Wildfire

It's not easy to hear "uncomfortable" from Tao Xiaodong's mouth.

His "uncomfortable" sound made people sad.

This sentence was also the moment where the emotions were overwhelmed, and I couldn't help blurting it out. In a different time and a different situation, maybe he wouldn't say such a sentence.

After that, Tao Xiaodong started to busy himself with his own affairs, he was busy all day long, not counting the time to go home at night, and he was not free all day during the day. Work nonstop from morning to night, try to complete the big picture in one day, and do several small pictures in a day. If you don't arrange the pictures, you won't be in the store that day, you don't know what to do, and you can't catch people.

He even discussed with Rhubarb that he didn't want to keep the other two small branches, their lair.

Rhubarb was dumbfounded and didn't speak for a long time after listening.

They have a total of three stores, and these three stores are the trajectory of Tao Xiaodong from having nothing at the beginning to the present. The newest store, which is more than 1,000 square meters, can accommodate everything, but they still keep the other two stores, and never thought of merging them. Rhubarb knew that Tao Xiaodong was reluctant, and he was the one who missed the past the most. The cost of the two extra stores is actually not small, but it is nothing. If people can really leave some traces of their past and past, then it doesn't matter if they are willful.

"No, what happened to you?" Rhubarb touched his head, rubbed his palms on the back of his head twice, shook off his hands and said, "Tell me."

The two were upstairs in Tao Xiaodong's lounge. Tao Xiaodong stood up to get the ashtray, sat down and lit a cigarette.

"I'm tired." Tao Xiaodong seldom came up to rest, and he didn't sleep much when he was in the store. Tao Xiaodong bit his cigarette and looked at the room, "I've been doing this all my life, I'm going to Exhausted."

Rhubarb said: "Take a rest when you are tired, you are still the same as before, go out and go shopping."

Tao Xiaodong shook his head, he was really thin, sitting here with a cigarette in his mouth, he looked a bit haggard.

"What would you do if you don't do this?" Rhubarb asked him, "Think about what you have been running for so many years. You almost died there in Africa, and spent years in Japan, the United States, and Europe, and you have survived until today. , Tired just to say something today?"

The ash was about to fall, and Tao Xiaodong flicked it in the ashtray. He didn't speak, just smoked in silence.

Tao Xiaodong is not a person who can hypocritically say that I have done enough and I am tired. He is born with a solid skin, can bear hardships and build up energy. The more tired he is, the more he can fight, and the harder he is, the more energetic he is.

Rhubarb has partnered with him for so many years, so he doesn't understand anything: "Don't hide it from me, tell me what's going on."

Tao Xiaodong said "nothing".

"What's wrong with Xiao Nan?" Da Huang asked, "Xiao Nan wants to go to school? Do you want to move?"

Tao Xiaodong waved his hand: "It has nothing to do with that."

Rhubarb also knew his character, and it was difficult to hear something from him. In fact, it's not just him, everyone is the same. The more difficult things are, the less willing they are to open their mouths. When things are difficult, they have to shut up and grit their teeth. The energy has to be tense. It seems that people can’t hold back when they speak out, and they become weak when they are discouraged.

"It doesn't matter what's wrong with you, Xiaodong." Rhubarb also took a cigarette out of the pack and lit it, "It doesn't matter if you're tired or whatever, you don't want to buy those two stores, even if you tell me tomorrow You don't want any of the three stores, we have nothing to say. We are brothers, we will be at any time."

Rhubarb has given Tao Xiaodong a lot of freedom over the years. Tao Xiaodong doesn't have to think about the consequences of whatever he wants to do, and he can do whatever he wants. If he wanted to go, he could leave, and if he wanted to change stores, he could change stores. Because he promised his old friend to do him a favor, Da Huang was able to record that show without saying a word and smiling. The partner is real, and his "brother" is also true.

Tao Xiaodong stubbed out the cigarette, and his voice became a little hoarse from the choking. He called "Brother" and said, "I should still be able to work for another year. You should prepare for this year, and I will finish all the plans you have planned. After that, I will stop doing it. The company will give it to you. In the future, it will You have the final say on how to develop. It is my fate to be your brother for so many years."

Da Huang stood up and looked down at him: "What about you?"

Tao Xiaodong said: "I withdrew, I don't care about anything, there is no feast that never ends."

Rhubarb laughed angrily, opened and closed his mouth, but finally couldn't hold it back: "Yan your mother, are you here to leave your last words with me?"

Tao Xiaodong also laughed, and Rhubarb said, "Don't talk about these **** with me here, it's still a year or two. Let me tell you, Tao Xiaodong, I don't care what happened to you, and I won't ask you. If you want to withdraw Do it with others, or do it yourself, it’s fine for this reason, we two get along well, we will always be brothers. But if you want to withdraw because of something, don’t Divide you, me, and mine with me, and I will get angry. To put it bluntly, you will die here if you die."

Da Huang slammed the door and went out after speaking, he was really angry. This should be the first time he got angry with Tao Xiaodong, and he used dirty words in his words.

Tao Xiaodong usually seems to have a good temper, but in fact he was also stubborn and stubborn when he was young, but now he doesn't show it, and he suppresses it by himself. Rhubarb knows this best.

This time when the two of them chatted upstairs, no one else in the store knew about it. From their point of view, it meant that Dong Ge had a lot of things recently, and he always went out, and he was also ruthless in rushing.

Huan Ge is quite happy. Brother Dong has been working so hard recently, and the picture owed can finally catch up with the progress. Every day, he circled around Tao Xiaodong like a little fool, calling "Dong Ge Dong Ge" endlessly, so he almost had to cheer him up.

