Being picked up by his parents after school was one of the things that Tao Xi yearned for most since he was a child, especially when it rained suddenly and he didn't bring an umbrella, he watched his classmates being picked up by their parents one by one, colorful umbrellas one by one. Support the chatter of the children and the babble of the parents.
At first, he would also wait to see if Guo Ping would come to pick him up, but after failing again and again, he stopped waiting and rushed into the rain curtain with his head covered, ran home along the muddy mountain road, and changed his clothes. , to wash clothes, to burn hot water for the family to take a bath at night, to start doing homework after doing everything, and to cook by myself when I grow up.
So when Tao Xi finished painting and saw Lin Qinhe appearing in the living room of Qiao's house, the joy that came to him was like a slice of dried lemon being thrown into the warm sugar water, and no matter how sour the mood was, it would bubbling sweetly.
Although Lin Qinhe just happened to come here and picked him up by the way.
In the evening, the magnificent twilight dyed the red roof of the bungalow into deep red. Tao Xi happily followed Lin Qinhe to the Lin family's car. He recognized at a glance that the driver was Chen Ting, lying on the back of the driver's seat, tilted his head towards Chen Ting smiled and shouted:
"Good evening Uncle Chen!"
If he is in a bad mood, he will be beaten by anyone he sees, but if he is in a good mood, he will be kind and pleasant to see.
Chen Ting was stunned for a while, his eyes flashed by this "sweet" smile, and he politely smiled and said, "Hello, we meet again."
He was a little surprised. The last time he took Tao Xi to the hospital, he saw a pale and beautiful boy with gloomy eyes. He kept his head down and didn't speak. How could he be so... brilliant today
Lin Qinhe glanced at Chen Ting, and his voice was a little cold: "Why didn't you call someone just now?"
Tao Xi looked at Lin Qinhe in a daze, and subconsciously asked, "Who are you calling?"
Lin Qinhe turned his face and glanced at him, his slightly drooping long eyelashes stained the twilight outside the window, and his amber pupils darkened a bit.
Tao Xi thought about it, what Lin Qinhe should have said was that he saw him in the living room of Qiao's house but didn't call him, but that was because he was so happy and stupid at the time, just looking at people in a daze.
I didn't expect Lin Qinhe to care about this kind of etiquette, Tao Xi moved to Lin Qinhe's side, turned to look at Lin Qinhe, and asked, "Then why don't I make one for you?"
Lin Qinhe ignored him and only gave him a proud and cold profile.
Tao Xi tugged Lin Qinhe's sleeve, and Lin Qinhe looked at him and raised his eyebrows.
Tao Xi curled his eyes, the dense upper eyelashes and lower eyelashes interlaced, as if shouting "Uncle Chen good evening", whispered:
"Brother Qinhe, good evening."
This is his careful thought, and it sounds closer than Brother Qinhe shouted by Yang Duole.
Lin Qinhe looked into Tao Xi's eyes, his eyes flickered slightly, he quickly turned his face to look out the window, and hummed calmly.
Tao Xi was a little disappointed by Lin Qinhe's reaction. He unconsciously fell on Lin Qinhe's raised Adam's apple and saw it rolling up and down.
Although Lin Qinhe looked indifferent, he was still excited, and he began to pester Lin Qinhe about learning to paint in the afternoon, how he worshipped a master by growing vegetables, how good Qiao Henian was, and how bad he was. So far away, Lin Qinhe was silent most of the time, and occasionally responded with a few words.
But Tao Xi was still enjoying it, like a primary school student returning home from school twittering about interesting things that happened in the school.
When he finally stopped, Lin Qinhe looked at him and asked, "Is the report finished?"
Tao Xi was stunned for a moment, seeing the corners of Lin Qinhe's mouth slightly lifted, with a bright smile in his eyes, he immediately realized that he was being laughed at, he tried to light two clusters of flames in his eyes, glared at Lin Qinhe and said, "I won't talk anymore. "
Lin Qinhe ignored the unintimidating anger in Tao Xi's eyes, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and handed it to him, and said lightly:
"If you haven't finished speaking, you can tell me later after dinner."
Tao Xi took the water and took a few sips, his mind stuck: "What to eat?"
The car just stopped at this time. He looked out the window and suddenly realized that he was not sent to Wenhua No. 1 Middle School at all, but an underground parking lot that he did not know where.
Tao Xi asked Lin Qinhe suspiciously, "Where is this?"
Lin Qinhe took the water bottle from his hand, closed the lid, and said, "Last time you invited me to dinner and couldn't come, I said that I will invite you next time." car.
Tao Xi was a little ecstatic. He recalled the Sunday night he spent in the hospital again, as if a glass of wine was mixed with all unspeakable emotions. Gan, indescribable.
