It was almost midnight, but Zhan Xi was still reluctant to leave. Luo Jingyu thought that the next day was Sunday, so she didn't urge her to go home. She made two cups of hot orange juice, and the two of them snuggled on the sofa and chatted.
Being able to lean on Xiaoyu openly, hug his arms and be intimate with him, Zhan Xi was so happy that he was flying!
No need to envy Luo Xinran anymore, no need to envy Yuan Sichen anymore, no need to envy Yin Li anymore, because she also has a partner now!
And her partner is super good, tall, handsome and talented! He is also gentle, considerate and caring, and will never be mean to her.
Others may have one skill, but her Xiaoyu has more than one skill, she has four, five, six skills... She is hundreds of times better than her brother who can do nothing and can only lie around like a grandpa!
Xiaoyu just can't hear, so what? It's not his fault, it's not his choice, if she likes it, she can just accept it.
She just wanted to be with him, didn't want to give up on him, didn't want to lose him. As for other things, don't think about them for now. They should just be in a relationship first.
The feeling in Luo Jingyu's heart is hard to describe and can no longer be summed up by the word "happiness".
He felt that buying the sofa was a wise decision.
Zhan Xi stuck to him like a cat, with her legs crossed on the sofa, her legs covered with his coat, her right hand holding his left hand with their fingers intertwined, and sometimes she touched the wound on his hand. He could clearly feel her love and care.
It doesn't hurt. Luo Jingyu made a sign language gesture to her, which was just taught to her. It was very simple and vivid. Seeing the disbelief in her eyes, he added another gesture: he tapped his index fingers together, followed by the sign language of "it doesn't hurt", and turned to look at her with a smile.
Zhan Xi understood what he said, and what he meant was: It really doesn’t hurt.
Sign language is actually not as complicated as you think. Just like learning English, the more vocabulary you have, the better you will learn.
Zhanxi now only knows some simple sign language words, which were all taught by Luo Jingyu. When encountering some short sentences, he would show them to her, and Zhanxi could remember them and understand how to integrate them. For example, the sign of "really" can be formed into "really hungry", "really don't know", "really delicious" and so on.
Zhan Xi hugged Luo Jingyu's arm and asked, "If you make peonies, your hands will be broken. Why do you want to make peonies? Can't you make other flowers?"
Luo Jingyu typed her answer: I’ve done this with many flowers, but not with peonies, so it can’t be the same.
Zhan Xi: "You mean the flowers used in the Flower Festival cannot be repeated every time?"
Luo Jingyu nodded and typed: Spring Flower Festival, girls like flowers, spring orchids, berries, cherry blossoms, peonies, hostas, daffodils, peach blossoms, many of which have been done.
He typed the names of the flowers fluently, having memorized them all by heart, with almost no typos.
Zhan Xi asked again: "Then why don't you ask Xiao Zhong and Xiao Mo to help you? Last time they came to help you make cherry blossoms, I thought it was great, and you didn't have to work so hard."
After reading her lip reading, Luo Jingyu smiled and shook her head, typing: Their level is not good, they can only do simple things, they have not learned the professional knowledge, Shaoyao can't do it.
Zhan Xi said: "They don't know how to do it, you can teach them."
Luo Jingyu shook her head again, picked up her phone, thought about how to tell her, and typed a few key words, letting Zhan Xi associate them himself: embossing, professional, high tuition, I can't teach it, simple is OK, there are rules.
Zhan Xi began to verify: "You mean, there are rules for learning embossing, and there are special schools or institutions to learn? The tuition is also very high, and you can't teach very professional techniques privately? You can teach simple beginners, is that what you mean?"
Ah, she is indeed a clever egg teacher! When Luo Jingyu praises her now, she no longer uses the "clever" sign language, nor does she give her a thumbs-up. Instead, she gives her a kiss on the face to show her approval.
Zhan Xi's face turned red with shame, and she buried her face in his shoulder, rubbing against it like a cat.
In fact, Luo Jingyu also wanted Zhong Peng and Mo Yang to help him with the work, just like he helped Xu Qingyan before. At that time, Xu Qingyan had too many orders after opening a warehouse and was too busy to handle it, so Luo Jingyu helped her with some of the work and earned a lot.
