Halfway through, Tao Ling slowed down, looked down at the road, secretly pondering why he was turning back, and finally thought that after picking up so many flowers, he had to invite Wen Qingying to have a meal.
From the head to the heart, just in front of the beef noodle restaurant he had been to before, Tao Ling looked up and saw Wen Qingying's back at a glance, walking towards the other side of the street.
He wanted to shout, but when he opened his mouth, he remembered that Wen Qingying couldn't hear him. He stepped up and wanted to follow, only to take a step. A short-haired girl suddenly ran over from the side of the road, jumped forward, and grabbed Wen Qingying's body. elbow.
It seemed that he had been waiting for him at the intersection for a while.
Wen Qingying's posture was natural, as if she was used to being relied on, and her other hand went around in front of her and patted the girl's head. The girl smiled and shook her hair.
The backs of a man and a woman quickly disappeared on the street corner.
The hand holding the bouquet tightened, Tao Ling stood there for a while, then turned to go home.
During the day it was clearly a sunny day, but at night it was so dark that the stars and the moon did not come and go.
Qian Rihong was thrown into the washbasin on the coffee table. Tao Ling stood on the balcony of the study after taking a shower, looking at the light in the opposite building, guessing what other people's families looked like.
The weather was so cold that the windbreaker could not be worn for a few days. Thinking about it, he took out his mobile phone and opened the school post bar.
The previous post that Wen Qingying was a scumbag has sunk.
The school is so big, there are so many people around, and there are new things every day. No matter how bad the flower shop owner is, he has only caused waves in a sensitive heart.
No one's life is in the way.
Tao Ling turned down page by page, and only turned to the post on the third page. He didn't read the content, he took his mobile phone number directly to the account, and followed a post with the ID of the second to the extreme, with two words concise and comprehensive—
"Scumbag."
Exit immediately after writing.
After half a minute, he felt that something was wrong with him, and what he said was not right. This behavior was extremely wrong, so he turned around and wanted to delete the building, but he didn't even have permission to delete it.
Fuck you.
Impatiently clicked a few times on his own floor, his brain twitched, and he followed up with a sentence: "The girl might be a younger sister."
The landlord seems to have been online all the time, and saw someone reply, saying: "Upstairs, are you fine? Just like this, you are the boss's sailor and forgot to cut the number?"
After a while, a somewhat familiar ID said: "The one on the left, we met again, I'll just say it, you are the one who pays the most attention to the boss. Return your own theory to you, you are just a stranger to strangers. Possessive, you have a problem."
After a moment of silence, Tao Ling turned off the phone.
Autumn is not over yet, but life has been disrupted.
Tao Ling thought this way before going to bed. He lay on his back on the bed, raised his left hand to look at the ring on his middle finger, remembered what Tao Jun said, it is brave to pursue peace of mind, because we are reconciling with life, but blindly pursuing life. Calmness is sometimes a sign of cowardice.
This is too biased, Tao Ling thought, Tao Jun is a very biased person.
Humans are too far from immortals, and living on the ground is so hard, you must have motivation. Some motivation may come from desire. If desire is satisfied, it will be boring, but if desire is not satisfied, it is the beginning of suffering.
Life is about making choices. Pain and boredom always have to choose one.
Before meeting Wen Qingying, Tao Ling felt that he had no desires, so life was boring, boring close to peace, he needed peace, and he was willing to be a person without desires.
Because as Tao Jun said, he is a coward.
In such a silent night, Tao Ling slapped and checked his life over and over again, endured embarrassment and even shame, held out all his shameful thoughts and shook them away, and finally found an inevitable fact—
He likes Wen Qingying.
Maybe it was cholera.
It was unfortunate that he was a coward, but he was ill. And too quickly to respond.
At noon the next day, Tao Ling saw Xia Chaoyang by the square in the city center. In the first sentence of the meeting, Xia Chaoyang asked, "Did you sleep well last night?"
Tao Ling didn't know how to answer, so he hooked the corners of his mouth perfunctorily, and Xia Chaoyang didn't care, he smiled tolerantly as if he was a child.
This gesture made Tao Ling a little uncomfortable.
After Xia Chaoyang asked his opinion, he found a daily food store. As soon as the two sat down facing each other, Xia Chaoyang handed over a bag.
"Thank you, Teacher Xia, I didn't bring anything." Tao Ling said.
Xia Chaoyang still smiled: "It doesn't matter, I brought it along by the way, I don't know if you like it or not."
Tao Ling took the things: "Thank you, I'll invite Teacher Xia to dinner."
Neither of them had much to say, because the topic they really wanted to talk about was a taboo.
Perhaps it was because he was not sure of Tao Ling's idea, so Xia Chaoyang only found some topics in the academic circle to talk about, but Tao Ling had never been interested in the circle, and he answered every question he was asked.
Courtesy and estranged.
At the end of the chat, Xia Chaoyang said, "Do you want to go to other universities? S University is similar to your school. The Religious Institute and the Chinese Department are now recruiting talents, not administrative positions. There must be no problem in the past. You also have a single paper. , the doctoral dissertation is revised and published as a book, and the academic results are excellent."
Originally wanted to refuse directly, but when he thought about what happened during this time, Tao Ling was a little hesitant, and just responded: "I haven't thought about this for a while."
Xia Chaoyang asked sincerely: "Do you want to leave Wu City?"
Tao Ling nodded, lowered his eyes, his eyes fell on his hand accidentally, and found that the wedding ring he had seen earlier was gone.
At the end he said, "Tao Jun is here."
Without the expected gaffe, Xia Chaoyang just smiled lightly when he heard the name, and said, "Yes, the two of you have a good relationship. He said before that he can do anything for you."
After a long pause, Tao Ling responded, "Oh."
The meal was tasteless and tasteless, and Xia Chaoyang said that there was still something to do when they left the store, so the two said goodbye in the central square again.
Tao Ling took advantage of the situation to go to the bookstore. He originally planned to go back for a stroll, but he carried too many things, so he had to take the community bus.
There were only three stops to go home, and he had to pass the west gate of the school. Tao Ling got into the car and stood facing the window on the right.
At the last stop, the flower shop could be seen in the distance. Tao Ling squeezed the handle of the bag tightly and saw Wen Qingying's back at the door getting closer.
Just like when he first met, he was adjusting the position of the bouquet in front of the flower stand.
Until the back figure was about to disappear from sight, Tao Ling hadn't been able to lift the heart of Panasonic. At the last moment, Wen Qingying suddenly sensed something and turned to look at the bus.
Immediately, their eyes met each other, and almost immediately, they were completely invisible.
A heart beat so fast, Tao Ling could be sure that Wen Qingying saw him.
On the way home from the car, Tao Ling repeatedly recalled that glance in his mind. After thinking about it for too long, he was suddenly not sure.
Maybe it was an illusion, Wen Qingying just got up to do things well, and just turned her head. Angle problem, not necessarily see him.
is an illusion.
In order to stop himself from thinking about Wen Qingying, Tao Ling opened the bag given by Xia Chaoyang.
Inside is a large box with simple packaging, a bit like a mooncake box for gifts.
Frowning and opening it, Tao Ling was stunned for a moment when he saw the thing clearly.