Under meals

Chapter 15 Coat

They ate supper for an hour in total, and Tao Mingzhuo drank three big bowls of porridge in a daze.

After returning home, he clutched his stomach and lay on the bed in a daze, but the ten minutes that Jing Ci spent with himself in that small corner kept flashing in his mind.

At that time, the temperature of Jing Ci's palm was slightly cold, he held his face with his hands, and raised his face slightly, as if... as if he wanted to take the initiative to kiss.

Tao Mingzhuo raised his hand and touched his cheek.

Did he do it on purpose?Tao Mingzhuo wondered in a daze, did he know that he was good-looking, so he deliberately made such a move, and was so close to me, was it just to see how panicked I was?

Tao Mingzhuo felt really unlucky.

He was the only one who got hot when he ate at a roadside stall, and was turned against the general for smoking in a performance, and his face was touched when he went to a nightclub. He felt physically and mentally exhausted.

He found that his carefully designed next plan would always have the opposite effect on Jing Ci, so he decided to stop for a while.

Tao Mingzhuo believes that this is because Liang Jingjing gave him a big mistake in the information. He decided to observe carefully when he gets along with Jing Ci in the future, and then slowly study more targeted countermeasures.

However, Tao Mingzhuo did not expect that the house leak happened to rain overnight, and he might be more unlucky than he imagined.

And this time it was physical, real rain.

On Monday night, Tao Mingzhuo was going to invite Jing Ci to have a taste of the newly opened snack street in the city.Because the snack street is very close, there is a large flow of people, and it is very easy to get stuck in traffic, so Tao Mingzhuo suggested walking.

The most important thing is that when he thinks that Jing Ci's driver will respectfully open the door for him in a place like Snack Street, he would rather walk thousands of steps more by himself.

Jing Ci did not raise any objections, but responded peacefully: "Okay."

However, within 5 minutes of walking out of the company's gate, the sky began to splash raindrops on the ground, and the two of them were directly dazzled. In the end, they could only find a bus stop and sit down in embarrassment, waiting for the rain to stop.

Tao Mingzhuo was so angry that he was a little incoherent: "I swear to God I read the weather forecast before going out, and there is obviously no day that it will rain this week..."

Jing Ci was more seriously drenched than Tao Mingzhuo, but she didn't complain, but comforted gently: "It's okay, the weather forecast is not [-]% accurate."

"I guess it will stop after a while." He smiled and said, "The air is very good when it rains. I haven't breathed such fresh air for a long time."

Jing Ci's EQ is very high, maybe he could see Tao Mingzhuo's uneasiness, he seemed to say these few words casually, but it made Tao Mingzhuo feel a lot less guilty all of a sudden.

The rain is still falling, and it shows no sign of letting up.

Tao Mingzhuo was about to say something when he saw Jing Ci suddenly turned his head, covered his mouth and nose, and sneezed.

He saw Jing Ci frowning, and after a while, he said in a hoarse voice, "Sorry."

Jingci's nose was a little red, and his eyelashes trembled slightly. Tao Mingzhuo saw him raise his other hand and rub his eyes.

Tao Mingzhuo was taken aback for a moment, and said, "It's okay."

It was only then that Tao Mingzhuo noticed that, unlike his own situation, Jing Ci was almost completely soaked.

Because it was just spring and the weather was getting warmer, and the two of them were going to a place like the snack street, Jing Ci didn't wear a suit jacket, but only a thin shirt and came out.

And Tao Mingzhuo was wearing a coat when he went out, so even if it was raining just now, his hair was only seriously wet, at least he was still in a warm state overall.

He...is he a bit cold?Tao Mingzhuo thought hesitantly.

Tao Mingzhuo secretly stared at Jing Ci for a while, only to find that Jing Ci lowered her eyes and curled her hands slightly into the cuffs of her shirt.

Looking at the coat on his body, Tao Mingzhuo fell into deep thought.

He couldn't figure out why the person who encountered this kind of proposition was always himself?

What Tao Mingzhuo wants to do is very simple, that is, while returning the meal money to Jing Ci, try to maintain a non-ambiguous and non-intimate social distance with him.

Of course, during this period, it would be even better if Jing Ci could hate herself even more.

