Under meals

Chapter 40 Do You Want To Do It?

Tao Mingzhuo knew that Jing Ci must have fallen asleep.

When he asked this sentence, he actually lowered his voice very softly, as if he was speaking to himself, without really expecting any answer.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he felt the person beside him move.Looking back, she saw Jing Ci frowned slightly, opened her eyes and looked at herself.

Jing Ci asked softly: "...what?"

Jing Ci still looked sleepy, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he looked into Tao Mingzhuo's eyes blankly.

Tao Mingzhuo's Adam's apple twitched.

Like this kind of thing, there is no need to separate who will come first, so Tao Mingzhuo secretly made up his mind very early on, in front of Jing Ci, he would not take the initiative to expose his secret love for him a long time ago.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo turned his face away and cleared his throat: "I didn't say anything, I was just talking to myself, I just got some feelings from watching the movie..."

Jing Ci looked into Tao Mingzhuo's eyes and nodded hesitantly.

In fact, Jing Ci was a little confused, because he always remembered that Tao Mingzhuo called his name just now in a half-dream and half-awake, not talking to himself as he said, and he vaguely remembered that he heard Tao Mingzhuo Asked a sentence similar to "Why did you like me at the time?"

Jing Ci pondered for a while and felt puzzled, because he found that he didn't quite understand the meaning of the word "at that time" in this sentence.

Inexplicably, Jing Ci always felt that something was wrong.

It seems that many scattered pieces are about to be pieced together, but because the most critical corner is missing, it still can't really take shape.

But Tao Mingzhuo didn't seem to want to continue talking about this topic. He looked at the TV screen again, and from Jing Ci's perspective, he could only see his reddish ears.

After a while, Jing Ci heard Tao Mingzhuo ask, "Do you want some fruit?"

They ate cherries today.

After the fruit was eaten, it was time for the two of them to tacitly agree. When Jing Ci was washing dishes in the kitchen, Tao Mingzhuo quietly hugged him from behind.

They kissed while walking to the bedroom.

Tao Mingzhuo put his arms around Jing Ci's waist, almost half-carrying her into the bedroom.

In the end, because he was so fascinated by the kiss, when he walked to the door, he lost his footing and staggered back two steps, almost hitting the back of his head directly against the hard door panel.

Jing Ci couldn't laugh or cry.

He stretched out his hand to touch the back of Tao Mingzhuo's head, and he breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that he hadn't hit it. He slid that hand down a distance and landed on Tao Mingzhuo's neck.

The air was so quiet that only the sound of breathing with different frequencies could be heard. The atmosphere between the two was charming and ambiguous. After a while, Tao Mingzhuo heard Jing Ci asking himself softly: "Should we...do it?"

Tao Mingzhuo heard his brain buzzing.

He felt his breath become hot in an instant, and looked at Jing Ci's face in disbelief, only to find that Jing Ci was still looking at him calmly and openly.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo gasped and said, "Yes, yes, yes."

As if thinking of something, he stammered and said, "But wait a minute, I, I did some homework yesterday."

Jing Ci was startled: "What?"

After finishing work last night, Tao Mingzhuo swiped his phone for a long time alone in bed with a blushing face, and checked a lot of things. He is now in a state of oversaturated knowledge.

He didn't expect that Jingci would take the initiative and quickly take this step tonight, but since Jingci had already proposed, Tao Mingzhuo naturally would not be outdone.

It's just that after the knowledge instilled last night, he now has some worries.

Tao Mingzhuo groaned and groaned, his voice was like a mosquito: "I read the information on the Internet that... a lot of preparations need to be made in advance."

"But the family seems to be missing some necessary things now." He looked into Jing Ci's eyes, then lowered his head hesitantly, and said, "I, I'm afraid you will get hurt."

Jing Ci looked at Tao Mingzhuo's face and said nothing.

Because Jing Ci kept silent and didn't speak, Tao Mingzhuo's heart also became uncertain.

He looked into Jing Ci's eyes, and immediately explained in a panic: "It's not that I don't want to have sex with you, I just don't want to hurt you, trust me..."

