mismatch pheromone

Chapter 64

"Brother Jinghai, are you tired?" Lin Ling asked as she wiped the sweat off Yu Jinghai's face, "Wait a minute I'll make you some sauced beef, you can take it home for supper..."

"What's so tiring about this little work, small things, are you still polite to me?" Yu Jinghai said, with his hands still on the refrigerator, trying to put the refrigerator back to its original position.

Outside the kitchen, Zhou Xi was still standing by the table, staring intently at a pair of figures reflected in the glass window not far away, her straight eyebrows frowned imperceptibly.

A few seconds later, he turned away from Lai's gaze at the window, turned around and walked out of the small noodle shop.

The streets at night are brightly lit, people's shadows flow through, and the night wind blows slowly around everyone.

Zhou Xi breathed out slowly, with the shadows under the lamp in his eyes, he looked a little erratic, and the mole at the end of his eyes was half-slack as if his temper had been exhausted.

There was a light click, which was the movement of the lighter igniting.

"—Hey, Senior Zhou? Is it Senior Zhou Xi?"

Zhou Xi turned her head when she heard the sound, and saw a tall and thin young man standing a few steps away, with a lighted cigarette in his mouth, a cigarette case in one hand, and a lighter in the other.

Zhou Xi flipped through the memories in her mind, and soon remembered who the other party was, "You are... Junior Fang."

This junior is an alumnus of his university, and they also formed a team in the debate club to participate in the competition. Although they are on the same team, one of them speaks slowly and the other speaks machine gun, and their styles are just the opposite.

"Yes, yes, it's me, haha... It's been a long time, senior. We are really destined." Fang Xuedi looked at the name of the store, and then asked, "Why are you here? Come to eat noodles?"

Zhou Xin hummed, and didn't say much, but the lively and fast-talking juniors just went to greet each other on the street, and finally remembered the demeanor of their "attack team" in the debate competition that year.

Compared with the junior's enthusiasm, Zhou Xi's expression was quite calm. After chatting for a few words, his eyes fell on the cigarette case that the junior was waving with his left hand.

As if he had received some signal, Fang Xuedi shook the box and handed over the cigarette, and raised the lighter, "Senior, here is one? I heard that you quit smoking before, do you still smoke now?"

"Occasionally." Zhou Xi replied quietly, reaching out to take the cigarette.

Fang Xuedi immediately lit the fire.

Zhou Xi put the cigarette in his mouth, took a light puff, and the long-lost bitter taste of tobacco filled his throat instantly.

He started smoking when he was in college, and he smoked a lot during the stressful period, and he quit slowly after graduation.

Generally speaking, I haven’t touched a cigarette for about a year. The memory of the smell of cigarettes was once washed and blurred by the busy pace of life, but now it is revived by the swaying smell of cigarettes.

Zhou Xi chatted with his junior, and walked to the trash can on the side of the street, so that he could sprinkle soot.

"That's right, that's right, senior..." Junior Fang excitedly wanted to say something more, when a deep voice suddenly came from beside him.

"Ah Xi."

Yu Jinghai's figure appeared at the door of the noodle shop.

The doorway wasn't very wide at first, a man with a strong shoulder and a broad body occupied at least half of the passageway, and the oppressive feeling like a majestic majestic mountain burst out without any concealment through the height advantage.

Zhou Xi turned her head to look over, and moved her chin slightly, "I met someone I know, I'll come later."

Yu Jinghai opened his mouth, but didn't speak, and finally stayed where he was and waited.

Fang Xuedi was interrupted from thinking, and he was stunned for a while, but he didn't remember what he was going to say just now.

On the contrary, Zhou Xi, who had always seemed quieter before, took the initiative to find a topic and asked him where he was busy recently.

Fang Xuedi has a good family background and has a restless temper. Just working part-time cannot satisfy his self-motivation. He is trying to start a business recently, starting an Internet company.

He saw that the senior taught Chinese, so he wanted to recruit someone to the company as a copywriting consultant.

Zhou Xi declined with a smile. He really has no skills at all. The school work is enough for him. Dates are scheduled until the weekend, and he squeezes time to work on his career. He is worried that someone's lovesickness will get worse.

Shi Yan told him before that Yu Jinghai's susceptibility period is probably coming soon. He is not an Alpha, but he also knows that the susceptibility period is difficult to deal with, and he wants to save as much time as possible for emergencies.

When the conversation was almost over, Zhou Xi had already stolen three cigarettes from his junior, and he was embarrassed to delay the progress of this busy man's business. After saying goodbye to each other, Junior Fang hurriedly picked up the phone and walked away.

Zhou Xi stubbed out the last cigarette and walked back to the noodle shop.

There were only a few beads of sweat left on Yu Jinghai's face, he was holding various gift bags with both hands, and was waiting for him with a solemn expression.

"Did you pay the bill?" Zhou Xi asked softly.

Yu Jinghai nodded immediately, "I bought it."

"Then let's go."

Without any objection, Yu Jinghai followed behind him and left the noodle shop.

Zhou Xi didn't say where he was going next, but just walked forward. Yu Jinghai didn't ask, and hurried two steps to his left.

But there was a big bag and a small bag between them, and the two of them couldn't even touch their arms. When they walked to a crowded place, the crowd was crowded, and their steps would be different. At first glance, they looked like two strangers.

Yu Jinghai was squeezed away, and he would catch the gap and chase after him, without trouble at all.

