When Xiang Changkong passed seven o'clock, he set his status as "busy" and did not take any new orders. Not wanting Xu Lian to wait too long with an empty stomach, he rang the doorbell of Xu Lian's house on time at eight o'clock.
"Xiang Zhangkong, you are here." Xu Lian opened the door and stood in the door looking at him.
As soon as he saw Xu Lian, Xiang Zhangkong couldn't help but think of what happened that night, especially the neck that Xu Lian showed, and there were a few hickeys on it.
He bit it himself.
"..." He felt that he was about to burn up, and his breath became hot.
"Come in first." Xu Lian bent down and helped him get a pair of slippers out. When he changed his slippers to Changkong, he was a little stunned. It wasn't the same pair he wore last time, and it still looked brand new.
"Is this... you bought it new?"
"Yeah." Xu Lian nodded, "I saw it when I was shopping at the supermarket today. I thought this blue suits you very well, so I bought it. You can wear this pair in the future."
Xiang Zhangkong lowered his eyes slightly and put on his slippers.
later...
"What are you holding in your hand?"
When Xu Lian asked this question, Xiang Changkong only remembered to hand her what was in his hand: "Oh, these are the fried dumplings I bought on the road just now, I'm afraid you'll be hungry after waiting too long. You can eat this pad first."
"Okay, I'll go get a plate." Xu Lian went to the kitchen to get a plate, two bowls, and two pairs of chopsticks, and put them on the dining table, "You can eat too."
"No need, I'll cook first." Xiang Changkong said, and then slowly took out a small paper bag from his bag and handed it to Xu Lian, "This, this, is for you."
Xu Lian held the chopsticks and just took a bite of the fried dumplings that he was holding. Hearing what he said, she turned her head to look. Xiang Changkong was holding a small pink paper bag with a pair of rabbit ears printed on it. This is Bunny's counter bag.
"Lipstick?"
"Um."
Xiang Changkong didn't say much, Xu Lian took the paper bag in his hand and took out the lipstick: "Ah, it's this one, I wanted to buy it and try it before, but it was out of stock." She raised her head and rushed Xiang Zhangkong smiled, "Thank you."
"No, no, as long as you like it."
Xu Lian's lips curved again, she picked up the lipstick, walked to the living room and pulled out a make-up mirror: "I'll try it."
Xu Lian's lips are light in color, and lipsticks of various colors are easy to develop. She wiped off the lip gloss and looked in the mirror. This red is very full, with a faint peach flavor, like someone who just drank red wine and accidentally stained it on the lips.
She tilted her head and asked Xiang Changkong, who was standing aside, "Is it good-looking?"
"Good, good-looking." Xiang Changkong found that when he and Xu Lian were together, he always stuttered.
Xu Lian smiled again, she took a step forward, hooked Xiang Zhangkong's neck, tiptoed kissed on his side neck, leaving a complete lip print.
"Well, it's pretty cool."
Xiang Changkong: "..."
His whole body froze there, but his neck quickly began to redden, and it burned to the roots of his ears.
Xu Lian leaned against the table and looked at him and smiled. Xiang Zhangkong took a while to regain his senses, and still stammered: "First, cook first."
He was so nervous that he forgot to wipe his lips, and Xu Lian didn't remind him, and followed him into the kitchen.
Xu Lian put all the vegetables she bought today in the refrigerator, looked at Changkong, and said to her, "Let's make a stir-fried chicken, a vermicelli shrimp with minced garlic, and a soup, okay?"
Xu Lian said: "You are the chef, I will listen to you."
"Well, then you wash these first, and I'll deal with the shrimp." Xiang Changkong picked out the lotus root, lettuce, and carrot, handed it to Xu Lian, and began to open the back of the shrimp himself.
Xu Lian really had no experience in cooking, and Xiang Zhangkong felt nervous when she saw her holding a knife. However, Xu Lian is a handicraft, and her hands are fairly dexterous. Under Xiang Zhangkong's guidance, she stumbles and dices the carrots.