Jing Ci was silent for a moment, pursed her lips slightly, and then nodded slightly.

Then Tao Mingzhuo saw him turn his face away, his shoulders trembled, and he burst out laughing as if he couldn't help it anymore.

Jing Ci has always been a person who is very good at managing his expressions. He was also teased by Tao Mingzhuo before, either with a smile in his eyes, or a chuckle that he couldn't help but laugh.

This was the first time that Tao Mingzhuo saw Jing Ci laugh out loud directly at himself, and he laughed to such an extent that he couldn't stop at all.

Tao Mingzhuo was directly confused, he was at a loss: "What's wrong?"

Jing Ci shook his head, he put his hand on his lower abdomen, and smiled until he bent slightly.

After a while, he waved his hand, as if he didn't even have the strength to speak. When he spoke, his voice sounded a little trembling: "What I'm talking about is... Shall we sit down?"

Tao Mingzhuo blushed again: "Ah, I know..."

Jing Ci smiled until tears welled up in her eyes: "Sit...it means sit down, sit on the bed, because the bedroom is relatively small, I feel that if we kiss standing up, we may not be able to stand stably."

Tao Mingzhuo immediately opened his eyes wide: "...!"

Jing Ci knew that she couldn't laugh like this anymore.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his smile, raised his hand with his eyes bent, and touched Tao Mingzhuo's ear that burst red instantly.

"But no matter what, I still want to thank you for being so considerate for me." He said soothing words softly, "I'm very happy."

Tao Mingzhuo blushed: "...don't talk any more!"

Tao Mingzhuo had never felt so ashamed in his life.

Although the little episode of the night did not affect the quality of their final intimacy, the next day Tao Mingzhuo still felt ashamed as never before.

The next day was Saturday, Tao Mingzhuo didn't even have the courage to look at Jing Ci's face during breakfast, he stuffed a few buns into his mouth, then hurriedly packed the dishes and said, "I...I'm going out gone."

With a smile in her eyes, Jing Ci looked at him and said, "Be careful on the road."

Tao Mingzhuo is going to visit Tao Xue at Li Lan's house today.

Originally, Jing Ci also wanted to go there with him, but because there were some problems with the project that the company cooperated with Country U, he needed to go to the company this weekend to deal with it, and in the end Tao Mingzhuo went alone.

Although he knew that Li Lan's family must have a lot of supplies, Tao Mingzhuo couldn't really go there empty-handed.He turned to a nearby supermarket to buy some fruit snacks for Li Lan and Tao Xue.

The supermarket was the one where Jingci and Jing Ci bought couple bowls together. When checking out, Tao Mingzhuo noticed rows of small boxes on the shelf next to the cashier.

He was lost in thought.

Reminiscent of the conversation between the two last night, Tao Mingzhuo stood in front of the shelf and thought about it secretly, thinking that no matter what, it is good to prepare in advance.

He didn't dare to meet the cashier's eyes, took two boxes secretly, and randomly stuffed them into the pile of snacks that hadn't been paid yet.

Half an hour later, Tao Mingzhuo arrived at Li Lan's villa.

It was the nanny who opened the door. As soon as Tao Mingzhuo walked into the hall, he saw Tao Xue sitting in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and drawing.

But in two or three days, Tao Xue's complexion improved a lot with the naked eye. It can be seen that the past few days have been very nourishing, and her mood seems to have improved a lot.

Seeing Tao Mingzhuo standing at the door, Tao Xue said, "Here you come? I'm helping Sister Li change the painting."

Tao Mingzhuo had a better understanding of Tao Xue's painting style, and when he took a closer look at the brushstrokes of the painting, he knew that Li Lan's participation was probably only one percent.

Li Lan also came out of the kitchen. When she saw Tao Mingzhuo coming, she immediately greeted him cheerfully: "Little Tao, it's just in time. I just asked them to stew bird's nest."

Before Tao Mingzhuo could speak, she said again: "The pot will be ready in a while, you siblings chat first, and the three of us will eat together in a while."

Li Lan turned her head and went to the kitchen.Tao Xue put down the brush, met Tao Mingzhuo's eyes, and sighed after a while: "I really owe him a big favor this time."