But Zhong Peng and Mo Yang couldn't do it. They were still senior high school students and had only learned the most basic embossing techniques from Zhou Lian. They had never gone out for professional training. They could not compare with Luo Jingyu at the time and could not produce any decent works at all.
At the beginning, Luo Jingyu went to Shanghai to learn from a master. He had just graduated from high school and was still an 18-year-old boy.
Because he was deaf, he had to go out alone and suffered a lot. Fortunately, Xu Qingyan took good care of him and almost gave him a special treatment, which allowed him to officially enter this industry.
Therefore, he is very grateful and respectful to Teacher Xu, and would not do anything that violates professional ethics, such as teaching people professional perm techniques privately. He cannot charge for it, let alone do it for free.
The teaching of embossing is actually very systematic, and is divided into different schools. The school that Luo Jingyu studied has clear methods for each flower type, from easy to difficult.
For example, students of different levels make the same roses. There are huge differences in the methods and refinement of the finished products between the lowest-level roses and the roses made at Luo Jingyu's level.
Every year when she goes for further studies, Luo Jingyu learns more difficult techniques.
Xu Qingyan also obtained authorization for this technology from a Japanese classroom, and has special teaching materials and supporting materials.
Luo Jingyu can teach Zhan Xi and Mr. Chi Jiang how to make simple introductory flowers. One or two flowers is okay because they are just enthusiasts and will not become practitioners.
He definitely can't just teach kids like Zhong Peng and Mo Yang casually, because they might choose to be professionals. If they want to be professionals, they have to spend money to learn systematically. If every high-level flower embossing craftsman opens his own class, the market will be in chaos.
Luo Jingyu took out his phone and typed to Zhan Xi, telling her that most of the ornaments for the Flower Festival were finished, and the first batch would be shipped the next day, and Fang Xu would come to his house to pick them up. The second batch would be shipped in four days, and he still had eighty pieces to finish. If he persisted for a few more days, he would be able to handle this wave of business.
Typing really gave Luo Jingyu a headache, but fortunately, they were both patient people and they had just confirmed their relationship, so it was particularly sweet. Zhan Xi watched him slowly type on the screen and speak to her one sentence at a time.
Luo Jingyu was used to sleeping late, usually working at 2 or 3 in the morning, but Zhan Xi was not like that. When it was almost 1 o'clock, she was very sleepy and yawned for a long time. Luo Jingyu touched her face, pointed at the door, and made a sleeping posture.
Zhan Xi knew it was time for her to go home.
Her coat was a mess, so Luo Jingyu said he took it to the laundry to wash it, found her a pair of his sweatpants, and put his coat on her.
Zhan Xi originally wanted to just go up and down the stairs and go home by herself, but Luo Jingyu wouldn't let her and insisted on sending her to the door of her house.
Zhan Xi's things were placed on the entrance cabinet. Luo Jingyu stared at the umbrella and pouted unhappily. Zhan Xi pointed at the juicer and said to him, "Xiao Yu, this is the prize I won in the lottery. Leave it with you. I have a juicer, so I don't need two."
Luo Jingyu only had a blender and indeed no juicer, so she smiled and nodded to accept it.
The two went out together and took the elevator. Luo Jingyu looked at Zhan Xi. She was wearing his coat and pants. The coat was too big and the pants were too long. They were piled up at her ankles, which looked a little funny.
When he arrived at the door of Room 802, Zhan Xi opened the door and whispered to Luo Jingyu, "Gift should go to bed."
Luo Jingyu remembered the little white cat. He hadn't seen it since the Chinese New Year. He missed it very much. He wondered if the kitten still recognized him.
He and Zhan Xi stood face to face, and Zhan Xi said, "Then I'll go in."
Luo Jingyu nodded, and when she was about to turn around, she grabbed her arm and said in sign language: Tomorrow, and drew a small question mark with her index finger again.
Zhan Xi knew that he was asking about her plans for the next day, so she said, "I have to go out for a while tomorrow morning to attend classes, and I will be back at noon. What's the matter?"
