Under meals

Chapter 23

Although Jing Ci said that he had no problem, Tao Mingzhuo always felt that his fall was definitely not light, and insisted on taking him to the hospital for a checkup.

Facts have proved that Tao Mingzhuo's judgment is correct.

On the way to the hospital, Jing Ci experienced persistent dizziness. After arriving at the hospital, the doctor arranged for him to undergo several examinations.

Jing Ci was sitting on the bench in the corridor, while Tao Mingzhuo and Yang Keying were anxiously pacing back and forth in front of his eyes.

In fact, Jing Ci was already dizzy, and there were two big living people walking back and forth in front of his eyes, and he only felt dizzy for a moment.

But he still comforted in a gentle voice: "It shouldn't be a big problem, don't worry."

Yang Keying was so frightened that she didn't dare to vent her anger: "Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooows

Tao Mingzhuo was even more anxious: "If I knew it earlier, I should have let you hug me. If I fell, I would be the first to fall. I am more resistant to falling."

Jing Ci: "..."

After the examination results came out, the doctor stared at the film and pondered for a moment, then asked Tao Mingzhuo, "How did he fall?"

Tao Mingzhuo didn't have the nerve to tell the truth: "Just, I fell on the ground."

"Slight concussion, the film seems to be fine now, but it's best to stay in the hospital for one night and stay here for observation." The doctor pushed the glasses on the bridge of the nose, "After going back, you have to rest for ten days, don't exercise, and work Moderate amount, try to maintain a relaxed mood."

Looking at the bruise on Tao Mingzhuo's arm, the doctor showed a puzzled expression: "Your arm also needs to be dealt with, two young men, how can you fall together like this when you wrestle on the flat ground?"

Jing Ci and Tao Mingzhuo fell into silence at the same time.

Because no matter who it is, they can't say something like "We fell when we hugged each other" to the old man in front of him.

After leaving the consultation room, Tao Mingzhuo began to busy himself with paying the bills and getting the bills, but he never treated the wound on his arm.

After entering the ward, Jing Ci was first forced to lie down on the hospital bed by Tao Mingzhuo.As if remembering something, Tao Mingzhuo turned around and walked out the door.

Jing Ci hesitated for a moment, and said to Yang Keying: "May I trouble you to accompany him to treat the injury on his arm first?"

Only then did Yang Keying come to her senses, she suddenly realized "Oh", and ran out of the ward.

Jing Ci shook her head with a smile and sighed.

Since getting acquainted with Tao Mingzhuo, Jing Ci has done a lot of things that break through her bottom line, such as smoking and playing disco, these are things that only she would try when she was studying abroad.

It's just that my mind was immature at the time, and I could indulge myself in such a completely reckless manner, but now the consequences that Jing Ci has to bear are much more troublesome.

Originally, for these three days of activities, Jing Ci had already made a lot of changes to his work plan, and now the doctor said that he needed to rest for a while, which made him feel a little headache.

Most importantly, resting at home for ten days... means that I will not be able to meet Tao Mingzhuo for another ten days.

Footsteps came from the door, Jing Ci raised her head, and found that it was Yang Keying who came back with Tao Mingzhuo after bandaging.

Jing Ci said: "Go back and rest first."

Yang Keying said: "But..."

"Go back first." Jing Ci shook her head, "It's not good if there are too many people in a place like a hospital, I also need to be alone."

This is actually the first time that Jing Ci has used such a tone to order them. Although Yang Kening understood that his intention was good, he still unavoidably persuaded him, and said in a low voice: "...Okay Mr. Jing, you have a good rest."

Yang Keying turned around and said to Tao Mingzhuo who had been silent for a long time, "Let's go."

Tao Mingzhuo raised his eyes and looked at Jing Ci for a moment, then nodded.

Watching Yang Keying and Tao Mingzhuo leave the ward together, Jing Ci lowered her eyes.

Still dizzy, Jing Ci also felt a little nauseous at the same time, he took a deep breath, resisted the discomfort, took out his phone, and sent a message to Li Yupo.

