MTL - His Marriage Partner is Scheming-Chapter 50
How long is the night is an indescribable problem for people with insomnia.
Listening to the long breathing of the person in my arms, the time seems to be just a blink of an eye, which makes people want to cherish it carefully, and for some reason, it seems extraordinarily long and difficult.
As expected, He Qiao really suffered from insomnia again, and fell asleep unknowingly until dawn.
How long the morning is is also an indescribable problem for those who stay in bed.
As expected, Chi Xueyan did sleep well.
It is a very special feeling to fall asleep sleepily in the arms of a lover, and to see the peaceful sleeping face of the other person when waking up.
A new feeling that he had never experienced before.
The skin and the quilt are obviously similar in warmth and heat, but they have a completely different touch.
So Chi Xueyan gave up getting up alone, but lay lazily in bed playing with her mobile phone, waiting for the people around her to wake up.
He replied to the New Year's greetings piled up on his mobile phone, enjoyed the various Spring Festival updates of his friends, and searched for honeymoon travel strategies.
After returning from this New Year's Eve trip for two, Chi Zhongyuan will definitely show off in front of him for a long time.
The best way to fight back is to have a honeymoon that's even cooler than seeing the aurora on the edge of the Arctic Circle.
But from Chi Xueyan's point of view, these strategies are nothing more than recommending various destinations, romantic islands or exotic customs.
It doesn't seem to be interesting, and it is not much different from ordinary travel.
And he has already visited many of the most distinctive places, probably Heqiao as well.
There is nothing new about the destination of travel, we can only try to change the way of travel.
... road trip?
Thinking of this, Chi Xueyan began to look at the car.
SUVs, off-road vehicles, RVs…
He looked and looked, and for some reason he fell over the train.
Traveling by long-distance international trains, across continents and borders, seems not bad.
It's just a bit boring, the space for activities is limited, and I can't do anything except look at the scenery.
When he flipped from the train to the cartoon with the train as the main character, he suddenly heard a very low laughter coming from beside him.
He Qiao woke up about ten minutes ago.
During the idle Spring Festival holiday, the curtains cut off the too strong sunlight, and the air in the room was dark and quiet. The person lying next to him no longer rested on his arm, but turned his back to him, quietly looking at his phone, the screen changing and flickering, The faint light illuminated his side face.
He Qiao thought, he could look at it like this for a long time.
It wasn't until Chi Xueyan, who was originally researching travel cars, stepped into childish cartoons, and really watched the talking train in silent mode, that he finally couldn't help laughing.
Laughter brushed past his ears, Chi Xueyan paused, then turned to look at He Qiao: "Are you pretending to be asleep?"
The people around him answered him honestly: "I woke up ten minutes ago."
Add a comment with a smile: "Cartoon is very interesting."
"..."
Chi Xueyan thought for a while, then threw the mobile phone, which was still playing cartoons silently, into his arms, and simply got up and got out of bed: "I'm going to wash up."
There is more or less a feeling of being ridiculed.
For the time being, I don't want to care about Kaqiao.
But while he was washing his face in front of the sink, he heard the cheerful voice of cartoons coming from the bedroom.
The little train spoke openly.
Amidst the sound of running water, clear water wet his cheeks, Chi Xueyan looked up at the mirror, and saw the corners of his lips slightly raised.
It's time for lunch.
He stayed in bed all morning and was already hungry, and he knew that he would be able to eat a sumptuous meal cooked by his aunt when he went downstairs.
But he wants to go to the kitchen to cook by himself.
Don't just make it for yourself.
Suddenly, Chi Xueyan understood Han Zhenzhen who had a whim that day and said he wanted to be a Buddha jumping over the wall.
Indescribable love is a feeling that is often entrusted with food that is within reach.
But unlike Han Zhenzhen, he is very self-aware, and he is still too lazy to learn how to cook complicated dishes.
Sheng Xiaoyue, who came to join in the fun and help after hearing the news, was also in awe of the kitchen with its infinite possibilities.
At noon on the first day of Chinese New Year, two people who seldom cook finally worked together to make a pot of mediocre fried rice with eggs.
Chi Xueyan felt that the appearance was ordinary, but filters could be added, and Sheng Xiaoyue happily took pictures and posted them on Moments.
He thought the taste was mediocre, but He Qiao said it was delicious, the best egg fried rice he had ever eaten.
This plain but delicious bowl of egg fried rice on the first day of the new year was exchanged for a variety of sweets throughout the Spring Festival holiday.
It was the first time for the children who were brought by their parents to visit He's family to visit relatives.
Different from previous years, this year's He's kitchen has specially opened up a dessert area, which has super delicious food, it's almost like entering a hotel cafeteria.
Various flavors of fruit candy and toffee, sugar-fried chestnuts kept warm by heat lamps, marshmallows that can be rolled by yourself, mini chocolate waterfalls that can be dipped in everything...
There are also candied haws strung with different fruits, the golden-yellow translucent syrup, wrapped in colorful pulp, which makes people drool.
But these crystal clear candied haws, none of the children who came to visit could eat them.