Zhou Xi didn't intend to be cold-hearted, but was just immersed in some of his own thoughts, and didn't have time to notice these subtle actions.

Yu Jinghai also had other thoughts in his heart at the moment.

When he returned to his seat after repairing the refrigerator, he didn't see Zhou Xi, so he took a look inside and outside the store first. The store was not big, and he could see the street outside from his seat.

He saw Zhou Xi who was talking to others at the door at a glance, and just as he was about to go over, he saw Zhou Xi accepting the cigarette handed by the man.

He froze for a moment, until Zhou Xi's appearance of smoking came into view, and the sense of surprise hovering in his chest became stronger in an instant.

He himself doesn't touch cigarettes very often, and he knows very well that this stuff is not good for his health. He thinks that the cigarette money he saves can be sent back to his hometown, or he can save it for future marriage, so there is no need to squander it.

For some reason, he never associated people like Zhou Xi with cigarettes, let alone in his memory, he had never seen Zhou Xi smoke.

He really thought that this person didn't smoke, but at the moment Zhou Xi was clearly holding a cigarette in his hand, and his smoking gestures were quite proficient. It looked like he was not a novice, and he definitely had a certain age of smoking.

He was quite anxious when he realized that Zhou Xi was about to smoke another cigarette, so he rushed to the door and called for someone, but Zhou Xi asked him to wait, but he couldn't say no, so he could only wait on the sidelines.

Waiting and waiting, watching his wife smoke the third cigarette, he felt that the top of his head was burning like the butt of the lit cigarette, Zhou Xi finally finished chatting with acquaintances, and Ken came back.

Yu Jinghai was thinking about how to persuade his wife to quit smoking all the way. After thinking for a long time, they also returned to the parking lot of the shopping mall and got into the car.

Zhou Xi is in charge of driving Zhou Xi's car, but Yu Jinghai has a license but no car, and one leg is still bad, so it's useless to try to get a job.

The car quickly drove back to the middle of the road, heading towards the school.

There is music in the car, Zhou Xi has always liked light music, mostly piano music and flute music, the tunes are mellow and leisurely, and you can meditate when you listen to them.

Yu Jinghai sat in the passenger seat, his chest heaved, and he finally opened his mouth to break the peaceful atmosphere.

"Ah Xi, I just saw that you smoke a lot, so you know how to smoke."

"Well, yes." Zhou Xi responded without looking sideways, paying attention to the road ahead.

"This stuff hurts the lungs, can you smoke less in the future?" Yu Jinghai immediately explained how to hurt the lungs.

The content of the articles on the Internet persuading people to quit smoking is almost the same, analyzing the harm, and talking about how serious and terrible the damage smoking will be to the human body.

Zhou Xi patiently listened to the earnest warning from Comrade Baoan.

At first he thought it was just casual talk, after all, there are not many men who do not smoke and drink.

But gradually, he found that Yu Jinghai was seriously trying to persuade him to quit smoking.

"Don't you smoke?" Zhou Xi couldn't help asking amusedly.

"I seldom smoke, I'm not addicted." Yu Jinghai immediately assured, "I really don't have one, at most ten a month."

"I'm not addicted to cigarettes, I just smoke sometimes." Zhou Xiwen comforted me.

"Even one will hurt your body, so it's best not to touch it." Yu Jinghai suggested in a very serious tone, "Can you promise me? I won't touch cigarettes in the future."

Zhou Xi stepped on the brake slowly, stopped in front of the red light, and pulled the holster with her fingers on the steering wheel.

"Everyone has their own living habits..." Zhou Xi paused, "Jing Hai, these are my living habits."

Anyone who falls in love has his own boundaries, some can expand outward, some can shrink inward, but there will always be standards.

Yu Jinghai's request just crossed Zhou Xi's limit.

"I don't have any opinion on your living habits, or..." Yu Jinghai frowned, searching for the right words, and then continued after a while, "I said it for your own benefit."

Zhou Xi seemed to sigh, "Do you really dislike your partner smoking?"

"No, it's not that I really don't like you smoking." Yu Jinghai quickly denied it, holding Zhou Xi's arm anxiously.

"Driving." Zhou Xi reminded with a cough.

Yu Jinghai withdrew his hand to his knee again, his fingers clenched into fists.

Zhou Xi saw it out of the corner of her eye, and asked suddenly, "You want me to quit smoking, so will you quit smoking yourself?"

"I quit." Yu Jinghai replied decisively, "I can definitely quit, I will quit tomorrow, then can you also-"

"I won't quit." Zhou Xi interrupted him calmly.

Yu Jinghai is very familiar with this tone. He often patrols outside the classroom where Zhou Xi is in class, and when he has time, he will stand in the small corner by the window and watch for a while.

It is inevitable that there will be mischievous students in the classroom. The good-tempered Zhou Xi will always put on a straight face at this time, and the words are not heavy, and the rhythm is still gentle, but it can make people feel that everything is the same, and there is no need to discuss it.

Now that Zhou Xi said that he would not quit smoking, he felt exactly the same as when he stopped the students from messing around in class, which meant that Zhou Xi would not change his mind.

Yu Jinghai understood what he meant, and fell silent. He was at a loss for a while, and he realized that he had stepped over the boundary belatedly, and he was even more uneasy.

The car drove into the school, stopped in the parking space, and turned off the engine.

Yu Jinghai, who consciously screwed up today's date, didn't dare to say a word, got out of the car and left obediently after taking the gift bag.