Love You Secretly [MTL]

Ch 8

8

The snow outside the window began to fall more and more, and the sky was full of snowflakes. It was icy and snowy, and it looked very cold.

But it was warm in the noodle shop.

The aroma of beef ramen filled the whole noodle restaurant. Tao Xi sat alone on the seat by the window, with her hands propped on the edge of the table and her mobile phone.

Enter Shang Huaiqing's name in the search and discovery column of Weibo, click Search, and the webpage instantly redirects to relevant content about Shang Huaiqing.

But I didn't see his Weibo account, or the verification account related to the artist studio.

Instead, I can see some of his related searches on Weibo.

But even so, he still looks different from other celebrities, very mysterious, or too private, so he doesn't have any social interaction on the Internet, and he doesn't like publicity.

On the contrary, he looks extraordinary in appearance and has a good temperament, but if he hadn't seen his shooting scene today with his own eyes, he would have never guessed that he would be a star.

Tao Xi quit Weibo, opened the webpage, and continued to search for relevant introductions about Shang Huaiqing.

There is an introduction about him on the webpage, but the content is very concise and only a few words. As for the related works he has filmed, in addition to a movie that was popular before as the male lead, there is also a movie in which he starred in friendship. His latest film.

Only these three.

It seems that it should have just debuted not long ago, and there are not many related introductions yet.

Taoxi froze after reading those related searches, and she deliberately turned up and looked at Shang Huaiqing's age. It turned out that he was only twenty-six years old, only two years older than her, but he looked very mature and stable. .

Suddenly footsteps came from my ears, I thought it was the ramen she ordered, but when I looked up, I saw Shang Huaiqing wearing a gray woolen coat.

"What a coincidence, you're here too." He greeted with a smile in his eyes.

But did not sit down.

Taoxi's long finger touched the side button of the phone, which blacked out the phone's screen, and also blacked out related searches about Shang Huaiqing on the webpage.

I don't know if it was because of a guilty conscience, but she only felt that her heart was beating a little flustered, pounding and pounding.

"It's just in time for lunch, so I came over to this beef ramen restaurant." Taoxi replied pretending to be calm.

Then she extended her hand and politely invited: "There is no one on the opposite side. You can sit down first. If you haven't had lunch, you can try the ramen here." "Okay, thank you." Shang Huaiqing took off his coat and only

wore With the white shirt inside, he casually pulled the chair in front of the table and sat down.

I haven't seen him for more than half a month. Looking at him so closely, I feel that he is much thinner than before, but he is in good spirits.

Noticing the snowflakes falling in his hair, Tao Xi subconsciously reached out to touch the tissue box, but before she could pull out the tissue, she withdrew her hand again.

She didn't want him to know that she paid so much attention to his details.

It was also during her hesitation that the snowflakes that fell on his hair had slowly melted.

"Why did you come here to eat ramen all of a sudden? Are you shopping nearby?" Shang Huaiqing took out his mobile phone from his pocket and put it on the table.

Like an old friend whom he hasn't seen for a long time, his topics are becoming more and more casual.

Taoxi put the phone aside: "No, I just went to the library to check the information, and this place is close, so I ran over to eat noodles." After speaking,

she handed the menu on the table to Shang Huaiqing: " I have eaten their family many times, and the taste is not bad. If you eat it for the first time, I recommend you to try their signature beef noodles." Shang Huaiqing took the menu, glanced at it casually, and

said Put it aside, and replied: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

At this moment, the waiter came over and helped Shang Huai take the order.

He directly ordered the signature beef noodles with the waiter.

"There are a lot of diners in the restaurant, please wait patiently, I wish you a pleasant meal."

"Okay, thank you."

The waiter turned and left.

After ordering noodles, Shang Huai leaned half-axis on the table casually, folded his hands together, glanced at the whole store environment, then turned his head and said casually to Tao Xi: "It seems that this store It's really popular, and the store is almost full." "There are

really a lot of people at noon, and once I remember that when I came here at around two o'clock in the afternoon, there were very few people in the store."

Shang Huai folded his hands in the Together, the two thumbs slightly pressed against the chin: "So do you come to this noodle shop often?" "

No." Tao Xi replied, "It's just that every time I go to the library to check the information, I will come here to eat noodles. If you come here from home, the distance is a bit far."

Shang Huaiqing nodded slightly: "That's it."

The topic of ramen has no possibility of continuing to chat, there is a blank space between the two of them for two or three seconds, and Taoxi is very happy. He naturally changed the subject and said, "How about you, when did you come back to Qingbei?"

When this greeting was asked, the tone was casual, as if greeting a friend who hadn't seen for a long time.

