Peach Branch Bubbles - Chapter 62

The imperial capital has snowed for three consecutive days.

Thick and dense snowflakes obscured the sky, dyeing this colorful city into pure white, the unclear snow covered the ankles, and the north wind blew across the face like a knife with ice particles.

No one wants to stay outside in such a rags, but there are always cases of nerves.

Tao Zhi sat in front of a tripod, and looked at the camera. A couple in a tube top wedding dress and white shirt stood in the snow and argued for ten minutes.

Also barefoot.

In the red wall and white snow, the fairy-like little girl wearing a red dress is standing barefoot in the snow, beautiful as a winter elf falling into the world.

What I just said is not so beautiful: “My old lady is rich and beautiful and doesn’t want to marry you at all. You don’t even listen to me for a wedding photo now, right? I only saw you when I had a fart in my eyes. ! I just want to shoot like this, what’s wrong? Just listen to what I say, why do you care about me?”

The man had a headache. He glanced at Tao Zhi, who was holding his head here, and the embarrassed assistant next to her, and lowered his voice: “Can you stop making trouble? With so many people watching, don’t you be embarrassed?”

“You think I’m ashamed now? You used to say that I’m so frank and cute!”

“At that time you were eighteen! Now you are almost twenty-eight! Can you be a little more mature?”

“I just want you to cooperate with me to take a photo immature? Are you talking human words!”

“Okay, you’re almost done! Can’t this picture be taken yet!” The man patiently ran out.

“Take a few shots! Take it! Don’t **** end the marriage! Break up! Go find a mature one!”

The woman’s temper came up, and she couldn’t stop it. She turned her head and looked at Tao Zhi: “You let someone comment on it. Am I asking too much? I just want to take a shot of you kneeling and kissing my feet, why? Do you have gold on your knees or diamonds on your mouth? I found such an expensive photographer to take the most perfect photo! Now you are not willing to cooperate with you. Am I wrong?”

The flames of war spread to her inexplicably, Tao Zhi slowly raised her eyes, she leaned on the folding chair, and patiently suggested: “Why don’t you put on your shoes first? This cold weather, feet It’s freezing red.”

The woman stared at her for a few seconds, seeming not knowing what to say, and finally stiffly said “thank you”.

Tao Zhi turned off the camera, folded the tripod, put the accessories into his bag, and handed it to the assistant. He pointed to the cafe in front of him, “I’ll have a cup of coffee there. , At most an hour, it won’t work at night, and it won’t be effective.”

Assistant Xiaojin nodded, shrank her neck and passed tremblingly.

Tao Zhi swayed into the cafe.

She ordered a cup of coffee, took out the computer and turned on the PS and LR to process yesterday’s photos.

The heating cut off the ice and snow outside, and the thin sunlight faintly came in through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows, and then was suddenly blocked by a figure.

A nice boy with Qingrun sounded beside her: “Hello, do you mind giving me a contact method?”

Tao Zhi did not lift up, and said skillfully: “Mind.”

The man laughed and didn’t leave. Tao Zhiyuguang caught a glimpse of him sitting opposite her.

Still sitting down?

What’s wrong with this person.

She frowned and raised her head to look over. This man was wearing a camel coat with a sharp face and looked at her with a smile.

Tao Zhi blinked, “Xiao Linzi?”

“It’s ruthless, don’t you give me your old classmate if you ask for a mobile phone number?” Lin Suyan said sadly, “I thought I would have any special treatment, but I thought about it too much.”

Tao Zhi looked at him amused: “What contact information do you want me? You have your WeChat phone number, do you want QQ?”

“It’s okay,” Lin Suyan took out his mobile phone in a kind-hearted manner, “Now young people use penguins.”

Tao Zhi rolled his eyes.

She had a farewell meal with Lin Suyan after the college entrance examination. This person was still a sensitive and fragile slender boy at the time. He cried and said that he didn’t know when the next meeting would be. As a result, after the college entrance examination results came out, they reported to the school. C bumped into the big newspaper, and the university stayed in a school for another four years.

Tao Zhi studied film studies, and Lin Suyan studied finance. After graduation, he went to the UK to study for a year, and only returned to China some time ago.

When he reported this major, Tao Zhi still found it very novel. Lin Suyan’s family was regarded as a scholar, an artist teacher and a university professor, but his biggest goal since childhood was to play with the renminbi in the palm of his hand.

When he was in college, he said more than once that if Tao Zhi were his daughter, his dad would be so happy to tie himself to the sky monkey and fly into the sky.

The two hadn’t seen each other for more than a year, and they couldn’t finish talking. Lin Suyan was originally a silly chatter, and after talking about the recent situation, he started blowing up his new boss.

