ray of light cafe

The day after Christmas is also a special day.

It was past seven o'clock in the morning, the sun was shining softly on the yard, the breeze was gently blowing the flowers, plants and trees, and there was the crisp sound of birds chirping.

Tao Fu opened the curtains and looked into the yard from the window on the second floor, and found that Wen Jingxi got up before him again, and was already watering the flowers with a water bottle.

In the morning light, Wen Jingxi was wearing an indigo beige jacket, bent slightly to water the rosebushes, put the water bottle on the ground, gently stretched out her hand, picked up the only remaining red rose, and stared at it quietly. After a while, I took out a wet tissue from my jacket pocket to wipe the dust off the green leaves.

Tao Fu looked at the profile of him with his head down upstairs, a little far away, but the real and the false intertwined in front of his eyes, as if he could see the faint smile on his face and the crystal dewdrops on the petals up close.

So tender and patient with a flower, and every leaf of that flower.But he doesn't care about the things of the people around him.

Tao Fu recalled the night before, after Luo Shanshan and Shen Nan left, Wen Jingxi didn't ask a word about the relationship between the three of them, as if she didn't notice anything strange... Feeling complicated and melancholy.

The sunlight in the courtyard moved a little, and it just hit the roses that Wen Jingxi was admiring.He took a step back, took out his phone from his pocket, fiddled with it a few times, and then held it up to the flower. He stayed there longer than taking pictures. Was he...recording a video?

After a while, Wen Jingxi walked into the house from the yard.Tao Fu heard his footsteps going up the stairs, and the sound of him gently opening and closing the door of his room.Then the surroundings returned to complete silence.

Tao Fu went down to the first floor lightly, looked up at the wall clock, it was [-]:[-].After thinking about it, he walked into the kitchen, opened the refrigerator, and took out half a bag of white toast, a jar of peanut butter, two small boxes of butter, and three eggs.Seriously, I made two toasts that were not so greasy.Put my own portion aside to eat later, and put the other portion on a plate to send to Wen Jingxi, not forgetting to pair it with a cup of hot lemon black tea.

Standing in front of the door of Wen Jingxi's closed room, Tao Fu held the wooden tray in his left hand, raised and lowered his right hand, feeling slightly nervous and afraid of disturbing him.

Watching the white mist enveloping the mouth of the hot black tea cup becoming thinner and thinner in the cold air, Tao Fu took a deep breath and reached out to knock on the door.Unexpectedly, as soon as the door knocked, it opened inward...it was actually concealed.

Looking into the room through the half-open door, Wen Jingxi was sitting at a desk covered with papers, drawing quietly and earnestly with her head down.From time to time, I raise my eyes to look at the mobile phone screen erected on a stand in front of me, then dip a pen into the paint in the palette, pause briefly, and then continue to sketch on the drawing paper.

Tao Fu stood at the door in a daze and didn't call him.But when he heard the movement, he put down his pen, raised his head and looked towards the door, saw him carrying breakfast, raised his eyebrows in surprise, and soon, smiled at him, and said, "Come in."

"Let's have breakfast first, it won't be very sweet." Tao Fu walked to his desk, carefully put down the tray, with a slightly embarrassed smile.

"Well, thank you." Wen Jingxi glanced at the breakfast, smiled at him, and turned his gaze back to the drawing paper, as if thinking about where to add another leaf.

"Then I'm leaving." Tao Fu looked at the sunshine and roses in his painting, the delicate and vivid lines, the bright and fresh colors, with envy and appreciation in his eyes.Hearing Wen Jingxi's tone of unwillingness to say more, she had to look away and leave silently.

Near noon, Tao Fu stood in front of the full storage shelves in the kitchen, biting the knuckle of his right index finger, thinking about what to eat.

For dinner, just porridge, noodles, and rice. There are meat and vegetables. It's delicious no matter how you cook it... But today, you should make a cake, right?

He finally fixed his eyes on the baking materials, his eyes lit up, and he laughed.Right, he can't draw, but he can make fondant roses!Recall the rose posture in my cousin's pen... Well, it is completely possible to reproduce a rose.

Just when Tao Fu was happily holding the egg beater, measuring spoon, measuring cup, low-gluten flour and other materials, there was a rush of footsteps going down the wooden stairs outside.

Tao Fu quickly put down his things and ran out, and saw Wen Jingxi running down the stairs at the corner of the stairs, and quickly put on the black windbreaker in his hand on the way.

Tao Fu was also infected and got up quickly, and quickly caught up with Wen Jingxi's figure going out, and shouted behind him: "Cousin, wait!"

Wen Jingxi stopped, turned around, saw him coming out of the kitchen, and smiled apologetically, "I have something to go out for a while, so I won't have lunch."

"Oh, okay, it's okay." Tao Fu immediately expressed his understanding, and quickly answered, but when he saw that he had finished speaking, he continued to walk out, and in a hurry, he raised his voice and asked, "Then will you come back today?"

"Return!" Wen Jingxi replied without turning her head, and quickly walked across the yard to open the door and go out.

After he left, Tao Fu was the only one left in the huge two-story old folk house and cafe with a small courtyard.

Tao Fu stared blankly at the direction he was leaving for a while, then lowered his head, walked slowly back to the kitchen, and continued to tidy up the ingredients for making the cake.

Tao Fu opened the refrigerator and looked at the two bottles of jam in a daze.

A small transparent glass bottle with a handwritten label on the body, a deep red bottle with "Rose Hawthorn" written on it, and a light pink bottle with "Cherry Blossom Peach".

