Sweetness

As soon as Xu Qingning took the lead in the group, the reaction was fierce, and the group of people were so excited that they directly moved the evening schedule to the afternoon.

The location was Zhou Bai's apartment in the city center. Xu Qingning took the task and didn't go directly. She took Tian Tian to the supermarket to buy ingredients.

The group of people clamored for hot pot.

Ordinarily, the matter of grocery shopping should never fall on Xu Qingning's head, but it is estimated that she has boasted too much about her cooking skills in the group these days. Push it on her head.

Talented player?Kitchen genius?All right, you can buy some vegetables and come over to have a look.

Xu Qingning couldn't shirk it, and when He Tiantian mentioned it, she agreed wholeheartedly, and then she was willing to drive to the supermarket.

On the way, Xu Qingning was driving the car. After thinking about it, she decided to vaccinate Xiaoshanren first: "We're going to watch a horror movie later... Do you want to watch it?" What she actually wanted to ask was if she was afraid .

"Is it scary?"

"...Hmm." Xu Qingning didn't know what to do.Banned films are generally scary.

Her tone completely lost her usual imposing manner, as if she was afraid.

Tian Tian glanced at her: "When I was young, I also read horror stories without telling my grandmother. I was so scared that I couldn't sleep at night. My grandmother hugged me and told me that those were all fake. The people who wrote the book just wrote it to scare me." Believe in his children, it’s a respect for the author to be afraid when you read it, but it’s a bit silly to be afraid after reading it. Don’t be afraid, those are all fake, just forget about it after reading it.”

She seems to be soothing her?Xu Qingning frowned, and responded, "Well, it's all fake."

She said so, but every time she heard her particularly calm and breezy tone, Xu Qingning always had no confidence: "Do you think we are boring?"

Tian Tian was puzzled: "Huh?"

"...I'm full." Xu Qingning added.As much as she didn't want to admit it, it was the truth.

They are not a team of free self, they are obviously a team of death experts.

The original plan of Horror Story was to go to Japan's Trembling Maze. How scary is that place?

So exciting, they are naturally eager to try.

Xu Qingning had no objection at first, but after the Internet cafe incident and the spicy food incident, for some reason she always felt ashamed in front of Xiao Shanren.

It's embarrassing to do such a thing.

As a believer in "young people have to struggle", she doubted her life creed for the first time.

...This seems to be a bit of a mess?

"No," Tian Tian pursed her lips with a serious expression, "I think it's very interesting."

"Really?"

"Well. A lot of people want to do these things too, but they all just think about it, and you guys do it better than most."

"I didn't see it..." Xu Qingning murmured.

"Didn't see anything?"

"It's nothing." Xu Qingning said quietly in her heart: I didn't realize that your fan filter is quite thick.

Arriving at the supermarket in a blink of an eye, Xu Qingning drove the car to the underground parking lot, still asking: "Am I not flawed in your eyes?" She said that she was fine anywhere.

Tian Tian is very sincere: "Yes."

Xu Qingning was reversing the car and asked her distractedly, "What is it?"

"I don't have a good temper... I have no patience with the old man." Looking at her face, Tian Tian added, "You have to be nice to Grandpa Xu, he is very worried about you."

"He was afraid that I would cause trouble...!" Forget it, and the explanation couldn't be explained clearly, Xu Qingning said, "Get out of the car."

Pushing the shopping cart all the way past the entrance, Xu Qingning was not in a hurry, and stopped when she encountered something she wanted to buy. Finally, after stopping in the beverage area for almost 20 minutes, Tian Tian couldn't help but said: "We're not buying food?"

Xu Qingning slowly put the Coke into the shopping cart, and comforted her: "There is no rush, we can only start eating when we go, so you don't have to worry about not being able to eat."

Tian Tian wasn't worried about this, but said with some worry: "...But they are all waiting for us."

It was only then that Xu Qingning realized that Xiaoshanren had a strong sense of responsibility, sighed, and took two large bottles of drinks without looking at what it was, pushing the shopping cart with one hand and pushing her shoulder with the other: "Let's go, let's buy vegetables!"

Entering the fresh food area, Xu Qingning speeded up her movements unconsciously, as if she was sweeping the goods. She was about to take down the cabbage she had been looking at for a long time, but was stopped again: "Pick the vegetables slowly."

Xu Qingning watched the little mountain man put the radish and cabbage she took at random back to the original place, stopped there, and laughed: "Are you not afraid of them waiting now?"

"It will take the time it should take." After she answered seriously, she turned her head to look at the pile of radishes. After looking carefully for a long time, she took two white radishes and put them into the shopping cart again.

Xu Qingning was dissatisfied: "I think they are almost the same."

"Different."

