Xia Zhi lay lazily on the bed, with the quilt covering her waist, revealing her upper body. There were still traces of ambiguity on her fair back, which aroused people's imagination.
Jiang Zhixia's eyes lingered on that slender waist, his eyes slightly drooping. But then he looked at the darkening sky outside the window, closed his eyes to calm himself, knelt beside Xia Zhi, and massaged his limbs to relax his body.
Xia Zhi had not had much rest these days because of work, and had just been tossed around for an entire afternoon. Now he was lying on the bed motionless, not even able to lift a finger. Jiang Zhixia was still full of energy, and could have fought till late at night, not to mention an entire afternoon. But Xia Zhi was obviously problematic, and if he made a move again, he would probably get angry.
Jiang Zhixia focused on massaging Xia Zhi for nearly half an hour, and finally made the man feel comfortable.
"Okay, no more massage." Xia Zhi slowly opened his eyes. Since Jiang Zhixia's massage skills were very good, he had just taken a nap and his voice was still a little fuzzy. "I'm hungry."
Jiang Zhixia leaned on his back and kissed him on the cheek: "Is there anything to eat at home?"
"There are eggs and instant noodles." Xia Zhi was sleepy and tired. He closed his eyes again and added after thinking for a while, "And half a piece of bread left over from yesterday."
Jiang Zhixia was a little helpless: "What do you usually eat?"
"I eat in the school cafeteria and order takeout at home. I occasionally go back to my parents' house for dinner on weekends, but my parents' cooking skills are not very good and the taste is just average." Xia Zhi answered honestly.
Jiang Zhixia sighed. Xia Zhi was very tolerant of food reviews. As long as the food tasted good and looked normal, he would give it a good review. So since he could take the initiative to say something was not good, one could imagine the cooking skills of his future parents-in-law. As for the quality of the food in the school cafeteria, he knew everything.
Jiang Zhixia couldn't help but sigh: It wasn't easy for her boyfriend to grow up healthy.
"Wait a moment, I'll cook for you." Jiang Zhixia touched her boyfriend's face lovingly, then bent down and kissed him on the lips. Then she put on her clothes and left the bedroom, preparing to cook dinner for her boyfriend.
It was already dark outside, and the view in the living room was a little dim without turning on the lights. It was Jiang Zhixia's first time to Xia Zhi's house, and when he entered the house during the day, he didn't take a good look around the house. He went straight to the bedroom, so it took him some time to find the switch of the living room chandelier.
Although Xia Zhi was not sloppy in his life, he was not a delicate boy either. He was busy with work and had little time to clean the house. There were all kinds of books and documents scattered around the coffee table and sofa in the living room, and the trash can was filled with all kinds of takeout boxes.
The only clean place in the house was probably the kitchen. The kitchen stove was fully equipped, but it looked like new and had never been used. There were no fresh fruits or vegetables in the refrigerator, but there were many bottles and jars of hot sauce and rice sauce, and then there were all kinds of fast food. The only fresh food was the eggs, but the date was three months ago.
The more Jiang Zhixia looked at it, the more helpless she felt. She couldn't help but sigh once again: Her boyfriend is so lucky to be still healthy and full of energy.
After he finished his sigh, he found a deep pot from the cupboard and started to boil water. He wanted to make a nutritious dinner for his boyfriend, but he had no ingredients and his boyfriend was very hungry. Going out to buy ingredients would be a waste of time, so he could only cook a pot of instant noodles to make do.
While boiling water, he cleaned out the refrigerator and threw away all the expired items. While cleaning up, he found a piece of braised beef and a bag of frozen dumplings that were not expired from the freezer. So he made two bowls of high-end braised beef noodles with local ingredients and fried a plate of dumplings. He managed to make a decent dinner.
Xia Zhi got up from the bed by herself when she smelled the fragrance. Her legs were still a little weak, and every step she took was like walking on cotton, and it was a little difficult to walk.
"Come and have some noodles." Jiang Zhixia put two bowls of beef noodles on the dining table and went back to the kitchen to get the fried dumplings.
