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"Does Hua Lihui live alone?" Zang Bai asked on the way back.

Lin Bochuan was in a good mood, he didn't drive the car directly to his home, but opened the roof and went for a drive along Jiangbin Road.

"Well, he is currently living in the company's staff dormitory."

"Why doesn't he live with Xiaohao, so that we can take care of each other. I don't think he is the type to take care of his own life by himself."

"Xiao Hao is not happy, the two of them have not been able to get along since childhood."

"Then... why don't you let him live in our house, he can live anyway."

But as soon as he said this, Zang Bai couldn't help but feel his heart beating, he couldn't tell what he expected Lin Bochuan to answer.

Lin Bochuan glanced at him: "Are you serious?"

"...I think he was so busy with work that he forgot to sleep and eat, and broke his body, so it's not easy to explain to Uncle Hua."

Lin Bochuan was silent for a moment: "It's fine to live in our house, I will find someone to take care of him." He gave Zang Bai a deep look, and explained cryptically, "There is a third person in the family, it will be inconvenient."

"En." Zang Bai rolled his eyes away, feeling that he was very boring.

But he couldn't help it: "You and Hua Lihui, did you have a good relationship when you were young?"

"It's good. We are the same age. He is a few months older than me. It's easy for little boys to play together."

Seeing that Zang Bai was looking at him with endless interest, as if he wanted to know more, Lin Bochuan went on to say, "Actually, we had normal relationships when we were in elementary school. I didn't know how to get along with my peers at that time, and I guess he also cared about me. Divide Uncle Hua's attention and concern.

"The relationship really got better in middle school. In order to let me have a friend in middle school, my dad also got him into my school. You know, almost all the noble schools in Haicheng are Alpha and Omega. He is Beta, and It is a particularly strong personality, and it is difficult to integrate in this kind of school. I am also the type that is difficult to integrate into other groups, so there are only two of us as friends."

Zang Bai leaned sideways on the co-pilot cushion, and listened carefully to Lin Bochuan's words: "The friends from childhood should be very close. I remember that he didn't come to our wedding."

Lin Bochuan pursed the corners of his lips and hesitated for a moment: "Some things happened later."

"My father passed away, I made some not-so-good friends, and he always tried to interfere with me..."

Lin Bochuan recalled that day when he went drinking with those gangsters, Hua Lihui pulled him out of the bar when he was drunk, punched him, and then they fought on the street.He was sure it was a sunny day, but in retrospect, he always felt that the sky was cloudy and there were raindrops on his face.

"There's more to come..." Lin Bochuan glanced at Zang Bai, "He doesn't want me to go abroad, he thinks that I will be useless if I go abroad alone in my state.

"I have stayed abroad for many years, and when we meet again, we are all adults, and we are no longer as close as we were when we were young."

After Lin Bochuan finished speaking, it happened to be a traffic light. Lin Bochuan walked around Zang Bai's neck and kissed him: "It's all in the past, let's not talk about him."

The car started moving again, and Zang Bai asked, "Why don't you eat undercooked meat?"

"Ok?"

"I've seen you eat beef medium rare."

Lin Bochuan didn't care: "I used to think that raw food was not so clean, and I would imagine that it had parasites. Now I try to overcome that meaningless imagination."

"Then it's fine if you don't eat it, and I never forced you to eat it."

"That's right, but when two people get along, you can't just think about your own comfort. I just try not to add extra burden to you."

"..." Zang Bai blinked, as if his heart was covered by someone, and he was instantly filled with warmth, "What about eggplant and raw cucumber allergies?"

"Rarely, it may be related to the immunity of the physical condition at the time. The symptoms are also very mild, at most it's just a little swollen lips, and I don't care."

Zang Bai frowned slightly: "Then I'll tell Teacher Dong not to eat it in the future."

Lin Bochuan looked at Zang Bai until the green light turned on: "Okay, I'll listen to you."

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The summer in the tea city is long, the autumn is short, and winter has entered in a blink of an eye.

The temperature in the south is not so low in winter, and the construction site happens to work overtime day and night, and the house shoots up like bamboo shoots, almost every day.

As New Year's Day approached, Zang Bai unexpectedly became busy.

After Liu Dao got through all the connections, Zang Bai's two new works successively fetched high prices at auctions, which immediately attracted a large number of media and attention, and a rookie in the painting world was born.

Immediately afterwards, the media dug out that Zang Baizeng and Qiao Liang had studied under the same old artist.

The old artist had passed away, and Qiao Liang later confirmed that they were indeed brothers, and very implicitly praised his brother's painting skills and artistic accomplishment.

The media took this opportunity to dig deeper, and found out that the great painter Qiao and this rookie were not only brothers in name, but also friends who had forgotten their age, and their relationship was extraordinary.In addition, there is the background of this Zang painter. He was the youngest son of Zang Qingshan, who was a wealthy man in Haicheng at that time.Finally, at the age of [-], he met the love of his life - Lin Bochuan, the eldest grandson of the Lin family, and then married this young talent.

