Chapter 46
Yan Qing looked at the graduation photo in her hand and flipped through it but didn't find any name.
"Guess which one is me?"
She carefully observed each of the little figures above. They all had round heads and grins, revealing their big white teeth. Only one of them had a stern face. Yan Qing glanced at Ming Xu and smiled slyly: "This is not difficult."
Seeing the person she was pointing at, Ming Xu smiled and said, "You guessed right."
"So you've been like this since you were a child?"
"What?"
Ming Xu sat down next to her. The sofa in the homestay was not big, just right for two people.
It was the first time for the two of them to sit so close to each other. Yan Qing was a little uncomfortable and wanted to move to the side, but Ming Xu grabbed her arm and said, "If you go over there, you can't look at the photos with us."
That’s right.
At this time, she was actually no longer interested in those certificates, and Mingxu didn't expect that her aunt could find so many childhood photos.
Yan Qing slowly flipped through the thick stack. Suddenly, she seemed to see something, but before she could see it clearly, Ming Xu took it away. Looking at Ming Xu's flushed face, she seemed to know what was going on and stretched out her hand to demand it back forcefully: "Let me see."
"There's nothing to see." Ming Xu knew what was on the photo as soon as he saw a corner of it. He didn't expect his aunt to actually take out this photo. He couldn't let Yan Qing see it. "Don't look at it anymore."
Yan Qing refused to give in. The more they tried to stop her from looking, the more she insisted on looking.
The two of them confronted each other, and finally, Ming Xu gave in and had to take out the photo from behind him, and told her: "Just take a look at it casually."
Yan Qing didn't care: "Are you afraid that I'll see your naked butt?"
"How do you know?"
Yan Qing clearly saw Ming Xu's face turn red instantly.
"I just saw it."
What a miscalculation. Yan Qing had never seen such a Ming Dynasty preface before, and he even spoke incoherently.
Seeing him embarrassed, Yan Qing didn't feel embarrassed: "Okay, I won't watch it anymore."
"You've seen it all, why are you saying you don't want to see it now?" Ming Xu stared at Yan Qing with a dark face, his eyes shining like a wolf looking at its prey.
Yan Qing took the photo from his hand, took a look at it, and put it in the box. Then she picked it up and shook it towards him, meaning, "Are you satisfied with this?"
"That's more like it."
The box contained all Ming Xu's childhood photos, all of which were organized together before he started junior high school. Yan Qing looked at them one by one while he explained them one by one. At the end, he was a little dissatisfied: "Why are there only so many? There should be many more."
"What photo?"
Seeing the question in Yan Qing's eyes, Ming Xu coughed and said, "Don't let your imagination run wild."
The two sat together, looking at the time more than twenty years before Ming Xu, which passed in a blink of an eye.
Ming Xu stared at Yan Qing's hands flipping through the photos, tilted his head to look at her hair fluttering in the wind from the window, and couldn't help but ask: "Give me a chance to pursue you?"
Yan Qing was stunned.
The photo stopped at the one where he graduated from Mingxu University. He no longer had a stern face when taking photos like when he was a child. Here, he was the bright, high-spirited, and outspoken one Yan Qing had seen.
"I thought you would let me give you a chance to fall in love with me."
The room fell into silence. Ming Xu stood up, and the two of them, one sitting and one standing, looked at each other.
His voice was firm: "Yan Qing, I like you. Are you willing to date me?"
Yan Qing nodded. This time, she had thought it through.
She would think about the future later and live in the present, that was what she wanted.
Everything is going according to plan.
After the confession, the two sat on the sofa, and the distance between them seemed even farther than before.
Ming Xu looked at her and asked, "Do you want to talk to your friend?"
"Yes, I do need to talk about it." Yan Qing took out her cell phone, opened Zhou Mingshu's chat box, stared at the screen for a long time, and didn't type a word. Mingxu was about to ask when she saw her raise her cell phone, took a photo of herself and sent it over.
"Now, she should understand, right?"
This was her first time falling in love. In the novels she read when she was young, when the male and female protagonists were in love, the ones who were flamboyant would announce their relationship to the world, wishing that even the flowers on the roadside knew about it.
But they, she glanced at Mingxu, they were not that style.
Zhou Mingshu called immediately and Yan Qing waited for a few seconds before picking up the phone.
“Ahhhhhhhh!!”
The deafening sound penetrated the eardrums of both of them. Ming Xu looked at his phone, even a little at a loss. He gestured to Yan Qing whether he wanted to go out first, but was stopped by Yan Qing.
Looking at the hand holding his, Mingxu stood quietly beside her, listening to the person on the phone venting his excitement: "Are you really together?"
Zhou Mingshu asked several times, "Is it true?", fearing that Yan Qing was celebrating next year's April Fool's Day in advance.
"Why would I lie to you?"
"I've been waiting for this day for a long time, three years, and my CP is finally getting married." She began to speak without restraint. Yan Qing glanced at Ming Xu and saw that he looked calm, so she let Zhou Mingshu continue.
But Zhou Mingshu stopped talking.
After a while, he whispered, "Did he confess his love there? Were there any gifts or flowers?"
After these words were spoken, Ming Xu, who was standing aside, suddenly realized, but felt dejected the next second. Will there be any flower shop that would accept the order at this time?
He wanted to check with his phone, but it was on the table next to him.
Seeing that he seemed to be busy, Yan Qing asked silently, "What's wrong?"
Ming Xu pointed to the mobile phone on the table next to him. Yan Qing then realized that she was still holding his arm and quickly let go.
