There was a moment of silence in the office.
Tao Zhi's heartbeat, which had been calmed down by the smooth and satisfying shooting, began to agitate again.
She turned off the camera expressionlessly, and nodded: "Choose a time that is convenient for you, just contact the magazine directly."
As she spoke, she walked to the sofa, packed her things, said nothing, and seemed to be ready to leave.
Jiang Qihuai watched silently as she zipped up her bag chain, raised her hand to grab the coat that was on the back of the sofa, and said suddenly, "Have a cup of tea before leaving?"
"I don't like drinking tea," Tao Zhi said bluntly, "and I'm very busy, and I have other things to do."
"I thought you liked it now," Jiang Qihuai said without emotion, "that's why I ran to the teahouse."
Tao Zhi blinked, turned his head and said innocently: "That's the point, let's see who I'm drinking with."
This is clearly stated, and it is very hard to give people a step down.
Tao Zhi is actually not a particularly sharp person, except for those who really offend her, she usually speaks with a little restraint. As she grows older, she is now much gentler than when she was in high school, which is actually not in line with her temperament.
But when facing him now, Tao Zhi doesn't know why, her emotions will suddenly become sharp and sensitive, and she can't wait to stay away from him, and stay away from him, as if she is afraid of something.
Jiang Qihuai didn't speak, he drooped his eyelids, closed his eyes and remained silent for a few seconds, before saying "um".
Tao Zhi put on his coat, and the moment he turned around, the corners of his lips sank slightly.
She hung the scarf on her arm, picked up her bag, said nothing, walked to the door in silence, pushed open the frosted glass door, and walked out of the office.
Wen Mingyue was doing a simple interview with the assistant next door. When Tao Zhi came out, it was just over. She put away the recording pen and raised her head from above the laptop: "It's over? My side is almost done, and the materials are enough. .”
She closed the notebook, winked at Tao Zhi, and said in a low voice, "Isn't this director difficult? When I was doing interviews, I could only type five characters out of him."
"..."
Tao Zhi didn't know how to respond to her for a while, and showed an expression that was hard to describe.
Fortunately, Wen Mingyue understood in an instant. She patted her on the shoulder with empathy: "I understand, I understand, words are like gold, but it's okay if you just take pictures and don't need him to speak. You shouldn't be as desperate as I am." .”
She packed her things and walked out, whispering: "But the director is so bored, what's the use of being handsome, dating him must be boring to death."
The ex-girlfriend who was in a relationship and wasn't bored and was even happy: "...it is."
When Tao Zhi got out of the Ruisheng office building at four o'clock in the afternoon, he received a WeChat message from Lin Suyan, saying that he was a little busy today and had no time to greet her, and that he would come to have a cup of coffee with him another day.
By the way, I asked her why she suddenly came to their company today.
Tao Zhi didn't bother to explain too much, so he simply said that it was a matter of work, and emphasized with three exclamation marks that he would never come again another day.
When returning to the studio, Xu Suinian was still standing in front of his set of broken equipment grinding coffee beans. Seeing her enter the door, he showed a bright smile: "Are you back? How is your work? Is it going well?"
Tao Zhi is depressed now, but Xu Suinian still wants to hit the gun. She immediately blamed him for not helping Ansesu for meeting Jiang Qihuai today, and said sadly: "Senior, can you I am a bit ambitious. Our little-known photographers who have just graduated a few years ago are just about to hone their work. If you grind coffee beans here every day, can the Hasselblad Award be found by you? "
"Didn't I just want you to get another box of Lego?" Xu Suinian waved his hand, very open-minded, "You just need to have a sense of professionalism. How can a studio produce two representative characters? Later Remember to advertise for me when you become famous.”
Tao Zhi got used to his salty fish unwilling to turn over, waved his hand: "I won't be coming tomorrow, call me if you need anything."
Xu Suinian responded, and when he saw the person leaving, he glanced sideways at the calendar and sighed, "Time flies so fast."
Xiao Jin handed him the washed coffee cup and asked curiously, "Brother Nian, is Boss busy tomorrow? We went to Hamdan at this time last year and she didn't go either."
