MTL - Hello, How Long Has This Been Going On?-Chapter 42

[Tao: I walked for an hour obviously, how can I still hold on. ]

[HR: Bear doesn't know.jpg]

[HR: I'm sitting on the bed watching TV! ]

[HR: Not pretty. ]

Tao Zhiyue glanced at the TV subconsciously. It turned out that Huo Ran was sitting in the same place as him at the moment, and he also used the TV as the background sound to play with his mobile phone.

[Tao: I don’t think it looks good either. ]

[Tao: Where are you going to play tomorrow? ]

[HR: Confidential! ]

[HR: By the way, I forgot to show you the picture of breakfast. ]

[HR: I'll send it to you now! ]

Huo Ran immediately sent many pictures, everything from deep-fried dough sticks, porridge to glutinous rice balls, Tao Zhi was dazzled by seeing them.

While being moved, he couldn't help sighing sincerely.

[Tao: You really ate a lot this morning...]

[HR:! ! ]

[HR: I exercised in the morning! won't be fat! ]

[HR: I have abs! ]

[Tao: Give the boss a Coke.jpg]

[Tao: Let me see. ]

The moment it was sent out, Tao Zhiyue immediately discovered the ambiguity and quickly patched it.

[Tao: It’s breakfast! ]

[Tao: Which one do you like to eat? ]

[Tao: No, you must say that you love to eat. ]

[HR: I love to eat them all! ]

[HR: Ah, found out. ]

[HR: Maomao giggles.jpg]

So Tao Zhiyue also smirked along with this emoji, and carefully looked at the photos he sent by the way.

Among the piles of handsome food, Tao Zhiyue's eyes were immediately attracted by one of the brown pancakes.

The body of the cake is golden yellow and brown, and there are uneven horizontal stripes on the surface, which coincidentally make up a funny and ugly face.

He forwarded the picture.

[Tao: I want to eat this. ]

[HR: This is sugar pancake, it's delicious! ]

[HR: But it's very sweet, very sweet, would you like it? ]

[Tao: Eat! ]

[Tao: This one is the ugliest and very cute. ]

[HR: Ok. ]

[HR: Tomorrow we will line up to buy together. Freshly cooked ones are the best. What I ate today is already cold. ]

[HR: And the people behind will be very greedy when they see it. ]

[HR: Little Bear Goes Around.gif]

This man is so childish.

Tao Zhiyue couldn't help laughing, and then thought about it, he who was chatting with the other party on the mobile phone across a wall seemed to be just as childish.

As a result, they chatted childishly across the wall all night, even throwing dice with each other for ten minutes.

We chatted until we were really sleepy, so we fell asleep holding the phone.

The next morning, the two of them sat side by side on the bus, and the scenery outside the window flashed like a stream of light.

He obviously didn't sleep for a long time, but Tao Zhiyue was not sleepy at all. Holding the backpack he carried with him, he looked curiously at everything outside the window, as if even the world in front of him was a little brighter.

The urban style of Yanping is completely different from that of northern Shanxi. People walking on the streets are in a hurry and often see simple and elegant historical buildings.

Although he was in Yanping when he first came here, he never paid attention to anything here.

Huo Ran noticed his gaze, and immediately came over to introduce him.

"That is the old city wall built three thousand years ago. You can't go up it now. When I was very young, I lived nearby and came here every day to play with mud."

"Yanping has changed a lot these years, every year and every day."

While talking, Huo Ran began to solicit customers enthusiastically again, "So you can come here often, and you will always have new scenery."

The breath passing by his ears was so hot that even his heart was itching.

Tao Zhi laughed more, "I will."

Now he doesn't need to avoid anyone or anything, maybe one day in the future, he will move back.

According to yesterday's plan, Huo Ran took him to eat ugly sugar pancakes, a big piece of dark brown fluffy pancakes, Tao Zhiyue bit into it, it was so sweet that his tongue almost melted.

delicious.

Tao Zhiyue never thought that extremely sweet food could be so delicious.

He and Huo Ran were eating happily standing at the door of the store, and the crowd behind them showed envious expressions, eagerly looking into the frying pan, counting how many pieces they had to fry before it was their turn.

So they looked at each other and laughed tacitly.

In the rest of the time, Huo Ran accompanied him to the two most famous scenic spots in Yanping, took a quick look at the astonishing traffic in the capital, and then had an exquisite lunch at the luxurious sky restaurant on the tallest building in the city.

Tao Zhiyue felt that he was probably the only adult who came here to eat with a backpack on his back.

And at some point, Huo Ran took the backpack without showing any signs of it.

Huo Ran was very curious about his backpack along the way, "What's in it? It's a little heavy, but I haven't seen you open it all morning."