After she finished cutting a carrot, Xiang Zhangkong was almost finished, he took the kitchen knife in Xu Lian's hand and said to her, "I'll cut the rest, you take out the soaked fans. , run cold water again, and stir with soy sauce."
"Okay." Xu Lian found a big bowl and fished out the soaked fans. As soon as she turned her head, she was impressed by Xiang Changkong's superb knife skills, "You cut so fast, aren't you afraid of getting it?"
Xiang Changkong said, "Practice makes perfect, I'm used to it."
"Oh..." Xu Lian passed the fans with cold water as he said, placed it at the bottom of the plate, and found the soy sauce on the console, "How much soy sauce to use."
"Just a little bit, don't pour too much."
Xu Lian thought about it and asked him, "Do I need to use a dropper?"
"..." The movement of cutting vegetables to the sky stopped for a while, "Dropper?"
Xu Lian nodded: "I usually make plaster tiles, and the ratio of plaster and water is also important. When adding very little water, we use droppers to control the amount."
Xiang Changkong pursed his lower lip slightly, and said to her, "We don't need to be so precise in cooking, just look at it."
"Okay." Xu Lian opened the light soy sauce she just bought, but couldn't help but complain, "So I don't know how to cook, so I always say a small amount, a small amount, an appropriate amount, how much is it?"
Xiang Changkong smiled and said, "You will feel better if you do too much."
Xu Lian didn't answer him. She stared at the soy sauce in her hand intently and poured a few drops: "Is this enough?"
"Okay, you can pour some cooking wine into the shrimp for use."
"How much?"
Xiang Changkong said with a light smile, "Appropriate amount."
Xu Lian: "…"
Xiang Changkong finished cutting the vegetables on the chopping board, put them in a small bowl, chopped up another piece of garlic, fried the minced garlic until golden brown, and placed it on the shrimp that Xu Lian had added cooking wine: "Okay, now we have steamed more than ten times. Just minutes."
Xu Lian didn't expect that being a shrimp is quite easy: "Then what are we doing now?"
Xiang Changkong said, "You can wash some green onions and cut them into shreds. After the prawns are in the pan, put them on top, and I'll fry the chicken thighs."
"Okay." For Xu Lian, dicing green onions is much easier than dicing carrots.
The two of them stood in front of the cupboard, busy with their work, and glanced at Xu Lian secretly in the sky, with a warm and sweet feeling in their hearts.
It feels like a newly married couple.
Busy until 8:30, all the dishes are ready. Xu Lian helped bring the dishes to the table, and went to the kitchen to fill two bowls of fragrant white rice. She still bought this rice in the vegetable supermarket of Xingguang Farm today. The clerk said that the rice was also produced by them.
"Well, this rice is quite fragrant, and it's worth the price." She took a slight sniff, brought her phone over, and took a picture of the food on the table, "I'll send it to my mother to save money. She always said I only cook noodles."
She sent the photo to her mother with a commentary: "I made it myself at home."
After her mother received it, she sent her a message back, but it was just a voice. Xu Lian turned off her voice and heard her mother say from there, "Daughter, have you made a boyfriend? I see that there are still two bowls of rice on this table?"
Xiang Changkong: "..."
Xu Lian also held down the voice button and sent a voice message back to her mother: "I'll introduce you to you when you come back."
Xiang Changkong raised his eyes to look at her, this is considered, do you admit it
After Xu Lian finished sending the message, she put her phone aside. She picked up the chopsticks, and when she saw Xiang Changkong sitting across from her and looking at her, she said, "What's wrong? Don't you want to eat?"
Xiang Changkong hesitated for a while, feeling that some things should be made clear face-to-face: "What you told your mother just now, is it serious?"
"What? What about introducing you to them?" Xu Lian looked at him, "Don't you want to see them?"
"No, no." Xiang Changkong clenched the chopsticks in his hand subconsciously, not daring to look into Xu Lian's eyes, "What is the relationship between us now?"