“Graduated from a top domestic undergraduate in three years, first in both GPA in comprehensive majors, completed a master’s degree at Penn in 9 months, stayed on Wall Street for a year, and published international papers that are thicker than the papers I did in my third year of high school. The annual salary—” he After a pause, he made a gesture, “This is the number.”

Tao Zhi listened to him braggingly with expressionless expression.

Seeing that she had no response, Lin Suyan emphasized unwillingly: “The annual salary is this number! And you dare to believe that this person is the same age as me. He probably doesn’t sleep a day, and his brain is working 24 hours a day.”

Tao Zhi’s expression still did not fluctuate.

Lin Suyan’s hands were sore. For a long time, he put down his hands and sighed. Someone was lonely and nobody supported him: “I almost forgot, you are Zhou Zhiruo who lacks passion and desire.”

Tao Zhi couldn’t bear to be cold, so he decided to talk to him: “It’s a Quasimodo.”

Lin Suyan: “Really handsome, you believe me.”

“200 catties?”

“The body is better than the boxing champion.” Lin Suyan said exaggeratedly.

“That’s really 200 catties.”

“…”

Lin Suyan sighed again and made a final summary: “You are done, you are a fairy.”

After chatting for a while, the doorbell of the cafe jingled, Xiao Jin stood at the door of the store carrying a big bag and looked around, and saw Tao Zhi.

The little girl ran over and put the bag on the empty chair next to it: “The customer said that I will not shoot today. Let me say sorry to you. The money will still be paid according to the film that has been filmed today, and then I will add it to you. 5% compensation fee.”

Tao Zhi closed the computer with a “click” and said happily, “Okay, after get off work.”

Lin Suyan watched her happily packing her things with a sullen face: “No men leave work to make you happy.”

“What is a man?” Tao Zhi looked at him with a puzzled look. “I’m surprised. You like to match people so much. After you graduated from college, what are you doing in finance? I will switch to a dating agency tomorrow. Come on.”

“I don’t like to match people, I like to match you,” Lin Suyan said, holding his chin, “I just want to know how you are in a relationship.”

Tao Zhi waved his hand, turned and walked outside: “Then you think about it, I want to go home to sleep.”

Xiao Jin picked up the big bag from the table, looked at Tao Zhi who had already gone out, and hurriedly bowed to Lin Suyan, said goodbye in a low voice, and then ran out.

“She wants the feeling of a fairy, the peony flower elf in the snow,” Tao Zhi said while holding the mobile phone on her shoulders, putting the milk glass into the microwave oven, “her fiance is an ordinary person who has strayed into the fairyland. Under my red feet, I was really convinced, and I was able to fight for such a mess.”

On the other end of the phone, Fu Xiling smiled backwards and closed together: “You didn’t say that this work was troublesome before, or you surrendered and forced you to pick it up.”

“People give a lot of money,” Tao Zhi said, leaning in front of the Zhongdao platform. “It’s Dad who gives the money. Who is going to be forced to do so in front of the renminbi.”

Fu Xiling: “You are not short of money, a genius girl in photography.”

Tao Zhi broke his fingers and counted. She is no longer a girl at her age, but she still accepted the title very smoothly and satisfactorily.

“I have to save money for us Lingling, and then I will pack a big one for you,” Tao Zhi brought out the hot milk and said with a smile, “Are you working overtime tonight?”

“No!” Fu Xiling’s voice immediately became cheerful, and she whispered, “Our editor-in-chief is on a business trip today. Everyone is lazy. I will leave after finishing the materials in hand.”

Fu Xiling studied journalism at University, worked as a reporter in a newspaper, and worked overtime twice in the morning and night. In her words, a rookie reporter should only do the most work with the least salary.

And did it without complaint.

When the gas leak exploded, and the dog was lost at the house of Grandma Liu Cuifang next door, she happily walked the streets and alleys to interview and report.

After hanging up the phone, Tao Zhi drank the milk, threw the cup into the sink, and turned around and walked into the digital darkroom.

After graduating from university, she and Fu Xiling rented the house together and moved out of the house. The community was newly built only a few years ago, and there was no problem with the public security environment.

In the third room of the house, she paid the bulk of the rent and changed the extra room into a dark room to wash photos.

Pushing the door into the darkness, only a small red lamp shining faintly, Tao Zhi glanced at the rows of photos hanging on the wall with the dim light, and somehow remembered that he did not follow the house at all. Lin Su Yan who arranged the road to walk.

She suddenly felt something magical.

When she chose her major, the head teacher recommended that she could choose a major in science and engineering or law. Tao Xiuping also hoped that she could study financial management, so that she could come to the company to help in the future, but Tao Zhi didn’t know what was wrong, and he didn’t listen to anyone. , I want to learn photography.