Tao Mingzhuo sat down next to her, he was taken aback when he heard the words, at first he wanted to pretend he didn't understand: "...What do you mean, didn't Sister Li ask you to come and teach her how to draw?"

Tao Xue looked at him helplessly: "It's almost done, stop acting, I'm not a fool, I know you guys have colluded long ago."

"Sister Li's acting skills are really good, and she almost fooled me at the time." She said, "But do you know how I have spent the past two days?"

"They said they wanted me to teach oil painting, but after teaching oil painting for a while, they said they wanted me to rest, and they began to drag me to the garden to bask in the sun and eat tonics." She sighed, "They said they wanted me to do manicures, but it turned out that I had just finished putting on the extensions." It’s pretty good-looking even before it’s painted, but I’m not even allowed to touch the nail polish.”

Tao Mingzhuo: "..."

"We will repay him well in the future." Tao Xue tapped Tao Mingzhuo's head with the brush, and asked, "Do you remember?"

Tao Mingzhuo nodded.

Tao Xue sighed faintly: "But it's quite subtle. After so many years of regular customers, he suddenly became my younger brother's mother-in-law. It's weird, really weird..."

Tao Mingzhuo cleared his throat and said, "Well, I'll go to the kitchen to help first, and I'll thank you by the way."

When Tao Mingzhuo walked into the kitchen, he heard Li Lan instructing the servant: "Simmer for a while, and remember to put the red dates in later."

Seeing Tao Mingzhuo come in, Li Lan waved to him with a smile: "Little Tao, come here quickly and see if the bird's nest I picked is of good quality?"

Tao Mingzhuo was about to say something, but Li Lan predicted his next move, and made a "stop" gesture: "No, what is the relationship between us, and I won't be happy if I say thank you .”

Tao Mingzhuo knew that Li Lan and Tao Xue had a very good relationship, but he didn't know if it was his illusion, but he always felt that Li Lan treated him very warmly today.

In the next second, Tao Mingzhuo heard Li Lan say to himself: "And you kid, don't play dumb with me. I chatted with Xiaoci's secretary yesterday, and I already know the relationship between you two."

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned: "What?"

Jing Ci's secretary...is Liang Jingjing.

Tao Mingzhuo's brain began to run rapidly. He recalled that it was because he heard the conversation between Jing Ci and Liang Jingjing in the office that he knew that Jing Ci had always had a different feeling for him.

When Jing Ci said that she was his "meaning in life", Liang Jingjing still echoed it, which shows that Liang Jingjing has always been aware of Jing Ci's feelings for her.

Coupled with the fact that he was always in and out of Jingci's office frequently before, it seems that Liang Jingjing should have known the relationship between the two of them for a long time.

"I thought the two of you seemed to be familiar with each other, and it didn't look like an ordinary superior-subordinate relationship at all." Li Lan said with a smile while turning off the fire, "So I asked Xiaoci's secretary specifically yesterday. "

So Li Lan now means that she already knows that she and Jing Ci...

Tao Mingzhuo's face started to have a fever. He didn't know how to face his lover's elders in this situation: "But no matter what, you still did us a big favor..."

Li Lan looked at Tao Mingzhuo and put her hands on her hips pretending to be angry: "Don't say that again, after all, Xiaoci also owes you a favor."

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment.

He thought that the "relationship" Li Lan just said meant that he and Jing Ci were together.

But at this moment, what Li Lan said was "I owe you a big favor", which didn't sound like describing a relationship between a couple at all.

More importantly, Tao Mingzhuo never knew when Jing Ci owed him a so-called favor.

"Xiaoci has always been a delicate child, always thinking of not causing trouble to others. I know he doesn't want to worry me by hiding it from me." Li Lan sighed while filling up the bird's nest in the pot, "If it wasn't for yesterday I asked more carefully, and I didn't know that he had been ill for so long."

"But fortunately, you have been with him all the time." She put the bowl containing the bird's nest into Tao Mingzhuo's hands, and then said lovingly, "You have done him a great favor."

"So the person who should say thank you should actually be me." She said with a smile.