Although he knew that gloating over other people's misfortune was not a good behavior, and that he had already experienced excessive joy and then tragedy once before, Xu Shiqi still lay on the dining table and laughed again regardless.
God, she really didn't know what happened on the other end after she hung up the phone. The girl's embarrassed look must be very interesting. It was really not easy to maintain the so-called calmness and be very depressed by the scene.
"Cousin, look--" Wen Jialuo yelled at Wen Baohua angrily.
Wen Baohua carefully smoothed the smile from the corners of his mouth, and then said helplessly: "Seventeen, if you laugh again, the bomb in my house will explode."
"If I explode, I'm a nuclear bomb!" Wen Jialuo threatened fiercely.
Xu Shiqi finally laughed enough, wiped the tears from his eyes, and said quickly: "No more laughing, I won't laugh anymore. How much did you spend?"
"What?"
"You have to compensate her for the skirt and the meal." Xu Shiqi said seriously, "I really made that joke at the wrong time. I will pay for it."
As soon as these words came out, Wen Baohua felt something was wrong. Her cousin was very cold in front of strangers, and even in front of relatives like them, she often pretended to be cool. This trick was very effective against her aunt, so she was used to it. But in fact, before Jia Luo got into trouble, she was not like this, and she even almost forgot what she was like. But now she has found some feeling, thinking that she and Shiqi are somewhat compatible, so she speaks casually. But just because she was casual, she was afraid that someone would be very unhappy when Xu Shiqi mentioned it seriously.
As expected, Wen Jialuo was now in a darker mood. She pushed away the dishes, leaned back in her chair, glared at Xu Shiqi, and said coldly, "Do you mean to say that I am blackmailing you just for that little bit of money?"
Xu Shiqi was stunned: "I didn't mean that, it's just..."
"What are you talking about?" Wen Baohua gently interrupted, cutting off the two people's line of sight. She said to her cousin seriously, "Shi Qi is not that kind of person. She just feels really sorry."
Wen Jialuo was stunned when he heard the words, and turned his head away with a curled mouth.
"Seventeen, use your voice to have dinner with her next time."
Wen Jialuo still looked elsewhere.
Xu Shiqi smiled helplessly. Well, it seems that because of her joke, this girl has been feeling awkward for several days. This time, she owes this young lady.
"You don't eat well and you blame others," Wen Baohua rarely showed the dignity of an elder sister. She knocked on the table lightly, "Stop making excuses and eat something."
Although there were only three people eating, the Xu family was sincere. The table was full of meat and vegetables, cold and hot dishes. However, the specialty of the restaurant was the freshness of the ingredients, so they were all home-cooked dishes, and there was nothing special about them. Wen Jialuo had eaten countless delicacies from land and sea, but in her mouth, they all became the same taste, that is, they were just things that could be eaten. She did not expect this small restaurant to give her any epiphany. She originally came here today to avenge what happened that day. Unfortunately, Xu Shiqi said that her mobile phone was also destroyed in that joke, so it was meaningless.
Wen Baohua accompanied her to eat for a while, and then said to Xu Shiqi: "Go buy a mobile phone quickly. Xiao An called and said that he will be back this month. Don't forget to find you when the time comes."
"Oh?" Xu Shiqi perked up. "Did she really resign and go home?"
"No." Wen Baohua smiled slightly, "It seems that he is going to bring someone back."
Xu Shiqi was stunned, then understood, and then was speechless. As the people around him were paired up one by one, perhaps the last eyes would fall on him, who was all alone.
Imagine the entire stage, a dull white spotlight, and a black wooden chair. Lovers dance gracefully under the stage, and you sit on the wooden chair on the stage, reserved and deferential. All the roses and love words cannot be illuminated by this spotlight, and the sound and picture gradually fade away. In the whole world, you are the only one left.