Tao Zhiyue used the same words, "Secret it. Where are you going to play in the afternoon?"

He booked a plane ticket back to Shanxi in the evening, and he could only have a simple dinner before heading to the airport.

Huo Ran struggled for a while, and replied honestly: "I want to take you to a very special museum in the afternoon."

Tao Zhiyue was a little surprised, "Museum?"

"It's not the kind that many people visit." Huo Ran tried hard to explain, "No one else has been there, so I don't know if you will like it."

"But I hope you like it."

It wasn't until he got out of the car and walked a long way that quiet and elegant courtyards appeared at the end of his sight, that Tao Zhiyue gradually realized.

This is probably a wealthy area, very quiet, each villa is far apart, with an independent garden, the environment is beautiful and pleasant.

Huo Ran took him to one of the houses. The yard was full of green sycamore trees, shaking in the breeze, casting dappled light and shadows.

Tao Zhiyue even lowered his voice very softly, for fear of disturbing the peaceful atmosphere.

"It's beautiful here."

And Huo Ran visibly tensed up, he took a deep breath, and walked to the gate.

"It's not actually a museum, I'm just kidding."

The moment before opening the door, Huo Ran began to patch it up, "It's just my own collection, but I really want you to see it..."

Infected by his mood, Tao Zhiyue also became nervous, not daring to blink.

Then the next second, the door was gently pushed open, and he saw the most gorgeous and unique scenery.

The first floor should be the living room, but there are several rows of log-colored display cabinets, filled with all kinds of weird gadgets, full of brilliance.

"I used to go out to play as soon as I was on vacation. I went to many countries and cities. I have unforgettable memories in every place. I always want to leave souvenirs. Slowly, I have accumulated so much."

Huo Ran whispered beside him.

Tao Zhiyue's gaze was deeply attracted, he held his breath, and walked in very lightly.

He looked carefully at them one by one. There were exquisite woodcuts, silverware with delicate luster, carefully stacked stacks of foreign language tickets, and amber frozen by time...

There are several grids filled with colorful wooden matryoshka dolls, some are very beautiful, some have weird looks, and they are arranged in a neat queue.

Huo Ran kept watching his gaze, and seeing him stop here, he explained a little embarrassedly: "This one is very cute, I couldn't help it, so I bought a lot...even the ugly ones are cute."

"When I finally returned to China, the box was full of these round nesting dolls, which turned into a few **** lumps in the photo. When I went through the security check, the security inspector even asked me to open it for inspection."

"As soon as I opened the box, they came to look around and found that it was full of gaudy dolls. They were shocked, maybe it was too strange, so they opened it one by one, thinking that there was something hidden inside... I was so embarrassed that day."

Tao Zhiyue was very happy to hear it, with smiles on his brows and eyes.

In the past, he was busy studying and entering a higher education. After graduating with great difficulty, he turned into a full-time job after an internship. Since then, he has been very busy and rarely travels.

But today, he saw many souvenirs that he had only seen in travel magazines before, and stories that belonged exclusively to Huo Ran.

In the closet next door is a very delicate little clay pottery house, with a white castle-like shape, a sky-blue semi-dome, doors and windows, and a small white cross on the roof.

There is also a photo next to it, in which Huo Ran smiles brightly, and looks younger than now, behind him are blue and white buildings that are exactly the same as polymer clay ornaments, and the boundless blue sea.

"This was shot in Santorini. The stall owner is very smart. He sells clay souvenirs in the busiest small square. If you buy them, you can take a photo in front of the building, which is exactly the same as the decorations he sells. , I thought it was fun, so I bought it."

"It's really beautiful there, like in a fairy tale."

Then he added very quietly, "If there is a chance, I would like to go with you again."

When Tao Zhi heard it, his ears turned red as usual, so he pretended not to hear.

He looked at every collection that Huo Ran placed here very intently, as if he wanted to engrave every detail in his heart.

There are not only cute and exquisite souvenirs, but also a lot of weird things.

Tao Zhiyue saw a red-yellow can sealed in a transparent bag, with small fish drawn in simple strokes on it.

"Is this... canned herring?"

"Yes, because it's so special." Huo Ran shyly said, "But don't worry, it's very clean and sealed in a bag, so it won't smell bad."

Hearing his words, Tao Zhi couldn't help but smell it.

Huo Ran had such an expression, "So if you say that, you will definitely pick it up and smell it."

Tao Zhi glared at him more, and then saw a straw hat decorated with plastic flowers on the display rack behind him. It was very tropical, but there were some old ones.

"Did you buy this too?"

He walked over to look curiously, and it seemed that the smell of the sea breeze was still lingering on it.

