scorching cold

Wen Ye's call just happened to light up on the screen.

Tao Zhuo was squatting in the computer chair and working on courseware. He looked at the table with his neck stretched out. He slid down the answer button, put the phone between his cheeks and knees, and called, "Senior."

"Don't be a senior, it's me." An Yi's voice came over, her tone was impatient gossip and curiosity, "How, what did you say? Two lonely men and widows are finally going to get together? Dry firewood ?”

"Hot ass, it's not enough for me to get angry," Tao Zhuo's mouse clicked critically among a bunch of illustrations, "Tell him clearly, time is gone forever, that's it."

He told An Yi that he deliberately opened the car door and said "wake up", and An Yi wanted to laugh and was angry at the same time, and cursed: "You both seem to be sick!"

The two whispered bad things about Li Suihan for a while, Tao Zhuo heard a faint voice from Wen Ye on the other end of the phone: "Fuck, the toilet is out of paper! Wife!"

comfortable:"……"

An Yi hung up the phone speechlessly to deliver the paper, Tao Zhuo laughed until he was hanging on the chair.

After a while, he remembered An Yi, who regarded Wen Ye as a male god in his freshman year, and couldn't help grinning again, and let out a "hey" laugh.

It was an involuntary laugh, with only one, "Hey", the corners of his mouth quickly calmed down, as if nothing had happened.

My mother came in with a spatula, just in time to see this scene, said "Ouch", looked at the plain ppt on the computer screen, and said worriedly: "When I'm old, there are only two sons left, and I'm so stupid."

"You are just these two sons. You have worked very hard not to grow into a big crooked radish, since you caught a run-on when you were young." Tao Zhuo continued to click the mouse without looking back, and slowly answered the sentence.

"That can't be done, my son's root is Zhengmiaohong." Mom patted Tao Zhuo's head, "Go baby, buy some preserved eggs for mom, the preserved egg tofu made by your aunt Zhang Mei at noon, how can I return it if I take a bite?" I'm thinking about it."

Mom turned around and walked to the kitchen after explaining, and continued to say to Dad: "Hey, what did you say she put? It tastes really good!"

Tao Zhen hadn't arrived home yet, and there was no "brother" to call, so Tao Zhuo could only sigh, save the courseware, change clothes and go out.

"Only preserved eggs and tofu? Do you want anything else?" Tao Zhuo shouted while bending over to put on his shoes.

Mom called to ask about the recipe, and Doudou ran over with her dog leash in her mouth, circling around his legs. Dad sat on the small balcony and set up a chessboard, and then he answered: "Walk the dog by the way."

"People have come here by themselves." Tao Zhuo packed himself and Doudou, opened the door and whistled: "Gou Zhen, let's go!"

The fresh food supermarket is at the entrance of the community, Tao Zhuo stretched his neck furtively and looked around before he got there.

For some reason, he imagined that Li Suihan's car was still parked at the door, and the door was still wide open, waiting to catch his own TV drama.

Immediately afterwards, I was suppressed by another voice in my heart: wake up, it's already afternoon, as we all know, Li Suihan's time is not time, but the gold on the banks of the Seine.

...It's over, I won't have the delusional disorder of being greasy, right?

Tao Zhuo hopped in horror with his pocket in his pocket, the traction rope was wrapped around his wrist, and even Doudou hopped along with him, comforting himself that everyone has a little bit of Jack Su's soul in their hearts.

Sure enough, when we got to the door, let alone the car, there was not even a tire on the ground.

So Li Suihan leaned over and pulled the car door shut.

Tao Zhuo imagined that scene, and his heart was filled with joy, but the joy only dangled in the bottom of his throat and could not be lifted up.

The switch pump in his body responsible for squeezing emotions seemed to be stuck. Ever since he met Li Suihan again, he couldn't get up and down, shriveled and without strength.

"Hey - Doudou," Tao Zhuo sighed, and Doudou pinched his ears and looked up at him.

Tao Zhuo looked at the young couple in front of him dangling hand in hand, he could only shake the leash, and said softly, "It's so boring."

"Woof!" Doudou said.

Tao Zhuo returned home with preserved eggs and tofu, and when he was paying the bill, he took a bar of chocolate for himself, and on the way, he opened it and ate it bit by bit, feeling so tired that his heartburned.

His mother refused to let him go back to his room to continue working on the ppt, exaggeratedly accusing him of staring at the computer all afternoon, and would lose his eyes if he looked at it again, and asked him to peel the eggs.

Tao Zhuo moved a small stool and sat in front of the trash can peeling eggs, listening to his mother chatting with him.

While chatting, the information point of "finding a partner" began to be repeated frequently in the topic.

"Zhaozhuo, do you still remember Ma Liangliang? We used to live in the back building of our old house, and we were in the same elementary school as you. Oh, he looks like a potato. He found a girlfriend really well!"

"Your Aunt Zhang Mei's niece graduated this year, and she showed me the photos today. She also learned to draw like you, so that's great."

"Lao Guang's daughter... Hey Lao Tao! Last time I saw that one on the street, was she the quiet one? Oh my god, why did she fall in love with her? She's thin and dark..."

"Go to the side, Tao Zhuo will definitely not be able to find someone who is taller than him... any model, even the devil."

……

blah blah blah.