It was deserted and lonely on the high stage. But I did nothing wrong, so I would rather be on the stage than hide in the darkness below. One chair and one person are everything, which is always better than sitting in the millions of chairs under the stage, where only one of the millions sits.
Xu Shiqi smiled. No matter what her mentality was, she had managed to hold on for a long time. She knew what kind of life other people like her were looking for. Love was hard to come by, and when they did, they struggled in reality, pushing each other into a more desperate abyss...
That would be too ugly. So it is not unreasonable for Kuang Xiaoan to say that she is a perfectionist.
When she thought of this, dinner was over. Wen Baohua wanted to go back to her little home, and the remaining two people seemed to have no intention of spending the night together.
While her parents were still busy in the store, Xu Shiqi returned home alone. She did everything quietly, then changed into pajamas and locked herself in her room.
She actually didn't like smoking at all, but suddenly she had a strong craving for it. However, she searched the house from top to bottom and couldn't find where her father hid the cigarettes. So she could only make a cup of green tea and breathe the tea fragrance into her lungs, letting it linger and fill every empty space.
When Xu Shiqi woke up the next day, the scent of tea still seemed to linger on her tongue. She heard that tea can wake the mind, but she let the cup of fragrant tea cool down, then leaned on the bed and closed her eyes and fell asleep. She originally thought that she would have trouble falling asleep if she thought too much, so she simply kept herself awake, but in fact, she underestimated herself. She fell into a deep sleep all of a sudden.
Therefore, Aunt Qiong Yao's description of the heart-wrenching sleepless nights and the pain in every nerve and every cell is indeed just the sublimation of art.
Looking at the mirror, Xu Shiqi pulled the corners of his mouth and saw a cold smile.
Then she was slightly startled again, because she suddenly thought of Wen Jialuo. She thought of the pair of thin lips she saw on the highway that night, and she had concluded that the girl was cold and heartless. In fact, it was not, it was just a protective film, used to carefully protect the secret love.
Very cute, in fact, as long as you discover, all women have their own advantages. It's a pity that you can't love them.
When leaving home, Xu Shiqi found that the temperature suddenly dropped. She turned up her collar and wrapped herself tightly, ready to offer food to her stomach. The store had developed several new vegetable porridges, which were fragrant and warm, so she was ready to have a bowl. When passing by a row of breakfast shops, she bought some "dry" things like buns and siu mai, so that even if she couldn't finish them, she could still eat other people's food.
But when she arrived at the store entrance, she saw a familiar car parked there. The license plate number of the car was quite impressive, so she had easily remembered it before. When she opened the door, she saw the owner of the car sitting in the same position where she had had a blind date, drinking porridge spoonful by spoonful.
Because he had just daydreamed in front of the mirror for a split second in the morning, Xu Shiqi was not prepared to see Wen Jialuo again so soon, and his expression was a little stiff and uncontrollable.
"Why are you here?"
Wen Jialuo rolled his eyes and glanced at her: "Didn't Auntie invite me to have porridge when I left yesterday?"
Xu Shiqi was speechless. Why haven't I seen you listen to your mother so much
Wen Jialuo saw that she was carrying a bag of things, which seemed to smell delicious, so she reached out and took it: "What's food?"
Seeing that the robber was so generous and open-minded, Xu Shiqi had no choice but to let her go, and then he scooped a bowl of yam porridge and put a few slices of dried ginger in a small plate. Wang Yuan had already estimated that her daughter would soon arrive at the store, so she gave her two freshly boiled eggs, rinsed them in cold water, and pointed outside.
"When did she arrive?" Xu Shiqi asked.
Wang Yuan said with a smile, "She just arrived a while ago. I saw that the girl's health was too poor, so I told her yesterday that she could come to the store to drink porridge in the morning. Health preservation starts with nourishing the stomach, and eating starts with breakfast. But I didn't expect her to really come. I was just planning to get some more food to take over."
"No need." Xu Shiqi sighed and took the things out on the tray.
