As the chief translator of Jiang Qihuai's special expression, Tao Zhi spent two seconds quickly translating the meaning inside and outside the words of his series.
—It’s snowing on my head, how long do you think I’ve been waiting
—I saw you hugging another man, you better explain within ten seconds that I was greened by you.
Tao Zhi didn't know how to explain that he had just been confessed by a friend he had known for seven or eight years, and he had a farewell hug with him under the influence of many emotions such as guilt and sadness.
Tao Zhi made a decisive decision without saying a word of nonsense, directly hung up the phone and put his hands in his pockets, then trotted all the way across the road, jumped over, and plunged his head into his arms.
The winter in the north was terribly cold, and the cold wind made his coat stiff. Tao Zhi rubbed his head against his chest, then raised his head, and brushed his forehead against the tip of his chin.
Jiang Qihuai was completely unmoved: "I'll hug each other again."
"..."
Tao Zhi looked at him from the bottom up, and said helplessly, "It's not that he's going out of town. I didn't know when he came back, so I gave him a little hug."
She paused, and added: "Courtesy, for our friendship."
Jiang Qihuai nodded: "Only with him is the friendship that is willing to drink tea."
Tao Zhi raised one hand high, stretched out three fingers and solemnly said: "Jiang Hesheng and I are innocent, really, there is nothing wrong."
Snowflakes fell in large swaths, and the cold wind blew up the dead branches and blew the corners of the coat. Jiang Qihuai glanced at her nose and fingers that were a little red from the cold, and raised his chin: "Get in the car."
Tao Zhi let go of his arms holding his waist, obediently ran around the front of the car, got on the co-pilot, and pulled the seat belt buckle on.
Jiang Qihuai started the car, didn't speak, just drove forward in a muffled voice.
The atmosphere in the car was a little stiff, Tao Zhi glanced at him secretly, cleared his throat: "That."
Jiang Qihuai didn't respond.
"Have you eaten yet?" Tao Zhi asked him.
Jiang Qihuai gave a "hmm", paused, and added: "I ate at the company cafeteria."
Tao Zhi scratched his nose: "Then where are we going now?"
"Go drink tea." Jiang Qihuai said coldly.
Tao Zhi: "..."
Little temper is quite big.
She didn't speak any more, and Jiang Qihuai was also quiet all the time. The corners of his lips were drooping, and he didn't say a word, looking a little unhappy.
Tao Zhi would look at him from time to time at first, but then he completely ignored him and just played with his phone with his head down.
She played a soothing English love song. The clean female voice is gentle and lingering. The lyrics are simple but sincere, as if telling a story.
Several times, Tao Zhi always felt that he caught a glimpse of Jiang Qihuai looking at her out of the corner of his eye, but when she turned her head, she found that he was looking straight ahead without moving his eyes.
She listened to the song all the way, thinking about how to coax him.
Or simply dedicate yourself to it directly. It’s not all about seducing a man to bed when he’s angry.
But she still wants to rest for two more days.
Tao Zhi puffed out his cheeks somewhat depressedly.
Regarding Jiang Hesheng's matter, it would be a lie to say that she didn't feel anything at all. Now that she has calmed down, she still feels a little sad.
The feeling of losing a very important friend and keeping a distance to avoid unnecessary contact in the future is really uncomfortable.
There are very few friends who can keep in touch with each other for so many years. Apart from Fu Xiling and the others, Jiang Hesheng is one of them. No matter what, his friend Tao Zhi made friends with his heart.
She propped her chin with one hand and sighed unconsciously.
Jiang Qihuai heard her and glanced at her.
Tao Zhi was completely immersed in his own little world and didn't react much.
It wasn't until the car drove into the underground parking lot, and the brightly lit night was replaced by the dim underground space, that Tao Zhi came back to her senses. She watched Jiang Qihuai drive the car into the parking space, stop, and then didn't move.
Tao Zhi interrupted his short-term depression, and started to think again about how to coax his jealous boyfriend.
As she thought about it, she slowly unbuckled her seat belt and looked at him.
Jiang Qihuai ignored her and untied his seat belt and got out of the car.
Tao Zhi tremblingly followed him down, into the elevator, up the stairs, into the house, and then went straight to the bedroom.
Tao Zhi listlessly took off the scarf and hung it aside, and took off her coat. She walked into the living room, looked at the closed bedroom door, and felt that the door was as closed as her master.
As if to say: No one should touch me.
Tao Zhi washed his hands, then nestled into the sofa, thought for a while, pulled out his phone, opened the search software, and started typing: Why is my boyfriend angry—
Before she finished typing, the closed door was suddenly opened from the inside.
Tao Zhi raised his head, Jiang Qihuai's face was paralyzed, he didn't know why he turned back straight away, he threw the coat in his hand on the sofa next to him, walked to her and leaned over leaning on the back of the sofa.
"What are you doing?" He squinted his eyes, his tone was cold, and he looked very upset.
Tao Zhi blinked, raised the phone in front of him, and said honestly, "How can Cha Cha coax you?"
