Chapter 10 Chapter 9 Rarely Confused

"Sister Nianci!" Luoyang couldn't help sweating when he heard her address, but Chen Jing had already greeted her cheerfully from his seat.After the three sat down, the waiter handed Luo Zhi a menu.She bowed her head and studied silently for a long time, and felt that her head was getting bigger, so she put it down and said to Chen Jing, "Sister-in-law, I am just like you." Chen Jing didn't speak, but laughed, and looked at Luoyang tenderly.The corner of Luo Yang's mouth twitched and said, "No way..." Chen Jing also put down the menu, blinked at Luo Zhi, then turned her head to look at Luo Yang again and said, "I'm just like you."

Luo Yang sighed, "You are forcing me. Okay, I want a set meal." "What, there's no cream soup in the set meal!" Chen Jing pressed down on Luoyang's menu upon hearing this. "If you don't have it, you don't have it." "No, you order again. I don't like this." "Then what do you want?" Chen Jing looked down at the menu for a while, raised her head, and continued to smile softly: "Whatever, it's just like you anyway." Luo Zhi couldn't hold back her laughter, and raised her eyes to see that the corner of the waiter's mouth also curled up.

Eating really can make people feel better.The fresh food warmed the stomach all the way, and the heart next to it also felt a little warmth.Luo Zhi's steak had to be well-done, with clear lines, a thick piece, and a bone in the middle, so it was very laborious to cut.She was a little embarrassed by the sound of the knife and fork hitting the dinner plate, so she put down the knife and fork and took a sip of the soup, but Chen Jing made a very metallic sound on the other side. "I can't, I can't, what a piece of crap." Chen Jing even complained softly. "Brother, you are really skilled in your movements."

Luo Zhi could clearly see the changes in Luoyang.He is no longer a big boy who gathered a group of buddies in the university and went straight to the barbecue restaurant. Now Luoyang is wearing a light gray shirt, bringing Chen Jing's steak in front of him and cutting it into small pieces with ease. The bones are removed and pushed aside, and then Putting it back in front of her, he picked up Luo Zhi's plate again. "No need, I'll do it myself." "Come on, stop making noise." "It's only been half a year, and you've changed so much." "Isn't it just that you can cut the steak better than you? Don't tell me that you think I've entered the ranks of the elite."

"Sister-in-law, don't you think? Hey, what I'm talking about is not cutting steak, but temperament, and you are much more mature. You used to be more stable than other boys, but that was at best an innate personality. It's different now, anyway. It's starting to look attractive." "Well, yes, I should have a sense of crisis." Chen Jing continued with a smile. "And I think my brother's temperament has become a little melancholy, as if he has something on his mind. He used to always be silly and happy. But I think a melancholy man is more attractive. Is it because he started working? Man Did they all grow up like this?"

Luo Zhi has been using nagging methods to avoid recalling the scene on the street just now. While eating with her head down, she didn't understand what she said before, but she didn't see her unintentional words that made Chen Jing's eyes lighten slightly. He raised his eyes, and lowered his eyes in an instant.The fork in Luoyang's left hand accidentally hit the water glass and made a "ding". The scene fell silent for a moment, Luo Zhi felt something was wrong after taking two bites, Luo Yang stared at the fork, while Chen Jing held the juice cup by her mouth. "What's wrong?"

Luo Zhi felt a little regretful, she was too relaxed in front of her relatives, she didn't know what she said, let alone whether she violated their taboo with that sentence. "Men don't grow up like this." After Luo Yang finished speaking seriously, he blinked at Luo Zhi and smiled.Luo Zhi stared at him stupidly.When did Luoyang learn to smile like this?This kind of smile is obviously the sign of Gobi and that Mr. Gu. "Aren't you stupid? What about the things I asked you to bring? Wouldn't it still be in the plastic bag?" Luo Zhi reacted for two seconds before stammering, "Now, now?"

