Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On? - Chapter 64

The signboard with light yellow pattern on the moon is decorated with small lights, which flicker on the outer wall of the mall in the middle of the night.

There is also a bright moon hanging in the night sky overhead, like silver and water, with a faint brilliance.

The shopping mall was closed, all the bright lights on each floor were extinguished, and it fell into silence together with the surrounding residential areas.

Colleagues who had a great time tonight stood in groups of threes and twos on the side of the road outside the mall, chatting and waiting for the bus.

“I had a great time today, and it would be great if tomorrow was a weekend.”

“I think Huang Jie, who is too sad, will definitely not be able to get up at noon tomorrow. Boss, can you take a full day off tomorrow? Think about it, you didn’t accompany President Rong tonight, isn’t it appropriate?”

“…”

Outside the hustle and bustle, Huo Ran looked up, looked at the neon sign, and at the distant night sky: “There are two moons.”

Tao Zhiyue originally wanted to support him, but he seemed to be walking steadily, so he just carefully observed his drunkenness from the side.

“Well, which one is true?”

“It’s all true.” Huo Ran said firmly, “I like that there are two moons in the sky.”

Tao Zhi was astonished for a moment, then laughed.

It seems that the stamina of beer comes slowly. Huo Ran, who was still sober in the poker game just now, is completely drunk now.

Huo Ran looked at him blankly and smiled: “Now there are three moons.”

“What?”

“Your eyes are like the moon too.”

The clear moon reflected his reflection close at hand.

In the sudden love words, Tao Zhiyue’s ears turned red quickly.

He thought for a while, then calmly said: “The eyes are a pair, why not four moons?”

“Three sounds better.”

“…makes sense.”

Tao Zhiyue chatted with the very talkative drunk while saying goodbye to his colleagues who got in the car and left.

The car called by Guan Yudong was about to arrive. He looked around on the side of the road, and turned his head to greet Tao Zhiyue: “Tao Tao, I remember you said you moved nearby, do you want me to give you a ride?”

In a blink of an eye, he saw Huo Ran next to Tao Zhiyue again: “I’m sorry, I must have drunk too much… I forgot that there is afternoon tea, pretend I didn’t ask.”

“Hey, didn’t you ask the driver to pick you up for afternoon tea?”

Huo Ran shook his head immediately: “I can’t take the car, so I walked back.”

“The neighborhood where I live is not far from here, and it takes about twenty or thirty minutes to walk back.” Tao Zhiyue added, “I went back with him, just to sober up.”

Even though the officer was fined a lot of alcohol tonight, and he didn’t play cards very smartly, he was deeply impressed by the dog food he had eaten: “Tao Tao, didn’t you rent a house by yourself?”

Before Tao Zhiyue could answer, Huo Ran who was next to him spoke first.

“I bought a set upstairs.”

“…” Guan Yudong smiled distortedly with tears in his eyes, “I’m sorry, I asked something I shouldn’t have asked again. Why should I humiliate myself!”

When the car arrived, Guan Yudong, who was in a trance after being hit hard, waved goodbye to everyone.

After he left, Huo Ran’s dissatisfied voice rang in Tao Zhiyue’s ear.

“Why does this person call you Tao Tao?”

“Because my surname is Tao.”

Tao Zhi was more surprised, and keenly caught the key words: “This person? Do you know who he is?”

“I know.” Huo Ran frowned, “A man.”

“So you can’t let him take you home.”

Huo Ran didn’t interfere with his life and making friends at all in his normal relationship, and Tao Zhiyue himself was very careful about his proportions, so he never showed jealousy.

Seeing Huo Ran who is eating vinegar indiscriminately at this moment, Tao Zhiyue feels very fresh.

“He is my colleague and likes girls.”

“That’s not okay, only I can take you home.”

“Now it’s obvious that I’m sending you off.”

“It was right to send me off, because you can’t send someone home.”

Tao Zhiyue’s smile deepened: “You are unreasonable.”

“Yes, I don’t make sense.”

Huo Ran confidently began to engage in hegemony.

When the last colleague got into the car, only the two of them and Jiang Ye were left on the side of the road.

After watching the employees get on the car safely, Jiang Ye was about to walk to the parking lot, and asked casually, “Do you want to give you a ride? I drove the car.”

“No need.” Huo Ran said decisively, “Let’s walk back.”

“Oh, be careful, it’s almost twelve o’clock.”

Jiang Ye raised his hand to look at his watch, and said with emotion: “Today really ended very late.”

Tao Zhiyue remembered what his colleagues said in the evening: The boss estimated that today would end very late, so he sent Mr. Rong home first, and came directly to the store later.

He couldn’t help asking curiously: “Is this really metaphysics?”

“Intuition.” Jiang Ye said succinctly, “Intuition is very useful most of the time.”

Tao Zhiyue had a flash of inspiration: “For example, do you recruit employees based on the weather and occasion?”

“Yes.” Jiang Ye said calmly, “So far, there have been no mistakes.”

Thinking of the unusually harmonious and cheerful atmosphere in One Tree Game Company, Tao Zhiyue was convinced: “It’s amazing.”

Huo Ran listened to them talking, silent, but had a strong sense of presence.

“He seems very upset.” Jiang Ye’s intuition was triggered again, “Let’s go, see you tomorrow.”

After Jiang Ye’s figure disappeared into the night, they also walked side by side towards home.

Huo Ran’s soul torture arrived as scheduled.

“Why does this person want to see you tomorrow?”