"Yes, the sun was so hot on the beach that day, and many people were wearing them. I bought the most simple one. I didn't think about bringing it back. It was just a temporary protection from the sun."

As Huo Ran spoke, he remembered something and described it vividly.

"I bought this straw hat, covered my face, lay down on the beach chair and slept, and when the sun was a little smaller, I went to the beach for a ride."

"Riding and riding, a strong wind suddenly blew up. I forgot to fasten the windproof rope, so the straw hat was blown away."

"It was rolling on the road while running forward. I chased it on my bike. It took me a long time to chase it before the wind stopped."

"After I picked it up, it became a bit dirty, but I was reluctant to throw it away, because I snatched it back from the wind."

"It's big, it's easy to break, and it's not easy to put in the suitcase, so I simply wore this straw hat all the way back, but people always looked at me and laughed."

So Tao Zhiyue also laughed, as if the scene described by Huo Ran appeared in front of his eyes, the lingering sun and soft sandy beach, tall coconut trees, and the salty sea breeze suddenly blowing away the flowering straw hat.

In the whole afternoon, he finished visiting this most special museum under Huo Ran's patient whispers.

All Huo Ran's unforgettable memories of the vast world, no matter good or bad, no matter how trivial, are carefully stored here.

So here he was, seeing a world that he had never seen before.

Tao Zhi remembered what Huo Ran said before, so he responded seriously: "I like it very much, thank you."

Huo Ran breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes brightened: "Fortunately, you like it."

"Because... I have something else I want to tell you."

At this moment, the sun was falling, and the pale golden light crossed the window eaves, falling gently on them, and the specks of dust were dancing in the beam of light.

Tao Zhiyue raised his head slightly, staring at the man in front of him who started to get nervous again.

"Here are all the things I like, I thought, maybe you will be interested in something, and then I can go with you again, like picking breakfast yesterday."

"I also prepared something you like." Huo Ran looked out the window at the sycamore tree shaking its leaves, "It was moved here a few days ago, and it grows very well."

"Wait until fall and the leaves will turn golden yellow, just like your profile photo."

"I very much hope that by that time, there will be more than just my memories in this room."

Finally, he mustered up his courage, looked at the other party, and said the most solemn four words.

"I like you."

In the too quiet air, the setting sun made a sound, burning up the clouds in the sky.

Tao Zhiyue was absent-minded for a long time.

This time he didn't blush, but just stared at the person in front of him for a long time, as if to confirm whether it was a hallucination.

It wasn't until Huo Ran became nervous that he heard his soft voice.

"Actually, I also have a gift I want to give you, but the day is almost over, and I haven't found a chance to give it yet."

"Because this gift is very small and ordinary, and it has been taken away by you secretly."

Huo Ran then turned his head to the side, looking at the backpack he had forgotten to take off.

"Is it in here?"

His eyes were full of anticipation.

Tao Zhiyue couldn't take his eyes off no matter what, he nodded, the world in front of him was full of images of this person.

With his affirmation, Huo Ran immediately opened the zipper of his backpack and saw a transparent glass jar.

He picked it up and saw that it was full of colorful paper stars.

"I also want to bring you something you like, and then tell you that I like you, so that it will appear more sincere."

"But I don't know you enough, I don't know what you like, so I got drunk on purpose the night before yesterday, I thought I could recall the same drunk day, and remember if you told me something that day."

"Unfortunately not, I failed, and the paper I prepared in advance was blank."

Tao Zhiyue looked at him and smiled, the corners of his lips pursed slightly.

"I don't remember exactly what I did that night."

"But when I woke up the next day, I went into the living room and saw the dining table covered with confetti and folded stars."

"Maybe it's because, I clearly remember that the night you walked out of the hot pot restaurant, you looked at the night sky and said that there were no stars tonight."

"Even when I was drunk, I remember this, so I prepared this childish gift for you."

In the memory of the night before that was forgotten after waking up, Tao Zhiyue stubbornly went out the door while exclaiming with Huo Ran.

He went back to the 24-hour convenience store, asked the boss to find out the colorful strips of origami that children would buy, and walked back on his own shadow, sending news to Huo Ran every few minutes. Safety.

In the long silent night, he sat upright at the dining table with a red face, and accompanied by Cupid who had been pasted back on the wall, he folded the long colored paper into small stars one after another.

No one knew what happened that night, not even Tao Zhiyue himself.

But he was sure that this must be a gift he had prepared for Huo Ran.

Huo Ran was still in shock, looking down at the stars in the glass bottle.

But Tao Zhiyue kept looking at him, the sunlight cast a light golden shadow on him.

So he recalled vaguely that this sky was very similar to the evening when the fog cleared two weeks ago.

At that time, he gazed at the gradually sinking sunset and waited quietly.

Now, he waited.