Sir, what if it's too cold?

The two embraced each other in this position for a long time, until the boy who delivered the food knocked on the door before they suddenly separated.

Zhou Qing's palm still had her remaining warmth, she looked at the huge insulated box that Xu Muran took from the other party, and sighed inwardly.

... It's better to buy her stomach-strengthening and eliminating food tablets later.

Xu Muran rubbed his reddened eye sockets, and looked at the table of takeaways worriedly.

In fact, she is not very hungry, so many reasons for ordering, most of them are due to bad mood, just want to spend a lot of money to have fun.

At this moment, her mood has calmed down, and the smell of heavy oil and spicy grilled skewers and lard mixed with flour penetrated into the tip of her nose, making her faintly nauseous.

Zhou Qing is right, ordering such things in the middle of the night, it is indeed easy to lose your appetite.

She raised her head and looked at Zhou Qing: "Has Zhou Sheng eaten? If you haven't eaten, take these back to him. I can't eat it."

Zhou Qing nodded: "Okay, then I will thank you for him."

"By the way..." Xu Muran suddenly remembered something: "Can you tell me his phone number? Or, WeChat or something?"

Ok?

Zhou Qing slightly raised his eyebrows: "Do you want his contact information?"

"I have a friend. We went shopping together that day, and we met Zhou Sheng on the way." Xu Muran picked up the tea on the table and took a sip: "She seems to like him a little bit. Is your brother single now?"

Zhou Qing didn't expect this to happen, so he was silent for a while before saying, "Yes, I'll give you his WeChat later."

It really made her sigh that someone could watch Zhou Sheng.

"Yeah." Xu Muran raised his chin, his side face shining brightly under the light: "When I went back to your laboratory, everyone was busy with their own work, and I couldn't understand your stuff, I really don't know how serious it is, can you? Tell me about it?"

"I don't know why?"

"Although I don't understand it, I still think it's very powerful."

Zhou Qing pondered for a while: "What I'm doing is a composite performance test on high-energy materials."

"It's nothing complicated, it's just that there are more things to do." Zhou Qing raised his hand and brushed away the smoke in the air, "It's also in a hurry, and the publication season is coming soon, and everyone is very busy."

"Oh——" Xu Muran sighed, "Then I would be a sinner, disturbing your sleep in the middle of the night, and calling you out to eat supper with me."

She said this as a joke, but she didn't expect the other party to take it seriously: "That's different."

"Come out with you, how can it be called a waste?"

She froze for a moment, and said "ah" awkwardly: "Really?"

Zhou Qing didn't make a sound, just bent the corners of his lips and looked at her quietly.

Under these gazes, Xu Muran slowly lowered his head.What a dilapidated teahouse, it was so hot in early October that it was like a radiator was turned on, which made her face blush.

Inadvertently, she thought of the interrupted hug just now. For some reason, Zhou Qing's hug made her feel very at ease.

When she was at a loss, when she needed emotional support the most, it was Zhou Qing who would be by her side.

It was someone she never thought would appear in her life.

Thinking of this, Xu Muran looked at Zhou Qing with some embarrassment: it was really... a bit embarrassing for her to see him crying with tears and snot all over his face.

She won't despise herself, will she?

She was thinking wildly to herself, when her thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a faint voice: "Muran."

"Ok?"

"It's not something you can control, don't think too much. People live in this world, there are always things that cannot be controlled."

She murmured, "I understand."

She understands that she understands, but she can't help but feel depressed: there is only so much she can do.

Seeing her expression, Zhou Qing couldn't bear it.

She really wanted to protect Xu Muran well, so that she could not see the stinky mud behind the colorful flowers, and let her be a little girl forever in a world where there was only truth, kindness and beauty, but she couldn't do it.

Even if she could, she couldn't.

It is indeed easy to walk a paved road, but it is her Zhou Qing's road, not Xu Muran's.

Xu Muran's path must be left to Xu Muran himself, and no one can do it for her.

When I came out of the teahouse, the hour hand had just passed zero.

Two beautiful girls walking on the street are naturally eye-catching.After a while, someone came up to strike up a conversation: "Beauty, are you free, let's play together?"

Before Xu Muran could open his mouth, Zhou Qing blocked him coldly: "No time."

The man was left out in the cold, and since he was bored, he laughed and went back to drink.The only thing you want to strike up a conversation is someone you love and I want, and if you pester him with a stern face, that is self-defeating, which is meaningless.

Xu Muran looked at Zhou Qing's fluent rejection, and couldn't help feeling a little interesting: "You are so proficient, why do you often reject others?"

Zhou Qing looked at her helplessly: "It's okay."

This set of skills was developed when she was in high school.At that time, the girls borrowed the ID cards of senior students and drove to another city to go clubbing.Although she doesn't like to join in the fun, she has been there several times out of curiosity.The bar was crowded with people, seeing that she had a fresh Asian face, many people approached her, but she rejected them all.

