ray of light cafe

At noon, Yin Qi treats guests to dinner.

After dinner, he took Wen Jingxi and Tao Fu to the women's clothing store he opened.

In the store, the walls, floors, lights, mirrors, clothes and jewelry are all beautiful, and there are quite a few customers.As soon as Wen Jingxi went, there were more and more guests.Not long after, the girl in the shop had no choice but to put on a smile, holding a closing sign, closing the glass door and saying sorry for the crowd, please wait in line first.

After finally leaving the store, I walked towards the subway station via a small road.

Wen Jingxi straightened her collar, turned her head to Yin Qi and smiled and said, "I'm so sorry, I made your store prosperous."

Yin Qi straightened the wrinkled skirt, gave him a white look, and said, "At worst, I'll make your store prosperous too."

Wen Jingxi shook her head: "No, I'm going to close the door."

When Tao Fu heard this, he couldn't help saying: "Huh?"

Wen Jingxi looked at him and explained with a smile: "There are no customers recently, so it's better to temporarily close the business."

Tao Fu was stunned for a moment and asked, "What about me?"

Wen Jingxi said: "You can do whatever you want, come if you want, and go back to school if you want to go back to school."

Tao Fu felt relieved, "Oh."

……

Although he said he was going to close the business, Wen Jingxi still took Yin Qi to the cafe.

In the corner of the yard, a small blue brick kiln was emitting white smoke.

Wen Jingxi crossed her arms, squatted in front of the kiln, lowered her head and closed her eyes to rest.

Yin Qi squatted beside him, took a tongs, and excitedly poked the burning firewood in the stove.

"Wow, it's fun." Yin Qi saw the firewood burning more vigorously under his flipping, his eyes lit up, and he bumped Wen Jingxi with his elbow, "Look, look!"

"...Hmm." Wen Jingxi didn't move or open her eyes, her voice was weak.

"Damn it! Are you so sleepy?" Yin Qi put down the tongs and turned to look at Wen Jingxi.

"...Mmm." Wen Jingxi replied again, her voice soft as if in a dream.

"Hey, hey! Teacher Wen, wake up!" Yin Qi stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder. Seeing that he still didn't respond, he stopped, took out a small glass bottle the size of a thumb from his coat pocket, and said with a deep smile, "Come on." Come, let me refresh your mind!"

In the next moment, Wen Jingxi smelled the cool and refreshing smell of the familiar Thai-made wind-repellent oil, which was really exciting.

Tao Fu was sweeping the floor in the store, stopped in front of the floor lamp, and looked out of the window through the glass window.

Outside the window, Yin Qi giggled and wiped the back of Wen Jingxi's ears and forehead with a bottle of repellent oil.Wen Jingxi was half dreaming and half awake, half pushing and half agreeing, letting him do whatever he wanted.

After a few minutes.

The rich aroma of food came from the kiln.

Yin Qi jumped up happily and shouted: "It's ripe!"

Wen Jingxi also stood up slowly after hearing the smell and sound, bent down, looked in through the furnace mouth, then picked up an old rough linen glove on the top of the blue brick stove, put it on, and held the long ironing glove. With the iron handle, carefully take out the baked pizza.

Tao Fu picked up the thick and soft white towel and the big wooden tray and ran out, took the pizza and put it away.

"Be careful it's hot." Wen Jingxi reminded.

"Yeah." Tao Fu nodded and smiled.

Yin Qi looked away from the burnt yellow cheese and tuna tomatoes, and landed on Wen Jingxi's hands after taking off the rough hemp gloves.

Even though the gloves were on, the overly white and delicate hands still had a few red marks from the iron handle.

Yin Qi took his hand, touched it and said, "Your beautiful hands, shouldn't you only touch imported paintbrushes and ivory chopsticks? Now you are holding tongs and iron pans, how do you feel?"

"I like it." Wen Jingxi smiled faintly, and withdrew his hand, "And I use bamboo chopsticks, not ivory chopsticks. Besides, you are the one holding the tongs."

"Hehehaha," Yin Qi smiled, and looked at the back of Tao Fu entering the house with a pizza in a blink of an eye, followed, and said to Wen Jingxi as he walked, "By the way, is this really pizza? It's baked with wood fire, right? Cheese pancakes."

