Secret Love · Orange Raw Huainan

Chapter 60 Rarely Confused
"Sister Nianci!"

When Luo Yang heard Luo Zhi addressing Chen Jing, he couldn't help sweating, but Chen Jing had already greeted her cheerfully from his seat.After the three sat down, the waiter handed Luo Zhi a menu.She bowed her head and studied silently for a long time, and felt that her head was getting bigger, so she put it down and said to Chen Jing, "Sister-in-law, I am just like you."

Chen Jing also put down the menu, blinked at Luo Zhi, then turned to look at Luo Yang and said, "I'm just like you."

Luo Yang let out a long sigh: "You are forcing me. Okay, I want a set meal."

"What, there's no cream soup in the set menu!" Chen Jing pressed down on Luoyang's menu upon hearing this.

"If you don't have it, you don't have it."

"No, you order again. I don't like this."

"Then what do you want?"

Chen Jing looked down at the menu for a while, raised her head, and continued to smile softly: "Whatever, it's just like you anyway."

Luo Zhi couldn't hold back her laughter, and raised her eyes to see that the corner of the waiter's mouth also curled up.

Eating really can make people feel better.The fresh food warmed the stomach, and the heart next to it also felt a little warmth.Luo Zhi's steak had to be well-done, with clear lines, a thick piece, and a bone in the middle, so it was very laborious to cut.She was a little embarrassed by the sound of the knife and fork hitting the dinner plate, so she had to put down the knife and fork and took a sip of the soup, but Chen Jing made a very metallic noise on the other side.

"I can't, I can't, what a piece of crap." Chen Jing even complained softly.

"Brother, you are really skilled in your movements."

Luo Zhi clearly saw the changes in Luoyang.He is no longer a big boy who gathered a group of buddies in college and headed straight to the barbecue restaurant. Now Luoyang is wearing a light gray shirt, bringing Chen Jing’s steak to him, cutting it into small pieces with ease, removing the bones and pushing it to the grill. One side, then put it back in front of her, and picked up Luo Zhi's plate.

"No, I'll do it myself."

"Come on, stop making noise."

"It's only been half a year, and you've changed so much."

"Isn't it just that you cut the steak more neatly than you? Don't tell me, because of this, you think I have stepped into the ranks of the elite."

"Sister-in-law, don't you think? I'm not talking about steak cutting, but temperament, and you are much more mature. You used to be more stable than other boys, but that was at best an innate personality. It's different now, anyway. It's starting to look attractive."

"Well, yes, I should have a sense of crisis." Chen Jing continued with a smile.

"Also, I think my brother's temperament has become a little melancholy, as if he has something on his mind. He used to be silly and happy, but now he looks a bit like a man. Is it because he started working? Men are always so long Is it big?"

Luo Zhi has been using nagging methods to avoid recalling the scene on the street just now. While eating with her head down, she didn't catch up with her words, and she didn't see that her unintentional words made Chen Jing's eyes slightly He raised his eyes, and lowered his eyes in an instant.The fork in Luoyang's left hand accidentally touched the water glass and made a "dang" sound.

The scene became quiet for a while, Luo Zhi took two bites and felt that something was wrong: Luo Yang stared at the fork, while Chen Jing's juice cup stopped at her mouth.

"what happened?"

Luo Zhi felt a little regretful, she was too relaxed in front of her relatives, she didn't know what she said, let alone whether she violated their taboo with any sentence.

"Men don't grow up like this." After Luo Yang finished speaking seriously, he blinked at Luo Zhi and smiled.Luo Zhi stared at him stupidly.When did Luoyang learn to smile like this?This kind of smile is obviously the sign of Gobi and that Mr. Gu.

"Are you stupid? What about the things I asked you to bring?"

Luo Zhi reacted for two seconds before stammering, "Now...now?"

