soul mate

It was almost ten o'clock when I returned home with the apples. Qin Zhen put the apples in the refrigerator, but after closing the refrigerator door, he changed his mind and opened the door again to take out an apple.

The fist-sized apple looked delicious and cute under the incandescent light. Qin Zhen took it to the kitchen to wash it, then walked to the edge of the sofa and sat down, taking a small bite with anticipation and death.

To his surprise, the apple was actually quite sweet as the fruit shop owner said.Qin Zhen was overjoyed, and after swallowing the apple in his mouth, he took a big bite eagerly, and then choked on the bitter apple juice.

Qin Zhen frowned and spat out the apple pieces in his mouth, picked up the apple that had been bitten twice and looked at it: a brown wormhole was very eye-catching on the white flesh.

Qin Zhen's originally happy mood fell back to the original point, and she even breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.He took the apples to the kitchen, cut the undamaged flesh into pieces with a knife, put them in a small bowl and ate them with a toothpick, and threw the remaining half of the broken ones into the kitchen trash can.

At least the apples are sweet!Qin Zhen thought optimistically.

Early the next morning, after getting up, Qin Zhen jogged twice in the neighborhood, then went home to take a shower, and made himself a bowl of noodles.The noodles stockpiled at home are almost gone, there are only two or three eggs left in the refrigerator, and green vegetables such as lettuce have already been sold out.While knocking eggs into the pot, Qin Zhen thought about going to the supermarket, but considering that there were a lot of things to buy, he decided to go to Sun Jing to get the car first.

After breakfast, Qin Zhen turned on the computer again and continued to read literature and write a review.He doesn't have a graduate student, so he has to do all the basic work by himself, and he doesn't want to hand over the work to others.The dean asked him several times about graduate students, but he rejected them all. He is only under 30 years old now, and he only thinks that teaching undergraduates is already the limit. If he comes out to teach graduate students, it will be a real mistake. He is a child of others.

As a qualified climate researcher, literature reading and review is certainly a piece of cake for Qin Zhen.After spending three hours reading all the documents in the folder, he summed up the main points in less than four or ten minutes.After saving the document, Qin Zhen turned off the computer and started wandering around the house, checking all the food and supplies at home, and formed a long shopping list in his mind.

There are a lot of things to buy, Qin Zhen thought about whether to change the shopping location to the large supermarket near the bar, changed into casual clothes, and went out with the key.

There are very few people on the bar street during the day, and Sun Jing’s store is empty without any customers. When Qin Zhen arrived, Sun Jing was sitting on the bar counter holding a goblet in a daze. The clear red liquid in the glass cast a shadow on the bar counter .

Qin Zhen walked over: "Hey, are you bored drinking alone?"

Sun Jing looked up at him, and put the goblet in front of Qin Zhen. Qin Zhen picked up the glass and smelled it strangely, but he didn't smell the wine.

Sun Jing took a menu from the side and threw it to him: "Old rules?"

Qin Zhen nodded and looked at the glass of red liquid curiously. Sun Jing leaned over and took out a goblet from the bar, took the teapot on the side and poured Qin Zhen a cup.This time Qin Zhen finally saw what was in the teapot.

"Scented tea?! Am I right?!" Qin Zhen said, rubbing his eyes exaggeratedly, shaking his whole body with laughter, "Hahahahahaha! Sun Jing, you actually drink scented tea! You are a bar owner, no It’s okay to drink, but you still drink scented tea like a girl! Hahahahaha!”

Sun Jing remained silent, pushed the glass of red liquid in front of Qin Zhen, took back his own glass and took a sip.

Not long after the waiter came over with two set meals, Qin Zhen finally stopped laughing and asked, "What kind of flower is this?"

Sun Jing spat out three words coldly: "I don't know."

The waiter next to them heard their conversation and introduced to Qin Zhen: "This is roselle tea, which has the effects of slimming and beautifying, balancing blood lipids, relieving alcohol and lowering blood pressure."

Qin Zhen couldn't stop laughing after hearing the phrase "slimming and beautifying". Sun Jing didn't bother to talk to him and ate his lunch on his own.

When Qin Zhen finally had enough of laughing, Sun Jing had eaten more than half of his lunch.Qin Zhen picked up the cup and took a sip, the sweet and sour taste immediately filled his mouth: "Channing won't let you drink again?"

Sun Jing nodded and continued to bury his head in his meal.

Qin Zhen asked again: "What about others?"

Sun Jing said: "Still sleeping."

Qin Zhen nodded in understanding and didn't speak any more.After finishing his meal, Sun Jing took out Qin Zhen's car keys from his pocket and put them on the table: "Here."

Qin Zhen responded, and Sun Jing turned around and went into the kitchen.Not long after, Qin Zhen saw him come out of the kitchen and go upstairs with a bowl.

After eating, Qin Zhen drove to a nearby supermarket.

Supermarkets on weekends are always crowded. Qin Zhen finally found a parking space and parked his car. Once he entered the supermarket, he was startled by the aunts crowded in front of the checkout counter.Pushing the shopping cart into the supermarket, Qin Zhen finally understood the reason why the supermarket was crowded: not only because of weekends, but also because of promotions.

超市的入口处立着个一人高的促销海报，上面红色的大字清清楚楚地写着“9月1日-9月6日全场7折”，而今天正是促销的最后一天。

Qin Zhen threw the things he wanted to buy into the shopping cart one by one according to the shopping list he had sorted out before going out in the morning. It didn't take long for the shopping cart to be half full-there were more than ten handfuls of dried noodles alone, which took up a lot of shopping. Not a lot of space in the car.

