As long as Jiang Qihuai watched WeChat for a while, in less than ten minutes, there were many more messages in his circle of friends.
This person is usually so lonely that he wishes that people all over the world would stop talking to him, but he didn't expect that the circle of friends is quite lively.
Tao Zhi pressed the corners of his lips up, pointed to the cover of Moments he had just set up and said, "Director Jiang, are you so flamboyant?"
An innocent look like he didn't do anything public just now.
Jiang Qihuai stared at the cover, tapped the screen with his fingertips to refresh twice and said, "I think they are all like this."
Tao Zhi didn't respond: "Who are they?"
Jiang Qihuai: "He has a girlfriend."
When he said this, he was serious and flat, as if he had seen from others that it was right about falling in love, so he began to follow it meticulously.
Tao Zhi suppressed a smile and nodded seriously: "Indeed, and there are a few more words to add to this."
Jiang Qihuai turned his eyes sideways and looked at her: "Huh?"
Tao Zhi pointed to the blank space on the photo and said, "It's on P here—don't mess around with my boyfriend's circle of friends."
Jiang Qihuai: "..."
Ji Fan's eyes were bulging when the two of them were talking to each other there, he couldn't help but rolled his eyes: "I'm so busy that I have to come to have such a meal."
"That's a good thing you're here. I don't particularly want to have dinner with the two of them alone," Fu Xiling whispered next to him, "I have to be a light bulb by myself."
This meal made several families rejoice and others vomited, Ji Fan's eyes were almost blinded by the nausea, and the meal was finally finished.
After the man cooked, Tao Zhi and Fu Xiling packed up the dishes and took them to the kitchen to wash the dishes. After washing the bottles and jars, they came out of the kitchen and saw Ji Fan and Jiang Qihuai sitting at the two ends of the sofa. One person occupies half of the country, one watches TV and the other plays mobile phones. The atmosphere is so quiet and solemn that it feels like sitting in the Great Hall of the People.
Hearing people coming out, Jiang Qihuai put down his phone and looked up, Tao Zhi accidentally glanced at his screen when he walked over.
Even though he cut the screen very quickly, Tao Zhi still vaguely saw the selfie he just took flashed by.
That's all there is to see.
Tao Zhi raised his eyebrows, feeling that he had found something new.
Fu Xiling washed the fruits and brought them over. Tao Zhi still had a last bit of work to do, so he went to work on his own while holding the computer.
Ji Fan sat on the sofa motionless as if glued to his buttocks, watching soap operas expressionlessly, as if he had made up his mind that as long as Jiang Qihuai didn't move, he would not leave.
Tao Zhi tossed about for a while in the later stage, but he still had no inspiration, and thought Ji Fan's soap opera was too noisy, so he went into the bedroom with his computer in his arms.
Not long after she went in, Jiang Qihuai went to the bathroom, and as soon as he got up, Ji Fan reacted instantly, looking at him warily: "Why?"
"..."
For Tao Zhi's sake, Jiang Qihuai felt that he could bear him for another two minutes.
He pointed to the toilet door and invited him indifferently: "Want to be together?"
Ji Fan choked for a moment, turned his head and sat back down again.
Fu Xiling looked at his series of miraculous reactions, and said somewhat incomprehensibly, "You should also watch when someone is in love."
Ji Fan leaned back on the sofa without making a sound.
He didn't even know why he was doing this.
Probably because he vaguely felt that Tao Zhi had been ups and downs in that relationship all these years, because of Jiang Qihuai's departure.
Looking at her again after many years, it seemed that she had finally found the freshest piece of soul that had been lost for a long time, and it was also because of his return.
He didn't deal with Jiang Qihuai very much at first, but he reluctantly accepted him because of Tao Zhi's face. After a long time, the two of them got along harmoniously. Although Ji Fan never said it, in fact, for him, he already regarded Jiang Qihuai as a friend.
I treat you as a brother. On the surface, you hook up with me as a good brother, but when you fight back behind your back, you become my brother-in-law again.
You have made her so sad.
Ji Fan racked his brains and thought about it, but he couldn't think of any suitable words to explain to Fu Xiling. He was a man of some words, and it would seem hypocritical to say them.
For a long time, he uttered a few words dryly with a sullen face: "I just don't want to see Jiang Qihuai happy."
"..."
Fu Xiling's mind instantly flashed a hundred small articles about robbing, robbing, falling in love, killing, and domineering presidents torturing me and so on.
Fu Xiling murmured: "I don't know whether it's you or me."
After nine o'clock in the evening, Ji Fan and Jiang Qihuai left. Before leaving, Ji Fan specially reminded Tao Zhi to remember to go home and have dinner with Tao Xiuping on weekends.