Xu Suinian turned his head and interrupted with a smile: "Xiao Jin has grown into a big girl too," he said in the vicissitudes of an old father's tone, "I still remember when you first came to the studio, you were only 21 , it’s so big in a flash.”
Xiao Jin: "...I'm only 22 this year."
Xu Suinian: "Really, ahaha."
Tao Zhi opened his eyes before the alarm clock rang.
It was still half dark at five o'clock in the middle of winter, and there was not even a ray of light in the room. Tao Zhi lay on the bed, blinking at the dim ceiling.
How many years has passed this year
She still remembered the winter vacation a few years ago, she was woken up by Tao Xiuping from her sleep, and hurried to the hospital in the half-dark night.
When Ji Jin arrived, her eyes were black and blue, her body was so emaciated that she collapsed into the hospital bed, her delicate and beautiful face could hardly hide her sickness, and an oxygen tube was inserted in her nose.
When she heard someone coming, she struggled to half-open her eyes, looked at her with dark eyes, and smiled crookedly.
Her voice was still gentle, with hoarse breathing between words, and she called her name gently.
She said Zhizhi, mom is a little tired and wants to sleep for a while.
She said that Zhizhi is an adult now, she should take good care of Xiaofan and listen to her father.
She said she was sorry that mom didn't watch you grow up, but mom was also very happy to see you grow up.
She said I have no regrets.
It is said that if relatives have unfinished business in their hearts before they are alive, they will entrust their dreams to their relatives after they leave, but Tao Zhi is amazing, he has never dreamed of Ji Jin once in the past four years.
She probably really has no regrets.
She never dreamed of her, but many of the first nights, she would wake up suddenly in the middle of the night and belatedly realize that she was crying.
Birth, old age, sickness and death is a very normal reincarnation. She keeps growing up, but her parents are getting old. Everyone seems to have to carry this kind of thing several times in their life, it's just the difference between sooner and later.
Tao Zhi just felt a little reluctant. Ji Jin named them Zhifan when they were still in their infancy, and joked that he hoped to watch them grow from small seedlings to big trees with luxuriant branches and leaves.
In this way, after she and Tao Xiuping retire, they can enjoy the shade under the tree, goof off and enjoy the leisurely life of being raised by their children.
But now they have covered the sky with green trees, but they didn't have time to let her stay under the tree to enjoy the shade.
Tao Zhi blinked in the dark, slowly lifted the quilt and climbed out of bed, changed into a black cashmere dress and went out after washing.
She stood at the entrance and picked out a dark red scarf.
When she was a child, Ji Jin always liked to dress her in red in winter, and bought her a red hat and scarf. The little girl had fair skin, and she stood in the snow in red, as pretty as a doll in a New Year picture. .
Slowly, she wrapped the scarf round and round, got off the elevator and walked into the underground garage, started the car and walked to the suburbs.
When we arrived at the cemetery, the sky was bright, Tao Zhi looked at the initials engraved on the marble steps, walked through the rows of tombstones, and saw another shadow in front of Ji Jin's tombstone in the distance.
Ji Fan stood quietly in front of the tomb, with his head down, for an unknown how long.
Tao Zhi paused and walked over.
Hearing the sound, the boy looked up, then raised his hand and wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
Tao Zhi pretended not to notice, walked over and bent down to put the lily bouquet in his hand beside him, then stood shoulder to shoulder beside him.
She didn't kowtow, and didn't say any nostalgic words, she just stood there quietly, looking at the woman in the photo who had faded her bright colors but still had a gentle smile.
Ji Fan said hoarsely: "Why are you so late, I've been here for half a day."
Tao Zhi lowered his red eyes and said calmly, "I haven't even eaten breakfast yet."
"Why, you lose weight," Ji Fan sniffed, raised his hands and rubbed his face, "Eat breakfast as you should, don't follow the fashion of today's young people, you are not young anymore, old people are a bit like old people should It looks like you can eat eight bowls of small wontons in one meal."
