Chapter 72 Chapter 72 We are temporarily in a long-distance relationship...
Their flight was at 1:30 p.m., and ten minutes ago, Xu Ji sent her a WeChat message telling her that they would soon go through security.
Tao Siyun was sitting in her seat playing Candy Crush, feeling a bit bored. Tao Qian opened a bag of sandwich cookies. She took a look at it, shook her head and said she didn't want to eat it.
Qin Shu slept with her upstairs last night, and this morning she and Tao Daiming sent them to the airport together. She suddenly felt reluctant to leave home...
I am always very happy when I go home, but I feel like crying when I leave.
This is a sequelae left over from the years she spent studying abroad.
While waiting at the airport, she thought of the past.
Every time she has a holiday, she will book a flight back home in advance. On the day of returning home, she will go to the airport several hours in advance and watch the planes take off in front of her.
Then I kept talking and posting photos in the group...
But there were also many nights when I was alone in the airport, waiting for my flight to Paris.
Tao Qian turned to glance at his depressed sister and began eating. "I told you to stay home a few days, but you didn't listen. I'm going to work. As for you, your school won't start for another ten days. If I were you, I'd go home right now. My parents haven't gotten home yet, so I'd come pick you up."
“…”
Another message popped up on WeChat, Xu Ji asked her to go to A39.
Tao Siyun glanced at his boarding pass and thought he had gone to the wrong gate: [Gate A40]
Xu Ji: [You come here first]
Tao Siyun stood up slowly and pushed Tao Qian, who was sitting with his legs crossed, and said, "Make way. I need to go to the bathroom."
Tao Qian ate his biscuits, pulled his legs together, and mumbled, "Hurry up!"
The time had not come yet and there was no one at the next boarding gate. Xu Ji was sitting in his seat waiting for her. In his hand was a plastic bag containing a fragrant roast goose leg, wrapped in paper and still hot.
"Haven't you eaten it before? Try it."
Tao Siyun stared at Xu Ji blankly.
I just said it casually last night, but I didn't expect that he would run such a long way today just to buy her a roast goose leg...
For Tao Siyun, the warmth of this incident was no less than reading a tear-jerking selection of elementary school students' essays.
"I remember that thunderstorm late at night. I had a high fever, there were lightning and thunder outside the window, and the rain was pouring down. My brother was soaked when he came home from buying medicine, but in his arms was my favorite roasted sweet potato..."
It's so touching.
"Is it delicious?"
Tao Siyun nodded solemnly, and like the little protagonist in the composition with tears in his eyes who gave the cold roasted sweet potato to his brother first, he put the goose leg to Xu Ji's mouth, meaning that you will know after you try it.
Xu Ji stared at her for two seconds, slowly opened his mouth, tilted his head and bit off a piece of meat from the place where she had just bitten.
“…”
“It’s delicious.”
Tao Siyun blushed, realizing this was a public place, so he politely kept a distance from him and said something to make conversation, "No wonder there are more goose legs than Lao Dingji casserole..."
"What kind of logic is this?"
“…normal human logic!”
The two of them sat on the iron chairs at the boarding gate, and they shared a whole roasted goose leg, one bite at a time.
Tao Siyun felt a little uncomfortable, so he asked Xu Ji to go to the boarding gate first.
If the two of them appeared one after another, Tao Qian should not have any suspicions. Then she went to the milk tea shop next door and bought two cups of milk tea in a pretentious manner.
There were two customers in line in front of us, and they waited for more than ten minutes before the food was ready.
As soon as she went over, she saw two men sitting together talking.
"My sister is going back with me this time. That girl is probably crying in the bathroom right now, calling my mom and asking her to go later, but she insisted on going with me."
“…………”
Xu Ji was right indeed.
Just as she was about to go over, Tao Qian asked him why his girlfriend didn't go back to Shanghai West with him.
Xu Ji said what he had taught him very naturally: "Oh, we are in a long-distance relationship for the time being."
Tao Siyun: "..."
"Long distance relationship, your girlfriend is from Beijing?"
"Well, I came to Jingfu two days ago to spend Valentine's Day with her."
"Oh, I didn't realize you were so romantic. But it's not a big deal if you two stay apart like this forever." Tao Qian asked with concern like a worried old woman, "What are your plans for the future? Will she go to Shanghai West or will you come to Beijing?"
"I'm fine with either. It depends on her. She also lived in Huxi for two years. If she wants to go to Huxi, we'll stay in Huxi. If she wants to stay in Jingfu, then I'll come."
Just as Tao Qian was about to say something, Tao Siyun suddenly called him anxiously.
The two men raised their heads at the same time.
Tao Siyun awkwardly shook the milk tea in his hand. He didn't dare to look at Xu Ji, but looked past him at Tao Qian. "Well, I bought some milk tea. Do you want some?"
There were only two cups of milk tea. Tao Qian politely gave the taro paste that Tao Siyun had bought for him to Xu Ji, "You drink it, you drink it."
"Thank you, brother."
"We'll follow each other."
Tao Siyun suddenly felt that Tao Qian was a little pitiful, "...Brother, how about I go buy you another drink?"
Tao Qian didn't get to drink the milk tea in the end because everyone started lining up to board the plane.
After getting on the plane, the three of them looked at each other in surprise while holding their boarding passes. Tao Siyun pretended to be surprised, and Xu Ji also looked unconvinced, confirming his seats several times.
Only Tao Qian himself was kept in the dark. The smile on his face came from the heart, and he exclaimed that it was such a coincidence!
“…”
The seats were selected in advance on the APP. At that time, except for their row which was still empty, there was only one seat in each of the other rows.
