Peach Branch Bubbles

After the Lantern Festival, Xu Suinian returned to the imperial capital, and even ended her long New Year holiday with Tao Zhi and started to get busy again.

She co-organized a cutting-edge photography exhibition with Xu Suinian.

Tao Zhi used to bury himself in the darkroom and play with his own photos. For the first time in this kind of large-scale exhibition, everything is strange, and all the processes are strange. He runs up and down with Xu Suinian every day and is introduced. I got to know a lot of photographers who won awards and filled the showcases at home. They seem to be busier than Jiang Qihuai.

The two basically maintained the frequency of seeing each other two or three times a week. Jiang Qihuai would pick her up from get off work, and then the two would have dinner together. When they returned home, they were basically busy with each other. There was not much communication between each other.

On weekends, Tao Zhi will take Jiang Qihuai home to accompany Tao Xiuping for dinner. Tao Zhi and Ji Fan still look like you and I will talk to you, Jiang Qihuai will play chess with Tao Xiuping.

Every day seems to be spent ordinary and ordinary without any thrilling.

But it will make people feel comfortable and warm.

It seems that he really has more family members, and finally he does not need to rent a house and move to work and study, and he can be qualified to enjoy this kind of life called "life".

At the end of March, the temperature rose significantly, and the snow-covered city melted cleanly in large areas, the weather picked up, and the beginning of spring blossomed.

One day when Tao Zhi was choosing a film with Xu Suinian, he received a call from Li Shuangjiang.

Li Shuangjiang still has a loud voice full of vitality: "Boss! Are you busy?"

"Busy," Tao Zhi said while flipping through the photos at hand.

"After the new year, I will be busy, take a few minutes," Li Shuangjiang said grimly, "I just came back from a business trip. I got off the plane yesterday. Are you free on the weekend? Come out and make an appointment for a meal."

"What time is it."

"It's the old time," Li Shuangjiang said, "By the way, you can tell Brother Huai."

He tutted: "Wait for a good explanation, you two, ah, why did one of our high school single dog leagues accidentally produce a traitor? They also matched the two directly."

"Then tell him by yourself," Tao Zhi said amusedly, "Why do you want me to convey it."

"If I can contact him, would I still use you to convey it," Li Shuangjiang said dissatisfied, and sent him several WeChat messages, but he didn't see him reply to me.

Tao Zhiying came down, hung up the phone, pushed what he had on hand, lay down on the table, holding the phone, and sent a message to Jiang Qihuai.

[Xiao Zhi Zhi]: Director Jiang!

Jiang Qihuai replied in seconds: [? 】

Tao Zhi couldn't help but curl his lips.

She continued typing: [Li Shuangjiang said that I have sent you many WeChat messages, and you will not reply to him. 】

Jiang Qihuai: [Busy forgot. 】

Tao Zhi, who was treated differently in seconds, uttered in a beautiful voice: "Then give him a reply, and he has something to tell you."

She spoke, and Jiang Qihuai also replied: "Yeah."

Tao Zhi put down the phone and continued to do things.

As the main initiator of most activities after graduation, Li Shuangjiang has just a few restaurants that he loves to go to. Everyone follows the rule of exclusion and closes his eyes to know what he wants to eat next time.

Zhao Mingqi was the first to protest, suggesting that everyone should have a hot pot today, and he received enthusiastic support.

When Jiang Qihuai came to take the pottery branch, she just finished her work, and when the two arrived at the hot pot restaurant, she was still the last one.

When they opened the door of the box, they were ordering food. Jiang Zhengxun beckoned to them: "We are coming ten thousand years late."

Jiang Qihuai walked in behind Tao Zhi and closed the door back.

There was a moment of silence in the box, and everyone's eyes looked from Tao Zhi to Jiang Qihuai, and from Jiang Huai to Tao Zhi.

Li Shuangjiang dragged his voice: "Oh—"

Fu Xiling cooperated dryly: "Oh—"

Zhao Mingqi: "Oh oh oh oh -!"

Tao Zhi was embarrassed and amused by them: "Illuminator, can you not be like a monkey?" She rolled her eyes and looked at Ji Fan, "And you, don't roll your eyes there. When I can’t see."

