Tao Zhi held his breath.
The boy's body was still covered with the air-conditioning outside in late autumn. His fingers were cold, but his palms were warm. His slender fingers ran through his hair, and the contradictory temperature and weight that belonged to him were lightly pressed down on the top of his head.
Very comfortable, and a little itchy.
She wanted to reach out to scratch her head, but she was afraid that Jiang Qihuai would not touch her head if she raised her hand.
She shook her head uncontrollably, and rubbed her head against his palm.
The girl's soft hair was wrapped around her fingertips, and the jet-black hair was entangled with the cold white complexion. The contrast was extremely sharp. Jiang Qihuai slightly bent his fingers, and for a moment, withdrew his hand.
The weight on the top of the head was suddenly removed, and it was empty. Tao Zhi was a little bit unsatisfied, looked at him regretfully, and whispered: "Aren't you touching me anymore?"
Jiang Qihuai let out a hiss.
Tao Zhi was honest immediately: "I was talking nonsense, I was wrong."
Grandpa Jiang turned his back to the two young men, his eyes fell on the book, his eyes were fixed on his nose, nose and mouth, and he tried his best to integrate himself into the background wall of the living room, pretending that he did not exist.
Jiang Qihuai raised his head and glanced at the past.
Tao Zhi finally remembered that Grandpa Jiang was still in the living room, put down the paper in his hand with a "shua", grabbed her small bench and silently turned back to the side of the coffee table, and continued to make papers.
The coffee table was a bit short, and there was no place to put her legs. She bent her legs, her chin rested on her knees, and she bowed into a ball of small shrimps, pretending to be honest and handing in the papers.
Jiang Qihuai took off his coat and hung it aside, turned his head: "Why don't you go inside and write."
Tao Zhi brushed across a question line, and hummed: "You're not at home, and you don't trespass on private territory without permission, even the little animals know."
Jiang Qihuai leaned over, took the small schoolbag she put on the sofa, and walked to the bedroom: "Go in and write."
Tao Zhi packed up his papers and followed him swayingly.
When she got up, she looked back at Grandpa Jiang.
The old man also turned his head to look at her, and his eyes met. Grandpa Jiang winked at her.
Tao Zhi rubbed his face, feeling a little uncomfortable.
There is always a guilty feeling of taking advantage of his grandson in front of Grandpa Jiang.
Jiang Qihuai's room was no different from the last time he came here, it was still clean and tidy, the quilt on the bed was neatly made, reminding Tao Zhi of his own bed that could never be folded.
She doesn't like stacking the quilts, and she doesn't let Aunt Zhang do them either. She piles up the quilts in the morning, forming a hill with a bulge in the middle, and buries herself in it after taking a bath and going to bed at night.
Heating has started in the north in November, and the bedroom is warm and dry, and fine dust particles can be seen floating in the air in the soft beams of the setting sun.
Tao Zhi put the paper on the desk, didn't sit down, ran to the door again, and beckoned to Jiang Qihuai mysteriously: "Come here."
Jiang Qihuai followed her out.
Tao Zhi went into the kitchen, and there were two big bags piled inside. Tao Zhi opened one of them, and found two big boxes of strawberries from inside. He turned his head and said, "I bought a lot of strawberries."
Jiang Qihuai glanced at the things on the table: "You bought them all?"
"You can't just eat and drink for nothing every time you come here." Tao Zhi took off a layer of plastic wrap on the strawberry box, walked to the sink, and Jiang Qihuai had already turned on the tap to wash his hands: "I'll come."
He took the box in his hand without any hesitation, Tao Zhi didn't insist, let go and stood aside to watch.
He took out the fruit plate from the cupboard, picked off the leaves of the strawberries one by one and threw them into the water for flushing, washing them meticulously and skillfully.
Tao Zhi leaned against the wall and watched, suddenly remembered that this was something she liked to eat, and because she liked it, she wanted to share it with him.
But she didn't know anything about Jiang Qihuai's own hobbies.
What to like, what to dislike, what to eat, these all seem to be blank, and this person doesn't seem to have any other preferences in life other than studying and making money.
Tao Zhi suddenly felt very uncomfortable. They seemed to be leading completely different lives at similar ages.
She doesn't have to do any housework, doesn't worry about food, clothing and money, doesn't have to worry about the burden of life, and lives under Tao Xiuping's blessing every day, but there are still so many moments that make her feel sad.
Compared with her, Jiang Qihuai, this kind of moment will only be more, not less.
Will he also feel that life is very, very hard when he is alone.
Tao Zhi felt a little depressed, and looked at him with pursed lips: "Your Highness, do you have anything you like to eat?"
Jiang Qihuai put a washed strawberry into the fruit plate: "No."
Tao Zhi stretched his head: "Where's the fruit, aren't there any?"
"Um."
Tao Zhi licked his lips, hesitated for a moment, and asked boldly, "Where's Tao Zi?"
Jiang Qihuai paused and raised his head.
She blinked and looked at him with an innocent face: "Don't you like eating too?"
The sound of running water was rattling in the kitchen, her voice was soft and seemed to have no connotation.
Jiang Qihuai looked at her, narrowing his peach eyes slightly.
The little girl was like a clever and cunning kitten, she stretched out her paw to touch him tentatively, then retracted it quickly, after a pause, she couldn't help stretching out her paw to scratch him gently, And then slipped away wagging its tail again.
She is very skilled.
It's so proficient that it makes people feel a little angry for no reason.
Jiang Qihuai's air pressure dropped by another two degrees, he turned around with the washed strawberries in his hand: "Stretch out your hand."
Tao Zhi stretched out his hand obediently.