"It smells so good." Xia Zhi pulled out a chair and sat down at the dining table. The smell made him even hungrier. He drank a mouthful of soup before Jiang Zhixia handed him the chopsticks, then licked his lips in satisfaction, "It's delicious." He picked up another fried dumpling and squinted his eyes happily, "This one is delicious too."
"It's just some semi-finished products. The taste is not that good." Jiang Zhixia handed him the chopsticks and sat down opposite him to eat together. "Just make do with it today. I'll go to the supermarket to buy some vegetables tomorrow and make you tomato beef brisket and fish-flavored eggplant for lunch."
"Yeah!" Xia Zhi's eyes lit up with joy.
Jiang Zhixia's tomato beef brisket and fish-flavored eggplant are extremely delicious. Xia Zhi likes them very much. When he still lived in the dormitory, he would order these two dishes every time Jiang Zhixia cooked.
After being happy, Xia Zhi finally realized: "Aren't you here to film? Don't you have to go back to the crew tomorrow?"
"I came here early." Jiang Zhixia explained, "There is still some finishing work in City C, and the crew will come three or four days later. So I don't have to shoot these few days."
"Is that so?" Xia Zhi nodded, feeling a little happy. "Then you can stay at my place for the next few days. I'll take you around Y City some other day."
Jiang Zhixia reminded: "Didn't you say you would take me home?"
"Won't it take you another half a month to wrap up?" Xia Zhi said, "Let's talk about it after you finish filming."
Jiang Zhixia was a little dissatisfied: "Why do we have to wait for half a month? I have time these days."
"But I don't have time." Xia Zhi pinched his chin and shook it, then explained with a smile, "I have to go to school to work overtime tomorrow."
Jiang Zhixia thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll go with you."
"No." Xia Zhi tapped his nose, "I finally have some peace and quiet, don't come and mess with me."
Jiang Zhixia frowned: "Then I will have to stay at home alone tomorrow?"
"That's right. If you're bored, just help me clean the house." Xia Zhi picked up a fried dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth, puffing his cheeks while chewing and saying, "Just think of it as adapting to your role after marriage in advance."
Jiang Zhixia didn't comment again. She looked at him gently with her eyes, the corners of her mouth slowly curled up, and her eyes were full of smiles.
Married role...
The next morning, Xia Zhi went to work. He originally planned to drive to school by himself, but considering that Jiang Zhixia had to go out to buy groceries and it would be inconvenient without a car, he took Jiang Zhixia with him. After Xia Zhi arrived at school, Jiang Zhixia drove his car back.
Before parting, Jiang Zhixia asked Xia Zhi: "I'll pick you up at noon?"
"Actually, it's okay for me to order takeout." Xia Zhi said.
The school is quite far from home, and it would be a waste of time to drive back and forth.
However, after seeing Xia Zhi's refrigerator last night, Jiang Zhixia decided not to let him eat takeout, so he said without question: "I'll pick you up, what time do you get off work?"
Xia Zhi had no choice but to say, "Half past eleven."
"Yeah." Jiang Zhixia unbuckled her seat belt, leaned over and kissed him on the lips, and said softly, "Go in, I'll pick you up when the time comes."
"Okay." Xia Zhi pursed his lips, picked up his computer bag, opened the door and got out of the car. After walking for a distance, he turned around and found that the car had not started yet. Jiang Zhixia's eyes followed him closely.
Xia Zhi felt a sweet feeling in her heart. She smiled and waved at him, then walked briskly into the school gate.
He began to understand why his female colleagues in the office could drive but still needed their husbands to pick them up to and from get off work.
This is probably the meaning of love and marriage.
Jiang Zhixia went to a supermarket before going home. There was a supermarket near Xia Zhixia's home. Xia Zhixia took him to check it out before going to work, so he found it easily.
Jiang Zhixia parked the car in the underground garage and took the elevator directly to the supermarket.
The mall has a large flow of customers on weekends, and there are several universities around it, and college students often come here, so Jiang Zhixia had to put on the mask again.