Tao Xiaodong made three pictures in a row that day, and Tang Suoyan came over to wait for him directly after get off work. When the worker at the door saw him coming, he hurriedly opened the door ahead of time and said hello, "Dr. Tang is here!"

Tang Suoyan smiled at him and asked, "Which floor is Xiaodong on?"

Tao Xiaodong heard it upstairs, and took the initiative to call out: "Second floor, Brother Yan."

Tang Suoyan went up, Tao Xiaodong looked up at him: "Wait for me for a while."

"Don't worry." Tang Suoyan put his hand on his shoulder, "Buy you."

Xiaotian came over to move a chair for Tang Suoyan and bring him water. Tang Suoyan sat there watching Tao Xiaodong make pictures. You can feel the charm of the tattoo process after watching it too much. Tang Suoyan likes to watch it every time he comes here, and he often looks at Tao Xiaodong's gallery.

The visual effects are very shocking. Looking at these, one can feel the dazzling and powerful of this person.

"You may not like this." Tao Xiaodong looked back at him with a little smile.

Today's picture is a messy line around the neck. From the collarbone to the chin, it looks like graffiti drawn with a pen, which makes people feel upset. This was originally a ready-made picture in Tao Xiaodong's gallery. It was just passed in last week. The customer originally ordered other patterns. Today, when Tao Xiaodong was sitting and waiting for Tao Xiaodong, he looked at the gallery and took a look at this picture, and changed it temporarily.

"I'm used to seeing it." Tang Suo said honestly, "I can't understand it at first glance, but after a while, I feel very different."

The customer let Tao Xiaodong operate with his neck up, and said, "It's so special, it hurt my heart the first time I saw it."

Tao Xiaodong didn't look up, just asked him, "Is there something bothering you?"

"That's too much." The customer laughed at himself, "It's so overwhelming that I can't breathe. This picture is like those things that make me breathless. I like it so much. gone."

"As long as you like it." Tao Xiaodong said lightly.

He spends so much time chasing pictures, sitting for more than ten hours at a time, it is definitely not enough to do this often. The tattoo artist has many occupational diseases. Tang Suoyan pressed his cervical spine and shoulders at night, and poked his tendons with his fingers. Tao Xiaodong's shoulder muscles were tense, and he gasped in pain.

"Does it hurt?" Tang Suoyan asked him.

Tao Xiaodong sat in front of him, with his back to Tang Suoyan, speechless in pain.

"I told you once last time, don't rush the picture like this." Tang Suoyan frowned, "I saw you sitting there with your shoulders a little bit today, and you haven't moved for another day?"

Tao Xiaodong didn't dare to say anything after being told, and listened obediently.

Knowing that he has been in a bad mood recently, and now he keeps breathing without saying a word, looking a little pitiful, Tang Suoyan can't bear to talk about him anymore.

After the massage, he patted him gently for a while to let him relax, and then Tao Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't dare to speak, I'm afraid that if I talk back, you will work harder."

Tang Suoyan pressed his shoulders to stand up with strength, and put his hand forward on his chin: "It's so thin that the muscles are thin."

Seeing that he has lost weight, he can clearly and intuitively feel that he has lost weight when he sleeps at night.

Tao Xiaodong was breathing very lightly. He hadn't been able to sleep well recently. Tang Suoyan kissed him on the neck and called "Xiaodong" in a warm voice.

The last time he said that he didn't want to talk about it, Tang Suoyan didn't ask any more. People sometimes want to digest their emotions by themselves, and asking him repeatedly at this time will only aggravate his emotions. So during this period of time, he pretended to be okay and Tang Suoyan pretended that there was nothing, and asked him to relax as much as possible, so that he didn't have to be tense for fear of Tang Suoyan asking.

But he lost weight day by day, Tang Suoyan still couldn't wait any longer.

"Xiaodong." Tang Suoyan called him again, and asked softly, "What's wrong with you?"

Tao Xiaodong was still breathing lightly, and he seemed to be asleep without speaking. After a while, his hand moved and covered Tang Suoyan's arm, slowly stroking his fingers and fingertips.

Tang Suoyan sighed secretly, and scratched the back of his hand.

Tang Suoyan didn't ask Tao Xiaodong if he could pretend to be fine at home. He asked this night, and it seemed to break the layer of calm. Tao Xiaodong couldn't pretend anymore.

He has been very silent since the early morning of the next day, and he is also a little dazed. When he talks, he barely smiles and smiles very shortly. There are too many things in my heart, and I can't laugh anymore.

Tang Suoyan was heating milk in the kitchen, and Tao Xiaodong went to wash and tidy up. After a while, Tang Suoyan heard him hiss.

Tao Xiaodong looked at the slit under the ear in the mirror, dodged the hand holding the razor, scratched the ear again, and shaved off a small piece of hair, and touched another pinch when he took the hand away.

Tao Xiaodong frowned for two seconds, looked in the mirror, and angrily threw the razor into the sink.

Tang Suoyan walked in, brushed his face away, and took a paper to wipe the blood oozed from his chin. Then he wiped off the shaving foam that hadn't been scraped off his face, and took the electric razor from the cabinet.

Tao Xiaodong always doesn't like to use this, because he thinks the electric one can't shave cleanly.

Neither of them spoke, Tang Suoyan pushed the switch, and the electric shaver buzzed on Tao Xiaodong's face. Tao Xiaodong didn't move, looking at Tang Suoyan.

I kept looking at it, and then my eyes became a little red.