scorching cold

Winter came very early in Jin City this year. At the end of November, parents who came to pick up their children in the evening were covered with a layer of fluffy snow.

Before Wen Ye's call came, Tao Zhuo had just sent the last parent away.

"Elsa's color sense is very good. Not every child can tell from this rust spot where it is green and where it is red." He held a children's painting that was simply framed on hard cardboard in one hand, and pointed to the table with the other finger. old kerosene lamp on the ceiling, "Can you see that?"

"I really can't...is there green?" Elsa's mother squinted at the kerosene lamp, "She's pretty good."

"The composition and brushwork are also good. He can sit still without being arrogant or impetuous." Tao Zhuo continued.

Thinking about it, his voice became softer: "I'm still shy, and I don't dare to express myself. In fact, she often has good ideas and is very unique. Parents can encourage her more."

"Okay, okay, thank you teacher." Elsa's mother nodded repeatedly, took the painting and looked at the time, "She still has swimming lessons, I have to take her there quickly..."

"Elsa!" Tao Zhuo shouted in the direction of the classroom.

With this sound, three little girls ran out from his class and the sketch class and beauty creation class next door.

Mother Elsa and the three Elsa: "..."

"I called out four last time." Tao Zhuo smiled awkwardly. Too many people used this name. He waved his hands at the other two Elsa, "I didn't call you, go back, Princess No. [-] and No. [-]."

Elsa No. [-] and No. [-] ran away with a smile on her face, and No. [-] turned her head while running and asked, "Mr. Tao, have you watched Princess Elsa too?"

"It's the Queen!" Number Three hurriedly emphasized.

"No, I'll watch after you all finish watching." Tao Zhuo said casually.

Mother and daughter Elsa turned around and left the studio. In the deserted front hall, Tao Zhuo had a faint smile on his face, as if he had pulled out the valve core, and retreated wearily.

He scratched his face expressionlessly, went to the water dispenser to get a glass of water, leaned against the edge of the table to drink, and took out his phone to swipe twice.

At 18:25, he has no class today. The boss sent him a bunch of WeChat messages remotely from another campus, asking him to find a courseware from the front desk switchboard and send it to him, clean up the classroom hygiene, and then write a summary of the day.

The classrooms of the other three classes are still in class, and the energy can be heard through the door.After Tao Zhuo finished the work assigned by the boss, he put on his coat and wrapped himself in a scarf and left the studio.

In the second year after graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts, like two-thirds of his classmates in his circle of friends, he was working as an art teacher who had nothing to do with his major.

Not only his animation major, but also his colleagues in clothing design, comprehensive drawing and video products, etc., grabbed a lot of them.

There are those who open their own studios, those who work for others, and those who work online or offline.Art students with different styles who are independent in school have named themselves all kinds of silly "XX teachers". The circle of friends can refresh [-] content every day complaining about strange parents, children and studios. After graduation There are very few people who are truly professional.

"We train artists. If you want to learn technology, you can go directly to a class or a technical school," said the deputy dean's welcome speech when he entered the freshman year. "Elevate your taste and pursuit. One point, if you ask for the top, you will be in the middle, and if you ask for the middle, you will be down."

If you ask for the middle, you will go down.

Tao Zhuo unconsciously replayed this sentence, and quickly slid past the "One of the most regrettable things in the self-report of a famous CCTV company: 'I didn't give birth to a grandson for my parents!'" forwarded by his mother, to the Elsa's photo taken by Elsa's mother just now Draw a thumbs up.

The phone popped in at this moment, and his applauding hand directly poked the answer button.

Wen Ye didn't react at all, and was still saying irritablely: "Can you watch this scene yourself? The storyboard says a warm station, sweet! Station! Who asked you to draw No. 83 in Beijing?"

"...81." The person being scolded corrected in a low voice.

Tao Zhuo took the mobile phone and twirled around the earphone cable, unwound the tangled mess of wires, and shouted: "Senior."

"Oh, Zhuo'er," Wen Ye was taken aback by his shout, "I pick you up in seconds, get out of class is over?"

"It's just fallen." Tao Zhuo went out from the building where the studio was located, and was jumping by the cold air, only to find that the snow had already fallen heavily, covering the ground.

"Are you swearing again?" He pulled the scarf again, buried his face, and walked towards the subway station.

"Don't fucking mention it." Wen Ye cursed, and Tao Zhuo heard his footsteps, probably going to the smoking area.

After a while, the lighter clicked, and Wen Ye complained to him very irritably: "One or two can't do anything if they just eat, and the investment session was held yesterday. They talk about outsiders, and they can't finish the early stage next year according to the fucking progress. Li Sui... You can quit your job quickly and come to paint for me, what kind of art do you teach children if you are an animation student, Teacher Huo Shao Shao."

