Tao Ling was stunned for a moment, and his brows were completely locked.
Wen Qingying could see his expression clearly, and without avoiding suspicion, she raised her hand and wrapped it around his waist.
Looking at the woman in front of her, Wen Qingying's brows also wrinkled.
"This guest, what are you talking about?" Tao Ling asked.
The woman took a step forward, her eyes suddenly filled with tears: "I know you, your surname is Tao, and I have seen your photo."
Tao Ling couldn't help but glanced sideways at Wen Qingying. Now he can occasionally communicate with Wen Qingying with simple gestures, so he expressed his confusion.
Wen Qingying gently pulled him back, took out the phone, and asked the woman, "Hello, guest, what's the matter with you? Do you need help? Or did you ask the wrong person?"
After reading the question, the woman raised her hand and tried to push him away, but still with tears in her eyes, she stared straight at Tao Ling: "Mr. Tao, are you gay?"
Tao Ling stood behind Wen Qingying and grabbed his arm.
Wen Qingying turned her head, with a worried expression between her brows, Tao Ling patted his arm soothingly, signaling him to leave it alone.
Looking up, he saw two passers-by passing by not far away, looking in this direction, Tao Ling cleared his throat: "Please sit inside."
The woman turned a deaf ear and still asked stubbornly, "Excuse me, are you gay?"
Tao Ling said, "This... eldest sister, did you admit the wrong person? Do you need any help?"
The woman took a step forward and raised her hand to pull on Tao Ling, but was blocked by Wen Qingying. She raised her voice abruptly: "Aren't you gay? Ah? Answer me! It's that person who pesters you unilaterally, isn't he!"
There were a lot of people coming and going on the street, and as soon as these words came out, several people looked back.
After two seconds of silence, before the woman's emotions were completely out of control, Tao Ling said, "Eldest sister, I don't know who you mistook me for. I have nothing to do with other people, and my boyfriend is right next to me."
He squeezed Wen Qingying's hand: "Look clearly, this is my boyfriend. I'm gay, my boyfriend, gay. I don't know you, neither does my boyfriend, I don't care if you want Who are you looking for, please take a good look at it!"
"You are really gay," the woman's lips trembled, tears streaming down her face, "Have you been with Xia Chaoyang before?"
really.
Hearing this name, a burst of anger surged in my heart, Tao Ling said coldly: "No, tell you, my boyfriend and I are the only one for each other, please don't put some strange names among us! Very rude and insulting."
The woman shook her head, took another step forward, and looked at him pleadingly: "Even if you and Xia Chaoyang have never been together, he likes you, doesn't he like you! He loves you! He wants to divorce me for you!"
She spoke louder and louder, and gradually people gathered around to watch the quarrel.
Tao Ling suppressed his temper and said, "Can we say yes in our store? You really affect the business of our store."
"Tell me where he went! Please! Please!" the woman hissed.
After a long while, she suddenly stepped back and was about to kneel on the ground, but Wen Qingying took a step ahead and held her up at once.
When Tao Ling saw this, he had a big head. He knew that this woman was pitiful, and that Xia Chaoyang was actually pitiful, but he could only hold the people he loved in his heart, and he didn't want to pay for the pain of others at all.
Who in the world can be sadder than Tao Jun? Not for him.
He couldn't control his emotions any longer, and said angrily, "Eldest sister, I really don't know where Xia Chaoyang has gone! Why did your own husband come to ask me!"
Tao Ling's heart was broken immediately after saying this, he said it wrong, and the next second he heard the woman cry: "Yes! It's my husband! But he doesn't want me because of you!"
There were more and more people watching, and the familiar boss of the next store also came out and asked in a low voice, "Mr. Tao, what's going on?"
Tao Ling said: "I'm sorry, this guest must have identified the wrong person, everyone, please leave, sorry."
Wen Qingying was so strong that the woman couldn't get down on her knees when he was holding her, so she burst into tears.
Tao Ling has been very restless ever since he vaguely guessed the identity of a woman. Seeing her being so unrelenting, he gritted his teeth and flicked his hands in front of him, and simply knelt down to her: "I beg you. You are eldest sister, can I kneel for you?"
Everyone around was shocked, and the woman froze in place.
Wen Qingying let go of the woman, and hurriedly turned around to pull Tao Ling, Tao Ling gave him a deep look, and earnestly. Wen Qingying then slowly let go and squatted down.
Tao Ling's expression was indifferent and he straightened up: "I don't care what man has gold under his knees, I apologize to you this time, but I'm not wrong at all, I just ask you to let me go, and also ask you to find Xia Chaoyang after Let him let me go!"