Ji Fan didn't move out, but he would be away from home for several weeks when he was busy on business trips. When he was not in the imperial capital, Tao Zhi would usually go home three or four times a week to chat and have dinner with Tao Xiuping. When he comes back, Tao Zhi will also come back for family dinners at least once a week.
When Ji Fan said this, Tao Zhi responded and subconsciously glanced at Jiang Qihuai.
She originally thought about taking Jiang Qihuai back together during the Chinese New Year this year, but she had no other ideas, she just didn't want him to be alone on such a day.
He has her now.
But seeing the parents and going back to celebrate the New Year will bring an invisible pressure to people.
Tao Zhi hadn't had time to discuss it with Jiang Qihuai, nor had he told Tao Xiuping.
Tao Xiuping didn't even know that Jiang Qihuai had returned.
…
Tao Zhi has been thinking about this matter in his heart, and he has been a little absent-minded for the next few days.
On Friday night, she drove home directly from the studio. Aunt Zhang resigned a few years ago and returned to her hometown. Tao Xiuping's new aunt didn't talk much, but the food she cooked was just as delicious.
When Tao Zhi got home, dinner was almost ready, and Tao Xiuping was sitting on the sofa watching his new variety show with a tablet.
Several single men and women live together in the same house for a period of time, cook together, do housework and chat, and then get married.
Tao Xiuping watched it with great interest, pouring tea from a purple sand pot in one hand, reluctant to take his eyes off the screen, and said regretfully, "Why is no one choosing No. 3, the little girl is so nice."
Tao Zhi took off his coat and sat down, stretched out his head and took a look: "You are entering old age ahead of schedule, Chinese New Year is almost here, isn't the company busy?"
"It's hard to be busy every day. It's not a combination of work and rest," Tao Xiuping said. "I haven't watched this show for two weeks. It's not like I finally got a little free."
"The last time you saw that father's symposium." Tao Zhi asked.
"After the broadcast, the pair didn't make it, so we got another one," Tao Xiuping gloated, "I didn't think that young man would do well in the morning."
After the music was over, he said leisurely again: "I see that other girls have changed several times in this show, but I don't have a girl yet."
Tao Zhi was waiting for his words.
Before she had time to speak, Ji Fan came down from upstairs, rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said loudly: "Don't worry, she has it!"
Tao Zhi: "..."
Tao Xiuping was silent for a few seconds, then turned his face, looked at Tao Zhi and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"...I have a boyfriend." Tao Zhi said honestly.
After she finished speaking, she saw Tao Xiuping let out a long breath of relief.
Tao Xiuping's heart sank back from his throat, he nodded and continued watching variety shows.
No one spoke for a while, Tao Zhi accompanied him and watched for five or six minutes, then Tao Xiuping suddenly turned his head and said, "Actually, Dad thought about it, you are still young, and you are not so anxious about falling in love. "
"..."
Tao Zhi blinked: "Then you have been urging me, haven't you?"
Tao Xiu flattened his hands: "Then I'm just idle and have nothing to do."
Tao Zhi nodded, grabbed a grape from the fruit plate on the coffee table, crossed his legs and said, "Then do you have any questions about my new boyfriend?"
"What do I have to ask, what do I have to ask about me?" Tao Xiu waved his hands flatly, and said coolly, "Your relationship is your business, I wonder what your partner is doing?"
Tao Zhi: "You really don't want to ask?"
Tao Xiuping: "How old are you? Where are you from? What do you do? What do your parents do?"
"..."
Tao Zhi didn't want to play tricks on him anymore, so he just said truthfully, "Dad, you know him."
Tao Xiuping said "Huh?"
"Well, I've only had one boyfriend since I grew up," Tao Zhi looked at him, and said slowly, "That's the only boyfriend I've ever had."
Tao Xiuping understood what she meant almost instantly.
He seemed to understand it instantly, and he didn't even have many unexpected emotions, but his expression was obviously lighter than before: "It's still that young man?"
Tao Zhi pursed his lips: "Boss Tao, it's been so many years, you won't still be sitting around because of your family, right?"
Tao Xiuping looked at her amusedly: "Is this the beginning? I haven't said a word yet. I told you to break up or what?"
Tao Zhi curled his lips: "You won't just tell me to break up, but you will trip me up by beating around the bush."
Tao Xiuping said "Hey", put the teacup in his hand on the coffee table, and raised his hand to knock her on the head: "Father is not messing around, I just ask you, how can you guarantee to me that his family and growth environment are right?" Doesn't his personality matter? How can you guarantee that he won't have a bad side that you don't know about?"
