scorching cold

Tao Qiwei went anyway.

After she said those words, no one at home persuaded her, Tao Zhen just looked at her deeply for a while, and his hands trembled when he bent down to pick up the basin.

Tao Qiwei squatted down, picked up the scattered lettuce with him, and pinched Tao Zhen's little finger.

From the announcement to the departure, Tao Qiwei's tears only fell once, when she got in the car and set off.

At that time, Tao Zhuo's family and her parents were all going to see her off. Tao Qiewei kept smiling until she looked back before she pedaled and saw Tao Zhuo's family of four standing together beautifully; Mom and Dad stood next to each other, stretched their necks, and stared at her steadily.

Tao Qiwei's hard-working and indifferent expression collapsed at that moment, and Tao Zhuo couldn't control the burning of his eye sockets.

Then she didn't stop any longer, just wiped her face and turned around.

"...This child, why don't you know how to turn around?" Mom whispered softly, with a strong nasal voice.

Tao Zhen didn't lose her temper after Tao Qiwei left. She seemed to be calm again. She should eat and talk. She called every day to discuss the reopening with other people in charge of the store. With two burning bubbles.

Tao Zhuo went home to stay for a few days. Originally he wanted to accompany Tao Zhen. Seeing that he was fine, he didn't dare to take the initiative to mention his little sister Tao.

He hangs around at home, playing mahjong with his father, brother and three old men with his mother when he has nothing to do, or watching TV, feeling like a cat scratching his heart, wanting to go back to find Li Suihan.

But his quarantine period has passed, and he has no excuse to go to other people's homes.

"Baby, do you miss me?" Tao Zhuo squatted on the balcony of the room and whispered on the phone.

"What are you calling me?" Li Suihan smiled.

"It's not that I miss you so much, there's no way to resolve it." Tao Zhuo sighed sweetly, "Let me yell without losing a piece of meat."

"Understood." Li Suihan was drawing, looked at the paper with a smile and turned his pen around, now he has nothing to do with Tao Zhuo, "I miss you too."

"Then you call me too." Tao Zhuo asked.

"What are you calling, baby? Or baby?" Li Suihan said.

"Hey, my mother can do it!" Tao Zhuo laughed so hard, he sat down on the ground and rubbed his arms frantically, "It's too nasty, let me shout!"

Over the phone for a while, Tao Zhuo talked about the situation of the past two days. Li Suihan listened, and occasionally said "um", and the words he said were very warm, which made Tao Zhuo want to hug him immediately.

"I feel like it's inappropriate to come out at this time?" He scratched the edge of the flowerpot and asked Li Suihan for advice, "You don't know that my mother feels bad for my sister-in-law, I'm afraid she will suffer setbacks one after another No, stick it out again..."

"What are you talking about?" Li Suihan interrupted him softly, "There is really no need to say anything specifically now, and don't think too much about it, just let nature take its course."

"Okay." Tao Zhuo nodded.

He made the call in the afternoon, but just in the evening, Dad and Tao Zhen went to the supermarket to buy vegetables. When he was sitting in the living room with his mother watching The Legend of Zhen Huan, his mother suddenly took the initiative to say: "Hey, dog, aren't you Are you going to bring someone back?"

Tao Zhuo was peeling an orange in his hand, when his mother didn't mention it, his fingers directly smashed into the nest of the orange.

Looking at his mother, he said "ah", put the orange on the coffee table, and wiped his hands guiltily.

"I have to bring it," Tao Zhuo observed his mother's expression, and said slowly, "but it feels like you don't really need it right now."

"What do you mean I don't really need it..." My mother's eyes became wary when she saw his reaction, "Who is it, is it you... a friend or something?"

Tao Zhuo's heart beat faster, and the mother and son stared at each other for a while, he swallowed his throat and was about to speak, when his mother suddenly turned his head, propped his forehead and slammed it on the armrest of the sofa, and said, "Forget it, don't talk about it." gone."

She really knows what she knows!

Tao Zhuo picked at the man, not knowing what to say, so he had to pass the orange over in a fawning manner.

"Don't eat." Mom opened her hand and glanced at Tao Zhuo from the corner of her eyes, "You..."

"Hey." Tao Zhuo laughed at her.

"Ouch." My mother closed her eyes, paralyzed as if her bones had been torn apart, her eyelids were trembling, and she had a powerless expression on her face.