Chen Jing looked over in a daze, and Luo Zhi immediately bent over and took out a paper bag from the schoolbag at her feet and handed it to Luo Yang.Luo Yang lowered his head and took out a box from the paper bag, but instead of taking it up, he opened it by himself, fiddled with it under the table for a while, and then suddenly put it on the table.

A little girl made of clay, wearing a sky-blue turtleneck sweater and a white knee-length skirt, with light brows and eyes, silver-framed glasses on her nose, and a warm smile.

Chen Jing's ceramic doll.Seeing Chen Jing smiling like a white camellia, Luo Zhi couldn't help being happy for Luo Yang from the bottom of her heart.Everyone she knew around her, including herself, was always making life very frustrating. However, the elder brother and sister-in-law in front of her calmly held hands in the most tense third year of senior high school and were admitted to the same university, by the side of West Lake. We have been working together for four years to see through the scenery, and we can still look at each other because of a little ceramic girl holding hands in today's flowing water. It is so sweet that time seems to have stopped.

Luo Zhi received a phone call from Luo Yang when she came out of Houhai. He gave her an address, saying that he was too busy, and he just took advantage of the meeting today to ask her to pick up a completed handicraft.It's Chen Jing's birthday in three days, and he wants to create a surprise - Luo Zhi didn't expect that Luo Yang couldn't wait, and brought it out so soon.

Do you want to be a witness?She laughed heartily thinking about it.

"Birthday gift?" Chen Jing smiled, looking at Luo Yang and Luo Zhi.However, Luo Yang lowered his head and pointed to the handbag hanging on the doll's left arm.The small handbag is brown, not clay, but knitted wool.Chen Jing stretched out her hand to touch it, pinched it gently with her thumb and index finger, felt the shape of the object in the bag, instantly widened her eyes, and looked at Luoyang, who was smiling unfathomably, with an unbelievable expression.

Luo Zhi frowned suspiciously, watching Chen Jing carefully squeeze out a shiny ring from the woolen handbag.

The two women screamed together, ignoring the sideways glances of the many customers in the restaurant.

"Let me tell you, men don't grow up like this. If a man wants to grow up, he must find something to add a burden to himself. It's called learning to take responsibility. Here, wife, would you like to be my burden?"

Chen Jing pursed her lips and smiled, with tears in her eyes.Luo Zhi rested her chin on her hands and smiled happily, watching him carefully put the ring on her, and the warm-colored wall lamp in the dining room cast a warm color on the two people opposite.

The first marriage proposal she experienced in her life.

In any case, after all, you will still witness the love of others that makes your heart warm.

"Sister Nianci, did you just agree?"

Chen Jing glanced at Luoyang, and sighed deliberately with a sad face: "Oh, what can I do, let's make do with this life until I grow old!"

Walking out of the restaurant, Luo Zhi looked back at the small orange signboard again, it was shining on this particularly deserted long street.In the fairy tale, the protagonist escaped from the clutches of the witch in the black forest and ran all the way, always seeing such a warm lamp at the end of the road.

Luo Zhi was still thinking wildly, Luo Yang suddenly patted her on the head: "Why are you in a daze, let's go, I'll take you back to school."

"Didn't you say that my colleagues still have an appointment to go to the bar at ten o'clock? I'll take Luo Zhi back. It just so happens that the two of us stop by for a chat. You're busy with your work. I've come over these two days, and I've delayed many of your parties, so don't do it today." I'm absent. I'll go back to the hotel by myself in the evening, and I'll find you after the meeting tomorrow."

Chen Jing took Luo Zhi's arm and made a gesture of "please avoid" towards Luo Yang.Luo Yang frowned and said, "Hey, you won't speak ill of me behind my back, will you?"

"They all marry chickens and dogs and dogs, why bother." Luo Zhi said with a smile, Chen Jing stretched out her hand to pinch her face, and she quickly dodged away.

"Okay then, be careful."

Luo Yang's back made Luo Zhi fascinated for a few seconds.There seemed to be something really different about her brother, but she couldn't tell where—maybe it really was that little bit of melancholy in the smile?

