"Auntie, the luggage has been put away. Where are you going now?" Standing in front of the Shen family, Zhao Chengning's eyes seemed to pass by Shen Jingbin unintentionally, and then asked.
Mother Shen crossed her arms and glanced coolly at the brother and sister who were standing aside to minimize their presence, and said, "Go to their apartment."
The brother and sister were immediately shocked. Shen Jingchen hurriedly asked: "Mom, why are you going to our place?! Do we want to live together!?"
"You brat, what's your reaction? Is it wronging you to live with you?" Before Shen's mother could get angry, the old man of the Shen family scolded him angrily.
Shen Jingchen's neck shrank, "No, that grandpa, as you know, it's just that the two of us made the apartment a bit messy. If you go now, maybe, probably, maybe... you won't be able to live in it."
"Haha, we don't know what kind of virtue you two are! Don't worry, we live across from you." Father Shen knew what was going on when he saw his son's guilty look, and said with disgust.
Shen Jingping and his apartment can accommodate two families on one floor. They go out early and come back late every day, but they really don't notice if there is anyone across the street.
"Dad, don't you think you're a little too cool?" After Shen Jingping was silent for a few seconds, she asked her father.
Father Shen waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "Your grandfather said that sooner or later you will marry someone from City B anyway. I won't even buy two houses here..."
Before she finished speaking, Mother Shen looked over and shut up immediately.
"What did you say!"
"Um...did I miss something?"
Everyone has a collective black eye, you said too many things have been leaked!
Father Shen silently shut up and hid behind his wife. Shen Jingbin suddenly felt a little embarrassed and didn't know where to look.
Fortunately, Zhao Chengning looked as if he hadn't heard anything, and asked gently and politely: "Shall we go over now?"
Grandma Shen let go of her husband's hand and replied with a smile: "I'm sorry to trouble you, Cheng Ning."
"No trouble, the car is over here." Zhao Chengning stepped aside, and the elders of the Shen family followed Zhao Chengan to the parking place.
He took a step back and walked beside Shen Jingbin and his sister. Shen Jingchen glanced at the two of them and slipped away very knowingly.
"Ah, my parents must not know many of them when they first came to City B. I'll go educate them about it, and you two can chat slowly!"
Staring at the back of this guy who ran away in the blink of an eye, Shen Jingping wanted to beat him!
No excuses are given to you. How low is your IQ? !
"Have you been busy recently?" There was a moment of silence after Shen Jingchen ran away, and then Zhao Chengning asked.
He was much taller than Shen Jingping, and when he walked beside her, he could smell the faint fragrance of flowers in her hair. The fragrance was like a kitten's paws, tickling his heart, tickling him.
"Huh? I was a little busy before, but I'm getting better recently. How about you?"
"I'm not as lucky as you. I was very busy before and it's not easy recently."
"Then you're here to pick up the plane, won't you be delayed?" Shen Jingping frowned slightly and looked at him. Only then did she realize that there was a faint cyan color under his eyes. However, this did not detract from his handsomeness at all, but added a decadent beauty, "You haven't had a good rest recently?"
Feeling her gaze, he reached out to touch his eyes and smiled at her, "A bit, too much work and no time to rest."
Looking at the group of people walking in front of them, she asked, "Are you driving or is your brother driving?"
"We both drove because we were afraid there wouldn't be enough space."
Shen Jingbin said seriously: "You are driving while fatigued!" Seeing that he yawned appropriately, she said again: "Look."
Glancing at her helplessly, Zhao Chengning said, "But the cars are coming, so we can't just leave them here, right?"
Ningmei thought for a while, Shen Jingping said: "Let's do it this way. I'll drive your car later, and you can rest in the car for a while."
Of course, Zhao Chengning didn't want it, and he agreed simply: "Okay, I'll thank you for the hard work." After that, he winked at her.
Shen Jing paused for a moment before returning to normal.
After walking out of the airport, Shen's mother was preparing to arrange where to sit when she heard her daughter running up from behind and said, "Mom, you and dad take Brother Zhao's car. Grandpa and grandma should come with Shen Jingchen."
Shen Jingchen asked: "What about you?"
"I drive Zhao Chengning's car."
"Why? It's not like I can't sit down. What are you doing..."
"My back hurts after sitting on the plane for a long time. Where is your car, Xiaochen? Take grandma there quickly." Grandma Shen was very dissatisfied with her grandson's inquisitive manner and interrupted him before he could finish his words. She took him by the arm and left.
The remaining elders all looked at Shen Jingbin meaningfully, then without saying anything, they got into the car as she said.
"Miss Shen." Seeing everyone get in the car, Shen Jingbin turned around and planned to drive Zhao Chengning's car. As soon as she turned around, she was stopped by Zhao Chengan.
"Huh?" She turned back to look at Zhao Chengning and expressed her doubts with a nasal voice.
"I hope you don't mind what I said last time in City A, Miss Shen. I'm just looking after my brother's happiness from the perspective of a brother."
Zhao Chengan looked directly into her eyes when he said this, and Shen Jingping could tell that he was talking to her seriously and sincerely.
"I don't remember what you said at the airport last time."
Zhao Chengan smiled, and his originally serious and threatening facial features suddenly softened, "Then I'm relieved. Chengning has been a little uneasy recently, probably because of love. If Miss Shen is okay, you can try to help enlighten me. , after all, it’s not easy for me to be his emotional counselor.”