Jiang Zhixia pushed the shopping cart and strolled around the supermarket. He first went to the living area to buy some daily necessities, and then went to the snack area to buy some snacks. After two months of video calls, he had a better understanding of Xia Zhi's work habits.
Therefore, Jiang Zhixia did not completely forbid Xia Zhi from eating snacks, but Xia Zhi was not picky about snacks at all. He would just randomly pick whatever was on the shelf when shopping. Last night, when Jiang Zhixia was writing the shopping list, she flipped through his snacks and found that most of them were junk food with no nutrition, so she decided to take this opportunity to personally pick out some healthier snacks for him.
Jiang Zhixia basically picked snacks like biscuits and bread that were more filling. Before leaving, he remembered that Xia Zhi seemed to like mustard and honey flavored potato chips, so he went to the potato chip shelf to see if there were any.
He pushed the shopping cart over and saw the potato chips at first sight. He was about to take them when another hand suddenly reached out from the side and took the first bag. Jiang Zhixia paused in mid-air, then took a step slower before taking the next few bags, and subconsciously glanced to the side.
The first person to take the potato chips was a young girl, about 20 years old, probably a nearby college student. She was tall and dressed in a very neutral style, especially her beautiful wolf-tail mullet hair was very eye-catching. However, what caught Jiang Zhixia's attention was the girl's appearance, her facial features were inexplicably familiar, so he unconsciously took another look.
This glance made the girl who was about to leave with the potato chips notice him, so she instinctively looked over here.
At this glance, Jiang Zhixia felt more familiar with the face, and she had a vague guess in her mind. And the girl also made a surprising discovery because of this casual glance.
"You, you, you, you," the girl stared at the half of Jiang Zhixia's face above the mask, and spoke incoherently with excitement, "Jiang Jiang Jiang, you you, old old old old, man man man..."
Jiang Zhixia felt helpless and amused. Seeing the girl's shocked and excited expression, it was obvious that she had recognized him. But at the same time, he also recognized the girl. Although he had never seen Xia Zhi's sister, the girl's facial features were 60% similar to Xia Zhi's. In addition, Xia Zhi's sister was about the same age, and it was said that she was attending university nearby, so it must be her.
So Jiang Zhixia asked tentatively: "Yingying?"
Sheng Yingying's eyes suddenly widened, and her excessive excitement activated her language system: "You, you are really a male god?!"
Jiang Zhixia laughed and asked confidently, "You are Sheng Yingying, right?"
“Yes, yes, yes!” Sheng Yingying nodded excitedly, “I’m Sheng Yingying! I’m Xia Zhi’s sister! My male god, you actually know me?!”
"Yeah, I heard Xia Xia talk about you." When Jiang Zhixia saw Sheng Yingying, she thought of her husband, whose face made her shudder even through the phone. She couldn't help but want to laugh. Fortunately, the mask blocked his facial expression, revealing only a pair of slightly curved eyes, as if he was smiling gently.
Sheng Yingying felt as if she had been electrified, her heart pounding wildly—not only did the male god know her! He also smiled at her! He was so! So! Gentle!
Although Jiang Zhixia is usually cold towards people he meets for the first time, Sheng Yingying is Xia Zhi's sister, and his love for Xia Zhi has reached the point of loving her too, so he is relatively gentle and enthusiastic towards Sheng Yingying.
“Are you shopping alone?”
"Not really. My friend and I came here to watch a movie. I really like this brand of potato chips, so I wanted to buy a bag and bring it into the cinema to eat while walking." Sheng Yingying seemed to have regained her composure on the surface, but she was actually screaming with excitement in her heart.
The male god took the initiative to talk to her! Who knows! This is Jiang Zhixia! It's Jiang Zhixia, who is known as the expressionless and cold-faced man! He actually took the initiative to chat with her! Ah!
Although she knew that Jiang Zhixia must have spoken to her for her brother's sake, she was still very excited. Yesterday, she vowed to add five catties of coptis root to her brother's kidney-tonifying medicinal diet, but at this moment, her love for her brother reached its peak again, and she wanted to rush to her brother and hug and kiss him for five minutes.