"Yes, cheese biscuits, do you want to eat?" Wen Jingxi also walked back to the room.

"Eat, the biscuits made by Mr. Wen, of course!"

……

in the living room.

There was no music, just the chirping of birds from deep in the leaves of the yard.There are no lights, only natural light from the sun filtering in through the clouds.

The neighbor's white cat is curled up on the sofa and sleeping.Smelling the aroma of tuna pizza, she wrinkled her nose, opened her eyes, and stood up.

On the long wooden table, there is a bouquet of fresh daffodils in a white porcelain vase.The glass windows were half open, letting in a cool breeze.It trembled for a while, then stopped again, shaking slightly, exuding a fragrance.

Wen Jingxi sat at the table, cutting pizza with a hob in hand, with neat and elegant movements.

Yin Qi held a small white plate in his left hand and a big wooden fork in his right, and waited eagerly.

Tao Fu was in the kitchen, in a good mood, made a chestnut pumpkin salad, another kale butter lettuce arugula salad, several cups of mango blueberry yogurt and hot lemon black tea.After everything is done, put it on the largest bamboo tray, take it out and put it around the pizza.Looking at the table again, I went to get a few more pink double-petalled camellias, put them in a blue and white porcelain vase, and placed them next to the narcissus.

After finishing all chores, Tao Fu finally sat down on the sofa.

"Thank you." Wen Jingxi put the first piece of sliced ​​pizza on a plate and handed it to him first.

"Thank you!" Tao Fu hurried to pick it up.

"Terrible." Yin Qi opened his eyes wide, looked at the food on the table one by one, and murmured, "How can there be such a virtuous boy."

……

After dark, Yin Qi left.

In the evening, in the kitchen.

Tao Fu stood in front of the sink, rolled up his sleeves, and was about to wash the pile of dishes.He heard the sound of the sliding door behind him.

Wen Jingxi walked in, again wearing that indigo blouse.

"Brother, why are you here?" Tao Fu was surprised.

"Help you wash the dishes." Wen Jingxi walked to him.

"Ah?" Tao Fu couldn't believe it.

"Didn't see this?" Wen Jingxi took a cardboard box off the refrigerator, put it on the marble table and opened it for him to see.

"Huh?" Tao Fu looked at the new electrical appliance.

"Dishwasher." Wen Jingxi smiled, "It's cold in winter, so don't wash it by hand."

"Ah, thank you!" Tao Fu was pleasantly surprised, and after thinking about it, he said, "I use hot water."

"Well," Wen Jingxi nodded, and continued, "General household chores, if you can leave it to the electrical appliances, don't do it yourself. Don't be too tired, pay attention to rest."

"Oh." Tao Fu blushed, picked up the dishwasher manual, looked at it, plugged it in, and set the bowl according to the instructions.

When you're done, just wait for the time to ring.

After Tao Fu was free, seeing that Wen Jingxi hadn't left yet, he stood quietly in front of the window looking at the night scene outside the window, looking thoughtful.

Tao Fu looked at Wen Jingxi's outer shirt, suddenly felt familiar, and couldn't help asking: "Brother, I seem to have seen this dress in Brother Yin Qi's shop today?"

Hearing this, Wen Jingxi came back to his senses, looked at him, and said with a faint smile, "Well, he did it."

"Ah, a costume designer?" Tao Fu was surprised.

"Ah."

"It's great, is it custom-made? Specially, made by yourself? It's so meaningful..."

"No, it's one size fits all, mass-produced."

"...but it's also pretty."

"Do you like it?"

"Uh-huh."

"Give it to you?"

"Really?"

"can."

"thanks, thanks!"

"I'm tidying up the room. Go and see if there is anything else you like, and you can take it."

"Ah?!" Tao Fu was surprised, "Why clean up the room?"

"I'm going to move out in a few days," Wen Jingxi said softly, "The house in the urban area has been renovated."

"Ah?!" Tao Fu stared blankly at Wen Jingxi with a dazed expression on his face.

It's that look again.

Animal-like expression.

Wen Jingxi watched and sighed inwardly.

