Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On? - Chapter 90

When the first snowflakes fall in winter, the fiery red maple leaves and white snow slowly fall to the ground. On the gorgeous red leaves, the ice crystals melt quickly.

In the heated car, Huo Ran hugged the popcorn and sighed: “White cars are only bad when it snows, because you can’t see the snowflakes falling on the body.”

“It sounds to me like you’re thinking about buying a new car.”

“I want to buy it. It’s not convenient for Yanping’s car to drive here.”

“Very well, I’m not jealous at all.”

“What color do you prefer?”

“Pink.”

Huo Ran emphasized: “It’s the car the two of us were riding together.”

“That’s dark blue, dark blue that shimmers like diamonds.”

“Okay, this color must look good against the snow.”

So the next weekend, when they came to Fenghua Garden again, Huo Ran’s car had changed from a white Bentley to a dark blue roadster.

“Don’t you dislike convertibles?”

“Except when watching movies, sitting in the back row will also have a good view.”

“Why are you sitting in the back row?”

“The space in the back is relatively spacious. I customized a small refrigerator and a mobile table.” Huo Ran said like a treasure, “The audio is also specially customized, surround sound, try it later and you will know.”

Tao Zhi understood more and more that this was Huo Ran’s car specially used for watching movies.

He is used to seeing big wind and waves with a very calm expression: “I’m still not jealous at all.”

It wasn’t snowing today, Huo Ran opened the hood, this scene was playing a blockbuster fantasy action movie, it was a good time to test the sound.

The Fenghuayuan drive-in theater has officially opened, and they are no longer the only guests, and there are many audiences who drive around to watch the movie.

He thought for a while, and suddenly said, “I want to give you this car.”

What a sudden rich story.

“…” Tao Zhi was stunned for a moment, “No.”

“Why?”

“Because I can’t drive, I don’t have a driver’s license.”

“I can teach you, definitely better than the teachers in the driving school.” Huo Ran said enthusiastically, “We can practice driving in an open field with no one on weekends.”

Only then did Tao Zhiyue realize his true purpose, and mercilessly gave him a slap in the face: “Go ahead and dream.”

“I did dream, I dreamed like last time, we were in the car…”

“Shut up!”

After entering a stable long-term relationship, Tao Zhiyue’s blushing and red ears gradually disappeared, but his shame was still very stubborn.

After the fight was over, the two sat in the back row, watching tonight’s movie honestly.

The strawberries and cherries in the small refrigerator are fresh and rosy, and the custom-made acoustics are really good, as if you are on the scene.

The winter in northern Shanxi is not too cold, just the coolness, and the occasional snowflakes make people want to sleep in a warm quilt, or stay with a close lover.

Huo Ran still likes to chatter with him.

The warm breath swayed in the ears, condensing into hot white air in the winter night.

“are you cold?”

“It’s not cold, but a little hot. This plot is so passionate.”

“Then take off the scarf.”

“…not picked.”

“Don’t worry, no one else here can see—”

Tao Zhiyue quickly picked up a strawberry and blocked his mouth.

Huo Ran smiled meaningfully: “Strawberries are delicious.”

Before Tao Zhiyue’s unbearable physical attack came, Huo Ran urgently changed the subject.

“Are you satisfied with this dark blue? It was sprayed according to your requirements, and you can see the slight shimmer under the light.”

“Well, it’s beautiful and special.”

“I found that you like blue very much. Not only are slippers in the house, but many things are blue.”

“Because that’s the color of the sky.”

Time goes by, seasons change, and the sky is always blue.

In the next year, encouraged by Huo Ran’s explicit hints from time to time, Tao Zhiyue was still taught to drive by him hand in hand, and got his driver’s license.

There are thirty-six drive-in theater ticket stubs on the display shelf at home, and they have watched all the new blockbuster movies that can be named in a year.

The scope of the two people driving together is also increasing, from the suburbs of the new city with few vehicles, to the normal main roads in the city, and then to traveling by car together, Huo Ran tried bit by bit.

Nothing unexpected happened.

Huo Ran is very attentive when driving and obeys the traffic rules extremely. He has never even received a ticket. He can be called a model driver.

