Qin Heng was full of disbelief.
Chi Ning added, "Look, I jumped over the wall and ran out just to celebrate the New Year with you."
Although I wanted to avoid being locked up and work overtime, it was mainly because I didn't want to leave Qin Heng alone.
After he finished speaking, he took a sneak peek at Qin Heng.
Qin Heng clasped his hands together and rested them on the top of his thighs, motionless as a mountain, with only two pixels raised at the corners of his lips. After being reserved for a few seconds, he said, "New Year's Day, are we going to the beach when we go?"
Chi Ning's family has always paid more attention to the traditional New Year, so Lunar New Year Chi Ning will definitely celebrate it with his family.
New Year's Day is a rare time for two people to be alone.
Chi Ning doesn't like crowded places and likes to travel in the off-season, so he specially booked a private beach with few people.
Qin Heng rubbed the roots of his fingers, feeling a little nervous.
Chi Ning hesitated, "Okay, when will you leave?"
"Right now." Qin Heng exhaled, and his tense back relaxed a little, "The air tickets and hotel are booked, and the luggage is in the trunk."
Just wait for one word.
Chi Ning said, "I have to go home first."
Qin Heng: "Is there anything I must bring?"
Chi Ning scratched his cheek with a crooked finger, "I washed Red Blood Cell Pillow before going to the laboratory to work overtime and left it to dry outside. It can't be dried in the sun anymore, or it will fade."
Qin Heng:...
In this case, Chi Ning was not curious about why he wanted to go out to play, but worried about Red Blood Cell Pillow!
It's been almost four years! Chi Ning's love for Red Blood Cell Pillow has not diminished but increased, and their relationship is almost more stable than for him.
Qin Heng pinched his fingertips and said softly, "It's okay, I've already taken it back and put it on your sofa."
Chi Ning breathed a sigh of relief, "Then there's no need to go back. Let's go directly to the airport."
Qin Heng: Hey.
If the love rival is a human being, then he can do whatever he can to make the other person feel ashamed.
But his "love rival" turned out to be Red Blood Cell Pillow. The key is that he won this thing by himself.
The stone he moved into his house three years ago tried to trip him up every moment.
But if you think about it carefully, Chi Ning likes and cares for that pillow probably because it has a different meaning.
Chi Ning really likes him very much.
In just 30 seconds, Qin Heng comforted himself.
He grabbed Chi Ning's fingers, and before he could rub them, he saw the packing box hanging on his wrist.
Qin Heng: "... You shouldn't be able to bring food to the airport."
Chi Ning looked at the curry and spicy chicken nuggets that had become bibimbap, "It's such a waste to throw them away."
Qin Heng took out the disposable chopsticks from the plastic bag and said, "I just don't have time to eat, so let's eat together."
He unbuttoned his suit, broke the disposable chopsticks in half, carefully pulled off the wooden thorns, gave the other half to Chi Ning, and then pulled down the invisible table in the back seat.
The two of us were facing the bowl of bibimbap, one bite at a time and the other one eating it one bite at a time.
Qin Heng doesn't understand. "Why do you cook curry and spicy chicken together in your canteen?"
Chi Ning spit out a handful of chicken legs, "It's actually curry fried pork chop."
Qin Heng lowered his eyes and saw that there was no pork chop in the lunch box, "You didn't get the pork chop?"
Chi Ning patted his belly, "Here."
Qin Heng thought about the way Chi Ning looked when he climbed over the wall. He should have just ran out of the canteen, maybe he had queued for a long time for that piece of pork chop.
In the end, in order to run away quickly, I hurriedly stuffed a whole piece of pork chop into my mouth. I couldn't even chew it, so I had to swallow it while running.
Very cute.
Chi Ning glanced at Qin Heng, remembering what this man had been holding back for three years, he felt affection for him, and praised, "Our canteen is not as delicious as what you cook."
Qin Heng said oh, "I'll blow it up for you later."
At this moment, Qin Heng has no airs at all. Once his suit buttons are unbuttoned, he seems to be no different from the boy in high school who struggled to crawl out of the mire.
Neither of them is wasteful, and they arrived at the airport just as they finished eating the last grain of rice in their lunch boxes.
Go through security, check in, get your boarding pass, and board the plane.
After finishing a series of preparations and sitting on the plane, the feeling of fatigue after ten days of busy work finally caught up with Chi Ning.
He tilted his head, leaned on Qin Heng's shoulder and closed his eyes. When he woke up again, there was a thin gray blanket on his body, and the plane happened to land on the ground.
Chi Ning has never traveled much in his life, and this is even his first time traveling outside the province.
When standing on the beach with bare feet on the soft sand, Chi Ning inexplicably thought of the scene when he went camping for the first time.
They encountered many things that time. They didn't even see the sunrise or sunset, but they were still very happy.