Because Brother He Qiao specially made it for his lover.
At first, the kids tried sugarcoating him because they all knew he had a good temper.
"Brother He Qiao is amazing, he can make candied haws!"
"I want to eat candied haws made of strawberries, brother, can I exchange red envelopes with you?"
As a result, this year's brother He Qiao didn't take hard and soft, and replied uniformly: "Yes", "Thank you", and "Not good".
His tone was still gentle, and he would pat them on the head reassuringly, but they were not allowed to eat anyway.
The children ran to find the only elder brother who could eat candied haws.
It was brother Xiaochi who came to the He family for the first time to celebrate the New Year, and he was the marriage partner of brother He Qiao, and he had only met him at the wedding before.
Everyone felt strange at first and didn't dare to get too close to him, but after discovering that this brother loves sweets like the children, the distance suddenly narrowed.
"Brother Xiaochi, are strawberries and candied haws delicious?"
Chi Xueyan responded, "It's delicious."
He saw the eagerness behind the child's shining eyes, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to eat?"
A group of children immediately nodded hurriedly.
"That mouth."
The children opened their mouths one after another, and stretched out their hands subconsciously, waiting for Brother Xiaochi to feed him.
In the end, brother Xiaochi looked around and said with a serious expression: "I saw some of you have tooth decay, you must have not brushed your teeth properly, and you can't eat candy anymore."
After finishing speaking, he ate a strawberry wrapped in crisp raw rock sugar.
When he ate the strawberries, he saw the smile on He Qiao's face, and he also saw the children's eyes widen suddenly, filled with disbelief.
"My candied haws woo woo woo—"
"Brother, I don't have tooth decay. I can eat. I will brush my teeth after eating!"
There are also children who come to join in the fun, and the drunkard's intention is not sugar.
The little girl with braids blinked, tugged at the corner of his clothes, and asked softly, "Brother, can I give you a hug?"
Chi Xueyan was surrounded by a group of chattering voices, but he couldn't hear clearly, only felt that someone was pulling his clothes.
As soon as he cast his gaze over, he saw He Qiao walking out with a child in his arms.
The playful braid dangled in the air, revealing a faint struggle.
When He Qiao came back, Chi Xueyan asked him: "Why did she go out?"
He Qiao replied in a normal tone: "She wants to play in the living room."
The living room is full of elders chatting, and there is nothing interesting to see.
Chi Xueyan said sincerely: "The hobby is very special."
He Qiao stared at him, as if he just agreed with his evaluation, and said softly, "En."
"But before she went out, did she say something to me?"
"No, you heard wrong."
Chi Xueyan stopped thinking about it, and said casually, "Do you want candied haws?"
He Qiao, who doesn't like sweets, also ate a rock sugar strawberry made by himself.
The soft and sweet strawberries are wrapped in cold crunchy hard icing, like spring in winter.
Amidst the childish laments that sounded around, it seemed even more delicious.
Chi Xueyan suddenly thought about spring.
I also suddenly felt a little bit of regret.
When he and He Qiao were sitting in the garden basking in the sun, he saw Sheng Xiaoyue smilingly showing the guests around, introducing to them every landscape that she designed and arranged with her own hands.
I also saw children who had eaten enough to gather together and play childish house-playing games.
The appearance of a home should be shaped by your own hands.
But at the beginning of their marriage, he and He Qiao didn't care about it, and left it all to the elders. They only went to the home city to pick out decorations before the wedding as if they had completed a task.
Now, he wants a home that is determined by each other from beginning to end.
Similar or different preferences are intertwined, painting the white space with unpredictable colors little by little.
It was something he had never experienced before.
Chi Xueyan finally had the inspiration for honeymoon travel.
He enthusiastically asked the people around him: "Do you want to build a home together? A home that can run around the world with you."
He Qiao thought of the station wagon he had seen before, and instantly understood what he meant: "Do you want a luxurious home or a simple home?"
"It should be light and moderate." Chi Xueyan calculated the time, "There is still more than a month left, so it should be in time."
Before the April holidays, those long and tiring working days suddenly took on a different color.
He has a lot to learn and do.
Together with He Qiao.
Amid the reluctance of office workers, the Spring Festival holiday is over in a blink of an eye.
This year's New Year's Eve is very late, in mid-February, so after returning to work for a few days during the holidays, it will be March.
The tender green leaves emerging from the tree branches along the street are the first to announce the arrival of spring.
The four seasons have come to the shortest and most important period, and everything is new.
On both sides of the always busy road, people in different buildings have a new feeling about the picture of life unfolding in the new year.
Secretary Li Feifei recently discovered that there are many car-related magazines and some brand-new decorations in Mr. He's office.
And they didn't ask their subordinates to buy them, they were all brought from home.
Secretary Li already knew that the boss would take a long vacation in April and go on a trip with Mr. Chi.
But she was a little confused for a while.
When the two of them had lunch, they often chatted about some car jargon that she didn't understand.
During the lunch break after dinner, Mr. Chi didn't go to bed, and Mr. He didn't deal with work. Instead, they sat on the sofa together and read magazines, and often watched videos on the computer.
