Chapter 118 Chapter 31 - They seem to be on a date.
——They seem to be dating.
When this thought came to mind, Li Zheng and Wei Sheng had just finished lunch and happened to pass by a shopping festival.
Two people walked side by side, their hanging hands rubbing against each other's backs intentionally or unintentionally as they swung along the arc of their walk.
As they passed the entrance of a shopping mall, Wei Sheng suddenly said out of nowhere, "Why don't we go in and take a look? We don't have anything to do anyway."
So the two of them walked in and took a look around.
After this trip, Li Zheng, who only had a few pieces of clothes, now had six sets of tops, five sets of clothes, three coats, four pairs of new shoes, two belts, a hat, and three scarves. If he hadn't tried his best to stop it, the number might have been even higher.
"Would you like to try this one on too?" Wei Sheng took out another long coat and tried it on Li Zheng. "I think this one would suit you pretty well, too. Take it."
The shopping guide next to her was grinning from ear to ear.
Before, when the two of them first entered the store, this attitude wasn't there. But now, the salesperson's smile deepened, and from time to time he would praise Wei Sheng's aesthetic taste: "Sir, you have excellent taste. This gentleman's outfit is very suitable, and the color is also limited to this season..."
"That's enough, we can't take it..."
Li Zhengshitu persuaded like this.
Wei Sheng immediately responded: "We don't need to pick it up, they should have a delivery service."
The salesperson was very perceptive and immediately replied, "Yes, sir, all you need to do is give us your address and we'll deliver it to your door for free."
In this way, under the recommendation of the shopping guide, several more pieces were bought for Li Zheng one after another.
"Won't you take a look for yourself?"
The shopping guide also asked this question.
"I don't need it." Wei Sheng said, "I like it."
How could a shopping guide with the same salary as them not see the relationship between the two? After being made aware of it, he praised Li Zheng with great verbal skills.
When it was time to finally pay, Li Zheng accidentally glanced at the printed bill. He knew the items on this floor wouldn't be cheap, but he hadn't expected them to be this expensive. Just one item, and it was so expensive.
Although it was not his money, and although he remembered Wei Sheng saying that he had a lot of money, he still felt a little heartbroken.
Before he could say anything, Wei Sheng naturally took his arm again and said, "It's a little early to go home now. Do you want to watch a movie?"
See a movie?
Li Zheng couldn't remember the last time he went to the cinema. It might have been many years ago.
"What movie do you want to see?"
"Let me see what I have."
Wei Sheng immediately took out his mobile phone, opened the app, went to the nearest cinema, and randomly selected a movie that was about to start.
Just as he lowered his head to buy the ticket, Li Zheng suddenly thought of this sentence: They seem to be on a date.
It should be.
After all, haven’t we already been…talking about it?
From time to time, young men and women walked past them arm in arm. Such intimate actions of the two boys naturally attracted a lot of attention.
Wei Sheng seemed completely unaware.
After buying the tickets, he continued to walk towards the escalator of the mall with his arm in his, all the way to the third floor. Perhaps because it was the weekend, the cinema was quite crowded.
He bought a Coke and some popcorn.
Before buying it, she even asked him, "What do you think?" It was as if she was afraid that others would not know that they were together.
Li Zheng could only say yes.
The movie I bought was about to start, so I didn't have to wait at all. After getting my things, I went to the self-service area to pick up the tickets and walked towards the ticket gate.
It's supposed to be a comedy, right?
I can't quite remember.
Apart from the first ten minutes or so when Li Zheng was still watching the movie attentively, he had no recollection of what the rest of the movie was about.
As they were watching, Wei Sheng suddenly pulled up the armrest between the two seats, left his position with his upper body, leaned against him, and held his hand.
The kind where fingers are interlocked.
He maintained this posture throughout the entire movie until it ended, holding his hand tightly, with a strength that was not enough to make him feel uncomfortable, but not enough to prevent him from breaking free easily.
The other hand was not idle either, feeding Li Zheng some popcorn from time to time.
“Try it, I bought several flavors…”
He is not a three-year-old child anymore and he doesn't need to be fed when eating. This behavior made him feel extremely uncomfortable at first, but he gradually got used to it.
I fed them half a bucket without realizing it, and the air I exhaled smelled like popcorn.
At the end of the movie, I couldn't tell whose palms were sticky with sweat.
When the movie ended, the subtitles began to scroll on the big screen, and the lights on the top of the screening room came on, Wei Sheng finally let go of his hand. However, Li Zheng only felt that the damp feeling in the palm of his hand was still there.
We had planned to eat after the movie, but he drank Coke and ate so much popcorn that his stomach was really full and he wasn't hungry at all.
"Okay, then we won't eat, let's just go back." As they walked to a shared bike parking spot on the side of the road, Wei Sheng said whimsically, "Let's ride our bikes back? You take me, or I take you."
“…………”
I just spent so much money on clothes without blinking an eye, but now I can't afford to scan for one more shared bike? Are you starting to save money again?
It seems so weird from beginning to end.
"Let's consider this a date, right?" Wei Sheng picked out one of the bikes and pushed it towards Li Zheng. "When you were on a date before... forget it, let's not talk about it anymore."
So that's how it is.
Now all the strange behaviors before were explained. In fact, Wei Sheng had never dated anyone before, so he didn't know what the dating process was. He only remembered that he had seen Li Zheng date his girlfriend a long time ago and the process was roughly the same.
