Tong Jiangxin stayed alone in the bedroom for a long time. Seeing that the time had reached seven o'clock in the evening, Lu Chengxi hadn't come to ask her to cook. She was a little hungry. She stood up and went out of the room. Tong Jiangxin saw Lu Chengxi standing there.
Sitting on the sofa in the living room watching TV.
It wasn't so much that he was watching TV, but he didn't play any sound. There were only pictures and the characters' mouths opening and closing on the LED screen.
Tong Jiangxin was surprised, but didn't say anything.
When Lu Chengxi heard Tong Jiangxin's footsteps, he turned around, looked at her and said, "Are you awake?"
Tong Jiangxin met Lu Chengxi's eyes, she was silent for two seconds, and then she hummed.
In fact, she was not asleep, she just didn't want to come out and see him.
Tong Jiangxin was thinking, when she suddenly heard someone on the TV talking, she realized. Could it be that Lu Chengxi was afraid of waking her up, so he didn't turn on the sound?
This thought just passed by for a moment, and Tong Jiangxin walked towards the kitchen.
She was standing at the kitchen drain sink washing vegetables. Lu Chengxi came over from the living room and said, "Do you need me to do anything?"
Tong Jiangxin did not look back, but simply said, "No need."
Lu Chengxi did not leave, but walked to Tong Jiangxin and took out the fresh tomatoes from the bag.
Putting his hand into the drain sink, Lu Chengxi said directly, "I'll wash it. After washing it, you can just cut it."
The kitchen was very large, but Lu Chengxi was very close to Tong Jiangxin. She neither wanted to talk to him nor get too close to him, so she wiped her hands and walked to the cutting board on the side.
Lu Chengxi used the faucet that Tong Jiangxin turned on to wash the vegetables. After washing for a while, he said, "roll up your sleeves for me."
Tong Jiangxin looked sideways and saw that the cuffs of Lu Chengxi's white shirt were already wet. She walked over and Lu Chengxi handed his arms to her.
Tong Jiangxin's slender fingers covered the cuffs of Lu Chengxi's shirt, untied the cufflinks, and then rolled them up two layers.
Her fingertips were slightly cold, and they accidentally touched Lu Chengxi's skin, as if something had scratched across his skin, disturbing his thoughts.
Lu Chengxi lowered his eyes and looked at Tong Jiangxin, who had his head lowered in front of him and was seriously rolling up his sleeves for him. An inexplicable feeling and impulse surged up, and he suddenly wanted to kiss her.
Pursing his thin lips, his Adam's apple tightened, and he was about to lean down, but Tong Jiangxin had already turned around and left.
Looking at Tong Jiangxin's thin back, Lu Chengxi said, "Are you losing weight recently?"
Tong Jiangxin was marinating steak. When she heard the sound, she replied, "No."
Two simple words, no unnecessary emotions and no raising of eyebrows.
Lu Chengxi only felt that he was ignored by her, and he felt an indescribable annoyance in his heart, as if he wanted to have an attack, but he was afraid that she would be angry.
Afraid that she would be angry? Lu Chengxi suddenly realized that he actually cared about Tong Jiangxin's feelings. He was afraid of her emotions.
This feeling of frustration made Lu Chengxi's eyes darken. He looked down at the vegetables in his hands, stopped talking, and just washed them quietly.
In the kitchen, you could only hear the sound of running water, and occasionally the sound of a kitchen knife touching a cutting board.
The preparations took more than half an hour. Tong Jiangxin turned on the fire, fried the steak, made salad, and cooked a soup.
By the time I finished cooking, it was almost half past eight.
Tong Jiangxin put the steak on two white plates. She turned around and was about to put the plates on the kitchen table when Lu Chengxi took the lead and said, "Let's go to the living room to eat."
After saying that, he reached out and took the plate from Tong Jiangxin's hand.
Tong Jiangxin didn't say anything, just carried the salad bowl and followed Lu Chengxi to the living room.
Lu Chengxi had already placed two steaks on the table in front of the sofa in the living room. According to the distance he placed, Tong Jiangxin could only sit side by side with him.
Lu Chengxi said, "I'll go to the kitchen to get soup. You sit down first."
After saying that, he turned around and entered the kitchen.
Tong Jiangxin glanced at Lu Chengxi's back and quickly looked away. She took a steak and sat on a separate sofa on the side.
When Lu Chengxi came into the living room with a soup pot, something flashed in his eyes, but he didn't say anything. He just took a pot and placed the pot in the middle.
After everything was ready, the two of them sat down. Lu Chengxi sat on the couch in front of him, and Tong Jiangxin sat on the separate sofa to his left.
Lu Chengxi was originally watching the financial channel. He casually tuned in and caught up with Jade Channel showing "囧囧". Just as he was about to broadcast it, Tong Jiangxin subconsciously said, "Hey, watch this."
Lu Chengxi put down the remote control, took the knife and fork, and cut the steak on the plate.
We were halfway through the performance of "囧囧", and we caught up with Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang fighting in the river. Wang Baoqiang pretended not to fight, but when he found a stone to stand on tiptoe, he immediately gave Xu Zheng a condescending blow.
Cheating.
Tong Jiangxin couldn't help laughing, and Lu Chengxi turned his head to look at her. When she smiled, her chin would be sharper, but her cheeks would have more flesh on both sides, which made her look really good-looking.
Originally, Lu Chengxi would never waste time watching such a funny movie, but because Tong Jiangxin laughed, he unexpectedly felt that this movie was good-looking. Although he didn't watch the first part, he could guess what it was.
"ha……"
When he saw Wang Baoqiang dousing Xu Zheng's computer with water, Lu Chengxi couldn't help but laugh.
This sound made Tong Jiangxin look sideways at him, and when he met Tong Jiangxin's strange eyes, the smile on Lu Chengxi's face was slightly awkward, and he said, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Tong Jiangxin told the truth, "Do you still have such a point of laughter?"
Lu Chengxi replied truthfully, "I haven't seen it before, but now I think domestic movies are good and quite interesting."
Tong Jiangxin thought to herself that Lu Chengxi probably participated in too many social gatherings, whether it was true or false, and his smile had already become stiff. Not to mention whether he had time to watch funny movies, he might not be able to laugh even after watching it.
She lowered her head and took a bite of the vegetable salad without answering any more words.
However, Lu Chengxi seized the opportunity to talk and said, "Have you seen this movie?"
Tong Jiangxin hummed, and then said, "I've read a little bit, but not the whole thing."
Lu Chengxi said, "Then let's go to the cinema tonight."
Tong Jiangxin paused for a moment, and five seconds later, she replied, "If you want to see it, go and see it yourself. I don't like people who have seen it before."
Lu Chengxi said, "You didn't see the whole story."
Tong Jiangxin replied, "In this kind of movie, you can probably guess what's going on, so there's no need to watch everything."
Lu Chengxi added, "Aren't you afraid of missing some funny moments?"
Tong Jiangxin raised her eyes and looked at Lu Chengxi. She didn't answer right away, but she just looked at Lu Chengxi and became more and more unsure.
Indeed, he felt that he did not need to be so entangled, but in front of her, he always lost his temper again and again.