Wildfire - Chapter 55

[Chapter 55]

It’s almost New Year’s Eve, Tao Xiaodong’s annual meeting is over, and the bonus is a big deal. Whether it is those tattoo artists who have been following him, or those disabled children, Tao Xiaodong has always been generous.

The tattooists joked with him: “You still give us money? I think we have to give you money, bro.”

They all have money. For them, the prize or not is to draw a lottery for the Chinese New Year. There are not many shops that smoke 20% of them, and many shops are half-half. Although Tao Xiaodong takes money from them, he can also give them resources. This is the best platform. For young tattoo artists, being able to be here means their strength. There are not so many customers who can’t be ranked when they go out alone, and it is not necessary to get on. price.

Tao Xiaodong has nothing to say to his brothers or friends, and will not send people anything. If you don’t dig or not, it’s all for the outside world, and the high price of the black hand is aimed at the outside partner.

The part-time students have all gone home one after another. The store has been a little empty recently, and there are not that many people working. If Tao Xiaodong is idle, he will mop the floor. In winter, the shoes will be too dirty when they step on the snow, so they have to be wiped several times a day.

Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng are on winter vacation, and they often come to the store to stay. Although Tao Huainan has been keeping him from going home, he still misses his brother.

Occasionally, when Tang Suoyan worked overtime or did not come back from a business trip, Tao Xiaodong would go home and live.

Yesterday, Tang Suoyan was temporarily transferred to the next province for a consultation. The patient’s identity is relatively heavy, and experts from the surrounding provinces have been transferred. Breaking the time into several pieces, I took the time to give Tao Xiaodong a call to talk briefly, and then hung up before I finished speaking.

Tao Xiaodong stayed at his house for one night, and it snowed outside for a night. When Tang Suoyan called in the morning and asked him if he was up, Tao Xiaodong just woke up and said “not yet” in a soft voice.

It’s the same voice that he wakes up Tang Suoyan every morning. Tang Suoyan listens on the other end of the phone and says he hasn’t slept all night.

It is most useful for someone to sell miserably. Tao Xiaodong was distressed and coaxed quietly for a long time. No matter how cold it was outside, it couldn’t stop his enthusiasm.

Tao Huainan was sitting on the sofa in the lounge area, tearing up and eating half a pineapple. He loves it and finds it interesting.

Tao Xiaodong finished his work and was dragging the ground with one hand, and Chi Cheng also helped him. Tao Xiaodong and Chi Cheng both had cell phones in Tao Huainan’s hands. When the phone rang, Tao Huainan touched it and said “hello”.

“Xiao Nan?” Tang Suoyan heard his voice and asked, “Where’s my brother?”

Tao Huainan laughed immediately, called “Brother Tang”, and said, “Wait for me to call him.”

“You don’t need to call him when he’s busy.” Tang Suoyan said.

“Not busy, he’s mopping the floor.” Tao Huainan shouted loudly, not knowing which direction to go in, so he turned his head slightly, “!” Brother call! “

Chi Cheng said from behind, “Brother went downstairs.”

“My brother went downstairs,” Tao Huainan said obediently, “I’ll let him get back to you later? Brother Tang, are you back?”

Tang Suoyan said it back.

Tao Huainan is very sensible, and immediately answered: “Then when do you get off work?”

Because of Tang Suoyan’s current relationship with Tao Xiaodong, Tao Huainan can often talk to Tang Suoyan on the phone and is already very familiar. You can still send WeChat to him during breaks. Tao Huainan told him about Tao Xiaodong’s birthday earlier.

Tang Suoyan smiled and said, “I’ll call him in advance at seven or eight o’clock.”

“Okay.” Tao Huainan agreed.

Tang Suoyan said to him, “Now that you are on vacation, you can move in and live here. You don’t have to go to school anyway.”

It was impossible for Tao Huainan to go. How long had they been together? It was just right for the two of them to live at home.

When Tang Suoyan came down from the hospital, he took another bunch of flowers.

These are the first bunches in a while.

Tao Xiaodong laughed as soon as he saw it. He couldn’t pick it up while driving, so Tang Suoyan helped him hold it and said, “I feel so bad.”

Tang Suoyan raised his eyebrows: “Do you feel bad for me?”

Tao Xiaodong: “I feel bad for money, how hard is it to make money.”

Tang Suoyan didn’t want to pay attention to his stingy, but he couldn’t help but still laughed and asked, “Don’t you know it’s not expensive?”

“It’s too extravagant whether it’s expensive or not.” Tao Xiaodong said seriously, but he was clearly smiling.

