Dense Fog

Chapter 69

This time, the quiet time on WeChat has been longer.

Every time Tao Qiran doesn’t know how to reply, that’s it.

When many people don’t know how to reply to a message, they choose to divert the topic, pretend to be teasing, or simply go around in circles, so as not to embarrass the other party or embarrass themselves.

But Tao Qiran will not.

So that Zhao Li can accurately grasp the other party’s mood fluctuations from the speed of replying. For example, now, he can already imagine Tao Qiran looking distressed at the chat interface.

Ten minutes before the opening ceremony, the shop assistants all came up anxiously and called him the boss to go downstairs and take his place. Tao Qiran’s message finally came back—

Tao Qiran: You don’t have to do this. For me, it’s not worth it. You should have your own life, just like me, painting, entering the Academy of Fine Arts, staying in school, I am all for myself.

Putting down the phone, Zhao Li turned his head and said to the clerk who was still waiting: “You can take care of it, I won’t go down anymore.”

“Boss, it’s opening today.” Xiao Zhang, the clerk, was surprised. On the first day of opening, the boss was passive and sabotaged, and he was very worried about the future of his job.

Zhao Li nodded at him: “You can do it well.”

From the eyes of the boss, Xiao Zhang reads trust, as well as reassuring determination and calmness.

But he was really curious about what important person could keep the boss open without showing up, just to chat on WeChat: “Boss, who are you…who are you chatting with?”

Zhao Li frowned slightly.

Xiao Zhang regretted it instantly, and it was over. Too gossip really made the boss upset.

Zhao Li’s mobile phone vibrated suddenly at this moment.

Tao Qiran: Why is there no sound?

Tao Qiran: Are you angry?

Tao Qiran: Forget it, I take back the above words.

Tao Qiran: [What should I do if I regret overtime and it is too late to withdraw? Urgent, wait online. jpg]

Tao Qiran: [Brush Screen Dafa.jpg]

Tao Qiran: [Long Long Picture.jpg]

Tao Qiran: [Long, long, long…

Xiao Zhang only saw the boss pick up the phone again, then looked at it, his eyebrows stretched flat, then looked at it, and simply smiled.

The boss actually laughs.

Wannian Pinghu finally met the wind, blowing ripples and waves—Xiao Zhang silently summarized the situation of his boss at the moment in his heart.

“What did you ask?” Zhao Li looked up without warning.

Xiao Zhang was caught off guard by cue, and when he was nervous, he said without hesitation: “I ask my boss who do you talk to…”

“A wayward painter.” The smile on Zhao Li’s face deepened.

Xiao Zhang stared blankly. For the first time, he realized that his expressionless face can really seal his face. The smiling boss is too **** charming!

As for the “painter” answer that sounds completely ungrounded, it seems reasonable to get a closer look.

Those who open cafes and those who engage in art are a perfect match.

Xiao Zhang disappeared at the top of the stairs, and the second floor was quiet again.

Zhao Li just picked up the phone: just talking to the clerk.

Tao Qiran:…

Tao Qiran: Then you didn’t say it earlier, wasting so many emoticons on me [.jpg]

Zhao Li looked at those flying expressions, as if he saw Tao Qiran’s various grimace faces in previous pranks, and his heart felt like being blown by the wind, cool and comfortable.

But the information sent in the past returned to the subject without any cumbersomeness.

Zhao Li: I am not for you. Just like you chose to paint, enter the Academy of Fine Arts, and stay in school, I also chose to open a shop and leave a studio for you. You are responsible for your choice, I am responsible for mine, it’s very simple.

Tao Qiran: Where is it simple…

Zhao Li: I didn’t leave the studio for you. You must use it. You can never come back.

Tao Qiran: You are there, how could I not come back!

Zhao Li’s heart was filled with wind: I know.

Tao Qiran: …Believe it or not, I’ll go back and beat you?

Zhao Li: I’ll talk if you can beat it first.

That day, the coffee shop was opened in a strange situation without the boss showing up.

Fortunately, no relatives and friends were invited to help out. Customers rushed for opening offers or new stores to try new things. They only cared about coffee and desserts, not the boss.

And Zhao Li stayed in the studio on the second floor until sunset.

Zhao Li: Think about where you went this holiday?

Tao Qiran: [Photo][Photo]

Tao Qiran: Changbai Mountain is beautiful.

Zhao Li: Yes.

Tao Qiran: It’s far away from Tianchi and there are few villages. It’s very quiet and beautiful. The photos were taken when my teacher went in winter. I want to finish this summer vacation and go again next winter vacation. You can experience the four seasons in the mountains, see them all, and draw them all. It must be great.

When it comes to painting and nature, Tao Qiran is happy. It was like this since junior high school, no one knew better than Zhao Li.

So it doesn’t matter whether Beijing or Shenyang, any city is just a temporary foothold for Tao Qiran. Whenever he has the opportunity, he will plunge into the mountains and into the woods.

Zhao Li never wanted to trap Tao Qiran, he was just like Tao Qiran, following his own heart.

…

Seven months ago.

Tao Qiran: Our school is about to start the census of the genus of awakening. Is there any movement on your side?

Zhao Li: The community has come to count. It should be ranked next week.

Tao Qiran: Why are you not excited at all?

Zhao Li: See who you compare.

Tao Qiran:…

Tao Qiran: Am I so obvious?

Zhao Li: Just put a note on my forehead saying “I can finally mix in birds and beasts”.