However, at this moment, if he took the initiative to give the coat to Jing Ci, the relationship between the two would become more ambiguous.

And once I do this, it seems that I have given Jing Ci some kind of hope invisibly, and it is no different from the kind of scumbag who vaguely hangs on other people's feelings.

But what if... what if he was really cold?

Tao Mingzhuo couldn't help but turned his head and glanced at the person beside him.

In case he caught a cold and fell ill because he didn't give Jing Ci his coat, then as the only person who could avoid this happening, Tao Mingzhuo felt that his conscience would be disturbed for the rest of his life.

Jing Ci was quietly observing the small puddles accumulated by the rain on the road, waiting for the rain to stop.

Although the rain came suddenly, Jing Ci's interest was still high, because he was looking forward to tonight's trip, after all, he hadn't tasted the local specialty snacks for a long time.

Jing Ci was watching the ripples on the surface of the puddle, and was thinking about whether the rainy day would affect the business of some shops on the snack street, when she suddenly heard Tao Mingzhuo beside her ask: "You... Are you cold?"

Jing Ci came back to her senses.

He felt that the current temperature was still tolerable, but the moment the wind blew past and took away the moisture from his skin, it was a little cold, so he sneezed.

So Jing Ci said, "It's okay."

Tao Mingzhuo was sitting a little further out. Jing Ci thought for a while, thinking that Tao Mingzhuo felt a little cold, so she asked herself this question.

So Jing Ci stood up without any hesitation, and said softly, "The wind seems to be stronger on your side, so let's change seats."

Tao Mingzhuo's pupils suddenly dilated.

In fact, if Jing Ci answered "I'm cold" or "It's too cold", then Tao Mingzhuo would actually suspect that Jing Ci's coldness is not real.

However, the "fact" is that Jing Ci is obviously too cold to die, but her first reaction is to worry about her own condition instead, which makes Tao Mingzhuo feel unbelievable.

Why can he be so nice to me?Tao Mingzhuo wondered blankly, does he just... like me so much?

Jing Ci was a little confused, because Tao Mingzhuo remained silent for a long time after he proposed the idea of ​​changing seats.

After a while, Jing Ci saw him standing up slowly.

Jing Ci was about to stagger her body to give Tao Mingzhuo some room to move around, when he heard him say stiffly, "You...wait a minute."

Jing Ci was taken aback for a moment, he saw Tao Mingzhuo lowered his head, unzipped his coat in a hurry, and then took off the whole coat.

Tao Mingzhuo held the clothes in his hands, and met Jing Ci's blank gaze.

Then Jing Ci heard him speak slowly: "I, I actually feel a little hot."

"Rainy days are too boring. I've been like this since I was a child. When it rains... I can't breathe." As if afraid that Jing Ci would not believe it, Tao Mingzhuo added a lot in one breath.

"So you, hold it for me for a while," he said.

What he said was "hold it for me for a while", but he didn't put the clothes in Jing Ci's hands.

Instead, Tao Mingzhuo pursed his lips, raised his hand directly, and put the coat on Jing Ci's shoulders awkwardly and carefully.

The fabric inside the coat was still warm, Jing Ci was stunned.

After discovering that Tao Mingzhuo was wearing a short sleeve, Jing Ci realized that she was about to take off the jacket and return it to him subconsciously, but Tao Mingzhuo directly held her hand.

Jing Ci: "You—"

Tao Mingzhuo exerted great strength.

He didn't even wait for Jing Ci to pull his hands out of his clothes, and he helped Jing Ci zip up the jacket in one breath, and wrapped Jing Ci in the coat in such a clumsy manner.

The tall young man's cheeks were a little red.

"I... I'm just too lazy to take it by myself." He said to Jing Ci like this.

After zipping the zipper, Jing Ci saw Tao Mingzhuo let go of his hand in a panic, then turned around and walked directly into the rain behind him.

"...The rain seems to be a little lighter." The young man's voice was muffled, mixed with the sound of the pattering rain, and passed into Jing Ci's ears somewhat faintly, "Let's go, I want to eat."

The author says:

Chromium is the hardest metal known so far, its hardness is only slightly lower than Tao Mingzhuo's mouth.