So he finally eliminated the bus as he wished, took Tao Zhiyue to work every day, and picked him up when he was not busy.

The TOD complex building, which can be seen from home and Huo Ran’s company, has been formed bit by bit through the sweat and hard work of countless people, indicating an infinitely broad future.

As for Tao Zhiyue’s game project, it has just completed a week-long third test, and after a month of adjustments and optimizations, it will officially be tested in mid-December, catching up with the wave of winter holidays.

Everything in life is fine.

Because the data feedback of each test is very good, everyone in the project team has placed infinite hopes on this game, so there is a tense atmosphere in the company that the child who has been raised so hard is finally going to meet people.

Although the practice of One Tree Game Company is not to work overtime, but before and after the public beta, it is still inevitably busy a lot. Everyone feels that a certain detail can be made more refined, and they always feel that if they pay a little more, they will get better results s return.

Tao Zhi got worse and had to go back to the state of struggling desperately for the so-called dream in his previous life, and this time it was a real dream. He worked very hard to restrain that state of ecstasy at work.

But Tao Zhiyue, who forced himself to leave work at 8 o’clock in the evening, always felt an indescribable feeling in his heart every time he looked at his colleagues who were still busy in front of the computer.

It’s only a month, so it should be fine.

He sat in front of the computer, looking at the programs and codes that still had many places to be optimized, suppressed the desire to leave, prepared to continue working, but couldn’t help but doubt himself.

Really not?

In such tormented emotions, Tao Zhiyue sometimes even had nightmares, dreaming about that gray subway ride.

The long-lost busy atmosphere, the winter with weak resistance, and the worries that cannot be mentioned to others.

Then the first accident of the year happened.

Tao Zhiyue fell ill.

This afternoon, when Tao Zhiyue, who was sitting on the workstation and typing on the keyboard, felt chest tightness and fatigue signals from his body again, he finally determined that this was not a hallucination he was afraid of, but a real one.

He recovered from his brief daze, and immediately asked for leave without hesitation.

When Tao Zhiyue left the company, he almost wanted to run to the side of the road and stop the car to go home, but he didn’t dare to run.

The feeling of fatigue from his limbs made him carefully slow down his steps.

Returning to the familiar house, leaning on the large and comfortable sofa, Tao Zhi took a deep breath, trying to relax his mind.

He stared at the mobile phone left on the coffee table, wondering whether to call Huo Ran.

Rationality told him that he might just have a cold. The flu is very common in winter, and he would be cured by taking medicine. Recently, he has been ensuring adequate sleep, so he shouldn’t make such a fuss.

But there is only fear left in the sensibility.

In the last memory of that day, his body was so tired that he couldn’t even reach for the phone in his trouser pocket.

Gloomy memories enveloped his body again, and he couldn’t even reach out to try, what if he couldn’t reach out at all like he was then?

He dared not confirm it.

After confirmation, it may just disappear again.

The curtains in the room were closed, the light was dim, the sofa under him was soft and forgiving, Tao Zhiyue gradually fell asleep amidst the complicated and chaotic thoughts in his head.

The dream was full of grotesques, the world was scattered into lines and particles, swimming in disorder, and he also became a particle, lost in the air loosely, drifting towards the atmosphere, trying to penetrate the barrier of the universe.

He was as light as a grain of sand, suddenly blown to an unknown distance.

Until a warm sky held him back.

The sky was blue and shone like a diamond.

Tao Zhiyu opened his eyes in a daze, and saw Huo Ran with an anxious face.

His forehead was very hot, and Huo Ran’s palm was pressing against his forehead.

“Did I wake you up?” Huo Ran was inexplicably relieved when he saw him wake up, “I just reached out and touched it, you have a fever.”

He moved his hand away, and Tao Zhiyue could still feel the heat on his forehead.

There was a sharp pain in his throat, and an urge to cough emerged in his chest.

He caught a cold.

Fortunately, it was a cold.

Tao Zhiyue, who finally relaxed, smiled at him: “Why are you back?”

“I see that you didn’t reply to the messages, and you didn’t answer the calls. I asked my colleagues and said that you were on leave, so I want to go home to find you first.”

