Peach Branch Bubbles - Chapter 66

There was a moment of silence in the office.

Tao Zhi’s heartbeat, which had eased because of the smooth and satisfactory shooting, began to agitate again.

She turned off the camera blankly and nodded: “It’s convenient for you. You can just contact the magazine directly.”

She said that she walked to the sofa and installed her things. She didn’t say anything, she looked like she was ready to go.

Jiang Qihuai silently watched her pull on the bag chain, raised her hand to take the coat on the back of the sofa, and suddenly said, “Drink a cup of tea before leaving?”

“I don’t like tea,” Tao Zhi said dryly, “and I’m very busy, there’s still something to do.”

“I thought you liked it now,” Jiang Qihuai said without emotion, “that’s why I ran to the teahouse.”

Tao Zhi blinked, turned his head and said innocently, “Then the scorer, see who drank with.”

This is clear and plain, and it’s not a step down the stairs.

Tao Zhi is actually not a particularly sharp person, except for the kind that really provokes her, she usually speaks with a little discretion. As she grows older, she is now much milder than when she was in high school. This is actually not in line with her temperament.

But when facing him now, Tao Zhi didn’t know why, her emotions would suddenly become sharp and sensitive, and she couldn’t wait to get away from him, and further away, as if she was afraid of something.

Jiang Qihuai didn’t speak, he drooped his eyelids, restrained his eyes and was silent for a few seconds, and said “Um”.

Tao Zhi put on the coat, and the moment he turned around, the corners of his lips sank slightly.

She hung the scarf on her arm, picked up the bag, and said nothing, silently walked to the door and pushed open the frosted glass door, and walked out of the office.

Wen Mingyue was doing a simple interview with the assistant next door. Tao Zhi just finished when she came out. She put away the recorder and looked up from the laptop: “It’s over? I’m almost done here, and enough materials. .”

She closed her notebook, squeezed her eyes at Tao Zhi, and whispered, “This director is difficult, isn’t it? When I was doing the interview, it was really ten shots to type him five words.”

“…”

Tao Zhi didn’t know how to respond to her for a while, showing an expression that could not be exhausted.

Fortunately, Wen Mingyue understood it instantly. She patted her on the shoulder, empathizing with her face: “I understand, I understand, and the words are like gold, but you only need to take pictures without him speaking. It’s okay. I shouldn’t be as desperate as I am. .”

She packed up her things and walked outside and whispered, “But this director is so bored, what good is it for being handsome? It must be boring to fall in love with him.”

The ex-girlfriend who has fallen in love and is not bored or even happy: “…That’s it.”

When I left the Ruisheng office building at 4 pm, Tao Zhi received Lin Suyan’s WeChat message as soon as he got on the bus, saying that he was a little busy today and didn’t have time to greet her, and come back for a cup of coffee the next day.

By the way, I asked why she suddenly came to their company today.

Tao Zhi was too lazy to explain too much. He only briefly talked about work matters, and emphasized it with three exclamation marks. He won’t come again another day.

When he returned to the studio, Xu Suinian was still standing in front of his broken equipment, grinding coffee beans, and seeing her enter the door with a bright smile: “I’m back? How is the work? Is it going well?”

Tao Zhi was depressed now, but Xu Suinian was about to hit the gun. She immediately blamed him for not helping Anse Se’s work today when she met Jiang Qihuai, and said painfully: “Senior, can you please? It’s a bit enterprising. Our little-known photographers who have just graduated just a few years ago are just about to develop the level of work and refinement. You are grinding coffee beans here every day, can the Hasselblad Award find you on your own? “

“I’m not thinking about letting you pit a box of Lego again,” Xu Suinian waved his hand, very openly. “You only need to have a sense of professionalism. How can a studio produce two representative figures? Remember to advertise me when you become famous.”

Tao Zhi got used to his salted fish’s reluctance to turn over and waved his hand: “I won’t be here tomorrow. Call me if you have anything to do.”

Xu Suinian responded, and when he saw the person leaving, he glanced at the calendar and sighed, “Time flies quickly.”