He didn't expect that what Lin Qinhe said on the phone at that time was true, and he really wanted to invite him to a meal.
The car door beside him was opened, Lin Qinhe stood outside the car, bent down slightly and asked him, "Don't you want to eat?"
Tao Xi regained his senses, jumped out of the car and shook his head, "Of course I want to eat it."
Seeing that Chen Ting was still in the car, he asked, "Won't Uncle Chen eat with us?"
Chen Ting was stunned for a moment. He noticed that Lin Qinhe was looking at him, and hurriedly said politely: "No need, no need, I'll go home and eat."
He has been a driver for the Lin family for so many years, and he still has his eyesight.
Tao Xi followed Lin Qinhe out of the parking lot, only to find that it was a very large crab restaurant.
It looks expensive.
Tao Xi followed behind Lin Qinhe, hesitated for a while, and said, "Actually, the restaurant I planned to invite you to dinner last time had less than 100 people per person."
He found that every time he wanted to give something to Lin Qinhe, Lin Qinhe would return more in the end.
At that time, he didn't know that Lin Qinhe had done more for him than that.
Lin Qinhe handed an unknown card to the waiter who came to lead the way and asked, "So?"
Tao Xi said in a low voice, "If you feel that you are at a loss, it is too late to regret it now."
Lin Qinhe took Tao Xi to the private room and asked, "Then it's a loss now, how can you make up for it?"
Tao Xi thought about it for a while, and joked: "I can sell an art and sell a few paintings to the boss to pay for the meal. If it's not enough, I can only sell my body."
Lin Qinhe raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, and said in a low voice, "Then you might as well sell it to me."
Tao Xi was stunned. He didn't know whether Lin Qinhe was talking about selling paintings or selling his body. He felt that his heartbeat suddenly became irregular, so he quickly closed his mouth and stopped joking.
He followed the waiter silently all the way to a quiet box. There were candles burning in the candlestick in the corner, and there was a small bridge running water outside the bamboo window. It was the first time Tao Xi came to such a place to eat, and his hands and feet were nervous.
After sitting down, Lin Qinhe handed him the menu and said, "Order what you want."
Tao Xi nodded nervously, opened the menu and looked at it, but he didn't remember to look at the picture or the name of the dish, so he was scared to death by the price behind.
This is not worth the money even if you sell yourself!
Lin Qinhe's eyes fell on his face, and he understood his thoughts: "Don't worry, I won't let you sell yourself."
Tao Xi lowered his head in embarrassment, pushed the menu to Lin Qinhe, and said, "I can't order it, you order it."
He felt that any dish he ordered was very painful, and he kept reciting "Zhumen wine and meat stinky" in his mind.
Lin Qinhe didn't say anything, and directly told the waiter a string of dish names, obviously familiar with the place.
October is a good time to eat crab. Tao Xi has never eaten it, but it does not prevent him from coveting it for a long time.
But when the crab came to the table, he was dumbfounded again.
Tao Xi looked up at Lin Qinhe, blinked, and said in a frank and innocent tone, "I won't do it."
The waiter on the side was ready to come over and provide the crab peeling service, but Lin Qinhe gave him a light glance, and then went down with a good look.
Tao Xi saw Lin Qinhe wash his hands, and opened the whole set of crab peeling tools on the side. There were sticks, tweezers, and a small hammer... He looked very professional at first glance. He used the tools with his fair and slender fingers to cut off the crab legs one by one, knocking on them. Open the crab shell, slowly remove unwanted parts such as the stomach and heart of the crab, and then scrape off the most essential crab roe in the crab with a long-handled spoon.
Tao Xi first stared intently at the movements of Lin Qinhe's hands, only to feel that it was indeed a hand playing the piano, peeling crabs so beautifully.
But then his attention was attracted by the oily crab roe on the metal spoon, and he couldn't help swallowing.
Tao Xi shifted his gaze from the crab yellow to Lin Qinhe's face, his eyelashes fluttered up and down a few times, and with a wow, he complimented: "You are amazing!"
His eyes were shining, and there was an undisguised "I want to eat" in his eyes.
Lin Qinhe was not complimented, and handed the long-handled spoon with the crab roe to the opposite side. The spoon was placed directly in front of Tao Xi, and he said, "Tast it."
At that moment, Tao Xi wanted to eat the crab roe directly with the spoon handed by Lin Qinhe, but he was afraid that Lin Qinhe would mind, so he finally reached out and took the spoon from Lin Qinhe's hand, and said "thank you" with a smile. Then eat the crab roe into your mouth.
Lin Qinhe retracted his hand, and curled his fingers on the table.
Tao Xi tasted the taste on the tip of his tongue before swallowing it, squinting his eyes contentedly, and exclaiming, "It's delicious!"
Then I saw Lin Qinhe start peeling the second crab again.
