When Tao Zhi closed the bedroom door and walked into the kitchen again, the noodles were already cooked.
The clear noodle soup with tomato and egg drop, the vermicelli is white and flexible, the green onion is fried on the soup surface, and a small soft-boiled fried egg is laid on top of the noodle bowl.
Jiang Qihuai turned around, put the noodle bowl on the table and pushed it in front of her, and handed her a pair of chopsticks.
Tao Zhi sat at the long table that served as a partition of the kitchen, and poked the fried egg with his chopsticks.
The bright yellow runny heart emerges from under the punctured thin meringue, dripping onto the vermicelli noodles.
Tao Zhi ate two slices of tomato and put down his chopsticks.
Sitting across from him, Jiang Qihuai raised his eyes: "What's wrong?"
Tao Zhi rested his head on the table: "I don't want to eat."
Jiang Qihuai also put down his chopsticks: "Isn't it delicious?"
"It's not bad." Tao Zhi was a little absent-minded, and seemed to be wilting, "I just don't want to eat it all of a sudden."
"What do you want to eat?" Jiang Qihuai asked, "Do you want chicken wings?"
Tao Zhi was stunned for a moment, then she raised her head: "Do you have any?"
"It just so happens," Jiang Qihuai glanced at his watch, "It just takes a little later to eat."
Tao Zhi didn't speak.
Strawberries are a coincidence, and so are chicken wings.
It was a coincidence that I ran into him in a Japanese grocery store, and it was also a coincidence that my good friend for many years is directly the boss.
Even her unwanted photos happened to be in his hands.
Tao Zhi looked at him, and suddenly whispered: "Is it really just a coincidence?"
Just as Jiang Qihuai got up and opened the refrigerator door, he took out a bag of frozen chicken wings from the freezer, held them in his hand, and turned around upon hearing this.
Tao Zhi walked over, took the bag of chicken wings in his hand, and lowered his eyes: "Why are you back?"
Jiang Qihuai looked at her and said nothing.
"Why did you leave the good job in the United States and come back to China?" She asked softly, "Is it because you were poached with a high salary?"
Jiang Qihuai lowered his eyes: "No."
Tao Zhi took a deep breath: "Last time, we met again at the Japanese grocery store, was it a coincidence?"
"no."
"The photo," Tao Zhi asked again, "the one in your bedroom, when it was taken, didn't you know who the photographer was?"
Jiang Qihuai was silent for a while, and replied quietly: "I know."
Tao Zhi squeezed his fingertips vigorously, looked at him with black eyes, and asked the last question: "Do you still like me?"
Jiang Qihuai looked at her.
His thick eyelashes were lowered down, and his glass-like light brown eyes looked at her without blinking. Some intense and suppressed emotions surged up uncontrollably. He opened his mouth, but he couldn't make a sound. Gently let out a breath like a panting.
After a while, he whispered, "I like it."
His voice was hoarse, and he bit down each word slowly, uttering the words very lightly, and seemed to repeat with a heavy weight: "I have always liked you."
Tao Zhi didn't speak, and relaxed the fingers pinching the fingertips a little bit, and then hung down.
This was probably what she had been waiting for.
Sometimes Tao Zhi can't help but wonder if everything would have been different if she and Jiang Qihuai hadn't been so young back then.
She originally wanted to say so many things, and there was so much she didn't have time to say, but when she heard his words, don't come again, all her reason and patience were overwhelmed by an indescribable anger of betrayal To be smashed to pieces.
She never hated him for choosing to leave, she just blamed him for not choosing to believe in her and herself once.
At that time, she resolutely left with the intention of not seeing each other again, and she never fantasized about the future, but she didn't expect that when she saw Jiang Qihuai again, her heart would still wake up uncontrollably.
Even she herself underestimated her liking for him.
An Sesu told her before that he felt that he couldn't be so cheap. Tao Zhi was still in a state of confusion at the time, and he still couldn't understand.
She also likes Jiang Qihuai, in fact, as long as this is enough, as long as she still likes him, then it doesn't matter whether it is a disadvantage or an advantage, who can tell.
There is nothing to escape and worry about, nothing to be wronged and complain about, no one has done anything wrong, as long as two people still like each other, as long as she likes him, and he also likes her, Tao Zhi feels that there is no need Count so much.
She is a warrior who never retreats, and an indomitable sun. Now that she has sorted out the previous chaotic emotions, she can continue to move forward.
Tao Zhi stuffed the chicken wings back into his hands, leaned on the dining table with his hands behind his back, cleared his throat, glanced at him, and said seriously: "Then, do you have anything else to say? No. 3821 .”
She looked at him with a straight face, and she couldn't help showing a little expectation in her beautiful jet-black eyes.
The emotional change was so fast that Jiang Qihuai still hadn't reacted to it.
He looked down at the frozen chicken wings that she stuffed back into her hands, and raised his eyes, not knowing what she wanted to hear, or what he could say so as not to scare her away again.
She loves food so much, so there should be nothing wrong with talking about food.
Jiang Qihuai was patient and asked tentatively, "Do you still want to eat chicken wings?"
Tao Zhi: "..."
