scorching cold

Tao Zhuo was ashamed to explain to Bei Tian why there was a big palm print on his trousers, he made a mess of it, and pushed her back to the room to continue watching TV.

Bei Tian invited Tao Zhuo to watch it together. Tao Zhuo listened to Li Suihan's voice with his ears upright, still thinking about what Li Suihan said just now.Most of those words were within his expectations. During the two years, consciously or unconsciously, he didn't know how many possibilities he had asked and answered in his heart.

It's just that he really understands his mental journey from Li Suihan's mouth, but he can't tell what it feels like. He understands that it is reasonable, but he still can't help being a little disappointed.

After wandering off for a while, Li Suihan hung up the video and came back from the balcony. He and Bei Tian's father seemed to have an argument, and his face was not very good-looking.

Tao Zhuo just wanted to ask what's the matter, when he saw that Li Suihan had already changed his clothes and came over with the coats of two people, clearly meaning to send him home.

Ah, is this the end?

Is it the end of the year?

Really eat?

Tao Zhuo showed embarrassment on his face, took his clothes over as usual, put them on, and said goodbye to Bei Tian.

"Half an hour." Li Suihan gestured to Bei Tian.

Bei Tian looked at the watch, and Tao Zhuo looked at it, it was almost fifty at nine o'clock.

"When the long needle points to 5, you will be home." Li Suihan had no choice but to say again.

"Okay." Bei Tian approved.

On the way to send Tao Zhuo home, Li Suihan didn't talk about the things between them anymore, with a calm look that "everything that needs to be said has been finished in the kitchen".

Halfway through, his cell phone rang twice, the first time he answered it directly in the car, and the other person just said, "Brother, listen to me", he was cut off, and the second time he simply hung up.

Tao Zhuo peeked at his face and knew that although Li Suihan had no expression, he was in a bad mood, so he sat obediently and didn't dare to talk too much.

At the last intersection before Tao Zhuo's house, Li Suihan slowed down and waited for the red light.Tao Zhuo tilted his head and looked at the street decorated with lights and festoons outside the car window. Many young couples were strolling hand in hand on the road. The atmosphere on New Year's Day this year seems to be very lively.

"Sorry." He heard Li Suihan exhale softly.

"Huh?" Tao Zhuo turned to look at him, and Li Suihan looked forward intently, except for a little fatigue at the corners of his eyes, his side face seemed calm.

"Ah, nothing...it's nothing." Tao Zhuo actually didn't know what he was apologizing for, whether it was sending him away suddenly, or the unhappiness he showed along the way, or something else that he was figuring out on his own.

But if the people around him were in a bad mood, it would be better to coax them first, so he reached out and patted Li Suihan's shoulder.

The green light jumped over, Li Suihan continued to drive, and said: "Li Beitian's parents are fighting for custody, it's a mess."

"Ah." Tao Zhuo nodded and agreed, knowing that Li Suihan was explaining to him.

Suddenly jumping from the sticky atmosphere of the kitchen to the drama of family ethics, Tao Zhuo wanted to scratch his head.

He can't help with this kind of thing, and he doesn't understand. He understands that Li Suihan is probably fulfilling his promise of "talking more", and he doesn't really want to talk to him, so he persuades him according to his own understanding: " Let's ask Bei Tian what he thinks about this kind of thing first."

Li Suihan said "um", but he didn't say any more.

The car stopped at the old place in front of the community gate, Tao Zhuo hesitated to put on his seat belt, wondering if he should say something to Li Suihan or not.

The two of them have known each other for too long, and the relationship between them seems to have been said, but the relationship is still unclear. If Li Suihan didn't take the initiative to raise the atmosphere, Tao Zhuo would not even know his expression. How to do it.

It's like... old friends who have been friends for many years suddenly change their relationship and become lovers. The stage of expressing mutual temptation when they first met has long passed; I have seen how crazy each other is when we get along; it seems that this kind of relationship turns into a lover, and it seems that there are only two paths for running-directly parting ways or directly fighting the fire.

However, he and Li Suihan have gone through all the things they should have experienced and should not have experienced. Now they have returned to the most sticky stage of love conversation between politeness and hands-on.

Besides, he is still being "chased".

In the atmosphere of the kitchen, I can be influenced and come and go with him involuntarily.

