It's not easy to hear "uncomfortable" from Tao Xiaodong's mouth.
His "uncomfortable" sound made people feel sad.
This sentence was also the moment when the emotion was overwhelmed, and it was uncontrollable and blurted out. Change the time and the scene, maybe he won't say such a sentence.
After that, Tao Xiaodong started to work on his own business. He was busy talking all day long. The time to go home at night was not counted, and he didn't have time to relax all day. Work from morning to night, try to finish the big picture in one day, and make a few small pictures a day. If you don't arrange the pictures, you won't be in the store that day, you don't know what to do, and you can't catch people.
He even discussed with Rhubarb that the other two small branches, their old nests, he didn't want to stay.
Da Huang was stunned when he heard it, and he didn't speak for a long time.
They have a total of three stores, and these three stores are Tao Xiaodong's trajectory from the beginning of nothing to the present. The latest store with more than 1,000 square meters can hold everything, but they still keep the other two stores, and they never thought of coming together. Da Huang knew that Tao Xiaodong was reluctant, he was the most nostalgic. The cost of those two more stores is actually not small, but it is nothing. If people can really leave some traces of their past and past, it doesn't matter if they are willful.
"No, what happened to you?" Da Huang touched his head, rubbed his palms on the back of his head, and said, "Tell me to brother."
The two were in Tao Xiaodong's lounge upstairs. Tao Xiaodong stood up, took the ashtray, sat down and lit a cigarette.
"I'm tired." Tao Xiaodong usually seldom comes up to rest, and he didn't sleep much when he was in the store. Tao Xiaodong bit his cigarette and glanced at the room, "I've been doing this all my life, I'm fast exhausted."
Da Huang said: "If you are tired, take a break. You are still the same as before, going out for a walk."
Tao Xiaodong shook his head. He was really thin. Sitting here with a cigarette in his mouth, he looked a little haggard.
"What are you doing if you don't do this?" Rhubarb asked him, "Think about what you have been running for so many years ago, you almost died there in Africa, and during the years you spent in Japan, the United States, and Europe, you have struggled until today. , are you tired just to say something today?"
The ash was about to fall, and Tao Xiaodong flicked in the ashtray. He didn't speak, just smoked in silence.
Tao Xiaodong is not a person who can hypocritically say that I have done enough and I am tired. He is born with solid skin and can endure hardships with energy.
Da Huang has been with him for so many years, and he doesn't understand something: "Don't hide it from me, tell me something."
Tao Xiaodong said "it's okay".
"What's wrong with Xiao Nan?" Da Huang asked, "Xiao Nan wants to go to school? Do you want to move the land?"
Tao Xiaodong waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with that."
Rhubarb also knew his character, and it was difficult to hear something from his mouth. In fact, it's not just him, everyone is the same. The more difficult things are, the less willing you are to open your mouth. When things are difficult, you have to close your mouth and grit your teeth to carry them. The energy has to be tense. It seems that people can't hold back when they say it, and they become weak when they are discouraged.
"No matter what's wrong with you, Xiaodong." Da Huang also smoked a cigarette from the cigarette case and lit, "No matter what happens if you're tired, you don't want to deal with those two stores, even if you tell me tomorrow. You don't want any of the three stores anymore, we have nothing to say. We are brothers, we will be at any time."
Rhubarb has given Tao Xiaodong a lot of freedom over the years. Tao Xiaodong can do whatever he wants without considering the consequences, just do whatever he wants. If he wants to go, he can go, and if he wants to change stores, he can change stores. Because he promised an old friend a favor, Da Huang can go to record that show with a smile on his face. The partner is real, and so is his "brother".
Tao Xiaodong put out the cigarette, choking his throat a little hoarse. He called "brother" and said, "I should still be able to work for another year. You have prepared for this year, and I have finished all the plans that have been set. I will quit it in the future. The company will give it to you, and it will be used in the future. You have the final say on how to develop. It is my fate to be your brother for so many years."
Da Huang stood up and looked down at him: "What about you?"
Tao Xiaodong said, "I have withdrawn, and I don't care about anything. There is no lasting feast."
Rhubarb laughed angrily, opened his mouth and closed it again, and finally couldn't hold back: "At your mother's banquet, are you here to leave a last message with me?"
Tao Xiaodong also laughed, Da Huang said: "Don't talk to me about these idiots here, it's still a year or two. Let me tell you Tao Xiaodong, I don't care what happened to you, I won't ask you. If you want to withdraw Do it with someone else, or do it yourself, if that's the reason, that's fine, we can get along well, we'll always be brothers. But if you want to withdraw because you're in trouble, love your mother, don't do it. Divide me between you, me and mine, I will get angry when I hear it. If you say something ugly, you have to die here."
After Da Huang finished speaking, he slammed the door and went out, this is really angry. This should be the first time he got angry with Tao Xiaodong and spoke with swear words.
Tao Xiaodong usually looks good-tempered. In fact, when he was young, he was also stubborn and stubborn, but now he doesn't show it, and he suppresses it. Rhubarb understands this the most.
This time the two talked upstairs, no one else in the store knew about it. From their point of view, it means that my brother has had a lot of work lately, and he always goes out and rushes too hard.
Huan Ge is quite happy. My brother has been so diligent recently, and the picture he owes is finally able to catch up with the progress. Every day, like a little fool, he circled around Tao Xiaodong, calling "Dong Ge Dong Ge" endlessly, so he was about to cheer him on.