He wanted to go on and say that the person who had a relationship with Xia Chaoyang was dead, but the woman suddenly turned around, separated the crowd of onlookers, and rushed towards the road.
Wen Qingying felt a stagnation in her heart when she saw this, she didn't even have time to stand, she stood up in a squatting motion, almost bouncing up, and took a long way in one step, and the explosive force was so strong that everyone was surprised.
As soon as the woman's front foot came out of the encirclement, his hind foot followed.
The moment Wen Qingying rushed to the side of the road, a truck happened to be driving across, and the woman rushed over without evading, not knowing whether she was going to crash the car or cross the road on purpose.
A second before the sharp braking sound, Wen Qingying flew forward and hugged the woman.
The two of them rolled to the middle of the road together, until they stopped at the middle of the flower bed.
Tao Ling, who came out, was so frightened that he ran over immediately. Several cars made emergency stops one after another. The truck driver at the front yelled, "Fuck/your mother! If you want to find death, get away!"
Tao Ling's mind was buzzing, and he couldn't even bother to apologize.
When he got close, he dragged the woman who was being protected by Wen Qingying in his arms, and immediately wanted to hug Wen Qingying, but suddenly found that his hand was injured.
Maybe he supported his body on the ground when he rolled over. Wen Qingying's right hand was dripping with blood, and he rubbed some dirty things in the wound.
Tao Ling was trembling, but Wen Qingying had no pain on his face. He even chuckled and shook his head at him, trying to make him feel at ease.
Tao Ling was so scared that he spoke in a nasal voice, and yelled at the woman: "Are you fucking crazy? Stupid woman! To die for Xia Chaoyang, did your brain get run over by a grinder?!"
The woman knelt on the side, as if she was dumbfounded. She didn't cry, she didn't say anything, she just stared at Wen Qingying's hand in a daze. "I'm sorry I'm sorry, I didn't mean to..."
Tao Ling's voice trembled as he lowered his head and shouted, "Wen Qingying, darling, where else does it hurt?"
Seeing that he was so excited, Wen Qingying opened her mouth anxiously as if she wanted to speak, but couldn't spit out anything.
Tao Ling didn't dare to touch him, so he forcibly suppressed his emotions. He just hugged his neck and pulled him tentatively.
A nearby store came to help, and everyone pulled the lost woman up and came to help Wen Qingying.
Wen Qingying shook her head, indicating that everything was fine, and only put her hand on Tao Ling's shoulder.
The driver next to him had enough scolding, and he left after seeing that he could not get a response and also affected the traffic.
Several people returned to the flower shop, knowing that Wen Qingying was not seriously injured, Tao Ling calmed down a bit.
He thanked the boss next door and prepared to take Wen Qingying to deal with the wound. Before leaving, he remembered something and said to the woman, "Sister, wait here, if you want to commit suicide again, this time no one can Pull you. I can only think that you are taking revenge on us. Look at my boyfriend's injury, it's all because of you. "
The woman cried hoarsely: "I didn't, I didn't want to commit suicide."
"That's the best." Tao Ling said coldly.
Fortunately, there is a pharmacy nearby. On the way past, Tao Ling kept lifting Wen Qingying's arm, carefully keeping the wound facing upwards so as not to be touched.
That little red has been dazzling in front of his eyes, and he almost couldn't help his nose sore.
Wen Qingying easily saw through the strength he pretended to be, and stretched out another uninjured hand in front of him, gently flicking his face, and kissing his hair while no one was paying attention. a bit.
Tao Ling took a breath, looked at him sideways, met his gentle gaze, and finally smiled.
Half an hour after the wound was healed, when they returned to the flower shop, the woman was still sitting stiffly at the table as before they left, motionless.
Seeing someone come in, she hurriedly stood up: "does it matter?"
Tao Ling was expressionless: "If it's important, I won't talk to you here anymore."
Wen Qingying touched his face, Tao Ling glanced at him, and pouted slightly.
Turning to the woman, she saw no disgust on her face.
"Sit down." Tao Ling said.
The woman nodded and said, "I'm sorry."
Tao Ling pulled out another chair for Wen Qingying to sit on: "Can you say anything other than this sentence? I don't want to hear these three words from now on."
As he spoke, he walked to the door, closed the glass door, turned over the hanging business sign, and when he turned around, Wen Qingying changed his stool and left the chair to him.
Tao Ling squeezed Wen Qingying's hand, forcibly pulled him back into the chair, then held his hand like that, sat next to him, and looked at the woman in a conversational attitude: "Dare to ask your name? "
The woman replied, "Jue Xia."