"Be respectful to your sister, you must force me to beat you up in front of my mother."
"Anyway, my mother will only let you use violence against me, and she will laugh when she sees me being beaten by you."
"It is enough to show that you are a person who deserves to be beaten, and I can be regarded as doing justice for the sky."
Tao Zhi turned his head: "Where is Boss Tao, let's go first?"
"I didn't come together. When I got up, I saw that he had just come home." Ji Fan pointed to the third bunch of flowers placed in the middle. That bunch of roses must have been exposed for a long time in the cold outdoors. The circle of petals is a little wrinkled, "Why are you so confused, you, give the old man some private space, can we take the two of us as light bulbs when we have a heart-to-heart talk?"
Tao Zhi smiled and said nothing.
The two of them stayed together for a while, Ji Fan rubbed his nose that was stiff from the cold, hugged her shoulders and turned around: "Let's go, eat some wontons, today I will watch you eat eight bowls by yourself."
Tao Zhi raised his hand and slapped the back of his head.
They walked past tombstones, and before a certain tombstone, Tao Zhi caught something out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly stopped in his tracks.
She froze, turned her head and looked down.
She has been here so many times, but she has never noticed that in the row with the same surname starting with J, about a dozen seats away from Ji Jin, on the gray-white tombstone, the old man's familiar and kind smiling face came into view.
His old face was covered with wrinkles, reading glasses were placed on the bridge of his nose, and his muddy smiling eyes were curved, looking quietly and gently at everyone who looked at him.
Under the photo, black characters were carved in familiar handwriting.
—Jiang Qinghe.
— His grandson, Jiang Qihuai was established in 20xx.
The temperature in the urban area was obviously higher than that in the suburbs. Tao Zhi and Ji Fan ate a bowl of small wontons at the breakfast shop in the old street near their home and went back home.
When Fu Xiling got home, she was just about to go out. Seeing that she had come back, the little girl didn't say much, so she told her to remember to eat lunch and to drink the milk after warming it up. The sandwiches I made, I pinched a little bit to see that it was too late before rushing out the door.
Tao Zhi smiled and sent Fu Xiling out, and when he got home, he sat on the sofa and started to daze.
She didn't know how long it had been, she came back to look at the time, it was almost noon.
She took a shower to relieve some depression, then changed into a set of home clothes, and took out the sandwich Fu Xiling made in the morning from the refrigerator.
Picking out the fried eggs and vegetables from the sandwich and eating them first, Tao Zhi bit the slice of bread and rolled up his hair, took out his camera and computer and sat on the sofa, ready to process the photos he took of Jiang Qihuai earlier.
The photos flashed by one by one, Tao Zhi looked at the man's cold and indifferent eyes, a little lost in thought.
After meeting Jiang Qihuai again, Tao Zhi only felt that he should be living well now.
University skipped a grade, Meishuo graduated in only one year, the youngest investment director who was lured back to China at a high price by a top domestic investment company, what he showed, and what everyone saw in his eyes, seemed to be only his bright and unrestrained side .
As a result, Tao Zhi never thought about how he got here in these years.
She just felt that it was dangerous, and she just didn't want to be attracted to him again, and she didn't want to go back to the same old way and approach him uncontrollably, so she would be irritable when she saw him, and she would subconsciously think about how to escape when she thought of him.
Tao Zhi hugged the notebook and plunged his head into the sofa cushion.
In fact, she has not had a bad life these years. She cries occasionally and smiles more often. There are sad things, but there are more happy times. There are people who have lost, but they are always accompanied by friends , Tao Xiuping and Ji Fan took care of her all the way.
What about Jiang Qihuai
He was originally a very lonely person. When he first met him, he was always alone, his personality was messed up, he didn't get along well with others, and he was too lazy to get along with others.
What happened in his family, and how much he paid in the short and long six years to achieve his current results.
Does he have friends, is he happy, is he as smooth as she hoped, with a bright future ahead.
Tao Zhi didn't know, without Grandpa Jiang, who else could accompany him on this journey.