Under meals

Tao Mingzhuo couldn't believe his ears.

Jing Ci was not in a hurry, she raised her hand while patiently waiting for his answer, and gently adjusted Tao Mingzhuo's collar.

Tao Mingzhuo was young and energetic, so he couldn't resist Jing Ci's provocative words just now.

In addition, when Jing Ci raised his hand to straighten his collar like this, his fingertips would brush against his chest vaguely, he was completely powerless against such a soft and silent offensive, and his breathing suddenly became very rapid.

Jing Ci lowered her eyelashes and raised the corners of her mouth slightly. Just as she was about to say something, Tao Mingzhuo suddenly woke up and took half a step back as if remembering something.

He said loudly, "No, no, you haven't had dinner yet!"

Jing Ci: "..."

Jing Ci's hand was hanging in the air, he was a little surprised, because he didn't expect Tao Mingzhuo to avoid it at all.

What's more, he didn't expect Tao Mingzhuo to stop suddenly after he had advanced to this step, and the reason for stopping was that he "hadn't eaten dinner yet".

Tao Mingzhuo's expression became distressed: "And this is your own body. You don't need such a thing. It's not a bargaining chip you use to find me to exchange a few more meals. You have to think more about your own body, understand ?"

He turned his face away, pressed the switch of the kettle, and finally added another sentence pretending to be calm: "I... I will remember to buy the right size next time."

The water in the pot began to boil little by little, Jing Ci was slightly taken aback.

The person next to him was obviously blushing with embarrassment, and the words on his mouth sounded like "I don't care about you", but he was actually full of himself.

After the water was boiled, the kitchen became quiet again.

Jing Ci came back to her senses, smiled lightly and said, "Okay."

"By the way," he said to Tao Mingzhuo, "I'm going to country U for a business trip the day after tomorrow, ten days."

Tao Mingzhuo almost jumped up on the spot.

"Ten days?" He couldn't believe it, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"

Jing Ci smiled helplessly and said, "I'm telling you in advance now, aren't I?"

Noticing that Jing Ci was looking at him, Tao Mingzhuo quickly restrained the expression on his face, and continued to use his inconsistency to the extreme: "I, what problem can I have?"

He repeatedly scratched the edge of the cutting board with his hands, and after a while he asked in a low voice, "But without me to accompany you, you will not be able to eat properly for ten days, can you accept it?"

Jing Ci said: "Eating... shouldn't be the thing I miss the most."

Jing Ci didn't finish the sentence completely, but Tao Mingzhuo understood it almost instantly, and he secretly pursed his lips a little happily.

But a ten-day business trip is really not a trivial matter. Seeing Tao Mingzhuo with his hair down, as if he was in a vortex of confusion, Jing Ci knew that Tao Mingzhuo should still be worried about himself.

Jing Ci knew that at this time, Tao Mingzhuo had to be stimulated a little to get him out of this emotion.

Jing Ci asked softly: "Are you reluctant to part with me?"

Sure enough, Tao Mingzhuo's ears pricked up, and he fell for it without warning, and said in a muffled voice, "It's not... It's obviously because you don't want me."

"But it's okay." He took a deep look at Jing Ci's face, turned his head and said to himself, "...I have my own way."

On the day Jing Ci landed in Country U, the schedule was extremely busy. Fortunately, Li Yupo will fly over in two days to help him deal with the new branch.

After returning to the hotel where she stayed at night, Jing Ci turned on her mobile phone and found that Tao Mingzhuo had sent herself a message half an hour ago.

Tao Mingzhuo: "Did you eat?"

Jing Ci replied: "Not yet, the meeting just ended."

Tao Mingzhuo seemed to be watching Jing Ci's reply at the other end of the screen, and he replied to his screen full of messages almost instantly.

Tao Mingzhuo: "?"

Tao Mingzhuo: "But I checked the time on your side, it's already 09:30!"

Tao Mingzhuo: "Why don't you eat?"

Tao Mingzhuo: "No matter how much you can't eat, you have to eat some! [Little frog gets angry]"

Jing Ci just looked at the words that popped up one by one and the interspersed question marks and exclamation marks, and she could instantly think of Tao Mingzhuo's expression on the other end of the phone.

Jing Ci replied patiently: "Just arrived at the hotel, the assistant has already bought dinner, but I haven't had time to eat it yet, don't worry."

Tao Mingzhuo asked: "...what did you buy?"

Jing Ci glanced at the paper bag on the table and replied, "M's hamburger."

In fact, I still have no appetite, but Jing Ci also knows that at the end of the day, the body can't do without some energy intake, so she ordered her assistant to buy M's fried fish burger.

After all, it is something I liked to eat very much before, even if I don’t have an appetite to force it into it, it is not so uncomfortable compared to other foods.

