Because they promised Zhi Qi to cook for her at night, the two of them did not return to the hospital after leaving the treatment center, but went to the supermarket instead.
When shopping, Zhi Qi felt inexplicably uneasy when she thought of Jiang Chi whom she had just met, and was also a little depressed when picking things.
Jiang Qi noticed the girl's absent-mindedness, but he was so stupid that he didn't know what to say. After thinking about it, he could only ask: "Qiqi, what do you want to eat?"
He leaned over with a well-behaved appearance, his eyes looking like a puppy.
Zhi Qi looked at it, couldn't help laughing, and felt that the depression in her heart was swept away.
"Chicken wings." She took out a bag of chilled fresh chicken wings from the freezer next to her and threw them into the cart: "I haven't eaten them for a while."
Seeing Zhiqi smile, Jiang Qi was relieved.
In addition to food, the two of them bought some other things, and it was getting dark when they left the supermarket.
"Oops, the nursing home told us to go back before eight o'clock." Zhiqi glanced at her watch after getting into the car, and sighed in front of the co-pilot. The girl rolled her sly black eyes and said with pretended regret: "It seems What if it's too late to cook?"
After all, it's already seven o'clock, cooking, eating... It's probably too late.
"Then I won't go back today." Jiang Qi didn't care about this, and said without thinking: "Let's go back tomorrow."
Even school has a holiday, let alone hospitalization.
Zhiqi didn't mean to treat Jiang Qi like a primary school student, so he smiled and didn't object.
The two of them went back to Jiang Qi's rented place that no one lived in for more than half a month. As soon as they entered the door, the cold air seemed to be full of dust, which made the young man frowned—Jiang Qi loves to be clean, but after thinking about it, he still First cleaned the room.
He first cleaned up the sofa and let Zhiqi sit and watch TV, and then he cleaned the room back and forth like a snail girl.
Zhiqi has never done housework since she was a child, and she has never touched the spring water with her fingers. Now the girl is sitting cross-legged on the sofa eating snacks, watching Jiang Qi tidy up the house back and forth, her movements are obviously very familiar and straightforward neat.
So the donuts in my mouth lost their taste as I ate them.
Jiang Qi must have done a lot of work to be so deft, but although she knew it a long time ago, it is still different after seeing it with her own eyes.
So the little girl puffed up her face and thought for a while, then walked over in her slippers and prepared to help him clean up together.
"Qiqi." However, Jiang Qi refused and stopped her: "You can just sit down."
Zhiqi: "Let me wipe the table for you."
"No need." Jiang Qi said forcefully, very stubbornly: "I should do these jobs."
…
Jiang Qi was at the tenth level of 'Male Virtue', Zhi Qi looked at him dumbfounded.
In the end, he still listened to what he said, and continued to nest on the sofa as a rice bug.
It seems that during the time I was with Jiang Qi, I never felt such a sense of "steadiness"—the two of them nestled in the same room, cleaning and cooking, just like countless ordinary...ordinary couples in the world. Same.
Simple and happy.
There was still the sound of Jiang Qi cleaning and cooking next to his ears, but Zhi Qi curled up on the sofa, her eyelids unconsciously getting sleepy.
Dazed, hypnotic as if trapped in a ball of soft cotton, the girl fell asleep.
I don't know how long she slept in a dizzy sleep before Zhi Qi was awakened by the aroma of the food. The sleeping girl unconsciously stretched out her tongue and licked the corner of her lower lip, like a lazy cat with a greedy mouth.
"Jiang Qi?" Zhi Qi didn't open his eyes, and subconsciously moaned, his voice soft and waxy.
As a result, I heard the response: "Huh?"
Um? Zhiqi opened Aiyun's eyes in amazement, and saw Jiang Qi's pupils which were very close at hand, light glass-colored, crystal-like.
He didn't know when he knelt in front of the sofa and watched the little girl sleep soundly, and he didn't know how long he watched it.
Zhi Qi was stunned for a moment, her fair face slapped and slowly turned red unconsciously.
"You, what are you looking at?" Zhi Qi hurriedly sat up, her waist-length chestnut hair was slightly disheveled, a few strands stuck to her mandible, like a sleepy and fluffy bunny.
Jiang Qi stared at her, and smiled softly: "Look at you."
The seriousness of the answer made people feel embarrassed.