"Go to your uncle." Tao Zhuo smiled, ignoring the half-suspended name in Wen Ye's mouth, "Speak up if you have something to do, hang up if you have nothing to do, and have a drink."

"Yes." Wen Ye was not polite at all, "I'll send you a QR code to go to the movies with An Yi, I'm not free."

"Arguing again?" Tao Zhuo was a little helpless, "I didn't wash my hair today."

"See what he has to wash." Wen Ye was more helpless than him, and sighed softly, "I'm stuttering."

Stuttered.

An Yi is sharp-tongued when quarreling, and only stutters when he is dying of anger.

It's cold today, Tao Zhuo just wants to go home, have a hot meal and get some sleep. Tomorrow he will have a rest, but he will release two new courseware. Hearing what Ye said, he can only agree.

An Yi is Wen Ye's boyfriend.

Tao Zhuo, as a witness of their love, has always been incomprehensible to the relationship between these two people.

--Quarrel.

The first time we met was because of a misunderstanding and we started to quarrel. From then on, every time we met, we choked up. We went to the cafeteria to have a meal together, and we had to quarrel over whether it was a big cafeteria or a small cafeteria. Now.

Tao Zhuo didn't understand why they had so many quarrels, and when they quarreled, they were so angry that they almost died of anger, but they also liked this kind of thing very much. When they quarreled, they went to heaven and earth, and after the quarrel was sweet, it seemed that the quarrel was the trigger of their relationship. metamorphic switch.

Obviously, the two of them are not gunpowder personalities. An Yi is a good friend of Tao Zhuo who slept, ate, and lived in the same class during college. He is quite a gentle person.Although Wen Ye has a hot temper, he is several years older than them. Tao Zhuo was already in his second year of graduate school when he was a freshman, and he was in the same class as Li Suihan.

Thinking of Li Suihan, Tao Zhuo's thoughts turned a corner.

If it hadn't been for Wen Ye's half-spoken words just now, in fact, he has hardly been able to suddenly think of Li Suihan in the past six months.

Tao Zhuo felt that he hadn't seen each other for two years after they separated, and Tao Zhuo felt that even Li Suihan's face was vaguely remembered.

Li Suihan is five years older than him. When he was a freshman, Li Suihan was in his second year of graduate school. Li Suihan in his second year of graduate school was not only a student, but after his undergraduate animation created a small sensation, he was taken into his studio by the department head. Exposure to a wider circle of learning.

By the time Tao Zhuo started preparing for his final project in his senior year, Li Suihan had already left to run his own studio on his own.

The circle of art students is too much influenced by exams, and there are too many mediocre people, but there are always a few "geniuses" in every major, such as Li Suihan.

When Tao Zhuo first met him at the age of 15, he felt that he was.

After Wen Ye's QR code was sent, Tao Zhuo retracted his thought of turning to the horizon, and clicked on it to see "Frozen 2".

The theater they booked was in another district, and it took more than ten minutes to take the subway from his place, and it took more than ten minutes to walk after getting off the subway, which still took into account the time for getting in and out of the station.

The game at 19:10 is now 18:47.

-Impressed

Tao Zhuo stood at the gate of the subway station and sent two words to Wen Ye, then turned around and went to the side of the road to take a taxi.

Wen Ye sent him back a bunch of tearful cat heads that were completely inconsistent with his temperament, and he sent a voice to explain why they bought tickets for another movie first, and why An Yi bought Frozen alone, and he hurried Then I bought an adjacent ticket, but I couldn't go because of some reason.

-are you crazy

Tao Zhuo listened wearily, and made a four-character comment.

Hurry up, the car parked in front of the shopping mall where the theater is located, and it was already past 07:30, Tao Zhuo walked in quickly, almost slipped and fell on the snowy steps.

When it was time to scan the QR code to pick up the ticket, my mother's phone came in again.

"Puppy, are you home yet?" The background voice on the mother's side was huh huh huh, it should be playing mahjong.

"No, go out to watch a movie, not go home to eat." Tao Zhuo said, his fingers paused on the screen, and entered a string of ticket collection codes from memory.

"That's just right. I'm at your sister Zhenzhen's house. Your father and brother won't come back to eat at night, so you can make do with it." Mom announced happily.

Wen Ye actually added a romantic couple snack set, my goodness.

"Okay." In a few minutes, Tao Zhuo took out a ticket and went to the front desk to exchange for popcorn, ready to hang up the phone.