Luo Jingyu felt a little annoyed after seeing it clearly. Huanhuan had to go to class tomorrow morning? He really shouldn't have kept her so late.
He shook his head, took out his cell phone and typed: I will start work on the 4th and will be free for many days. You can sleep tomorrow afternoon and have dinner at my house tonight
He even arranged her daily routine clearly. Zhan Xi thought it was a good arrangement and nodded in agreement: "Okay, I'll go to your place for dinner tomorrow night and take a nap in the afternoon. We'll talk about it after you're done with these few days."
She reached out and pulled his coat. "You should also take care of yourself and don't stay up late. Just cook two dishes for dinner tomorrow. I'll buy the groceries or I'll cook!"
Luo Jingyu shook her hands repeatedly.
Zhan Xi pouted: "I know, you just think my cooking is not tasty."
Luo Jingyu shook her head and smiled helplessly, rubbed her hair, pointed into the room, and told her to go in.
"Then I'll go in." Zhan Xi also smiled at him, "Good night, Xiaoyu."
Luo Jingyu put her left hand in her pocket and waved at her with her right hand.
Zhan Xi turned around and pursed his lips when he was about to enter the house, then suddenly turned back. Before Luo Jingyu left, he saw Zhan Xi standing on tiptoe and pecked his lips quickly.
"Good night, Xiaoyu." This time, she really went into the house, and Luo Jingyu helped her close the door.
Inside the door, the girl stood with her back against the door for a long time, her right hand on her heart, breathing lightly.
Outside the door, the man stood silently facing the door with his hands in his pockets. After a long time, he took his right hand out of his pocket, touched his mouth, lowered his head and smiled silently.
He turned and walked towards the elevator and pressed the up button. The elevator hadn't arrived yet. He looked back at the door of room 802 again, thinking about the girl inside. He scratched his hair and made a sign language to the void: Good night, girlfriend.
—
Zhan Xi took a shower and slept for only five hours before forcing himself to get out of bed at 7:20 in the morning.
She and Teacher Zhou made an appointment to have a sign language class at 9 o'clock, which would be held at Teacher Zhou's home and the journey would take more than an hour.
Zhan Xi sat on the bed and slapped his face to wake himself up. He picked up the little whale, rubbed it, kissed it, and said, "Good morning, Yudan, I forgot to tell you last night that your brother is my boyfriend now!"
Coming out of the bedroom, Zhan Xi shouted to the kitten lying on the sofa: "Gift, good morning! I have good news for you, you have a dad! I'll take you to play on the cat climbing frame tonight."
Liwu moved his ears, jumped off the sofa, and circled around Zhanxi's legs.
While brushing his teeth, Zhan Xi's mouth was full of foam and he acted like a schizophrenic in front of the mirror again.
"How is Mr. Egg feeling now?"
Zhan Xi looked proud: "To use an idiom to describe it, great joy! Teacher Jidan has a partner now! Teacher Jidan even kissed me last night!"
"Teacher Jidan, does Mr. Luo know that you are like this in private?"
"I'm not afraid of him finding out. If he finds out, he'll just say..." Zhan Xi gargled, spit out the foam, and held his cheeks in front of the mirror. "Teacher Jidan is so cute!"
Liwu stayed at the bathroom door, and after admiring everything, he turned around and left.
At 7:50, Zhan Xi was ready to go out. She said to the flowers in the glass vase on the dining table, "Big sunflower, small sunflower, and green onion, mom is leaving. In a few days, when your dad is free, mom will learn to make a few more flowers, and we will try to fill the vase!"
When they crossed the city and arrived at Teacher Zhou's home, Zhan Xi turned into the gentle and quiet girl again. Teacher Zhou welcomed her in, looked her up and down, and smiled: "Xiao Zhan, you are more beautiful in person than in the photo."
Zhan Xi was puzzled: "Ah?"
"I saw your circle of friends." Teacher Zhou said, "Do you mind?"