Tao Ling raised his eyebrows, and the woman explained: "It's not a pseudonym, my surname is Jue, I think Jue, single name Xia, Xia Xia."
"The name is nice, your husband... ex-husband? It's a good match for Xia Chaoyang." Tao Ling said.
Originally thought that Jue Xia would collapse when she heard Xia Chaoyang's name, but she seemed to be completely calm at this time, just smiled palely.
Looking at her like this, Tao Ling found that she was actually very temperamental, completely different from the way she had just collapsed.
"I'm sorry, I just saw you all of a sudden, I can't hold back my emotions, it's like crazy." Jue Xia said, "I can't control myself during this time."
Wen Qingying sat quietly holding Tao Ling's hand, looking at her without any blame at all.
"I take the liberty to ask, when did you and Xia Chaoyang meet?" Tao Ling asked.
Jue Xia barely thought, and blurted out: "More than five years ago."
Tao Ling asked bluntly, "Why do you think I asked you to divorce?"
Jue Xia: "I saw your photo in the study."
Tao Ling was amused: "Then how did you find this place? Ask me everywhere with the photos?"
Jue Xia was silent for a while, and said: "It's a coincidence, I know he has a good relationship with a colleague of his, and if he says anything, I will take your photo to find that colleague, but the colleague said he doesn't know you, I I sent the photo to my friend, the intention was to talk, but she said she had seen you."
"Have you seen me?" Tao Ling was surprised.
Jue Xia nodded: "I have seen you. At an academic conference some time ago, she was an editor. She also told me that he had found her for you."
Tao Ling frowned, and took two seconds to sort out her words, and then laughed at herself, thinking that life was quite intertwined.
He said: "Xia Chaoyang's ex-boyfriend is not me, but my brother."
Jue Xia looked up in surprise, Tao Ling didn't give her a chance to ask questions, and said quickly: "It's not twins, or they look alike. My brother and Xia Chaoyang are college classmates. They broke up six years ago. At that time, Xia Chaoyang seemed to be still there. Don't know you? So Mrs. Xia, you really found the wrong person, you should go to my brother, but my brother is dead, so you can ask God."
When he said this, he held Wen Qingying's hand very tightly, and Wen Qingying knew that he was in a state of uncertainty, and his thumb rubbed lightly on the back of his hand.
Jue Xia didn't say a word for a long time, Tao Ling smiled: "The mistake is that Xia Chaoyang had to get married back then, I don't know how you both met, but you know this kind of thing when you think about it, it's normal to think about it. It's shameless to hide his sexuality. But let me tell you the truth, Xia Chaoyang dares to divorce you now and go out of the house is better than lying to you for a lifetime. "
"I still despise him, but I understand him. What's the decision he's making now? It's just pushing himself to the point of no redemption. Do you think he can be happy? He can only suffer for a lifetime, self-punishment for a lifetime."
"Sister Jue Xia," Tao Ling said, "I'll call you sister, long pain is worse than short pain, think about it for yourself. If you are in such pain, you have to hate him, since he will definitely not be happy, Watching him like this, you should be happy, these are his retribution."
The voice fell behind, and for a few minutes, the three of them stopped in unison, and then a sob broke the strange silence.
Jue Xia covered her face with her hands and cried again.
Wen Qingying got up and wanted to hand her the paper, but Tao Ling felt sorry for his injury and immediately did it first.
When he turned around, Tao Ling glanced out and saw that no one on the street was looking at him.
Jue Xia lowered her eyes uncomfortably, wiped her tears with a paper, took a long time to rest, and said, "I don't want him to suffer."
Tao Ling obviously expected this answer, and shook his head with a sigh: "Sometimes people shouldn't be so kind, it's better."
He handed the paper to Jue Xia again. Jue Xia glanced at the ring in his hand when he thanked him, and asked, "Mr. Tao, where did your ring come from?"
Tao Ling retracted his hand: "What?"
Jue Xia said, "I have seen this ring."
Tao Ling was stunned for a moment, remembering that this ring is a pair of rings, and the other one was sent by Xia Chaoyang on Tao Jun's birthday.
He turned his head and glanced at Wen Qingying, and asked Jue Xia uneasily, "Where did you see it?"
"He was weird for a while, so I just..." Jue Xia stopped here.
Tao Ling took over for her: "You can find someone to follow him."
Jue Xia took a deep breath and recognized it: "I asked someone to follow him, and found that he went to a very hard-to-find shop in a foreign province. Later, I secretly searched at home, and I really found this ring, maybe it was Another one, exactly like this one. Petals carved on the inner ring, right?"
"You know?" Tao Ling was surprised.
Jue Xia pursed her lips: "It is because of this ring that I confirmed that he is... gay."