"Ouch..." She couldn't help but let out a very light and soft sigh from her throat, filled with pure heartache and love.
"The child is so graceful when eating... so cute..." ** She murmured almost unconsciously in a very soft voice, her cloudy eyes filled with watery love.
She quickly covered her mouth again, afraid of disturbing him, but her eyes were glued to him and couldn't be moved away.
Finally, Ye Qingliu swallowed the first tiny taste.
He raised his eyes, and his gray-blue gaze fell calmly on Sun Guixiang's face full of tension and expectation.
There was still no obvious change in expression on that handsome face.
However, under Sun Guixiang's breathless gaze——
He pinched the piece of bamboo leaf cake that he had bitten a small corner of with his fingers, and brought it to his lips again very naturally and with an almost smooth rhythm.
This time, he opened his lips, still gracefully and restrainedly, and took a bite that was a little bigger than before.
He closed his lips again and chewed attentively. In his focused expression, there seemed to be an imperceptible hint of pure exploration of the taste itself.
He didn't speak.
But he ate the simple bamboo leaf cake calmly, bite by bite, with almost constant rhythm and elegant posture.
The action of finishing the meal quietly is the best answer.
Sun Guixiang watched him eat the bamboo leaf cake quietly, watched his drooping eyelashes, and watched his slightly bulging cheeks as he chewed slowly and rhythmically.
The thought "the child is so cute" bubbled up in her mind, making the corners of her mouth curl up uncontrollably.
She couldn't help but whisper to herself, "Eat slowly, eat slowly, little friend... Oh, you look so good when you eat..."
She looked at the annoying pastry crumbs on Ye Qingliu's lips, and almost instinctively, with a pure elder's concern and a heart full of tenderness, she reached out her hand without thinking.
That withered hand, bearing traces of time, moved naturally and familiarly, with unquestionable gentle strength, and aimed clearly at the corner of Ye Qingliu's mouth.
"Look, it's right in front of my mouth again..." Sun Guixiang's voice was filled with an indulgent smile, and her cloudy eyes were full of kindness.
“Children are so cute when they eat, just like kittens…”
Ye Qingliu was concentrating on the sweet and mellow taste in his mouth with a unique plant fragrance, and was completely unaware of this sudden action.
The hand with a warm and rough feel, with its rough fingertips, brushed across the slightly cool corners of his lips very naturally and gently, brushing away the bamboo-green debris.
His movements were as fast as lightning and as intimate as brushing rice grains off his grandson's face!
The extremely brief and direct touch at the fingertips, like a weak electric current, instantly ran through Ye Qingliu's nerve endings!
His body once again showed the familiar pause, like a precision instrument encountering an unknown signal input!
This time, however, the expected pause was extremely brief and almost negligible.
Even when that warm and rough hand brushed the corner of his lips, he did not stop chewing at all.
He just tilted his head slightly, with a very small movement. It was not so much a dodge as it was a cooperation with the other party's wiping action, allowing the hand to complete its "mission" more smoothly.
The gray-blue eyes raised behind the lenses and looked calmly at Sun Guixiang, who was standing nearby and retracting her hand with a kind smile.
There was no surprise, no resistance, or even a trace of emotion in that look.
Even after Sun Guixiang withdrew her hand, Ye Qingliu raised his hand very naturally, as if out of habit, and used his clean and slender fingertips to elegantly wipe the corner of his lips that had just been wiped.
Then, he calmly lowered his eyelashes and his gaze returned to the remaining bamboo leaf cake in the lunch box, as if nothing had happened.
He stretched out his fingertips, picked up another small piece with the same steady and elegant posture, and put it into his mouth.
Sun Guixiang watched him finish the second piece, and then naturally picked up the third piece.
Her cloudy eyes narrowed into slits due to her smile.
She was no longer restrained. With her back hunched, she dragged a soft stool prepared for visitors by the wall with clumsy movements, carefully placed it not too far from the bed, and sat down.
She didn't say anything else, but just sat quietly, holding the blue print package in her arms, her eyes as gentle as water falling on Ye Qingliu.
Looking at his profile as he chewed intently, the thought of "this kid is so cute" popped up in my mind again, and I couldn't suppress the smile at the corner of my mouth.
Time flows in silence.
Ye Qingliu ate very slowly and attentively, savoring every bite.
When he finally finished eating the pieces of bamboo leaf cake in the lunch box, he put down his hand and his fingertips unconsciously rubbed the edge of the lunch box with a sense of completing a ritual.
Sun Guixiang stood up immediately, her movements seeming a little unsteady due to her haste.
She hurried forward and carefully took the empty lunch box, her cloudy eyes filled with joy: "Eat...finished? Good...good! As long as you like it! Tomorrow...tomorrow I'll make fresh ones and send them over!"
Her voice trembled with excitement, but she couldn't help but add softly, her tone full of undisguised affection: "What a good kid! He eats so cleanly! That's great!"
Ye Qingliu didn't look at her. His gray-blue eyes fell on the empty lunch box and he was silent for a few seconds.
Then, he slowly raised his eyes, his gaze calmly falling on Sun Guixiang's face, which was full of wrinkles but filled with great joy.
His voice was still clear and calm, like freshly melted snow, yet with a strange penetrating power, he asked clearly:
"Have you... eaten yet?"
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