Under meals

Chapter 37 Eggs

Doctor Wen is very hungry because he hasn't eaten his supper yet.

It looked at the toilet door that had been closed for an unknown amount of time, wagged its tail, and let out a loud "owwow" into it very unhappy.

However, no one paid any attention to it, and Imperial Physician Wen let out a "woo" again, curled up his chubby body in front of the toilet door, and reluctantly began to sleep.

In the toilet, the temperature in the small space is rising little by little, the air is quiet, no one speaks, only the sound of panting with different frequencies can be heard.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo lowered his head in embarrassment, and said with a somewhat chaotic breath, "You... wash your hands quickly."

Jing Ci didn't speak, just quietly staring at the sticky patch on the palm of his hand, then he turned his gaze and landed on the hem of his shirt.

Tao Mingzhuo looked anxiously, only to find that Jingci's shirt was also stained with white spots, and he was so embarrassed that he couldn't even speak.

He held back for a long time and didn't know what to say, and finally apologized without thinking: "I'm sorry, you...you should wash your hands first."

"And I told you in advance just now." The young man muttered a little aggrieved, "Why...why didn't you let go earlier?"

Jing Ci finally raised her eyes, smiled at him, and said, "Sorry, it's my problem, I thought it would take a while for you to..."

Jing Ci paused subtly, but did not finish the second half of the sentence.

But Tao Mingzhuo understood what he meant in an instant, and his face suddenly changed color.

Jing Ci turned on the faucet with a normal face and began to rinse his palms. Knowing that Tao Mingzhuo was thin-skinned, he immediately comforted him softly: "It's okay."

After a while, Jing Ci noticed that the young man next to her put her face close to her ear, and mumbled and began to argue in a low voice: "Actually, when I usually do it by myself, it definitely takes a lot longer than this time, but Because it's you, there's nothing I can do about it..."

The self-esteem of young big boys is really interesting, and Jing Ci can't help but laugh.He turned off the tap, raised his eyes, and wanted to say something.

But the moment she looked in the mirror, Jing Ci was absent-minded for a moment.

The tall young man standing behind him was also looking at himself through the mirror.

His face was already unbearably red, and he looked shy, but his eyes were hot, and the light in his eyes made people tremble.

After their eyes met, Tao Mingzhuo wrapped his arms around Jing Ci's waist from behind, put his chin on Jing Ci's shoulder, and rubbed his face against his neck intimately. He didn't speak for a long time. .

After a moment of silence, he murmured Jing Ci's name.

"...Jingci," he said, "I like you so much."

A young boy who is stupid in everything he does, extremely shy but still pretending to be calm, even the simplest and most down-to-earth sentence of "I like you so much" when talking about love.

But it's such youthfulness and clumsiness that can always fill Jing Ci's chest very full.

Jing Ci turned her face slightly, and gently kissed the tip of Tao Mingzhuo's nose.

They have only been together for about two weeks, and they should have gone out to eat and play in their spare time, and have sweet dates like other young couples in love.

But what happened to Tao Xue happened quite suddenly.

Jing Ci was originally the one with the heavier workload among the two, but Tao Mingzhuo has been so busy these two days that even a high-intensity work party like Jing Ci is a little worried about him.

Tao Mingzhuo's game project team has recently started preparing for the anniversary celebration, so his workload during the day has increased sharply. After get off work, he has to drag his exhausted body to Tao Xue's house to chat with her and take a walk to change his mood. When he gets home, It's almost nine o'clock in the evening.

Tao Mingzhuo has been going around like this for a few days, not to mention finding time to date Jing Ci, basically as soon as he got home, he fell into a semi-paralyzed state.

Tao Xue went to bed early, so she ate dinner early every day.

Tao Mingzhuo's off-duty time was half an hour later than her usual regular dinner time. In order to prevent Tao Xue from spending extra energy cooking for herself, Tao Mingzhuo lied and told Tao Xue every time I came to find her after dinner.

It was already late at night when he got home, and Tao Mingzhuo would feel dizzy every time he was hungry.

At first, Jing Ci would wait for Tao Mingzhuo to have dinner with him when he got home, but after such a day, Tao Mingzhuo himself felt a little embarrassed.

Although Tao Mingzhuo enjoys the warm time when he and Jing Ci have dinner together, he is not willing to let Jing Ci go hungry just to wait for him no matter what.

He originally felt guilty because he spent less time with Jing Ci these few days, and now he didn't want Jing Ci's quality of life to be indirectly affected by him.

Tao Mingzhuo feels that the body is the most important thing, and there will be more opportunities to eat together in the future.So he solemnly warned Jingci not to wait for him to go home for dinner, and not to starve her stomach.

Tao Mingzhuo said solemnly: "I repeat at the end, don't wait for me to eat together, or I will be angry."

At that time, Jing Ci looked at him and seemed a little hesitant to speak, but seeing Tao Mingzhuo's firm expression, he finally nodded with a smile and said, "Okay."

Today Tao Mingzhuo came home later than usual.

When he opened the door, Tao Mingzhuo saw that Jing Ci was squatting at the door, combing the hair of Doctor Wen.

Seeing Tao Mingzhuo come back, Imperial Physician Wen immediately ran up to rub Tao Mingzhuo's legs happily, and Jing Ci stood up with the hair comb in his hand.

Tao Mingzhuo said to him, "I'm sorry, the road is a bit congested."

Jing Ci smiled: "It's okay."

Tao Mingzhuo asked: "Have you eaten yet?"

Jing Ci nodded: "I've finished eating, and put the rest in the refrigerator."

Hearing that Jing Ci had finished his dinner, Tao Mingzhuo nodded with satisfaction.

