Lin Qinhe glanced at Tao Xi, who was still sleeping on the bed, walked softly outside the bedroom and closed the door before connecting the phone.
"Qinhe, a colleague of Tao Jian told me that he saw Tao Jian at Hannan Hospital yesterday afternoon," Su Yun said on the phone.
Lin Qinhe walked into the living room and asked, "Is he alone?"
Su Yun said, "The employee only saw Tao Jian alone. He originally planned to ask Tao Jian a few words, but Tao Jian didn't look very well, and left in a hurry without saying anything."
Lin Qinhe thanked Su Yun, and after hanging up the phone, he planned to call Tao Xi to get up, but Tao Xi had already come out of the bedroom, standing with his hair up in a mess, staring blankly with his swollen eyes. he.
Lin Qinhe couldn't help laughing, walked over, raised his hand and rubbed Tao Xi's hair, and said, "Go wash up, breakfast is ready."
Tao Xi nodded dully and walked to the bathroom. The moment he saw the mirror, his face instantly collapsed. He leaned in front of the mirror and saw that his double eyelids had become swollen and wide. No wonder Lin Qinhe laughed just now.
It's over, how can I meet you in the afternoon
He washed up quickly, ate a hearty breakfast with Lin Qinhe in the restaurant, and put an ice pack on his eyes for a long time. Until Lin Qinhe said that the swelling was no longer, he and Lin Qinhe spent time on the sofa together.
Tao Xi found the TV remote control and planned to turn on the TV to watch it when he heard Lin Qinhe ask him, "What time will we go to Grandpa Qiao's place in the afternoon?"
He put the remote control aside and said to Lin Qinhe, "It's usually two o'clock, but today Grandpa Qiao wants to show me a senior painter, so I have to go before one."
Since Qiao Henian knew that he wanted to apply to a foreign school, he has been looking for opportunities to take him to meet some well-known painters.
Lin Qinhe said, "then I'll take you there in the afternoon."
Tao Xi agreed, and after hesitating, he asked Lin Qinhe, "Don't you have to go home for the birthday party in the afternoon?"
"Don't go." Lin Qinhe frowned, then quickly let go, and gave a concise answer.
Tao Xi pretended not to care and said "Oh", but he was a little happy. He took a sip of water from the coffee table and covered the corners of his mouth.
"Come with me to your grandparents' house next Saturday."
Tao Xi's heart jumped, and the hand holding the cup paused, listening to Lin Qinhe continue: "This week, Grandpa Zhou Fang will return to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and he will not be back until the 30th, and they will get together on the evening of the 31st to celebrate New Year's Day. "
Lin Qinhe's tone was very calm. This was his plan after thinking about it over and over again. He didn't want to delay the matter for too long, so as not to cause unforeseen problems. It just so happened that his competition would end on Friday the 30th, and he could also take advantage of this week. Time to prepare.
Tao Xi lowered his eyes slightly, held the cup with both hands, and rubbed his fingers on the wall of the cup unconsciously. He did not answer quickly, but asked Lin Qinhe, "Can you tell me about my grandparents?"
He had only seen the two old men from a distance through the door of the ward. In that brief impression, the grandfather's hair was mostly white, and a pair of silver-rimmed glasses hung around his neck. , wearing a cheongsam with elegant fabrics, intellectual and elegant, and full of artist temperament.
"Okay." Lin Qinhe began to introduce him in detail.
His grandfather, Fang Zuqing, is a professor of the School of Life Sciences at Wenhua University and the dean before his retirement. He has brought out many outstanding students and is a leading scholar in the field of life sciences in China. His grandmother, Ye Yurong, was a well-known ballet dancer when she was young. She had won many awards in dance competitions and had many students. The two old people were considered to be full of peaches and plums.
Tao Xi listened silently, and suddenly felt that he was very close to his grandparents, but also very far away.
He kept his head down until Lin Qinhe reached out his hand to gently support his lower jaw, made him raise his head, squeezed his cheek, and said to him, "They will definitely like you."