"You and my dad already understood," Tao Zhuo squeezed towards his mother, "Right, huh? Mom?"

"Don't call me mom." Mom pushed him away like something, "Don't tell me, don't tell me, pretend I didn't ask."

"You asked all the questions!" Seeing his mother's evasive appearance, Tao Zhuo got excited and held up oranges to feed her.

Hey, he said "chug-chug" like a machine gun: "I'll just tell you straight, don't tell me to find a girlfriend for me, I won't find it, I don't like it at all , I like men."

"Why?" Mom finally turned around. Her first reaction wasn't even annoyance, it was really blank, "Why? What do you think? Ah? Son?"

"There's no reason," Tao Zhuo broke off the oranges and stuffed them into his mouth, "Didn't I tell you a few years ago that I don't want a girlfriend or get married, I already said that..."

"How old were you a few years ago! Don't talk about you, don't talk about you, I think children have such a period, and when you grow up, you will be able to count it. Why don't you grow up?" My mother was a little angry , pushed Tao Zhuo a bit.

"It's still the same after another ten years." Tao Zhuo said while eating an orange.

"You just want me to die early." Mom stared at him for a while, then turned back, "Tell your dad, don't tell me, it's annoying. One by one, what happened to your children now?"

"Eat oranges, Mom." Tao Zhuo said.

"Go away! Don't eat!" Mom said.

Tao Zhuo thought in his heart that no one would come out like his family. Calculated by head count, two-thirds of the progress from Tao Zhen to mother was completed directly.

He thought about not doing anything, and filling in the last third as soon as his father came in.

However, before he could open his mouth, Tao Zhen stirred up another whirlwind at home.

——Tao Zhen and Tao Qiewei are definitely a match made in heaven when it comes to preventing the younger brother from coming out of the closet.

As soon as he and his father entered the house after shopping for groceries, before taking off their masks, his father called his mother and asked her to find Tao Zhen's suitcase.

"What are you doing?" Mom stood up from the sofa and asked vigilantly.

"I contacted two trucks, and the logistics are difficult. I will drive there." Tao Zhen said, taking off his gloves.

"...Are you going too?" Mom stared at Dad.

"I won't go," Dad smiled, "you can deal with their young people's affairs by yourself."

Mom looked at him for a long time, then at Tao Zhen, the corners of her mouth moved, as if she wanted to say something.

Dad gave her a look, but mom didn't say anything in the end, and turned around to pack Tao Zhen's things.

After a while, Tao Zhuo inadvertently found a video featuring his brother on Weibo.

In a short time, several private cars that spontaneously delivered materials arrived at the connection point and were moving things down from the car, and Tao Zhen was one of them.

The younger brother in the video asked a few questions one by one. When Tao Zhen was recorded, he asked sincerely: "It's not a short distance from Jin City. Why did you make this decision?"

Tao Zhen was dressed in dust and dust, and he was a bit lazy to talk. He was busy moving things, and he didn't glance at the camera. He answered without dignity at all. There were only four words: "For my wife."

Tao Zhuo was at Li Suihan's house at the time, and he collapsed on the sofa laughing, his eye sockets blurred.He wiped his face, saved the video and shared it with his family group and circle of friends, shouting: "This hand-wives sing and play casually, enough for the couple to play for a lifetime!"

Li Suihan had just received an anti-epidemic promotional video from Wen Ye, turned off the email and asked, "What?"

Tao Zhuo huddled in Li Suihan's arms and showed him the video. He suddenly thought of Qi Ya's unorthodox quotations on New Year's Eve, and suddenly felt very moved.

"Did you find out, our old Tao family is very affectionate." He raised his hand and pinched Li Suihan's ear.

Li Suihan held Tao Zhuo's mobile phone to watch the video in one hand, and rubbed Tao Zhuo's stomach with the other hand, and said "hmm" with a smile.

"For example, my father treats my mother, my brother treats my sister, and I treat you." Tao Zhuo was proud and emotional.

Li Suihan lowered his eyes to look at him, Tao Zhuo immediately pursed his lips and said, "Come on, baby, give me a kiss."

Li Suihan: "...addicted?"

Neither of them could understand the word, Tao Zhuo was bitten on the nose by Li Suihan, they smiled and kissed, and rolled onto the bed.