Jiang Qihuai put the strawberry plate in her hand, turned around and walked out of the kitchen with a soft voice: "I'm allergic to peaches."
Tao Zhi: "..."
Tao Zhi divided the strawberries into two plates, kept one plate for Grandpa Jiang and put it in the living room, and took the other plate into the bedroom and put it on the desk.
While waiting for dinner, she continued to write the paper that she had just left unfinished in the living room.
After a while, Jiang Qihuai was kicked out of the kitchen by Grandpa Jiang again. The old man seemed to be very persistent in minding that he took away his opportunity to perform. As soon as he entered the bedroom, he saw Tao Zhi poking his nose with a pen, facing a question Think hard.
Jiang Qihuai walked over, sat by the bed, and casually picked up the paper she had just shown him, which was all written correctly.
Most of the questions are big questions. Tao Zhi's handwriting is very easy to read. Next to her problem-solving process, another line of small characters will appear from time to time.
The pens of the same color have completely different handwriting, and the characters are neat and beautiful.
Jiang Qihuai paused.
Tao Zhi couldn't solve the first problem, so he turned to look at him, his eyes fell on the paper, pointed to the word and said happily: "This is another problem-solving method that my tutor taught me."
Jiang Qihuai raised his eyes: "Have you hired a tutor?"
Tao Zhi nodded, and twitched two fingers: "A sophomore who also graduated from an experiment. I thought it was too young to find a student. It would be better for my dad to find a teacher with more experience. As a result, This senior's lecture is very detailed."
Senior.
Jiang Qihuai also nodded, but didn't speak any more.
Tao Zhi didn't notice any difference, so he continued to work on the questions.
She got stuck on the last question, and wanted to ask Jiang Qihuai, but the man had already pulled out an exercise book from the desk, bowed his head and began to write.
He wrote in a swipe, smooth and fast. Tao Zhi didn't want to disturb his study and distract him because of his own problems. After thinking about it, he skipped that question and continued to do it.
Jiang Qihuai just waited until Grandpa Jiang asked them to go out for dinner, but Tao Zhi didn't even ask him.
He glanced at her test paper out of the corner of his eye, and she left the question she didn't know just now empty, and finished all the rest.
He just sat next to her like this alive, and as a result, this little unscrupulous person has her senior tutor, and he doesn't even ask him a question anymore.
Don't ask any questions.
She felt that he was not as good as her senior.
Jiang Qihuai lowered his mouth, put down his pen, closed the exercise book, got up and went out.
He didn't speak for the entire dinner.
Even Tao Zhi's nerves are not particularly delicate, and he can feel that there is something wrong with him.
Grandpa Jiang glanced at his silent grandson, then glanced at Tao Zhi, and silently mouthed: Are you having a fight
Tao Zhi shook his head, grabbed his chopsticks, and didn't know what went wrong.
He should be very happy when he saw her at home.
He also touched her head and said she was very powerful.
Tao Zhi was a little irritable, she felt that boys were really difficult to understand.
If it was normal, she would have asked directly, but now that Grandpa Jiang is here, it is hard to say anything.
Several people ate quietly, only Tao Zhi joked with Grandpa Jiang from time to time, and Jiang Qihuai remained silent.
After a meal, Tao Zhi's mood was also a little low. She didn't stay long, and helped Grandpa Jiang put away the bowls and chopsticks, packed her own things and said goodbye.
Jiang Qihuai sent her downstairs.
The corridor was quiet, Tao Zhi went down with a sigh of relief, pushed open the anti-theft door, and the cold wind whizzed down the coat and poured it in.
Tao Zhi also started to feel angry.
This character is really annoying.
She didn't know where she had provoked him again.
After leaving the residential building and walking to the entrance of the small alley, Tao Zhi became more and more bored thinking about it, but he couldn't help it.
As soon as she stopped, she turned her head suddenly, and frowned at him with some annoyance: "Why did I mess with you again?"
Jiang Qihuai followed behind her, his footsteps were almost lost, and he leaned back to miss her.
"No."
"Then why are you losing your temper with a cold face here?" Tao Zhi said irritably, "You don't talk when you eat, and you don't talk to me when you come downstairs. Why are you so annoying?"
Jiang Qihuai didn't speak.
The alley fell silent instantly. The cat curled up in the corner to sleep, raising its head from time to time to look at them warily.
After a while, Jiang Qihuai suddenly said without beginning or end: "You don't understand my lecture?"
Tao Zhihuo'er held her throat, raised her head in a daze, and didn't understand: "Huh? I can understand."
Jiang Qihuai pursed his lips: "If you don't understand, don't ask."
She froze for two seconds, then suddenly understood.
Xueba feels that he is being compared.
Xueba suffered another setback in his self-esteem.
This person usually looks quite ruthless, but in some places he makes people feel a little naive.
"Then you weren't doing the questions at the time," Tao Zhi said aggrievedly, "and you didn't talk to me, you didn't take the initiative to tell me about the questions I couldn't do."
The little girl looked at him aggrievedly, and Jiang Qihuai looked at her for a moment: "Your senior tutor."
"That's different," Tao Zhi pouted.
"It's different."
Tao Zhi frowned: "It's different everywhere, tutoring is just tutoring, how can you be the same as him."
Their voices were a bit loud, and the cat lying in the corner seemed to be frightened, and ran into the depths of the alley with a meow.
The old street lamps sizzled, and the dim light made the shadows of the two people very long.
Jiang Qihuai lowered his eyes, and the little girl also lowered her head, her long hair was loosely loose, and there was a small swirl on top of her head.
"Tao Zhi." He suddenly called her.
Tao Zhi raised his head, his cheeks bulging unhappily.
Jiang Qihuai looked at her indifferently.
"you like me?"