During the five years that we didn't see each other, how dare Tao Huainan try to call Chi Cheng? Even Xiaodong called Chi Cheng, and Tao Huainan had to stay away, afraid that Chi Cheng would remember the things he had done to him when he heard his voice. hatred.
After hanging up the phone, Tao Huainan sat on the bed for a while, until Xiaodong called him out.
"Why are you in a daze when you don't chat anymore?" Tao Xiaodong came over and patted his door panel with his backhand. Seeing that Tao Huainan wrapped himself tightly in the quilt, he wanted to laugh, "Have you chatted with my brother all morning?"
Tao Huainan lifted the quilt and got off the bed to put on his shoes, nodded and said "ah".
"Why are you so successful today?" Xiaodong asked with a smile.
"It's Christmas today." Tao Huainan walked out with a yawn, "Is there an event in the store? I'll go too."
"Is it still possible? I have to kill me." Tao Xiaodong held his head and accompanied him to the bathroom, "Come with me later."
Tao Huainan said "Okay", and after thinking about it later he smiled and said, "Find me a red sweater to wear."
He doesn't have any red sweaters, his clothes are all plain, and they are all easy to match. In the end, Xiaodong found a white sweater with a big red logo on the chest, which fit the occasion.
Every Christmas in the store is very lively, a group of young people gather together, wishing they could stay up all night. There are two huge Christmas trees at the entrance of the store, which are full of small boxes of gifts, and there are some fun little things in them. Children and old friends passing by the door can pick one, and make up for it if they don’t pick it up.
Tao Huainan first touched the tree and took pictures of Chi Cheng.
—Brother, look, big tree.
He touched two presents and clapped again.
- We are one by one.
When the presents were unwrapped, one contained a pair of red socks, and the other contained elk horns worn on the head. Tao Huainan put on the antlers and asked Huan Ge to take a picture of him. Tao Huainan touched the antlers and smiled towards the camera, looking festive and obedient.
—Give you the red socks, I guess you won't wear them.
Chi Cheng was eating at that time, and the phone rang every once in a while, Fan Guo turned his head and saw a screen full of photos.
"Nan Nan?" Fan Guo straightened his neck, trying to look at Chi Cheng's phone, "Give me a look?"
Chi Cheng moved towards him with the back of his hand.
"It's really happy, this is my sponsor now, I must offer my sincere compliments." Fan Guo replied directly on Chi Cheng's phone: It looks good.
Chi Cheng took the phone back, looked at it, and said nothing.
Tao Huainan was startled when he received the reply, he couldn't believe it, and sent three exclamation points in surprise.
Chi Cheng glanced at it, but didn't return.
After the initial surprise, Tao Huainan quickly realized that it wasn't from the younger brother. The little brother is so cold now, it's impossible to praise him like that.
Starting from this Christmas day, Tao Huainan would occasionally call Chicheng, but not just casually, he would always ask on WeChat before calling if it was convenient. When Chi Cheng is really inconvenient, he will say that he can call at other times, and he will answer the call.
Although he is not particularly enthusiastic, he can still talk for a while. He is not an enthusiastic person in the first place. Tao Huainan was like a kid who got candy, he would be happy for a while after every phone call.
"Is Xiaotao falling in love?" a doctor brother in the hospital asked.
Tao Huainan woke up from his lunch break and just made a phone call. Now he was standing in the corridor with a smile on his face, leaning on the window sill. Dr. Qi called several doctors for a meeting, and the passing doctors greeted him one after another.
Tao Huainan was still holding the phone in his hand, feeling a little embarrassed.
"Are you shy?" A doctor teased him, "Are you really in love?"
"It didn't work out, we still have to work hard." Tao Huainan smiled, "Stop laughing at me, brothers."
"I'm not kidding you, you're already in your twenties, hurry up and talk!" A doctor patted him on the arm, "Let me see if the talk is over."
Tao Huainan said "hmm" and said with a smile, "I'm trying my best."
The child is really working hard. Every day, except for studying and going to work, he puts all his thoughts on his mobile phone, and loses his soul.
