ray of light cafe

Cloudy, dark sky, noon like evening.

Deep in the alleys of the old town, in a cafe transformed from an old-style Lingnan residence, a warm yellow floor lamp is lit, and a soft song accompanied by a piano is playing.

There is a laptop at the corner of the tall and long bar table, and the PV of the song is playing on the screen.

A row of bamboo chandeliers hung from the carved wood ceiling, and at this moment, they were casting mottled and soft light on a young man in the bar.

The boy's name is Tao Fu, a sophomore in the Department of Economics, not busy with schoolwork, and came to work part-time.

At this moment, he was wearing his milky white woolen coat and the shop's pink uniform apron, took out a silver fork from the chopstick holder, and lowered his head to stir the spaghetti with white sauce on the blue porcelain plate until the cream cheese and bacon were evenly distributed Now, I picked up the passion fruit honey tea that was just mixed on the table, took it to the sofa next to the wall and sat down.

After setting the lunch on the low wooden table, he stood up again, went back and took the laptop from the bar, ate noodles with a fork in both hands, and drank tea with a cup, but his eyes were watching the song PV on the screen. Curtain, with a blank expression, as if traveling thousands of miles.

The song is "Good", it's a cover, singer Lian Shen.

The night before, it had been raining from afternoon until late at night.

There was only one customer in the store, and that was Lian Shen.He is young, fashionable, and good-looking. He is a graphic designer who works for a magazine, and was once a very popular cover singer on the Internet.

Perhaps it was easy to bring back memories on a rainy day. Lian Shen sat in the store for a long time and chatted with him for a long time.Before leaving, he even sang "One Pedestrian" with the guitar in the store.Listening to his voice live is even better than a video full of bullet screens...

After the third repetition of the song, Tao Fu finished his pasta and drink, picked up his empty plate and stood up. Just as he was about to wash the dishes, he suddenly heard the creaking of wooden stairs behind him.

Tao Fu, who had been relaxing in a daze, suddenly raised his heart, pricked up his ears, looked back following the sound, and saw a person walking slowly down the corner wooden stairs step by step.

It was a young man, tall and long-legged, wearing cotton light blue pajamas, thin and refreshing, refreshing his eyes and ears.He leaned on the railing and walked down slowly, turned his head, looked down at the dazed eyes of Tao Fu, and smiled slightly, with a loose and lazy look, set off by his eyebrows, as if he was shining into a dark room instantly beam of light.

"Ah... I didn't even know you were here!" Tao Fu, who was hit by the beam of light, missed a beat of his heartbeat, and stood up straight like a conditioned reflex, his eyes slightly flustered.

It was Wen Jingxi, the child brought by the remarried wife of Tao Fu's mother's brother.

The first time I met him was 13 years ago, during the Chinese New Year at my grandmother's house in the countryside.

He was 13 years old at the time, and was introduced by his gentle mother and stepfather to Tao Fu, who was roasting sweet potatoes around the stove, and his two cousins, and asked them to call him cousin, saying that we would be a family in the future.

Then the grown-ups went to play cards, and left him by the fire to play with his cousins.But he didn't join them squatting by the fire with tongs to pull sweet potatoes in the ashes of the charcoal. Instead, he took a picture book and sat on a bamboo chair beside him to read it.

The six-year-old little Tao Fu stared blankly at him, but he smiled back and continued to look down at the album.That smile is very beautiful, but it is also cold and emotionless.

Tao Fu took a look at his overly delicate and pretty face and extremely clean and tidy clothes, and then looked in a mirror at the colorful flowered jackets on the thick and sturdy cousins ​​and the charcoal and black ash on the ordinary faces, then lowered his head and stared at him. Sitting on the concrete floor in a daze, feeling inexplicably depressed, smelling the sweet potato aroma doesn't feel tempting to eat.

Some time ago, I heard about my uncle remarrying, and also heard that the new aunt brought a son who was in junior high school. The son looked like his biological father who was unemployed, drunk, gambled, and domestically violent, but only had a good-looking face.Before seeing their mother and son, the family members had been discussing how good-looking such a poor ex-husband was that made the new aunt endure it for more than ten years... Seeing it, everyone's first reaction was to be dumbfounded.