By this time, her pounding heartbeat just now finally calmed down.

"I came back yesterday, and I need to make up a movie scene, and I have to leave Qingbei tomorrow." "

So." Taoxi's tone became more and more natural, "Are you an actor by profession?" "

You can also say that, specifically If so, it should be a movie actor, I only like movies, if I have a good script, I will start working, if not, I will just stay at home." Shang Huaiqing summed up his career in a simple sentence.

It sounds like he is a movie actor who is outside the entertainment circle. No wonder there is no social promotion, and he is similar to ordinary people when he goes out on the street on weekdays.

Although there are girls who like him watching, but there is no such exaggerated siege phenomenon. It seems that those who like him probably knew that he only wanted to make movies, so they restrained themselves and did not disturb him too much. .

Thinking of this, Tao Xi still couldn't help but asked curiously: "Then when you usually go out, aren't you afraid that others will recognize you?

" It is true that I would be a little troubled when I went to the streets, but after the popularity of the movie passed, I gradually faded out of the public's sight."

As for Tao Xi's questions, he always answered every question. At the end, he looked into Tao Xi's dark eyes and added in a low voice: "Just like now, I can eat noodles with you very comfortably." He said

this The tone of the sentence was low, cool and hoarse, the ripples were as clear as water, so light that it was almost impossible to hear any emotion.

It was like the sound of several rock sugar falling into cold boiled water and colliding. It was not clear and loud, but it made people feel a little dazed.

The ramen restaurant is a bit noisy when there are many people, but Taoxi's place is in the corner, the last row by the window, with the window on the left, and an old-fashioned carved cabinet next to the aisle on the right. There are no other customers on both sides. It looks

like She and Shang Huaiqing were the only ones sitting in the corner.

With such an ambiguous position, coupled with Shang Huaiqing's words just now, the atmosphere between the two suddenly became ambiguous.

Tao Xi didn't know how to respond to him, and was a little slow to react for a while, and the few seconds of freezing made the atmosphere more ambiguous.

Just at this time, the waiter served her the ramen she ordered earlier.

"Your beef ramen with mushrooms and lotus roots has arrived. I wish you a pleasant meal."

"Thank you." Tao Xi thanked.

With her hands hanging under the table, she looked obedient. After the waiter left, she didn't move her chopsticks and sat there obediently.

After all, Shang Huaiqing's ramen hadn't been served yet, so she was embarrassed to eat it by herself first.

Shang Huaiqing quickly saw her embarrassment, seeing that there was no chili jar on the table, so he got up from his side and said to Tao Xi: "I'll go and help get a jar of chili sauce, it's better to put some chili on the ramen. "

"Okay." Taoxi nodded slightly.

Shang Huai turned and left.

Tao Xi lowered her eyes, seeing him leave from the corner of her eye, she unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he only took two or three minutes to get the chili sauce, at least in this short time, Taoxi didn't have to worry about whether to eat or not to eat the ramen.

After taking a can of chili sauce from the ramen restaurant's ingredients, Shang Huaiqing was not in a hurry to return. He stood there and glanced at Tao Xi who was sitting by the window. Even if he left, she still didn't move her chopsticks, still Just sit there obediently.

Suddenly, a doting smile appeared on his lips, and after dawdling for a while at the ingredients, he deliberately went over to rush his own bowl of ramen.

When he learned that it would be out of the pot soon, he returned to the dining table with the jar of chili sauce.

Putting the chili sauce in the middle of the table, Shang Huai opened the lid and asked Tao Xi, "Do you want some chili sauce?" "

I'll do it myself." Tao Xi reached out and scooped some chili sauce with a small aluminum spoon .

Shang Huaiqing let go of the chili sauce: "My ramen will be on the table soon, you can eat it first, otherwise it won't taste good when it gets lumpy."

Tao Xi replied with lowered eyelashes: "Well, good.

" Put a small spoonful of chili into his ramen, picked up the chopsticks, stirred it, then poured some vinegar into the noodles, and stirred it again.

With such effort of pretending to be ink marks, Shang Huaiqing's noodles were finally served on the table.

Shang Huaiqing added a spoonful of chili sauce to the ramen, stirred it, and casually chatted with Tao Xi who was opposite him: "Just now I've been talking about me, let me tell you about you, what is the opportunity to become an online article author?"

Taoxi held onto the edge of the bowl, sucked a mouthful of noodles, and after chewing, she replied: "There is no particular reason, it is just that I have liked reading novels since I was a child, and then I gradually realized that I have the ability to express myself in words and imagination. It's not bad in terms of aspects, and I don't like going out very much. After working for a year or two and saving some savings, I chose this path directly." "Not bad, treating a hobby as a

career should be a matter of luck and happiness. It's something to do."

