Peach Branch Bubbles - Chapter 84

When Ji Fan arrived home, Jiang Qihuai was playing chess with Tao Xiuping.

Two people were sitting in front of the chess. Tao Xiuping rubbed his chin while looking at the chessboard and muttered, “You kid, give me a set.”

Jiang Qihuai smiled and said nothing.

“But,” Tao Xiuping prolonged, holding a cannon and moving two to the side, glanced at it, and smiled, “Teach you what is **** or old spicy.”

Jiang Qihuai’s eyes fell on the chessboard, seeming to be caught in a hard fight, and he didn’t move for a while.

Tao Xiuping hummed: “You are still young, the offensive intention is too obvious, but you are hiding a little bit.”

Ji Fan: “…”

He didn’t know why, and the two men suddenly seemed to be happy.

He changed his shoes and walked in, standing next to him condescendingly.

Jiang Qihuai took a car.

Ji Fan cleared his throat.

Tao Xiuping ate his elephant.

Ji Fan took off his jacket and threw it aside, and stood swaying around for a long time.

Then watched Jiang Qihuai vault calmly.

With his move, Tao Xiuping raised his eyebrows again, knocked on the chess pieces that had been eaten on the table, and fell into deep thought.

Ji Fan couldn’t help saying, “I’m back.”

“Stop for a while,” Tao Xiu said without lifting his head, “playing chess.”

“…”

Ji Fan was shocked: “No, how come you old man doesn’t recognize his son when someone plays chess with you? I don’t have any status at home?”

“You don’t accompany me to play chess, every day you know what position you need to go out to play,” Tao Xiuping saw that the battle was weak, and he pushed the chess piece forward, raising his head to look at him leisurely.” Come on?”

“…”

Looking at the mess of chess pieces, Ji Fan’s head hurts, and he strode upstairs without saying a word: “I thought about it for a moment. Actually, there is no need to have any status. Let’s play.”

Tao Xiuping snorted and looked up at the time: “It’s almost the same, are you going to eat with Zhizhi?”

Jiang Qihuai nodded: “Yeah.”

“Okay,” Tao Xiuping said while holding the chess pieces, “you have worked so hard to play chess with me, I know you young people don’t like this very much.”

Jiang Qihuai helped him put away all the chess pieces: “No, my grandfather used to ask me to accompany him. I think it’s quite interesting.”

Tao Xiuping was stunned, and sighed, “Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to play with his old man.”

Jiang Qihuai paused, his eyes lowered in silence.

Tao Xiuping glanced at him, didn’t say anything, picked up his teacup and said, “I will accompany my uncle when I have time. Ji Fan’s stinky boy has no frontal cells in this area.”

Jiang Qihuai responded.

Tao Xiuping looked at him cheerfully: “When Zhizhi comes back for dinner when nothing is wrong, you will follow her often.”

Tao Zhi just came downstairs when Jiang Qihuai arrived at the office building of the magazine.

She pushed open the glass door and walked out, while lowering her head and pressing her phone, a little girl trot up with a big bag next to her and talked to her.

Tao Zhi answered a few words, not knowing what she was talking about, she hung her head and smiled lightly, and the corners of her lips curled up slightly.

Jiang Qihuai’s WeChat phone rang at the same time.

He sat in the car and glanced at her, took out the phone, and saw that she had sent him a message.

Jiang Qihuai replied: [Look up. 】

Tao Zhi: [? 】

Tao Zhi spoke directly: “I didn’t hug other men this time?”

While talking, she turned her head and saw his car parked on the side of the road. The image that had been maintained in the cold for the last second was nowhere to be seen. She stomped on the spot, raised her arms and waved in his direction. Waved, then turned his head to talk to the little girl next to him.

The little girl nodded and left.

Tao Zhi ran all the way and got in the co-pilot. Jiang Qihuai watched her drop her bag in the back seat of the car, pulled her seat belt back, and said amusedly: “Let you look up, not looking back.”

“That’s not all that has a headline,” Tao Zhi said with lingering fear while buckling his seat belt, “I am afraid now when I see this word.”

Jiang Qihuai snorted and started the car.

He chose a Chinese restaurant, ordered some of her favorite dishes, and sent her home after eating.

