Li Qiao said she was Bai Lin's college classmate, and that she was a little older than me, but anyone looking at her would definitely think that I was older.
"Okay, let's move on and discuss the next program." Xue Tong said with a smile. It can be seen that she is very happy and really happy about the wedding.
"Xue Tong, you can't be like this. When you were in your wedding night, I didn't torture your husband in various ways."
"Do you dare? When your senior brother sees him, he is like a mouse seeing a cat. If you dare to mess with him, I promise that he will make your senior brother fail the exam and even fail the make-up exam."
"you!"
"Go away, the parties involved cannot eavesdrop." Xue Tong asked someone to push Bai Lin away.
Everyone started talking again. After a while, Xue Tong asked me, "Do you have any good ideas?"
I thought about it and said, "The most horrible thing I've ever seen is the couple eating bananas together."
"Pfft—" Xue Tong laughed, "Just hearing the name makes me think they're going to be miserable."
"First take a banana, and then hang it on Li Qiao's body..." I described it in detail.
Xue Tong listened with great interest.
"Are you doing something bad here?" A voice came from above our heads. Then I saw a slender, white hand pinching Xue Tong's ponytail. I continued to look up and saw the owner of the hand. My heart suddenly trembled - it was Mu Chenghe.
He stood in the light and shadow, and I looked up, feeling a little dizzy.
Xue Tong turned around and saw him, and smiled: "You are late."
"Well, the maintenance man was a little late." He sat down next to her.
"Is it fixed?" Xue Tong asked, handing him the half-empty bottle of mineral water.
He took it naturally, opened the bottle cap and took two sips: "Okay, you will definitely be able to take a bath tonight."
I saw the rings on their ring fingers and all these gossips, and if you don't understand, you'd be a fool.
For the first time in my life, Mu Chenghe and I sat at the same table, with his wife between us.
Xue Tong turned around and said to me: "Huihui, let's continue. What about bananas?"
I glanced at Mu Chenghe. There were a table full of female guests, and they were talking about something very explicit. But how could I, an unmarried girl, continue talking in front of him
Xue Tong probably understood immediately, holding Mu Chenghe's face with both hands, coaxing him, "Go to the side, we are talking in private."
He was unusually obedient and went aside quietly.
I didn't dare to stare at him and forced my head down.
After a while, the female guests finished chatting and dispersed.
Seeing Mu Chenghe sitting in the corner looking at his phone with no one sitting next to him, I hesitated and walked over.
"Teacher Mu," I greeted him. "I'm from the Physics Department and I often attend your classes."
He smiled and said, "No wonder it looks familiar." After that, he locked the screen of the phone in his hand and put it away.
I quickly glanced at the screen and found that he had been playing a small level-breaking game that has been very popular among the general public recently.
I've heard that he has a very high IQ, but I didn't expect he has this hobby. How could any game be difficult for him
Not knowing what topic to start with, I asked him about some things I didn't understand in his class.
Originally I just wanted to use professional topics to get closer to each other, but I didn't expect him to answer so seriously. After a few words, I was already immersed in the physics paradise he constructed in a few words, and even forgot my original intention of striking up a conversation.
Later, everyone arrived and started to eat.
Mu Chenghe and I didn't move, and a few people came over and gathered around the table. So, he was on my left, and there was an empty chair on his left, which was the seat he left for his wife.
Xue Tong came over from the bride's place, looked around, and quickly found us. She sat down and asked Mu Chenghe: "Did you help me pass the level?"
"I almost forgot." Mu Chenghe said, took out his phone, and returned to the game page. He moved his fingers and fiddled with it while the waiter was serving the food. He handed it to Xue Tong and said, "Okay."
Only then did I realize that he was playing with his phone just now to help his wife. I immediately remembered the scene where he was giving a lecture in a classroom with hundreds of people with a serious face. When I thought about his concentration on the game just now, I couldn't help but smile.
During the meal, I kept secretly paying attention to them.
During the whole process, the couple did not show any intimacy, and they didn't even pass food or soup to each other. They didn't seem like those sweet and loving couple at all, and they were completely different from the couple in love sitting opposite me.
Only later did Li Qiao's parents come over and toast in person.