When Fu Xiling heard the words, she turned her head and saw Ji Fan rolling her eyes next to her so that she couldn't see her.

She quietly stomped him under the table.

Ji Fan snorted, bowed his waist in pain, and turned his head.

"Pay attention to your expression management." Fu Xiling said solemnly.

Ji Fan didn't dare to say anything, and silently suppressed his exaggerated expression.

Tao Zhi secretly watched Ji Fan slumped, and sat down on the reserved empty seats. The group of people had already ordered the dishes. The menu was handed over. She added two plates of meat and asked the waiter to take away the menu.

The huge copper hot pot was cooked slurpingly. Everyone hadn't seen each other for a few months since they had eaten Japanese food together. They got together again as if there were endless gossips and complaints.

Obviously, I rarely chat on WeChat. Even after graduating from high school, I’m busy for months and half a year. But every time I get together, the familiar intimacy never cools down. .

A hot pot meal was finished lively, and it was still early, because the next day was the weekend without going to work, Zhao Mingqi proposed to sing and continue the next one.

Tao Zhi followed them out and said in a low voice, "Are you going to work overtime tomorrow? Just tell them if you don't want to go."

Jiang Qihuai raised his eyebrows: "Do I look so gregarious."

Tao Zhi looked at him with a complicated expression: "Did you say this seriously?"

Jiang Qihuai: "..."

The hot pot restaurant happened to be in the business district, and there were several KTVs around. Zhao Mingqi called to book a box and walked there for about ten minutes.

The weather was cool and comfortable. A few people were chatting all the way to the sky. Tao Zhi and Jiang Qihuai walked at the back, and everyone knew them a little bit away.

After passing a certain intersection, Tao Zhi suddenly turned his head.

Jiang Qihuai's eyebrows were gathered in the brilliant lights, and the outlines of his facial features were even more profound. The streets were crowded with people coming and going, and the atmosphere was lively and quiet.

He noticed her gaze and turned his head: "What's wrong."

"Nothing," Tao Zhi looked at him with a smile, "Jiang Qihuai, let's go out for a walk after dinner."

Jiang Qihuai didn't know why she had a whim, but she still said, "Well, good."

"Bring another cat or dog," Tao Zhi continued, "go out for a walk every night and walk the dog."

Jiang Qihuai nodded: "Look at the old people on the street dancing the square dance and watering the flowers. You have entered the retirement period ahead of schedule."

"..."

This person is annoying when he becomes mean.

Tao Zhi curled his lips and heard him slowly asking next to him: "What dog do you want to raise?"

Tao Zhi thought for a while: "Alaska."

"Bigger than you."

"Then Teddy?"

"Too noisy."

"Where is the husky?"

"It will tear down the house."

"Why do you have so much shit," Tao Zhi dissatisfied, "Is it OK to raise a Corgi? It's lovely."

"Legs are a little short," Jiang Qihuai said reluctantly, "All right."

Tao Zhi didn't want to ignore him anymore, and took two quick steps forward.

Jiang Qihuai bent her head and curled her lips, pulled the person back by her wrist, took the opportunity to put it in her coat pocket, and walked forward with her hand.

He thought about the situation she described to him uncontrollably.

They will have a house with a few pots of flowers and a dog. They will walk together, squinting their eyes contentedly like a cat watching her eat something they like, and pulling his hand excitedly when they see something of interest. Smile at him.

He could finally open his eyes every day, and he could see her quietly sleeping face.

Jiang Qihuai doesn't actually have much ambitions. He just wants to become strong enough one day to become a glass wall that shelters his roses from wind and rain.

Then just spend every day like this, staying with her, and getting older.

After Li Shuangjiang and Zhao Mingqi picked up the wheat, they became crazy. Ji Fan came over with a bunch of dice cups and drove a few rows of wine.

When I ate hot pot, I drank a lot and got a lot of bottom. Now, after a few rounds of sifting, everyone is a little bit on the top. Zhao Mingqi was originally a courageous man, and now the whole world has become his world.

When he sang, he pointed Li Mai forward: "What a stud! What's the meaning of just drinking, come and play some dirt!"