"Zhizhi, Dad has always known that you are a very warm-hearted child," Tao Xiuping sighed, "But you are my daughter, and I have my own selfishness. Dad hopes that you will be with a boy who can give you warmth in the future." Together, instead of letting you share your own temperature with him."
"I'm willing to give it to him," Tao Zhi bit the flesh on his lips, and said stubbornly, "Besides, he changed me first, because it was him that made me want to learn, work hard, and become a better person." Man, no matter how you look at it, I earned it."
Tao Zhi didn't know why everyone thought Jiang Qihuai was bad.
He is clearly warm and powerful.
Even in those years without him, the warmth he brought still firmly and permanently affected her. When she is lazy, when she wants to give up, when she feels hard, when she can hardly go on.
When Tao Zhi once stood on the top of the mountain alone, she thought that she would never find her end.
It wasn't until many years later that she realized that Jiang Qihuai was never her end point, he was always the mountain that silently lifted her up and supported her all the way up.
He didn't say a word, didn't say a word, but silent and heavy, became her full strength.
Tao Zhi understood that without him, there would probably not be any mountain tops in the rest of her life.
After Tao Zhi said this, Tao Xiuping didn't answer the conversation again, and until the end of dinner, the father and daughter had a tacit understanding and never talked about this topic again.
It wasn't until Tao Zhi put down his chopsticks and pulled away the chair to go upstairs that Tao Xiuping suddenly said, "I have time to bring it back for dinner."
Tao Zhi's movements were fixed in place, she turned her head in a daze, and slowly understood what he meant.
Then, she pursed her lips and looked at him with a sullen expression.
"Don't hold back, those eyes are almost too bent to see," Tao Xiuping sighed, "Don't be too prettier, I'm not expressing my opinion, then I have to get in touch first to understand."
Tao Zhi smiled and nodded violently, then suddenly trotted around the dining table, stretched out his arms and hugged Tao Xiuping's neck heavily.
Tao Xiuping was so strong that he almost couldn't hold his breath.
"Father is the best!" Tao Zhi hugged him and said cheerfully, then let go of his hands and ran up the stairs.
Tao Zhi happily went back to the bedroom, lying on the bed, he couldn't wait to open WeChat and play with Jiang Qihuai.
Until the little girl's shadow disappeared on the stairs, Tao Xiuping still hadn't recalled it.
He turned to look at Ji Fan: "Hasn't she been like this for a few years?"
"Twenty years ago." Ji Fan said.
Tao Xiuping rubbed his neck for a while, reminiscing about his lovely daughter's passionate embrace, and suddenly regretted: "You said this, should I agree earlier?"
Ji Fan: "..."
Jiang Qihuai worked overtime for several days.
As the end of the year approaches, all industries are already busy, and the office is still brightly lit at ninety o'clock in the evening for several weeks.
When Tao Zhi sent the message, Jiang Qihuai was in a meeting.
Lin Suyan stood in front of the projection screen and gave a passionate speech to the PPT. Jiang Qihuai's phone vibrated several times in his pocket.
At first, he didn't respond. The other party waited for a few minutes, probably because he didn't wait for his response, and started to crazily continue to shake.
At this frequency, basically there will be no one else except a certain princess.
Jiang Qihuai took out his phone calmly, clicked on the message and looked down.
What catches the eye is someone taking nine consecutive selfies with embarrassing faces.
And it's still going on.
Selfies with different movements, postures and expressions kept swiping the screen of his chat interface, some in long skirts, overcoats, and jeans.
The latest one was a photo of a swimsuit at the beach. The little girl was lying on the beach in a white two-piece swimsuit, with a light-colored gauze scarf on her body.
Jiang Qihuai: "..."
Lin Suyan at the front was analyzing the data in a serious tone, and the secretary next to him was typing on the keyboard, and the professional terminology and serious atmosphere filled the entire conference room.
And their investment director secretly looked at his girlfriend's wet swimsuit photos under the conference table.
Jiang Qihuai's eyelids twitched, and finally couldn't help it, and knocked a question mark in the past.
Seeing his reply, Tao Zhi finally stopped posting the photo.
[Zhizhi Grape]: Tao Taozi! you wake up!
Jiang Qihuai digested the name for three seconds, then glanced at his new WeChat name, and understood it.
He hadn't had time to type yet.
[Zhizhi Grape]: Next time, if you want to see a photo of your girlfriend, you don’t have to sneak around and just stare at that one. There are 13,000 photos in my album, and you can see as many as you want.
[Zhizhi Grape]: Some wear clothes.
Jiang Qihuai is still understanding this sentence.
Tao Zhi continued to post.
[Zhizhi Grape]: There are also those who don’t wear clothes.
Jiang Qihuai: "..."