This time Tao Fu came to work part-time in the cafe under his plate, doing this and that carefully, and he was always a little afraid of him.We have known each other since we were young, but we still seem to be strangers now. Because we are not familiar with each other, no matter how close we are, there is still a distance.

But many years ago, about 13 years ago, they were really close.

At that time, Tao Fu was only six years old. He had just entered elementary school, and he was well-behaved and sensible. He walked on his own after school and after school. When he got home, he would cook for his parents and then do his homework.

His mother played cards at the house of different aunts in the next building, and praised her son for his ability and filial piety at the card table.His father didn't have a job, and he didn't know where he went every day.

Although Tao Fu cooks meals for three people every night, his parents don't go home every night.He slept alone at home and never complained.

It's just that one night, when he came home from school, it was raining, and he didn't bring an umbrella, and he couldn't get through to his parents on the phone, so he came home in the rain.

After returning home, he fell ill and had a fever. He fell asleep on the bed without cooking or doing his homework.

It just so happened that Wen Jingxi was told by her mother to go to Tao's house to give a basket of fresh nectarines, saying that her cousin liked it.

As a result, when Wen Jingxi knocked on the door, the door opened without locking it.

But the room was dark and cold, a small pottery talisman shivered under the quilt, his clothes were still wet, and the quilt was also wet.

Wen Jingxi was shocked, then bathed and changed his clothes, dried his hair with a hair dryer to warm his body, went to buy medicine to feed him, and took care of him all night.

At that time, Wen Jingxi was only 13 years old and had never taken care of anyone, but she did a series of things smoothly and naturally.

After finishing everything, seeing that the temperature on Tao Fu's forehead dropped and his body stopped shaking, he relaxed, left the bed, and went to take the nectarines he brought to the refrigerator and put them away.

Wen Jingxi put away the nectarines, closed the refrigerator, put her schoolbag on her back, walked back to Tao Fu's bed, and looked down at him quietly.

Tao Fu held the quilt tightly with both hands, his eyes were tightly closed, and his jaw was also clenched tightly. There was uneven flushing on the small round face.

On the bedside table, Tao Fu's phone screen lit up.Wen Jingxi picked it up and took a look. It was his mother who sent it: "What's the matter? Mom will be home before twelve o'clock."

Tao Fu's mother, Aunt Zhu, Wen Jingxi's stepfather's younger sister.Every time she saw him, she didn't talk to him.Doesn't seem to like him.

Wen Jingxi was silent, put down the phone, hesitated, and reached out to touch Tao Fu's forehead.

Feeling the cool temperature, the unconscious pottery talisman grasped Wen Jingxi's hand instinctively, opened his eyes and looked at him, the big eyes were misty and glistening with tears, and then closed again, murmuring in his mouth, broken and repeated: "Cousin, don't go..."

Wen Jingxi's hands froze, and she remained silent for a long time.

After staying there for a long time, he slowly withdrew his hand, gently helped Tao Fu tuck the quilt, turned and left Tao's house, not forgetting to lock the door.

After going out, I checked the time, it was 53:[-], it was less than twelve o'clock.Fortunately, he didn't meet Mama Tao.

It's just that time, more than ten years later, he still clearly remembers it.Maybe because, at that time, he didn't want to leave.

But Tao Fu couldn't remember such a night that Wen Jingxi deeply remembered.After all, he was too young.I forgot who I had relied on during my illness.

More than ten years later.

Tao Fu grew up, his face became less round, and he became a handsome boy.But his temperament has not changed at all.Housework skills are already full.The attitude towards people is still cautious and pleasing, not daring to cause trouble for others, for fear of being disliked.

He raised his eyebrows high, opened his eyes wide, and opened his mouth slightly, all talking, why are you leaving, I don't want you to leave.

But he just gave a short ah, and then stopped talking.

Wen Jingxi looked at him hesitantly for a long while, and then put down the sleeves of the sweater that Tao Fu rolled up.He took off his cardigan again, held it in his hand, paused, and put it on the pottery talisman.

The too gentle treatment made Tao Fu's eyes heat up, and he stared at Wen Jingxi in a daze, speechless.

"Tao Fu," Wen Jingxi put his clothes on Tao Fu, rubbed his hair lightly, and said with a smile, "My new house has two rooms, would you like to live with me?"