Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Kiss Under the Lemon Tree
He Niannian was so surprised that her mouth opened wide, and she looked at Tao Ning as if she was looking at a ghost, "You you you..." She stammered for a long time and couldn't say a word.
Zhao Jingqun couldn't stand it any longer. He snatched the glasses and put them back on Tao Ning's face. He closed his eyes, suppressed the possessive desire that was about to overflow, and said expressionlessly, "Just shoot it like this."
He Niannian didn't refute, but her eyes kept on Tao Ning's face from time to time, as if she wanted to stare her until flowers came out. From this, it seemed that she had never looked at this country bumpkin straight in the eye before, and she had overlooked a lot of things.
Only now did I realize that this country bumpkin had fair and delicate skin and excellent facial features. Unfortunately, he always wore very rustic glasses, did not cut his long bangs, kept his eyes drooping, and looked so honest that he was inconspicuous in the crowd.
So he... is he that good looking?
A few clicks.
The photo was frozen on August 13, 2012.
The girl with twin ponytails in the photo pouted and looked reluctant to stand next to the bewildered boy, but her eyes were glued to him.
He Yan took the photos with Fuji 500AF, and took four or five of them. However, the postures of the two people in the photos hardly changed. The girl looked awkward from beginning to end, and the boy was also uneasy.
Secretary Liu looked at the photo that emerged from above the camera with a look of amazement, "This little box is really amazing."
He Niannian rolled her eyes, too lazy to explain to him. She put two of the photos on the table with a "pa" sound. She spoke to Tao Ning, but her eyes were looking at the door. "Here, they are for you."
After saying this, she pulled Zhao Jingsui away very awkwardly, with her twin ponytails bouncing in the air, just like the day when she first came to Huangmeng Village.
The two photos went into Zhao Jingqun's pocket before Tao Ning even looked at them. On the way back, Zhao Jingqun held his hand tightly, without any strength left. Tao Ning felt a little pain in his hand. After spending more than half a month together, he knew that the man was a little angry.
Although he didn't understand why, understanding a person's mind was indeed more difficult than solving a problem, and figuring out Zhao Jingqun's mind was even more difficult than the most difficult math problem.
There was a rare hint of helplessness in her voice as Tao Ning asked, "...What's wrong?"
Zhao Jingqun tightened his grip on his hand, his eyes darkening slightly, "It's okay."
In fact, he had problems himself. It was not Tao Ning's fault. He could not stand Tao Ning getting close to other people. Even if it was just a simple photo, he would be so jealous that his heart seemed to fall into corrosive acid, and his sanity was on the verge of decay.
He was jealous and possessive, to the point of being mentally ill, but Zhao Jingqun didn't dare to say anything, fearing that Tao Ning would be afraid of him.
At night, Zhao Jingqun patted Tao Ning's back to coax him to sleep. In the dim room, he stared at the sleeping boy in his arms without blinking, just watching him motionlessly.
After confirming that the person on the bed had fallen into a deep sleep, Zhao Jingqun got out of bed and took out the two photos taken by Tao Ning during the day. He couldn't help but stroke the shyly smiling boy in the photos, with a dark obsession in his eyes.
But more of it is jealousy.
He tore the photo in the middle with an expressionless face, leaving only the part with Tao Ning, then took out his cell phone and carefully looked through the photos in the album - two-thirds of the photos were related to Tao Ning.
During these ten days, he would always secretly take pictures of Tao Ning when she wasn't paying attention. Some of her were working on her homework seriously with her head down, some were in a daze with her head supported, and some were half asleep... Zhao Jingqun recorded them all.
He put the torn photo into his wallet. After doing these things, Zhao Jingqun scanned the dilapidated little house like a male wolf patrolling his territory, and finally stopped in front of his partner's desk.
Thinking of what Tao Ning concealed that day, Zhao Jingqun was only curious at that time, but now he felt uncomfortable, so he started to look through a pile of math, physics and chemistry exercise books without hesitation. He wanted to know what Tao Ning had hidden from him.
Zhao Jingqun doesn't want Tao Ning to hide anything or have any secrets from him.
"……What are you doing?"
The man who was searching with his head down froze instantly, his fingers trembling. He turned around and saw Tao Ning rubbing her eyes and looking at him. Her pajamas were a little loose, revealing half of her delicate white shoulders.
The system had just woken him up: [Idiot, wake up! Zhao Jingqun is looking for our secret manual. I can only send it to you and can't take it back. If he finds it, he'll definitely get suspicious...]
Yes, how could a bookworm who only knew how to study read those novels? Someone like Zhao Jingqun, who could think ten times around the same thing, would definitely start to doubt it.
Zhao Jingqun was silent for a few seconds, then walked over and pulled up the collar of his shirt that had slid down to his arm. "...Looking for cigarettes."
Tao Ning looked at him with an expression of obvious disbelief, but she didn't expose him. "But you promised me that you would quit smoking."
Zhao Jingqun hugged him and kissed Tao Ning's soft hair. His voice was slightly hoarse: "I was wrong. Be good and go back to sleep."
The man fell asleep holding Tao Ning, as usual, trapping the person in his arms in a restraining posture, as if he had woven a cage with his body, hoping to keep Tao Ning trapped in the cage forever, without seeing the light of day.
But Tao Ning is not a soft trapped bird, but a sapling that can grow into a towering tree.
The next day, Tao Ning had no classes to make up, so she decided to go up the mountain with Zhao Jingqun and Tao Yuan. When Zhao Jingqun found out, he got up early to make breakfast and fried five dishes and put them in a thermos box, all of which were Tao Ning's favorites.
