Chapter 100: Listening
For the umpteenth time, Tan Mo thinks Qiao Lan is a leprechaun.
A goblin that could have killed him.
Qiao Lan was standing right in front of him, his arms open as if he could throw himself into his arms anytime, anywhere, and the brand new belt in his hand was so heavy that his hands trembled.
"Two minutes to closing time", Qiao Lan looked up into Tan Mo's eyes as they flared with small flames, "and it's too late to stop gawking..."
Before he said anything, he was held by the unbearable Tan Mo, who lowered his head and bit hard on his lips. After biting, he tied the belt around Qiao Lan's waist without saying a word, and his action looked fierce, but in fact the force was not too strong at all.
The belt is really a magical thing, originally a little loose camouflage clothing tied on the belt instantly changed temperament. Tan Mo I don't know if it's because the uniform looks good, or because Qiao Lan is so pretty, Qiao Lan's already delicate and flamboyant features, under the navy blue camouflage uniforms show a bit of heroism, beautiful but also very handsome.
Qiao Lan let Tan Mo stare at herself for a long time, curving her eyes with a smile rippling on her lips, "Satisfied?"
Nope.
Just like before, after hugging, she wanted to kiss, and after kissing, she wanted something deeper, so at this moment, Tan Mo's head still had all kinds of thoughts and ideas.
But there's no time for that. The hostess is already yelling for someone.
Qiao Lan urged him to hurry back before the men's dormitory closed and he couldn't get in.
Tan Mo then remembered that Qiao Lan wasn't the only one with a doorstop, he had one too.
Residency.
It's really annoying.
After seeing Qiao Lan go in, even if Tan Mo ran as fast as she could, she was still a few minutes late when she got back, and the hostess was not happy to open the door from the inside, but she couldn't hold back her eyes when she looked at Tan Mo.
The boy is so handsome too!
Everyone likes a good looking person these days, and to the extent that Tan Mo is good looking, even the hostel aunts can't afford to scold him more than a couple of times.
When I got back to the dormitory, the three roommates had already finished their baths and were busy with their own work. Xie Hongyi remembered the photo of Tan Mo surrounded by a group of older sisters that he sent to Qiao Lan today, and asked Tan Mo, "Did you give any lectures to your younger siblings?"
"What's the word," said Tan Mo, who had no idea what Xie Hongyi was talking about.
Wasn't there a lecture? Xie Hongyi jumped up from the bed, when she sent the photo to Qiao Lan, Qiao Lan was definitely nervous! Xie Hongyi wanted to see a little jealousy between the couple, but nothing happened?
But Tan Mo looks like he obviously doesn't know anything.
This was a bit of a disappointment for Xie Hongyi, who loves to make things happen.
But the disappointment was tempered by a bit of interest in the relationship between Tan Mo and Qiao Lan, "How long have you been with your siblings, Fourth Child?"
I don't know why, but I always feel that Tan Mo and Qiao Lan are not the same as other couples. Although it is said that couples in love are very sweet, there is always a kind of coziness in these two besides sweetness, and sometimes there is a bit of an illusion of an old married couple.
So Xie Hongyi wonders if Tan Mo and Qiao Lan have been together for quite some time.
Tan Mo is the youngest in the dormitory, before he can say yes or no, he has become the fourth, Xie Hongyi is even called affectionately, a mouthful of "four children", Tan Mo protested to no avail, but can only go along with him.
How long have you been together?
"Eight months," Tan Mo remembers well. The day they got together was Valentine's Day.
Xie Hongyi nodded, "That's quite a long time", seven or eight months would be the stage of development to be very familiar, right? As a straight man with only one week's experience in a relationship, Xie Hongyi said he had no idea.
Kong Sha puts down the pen in her hand thoughtfully, "You've liked her for quite a while then."
Xie Hongyi subconsciously wanted to say why are you such a stupid person, how long have you been together and how long have you liked it ah, but then I heard Tan Mo "hmm", "two years."
Eh? Xie Hongyi's head was full of question marks, why was it different from what he had imagined?
"So how long have you known?"
"Three years."
Kong Sha nodded unsurprisingly, remembering clearly.
Just now Xie Hongyi asked Tan Mo how long they've been together, and Tan Mo said eight months without even thinking about it. If it were an ordinary person, she would never have remembered it so clearly, and would have either given an approximate value, such as more than half a year, or paused for a while to do some calculations before telling the exact time.
But Tan Mo speaks quickly, as if memorizing each day.
To what extent does one like Qiao Lan so much that one can always remember how long they have been together and how long they have been together, which is why Kong Sha concludes that Tan Mo must have liked Qiao Lan for a long time before they had a relationship.
After Tan Mo went into the bathroom, Xie Hongyi looked at the two remaining housemates in a daze, and finally turned to Kong Sha and asked, "How do you know he liked his younger sibling before?"
Kong Sha Kong, not wanting to answer such a retarded question, dropped a game of "stupid" and went back to reading his book.