Tao Mingzhuo asked, "What kind of burger?"

Jing Ci: "Fried fish burger."

Tao Mingzhuo was quiet for a moment, and replied: "Don't eat, just wait for me for 10 minutes."

Jing Ci didn't know what Tao Mingzhuo's idea was, but he had no appetite, so he was not in a hurry to eat, but busy with the work at hand first.

After a while, the phone screen lit up, it should be a message from Tao Mingzhuo.

Jing Ci turned on the phone, only to realize that this time Tao Mingzhuo sent not a message, but a video invitation.

After the video was connected, Jing Ci saw Tao Mingzhuo's face.

There was a paper bag in front of Tao Mingzhuo. Looking at the background, he should be sitting in an office. He was wearing earphones and looking around furtively.

Jing Ci froze for a moment, and asked, "Didn't you have lunch?"

Tao Mingzhuo coughed, lowered his voice and said, "You are lucky. I just didn't eat it, so I just bought a fish burger to eat with you."

"You can try a beef burger next time." Tao Mingzhuo picked up the burger in the paper bag with one hand, looked at it in disgust for a moment and said, "This fish burger is too small, no wonder you can't grow meat."

Before Jing Ci had time to say anything, she heard Yang Kening's voice in the background: "Crazy, Tao Mingzhuo? Are you an idiot? You showed off so much in the cafeteria just now and now you're stealing a small hamburger? "

Tao Mingzhuo's face changed suddenly, and he frantically tried to turn off the microphone. Then Jing Ci saw Yang Kening showing half of his face, and poked over curiously.

Seeing Jing Ci on the other side of the screen, Yang Keying realized something, she immediately covered her mouth, and waved to Jing Ci before being chased away by Tao Mingzhuo.

Before Jing Ci had time to say anything, the other side of the screen turned into darkness. Tao Mingzhuo should have put the phone down, and Yang Kening could vaguely hear Yang Kening screaming, "Sorry, I'm sorry to bother you. It's like that.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo's face reappeared on the screen, and when he looked at Jing Ci, his face was slightly reddish suspiciously.

Jing Ci asked with some concern: "Is it really okay if you eat too much?"

Tao Mingzhuo coughed loudly: "Don't talk when you eat, don't talk when you sleep!"

He looked away a little embarrassedly, moved his face closer to the screen, took a bite of the hamburger in his hand, and said vaguely: "...Eat it quickly."

This way of video eating has indeed played a role to some extent.

However, the food cultures of the two countries are different, and only some chain fast food brands are the same, so they ate several hamburger sandwiches face-to-face through video for several days, and they couldn't bear it later.

On Saturday, Tao Mingzhuo said, "It happens that I'm not at work today, so you can order some delicious local food and take a photo for me."

He said confidently: "I'm at home now, and I have a lot of ingredients. I should be able to restore similar things to eat with you!"

Jing Ci has studied in U country for many years, and knows that the best local food is actually fast food and Chinese food.

But feeling that Tao Mingzhuo on the other side of the screen was full of enthusiasm, Jing Ci didn't want to pour cold water on him, so she ordered room service, ordered a steak with mashed potatoes, took a photo and sent it to him.

Tao Mingzhuo over there quickly restored a similar paste, added the pork ribs with the bones removed, and finally put them together, and the restoration was indeed decent.

Tao Mingzhuo held the plate and showed Jingci 360 degrees without any dead ends: "How about it, I think it looks similar in color, let me take two bites first, you can see?"

In order for Jing Ci to see clearly, he put his face in front of the camera, took two bites, and asked vaguely, "Try it, can you eat it?"

Jing Ci took two bites and said with a smile, "It's delicious."

Tao Mingzhuo was a little proud. He knew that Jing Ci praised the delicious dishes, but it was also because of his own existence that the dishes became more delicious.

They faced the camera and quietly ate the food on the plate together.

Tao Mingzhuo held back his words and wanted to say something, but he stopped talking for a long time and didn't have the nerve to speak.

However, Jing Ci chewed slowly and ate very quietly. Tao Mingzhuo couldn't hold back after holding it for a while, and he also forgot that he said to Jing Ci, "Don't talk when you eat or sleep", so he couldn't help asking : "Are you... busy these two days?"

As soon as Tao Mingzhuo said the words, he felt a little regretful, because he felt that what he asked was completely blind nonsense, which meant the same thing as asking an old woman on crutches, "Is it inconvenient for you to walk?"

Jing Ci said, "It's okay."

He thought for a while, and added, "I just miss you."

Tao Mingzhuo stared blankly at his face.

He had been struggling in his heart for so long just now, he was deliberating every sentence he uttered, he even hesitated for a while whether to ask such a thing first.