"I don't mind, I don't mind." Zhan Xi also looked at Teacher Zhou. She was nearly fifty years old and was very well maintained. She wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and had long curly hair tied loosely behind her head. She looked very elegant.
Teacher Zhou's home was spacious and tidy. Her husband was also there. Zhan Xi followed her into the study and found that Teacher Zhou also had a handmade workbench, which was filled with various materials, tools and semi-finished products. There were more types than Xiaoyu's, and Zhan Xi didn't recognize many of them.
"Let's have the class here." Teacher Zhou made a cup of tea for Zhan Xi, sat down with her at the workbench, and asked with a smile, "Teacher Luo said that you learned sign language because you want to communicate with the boy you like without any obstacles. Is that true?"
Zhan Xi's face turned red, wondering why Ji Hongzhe even told Xiaoyu's sister this!
"I... sort of." She could only admit shyly.
Teacher Zhou asked: "Is that person Xiaoyu?"
Zhan Xi: “…”
She was stunned for a moment before she cried out, "Ah?"
“Hahahahahahaha…” Teacher Zhou laughed so hard that he opened his phone to show Zhan Xi. Under the post “The monsters are me” that Zhan Xi had posted the night before, there were clearly Luo Jingyu’s message and Zhan Xi’s reply.
Zhan Xi wanted to rush out of the door. What was going on? She and Xiaoyu had one more mutual friend on WeChat!
"My name is Zhou Lian." Teacher Zhou said with a smile, "Don't be nervous. Xiaoyu is my student. I taught him for six years in junior high and high school. Other teachers may not remember him or have his WeChat account, but I definitely have it. Because this child is really not good at studying, but he always gets first place in my handicraft class."
Studying is really not good... Zhan Xi has heard more than one person say this about Xiaoyu. Fang Xu said that he is not well educated, Ji Hongzhe said that his grades are poor, Xiaoyu himself always said that he is not well educated, and now Teacher Zhou said that he is not good at studying. Oh, why does it sound so pitiful
Zhou Lian stood up and took out a flower from a drawer to show Zhan Xi. Zhan Xi recognized it at a glance. It was a yellow rose made of embossed flower.
"Xiaoyu is now doing hot stamping. I am his mentor," said Teacher Zhou. "Of course, I am just an amateur. My level is far behind his. He is a professional."
She looked at Zhan Xi, a young, beautiful, healthy girl, and thought of Luo Jingyu, and asked, "Have you really decided to learn sign language?"
Zhan Xi nodded vigorously: "Really, I want to learn systematically and carefully, I want to understand Xiaoyu's speech, and I want to have a good chat with him."
She admitted, yes, it was for the little fish.
"Children like them are very sensitive." Zhou Lian knew that she shouldn't meddle in other people's business, but she and Luo Jingyu had known each other for more than ten years and they still kept in touch. She felt that she still needed to remind the girl in front of her, "Xiao Zhan, you are still young. I see that you are only a few years older than my daughter. I am not pouring cold water on you, but I want to tell you that children like Xiaoyu, because they have been deaf since childhood, are more simple, persistent, and even a little stubborn. I don't know what the relationship between you and him is now, so let's just say... Don't hurt him, okay?"
This...what does this mean
Zhan Xi was feeling very sad. She had just started dating Xiao Yu last night, so how come someone told her “don’t hurt him” the next day
Did Teacher Zhou have too little confidence in her? Yes, they didn’t know each other before, and Teacher Zhou only knew Xiaoyu, so he must have been biased towards Xiaoyu.
Zhan Xi said calmly, "Teacher Zhou, I really take Luo Jingyu seriously, and I know he takes me seriously too. I can only say that when I am with him, I will treat this relationship with all my heart. As for the hurt you mentioned, this...relationships are a two-way thing, right? You can't just say this to me."
Zhou Lian said, "Xiao Zhan, don't get me wrong. I have a daughter myself, and she's in college. I just want to ask you a question. Does your family agree?"
Zhan Xi couldn't answer.