She had no art exams, and she had no way to choose photography as a major without taking the school exams. In the end, she chose film studies with photography-related courses.

She has never played with a camera before, but she has always liked watching movies. No one can tell clearly about the trajectory of her life. Even she herself, even at the moment when the decision is made, never expected that she would become a photographer in the future. division.

Photos are a very magical thing.

It is always loyal to the facts and will not deceive anyone. It can record the past and engrave time.

Happy, sad, hate, like.

Even if it turns yellow and fades, at the first sight, those memories will be spliced ​​and assembled like fragments, and then flooded into my mind again.

Tao Zhi always felt that she was probably just on a whim. Until her sophomore year, she voted for a photo in the National Geographic Global Photography Contest in the United States, and won the first prize in the local category of the China Division, and she was participating in the international competition. It caused quite a response.

She felt that she could go down this road.

Tao Zhi stayed in the darkroom for the whole afternoon, not knowing the time when she was inside, and only after she finally finished her work did she realize that night had begun.

On Saturday the next day, Fu Xiling asked Tao Zhi and Li Shuangjiang to make an appointment for dinner. After work, everyone has their own affairs to be busy, and the time to get together is getting less and less, so they can be free on weekends. It is a luxury to have a meal together.

Tao Zhi washed his hands, went back to the room to patch up his makeup, changed clothes and went out. When he arrived at the Japanese food shop he had agreed, he was the last one.

Fortunately, we have known her for so many years, and everyone has been accustomed to her being late. When Tao Zhi opened the door of the box, the people inside had already drank it.

Zhao Mingqi studied sports medicine at University, and Jiang Zhengxun followed his own intentions and made plans. Both of them did not come because of work. Li Shuangjiang almost did not change when he was in high school. He saw her pulling her neck and yelling “Boss.”

After the small pot of sake is blanched, it warms and sticks to the stomach, Tao Zhi only drank a small cup, and ate sashimi and sukiyaki honestly.

Since the party where she graduated from high school five years ago, she seldom drank alcohol. Everyone knew her habit, so they refused to persuade her.

This Japanese food store is located in a remote location and has high-end decoration. It occupies a single small detached house, three floors, and individual guests on the first floor. The second and third floors are all such small private rooms, each with a separate toilet and A small balcony.

The floor heating in the store was very adequate. Tao Zhi felt a little bored after drinking for three rounds. He got up and went to the small balcony to get some breath.

The moment the wooden sliding door was opened, the cold night breeze rushed in. Vermillion lanterns hung on both ends of the small balcony. On it, Japanese singers in gorgeous kimonos were exquisitely depicted, with red lips and white faces, with raised eyebrows. .

Tao Zhi leaned against the wooden railing and looked up.

This area is almost all of this kind of low-rise single-family houses with several floors. The sight is wide and unobstructed. In the distance in the thick fog, there are row upon row of tall buildings, and the lights are dimly lit in the night fog.

Tao Zhi took a deep breath, and the cold air poured into her lungs. She was awake all over, stood for a while, just about to turn around to enter.

The door of the other box next door was pulled open with a bang, and a man walked out of it.

Tao Zhi glanced over subconsciously.

The man did not wear a jacket, only a black sweater, he knocked out a cigarette from the cigarette case and bit it in his mouth.

The lighter flint rubbed and made a slight noise.

He lifted his hand slightly, his slender fingers were gathered around the flames to ignite, a little scarlet light shining brightly between his fingers, the man raised his head slightly, the neckline was stretched slender, and the sharp apple knot rolled, silky Strands of gray smoke drifted in the night sky.

He leaned his forearm against the wooden railing, his eyes lowered, and his expression was indifferent.

The wooden door perfectly cut off the noise in the box, but Tao Zhi felt that the night before him seemed to be boiling and burning.

Maybe it was because her gaze stopped for too long, maybe it was because there was no one other than him and her in the quiet space. Jiang raised his eyes sharply and turned his head.

The eyes are facing each other.

Tao Zhi felt like a marionette on the stage, his mind stopped thinking, his hands and feet were bound by steel wires and nailed to the place, unable to move.

She exhaled calmly, exhausted all her strength to control her voice, and said softly, “It’s a coincidence.”

Jiang Qihuai’s peach blossom eyes were deep, and under the dim red light, he showed an illusion-like blackness. He just looked at her like this, as if looking at something else through her, and just looking at her.

As long as a century has passed, he finally lowered his eyelashes, and the corners of his lips moved.

The icy throat has also faded away from the youthful and clean youth after the time has passed, slowly and lowly, with a slight dumbness: “Well, it’s a coincidence.”