Finally or another roommate Cheng Jin can not see, condescending to ask Xie Hongyi, "everyone in love before always have to know, and then produce good feelings, and then after a period of ambiguity, and finally in the right opportunity to determine the relationship, before not like how to be together, is it that you talk about the relationship to be the first to have a name before the tangled feelings of the problem? "
Xie Hongyi jumped up from his chair, "Crap how did you know!"
Cheng Jin : "......???"
Xie Hongyi now shares his only relationship experience with Cheng Jin, there was a cute elementary school girl who found him and said she liked him and confessed her love for him, Xie Hongyi, who has been in motherhood SOLO for so many years, finally exclaimed that he was having peach blossom luck, and agreed to the girl's confession on that day, and then went back to his home in the evening only to remember that he didn't even know the name of the school girl.
The next day, he went to ask the name of a schoolgirl, and made her cry, Xie Hongyi really couldn't understand why she cried; the third day, the schoolgirl came to him and asked him if he could go to dinner with her in the afternoon, Xie Hongyi took a look at the playground with a basketball in his arms and then looked at the schoolgirl, and chose the basketball; on the fourth day, the schoolgirl asked him to ask him a question, and Xie Hongyi talked about it again, and then the schoolgirl didn't understand it. Xie Hongyi couldn't figure out why he couldn't understand such a simple question...
A week later, Xie Hongyi was broken up.
After hearing this story, Cheng Jin didn't know what to say.
"So I'm taking the wrong steps," Xie Hongyi said with a look like I finally understood, "Am I calling this marriage before love?"
Cheng Jin: ...... He shouldn't have spoken.
Seeing how smart Kong Sha is, refusing to listen to such a retarded love story, he finally understands what Kong Sha means when he says Xie Hongyi is a "harpy".
Tan Mo goes to the bathroom to take a shower and misses Xie Hongyi's "Love Story".
As a slight hygiene freak, Tan Mo still finds it difficult to share a bathroom with other people, but Tan Mo now understands the meaning of the word "adapt", and that it takes time to get used to all the things you don't like and aren't accustomed to.
After taking a shower and turning on the computer, I looked at today's stock market, and turned off the lights at 11:30 p.m. Qiao Lan's good night WeChat also came as promised.
Tan Mo laughed softly as she looked at the bunny hopping around on her phone saying goodnight.
Good night.
When military training finally began the next day, the campus was instantly flooded with little green men, no, little blue men.
After gathering the majors and then going to the military mobilization meeting, Qiao Lan finally found the flag of the Mathematics Department after searching for a long time, but it was so far away from her that she could only give up.
The conference was a bit boring, Liu Cancan saw Qiao Lan's movement and smiled, "Looking for your boyfriend."
Qiao Lan and Liu Cancan are quite close.
There are four people in the dormitory, one wearing headphones every day is a lone wolf, a Luo Man can not get along, Liu Cancan personality is a bit like Bai Yu, do not speak when quite cold, a talk after some comical attributes, and the character is very straightforward.
Qiao Lan nodded, "But it's a bit far away to see."
Liu Cancan followed Qiao Lan's line of sight and saw the flag of the math department, "Your boyfriend is in the math department?"
"Uh, what's up."
Liu Cancan actively share gossip with Qiao Lan, "I saw in the school posting bar, said that the math department this year came to a face value of heavenly boys, and the college entrance examination scores of the first ten provinces, before the selection of a few schoolboys were forced to give way, that is to say, before the selection of a few schoolboys, one of them also has Ji Su to come, is that handsome senior of our major! ..."
Qiao Lan completely did not listen to the second half of the sentence, only listened to the first half of the sentence of the first of the ten provinces and the value of the face of the sky, suddenly full of pride, tugged Liu Cancan's sleeve whispered in Liu Cancan's ear whispered, "Tell you a secret."
"What secret?"
Qiao Lan's eyes lit up, "That's my boyfriend."
Liu Cancan froze and thought for a long time before hesitantly whispering, "New schoolmaster or Ji Su?"
Qiao Lan was puzzled, "Who is Ji Su?"
Liu Cancan: ...... The existence of the grass in our department is so low that it has reached this level?
So it's the new schoolmarm?
Crap!
Liu Cancan knew a shocking secret, but thought it seemed like nothing too surprising, Qiao Lan so beautiful and so good in the end of the girl, find a more excellent handsome boyfriend, the natural thing ah! Although the posting bar is full of people lamenting that the school bully is too powerful, there are also people saying that there are also several super-high-value schoolgirls this year, probably because there are too few people in psychology, and there is a psychology schoolgirl who nominated Qiao Lan, but not many people know about it.
Liu Cancan looked at a few of the girls who were photographed at the bottom of the building, and none of them compared to Qiao Lan, not to mention Qiao Lan's figure. The fact is that the most important thing is that you have to be able to get the best out of it, and you have to be able to get the best out of it, and you have to be able to get the best out of it.