Tao Zhiyue looked at the mobile phone that had been lying quietly on the coffee table, and explained: “I turned it on mute when I went to work, but I forgot to turn it back.”

“It’s fine.”

Huo Ran opened the curtains, and the silent winter evening poured in.

He poured freshly boiled hot water from the kettle, added cold water to adjust the temperature, and gently placed it in front of him.

“I called the doctor and he should be here in half an hour.”

Tao Zhiyue was holding a water glass with just the right temperature. It was a hammer-mesh glass he bought more than a year ago.

“Is it the legendary personal doctor?”

“Yes.” Huo Ran smiled, “I wanted to take you to a private hospital, but you should be very uncomfortable now.”

“Well, but it doesn’t matter. I want to go to an ordinary hospital to prescribe medicine, and then get a water bath. It will be fine tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.”

Tao Zhiyue specially emphasized: “It’s just a cold, a very common cold, there is no need for special treatment, I will be nervous.”

Huo Ran stared at his pretended relaxed expression, and finally nodded.

“Okay, I’ll let him go back, we’re going to the hospital near home now.”

After locking the door, they took the elevator to the underground garage together. The driver who brought Huo Ran back was still waiting in the car.

Until Huo Ran opened the car door for him, he held his hand tightly.

Huo Ran seemed more nervous than him.

He once walked to the end of his life, this is the only secret Tao Zhiyue kept from Huo Ran.

But the more Tao Zhi thought about it, Huo Ran should have guessed it.

He has extremely keen intuition and insight, and he will not fail to realize that he has been using almost compulsively to maintain a stable life schedule, but he still chooses to pretend not to know, and will use a very normal tone to urge him not to be too Tired, go to bed on time.

Together, they keep this secret that neither of them wants to face.

This is probably the kind of tenderness with the most tacit understanding between them.

“Is it okay to come back from the company suddenly?”

“It’s okay, I can ask for leave too.”

“I don’t know how many days this cold will last, it will infect my colleagues, so I can only work at home.”

“If you ask for leave, don’t work, take a good rest, and I will supervise you at home tomorrow.”

“But the game is about to go online, there are a lot of things to be busy, and my temporary absence will slow down the progress.”

“The body is the most important thing.”

“I promise to only work eight hours a day.”

“Up to four hours.”

Tao Zhiyue laughed: “Your expression seems to be negotiating several hundred million yuan.”

The nearby hospital was only two kilometers away, and he was about to get off the car. Huo Ran carefully helped him arrange the scarf and mask, wrapping them tightly so as not to catch a cold again.

“Then did I win this negotiation?”

“Won.”

The white woolen scarf was softly wrapped around Tao Zhiyue’s neck, the texture was fine and thick, it was knitted by Huo’s mother and given to him.

They got off at the entrance of the hospital, surrounded by many people, patients and visitors coming and going everywhere.

“I don’t know how long I’ll be hanging on tonight’s drip. Are the cartoons you downloaded with your phone last time still there?”

“It’s still there, but you can’t watch it while eating snacks today. You can eat first after registering.”

“Should I just eat something light?”

“Of course.”

Staying by Huo Ran’s side, although the cold is very uncomfortable, but the mood is much clearer.

Having not been to the hospital for a long time, Tao Zhiyue looked around curiously, seeing countless strange faces with different expressions.

Before the sunset completely set in the sky, in the orange-red embers, he saw a familiar face in a daze.

Tao Zhiyue stopped suddenly and did not move for a long time.

Huo Ran looked back at him in surprise, and followed his gaze: “What’s wrong?”

It was a young man in a white coat, smiling and talking to someone.

Huo Ran felt like he had seen this person somewhere, but he couldn’t remember.

He asked curiously, “Is it someone you know?”

After a long while, the last ray of sunlight in the evening was dimmed, and Tao Zhiyue finally opened his mouth to answer.

“I met him once, a long time ago.”

In another world.

Dust-laden memories are like floods bursting banks.

In the pure white jigsaw puzzle where no clue could be found, Tao Zhiyue finally encountered the most crucial clue.

It turned out that this person was Shen Nian.