Mother Li was very happy to see that her son and daughter-in-law's mentor was also very happy. She took Mu Chenghe's hand and listed all his good points, praising Xue Tong for his good vision and good fortune.
At this time, the waiter brought over a plate of hot garlic silver carp. Mother Li couldn't stop smiling and said that she had asked someone to buy it from her hometown today. It was completely fresh and authentic river fish. This dish was a specialty of their hometown. Then she asked the waiter to get her a pair of clean chopsticks.
"You can't eat this in the city, so we asked our relatives to buy it and drive it over. It won't stay alive overnight, and there are only a few of them. You must try it." After saying that, Mother Li took the chopsticks handed to her by the waiter and put several pieces of fish into Mu Chenghe's bowl.
I glanced at Mu Chenghe's bowl and saw that it was full of meat from good places. There were only a few pieces of fish. Afraid that we would grab them too quickly, Mother Li took action early and gave them all to him.
Tsk tsk tsk, my aunt is so partial.
The garlic silver carp is made with old ginger, pickled ginger, bean paste and pickled peppers, and topped with a dense layer of chili peppers, which is spicy, sour and hot. But it is this taste that makes diners feel so spicy that they shed tears.
Everyone watched Li Qiao's mother leave unwillingly, then looked at Mu Chenghe's bowl, drooling for a long time, and then each of them continued to pick up the leftovers with a look of despair on their faces.
I took a bite and thought it was really good. When I went to pick up other dishes, I found that Mu Chenghe hadn't eaten any.
He didn't move his hands or speak, just held the chopsticks and looked at the food in the bowl hesitantly.
I wondered if he had some kind of temper that made him particularly annoyed when others picked up food for him? Or did he think Li Qiao's mother's chopsticks were unclean? Or did he not eat fish? In short, it seemed that he was in a dilemma: he couldn't eat, but he would feel bad if he didn't eat.
Then, Xue Tong rescued him.
I saw her silently exchange her bowl with his, and neither of them said a word. If I hadn't been watching him from the side, I would have not noticed this action like everyone else.
Xue Tong noticed my gaze and smiled secretly at me, indicating that he was afraid of spicy food.
After changing to a clean bowl, Mu Chenghe seemed like a child, in a good mood, and started to pick up food and eat again.
Somehow, I suddenly felt a little touched by such homely interactions between husband and wife.
After dinner, because it was late and I was alone, Xue Tong and Mu Chenghe gave me a ride back to school.
In the car, Xue Tong was driving, Mu Chenghe was sitting next to him, and I was sitting in the back seat.
Perhaps because I was there and Xue Tong was afraid that I would feel awkward, all the things he talked about were related to me. He asked me about my school situation, or the relationship between Li Qiao's family and my family, and also praised Li Qiao.
Mu Chenghe would ask her questions and she would answer them, and even when she talked about my school major, he would answer for me.
Then, Mu Chenghe continued the unfinished topic about nonlinear partial differential equations that I asked him before dinner.
Xue Tong smiled and said, "Teacher Mu, please don't bully the third person here because he doesn't understand. Please consider my feelings."
He was not annoyed at all. He obediently ended the conversation and said to me apologetically: "Come and ask me before class next time." Then he said to Xue Tong: "It's your fault that you were so ignorant before." The tone of his voice was completely different from when he talked to me.
Xue Tong asked back: "Why am I unlearned and incompetent?"
"When I taught you Russian, you didn't even think about studying hard."
"Yes, yes, you're on my mind all the time, okay?"
Some time ago, I heard some gossip about Mu Chenghe's love life. It said that his wife was his student, and after several years of twists and turns after graduation, the two finally got together. At first I didn't believe it, but now I hear it and it is indeed true.
Listening to their bickering, I also laughed.
After getting off the car and saying goodbye to them, I walked towards the building alone. After walking about ten meters, I turned back and found that the car was still there. There was no light in the car, and there were no street lights on the roadside, but in the moonlight, I could still see Mu Chenghe leaning his head to kiss Xue Tong's lips.
The heartbeat is so beautiful, it's really enviable.
I turned around, the corners of my mouth couldn't help but curl up, and I walked quietly alone in the night.
Youth is so short.
But it's so long.
I don’t know when I will meet the man who will make me the heroine.