Wen Jialuo was already eating the steamed dumplings she brought. Xu Shiqi put the plate with ginger in the middle, but Wen Jialuo pushed it back with a look of disgust.
"Ginger can warm the middle and dispel cold. It's good to eat some in the morning." She pushed it back again, and then saw that her mother had actually prepared a glass of milk for the girl, but it seemed that she hadn't drunk it yet, and moved it to her side.
"Hello?" Wen Jialuo just picked up a piece of ginger hesitantly, and then found that his territory was no longer safe, so he quickly glared.
"Milk can easily cause phlegm. You have a bad stomach, so it's not suitable for you to drink." Xu Shiqi drank it in one gulp, then licked the white stain left on his lips, "Mm, it tastes good."
Wen Jialuo always thought that it was because she had a bad stomach that everyone tried their best to get her to eat all kinds of things, but she didn't expect that this could also be a reason for her not to eat this or that thing.
After Xu Shiqi put down the milk cup, he rolled an egg in front of her.
Wen Jialuo held the still hot egg and snorted, "I don't eat eggs."
"The morning is quite long, so to stay energetic you need to eat something protein and fat. Eggs are the most basic, okay?"
"Are you studying medicine?" Wen Jialuo smacked his lips, cracked one end of the eggshell and started peeling it.
"No." Xu Shiqi smiled slightly, "Among the three meals a day, breakfast is actually the most important. Do you know why?"
Wen Jialuo looked up at her, wondering what she could see through this smile. Just thinking of the malicious teasing in her ears that day was enough to make her alert. She looked at the porridge in front of her, pushed it away, and didn't eat the egg for a while. She asked seriously, "Why?"
"Because breakfast is usually eaten between 7 and 9 o'clock, and in the meridians, this period is the season for the stomach meridian." Xu Shiqi also said very seriously, "You tortured yourself so much that you couldn't eat, but it was just an excuse to threaten your family. But your life is your own, so you have to cherish it. Since you are here today, it means you still want to eat well, so you must eat a good breakfast. Food during this period should be the easiest to digest and absorb."
The woman opposite was talking freely, just as serious as when she said she was going to give her money. Wen Jialuo listened blankly, then raised an eyebrow: "Who said I came here for breakfast?"
Xu Shiqi was stunned: "Then what are you here for?"
Wen Jialuo suddenly didn't know how to answer. What to say? Could it be that when she went home last night, her cousin said that she was a good person, and apart from the shortcoming of never having been in a relationship, she was a very caring and considerate woman? In fact, this reminded her of the night when she had a stomachache and the mess of stomach medicine that was spilled all over the bed.
After sending her cousin home, she returned to the old house. She now comes back to stay two days a week. However, she is afraid of facing the same personal problems as Xu Shiqi, so she is unwilling to contact her old classmates and has nowhere to go. It is actually meaningless to go out alone to find nightlife, and it has never been her intention, so she sat quietly with her grandparents for a while and then went to bed.
Then she woke up early in the morning and touched her stomach, feeling a little hungry. It was rare that her stomach reminded her that it was time to eat, so she remembered Xu Shiqi's mother's enthusiastic words.
So, sitting here.
But there was no need to tell Xu Shiqi this. Wen Jialuo looked down and said calmly, "I'm here to drink porridge."
Xu Shiqi was so amused by her that he could only nod his head repeatedly: "Yes, drinking porridge is not breakfast, it's just drinking porridge."
Wen Jialuo continued to drink porridge calmly, and then ate the breakfast bought by Xu Shiqi.
After Xu Shiqi finished eating, he saw the girl still swallowing slowly, so he leaned on one elbow and watched. Although they were for different reasons, the two of them were actually just a lonely one-to-one relationship. Thinking that both of them had rejected blind dates in different ways, it was like they had a common language and became people on the same front. Then the originally lonely one and one could become one plus one, and they could do something together.
So she asked: "Why don't you accompany me to buy a mobile phone?"