Chen Jing looked over in a daze, and Luo Zhi immediately bent over and took out a paper bag from the schoolbag on the window sill and handed it to Luo Yang.Luo Yang lowered his head and took out a box from the paper bag, but instead of taking it up, he opened it by himself, fiddled with it under the table for a while, and then suddenly put it on the table. A little girl made of clay, wearing a sky-blue turtleneck sweater and a white knee-length skirt, with light brows and eyes, silver-framed glasses on her nose, and a warm smile. Chen Jing's ceramic doll.Seeing Chen Jing smiling like a white camellia, Luo Zhi couldn't help being happy for Luo Yang from the bottom of her heart.Everyone I know around me, including herself, always makes their day go crazy, but the elder brother and sister-in-law in front of me are calmly holding hands in the most tense third year of senior high school, and are admitted to the same university, by the side of West Lake. We have been working together for four years to see through the scenery, and we can still look at each other because of a little ceramic girl holding hands in today's flowing water. It is so sweet that time seems to have stopped.

Luo Zhi saw that pottery sculpture for the first time today.Luo Zhi came out of Houhai and received a call from Luoyang. He gave Luo Zhi a strange address, saying that he was too busy, so he asked her to pick up a completed handicraft, and gave it to him when we met today. Three days later For Chen Jing's birthday, he wanted to give it to her—Luo Zhi didn't expect that Luo Yang couldn't wait, and took it out so soon. Do you want to be a witness?She laughed heartily thinking about it. "Birthday gift?" Chen Jing smiled, looking at Luo Yang and Luo Zhi.However, Luo Yang lowered his head and pointed to the handbag hanging on the puppet's left arm.The small handbag is brown, not clay, but knitted wool.Chen Jing glanced at him suspiciously, stretched out her hand to touch, pinched her thumb and index finger lightly, felt the shape of the object inside the bag, the expression on her face instantly became extremely pleasantly surprised, she opened her mouth wide, and looked at him in disbelief. Luoyang, who was smiling unfathomably.

Luo Zhi frowned suspiciously, watching Chen Jing carefully squeeze out a shiny ring from the woolen handbag. Regardless of the sideways glances of many customers in the restaurant, the two women screamed together. "Let me tell you, men don't grow up like this. If a man wants to grow up, he must find something to add a burden to himself. The name is to learn to take responsibility. Hey, wife, would you like to be my burden? " Chen Jing pursed her lips and smiled, with tears in her eyes.Luo Zhi rested her chin on her hands and smiled happily, watching him carefully put the ring on her. The warm-colored wall lamp in the dining room cast a warm color on the two people opposite.

