recession

After they greeted each other, they were silent for a while. Tao Liyang sent out the edited message. When he looked up, he saw that there was only a minus one on the elevator button, so he stretched out his hand and pressed another floor.

Only then did Tao Liyang slowly come back to his senses. He thought that he hadn't recognized Xu Yunqing at the first sight when he saw him just now. There is also a moment when the opposite side does not know each other.

When he met Xu Yunqing, he was still a freshman in the Drama Academy, which was also Tao Cheng's alma mater.When Tao Cheng was studying, he led a few classmates to set up a small theater, and it continued one after another, so after he entered school, he became a member of it as a matter of course.At that time, he was indulging in a series of early Italian literary films and couldn't extricate himself. The first script he handed over after joining the small theater was also in the same obscure tone. The tree in front of him missed another tree, so he left home one day to find the whereabouts of another tree.

The whole script was weird without too many twists and turns in the plot, but Tao Liyang liked it very much, and it was his first fully formed script, so he went to the first rehearsal very early.As soon as I opened the door, I heard a clear male voice reading the lines from the script: "When I found you, I became a tree. After all the running around, I just want to be rooted in the same land with you for the rest of my life. In the soil..."

It was an autumn afternoon, the lights in the small theater were dim, the sunlight passed through the gaps, and reflected on the face of the boy who was reading the lines, showing a little almost transparent fluff. He was so absorbed that he didn't notice that someone was coming , I didn't see Tao Liyang until I looked back at the end of that paragraph.

He froze for a moment: "What's the matter?"

The boy's complexion is very fair, but his facial features are strong, it can be called a beautiful face.

"I came to see the rehearsal." Tao Liyang's Adam's apple twitched. He is not an introvert, but he was at a loss for some reason at that moment, pointing to the script in his hand: "I am a screenwriter. I was a little busy a while ago. Never came."

The boy raised his eyebrows, turned back to the cover page and found his name: "Tao Liyang?"

While speaking, he jumped down from the stage very briskly, and stretched out a hand towards him with a smile: "Hello, my name is Xu Yunqing, I just joined the small theater last week." very nice."

Tao Liyang happened to meet his eyes, they were extremely bright, as if he wanted to look into people's hearts, his heartbeat missed a beat inexplicably, he smiled after he recovered, and shook his hand: "Hello."

They just met, became friends, and in the short space of a month during the rehearsal, they became very familiar.Sometimes Tao Liyang looked at Xu Yunqing and felt that he had known him for many years, as if the script was written according to his appearance, but he had clearly never seen him before.

On the day of the performance, Tao Liyang sat on the edge of the first row. At the curtain call, there were so many people standing on the stage, but he felt as if he could only see Xu Yunqing.

Oops.Tao Liyang suddenly thought, but he couldn't tell what was wrong for a moment.

The next second, Xu Yunqing also noticed his gaze, and in the crowd's crowd, quietly blinked at him.

Tao Liyang's unreasonable panic just now dissipated again. He thought that something was wrong, but it was obviously good.

At that time, he didn't even realize that he was in love with him. In fact, Tao Liyang was not sure when it started.Afterwards, he thought about it countless times, but he fixed it on that autumn afternoon. He didn't know if it was love at first sight, but it was indeed that sight in the dark theater that consumed the next 12 years of his life.

"Are you here to visit Director Su?" Xu Yunqing asked him.

Tao Liyang nodded, and said casually: "Are you here?" He opened his mouth, thinking that it was not very good.I don't know when it started, they talked and looked forward and backward like this.

Xu Yunqing hesitated for a moment: "My mother is not feeling well, and she is hospitalized here."

Tao Liyang frowned. He met Xu Yunqing's mother several times when he was in college.Xu Yunqing's father passed away early. After he finished college, his mother also came to N City and bought a house next to the Drama Academy so that she could take care of her only son.Tao Liyang also went to eat a few times, and he was an extremely kind person in his impression.

"How is Auntie's condition, which ward is she in, when will I go..."

"No need." Before Tao Liyang finished speaking, Xu Yunqing interrupted him hastily, maybe because he was afraid of Tao Liyang's embarrassment, he calmed down and said, "She wants to rest, and she doesn't like seeing people very much. willing."

