The Love You Give Me (You Give Me Like)

8.1-Chess Game

     "Well, to be honest, the change happened like this:" She drank the juice and cleared her throat, "One day, I went to the mountain to pick mushrooms, and I didn't know what to pick. I felt the top of the mountain. All of a sudden-"

     She paused deliberately, whetting her appetite.

"What's the matter? You fell off a cliff?"

     "I was struck by lightning." She shrugged her shoulders and spread her hands. "When I got home, I found that my IQ-oh, hello-has been increasing."

    "Is this nonsense?" He laughed.

    "Why do you think that I must be stupid than you before? --Is this nonsense?"

   "When you were young, you seemed to only like one thing-sports. You copied my homework."

   "Do you remember a math test, even though I copied you, my score was higher than yours?" Min Hui recalled her diary One thing mentioned in .

"That's right, that's right." Xin Qi patted his head, "And then you said--"

   "--it's up to you to support the family, and I have to concentrate on training for the Olympics."

   "That's right. At that time, we were right A consensus has been reached on the division of labor in the family."

     She smiled.

   "I was wrong, I shouldn't have looked at you with unchanging eyes." He looked into her eyes quietly, with a terrible penetrating power in his eyes, "Called back to the orphanage, Teacher Ye said you went home. Your hometown is in the mountains, and life is very difficult. So I thought that after you went there, you would have no chance to study. Or worse, you worked early to make a living and were forced to marry... You haven't shown up these days, and I waited desperately .Sometimes I even think that you may already have children, so you won't come here again..."

   After living abroad for many years, his Mandarin is not so standard, and there is always a hint of foreign accent in his pronunciation. When pronouncing some words, he will suddenly hesitate, as if he is not sure whether he need to roll his tongue, as if he has a stone in his mouth. But his voice is very pleasant, low, soft, both ups and downs and eloquent, the tone is like coaxing a child who has a temper tantrum.

    "It's okay. The situation in the mountains is not as bad as you think..."

    "I thought I was the only one who changed a lot. After all, I went abroad. I didn't expect you to change-more." He sighed, "Tian Tian , we are not the same you and me as before, and we need to get to know each other better to be together better. I was too abrupt just now, didn't I scare you?"

    "How could..."

   The more he introspected so deeply, the more sorry Min Hui felt. She really wanted to pretend to be Su Tian, ​​but trying to pretend would be self-defeating, so she might as well act in her true colors. All she has to do is to completely overturn Xin Qi's impression of Su Tian, ​​let him accept the possibility of various changes, and then push Min Hui's version of "Su Tian" in front of him. With the diary at the bottom and a little fiction, it is not difficult to coax Xin Qi back to the United States safely. After he recovered from the operation, he could scold or get angry as much as he wanted. A life was recovered anyway.

  Thinking of this, Min Hui immediately changed the subject and pointed to the chessboard: "This time you invite first."

   He grabbed a chess piece and buckled it in the middle: "Be the first shot."

    "Get on the horse."

      "Advance the pawn."

      "Get on the chariot. "

    Min Hui just led the troops to escape, but Xin Qi took advantage of the momentum and took a phase.

     "Seeing blood in seven steps, amazing." She praised.

     "You have passed the army in seven steps, and you are also very good." He smiled lightly, "It is rare to see someone risking his life to protect the army."

     "This is my plan."

      "Bold, clever."

     After a fierce battle, Xin Qi narrowly won. He weighed the chess piece in his hand, thought for a while, and suddenly frowned: "Tian Tian, you didn't let me do it on purpose, did you?"

      "Absolutely not."

      "The horse from before, at your level, shouldn't have been thrown away."

     "...a strategic mistake."

    He looked disbelieving, but he didn't ask further: "Another plate?"

    "No." Min Hui shook her head quickly, "I'm hungry, and I want to go to bed early."

     He was stunned for a moment, He looked at his watch and handed her the menu on the table: "Okay, you order, I'll call Roomservice."

     She only ordered a bowl of seafood porridge, and Xin Qi ordered steak, salad, and red wine. When the waiter delivered it, she said that the steak had been covered on the plate for five minutes, and the taste was just right. After finishing speaking, he took the tip from Xin Qi and thanked him and left.

      The two quickly set the table.

     Min Hui drank the porridge while watching Xin Qi slowly cut the beef. The man in front of her was sitting upright, eating elegantly, and his side profile was as graceful as a swan. He felt comfortable and domineering at the same time. She didn't know how he could achieve these two points at the same time.

    The medium-rare steak kept gushing pink blood. He had a good appetite and ate heartily.

    Min Hui looked at it, suddenly felt dizzy, and quickly lowered her head.

    He noticed it immediately, and quickly blocked the blood with two leaves: "Are you dizzy?"