Chapter 36 Chapter 36 Have a Happy New Year
Tang Ningyue usually only got up early on weekdays. Since New Year's Day was a holiday, she slept until noon. She didn't have many relatives in Beining, so there was no need for her to visit them. Xu Qing was in a similar situation. He got up early and accompanied Zhou Su in the kitchen to make dumplings.
As usual, Zhou Su was going to visit relatives. After eating dumplings in the morning, he called Li Jinglang and prepared to go out. He asked Xu Qing and Tang Ningyue to rest at home for a while. They finally had a day off, so they deserved to sleep a little longer.
"After dinner, go out and have some fun. It's very lively outside. This is the first time Ning Yue has celebrated Spring Festival in China in all these years."
"Okay." Xu Qing nodded. "I'll tell her to have breakfast and then leave."
"Jinglang and I might not be able to come back for long tonight, so we'll be staying at a relative's house. You guys just stay here and I'll make you some food when Aunt Zhou comes back."
"No thanks, Aunt Zhou," Xu Qing said, also trying to evade the offer. A New Year's Eve dinner was fine, but staying at someone else's house during the holiday wasn't the right thing to do. "Don't bother me. Don't worry about us. Ningyue hasn't been home for a while, so I'll take her out for some fun. You don't have to worry about us."
"That's fine." Zhou Su nodded. "I'll feel at ease if you stay with her."
The two of them went back and forth at the dining table. Li Jinglang didn't say a word. He poked the dumplings in the bowl into a sieve, and the filling leaked all over the plate.
Zhou Su didn't know when he developed this bad habit and glared at him.
"...I'm going to change my clothes." Li Jinglang put down his chopsticks, said he was full, left the table and went back to his room.
"How many have you eaten?" Zhou Su called him from behind, frowning and glancing at the rotten dumplings.
"I'm full." Li Jinglang said these two words with his back to them.
"This child..."
.....
Li Jinglang heard some noise when he entered the corridor and found that Tang Ningyue had already gotten up. The door of her room was not closed and there was no one inside. He paused for a moment, still looking around for her figure.
Li Jinglang turned slightly towards the direction of the sound and found that Tang Ningyue was washing up in the bathroom in the room where Xu Qing also lived.
The bathroom in the guest room was next to the door, and Li Jinglang could see her by just turning his head slightly.
Tang Ningyue was wearing pajamas with long sleeves and long pants, with her hair tied to one side and draped over her chest. She was brushing her teeth while texting and cursing Duan Jiayu. Her hair trembled and bounced with her movements. Her tone was bad and her words were extreme. In short, she was disgusted with Duan Jiayu for eating and drinking too much during the New Year and not keeping in shape.
"I'm not telling you not to eat. After you finish eating, go and practice. What woman do you think likes a greasy man covered in fat?"
"Don't send me photos. Look at how fat you are. And you still have the nerve to post videos online. Do you really believe your fans who say you're cute?"
"Yes, you're right. I am prejudiced. I just don't like people with bad figures. Why would anyone like you if you have such a bad figure? Are you sick?"
It seemed that Tang Ningyue was still in a bad mood after waking up. Although she didn't yell, she could no longer pretend to be a gentle and kind woman. She scolded him and still couldn't calm down.
The person on the other end of the phone seemed to want to explain something, but Tang Ningyue didn't give him a chance and hung up the call.
She threw her phone away, straightened up angrily, and turned her head just in time to meet Li Jinglang's gaze, which he had not yet had time to avoid.
Although he didn't mean to eavesdrop, and he didn't have any guilty expression, but Tang Ningyue's eyes always made him feel that he had nowhere to hide, as if she could even see through the filling of the dumplings he had just eaten, so he had to flee in panic.
He dodged too quickly and his leg hit the edge of the table. He had no time to pay attention to the sudden collision. He just turned his head to look at himself in the floor-length mirror. His face was not flushed, and his ears were not red. His expression was normal.
fine....
But as long as he put his hand on his cheek, he could feel the scorching temperature.
He had just recovered his strength when a conversation started outside the door again.
The door was not closed tightly. Li Jinglang saw through the crack that Xu Qing had also finished breakfast and came back. He walked around behind Tang Ningyue with a smile, bent a finger and scratched her face with a doting tone.
"Angry again?"
"Who offended you?"
"It's none of your business." Tang Ningyue avoided him and bent down to wash her face.
"Okay, okay, I don't care." Xu Qing also gathered her long hair, gently holding it in his palm, and brushed away the loose hair that was affecting her washing. "How about breakfast? I'll make dumplings for you later."
"Hmm..." Tang Ningyue responded, then raised her head to look at him, "Why don't you ask me why I'm washing up in your room?"
"Come if you want to. What's there to ask?" Xu Qing disagreed.