"If my daughter wanted Xiaoyu to be her boyfriend, I would not agree at first." Zhou Lian looked into Zhan Xi's eyes. "Why do I say at first? Because I am a special education practitioner myself, and I know too well how hard those children's lives are. I will not blindly oppose it just because the other person has physical defects. I hope that their lives can also be wonderful and happy. So, I will observe my daughter to see how much she is committed to this relationship. Excuse me for being frank, I rarely see hearing people and deaf people together, and many of them will not last until the parents know about it, and the two people break up for various reasons."
Zhan Xi: “…”
She thought, how great it would be if her mother could explain things as clearly as Teacher Zhou, Xiaoyu is obviously such a good person.
Zhou Lian continued, "If my daughter can withstand the test, then I will agree, provided that the other party must be an excellent child like Xiaoyu. You don't know some other people... How should I put it, most of them are good children, but there are always some who have bad habits in life and character. The reason I tell you this is because you want to learn sign language from me, and I can teach you. I am just afraid that you will be enthusiastic for only a short time, I am afraid that Xiaoyu will get hurt, and I am also afraid of disappointing myself. So let me be frank first. If you have made up your mind, let's start. I have teaching materials here, and I will teach you well."
Zhan Xi didn't spend time thinking about this question, and said directly: "I've made up my mind, Teacher Zhou, I want to learn it."
Zhou Lian smiled gently: "Okay, let's get started."
After two hours of sign language teaching, Zhou Lian gave Zhan Xi a copy of the textbook and other sign language books and said, "I'm teaching you Chinese Sign Language, which is similar to Mandarin in sign language and is used throughout the country. But when Xiaoyu and the others communicate privately, they use natural sign language, which has no textbook and is similar to dialect. Um... You need to talk to him more and you will get used to it. The word order and gestures of natural sign language are slightly different from those of Chinese sign language. Many of the gestures are simplified, but Xiaoyu knows them all. The test is actually you."
Zhan Xi put all the teaching materials into his bag. His mind was still full of the sign language vocabulary he had just learned. He felt that he had gained a lot. He said to Zhou Lian, "Thank you, Teacher Zhou. I will study hard and practice more. I will not let you down."
"Come on, you are a good kid too." After two hours of getting along, Zhou Lian liked Zhan Xi very much. Such a beautiful girl, but her personality was very gentle and humble. She spoke softly and was not arrogant at all. No wonder Xiaoyu, that silly boy, liked her.
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Fang Xu came to Luo Jingyu's house again, preparing to move away more than 400 finished peony hair accessories.
"That's awesome, Brother Yu." Fang Xu looked at the large cartons. "In fifteen days, you made four hundred and sixty of them. That's really life at the limit! In previous years, you started work two months earlier, so how come you could only make a little over a thousand?"
After reading his words, Luo Jingyu didn't want to answer, but just stretched out her left hand for him to see.
"Oh my god! So miserable?" Fang Xu looked at the numerous broken skin wounds on his hands and felt his own hands hurt. "Let's not be Shaoyao anymore. Just hold on for three more days. It will be over in three days. You should have a good rest for half a month, and then we will make plans for the rest."
After saying that, Fang Xu moved the boxes to the elevator entrance one by one, ready to ship the goods when he returned.
Luo Jingyu still has eighty hair accessories to make, and three days is enough.
Looking at the clock on the wall, it's past 1pm. Has Huanhuan come back yet? Has he eaten yet? Or is he taking a nap
In the morning, they only sent two or three WeChat messages to each other. Zhan Xi said she was in class, so Luo Jingyu didn't bother her again.
He thought Huanhuan was really amazing. She was always taking exams, attending classes, and improving herself. The cultural gap between him and her was really huge. What should he do
Luo Jingyu decided that after finishing the order for this batch of peonies, he would go buy some books. As for what books to buy, let Huanhuan help him choose. Sister said that reading more books would improve his typing and make his brain smarter.
Ah, and after the business of this Flower Festival is done, he can take a half-month break. In other words, he will be free next weekend, and Huanhuan will also have a holiday, so should he go out on a date with her
Where do other people go on dates
Eating, shopping, watching movies, visiting the park
Luo Jingyu sat on the sofa, opened Baidu on her mobile phone and typed in: Where should I go for a first date with a girl
The answers that popped up were similar. Luo Jingyu read them carefully one by one. They all mentioned parks, cafes, mountain climbing, movies, video game arcades, Western restaurants, museums...
museum
He blinked, lay down on the sofa, stared at the whale lamp with hollow stripes, and thought of a place in his mind - the Natural History Museum.
