Peach Branch Bubbles - Chapter 31

When Tao Zhi and the others went home after a good meal, Li Shuangjiang and the others happened to be standing at the beef noodle restaurant, took out their mobile phones, and called them.

The phone shook in his pocket twice, Tao Zhi caught up, watching Li Shuangjiang holding the phone not far away, the voice came through the receiver: “Hey, boss, have you come back yet.”

“I’m back.” Tao Zhi said.

Li Shuangjiang: “Where are you, is Brother Huai with you?”

Tao Zhi turned his head and glanced at Jiang Qihuai, without changing his face and said, “No.”

As soon as she finished speaking, Li Shuangjiang turned his head and saw them coming.

Li Shuangjiang: “…”

“Boss, why do you lie?!” Li Shuangjiang said into the microphone, “Why didn’t you come to eat beef noodles together?”

Tao Zhi hung up the phone and walked over: “It’s too oily, it’s a bit light.”

Li Shuangjiang gave a “Oh”, nodded, and looked at her carefully up and down: “Boss, are you okay? Didn’t you feel uncomfortable riding the roller coaster just now? Why does his face look so…”

Is it so rosy?

Li Shuangjiang stopped talking.

Tao Zhi’s face is really not bad right now, and she doesn’t even know if the sun is too strong in the afternoon, her cheeks are flushing, and her ears are a little red.

Although the two came back with Jiang Qihuai, they don’t seem to know why. I always feel that the aura between the two is a bit weird. It’s embarrassing and not alike. It’s a bit of a guilty conscience.

Tao Zhi is unilateral.

Li Shuangjiang quietly approached Tao Zhi and said in a low voice, “Are you angry with Brother Huai again?”

Tao Zhi felt that his statement sounded quite unsatisfactory: “What makes me angry again? Do I still find him wrong every day?”

Li Shuangjiang realized that he had said the wrong thing, and immediately raised his hands: “There is no such intention.”

Fu Xiling couldn’t listen anymore, carrying a bottle of mineral water and squeezing it over to Tao Zhi, “Drink water.”

Tao Zhi took over and took two sips.

Fu Xiling looked up at her: “What’s wrong? Is the stomach? Is it nauseous? Do you want to vomit now?”

Tao Zhi wanted to laugh a little: “No, it’s just because I really want to eat beef noodles, I went to eat something else.”

Fu Xiling nodded, walked to her, and silently hooked her arm.

There are more people in the amusement park in the afternoon than in the morning, and the line up for popular events is a bit longer than just before, but when we waited, we chatted and took pictures. The process was not boring.

After they arranged about three or four projects, the sky started to darken.

The lights in the garden were on, and Li Shuangjiang took out his mobile phone and glanced at the presentation watch and said, “There will be a firework show at eight o’clock, see?”

“Pick the coolest position and look at it, the tallest one.” Zhao Ming said vigorously. He was the most active today. Sa Huan, who is running around, is still very energetic at this moment, as if he will not feel tired at all.

Tao Zhi was already a little tired. She went to sit down on the bench next to her and listened to them discussing where to wait to watch the fireworks.

She swayed the water bottle in her hand with her elbow on her knee, saw Jiang Qihuai saying a few words to Li Shuangjiang there, and then turned and left.

Tao Zhi stood up, yawned and walked over: “Is it set?”

“Go sit on the Ferris wheel!” Li Shuangjiang said, “The illuminator has just calculated the time, and it will be stuck at that time. We will watch the fireworks at eight o’clock at the highest point of the Ferris wheel.”

Tao Zhi responded, but he stopped talking.

“Brother Huai has something to do at night, so he should leave first.” Li Shuangjiang said again.

“…”

Tao Zhi did not open his face and curled his lips: “I didn’t ask him again.”

The Ferris wheel in Happy Valley is said to be the largest Ferris wheel in the entire imperial capital. It has a diameter of nearly 100 meters and has more than forty glass panoramic cabins, and one cabin can seat six people.

There are also many people in the line. Zhao Mingqi squatted at the entrance of the line early, holding his mobile phone and pinching his watch.

It was almost time, he pointed straight ahead and gave an order: “Brothers! Go!!!!”

Li Shuangjiang carried the bags of Tao Zhi and Fu Xiling on his back. One left and right crossed his chest to form a diagonal cross leading the line. A group of people rushed to the queue. The posture resembled the live version of Resident Evil’s zombie siege and scared the Ferris wheel. The staff at the queue took a step back.

The Ferris wheel in the night is like a huge round luminous dial. The neon lights slowly change colors, illuminating a clearing around the Ferris wheel. Tao Zhi followed Fu Xiling into the same cabin. Li Shuangjiang and Zhao Mingqi and Jiang Zhengxun sat in them. opposite.