Tao Xiaodong made three pictures in a row that day, and Tang Suoyan came directly after get off work to wait for him. When the doorman saw him coming, he opened the door in advance and said hello, "Doctor Tang is here!"
Tang Suoyan smiled at him and asked, "Which floor is Xiaodong on?"
Tao Xiaodong heard it upstairs and shouted, "Second floor, Brother Yan."
Tang Suoyan went up, Tao Xiaodong looked up at him: "Wait for me for a while."
"Don't worry." Tang Suoyan put his hand on his shoulder, "I'm busy with you."
Xiaotian came over to move a chair for Tang Suoyan and brought him water, while Tang Suoyan sat there watching Tao Xiaodong make a picture. The more you see the tattoo process, the more you can feel its charm. Tang Suoyan likes to see it every time he comes here now, and he often looks at Tao Xiaodong's gallery.
The visual effects are very shocking, looking at these can feel the dazzling and powerful of this person.
"You may not be used to this." Tao Xiaodong looked back at him with a slight smile.
Today's picture is a messy line around the neck, from the collarbone to the chin. It looks like a graffiti drawn with a pen, which makes people feel irritable. This was originally a ready-made picture in Tao Xiaodong's gallery. It was passed in just last week. The client had ordered another pattern. Today, when I was sitting and waiting for Tao Xiaodong, I took a look at the gallery and saw it, and changed it temporarily.
"I'm used to it." Tang Suo said truthfully, "I can't understand it at first glance, but after a while, it feels very different."
The customer raised his neck to let Tao Xiaodong operate, and said something after hearing the words: "How special, it pierced my heart the first time I saw it."
Tao Xiaodong didn't look up, just asked him, "Is there something bothering you?"
"That's too much." The client laughed at himself, "It's so overwhelming that I can't breathe, this picture is clinging to my trachea and throat like those things that take my breath away, I love it so much. already."
"Just like it." Tao Xiaodong said lightly.
He was working so hard to catch the map, and he sat for ten hours at a time, which would definitely not work often. The tattoo artist suffers from many occupational diseases. Tang Suoyan pressed his cervical spine and shoulders at night, and rubbed his tendons with his fingers. Tao Xiaodong's shoulder muscles were tense, and he gasped in pain.
"Does it hurt?" Tang Suoyan asked him.
Tao Xiaodong sat in front of him with his back to Tang Suoyan, speechless in pain.
"I told you once last time, don't be so rushing." Tang Suoyan frowned, "Today I see you sitting there with your shoulders a little bit, and you haven't moved for another day?"
Tao Xiaodong didn't dare to say a word, but listened honestly.
Knowing that he was in a bad mood recently, and now he is still gasping for breath, he looks a little pitiful, and Tang Suoyan can't bear to talk about him anymore.
After the massage, he patted him gently for a while and let him slow down. Tao Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't even dare to speak. I'm afraid that I will talk back and you will increase my strength."
Tang Suoyan leaned on his shoulder and stood up with strength, and put his hand forward and put his hand on his chin: "It's so thin that the muscles are so thin."
Seeing that he has lost weight, when he sleeps at night, he can clearly and intuitively feel that he has lost weight.
Tao Xiaodong's breathing was light. He had been sleeping poorly recently. Tang Suoyan kissed him on the neck and called "Xiaodong" warmly.
He said last time that he didn't want to talk about it first, but Tang Suoyan didn't ask any more. Everyone has times when they want to digest their emotions by themselves. Repeated questioning at this time will only aggravate his emotions. So during this time, he pretended that Tang Suoyan didn't have anything, and let him relax as much as possible, not to be nervous and afraid of Tang Suoyan asking.
But he was losing weight day by day, and Tang Suoyan couldn't wait any longer.
"Xiaodong." Tang Suoyan called him again and asked in a soft voice, "What's the matter with you?"
Tao Xiaodong's breathing was still light, and he seemed to have fallen asleep without speaking. After a while, his hand moved, covering Tang Suoyan's arm around him, and slowly rubbing his fingers and pulp.
Tang Suoyan sighed secretly and scratched the back of his hand.
Tang Suoyan didn't ask if Tao Xiaodong could pretend to be fine at home, but he asked this night, and it seemed to break a layer of peace, and Tao Xiaodong couldn't pretend.
He's been silent since the early morning of the next day, and he's a little dazed, barely smiling when he speaks. There were so many things in my heart that I couldn't stop laughing.
Tang Suoyan was heating milk in the kitchen, Tao Xiaodong went to wash and clean up, after a while Tang Suoyan heard him hiss.
Tao Xiaodong looked at the hole under his ear in the mirror, hid his hand holding the razor, slashed his ear again, and shaved off a small piece of hair, and touched a pinch again when he took it away.
Tao Xiaodong frowned for two seconds, looked at the mirror, and threw the razor directly into the sink in annoyance.
Tang Suoyan came in, brushed his face, took a piece of paper and wiped the blood seeping from his chin. Then he wiped off the shaving foam that had not been shaved off his face, and took the electric shaver from the cabinet.
Tao Xiaodong always doesn't like to use this, and thinks that the electric shave is not clean.
The two didn't speak, Tang Suoyan pushed the switch, and the electric shaver buzzed around Tao Xiaodong's face. Tao Xiaodong didn't move, looking at Tang Suoyan.
I kept looking at it for a while, and then my eyes turned a little red.