Under meals

26 Confession

That night, Tao Mingzhuo made a big pot of cabbage and meatball soup.

Tao Mingzhuo's family owns a small restaurant, and his parents cook good food. But as Tao Mingzhuo said in the book he was reading, genes and heredity... are indeed full of uncertainties.

Tao Xue has been at the level of a stable fried kitchen since she was a child. Although Tao Mingzhuo is not as shabby as Tao Xue, he can barely cook some daily side dishes, and he is a player whose level fluctuates greatly.

For example, Tao Mingzhuo made this pot of cabbage and meatball soup. The ratio of meat and vegetables is slightly out of balance. It is basically the ratio of six meatballs to one vegetable leaf.

Two bowls, one black and one white, were placed together, each filled with meatballs as high as a hill.

Tao Mingzhuo worked efficiently with both hands at the same time, stuffing the balls into his mouth and picking them up in Jingci's bowl: "Hurry up, the patient needs to replenish his body."

Jing Ci: "...OK."

Jing Ci had just picked up a ball and put it in her mouth. Before she had time to chew, she heard Tao Mingzhuo cough and asked nonchalantly, "Is it delicious?"

Jing Ci bit off the ball, chewed for a while and commented: "It's very fragrant."

Tao Mingzhuo looked at him, and after a while he said "hmm", looking a little happy.

He pursed his lips and said to Jing Ci: "I have done a lot."

Jing Ci didn't realize what Tao Mingzhuo meant at first, but later he understood.

After the whole dinner, whenever Jing Ci finished eating a meatball and went to pick up other dishes, Tao Mingzhuo would pretend to be calm and secretly refill him with another meatball.

So the meatballs in the Jingci bowl gradually appeared to eat more and more.

Because Tao Mingzhuo kept adding food to himself, and because he had a good appetite tonight, Jing Ci couldn't help eating a lot while watching him eat.

However, Jing Ci's appetite was still limited, and at the end of the meal, he had to leave a few balls.

Jing Ci took a look at Tao Mingzhuo, who was humming in the kitchen while refilling his rice with a spoon, and felt that if he left the meatballs, he would feel a little sad.

So before Tao Mingzhuo found out, Jing Ci hesitated for a while, and finally fed the remaining few meatballs to Imperial Physician Wen who had been eyeing him for a long time.

After the meal, Tao Mingzhuo and Jing Ci sat on the sofa, each busy with their own affairs for a while.

Tao Mingzhuo edited the drawing with a tablet, while Jing Ci turned on the computer and worked on it for a while.

After correcting the drawing, Tao Mingzhuo read the book for a while, trying to make his new cultural everyone's establishment a reality.

Five minutes later, Tao Mingzhuo couldn't help but yawned.

After yawning, Tao Mingzhuo immediately raised his eyelids vigilantly, and found that Jing Ci, who was sitting across from him, looked as usual and was staring intently at the computer screen.

Only then did Tao Mingzhuo feel relieved, and continued to flip through the book in his hand.

Fortunately, there are still illustrations in the book to look at.However, Tao Mingzhuo stared at the painting of the DNA double helix for a while, and felt even more sleepy as he twisted and looped round after round.

So Tao Mingzhuo started to lose his mind again.

He calculated in his heart that he would stay at Jing Ci's house for a total of ten days. Although he had slept all night yesterday, since he arrived at night, today should be counted as the official first day.

By the way, I only need to live here for ten days.

He was stunned for a while, and couldn't help but start thinking wildly again, but today Jing Ci bought such an expensive bowl, as if... he was going to live here for a long time.

When he was restless, Tao Mingzhuo saw Jing Ci close the computer and asked with a smile, "Do you want to watch a movie?"

Tao Mingzhuo froze for a moment, then said, "Okay."

Jing Ci chose a reasoning movie with a good reputation.

When the movie started, Jing Ci put the computer on the coffee table, and then sat beside Tao Mingzhuo.

At the beginning, no one said a word, and he only focused on the content of the movie, but after watching it for a while, Tao Mingzhuo realized that it might not be because the book was too boring, but because he was really tired today.

So he gets sleepy no matter what he looks at.

The heroine's face began to appear double in Tao Mingzhuo's eyes. Tao Mingzhuo tried to open his eyes wide, took a deep breath after a while, and glanced at Jing Ci beside him.

Just squint for a while.He thought, Jing Ci was watching very seriously, so I shouldn't be able to find out, as long as I quickly opened my eyes when he was talking.

Thinking of this, Tao Mingzhuo tilted his head slightly, he sank his body completely on the sofa, and slowly closed his eyes.

Jing Ci was staring at the TV screen when she suddenly felt her shoulders sink.