Zhiqi bent her knees and stepped on her toes on the sofa, and couldn't help curling her toes. Her small white jade feet were particularly conspicuous on the gray sofa.
After Jiang Qi's eyes swept over, they became a little dark in an instant.
Zhiqi's feet... are still the same as before, small and white, as if they can be grasped with one hand.
Probably because he noticed Jiang Qi's eyes, Zhi Qi couldn't help shrinking his little feet on the sofa.
The Adam's apple on the young man's thin neck rolled slightly, then he looked away, and said lightly, "Let's eat."
"Uh-huh."
Zhiqi quickly agreed, nodded obediently, stood up and followed Jiang Qi towards the dining table.
There are three dishes and one soup on the table, including chicken wings with deep red color, stir-fried cucumber with crystal clear shrimps, lettuce lettuce fried with garlic sprinkled with a layer of oil, and lotus root pork ribs soup that has been stewed until soft in a casserole.
As soon as Zhiqi walked in, her stomach grumbled.
The little girl felt very ashamed, and couldn't help covering her flat belly, biting her bright red lips with one corner of her porcelain white teeth.
And Jiang Qi, the 'Steel Straight Man', couldn't see Zhi Qi's embarrassment at all, and asked, "Are you hungry?"
…
Zhiqi couldn't help but glared at him.
But Jiang Qi's eyes were pure and innocent, which made her feel embarrassed to get angry, so she only gave a soft 'hmm'.
Jiang Qi's cooking skills are really good, and the various canteens and takeaways Zhiqi has eaten are no worse than her aunt's cooking skills. The point may be that because this dish is 'made by Jiang Qi', Zhi Qi may think it tastes better.
She has always had a small appetite, and has always been called "eating cat food" by the people around her, but today she also ate up the bowl of rice that Jiang Qi gave her.
After eating, I feel full to a little full.
Zhiqi looked at her belly and pouted her lips in depression: "Will I be fat?"
Jiang Qi was cleaning up the bowls, when he heard the words, he only replied two words: "Nonsense."
Maybe girls always dislike their own weight. In his opinion, Zhiqi is so skinny that she should eat at least one bowl of rice every meal.
The two of them eat at a relatively slow pace, and with the time spent cleaning up the house and cooking, the hands on the clock on the wall have already pointed to ten o'clock before they knew it.
But Zhiqi never proposed to go back to school, Jiang Qi wanted to send her back twice, but was interrupted by the girl calmly.
All she said was, "Wait a minute."
Then, they sat side by side on the sofa with Jiang Qi—actually they had nothing to do, just sat on the sofa and watched TV boringly, but this was the 'first time' for such a thing.
Zhi Qi watched TV absent-mindedly for a while, then suddenly looked sideways at Jiang Qi's tense jawline, and asked with a smile, "Jiang Qi, is this the first time we've sat together to watch TV?"
Jiang Qi's body stiffened unconsciously, and he answered in a hoarse voice.
"Hee hee." Zhi Qi sat a little closer to him, and the little girl leaned her head lightly on the young man's thin right-angled shoulder, and murmured with emotion: "This feeling is really fresh."
In fact, she has longed for it for a long, long time, just sit down and talk to Jiang Qiping.
It's just that Jiang Qi couldn't help becoming more and more nervous, almost to the point of being at a loss.
The distance between the two of them in this kind of closed and dark room can be called "close at hand", the atmosphere is undercurrent, and when no one speaks, it is obscure and ambiguous. The fingers couldn't help but tighten.
The girl leaned against him, and the smell from her hair was all sweet and disturbing.
"Qiqi." Jiang Qi's cold voice became hoarse, and he reminded: "It's time for me to send you back to school."
Zhiqi was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Is it okay not to go back today? There are guest rooms here."
Jiang Qi frowned, subconsciously rebuffed: "No."
"Why?" Zhiqi seemed a little disappointed, and sighed softly: "Our school dormitory has been closed at this time, if you drive me back, I will be deducted credits."
…
It turned out that Zhiqi was delaying time on purpose just now!
Jiang Qi was angry and funny, looking down at the girl's snow-white face helplessly: "Why don't you want to go back?"
"I have to watch you go to the hospital tomorrow morning." Zhi Qi yawned, and said lazily, "I won't watch you, I'm afraid you won't go obediently."
Jiang Qi opened his lips, and wanted to say that he would be good-but it was of no use.