Tao Zhiyue gradually got used to it: “Because he is also my colleague, and he has to go to work tomorrow afternoon.”

“You said three sentences to him, and the colleague just now only had one sentence.”

“…I really want to start the recording and record everything you are saying now.”

“Why?”

“I want to listen to you when you sober up and see how you react.”

Huo Ran said convincingly: “Of course it’s a response of approval, and I didn’t make a mistake in counting.”

“Really?” Tao Zhiyue couldn’t help laughing, “Then I started recording?”

Huo Ran looked seriously at his smiling eyes, “You seem to be laughing at me.”

“I didn’t laugh at you, I thought it was fun.”

“I didn’t expect you to be like this when you’re drunk.” Tao Zhiyue laughed until his voice was broken, “…a bit domineering, but also a bit cute.”

“Are you overbearing?” Huo Ran seemed to think for a while, “I haven’t started being overbearing yet.”

“Huh? So what counts—”

The scorching peppermint breath suddenly invaded his breath.

The words were drowned by the tide, and the street lamps were dim, casting two still shadows, overlapping quietly on the dark gray asphalt road.

I don’t remember how long it took, the hands tightly around the waist finally loosened, and Tao Zhiyue regained his breath.

His cheeks were flushed due to lack of oxygen. He covered his face and whispered, “When did you steal mints?”

“I won’t tell you.”

“I see, it must be when the store manager came to talk to you before leaving.”

“What store manager?”

Tao Zhiyue came to his senses completely: “Do you not know anyone else?”

Huo Ran thought for a while, then nodded solemnly: “I only remember you.”

This sentence was more common than three moons, but Tao Zhiyue lost his mind for a moment and stopped in his tracks.

Huo Ran then stopped: “What’s wrong?”

Tao Zhiyue stared at his face, his handsome brows and eyes looked extraordinarily soft in the moonlight.

“Do you want to keep drinking?”

Huo Ran struggled for a while, and said honestly: “I think, I am in a good mood now, maybe drink a little more, and the mood will be even better.”

“Then I’ll drink with you.” Tao Zhiyue made a decision, “It happens that there is a small supermarket downstairs, so it’s very convenient to buy wine.”

“But when you’re drunk, you won’t remember anything.” Huo Ran was a little worried, “So I’ll drink it all for you tonight.”

“I don’t care, anyway, I already drank indirectly just now.”

“Indirect?” Huo Ran was stunned for a moment, and quickly said, “Then do you want to drink more indirect?”

“don’t want!”

“You are going the wrong way, you should turn to the intersection on the left.”

“Why do you still remember the map?”

“Because it’s the way home.”

Huo Ran was carrying a bag of cold beer. Tao Zhiyue lowered his head and opened the door with a key. The white gauze curtain in the living room was not closed, and dim light came in from the glass window.

Tao Zhiyue entered the room and turned on the light, Huo Ran cooperated and closed the door behind him.

The porcelain plate with the poached eggs was still on the kitchen bar, white milk stains remained in the two glasses, and there was a piece of unfinished toast. Everything remained intact as it was when we left in the morning, smelling With a faint food aroma.

After a long day, Huo Ran returned home with him.

Huo Ran also noticed the messy bar, and commented pertinently: “You are in a hurry to go out this morning.”

“…You still have the nerve to say it.” Tao Zhiyue glanced at him, “Your house is obviously upstairs, why do you have to run down after breakfast?”

“Because I like this home better.” Huo Ran paused, “No, because I like you. Do you want me to wash it?”

“No, it will be fine soon.”

Tao Zhiyue washed the glass and put it on the coffee table.

“When you’re drunk, you seem to be more talkative than usual.”

“Really? Then I will learn about myself tomorrow.”

The corkscrew gently knocked open the bottle cap, and the beer fell into the bottom of the wide glass like a waterfall, stirring up a lot of white foam, almost gushing out of the glass.

“Shouldn’t that be recording for you?” Tao Zhiyue asked, “Will you drink fragments like me?”

“No, basically I remember.”

The bitter beer flows down the throat, leaving a hint of sweetness.

Tao Zhiyue said with regret: “Then I can’t tell you too much, otherwise you will remember and I won’t, wouldn’t it be a loss.”

Huo Ran pondered for a moment: “I can also try to forget it. Mixing different wines seems to have a higher probability of fragmentation. I should have checked to see if there is any red wine downstairs.”

“But it hurts my body.” He denied again, “Or you can hypnotize me.”

Tao Zhiyue held the cup and laughed: “How to hypnotize? Shake your fingers back and forth in front of your eyes, and then read it a hundred times to quickly lose your memory?”

Huo Ran looked at him intently: “No, I am easily hypnotized when my willpower is weak.”

Tao Zhiyue was reaching for the wine bottle, without noticing his eyes.

He casually asked, “Then when did your willpower become weak?”

In the next second, the cold glass in his hand was suddenly taken away and placed on the coffee table, the bright yellow liquid was swaying back and forth, overflowing the edge.

“Now.”

Bearing the weight of two people, the sofa sank deeply.

The world turned upside down in an instant.

The moonlight was bright and the ceiling lamp was warm and yellow, but all the light was blocked by the tall figure in front of him, and everything around him gradually became blurred.

“Why do you suddenly want to drink?”

Warm breath fell from above, and the remaining rationality could only support him to answer the last question.

“Because I want to be like you.”

“Don’t think about anything, just remember you.”

So low laughter came from the small world, which overturned in an instant.