The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 7 Undercurrent
Nie Ranqing looked at him lying on the pillow, half of his face was squeezed flat: "Don't you have something to do later, why don't you get up?"

"The meeting doesn't start until ten o'clock, so sleep in for a while."

"That was Zhou Kerong just now?" Seeing him nodding, he added, "I really want to know where you dug up such a treasure. It's like a tireless human brain computer. Calling early in the morning is more punctual than an alarm clock. As efficient as an engine and as emotionless as a puppet.”

Xi Jinnan smiled: "Well, she is still an unmarriageist."

"Then you are even more lucky. Everything takes you as the vane and follows you around. How much salary do you give her for such a rare treasure? Be careful not to be poached by others."

"Are you so injustice for Zhou Kerong? It's her choice not to get married, and she will naturally have a salary guarantee for her dedication. However, as a secretary, she has done a really good job, which is really rare."

Nie Ranqing snorted: "That's official enough, cold-blooded enough."

Xi Jinnan still smiled and asked, "Would you like to sleep first or eat something first? Are you hungry?"

When Xi Jinnan really laughed, there was a faint dimple on his cheek, which sometimes reminded Nie Ranqing of the word infinite style.

She said: "I will eat it later, I still don't remember it."

Xi Jinnan gave an "um" and closed his eyes. He gently hugged her, his breathing was steady, and his face was calm and peaceful.Nie Ranqing also closed her eyes, but the face of the beautiful and capable female secretary appeared in her mind.When Nie Ranqing met her for the first time, she and Xi Jinnan were not yet married. The Chinese food that day was very rich. Nie Ranqing was always gluttonous and ate a lot. Later, she sat on the sofa in Xi Jinnan's office, because her stomach was too full. Feeling uncomfortable, so while rubbing his stomach, he still couldn't finish thinking about the food at noon.Later Zhou Kerong stepped in with a stack of documents, she looked suspiciously at her expression, and then at her stomach, as if she had endured it for a long time, but finally swallowed the words on her lips.

Then Nie Ranqing miraculously thought of the word "marry with a son", so she immediately put her hand back in embarrassment.

When the flower butterfly Chu Chen came to knock on the door, Nie Ranqing had already finished his breakfast, and was surprised to see him come in like a scum: "You're here too?"

Chu Chen was more surprised than she: "I should be asking you this question, right?" When he said this, he suddenly realized, "I said why Xi Jinnan stayed in bed this morning. It's almost nine o'clock and he still hasn't come out of the cave. It’s the spring night—ah! Nie Ranqing, how old are you, can you stop being so childish! You still throw apples!”

Nie Ranqing withdrew her hand: "I can't stop your mouth if I give you an apple."

"You call it sending? You call it murder! Besides, I'm not wrong!"

"Newton didn't die when he was hit by an apple, so that would constitute murder? Your bones are made of bread?" Nie Ranqing looked him up and down, and suddenly realized, "No wonder the bones are so soft."

"Go, go, go." Chu Chen choked, "It's no fun not arguing with academics like you."

Xi Jinnan interjected: "I guess I won't be back until evening today, and Zhou Kerong will come to accompany you. Where do you want to go?"

Nie Ranqing thought for a while and said, "I have no idea, the worst thing is to go to the mall to kill time."

Chu Chen snorted: "Go shopping all day long, that's all you pursue."

Nie Ranqing glared at him: "That's better than dating women every day, you don't even have any pursuit."

Seeing that war is about to start again, Xi Jinnan said: "If you want to be poor and come back poor, it will be too late, let's go."

When Zhou Kerong appeared at the door, Nie Ranqing felt pressured.The age difference between the two is almost the same, but Nie Ranqing feels that Zhou Kerong can't match the capable demeanor.She was dressed in bright orange, her brown curly hair was tied up, and she was full of energy, like a fire that could not be extinguished.

Nie Ranqing let her in, the two exchanged pleasantries, and she asked, "Where are we going?"

Zhou Kerong smiled and said, "Mrs. Xi, is there any place you want to go?"

"Don't call me my wife, just call me by my name. I heard that there are a lot of snacks here, why don't you find some places to eat?"

Zhou Kerong drove, and the two stopped at the most famous local snack street, and found a small shop to enter.The fast friendship between men is at the wine table, and the women are gossiping and chatting, no matter the location.With the same interests and hobbies, they can automatically form gangs, just like Nie Ranqing and Zhou Kerong at the moment.Just liking the same type of male stars and sharing a common love for spicy food is enough for the two to get closer within 5 minutes.

They chatted farther and farther, and after they had almost talked about basic necessities, food, housing, and transportation, the two chatted about gossip again. Zhou Kerong said with a smile: "Mr. Xi is usually very serious in the company, and it is rare to really laugh once. The one-billion-dollar order was successfully traded here, and everyone was so happy that they almost knocked over the roof. A group of people danced wildly in the office area. As soon as Mr. Xi came out, his eyes swept away, and there was no emotion at all. Just said two words, work."