"..."
Jiang Qihuai was silent for a moment.
He had been waiting in the room for about a minute, and she was still sitting here checking her cell phone.
Jiang Qihuai was so angry that he wanted to laugh.
He looked down at her, then suddenly lowered his head and bit her lip.
In the beginning, he was just biting to vent his dissatisfaction, but gradually, his slightly tense mood swayed loosely, and the tip of his tongue uncontrollably drilled into his mouth, hooked the soft tongue, and sucked long and delicately.
Tao Zhi raised her neck and kissed him.
When the lips and teeth parted, the breaths of both of them were a little messy.
Jiang Qihuai put his palm against her slender neck, watching her look at him with confused eyes, her red and swollen lips parted slightly, panting softly, the good smell from last night made him a little itchy, something in his body Started to move around again.
Rubbing the delicate skin of her neck with his fingertips, his voice became hoarse: "Is there still a need to check?"
Tao Zhi: "..."
Tao Zhi suddenly realized.
She threw the mobile phone in her hand aside, opened her arms towards him, closed her eyes, and said as if she was dead: "Come on."
Jiang Qihuai: "..."
He sighed helplessly, almost in frustration.
Taking advantage of the situation, Tao Zhi grabbed his wrist and pulled him down, pulled him to sit on the sofa, and then hugged him to coax him: "Don't be angry, I will report to you next time I have dinner with a boy, okay Bar?"
She thought for a while and continued: "And there will be absolutely no physical contact. They are really just ordinary friends, and I am not willing to drink tea just because it is him. No matter who this person is, I don't like drinking tea. Our Highness Take it easy."
Jiang Qihuai watched her crawl into his arms like a little groundhog: "I'm not angry."
Tao Zhi nodded: "Yes, you are just jealous."
Jiang Qihuai pursed his lips and said nothing.
"You are old vinegar." Tao Zhi said.
Jiang Qihuai raised his hand, bent his knuckles, and tapped lightly on her head.
Tao Zhi raised his head and continued to ask: "Jiang Qihuai, is your hometown in Shanxi?"
Jiang Qihuai didn't want to hear her talking nonsense here.
When Tao Zhi was about to speak again, his fingers had already penetrated along the hem of her sweater.
Tao Zhiren froze, yelled twice, and pressed his hand through his clothes.
That position was a bit awkward, Tao Zhi realized after pressing it, let go of his hand hastily, and said with a bitter face: "Your Highness, I want to rest today."
While she was speaking, she was already pinned down on the sofa.
"Maybe not today," Jiang Qihuai bent his knees and lifted her up. He leaned against her and whispered, "Another day."
"..."
Tao Zhi gave himself a three-day bed leave.
Jiang Qihuai changed this day, and she didn't know when she planned to change it. She just thought that he might be serious when he said that a few hours of sleep a day was enough. After work, I still have the energy to spend the night life.
Within a few days, Tao Zhi took advantage of his time to go to work and fled back to his home.
Jiang Qihuai didn't say anything, and let her go very graciously.
The next week, Tao Zhi received a call from "SINGO". The editor-in-chief and the editor-in-chief finally knocked out two of the finished films she sent for the cover of the March issue. Contrary to the usual slackness, he was full of praise for her, and expressed his willingness to establish a long-term cooperative relationship if he had the opportunity.
Tao Zhi said a few polite words to deal with it, and the other party said that he hoped that the overall style of the magazine would be consistent, and asked her when she had time to come back and shoot a new back cover.
Tao Zhi came down, arranged a time, and got busy again after a few days of rest.
On the day he went to the magazine office, Tao Zhi called Jiang Qihuai.
The two were busy with each other, and they hadn't seen each other for a few days, and they didn't even have a good chat. She was sitting in the studio while waiting for the back cover model to get her make-up done, while she was on the phone. After waiting for a long time, Jiang Qi Huai picked it up.
Tao Zhi: "Are you busy?"
Jiang Qihuai responded over there: "A little bit."
"Okay, I just came to work at "SINGO", very close to your company, if you have time tonight, have dinner together?" Tao Zhi glanced around, everyone was busy, she whispered, "I I kind of miss my boyfriend."
Jiang Qihuai laughed, and his cold voice became warmer: "I try to eat as early as possible, what do you want to eat?"
"It's fine, let's talk about it when you're free," Tao Zhi said, "Then you should do your work first, I'll hang up."
Jiang Qihuai responded again, and after hearing that she hung up the phone, he put down the phone and raised his head again.
"Calling from Zhizhi?" Tao Xiuping sat across from him and took a sip of tea, and said slowly.
Jiang Qihuai nodded.
"This girl knows how to eat every day," Tao Xiuping couldn't help but said, "I have to call to make an appointment for dinner in the middle of work."
Jiang Qihuai didn't speak.
Tao Xiuping looked at his calm look, and said with a smile, "You don't seem to be surprised at all, I will look for you alone."
Jiang Qihuai was not surprised.