Now that he jumped out, he was suddenly interrupted by Li Suihan's family affairs. As long as Li Suihan didn't signal, he wouldn't even be embarrassed to resume the topic just now.

"Then I'm leaving," Tao Zhuo pushed open the car door and stepped down, "Go back slowly."

"Tao Zhuo." Li Suihan called him again.

"Hey." Tao Zhuo turned his head.

"I guess I have to send Li Beitian back to New Zealand. I'll be busy for a while, so I'll contact you when I get back." Li Suihan said.

"Okay," Tao Zhuo nodded, "Then you guys have a smooth journey, and communicate well if you have anything to do."

Li Suihan smiled, took out a can of gum candy from the glove box, threw it to Tao Zhuo smartly, and watched his back disappear into the night.

Tao Zhuo had just walked downstairs with the candy in his hands when his cell phone rang. Qi Ya wandered around somewhere, and the receiver was full of "whirring" noises. He asked him, "Is your wife at home? Come out for the New Year's Eve."

"Now?" Tao Zhuo stopped, looking at the door in front of him hesitantly, "It's cold."

"Ah, why don't we wait until twelve o'clock at noon? There is also the sun." Qi Ya didn't discuss with Tao Zhuo at all, and directly reported an address, "Come on, wait for you!"

Tao Zhuo jumped up and down on the spot, called Tao Zhen and said that he might not be going back tonight, then turned and ran towards the door.

Qi Ya is in a Qing bar in the Bell Tower Square by the river. This area used to be an Italian style area, but now it is the home of young people. The livehouse is row after row, full of bars and small shops of various styles.

As the New Year’s Eve approaches, there are many people on every trail. Tao Zhuo found Qi Ya’s store, and was just about to laugh at how many idiots were sitting outside in such a cold day, when he saw Qi Ya alone guarding a small table and a floor lamp , sitting by the fence and playing with a mobile phone.

Tao Zhuo: "..."

"Why are you sitting here?" He sat down opposite Qi Ya, and looked up to see if there was any room in the store.

"It's all crowded, don't look at it." Qi Ya put down his phone, fumbled in his arms, and pulled out a warm baby for Tao Zhuo, "I'll give you one, but I actually called you, I thought you were No time for me."

Tao Zhuo took it and put his backhand on his back, his cold hand touched the skin on his waist, which made him tremble: "Why?"

"Don't you want to be with Li Songbai?" Qi Ya sipped the straw with his cup in his hand, rang the bell to call the waiter, and ordered a cup of hot cocoa for Tao Zhuo.

"It's Li Suihan." Tao Zhuo chewed a chicken nugget in his mouth, and slowly shared what Li Suihan said today to Qi Ya.

Qi Ya was amused halfway through listening: "This man is too honest, if he turns his head around, he will coax him, and tell the truth."

Tao Zhuo grinned.

"Don't be hypocritical, Shao'er." Qi Ya bit a cigarette in his mouth, he raised his foot to step on the edge of the stool, and looked at Tao Zhuo from between his knees, "To put it bluntly, I was rejected once during puberty, Daddy What's the matter, old man, it's almost enough... If you two are having fun, just pretend I didn't say anything."

Tao Zhuo lay lazily on the table, scratching his face.

"Anyway, no matter what you think, you still have to be with him in the end, there's no need to waste this time." Qi Ya flicked the cigarette ash, looked at Tao Zhuo's hair, "It's really hard work for long-term lovers."

Tao Zhuo raised his eyes and looked at him, and after two seconds, the two couldn't help but staggered their eyes from left to right, and laughed "poof".

"Non-mainstream." Tao Zhuo said.

Qi Ya laughed out loud.

The two of them spent two hours blowing the cold wind by the river, and finally they counted down together in a crowd in the square, holding their heads against their noses while sniffling, and took a happy group photo with each other's shoulders put on each other.

Qi Ya played tricks, pushed Tao Zhuo to post in Moments, and gave him a blessing for middle-aged and elderly people: Welcome to 2020, January, please be nice to me

"Okay, let's wait for the vinegar tank to get tired of you." Qi Ya was the first to give him a thumbs-up, and pretended to be in the comments @李凉冷.

"Boring!" Tao Zhuo sneezed with a smile.

Although he was somewhat rebellious and didn't want to admit it, Qi Ya was right.

