Gift
As of now, Lu Xinyang has not yet decided on his future career direction.
So he decided to put his future career aside for the time being.
"Is the Lantern Festival coming soon?" Lu Xinyang asked, "Isn't it time to give gifts on the Lantern Festival?"
Tang Lin was taking notes on a PowerPoint presentation on his computer. He hesitated for a moment, "It seems the law doesn't provide for this?"
"But you can give it as a gift, right?" Lu Xinyang said loudly.
"Well, if you want to give a gift to someone, you can do it anytime, even if it's not the Lantern Festival! Why do you have to make excuses?" Tang Lin's voice was even louder than his. "If you want to make excuses, just make them yourself. Why bother to bother me? Can't you see I'm working with your advertising?"
Lu Xinyang lowered his head to look at his phone and automatically ignored the second half of his sentence: "I saw a very beautiful diamond-studded hat and wanted to give it to Ji Rongyu..."
"Stop!" Tang Lin immediately put down his computer and pressed his phone earnestly, "You and Teacher Rongyu have only known each other for two months. You can't give him such an expensive gift. Even if you did, he definitely wouldn't accept it."
Lu Xinyang always gives expensive gifts to others, and they are not only expensive but also poor quality. He can't even sell them second-hand, so he can only keep them at home as garbage taking up space.
"Give me something else, anything," Tang Lin said earnestly, "Think about it for a moment..."
"Then I just think he looks better in a hat..." Lu Xinyang silently tried to get his phone back, and the two of them started playing tug-of-war over the tiny phone.
Tang Lin felt that he had put a lot of effort into protecting Lu Xinyang from being blacklisted by Ji Rongyu: "Then just give him a single hat, without diamonds."
Lu Xinyang felt that his aesthetic taste had been tempered by him, but when he thought about it carefully, he had given so many diamond-studded gifts, and it seemed that... no one had ever praised him for his good gifts.
"As long as it doesn't have diamonds?" he asked hesitantly.
"It's better if it's actually useful, so it can really touch people's hearts," Tang Lin added. "I see that Teacher Rongyu doesn't use much stuff on a daily basis. Aside from a pair of glasses that she occasionally wears for fun, everything else is very practical, nothing fancy."
"Then I'll buy him a Lei Feng hat!" Lu Xinyang slapped his thigh, "That works! It's super warm!"
"..." Tang Lin hesitated to speak, thought about it, and returned the phone to him.
That’s fine. The Lei Feng hat is much better than that diamond-studded hat.
Even if Teacher Rongyu can't use it for the time being, there will always be an opportunity to use it after a long time!
Don’t worry, Teacher Rongyu still has a lot of life to grow!
Lu Xinyang placed the order confidently and asked the merchant to expedite the delivery of the Lei Feng hat he had carefully selected to the crew.
The next night, Lu Xinyang held a box and squeezed into Ji Rongyu's room mysteriously.
"Well, it's like this. I have something to tell you," Lu Xinyang cleared his throat and spoke in a voice full of emotion. "I stayed at your house for two days during the Chinese New Year. I felt that the atmosphere in your family was very good. You are very kind, and Grandpa is also very kind. I want to visit your house again next time..."
"Get to the point." Ji Rongyu interrupted him mercilessly, his eyes falling on the box in his hand with some vigilance.
"Ah? I don't have a point," Lu Xinyang said, "I just feel that you are all very good to me, and I am very touched. Especially when you accompanied me to the supermarket and helped me choose a lot of New Year gifts, but those gifts were only bought for others, not for yourself. I think you are very selfless..."
Ji Rongyu took a deep breath, and after listening to this, he couldn't bear it any longer: "What should I buy for myself? Don't forget that I paid for the purchase. I use my own money to buy a gift for myself?"
"Well, I know you're embarrassed to take advantage of that kind of small thing." Lu Xinyang lowered his head moved.
Ji Rongyu pointed at himself, and judging from his lip movements, he should have said "Me? Me???", but he didn't make any sound.
Maybe he was also too touched by Lu Xinyang's praise.
I was so moved that I could barely hear the sound.
"So today! I bought you a gift too!" Lu Xinyang enthusiastically handed over the box in his hand, then looked at him expectantly, "Do you like it?"
Ji Rongyu silently opened the box and took out a Lei Feng cap made of solid workmanship and thick wool.
It can only be used when the weather is about minus 30 degrees Celsius.
Ji Rongyu: “…”
Ji Rongyu: “………………”
He held the hat in his hand and walked to the bathroom mirror, then raised it to his head. It was so hot.
After thinking for a while, he took off his glasses and gestured again.
No, it's still too hot.
He couldn't have worn it for five seconds before he felt like his head was on fire.
Ji Rongyu said with an embarrassed look on his face: "This gift you gave me..."
"You don't like it?" Lu Xinyang's high spirits dropped visibly.
"I can't say I don't like it," Ji Rongyu considered his words, "I just think I might not be able to use it."
"That means I don't like it." Lu Xinyang pulled the fur on the hat resentfully, but the quality was too good to pull it off.
Ji Rongyu coughed politely: "So do you mind if I might give it away, to someone... who needs it?"
"It's up to you." Lu Xinyang looked depressed.
"Don't be upset," Ji Rongyu comforted him, "Next time I'll give you a gift you don't like and we'll be even."
Lu Xinyang: “…………”
Lu Xinyang came excitedly and left dejectedly, even though Ji Rongyu promised that in order to commemorate their touching friendship, he would specially put the Lei Feng hat on the windowsill and look at it every morning when he got up and every night when he went to bed.
But Lu Xinyang still didn't give up.
Ji Rongyu didn't like the gift he gave her! He didn't even understand Ji Rongyu's heart! He was so frustrated!