Sheng Yingying is usually carefree and generous, but when she met her idol, she became a little shy and reserved like a little girl.
"My idol, why are you in Y City? Are you here to participate in the event?"
"No," Jiang Zhixia remembered that her lover wanted to give her sister a surprise and didn't tell her the truth, so she gave a rather ambiguous answer, "I came to meet a friend."
"Oh, I see." Sheng Yingying's brain was still dizzy at the moment. She was too happy to extricate herself from the happiness of seeing her idol and did not delve into who the friend Jiang Zhixia was talking about was.
"Where is your friend?" Jiang Zhixia asked.
"They went up first and agreed to meet at the cinema." Sheng Yingying stared at Jiang Zhixia's face, holding her phone and asking eagerly, "Um, male god, can you take a picture with me?"
People were coming and going around, and Jiang Zhixia hesitated for a long time but still did not agree.
"Can we do it next time? It's not very convenient here."
"Okay." Sheng Yingying felt aggrieved and a little disappointed.
"Next time" seems to be a perfunctory excuse. Why is Sister Xia Zhi's identity suddenly no longer useful
But after a while, Sheng Yingying was happy again. Because although she failed to get a photo, her boyfriend treated her to milk tea before they parted! He also paid for her potato chips! Although a bag of potato chips didn't cost much, it was Jiang Zhixia who bought it for her!
Sheng Yingying was holding a cup of milk tea in her hand and a bag of potato chips in her arms when she said goodbye to Jiang Zhixia at the supermarket entrance. She looked back every few steps and left the supermarket reluctantly at the speed of walking on an ant.
Jiang Zhixia waved at her with a slight smile on her face.
Sheng Yingying almost couldn't help but rush back, but she finally gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, and forced herself to turn away from the handsome face that made her unable to walk. After she was out of Jiang Zhixia's sight, she immediately took out her cell phone and called his brother.
Xia Zhi picked up the phone: "What's wrong?"
"elder brother!!!"
Sheng Yingying yelled so loudly that Xia Zhi's hands shook and he almost dropped the phone.
"What's wrong?" Xia Zhi said helplessly, "Did your parents make you nutritious meals again?"
"I met him!" Sheng Yingying lowered her voice, but was still very excited.
"Who did you meet?"
"My idol!" Sheng Yingying wanted to shout out Jiang Zhixia's name, but the people around her would definitely attract attention, so she could only hint to her brother, "Your former teammate, my destined husband!"
"You met Jiang Zhixia?" Xia Zhi was surprised. "Where did you meet?"
"In a supermarket near your home." Sheng Yingying briefly explained to her brother how they met, then looked down at the milk tea and potato chips in her arms and said happily, "My idol is so gentle and kind to his fans. He even treated me to milk tea~"
Xia Zhi laughed silently on the other end of the phone. Jiang Zhixia had hinted so obviously, but her silly sister didn't doubt it at all.
Sheng Yingying sent all the fangirling that she dared not send to Jiang Zhixia himself to his brother. She praised her idol from head to toe and then smacked her lips with emotion, "My idol is so stunning! He was so handsome on TV, but I didn't expect him to be twice as handsome in real life! Ah - I love him even more!"
Xia Zhi was jealous, "Your brother is also very handsome."
"Not as handsome as my boyfriend!" Sheng Yingying didn't hesitate for a second.
"… "
"By the way, my idol is coming to Y City, aren't you going to meet him?" Sheng Yingying urged, "Why don't you invite my idol to your home for a meal? My idol still owes me a photo with him."
Xia Zhi raised the corner of his mouth: "Don't worry, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future."
"Really?" Sheng Yingying was surprised, "Brother, I love you so much!"
Xia Zhi took the opportunity to ask: "If your idol and I fell into the water at the same time, who would you save?"
"Brother, what's your problem? You two are not comparable at all! You are my brother! My biological brother from the same father and mother! We have the same blood in our bodies, how could I watch you fall into danger and remain indifferent!" Sheng Yingying hugged the milk tea and potato chips in her arms tightly, her expression very serious, "So I will definitely choose to save my idol!"
(End of this chapter)