Hearing Shang Huaiqing's words, Taoxi agreed with her from the bottom of her heart, and she was really lucky to be able to stay away from social life and earn money to support herself by doing things she liked, but thinking of those things at the beginning Difficult, she suddenly fell silent.

When she first started writing novels, she had almost no income, often tens or even a few dollars a month.

For more than a year, she didn't know how she survived. In order to save rent, she shared a cheap basement with others. She was reluctant to buy anything, and she didn't have any entertainment activities. Apart from eating and sleeping, she wrote articles almost every day.

But there is no income for more than a year, the future is bleak, and I don't know how long this kind of life will last. Seeing the money in the bank card decrease little by little every day, she is almost so anxious that she can't sleep every night, and she loses a lot of hair. She did not dare to go to the hospital for treatment of anemia caused by adverse events.

Fortunately, she gritted her teeth and persevered, and gradually got better. She even bought a small house by her own ability, but after all, the helpless years before left a shadow on her and made her suffer from pain. Had a severe anxiety disorder.

Even though she has made some achievements in her own field now, she still dare not relax. In order to pay off the mortgage as soon as possible, she still insists on writing every day, and she is still very economical in living expenses, and hardly buys clothes and jewelry. Necessities, just want to make money and save money, as monotonous and boring as a robot.

It is rare to perceive the kind of happiness that overflows from the bottom of my heart.

Shang Huaiqing saw that Taoxi on the opposite side did not answer his words, there seemed to be a sigh hidden in the silently lowered eyebrows, he seemed to understand at a glance the unspeakable hidden behind her sudden silence.

Knowing that she has seen a psychiatrist before, she must have had a difficult time in the past, otherwise she would not have a heart attack.

Shang Huaiqing stopped the topic in time, but asked too much, and didn't care too much, but changed the subject naturally: "There is a second-hand goods market nearby, have you visited it?" Taoxi shook her head, and she stretched out her

hand Pulled out a paper towel, wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth, and then replied: "No, I only know about this ramen restaurant. I haven't really visited other places." "If you are interested, wait until after eating the

noodles , we can go shopping together."

"I'm interested." Tao Xi agreed without any hesitation.

Shang Huaiqing was still chewing noodles, unable to speak, but when he heard Taoxi agree so simply, a smile appeared on his lips, although half of his cheeks were slightly bulging because of chewing noodles, but he still blocked it. Can't help the wanton spread of that smile.

A bright smile reached his eyes.

Tao Xi belatedly realized that she agreed so quickly just now, and the way she agreed without even thinking about it was intimate and clingy. When she looked at Shang Huaiqing, she noticed the smile in his eyes, and she suddenly felt a little embarrassed. , so he lowered his eyes slowly, stirring the ramen in front of him one after another.

The whole person is awkward.

But from the corner of the eye, she was still paying attention to Shang Huaiqing's every move, and when she noticed that he was starting to bury her head in eating noodles, she slowly raised her eyes again, looking at his drooping eyebrows secretly and cautiously, remembering what he said just now. That smile was ambiguous and so blatant, it seemed as if he could feel the vague and strange emotional flow between the two of them in a trance.

Tao Xi lowered his eyes slowly, didn't think any further, just picked up the chopsticks, and quietly ate the ramen in front of him.

The snow outside the window was falling quietly, and the street was covered with a thick layer of snow. Looking around, there was a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere.

After eating noodles, when I walked out of the restaurant, the snow was still falling, and before I walked far, my hair was covered with snow.

Taoxi walked quietly beside Shang Huaiqing, snowflakes were falling in front of her eyes, but there was no sound, she was safe and down-to-earth.

It actually gave her an illusion that the road walking side by side with Shang Huaiqing would never end.

After turning two corners and passing through a crossroad, he finally arrived at the flea market that Shang Huaiqing was talking about.

Sure enough, it wasn't too far away from the ramen restaurant, and Taoxi had never heard of this market.

"We're here." Shang Huaiqing took out a hand from his coat pocket, raised his index finger slightly, pointed to the flea market across the road, and continued, "Today is not the weekend, and it's snowing again, so there probably aren't many people.

" Did you come here often?" Tao Xi asked casually.

The sidewalk at the intersection turned on a red light, and the two of them naturally stopped on the side of the road.

"No, I just come here to hang out occasionally when I have free time. The small household items there are very interesting. Even if I don't buy them, I still like to shop around."