He sprang down from the stage.

The name of the game is "King". The rules are very simple. The five sieves are shaken to the same number. The largest one is the king. You can make a request, but you can't name it. If you want to clarify the conditions, those who meet this condition must Follow his request.

The first one to win was Li Shuangjiang, and he shook five ones in one hand.

His eyes floated back and forth between Jiang Qihuai and Tao Zhi for a while, and he smiled unkindly and said: "The people who are in love at the scene tell me a secret that no one else knows."

Tao Zhi sighed, always feeling that Jiang Qihuai couldn't say anything. When she was racking her brains to think of any innocuous secrets she had, she heard the person next to him with a cold voice. Say: "I fell in love early."

Tao Zhi: "..."

Can it be like this?

She quickly said: "I have cheated."

"..."

Jiang Qihuai turned his head blankly and looked at her questioningly.

"What do you see me doing?" Tao Zhi muttered softly, "You obviously stole it too, and you were hidden in the closet."

Everyone barely let them go.

Then it was Jiang Zhengxun's turn.

Jiang Zhengxun has always been silent, but he was dying. He held the wine bottle and said, "If the first love is still there, please kiss one."

After he finished speaking, everyone looked at Fu Xiling.

Almost everyone had a relationship in college. Even Zhao Mingqi had a short one-week relationship with the music department next door. Only Fu Xiling was always alone.

"It should be gone except Fu Xiling?" Li Shuangjiang asked.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Ji Fan stand up lazily beside him.

Tao Zhi: "..."

It's really to take advantage of it that I don't even want to face it.

Li Shuangjiang was shocked: "Brother Fan, you are flying around the world like flowers and butterflies every day. Haven't been in a relationship? Do you believe it or not?"

"Fuck me?" Ji Fan was also shocked, he said irritably, "What is Huahua Butterfly? I am very clean and self-conscious, okay!"

Li Shuangjiang looked at Fu Xiling hesitantly again: "That..."

Tao Zhizheng was thinking about helping his younger brother cheer or helping his girlfriend to make a round, but Fu Xiling, who was sitting on the sofa, had already stood up generously.

Ji Fan turned his head to look at her, couldn't help but pursed his lips, and said: "Either count..."

He hasn't finished speaking yet.

Suddenly, Fu Xiling stood on tiptoe and raised her head, and quickly kissed him on the face.

Ji Fan: "..."

It was quiet, Ji Fan stood in front of the sofa like a fool, his eyes scattered.

Zhao Mingqi snapped his chin back, which had almost fallen off, and cleared his throat: "Go on."

Until the end, Ji Fan was still sluggish.

He walked out of the KTV with the crowd as if he had lost his soul, walked to the road with hands and feet, then stood on the side of the road, suddenly raised his head and looked up at the sky.

It doesn't look normal anymore.

Li Shuangjiang and Zhao Mingqi put their heads together: "Brother Fan is okay, right."

"Brother Fan won't be kissed by a girl for the first time, right?"

"I understand, I understand," Old God Zhao Mingqi was saying, "It really feels like falling to heaven."

Li Shuangjiang turned his head to look at him: "You also talked for a week, pretending to be someone who came here as a fart."

Zhao Mingqi: "..."

When the early spring arrived, all matters of the photography exhibition were prepared.

The studio contracted the entire third floor of the West End Art Gallery, funded by several seniors in the industry, mainly to encourage the new generation of photographers in the circle, so that they can have a platform to show more of themselves.

This is the case in all circles, many people soar into the sky, but more people are unknown and remain unknown.

When Jiang Qihuai arrived, Tao Zhi was talking to someone next to him. He didn't call her, and walked past a snow-white display board.

Tao Zhi has been to many places over the years.

She went to Zhangye to take pictures of Danxia Land, to the small villages of Yundian, to take pictures of unknown small villages, to Tianzifeng to take pictures of the night moon and the sea of ​​clouds, and to the polar regions to take pictures of melting glaciers.

Here is full of the world he didn't know that her eyes had seen, with the footprints of her alone when he was away.

