small boxes, Tao Mingzhuo felt that the eagerness, hunger and thirst in his heart... seemed to be seen through by Jing Ci in an instant.

Tao Mingzhuo knew that at times like this, he couldn't panic.

"That's right." Tao Mingzhuo nodded nonchalantly, and said, "I bought it, what's wrong?"

"After all, it's too much trouble for the two of us to change meals every day." Tao Mingzhuo became more and more enthusiastic, and finally looked into Jing Ci's eyes, and raised his face confidently, "So if you If you dare...you can come directly to me to exchange meals for three days."

It's already embarrassing to such an extent, and Tao Mingzhuo can still insist on the point of changing the meal at the end, which is indeed a level of stubbornness that others cannot match.

Jing Ci stared at Tao Mingzhuo's face thoughtfully for a while.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo saw him smiling gently at himself.

Jing Ci said: "If I could directly exchange meals for three days, I would really be tempted, but for today...forget it."

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Jing Ci to refuse so quickly.

This was actually Tao Mingzhuo's expected answer, but the moment he heard Jing Ci say it so directly, his heart still inevitably sank.

But Tao Mingzhuo himself knew in his heart that even with a meal change as a cover, suddenly mentioning such a thing without any foreshadowing... would have been a bit over the top.

Tao Mingzhuo looked away pretending to be calm, and said after a while, "Well, if you're afraid, then—"

Jing Ci shook her head, and interrupted him softly: "It's not because I'm afraid."

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment. He saw Jing Ci stretch out his hand, then raised his index finger, and tapped the outer packaging of the small box slightly.

Jing Ci lowered her eyes, looked at the words on the box packaging for a moment, and then smiled lightly.

He said: "If my memory serves me, your size ... seems to be a little smaller."

Tao Mingzhuo was taken aback for a moment.

Jing Ci raised her eyes and walked in front of Tao Mingzhuo step by step.

"Of course, we don't need it." Jing Ci said softly, bending her eyes.

Tao Mingzhuo's breathing was stagnant.

He saw Jing Ci's fingertips exert a little force, pinch the small box casually, then raised his hand, and threw it back into the plastic bag neatly and precisely.

"As long as you are willing to give me a better welfare price, you can exchange for two more days of meals." Jing Ci asked with a smile, "Is there a deal?"