However, this desire to appear indifferent, to compare who cares more, was shattered in an instant by Jing Ci's random words.

Jing Ci watched the expression on Tao Mingzhuo's face, and smiled at him.

"I'm going to turn down the air conditioner," he said.

Tao Mingzhuo managed to slow down a bit, and when he looked at the camera again, his whole body froze suddenly.

Jing Ci was casually wearing a white shirt. The shirt was a little longer, the simple style he usually wears at work.

Tao Mingzhuo originally thought he was wearing more formal suit pants.

Unexpectedly, after Jing Ci stood up, Tao Mingzhuo found that the hem of the shirt was spread out, barely covering his legs.

And Jing Ci's lower body... was not wearing anything, so his legs were clearly displayed in front of Tao Mingzhuo's eyes.

Slender, slender and with beautiful curves, through the screen, Tao Mingzhuo stared blankly at Jing Ci's bare legs and bare feet, walked to the other side of the room, and adjusted the temperature of the air conditioner.

After a while, Jing Ci walked back to the table and sat down again. Tao Mingzhuo saw him lower his eyes, raised his hand and brushed the hair blocking his forehead, and put it behind his ear casually.

Casual laziness is not the kind of atmosphere carefully created, but it is this inadvertently revealed beauty that Tao Mingzhuo can't take his eyes off at all.

Seeing Tao Mingzhuo staring at herself, Jing Ci asked, "What's wrong?"

Tao Mingzhuo's face was red, his breathing was chaotic and he asked, "You...why aren't you wearing pants?"

Tao Mingzhuo spoke loudly, but Jing Ci looked at him calmly and calmly.

Jing Ci calmly lowered her head and glanced at her body, said "ah", and said, "I just finished taking a shower before answering your call."

"Your phone call is rather urgent, and it's hotter in the room," he rolled his eyes, "so I dress more casually."

"Wait a minute, I'll put it on now." He said to Tao Mingzhuo like this.

Jing Ci's hair was slightly damp, and it really looked like she had just taken a shower.

Tao Mingzhuo nodded hesitantly.

But Tao Mingzhuo suddenly thought, if he just took a shower, shouldn't he be wearing a longer bathrobe? Why would he choose to wear such a shirt?

And since the shirt is already on, why not just put the pants on too?

Unless... Jing Ci deliberately dressed like this to show herself.

Tao Mingzhuo who realized this fact was stunned.

They haven't done those intimate things for a long time. Although Tao Mingzhuo himself voluntarily refused to do that in the kitchen, Jing Ci never took the initiative to mention it until before the business trip.

Tao Mingzhuo hesitated to speak several times, but he was always too embarrassed to say that again.

There are kisses, but it seems that Jing Ci really only kisses herself in exchange for meals. Three meals a day, plus midnight snacks, only four kisses. It can't put out any fire, but the hook is more and more burning. strong trend.

Tao Mingzhuo was in a hurry, but he dug the hole himself, so in the end he could only resign himself to his fate and solve it by himself while taking a shower secretly.

At this time, Jing Ci had already sat down, but as long as Tao Mingzhuo thought about his bare legs now, he felt that his brain was blank, and the blood all over his body was rushing to one place at the same time.

When Jing Ci was about to get up, she heard Tao Mingzhuo say: "Wait, wait a minute, I suddenly remembered that I have also eaten many meals with you in the past few days."

"But, but you haven't given me anything yet." Tao Mingzhuo stammered and added.

Jing Ci was startled, and it took a while to understand what Tao Mingzhuo meant.

In Jing Ci's ears, "changing meals" means wanting to be intimate. Jing Ci was a little surprised that Tao Mingzhuo would say it so bluntly, and couldn't help but smile after a while and said, "Yes, but we can't meet now. ah."

Tao Mingzhuo didn't speak.

His expression was anxious and embarrassed, and his neck was a little red. After a while, Jing Ci saw Tao Mingzhuo lowered his head, and quickly glanced at a place beyond the screen that he couldn't see.

This small movement was accurately captured by Jing Ci.

He was stunned for a moment, then realized something, and said with a smile: "Could it be that you have—"

But Tao Mingzhuo interrupted him: "Actually...it's okay if we don't meet."

Mingming's ears were so red that they were about to bleed, but Tao Mingzhuo moved closer to the screen. His eyes were bright and looked a little wet, and he was staring eagerly at Jing Ci at the other end of the screen.

"Just use the phone." Tao Mingzhuo didn't give Jing Ci a chance to speak, but staggered his gaze, and whispered to himself, "Actually, now... I feel that just hearing your voice is enough .”

Jing Ci's breathing stagnates.

He heard Tao Mingzhuo ask pitifully: "...is it okay?"