Chapter 221: Mint
This afternoon's business was a private matter, and Ling Li was finally able to be sure that Xie Keer's show of having a good impression of her was not a joke he made on a whim, nor was it her delusion.
He really wanted to chase her, and his attitude was sincere and seemed to be very sober at the moment, and he didn't push her too hard.
But if you want to ask yourself if you have any feelings for Xie Keer in your heart, Ling Li knows it very well.
The house in her heart is very small, and now there is a person living in it, even if she knows that that period is destined to be fruitless, how can she let go of everything and immediately like another person?
She needed time to forget, but Sheker came and knocked strongly.
That's why she panicked, subconsciously avoided, kept making jokes, and became more and more passive in front of Xie Keer.
To see your true heart clearly, and not to be induced by Xie Keer to lead the nose, it is really difficult to be emotional!
After a sigh, she looked up and found that the up button on the panel in front of her had gone out, and the elevator had come and gone at some point, and she had missed the elevator again.
Absent-mindedness led to missing the elevator, and today is the second time it has happened.
Ling Li shook her head and smiled bitterly, and pressed down the arrow that went upstairs again.
In less than a minute, the elevator that climbed to the top floor came down again, and after a crisp "ding", the door opened.
Entering the elevator, Ling Li stood firm and turned around, and from the slowly closing elevator door, he faintly saw a figure from far and near, shouting "Wait a minute", and finally got in at the moment when the metal door was about to close.
Ling Li was a little stunned, looking at the face in front of her in a daze.
The eyes are clear, the bridge of the nose is straight, the thin lips are tightly pursed, and the skin is a little unhealthy white.
There is nothing strange about the hair, just because the hair in front of the forehead of the runner just now is a little messy, and the dark clothes and trousers are not dirty, and what is particularly eye-catching is that the stubble on the chin is densely connected, which is about to spread to the sideburns and become a beard.
How is it Nanzhiyi again?
Ling Li blinked, still thinking about how to greet him, Nan Zhiyi had already frowned and began to accuse her.
"Are you blind? Watching someone run over and not hold down the elevator? If I hadn't been caught by the elevator door one step too late, what about your conscience? ”
There were only the two of them in the elevator, and Nan Zhiyi didn't save face for Ling Li at all, and counted her like a cannon in his mouth.
"Oh." Ling Li lowered her head and agreed. She was stunned by Nan Zhiyi's sudden appearance just now, she really didn't expect it to be such a coincidence, and she really didn't hold down the button in shock, she was right.
After thinking about it, she hurriedly took another step to the right to make room for him.
Seeing that her attitude was quite honest, Nan Zhiyi finally didn't say anything more, and threw a "count you know" look, and then turned around and stood side by side with her.
Ling Li lowered her head and listened to the sound of the elevator as it went up, and as the floors got higher and higher, she seemed to feel that Nan Zhiyi's eyes were on her.
Then she peeked at the shiny and reflective elevator car, and she found that it seemed that Nanzhiyi was really looking at her.
What is he looking at? Ling Li couldn't help but want to ask, but she was a little timid, and she was a little nervous for a while, and her body was quietly hot.
She bit her lip, and predetermined in her heart that she would say something to him when she made eye contact, but it was easy to muster up the courage to look up, only to find that she had been amorous just now.
Nan Zhiyi was looking at her side, but what he was staring at was the pot of mint in her hand.
He tilted his head slightly, his brow furrowed, and his eyes were full of doubt.
Ling Li looked at Mint and then at him, and couldn't help but raise the flower pot and asked, "Huh?" ”
Could it be that Nanzhiyi doesn't know mint yet?
Nan Zhiyi glanced at her and asked, "You want to have a cat?" ”
A question mark flashed in Ling Li's eyes, and he didn't understand what he was asking at all.
Seeing her bewildered, Nan Zhiyi had an expression of "sure enough", pointed to the flower pot and asked her, "What do you say you bought this for?" ”
After a few seconds, she replied with a wink, "Mint, buy it and drink it." ”
"Mint?" He chuckled, and the fierce look on his face when he lost his temper just now instantly dissipated: "This is not mint for people to eat."
"Huh? Isn't this mint? Ling Li was stunned, and involuntarily blinked innocently: "That's me being deceived?" ”
Nan Zhiyi stretched out a finger and shook it: "No, this is indeed mint." ”
Ling Li was confused, what is not mint and indeed mint, how can Nan Zhiyi speak inconsistently?
He bent over again and looked closely at the fat leaves in the pot.
The sudden shortening of the distance made Ling Li's heartbeat suddenly quicken, and it was easy to suppress the idea of taking a step back.
After a few seconds, Nan Zhiyi straightened up and shook his head with a funny face: "This is catnip, the genus Nepeta of the Lamiaceae family, commonly known as cat grass, which has the same stimulant-like effect as cats, and the mint of the Lamiaceae mint genus you imagined is not a genus." ”
After speaking, he patted the top of her head very easily: "It's so stupid to go to heaven, I can even buy a pot of grass wrong, don't say that you have followed me, I can't afford to lose this person." ”
His warm palm rested on top of her head for less than a second, but Ling Li could clearly feel the body temperature coming from him.
This is the first time that Nan Zhiyi has taken the initiative to approach her when he comes back this time.
used to protest that he used to pat himself like a dog, but after it was gone, she missed it very much.
I felt that the blood was rushing up to the top of my head, and my face was instantly red, and even began to spread to my ears.
Ling Li complained about her incompetence, but on the other hand, she couldn't control the embarrassing reaction caused by this body sympathetic nervous system.
suddenly remembered the time spent together day and night for more than two months before.