Tao Fu's stupidity has lasted from the age of six to the age of 19, and it still can't be changed, it has almost become an instinct.Instinctively, when I saw my cousin, I would be stunned for a moment, and then nervous.It's like an ordinary stone in a pile of ordinary stones, how can you not be nervous when you suddenly see a piece of flawless and beautiful jade.

Tao Fu went to Guangzhou to study at university, and knew that his cousin was also working as a freelance illustrator in Guangzhou.Although he secretly followed his Weibo, he felt that the two of them were not in the same world, so they dared not go to him at all.

Unexpectedly, I received a call from him a month ago.Wen Jingxi on the phone cared about his studies and life very kindly, and then asked him if he had time to look after the newly opened cafe for a fee.

Without even thinking about it, Tao Fu said he had time, and took the subway a dozen stops from school to report. When he saw an old house in a quiet alley, he liked it so much, so he came as soon as there was no class, and he brought his computer and Books, when there are no guests, it is like studying in the library.

It's just that the number of times I see my cousin is very few.Judging from the dynamics on Weibo, he has been busy signing sales and some awards recently, which seems to be very busy.Tao Fu was curious, but he was too embarrassed to ask, especially the few times he saw him, he always looked so tired that he couldn't wake up.

"When did you come back?" After Tao Fu finished his sentence, it was an exclamation sentence, fearing that he would only get a smile but not a response, so he nervously asked another sentence.

"Last night in the early morning," Wen Jingxi said with a smile, walking to sit on the sofa opposite him, "It was too late so I didn't tell you."

"Oh." Tao Fu nodded again and again, seeing the remaining cups and plates on the low wooden table, he hurriedly tried to take them away and tidy them up.

"What are you looking at?" Wen Jingxi's eyes fell on his turned-on computer, and he asked with a smile while resting his chin.

Only then did Tao Fu realize that the video of the song just now was still playing.

Under the warm light, the smile on Wen Jingxi's face was also extraordinarily soft, so soft that Tao Fu's heart softened, and he suddenly wanted to talk to him.

So he turned the computer to the side, showed it to Wen Jingxi, and explained: "It's a cover song. This singer came to our store yesterday afternoon! The voice is really nice, low and rustling... He and others The chorus, obviously the lyrics are pitifully few, but the bullet screens are terribly many...the popularity is so high, but it is a pity that it is no longer sung."

Tao Fu said a long series of words in one breath, and his face became hot after he finished speaking, only to realize that he couldn't restrain his excitement, chattering like a chatterbox, pursed his lips in embarrassment, and looked at Wen Jingxi.

Wen Jingxi sat on the opposite sofa against the light, leaned forward slightly, propped her face on the table with her elbows, looked at him sideways, and listened patiently with a smile.

At a close distance, Tao Fu noticed that Wen Jingxi's fair complexion was flushed abnormally, and her smile was also weak. He became nervous again for a while, raised his hand to touch his forehead but retracted to hold back, and asked in a low voice: "Cousin ... Are you sick?"

Wen Jingxi smiled, looked at the plants shaken by the strong wind outside the window, and said softly: "I have a cold, it's too cold."

Tao Fu also followed him to look out the window, the weather was getting more and more gloomy, and soon looked back at him, and asked worriedly: "Have you taken any medicine? How about I go out and buy it for you?"

Wen Jingxi met his eyes in a blink of an eye, smiled tiredly, but said teasingly: "No need, just drink more hot water."

Tao Fu's face was a little hot when he saw it, and he stood up uncomfortably. His knees touched the table and made a light sound. I'll pour it for you!"

"Yeah." Wen Jingxi put her hands on her knees lightly, leaned back against the back of the sofa, and half-closed her eyes in a relaxed manner.

At six or seven o'clock in the evening, it was dark outside.

Tao Fu still went out to the pharmacy to buy a box of cold medicine and came back, put it on the table with a cup of hot water, and put a black ceramic cup of lava chocolate baked next to it, just out of the oven, it was hot and bursting, delicious to look at .