Liu Cancan, who was originally not too interested in Qiao Lan's boyfriend, suddenly became interested in the word "schoolboy" because of it, and she simply wanted to take a look at him.
When the military training mobilization meeting was over, the half-month-long military training finally began.
Probably in the previous few years, some colleges and universities have had some problems with military training, so these two years of military training is much smaller than before, and perhaps Qiao Lan high school three years of persistent running, physical fitness is very good, so I do not feel too much hard, is the sun a little bit sunny.
At lunchtime, even though Tan Mo was no longer comfortable, he still couldn't get used to being crammed into the cafeteria with so many people for the time being, so the two of them went off-campus to get something to eat.
Qiao Lan has the habit of taking a nap, a little sleepy after eating, but now back to the dormitory, walk back at least ten to twenty minutes, then also go to catch up to the military training, probably not even twenty minutes to sleep.
Tan Mo looked at the sleepy Qiao Lan and looked through the glass at a hotel directly across the street, "Get a room."
Qiao Lan woke up instantly with a jolt, "...... What are you doing in a room?"
What's with the sudden request? That... I'm so unprepared... You're so predictable... It's only an hour at noon. One hour isn't enough... I'm sorry...
And then I heard Tan Mo say, "Go take a nap."
Qiao Lan: "......"
I'm sorry! It's her mind that's so dirty!
There's no shame in it.
In broad daylight in broad daylight...
Tan Mo saw Qiao Lan's suddenly flushed cheeks, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay," Qiao Lan blurted out, "just take a... How can you waste your money like this? You can't waste money like that, even though you're rich, you can't waste it like that, can you live with it in the future?"
Qiao Lan doesn't even know what she's talking about, and she's just babbling to cover up the shame she feels inside.
Tan Mo did not expect Qiao Lan's mind to think about this moment, he Momo's in his heart to refute Qiao Lan, he can still make more money in the future, and moreover, with his current assets, it is more than enough to support a few Qiao Lan.
But in the end did not say, pulling Qiao Lan out of the restaurant into the hotel across the street, "There are hourly rooms, not expensive."
"Expensive."
"I was tired and didn't want to walk back," Tan Mo said.
Sure enough, when the topic of Tan Mo came up, Qiao Lan finally stopped objecting.
"I don't have my ID."
"I brought it."
"Why do you need an ID for military training?"
"... To book a hotel."
Actually, he didn't know, he'd brought it along somehow, but it seemed necessary to bring it now.
Run to the hotel and book a room just to take a nap.
Qiao Lan covers her face.
It's really too extravagant!
In addition to the luxury there was another embarrassing thing, the front desk lady of the hotel stared at the two of them for a long time, implying that the eyes look like they were thinking about the wrong thing.
Young couples taking hourly rooms for a couple hours or something...
Qiao Lan suddenly envied Tan Mo for having Asperger's. Tan Mo couldn't understand the flirtation in this lady's eyes at all, and Qiao Lan tried to keep her distance to prove that they were just sleeping together, only to be caught back by Tan Mo.
"Come here."
Qiao Lan: "......"
Can we not go over there?
Tan Mo hands Qiao Lan the room card, "You go in first, time is short."
Qiao Lan: "......"
Why does it sound more and more wrong?
Qiao Lan didn't even look the receptionist in the eye, took the room card and fled.
Tan Mo looked at Qiao Lan's back and smiled, turned his head and resumed his usual expressionless look, and said with the receptionist, "I'm going to book this room for half a month."
The receptionist sister froze, "Huh?"
The errand also has to be... Packages, monthly packages? Are youngsters so powerful nowadays?
Tan Mo's expression was light, "Freshman military training, convenient place to take a nap."
Front desk sister: ......
Turns out it was just a nap.
So it was a misunderstanding on her part?
But how can you blame her, can't you! Nowadays, the young people who open hourly rooms are not all for that... After all, they save money. Which one of them is as rich as this teenager and wants to spend the night?
And this teenager changed his face also became too fast right, just now when that little girl was there how sunny and smiley, once the little girl left, the whole person was cold.
But spitting is spitting, the job still needs to be taken seriously, "Sorry, we don't offer monthly subscriptions for our hotel's bell rooms, in fact, you guys can just come over every day and do the paperwork."
"Trouble," Tan Mo said, "then change the room."
"Huh?"
"Get a different room that you can get a monthly subscription."
"...... That's not cheap."
The rooms that you can pack for half a month at a time are all standard or above.
"It's okay," Tan Mo said, still expressionless.
It's all chump change to him, and even if it is really expensive, heaven forbid his girlfriend takes a nap.
But a word of advice to the lady at the front desk.
"If she asks you just say it's a bellhop."
"Why?"
The teenager, who had been so cold, finally smiled a little again.
"Because she doesn't like me wasting money."
So remember not to tell her.
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Published at: 09/02/2024 12:00