Tao Xi put his chin on Lin Qinhe's palm, raised his eyes and asked, "Really?"
Lin Qinhe said firmly: "Of course, no one will dislike you."
Tao Xi knew that Lin Qinhe was comforting himself, he took away the unease on his face, rubbed his chin in Lin Qinhe's palm, and said with a smile, "I'm not RMB."
He finally agreed to Lin Qinhe to go to his grandparents' house with him next Saturday.
This is something he has to face, and he can only face it alone.
The snow finally stopped today. After eating at noon, Tao Xi followed Lin Qinhe out the door. He saw that the community garden was covered in silver, and many children were building snowmen on the snow. His hands were itchy and he wanted to go. Play, but time was running out, so I had to look away and follow Lin Qinhe to the outside.
Lin Qinhe glanced at the child who built the snowman, and said to Tao Xi, "You can go skiing during the New Year's Day holiday."
Half of Tao Xi's face was wrapped in a scarf, revealing a pair of bright eyes looking at Lin Qinhe. Just as he was about to say "Okay", the light in his eyes suddenly dimmed.
When he thought of going to see his grandparents on the 31st, he was so nervous that his stomach cramped.
Lin Qinhe put Tao Xi's hand into his pocket and said, "Don't think about this all the time, everything will pass naturally."
Tao Xi exhaled and said "um".
The two drove to the yard entrance of Qiao's house. After getting off the car, Tao Xi couldn't help but jumped on the edge of the flower bed, stepped on two deep footprints on the fluffy snow, and asked Lin Qinhe, "Where are you going this afternoon?"
Lin Qinhe reached out and held Tao Xi's arm, led him down from the edge of the flower bed, and said, "I want to go back to my uncle's house, and you'll come to pick you up when you're done."
Tao Xi nodded, stepped on the snow and walked into Qiao's house, turned around and waved to Lin Qinhe before entering the door.
Lin Qinhe watched Tao Xi shut the door before turning around to stop a taxi. Even Christmas songs were played in the taxi on Christmas Day. The driver asked casually, "Where are you going?"
"Hannan Hospital."
"There may be a bit of traffic on the road today, plus it just snowed, so I won't drive too fast."
"It's okay." After Lin Qinhe finished speaking, he took out his mobile phone and planned to make a call to Su Yun, but received a call from Luo Zhengyin first.
There was a faint voice of people on the opposite side of the phone, indicating that the villa was very lively. Luo Zhengyin seemed to have gone a little further, and after connecting, he said:
"Qinhe, aren't you coming back this afternoon? The birthday party has already started. There are many of your classmates and friends, and Lele's grandparents are also here. They also asked me why you weren't here."
Lin Qinhe looked out the window, his eyes were calm, and he said, "I have something to do in the afternoon. Please say hello to Grandpa Fang and Grandma Ye for me."
There was a sound of closing the door on the other end of the phone. Luo Zhengyin seemed to have closed a door, and the noisy voices were immediately cut off. She hesitated for a while, and said softly:
"Qinhe, although I know you'll be unhappy if you say that, but today is Lele's birthday after all. From past midnight to now, you haven't called him, not even a word of happy birthday. He asked me about you. Where did he go, I don't know how to tell him."
Lin Qinhe held the mobile phone in silence, and a deep layer of sadness suddenly filled his heart.
His mother felt unacceptable just because she didn't say a happy birthday to Yang Duole, then if she knew that Fang Sui's real child had been living extremely hard in a remote mountain village for so many years, no one has ever been there today. Say happy birthday to him, what do you think
At that moment, he even wanted to question Luo Zhengyin, but he knew that this poor woman never really got out of depression from beginning to end. She lived in obsession all her life, but just transferred obsession from a dead person to another wrong one on people.
Lin Qinhe finally just said: "The gift for Lele is on the desk in my room, please help me give it to him."
"It's here." After the driver parked the car near Hannan Hospital, he handed the printed QR code to Lin Qinhe.