So before leaving, he asked again: "If someone wants to give you a gift in the future, what would you like?"
Ji Rongyu pretended not to hear that the full name of this "someone" was a person named Lu Xinyang: "When giving a gift, the most important thing is definitely the thought behind it..."
Lu Xinyang looked at him eagerly: "I think the most important thing is that the person receiving the gift likes it."
"The range of things I like is quite wide, so any gift is fine with me," said Ji Rongyu.
He spoke nicely, but that night he dreamed that Lu Xinyang gave him a toilet.
The toilet lid was lifted, revealing a large red "囍" character. Lu Xinyang, clapping his hands beside him, said, "Giving gifts should be festive! Just like my intentions, they're festive! Look at this festive toilet, just like my intentions, it's extra large! Big enough for the two of us to sit in together!"
"Ji Rongyu, look! Let's sit on the toilet together!"
Then Ji Rongyu was awakened by the shock.
It's so scary.
What's even more terrifying is that based on his understanding of Lu Xinyang, this dream is not impossible to come true...
Ji Rongyu was still frightened. After he got up and walked out of the room, when he saw the face of Lu Xinyang across the street who had brought him the toilet in his dream, his expression unconsciously stiffened.
But in Lu Xinyang's opinion, it was because he gave the wrong gift and Ji Rongyu didn't like it. Ji Rongyu might even think that he was not considerate, and even felt that they were no longer very good friends!
What should I do? How can I make him like me again? How can I make our friendship grow stronger day by day?
Lu Xinyang suddenly became anxious.
And his completely unfamiliar behavior, in Tang Lin's view, was...
"Our boss Lu seems to have grown up overnight and become particularly concerned with social etiquette!"
Tang Lin was so anxious that his mouth was bubbling. While Lu Xinyang was filming, he quietly pulled Ji Rongyu aside and gestured frantically, "You know what? Can you believe it? He just walked over and said something to me, then walked back and asked me how I felt about what he said, whether I would be unhappy, and whether I felt like it?"
"Are you sure this is what we call growing up?" Ji Rongyu asked accurately, "Is this abnormal?"
"That's even scarier!!"
Tang Lin wanted to cry but he had no tears. But what good solution could Ji Rongyu have for this? He even thought that Tang Lin was overthinking it, because Lu Xinyang didn't show any abnormality in front of him.
Poor Tang Lin couldn't even find anyone to help him think of a solution, so he returned empty-handed.
When I got back this time, I found that during the intermission of filming, Lu Xinyang secretly squatted on the ground and played with mud.
Tang Lin: “?”
Tang Lin: "What are you doing?"
"First of all, I'm not playing with mud," Lu Xinyang said, trying to cover up his mistake. "I'm doing handicrafts. You know that pottery, it's made of mud. Hehe, guys who can do handicrafts are the coolest. Let's see how he dislikes me this time."
"You've always been handsome, who would dislike you..." Tang Lin was used to praising him, but this time, he suddenly felt something was wrong. Considering his abnormal behavior in the past few days, Tang Lin tentatively asked, "What do you plan to make your handicraft?"
"Like a cup."
"Would you like tea or water?"
"I don't know."
Tang Lin narrowed his eyes: "You don't know what to do with your own cup?"
"It's not mine, I gave it to someone else." Lu Xinyang kneaded the shapeless mass of mud in his hand and gave an answer that made him feel cold in his heart.
Things seemed truly ruined… but Tang Lin feigned composure. He said, “This kind of clay won’t work. We need off-white ceramic clay, and you need a turntable. I think it’s called… throwing? Then you get the color and shape, and finally, you have to fire it in a kiln. You definitely can’t do it on your own.”
Hearing this, Lu Xinyang threw away the mud ball in his hand and asked anxiously, "What should we do then?"
"There should be a pottery experience shop in the nearest city," Tang Lin thought for a moment and said, "Well, I'll try to get you some time off. You should hurry up and go there."
"Okay, okay, no problem, I'll go tonight!" Lu Xinyang immediately went to wash his hands, then took off his coat, and then took off the intact costume inside, packed up, and asked for leave to do handicrafts.
However, because he could not give a reason that could convince Director Gao, his request for leave was not approved. Lu Xinyang could only take a taxi overnight after finishing the filming, and then asked for expedited work and rushed to pick it up the next day.
He hadn't slept for almost thirty hours after all this going back and forth. When he was going back, he was so sleepy that he bought some... pickled radish peels on the way.
Crunch, crunch, crunch, mmm, it feels crispy when you bite it, and there is passion fruit juice and lemon juice in it. Although the taste is a little worse than that made by Ji Rongyu, it has a slightly sweet aftertaste and is also very sour and refreshing to satisfy your appetite.
Recently, "Trapped in Color" has focused on filming the scene where they enter the ancient painting. All the actors have changed into ancient costumes, which made Lu Xinyang mutter in his heart, "I'm already hungry, why do everyone tie their hair into buns in front of me every day?"
Finally returning to his residence, Lu Xinyang followed his usual routine and entered Ji Rongyu's room in a mysterious manner. He hadn't finished eating the radish peel in his hand yet, so he wandered around the room while eating, touching things here and there.
Ji Rongyu looked back at him in the gap between typing on the keyboard, and felt as if there were dandelions growing behind this man's butt, and he wished that his scent could be everywhere in the room.
Lu Xinyang pretended not to do anything and kept facing Ji Rongyu sideways, holding the cup he was about to give away tightly in the big pocket of his down jacket where Ji Rongyu couldn't see it.
How to send new gifts?
The last time I gave someone a hat as a gift, it was such a failure. This time, I have to think of a very surprising and gorgeous way to give the gift!
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