He lowered his head, and found that the young man beside him closed his eyes and leaned his head on his shoulder. His breathing was steady and even, and he was in a deep sleep.

Jing Ci was taken aback.

After coming out of the supermarket in the afternoon, although Tao Mingzhuo blushed all the way because of the couple's bowl, he still insisted on not letting Jing Ci take anything.

He walked quite a distance with two big bags of things by himself, and was busy cooking immediately after he came back. Naturally, his physical exertion was not small.

The young man has deep eyebrows and a high nose bridge, with a heroic and handsome appearance.But the hair was fluffy and soft, drooping on the forehead, making the whole person look very docile.

Jing Ci felt her heart warm up.

He looked at Tao Mingzhuo's face quietly for a while, and after a long while, he smiled and raised his eyes, letting him continue to lean on his shoulder.

As a result, after 5 minutes, the young man might feel that the shoulder pillow was not comfortable, and the young man muttered something vaguely, pushing his hot body closer and closer.

When Jing Ci was hesitating whether to find him a pillow so that he could lean more comfortably, Tao Mingzhuo's body "thumped" and his head directly rested on Jing Ci's lap.

Jing Ci: "..."

The thigh was much more comfortable than the shoulder, and the young man even rubbed his face against Jing Ci's thigh twice, and then his breathing became stable again.

Tao Mingzhuo had a dream in a dizzy state.

In the dream, he and Jing Ci were still living together, but this time, not only were the soup bowls for couples, but even the toothbrushes, towels, water glasses, and clothes they used were all in pairs. .

When Jing Ci in the dream looked at him, there seemed to be a gentle and clear lake hidden in his eyes, and just like that time in the bar, he softly called himself "Ming Zhuo".

He asked: "Ming Zhuo, can you make soup for me to drink at night?"

Tao Mingzhuo immediately realized that the reason why they are using couple items together at this moment is not because there is a new discount in the supermarket, and there is no other reason.

It's because...they have become a real couple.

Tao Mingzhuo heard himself respond: "Okay."

Then he saw Jing Ci bent his eyes and showed himself a nice and gentle smile. He raised his legs and approached him little by little.

Just when Jing Ci stretched out his hand, wanting to hold her hand, his figure suddenly disappeared bit by bit, and then Tao Mingzhuo's eyes turned into a chaotic darkness.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo felt that half of his cheek touched a soft, comfortable and warm thing, like a pillow filled with soft velvet and with its own heating function.

Tao Mingzhuo didn't know how long he had been asleep, and when he opened his eyes in a daze, he was stunned for a moment.

He saw Jing Ci's face, but from a very novel perspective.

Because Tao Mingzhuo is relatively tall, usually he would lower his head slightly to look down on Jing Ci, but this time, Tao Mingzhuo saw Jing Ci's face from the perspective of looking up.

The light on the TV screen hit Jing Ci's face, and Tao Mingzhuo's heart suddenly started beating wildly between the light and the darkness.

Because he suddenly realized that what he was resting on was not a so-called pillow at all, but Jingci's thigh!

Sensing Tao Mingzhuo's movements, Jing Ci looked away from the screen, lowered his head, looked into Tao Mingzhuo's eyes, and let out an "ah".

He said, "Are you awake?"

Tao Mingzhuo blushed and wanted to get up: "I, I, I..."

"If you just woke up, don't get up too fast." Jing Ci said, "Take your time."

As if seeing Tao Mingzhuo's embarrassment, Jing Ci bent her eyes again and said, "It's nothing, I often fall asleep watching movies, you've been busy all day today, and you're already very tired."

Tao Mingzhuo sat up in a hurry, panting for several breaths in succession, his heartbeat was still too fast.

He didn't dare to look at Jing Ci, so he could only speak dryly: "I, I don't know why I just fell asleep..."

Jing Ci smiled and said, "It's okay."

Tao Mingzhuo saw that Jing Ci lowered her head and smoothed the wrinkled fabric on the thighs of her trousers with her hands.

Both were silent for a while.

Tao Mingzhuo raised his hand subconsciously, and touched the half of his face that was on Jing Ci's thigh just now, feeling that the temperature was still a bit high.

In addition to embarrassment, Tao Mingzhuo felt more at a loss, because he couldn't understand why he had such a dream just now.

"By the way." In the end, it was Jing Ci who took the initiative to break the silence. He asked a somewhat abrupt question, "Would you like to go out to eat next Tuesday night?"

When Jing Ci asked this question, Tao Mingzhuo's first reaction was to feel a little puzzled.

Because it has been so many days, and they have eaten so many meals together, why is there any need to ask yourself "would you like to go out"?The answer is of course yes.

"I know there is a good French restaurant, let's try it." Jing Ci added.