Tian Tian picked up the one she picked, and then took the one that Xu Qingning just picked up casually, and talked to her in detail: "Although your radish is big, it is not as heavy as mine when you pick it up. , it will taste bitter."

She put the 'old' radish back and explained to her with the one in her hand: "You can't just choose big radishes. Generally speaking, radishes that are not big or small have the best taste, and radishes with straight roots and bright colors are the best." Better than yours."

"... so particular?"

"If you want to buy it, then buy it."

"What about the cabbage? Cabbage has to be so troublesome?" Xu Qingning picked up a cabbage and compared it with the surrounding ones, but she didn't see any difference.

"Cabbage has a way of picking cabbage."

"Then I can't learn it anymore." Xu Qingning put the cabbage back with great self-knowledge, and casually mentioned: "There is no easy way?"

"Yes." Tian Tian looked at her, and replied, "Just pick the best-looking and juiciest one."

Tian Tian took the cabbage she put down, and said: "The one you just took is not bad, it's a good choice."

Xu Qingning is a bit like a child who has been praised by the kindergarten teacher in public. She is a little proud, but she doesn't want to be seen by her. She looks away unnaturally and laughs: "I didn't expect you to judge people by appearance...you judge food by appearance."

Tian Tian didn't care about this statement, and just smiled: "Generally speaking, the dishes that look better do taste better."

The two spent almost an hour just picking out the ingredients, and bought some other things. When Xu Qingning took out her mobile phone at the checkout, it was about to explode.

Don't think about the new round of serial @大法 in the group, Xu Qingning didn't even read it, she clicked on the payment software and waited to pay.

The checkout counter is very noisy, the announcement from the supermarket, the voices in the queue, and the beeping sound of the cashier scanning the products, all kinds of sounds are intertwined, Xu Qingning became playful for some reason.She leaned close to Xiao Shanren's ear and whispered, "What should I do? I don't seem to have any money with me."

She panicked visibly: "Huh?"

"I forgot my wallet in the car."

Tian Tian bit her lip, looked at the half-swept shopping cart, and looked at her nervously: "Otherwise I'll wait here, you go and get the money?"

"Detainer," Xu Qingning bit these words tenderly, and said with a smile, "What if the lady at the cashier doesn't recognize her?"

Tian Tian stopped where she was, perhaps because of nervousness, or perhaps because of the panic about the embarrassing scene of not being able to pay the bill, her jade-like neck was covered with a layer of light pink, she grabbed her wrist with both hands, very eagerly: " Don't worry, I will tell her well, you go."

I don't know if it's because the central air conditioner in the supermarket is too low or if she's really scared, but her fingertips are so cold that Xu Qingning shivered.

She realized it later, as if she shouldn't have made such a joke with her?

The lady at the cashier just finished counting, and reported a number to the two of them. Xu Qingning turned on her mobile phone and handed it to her to scan, pushing the shopping cart to pull Xiao Shanren, and said flatteringly, "Let's go?"

Surprisingly, she didn't respond, but she obediently grabbed her.

Walking all the way to the parking lot, Xu Qingning slowly moved her things into the car, and defended herself in a low voice: "I didn't mean to lie to you just now, it's true that I didn't bring any money, but I did have a mobile phone."

Xiaoshanren walked all the way without saying a word, she was about to die.

If I knew it earlier, I wouldn't be funny. This person is serious in everything he does, so how can he stand up to being so funny.She believed everything she said, and she thought she had no money when she said she had no money, and she couldn't be funny at all.

Thinking of her frightened fingertips, Xu Qingning wished she could go back to the self who killed that fool a few minutes ago.

"It's okay." She finally said.

Xu Qingning glanced at her secretly, and she, who claimed to be good at observing words and expressions, couldn't tell whether Xiao Shanren was angry or not, so she stuffed the things into the car in one go, and she clapped her hands as if she was done: "Okay."

"Let's go, let's go feed the rice worms." She teased her a little nervously.

Xu Qingning pretended to be calm and walked towards the driver's seat, not daring to look at her, but had to pay attention to all her movements, when she was about to give up, there was a chuckle.

——Laughing lightly like the sounds of nature.

There was a slight smile in her voice: "Well, go feed the rice worms."

In an instant, the rain passed and the sky cleared.

Xu Qingning let out a long breath, and after Tian Tian got into the car, she urged her in a doggy manner: "You fasten your seat belt and we'll go."

"it is good."

Xu Qingning felt that such a questionable and answering little mountain man was so cute, she couldn't help staring at her, and when she fastened her seat belt and was about to drive, her phone rang.

She joked: "The rice bug is starting to urge."

Picking up the phone, she saw that the call was not from that group of people. Xu Qingning answered the phone: "Second Sister?"

Xu Qingai went straight to the topic: "Is Tiantian by your side?"