The first marriage proposal she experienced in her life. In any case, after all, you will still witness the love of others that warms your heart. "Sister Nianci, did you just agree?" Chen Jing glanced at Luoyang, and sighed deliberately with a sad face: "Oh, what can I do, let's make do with this life until I grow old!" Walking out of the restaurant, Luo Zhi looked back at the little orange signboard again, it was shining on this particularly deserted long street.In the fairy tale, the protagonist escaped from the clutches of the witch in the black forest and ran all the way, always seeing such a warm lamp at the end of the road. Luo Zhi was still thinking wildly, Luo Yang suddenly patted her on the head: "Why are you in a daze, let's go, I'll take you back to school." "Didn't you say that my colleagues still have an appointment to go to the bar at ten o'clock? I'll take Luo Zhi back. It just so happens that the two of us stop by for a chat. You're busy with your work. I've come over these two days, and I've delayed many of your parties, so don't do it today." I'm absent. I'll go back to the hotel by myself in the evening, and I'll find you after the meeting tomorrow." Chen Jing took Luo Zhi's arm and made a gesture of "please avoid" towards Luo Yang.Luo Yang frowned and said, "Hey, you won't speak ill of me behind my back, will you?" "They all marry chickens and dogs and dogs, why bother." Luo Zhi said with a smile, Chen Jing stretched out her hand to pinch her face, and she quickly dodged away. "Well then, be careful." Luo Yang's back made Luo Zhi fascinated for a few seconds.Her brother seemed really a little different, but she couldn't tell what it was—maybe it was really the little melancholy in the smile? Turning his face to the side, he saw Chen Jing also looking confused. Along the way, they chatted about everything from final exams to gossip about the Girls' Rights Association.In the subway carriage, the light tube casts pale light, illuminating Luo Zhi's exhaustion so that there is nowhere to hide. "Didn't sleep well?" Luo Zhi yawned: "I'm a little tired these days." "Your brother has been working overtime for a while. Last night, I made some fish head soup for him in his rented apartment. Ginseng slices and goji berries were added to it. It is very useful for people who often stay up late. You are also about to have a final exam recently. Right? It’s easy to be hungry when you stay up late, but don’t eat too much meat and fire. The more greasy the better, the worse for your health. Drink more yogurt, eat more fruits and vegetables, which is good for your eyes. If I knew it, I would put the soup on the warmer today I'll bring you some in the bottle..." Perhaps because she realized her rambunctiousness, Chen Jing stopped talking and smiled a little embarrassedly. Luo Zhi always felt that Chen Jing's smile was the best interpretation of the words "good wife and loving mother", and she felt at ease just looking at it.Chen Jing is dressed in the same clear water noodles for many years, elegant and decent attire, and always has a warm smile on her face—it seems that even though she doesn't have a deep relationship, even if she doesn't have a tortuous past and complicated thoughts, But no matter what you say to her, no matter how twisted or bizarre, she will understand and give you a smile that makes you no longer alone. Chen Jing is a treasure.Luo Zhi is proud that her elder brother is a man of discernment. "Sister Nianci, my brother is really lucky. He had to have good taste to catch up with you back then." Chen Jing was stunned for a moment: "No way, don't you know, I was the one who chased your brother back then." "what?" "During the third year of high school, I have been helping him with Chinese, and he helped me with physics, don't you know?" "I know, but..." "Did he never tell you that the two of us went home together at the end of the sports meeting in the next semester of the third year of high school, and I confessed to him." Chen Jing showed a row of neat teeth when she smiled, very kindly. "No...the first time I saw you was when he brought you to the library before the college entrance examination. I always thought it was my brother who chased you. How could it be...but it's not important..." Luo Zhi said Surprised, Chen Jing's calm appearance made her a little more admired. "Your brother is actually very thoughtful. The friends around him thought he was chasing me. He never mentioned to others how we got together, but in the eyes of others, it is not strange that we are together. Anyway, we always reviewed together before, and someone spread gossip about us. But I didn’t expect that he didn’t even tell you.” Luo Yang is indeed very considerate on this point, Luo Zhi thought, the impression he gave himself was that he took the initiative. "However, after all, my brother made a lot of money." "No way," Chen Jing smiled, "At that time, there were many girls who chased your brother, but no one ever chased me. It's the same in college." From the appearance point of view, Chen Jing is indeed very unremarkable. Although she is not ugly, she still feels "unsuitable" standing next to the handsome and tall Luoyang.However, Chen Jing was always calm and generous. Seeing her smiling softly behind Luo Yang's back, others would always feel that there was an