Love You Secretly [MTL]

Ch 11

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Taoxi was a little surprised.

Although she guessed that the house opposite might have been sold early in the morning, it was not until recently that she heard the voice of the decorator over there that she was able to confirm her guess.

When she went out again, she also saw that the door of the opposite house had been replaced with a combination lock.

She thought that someone would move in soon, but she never expected that her new neighbor would be Shang Huaiqing.

"Did you buy the house here?" Tao Xi couldn't help asking.

As soon as the words were finished, she felt that Nian Nian was around her feet, afraid that Nian Nian would run away, so she bent down and hugged Nian Nian.

Shang Huaiqing opened the door completely, and then turned his head back to her: "I think this place is very quiet, and I just bought a suitable house, so I bought it. When I get busy, it will be much more convenient to send the cat to your home." arrive.

While talking, he pulled the three cats into the house.

But he didn't go in. He stood at the door and turned on the light. The room was instantly filled with white light. He stood against the light and looked at Taoxi again with calm eyes.

It was time to say goodbye, but those two words were stuck in my throat, so I couldn't say them so quickly.

He turned to talk to Taoxi leisurely: "If you have time to go to the supermarket someday these days, remember to call me, I just follow you to get acquainted with the surrounding environment." Taoxi stood opposite

him, Holding Nian Nian in her arms, she looked at him with clear eyes, and there was no sign of turning around to leave.

Her outfit that day looked younger, the peach pink sweater set off her fair and rosy skin, and her soft, fluffy ball hair was even more lovely.

When standing there obediently, it was like a child who was waiting for his goodbye, and would not turn around and go home until he waited, obedient and sensible.

Suddenly, Shang Huaiqing's heart couldn't help but rippled.

"I'm actually." Almost at the same time as he finished speaking, Taoxi blurted out, "I'll be free tomorrow."

Even though she paused for a second or two when she spoke, she could still feel her lack of thinking.

Shang Huai stood there calmly, hiding the ripples in his heart, and just smiled lightly with his eyes hooked: "Tomorrow?" It

sounded like repeating her meaning, but the cool ending sound rose, which sounded like Somewhat teasingly.

It was as if he was as usual, seeing through Taoxi's thoughts at a glance, and didn't want to wait a few more days, but wanted to go to the supermarket with him tomorrow.

But he didn't poke it.

A gust of wind suddenly blew from the corridor, and the warm air, sandwiched by the cold winter wind outside the window, brushed against Tao Xi's cheeks, staining her face quietly.

She was still standing there, unconsciously hugging Nian Nian tightly in her arms, the two or three blank seconds, on the contrary, made Shang Huaiqing see through some lingering ambiguity.

Belatedly, I realized what I blurted out just now, brightly with a bit of can't wait, which made people daydream endlessly.

But the words have already been spoken, and there is no room for turning back, so Taoxi had no choice but to bite the bullet and explain: "I just have time to go to the supermarket to buy some things tomorrow."

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

The words were simple, but with some fun.

I don't know if it's an illusion, or he was standing against the light, his figure covered most of the white light, leaving only some ambiguous light. In this kind of light, the smile at the end of his eyes seemed a little unscrupulous, and a little naughty of.

Charming like a goblin hiding in the world.

Ling Taoxi began to feel flustered for no reason.

Fortunately, he didn't tease her anymore, and just said one last thing: "Then we'll see you tomorrow. When are you going to the supermarket, just send me a WeChat message in advance.

" Huai Qing said, "Good night."

After finishing this sentence, she lowered her eyes, avoiding Shang Huaiqing's sight, and without waiting for his response, she turned around and walked into the house with Nian Nian in her arms go.

He was a little flustered, as if he was afraid that he would be taken by such a good-looking goblin if he took a step too late.

Behind her, Shang Huaiqing's voice sounded softly: "Good night."

Watching Taoxi walk into the room, Shang Huaiqing reached out and closed the door on his side until he heard the sound of her door being locked.

Turning around and walking through the hallway, he threw the coat in his hand on the sofa, and he turned back.

The three cats were still in the cage, and they were meowing at him.

He walked over, squatted down, and softly comforted the three cats: "Be good, I'll let you out right away." The

cage doors were opened one by one.

Three cats scrambled to escape from the cage.