We were still students at the time, and the process was simple. We would meet at a beverage store on weekends, go shopping in an underground mall after dinner, watch a movie, eat after the movie, and then ride bicycles back to school together.
That’s pretty much the process.
If it weren't for this replay today, Li Zheng would have almost forgotten his previous date.
After taking a look at the vehicle Wei Sheng had chosen, Li Zheng immediately rejected it: "This one won't do."
Perhaps thinking that he was unwilling, Wei Sheng's expression was a little stiff, but he soon smiled again: "It's okay, I just mentioned it casually..."
"No, didn't you notice it's broken?" Li Zheng looked at the model, which was obviously old. "If you want to choose, you should choose a new one, right?"
On the last day, Li Zheng rode a bicycle for the first time since graduating from high school.
The night wind was blowing, but he didn't feel cold at all. There was a heat source behind him, constantly pressing against his back, with two hands tightly wrapped around his waist, and the hot water from his breath sprayed on the back of his ears when he spoke.
"I feel like I wouldn't have any regrets even if I died right now..."
“………”
Li Zheng ignored him.
When I arrived at the gate of the community, the things I had bought before had already been piled up in the security guard's guard room in large and small bags. They were packaged very exquisitely, and the gift boxes of all sizes piled together looked like a mountain.
"Hey, you're back..." The old man beckoned Li Zheng to come over and get it. "The one that was delivered earlier said it was bought by Mr. Li, and then I knew it was you guys."
While Li Zheng was moving things back and forth, he could hear the meows of a kitten coming from the guard room.
"You have a cat?"
He asked casually.
But I don’t really care. I’ve just lived here for a long time and have learned the local greetings.
"No," the old man said with a frown, "Have you heard a cat meowing these days? It starts meowing every night, making it hard for people to sleep. We just caught it today!"
The old man walked quickly into the guard room and appeared in a moment, holding a small cardboard box in his hands. When the box was opened, a shivering cat was huddled in the corner.
Such a familiar kitten.
Before Li Zheng could say anything, Wei Sheng, who had come to get something, was the first to cry out in surprise. He reached out and grabbed the kitten from the cardboard box. "Hey, isn't this the clown cat? Why is he here?"
I caught it and looked at it more carefully.
It's a tortoiseshell cat.
It was indeed the same one as before.
But how did it get here?
The Municipal Bureau was actually not particularly far from them, only a few minutes' drive away, but for a kitten, especially a kitten that was not yet an adult, the distance was very far.
"Oh, it missed you so much that it came all the way here to see you."
“………”
Li Zheng observed the kitten carefully. He seemed to be a little thinner than the last time he saw him. His belly used to be round, but now it was obviously flatter.
You must be...hungry, right?
"Hey! So this is your cat?" The old man learned the kitten's origin from Wei Sheng's words, "Hey, why is it meowing all day long? It turns out it's looking for you... But this kitten is quite smart..."
“………”
Fifteen minutes later, Li Zheng returned to the house carrying a cat. He pursed his lips and poured some newly bought cat food into a dish, and filled the dish with purified water.
Maybe because it had been away for too long this time, the little tortoise was particularly clingy. There was cat food right next to it, but it didn't rush over to eat it like before. Instead, it circled around Li Zhen's legs and tried to climb up through his trouser legs.
"Eat something quickly."
Li Zheng took the kitten off himself and placed it in front of the cat food.
"Eat quickly. Eat."
The kitten finally started to eat with a meow.
"Why not just keep it?" Wei Sheng reached out and touched the kitten's furry head. "You said you didn't want to keep it before, but you were worried it would die in the future. Now you don't have to worry about it."
When Li Zheng was a child, his family actually had a cat to catch mice. Li Zheng liked it very much. Later one day, it fell ill and died.
Li Zheng dug a hole for the kitten, buried it under a tree, and often went to check on it.
He never told anyone about this.
"How do you know?"
"Yeah, I saw it."
“…I see.”
Li Zheng took the same shower before bed as before. He went to shower first and then lay back on the bed. He wanted to close his eyes and go to sleep, but after thinking for a while, he took out his mobile phone and started searching for information and watching it carefully.
According to Wei Sheng's shower time in the past few days, it was only about twenty minutes. This time it was particularly long and he took more than half an hour to come out.
Li Zheng put away his phone and clearly felt the side of the bed collapse, followed by a damp vapor.
The two looked at each other.
I can't remember what was said in the first few sentences, but when Wei Sheng came over, Li Zheng told him very seriously: "We must take measures for this, right?"
As a bachelor for many years, he certainly didn't have anything like this at home, so he meant next time. But Wei Sheng seemed to have the ability to read minds and conjured up several boxes of family planning products in different colors.
He looked distressed: "I didn't know your size, so...so we bought both."
“…………When did you buy it?”
"When I bought cat food." Wei Sheng looked at the phone Li Zheng handed over and asked in confusion, "What were you looking at?"
“………”
During Li Zheng's silence, Wei Sheng seemed to understand something: "Oh...where did you find this? Let me see it too. We can learn together."
“…………”
Even under such dim light, one could clearly see the blush gradually spreading on Li Zheng's face, but he still pretended to be very calm.
"Just watch it."
"But I think you might learn faster. When you were in school, you had really good grades and a strong ability to comprehend things. You understood things quickly..."
“………”
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