Chapter 10 I like you

Jiang Cheng took her to a barbecue stall and greeted the owner familiarly.

"Same as usual, just get a double portion."

The boss happily agreed and took another look at Xuanli, "New girlfriend? This little girl is very pretty! She's prettier than the ones you brought before!"

Xuanli looked at the person beside her in slight surprise, but he argued with a smile: "Don't talk nonsense in front of the little girl. I have never brought any girls here."

She looked around and saw that it was an open-air stall. There were only a few small tables at the door and it was full of people.

"I didn't expect you to come to a place like this."

Jiang Cheng was taking apart his chopsticks when he heard her words and raised his eyebrows slightly, "Why do you say that?"

Xuanli breathed a sigh of relief at the cold hand, "You are Master Jiang, but you are so humble that you come to such a small stall."

"Xuan Xiaoli, I am also an ordinary person, not so noble."

He chuckled softly and subconsciously touched his pocket. When he realized it, he wrapped his coat around her and raised his chin towards her.

"Give me the cigarette in your pocket."

She reached into her pocket and found a hard and bulging cigarette case in her hand. There was also something cold and metallic, which was a lighter.

Xuanli put her hand in her pocket for a long time without taking it out. Jiang Cheng snorted, "What's wrong? It's still hot?"

She raised her watery almond eyes and asked sincerely: "Do you smoke often?"

He didn't deny it, "That's right. I'll have one when I'm irritable."

"If you are in a bad mood, you can talk to me," Xuanli plucked up the courage and looked serious like a preaching teacher. "Uncle Huo used to tell me when he was troubled."

A playful smile appeared in Jiang Cheng's eyes, "Huh? I don't see that you still have the talent to be a psychology teacher." He raised his eyes slightly and smiled casually, "I'm worried about the school's physics experiment data, you

Can it be solved?"

Although she learned all the knowledge in high school by herself, she has never gone to college, so she doesn’t know if the difficulty of physics in college will exceed her knowledge.

So Xuanli's fair cheeks were awkwardly dyed light pink, which reminded Jiang Cheng of a kind of fruit: peach.

I thought she would give up, but unexpectedly, the little girl with her head lowered raised her face again and asked tentatively: "Shall I try?"

Jiang Cheng laughed, "No need, my team members will take care of the data."

Xuanli took out the cigarette case and lighter, lowered her eyes and seemed a little disappointed, "Then you should smoke."

Her palms were plain white, and when he lowered his eyes to look at them, they looked like a snow-white pear.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to smoke, but he felt an inexplicable itching in his throat. He hooked his fingers and took the cigarette case and lighter.

His fingertips inadvertently scratched the palm of her hand. Xuanli subconsciously curled up her hand, and belatedly realized that his hand was unexpectedly beautiful.

There are no unflattering long nails, and the five fingers are white and slender. Especially when holding a cigarette between the index finger and ring finger, the movement of the finger bones creates a somewhat unwarranted sex appeal.

Xuanli lowered her eyes and suppressed a little bit of boredom in her heart.

The evening breeze of late spring still had a slight chill, and the smell of mint-flavored cigarettes rolled in and the aroma of barbecue blew away her slightly confused thoughts.

She choked on the smell of smoke and coughed several times. The spicy smell of barbecue made her cough even more violently, and her fair face turned red from the choking.

Jiang Cheng stubbed out the cigarette butt and threw it into the ashtray. He got up and went to a nearby vending machine to buy a bottle of room-temperature orange juice.

He squatted down next to Xuan Li, unscrewed the bottle cap and handed it to her, tilted his head slightly and looked at her with a smile: "Why didn't you say you couldn't smell the smoke?"

She took it and took a sip before she stopped coughing. Her ears were already stained with cherry powder, and she said in a confused tone: "Because... it can't solve your troubles."

Jiang Cheng ruffled her hair like a punishment. The texture was as soft as a ball of seaweed. "Now that we are back in the courtyard, we are a family. There is no need to cover up in front of me."

Xuanli's thoughts moved and she raised her eyes to look at him, her brown pupils shining cautiously.

"The same for you?"

He was slightly startled and didn't react for a moment, "What?"

His clear almond eyes reflected his surprised face, "Will you be as unreserved as we are to you?"

Jiang Cheng smacked the tip of his tongue against the roof of his mouth and let out a laugh.

He stood up, sat back on the opposite side, and looked at her with a half-smile. "No."

Jiang Cheng fiddled with the cap of the lighter back and forth, "Brother Lang Xing is not here, I am the boss of the courtyard, and I can only be the boss if I have a secret."

"This can only fool Yu Tingxuan," Xuanli blinked, "He seems to listen to you very much."

"Because if you don't obey, you will be beaten." He picked up the mutton skewers with the most chili powder and put them on her plate, "Have a taste."

Xuanli stared at the bright red chili powder for a long time, swallowed, and then slowly picked it up.

When he brought it to his mouth, he suddenly stopped.

Jiang Cheng looked at her with interest, "Don't like spicy food?"

She grew up in the south of the Yangtze River and ate mostly sweet and salty food, rarely eating spicy food.

But seeing his teasing expression, Xuanli took a deep breath and took a bite.

Numbness and spiciness swept through the mouth from all directions, even the tip of the tongue was so spicy that it lost consciousness for a moment. Not long after it subsided, the blush spread from the neck to the cheeks.

The more Jiang Cheng looked at it, the more interesting it became, and he pushed the orange juice in her hand towards her.

"Why do you blush so easily?"

Xuanli used to be taught by Huo Lishen and his wife to eat and drink in small sips, but now she didn't care about being reserved, raised her neck and drank a third of it.

She blushed and explained: "Spicy...spicy!"

He held his chin with one hand and tapped the edge of the plate with his chopsticks.

"Xuan Xiaoli, you obviously don't like to be restrained. Try to be more relaxed. This is Kyoto, and your adoptive parents are not in charge."

Xuanli reiterated with a straight face, her voice a little hoarse from coughing many times, "It's Xuanli."

"Xuan Xiaoli sounds better than Xuan Li," Jiang Cheng said as he ate two skewers of mutton skewers without changing his expression. "Your name sounds like a homophone to a sentence."

She watched helplessly as he poured a lot of chili powder on the meat skewers because he didn't think it was spicy enough, and unconsciously asked: "What does it look like?"

He poked the cigarette butt into the previously extinguished cigarette, and his voice was as crisp and cool as the first melting snow, "I like you."

Xuanli's hand holding the skewer shook, and the tip made a slight cut at the corner of her mouth.

"Why are you nervous?" Jiang Cheng chuckled, took out a piece of paper and pressed it to the corner of her mouth where blood was about to bleed, "I'm just translating."

Her eyelashes trembled, and she pressed the tissue he handed her.

The corner of his lip hurt a little, but it was only a very shallow scratch, and blood didn't even appear.

But Xuanli's skin is thin, and if you look closely, the scar is somewhat obvious on her fair cheek.

Jiang Cheng clicked his tongue, "Wait for me here."
Chapter completed!