At that time, he didn't think there was anything special, and sometimes he even hated him so much that his teeth itched, but as the two drifted apart, Ling Li realized what it meant to be just confused at that time.
Nan Zhiyi noticed Ling Li's embarrassment, the smile on the corner of her mouth suddenly froze, and the hand hanging above her head quietly clenched into a fist, and then quietly put it down, and did not tease her again.
Nan Zhiyi was quiet, Ling Li breathed a sigh of relief, and the two didn't talk anymore until the elevator stopped on the eighteenth floor.
Ling Li stepped out of the elevator one step ahead of him, turned sideways slightly and said, "I'll go back first, Teacher Nan." ”
"Hmm," he replied softly, and after getting out of the elevator, he was originally in the opposite direction to Ling Li, but he took two steps, and suddenly turned around and stretched out his long arm and took the basin in her hand.
"Huh?" Ling Li looked at his empty hands, not quite understanding why he snatched a pot of grass.
Nan Zhiyi then explained: "It's useless for you to take this, catnip can't be soaked in water to drink, whether it's flowers or leaves, it has no ornamental value, it's no different from potted weeds, I'll take it." ”
"Oh." He said a long list of words, and Ling Li only replied with one word, even if she agreed to this matter, without the slightest awareness that it was her personal property that was sacrosanct.
Nan Zhiyi didn't look at her either, his big hand gently held up the small pot, and slowly turned it to carefully observe the state of the plants: "And this child is not in a good state, he is dying." I raised it for a few days, and when I was saved, I took it to Dr. Min, who raised a cat downstairs. ”
"Hmm." Ling Li nodded, still without any objections.
Seeing her look like she was obedient, Nan Zhiyi was angry, frowned and endured it, and finally complained: "Do you have aphasia today?" It's not oh yes, it's not oh yes, it used to be at least a hum, but now it's really getting more and more degraded. ”
Ling Li opened her mouth, and another oh word surged to the tip of her tongue, but she finally swallowed it back, nodded slightly, and turned to the door at the end of the corridor.
Nan Zhiyi looked at her as if she couldn't fight back and scolded her without replying, her eyes darkened, and she sighed slightly and turned towards the door of 1801.
For a while, the corridor on the eighteenth floor was quiet again.
Although Ling Li didn't want to speak, she couldn't help but sharpen her ears and pay attention to the movement behind her. She heard his footsteps, heard him pull out the keys, and heard the lock on the opposite side click open.
Ling Li stood in front of the door, and finally couldn't help it, taking advantage of his back to her at this time, he secretly looked back at his back.
But I never thought that I would see an unexpected picture.
He was holding mint in one hand and pushing open the door with the other, his movements were no different from what she imagined, but Ling Li noticed that there seemed to be an extra person in the picture.
From the angle of Ling Li's sideways turning back, he happened to see the two arms wrapped around Nan Zhiyi's neck, and the face with tears that was blocked by his shoulders.
After that, a slightly crying voice sounded: "Brother Xiao Yi, I've been waiting for you for a long time, I'm ......"
Ling Li's eyes widened, and it seemed that something unexpected had happened.
"Tap, don't you see the cat grass in my hand?" Grabbed by the neck, Nan Zhiyi yelled impatiently.
However, his voice, though impatient, did not push away the man who was almost hanging from his neck.
After that, the heavy door slowly closed, and after a few seconds, all that was left for Ling Li was a closed door and the sound of conversation that gradually lowered inside.
Ling Li stood in place, only to feel that the picture that flashed just now was so familiar.
In the autumn of last year, when Nan Zhiyi coerced her to help him walk his dog for a month on the pretext of wearing an expensive suit that was stained by her drunkenness, she came to this building for the first time, didn't she see a similar picture just now?
The woman hugged the man's neck and coquettishly, such intimate movements and tones, what happened between them, seemed to be self-evident.
It's just that the scene happened in 1802, and this time it happened in 1801; Last time, the fair and soft arms belonged to the lady Tianluo, and this time, the wheat-colored skin with a healthy glow undoubtedly belonged to Wei Wei.
Wei Wei can wantonly throw himself into his arms without being rejected, can cry with red eyes and no longer worry about being ridiculed by him, and can no longer be pushed away from him at such a close distance.
It seems that she has gotten what she wants.
Ling Li didn't want to be paralyzed anymore, there must have been some misunderstanding about the scene just now, she watched Wei Wei approach Nan Zhiyi step by step, and she also knew very well why Wei Wei came.
To say that in the face of today's results, she has actually been mentally prepared for a long time.
No matter how many excuses he had made for retreat before, and no matter what kind of reasons he had prepared to comfort himself, the moment he saw that scene, Ling Li suddenly regretted it.
But it's too late.
obviously wanted to but didn't dare to reach out to take it, and went to Lu Xiaoxiao again and again to confide in his heart, always wanting to get the courage to go against the current or retreat from others.
In the end, it was indecisive again and again, and I couldn't afford to let it go. The only thing I can rejoice about now is that I haven't fallen deep.
But why is my vision starting to blur?
Ling Li's nose was so sour, and there was some sourness gushing out from the bottom of her heart, she couldn't help it, and rushed straight to her head.
Ling Li sniffed, and finally left in a hurry, but she didn't forget to be light when she turned around to cover the door, trying not to make a sound.
Closing the door, she leaned against the cold security door, feeling the chill spreading from her back to her body.
Now, it's time to give up completely, right? Regardless of the good result or the bad result, she has no reason to spend any more time and energy on Nan Zhiyi.
Ling Li admonished herself again. There are still many things waiting for her, and it's just an amorous unrequited love at one time, it's not a big deal.