The beauty in my heart was broken, and the beauty poured out of his eyes, and he deliberately made the handsome doctor smile. Not to mention a bunch of flowers, Dongshen can’t spend a hundred bunches of flowers just by doing a small job, how happy it is to collect flowers.

When I was not a lover before, I also had grass-like thoughts in my heart after being separated for ten days and a half months, but it was still much worse than now. The relationship is certain, I watch it by my side every day, and I feel empty in my heart without watching it every other night.

When Tang Suoyan was cooking, Tao Xiaodong didn’t even pack the flowers, put them aside first, and stared at Tang Suoyan at the dining table.

After eating, I started to clean up today’s bunch of small flowers. I brought back a lot of empty vases from the store. There were no girls in the store, and there was no mood. In the past, the vases were filled with fake flowers, and then they were thrown away when they became dirty. Just poured out the empty bottle and filled Tao Xiaodong with his Gerbera.

Tao Xiaodong thought as he packed up, the name is good, romantic and comfortable.

Tang Suoyan hadn’t slept all night last night. He slept early that day, and put his hand on Tao Xiaodong’s stomach through his pajamas.

He was really tired and slept very deeply. He had been sleeping lightly a few days ago.

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After the new year, he will only get busier and busier. The doctor’s responsibility is here, and they have to work overtime when everyone else is reunited.

In fact, it’s good to be busy during this time. Tao Xiaodong hopes that he will be busy. From Tangning’s last knife to now, Tao Xiaodong still feels pain for him. They had never mentioned Tangning, there was nothing to mention, this was not something to talk about. Some things can only be left to time.

I can’t remember when I’m busy. For men of their age, it is quite a luxury in terms of time alone to have time to think recklessly or ponder over an old relationship.

On the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, Tao Xiaodong drove to Tang Suoyan’s parents’ house and delivered a lot of things. The two old people wanted to keep him for dinner, Tao Xiaodong said he was busy.

Tang Suoyan has to be on duty in the hospital from this day on. There are too many patients with eye trauma and acute eye injury, and he can’t come back. Tao Xiaodong has a lot of doors. He doesn’t have parents, but his brothers’ parents can’t be left behind, so the proper etiquette can’t be bad.

He went to Tian Yi’s house several times, Xia Yuan’s house too, and several other brothers’ houses who went to other places to develop and didn’t come back often. There are elderly people and children, red envelopes and other things must be prepared.

Tian Yi’s parents asked Tao Xiaodong if he had a partner and when he would get married.

Tao Xiaodong said yes with a smile and nodded in the first year.

Tian Yi’s mother said “Okay” repeatedly, and asked to bring it to see when she had time.

At the age of 30, Tao Xiaodong did not leave the house for a long time, and did not go anywhere, accompanying Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng. There are no guns in the urban area, and a few sporadic ones can’t even make a film.

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Tao Xiaodong asked Tao Huainan: “Is there still a flower baby this year?”

Tao Huainan immediately shook his head: “I won’t let it go.”

Tao Xiaodong smiled: “What’s wrong?”

“My brother Tang is so busy, I don’t dare to let it go.” Although setting off firecrackers doesn’t mean going to the hospital with an eye injury, but with Tang Suoyan’s relationship, I feel that setting off firecrackers when going out will add extra stress to the doctors. trouble.

Tao Xiaodong coaxed him to say it was all right.

Tao Huainan made up his mind not to play with that, and said to him, “Don’t bully me, can you be a little more conscious of the family members of doctors and have no safety awareness at all.”

Tao Xiaodong was educated, he stopped asking questions, and took a nap on the sofa.

Woke up at four o’clock in the afternoon. Chi Cheng was mixing stuffing in the kitchen, Tao Huainan sat on a small bench beside him and said he wanted more shrimp. Chi Cheng touched the boil! Before handing the cooked shrimp to his mouth, Tao Huainan opened his mouth and ate it, muttering “no taste” in a low voice.

Tao Xiaodong smiled, stood up, washed his face, and said to them, “I’ll go out.”

“Where are you going?” Tao Huainan asked him in his direction.

Tao Xiaodong said, “I have to go to Brother Tang’s house, it’s New Year’s Eve.”

Tao Xiaodong took his coat and went out.

Tang Suoyan hasn’t celebrated Chinese New Year at home for many years. He gave birth to a son who is too good. He is usually busy, and he is also busy when others are on vacation. In the past, when Tang Suoyan’s grandparents were still there, they went there to celebrate the New Year. In recent years, the old people have left one after another, and the two of them spent the New Year’s Eve at home alone.