Nie Ranqing pursed her lips and smiled: "Let him pretend to be deep and suffocate him to death."

Zhou Kerong also smiled, the corners of her eyes were slightly raised, and when she smiled, she was curved and upturned, and the light was shining. It was really a combination of beauty and wisdom.Later he said: "When the intern laughs in private, he is very peaceful and has no airs in others. After the list he just mentioned was completed, he personally took everyone to the KTV at night, and played until the early morning. He also stopped by when he left. Sent a few people back."

"Slap a sweet date in the face to buy people's hearts." Nie Ranqing suddenly laughed when he said this, "Am I breaking things down? By the way, when did you join the company?"

"Xi Jinnan and I are college alumni. We joined the company with him at the time, but he was the boss and I was the secretary."

Nie Ranqing said, "Then you should be very familiar with each other."

Zhou Kerong nodded and smiled: "I can be regarded as an old antique of the company."

Nie Ranqing frowned: "Do you have a boyfriend?"

Zhou Kerong waved her hand and denied it with a smile: "I'm too busy, and my family forced me to go on a blind date. As a result, when they heard that I worked fifteen hours out of 24 hours a day, they stopped calling me."

Nie Ranqing smiled: "So busy? Xi Jinnan should compensate you..." He thought it was inappropriate to say "the loss of the second half of his life", but then changed his words, "The capitalists do not spit out their bones."

Zhou Kerong smiled and said, "That's not what I said."

The two tasted the past at home, and their fingers were fat when the sun went down.Zhou Kerong said that he would pack two copies back for supper, and asked Nie Ranqing if he would also take them back for Mr. Xi.Nie Ranqing was taken aback for a moment, then nodded.

When Nie Ranqing returned to the room, neither Xi Jinnan nor Chu Chen came back. The snacks were placed on the coffee table. She went to take a shower. When she came out again, Xi Jinnan was already sitting on the sofa with his forehead supported. Looking through the snacks she packed back, she frowned slightly. From what Nie Ranqing knew about him, it was obvious that she didn't like the smell of the snacks on the coffee table.

Nie Ranqing was speechless for a moment.She really thought too much, with Xi Jinnan's habit, how could she be willing to use these things for supper.He has always been conservative and picky about food, cherishes life, stays away from acrylamide, just like an old man, naturally he doesn't like sweet and greasy fried food like octopus balls.

She shouldn't have packed it back.

Nie Ranqing walked over, smelled a smell of tobacco and alcohol, frowned, and asked, "Have you been drinking?"

Xi Jinnan let out a long "hmm", a little drunk and careless, and said, "I had a meal just now, and I drank some. How did you go today?"

"I ate the snack street once, and the last few were packed and brought back before I finished eating," Nie Ranqing asked intentionally, "Do you want to try it?"

"I can't eat tonight," Xi Jinnan raised his head slightly, leaned lazily on the sofa, threw the key on the tea table, opened his eyes to look at her, his eyes were still clear, "Where do you want to go the day after tomorrow?"

Nie Ranqing lost interest: "You don't have to go out. Let's talk about it, you go to take a shower first, which sensual place did Chu Chen drag you to? It smells like alcohol and tobacco." Xi Jinnan squinted at her For a long time, Nie Ranqing's scalp felt numb.The corner of his mouth suddenly pulled out an arc, which seemed to be sarcasm, but quickly disappeared, and then he got up and went to the bathroom.

The look in his eyes when he left made Nie Ranqing inexplicably irritated, as if he was hiding thousands of tentacles.Then, looking at the snacks on the coffee table, he thought there was no need to explain to Xi Jinnan why he bought them, so he went out, found a trash can, and directly fed a bunch of snacks into it.

While Xi Jinnan was taking a shower, Nie Ranqing was on the phone with Yao Mi.It was the other party who called her and asked her about the final exam preparation questions, and then said something casually: "Tell you, Lu Pei came to school today, and when I heard that you followed Xi Jinnan's footsteps to other places, my face was full. It turned pale immediately, I was standing next to him, and I couldn't bear to see his peanut-like face turning as white as a rice cake."

Nie Ranqing sat up straight, paused, and satirized her: "You can't bear to see any handsome guy sad."

"You also know that you made Lu Pei sad? Okay, you and Xi Jinnan are newly married, so I won't bother you. Please fight a few rounds tonight and let Lu Pei disappear in the wind—"

Nie Ranqing hung up the phone without waiting to finish listening.

Turning around, Xi Jinnan was standing at the door of the bathroom wiping his hair with a towel. When he came over, a large piece of the soft bed collapsed.Nie Ranqing told him about his upcoming invigilation and grading of examination papers and summer vacation. Xi Jinnan only responded with "um", which means he heard it.