Xu Lian didn't answer him immediately, the silence in the room made him a little breathless.
"What do you think our relationship is?" Xu Lian asked him back, "One-night stand? Or buddies?"
"No, no..." Xiang Zhangkong anxiously wanted to deny it, but he couldn't confidently say what their relationship was.
"If not, it can only be boyfriend and girlfriend, right? Or are you just having fun?"
"I do not have."
"I do not have either."
The conversation between the two ended abruptly. After looking at Zhangkong and Xu Lian for a while, their faces slowly turned red again: "Eat, eat, the food won't taste good when it's cold."
"Um."
Although Xiang Changkong came to teach her how to cook today, she only made a little start from the beginning to the end. Last time at Xiang Changkong's house, he didn't eat anything he made. After a little taste today, Xu Lian was amazed. : "It's delicious. This vermicelli shrimp with garlic is even better than what I've eaten in a restaurant."
Xiang Nuan usually praised the delicious food made by Xiang Zhangkong, but when Xu Lian praised him, his heart pounded: "Well, then you eat more."
He pushed all the dishes to Xu Lian's side, Xu Lian saw that he was only eating with a bowl, and put the largest shrimp in his bowl: "Don't just eat, eat more."
"Okay, I can come by myself."
Xu Lian ate two bowls of white rice that night, and the two dishes and one soup made by Xiang Changkong were also eaten cleanly. While doing the dishes in the kitchen, Xu Lian couldn't help but feel worried. After eating like this, all her morning steps were wasted.
"You really don't need my help?" Xiang Changkong walked to the door of the kitchen and looked at Xu Lian who was washing dishes inside. Xu Lian shook his head and said, "No, I ate too much, just to digest it. I'll install a dishwasher later. Enough."
When designing the decoration, she only remembered to install the oven and forgot to plan the dishwasher. As a result, the oven has not been used once, and the bowls will be washed a few times from time to time. It's not impossible to install a dishwasher now, it's just a little more troublesome.
"I'll wash it right away. Go to the living room and watch TV for a while."
Xiang Changkong saw that she was indeed about to wash up, so he didn't say anything. After Xu Lian washed the dishes, she went to the living room to have a look.
Xiang Zhangkong didn't watch TV in the living room, but leaned on the balcony alone, staring at the sky in the distance. The night wind blew gently through the ends of his hair, and the black hair on his forehead moved slightly.
Xu Lian had never looked at a man so carefully, his eyebrows, the corners of his lips, his chin, his Adam's apple, and the melancholy that the night wind blew on him.
He stood there, as if to merge with the night.
Xu Lian has always known that she can't be too close to people, otherwise it will lead to trouble, and she has always followed this rule. But Xiang Changkong made her know that getting close to him would have a lot of trouble, but she was willing to accept it for him.
Because she was more reluctant to just stand here and watch him than those troubles.
She walked over, leaned on the balcony beside Xiang Changkong, and asked him sideways, "What are you thinking?"
Xiang Changkong seemed to have just noticed her approaching, smiled and shook his head: "It's nothing."
Xu Lian looked at him for a while, and said, "Nothing is so deep? Let's talk about it, and let my sister enlighten you."
Xiang Zhangkong frowned slightly: "Sister?"
"Yes." Xu Lian nodded, "I've been graduating for two years."
Xiang Zhangkong was stunned for a moment, then looked at her and smiled: "It's been three years since I graduated."
Xu Lian: "…"
Xu Lian didn't quite believe it, she always thought that Xiang Changkong was younger than herself: "Then how old are you this year?"
"twenty four."
"I'm 24 too, what month are you?"
"March."
Xu Lian: "…"
lost.
Xiang Changkong showed a rare expression other than shyness, and looked at Xu Lian with interest: "How many months are you?"
"July." Xu Lian said a little unwillingly.
Xiang Changkong smiled and said, "That's still my age."
"..." Xu Lian pouted, "Childish."
Xiang Zhangkong chuckled twice, not knowing who was more naive.