Although he didn't tell him explicitly, Tao Zhuo knew that every word his mother said was for him.

Ever since he ambiguously told his family about his sexual orientation, my mother has always been like this in this regard.

Be careful, try to explore.

Every time Tao Zhuo ran away when he heard a sign, he was too lazy to run today, and he had to peel the eggs, but he couldn't run away, so he tried to think seriously.

He has grown up so much, but he has never actually been in a relationship, let alone a serious relationship, and he has never even had an online relationship that An Yi has been addicted to for a long time.

When I didn't realize that I was gay before, I took it for granted that falling in love was finding a girlfriend.

He has no interest, no ideas, and he doesn't want to try, Qi Ya's love games are all over the top, he just thinks it's not interesting, he might as well play games with his buddies.

The only time I got too close to a certain girl was because of group homework, and it didn't matter in the end.

"Are you... Can't stand it? Are you impulsive?" Qi Ya once asked him worriedly.

Tao Zhuo almost died of anger and beat him up violently. He was very literary and thought that he reckoned that it was the same as in the movie. He had to meet the girl who really made him feel different before he could start a romantic relationship.

Sure enough, art comes from life, and he is art in the world.

In the end, the person who made him feel, react, and impulsive really came, but the other party was not a girl, but an inexplicable Li Suihan.

The point is that the nasty Li Suihan doesn't want to start a romantic relationship with him yet.

Tao Zhuo's romantic drama turned into a sad self-report of an urban beauty in Zhiyin magazine before it started.

It's too miserable.

Tao Zhuo cried in his heart.

It was simply a dimensionality reduction blow.

Thinking about it this way, Tao Zhuo didn't know what he was obsessed with about "homosexuality".

He thought about An Yi and Wen Ye, Tao Zhen and Tao Qiwei, and even the young couple he saw at the fresh food supermarket just now, and suddenly felt a subtle sense of displacement.

——The dazed and lonely An Yi who sat in the air at that time seems to have become Tao Zhuo himself who is now peeling his eggs.

Time really does not favor anyone, loneliness changes age and mode, tossing and turning in everyone's heart.

Sadness is sad, life has to live.

Tao Zhuo didn't answer his mother's words, and he didn't want to think about Li Suihan anymore. After dinner, he gathered his thoughts and finished the unfinished courseware.

This may be the good thing about Tao Zhuo, one thing is one thing, one thing should be done seriously, and the work can't be carried away by one's emotions.

After finishing the courseware, he found himself a movie that healed from the trauma of love and became a business genius, and watched it while admiring the figure of the male protagonist.

Before going to bed, Tao Zhuo received a WeChat message from his boss, informing him that he would arrange a trial lesson for a child in his class tomorrow. According to the parents' description, this child has a personality, is eccentric, and is not good at expressing words. He will come to the studio tomorrow to discuss in detail.

Tao Zhuo replied yes.

Trial classes are very common, almost every week. He instantly felt that his life had returned to normal. He swiped through Moments, clicked a bunch of likes, and closed his eyes to sleep.

The next day was Tuesday. Tao Zhuo had two classes at [-]:[-] p.m. and [-]:[-] p.m., and the child who was going to try the class was the creative art class at [-]:[-] p.m.

At first, Tao Zhuo wanted to confirm with the boss again. At 06:30, after the first class, he finished communicating with the parents in a hurry, and then tidied up the classroom and prepared the teaching materials. The time went straight to [-]:[-]. The children in the seven o'clock class arrived one after another.

Don't talk about asking the children, there is not even time for a meal.

Tao Zhuo took a glass of water in front of the water dispenser and poured it down. Teacher Duo Duo from the junior class next door jumped out wearing an apron and called him: "Mr. Tao, do you need marker pens in your class at night?"

"No, you can get it." Tao Zhuo shook his head while drinking water, and pointed to his classroom.

Teacher Duo Duo's name is Zhang Duo. She is a teacher who teaches preschool education. She is very lively and friendly. She is an acquaintance who smiles at everyone.

"Thank you!" She came out with several boxes of markers, took out a Snickers bar from her apron pocket, and put it in Tao Zhuo's apron pocket.

"Too polite." Tao Zhuo smiled, and gave Zhang Duo the toffee the child gave him.

"I brought a few, and I knew I couldn't eat, so I gave one to Teacher Tongtong just now." Zhang Duo pulled out her apron pocket to show him. The aprons of the female teachers in the studio are all like treasure bags. All the small stickers and cards used by everyone are stuffed inside.

Tao Zhuo was looking for her the box of marker pens that was almost out of water, and she could use that box first, when Teacher Tongtong called him behind him: "Mr. Tao! The children for the trial class have arrived."

"Oh yes." Tao Zhuo just remembered that there is still this problem.

Zhang Duo quickly took all the markers from his hand, he turned around with a smile, his eyelids twitched when he saw the person coming, and he almost couldn't control the deformed expression.

Li Suihan first casually glanced at Zhang Duo's face, then nodded slightly at Tao Zhuo, and looked at his apron from top to bottom, with a faint arc of his mouth, naturally messed up: "Hello, my child wants to learn Draw, bring her to try."

Bei Tian, ​​who was being held by him, had an expression of just waking up, looking around inexplicably, meeting Tao Zhuo's gaze, her eyebrows twitched in surprise: "Oh?"