Tao Zhuo and Qi Ya walked through the crowd, and their mood was broadened by the lively atmosphere.

He understands better than anyone else that no matter whether Li Suihan is telling the truth, flattering words, or saying nothing, he still likes him; even if Li Suihan doesn't change at all, he will get together with him sooner or later.

It is indeed such a rationale.

What is there to continue to be hypocritical about?

When Li Suihan comes back from New Zealand, we will be together directly.

With this thought in mind, Tao Zhuo suddenly found the mood he had when he decided to confess his love to Li Suihan.

This thing of love really has a pleasant magic power, Tao Zhuo feels like a potted plant, which is pulling out fresh green shoots from the branches at the moment.

He went to buy a gift for Li Suihan again. While waiting for the gift and Li Suihan, the two chatted with each other every day due to jet lag.

Li Suihan really looked at Tao Zhuo's circle of friends, but he didn't get tired of it. He just asked him if he went home and went out that day?

Tao Zhuo was shaking his feet on the bed, deliberately said: "Yes, are you jealous?"

Li Suihan smiled and gave him a thumbs up without saying anything else.

Tao Zhuo was having fun on the other side of the screen.

The two chatted again in the middle of the month, and Tao Zhuo asked him when he would be back. Li Suihan said that if nothing unexpected happened, the 20th would be the 20th.

"Are you coming to pick me up?" Li Suihan said.

Tao Zhuo was about to say yes when he opened his mouth, but he turned a corner in time and asked him, "Do you need it?"

Li Suihan gave an "um" and said, "I need it, I want to see you when I land."

However, before meeting Li Suihan, Tao Zhuo was tricked by his mother and sister-in-law, and sent to have dinner with a girl he had never even heard of.

That day was January 1th, and the closer the holiday got, the busier it was, tidying up the equipment, tidying up the classroom, sorting out the children's works over the past year, and receiving inquiries from parents... The studio was in a hurry, and I didn't even think about swiping my phone.

After school in the evening, Tao Zhuo hadn't finished packing his things. His mother's phone came over a little bit, and she said happily: "God, let's go to your brother's shop to eat at night. It's just when we go to sit every time." That room."

"It's five days before Chinese New Year, what's the name of going out to eat now." Tao Zhuo laughed, "You still have to give my brother the year-end assessment?"

"Oh, a meal is a meal. Your brother doesn't want to cook today, okay?" Mom urged, "Let's go now, don't delay!"

Tao Zhuo had an intuition that something was wrong, but he didn't think too much about it, and took a taxi directly to Tao Zhen's shop.

The manager, Xiaotang, was a familiar face. When he saw him, he came over with a smile and winked: "It's already here, waiting for you. It's pretty straightforward."

"Who?" Tao Zhuo was really confused.

With a smile of "pretend, you continue to pretend", Xiaotang took Tao Zhuo directly to open the door of the box.

Tao Zhuo was stunned as soon as he poked his head in. There was no father or mother. A girl about his age was just sitting there playing with her mobile phone. She was quite reserved when she saw him. She stood up and smiled at him uncomfortably, saying : "Tao Zhuo?"

No matter how confused Tao Zhuo was, he understood now.

He awkwardly greeted the girl, motioned him to go out and make a phone call, and asked her to wait.

Tao Zhuo's breathing became rough when dialing the number, he was going crazy, he had never heard of anyone's elders playing with children like this, so he figured it out and told the truth that he would not come on a blind date, so he just lied to him!

As soon as the phone was dialed, the person who picked up on the other side became my sister-in-law. I guess my mother was afraid that he would explode directly, so she dragged my sister-in-law to block the fire.

Tao Zhuo was really embarrassed to yell directly at his sister-in-law, so he could only ask depressedly, "What are you guys doing? Can you tell me first?"

"Zhao Zhuo, did you see?" The aunt pretended not to hear that Tao Zhuo was angry, and introduced him enthusiastically like she did every time she chatted before: "She is Zhuo Qingqing that my aunt told you before. , the child of my colleague... nonsense, how could your mother and I cheat on you, really... I have nothing to say, he also learned to paint like you, what kind of company is he in Wuhan? Didn't he just come back from vacation... oops Okay, you are all young people, and you are not allowed to do anything, just have a meal and make friends. Hurry up and go..."