Tao Qiran: [Silly laugh.jpg]

Tao Qiran: It’s really amazing. I went to Wuling Mountain last weekend and felt different from every time I went there. I am already familiar with it. I can draw it with my eyes closed, but this time I feel like I’ve been to a new place. , Do you know that feeling, everything on the mountain is brand new.

Zhao Li knows.

Although he does not have the sensitive cells of an artist, and although he has never been to Wuling Mountain, he has seen Tao Qiran’s recent paintings.

One flower, one grass, one tree and one tree, all with a different kind of vigor than before, bright and enthusiastic.

The scenery has not changed, what has changed is the painter’s feelings and mood.

Tao Qiran: What family do you think you will be?

Zhao Li: It doesn’t matter.

Tao Qiran: It doesn’t matter, what if we are natural enemies?

Tao Qiran: I have seen studies saying that the wild awakening first changes the body, and then gradually changes the character and even the biological instinct. If we are natural enemies, maybe one day I will bully you, or even hurt you!

Zhao Li: First of all, there is no official research to prove that Wild Awakening can change personality and biological instincts. Don’t believe in rumors or spread rumors, and watch less fake news on marketing accounts.

Zhao Li: Secondly, even if we are natural enemies, those at the upper level of the food chain will bully others, it is not necessarily you.

Tao Qiran: Didn’t I tell you, Jackal Tiger Leopard, I must be one of them.

Zhao Li: What you said doesn’t count.

Tao Qiran: I have a basis!

Zhao Li: Just because you have developed motor nerves, improved physical fitness, stayed up at night and stayed up during the day, and fell in love with singing at night with the moon?

Tao Qiran: If you don’t summarize it, I don’t know that my evidence chain is so complete.

Zhao Li: Yes, no matter what family or genus, I know you are you, so that’s it.

Tao Qiran:…

Zhao Li: If you really want me to be as excited as you, I can also cooperate.

Tao Qiran: [You go away.jpg]

On the night when the weather was getting colder, Tao Qiran, angrily, ignored him again.

But Zhao Li knew that this popularity would not be long before he would be happy again. Because since that heavy fog, since everyone began to discover animal changes in themselves, and even the wild awakening has not been officially confirmed, Tao Qiran has already developed a certain intuition with his keen perception and This started to be happy in advance, and has been till now.

However, Zhao Li couldn’t be happy.

The closer Tao Qiran was to the world he wanted to pursue, the farther Zhao Li would be from Tao Qiran.

…

Five months ago.

It was a cold and windy weekend afternoon. The aroma and warmth of coffee kept customers coming into the store. The clerk was too busy, so Zhao Li personally went to the battle to make a cup of coffee.

His mobile phone was placed on the second floor, but Xiao Zhang went upstairs to pick up something and passed by the studio. He heard his mobile phone ringing. When Xiao Zhang took the mobile phone, the phone broke before he went downstairs.

Xiao Zhang still gave the phone to Zhao Li the first time. As an old clerk, he knew too well the importance of the caller who flashed in the store during the winter and summer vacations: “Boss, Mr. Tao just called you. .”

Zhao Li had a meal, and the garland that was about to be finished was broken.

“You make another cup.” After explaining Xiao Zhang, he took the phone and walked to the stairs.

But before going to the second floor, Tao Qiran’s message came: Are you in the store?

Doubts flashed in Zhao Li’s eyes, stepped up the stairs, and at the same time called back.

Over there, the background noise was loud, like outside, but it still couldn’t cover Tao Qiran’s strange eagerness: “Zhao Li.”

Zhao Li’s expression condensed, and his feet stopped: “What’s the matter?”

Tao Qiran: “Are you in the store?”

Zhao Li: “Yes.”

Tao Qiran: “I am going to look for you now.”

Zhao Li was surprised: “Now? Are you in Shenyang?”

Tao Qiran: “Just got off the high-speed rail.”

In less than an hour, the welcoming wind chime rang with the opening of the store door.

Tao Qiran was wrapped in a rigorous long down jacket, with the dust of the journey, and also brought the cold outside.

Customers in the store came to see it naturally.

Then I found that the other party didn’t seem to be here for coffee, so I walked straight in and went to the second floor.

Zhao Li has been waiting in the studio.

Tao Qiran will not come back for no reason, there must be something.

“Zhao Li.” Tao Qiran’s voice came first, and the talent came in. As soon as he came in, he turned around and closed the door of the studio tightly.

After opening the shop for a few years, Tao Qiran has regarded this studio as his own site.

Zhao Li likes this, but now he cares more: “What’s wrong?”

Tao Qiran put down his hat, quickly took off his down jacket, and rushed all the way to make the tip of his nose flush with cold: “You may see something very…special next. You have to be mentally prepared.”

especially?

Zhao Li thought that Tao Qiran must have encountered something “serious” when he came back in such a hurry, but the other party used a neutral adjective.

Moreover, he couldn’t see any serious gaffe in Tao Qiran’s eyes, but only captured the unquenchable surprises and expectations.

Tao Qiran himself was… looking forward to what he was about to see.

Zhao Li was completely disturbed, but his face remained still, waiting for Tao Qiran’s next step.

Unexpectedly, Tao Qiran took off the clothes inside again, one by one. In the end, like a newborn baby, he lay on the bed in the studio and curled up his body a little bit.

The cold wind howled outside the window.

The studio was so quiet that you could hear each other breathing.

Gradually, there was a second sound, the bones were changing, the fur and the claws were growing.

Zhao Li looked dumbfounded.

I just felt that everything around him was beginning to become blurred, only the silver-gray in his vision, clear and real, hit his chest heavily.

Tao Qiran became a real tundra wolf.