The Ferris wheel gradually rose, slowly making the people sitting inside almost unable to feel it moving. Tao Zhi leaned his forehead against the ice-cold glass window, staring at the outside in a daze.

At the moment of rising to a certain height, there was a faint sound from the small square in the amusement park to the left of the Ferris wheel. Fireworks rose from the ground into the night sky, and then exploded in mid-air, exploding the clouds to light up the night.

Several people in the cabin cheered and leaned to the window and took out their phones to take pictures.

Tao Zhi heard someone call her.

She turned her head, Fu Xiling was holding her mobile phone at her, and the white light of the mobile phone’s flash flashed in front of her eyes, followed by a click into the eardrum.

Tao Zhi was still stunned, and did not realize that she was the protagonist in this photo.

Until Li Shuangjiang’s head came over, he touched his chin and looked at the photo on Fu Xiling’s phone. Comment: “As long as our boss doesn’t speak, he is an experimental goddess-level figure.”

Fu Xiling didn’t feel too satisfied with what he said, and said seriously: “It looks better when you speak clearly.”

“Yes, yes,” Li Shuangjiang nodded and pointed to her mobile phone. “You can send me this photo. I will organize the photos we took out today and send it to a circle of friends. It just happens to be a nine-square grid.”

Fu Xiling simply refused: “No, I want to keep it for myself.”

Li Shuangjiang: “Student Fu Xiling, you are stingy. Everyone has the right to appreciate beauty.”

Fu Xiling held up her phone and continued to take pictures of the fireworks outside the window: “No.”

“Hey, why the fireworks you took are so much more beautiful than me, you can just send me a package.”

“Do not.”

Tao Zhi listened to the chattering between two people there, and turned his head to continue watching the night scene.

In the end, Fu Xiling could not resist Li Shuangjiang’s stalking. He packed the photos that he had taken out all day and sent them to the WeChat group. When Tao Zhi arrived home at night, Ji Fan was sitting on the sofa and flipping through the group. Photo.

Tao Zhi went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water and walked over. He stood behind the sofa and glanced at it.

Several of the photos during the day captured Jiang Qihuai, and Ji Fan pointed to the person in the photo: “He’s gone too.”

Tao Zhi answered with water in his mouth.

Ji Fan scrolled through a few fireworks taken in the Ferris wheel, and saw her picture: “You are quite deceptive.”

Tao Zhi drank the water and couldn’t say anything, so he raised his hand and patted his head.

Ji Fan clutched his head and let out a cry. Just as he was about to speak, the door of the bathroom next to the corridor on the first floor was pushed open: “Xiao Fan, where are the tissues? Mom will change it for you.”

Tao Zhi was stunned, then turned his head.

The woman wore a navy blue long dress with exquisite makeup, and her skin was so good that the years could not leave any traces on her body. It was almost the same as Tao Zhi’s impression a few years ago, familiar to a bit strange.

Two pairs of similar black eyes collided, and the woman looked at her and was stunned. For a long time, she smiled and said, “Zhizhi is back?”

Tao Zhi stood in place with his water glass in his hand, without speaking.

Ji Jin walked over slowly and stood in front of her: “We have grown up and are now as tall as our mother.”

Tao Zhi’s lips moved. He had just drunk water, but the bytes he spit out were a bit dumb: “…Mom.”

Time is the sharpest weapon. It can cut a relationship as pale as paper, and it can also cut a name into obscurity.

Even if this person is connected to her by blood, she is the closest person to her ever.

Tao Zhi stood there, not knowing for a moment how he should react to such a situation.

As if seeing her helplessness, Ji Jin slightly leaned forward, took her hand, and walked two steps forward: “It’s also beautiful, and my mother almost didn’t recognize it at first sight.”

Ji Fan lay on the back of the sofa casually, and patted the sofa twice: “Why are you standing and talking?”

Ji Jin glared at him, pulled Tao Zhi around the sofa and sat down beside Ji Fan.

Tao Zhi sat stiffly beside her, put the water glass in his hand on the coffee table, and turned his head.

“I sent over the procedures for Xiaofan’s transfer. He told me that you were out with your classmates. I just wanted to wait for you to come back and see you.” Ji Jin smiled and looked at her, “Look at our twig change. No change.”

“It’s more than a change,” Ji Fan said, shaking his head next to him, “it has become more bullying.”

Ji Jin turned his head and patted the back of his hand: “You are a bit of a man, how old you are, and you are noisy every day. In the future, you will study with your sister in a class with Zhizhi. Don’t I think about playing every day.”