Tao Zhi was so angry that her eyes went dark, she closed her eyes, stepped on her slippers and went to sit on the sofa in the living room.
Jiang Qihuai threw the bag of frozen chicken wings into the pool, the chicken wings hit the wall of the pool with a "boom", he ignored it, and rushed over.
When Tao Zhi heard him coming, he directly pulled a pillow and hugged him in his arms, buried his head in it, and didn't want to talk to him.
How can there be such a boring person in this world!
Wasn't what she was hinting at obvious enough! !
She hugged the pillow for a long time, but she didn't hear any sound beside her.
Tao Zhi grabbed the soft fabric of the pillow with his fingertips, his head poked out from above, revealing a pair of bright eyes.
Jiang Qihuai was sitting next to her, with his upper body leaning forward slightly, with his arms on his knees, looking sideways at her.
When their eyes met, he suddenly said, "You didn't just buy the photos because you were the photographer. You took them very well."
Tao Zhi froze for a moment, resting his chin on the soft pillow and looking at him.
After leaving Experiment No. 1 Middle School, Jiang Qihuai hadn't contacted anyone in the experiment.
Except Ji Fan.
It's also amazing to say that Jiang Qihuai always felt that the two belonged to the kind of relationship that they couldn't deal with each other, and Ji Fan never hesitated to show his displeasure with him as his deskmate, but when communicating in private, many places were different. It can make people feel very smooth to get along with.
In their contact, Ji Fan often talks a lot, he only asks occasionally, and Ji Fan will tell him various things.
For example, she dropped 100 points in the latest exam. She studied harder than before, and she hardly rested every day. She scored 700 points for the first time in the exam, and she was about to fly at home.
With great difficulty, she found a school that only recruited students based on cultural class scores, and she could study the major she wanted. It was the first time that she participated in an exhibition, and she won an award for the first time she submitted her photos to an international competition.
It was Tao Zhi's first time to participate in that photo, and it was just a small-scale private auction held by a photography enthusiast, and the exhibitors were also some unknown amateurs. At that time, he watched her squatting under the photo frame from a distance, dragging her head with both hands, looking at her child seriously and patiently. After waiting for a long time, no one stopped for the child.
She waited like this for the whole afternoon, from the time when the sun was rising to the setting sun, Jiang Qihuai saw her standing up, rubbing her numb legs, her eyelashes drooping, like curling up on the wall of a small alley in her hometown Like the kitten in the house, looking lonely and lost.
Because the photo was not a famous photographer and no one raised the price, it was not expensive, but it still cost Jiang Qihuai all the spare money he had at the time.
He watched the staff at the exhibition carefully wrap up the photo layer by layer. In the photo, the warm red sunset dyed the vast sea red, but the girl's insteps and calves seemed unwilling to be overwhelmed by this rich color. Just like her whole person, she is conspicuous and vivid, warm and lively.
As always, as now.
Jiang Qihuai tilted his head, looked at the girl who looked at him in a daze as if she hadn't reacted at all, and continued: "I came back to China to find you, and I went to the grocery store because I knew you had gone. As for the chicken wings, it's really just a habit," Jiang Qihuai said helplessly, "because you always like to run to my house without saying a word."
After he said one sentence at a time, Tao Zhi's ears were already burning, until she heard this sentence, she couldn't help retorting in a low voice: "Who always runs to your house without saying a word, I thought you were sick Very serious."
And what made her unable to sit still was Fu Xiling's sentence "he is the only one who learns from God".
She slowly absorbed all the messy straight shots above him, grabbed the fur tassels on the pillow with her fingertips, and said, "So?"
She looked at him expectantly for the second time.
"So," Jiang Qihuai took a deep breath and continued, "I didn't do it on a whim. From the day I left, I wanted to come back. I know you may not be able to accept it for the time being—"
Before he finished speaking, Tao Zhi raised his hand and raised his palm high towards him.
She closed her eyes and said calmly, "Hurry up and shut up, if you continue, I'm afraid I'll slap you in the face if I get so angry."
Tao Zhi was so anxious that he wanted to rush up and bite him.
Why are there such incomprehensible men in this world
Was it that she didn't make it obvious enough
But Tao Zhi also enjoys the way he is actively courting him now, like a big dog, what if she takes the initiative, Gougou Jiang turns back to the annoying mean wolf he used to be.
She was thinking about it in a mess, when the fingertips held in front of him were suddenly pinched.
Tao Zhi froze for a moment, then opened his eyes.
The man's fingers were a little cold, so he squeezed her fingertips and pulled them over a little, then put them in his palms and held them gently.
Fingers intertwined, Tao Zhi's heart skipped a beat.
Jiang Qihuai leaned slightly and leaned over, and pulled up the pillow in her arms, between them, the distance between the two of them was extremely close, and there seemed to be only a soft pillow in the middle as a cover.
Jiang Qihuai leaned his chin against the pillow, and seemed to be pressed up with half of his body weight: "Zhizhi, I have always liked you," he pushed his forehead forward, looked at her with narrowed eyes, deep and deep eyes Long, the voice sounded low and muffled, "I want to be with you again."