Two days ago, when Tao Mingzhuo came home, he would always find that the ingredients in the refrigerator hadn't been touched much. When he asked Jing Ci what happened, Jing Ci said that it was because he ordered takeaway at night.

Later, seeing Tao Mingzhuo was exhausted after arriving home every day, eating instant noodles or quick-frozen food, Jing Ci chose to cook by himself at night.

Tao Mingzhuo was a little embarrassed at first, because he had no way to help him by the side, and Jing Ci's workload would be heavy.

Jing Ci saw through his thoughts, and only smiled and gave him a nickname: "Then I can only trouble you to be my 'leftover processing machine' for a while."

Tao Mingzhuo's heart felt hot, and he leaned into his ear and said, "I can't ask for it."

So after Tao Mingzhuo returned home these two days, he would see Jingci eating leftovers in the refrigerator.

At this moment, Tao Mingzhuo opened the refrigerator and found that today's meals had been carefully sealed by Jing Ci with plastic wrap, one vegetarian and one meat, two fried eggs, and a big pot of meatball soup.

He warmed up the leftovers and served them, immediately devouring them.

Jing Ci sat across from him and worked quietly, while Tao Mingzhuo peeked up during the interval of grilling rice. Seeing his peaceful and beautiful side face, he only felt his heart itching and felt a little guilty at the same time.

Tao Mingzhuo put down his chopsticks and promised Jing Ci: "I will come back as soon as possible tomorrow."

Jing Ci looked at him, shook her head and said, "I still need to stay with my sister for a while."

Tao Mingzhuo wanted to say something more, but Jing Ci calmly changed the topic from dinner to Tao Xue: "Has your brother-in-law done anything lately?"

"Tang Lijie has always said that he wants to have an interview with my sister, but my sister is in a bad mood now, and he has no good intentions. He may not know what will happen when we meet." Tao Mingzhuo paused, and then said, "Anyway, we have decided to divorce , even if you can't leave during pregnancy, you will definitely leave after the child is born, so I didn't ask her to see her at all."

"Then this bastard has been pestering my sister for the past two days." Tao Mingzhuo took a deep breath, "If my sister didn't answer his call, he would block the door and wait at the door for two or three hours before leaving. Come all, my sister threw away all the nutritional supplements that were sent, but he still delivered them."

Jing Ci frowned: "Block the door?"

Tao Mingzhuo nodded: "I have already asked my sister to change the door code, but I am still worried, so I thought about letting her move to the apartment I lived in in two days, at least it will be safe and secure."

"My sister is a month old now, and I can't take care of her when I go to work during the day." He exhaled, "Besides, I am a big man, and some things may not be so convenient, so I just want to find a nanny to accompany her. That way you can rest assured.”

Jing Ci agreed: "This will indeed be more convenient."

"But my sister is stronger, she always thinks she can do it alone." Tao Mingzhuo shook his head, and said helplessly, "I don't know how to talk to her about it better."

Jing Ci was thoughtful.

Tao Mingzhuo sighed and stood up: "I'll think about it again, let's not talk...I'll wash the dishes first."

Jing Ci looked at him and nodded.

Tao Mingzhuo walked into the kitchen with the used dishes and chopsticks.

He came to the sink and looked down, only to find that there was no used bowl in the sink.

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment.

In fact, there is a dishwasher at home, and Jing Ci eats earlier than herself, so it stands to reason that she just needs to leave the used bowls in the sink, and throw them in the dishwasher together after she comes back to eat.

Maybe it's because Jingci didn't use many bowls for dinner today, probably only one or two, so I washed them in advance.he thought so.

Tao Mingzhuo pursed his lips. Although he still felt a little strange, he didn't think about it any more. He just bent down and put the dishes that needed to be cleaned into the dishwasher.

Then he walked to the refrigerator in a good mood, ready to wash a peach and eat it.

In fact, Tao Mingzhuo ate very full today, and it was rare that he could even be considered full.

But he still has to wash a peach, because Tao Mingzhuo's purpose of washing peaches in the past two days is not just to eat peaches.

Opening the refrigerator, he chose a big, soft peach.

Before closing the refrigerator door, Tao Mingzhuo's eyes fell on the groove on the side of the refrigerator door, and he noticed that the groove was empty.

This is where they usually put their eggs.

Tao Mingzhuo's hand paused, and he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Because he suddenly recalled that when he was picking up the fruit yesterday, he seemed to have casually glanced at the groove at his hand.

Tao Mingzhuo remembered very clearly that when he looked at this place last night, there were only two eggs left in it.

After closing the refrigerator door, Tao Mingzhuo specially edited a memo on his mobile phone, reminding himself that when buying ingredients this weekend, he should remember to buy a few more boxes of eggs.

Tao Mingzhuo finally realized what was wrong.

There were obviously only two eggs left in the refrigerator last night, and Jing Ci just told himself that what he left for himself was his "leftover" meal.

But Tao Mingzhuo ate two fried eggs tonight.

Tao Mingzhuo turned his head in a daze. He first looked at the sink at hand, then his eyes slid down and landed on the roaring dishwasher.

Jing Ci heard footsteps not far away.

He looked away from the screen, raised his head, and saw Tao Mingzhuo standing in front of him.

The young man held a peach that was still dripping water in his hand. He didn't speak, his expression was dim, and he just looked straight at his face.

Jing Ci was startled: "What's wrong?"

Seeing Tao Mingzhuo pursed his lips, Jing Ci walked a few steps on the spot with some anxiety, took a deep breath after a while, and raised his head to look at himself again.

"Jing Ci," he heard Tao Mingzhuo ask, "Did you not have dinner at all?"

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