Professor Tang was chopping meat stuffing in the kitchen, the sound was a bit noisy, and the knock on the door was heard after a long time.

Tao Xiaodong has been knocking at the door for a long time, and the door is still hesitant to open. At this time, he still thinks that some relative who is visiting the door has knocked on the wrong door.

When Professor Bai opened the door, he was stunned when he saw it, and then quickly welcomed him in.

“Old Tang, Xiaodong is here!” Professor Bai said to the kitchen.

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Professor Tang put down the kitchen knife and beckoned him to sit.

Tao Xiaodong came empty-handed, not to drop by, but simply to celebrate the New Year. The two brought him dried fruit or something. Tao Xiaodong smiled and said, “I really don’t eat them. I’m here to eat dumplings. Auntie really doesn’t need to entertain me. Is there anything I can’t do? What can I do? I’ll do it anyway. You’re stupid, you can do it right.”

“Your hands! What are you doing?” Professor Bai stopped pinching the beans, sat next to Tao Xiaodong, and asked him how he got here.

Tao Xiaodong said: “I came by car. There are not many cars today, so I went home.”

“Can you drive the car with your hands?” Professor Tang also came over, moved the tea table over again, put up his posture, and seemed to want to drink tea with Tao Xiaodong.

“It’s alright.” Tao Xiaodong helped to clean up, “It’s been almost two months, and it’s just not too hard now, everything else is normal.”

“You still have to be careful.” Professor Bai said to him, “Don’t be careless and make mistakes.”

“Okay,” Tao Xiaodong nodded, “I will pay more attention.”

The New Year’s Eve in this family has not been so lively for many years. Tao Xiaodong drank tea with Professor Tang for a while and chatted while drinking. Tang Suoyan was so busy that he didn’t have time to come back. The old couple still missed their son. Professor Bai’s topic was always about his son.

Tao Xiaodong also liked to listen to this, so he chatted with him.

The family was lively and happy. During dinner, Professor Tang even drank a small cup of white wine. Ask Tao Xiaodong if he wants to drink! , Tao Xiaodong said that he usually drinks a little, but he stopped drinking today while driving.

Professor Bai kept serving him dishes, Tao Xiaodong didn’t eat dumplings much, he kept eating vegetables, and finally there was a plate of dumplings left.

Tao Xiaodong asked, “Do you have an insulated lunch box at home?”

“What’s the matter? My younger brother didn’t eat?” Professor Bai was taken aback, thinking that he had left the two younger brothers at home and no one cared.

“That’s fine.” Professor Bai stood up and went to the kitchen to find him a thermos bucket. After cleaning it, he brought it over and asked him, “What’s in it?”

Tao Xiaodong said dumplings.

He was not in a hurry to leave, nor was he in a hurry to pack. He dried the steam on the dumplings and put them in the lunch box when they were still warm. Tao Xiaodong screwed up the door and came back to chat with the old couple.

In fact, the two old people are usually introverted people, and they are not particularly extroverted, and they speak rationally and moderately. Today they seem to be more open than usual, laugh more and talk more.

Professor Bai patted his arm and said, “You must drive slowly on the road, your hands are not so good.”

“I see.” Tao Xiaodong said. After speaking, he took out two thick red envelopes from his jacket pocket, smiling generously and informally.

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When the two professors saw him take out the red envelope, they looked at him with disapproval, and felt that he was out of touch.

Tao Xiaodong bent down and put the red envelope on the coffee table: “Does our family have to get some solar terms during the holidays?”

Professor Bai grabbed his wrist and said, “We have to give it to you.”

“Whatever is yours or ours, it’s our family, so let’s enjoy the solar terms.” Tao Xiaodong said, “Brother Yan is busy, the doctor treats and saves people, no matter how busy you are, you can’t choose, it should be. He is busy with him, and we are the same without him. It’s the holiday. I came here without calling in advance today. Don’t think I’m ignorant, uncles and aunties, I’ll come here often in the future.”

Tao Xiaodong bent down to put on his shoes and carried the thermal insulation bucket. When he looked up again, he saw that Professor Bai’s eyes were a little red.

Tao Xiaodong still smiled and said, as if he didn’t see it: “I won’t help you clean up, and I can’t do it well. Go to bed early after you clean up, and we will all be safe in the new year.”

“Okay, okay.” Professor Bai nodded and said.

Tao Xiaodong opened the door and left. There was no elevator in the old community. Tao Xiaodong ran downstairs.

Before the door was closed, the two old men upstairs were still instructing him to drive slowly and be careful on the road.

Tao Xiaodong raised his voice and replied, “Hey, I got it!”