On the way back, Tao Zhi glanced at him several times.

Jiang Qihuai looked at the front intently, with one hand loosely resting on the steering wheel, the whole person seemed to have an inexplicable and rare sense of relaxation, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

Tao Zhi thought for a while and called him: “Jiang Qihuai.”

“Huh?” He replied lazily.

Tao Zhi tilted his head: “Do you want to spend the Chinese New Year with me this year?”

Tao Zhi pondered that the last time he went, Tao Xiuping’s attitude seemed to be okay.

Although I am not sure if it is completely accepted, it is always good to make more contact and let Tao Xiuping know about him.

She licked her lips and said, “He seems to like to chat with you. You can chat with him more.”

Hearing her mention this, Jiang Qihuai didn’t lie to her anymore, and said plainly: “I saw Uncle Tao today.”

Tao Zhi almost choked with his saliva.

She opened her eyes wide, and said anxiously: “He’s looking for you? Did he tell you anything? You don’t need to listen to him, he agreed to me and agreed to be together.”

Jiang Qihuai looked at her a little anxiously, and calmly said: “I didn’t say anything, only played chess with him for a while.”

Tao Zhi frowned and looked at him dubiously: “Really?”

“Um.”

Tao Zhi heaved a sigh of relief and nodded, suddenly a little curious: “Then you won or lost.”

“There are losses and losses,” Jiang Qihuai tilted his head, “Is there anything you need to pay attention to.”

“It’s too stressful,” Tao Zhi said. “Our Lao Tao is a little princess. If you lose to him, he won’t feel cool. He will only think that you are a good person and you are not worthy to compete with him.”

Jiang Qihuai humbly asked for advice: “You won?”

Tao Zhi: “If he wins, he will feel shameless, unhappy, and even more unhappy.”

Jiang Qihuai raised his eyebrows: “That’s pretty hard to serve.”

“It’s harder to serve than me,” Tao Zhi sighed and said in a casual tone, “So, you have to please me and make me happy. Say a few words, say something nice about you.”

Jiang Qihuai nodded, and the car was about to reach her house. When he reached the next intersection, he suddenly turned on the turn signal to pick his head and drove off on the other road.

Tao Zhi watched her home district get farther and farther away from her, wondering: “What’s the matter?”

“Go back to my house.” Jiang Qihuai said.

Tao Zhi: “?”

“Please please.”

“…”

Jiang Qihuai turned straight away from another road, but did not really take her home.

The route he took changed from familiar to unfamiliar, from unfamiliar to familiar, until the car drove through the street in front of the Second Medical University branch campus, Tao Zhi began to recognize the road.

Counting it down, she has never been here since graduating from high school.

The roadside buildings have changed a lot, and they don’t seem to have changed much. Almost all the shops in the store have changed. A copying company around the corner has become a beef noodle shop. The small convenience store at the entrance of the hutong is still open, but Changed a brand.

Jiang Qihuai parked the car in the parking space on the side of the road, turned off the engine and got out of the car.

Tao Zhi followed him down, still seeing the familiar small alley in front of her. She looked at the row of scan-code bicycles parked on the side of the road, and she was a little surprised.

Jiang Qihuai turned his head and looked at her: “Are you going?”

Tao Zhi recovered and nodded.

She followed him into the narrow alley, which was already a cramped space. There was a broken tricycle parked by the wall. There were many cardboard boxes and some old furniture gadgets piled on top of it. With thick layers of snow, the dark red paint on the walls was almost peeling off, revealing the dark gray cement inside.

She stepped on the snow, followed him forward under the dim light of the street lamp and amidst the silence, out of the small alley, walked into the community, and went upstairs.

Then she watched Jiang Qihuai take out the key and opened the door.

The inside of the house was pitch black, and when Tao Zhi went in, he smelled a little bit of dust from the house.

Jiang Qihuai turned on the lights.

It was still what she remembered, and nothing changed. It almost stood at the dining table where only one person could pass by at the door. Simple and textured old-fashioned wooden furniture, heavy coffee table, and old TV with big butt.

Everything was clean as she expected. There was no dust at all. There were a few pots of green plants in front of the balcony in the living room, and some climbed all the way up along the curtain rods and the heating pipes in the corners, lush and wild. I can see that he is well taken care of.