Chi Ning Thinking this, he kicked something hard with his toes.
He hissed and looked down.
A hat-shaped sea urchin shell is half-embedded in the sand, with alternating purple and light yellow patterns, making it look like a fashionable beret.
Chi Ning bent down to pick it up. He wanted to take this beautiful sea urchin shell back, but he found a kicked hermit crab hidden inside.
Chi Ning:...
Sorry, I brought you an earthquake. I'm sorry.
He was silent, quietly put the smooth shell back, dug out a handful of sand to bury half of it, and carefully restored it to its original state.
Although I like this shell very much, hermit crabs probably need it more than humans.
Qin Heng also looked down at the beautiful sea urchin shell, "Yellow and purple, rare."
Chi Ning: "Yeah."
Qin Heng thought for a while, "Wait a minute."
He lowered his head, searched around carefully, squatted down and dug out a conical conch.
To be honest, it's not very pretty.
Chi Ning thought it was for him and was about to refuse when he saw Qin Heng squatting down in front of the purple sea urchin shell that had just been buried. After pulling it out, he forcefully placed the newly found empty conch in front of the sea urchin shell.
Although he didn't say anything, his actions somehow looked like the evil forces coming to demolish the house.
The little hermit crab is quite aware of the current situation.
It stayed in the nest for a short time, and then voluntarily moved to the big house that was "forcibly sold" by humans.
Carrying it on my back, I moved away with a swoosh.
I don't want the house, so run away, run away.
Chi Ning:...
Is there still such an operation?
Qin Heng rinsed the "little purple beret" in the sea water and handed it to Chi Ning: "It's yours."
Chi Ning held a palm-sized sea urchin shell and muttered, "It's not necessary."
He said it was not necessary, but he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes.
Qin Heng didn't expose him. As early as a year ago, he discovered that Chi Ning would stare at particularly beautiful scallop shells when eating seafood, especially those with symmetrical patterns.
I also like to stack the finished scallop shells one by one.
There is a sea urchin and scallop coral farm not far from here, and there are many such sea urchin shells.
He encouraged. "I heard there are also light green hat-shaped shells here."
Chi Ning groaned, grabbed the lavender sea urchin shell "it's not necessary", lowered his head and looked for it inch by inch, and he really saw a mint green sea urchin shell hidden in the beach.
He didn't care about Qin Heng at this moment, and handed the purple one over with his backhand, "Help me take it."
Chi Ning pulled out the shell with three strokes, five by two, and stared at the beautiful, complicated and symmetrical patterns on it in a daze.
Nature must also have obsessive-compulsive disorder, right?
This is so symmetrical, perfect!
Chi Ning Put the wide mouth downward and dig out the sand inside.
This sea urchin shell is just like a weight. It is full of sand and can only be pulled out bit by bit.
Qin Heng looked at him with a smile on his lips. It was as if he saw a small fish that had bitten the fishhook.
Chi Ning dug out the last bit of sand, rinsed the shell in the sea water, and found a ring stuck to the bottom of the sea urchin shell.
It's silver, mixed with a little gold, and has a colored diamond set in the center at the top.
He hesitated for a moment and looked at Qin Heng, "W-what do you mean?"
When Qin Heng thought of Zhang Qiuwen, he abandoned those convoluted things and said directly from his heart, "Ring, because I want to propose to you."
Chi Ning's face turned red all of a sudden. He remained squatting on the ground with his mouth half open, holding a light green sea urchin shell in his hand, unable to say a word.
"You, you..." He hesitated for a long time but didn't answer.
Qin Heng continued, "When I confessed to you three years ago, you said we were not together yet. Now we have been together for three years. According to the process in your heart, can I take this step?"
Chi Ning tightened his fingers and said dryly, "Ah..."
Qin Heng also squatted down, then slowly knelt on one knee in front of Chi Ning, took off the ring with a flick of his finger, and carefully raised it in front of Chi Ning, "I originally wanted to buy gold, but you like silver and light green."
"I originally wanted to call a lot of people to witness this moment, but you definitely don't like to be surrounded by people cheering. You like to be quiet."
Chi Ning hummed.
Qin Heng added, "You also like Red Blood Cell Pillow, but unfortunately I can't find a sea urchin shell that looks like Red Blood Cell Pillow."
Chi Ning paused, not so nervous anymore, "Then it's not like I like it like this."
Qin Heng smiled and said, "Look at me."
Chi Ning raised her eyes, met his hot and focused gaze, held her breath slightly, and every beat of her heart seemed to hit her throat.
It's so intense that it's almost suffocating.
Qin Heng stretched out his hand to Chi Ning, "Sometimes I feel that there may really be such a thing as a gear of destiny in the world."
He paused, "If everyone has it, then my gears must have started turning the moment I grabbed your ankle."
"Meeting you when I was 18 was not in my life plan, but it was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me."