22. Chapter XXII

Yuan Lu wrapped herself tightly in the quilt, and the whole person couldn't help but tremble.

She was afraid, as if some corner of the world was collapsing, and she stood in the middle of the world alone, and could only watch the collapse spread to herself.

If it was not only her family, she didn't dare to think about it.

Reason is saying: It must be that his thinking can't keep up with Qiao Zhengqi's train of thought, and he thinks about his words wrongly.

Emotions are saying: haven't you always felt that his back is out of reach? He's approaching you, why are you dodging?

The two villains, reason and emotion, kept fighting in their heads, and in the end, Yuan Lu felt that he might have thought too much, after all, his reaction was so indifferent when he came down from the upstairs just now, and he coaxed her downstairs in a cold tone.

So what is she directing and acting under the quilt now?

Hara Lu lifted the quilt in a huff, and her shrimp-like cheeks were hot all the way to the root of her ears.

Hara Lu blew, exhaled the strands of hair hanging on his face, and reached for his phone from the bedside table and held it in his hand.

I didn't turn on the phone all day, and as soon as I unlocked the screen, dozens of WeChat messages bombarded in.

Wu Jin: Well? I don't turn on the computer all day, I know that you won't come out on annual leave today?

Yao Fei: Have you gotten off work, our family is drying bacon, are you hungry, I'll send you a photo when it's ready.

Lin Mu sent a voice: Wu Jin and I are in the Xiangshe, tomorrow after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at home to make an appointment for billiards, are you coming?

Mother: Lulu, the postal service lost the package again, I sent you crocodile oil and a few kinds of powder cream for half a month can not find the details of the waybill, have you received it?

Yuan Lu read all the messages and made sure that there was nothing urgent, so he directly pulled down the chat page to open the dialog box with Qiao Zhengqi.

The latest news was a week ago when she asked him if he would like to go to his aunt's house on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, and he did not return.

Yuan Lu bit his lip and picked a favorite nervous doge face in the expression of the collection and sent it over.

After waiting for a long time, the other party did not respond.

She sent another Deng Chao's funny "weare logging tired" expression and sent it over.

Haha, this time Qiao Zhengqi's side finally showed that the other party was typing.

[Do you want to look at Shu? One expression is not enough, and another one has to be posted, vulgar. 】

Haha, she can imagine the look of disgust on the face of the serious Qiao Zhengqi when he opened WeChat and saw these two expressions, even if it is unbearable, Yuan Lu still feels that tonight's embarrassment has been resolved by herself, at least when the two of them meet again tomorrow, they will not find each other's eyes.

She is a person who does not like to delay overnight when she has problems, and this character can probably be traced back to the time when she learned to build a stove with her grandmother in the country.

Originally, the family used an earthen stove, and then the gas stove was popular, and when the second uncle returned to the countryside for the New Year, he also bought a gas stove for his grandmother, and asked the plasterer to pound the original earthen stove.

The second uncle's family went back to the city after the New Year, a barrel of gas ran out, and when the grandmother asked the people in the commissary to send gas, she shook her head at Xiao Yuan Lu when she asked the price of gas: "How can this be afforded, how good is the original earthen stove, there is no cost for burning firewood, and when the firewood is gone, go up the mountain to cut it, and the gas is still suitable for the people in the city, let's use the earthen stove comfortably!" ”

Grandma took the original heron to build the stove overnight, because the grandmother said that if the stove was not built at night, there would be no food tomorrow, and she would be hungry, so the five-year-old original heron would not dare to be lazy and delay for a moment to help her grandmother move bricks.

Yuan Lu still remembers the scene at that time, and always feels that his character of not leaving the problem overnight was bluffed out at that time.

Yuan Lu smiled and recalled the interesting events of his childhood, and his mood was much brighter, and he replied: The starry sky is very beautiful, and the secret attic has finally seen the true face of Lushan, next time you lend me a bow and arrow to play?

Qiao Zhengqi just came down from upstairs, went downstairs all the way, and sent her a message all the way: Do you still eat the fruit? Real yΓ n on the stage.

Yuan Lu recalled that she seemed to be putting the fruit platter in her hand, but at the moment she hadn't completely polished her courage, and only dared to interrupt Qiao Zhengqi through the phone screen.

[Bring it up and give it to you to eat.] Tomorrow I will go to the Lujiaqiao vegetable market to buy a few catties of fresh crabs, grandma loves to eat crabs, originally my aunt's family has crabs sent by others, but it is refrigerated, I am afraid that there is no live entrance fresh I don't want. 】

[How early?] 】

[About four o'clock?] Anyway, the overseas Chinese goods at the entrance of the vegetable market are not afraid of early, and the earlier the seafood, the fresher it is. 】

【I'll send you】

Yuan Lu paused and didn't reply immediately, but after thinking about it, didn't she spend this effort to hook up with Qiao Zhengqi just to resolve the embarrassment, he wanted to send her, what was she afraid of, it was a big deal that she would be a foot-picking man after twenty years.

Yuan Lu used his expression of looking at death as if he was at home, and wrote the following content: Okay, don't think the vegetable market is dirty when the time comes.

【......】Qiao Zhengqi sent a string of ellipses.

He passed by the second floor, glanced at the door of Yuan Lu's room, looked down at the apple she had nibbled on the plate in his hand, and slowly grinned a very shallow smile on his lips.