Xu Lian was quiet for a while, and then asked him, "You only started delivering food recently, right? What were you doing before?"
Xiang Changkong's eyes darkened, and he turned his head to look at the boundless night: "I used to work in a financial company."
"Then why are you resigning?"
Xiang Changkong said: "Because I need money." He was silent for a while, then slowly said, "I joined a big company, and there are still development prospects, but you know, the position of a big company is one point one. For those who are promoted, the salary also increases year by year. In the first few years of joining the company, the salary is actually very low. In addition, I only graduated with an undergraduate degree, so I am not very competitive among a group of graduate students. "
Xu Lian became her own boss after graduating, and never went out to look for a job, but she still knew some things in the workplace. Indeed, fresh graduates are cheap labor, and they have to spend three to seven years in the company before they can make their mark.
"You have been to my house, you should know that my mother is sick, right? Her illness has been treated, my sister is about to go to college again, I need money. Food delivery does not need the accumulation of big companies, as long as you run a lot, Wages are high.”
Xu Lian thought about it and said to him, "Delivering food can indeed save money relatively quickly, but the development is definitely not as good as that of a big company. Your two years of accumulation in the company will be in vain."
"There's no way to think about it so much." In addition to his mother and sister needing money, he also had to save some money, otherwise there would be no emergency money for an accident at home.
Xu Lian still has a lot of questions in her heart. She wants to ask his father? What's wrong with his mother? These questions had been circling in her mind for a long time, but in the end she didn't ask any of them.
She thought of the book she saw on his desk, of the wooden plane, of him, and always looking at the sky with those melancholy eyes.
"To the sky."
"Um?"
"Does your university study aircraft design?"
Xiang Changkong turned his head to look at her with a surprised expression: "How do you know?"
Xu Lian said: "I saw related books in your room. Since you are studying this major, why did you change your career?"
Xiang Changkong lowered his eyes: "Finance is a hot industry, I've quit my job, not to mention flying."
"But you like it, don't you?"
Xiang Changkong was stunned for a moment, watching her without speaking for a long time. This may be what attracted him to Xu Lian. Whether she liked it or not, she could always be frank and enthusiastic.
"Flying..." He said in a low voice, his eyes seemed to pass through the night and looked further afield, "Undergraduate graduates cannot go to the research institute." For a research institute at the level of Yifei Academy, it is even more Needless to say.
Xu Lian said: "I saw before that there are research institutes recruiting graduate students. Do you want to sign up?"
Xiang Zhangkong's eyes staring into the distance fluctuated slightly, and finally, like the night, it returned to silence.
Xu Lian looked at him: "In terms of money, there are other ways to solve it, but what you really want to do, you shouldn't give up so easily."
The corner of Xiang Changkong's mouth moved, but in the end he didn't say anything. He leaned on the balcony silently, staring into the distance, and the starlight that Xu Lian had seen in his eyes before was annihilated along with the night.
How much has he carried to make him show such an expression that he has to give up what he loves.
It was the first time she felt distressed for someone.
"Xiang Zhangkong." She called to him.
"What's the matter?" Xiang Changkong turned his head to look at her.
Xu Lian asked, "Am I good-looking?"
"..." Xiang Changkong was caught off guard by her question, and the position of his heart became restless again, "Okay, good-looking."
"Then do you want to sleep with me?"
"No, no!"
Xiang Zhangkong was so nervous that his heart almost jumped out, but his denial made Xu Lian frown slightly in displeasure: "Don't want to?"
"no no!"
"That's to think."
Xiang Changkong: "..."
Xu Lian looked at his expressionless face just now, which was now dyed red, and smiled and said to him, "Then what are you waiting for?"
Her smile was beautiful, but to Xiang Zhangkong, it was as deadly as poison.
He couldn't help wanting to hug her, and as soon as he got close, Xu Lian put his arms around his neck, jumped his feet lightly, wrapped around his legs, and left the ground.