Zhao Jingqun took out a backpack worth several thousand yuan from the cabinet where the "pig feed" was kept. Inside it were the exercise books that Tao Ning had done every day, as well as toilet paper, wind oil, a palm-leaf fan, a foldable bench, etc., as well as the honey bread that he had bought in town that day.
The most conspicuous things in the schoolbag are two black pens and two pieces of red cloth.
When the time came, Zhao Jingqun picked out a set of clothes that covered Tao Ning tightly. In the past few days, he asked someone to buy a lot of clothes for Tao Ning, as well as for Xiao Meng and Tao Yuan.
Tao Yuan was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling and kept saying that she wanted Zhao Jingqun to be her son-in-law.
Zhao Jingqun didn't answer either, his eyes were on Tao Ning. He originally wanted to put clothes on Tao Ning himself, but he was rejected several times in a row, so he had no choice.
He could only squat down to help Tao Ning put on her socks and tie her shoelaces, but during the process, he would use his rough fingertips to stroke her ankle on the palm of his hand a few more times.
The boy's feet were several times smaller than his, and the nails of his five toes were trimmed neatly and smoothly, round like jade beads. Zhao Jingqun would stare at them with extremely dark eyes, and his greedy eyes seemed as if he wanted to lick them with his tongue.
But he just rolled his Adam's apple a few times and held it in.
Zhao Jingqun was trying his best to suppress the dirty desires in his heart, but he didn't know how long he could restrain himself. However, as long as Tao Ning could stay by his side forever, he could keep pretending.
Tao Yuan yawned as she came out. From a distance, she saw Zhao Jingqun carrying a large bag, with both hands full of things. She was shocked: "Didn't you say we were going to the mountains today... Jingqun, are you going home?"
Zhao Jingqun said: "No, Tao Ning is going with us today, so I brought some extra things."
Tao Yuan: “…”
She thought that her brother couldn't help much, so he could just be a mascot.
The three of them stopped and walked on the way until they arrived at their work place. This time they went to the mountain to pick lemons, but the lemons were almost picked. There were only a few boxes of work today, not much. After picking and packing, the villagers would transport them to the town to sell.
Zhao Jingqun found a cool and clean place for Tao Ning to sit, told him everything in his backpack, and then rolled up his sleeves and went to work with peace of mind.
In the weather of 27 or 28 degrees, the man took off his clothes, revealing his standard eight-pack abs. It was obvious that he had exercised well and his hands and feet were nimble. It was impossible to tell that he came from a wealthy family.
As the sun grew higher, beads of sweat began to appear on the man's deep, sculpted facial features, and his wheat-colored skin darkened. He wiped the sweat from his forehead, but did not feel tired at all.
Because Tao Ning would occasionally come over to give him water and wipe his sweat with a towel. As long as Zhao Jingqun looked at Tao Ning, he would instantly be full of energy, even secretly showing off.
By noon, the lemons had been picked almost completely. Tao Yuan went back home first because he had some things to do in town today.
So in the endless mountains and fields, apart from the chirping of insects and birds, only Tao Ning and Zhao Jingqun were left.
Tao Ning handed him the slightly cool mineral water. Zhao Jingqun tilted his head back and drank it all in one gulp. He flattened the plastic bottle and put it in his backpack, then used his moist lips to plunder the sweetness from Tao Ning's lips.
Zhao Jingqun stared at the young man who was breathless from his kiss with a beast-like look until he could no longer breathe, and then he let him go.
The sticky silk thread, like a string of small jade beads, separated from his lips. Zhao Jingqun panted heavily and asked in a low, hoarse voice, "...My dear, will you come with me to swear the oath?"
After Tao Ning finished telling the ancient legend that day, an idea popped up in his mind, but it quickly disappeared. Now he suddenly realized that he wanted to swear an oath with the boy. Even if it was just a legend, he would not give up the hope of being with Tao Ning forever.
Tao Ning was stunned for a few seconds, his heart beat slightly, he nodded, and said "hmm".
He took Zhao Jingqun to another secluded hilltop. The sunlight shone into the dense woods. Due to the Tyndall effect, the light fell on the dead branches and leaves on the ground, leaving only a few scattered points.
They came to a locust tree with a diameter of one meter. The locust flowers looked like a white ocean in the air, surrounding Tao Ning and Zhao Jingqun.
"This locust tree is hundreds of years old. We can tie red silk around its branches."
Tao Ning raised his eyes, and a few white petals fell and floated into his slightly curly hair.
Zhao Jingqun glanced sideways, the light reflected on the cheek of the person next to him, the beautiful and delicate facial features were particularly clear, the sunlight made the boy seem to bloom with a faint halo, so beautiful that he looked like an angel who was about to leave the world at any time.
It's so beautiful that a despicable person like him can never catch it.
Zhao Jingqun's heart was stabbed hard. He couldn't help but rush forward and hug the "angel" in his arms. He restrainedly kissed the boy's hair stained with flower petals over and over again. The dark darkness in his eyes could no longer be concealed. "...Tao Ning, you can only be mine."
The person in his arms didn't say anything. Zhao Jingqun took a deep breath, closed his eyes, lowered his head and kissed the boy's soft lips. A breeze blew over, and they kissed under the sky full of locust flowers.
However, Zhao Jingqun, caught up in the passion, didn't notice that about seven or eight meters away, a hunched figure, hidden by the bushes, was staring intently at them. Upon seeing them kiss, a flash of shock flashed in his cloudy eyes...
Finally, it is full of malice.
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