Xiaojin held the washed coffee cup and handed it over to him, and asked curiously: “Brother Nian, is there something going on tomorrow? She didn’t go to Hamdan at this time last year.”

Xu Suinian turned his head and interrupted with a smile: “Xiao Jin has grown up as a big girl,” he said in the vicissitudes of an old father’s tone, “I still remember when you first came to the studio, you were only 21 years old. , It was so big in a flash.”

Xiaojin: “…I’m only 22 this year.”

Xu Suinian: “Really, ahaha.”

Tao Zhi opened his eyes before the alarm clock went off.

It was half-dark at five o’clock in the middle of winter, and there was no light in the room. Tao Zhi lay on the bed and blinked at the dim ceiling.

This year is the first few years that have passed?

She still remembers that winter vacation a few years ago, when Tao Xiuping awakened her from her sleep and rushed to the hospital in a panic on the half-dark night.

When the time came, Ji Jin was already dying. Her eyes were black and her body was so thin that she collapsed into the hospital bed. Her delicate and beautiful face could not hide her illness, and an oxygen tube was inserted between her nose.

When she heard someone coming, she half-opened her eyes laboriously, looked at her with pitch-black eyes, and smiled crookedly.

Her voice was still gentle, with hoarse breathing between her words, and she called her name gently.

She said Zhizhi, her mother was a little tired and wanted to sleep for a while.

She said Zhizhi is now an adult, and she needs to take good care of Xiao Fan and listen to her father.

She said she was sorry that my mother didn’t watch you grow up, but she was also very happy to see you grow up.

She said that I have no regrets.

It is said that if there is something unrecognized in the heart of the relatives before they are alive, they will entrust their dreams to their relatives after they leave, but Tao Zhi is very magical. He has never dreamed of Ji Jin once in the past four years.

She probably has no regrets.

She had never dreamed of her, but in the first many nights, she would suddenly wake up in the middle of the night, and then realized later that she was in tears.

Birth, old age, sickness and death are the reincarnation of the Tao. She keeps growing up, but her parents are getting old. Everyone seems to have to carry this kind of things so many times in their lives. It’s just the difference between morning and night.

Tao Zhi just felt a little bit reluctant. Ji Jin named them branches and luxuriantly when they were still in their infancy. He joked that he hoped to watch them grow from small seedlings to big trees, and they would grow into luxuriant branches.

In this way, after she and Tao Xiuping retired, they could enjoy the shade under the tree, slack off, and enjoy the leisurely life of being raised by their children.

But now they are already shaded by trees, but they haven’t had time to let her stay under the trees to enjoy the coolness.

Tao Zhi blinked in the dark, slowly lifted the quilt and climbed out of the bed. After washing, he changed into a black cashmere dress and went out.

She stood at the entrance of the hallway and picked a dark red scarf.

When I was a child, Ji Jin always liked to wear red to her in winter, and he liked to buy her a red hat and scarf. The little girl had white skin and was standing in the snow in a pretty red dress, as beautiful as a female doll in a New Year picture. .

Slowly, she wrapped her scarf in circles, got off the elevator and walked into the underground garage, and started the car to the suburbs.

When he arrived at the cemetery, the sky lit up. Tao Zhi looked at the initials of the pinyin of the name engraved on the marble steps and walked forward through the rows of tombstones. He saw another shadow in front of Ji Jin’s tombstone.

Ji Fan stood quietly in front of the tomb, with his head lowered, not knowing how long he stood.

Tao Zhi paused and walked over.

Hearing the sound, the boy looked up, then raised his hand and wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.

Tao Zhi pretended not to see it, walked over and bent down to stand aside the lily bouquet in his hand, and then stood next to him, shoulder to shoulder.

She didn’t kowtow, nor said anything missed, but stood quietly, watching the woman in the photo faded away from the bright colors but still gentle smile.

Ji Fan said in a dumb voice, “Why are you so late, I’ve been here for a long time.”

Tao Zhi dropped his red eyes and said calmly, “I haven’t even eaten breakfast.”

“Why, are you losing weight?” Ji Fan sniffed, raised his hand and rubbed his face. “Eat breakfast if you should. Don’t learn from the young and fashionable now. You are not young anymore. The elderly are a bit old-fashioned. It looks like, can you eat eight bowls of small wontons without a meal.”