Shang Huaiqing folded the small train, got up, and put it into the cabinet at the entrance.

Turning off the light at the entrance, turning around and walking towards the room, when he raised his head and inadvertently looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows, he saw a full moon hanging in the middle of the sky.

Although it is not very round, it is bright and white, giving birth to the cold chill of neither joy nor sorrow in winter.

Shang Huaiqing walked over, and he leaned on the back of the sofa with one hand, supporting the armrest of the back with one hand, looking lazily, and looking at the winter moon outside the window without emotion.

On the set before, when shooting night scenes in the suburbs, you could see the moon hanging in the sky as soon as you looked up. At that time, Shang Huaiqing could not help but wonder if Taoxi was watching the moon with him at the same time. They were looking at the same moon, even though he was far away from her when he was shooting movies in other cities.

But you can see the same moon in the same sky.

Thinking about it this way, he didn't feel that she was far away from him.

Now that I moved here, I can finally be closer to her.

Want to get closer to her.

I don't know when this idea came up, maybe it was when he heard that the house opposite her was vacant, or when he decided to hire her to take care of his cat earlier.

Or maybe it was the first time I met at Lu Zhaomin's place. The moment she pushed open the door and came in, the dazzling sunlight fell on her, and her clear eyes were not stained with any impurities. Although they were a little timid, those eyes were natural. Long Mei.

Shang Huaiqing still remembers that when the door opened that day, when he met her eyes, a tsunami seemed to secretly arise in his heart, spreading all over his body in an instant, but he remained calm.

"Meow."

Hearing Huihui's voice, Shang Huai returned to his senses, looked down and saw Huihui throwing a little mouse to his feet, as if he wanted to interact with him, he squatted down and picked up the mouse on the ground. Little mouse: "I'll throw it farther away for you, and you can find it yourself, okay?"

"Meow." Huihui looked up at the little mouse in his hand with her little head up.

He raised his hand and threw the little mouse out.

Seeing Huihui run away, Shang Huai leaned up, took out his phone from his pocket, turned around, and took a picture of the moon outside the window.

After that, he, who hadn't posted on Moments for ten thousand years, shared that photo in Moments.

The night was getting dark.

Taoxi sat in front of the computer, the other lights in the room had been turned off, only the light from the desk lamp was left.

The late winter nights are very quiet, and Taoxi lives in a remote place, so there is almost no movement at night, which is very suitable for creating with peace of mind.

She sat down almost at 8 o'clock in the evening, and she has been thinking about the final chapter of the novel, but today, for some reason, her work efficiency is extremely low, and she can't proceed with a paragraph of content after many times.

Simply stopped.

Tao Xi propped his chin with one hand, staring at the words on the screen, lost in thought.

It's just that before my thoughts wandered, I heard a sudden sound of footsteps outside the corridor, followed by the sound of closing the door forcefully. It was noisy and frightening in the middle of the night.

Taoxi was so frightened that her heart contracted, and she sat there with her whole body, not daring to breathe, and was so nervous that she stood still for more than a minute before recovering.

At this moment, the sound of Shang Huai opening the door on the opposite side sounded again in the corridor. It could be heard that he opened and closed the door lightly, but in this silent midnight, he could still hear it clearly, and even his slight footsteps could be heard.

Tao Xi got up, and she walked to the door, listening to the movement outside almost holding her breath.

The sound of the door opening came from outside the corridor again, followed by such a conversation.

"Hello, I'm a new neighbor who just moved in next door, and I haven't greeted you yet." "

Oh, I work during the day, so I probably won't see me." "

This is a meeting gift I prepared, please accept it." Next."

"You're being polite."

Tao Xi lowered her eyes slightly, continuing to listen to the conversation between Shang Huaiqing and the man who came home in the middle of the night.

"Do you usually come back so late at night?"

"No way, I'm too busy with work, and it's almost midnight when I come back." "

It's hard work, and I don't go home until midnight." After a pause, he heard Shang Huaiqing Then he continued, "Then next time when you come back in the middle of the night, can you close the door a little softer, after all, the other neighbors may be asleep in the middle of the night, and even if they haven't slept, they will be startled by your closing the door." Hearing

this , Tao Xi bit her finger, and couldn't help but sweat for Shang Huai.