Tang Ningyue snorted and explained.
"My toothbrush is out of battery, can I borrow yours?"
After saying that, she stood up again, with drops of water dripping down her face. "I changed my toothbrush head. I didn't use yours."
"You're such a fool! You said you'd help me pack my toiletries, but why didn't you charge my toothbrush?"
"Okay, okay, it's my fault. It's all my fault. I will remember to charge it next time." Xu Qing also pulled a face towel to wipe her face, his eyes so gentle that they seemed to be dripping with tears.
Once two people have done it, they can skip everything and enter into an intimate relationship directly, even if they deliberately keep their distance and act awkwardly when they meet again after returning to China. After all, they have had physical contact, so everything they do is natural.
But Tang Ningyue didn't really appreciate it.
"There won't be a next time." Tang Ningyue grabbed the face towel from his hand and wiped her face. "You are not allowed to stay at my house anymore."
"Wipe slowly, you'll damage your face..." Xu Qing didn't respond, pulled the thin tissue over, and gently wiped her neck again.
"How can I be so delicate?" Tang Ningyue rolled her eyes at him, "You are just being pretentious."
"Yeah, I'm not spoiled." Xu Qing also smiled. He had been very happy recently. He hadn't stopped talking since he found out that Tang Ningyue had broken up. "I don't know who it was, but you were so upset because you didn't get to eat tangyuan last night?"
"I clearly heard Aunt Zhou say that there were a few dumplings left in the kitchen because Li Jinglang didn't want to eat them. How come all the dumplings were gone when I went to the kitchen?" Tang Ningyue angrily hit Xu Qingye's chest again.
"It's not good to eat so much at night, and I ate so many dumplings for midnight snack. Aren't you worried about indigestion?"
"Did you throw away the dumplings?" Tang Ningyue asked him.
"I wouldn't dare." Xu Qing also shook his head. "Maybe Jinglang ate it. The bowl is clearly his, and you insisted on stealing it."
Tang Ningyue snorted coldly, turned around and ignored him.
"Then I'll go cook dumplings for you, you wash up quickly."
Xu Qing didn't continue chatting with her and turned to leave the bathroom. Li Jinglang, who was still hiding at the door, quietly closed the crack in the door and walked towards the closet without saying a word.
He took off his shirt and pulled out a dark sweater from the closet, ready to put it on, but stopped when he glanced at the floor-length mirror.
He turned around and carefully examined his muscles.
The hospital has become a bit small after staying there for so long, but luckily I still don't have any extra fat...
When he saw his face in the mirror, he paused, as if he had been caught, and quickly put on his clothes guiltily. He seldom looked in the mirror, and the floor-length mirror in the room was bought together with Zhou Su's soft furnishings.
It was the first time in such a long time that he looked at his body in the mirror, and he looked at it like this... naked.
He scratched his hair uncomfortably. His face and neck began to feel hot, and he blamed it all on the floor heating.
"Jinglang? Are you ready?"
Zhou Su urged him outside, asking him to come out quickly.
Li Jinglang quickly changed his clothes, put his cell phone in his pocket, and prepared to leave the room. His hand just touched the handle and then he pulled back. He walked to the floor-length mirror as if possessed by a ghost, turned the mirror over, and faced the wall.
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After getting in the car and driving two intersections, Li Jinglang was still in a bad mood. Although he didn't look very happy on weekdays, he seemed even more depressed today and didn't say a word.
Zhou Su looked at him several times in the rearview mirror and finally asked him.
"Are the dumplings not to your taste?"
"good."
"Auntie prepared a lot of New Year's goods, such as meat and nuts. She didn't buy many fresh vegetables, and only had a few leeks. Last night, while watching the Spring Festival Gala, she made a few leeks and sea sausage dumplings. Ningyue seemed hungry in the middle of the night, so Qing cooked some for her. This morning, she made pork and mushroom dumplings. There are only a few leeks left."
“.....”
Li Jinglang still kept his head tilted to look out the window, without moving or speaking.
Zhou Su glanced at him in the rearview mirror and said, "If you like it... how about we buy some more chives to make the dumplings?"
"I don't like it."
Li Jinglang denied it quickly, and the car fell into silence.
After a while, Li Jinglang explained: "Mom, don't worry about me, I can eat anything..."
"Then why didn't you eat anything this morning?"
"I'm not hungry."
"You didn't eat much last night. You didn't even eat the glutinous rice balls I cooked." Zhou Su glanced at him again. "Did you throw them all away?"
"Feeding stray dogs." Li Jinglang told the truth.
"Are you still sending love during the New Year?" Zhou Su asked with a smile.
"......" Li Jinglang didn't say anything, his eyes staring blankly at the motionless sycamore tree outside the window.
"Yeah, the puppy deserves a good New Year too."
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