"No problem." Tao Mingzhuo thought for a while, and then said, "But let me treat you, I haven't paid off the meals you treated me before."

Jing Ci shook her head and said, "This meal means a lot to me, so let me treat you, okay?"

His tone was very firm, Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment, and after a while he said, "Okay."

The movie had played to the end, and they sat side by side on the sofa for another moment of silence.

After a while, Tao Mingzhuo couldn't help asking: "So, what kind of special law is it?"

Jing Ci turned her head, looked into Tao Mingzhuo's eyes, and smiled slightly.

He didn't make any further explanations, but staggered his gaze, stood up directly, picked up the remote control, and turned off the TV.

"I'll tell you when the time comes." Jing Ci said to him, "Good night."

Tao Mingzhuo: "...good night."

Next Tuesday, next Tuesday... What kind of special day can it be?Watching Jingci's leaving figure, Tao Mingzhuo sat on the sofa, still thinking with some hesitation.

Tao Mingzhuo pondered for a moment, opened the phone calendar, and slid to the date of next Tuesday.

Then his eyes widened suddenly.

After Tao Xue watered the flowers, she put the watering can on the window sill.

Then she collapsed on the sofa, exhaled comfortably, and forced herself to read the parenting guide she just bought a while ago.

Five minutes later, Tao Xue closed the book with dim eyes, thinking that it would not be too late to read after the birth, her own mood was the most important thing, so today's reading activities ended here.

So Tao Xue turned on the TV, and watched with relish the bloody family ethics drama that she had been chasing recently.

When she saw the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting, Tao Xue's cell phone vibrated, and she let out a "tsk", and when she checked the caller ID, she found that it was Tao Mingzhuo who initiated the video call.

Feeling novel, Tao Xue connected the phone and asked, "Why did you suddenly call me?"

Before Tao Mingzhuo could speak, Tao Xue remembered something, and asked again: "By the way, I saw that you were riding in the car of Sister Li's family that day. What's going on?"

Tao Mingzhuo was stunned for a moment, and said, "Yes, my...colleague is actually the youngest son of Sister Li's family, whom you met in the shop before."

Tao Xue suddenly realized "Oh".

In fact, Tao Xue couldn't remember exactly what Tao Mingzhuo's "colleague" looked like. She just remembered that he was a handsome guy with a good temperament and was also very polite, so she felt relieved.

"Understood." While talking, Tao Xue couldn't help but turned her head and continued to stare at the TV screen, saying, "Since he is sick, you should help him well."

Tao Mingzhuo responded vaguely, hesitated for a long time, and finally choked out a sentence: "...my brother-in-law is not at home?"

Tao Xue licked the melon seeds in hand, and sighed while staring at the TV: "Recently he is busy at work, and he always complains in my ear when he gets home. Forget it, I am clean by myself."

Tao Mingzhuo responded, but did not speak again.

Tao Xue knew him too well, knew that he must have something hidden in his heart, glanced at the TV screen, and asked again: "Hurry up, you go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing, and you suddenly came to me, what's the matter?"

Tao Mingzhuo on the other side of the screen was silent for a long time, and after a while, his expression became shy.

Tao Mingzhuo: "Then, then I'll just say it."

The plot on the TV screen gradually came to a climax, Tao Xue's attention was immediately attracted, she didn't hear what he said clearly, but fixed her eyes on the screen: "Yeah."

"It's the one I told you just now, that colleague." Tao Mingzhuo paused and stammered, "He, he asked me to have dinner on the night of May NO.19, and he said... he also said This day is rather special."

Tao Xue's eyes were almost glued to the TV screen, because the TV series finally progressed to the most exciting scene where the daughter-in-law was about to pack up and get divorced, and she didn't want to miss a single frame.

So Tao Xue didn't think about what Tao Mingzhuo said, and began to perfunctory literature: "Wow, this is too much!"

Tao Mingzhuo let out a somewhat disappointed "hmm".

"Right." He lowered his head and murmured, "It's not a good time to choose, it has to be... the day before 520."

Tao Mingzhuo was quiet for a while, then raised his head again, and said to her in a dazed and helpless manner: "Sister, I always feel that he might confess to me."

Tao Xue stared at the TV screen and nodded while nibbling the melon seeds at hand: "Oh, what a big deal. Didn't you have many people chasing you when you were studying? Every time you come to ask me what's wrong Do it, this time you think about how you dealt with it before, you have to learn to think independently, understand..."

Tao Mingzhuo didn't speak for a long time.

The air was quiet for a moment, and Tao Xue paused her hand for eating melon seeds, and then she suddenly realized something, and turned her head suddenly.

"...Who?" She asked in surprise, "You just said, who wants to confess to you?"