In fact, the impact of the ten-day rest on the work is not too big, because the meeting can be changed to online, and the dinner can also be postponed later.

But... I will not be able to meet Tao Mingzhuo for another ten days.

Jing Ci's original purpose was to have more meals with Tao Mingzhuo, but unexpectedly, she overdrawn her future opportunities.

The dizziness could not be contained within a short time, so Jing Ci closed her eyes with a sigh, and lay down for a while.

After a while, Jing Ci opened her eyes when she heard footsteps coming from the door.

Then he met the eyes of the tall young man standing at the door with a bag in his hand.

Jing Ci was taken aback for a moment: "Why are you back?"

Tao Mingzhuo was also stunned: "I sent Yang Keying back to the hotel, so I came back?"

Jing Ci became more and more puzzled: "You have already arrived at the hotel, why did you come back?"

Tao Mingzhuo showed an unbelievable expression: "Why do you think I won't come back? I definitely want to come back to accompany you?"

Jing Ci blinked.

Tao Mingzhuo coughed heavily, as if trying to hide his discomfort, he lowered his head, took out a few popsicles from the plastic bag in his hand, and stuffed them into Jingci's hand.

"Just now you said...the popsicles you want to eat." He said, "I don't know what flavor you like, so I just bought one of all the flavors."

After sending Yang Keying back to the hotel, on the way back to the hospital, Tao Mingzhuo happened to pass by the venue where the comic exhibition was located.

After hesitating for a moment, he asked the driver to stop the car.

Although it is impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong about the fall, Tao Mingzhuo feels that it is his own problem no matter how he looks at it.If it wasn't for his inexplicable desire to win and lose, and he insisted on going to the princess to hug Jingci once, then the series of butterfly effects that followed would not have been triggered.

It was already dusk, and fortunately, Tao Mingzhuo found that the stall selling popsicles had not closed yet.

Coincidentally, Tao Mingzhuo discovered that the theme ip of the popsicle stand is the game he himself participated in making, and some of the character stickers on the popsicle happened to be the hero skin series of "Xia Chong Yu Bing" that he participated in drawing last year of.

The popsicles are ordinary fruit popsicles, but just because there are stickers of different game characters on them, the price has doubled directly.

Tao Mingzhuo even suspected that there was something wrong with his ears: "Say it again, how much is this one?"

The stall owner saw that he was wearing the clothes of other game characters, and his expression was a little impatient: "21, if you don't buy it, I will close the stall. What we sell are not popsicles, but love and feelings for the characters!"

Tao Mingzhuo, the painter himself, thought for a moment, and felt that his love for the characters might be a little bit worse than them.

In the end, he honestly took out [-] yuan and bought five popsicles, and continued to rush to the hospital.

Jing Ci here did not expect that Tao Mingzhuo still remembered a sentence he said casually at that time.

He stared at the popsicle in his hand for a while, then raised his head after a while, bent his eyes at Tao Mingzhuo, and said, "Thank you."

"You eat too." Jing Ci put a popsicle into Tao Mingzhuo's hand.

Tao Mingzhuo: "Ah, good."

Tao Mingzhuo put the things in his hand on the ground and sat beside Jing Ci's bed.

The two began to eat popsicles in silence.

Although the popsicles were bought for Jingci, Tao Mingzhuo ate very attentively, and his eating efficiency was still astonishing, crunching, almost at the speed of one bite at a time.

Because of the fall just now, Jing Ci is still a little dizzy, and her stomach is not feeling very well.

But seeing Tao Mingzhuo gulping down the ice, he also smiled and lowered his eyes, and slowly took a few bites of the popsicle.

Cold and sweet, it melts little by little on the tip of the tongue.

After a while, Jing Ci said, "Go back to the hotel and rest first."

Tao Mingzhuo bit the popsicle, looked at him, and said vaguely: "I don't want...you can't be here alone, I definitely want to be here with you."