After putting a box of milk in the shopping cart, Qin Zhen was about to go to the vegetable and fruit section to buy some vegetables, but he heard a soft voice behind him: "Senior Qin Zhen?"

Qin Zhen turned around, and saw Lu Yunqi also pushing a shopping cart, accompanied by a little girl with pigtails.

Today, Lu Yunqi went to eat with his mother at the house of his aunt who lives nearby. After lunch, his 7-year-old cousin clamored to go shopping in the supermarket, so Lu Yunqi brought her here.Seeing Qin Zhen's back, Lu Yunqi was overjoyed at first, and then suspected that he had made a mistake. After all, the Yunsen campus of University A was still some distance away from this supermarket.He tentatively called the other person once in a low voice, feeling terribly anxious, but saw that person turned around to look at him, with a slight smile on his face.

Qin Zhen didn't expect to meet Lu Yunqi here: "It's you!"

Lu Yunqi blushed slightly and nodded, pushing the cart with one hand and holding his little cousin with the other, walked two steps forward, and walked side by side with Qin Zhen among the narrow shelves: "Seniors also come here to buy things? This is my cousin, It's called Lin Ling."

Lin Ling raised her head and greeted Qin Zhen obediently: "Hello, Uncle!"

Qin Zhen smiled at her: "Hello!"

Lu Yunqi glanced at the items in Qin Zhen's shopping cart, and couldn't help but ask, "Senior like noodles?"

Qin Zhen was taken aback, and then explained with a smile: "It doesn't count, it's more convenient to cook noodles. But I usually eat in the school cafeteria, and I don't have many opportunities to cook by myself."

Lu Yunqi wrote down his words, looked at the fruit and vegetable area in front of him, and asked again: "Do you want to buy fruit, senior? Today's apples are on sale."

Qin Zhen asked a little strangely: "Isn't there a [-]% discount on the entire site?"

Lu Yunqi shook his head: "This supermarket has a fruit special every day. It does not participate in other promotional activities, but the price will be much lower than usual."

Qin Zhen looked up and glanced at the fruit and vegetable section, and found that the price of apples was indeed very low, but he still shook his head when he recalled his failure in buying fruit.Recalling the taste of that sweet apple last night, Qin Zhen felt a little unwilling. He thought for a while and asked Lu Yunqi, "Would you know how to pick apples?"

Lu Yunqi was a little strange, but he still replied: "A little bit."

So Qin Zhen said with some embarrassment: "Then can I trouble you to choose some apples for me later? I'm not very good at picking fruits, and every time I buy..." He didn't say the latter words, but was a little embarrassed He touched the tip of his nose.In fact, the fruits he picked were either raw and astringent, or overripe, like the ones from last night that only had a small wormhole and nearly half of the edible part was already lucky .

Of course Lu Yunqi would not reject Qin Zhen, he asked uncertainly: "But I only know a little bit, the apples I pick may not be sweet..."

Qin Zhen waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay, then I'll trouble you!"

Because there were too many people in the vegetable and fruit area, Lu Yunqi pushed the shopping cart to a nearby corner and put it away. He said to his little cousin gently but seriously, "Be here and wait for brother to come back. Don't run around, you understand?"

The little cousin nodded obediently, and Qin Zhen smiled at Lu Yunqi: "It's okay, I'll just stay here and watch her."

Lu Yunqi | nodded: "Then I will trouble the senior."

Qin Zhen was quite embarrassed by his attitude: "You don't have to be so polite, I should thank you."

Lu Yunqi smiled, and turned around to pick apples for Qin Zhen. Qin Zhen watched him standing among a group of women picking fruits in a bag, and the word "virtuous" unexpectedly popped up in his mind.

The little cousin stood in the corner idle and bored, and didn't dare to talk to Qin Zhen, an unfamiliar adult, so she had to play with the hole on the shopping cart by herself. Qin Zhen stared at Lu Yunqi for a while, then lowered his head and tried to talk to Lu Yunqi. The little cousin spoke up: "Your name is Xiaoling?"

The little cousin looked up at him, nodded, and didn't speak.

Qin Zhen was not discouraged, and continued to ask: "Did you come to the supermarket with your brother to buy something?"

The little cousin hesitated for a moment, but still answered: "Buy yogurt..."

Qin Zhen had sharp eyes, saw the Yakult in Lu Yunqi's shopping cart, looked at his little cousin clearly, and asked, "Do you also like Yakult?"

Unexpectedly, when the little girl heard this, she looked at him vigilantly, and tried to protect her shopping cart behind her, which made Qin Zhen quite dumbfounded.

Lu Yunqi picked the fruit very quickly, and he came back with two bags of apples in a short time.He handed two bags of apples to Qin Zhen: "Which bag do you want, senior?"

"Just this bag!" Qin Zhen took one of the bags and put it in the shopping cart, "Thank you very much."

Lu Yunqi shook his head and put another bag of apples into his shopping cart: "Senior, do you want to buy anything else?"

Qin Zhen thought for a while, and after confirming that he had bought everything he wanted to buy, he shook his head at Lu Yunqi: "What about you?"

Lu Yunqi lowered his head to ask his little cousin's opinion. The little cousin stared at the shelves in the supermarket reluctantly and refused to move, so Lu Yunqi could only say, "I'll go shopping with her for a while."

Qin Zhen nodded: "Then I'll take a step first."

Lu Yunqi waved to him: "Goodbye, Senior."

"Goodbye." Qin Zhen also waved his hand, and then leaned in front of Lu Yunqi with some viciousness, and whispered, "You finally don't blush." ​​After seeing the blush on Lu Yunqi's face with satisfaction, Qin Zhen pushed Lu Yunqi with a smile The shopping cart heads towards the cash register.