"Who are you going to watch movies with?" Mom asked again seemingly unintentionally, Tao Zhuo heard Zhenzhen's mother's voice next to him and continued: "It must be a girlfriend."

"An Yi." Tao Zhuo looked helplessly at the tumbling popcorn in the machine.

My mother said "oh" without interest, and immediately said, "hang up."

Seat 8, Row 12, Hall 09.

Tao Zhuo found the movie hall with popcorn and two cups of Coke in his arms. When he opened the door of the hall, he kept his movements lightly, so as not to disturb other people, but when he opened the door, he realized that he was thinking too much.

A Dolby hall was full, half-occupied by children, laughing and screaming almost louder than the sound effects.

The dubbing is still a Mandarin version.

Tao Zhuo took a class in the studio for a day, leading three classes with an average age of seven and a half years old, now he took a breath when he heard this movement, and felt that his brain wanted to boil.

He quickly went up the stairs and went straight to the last row.

When An Yi and An Yi were still in school, they only sat in the last row when they went to the movies. Wen Ye argued about this when he went to the movies with An Yi for the first time, and finally got into the habit of being in the last row.

"Excuse me." Only one seat in the middle of the last row was vacant. Tao Zhuo walked in sideways, and a child jumped up like a whack-a-mole, pointing at the screen and laughing.

Tao Zhuo almost knocked the popcorn on his head, hurriedly squeezed past him, and put his hands on An Yi's knees before he could sit still.

"Why didn't you buy the original sound?" He put the popcorn bucket on the armrest of the seat and complained softly while staring at the screen.

An Yi ignored him.

Are you so angry that you don't even want to talk to me?

Tao Zhuo turned his face to look at him, and suddenly found that "An Yi"'s chin was ten times wider than usual, and the 3D glasses couldn't hide his puzzled and inexplicable face, and he was also staring at him.

Not easy!

Tao Zhuo hurriedly apologized, then looked to the right, and on the right was a little girl chewing popcorn with no expression on her face, she looked less than ten years old.

Sit in the wrong seat?

Tao Zhuo leaned over and checked the seat number again, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to An Yi: Where are you?

-Home

An Yi replied quickly.

Tao Zhuo: "..."

What do these two people do all day?

Tao Zhuo had nothing to say, and leaned on the seat with the little girl on the right, staring at Princess Aisha boringly... Oh, she is the queen now, Queen Aisha's sister, I don't know what princess, with Her fiancé quarreled in Mandarin.

An Yi sent several messages in succession, Tao Zhuo didn't bother to read them, so he locked the screen to watch the movie.

Come here.

Although he had no interest, Tao Zhuo started to observe the modeling and scenes in the movie.

This is a habit, just like a cook eating and an actor watching a play, the mind is not yet conscious, and the brain has already begun to feel good and bad by conditioned reflex.

The movie theater was very hot. After watching for a while, Tao Zhuo took off his coat and scarf, held it in his arms and continued to lean on the seat.

Since he came in just now, he has been late, talked and moved, and has been restless, and his winter coat is still a bit rough when he takes off his winter coat, Tao Zhuo himself is a little annoyed.

Out of the corner of his eye, the person sitting next to the little girl was staring at him, Tao Zhuo didn't feel embarrassed to turn his head, and buried his chin in the soft fabric of the woolen scarf, feeling very comfortable.

Anyway, it's pitch black and you can't see the face clearly, so just stare.

The second part is not as good as the first one, Tao Zhuo felt lazy watching it, and only felt sorry for the burning funds.

It wasn't until the boring movie was over and the headlights came on that he sat upright and slowly put on his clothes, waiting for the audience in front of him to walk away before going down.

The little girl on the right probably had the same idea as him, sitting on the chair with her legs clattering without moving.

Under this kind of light, Tao Zhuo couldn't ignore the girl's gaze on his right.

Straightforward.

And direct.

It's rude, and it doesn't hide it.

He suddenly had an inexplicable strange feeling, took off his glasses and looked to the right.

The moment he met Li Suihan's gaze, Tao Zhuo was taken aback for a moment, and a momentary vacuum was created in his mind.

"Let's go?" The little girl who didn't say anything throughout the movie raised her face and looked at Li Suihan.

Li Suihan still looked at Tao Zhuo with no expression on his face. He just let out a "hmm" from his nasal cavity and said, "Put your scarf on."

Tao Zhuo's eyes quickly moved towards the little girl's face, and when the lights were bright, he realized that the child was just like a miniature version of Li Suihan with sexual transformation.

Two sentences of conditioned reflex were instantly released in his empty mind.

——After two years of separation, do you have children?

—I didn't fucking wash my hair today.