After successfully getting the phone, Mingxu took the opportunity to pretend to have something to do and leave.
Seeing him close the door, Yan Qing breathed a sigh of relief: "He's out, ask whatever you want to ask quickly."
Zhou Mingshu was puzzled: "Go out? Where are you?"
"In my room."
As soon as he finished speaking, a deafening sound followed. Yan Qing hurriedly put the phone aside, but was still affected.
Zhou Mingshu: "Why is he in your room?"
After that, he asked himself, "It's not important. What are you doing in your room?"
“Is there a difference between these two questions?”
"Answer quickly."
Yan Qing was helpless and picked a few to tell her. Zhou Mingshu seemed very regretful, but that was not what she thought. "Just looking at the photos?"
Looking at the messy things on the table that had not been put away, Yan Qing nodded and explained why Ming Xu came to her room with the photos.
Zhou Mingshu didn't understand either, but she had also watched the drama that Mingxu's mother watched. When the male protagonist did those things, she was still fantasizing that she could also meet such a man, but things did not go as she wished.
"I think Brother Meiqiu is quite sincere. He even told you his bank card password."
Yan Qing nodded: "I don't know why, but I agreed. I even looked forward to his confession."
"It means you like him too."
The two talked for a while, and then Zhou Mingshu said he had something to do and ran away. Yan Qing sat alone on the sofa, looking at the messy table and cleaning it up silently.
I don’t know where he went. We were just together for an hour, and then the male protagonist suddenly disappeared.
Looking at the thing in his hand, Yan Qing threw it aside angrily and muttered, "Before we were together, he had to tell me at work, but now he won't say a word."
Ming Xu, who had sneaked out to look for a flower shop, had not yet realized the mistake he had made. His heart was filled with Yan Qing's happiness after receiving the flowers. He looked for several shops, but they all said they were going to close. He finally found one, but it was still some distance away.
The car keys were in the office, and in order to avoid being discovered by Yan Qing, he sneaked up the stairs.
The cleaning lady who was tidying up the stairwell saw her boss in such a state and asked in confusion, "Boss? Are you looking for something?"
Ming Xu was startled by the sudden sound, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it was the cleaning lady: "It's okay."
Looking at the boss leaving stealthily, the cleaner was full of doubts: Young people nowadays are so weird.
When we arrived at the flower shop, the manager was already making the flowers in a hurry.
When he heard someone coming, he said without even looking up, "Sorry, we're closed. We can only take reservations now."
"I just ordered flowers."
The store manager immediately looked up and said, "It will take a while. Please sit down and wait for a while."
Looking at the flowers in the store, Mingxu suddenly thought of the vase he had taken away a few days ago and asked, "Can I buy these flowers now?"
The store manager became alert, fearing that this customer would suddenly add to his order: "Do you want a bouquet?"
"Put it directly in the vase."
The store manager breathed a sigh of relief: "Then please choose first, and I will install it for you later."
He didn't know what kind of flowers Yan Qing liked, so he took out his phone, opened a picture, and handed it to the store manager: "Excuse me, what kind of flower is this?"
Looking at the withered flowers in the picture, the store manager took a look around at the flowers in his store and said firmly, "This is Gold Coast, but we don't have any in our store. Can I recommend something else?"
Mingxu nodded and thought that he could just buy the same thing next time. She wouldn’t blame him, right?
Yan Qing looked at his phone, thought for a moment, but still didn't ask his question.
But the next second, he received a message from Ming Xu: There is something going on, I'll go take care of it.
Is there really something wrong? Why didn't you tell me just now?
She lay on the sofa, looking at the mess on the table, with no interest in tidying it up.
So this is what it feels like to be in love.
Looking at the ceiling, Yan Qing thought of the characters in her books. She would give every couple a perfect ending. Their relationships were all positive, and perhaps mixed with her own expectations.
"I hope my love will be the same." Yan Qing prayed softly.
The flowers were finally wrapped, and Mingxu bought a bouquet of brilliance and glimmer on the recommendation of the store manager.
Seeing Mingxu's uncertain look, the store manager asked, "Are you buying this for your girlfriend?"
After receiving affirmation, she continued, "These are things girls will like. It's great that you have this intention. She will definitely be happy when she sees it."
"Thank you very much."
After paying the money, Mingxu drove quickly to the B&B.
"Knock, knock, knock."
Hearing the knock on the door, Yan Qing jumped up from the sofa, and no one knew where his shoes were kicked to.
"Come here, who is it?" she asked knowingly.
As soon as the door opened, what caught my eye was a large bouquet of colorful flowers. Ming Xu slowly appeared from behind the flowers: "Do you like it?"
Yan Qing then realized that she had been deceived. She didn't take the flowers and pretended to be angry: "So it's not the company that's busy?"
Sensing that the atmosphere was not right, he quickly explained: "When I heard you guys talking just now, I thought I should buy a bouquet of flowers. It was my mistake. So I went out and bought them right away. It was wrong of me to lie to you."
"I don't blame you. You can buy it tomorrow. It's so late, are there any flower shops open?" After saying that, he took the flowers and sniffed them gently.
Ming Xu looked at her expectantly: "Do you like it?"
After receiving the answer, he produced two more bundles from behind his back: "What about these?"
The light in Yan Qing's eyes grew even brighter, and he shouted, "Why is there more?"
"I noticed your vase has this color. I asked the store manager, but she didn't have that one anymore, so I bought these two. Do you like them?"
"I like them." Yan Qing held three bouquets of flowers and stared at him with burning eyes, "I like them all."
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