Tropical Allergy [ABO]

The sound of typing on the keyboard was unknowingly mixed with other sounds. He took off his glasses and rubbed the bridge of his nose tiredly. The person who was lying on the side and playing with his mobile phone straightened up when he saw this: "It's over?"

"Yeah." Working for several hours was a bit overloaded, he closed the computer, put it on the coffee table, turned his head and looked out the dim window and frowned, "Is it raining?"

"Let's get through the rain, the forecast didn't say it's going to rain today. We'll go have dinner when the rain stops—by the way, are you okay this afternoon?"

"Don't you order takeaway?" Sure enough, it started to rain. "no, what happened?"

"Take you to a place, you will definitely like it. But the location..." The man blinked, "Temporary secret."

He said it was a place he would like, but when Qiao Jue stood at the entrance of the Polar Pavilion and saw the long line of children, he was a little speechless: "...Are you sure it's here?"

The man, sweating profusely, squeezed back to his side through the screaming and laughing. He held two tickets and a cone in his hand, and handed over half of them: "The Emperor Penguin Pavilion is open today, so there are a lot of people."

Seeing his excitement, Qiao Jue knew that this person liked it.

More than a little much.The children next to them pushed and shoved, and the two adults were almost unable to stand still in it.In addition to the parents bringing their children, there were also many young couples in love. In short, everyone looked happy, but they were neither fish nor fowl.

After all, everyone else has a stable and sweet relationship, and they never understand each other clearly.

There are many people in the Penguin Pavilion, but they were lucky to find a front row seat.The adult penguins with smooth feathers and the fluffy cubs were cute and cute, which attracted people's shouts. Qiao Jue turned around and found that the people had disappeared again. After a few minutes, he came back with a gift bag and took out a penguin ornament that was only as big as a thumb. , put it in his palm: "Come, make a souvenir."

The resin material is hard against the palms. It is not that they did not have other gifts before, but the scene and the reason for this are always slightly different.

"——Aqiao, come here." His thoughts were quickly interrupted, and the man walked to another sign and called him, "Let's go this way."

Qiao Jue actually doesn't like such an intimate address, it will give him unnecessary illusions.It's just that it's useless to give opinions, this person sometimes goes his own way.He followed quickly, and saw a long, winding channel with brightly colored sea creatures swimming behind arched glass walls.They stepped into the elevator, and the conveyor belt slowly moved to the other side.

"Aquarium, ice cream, souvenirs..." The man laughed, "Look, does today's look like a date?"

When Qiao Jue heard this word, his heart skipped a beat.

"It's just that if it's a date, you should hold hands." The man grabbed the railing with both hands, looking at the colorful underwater tunnel, "Hey, is that a sunfish?"

Just know that.

Just know that it's just talking like that, there won't be any extra actions, after all, it's "like" dating, not "is" dating.They're not that kind of couple at all, are they?

Qiao Jue looked away and curled his fingers.

...What did I expect just now?

Stupid again.

The tunnel is not short, but it arrives at the end very quickly in the confusion of thoughts.The man got off the conveyor elevator one step ahead of him, stood at the end, turned around and smiled at him, but the glass of the dome shattered without warning, the surging seawater swallowed everything suddenly, the world twisted and rotated, screaming and sinking.

His pupils constricted, and a name that he had recited thousands of times broke through his throat.

"------!"

He opened his eyes suddenly.

Dreamed again.

He woke up from the sticky and illusory dream, distracted and diverted his attention, and saw the child next to him still watching cartoons, muttering words.He glanced at the content, "Happy Feet" - it turned out that this group of jumping little penguins was the culprit.

Young children’s acceptance of electronic products is astonishing. For example, Qiao Wensui is three and a half years old. Of course he can’t cook, sell vegetables and do laundry. How to turn on this small screen that I saw for the first time and find my favorite programs is absolutely self-taught and very skilled.

"Why don't you go to bed?" Qiao Jue asked in a soft voice as she helped her cover the blanket in the cabin with still some time before landing.

Sui Sui followed his example and lowered his voice: "Without berries, I can't sleep."

Berry is her throw pillow, in the shape of a penguin, a prize from the "Who's the Cutest Lady" contest at a Christmas market one year.It was the first Christmas in Qiao Wen's life, and the oriental face among the westerners was very conspicuous. The babbling baby won the first prize in such a town-wide competition, and according to Freya, Passed unanimously.The doll is half the size of her. It looks cute and feels soft. The little girl also likes it very much. She always hugs it when she sleeps.It's a pity that it is inconvenient to carry on the plane, so it can only be stuffed into the checked suitcase.

Without the hug of the big penguin, I can only watch the little penguin and chat for comfort.It was the first time to take a long-distance flight, and Qiao Jue knew that she was inevitably excited now, and she must not last long before going to sleep, so she asked the flight attendant for a glass of warm milk for her.Sui Sui bit the straw: "Dad, where are we going from now on?"