In fact, this neighbor has been complained many times about the sound of closing the door in the middle of the night, and even the property owner personally sent someone to negotiate with him.

Taoxi had a face-to-face meeting with this neighbor, and he looked very fierce, so he was not easy to mess with.

Shang Huaiqing negotiated with him in the middle of the night, but he didn't know if it would annoy him, and then started a big fight.

"I'm sorry, I've been told many times that I always forget to change it. I'll pay attention next time." "

Maybe you are too busy with work and don't remember these little things. I often forget them too. I can only remind myself with post-it notes. You might as well Try it too, put a post-it note on the door to remind yourself to close the door more quietly." "

Oh, this method works, then I'll post a post-it note for myself later."

Hearing this, Tao Xi who was at the door couldn't help but relax. Take a breath.

"Then I won't bother you, good night."

Shang Huaiqing's light footsteps sounded in the corridor, and the sound of him and the neighbor closing the door one after another.

Then the corridor outside returned to the silence of the middle of the night.

Tao Xi was still standing at the door, her eyes were slightly lowered, and she was looking at a certain place on the floor without focus. The sudden fear just now had long since disappeared, replaced by an unprecedented sense of security.

She also slept soundly that night, almost waking up at dawn.

In the winter morning, getting up is a very strenuous task, but Taoxi has never stayed in bed. It may be because she writes full-time at home and her income is not fixed. Now that she has a mortgage, the pressure has increased, and she is even more afraid. Slack, almost always tense.

It's just that when she woke up this morning, it was rare for her to lie in bed, doing nothing, just lying on the bed so relaxed, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

She thought, after ten o'clock, she would send Shang Huaiqing a wechat message, ask him to go to the supermarket together, and when it was almost noon after shopping, she could take him to the Malatang store she often went to, and have lunch together.

Just planning in this way, Tao Xi already felt the joy bursting out from the bottom of his heart, as if it was about to overflow, filling the entire atrium thickly.

She stretched, got up, and just put on her pajamas when she saw Nian Nian jumping onto the bed and calling her a few times.

"Morning, Niannian." Tao Xi hugged Niannian, rubbing his chin against its fluffy head.

It was the first time to greet Nian Nian with such a naughty tone, so that Nian Nian stared at her for a long time without any reaction.

"Why do you keep staring at me, don't you recognize me?" Tao Xi put down Nian Nian, got out of bed, and walked out of the bedroom.

Niannian, who hadn't reacted yet, stood by the bed, stretched his neck, and looked curiously at the back of Taoxi walking out, his two big eyes were full of doubts.

I'm afraid it won't understand why the shit-shoveling officer, who usually doesn't like to talk and stuffy, is so happy this morning.

After breakfast, it was just after nine o'clock. Taoxi cleaned up and changed some new cat litter for Niannian. After finishing the trivial things, she didn't turn on the computer as usual, knowing that she might not be quiet now. Set down to write a novel.

So she just took out her notebook and prepared to reorganize the outline of the novel from the beginning, so as to finally determine the content of the final chapter.

After making a glass of honey lemonade, Taoxi took the glass and sat on the carpet in front of the square table. She leaned against the sofa, opened her notebook, and began to organize the outline.

As the outline spreads out, the ideas gradually become clearer, like a tree sprouting and branching in my mind, gradually flourishing.

Tao Xi indulged in her own world, letting the tree in her mind spread magnificently until she finally understood the content of the ending chapter.

When the cup of honey water on the table was no longer so hot, Taoxi picked it up and drank half of it on the edge of the cup. Seeing that she had sorted out the ideas of the novel, she put down the pen in her hand, then reached out to light up the phone screen by the table, Patou glanced at the time.

A quarter to ten.

It's time to tell Shang Huaiqing that I'm going to the supermarket later.

Originally, she was full of expectations in the morning, and even extremely happy, but at this moment, she became inexplicably nervous.

The little heart was still pounding.

Taoxi held the cup with both hands, gulped down another two or three mouthfuls of honey lemonade, suppressing her shock.

Swallowing the last sip of honey lemonade, Taoxi nibbled on the rim of the cup and slowed down for a while. After her throbbing heartbeat was not so violent, she put down the cup and picked up the phone instead.

After unlocking the phone with her fingerprint, she clicked on WeChat and entered the chat box with Shang Huaiqing.