Regardless of whether there are other people around her, her life is always colorful, full and clear, just like her whole person, brilliant to the extreme, grand and brilliant.

Jiang Qihuai walked all the way until he stood in front of the last photo wall.

The picture on the wall is not her work, and only two words are written on the signature: Anonymous.

Above are old photos, carefully preserved in plastic packaging. Those photos are too familiar to Jiang Qihuai. They used to be on the wall of his small bedroom and quietly accompanied him for several days and nights.

The cat curled up on the corner of the street, the wall was gray and peeling to reveal the concrete, and the rolled children's puzzle was placed on the old-fashioned parquet wooden floor.

And under the sky full of fireworks, the young girl dimly reflected on the window of the Ferris wheel.

Jiang Qihuai's eyes drooped. On the snow-white wall next to the photo, the lead-black mimeograph was his familiar publicity handwriting, with a row of small characters written on it.

——My beginning, and my end.

Jiang Qihuai stood in front of those photos for a long time, and at a certain moment, he suddenly turned his head to the side.

Tao Zhi was standing not far away. She probably just saw him with a surprised expression. She quickly showed a smile, and Ming Yan looked at him with beautiful eyebrows.

She spoke a few words to the person next to her, and then stepped on the broken and mottled sunlight to walk towards him.

Jiang Qihuai would be here, but Tao Zhi was actually a little surprised.

She mentioned the incident to him the day before, Jiang Qihuai reacted coldly, showing no interest at all, and told her to go to work.

This was her first serious exhibition. Although she was a bit disappointed, Tao Zhi didn't show it and didn't expect him to come.

Ran to him and raised his head: "Why are you here?"

She ran a little hurriedly, her broken hair swept down her cheeks, Jiang Qihuai raised her hand, fingertips picked her hair and hooked behind her ears: "Why wouldn't I come."

"Aren't you going to work?"

"asked for leave."

Tao Zhi smiled and let out an "Oh", and took him to the photos, looking at them one by one.

She told him about the interesting people she had met in every place and what happened.

"Have you ever been to Russia? You don't know how cold Russia is," Tao Zhi said endlessly. "The little bit of snow here in the winter here is like a light rain in Russia. It doesn't hurt or itchy. Especially Pei. Wake, in the northernmost part of Russia, in the Arctic Circle."

She said all the way, Jiang Qihuai listened quietly, and stopped when she finally said that she was tired.

"Would you like some water?" Jiang Qihuai looked at her.

Tao Zhi shook his head, then narrowed his eyes: "Are you suggesting that I talk a lot?"

Jiang Qihuai said helplessly: "Don't be so unreasonable."

Tao Zhi curled his lips.

There were not so many people at the moment. She looked around and saw Xu Suinian who was standing by the window, raised her hand to swing at him, and then pointed to the stairs.

Xu Suinian gave her an OK gesture from a distance.

Tao Zhi pulled Jiang Qihuai away: "Let's go, let's leave early."

The corners of Jiang Qihuai's lips loosened: "Can you leave early?"

"Anyway, Xu Suinian can just watch it here," Tao Zhi said as he went downstairs, "It's not easy for you to have a holiday, we went out and strolled, and it's not nearly noon, just have a meal in a while. "

Jiang Qihuai followed her downstairs.

He said that he was going to go shopping, but Tao Zhi had no idea where to go, but Jiang Qihuai didn't say anything, just sat in the driver's seat and drove forward.

Until the scenery in front of him became more and more familiar, he parked the car at the door of Experiment One.

Tao Zhi looked out the window of the car and said, "Why come to school suddenly?"

Jiang Qihuai loosened the seat belt and turned off: "Suddenly want to come and have a look."

Tao Zhi followed him out of the car, greeted the guard, and walked into the campus.

They came in just after the last get out of class in the morning, and the playground was full of excitement. Teenage girls in a middle school uniform rushed toward the cafeteria. The commissary sat in twos and threes together and chatted and chatted. The boys smiled openly on the basketball court. Recklessly, the orange basketball in his hand cut through the blue sky and fell into the basket.

Tao Zhi walked all the way to the teaching building of the second year of high school.

She walked into the teaching building and stood in the lobby on the first floor to look.

