evening tide

"Hey," Boss Hu raised his head and called to the eldest daughter opposite, "Don't you like that star? Zhou or something, the one that always dubbed him, let's ask Mr. Chao to find it."

He stretched out a finger: "I asked you to show your face in the play, who do you want to match you with? The one who plays the time-traveling princess, or that young goddess."

"Qinghe," Xiao Tan said, "is the match of our teacher Chao."

"I have a good memory," Mr. Hu said with a smile, "Xiao Chao, your drama is really popular, my mother is over 70." He compared two fingers, "I still like your character. "

The index finger pointed towards Chao Xin again, with an appreciative smile on his face.

Xiang Wan exhaled lightly.

"Come, come," Mr. Hu stretched out his hand and greeted the eldest daughter, "Come and toast Mr. Chao. If you become popular in the future, Mr. Chao will also be your queen."

The little girl didn't move: "I don't know how to act."

The brother-in-law said with an accent: "Who needs to be able to act now? I think they all say one, two, three, four, five. If they can act, why do you want them to dub?"

"Yeah? One, two, three, four, five." He turned and said to his own sister.

"There's still something to memorize. If I keep saying one, two, three, four, five, I'm afraid I'll be caught out, Mr. Chao." Aunt Zhou leaned towards Chao Xin while holding her son to feed him.

"Is there any? Don't those actors memorize their lines?" She was interested and blinked at Chao Xin.

"No, I still recite it." Chao Xin said.

The tip of the tongue pressed against the mouth again.

The brother-in-law lit a cigarette, squinted his eyes and took a puff: "Then you probably don't tell them not to memorize it every day, you know it, why do you want to ask for it?"

He felt a little humorous, shaking his shoulders and laughing.

"Do it, I think you are going to do it." My brother-in-law said to him.

Xiao Tan also laughed.

Chao Xin brushed his hair, but remained silent.

Xiang Wan didn't say a word. This was the first time she encountered this situation. She was ready to stop drinking, but she didn't prepare for anything else.

In particular, she suddenly thought of the first time she participated offline that year.

Helpless and powerless.It was just that he was on stage at the time, but now he is at the wine table.

"Ms. Chao doesn't like to talk." Aunt Zhou glanced at her, smiled and looked at Mr. Hu, "I thought voice actors are very talkative?"

"Voice actor, why are you so talkative?" Xiang Wan asked softly.

Only then did Aunt Zhou look at her. The young lady hadn't spoken much since she came in. Now that she spoke, she realized that her voice was like smoke, placed on the snow.

The restlessness during the banquet seemed to be silent for a second in an instant.

Aunt Zhou retracted her neck and made excuses: "Then at least you have to slip out of your mouth, teacher, have you practiced tongue twisters or something?"

"Practice." Xiang Wan said.

"Isn't it okay for the teacher to perform a show? Our younger brother likes to listen to tongue twisters the most, isn't he, younger brother?" She hugged her son and put her arms around his waist to tease him.

The youngest son was so teased that he giggled and said childishly, "Switch!"

"Tongue twister." Aunt Zhou corrected him.

He learned the tongue with great difficulty.

"Hey, what kind of tongue twisters are you performing?" The baby has been brought for a long time, and people are naive.After the little brother-in-law was disgusted, his eyes suddenly lit up, he stretched out his hand, the back of his hand hung up in the banquet, and pressed down lightly: "Ms. Chao is not a match for the goddess? It is played every year, and the voice is very popular. Many people have learned to dub.”

"Ms. Chao, use that fairy's voice to tell us a few words, how about it?" He rolled his watch strap excitedly.

"Inconvenient." Chao Xin said.

"Oh, let's talk, what's the inconvenience? It's just a performance. We cooperate and watch the performance, right? Lao Hu." Aunt Zhou felt that she was very incapable of being a human being, and she frowned delicately. Words also increased by three points.

Xiang Wan looked at her, his hands were still resting on the chopsticks casually, but the back of his ears had gradually turned red.

Seeing that she didn't want to talk, Xiang Wan frowned and explained: "That's our job, there must be an environment and status."

"Then it's not okay to perform a sentence or two?" My brother-in-law didn't believe it. "I see that you all came to the show when the host said it, and you didn't say what kind of environment you want."

He felt that these two proud little girls just didn't show face.

With a cold snort, after receiving the TV station's money, it doesn't matter what the environment is, whether it's work or not, huh?It's just to make a sound, is there a big one?

Make a show from the moment you enter the door.

Chao Xin stood up, picked up the bag, said "I'm sorry", left everyone behind, and took Xiang Wan away.

Looking at each other, Mr. Hu frowned and glanced at Xiao Tan, Xiao Tan hurriedly chased him out, wanting to hold Chao Xin's hand: "Sister."

"Sister, do you still have to finish the meal? Let's talk about whether we can cooperate or not." Xiao Tan didn't pull up, but pushed behind.

"Go back, thank you." Chao Xin breathed out and said softly.

But the softer her voice was, the more Xiao Tan knew that it was over.

So I stopped chasing him, and watched Chao Xin get into the car at the entrance of the restaurant.

After sitting in the back row for a while, Chao Xin called a valet driver, and it took about 15 minutes for the valet driver to arrive.

For 15 minutes, she watched the flashing neon lights outside the car window without saying a word.

She didn't speak again until the driver got in the car and returned to the hotel.

After parking the car and going upstairs, the two of them walked side by side to the corner of the hotel in silence. Chao Xin brushed her curly hair, took out her room card and opened the door, and Xiang Wan followed in, wanting to wash in her room.

She rummaged through the suitcase for the clothes she was going to change tomorrow, took them out, and spread them on the sofa, then Xiang Wan sat aside, looking at Chao Xin without moving.

Chao Xin answered the phone.

It should be Pa Pai calling, her answer was very gentle, with a hint of a smile.

"Well, I just went back to the hotel and was eating before."

"Then did you eat seriously?"

"I didn't drink, I didn't drink, it's normal for you to listen to me, isn't it?"

"Go to bed early, I'll be back tomorrow."

"I know, I will do a home visit the day after tomorrow, and I will behave very well."

"Of course you can trust me."

"OK, goodnight."

After hanging up the phone, she put the phone on the bed, then sat on the edge of the bed, staring at the bathroom partition in a daze.

Xiang Wan walked over, walked in front of her, and saw that she looked up, the corners of her charming eyes were no longer energetic, and her eyelashes were still drooping. It turned out that her sense of contradiction came from her bright eyes, which were full of hope, and the lack of energy. Uncurved eyelashes, the two overlap, both euphemistic and direct.

But when her eyes lost their vitality, there was only loneliness left.

Chao Xin looked up at Xiang Wan, his facial features were so straightforward that they seemed unworn.

"Let's do it once," she said.