Chapter 7: Surprise turns into shock 2
After answering the phone, Su Han hurried back to her seat, picked up her bag and was about to leave. She anxiously explained to Zheng Hao: "Captain, I'm sorry! I can't have dinner with you today. Something urgent happened at home... I heard from Xu Zhe that my house was robbed."
"What?" Zheng Hao also stood up quickly, "What's going on? Is it serious? Let me go back with you to take a look!"
Su Han subconsciously tried to stop him: "No need, Xu Zhe is at home! I heard he didn't steal anything, I can just go back and take a look."
Zheng Hao's face turned a little pale, but he still sent Su Han to the door. Looking at her receding back, the way he stood under the tree seemed to overlap with the afternoon when they first met. He was still tall and handsome, but there were some more complicated emotions in his eyes.
Su Han hurried home, but when he opened the door, he found that everything was peaceful.
There was everything missing in the house, all neatly arranged, with no sign of having been turned over. Xu Zhe was lying lazily on the sofa, holding the red panda and reading a magazine. There was an open can of cat food next to him, and he would feed the red panda a bite from time to time. The red panda meowed and secretly rubbed the food residues on its whiskers onto him.
Su Han's face turned dark in an instant . She held her breath, quietly put on her slippers, and walked to the sofa.
"What are you doing?"
Xu Zhe was so frightened that he jumped up from the sofa. The little panda was also thrown out by his shake of the hand. Seeing that the situation was not right, he also knelt on the sofa and did not move.
"Xu Zhe?" She raised her voice and put her hands on her hips. "The house was robbed? Where is the thief?"
The man and the cat looked at her pitifully with synchronized expressions and movements. Xu Zhe's black gemstone-like eyes turned and suddenly pointed at his room: "What a thief! He is so despicable that he actually sneaked into my room and stole my two most beloved picture books!"
"Hmm? Pictorial?" Su Han snorted dangerously.
"Really? I'm not kidding. This is my favorite poster of the 70th anniversary exhibition of French design. It's usually used as a cushion for the red panda. It's its favorite throne, right?"
As if to agree with Xu Zhe's words, the chubby little panda meowed and licked Su Han's hand obediently.
Su Han let out an "ah" and could no longer maintain her stern expression. Realizing that Xu Zhe just wanted to ruin her date with Zheng Hao again, she burst out laughing.
She quickly coughed twice, adjusted her expression, and while scolding the two of them for throwing things around the house, she bent down to pick up various magazines and put them away.
Speaking of which, the red panda is really a smart little cat. After Xu Zhe's persistent training, it not only clings to people and acts like a spoiled child, but also reads the owner's eyes, squats on the ground obediently to help, and sweeps the ground with its fluffy tail to help clean.
Seeing that the crisis was over, Xu Zhe approached Su Han and said, "Su Han, why did Zheng Hao ask you out? Didn't he say we were going to have dinner? Why did you really come back?"
Su Han glared at him and said unhappily, "What else can I do? Just eat! Humph, if you hadn't lied to me that my house was robbed, I might have..."
You've been confessed, right?
Xu Zhe realized something was wrong, and his handsome face was tense: "What could it be?"
Su Han pushed Xu Zhe onto the sofa and said viciously, "Maybe I'm eating delicious grilled chicken wings and steak now!"
"It's okay, I'll bake it for you."
…
The two of them were laughing and tidying up as they cleaned. Outside the window, the night was dark and thousands of lights were on. Birds returning to their nests flapped their wings and flew past the window. The night wind suddenly became fast and fierce, blowing the curtains fluttering, making people feel a sense of impending storm.
“Buzz…”
Su Han's phone vibrated. Xu Zhe moved closer to it, picked it up and rubbed the phone. The screen dimmed and then lit up again. His expression suddenly became strange. He stood there blankly for a while, and finally he handed it to Su Han.
She even laughed at him: "Xu Zhe, why do you look so serious all of a sudden? Are you suddenly feeling the pain of losing those two illustrated magazines?"
However, when Su Han saw the WeChat message sent by Zheng Hao on the mobile phone screen, the smile on her face froze.
"Su Han, I'm still waiting for you here. I will keep waiting."
Su Han hesitated, not knowing whether to make up a lie to make him stop waiting, or to go meet him... At this moment, Xu Zhe silently brought her coat and wallet, still with that nonchalant smile on his face: "Hurry up, you made him wait for so long, what if he asks you to pay the bill later?"
Su Han felt an inexplicable sense of guilt in her heart, but she tried her best to ignore it: "Bah, Zheng Hao is not that kind of person!"
"Yes, yes, yes, I am...I am OK!"
Both of them were joking absentmindedly. Su Han changed her clothes and walked out the door slowly. She refused Xu Zhe's request to send her there. In fact, she felt from the bottom of her heart that if Xu Zhe begged her not to go, she might really not go... But would she be sorry for Zheng Hao in this way?
As if in response to her thoughts, a flash of lightning flashed in the sky, followed by a muffled thunder. The sky was so low that it seemed like it would rain all of a sudden. Su Han didn't bring an umbrella, so she could only pray that the rain would slow down. But she had just run a few steps when raindrops as big as soybeans fell "pa pa pa", hitting her face painfully.
"Su Han! Su Han!"
As she was running, she suddenly heard someone calling her name from behind. She turned around and saw Xu Zhe, who was holding a big black umbrella and chasing after her.
"I was wondering why you didn't want me to go with you. So you were waiting for me to bring you an umbrella! Haha! But I accidentally lost an umbrella last time, and this is the only one I have at home. You can just make do with it."
With that, he waved his hand and left in the rain. Su Han wanted to reach out and grab him, but in vain he just pulled at air.
The sudden downpour caught everyone off guard. On the usually bustling street, pedestrians stood next to roadside shops to shelter from the rain. She was the only one left, walking silently with an umbrella, watching the water droplets falling from the edge of the umbrella.
She was grateful, as if there was a soft spot in her heart that was deeply touched at that moment.
He walked silently to "Shudu". Zheng Hao had been waiting at the door for a long time. His coat was splashed with water, and it was obvious that he had been lingering at the door for a long time. The moment he saw Su Han, his originally gloomy face instantly burst into light . Without waiting for her to close the umbrella, Zheng Hao rushed straight into the rain and hugged her tightly in his arms.
"Su Han, I like you! I have liked you for a long time. Will you be my girlfriend?"
In an instant, the unfamiliar sunshine smell on his body surrounded Su Han. This was her dream for many years! But when the warmth of that moment passed, she actually wanted to escape.
Su Han broke free from his embrace. Facing Zheng Hao's surprised expression, she lowered her eyes: "I..."
“Boom!”
There was a loud bang and a burst of lightning in the sky. The continuous lightning illuminated the sky as bright as day. The heavy rain poured down like a sprinkler truck. Su Han's thoughts were drawn away. She couldn't help thinking: Xu Zhe gave her the last umbrella in the house. He wouldn't be running in the rain stupidly now, right?
"Su Han?"
Zheng Hao's puzzled question came to my ears.
Su Han raised his eyes and mustered up his courage: "I'm sorry... I don't know, Captain, too many things have happened recently, can you give me a little more time?"
Give me some more time to determine my true feelings.