indescribable harmony between the two of them. "So of course we have to act first," Chen Jing continued, "Fortunately, it succeeded." She blinked at Luo Zhi, showing a playful and complacent expression rarely. "It seems that everyone really doesn't know." Chen Jing leaned on the glass door connecting the two carriages and muttered to herself, thoughtfully. "No, someone knows." Chen Jing suddenly and slowly refuted herself. "Oh?" Chen Jing didn't speak, her eyes drifted out of the dark window, and after a while she looked at the electronic display on the door: "It's almost time to stop." "Yes." Luo Zhi looked at her quietly. The subway stopped slowly, and Chen Jing returned to normal, wrapped Luo Zhi's arm affectionately, and walked onto the platform. Chen Jing lived in the school-run hotel near P University with the classmates who came to Beijing for the meeting. After getting off the subway, the two walked towards the school together.Chen Jing obviously talked a lot less, chatting reluctantly, and finally arrived at the school gate, she was about to turn right, and Luo Zhi was about to enter. "Go to rest early, and see how pale your face is." Chen Jing pinched Luo Zhi's face.When she put her hand down, Luo Zhi happened to notice that simple and elegant ring. "I forgot to ask you just now, are you happy to receive the ring for life?" Chen Jing first smiled sweetly, then gradually restrained her smile, and asked softly after hesitating for a long time, "Luo Zhi, in fact, he didn't intend to give this gift to me today, did he?" Luo Zhi looked up at her, feeling a little strange.Women's intuition is really scary. "Actually... I also think it's a bit strange. My brother called before and said that your birthday is three days away. This is a gift. I just asked me to take it out and give it to him when we met today. I guess he might have a good time watching the atmosphere tonight. You suddenly changed your mind and wanted me to be there to witness it, so as to prevent you from going back on your word, hehe." Luo Zhi laughed dryly twice, and the corners of Chen Jing's mouth curled up. "After your elder brother took the gift out of the bag, although he tried his best to hide and fiddled under the table for a long time, I still saw him take out the small box from his bag, take out the ring and put it in the puppet's satchel Stuffed inside—silly girl, do you think Luoyang will do things in such a hurry? How dare you secretly stuff the ring in front of me? It’s obviously a temporary decision. He’s becoming more and more adaptable, haha.” Luo Zhi bowed her head and said nothing.She remembered her brother's winking and smiling expression when he asked her to take out the gift, and she had to admit that all of this was really weird. But she still smiled and comforted Chen Jing: "But—but, you think, if it was a sudden intention, how could he carry the ring with him so coincidentally, right?" Chen Jing reached out and patted Luo Zhi's fleece cap, and said, "Silly girl, your brother went to swipe his card. When you went to the bathroom, I looked through his bag and saw the ring's invoice and pick-up slip. It was really a coincidence that he I went to the I DO next to the company to pick up the ring today." Chen Jing's voice was still soft. With such investigative actions, she spoke calmly as if they were talking about the temperature during New Year's Day in Beijing.Luo Zhi was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say at all. "Sister-in-law," she stopped calling her Sister Nianci, "what's the matter, you two?" Chen Jing didn't know how many times she stretched out her hand to pinch her face: "There's nothing wrong with us, silly girl." Luo Zhi's heart overflowed with a trace of coolness. "Since you doubt it, why do you still pretend that you don't know what's in the handbag, and pretend to be happy when you pinched the shape of the ring, why... promise my brother?" She looked puzzled, the only perfect couple in her world, unexpectedly There are also unsettling undercurrents lurking under the warm orange light. Chen Jing laughed softly as if hearing some childish joke. "Why not? He is willing to marry me, and I am willing to marry him. Why not?" Yes, why bother with such details?But if you really don't care, how can you express your doubts to yourself in the cold wind?Luo Zhi felt that she couldn't understand everyone around her more and more, and couldn't understand love more and more. Maybe she never understood it.All her transparency before was nothing but self-righteousness. "Silly girl, you're an adult too. It's rare to be confused." Chen Jing's back slowly disappeared at the end of the small street.Luo Zhi has always known that Chen Jing's gentleness is not without sharpness, and she has never ignored her wit and intelligence.However, this seemed to be the first time she saw Chen Jing smiling softly, and said softly to herself: "I went through your brother's bag and saw the pick-up slip." Someone once joked that Chen Jing and Luo Yang were a model couple who never quarreled or got awkward.Chen Jing smiled and said that because the two people's personalities are like mud, there are no edges and corners, so they are easy to talk to.Luo Zhi only found out today that it's not that they have no edges and corners, it's just that those edges and corners are covered by thin mud.