Tao Zhi walked in in a daze, looking at the small bench she used to sit on in front of the sofa where the test paper was written, and the rocking chair quietly placed by the balcony window. All of these were so familiar that she suddenly felt a bit sore at the tip of her nose. .

She raised her hand in a concealed manner and rubbed her nose: “Isn’t the landlord moved back to live in this house?”

“Moved away,” Jiang Qihuai walked in and said, “My son went to the south after graduation, and the family went with him, and sold the house before he left.”

“Then, did you buy it?” Tao Zhi asked.

“Um.”

The house is old and cannot be demolished. The location is not very good. Even if it is rented out, the rent is very cheap.

Jiang Qihuai used to know people, and the landlord was very quick when he took the shot, and even offered him a price lower than the market price.

Jiang Qihuai started working with projects in university, and after going to the United States to do projects with his mentor, enter the stock market, and stayed on Wall Street for a year. All of this was just because he wanted to make money.

He wanted to make the most money as quickly as possible. He couldn’t come back poorly after such a long time, and hoped that Tao Zhi could follow him with nothing.

In the process, he unexpectedly discovered that he was actually very suitable for this industry.

Jiang Qinghe wanted him to be a doctor. He placed his expectations of Jiang Zhi on Jiang Qihuai. Later, because of Tao Zhi’s mother, Jiang Qihuai also thought about getting a doctor.

But it was also because of Jiang Zhi’s previous medical record that no matter how hard he worked in his life, he couldn’t get into the hospital to get a formal establishment.

So when he saw Tao Zhi and Jiang Hesheng together, he was very faint and delicate, but it was as vivid as a thorn.

Tao Zhi’s fingertips wiped the corner of the dining table and walked forward, across the living room, to the door of the first bedroom, and then pushed the door in.

As if time traveled back to high school in a flash, the teenager’s room was clean and concise, with few things, a desk, a bed, a wardrobe and a small bookshelf were all.

She obviously didn’t come too many times, but she felt that this small room, which was almost too crowded to walk a few steps away, affected all the connections between her and him from beginning to end.

The first time I understood my mind, when I wanted to get close to him but couldn’t help but back down, I would leave without saying goodbye on a snowy night in the New Year’s Eve.

There was a blank wall in front of his desk, which was originally covered with photos, and there were even traces of glue on it. Now it is clean, leaving only the middle one.

Tao Zhi walked over and looked down.

In the photo, she is still wearing the ugly sports school uniform from Experiment 1, with long hair tied into a neat ponytail, and a distressed expression on her immature face. She holds a pen with her head buried and is doing paperwork.

Tao Zhi didn’t even know when this photo was taken.

She subconsciously looked for the handwriting in the corner of the photo, but found that there was nothing written on it.

She stood there in a daze, and suddenly someone opened her arms and took her into her arms from behind.

Jiang Qihuai lowered his eyes, his eyes fell on the girl in the photo, and the voice was quiet and clear in the quiet room: “I still don’t have the ability to buy a big house for Zhizhi, but at least, I want to put this place stay.”

Here are the traces of the two most important people in his life.

This is where he can approach her.

In the evening many years ago, when she saw her sitting in front of the coffee table with a small bench, holding the test paper and looking up at him with a smile, in the warm and bright house filled with the aroma of food, she and Jiang Qinghe While sitting by the window playing chess, Jiang Qihuai felt vaguely and thoroughly for the first time that he could have a home.

He is no longer the kid who squatted in the orphanage when he was four years old. He ate alone and grew up alone. He occasionally envied the ants who could go home under the tree.

Jiang Qihuai hugged her and said slowly: “This is very important to me.”

Tao Zhi’s eyes suddenly turned red.

She lowered her eyes hurriedly and whispered, “Who wants you to buy a big house.”

Jiang Qihuai laughed softly: “The princess wants to live in the palace.”

Tao Zhi turned around, looked up at him, and said slowly, “That’s not all of them. Princess Lettuce only lives in the tower.”

She raised her arm to hook his neck, and kissed him on the chin and on the tip of her toes slightly, and her voice was sent in with a soft and vague voice: “His Royal Highness is also willing to live in a small house.”