Lin Qinhe said "no", then took out the wallet, took out the money from it and handed it to the driver.
The driver took the money in surprise and joked: "Young people now pay with their mobile phones, and there are almost no people who give cash like you."
Lin Qinhe didn't answer, just said "thank you", he looked down at the photos in the transparent interlayer of the wallet, closed the wallet, opened the door and walked out.
Tao Xi followed Qiao Henian to his classic car. Qiao Henian carried the parrot cage and teased the parrot for a while. After finding that the parrot had nothing good to say, he threw the cage to Tao Xi and asked, "The drawing for the competition. Did you hand it in?"
Tao Xi hurriedly took the cage and was scolded by the parrot "little bunny", and said quickly, "It was handed in very early. It seems that the works selected in the first round will be publicly displayed on the Internet soon."
Qiao Henian turned on the radio and played an old tune. After humming a few times, he said indifferently, "You must be fine in the first round. Old Zhong said that last time. He was the judge of the previous session."
Tao Xi finally appeased the scolding parrot, and joked, "Thank you grandpa for taking me to see Senior Zhong. If I win the prize, I will use the prize money to buy grandpa a parrot that can boast."
Zhong Qiusheng was an old friend of Qiao Henian for many years, a senior in the Painting and Calligraphy Association. He came to Qiao's house the previous Sunday as a guest, and Qiao Henian brought Tao Xi to meet him.
Qiao Henian laughed and scolded: "I'm not the one who learned this shit. As long as that brat, girl Tang, is more obedient, my parrot can also get the Community Civilization Award."
The car drove to a private courtyard on the outskirts of the city. Qiao Henian brought Tao Xi to meet his old friend Zhong Qiusheng. Zhong Qiusheng had seen Tao Xi last time and had a good impression of this child, so he patted it with a smile. On Tao Xi's shoulder, he said, "My unfinished grandson is also here today. His name is Zhong Shan. He is about the same age as you. Go and play with him."
Tao Xi looked outside the courtyard through the floor-to-ceiling glass, where a boy in a thick down jacket was timidly building a snowman in the snow.
He replied "Okay", knowing that the two old people were going to drink tea and chat in the tea room, so he consciously put on his shoes and went out.
Qiao Henian and Zhong Qiusheng sat down in the tea room. Zhong Qiusheng was half a tea master. The tea room was elegantly furnished and all the utensils were of great value. He slowly brewed the tea, poured a cup and handed it to Qiao Henian, saying: :
"Your student is very similar to your previous female student surnamed Fang. I was a little surprised when I saw it last time."
Qiao Henian couldn't get used to making tea and drinking tea, so he suffocated the tea in one gulp, sighed under Zhong Qiusheng's glare, and said, "It's a pity that my female student left early, and I have also seen her son. Professor Fang once tried every means to send him to me to learn how to draw, and I let the child draw a few times, and I saw that the child did not inherit the slightest talent from his mother, and he refused to accept it."
He has always been unselfish, and many children from friends who want to learn art will put their children to him, but as long as he thinks they can't do it, they will not accept them, so as not to damage their reputation.
"It's a pity, my mother's talent can't be passed on." Zhong Qiusheng stopped pouring tea for Qiao Henian, and sipped the tea slowly, "But it's impossible to say about heredity, and my grandson doesn't have the slightest bit of it. Not inherited from me."
Qiao Henian got angry when he talked about his grandson, and after scolding his granddaughter with his old friend, he suddenly remembered the business that he came here for, and hurriedly said with a bit of flattery: "You haven't forgotten what I told you last time? Just that recommendation letter."
Zhong Qiusheng snorted and said, "You really worry too much for the students. Your recommendation is definitely enough, and you have to pull me." He said so, and he still wrote the letter he had prepared a long time ago. The letter is on the table.
Qiao Henian took the letter, read it from beginning to end, nodded in satisfaction and thanked him.