The place was too messy for her.

Perhaps because of the legal holiday, there are more people on the street today.

Fearing that they would be separated, Zhou Qing took Xu Muran's hand without saying anything, and led her to a clean place.

Xu Muran was pulled so suddenly that his whole soul would fly out of fright.When I came back to my senses, I realized that the person who was dragging me along the way was actually Zhou Qing.

Her eyes fell on her hand being pulled, and the other's fingers unintentionally scraped gently against her palm, causing tingling ripples all over her body.

I don't know when, my heart skipped a beat.

The two of them walked all the way without knowing it, and they came to Hexin Park near the food street without knowing it.

It was midnight, but there were still many people in the park.Zhou Qing looked around, let go of Xu Muran, frowned and said: "That place is not safe, don't come here alone in the future."

Xu Muran rubbed his wrists, curled his lips unconvinced: "If not, let's go..."

Halfway through the words, it got stuck in his throat and he couldn't continue.

Why don't you strike up a conversation?

That person, maybe she thought so too.

She thought, it's okay just to strike up a conversation; it's okay just to drink.She didn't think about anything, so she followed the people, but she didn't know that she was walking a road that could not be turned back.

Xu Muran suddenly fell silent, found a bench and sat down, looked up at the moon in the sky, and after a long while, he replied in a muffled voice, "Okay."

Zhou Qing sat down beside her, and suddenly heard her ask: "Zhou Qing, do you still remember what you wanted to do when you grew up? Did you want to study physics when you were young?"

Hearing this, Zhou Qing pondered for a long time: "Of course not."

"At that time... I wanted to be a painter."

"Painter?" Xu Muran said in surprise, "It's not obvious."

"That's right." Zhou Qing leaned back, eyes filled with melting moonlight: "At that time, my family enrolled me in an art class to pass the time for me. I didn't expect that I would become addicted to painting later. I didn't like to write much about the assigned homework, so they unilaterally stopped it for me.

"At that time, I didn't have a lot of pocket money, so I couldn't support my class fees. I had no choice but to stop painting. Later, when I entered junior high school, I started to attend Olympiad tutoring classes, and I didn't have time to paint."

She paused, and then said: "Thinking about it now, I still regret it a bit. If I had persisted at the beginning, maybe my paintings would be able to—"

"Bah, bah, bah!" Xu Muran bawled three times, glaring at her angrily, "Don't say such unlucky things."

"Okay," she laughed, "Don't talk, don't talk."

"Actually, studying physics is pretty good," Zhou Qing said again, "After all, I like it."

"Well," Xu Muran responded softly, "It's actually quite difficult to do what you like."

"Is there anything you really want to do?"

She was at a loss for words: "I..."

An old voice rang in my ears: "Girl, do you want to buy some flowers?"

Xu Muran followed the sound and saw that it was an old lady with gray hair, carrying a bamboo basket on her back, and a few flowers were scattered in the basket.She was about to refuse when she heard Zhou Qing ask, "How much?"

"Ten yuan a flower, buy one get one free."

Zhou Qing took out ten yuan and handed it to the old lady, took two flowers from the other party, and passed them to Xu Muran: "Here, take it."

The old lady clasped her hands together and bowed to them: "A good person lives a safe life..."

Holding the flower stem in his hand, Xu Muran looked at the back of the other party going away, and asked Zhou Qing: "Why do you want to buy flowers..."

Zhou Qing said succinctly: "A good flower matches a good person." After a pause, he added: "It's not easy to come out and sell flowers in cold weather."

She focused all her attention on the five words Zhou Qing said: good flowers match good people.

It turns out that she is not low in Zhou Qing's heart?

Just thinking about it, my little heart started beating wildly again.

"I... I didn't know what I wanted to do at first, but now I have some clues." She shook her toes lightly, her voice full of confusion: "But I don't know whether I can bear the burden of this choice." Consequences. If it is the best, if not, then what should I do?"

Zhou Qing patted her head: "Is it good or not, you have to try it to know."

Her voice was soft, but penetrated into Xu Muran's heart with an irresistible force: "Do it if you want to do it, don't regret it later when you can't do it."

The first quarter moon sprinkled a clear radiance on Zhou Qing's cheeks, which made Xu Muran distracted.

——If you want to do it, do it, right?

If this is the case, then she seems to have an answer in her heart.

Zhou Qing turned his head slowly, and the eyes of the two happened to meet.

Zhou Qing smiled: "Have you seen the moon?"

"Today's moon is just like the flowers in your hand, beautiful."

It's another Friday.

Just as Zheng Weixing clicked the send button for the last work email, he caught a glimpse of someone standing in front of his desk out of the corner of his eye.

The visitor's thin white fingers tapped on the table: "Are you free, let's talk together?"