But looking at the screen and hesitating for a long time, Taoxi didn't know what kind of opening remarks to type. She took a deep breath while holding the phone, and after a while, she finally entered a line of words in the dialog box.

——I'm going to the supermarket later, are you free? If so, let's go together.

After typing, she checked it two or three times, then closed her eyes and clicked the send button, and sent it with a "咻——".

After the message was sent, the heartbeat that had finally calmed down just now began to thump in panic again.

I don't know what she is panicking about.

Tao Xi put the phone on his chest with one hand, closed his eyes, and before those flustered heartbeats subsided, he heard the notification tone of a new WeChat message coming from the phone.

He replied pretty quickly.

—Okay, shall we meet at the door in ten minutes?

Tao Xi held the phone in front of her, she puffed her cheeks, and slowly followed that breath, then tapped the screen with her fingertips, and returned to him.

—Okay, see you later.

After replying, Taoxi exited the chat box, and saw that there was a reminder of a new circle of friends, she subconsciously clicked on it, and saw the moon photo Shang Huaiqing sent last night.

There is no text content, only a photo.

It's also the first post in his circle of friends. It looks like it commemorates the first day of moving here, or maybe it's just that the moon last night was beautiful.

Tao Xi didn't continue to think about it, she put the phone aside, and when she got up and walked into the bedroom, she had already tied her head with a ball.

Taking off her pajamas in the bedroom, Taoxi put on her usual down jacket and sweatpants. After changing, she just walked out of the bedroom when she turned back.

Although she felt that she didn't need to dress up too much when she went to the supermarket, she still walked to the dressing table, bent over to face the mirror, combed the broken hair on her forehead, and put on a light-colored but slightly shimmering lipstick.

Then he picked up his phone and prepared to go out.

I took the environmental protection bag at the entrance, and when I picked up the key to open the door, I heard the sound of opening the door from the opposite side. Tao Xi was slightly startled, she hid her flustered heartbeat, turned the key, opened the door, and talked to Shang with a calm face. Huai Qing said hello: "Hi, morning."

Shang Huai smiled lightly with the corners of his eyes closed: "Morning, but it's almost noon."

"..." The same.

Tao Xi stuffed the recycle bag into the big pocket of the down jacket, then turned around and locked her own door.

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Yes, how about you?"

Shang Huai shrugged his shoulders with his hands in his pockets, and said lazily, "Not yet, I just moved here, and there is nothing in the refrigerator.

" Dun: "I still have bread here, do you want me to go back and get you one?"

Seeing that she was about to turn around and go back to get it, Shang Huaiqing stopped and stopped her: "No more, I'll go downstairs to see if there is any breakfast for sale, I really want to eat pancakes." Taoxi paused without saying a word

. In place, refused to go.

"I'd better go back and get you some bread." The pancake fruit is very satisfying, and I probably won't be able to eat Malatang after eating it.

After saying this, without waiting for Shang Huaiqing to respond, Taoxi turned around and walked back.

Shang Huai looked at her back, smiled, and waited in place.

In less than a minute, Taoxi came out of the house again with bread, she locked the door behind her back, and when she turned around and walked through the corridor, she saw Shang Huaiqing standing not far away waiting for her.

He was wearing a dark brown short woolen jacket, jeans, white canvas shoes, and a black baseball cap, and he was standing loosely against the wall. breath.

It was like a handsome senior who met in the corridor by chance, just stood there, with a good-looking appearance that made people unable to take their eyes off.

The winter sunlight poured in through the corridor window, covering him brightly. He looked down at the phone slightly, half of his face with clear lines was immersed in the rippling twilight, and his lowered eyebrows and eyes were emotionally unclear. But casually seduce people.

When she realized that he was about to look up to her side, Taoxi's heart skipped a beat, her mind was confused, and her behavior was also out of rhythm. Before she could reach him, when she was about three or four meters away, she stretched out her hand .

Like a kindergarten kid eager to share the delicious food in his hands, he stretched out his long arms from a distance, eager to share the bread and milk in his hands with him.

Her eyes were as clear as usual, and her words were sincere and pure, but she was a little flustered that he would find out that she was peeking at him just now, so she finally asked a question in a low voice and timidly.

"Coconut bread, okay?"