Ji Fan innocently protested: “Then I am not at my age when I was playing, how can my great youth be wasted in books? Besides, Zhizhi is now looking back, she has realized the true meaning of youth and began to enjoy life. , The last exam was not much higher than me.”

Ji Jin was stunned, and subconsciously glanced at Tao Zhi, somewhat surprised.

When Ji Fan said this, he didn’t think about it. After he finished speaking, he realized that he might have said something wrong. He pursed his lips and stopped talking.

The living room fell silent for a while, and no one made any more noise.

Tao Zhi lowered his eyes, curled his fingers together, and pinched his nails deeply into his palm.

She suddenly felt very embarrassed.

She didn’t know if it was because of Ji Jin’s different familiarity and familiarity when he was with Ji Fan, and when he was talking to her carefully, or because Ji Fan mentioned her achievements in front of Ji Jin.

She didn’t feel embarrassed about her poor grades at the parent meeting. She didn’t feel bad when she was notified and criticized by the school, and she was not told by her classmates that she was in good class relations.

But at this moment, she felt that if there was a seam in front of her, she would definitely get in, with her self-esteem that was knocked to pieces.

Ji Jin should be surprised. After all, Tao Zhi ranked first in all the parent conferences she attended and the transcripts she had seen before.

In the past few years since she left, she has never participated in and understood Tao Zhi’s growth and changes.

Ji Fan consciously said something wrong. The moment Ji Jin was about to pinch him, he bounced from the sofa, ran away from the crime scene quickly under the pretext of urinating, and wanted to leave some time alone for the two of them.

Only Tao Zhi and Ji Jin are left in the living room.

Ji Jin didn’t stay long. The two sat on the sofa and talked for a while. She answered the phone and turned her head when she hung up: “It’s too late. Mom will leave first.”

Tao Zhi nodded and stood up.

Ji Jin put on her coat, Tao Zhi handed her the bag on the sofa, walked to the hallway, opened the door, and sent her to the door of the yard.

She followed the woman, but she hadn’t noticed just now. From behind, Ji Jin seemed to be thinner than her impression.

The two stood still at the entrance of the courtyard. Ji Jin turned around and looked at her with gentle eyes: “What Xiaofan just said, don’t take it to heart. Your grades are not the most important thing for you. Mom also hopes. Zhizhi can be happy, and if Zhizhi feels a little more relaxed now, that’s fine.”

Tao Zhi hung his head: “Yeah.”

Ji Jin’s tone is always gentle and gentle: “You should eat well, don’t be picky eaters like you were when you were a child.”

Tao Zhi nodded again, and whispered, “You also have to eat well.”

Ji Jin looked at her.

Tao Zhi still did not look up. She bit her lip and said in a very soft voice: “You have lost a lot of weight.”

Ji Jin’s fingers moved.

She seemed to want to raise her hand to hug her, but in the end she didn’t. She just smiled and said, “We Zhizhi now learn to care about people.”

Tao Zhi raised his head until Ji Jin turned and left.

The night fog was heavy, and she watched the woman’s back disappear into the night, standing still at the iron gate.

The shadow of the tree swayed, and the cold wind blew the fallen leaves and rolled over in the autumn night. Tao Zhi did not wear a coat when she came out, only a thin sweater. She stood in place and shivered with her neck habitually, but strangely. It didn’t feel too cold either.

She had never thought that even if Ji Jin and Tao Xiuping were separated, there might be no difference to her.

She is still her mother, and she can still talk to her, meet her, and tell her about the things she met at school, but the number of meetings may be reduced, and the chat can no longer be so frequent.

But in fact, many things are different.

From the first one phone call in the first week, she would talk to Ji Jin endlessly, and she would ask when she would come back to see her, and then once in a few months. Then, apart from a short phone call or text message during the holidays, there was no other contact.

Tao Zhi never asked why, there are many reasons and reasons why their children don’t understand too much in the world of adults.

Even if she knew clearly deep in her heart, Ji Jin probably missed her because she didn’t miss her enough.

Just like Ji Fan was chosen by her back then, not her.

She squatted down slowly against the iron door with her arms in her arms, wrinkled the tip of her nose and took a deep breath.

Until the sound of footsteps came from far and near, then stopped and disappeared silently.

When someone stood in front of her, Tao Zhi was about to raise his head when he heard a familiar voice sounding very close in front of her accompanied by the sound of the wind: “Whose little groundhog.”

Tao Zhi raised his head.

Jiang Qihuai was still wearing the same clothes he wore when he left in the afternoon. He squatted in front of her, looking straight at her, his voice was cold and cold, with a subtle chuckle: “Don’t go back to the hole at night. Sleep in here and blow air here.”