"Ah."

"Give her the phone, Hai Ling has something to say to her."

"Sister Hailing?" Xu Qingning paused for a moment, and instead of calling immediately, she asked, "What's the matter?"

Xu Qingai yelled at her: "I'm talking to Tiantian, not you."

Xu Qingning pursed her lips, and handed the phone to Xiao Shanren: "My second sister is looking for you."

Tian Tian carefully took the phone and put it to her ear: "Sister Xu?"

I don't know what was said there, Xu Qingning paid attention to Xiaoshanren's expression the whole time, as if there was something for her to make a decision, she hesitated for a while, then nodded in agreement.

Hand the phone back to her.

Xu Qingning wasn't in a hurry to drive anymore, and casually scrolled through the chat records in the group, seemingly unintentionally asking, "What's wrong with you, Sister Hailing?"

"A grandpa is coming here for a literature seminar in two days, and she asked me if I want to meet him on the spot."

"Grandpa? You know him?"

"It's grandma's old friend." Tian Tian thought for a while and then added an explanation: "Grandpa Wu Xudong was grandma's colleague at work in the past. When I was young, people at home often asked grandma for advice. Take the initiative to take over all the work."

Xu Qingning wondered: "Then how did Miss Hailing know each other?" But after staying for a week, can you know such a secret thing?

"Grandma and grandpa exchange letters and discuss some professional issues. Sister Luo saw grandpa's letter and the books compiled by Grandpa Wu on the bookshelf, so she asked."

Xu Qingning roughly understood, thought for a while, and coaxed her by picking up what she liked to hear: "Grandma looks amazing in this way."

Tian Tian really smiled: "Grandma has always been great."

The car was driving smoothly on the road, Xu Qingning was tangled all the way, frustrated by this person's reluctance to confess, and annoyed that she was obsessed with such a trivial matter, so she asked, "Then are you going?"

Xu Qingning looked at her distractedly: "That seminar."

"Go." Tian Tian said with some regret: "I have to tell my grandpa that my grandma has passed away. After all, I can't accept any more letters."

Xu Qingning's heart seemed to be stabbed by something, she couldn't help but look at her, she still had a calm expression, as if she was saying that she had heard wrong, but she clearly heard a little sadness from the words.

"Would you like me to go with you?"

Tian Tian didn't say yes or no, just said: "If you want to go, go."

Xu Qingning replied: "I want to go."

"Ah."

Zhou Bai's apartment in the city center is about 10 minutes' drive from the supermarket, and 10 minutes later, the car is in the above-ground parking lot of the community.

Tian Tian was about to get off the car, but Xu Qingning stopped her: "Don't worry, Mi Chong should do something."

I saw that she took out her mobile phone and dialed a number in a calm manner, and said "get down and pick up things" to the other end. After 5 minutes, several familiar boys came down.

Only then did Xu Qingning let her get out of the car, put her hand on the car door and looked at them: "Be more conscious next time, don't make me shout."

Qu Yiming grinned, "I know."

Each person carried a bag, and when Qu Yiming was there, there were only a few large bottles of drinks and a bag of snacks left. He was dumbfounded when he saw the drinks: "Where's the Sprite I want?"

He mentioned the big bottle of coconut milk, wondering: "You don't drink this stuff?"

Xu Qingning took it casually at the time, so she couldn't control so much, so she stopped him very calmly: "Whether you like to drink or not."

Tian Tian has already walked to the car: "Which one should I take?"

Xu Qingning moved all the drinks to Qu Yiming, picked up the bag of snacks, and said, "You rest, you don't need to carry it."

Qu Yiming held three bottles of drinks by himself, glanced at Xu Qingning lightly, and walked away resentfully.

As soon as the ingredients arrived, someone was in charge of washing and someone was in charge of cutting. A large group of people moved very quickly, and the hot pot was quickly boiled.

A long table, two pots, Xu Qingning's group, plus a few little sisters brought by Zhou Bai, formed a circle of people one after another.

Everyone at the table knew each other. Even if they hadn't spoken to each other, those who looked up and down at school were all familiar faces.

Only Tian Tian's fresh face aroused the curiosity of the little sisters at the dinner table.

"Zhou Bai, who is this sister?"

Zhou Bai whispered, "My name is Tiantian, sour." Her voice became inexplicably softer, "Don't mess with me."

Several people showed suddenly enlightened expressions.

Xu Qingning: "..."

Do they feel that their voices are small?No matter how loud the sound is, the birds outside the window might hear it!

Xu Qingning simply turned her attention to the matter of eating, and asked the little mountain man sitting next to her: "Which one do you want to eat? I'll bring it for you."

The table is very large, and the dishes are scattered, which is not easy to handle.

Tian Tian looked around and replied, "Put that carrot down."