Tao Xi picked up a big snowball on the ground and placed it on the snowman's body. Zhong Shan, who was beside him, hurriedly inserted the prepared carrot into the snowman's head, then handed the two grapes to Tao Xi, smiling. Then he said, "Eyes, come on."
Tao Xi shook his head with a cold expression: "You can do it yourself, I'm in the house."
Because of Zhong Qiusheng's face, he greeted this man named Zhong Shan in a friendly way, but he was trapped here and built three snowmen in the afternoon, and he didn't even have time to see the Zhong family's gallery.
Tao Xi walked to the villa on the snow, and asked Lin Qinhe where he was on his mobile phone. Lin Qinhe quickly replied "coming soon".
He looked down at the phone and couldn't help smiling at all, but suddenly a hand grabbed his arm, Zhong Shan leaned over and said with a smile, "Friend, add a WeChat."
Tao Xi showed no expression: "I don't have WeChat." He felt that this person was a bit strange, and he always looked at him with an inexplicable look when building a snowman.
"..." Zhong Shan glanced at the WeChat interface on Taoxi's mobile phone, wondering if she could use dim sum.
At this time, the sound of footsteps stepping on the snow approached. Tao Xi turned to look and saw that it was Lin Qinhe.
It was almost dusk, the sky was a little gloomy, and in the pine forest full of snow, Tao Xi felt that the whole world was lit up, he broke away Zhong Shan's hand, stepped on the snow and ran to Lin Qinhe quickly.
"You're not coming soon, you're already there." He smiled and said to Lin Qinhe, if there were no outsiders, he would rush over and throw Lin Qinhe into the snow.
Lin Qinhe glanced at Zhong Shan, who was following him, and at the three shapeless snowmen not far away, and asked Tao Xi, "Can you go back?"
Tao Xi nodded and said, "I'll just go and talk to Grandpa Qiao and Grandpa Zhong."
"Lin Qinhe?! Why are you here?" Zhong Shan looked at Lin Qinhe and Tao Xi in disbelief, "Do you know each other?"
Zhong Shan was in the same school as Lin Qinhe when he was in junior high school. It is impossible not to know this famous genius, and the elders of the two families also had contacts, but he and Lin Qinhe were not familiar with each other.
Lin Qinhe took off his scarf and handed it to Tao Xi, and said in a flat tone, "I'll take him home."
Zhong Shan's mouth opened wide in shock, and he didn't react for a long time. When he did, the two had already walked away side by side.
Tao Xi said goodbye to the two old people, and then followed Lin Qinhe back to their home by car, but Lin Qinhe didn't say much on the way. If he asked a few questions, Lin Qinhe would answer, but he was not very interested. high.
When he returned to the community, it was completely dark. On the way through the garden, Tao Xi suddenly said to Lin Qinhe, "Let's build a snowman, shall we?"
Lin Qinhe paused in his footsteps, then continued to walk forward, and said indifferently, "There's not much snow left."
It didn't snow much during the day, and there was really not much snow left in the garden. Some places were frequently trampled on, and the snow was even a little dirty.
Tao Xi ignored Lin Qinhe's words, directly held Lin Qinhe's hand, and pulled him to a quieter corner where the snow was still clean.
He squatted down, held up a pile of snow with both hands, and pressed it into a small ball with his palms, and said to Lin Qinhe who also squatted down, "This is the head, I have already done it."
Lin Qinhe also picked up a pile of snow, made a bigger snowball, placed it on the snow with both hands, and then looked at Tao Xi.
Tao Xi put the little snowball he made on the big snowball, picked up a few twigs and pebbles, put eyes and hands on the snowman, picked up the little snowman from the ground, and said to Lin Qinhe:
"You give it a name."
Lin Qinhe looked at the snowman with crooked eyes and slanted mouth, frowned, and said, "It's too ugly, forget it."
Although he was considered ugly, the snowman was brought back by Lin Qinhe and carefully placed in the freezer of the refrigerator. Tao Xi saw that Lin Qinhe quietly opened the refrigerator every day to see if the snowman had melted.
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