Tao Huainan could breathe a sigh of relief as there was still the last one left in the exam. During this period of time, he reviewed every day, but was finally taken away from school by a group of blind friends. They happened to be performing in a tavern near Tao Huainan's school that day, so they came close and took him away.
The owner of the Japanese-style tavern is also a member of the Association for the Blind. He is a very sociable elder brother. He has held several events before and knows everyone in the association very well.
Originally, it was a good idea to go to the store to find brother and the others to have dinner together, but they were taken away temporarily, so they had to call brother.
Xiaodong asked him on the phone: "Where are you going? Won't you come back for dinner tonight?"
"I can't go back, I won't let you go." Tao Huainan said in a low voice, "You can eat with Brother Tang, I'll be back later."
Xiaodong asked again: "Are you drinking? Brother Yong take it?"
"No, no, don't worry about it." Tao Huainan said, clutching the phone, "I don't drink, I can go back by myself."
Xiaodong finally said: "That's fine, you should try to go as early as possible anyway."
Tao Huainan asked, "What's the matter? Is there something wrong?"
Xiaodong said, "It's okay."
Tao Huainan then agreed, hung up the phone and went back to their table.
The lights were dimmed, and the small stage was far away from the drinkers. They sang songs from a distance, and those who listened to the songs could not tell that they were a group of blind people.
Tao Huainan also sat down and listened. These were all newly rehearsed songs, and he hadn't heard much of them.
He hadn't participated in any group activities for a few days, and when the others finished singing, Jiang Ji said that he would be expelled from the circle of blind people, and he would also be kicked out of the group chat.
"Don't kick me, I can chat with you for a while." Tao Huainan said with a smile.
"What are you talking about?" Jiang Ji sat next to him, took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair, "I told you that you didn't come out and answer."
"That's why I didn't listen. I replied when I listened." The relationship between Tao Huainan and this group of friends is still very close. In the most difficult years, Tao Huainan spent a lot of time with them of. To blend in with a lively crowd, to do things that were impossible before.
"Stop talking, you didn't reply after you didn't see it at the time." Jiang Ji sounded a bit out of his mind when he spoke. This brother has always had a bad temper and loves to get angry.
"It's over, Brother Ji is not happy." Ma Xiaoxiao joined in the fun on the opposite side, "I'm angry."
He is the fortune-teller of the latecomer group, and he doesn't do fortune-telling well. He said that there are no guests, so he plays with the small group every day, and he follows when there are performances.
At this time, those buddhist friends in the group are gently helping and persuading: "Oh, forget it."
The longest thing this group said was "forget it", and now Jiang Ji was furious when he heard these two words. He took out his mobile phone from his trouser pocket and said "forget it" to the mobile phone.
It took a long time before someone discovered that he had changed the name of the group chat to "Forget it".
"Hahahaha, you guys are making my brother extremely mad." Ma Xiaoxiao took a sip of his alcoholic drink and tapped his mouth, "The table will be overturned later."
Jiang Ji looked angry, but his expression could not be seen at this table.
The irritable brother was indeed angry today, but it wasn't really against Tao Huainan, it was because he had an argument with his father in the morning, and he hadn't been on his mind all day. It's not very pleasant to be with the partner recently. At the beginning, the other party chased him vigorously. After being together for less than a year, I began to find it troublesome to be with a blind person.
Not everyone can be with a blind person. The courage supported by love does not know when it will be used. In some respects, a blind person and a normal person fall in love, as if even love is incomplete.
The frustration and irritability that cannot be expressed can only be dissipated by alcohol, Jiang Ji drank a little too much.
He was holding a chair with his arms outstretched. On the left was a friend who was eating and drinking non-stop, and on the right was Tao Huainan wearing a Bluetooth headset.
Tao Huainan had sent a message to Chi Cheng before, fearing that he would not be able to hear him if Chi Cheng returned to him, so he did not take off his earphones.
Jiang Ji is used to domineering at ordinary times, this posture is very common for him, and he is used to controlling the field wherever he goes.
Tao Huainan raised his phone to take a photo of the table, and sent it to Chi Cheng after the photo was taken.