"Row."

Xu Qingning wanted to put all the radish in, but someone shouted, "Hey, this side wants this side too."

Someone questioned: "How can I remember that you don't eat carrots?"

The man replied: "I just tasted a piece, and it was quite delicious. It successfully opened the door to a new world."

Xu Qingning laughed proudly when she heard this, "That's a good choice of carrots."

Cen Xi was keenly aware that she was going to brag about her talents like in the group again, so she couldn't help but interrupt: "Why, could it be you who picked it? Don't think I don't know you. You buy vegetables, don't say you pick them." Now, what you get is what you get, just like sweeping goods."

Just as Xu Qingning was about to refute, a voice beside her was ahead of her: "It's sour."

She looked at her with gentle eyes, and smiled at everyone: "She has been picking for more than an hour."

"My day...I provoked you." Qu Yiming changed his words in time, glanced nervously at Tian Tian, ​​and then teased Xu Qingning: "Has the sourness turned?"

Pan Chen: "Cooking and shopping at the same time, this is to develop into a good wife and mother."

Cen Xi: "To be honest, I didn't believe a single punctuation mark in what you posted in the group a few days ago. Now I'm a little skeptical about life."

Xu Qingning's expression was light, and she curled her lips into a smile: "Serve the people."

"..." Their backs felt cold.

The soup base was slurped once more, and the radish was cooked.

Everyone was clamoring to eat, there were too many people, and I always felt that there were too many monks and too little porridge, so I grabbed it all at once. Not to be outdone, Zhou Bai, who was sitting in the corner, stood up and took a spoon to reach the radish. Tian Tian sat close and helped her pick it up. After paying two yuan, Zhou Bai thanked her. She was busy sitting down to eat radishes, but she stretched her elbow, and a glass of Coke on the corner of the table poured down.

The Coke hit Tian Tian's leg directly with the cup, and she became dizzy instantly.

Tian Tian was slightly startled, and unhurriedly picked up the cup that was still dripping with Coke and put it back on the table, took the paper towel handed over by Xu Qingning, wiped it and comforted the bewildered Zhou Bai: "It's okay."

Xu Qingning took a few sheets to help wipe. The paper towel absorbed part of the Coke, and the other part slid down the skirt to her calf, dripping water continuously. Xu Qingning's face turned dark when she looked at it.

"I'll take you to change clothes." Zhou Bai stood up and looked at Tian Tian nervously: "By the way, wipe it with water, it can't be wiped clean with paper."

Tian Tian looked down at the messy white skirt and nodded: "Okay."

After the two left, the room returned to silence, only the edge of the table was still dripping Coke.

Xu Qingning thought of the backs of those two people leaving side by side, and felt a little confused for some reason. She took out a few more sheets of paper and patiently wiped Tian Tian's affected stool. After wiping for a while, she suddenly threw the paper away , completely lost patience: "Don't wipe it, just change it."

"Yes, yes, change one."

"It's not convenient to ask Tiantian to change her position later, and the side dishes are not convenient."

"I have to go get the pair of bowls and chopsticks again."

Xu Qingning ignored it and couldn't hear it. She poked the overripe radish in the bowl with her chopsticks, put a small piece in her mouth, and chewed. She really didn't think it was any different from ordinary radishes.

This group of people, grab a fart!

"Deng deng deng deng!"

Zhou Bai came out from the corner suddenly, looked at everyone excitedly, and said excitedly, "My mother put some clothes here for me before, but I didn't wear them because I thought the colors were too picky. I just let Tiantian try them on." Come on, it's so fucking beautiful!"

"Are you ready?" She sold out.

"Okay, okay, hurry up." A group of people booed, instantly heating up the atmosphere.

Zhou Bai was about to count down, but Tian Tian walked out without waiting for her signal.

Xu Qingning gasped when she saw the group opposite her.

Pan Chen was shouting: "I can!"

Cen Xi: "I can be crazy!!!"

Zhou Bai's group of little sisters were even more coquettish and whistled directly.

Xu Qingning was nervous, and simply followed the gaze of the crowd, her heart stopped beating for two beats.

In the bright yellow skirt, one-shoulder, pinched waist, and bare legs, Xiao Shanren stood there gracefully, like a budding flower in early spring.

But she was shy, coaxed by this group of people, her face turned red to the base of her neck, she pursed her lips and smiled shyly and seductively.

Xu Qingning glanced at Ruyu's neck, then lingered at the legs that were too close together due to restraint, and unconsciously tightened the chopsticks in her hand.

The tables and stools were cleaned up again, Tian Tian sat back directly beside Xu Qingning, and was about to pick up the chopsticks, when the people around her suddenly came over, looked at the too clear red rope around her neck, and whispered: "You don't wear such clothes. A short skirt?"