Tao Xi listened quietly and did not reply.

Soon, the green light on the sidewalk turned on, and the two walked towards the opposite side of the road almost at the same time.

Cross the zebra crossing, turn left, walk for about a minute or two, then pass through the eaves at the gate of the flea market, and enter the market directly.

The market is not open-air, and there is a roof. When you look up, you can see snowflakes falling on the shed.

Going further, you can see a variety of small objects, jewelry, masks, small ornaments, etc., all kinds of second-hand items in the small shops on both sides.

"How about it, isn't it interesting?" Shang Huai looked sideways at Tao Xi.

Seeing her staring at those small objects intently, she looked very interested, like a child entering a candy supermarket, full of joy.

Tao Xi nodded slightly: "Well, it's very interesting. I really didn't expect there to be so many small commodities."

While talking, Tao Xi slowed down and stopped slowly at a small shop selling jewelry.

Shang Huaiqing followed and stopped beside her.

In the small shop full of earrings and necklaces, Taoxi caught a pair of earrings at a glance. Although they were a bit old, they were very delicate. Two or three dried roses were inlaid on the green branches, decorated with silver chains, romantic and very individual.

She held it in her hand and couldn't put it down.

Shang Huaiqing helped take the mirror, and held it in front of her: "Would you like to try it on, it looks very suitable for you."

Tao Xi bit her lower lip, feeling embarrassed to look in the mirror in front of him, and she wanted to wear earrings, So she took out her mobile phone and replied, "No, let's try again when I go back."

After paying for the pair of earrings, the two continued to walk forward.

After walking not far, Taoxi followed Shang Huaiqing to a small second-hand decoration shop.

The carpet at the door and even the inside of the store are filled with small ornaments of various sizes and shapes.

Dazzling to see.

Taoxi squatted down and picked up a milk-colored cat ceramic ornament: "This is quite cute, and it looks like Niannian." "There are more

interesting small ornaments in the store, let's go in and have a look."

"Okay." Tao Xi's voice was clear and pure, sounding very happy.

She took the milk-colored ceramic kitten, got up and walked towards the store first.

Shang Huaiqing followed her, looking at Taoxi's back with tender eyes, and when he sensed her happiness from the bottom of his heart, he was also filled with joy.

After all, she is a lot different from the timid girl she met when she first met.

After visiting the decoration shop, when she came out again, there seemed to be more people in the market, and the aisle to go in was a bit narrow. In order to avoid collisions, Taoxi would turn her body to avoid the oncoming people deliberately. Others, however, always subconsciously move closer to Shang Huaiqing.

Halfway through the walk, she saw a stall selling freshly ground soy milk in the corner. After shopping for so long, Tao Xi was really thirsty, so she turned her head and suggested to Shang Huaiqing, "Do you want soy milk? Please."

It seemed more and more natural for her to get along with him.

"Okay, then I won't be polite." Shang Huaiqing agreed without any evasion.

The two walked towards the soy milk stall side by side.

The soy milk at the stall is packaged in a long plastic bag, so you can drink it with a straw when you drink it, which is very convenient.

"Do you want the one with sugar, or the one without sugar?"

"Sweetened."

After questioning and answering with Shang Huaiqing, Tao Xi took out his mobile phone to scan the QR code to pay, and bought two bags of soy milk with sugar.

The soy milk I just bought is still warm, but it is not hot, and it is just right to drink while it is hot.

Carrying the soy milk in their hands, the two lifted their feet together almost tacitly, and walked to an open space at the corner of the market.

Tao Xi held the soy milk in one hand, and when she was about to insert the straw, Shang Huaiqing reached out and helped her drag the bottom of the soy milk.

"Thank you." Taoxi inserted the straw smoothly.

Shang Huaiqing withdrew his hand, his straw had been inserted into the soy milk just now, he picked it up, took a sip or two, and said casually: "It's been a long time since I thought of drinking soy milk like this, I remember drinking it in the supermarket when I was young several times."

"Did you buy it from the bean product shop in the supermarket?"

"Yes, that's there." Shang Huaiqing nodded slightly, turned his head to look at Taoxi, with a smile on his face, and asked her casually, "You should have drunk it before." Have you been there?"

"Well, in fact, there is a supermarket where I live where I can buy it all the time, and occasionally buy it home to drink." "

Well, that's pretty good."

Tao Xi originally wanted to continue, waiting for Shang Huai next time When Qing came to her house to look after the cat, she could go to the supermarket to buy him a bag of such soy milk, but the thought arose and the words came to her lips, but she couldn't say it.

I had no choice but to hide this idea secretly, thinking that I would just pretend to buy it for him casually when the time comes.

