coffee and snooping

dining room.

Li Ting put the coffee cup brought from the balcony on the table, skillfully poured the coffee beans into the grinder, and the brown and black coffee powder flowed out from the outlet, forming a sharp contrast with the sound of the porcelain white cup.

"Have a cup?" When Chen Mi came back to her senses, the coffee was already fragrant, and the milky white milk swirled into a small piece of milky way in the brown coffee.

"Thank you." Chen Mi held up the cup dully and drank the hot drink in small sips. Li Shuyang practiced the piano in the room. For a while, only the melodious sound of the piano and the faint sound of the two drinking water remained in the dining room.

"What kind of person does Teacher Chen think I am?"

There is a floor-to-ceiling window on the left of the dining table, and a small yellow light is turned on in the dining room, like a moon hanging on the window, and the outside leads directly to the courtyard. Li Ting stares intently at the flowers and plants in the courtyard.

Chen Mi clenched the cup tightly, he didn't know how to answer, he and Li Tingming hadn't known each other for a few days, yet the other party was chasing after him.

"You must think I'm crazy, I've been pestering you..." Li Ting put down his cup and made a crisp knocking sound.

"I…"

Li Ting stepped forward, his body a size bigger than Chen Mi blocked him on the bar in the dining room, Li Ting lowered his head and fixed his eyes on him.

"Mr. Chen, do you miss me..."

Chen Mi's brain was spinning in a panic, did she like it or was it a prank?

He suddenly remembered what Old Jiang said at that time, his heart beat like thunder, and his ears turned red from the outside to the inside.

Especially when Li Ting discovered this slight change, he still whispered in his ear and exhaled. Such behavior made Chen Mi feel that she should be a fish waiting to be slaughtered on the chopping board.

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and Chen Mi struggled in fear, but Li Ting clasped her hands instead. While her body was shaking violently, Li Ting took advantage of her unpreparedness and planted a kiss next to her ear.

Li Shuyang, who broke the bad atmosphere, ran over with his piano book excitedly: "Teacher, I'm done practicing."

saved.

These three words first came to mind, Chen Mi simply said goodbye to them and left impatiently.

In the dining room, Li Ting sighed. He planned to confess...

Chen Mi, who rushed out, didn't feel much better. It wasn't until he realized that he was walking home in a daze, that he realized that he had been looked at by passers-by with strange eyes many times because of his red face.

Since then, Li Ting seemed to be afraid that Chen Mi would resign because of this, so he increased his salary, but relatively increased the hours of Li Shuyang's piano practice.

This job can be regarded as the sweet spot in his part-time career. No matter how reluctant he is, he has to go for the salary and life. Fortunately, Li Ting also seems to feel that it is inappropriate. From then on, as long as Chen Mi comes, he will basically not Stay home.

So, as soon as his son started practicing the piano, Li Ting, who avoided Chen Mi and went out, stood at the door of the convenience store watching the pouring rain, at a loss for what to do.

"Eh? Li Ting?" Old Jiang dropped the raindrops on the umbrella, and when he turned around to enter the shop, he unexpectedly ran into the person he was just looking for.

"Old Jiang..." That helpless look is no different from that of a bereaved dog, "I, it will be over before it starts."

Old Jiang certainly knew who he was referring to.

He patted his friend on the shoulder, hoping to give him some comfort, so he pulled him to sit on the bench in front of the convenience store.

Li Ting stared at the continuous rain curtain on the eaves, and his tone was full of regret: "I should have told him earlier..."

In fact, the bar was not the first time he and Chen Mi met, the real first time was in the orphanage.

……

"Dad...I've already taken everything away." Li Shuyang tugged on Li Ting's trouser legs. He carefully pointed to the small suitcase behind him, not forgetting to observe the person who was about to become his "father" in front of him. look.

Li Ting knelt down, and pulled Li Shuyang, who took a step back in fright, to his side, pinched his little face, and said comfortingly: "Don't be so unfamiliar with Dad, I want you to call me Dad happily. "

At that time, Li Shuyang had been with him for a year, but the child's silent and timid character could not be changed. Li Ting felt that he had to train this child well, so after a year, after all the formalities were completed, he took him with him again. Li Shuyang came back and packed all the unfinished luggage.

A burst of piano sound came, and the noisy orphanage suddenly fell silent, and Li Ting turned to the source of the sound differently.

It was a young boy, wearing a clean sky blue T-shirt, with his eyes downcast, his fingers lingering skillfully and affectionately on the keys of the piano, and the melodious music came from there.

It was far away, but Li Ting felt that the trembling eyelashes of those eyes also disturbed his heart.

Li Shuyang poked his head curiously, and then retracted when Li Ting turned his head. Li Ting thought he looked cute like an ostrich, and asked, "Shu Yang, who is that?"

Li Shuyang held a chicken nest head, and replied in a low voice: "That's my brother who came to the orphanage to do volunteer work. He plays the piano very well."

When it comes to the piano, Li Shuyang can't help showing envy in his eyes.

Li Ting asked him with a smile: "Does Shu Yang want to learn piano?"

The child's frantic nod was his reply.

Later, Li Ting often visited the orphanage, and gradually learned from the dean that the person who was there was Chen Mi, a college student, and he would always come to the orphanage to do volunteer work during this time.

Li Ting thought, the chance encounter was just a party's painstaking effort.

Therefore, he and Chen Mi had a "chance encounter" in the tea room of the orphanage, and because of this, he saw clearly this young man who made his heart itch. He speaks with vigor.

After Chen Mi finished her performance, she gulped down water as usual, while Li Ting beside her leisurely unwrapped the coffee bag. When the powder fell into the cup, a layer of faint smoke rose, and the room was filled with fragrance.

Chen Mi leaned over curiously: "Brother, what brand of coffee do you have, it smells so good."

Li Ting felt the distance between the two of them getting closer, and he seemed to smell the scent of shampoo in the boy's hair, and the scent of saponins on the T-shirt.

Then he said, "You either, I have a few more packs here."

He looked at the juvenile's joyful eyes, and the restlessness in his heart could not be suppressed. He thought, so love at first sight really exists.

But God made fun of people, love at first sight became the last time, Li Ting originally thought that the heartbeat could be relieved, but later saw him in the bar, and met him in that way.

At that moment after experiencing the long-term suppression of his family and environment, he piled up all his repressed enthusiasm on this young man.

It was shameless, but he couldn't help it.

Since then, it has been out of control, I want to see him, want to hug him, and want to smell his fragrance.

Lao Jiang took a sip of hot tea, and the white mist that came out merged with the heavy rain.

"Li Ting, you are 30 years old." Lao Jiang looked at him and sighed to Tianchang again, "I can't help you, either you tell him yourself, or just waste it like this, Chen Mi is too timid, if you don't Give him a hand, and he'll be fine with whatever happens."

He smiled and threw the drink bottle into the trash can, watching Li Ting's figure rushing into the rain: "It's really an old house on fire."

at the same time.

"You, what you said is true?" Chen Mi took a step back in disbelief.

"Of course, children never lie!" Li Shuyang closed the pianist, "Anyway, I was not mistaken, that's when Dad recognized you."

Orphanage...

Chen Mi tried hard to recall, it seemed that there was such a person, what else did he say at that time?Ask someone for coffee?

Chen Mi scratched the ground with her toes in embarrassment.

With a "bang", the door of the piano room was thrown open, and a salty smell of rain rushed in. Li Ting shouted out of breath: "Chen Mi!"