"Uh." Shen Jingping was stunned, "Okay."
"Then I'll leave first."
Zhao Chengan waved to her, then opened the car door and sat in. The black windows blocked her view.
Shen Jingping stood there, still thinking about what he just said in her mind.
Lovesick
After laughing uncontrollably, Shen Jingbing turned around and walked towards Zhao Chengning's car.
At her request, Zhao Chengning went to the car to rest first. When she sat in the driver's seat, he seemed to have fallen asleep next to her, with his chest rising and falling slightly and breathing softly.
It seemed that he was really sleepy, and he fell asleep after just a while.
He shook his head helplessly, then turned the key, the car started slowly, slid out of the parking space, and left.
Mother Zhao didn't come for dinner, saying she had an appointment in advance and couldn't get away, but I have to say that this dinner without Mother Zhao was very harmonious. During the dinner, Mr. Zhao warmly invited Shen Jingbin and his family to go to their home during the Chinese New Year. Mr. Shen had no choice but to accept the invitation.
After dinner, the grandparents wanted to reminisce about old times, the parents wanted to talk about business and cooperation, and Shen Jingping and the others were left to play by themselves. Although Zhao Chengan had a good relationship with Zhao Chengning, their friend circles were completely different and they couldn't hang out together, so they said hello and left first.
Zhao Chengning thought that the night view of University Town in City B was actually very good, so he suggested going to the University Town for a walk to eat. Neither the Shen brother nor the sister had any objections, so the three of them drove to the university town.
Coincidentally, Shen Jingchen met an old professor from the Computer Science Department of University B as soon as he got off the bus. The professor admired Shen Jingchen very much and thought he was very talented. He had been persuading him to switch majors and study under him.
So Shen Jingchen, the light bulb, was successfully taken away by the professor. Shen and Zhao were left standing there looking at each other, and after a few seconds they laughed out loud at the same time.
After laughing, Zhao Chengning said: "Let's go."
"Um."
The University Town is very lively at night. Even though the weather is very cold, it can't stop the foodies from coming out to look for food and the vendors from setting up stalls. Under the dim street lights, the stalls set up by simple tricycles are steaming with steam, and you can still smell the aroma of the food when you take a deep breath.
Zhao Chengning led Shen Jingbin as they walked and said, "I used to go to high school right next to the university town. In my senior year of high school, the school forced me to live on campus so that I could study in the evening. Every night after studying in the evening, I could smell the smell and buy things here. The fragrance is like torture.”
Shen Jingping said "hmm", "You also have evening self-study in your senior year?"
"Well, what else do you think?"
"I thought you were the type of scholar who skipped a level and then became very cool and had all kinds of privileges."
Zhao Chengning smiled, "No, my focus was not on studies when I was in high school. I was already starting to work on the company. Although there was no delay in studying, it was still not easy to skip a grade. And our school is like that. It's a very old-fashioned school, and no privileges or the like are allowed at all. When I was first allowed to live on campus, my mother also tried to use sponsorship to keep me from living on campus. Who knows, but the principal justly refused, because of this I My mother had a very bad impression of my high school experience."
Shen Jingbin observed how Zhao's mother looked when she was rejected, and she could probably understand how tragic the scene was.
"Sometimes after evening self-study, the boys in our dormitory will go to the wall together. Some of them are responsible for letting out the wind, and the others are responsible for climbing over the wall to buy food. After buying it, they have to hide it and take it back to the dormitory, for fear of being caught. The dormitory aunt downstairs found out and was taken to the Dean of Students, and then the next day she had to be criticized in front of the whole school. At that time, I felt that the snacks bought here were completely delicacies in the world."
"Then have you ever done a self-criticism in front of the whole school?" she asked curiously.
Zhao Chengning shook his head, "No, because every time I buy something, I pay for it. After being caught, my roommate will not turn me out, and I promised them that as long as they don't turn me out, their review will be fine." I can help them write the book.”
"It's hard to imagine that you would do such a thing." Shen Jingbing looked at him and sighed.
She went to high school in a school sponsored by the Shen family, and the fact that she had full privileges was actually about herself. When I go to school, the whole class has to do gymnastics, but she is the only one who doesn't do it during self-study. She didn't even have to go to make up classes in her final year of high school. Fortunately, her grades had always been excellent, so the school had nothing to say. The kind of high school life Zhao Chengning mentioned was something she had never experienced before.
Zhao Chengning breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's hard to imagine, right? In fact, when I think about it now, I find it incredible."
Suddenly he saw a stall selling octopus balls in front of him. He pointed at it and said to her, "That octopus dumpling shop used to be our favorite."
As he spoke, he said to her "Wait a minute" and ran over to buy a copy and handed it to her. She was already very full during dinner, but looking at her with shining eyes, she suddenly felt that she was not that full, so she reached out and poked one and put it in her mouth.
The taste was unexpectedly good. She looked at him with a smile and said, "It's delicious."
Zhao Chengning watched her smiling at him, her whole face a little blurry behind the heat of the freshly baked pellets, but even more bright and moving.
With a thought in his heart, he couldn't control himself and leaned towards her.
A gentle kiss fell on the corner of her lips.
With a "bang" sound, my heart seemed to be blooming.
(End of chapter)