Zongman: Unknowingly trapped in the hatchet

"I'll take this bag."

The statement, which was not negotiable, was stated in a very calm tone.

Without stopping him, Su Qing handed one of the bags of food to Mahiru.

The next moment after completing the handover of the ingredients, he naturally took Mahiru's other hand and said, "The wind on the way back seems to be stronger than the wind on the way here."

Even with the weight of an extra bag of ingredients, Su Qing was still worried that with Zhenri's weight, he would be blown away if he wasn't careful.

So, you must hold it.

"Well... it's a typhoon after all." Mahiru sighed meaningfully, and then pretended to be nonchalant and asked, "That shop assistant... looks so familiar."

"It was her in the last lottery, remember?"

"Oh~ It's her." Mahiru nodded, "Of course I remember the 100,000 yen exchange voucher."

Subsequently.

The topic fell into silence.

On the way back, facing the wind.

Su Qing only felt that the grip on his hand seemed to be even stronger than when he came here.

"Do you want to hear what the clerk and I talked about?" Su Qing suddenly broke the silence and asked.

"Eh...? That was your conversation with her, you don't have to tell me..."

Mahiru shook her head.

She admitted that she hurriedly put down the seasonings she had selected and ran back when she saw Su Qing talking to the shop assistant.

But that doesn't mean she has to get to the bottom of Su Qing's chat records with other women.

Su Qing has Su Qing's freedom.

Even if one day in the future, it happens as she wishes.

The two are really together.

is also like this.

Mahiru also admitted that she was not a very generous person.

Otherwise, she wouldn't have been so anxious to take Su Qing out of the store, let alone do anything like swearing ownership.

Su Qing did not avoid or refuse.

After coming out of the supermarket, the other party took the initiative to hold her hand.

So Mahiru didn't think Su Qing did anything wrong at all.

On the contrary, he did a great job.

Mahiru was just a little unhappy with herself.

[Why didn't you think highly of Su Qing?]

[Even though he knows how attractive he is to other girls... like that time at the mall]

[Hurry up... confess...]

Finally, this thought came to Mahiru's mind.

An idea that has already occurred to me a long time ago.

However, Mahiru was still not completely sure of the other party's thoughts, so she always had some reservations.

Fear of rejection.

Afraid of losing everything.

They had clearly agreed with great difficulty to eat together, go to school together, and prepare food together.

There are still many hairstyles that have not been braided and have not been shown to Su Qing, and many dishes that have not been cooked and have not been tasted by him.

If it fails.

Will everything come to naught?

Is she going to go back to her previous life alone?

Eat alone, go to school alone, be alone at school.

This is actually nothing.

She was used to it.

But habit itself is a kind of numbness and fear.

The restless body has long been numb to being alone.

A wandering soul is afraid of changing the status quo.

No one can truly understand Mahiru's confusion and entanglement.

[If we don’t change, is it best to maintain the status quo?]

Mahiru occasionally has this thought, a thought that even she hates.

[That...is not okay.]

[The happiness you finally encounter must be grasped by yourself...]

[If you don’t change, you will end up with nothing like before, right?]

Mahiru pursed her lips tightly.

Suddenly.

She just felt something gently touching the back of her hand, and looked along her arm - it turned out to be Su Qing's thumb.

"I want to tell you. Can I?" Su Qing smiled faintly.

Although it was also a negotiation sentence, combined with Su Qing's expression and tone, it also gave people a feeling that was irresistible.

"it is good."

While nodding slightly, he quietly moved a little closer to Su Qing.

As if to be able to hear more clearly what the other person is saying.

"The clerk asked me, 'What is love?'"

Without mentioning the last time he was followed by the other party for a while, Su Qing only planned to tell Mahiru the most important part.

"Why would you ask such a question?"

Mahiru frowned in confusion.

Why would anyone bring up such a strange topic to a stranger?

Could it be that those short video bloggers are maliciously asking passers-by questions in order to gain traffic?

"I heard that her family arranged a blind date for her, but it didn't go very smoothly." Su Qing explained.

"I see. So she...ran away from her relatives?"

Mahiru made a bold guess.

As a woman, if she were asked to marry someone she doesn't like, she would probably behave in a similar way.

"Escape from relatives? How did you come up with this idea?"

Su Qing chuckled twice, and the words he had prepared remained on his lips.

"Aren't you running away from your relatives?"

Mahiru nodded stupidly, then looked at Su Qing with curiosity.

"Of course not. I just simply didn't like her. And it seemed that I had some conflicts with my family because of this matter." Su Qing said, shaking his head.

[Family members...huh?]

"So, how does this relate to "What is love?"

After saying so much, Mahiru still didn't quite understand the clerk's thinking.

"Do you think [marriage] and [love] are two different things, or one thing?"

There is no direct explanation.

Using questions to answer questions is a logic that Su Qing often uses.

"For some people... maybe it's a thing."

[At least for them...it must be two things.]

As Mahiru answered, a dark glint flashed across her eyes.

When the other party said this, she roughly understood why the clerk suddenly asked Su Qing such a question.

"So...what do you think?"

Mahiru also wanted to know what Su Qing was thinking.

"Marriage can include love, but love cannot include marriage. For some people, it is indeed possible that they are one and the same, so your thoughts and mine are actually quite similar."

Su Qing said after taking in all the "emotional" changes in Mahiru's eyes.

"Then we really have a tacit understanding." After smiling at Su Qing, Mahiru returned to the original question, "I want to know how you answered her question."

What Mahiru said was "I want to know".

"I didn't answer."

Su Qing's idea surprised Mahiru.

"Huh? I thought you were going to give your own definition."

With her mouth slightly open, Mahiru was obviously a little surprised.

"Didn't you also say that it is the definition of 'myself'? Since it is my own, how can I use it as an answer and tell others?"

"Well, indeed. But even so, you should have said something else."

After noticing that Mahiru was not asking questions but speaking in a statement tone, Su Qing asked with a smile:

"Is it a tacit understanding?"

“It’s a tacit understanding.”

If the other one hadn't been holding a plastic bag, Su Qing might have touched Mahiru's head out of habit.

The power of habit is really terrible.

"I just told her that if she doesn't want to regret it one day in the future, she shouldn't easily choose to reconcile with the world before making an effort."

"No more?" Mahiru looked over.

"No more." Su Qing nodded.

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