lure pear

Chapter 10 I Like You

Jiang Cheng took her to a barbecue stall, and greeted the owner familiarly.

"It's the same, but come for double."

The boss agreed cheerfully, and took another look at Xuanli, "New girlfriend? This little girl looks very fresh! She's even prettier than the one you brought before!"

Xuan Li looked at the person beside him in a little surprise, but he smiled and argued: "Don't talk nonsense in front of the little girl, I have never brought a girl here."

She looked around and saw that it was an open-air stall with only a few small tables at the door, full of people.

"I didn't expect you to come to this kind of place."

Jiang Cheng was removing the chopsticks, when he heard her words, his brows raised slightly, "Why do you say that?"

Xuan Li breathed a sigh of relief against the cold hands, "You are Young Master Jiang, but you would condescend to come to such a small stall."

"Xuan Xiaoli, I'm also an ordinary person, not that noble."

He chuckled, subconsciously touched his pocket, realized that the coat was on her, and raised his jaw towards her.

"Give me the cigarette in your pocket."

She fumbled into her pocket, and found a hard, bulging cigarette case in her hand. There was also a cold metal texture, which was a lighter.

Xuan Li kept his hands in his pockets for a while before taking them out, Jiang Cheng scoffed, "What's wrong, are your hands still hot?"

She raised her watery almond eyes and asked sincerely, "Do you often smoke?"

He didn't deny it, "That's right, one will come when I'm upset."

"If you're in a bad mood, you can talk to me," Xuan Li mustered up her courage, looking serious like a preaching teacher, "Uncle Huo used to tell me when he encountered troubles."

A playful smile appeared in Jiang Cheng's eyes, "Huh? I don't see that you still have the talent to be a psychology teacher." He raised the end of his eyes lightly, and smiled casually, "I'm annoyed by the school's physics experiment data, you Can it be solved too?"

Although she learned all the knowledge in high school by herself, she never went to college after all, so she wondered if the difficulty of physics in college would exceed her knowledge.

As a result, Xuanli's fair cheeks were embarrassingly stained with light pink, which reminded Jiang Cheng of a fruit: peaches.

I thought she would give up, but the little girl with her head down looked up again, and asked tentatively, "I... I'll try?"

Jiang Cheng laughed, "No, my team members will take care of the data."

Xuanli took out the cigarette case and lighter, lowered her eyes as if she was a little disappointed, "Then you should smoke."

Her palm was plain white, and when he looked down, it looked like a snow-white pear.

Jiang Cheng didn't want to smoke at first, but for no reason he felt a tickle in his throat.He hooked his fingers and grabbed the cigarette case and lighter.

His fingertips inadvertently scratched her palm lightly, Xuan Li subconsciously curled up her hands, and belatedly realized that his hands were unexpectedly beautiful.

There are no flowing long nails, and the five fingers are white and slender.Especially when the index finger and ring finger are holding the cigarette, with the movement of the phalanges, there is a bit of unprovoked sexiness.

Xuan Li lowered her eyes, suppressing a little dryness in her heart.

The evening breeze at the end of spring was still a little cool, and the smell of mint-flavored cigarettes and the smell of barbecue blew away her chaotic thoughts.

She coughed a few times due to the smell of smoke, and the spicy smell of the barbecue made her cough even worse, her fair little face flushed from the choking.

Jiang Cheng stubbed out the cigarette butt and threw it into the ashtray, got up and went to a nearby vending machine to buy a bottle of normal temperature orange juice.

He knelt down beside Xuanli, unscrewed the bottle cap and handed it to her, tilted his head slightly and smiled at her: "Why don't you tell me you don't smell the smoke?"

She took it and took a sip before she stopped coughing.The roots of her ears were already stained with cherry pink, and she said as if struggling: "Because... can't solve your troubles."

Jiang Cheng ruffled her hair as if punishing, the texture was as soft as a ball of seaweed. "Since you are back in the courtyard, you are a family. In front of me, you don't need to hide."

With a thought, Xuan Li raised her eyes to look at him, her brown pupils shone cautiously.

"Then you too?"

He was slightly startled, and didn't react for a while, "What?"

His slightly surprised face was reflected in the clear almond eyes, "Are you going to be like us, without reservation?"

Jiang Cheng sneered, and clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth and let out a laugh.

He stood up, sat back on the opposite side, and looked at her with a half-smile. "Won't."

Jiang Cheng fiddled with the lighter's cap back and forth, "Brother Lang Xing is not here, I am the boss of the courtyard house, and only with secrets can I be the boss."

"These words can only fool Yu Tingxuan," Xuan Li blinked, "He seems to listen to you very much."

"Because you will be beaten for disobedience." He picked up the mutton skewers sprinkled with the most chili powder and put them on her plate, "Taste the taste."

Xuan Li stared at the bright red chili powder for a long time, swallowed her saliva, and then slowly picked it up.

When it was brought to the mouth, it stopped suddenly.

Jiang Cheng looked at her with great interest, "Don't you eat spicy food?"

She grew up in the south of the Yangtze River since she was a child. Most of her food is sweet and salty, and she seldom eats spicy food.

But seeing his teasing expression, Xuanli took a deep breath and bit down.

Numbness and spicyness swept through the mouth in all directions, and even the tip of the tongue was so hot that he lost consciousness in an instant, and the bright red that had not subsided for a long time spread from the neck to the cheeks.

The more Jiang Cheng watched, the more he found it interesting, and pushed the orange juice in her hand towards her.

"Why do you blush so easily?"

Xuanli used to take small sips of food and water under the guidance of Huo Lishen and his wife, but now she didn't care about being reserved, and drank a third of it with her neck raised.

She blushed and explained, "Spicy...spicy!"

He propped his chin with one hand, and the chopsticks tapped the edge of the plate again and again.

"Xuan Xiaoli, you obviously don't like being restrained. Try to let go, this is Kyoto, without your adoptive parents in charge."

Xuan Li reiterated with a straight face, her voice was a little hoarse due to coughing many times, "It's Xuan Li."

"Xuan Xiaoli sounds better than Xuanli." Jiang Cheng ate two skewers of mutton without changing his expression. "Your name sounds like a homonym."

She watched helplessly that he poured a lot of chili powder on the meat skewers because he didn't think it was spicy enough, and asked unconsciously, "What is it like?"

He poked a stick into the cigarette butt that had been extinguished before, and his voice was crisp and cold like melting first snow, "I like you."

Xuan Li shook her hand holding the skewer, and the tip made a tiny cut at the corner of her mouth.

"Why are you nervous?" Jiang Cheng chuckled, took out a piece of paper and pressed it against the corner of her mouth that was about to ooze blood, "I'm just translating."

Her eyelashes trembled, and she held down the tissue he handed over.

There was some pain at the corner of the lip, but it was only a very shallow cut, and the blood didn't even come out.

But Xuanli's skin is thin, and if you look closely, the scar is a little obvious on her fair cheek.

Jiang Cheng clicked his tongue, "You wait for me here."

(End of this chapter)