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Exiting the dialogue window with Qiao Zhengqi, Yuan Lu exhaled, and the tense nerves of the whole person relaxed, and began to reply to the messages he received when he turned on the phone just now.

For my mother: The postal service is getting more and more disagreeable, some time ago the official Weibo was just complained about a large number of packages that have been detained by the customs, and some netizens are still saying that a deduction is more than a month and things are expired, it is estimated that the parcels you sent by Mom have also been pitted by the post, and I will call tomorrow to ask.

For Yao Fei: The color of this meat sauce stain is enough to see that it hooks out my gluttony, I took the bacon you brought me from home last year, and when I cooked the rice, I mixed it in raw rice and cooked it together, and when I turned on the rice cooker, the fragrance hooked my dog's dog essence enough.

For Wu Jin: ...... (a string of short ellipses that can't be shorter)

For Lin Mu, she pondered for a while before replying: I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow, I'll go to the hospital to accompany my grandmother for the New Year, the road to and from must be blocked, you and Wu Jin have fun, let's make an appointment again.

As soon as I finished sending it to Lin Mu, I received a message from Wu Jin: Haha, you give me back first, Lin Mu is not convinced.

Yuan Lu rolled his eyes, snorted with itchy teeth, and continued to reply to him with a string of speechless ellipses: ......

I've never seen Wu Jin so fond of putting gold on his face to make himself amorous, I didn't see the ellipsis she gave him and the one she gave Lin Mu back, what a big difference! Please, a little self-aware, okay?

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In fact, when they met again, Yuan Lu was still a little unnatural, and his eyes were slightly dodgy and he didn't dare to look directly at Qiao Zhengqi.

The alarm clock rang at four o'clock in the morning, she squinted for less than three hours, chatted on WeChat last night, hurriedly washed up and quickly fell asleep, tossed and over, and delayed the meeting, feeling that the alarm clock rang within a few minutes of deep sleep.

With two black panda eyes, Yuan Lu put a layer of concealer on his eyes, and dug out a small nail of blush cream on the back of his hand, and dipped it on both sides of his cheeks.

When she gets older, she can't stay up late like fifteen or sixteen years old, it's not that she's afraid of getting old, it's that she hates to see herself listless in the mirror, and even the mood of the whole day will go down a lot.

After sipping some rose-red lip gloss, Yuan Lu packed up and prepared to contact Qiao Zhengqi.

Qiao Zhengqi came to a WeChat message one step ahead of her: I'm downstairs, are you up?

Hara: [Alright, go down immediately]

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The two of them drove to the entrance of the vegetable market in Lujiaqiao, the sky was gray, and there was a cold fog outside the car.

In C City, the most comfortable time of the day to drive is probably from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., and there are still a lot of night games before 3 o'clock, and the whole city will slowly wake up after 5 o'clock.

It took about forty minutes on the road, and the average speed was more than 70 yards.

Hara Lu sat in the passenger seat, occasionally secretly observing Qiao Zhengqi from the reflection of the car window.

There was very little expression on his face, at most he occasionally glanced at her indifferently, and most of the time he was concentrating on driving. Yuan Lu looked bored, so he put down the seat and simply made up for it.

Qiao Zhengqi parked the car, and Yuan Lu felt that the car was not leaving, so he asked in a lazy voice, "Arrived?" ”

The moment everyone just wakes up, the vigilance will be lowered to a very low level.

Qiao Zhengqi listened to her almost coquettish tone, and raised his eyebrows quietly.

Yuan Lu realized that the milk cat-like cry just now came from her, and quickly regained her senses, and coughed dryly to break the silence in the car: "Get out of the car!" ”

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The morning market of the vegetable market is also very lively, and experienced housewives go to the vegetable market very early for the sake of a delicious meal for the whole family. The seafood stalls in the morning market are often crowded, and they are the hottest area.

The young face of the original heron is sandwiched between the faces of the housewives that have been eroded by the years, and it looks slightly green and immature.

Yuan Lu pulled Qiao Zhengqi and took him through the meat stall quickly, while saying, "The smell of pigs in this area is strong, you can't bear it, let's leave quickly." ”

Qiao Zhengqi was indeed a little difficult to accept the rancid smell of the vegetable market mixed with the smell of salted fish, but it was not as unbearable as Yuan Lu's reaction.

Qiao Zhengqi suddenly realized that she might have some kind of deep misunderstanding about him, and seemed to be always afraid of him, afraid that those things she could endure would anger him lightly. In her subconscious, he may be just a Youlan who has been shelved, and even if she enters the Bao room, she will be frightened and afraid of Youlan's dislike and dislike for the Bao room.

In fact, he is not Youlan, and he is not afraid to endure the dirty and filthy things of the world like her.

Qiao Zhengqi took her hand, shook it back tightly, slowed her hurried steps, and said, "It's okay, we can walk a little slower." ”

Walk slower to walk side by side.

Yuan Lu didn't know why she was walking, and her hand was inexplicably held by him. She tentatively withdrew her hand, but he ignored it and wrapped his big palm around her little hand tighter.

Her palms were sweating, and the temperature on her face was getting higher and higher.

"The seafood stall is here, I'm going to pick crabs." She struggled out of her hand a little frustratedly, and squeezed into the line of aunts alone to pick crabs.

"Ouch, little girl, that's amazing! Immediately pushed me to the side. ”

Yuan Lu heard the fierce voice of an aunt around her, her face turned completely red, and she buried her head lower to pick up crabs.