I don’t know how many people have been changed on the honor showcases on both sides. Now they are all young and immature faces. Among them, the photo of the teenager who occupies the most space is pasted at the top, and a banner is even drawn below.

——Warmly celebrate the selection of Xu Baisen from the first grade of high school to the national team of the Olympic Mathematics Competition.

Tao Zhi turned his head and looked at Jiang Qihuai with a smile: "His Royal Highness, you have some successors."

She leaned closer and looked at the boy, and said, "Don't tell me, this kid looks pretty handsome."

Jiang Qihuai let out a "tsk" and slammed her head blankly and broke her head back, not letting her look: "You also know that she is a child."

Tao Zhi was reluctantly pushed forward by his head. All the way upstairs, walked to the gate of the first class of high school.

Just after class, the students filed out and couldn't help but look at them curiously as they walked out.

They stood at the door of the classroom and waited for a while. Tao Zhi couldn't help but said with emotion: "This is no longer our classroom. We went in like this, and it counts as a private entry into the house."

Jiang Qihuai didn't speak, and went straight in.

The people in the classroom had already left, only a few of them were left looking at them curiously.

There are probably relatively few people in the first class of this year's high school. The two desks in the last row next to the wall are empty and no one sits.

Tao Zhi opened the chair by the wall and sat down. The girl sitting in her previous position just didn't leave and turned around.

Tao Zhi smiled: "Hello, we are graduates of the previous class. I want to come back and have a look. Excuse me."

"Oh, it's okay, elder sister okay." The girl said quietly, turning her head.

Tao Zhi leaned forward on the desk, holding her chin, looking at the blackboard that hadn't had time to wipe in front of her, and suddenly sighed, "Jiang Qihuai."

Jiang Qihuai stood by and responded.

"I suddenly wanted to go back to high school." She said sadly.

Jiang Qihuai looked at her and laughed.

"Then go back." He said quietly.

Tao Zhi blinked.

Jiang Qihuai took two steps forward, walked to the girl in front, and lowered his head: "Hello."

The girl hurriedly raised her head, a little panicked.

Jiang Qihuai pointed to the memo pad on her desk: "Could you lend me a pen and paper?"

The girl nodded, handed him her memo pad, and drew a pen to him.

Jiang Qihuai took it over, thanked him, walked to Tao Zhi, pulled out the chair and sat down.

He tore off a piece of paper, and then held the pen down to write.

Tao Zhi's head was stretched out, and he looked over curiously.

He lowered his head, writing very slowly, every stroke and every stroke was serious, his handwriting was magnificent and sharp, and the four characters fell neatly on the pale yellow sticky paper.

——Come in my car.

He deliberately wrote "Er" as "I".

I use a car to marry me.

Tao Zhi raised his eyelashes slightly.

As if for a moment, those past times were all pulled back by an invisible hand, inch by inch, back to the familiar classroom, back to her youth, back to the day she saw him.

Back in the morning when she wrote this silent sentence for the first time, the cool breeze blew up the light blue curtains, and large swaths of shallow sunlight spread diagonally across the desk.

The boy's eyes were light, and his voice was low and calm, looking at the words she said calmly.

At that time.

When I was a teenager, I liked to be rubbed into the cicadas and sunlight in the late summer and early morning. After being green and cold, all that was left was tenderness.

Tao Zhi was quiet for a while, then slowly took out the pen between his fingers, and continued to write after the four words.

-Take my bribe to move.

That being the case.

I will take my dowry and marry you.

When the last stroke fell, Tao Zhi wrinkled his sore nose and raised his head.

Jiang Qihuai was looking at her.

His eyes were quiet, his gaze remained constant for a moment, with a soft smile.

"Then say so."

He said.

The school’s radio station played a song with a strong ancient atmosphere, and the gentle male voice whispered about the unknown rivers and lakes and the strange, magnificent or ordinary indifferent lives.

...

That's the end of his story, no more wine.

The bright moon in the middle of the sky has fallen on the hills.

After experiencing all the last, it seems that everything can finally settle down.

From then on, I will be your way of coming, and I will also be your way of not returning.

——End of the text.