I'm used to taking pictures of Chi Cheng everywhere I go, and I don't know what the pictures will look like, whether I can see them clearly or not.
"The left hand is one and the right is the other. Do you want to light a cigarette?" The boss still has residual vision in his left eye and can see a little. When he came to deliver wine to them, he said Jiang Ji with a smile.
Jiang Ji doesn't smoke now, so the boss gave him a cigarette, but he put it in his mouth and didn't light it. He tapped the chair with his fingers, hooked the corner of his mouth and said, "It's all Brother Ji's."
The boy on the left, who only cared about eating, gave a "puchi" laugh, and said together, "Where's the fire? Give me a fire, and I'll light the cigarette for Brother Ji!"
Tao Huainan also laughed, stood up without saying anything, "I'm going to the bathroom."
Tao Huainan has no temper, and he is so soft that he doesn't get angry at all, but others say that he has distance, and that's the difference. He and his friends are good, but just like now, when they are joking, others can cooperate and then go up a few words, but Tao Huainan can't, he just finds a reason for himself to leave for a while. The boys' quarrels were not deep or shallow, and Tao Huainan never followed suit.
He tapped his blind cane and walked towards the bathroom, and the passing drinkers would turn sideways or retract their legs to make way for him. Tao Huainan took off the earphones and put them in his pocket, the little brother probably won't return.
Before reaching the corridor leading to the bathroom, Tao Huainan's blind stick bumped into a person.
"Sorry." He bowed his head and apologized politely.
The other party didn't make a sound, so Tao Huainan took a step to the side, trying to go around.
When someone grabbed his wrist suddenly, Tao Huainan frowned and raised his arm to shake it off.
After shaking it for a while, Tao Huainan lowered his face and said in a cold voice, "Get lost."
"Get lost?" The other party finally spoke, his eyes lightly sweeping over Tao Huainan's face.
Tao Huainan suddenly froze in place, eyes wide open, he even forgot to breathe.
"There's someone there, right?" The other party glanced at Tao Huainan's table and snorted slightly, "They all belong to Brother Ji?"
After speaking, he let go of Tao Huainan's wrist, lifted half of the curtain with his hand, turned and left.
"... Oh my god." Tao Huainan was so dumbfounded that he broke out in sweat instantly.
He didn't care about anything, and immediately followed him out. He was a little embarrassed when he knocked on the blind stick, but he didn't know where he went.
Tao Huainan was a little flustered. He stood blankly at the junction of several rooms, and could only take out his mobile phone to make a call.
The phone rang several times before it was picked up. Tao Huainan asked in a trembling voice, "Brother, where are you?"
There was no sound on the other side, Tao Huainan's heart was pounding, he stood there and said, "Can't you go?"
Chi Cheng still didn't speak, Tao Huainan was so anxious that a thin layer of sweat broke out on his forehead, and he walked towards the door while talking: "Are you leaving? Wait for me, I'll be with you."
"Don't come out." Finally a voice came from the phone, the voice was quite cold, "Go back."
"No, don't go." Tao Huainan patted on the wall but couldn't find the button to open the door. It wasn't until the waiter came to help him open the door that Tao Huainan stepped out.
On a January day, Tao Huainan came out wearing a sweater, and he was blown through by the wind. Standing at the door, he didn't care about the cold, he only knew to move forward.
"Can't you hear me?" Chi Cheng's angry voice came from the side, Tao Huainan felt at ease.
Chi Cheng tore off his coat and threw it on him, Tao Huainan caught it in a panic, Chi Cheng said, "Go in and tell me."
Tao Huainan looked for the sound and grabbed Chi Cheng's wrist, his fingers were so cold that he felt ice cold when pinched in Chi Cheng's hand.
"You put it on, I'll go in and get the clothes." Tao Huainan shook his hand lightly, and said anxiously, "It's not very... not someone's, am I not a puppy?"
Chi Cheng pushed him into the door and said in a deep voice, "Go get the clothes."
Tao Huainan nodded repeatedly, and said with red eyes, "Wait for me for a minute."
Chi Cheng said "um", put his coat in his hand, leaned against the wall at the door, and watched Tao Huainan go in.