After Wen Jingxi took a shower, she came downstairs wearing a bathrobe made of white towels. When she saw Tao Fu and the things he had prepared, she immediately smiled, walked over and sat down and said, "Thank you."

"You're welcome." After Tao Fu finished speaking in a low voice, he quietly watched Wen Jingxi take the medicine, and watched him pick up the glass to drink hot water. Now the little tear mole is vivid.

Wen Jingxi didn't seem to notice his gaze. After drinking the hot water and taking the medicine, she picked up the ceramic cup and silver spoon, and ate the lava chocolate bit by bit, with gentle and graceful movements.

Tao Fu looked at his face lined by slightly wet black hair, and sighed in his heart, his eyebrows were picturesque, not only his eyebrows were picturesque... and seeing the fair skin exposed by the neckline of his bathrobe, he suddenly woke up, and immediately stretched out his hand He touched the remote control of the air conditioner beside him and pressed it a few times to adjust the indoor temperature to [-] degrees.

Wen Jingxi heard the voice, raised her head to look at him, licked the chocolate at the corner of her mouth, bent her eyes, and smiled.

Christmas Eve passed so peacefully.

The next day, Tao Fu got up at seven o'clock, and when he went downstairs after washing, he saw Wen Jingxi standing in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows in a long white down jacket.

He walked over lightly, his eyes fell out of the window, and his eyes widened in surprise—only the wind was blowing the green branches and leaves of the small osmanthus tree, and thin snowflakes were flying in the air in front of the green branches and leaves.

He rubbed his eyes, and walked a little closer. That's right, although small and white as salt grains, they are really snowflakes.So slender and crystal clear, being blown by the breeze, they gently float down from the air obliquely, landing on the green osmanthus leaves, on the red rose fruits, and on the green grass.

It's snowing in Guangzhou... The whole world is white, cold, slow and quiet like never before.

Meow, a meow ended the silence.

Tao Fu followed the prestige and saw the neighbor's big white cat scurrying in from the door, running to Wen Jingxi's feet and rubbing it around his legs.Wen Jingxi lowered her head and was stunned for a moment, then squatted down, reached out and rubbed its head gently.Both the man and the cat are dressed in white, against the fine snow falling outside the window, the picture is like a dream.

Tao Fu watched Wen Jingxi play with the cat curiously, and stopped in his tracks when he heard his soft laughter and soft meowing.

When the cat noticed that someone was coming, it turned its head away from Wen Jingxi's palm, stared at the pottery talisman in front of it with a pair of jewel-like clear blue eyes, and raised its voice to meow.

"Peach is up." Wen Jingxi turned around, saw Tao Fu, and smiled with a happy and relaxed expression.

Tao Fu was stunned, Wen Jingxi seldom called him by name, and suddenly called him Taozi just like his mother... His heartbeat was beating wildly, his cheeks became hot and flushed involuntarily, and he quickly lowered his head and walked to squat down to pet the cat.

"Eh? I just found out that you have a dimple." Wen Jingxi glanced at Tao Fu's right cheek, which lowered her head and pursed her lips, and said with a smile.

Tao Fu's head was lower, his lips were tighter, and his voice was as small as a mosquito humming, "Yeah."

What he looked down at was the cat's face squinting and begging for rubbing. What he smelled at the tip of his nose were the cold breath of fine snow and the fresh smell of vegetation, the latter coming from Wen Jingxi in front of him.

After being quiet for a while, Tao Fu raised his head and peeked at Wen Jingxi as if inadvertently. He saw that he was looking up at the yard outside the door. Authentic beauty.

"I have breakfast." Wen Jingxi looked at the courtyard door that was pushed open, stood up with a smile.

The courtyard door was pushed open, and a young and beautiful woman walked in, wearing a red skirt and holding a red umbrella, holding a bag of steaming breakfast in her hand, and greeted the two with a smile: "Morning."

Wen Jingxi also smiled: "Morning."

Tao Fu hurriedly walked over to help carry the bag, and smiled cautiously, "Morning, Miss Xin."

This is Tian Xin who worked in the store earlier than him. He asked for leave and went home a few days ago. When he saw him, he blinked his right eye kindly and said softly: "Little Tao Fu, Merry Christmas. "