She hung her whole body on Xiang Changkong, feeling Xiang Changkong's powerful hands tightly hugging her. Their breathing became more and more disordered in a kiss, Xiang Changkong gently pressed her against the wall, and asked her against the corner of her lips, "Where are you going?"
Xu Lian gasped for breath and looked at him with moist eyes: "It's fine."
Xiang Zhangkong's eyes gradually deepened like that night. He carried her to the bedroom and fell on the big bed together. Both of them ignited the enthusiasm of each other, and now they are like two arrows that are about to leave the string, ready to go.
"Is your body okay?"
Xiang Zhangkong was slightly panting, he still remembered Xu Lian shouting pain in his ear. Xu Lian looked at him and replied, "It's okay."
"Then I, lightly..." The words that were spoken to Zhang Kong had become so suppressed that they turned into an airy sound, like a feather swept across, making Xu Lian's heart itch. She wrapped her around his waist, making him close to her.
The temperature in the room continued to rise, and the clothes of the two were still on the ground in a mess, and there was a small red box that was disassembled in the corner. Xiang Changkong hugged Xu Lian and whispered in her ear, "Do you like it?"
"Like..." She liked everything about him.
"Me too, I really like it..." Xiang Changkong said, and kissed Xu Lian again. Xu Lian whispered his name again and again, so emotional and beautiful, and responded to her with deeper and deeper impacts to the sky.
This time Xiang Zhangkong only did it once, but it took an extraordinarily long time. After the end, the two took a shower and lay together to calm their chaotic heartbeats.
Xiang Zhangkong's fingers were inserted into Xu Lian's hair, her hair was soft and smooth, and it smelled a pleasant fragrance. The tip of his nose touched the top of Xu Lian's head, and he couldn't help but sniff. Xu Lian buried in his chest, listening to his powerful heartbeat. It's very comfortable to spend a night with him like this, doing nothing.
He brushed her hair towards Changkong and said to her, "I'm leaving."
Xu Lian frowned and raised her head from his arms: "Are you going back?"
"Well..." Xiang Changkong kissed her on the lips and said, "My mother is at home alone. If I don't go back, no one will cook for her tomorrow." Although it's very late now, it's better than never Good to go back.
Xu Lian thought of his mother's illness. She was at home alone, so she really couldn't be reassured. She looked at Xiang Changkong and asked him, "When will you come again?"
Xiang Changkong was stunned for a moment, then laughed.
Xu Lian is really frank, even her desire for him has never been concealed.
He approached her and said in her ear, "If you find me, I will come."
After he finished speaking, he got up to look for his clothes and put them on. Xu Lian lay on the bed and looked at him. She found that it was a pleasure to see him in his clothes.
After Xiang Changkong was dressed, he walked to Xu Lian's side again, bent down and kissed her: "Go back to sleep, good night."
"Um..." Xu Lian replied in a low voice, watching him walk out of the door.
After Xiang Changkong went downstairs, he took out his mobile phone and checked the time, and it was almost fast. He sighed softly and ruffled his hair casually.
The phone in his hand suddenly vibrated, he raised his hand to Zhang Kong and saw that it was actually a call from Xu Lian. Worrying about her discomfort, he picked it up quickly: "Xu Lian? What's wrong?"
Xu Lian's voice came through the receiver: "Xiang Zhangkong, look back."
Xiang Changkong turned around as she said, and saw that she was on the balcony on the fourth floor, looking at him. She held the phone in one hand and rested the other hand on the railing of the window, her long hair over her shoulders draped softly on her body, like a good shawl.
A gust of night wind blew, and she used the wind to throw something in her hand towards herself.
It's a white paper airplane.
It is like a white light, tearing the night apart and flying towards itself.
Xiang Changkong picked up the paper airplane that fell at his feet, and Xu Lian said to him on the other end of the phone: "For you, good night."
She hung up the phone and walked back into the room. Xiang Zhangkong stared at the paper airplane in his hand for a while, then unfolded it.
On the white paper, a line of words is written.
"Death doesn't hurt, it's life that feels the pain."
The things that make you hurt are just proof of being alive.