When he said the three words "with you", his expression was very firm. Jing Ci looked at his side face, and her eyelashes trembled.

Jing Ci put down the hand holding the popsicle.

"Tao Mingzhuo." Jing Ci called his name, "The doctor just said that I need to rest at home for a week, right?"

Tao Mingzhuo swallowed the ice in his mouth and shook his head: "It's been ten days, and I can't exercise. I need to reduce my workload and maintain a comfortable mood."

He remembered these details very clearly.

Jing Ci said "hmm": "I don't know how long the dizziness will last like this, and because I live alone, there will definitely be some inconvenience in life."

"There's also Doctor Wen, it can't live in the kennel for too long." Jing Ci said. "But I feel that in my current state, there is no way to take it out for a walk every day."

Tao Mingzhuo nodded blankly.

Just when he thought that Jing Ci was going to entrust Doctor Wen to himself again, Tao Mingzhuo heard Jing Ci say: "So I wonder if you would like to come and live in my house for a while?"

Tao Mingzhuo froze immediately: "What, what..."

Jing Ci looked at him and smiled: "Walking the dog is one thing, the main reason is that I can't go out for ten days, and my mother is still traveling, so I also hope that someone at home can accompany me and talk to me .”

Tao Mingzhuo's expression froze this time: "Accompany, accompany you..."

Jing Ci understood that Tao Mingzhuo might have other concerns, so he thought about it and added some conditions.

"Because it takes up more of your private time this time, I can pay you some extra rewards." Jing Ci said, "You don't really have to chat with me all the time or something, you just need to be like Just like when we get along at night, just eat and eat with me."

"As for the rest of the time, we can be busy with our own affairs." He said, "It's just that this time the place is at my home."

Tao Mingzhuo was speechless.

"So, I can double your salary." Jing Ci looked into Tao Mingzhuo's eyes, "Would you like to come to my house and have dinner with me every day?"

Jing Ci knew that Tao Mingzhuo was very prone to blush.

But this was also the first time that he saw Tao Mingzhuo's face turn red from normal to look like a boiled shrimp so quickly.

Strangely, apart from Jing Ci's expected astonishment, Tao Mingzhuo also had a complicated expression like "I knew it", which made Jing Ci feel a little puzzled.

"It's not impossible to stay at your house." After a while, Jing Ci heard Tao Mingzhuo stammering, "It's just me... I need to think about it seriously."

He was silent for a moment, and then added: "Because of me, I am usually very busy, and my parents... and my sister all need me to take care of them."

Jing Ci let out an "ah" and said clearly, "It's okay, you don't need to rush to give me an answer."

However, Tao Mingzhuo coughed: "It's okay, I can call them right now, but you... you'd better not have any hope."

Jing Ci smiled: "Okay."

Tao Mingzhuo almost ran away from the ward.

Jing Ci looked at his leaving back, lowered her head, and let out a breath.

In fact, at the end of the talk just now, Jing Ci almost couldn't make up the excuse of "I want someone to accompany me to talk".

Jing Ci didn't know what answer Tao Mingzhuo would give. In fact, for a moment just now, he was ready to confess his illness to Tao Mingzhuo.

The reason why she didn't say it for a long time was because Jing Ci suddenly realized at that moment that the reason why she always wants to spend more time with Tao Mingzhuo now is not just to look at his face to eat .

Jing Ci stared at the door of the ward for a while, and then his eyes fell on the bag Tao Mingzhuo used to hold the popsicles just now, and then his eyes froze suddenly——

Because Jing Ci saw Tao Mingzhuo's cell phone in the bag.

Jing Ci: "...?"

One minute later, Tao Mingzhuo reappeared at the door of the ward.

"The phone call is over." The young man said calmly, "My parents said there was no problem, they said...it would be good if I could help my friends more."

Seeing that Jingci hadn't spoken for a long time, Tao Mingzhuo pursed his lips again, and asked nonchalantly, "So, what date do you think is more appropriate for me to move to your house?"