“Respect your sister a little bit, so I have to force me to beat you up in front of my mother, right.”

“Anyway, my mother will only let you use violence against me, and she will laugh when she sees me being beaten by you.”

“Suffices to show that you are a person who owes you a lot, and I can be regarded as walking the way for the sky.”

Tao Zhi turned his head: “Where’s Boss Tao, let’s go first?”

“I didn’t come together. I saw him just coming home when I got up.” Ji Fan pointed to the third flower in the middle. The rose was probably exposed in the cold outside for a long time, the outermost. The circle of petals was a little crumpled, “Why are you so incomprehensible, please leave some private space for the old man, can we still take the two of us as light bulbs when we talk.”

Tao Zhi smiled and said nothing.

The two stayed for a while, Ji Fan rubbed her stiff nose, and turned around holding her shoulders: “Let’s go, eat small wontons, today I watched you eat eight bowls by yourself.”

Tao Zhi raised his hand and slapped the back of his head.

They walked past tombstones. In front of a certain monument, Tao Zhiyuguang caught something and suddenly stopped.

She was stunned, turned her head and looked down.

She has been here so many times, she has never noticed that in the row with the same J surname, about a dozen seats away from Ji Jin, on the gray-white tombstone, the old man’s familiar and kind smile came into her sight.

His old face is full of wrinkles, reading glasses are on the bridge of his nose, his eyes are crooked with a muddy smile, and he looks quietly and tenderly at everyone who looks at him.

Below the photo, familiar handwriting is engraved in black.

—— Jiang Qinghe.

——His grandson, Jiang Qihuai was established in 20xx.

The temperature in the urban area is obviously higher than that in the suburbs. Tao Zhi and Ji Fan ate a bowl of small wontons at the old street breakfast shop near their home and headed back home.

When she got home, Fu Xiling was just about to go out. The little girl didn’t talk much when she saw her back. She babbled her to remember to eat lunch. The milk should be heated before drinking. She also asked that there were washed strawberries in the refrigerator. The sandwiches I made, pinched a little and watched the time is too late before rushing out the door in a hurry.

Tao Zhi smiled and sent Fu Xiling out, and when he returned home, he sat in the sand and began to daze.

I don’t know how long it has been, she regained her consciousness and took a look at the time, it was almost noon.

She took a shower to ease her depression, then changed into a set of home clothes, and took out the sandwiches Fu Xiling had made in the morning from the refrigerator.

Pick out the fried eggs and vegetables from the sandwich and eat them first. Tao Zhi bit the slice of bread and pulled up his hair, took out the camera and computer and sat on the sofa, preparing to process the photos taken by Jiang Qihuai.

The photos flashed past one by one, and Tao Zhi looked at the man’s cold and indifferent eyes, a little surprised.

After meeting Jiang Qihuai again, Tao Zhi only felt that he should be living well now.

It took only one year for Meishuo to graduate from university, and he was the youngest investment director who was dug back to the country by a top domestic investment company at a high price. What he showed, and what everyone sees, seems to be his glorious and chic side. .

As a result, Tao Zhi never thought about how he came over these years.

She just feels dangerous, but she doesn’t want to be attracted to him again, and she doesn’t want to return to her mistakes and approach him uncontrollably, so she will get irritated when she sees him, and she will subconsciously think about how to escape when she thinks of him.

Tao Zhi held the notebook and plunged his head into the cushion of the sofa.

In fact, she has not had a bad life over the years. She cried occasionally, smiled more often, and had sad things, but she was happy more often. There were lost people, but she was always accompanied by friends. , Tao Xiuping and Ji Fan cared for her all the way.

Jiang Qihuai.

He was originally a very alone person. When he first met him, he was always alone. He had a messy personality, didn’t get along well with others, and was too lazy to get along with others.

What happened in his family, how much he has spent in these short and long years of more than six years to achieve his current results.

Does he have friends, is he happy, is there a smooth and open road ahead as she hopes.

Tao Zhi didn’t know, without Grandpa Jiang, who else could accompany him along the way.