Tao Xi followed Lin Qinhe's method of peeling crabs. Halfway through peeling, Lin Qinhe had put the scraped crab paste on a plate and handed it to him, and then started to pick the crab legs again. eat a bit.
He was stunned and asked, "Aren't you going to eat?"
Lin Qinhe said calmly, "I'm allergic to crabs."
Why do allergies invite him here to eat crabs.
Tao Xi lowered his eyes, lowered his head and ate the crab paste that Lin Qinhe had made for him, the heart in his chest became more and more restless.
The feeling is indescribable, Jing Zhe is ambiguous, and love has already taken root, but there is a problem that is like a winter seed that has been buried, and never dares to break out of the ground.
Maybe try it out.
After Tao Xi said a few things about the school, he naturally said another thing: "A few days ago, a girl in another class asked me to send you a love letter, and I refused for you, you won't blame me? "
Lin Qinhe's hand of peeling the crab paused, and said indifferently, "I don't blame you, I didn't accept it."
Tao Xi held the chopsticks hard, sweating in his palms, and calmly said the next sentence: "I thought so too, and then she asked me if you had someone you liked, and I said there shouldn't be any, Lin Qinhe see. It doesn't look like someone you like at all."
He lowered his head and ate some crab legs that Lin Qinhe had picked for him, and the sweet taste spread on the tip of his tongue.
Lin Qinhe was silent for a while, and suddenly said in a low voice, "Not necessarily."
At that moment, Tao Xi heard the sound of a machine turning gently in his head, like the pointer of a clock pointing to a new node, but he didn't know what the next second would mean.
He bit the tip of his tongue, the slight pain concealed the sweetness of the crab legs, and asked nonchalantly, "It doesn't necessarily mean? You don't really have someone you like, right?"
Then he raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, and asked gossip like Bi Chengfei: "It won't be a girl from our class!"
After he asked, he regretted it, his heart seemed to be pinched on the edge by a hand, neither up nor down, neither left nor right.
Even Lin Qinhe's action of peeling the crab on his hand made him panic, so he had to lower his head to eat.
Lin Qinhe stopped his movements again, raised his eyelids and looked at Tao Xi, who bowed his head and poked the crab legs with chopsticks, and said, "I didn't mean that."
what does that mean
Tao Xi let out an "oh", stopped poking his chopsticks, picked up a crab leg, dipped it in the vinegar dish, and ate it in his mouth, letting the sour taste fill his mouth, and his sour eyes blurred.
It's just a false alarm, but the chest still can't stop sore.
The atmosphere was subtly quiet for a few seconds, only the sound of the crab shell being smashed open, revealing the softest part under the light.
Tao Xi was about to talk about other things to change the subject, but suddenly he heard Lin Qinhe ask endlessly, "What about you?"
His heart tightened, and for some reason he immediately understood what Lin Qinhe was asking. He smiled and said, "Didn't you say you can't fall in love early? Grandpa Qiao also told me that today, of course I won't have any ideas. ."
Lin Qinhe put the plucked crab legs on a plate, and said plainly, "So you had an idea?"
Tao Xi was silent for a few seconds, and replied with Lin Qinhe's original sentence: "I didn't mean that."
Since you didn't tell me, I won't tell you either.
He was a little aggrieved.
Lin Qinhe put down the crab peeling tool in his hand and looked at Tao Xi opposite him with a heavy gaze, his voice was very low: "Huang Qing?"
Tao Xi was startled and stared blankly at Lin Qinhe with wide eyes, his two eyelashes trembled.
However, his expression seemed to make Lin Qinhe's eyes darker even more, and he didn't even hand him the peeled crab legs.
Tao Xi reacted suddenly, shook his head like a rattle, and couldn't believe it: "How is that possible?! Huang Qing only likes to study, okay?"
Lin Qinhe's face was still not good-looking, and his voice became deeper: "You seem to know her well."
Tao Xi narrowed his eyes, remembering Lin Qinhe's usual hostility towards Huang Qing, and couldn't hold back: "Lin Qinhe, are you a little nervous when the midterm exam is approaching? In fact, you don't have to be nervous, you must be better than Huang Qing. , sit firmly in the first place, I believe in you!"
However, his encouragement seemed to have no effect. Lin Qinhe still didn't give him the crab legs. He even smiled and said coldly, "Aren't you the one who should be nervous?"
The tone was sarcastic.
Tao Xi was discouraged, shrank his shoulders, and complained dissatisfiedly, "Why are you talking about midterm exams during dinner? I'm so nervous that I'm not in the mood to eat crabs."
Simply the wicked complained first.
Lin Qinhe frowned deeper, picked up the plate of crab legs, and slammed it in front of Tao Xi with a slight force, and ordered, "I must finish it."
The delicate atmosphere instantly disappeared.
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