The font is very beautiful, it was written by Luo Shanshan.

Before she left the night before, she took out jam from her backpack and gave it to him, saying that she made it herself, the raw materials were fresh and delicious, and she made him a cake with toast, so that he could think of her every day when he had breakfast.

If there is no last sentence, Tao Fu will definitely accept it graciously, and it will be fine to bring her some nougat back to school as a gift in return.But hearing what she said so ambiguously, he withdrew his hand, smiled half embarrassed and half sorry, and refused.

Luo Shanshan's eyes dimmed, but soon she regained her spirits, and said to him with a bright smile, flowers and fruits are not easy, they only bloom once a year, and they are picked at the most beautiful and best time, traveling thousands of miles away Send it to a supermarket in a foreign country, and then she buys it home, washes it, cooks it into sauce, and lives a short life... If he doesn't want it, she will throw it away, and throw it into the garbage truck with bad breath in the alley, can you bear it?

Tao Fu couldn't bear it, so he finally accepted it, and couldn't help recalling what she said, and suddenly realized that the flowers and fruits were indeed innocent, why bother to put any emotional color on them, and just used them to express Let's make a birthday cake!

After the ideological work was done, Tao Fu's movements became nimble and brisk. It was time to beat eggs and knead sugar. He was so busy that he even forgot to eat lunch. After handing over the last work to the oven, he Walking out of the kitchen while rubbing his shoulders, he was surprised to see that the hour hand of the wall clock had already passed four o'clock, and then looked at the gate of the yard. It was quiet, and his cousin hadn't come back yet...

That night, from the sunset to the rising of the lonely moon, the wall clock on the wall went round and round, and Tao Fudu stayed in the living room without moving much.

In the living room late at night, a dim desk lamp, an old wooden table, a small cake, a little boy...

Tao Fu originally sat cross-legged on the sofa, playing with his mobile phone aimlessly, and it was quite comfortable, but he turned his head countless times to look at the courtyard door through the glass window in a minute, and finally got really tired, covered his mouth and yawned until his eyes were dim with tears, and lay down. He fell down and fell asleep curled up.

Early the next morning, Tao Fu was awakened by the bright sunlight, and the first thing he did when he jumped up from the sofa was to look at his phone... Check Weibo, Wen Jingxi's Weibo.

Refresh and refresh again, and I don't see any new ones.Looking at the comments on the old blog, there are no new ones.

Tao Fu's eyes showed suspicion, and he clicked on his personal information page. His birthday was indeed written on December 12th... Could it be that he filled it in casually?Well, that's probably it.

New information jumps to the screen with a ringtone——

Cousin: Sorry for not going back last night because of business.Are you free today, take you out to play?

Tao Fu's heart skipped a beat, unexpectedly and pleasantly surprised, he couldn't help biting the knuckle of his right index finger again.After staring at the information on the phone for a while and then at the cake on the table, after a short tangle, he decided to destroy the cake by himself, so as not to let his cousin find out that he had misunderstood.

A few minutes later, he messaged back: Good!After the exclamation point, a silly smiley emoji was added.

Wen Jingxi sent him an address and asked him to find him at ten o'clock.

The address is a large cafe in the city center.

Tao Fu ate the whole cake at the speed of participating in a big stomach king competition, and cleaned up the mess without any clues.Go back to the room and put on new clothes, take a good look in the mirror, and go out.

Worried that he would be late if he couldn't get on the subway during the morning rush hour, he took a taxi.It was only 09:30 when we arrived at the destination.

It was too early, and I was too embarrassed to go in, so I sat down in the small park outside the cafe.Sitting under the big banyan tree with luxuriant branches, he can see the pedestrians on the street but the pedestrians can't see him.

Suddenly, he heard a familiar voice in front of him, a clear sentence——

"Okay, don't follow me anymore."

Tao Fu raised his head in shock, and saw a thin and tall young man standing with his back facing him on the side of the road, with black hair slightly long behind his head and a sparrow tail tied low, wearing a gray linen lapel-style suit jacket , Chic and freehand... It's really Wen Jingxi.

After the accident, Tao Fu looked at the person Wen Jingxi was facing. She was a strange woman she had never seen before... Tall and plump, bright and gorgeous, she raised her chin slightly to look at people, and kept turning her head to peek at her as she passed by. People turn a blind eye.

Curious and afraid of being discovered, Tao Fu hesitated, and hid behind the half-person-high dragon boat flowers, peeking and listening furtively.

Wen Jingxi went on to say the next sentence: "I will not give you money."

"It's not for me, it's for your dad." The woman said calmly, almost slowly, "Dad."

Wen Jingxi's voice was cold, "I don't have a father."

"Don't be angry," the woman said softly, coaxingly, "He said you have him in your heart."

"So confident," Wen Jingxi sneered, "Then why doesn't he come by himself?"

The woman was silent for a while, and changed the subject when she spoke again, "I saw you in the news recently, if the comics are sold abroad, you should have made a lot of money, right?"

"And then? I gave him the hard-earned money I made by staying up all night painting and painting to buy horses?" Wen Jingxi put his hands in his trouser pockets, his tone mocking, and his voice was casual and pleasant.

Tao Fu could see his profile, and saw him put away his usual gentle and polite smile.After he stopped smiling, the corners of his mouth were slightly downward, and his eyes without any emotion were cold and beautiful, repulsive.It was an expression Tao Fu had never seen before.