When he was a child, he went to a natural history museum once as part of a school activity and saw a whale skeleton specimen.
He forgot what kind of whale it was. When his classmates saw it, they all ran to call him and dragged him to the skeleton. They tilted their heads back and signed to each other very quickly.
The whale skeleton was hanging in the air. Luo Jingyu didn't know how big it was, nor what it looked like when it was alive. Looking up at the white bones, he only felt shocked.
It seemed as if there was a blue ocean above his head and a giant whale swimming slowly by. Compared with it, the nine-year-old boy seemed so small.
Luo Jingyu's nickname was given by his father. His father said that his name sounds the same as whale, so he called him Xiaoyu.
All his classmates knew that he liked whales because of his full name and nickname. However, before that, Luo Jingyu had no idea how big whales were. When he saw the skeleton, his little head was confused.
Isn't he called Little Fish? The whale is so big! So big! Why not call him Big Fish
He threw this question to his sister, Luo Xiaomei said: Because you are a child, how can a child be called Big Fish
Later, when he grew up, got a mobile phone, registered for WeChat and QQ, and when choosing a nickname, he named himself "A Big Fish".
Looking at the whale lamp, a smile appeared on Luo Jingyu's lips. He wondered if Huanhuan would be willing to go to the museum with him to see the whale skeleton
Seventeen years have passed, is that whale still there
—
Zhan Xi took a comfortable nap in the afternoon. After waking up, he sent a WeChat message to Luo Jingyu, saying that she was going to buy groceries and asked him what he wanted to buy. Luo Jingyu replied:
What a big fish: Whatever you want to eat, buy. Whatever you buy, I will make.
Egg Pudding: Then I buy an Australian lobster, can you cook it? [grin]
What a big fish: lobster is easy!
What a big fish: WeChat red envelope: half a lobster
What a big fish: WeChat red envelope: half a lobster
Zhan Xi didn't give any red envelope. He felt funny in his heart that Xiaoyu knew quite a lot about the price of Australian lobsters, but she didn't know and was just saying it casually.
Egg Pudding: I was just kidding.
What a big fish: If you want to eat it, you can buy it and I will cook it for you. I can also cook lobster.
Egg Pudding: I was just kidding, okay I’m going to buy groceries, wait for me~ muah!
A group of little yellow faces with loving faces fell from the sky, and Luo Jingyu was stunned. He had seen this effect on WeChat before, for example, on his birthday, Zhan Xi said happy birthday to him, and he was so sad that birthday cakes on WeChat were still falling one by one.
What word was it because of this time
Luo Jingyu studied it for a while and decided to give it a try.
What a big fish: Just kidding
What a big fish: Wait for me
What a big fish:
The little yellow heart face finally fell off! Luo Jingyu was very happy and tried it twice more.
What a big fish:
What a big fish:
Egg Pudding: What are you doing? ? [囧]
What a big fish:
It was almost 5 o'clock when the small light bulb on the entrance door lit up. Luo Jingyu went to open the door. As soon as the door opened, a white thing rushed into his arms.
It's a gift!
Luo Jingyu held the gift and stroked its back, and found that the kitten had really grown up. He smiled and looked at the door, where Zhan Xi was standing there with vegetables in her hand, smiling at him.
She went into the house to change her slippers, put the dishes in the kitchen, and when she came out she saw Luo Jingyu still holding the cat, so she went over to pick up the gift and put it on the ground: "Go, go away."
Then he threw himself into Luo Jingyu's arms: "Xiao Yu! Muah!"
Luo Jingyu hugged her tightly, lowered her head to look at her gently, and kissed her on the forehead.
The gift squatting on the ground: cat vomiting.jpg
It turned around indifferently with cat steps and ran towards the cat climbing frame it had been thinking about day and night.