Turning his face to the side, he saw Chen Jing also looking confused.

Along the way, they talked about everything from final exams to gossip about the Girls' Rights Association.In the subway carriage, the light tube casts pale light, illuminating Luo Zhi's exhaustion so that there is nowhere to hide.

"Didn't sleep well?"

Luo Zhi yawned: "I'm a little tired these days."

"Your brother is always working overtime these days. Last night, I made some fish head soup for him in his rented apartment. Ginseng slices and goji berries were added to it. It is very useful for people who often stay up late. Recently, you are about to have a final exam. Right? It’s easy to be hungry when you stay up late, but don’t eat too much meat and fire. The more greasy the better, the worse for your health. Drink more yogurt, eat more fruits and vegetables, which are good for your eyes. If I knew it, put the soup in it today Just bring you some in a vacuum flask..."

Perhaps because she realized her rambunctiousness, Chen Jing stopped talking and smiled a little embarrassedly.

Luo Zhi always felt that Chen Jing's smile was the best interpretation of the words "good wife and loving mother", and she felt at ease just looking at it.Chen Jing wears the same "Qingshui noodles" for many years, in an elegant and decent attire, and always has a warm smile on her face-it seems that even though she doesn't have a deep relationship, she herself doesn't have a tortuous past and complicated past. thought.And no matter what you say to her, no matter how twisted or weird, she will understand and give you a smile that makes you no longer alone.

Chen Jing is a treasure.Luo Zhi is proud that her elder brother is a man of discernment.

"Sister Nianci, my brother is really lucky. He had to have good taste to catch up with you back then."

Chen Jing was stunned for a moment: "No way, don't you know? I chased your brother back then."

"what?"

"In the third year of high school, I have been helping him with Chinese, and he helped me with physics, don't you know?"

"I know, but..."

Chen Jing smiled with a row of neat teeth: "Did he never tell you? At the end of the sports meeting in the next semester of the third year of high school, the two of us went home together. I confessed to him."

"The first time I saw you was when he brought you to the library before the college entrance examination. I always thought it was my brother chasing you. How could it be... But it's not important." Luo Zhi smiled, and all Two people who are about to get married, who cares which one pursues first.It's just that Chen Jing has such a quiet personality, imagining her chasing after her actively, really shocked Luo Zhi a little.

"Your brother is actually very thoughtful. The friends around him thought he was chasing me. He never mentioned to others how we were together, but in the eyes of others, it is not a strange thing that we are together. , anyway, we always reviewed together before, and someone spread gossip about us. It’s just that I didn’t expect that he didn’t even tell you.”

Luo Zhi shrugged: "If I marry you, after all, my brother will make a lot of money."

"Where is it?" Chen Jing smiled. "At that time, there were many girls chasing your brother, but no one ever chased me. It was the same in college."

From the appearance point of view, Chen Jing is indeed very unremarkable. Although she is not ugly, she still feels "unsuitable" standing next to the handsome and tall Luoyang.However, Chen Jing was always calm and generous. Seeing her smiling softly behind Luo Yang's back, others would always feel that there was an indescribable harmony between the two of them.

"So of course we have to act first," Chen Jing continued, "Fortunately, it succeeded."

She blinked at Luo Zhi, showing a playful and complacent expression rarely.

"It seems that everyone really doesn't know." Chen Jing leaned against the glass door and muttered to herself, thoughtfully.

"No, someone knows." Chen Jing suddenly and slowly refuted herself.

"Huh? Who knows?"

Chen Jing didn't speak, her eyes drifted out of the dark window, and after a while she looked at the electronic display on the door: "It's almost time to stop."

"Yes." Luo Zhi looked at her quietly.

The subway stopped slowly, and Chen Jing returned to normal, wrapped Luo Zhi's arm affectionately, and walked onto the platform.