Ever since he was brought home by Tao Zhi that day, when Tao Xiuping asked him for a phone call alone while she was going upstairs, Jiang Qihuai knew that Tao Xiuping would look for him in the future.
Even if Tao Xiuping didn't ask him to meet today, Jiang Qihuai planned to take the initiative to visit him alone.
He nodded slightly: "I should have taken the initiative to find you."
Tao Xiuping continued: "You didn't tell Zhizhi."
"The problem is with me." Jiang Qihuai said calmly.
He didn't want to embarrass her anymore because of this kind of thing.
Tao Xiuping raised his eyes and looked at him carefully through the lens.
In all fairness, young people like Jiang Qihuai are actually the type he admires the most. They are calm and unflappable. They will take the lead in rationally thinking about the pros and cons when encountering problems, and they can't hide their natural arrogance.
Tao Xiuping nodded: "Then you should probably be able to guess why I'm looking for you today."
He said this slowly, as if asking him how the weather is today.
Tao Xiuping started from scratch in his early years and established the current company at his age. Within a few years, he monopolized and acquired nearly one-third of the small companies in the industry at that time and went public. His methods were vigorous and decisive.
According to Tao Zhikou, he is an interesting father who likes to drink tea and watch blind date variety shows, and does exercises on a yoga mat at home when he has nothing to do. However, when facing people other than his children, he has an extremely sharp sense of oppression.
Jiang Qihuai paused, and said neither humble nor overbearing: "I will not separate from Zhizhi."
Tao Xiuping raised his eyebrows.
"I know that you are dissatisfied with me, and you don't agree with me being with her for various reasons. You don't want to embarrass Zhizhi because of this matter, and so do I. That's why I want to talk to you alone."
"You should already know my family situation, but I think I have to be honest. I lived in an orphanage until I was four years old. I have lived with my grandfather since then. Now I am alone. My father was killed because of the robbery. She had a criminal record and later died in an accident, I don't know who her mother is."
Jiang Qihuai paused, and twitched the corners of his lips in a self-deprecating way: "I know that such conditions are really not worthy of Zhizhi, and I once really felt that I should let go. I made a choice that I thought was right, but I did not. wrong."
He lowered his eyes and said, "I tried, but I couldn't let it go."
"I have no way to choose my native family and growth environment. All I can do is to try my best to change myself. You can ask me anything, just ask. No matter what kind of conditions, what height you want me to reach, I I will do it, except leave Zhizhi."
He raised his head and met Tao Xiuping's gaze, his eyes were serious and calm: "I know it may not be convincing to you just by talking, I will prove it to you."
"So, I hope you can give me some time and give me a chance." He bowed his head deeply and said slowly, "I will give her everything and everything I have, and I will treat her well for the rest of my life."
Tao Xiuping didn't speak for a long time, and looked at him deeply.
The young man in front of him, when Tao Xiuping saw him for the first time in the hospital many years ago when he was still a teenager, he saw his unafraid and unshakable pride.
Tao Xiuping understood at that time that no threats or obstructions would work for him.
He had to crush the brilliant things in front of him and show him.
But at this time, he has grown from a tall and straight boy to a man who can stand up to the sky, but he is willing to bend his spine with a low posture, begging for a chance.
Tao Xiuping sighed, "You are a good boy."
Jiang Qihuai didn't speak, he hung his head, the corners of his lips were straight, and every nerve was tense.
Tao Xiuping looked at him, and smiled: "You don't have to be so serious, I actually didn't have any other meaning to call you here today, since I promised Zhizhi, then I won't do this kind of thing like being behind her back." , isn’t that a villain, Zhizhi blames me for knowing so much.”
"Besides wanting to hear what's on your mind, there's actually another reason for calling you here," he said softly, "Uncle wants to apologize to you."
Jiang Qihuai was startled, then raised his head.
"Uncle is also a selfish person. I really didn't consider you in my thoughts and attitude at that time. I didn't consider your child's ability and character. I only saw the disadvantages to Zhizhi. I was really cruel to you. No, it's not fair."
"In fact, although Zhizhi never said it herself, as a father, I watched her grow up, and I knew what she was thinking when she rolled her eyes. She was always unhappy, and I was always a little Guilty. As for your family's affairs, I have been paying attention to them all these years, including your own development."
Tao Xiuping put the teacup in his hand on the table, looked at him with a smile on his sharp eyes behind the lens, "Don't feel that you are not worthy of anyone, and don't be bound by irresistible factors, you are a very good boy , is also an excellent man.”
Tao Xiuping raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder across the table, jokingly said: "A man has to be more confident if he wants to be successful, and if he thinks he can match the best woman, isn't our Zhizhi the best. "
Jiang Qihuai's throat moved, but he didn't speak.
Tao Xiuping thought for a while, then looked at him and said leisurely: "But I will leave my precious girl to you, I still feel a little bit at a loss, so don't relax, if one day I think you are not good enough for Zhizhi, Then you should kick or have to kick."
He looked at him with a smile and said: "So, when I come to my house another day, I have to practice swan arms with my uncle, huh?"
Jiang Qihuai: "..."