In the quiet and elegant courtyard, there is a stone table and several bamboo chairs.
Placed on the stone table, the purple-edged aloe plant is planted in a pot. There are many potted plants like this used for decoration in Jingchen's home, and many of them are branches he brought back from his morning jog or up the mountain.
Carefully, he placed the branches with flower buds in the pottery basin he made, mostly plum blossoms.
Sitting in such a quiet house, after Si Qing finished the dinner Jingchen cooked for her, she pouted and replied to the message sent by Zhang Wentao.
She felt that she was so unlucky today.
It doesn't matter if the phone almost broke, after all, it was because the other party was careless.
But because of her curiosity, she blew away the gold powder that Jingchen used to paint the gold. Although the glittering golden scene made her feel palpitations for a moment, the price was too high.
All her savings were used to buy a car, and she had to pay off the mortgage every month. She only relied on Huabei to support her daily expenses. She was reluctant to eat at the delicious restaurant yesterday, but she did not escape the high expenses.
It only took a few seconds...
So after seeing the message from Zhang Wentao, she asked the other party to call the money first without thinking.
Because the price of bayberry that has just been released is also very expensive.
Quietly looking at the strange woman sitting in front of him with melancholy written all over her face, Jingchen felt something strange in his heart. After a brief contact with her for an afternoon, he could see every smile and every frown of this woman.
He was a little uncomfortable with being intruded into his leisurely life.
However, because he almost broke the other person's phone, seeing the sadness on the other person's face at this moment, he asked softly: "What? Is there still something wrong with the phone?"
Si Qing was stunned for a moment. This was the first concern she heard.
The plate in front of her was the delicious meal she had just eaten. She raised her head and saw the slightest concern in the brows of the pretentious man in front of her.
Si Qing pursed his lips and said, "No, he is a customer of mine who wants me to buy some bayberries for him and send them to Yunnan."
"Yangmei?"
Jingchen thought for a while, nodded silently and said, "I didn't expect you would need to do such a thing."
Hearing this, Si Qing couldn't help but confide: "We are workers. We have to do everything. We need to maintain the relationship between ourselves and our customers so that customers can be reminded of anything they encounter.
And there is a person like me.
This is the most basic job of our account managers.”
After speaking, Si Qing sighed. She said this not only for Jingchen, but also for herself.
Jingchen said "Oh" and said nothing.
They just looked at each other quietly, without saying a word, and there was still no expression on their faces.
This made Si Qing, who was also staring at him, feel that the slight concern shown by the other party just now was just his own temporary illusion.
Feeling that he had nothing to say to the other party, the atmosphere between the two returned to the original awkwardness. Si Qing lowered his head and glanced at the time.
After estimating the distance home, she pursed her lips and smiled politely at Jingchen: "Well, thank you for the dinner. I'll go back first."
After speaking softly, she saw that the other party was still drinking tea expressionlessly and not responding.
Frowning, she started to pack her things. Just when she put the notebook into her computer bag, Jingchen's faint voice reached her ears:
"If it's bayberry, there's it in the back mountain...and it's already ripe."
…
After folding his clothes according to his own habits, Zhang Wentao sat on the sofa and looked at his mobile phone.
Seeing that Si Qing had clearly asked him to send money but did not accept it after he transferred the money, he thought that the other party might buy it first and then collect the money.
I can't help but give another thumbs up to the account manager of this bank for his handling of people.
Then he put his phone on the table and sat up.
On the sheets without any wrinkles, his and Xu Hongdou's clothes were neatly arranged. When he noticed certain details, he was embarrassed in his heart, but his face was also full of happiness.
"Would you like it tonight?"
Just as he was dreaming in his mind, he suddenly remembered that the two of them had not taken any defensive measures last night and this morning, and he frowned.
just in case…
He looked at the sheets and concentrated.
Xu Hongdou also walked out of her room at this time, with her hair pulled up, wearing a white body shirt, shorts, and a thin yellow sun protection clothing.
Seeing the other person staring straight at her white legs, she angrily came over and hit him: "Do you want to go for a walk?"
Zhang Wentao said in a daze: "Yes, yes."
Is this a reward for yourself?
Thinking about it, he swallowed, looked away, and said, "Would you like to change into a pair of pants? There are mosquitoes outside."
This said, Xu Hongdou felt deep in her heart. Everything in Yunmiao Village was good, but there were a lot of mosquitoes. After thinking about it for a moment, she nodded and said, "Well, wait for me a little longer."
After saying that, she turned around and walked back to her room.
As soon as he entered the door, he saw his long, graceful and white legs in the mirror, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
Not long after, Xu Hongdou, who put on a pair of gray sweatpants, took Zhang Wentao's arm and walked together with a smile. Seeing that there was only a little afterglow left in the mountains, Xu Hongdou said with a smile: "It seems that these two days
, we don’t go running together anymore.”
"Well, yes."
Yunmiao Village is not big, and most people eat and rest at home in the evening.
The two of them strolled arm in arm to the stone bridge. When they saw the flowing stream coming down, night had come.
"Don't be too tired tomorrow." Zhang Wentao said.
Xu Hongdou hummed lightly: "Don't worry, just think of it as exercise. By the way, do your family members know how to make wine?"
Zhang Wentao shook his head.
"That's a pity." Xu Hongdou said sadly.
She originally wanted to buy some and send them to her aunt's house, but now it seems she has no choice but to give up.
"We can make jam together and send it back, so that it will be more convenient for the family to eat." Zhang Wentao looked sideways at the other party.
When he first saw the plum forest, he knew that the other party's character must be bought and shared.
So I had already thought about it.
"Making jam?"
Hearing the other party's suggestion, Xu Hongdou, who was still a little disappointed, immediately smiled and said, "Yeah, why did I forget that you still have this ability."
Zhang Wentao glanced at the other party lovingly, and seeing no one around, lowered his head and whispered in Xu Hongdou's ear: "My ability..."
Before he finished speaking, Xu Hongdou opened his head, rolled his eyes at the other person, and said with some embarrassment and annoyance: "Zhang Wentao, please speak more seriously, I don't like to hear this."
Zhang Wentao: "..."
Seeing his deflated look, Xu Hongdou suppressed her smile and teased her black hair from her temples.
"I understand, then I won't say anything anymore." Zhang Wentao's tone was a little low.
Seeing his kindness, Xu Hongdou took a small step forward and whispered: "That's not what I meant. I just don't like your glib look. Do you understand?"
Zhang Wentao lowered his head to look at the other person, and after humming softly, Xu Hongdou said nothing and pressed his face against the other person's chest.
Listening to the other person's heartbeat, Xu Hongdou narrowed his eyes.
Feeling the ripples in each other's body, the two looked at each other and touched lightly.