Chen Jing lived in a school-run hotel near P University with her classmates who came to Beijing for a meeting. After getting off the subway, the two walked towards the school together.Chen Jing obviously talked a lot less, chatting reluctantly, and finally arrived at the school gate, she was going to turn right, and Luo Zhi was going in.

"Go to rest early, and see how pale your face is." Chen Jing pinched Luo Zhi's face, and when she put her hand down, Luo Zhi happened to notice the simple and elegant ring.

"I forgot to ask you just now, are you happy to receive a privately ordered ring for life?"

Chen Jing first smiled sweetly, then gradually restrained her smile, and after hesitating for a long time, she asked softly: "Luo Zhi, in fact, he didn't intend to give this gift to me today, did he?"

Luo Zhi looked up at her, feeling a little strange.Women's intuition is really scary.

"Actually... I also think it's a bit strange. My brother called before and said that your birthday will be three days later. This is a gift. I just asked me to take it out and give it to him when we met today. I guess he may see that the atmosphere is too good tonight. Yes, I suddenly changed my mind and wanted me to be there to witness it, so as to prevent you from going back on your word, hehe."

Luo Zhi laughed dryly twice, and the corners of Chen Jing's mouth curled up.

"After your elder brother took the gift out of the bag, although he tried his best to hide and fiddled under the table for a long time, I still saw him take out the ring from his bag and stuff it into the puppet's satchel—— Silly girl, do you think Luo Yang would be in such a hurry to do things? How could he sneakily stuff the ring in front of me? Obviously it was a temporary decision. He is more and more adaptable, hehe."

Luo Zhi lowered her head and said nothing.She remembered her brother's winking and smiling expression when he asked her to take out the gift, and she had to admit that it was really weird.

But she still smiled and comforted Chen Jing: "But—but, you think, if it was a sudden intention, why would he carry the ring with him so coincidentally, right?"

Chen Jing reached out and patted Luo Zhi's fleece cap, and said, "Silly girl, your brother went to swipe his card. When you went to the bathroom, I looked through his bag and saw the invoice and pick-up list for the ring. He really is It happened to go to pick up the ring today."

Chen Jing's voice was still soft, and when she told about such investigative actions, it was as indifferent as if they were talking about the temperature during New Year's Day in Beijing.

"Sister-in-law," Luo Zhi panicked, and stopped calling her "Sister Nianci", "you... what's wrong?"

Chen Jing didn't know how many times she stretched out her hand to pinch her face: "There's nothing wrong with us, silly girl."

Luo Zhi's heart overflowed with a trace of coolness.

"Since you doubt it, why do you still pretend that you don't know what's in the handbag, and pretend to be happy when you pinched the shape of the ring, why... promise my brother?" She looked confused, the only perfect couple in her world, unexpectedly There are also unsettling undercurrents lurking under the warm orange light.

Chen Jing laughed softly as if hearing some childish joke.

"Why not? He is willing to marry me, and I am willing to marry him. Why not?"

Yes, why bother with such details?But if you really don't care, how can you express your doubts to yourself in the cold wind?Luo Zhi felt that she couldn't understand everyone around her more and more, and couldn't understand love more and more.

Maybe she never understood it.All her transparency before was nothing but self-righteousness.

"Silly girl, you're an adult too. It's rare to be confused."

Chen Jing's back slowly disappeared at the end of the small street.Luo Zhi has always known that Chen Jing's gentleness is not without sharpness, and she has never ignored her cleverness and intelligence.However, this seemed to be the first time she saw Chen Jing smiling softly, and said softly to herself: "I went through your brother's bag and saw the pick-up slip."

Someone once joked that Chen Jing and Luo Yang were a model couple who never quarreled or got awkward.Chen Jing smiled and said that because the two of them have very plain personalities, they have no sharp edges and corners, so they are easy to talk to.

Luo Zhi only found out today that it's not that they have no edges and corners, it's just that those edges and corners are covered by thin mud.

(End of this chapter)