Nie Ranqing felt that his attitude was inexplicably perfunctory, and he was a little annoyed. He was about to fight for a few words, but when he turned his head, he saw his serious face, and he was in a bad mood.

When Xi Jinnan was like this, Nie Ranqing didn't dare to tease the tiger's beard casually, and watched TV silently while holding his breath.

It was still early, and Xi Jinnan lay down, but Nie Ranqing didn't want to go to bed so early, and insisted on watching TV, and seemed to be engrossed in the commercials.However, Nie Ranqing was not interested in switching channels back and forth, and finally sighed, and was poked by the people around him through the thin: "I want to use your laptop to surf the Internet."

Xi Jinnan didn't move, as if he didn't hear.

Nie Ranqing was about to get it by herself, but one hand stretched out, grabbed her wrist and pulled her back to the bed, who was about to turn over and get off the bed, but the other hand did not forget to support her back to slow her down. The degree of force, the movement is done in one go, without sloppy.

Nie Ranqing was dragged back into the quilt and looked at him inexplicably.

Xi Jinnan turned off the TV and threw the remote control aside.His pupils were extremely black, glowing with the waves of the deep pool, gently stroking her back with one hand, and opened his mouth to speak, but he didn't make any sound after all.

Xi Jinnan didn't speak, and Nie Ranqing was also very strangely afraid to make a sound, and his eloquence in front of Yao Mi was not seen on weekdays.After a while, Xi Jinnan spoke in a low voice with a slightly hoarse voice: "Go and turn off the lights."

When he finally opened his mouth, Nie Ranqing's heart lightened suddenly, and he had the strength to refute: "Why do you want me to go?"

Xi Jinnan frowned slightly, turned over and lay flat and said, "I'm tired."

Nie Ranqing was speechless, imitating him to lie down, and said in a buzzing voice, "I'm tired too."

Xi Jinnan stroked the center of his brows, his tone was still low: "I'm really tired."

Nie Ranqing's heart skipped a beat, just as she was about to get up, she suddenly lay down again.She made up her mind this time, she would do the opposite of what Xi Jinnan said, why she had to listen to him.When Nie Ranqing was lying down, she still murmured softly: "Why did you tell me to go and I went? I won't go."

Xi Jinnan smiled lightly, and whispered in his words: "Be good, go and turn off the lights."

Hearing this, Nie Ranqing seemed to be possessed. She really got up to turn off the light, and only realized when she walked to the button. Just now, her iron-like will was easily destroyed. When she turned her head and looked at Xi Jinnan again, he was still Laughing blatantly!Slavery!When was she actually cultivated into such a servile nature!Nie Ranqing gritted her teeth, looked at Xi Jinnan's obviously pleased expression, and expressed deep contempt for her spineless behavior.

Nie Ranqing refused to admit defeat just like that, she insisted on turning on a small lamp by the bedside, she raised her chin provocatively, and looked at Xi Jinnan with the corner of her mouth slightly curled.Xi Jinnan glanced at her, "You are so childish" clearly written in his eyes, then turned over and continued to sleep.

Nie Ranqing knelt on the bed, tilted his head and thought for a while, then pushed him: "Hey, don't you want to give me a gift?"

"Ah."

"Bring your wallet."

Xi Jinnan looked back at her, turned out the wallet and handed it to her without saying a word.

Nie Ranqing looked down and looked inside, and asked, "Which one has the most money in it?"

Xi Jinnan realized something, put his hands behind his head and replied, "The one in your palm."

Nie Ranqing pulled out the card and continued to ask: "This is all your own, right?"

Xi Jinnan nodded.Nie Ranqing flicked the card in satisfaction, and Xi Jinnan laughed: "What do you want? There is a lot of gold in it, and it can keep you well-fed for the rest of your life."

Nie Ranqing turned to look at him, and he happened to be looking at her leisurely, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he was very interested.Nie Ranqing slandered, just now his face was obviously sombre, so damn it changed faster than turning the pages of a book.

However, it is better for him to be in a good mood than to be in a bad mood. Nie Ranqing boldly suggested: "Give me this card as a birthday present."

Xi Jinnan nodded happily, and added: "Do you want a card?"

Nie Ranqing also nodded happily.

"If you want a card, I can usually give it to you."

"But in normal times, I ask for it without evidence, and I have a guilty conscience."

Xi Jinnan snorted and laughed: "If you don't want it, who else would want these things."

Nie Ranqing looked at his expression cautiously, and proceeded to provoke cautiously: "My father is Lingtang."

"..."

After a while, Nie Ranqing pushed him again: "I want the password."

"After multiplying each of the six digits after my birthday by two, take the single digit... Do you remember my birthday?"

Nie Ranqing said unhappily: "Of course I remember, your birthday will be after Children's Day."

Xi Jinnan was also upset: "If it weren't for this, you probably wouldn't be able to remember it, would you?"

"Xi Jinnan, are you finding fault?"

(End of this chapter)