"Uncle Liang will come to pick us up. I made a video call with you, remember?" Uncle Liang's full name is Liang Ren. He is Qiao Jue's old friend and one of the few people who knows about the existence of Qiao Wensui.

It took the child a while to salvage memories filled with candies, sweet pies, and wooden swings before thinking of the good-natured uncle who could tell jokes without warning: "I remember." She gestured with her hand, "He has this— — what a big bear!"

Probably a cushion or something, that's what little girls always get their attention from. "You can see it when you go." Qiao Jue said.

After getting out of the cabin, a wave of heat hits my face. I haven't felt such stuffiness and irritation for a long time. There are particles on the skin between the alternation of cold and heat.Wen Wen immediately conveyed the message of "really coming back" to him. Sui Sui squatted on the glass and looked at the big plane that brought her back just now, and sighed: "Everyone is speaking Chinese."

There are local accents everywhere, and I am really not used to it.Qiao Jue stroked her hair: "Come on, uncle is waiting for us."

Before they went to wait for the big luggage, they still had a more important "item" to mention-Taozi was depressed after suffering for more than ten hours. Sui Sui refused to lift his head in his arms, but fortunately he looked healthy.So what Liang Ren saw was such a scene, Qiao Jue was pushing two huge suitcases by himself, and there was a little girl and her cat sitting on the cart.

He walked over quickly, hugged Suisui, and kissed her face familiarly: "My little sweetheart, I can see you."

Qiao Jue's decision to return to China was sudden, and a message was sent, telling Liang Ren that he was going south to join him.The latter was surprised when he learned that he had resigned from that high-paying and preferential job, but it was always good to have friends who were thousands of miles away back nearby, and he arranged everything for him without saying a word.

They have known each other for many years, they were close when they were children, and they went their separate ways when they grew up, and they have never broken contact.Qiao Jue is gentle and indifferent by nature, not sociable, but as long as he is determined to make friends, he will be deep and lasting.He doesn't have many friends, each one is precious, Alan is one, and Liang Ren is also one.

"Where do we live?"

"I'm there. Didn't it be agreed before?"

"then you……"

"Didn't I have someone with me? I moved to his side."

Liang Ren now has a cohabitant, and the apartment where he used to live is vacant, which happens to be reserved for the father and daughter.Oh, there is also a cat, the puppet is very good-looking, with clear blue eyes, and is gentle and clingy.The cat was actually picked up by the little girl, Liang Ren was speechless, her father also picked up the cat back then, I don't know whether it is the inherited European spirit or the nature of attracting cats.

Liang Ren still remembers the first time he saw Qiao Jue. He was white and thin, as if he would collapse in the wind, he spoke softly, and had gentle eyes, so alienated that no one could get close to him.The lonely transfer student met the lonely tablemate, and just like that, he became acquainted. Twenty years later, he is still one of the few people who has obtained Qiao Jue's world pass.

The place where I lived in the North Country was a quiet town, but now I am back in the tropics, dazzled by the neon lights of the city.Seeing his silence, Liang Ren found a topic: "I brought you the tickets. Next Tuesday night, it will start at 08:30."

"Ah..." Qiao Jue almost forgot, "Thank you. Are you going?"

"No, I'm going on a blind date."

"Are you still going on a blind date?"

"Of course not me, help others."

"Who?"

"Little Qin."

Xiao Qin's name is Qin Qianqian, and she is the cousin of Liang Ren's family.The girl was lively and enthusiastic, with pretty double ponytails and a crisp voice. Qiao Jue remembered her.He seemed to be recalling some painful experience that he felt, and commented with a bitter face: "Free love."

"If you can fall in love freely, who wouldn't want it? But it's not so easy for two people to be happy, and it's normal to make do." Liang Ren glanced at him sideways, "Look, a living example is to stand—ah no, sit this."

Qiao Jue judged that Liang Ren's act of showing affection in front of himself after finding the person he liked was very inhumane, and defended himself: "I'm not going to let it go."

He was right, the idea of ​​not making ends meet was deeply ingrained, that's why he was single for so long.

Liang Ren shrugged, noncommittal, and answered the lyrics: "Torturing each other till we get bald."

The novelty of the flight journey was over, and the little girl was already sleepy, and fell asleep by the time the car drove home.The house had already been cleaned, so Qiao Jue carried her to the crib, closed the door gently and exited.

The international flight is too much physical and mental energy. He was also tired just after packing a box, his eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and the peach was nestled at his feet. One person and one cat were equally sleepy.

Liang Ren wanted to leave: "Call me again if necessary, I don't live far away."

"it is good."

"I read the weather forecast that it will rain these few days. Do you want to take Suisui to the museum? Remember to bring an umbrella when you go out."

"drive."

"Take it too. It doesn't matter if you get wet—"

"It's also important."

"...Okay, what you said is right. Anyway, remember to bring an umbrella."

As soon as the words fell, the sound of rain suddenly sounded outside.Qiao Jue looked out along the source of the sound, and the bright sky was slowly sinking just now. He unconsciously clenched the quilt, remembering that August is coming.