When he said this, Tao Liyang couldn't say anything more: "Then I won't bother you, let auntie cultivate well, and pay more attention to your body."

Xu Yunqing nodded, the elevator has reached the first floor.Tao Liyang said: "I'll go first."

Xu Yunqing seemed to want to say something, but he smiled and said, "Okay, goodbye."

Tao Liyang had been catching up on sleep since he came back in the morning, and he had a headache before going out, so he didn't drive.However, the location of the hospital is a bit remote, and it is late now. After waiting for a long time, no taxi passed by, but it started to rain lightly.

Tao Liyang glanced at the sky, and was about to take out his mobile phone when a car drove up from the intersection and stopped in front of him.Xu Yunqing pressed the co-pilot's window, leaned forward and asked, "Where are you going? I'll see you off."

Tao Liyang hesitated for a moment, then opened the car door: "Go home, I'm in trouble."

"Where?" Xu Yunqing smiled and turned the car around.

What Xu Yunqing had on his car was a soothing old song, the theme song of a Soviet movie they all liked.

On the way, the two chatted some gossip, but they didn't mention Xu Yunqing's divorce.Fortunately, they are both in the entertainment industry, even if they bypass themselves and the other party, they can still find a lot of topics to talk about.

But when it stopped at a red light, Xu Yunqing suddenly said: "You seem to have lost weight."

"Really? It's been a long time since I saw you." Tao Liyang glanced at Xu Yunqing from the corner of his eye, he was really thin, and a watch on his wrist was empty.

But Tao Liyang didn't say this, because he bought the watch by himself - the first script he sold was replaced by this watch, which was given away on Xu Yunqing's birthday that year.

It was expensive back then, but now it's not worth much. Xu Yunqing hasn't changed anything else for so many years, maybe he's used to it, just like he's used to this friend.

Xu Yunqing also gave him one later, jokingly saying it was a gift in return, in a very casual manner, but it was after that drunken night, and it didn't take long for Xu Yunqing to get involved with Li Shuang.That watch was connected with other gifts from Xu Yunqing, and Tao Liyang put them away after he got married.

Tao Liyang lowered his eyes, moved his eyes away from his watch, and continued the words just now: "It will be a year?"

"Ten months." Xu Yunqing said very smoothly, paused, and then said, "The last time we met was at the film festival, right? It was exactly ten months before the New Year's Eve."

After the red light ended, the car started up again. Tao Liyang said: "You have a good memory. In the past, no matter how big a line was in the small theater, you could memorize it twice."

Xu Yunqing also smiled, but the scene still became a little awkward for no reason.They didn't talk any more, Tao Liyang looked at the shadows of the trees receding rapidly by the window, and thought to himself, it's been a long time since they got along with each other pretending to be ordinary friends, and it's a little unaccustomed to them.

After driving in such silence for another half an hour, and finally entered the community, Xu Yunqing sent him to the door of the unit: "I have a chance to make an appointment another day, you should rest early."

"Okay, I won't delay you anymore." Tao Liyang unbuckled his seat belt, "It's still raining, so be careful when driving."

Tao Liyang returned home, sat on the sofa for a while, and finally recovered, lit another cigarette and went to the balcony to smoke.As a result, he leaned on the railing and looked out, and Xu Yunqing's car was still parked downstairs.

He was startled, and dialed the phone, thinking that nothing would happen, and walked towards the door while dialing.Fortunately, the other side answered quickly: "What's wrong?"

"I see your car is still downstairs."

"It's nothing." Xu Yunqing said in a normal tone, "Respond to a message."

"Oh, as long as it's okay." Tao Liyang walked back to the balcony, the street lights in the community illuminated the lonely car, and Xu Yunqing's breathing came through the radio waves.Tao Liyang listened greedily for a while: "Then I'll hang up first, you can reply to the message."

"Li Yang." Xu Yunqing called him suddenly.

"Ok?"

The phone was quiet for a while, as if he had stopped breathing, and then he heard Xu Yunqing's voice: "Good night."

Tao Liyang knew that he was just used to it and had no other intentions, so he couldn't help but take a puff of cigarette, "Good night."

The rain was still falling intermittently, and the car drove away.