Tao Siyun was bound to sit with Tao Qian, so Xu Ji took the lead in choosing a middle seat, took a screenshot and sent it to her, and then Tao Siyun used Tao Qian's mobile phone to choose a window seat for herself, while Tao Qian sat outside.
While Tao Qian was putting the three boarding passes together for a photo, Tao Siyun glanced at Xu Ji quickly, then turned his head away with a guilty conscience.
After she went in, Xu Ji considerately asked Tao Qian if he wanted to sit in the middle.
"It's okay, I'll just sit by the aisle, otherwise I'll have to trouble you to come out to the bathroom later."
“…”
Tao Siyun fastened his seat belt, asked the flight attendant for a blanket, and began to pretend to sleep with his eyes closed.
As one of the instigators of this "accident", she could no longer perform in front of her brother as freely as Xu Ji.
After a while, the airplane meals were served. After eating, Tao Qian couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep in a few minutes.
The two people hid their hands in the blanket and held each other secretly for a long time.
After landing in the west of Shanghai, they took a taxi back to Jian'an Lane together.
Tao Qian stayed for one night and cleaned the house inside and out with Tao Siyun. The next morning, he went to the supermarket to buy food to fill the refrigerator. He made a meal for her at noon and left after they ate.
Tao Siyun had nothing to do, so after resting at home for a few days, she sent a WeChat message to Zhao Yiran saying that she had returned to Shanghai West early. Zhao Yiran apologized and said that she was skiing in Switzerland and had not returned yet, so the two of them made an appointment in advance to go to the company to talk after she came back.
***
A week passed quickly, and when it was time for the two to meet, Tao Siyun sat on the leather sofa in Zhao Yiran's office on the 27th floor and chatted with her senior for a long time. Finally, they talked about work.
"Two or three days a week is fine. The internship hours in the design department are very flexible. You can arrange it according to your own schedule. Here—" Zhao Yiran took out a red envelope from her bag: "Sister will give you a big red envelope. In the new year, everyone in the company will get one."
Tao Siyun smiled and said, "Your employee benefits are so good!"
"Happy, huh?"
At this moment, the assistant suddenly knocked on the door and reminded Zhao Yiran to go to the meeting room in five minutes.
Zhao Yiran glanced at his watch and immediately switched to work mode. "Dear, let's leave it at that for today. I've already informed the HR department. You can just come directly next week."
"Okay, Senior Sister, you're busy, I'll leave first."
…
It was still early, not even 4:15 when I left the company.
Bian Chengzi's workplace is not far from here. This guy promised her yesterday that he would have this afternoon off and asked Tao Siyun to accompany her to get a manicure after he finished his work, but there has been no movement until now.
No one answered the phone. It seemed that she was temporarily taken away by the unscrupulous boss she mentioned to do some work.
Tao Siyun had no choice but to send her a WeChat message: [Work hard, I'll accompany you to do manicures on the weekend [Keep going]]
…
After getting off the subway, Tao Siyun walked towards the bus stop.
Although the temperature has risen since the beginning of spring, Shanghai West, a southern city with unclear four seasons, is still as cold as winter for Tao Siyun.
It is also cold in Beijing, but as long as the snow starts to melt, it means spring has arrived. In the west of Shanghai, spring will probably not come until the end of March or the beginning of April.
Now only the flower shop on the opposite corner can allow her to feel a little bit of "spring" in advance.
While waiting for the red light, Tao Siyun suddenly wanted to go to the flower shop and buy a bouquet of flowers.
Small daisies, with a few yellow roses, or chamomile will also work...
There were no green plants at home in Huxi. I remember Bian Chengzi saying the first time she came to her house, "You know how to waste. I'm thinking of bringing all those wilted succulents from my house to your place to bask in the sun. Could you please build a flower stand so I can transplant some of them for you? I'm almost out of space at home."
Tao Siyun originally planned to build a flower stand on the bedroom balcony, but he had not yet decided what flowers to plant.
Just when the boss was wrapping the flowers, another person came into the flower shop. Tao Siyun looked up when he heard the voice and was stunned when he saw the other person.
After a brief moment of shock, the man greeted her with a smile: "Si Yun?"
"……Hello."
Tao Siyun was still as polite as last time.
After leaving the flower shop, Zhou Yu said, "Would you like to sit down together?"
Tao Siyun was about to find an excuse to refuse, but just as she said "no", Zhou Yu interrupted her and said, "Just sit down and have a cup of coffee." He raised his hand and pointed to the coffee shop next to him. Although he was smiling, he emphasized his tone: "Tao Siyun, I just want to buy you a cup of coffee. Is it necessary for you to hide from me like this?"
Tao Siyun was at a loss for words, because no matter what she said, it would be worse than saying nothing.
Then just keep silent.
Since Zhou Yu didn't say some things explicitly, she wouldn't be stupid enough to bring them up on her own initiative.
During working hours, they were the only two people in the coffee shop besides the staff.
Ever since the incident with Liu Ying three years ago, keeping a distance from Zhou Yu has become Tao Siyun's subconscious habit.
She silently calculated the time it would take to finish the cup of coffee in front of her, hoping to leave quickly.
Zhou Yu suddenly remembered that when she was in Paris, she would buy a small cake from the dessert shop almost every week.
Western desserts are too sweet for most Chinese people, so he often sees her half-eaten lemon tarts and brownies in the refrigerator... The next day, when the cake is finished, the cake's place will be replaced by a few boxes of mango yogurt.
So he asked, "Would you like some cake?"
"No……"
Zhou Yu still ordered a piece of matcha cake and pushed it in front of her with a smile: "This one shouldn't be too sweet, try it."
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