It can be described as a happy story between a prince and a prince, and Zang Bai transformed into a winner in life who combines wealth, appearance and talent.

The "winner of life" has been busy in various cities throughout the winter, from interviews to lectures and a series of social activities.

He understood why Qiao Liang's works were far inferior to those when he was not famous. Apart from being unable to calm down and think about what he wanted to express, what's more terrible was that it was easy for people to lose themselves in the crowd of praise and admiration.

After realizing this, Zang Bai was very glad that he still had Lin Bochuan as his anchor.

Lin Bochuan found the meaning of fame for him. Maybe there are many flashy voices on the surface, but someone will really see it, just like he saw the works of those masters a hundred years ago. Understood.

So after this busy period, he and Liu Dao also reached an agreement that the communication on these scenes should be handled by the other party for him as much as possible, and Zang Bai chose to retreat to the back and live a cleaner and more suitable life for creation.

Before the Lunar New Year, he returned to the tea city.

This year's Spring Festival is extremely lively, not only the Hua family gathered together, Zang Bai's mother also returned to the tea city, spent the Spring Festival with them, and went back to Bai's house for a short stay.Only Mama Lin, who was not suitable for traveling far, only waited until the Spring Festival was over, and took the time to go back to Haicheng to see her.

After a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, the whole family played mahjong together.Lin Bochuan volunteered to sit in the house, Zang Bai, Uncle Hua, and Yu Youxing all joined the battle. With the noisy background sound of the Spring Festival Gala, the usually quiet and deserted house also had secular hilarity.

After playing a few laps, Zang Bai gave up the seat to his mother, took the initiative to cut the fruit, made tea, and served it to the fighting people on the table.The noise got a little dry, so he opened the sliding door and went to the balcony to breathe.

However, someone has already occupied it first.

Hua Lihui was lying on the railing, the cold wind was blowing, and there was a flickering orange fire on his mouth.

"Why are you here alone, playing cards with everyone?"

"No," Hua Lihui nodded his index finger, shaking the cigarette ash in the wind, "It's too noisy and I have a headache."

Zang Bai pulled his down jacket up to his chin and stood there for a while: "Do you still have cigarettes?"

Hua Lihui took out a cigarette and a lighter from his pocket and handed them to Zang Bai: "I didn't expect you to smoke too."

"Occasionally, not much." He lit a cigarette and took a sip. The smell was very familiar, and then he looked at the cigarette case with the light from the room. It was a familiar brand.

"You smoke this too, Lin Bochuan often smokes this brand too."

Hua Lihui laughed: "Maybe he learned from me to smoke."

"You two have such a good relationship." Zang Bai took a deep breath, and slowly exhaled the smoke into the night, "What was he like when he was a child?"

"He," Hua Lihui thought for a moment, "is very likable, but only in front of adults. He is very arrogant in front of his peers, very annoying."

"Really?" Zang Bai laughed.

He remembered that when he first met Lin Bochuan, his arrogance and sense of superiority really made people angry.But now I also understand that it was just a coat for his self-protection.

"He said you were good friends."

"A good friend for a while."

"What do you mean after a while?" Zang Bai laughed at his statement, "What happened later?"

Hua Lihui threw the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it: "They all grew up later, each had their own lives, and when they met, they could only talk about their childhood."

Zang Bai heard that the other party didn't particularly want to talk about this, so he changed the topic.

"Aren't you unwilling to come to the tea city, because working here is not going well?"

He didn't expect Zang Bai to ask this question, and he didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"I feel that you have been unhappy here. The environment in the tea city is not as good as Haicheng, and it may not be as promising as your last job. If you don't want to stay, I can go and tell Lin Bochuan, and you don't have to." We can understand any emotional burden."

"I'm not happy, but I'll stay and at least help him finish the project."

Zang Bai didn't know what he said was inappropriate, he obviously felt that Hua Lihui was a little annoyed.

"Lin Bochuan and I, the relationship between us can't simply come down to whether we want it or not, whether we are happy or unhappy. Just like Hua Xiaohao, I am quite tired of him, but he is my younger brother. No matter how much we usually quarrel, he has needs. , I will help him without hesitation.

"In turn, they did the same to me."

"...Sorry, that's not what I meant." Zang Bai also put out his cigarette, thinking that Hua Lihui might have misunderstood him.

"...It's me who should say sorry, I went in first."

Zang Bai was left alone on the balcony again, while someone was firing cannons on the other side of the river, the sound of "bang bang bang" cracked the air.

He felt uncomfortable, it was an irrational emotion, he was jealous, jealous that Hua Lihui could accompany Lin Bochuan's childhood and youth, jealous that there was something between them that he and Lin Bochuan didn't have.He hates this emotion, but he can't control it.