After all, Zhiqi had already made it clear that credits would be deducted if she went back at this time.
But the guest room... There are no proper sheets and bedding. As for disposable toiletries, there are bathrooms, because Qiu Mi used to live here occasionally because of emergency announcements or when it was too late.
So the sheets and bedding in the guest room were all covered by Qiu Mi, how could Zhi Qi use them
Jiang Qi frowned, and said directly: "You sleep in the master bedroom, I'll go to the guest room."
Zhiqi smiled and didn't argue with him.
Because she can't argue with the things the boy decided, especially things related to her.
"I'll sleep again later, I'm not sleepy yet." The girl embraced Jiang Qi's arm and said lazily, "I'm not sleepy yet."
She had an idea for a while, and she was so cute that Jiang Qi could only sit there rigidly, unwilling to move.
— until his cell phone on the table buzzed.
Jiang Qi frowned in surprise, besides Zhiqi, only Shen Lei and Qiu Mi had registered in the hospital with his new account, who would call
Thinking in his heart, Jiang Qi picked up the phone, and as expected, he saw the name 'Shen Lei' on the screen.
He hesitated for a moment, but took it anyway.
"Aqi, have you ever appeared around the rescue station in Xicheng District during the day?" As soon as the connection was made, Shen Lei's voice resounded through the speaker of the mobile phone in the quiet room, vivid and tight. Even Zhiqi frowned and straightened up when she heard it.
Jiang Qi was a little puzzled and said 'hmm': "Brother Shen, how did you know?"
"How do I know?" Shen Lei actually asked back when he heard the words, and couldn't help laughing: "It's all on the trending search, how do you think I know? Could it be that you didn't watch the trending search? Not only you, but also... and your Little girlfriend."
On the front row of today's hot searches, there is one that is #江琦想热和女友出现在街街#.
And the pictures attached to the media that broke out were surprisingly a few raw pictures taken secretly from a distance. In the pictures, Jiang Qi was wearing a hat and a mask and couldn't see his face clearly, but his thin body was very similar.
Zhi Qi was not 'fully armed', but the angle of the capture couldn't capture the little girl's front.
Hearing this, Jiang Qi immediately thought of the agent he met in the afternoon who wanted to 'talk' to him, his eyes turned cold.
Then, said lightly: "Brother Shen, I uninstalled Weibo."
He doesn't care whether it's on the trending searches or headlines.
After speaking, Jiang Qi hung up the phone.
Looking at Zhiqi with some anxiety, the little girl was opening Weibo and looking at the hot search with great interest.
Naturally, she didn't look at those comment areas that she didn't expect to be 'kind' for the sake of boredom, but only looked at the few pictures that were secretly taken of her and Jiang Qi walking together.
"It's so blurry." Zhi Qi also showed the photo to Jiang Qi, a little surprised: "In this way, can someone recognize it as you?"
The person who took the sneak shot was obviously far away from them, and the angle was also biased. Only the silhouettes and backs of the two people were photographed, which were still blurry. The most conspicuous ones were Jiang Qi's long legs, but...
Zhi Qi didn't wait for Jiang Qi's answer, and said solemnly: "But the two of us are quite right in taking pictures."
No wonder it was such an intentionally eye-catching hot search title.
Zhiqi was smiling when she spoke, and she couldn't tell whether she was angry or not angry about being dragged into the trending searches and being given the title of 'girlfriend'.
Especially... Especially when I thought of Jiang Yu's joking question in the afternoon, when the little girl avoided answering.
Jiang Qi felt uneasy, hesitated for a while, but pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "I know this is a misunderstanding."
Zhiqi was taken aback, then blinked: "What misunderstanding?"
"Suspected girlfriend." Jiang Qi avoided Zhi Qi's eyes, and muttered a little lonely: "I won't take it seriously."
After he finished speaking, the originally soft atmosphere froze for a while, before Zhi Qi spoke, muttering to himself: "Indeed, you don't have to take it seriously."
Even though he was prepared, Jiang Qi's heart, which had been hanging high, couldn't help but sink.
"Because it's not suspicious." However, Zhi Qi's next words could bring him back to life. The girl looked at him sideways and smiled: "Jiang Qi, don't you want me to be your girlfriend?"
She has long wanted to ask this question, and she has long wanted to confirm the relationship between them.
But today, Zhiqi was finally able to ask.