Videos about vehicle inspections and repairs.
Only then did Secretary Li realize that it was a caravan trip.
This was completely different from the honeymoon she imagined the CEO would have.
Obviously, it should be a private jet, a luxury hotel, or a yacht with waves, and there should be dedicated personnel waiting and serving the whole process, so there is no need to learn how to repair a car by yourself.
But looking at the various decorations that Mr. He brought to the office after buying too much when furnishing the caravan, she felt inexplicably romantic.
In the afternoon when the temperature was comfortable, the secretary sitting outside the president's office felt no sleepiness, and simply searched for videos of RV trips on his computer.
A little envious.
It is also good to experience cloud travel.
Outside the door, she was wearing earphones to watch the video, while the lover inside the door was nestling shoulder to shoulder on the sofa, flipping through professional magazines full of new knowledge.
The warm spring light floats forward, passing through chuckles and whispers, flowing over clean desks and bookcases, and hovering by the open window like the wind.
The miniature balloon man that had been placed on the edge of the windowsill was gone.
It has a new place to go.
The lingering spring light drifted across the spacious road, and the verdant maple trees and transparent glass windows blew April toward the opposite building.
An An, the receptionist of the dental clinic, felt that this was a somewhat lonely spring morning.
Doctor Chi, who usually has a good relationship, has asked for leave and will not come to the clinic for a while.
He used up all his annual leave, and took a few more days of personal leave. Combined with the statutory holidays and weekends in April, it became a long vacation.
Said to be going on honeymoon.
The clinic was not too busy during this period, and the leader readily approved it.
After all, Dr. Chi is the most popular doctor for young patients in the whole clinic, and the appointments are always the most full. After being busy for so long, and just getting married, and ushering in a new stage of life, it is time to take a full rest.
Colleagues are envious, but also a little sad.
The most eye-catching handsome guy in the whole clinic doesn't come to work, and the already stereotyped working day looks even more dull and boring.
And for some colleagues who are more familiar with Chi Xueyan, this kind of sadness is double.
An An moved her chair to the window next to the front desk, rested her chin and looked out the window, and couldn't help sighing.
Outside the coffee shop downstairs in the opposite office building, the handsome guy who sat there drinking coffee every morning disappeared.
Sure enough, we went on our honeymoon together.
She met Dr. Chi's husband. He came to the clinic to pick up Dr. Chi when he was working overtime in the evening.
The next day, An An arrived at the clinic as usual, and when she opened the blinds at the front desk, she immediately recognized the figure downstairs.
She was overwhelmed by a sweet and sour shock.
It's like watching an idol drama.
The kind that is updated every day.
Because he would come to this coffee shop every morning, sometimes to read documents, sometimes to look at the computer, with a cup of coffee in hand.
An An also saw him looking up in the direction of the clinic, as if he was looking at someone.
He must be looking at Dr. Chi standing by the office window.
I don't know where Dr. Chi's husband works, he should be nearby, or drop by the clinic.
People sitting in the coffee shop will focus on looking at the window of a dentist on the opposite floor every day.
And An An and her friends, who were crowded at the front window of the clinic, smirked and chased this silent love drama together every day.
They were familiar with Dr. Chi and knew his character, so they didn't spread the word everywhere, but just ate lemon candy in silence.
Anyway, I work in a dental clinic, so I am not afraid of toothache.
It's a pity that we won't be able to see it for a long time.
The maple leaves on the street are growing again, and the street scene is ordinary, but the seasons change, winter goes to spring.
An An envied such a beautiful love, and also envied such a long vacation.
I don't want to go to work, I want to go out and play.
There should be nothing to do in spring.
I want to go to the park, sit on the grass and have a picnic, and then lie down and bask in the sun.
How about going this weekend?
An An imagined the arrangements for the weekend, looked away from the dark green parasols in the coffee shop, and suddenly noticed the billboard erected by the media company opposite.
There is a new "advertisement" on it.
It wasn't like that yesterday.
She stared at it for a while, sighed again, and forced herself away from the window when the chair pulleys rattled.
…Even that billboard was contributing to her not wanting to go to work.
It is obviously a company serving the catering group, can you do some serious catering advertisements!
It's better to continue to greet everyone's three meals a day.
Sunlight fell into the window, and the front desk staff sat back at their workstations, greeting colleagues who got out of the elevator good morning, hoping to fast-forward to lunch, and then fast-forward to the end of get off work and the weekend.
The sunlight flowing on the maple leaf road is more abundant.
On a sunny and warm morning, pedestrians with bags on the sidewalk hurriedly walk, drivers and passengers in cars waiting for signal lights on the road, when passing by the billboard, people often look up and stare.
On the wide screen, there is a static picture with a watercolor texture.
Still can't see what kind of advertisement it is, but it makes people smell the sudden and strong spring atmosphere, and subconsciously stop for it.
In the hazy mist, a car drove forward into the shady forest and the flowers among the trees. The sun was pale golden, shining brightly on the taillights of the car.
It seems to be carrying the whole spring to travel.