She drank the soy milk in her hand sullenly, and stopped talking.

After drinking the soy milk, the two continued to stroll in, but most of the stalls in the back of the market were antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and the two of them didn't seem very interested, and neither of them took the initiative to stay in front of any of the stalls. But they were not in a hurry to leave, they still walked forward slowly side by side.

Along the way, there were people coming and going around, and occasionally other tourists would bump into her from behind, and when they were about to accidentally bump into her, Shang Huaiqing would always protect her in time to avoid collisions.

She could feel his timeliness, as if most of his attention was on her, and she felt a solid sense of being properly protected by him.

Just like this, she walked with him until the end of the market, Taoxi was reluctant to turn around, until she finished shopping at the last shop, she had no choice but to turn around, ready to go back.

"It seems that there are quite a lot of stalls, but I didn't expect to walk around and finish it in a short time." Shang Huaiqing, who was next to him, turned around and casually raised a topic.

Tao Xi pulled the scarf around his neck slightly with his fingers, and replied: "I also thought it would take a long time to go shopping." She was a little bit reluctant to finish shopping so quickly.

"Usually, where do you like to go shopping?" Shang Huai tilted his head and forgot to glance at her, and continued to chat.

"Let's go to the library, or just take a walk around home. The supermarket is probably the place I usually visit the most." After speaking, Tao Xi and Shang Huaiqing looked at each other and laughed at themselves, "Doesn't that sound boring?"

Shang Huai held a faint smile on her lips: "One thing, it may be because of you alone, so you don't like to go around." Taoxi looked back,

she bit her lower lip, looked at the texture of the stone slab on the ground, and whispered She replied: "I don't have any friends here in Qingbei, I've always been alone."

Her eyelashes were long, even though she had no makeup on that day and didn't apply any mascara, they were still long and curled up, looking charming Seductive, but very obedient when talking dully.

She was supposed to have a lot of candies, but she didn't have any in her hand, which made people feel pity.

Shang Huai tilted his eyes slightly, covering his mind, and said in a relaxed tone: "Actually, I'm alone most of the time, after that, would you mind being a companion with me, and we can go shopping together?" Tao Xi looked

up , looking at him with clear eyes: "Is it like today?"

"Yes, like today, let's eat ramen and go shopping in the flea market together." Shang Huaiqing's eyes seemed to hide the only warmth in the snowy day. Meaning, replied lightly.

The surprise that should have been contained in his tone was suppressed in his heart quietly.

Tao Xi didn't say anything, just turned his head and looked ahead, just at this time the two of them had already walked out of the second-hand goods market, the snow was still falling outside, and the street was already covered with thick snow.

Her heart was also very full at that moment, steadfast, reassuring, and comfortable, almost filling her entire atrium. For a moment, she felt that everything around her began to become blurred. Leave her and Shang Huaiqing alone.

Snowflakes fell on his face, it was still cool, and he slowly walked side by side with Shang Huaiqing on the snowy ground. Today, we ate ramen noodles with him and went to the flea market together. We should have been satisfied.

But when it was time to part, Tao Xi felt a little bit reluctant.

She wanted to spend some more time with him, but for a while she couldn't think of how to keep him. It was still early for dinner. Although she was outside now, she couldn't invite him to go shopping with a big man.

Tao Xi bit her lower lip, and quickly searched for a reason to stay with Shang Huaiqing in her mind, until she remembered his three cats.

I haven't seen him for more than half a month. He must miss his cat very much.

Why not take the initiative to invite him to visit the cat at home.

Thinking of this, Taoxi began to organize his words and thought about that sentence.

——If you have time later, would you like to visit your cat?

She silently read the organized words in her heart, then turned her head to look at Shang Huaiqing next to her, thinking that he was looking at the road ahead, but she did not expect that he also turned to look at herself.

The eyes of the two just collided.

"..."

Flakes of snowflakes fell from mid-air, passing across his exquisite and stylish side face. There are some seductive meanings that he may not even be aware of, in the snowflakes all over the sky, he seems a little unreal.

Walking in the snow like a fairy who has just transformed into a human form.

"Boom—" once.

At the moment when he looked at him, Taoxi's mind was blank like fireworks, and his thoughts were confused.

She had completely forgotten the words she had organized just now before they reached her lips.

She silently turned her head again, avoiding Shang Huaiqing's gaze, and stared dully at the large flakes of snow falling on the snow in front of her.

At the same time, Shang Huaiqing's low and cool voice sounded in her ear, asking her a question.

"Wait, if it's convenient for you, can I go to your house and see the three cats?"