Shen Qiaohan glanced at the door of the ward and frowned slightly: “Liu Zhao is my friend, but he has his own affairs and will not stay with you for too long. I guess he will leave after I am discharged. If you are afraid of being discovered, just ignore him.”
Tao Xiao asked: “Won’t he feel strange if you ignore him?”
Shen Qiaohan: “No, I often fall into a state of ignoring external things when I am creating, and he knows it.”
Hearing this explanation, Tao Xiao felt quite strange, but still nodded.
Shen Qiaohan raised his hand and grabbed the collar of his T-shirt, and found that there was no collar to adjust, so he put his hand down and said: “I will probably be discharged before you. Later, we will communicate about living habits and precautions on WeChat.”
“Okay, I’ll contact you later.” Tao Xiao sat back on the bed. “By the way, Zhou Yamin… uh, don’t be so blunt.”
If the two of them had a chance to switch back, Tao Xiao didn’t want to face a Zhou Yamin who was so angry that he didn’t want to talk to him anymore.
Shen Qiaohan was silent for a moment, nodded, “I’ll try my best.”
Then he opened the door of the ward. There were two people standing outside the door. They were Liu Zhao and Zhou Yamin who was sent out to buy fruit.
Liu Zhao walked in and saw a stranger, and looked at “Shen Qiaohan” sitting on the bed with an inquiring look.
“He is my childhood friend.” Tao Xiao explained immediately. Seeing Zhou Yamin peeking out of the door, he coughed lightly, “Yes, that one outside is my childhood friend.”
Liu Zhao looked at Zhou Yamin, who immediately smiled and greeted him.
Liu Zhao didn’t take it seriously. He carried the packed food into the room and asked curiously, “Why did you lock the door?”
Tao Xiao lied without hesitation, “Someone just came to sell something. It was quite annoying. I locked the door to have peace and quiet.”
Shen Qiaohan really liked peace and quiet. Liu Zhao didn’t doubt it. He reached out to prop up the small table at the foot of the bed, put the food on it, and opened the lunch box.
“I think the sequelae of your concussion haven’t healed yet. You need to stay in the hospital for another day for observation.” He very considerately broke the chopsticks and handed them to Tao Xiao.
Tao Xiao reached out to take the chopsticks, and thanked Liu Zhao with a habitual smile.
Liu Zhao was stunned, then smiled and said, “I said, you should smile more. You have a stern face all day long, and you’ve wasted your good teeth.”
What is he talking about?
It is said that good teeth means a good appetite, but he had never heard that you should smile more if you have good teeth.
Tao Xiao’s mouth twitched, and he put away his smile. He decided to listen to Shen Qiaohan, ignore Liu Zhao, and concentrate on eating.
After putting a mouthful of green vegetables into her mouth, Tao Xiao suddenly paused.
After a moment, he tried his best to swallow the leaves in his mouth, and glanced at Liu Zhao – he didn’t know which stingy restaurant was so reluctant to part with oil and salt!
“Why? Not to your taste?” Liu Zhao was surprised. “I specifically told them to make it light, but it’s still too salty?”
He took a bottle of purified water from the bedside table and put it on the small table: “It’s okay to eat salty food occasionally, drink more water.”
Tao Xiao: …
He glanced at the Shen Qiaohan version of “himself” standing next to Zhou Yamin, and thought to himself: This guy’s taste is so light that he has no friends.
“The food is too salty?” Zhou Yamin finally got a chance to talk, and immediately opened the fruit box he had just bought, “I just tasted this cantaloupe downstairs, it’s sweet, and I specifically asked them to cut it into small pieces for easy eating. Do you want to have some of this to refresh yourself? Oh, I also bought cherries, you loved them when you were a child, right? I’ll go wash them, you eat first.”
As he said that, he pulled “Tao Xiao”‘s arm and pulled her out of the ward.
After Zhou Yamin left the ward, Liu Zhao raised his eyebrows and asked, “When did you have a childhood friend in Yan City? Was he a gangster?”
Tao Xiao said vaguely, “My neighbor when I was a child.”
Liu Zhao suddenly realized, “Oh, yes, you lived near the embassy area… Then he and you are neighbors, and his family should be OK, why does he look like a gangster?”
Tao Xiao knew about Zhou Yamin’s family. But it was not a good thing, he didn’t want to talk to outsiders, and forced the topic to end with the excuse that “I haven’t been in touch since I graduated from junior high school.”
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On the other side, Zhou Yamin took Shen Qiaohan to the bathroom, put the cherry bag on the sink, turned around and asked, “Why did you lock the door just now? What were you two doing in there?”
Shen Qiaohan recalled Tao Xiao’s excuse and said, “There was a salesman…”
“Okay, I know.” Zhou Yamin interrupted and lowered his voice, “You didn’t say anything bad about me? Ah? Didn’t expose my black material?”
Hearing this kind of question, Shen Qiaohan habitually raised his eyebrows.
Zhou Yamin said impatiently: “Hey, I’m asking you a question!”
Shen Qiaohan: “No.”
Zhou Yamin turned around to wash the cherries, his mouth was not idle: “Did he ask me about anything? Did you tell him what job I do now? Hey, actually, being in a band is not shameful, right? It’s also music! The kind he plays is high-end, and the kind we play is down-to-earth, both are good…”
Shen Qiaohan stood aside silently listening to his chattering, without responding.
His impression of this former neighbor and playmate still remains in the time when the two families had a good relationship in junior high school. Although they went to different schools since elementary school, there was a piano store opened by a British near the embassy area where they lived. The two of them once learned piano together with the owner of the piano store, and their relationship was considered close.
Therefore, when Shen Qiaohan woke up from his coma and saw that this childhood playmate had become what he is now, he was indeed a little surprised.
It was only because of what happened next that overturned his cognition and made Shen Qiaohan not have the extra energy to continue paying attention to Zhou Yamin.
He became Tao Xiao, and many things were inconvenient to ask. He could only put them aside for now and consider other things after solving the soul swap problem with Tao Xiao.
After washing the cherries, Zhou Yamin and Shen Qiaohan returned to the ward and saw Liu Zhao cleaning up the lunch boxes on the table. He was still muttering: “You said you were hungry and asked me to buy you something to eat. Okay, just move your chopsticks. I know you don’t eat biscuits and bread, so I went out to pack the food. You said you…”
Tao Xiao ignored him and reached out to pick up a piece of cantaloupe and stuffed it into his mouth.
“Don’t you like the taste of the food?” Zhou Yamin smiled and put the washed cherries on the dining table. “It’s okay, eat more fruits.”
Tao Xiao had noticed the instant noodles Zhou Yamin bought before, and guessed that Shen Qiaohan might be hungry, so Zhou Yamin went to buy instant noodles.
He thought that he couldn’t treat his body badly, so he looked up and smiled at Shen Qiaohan, holding the box of cantaloupe and handed it to him: “Would you like to eat some too?”
Before Shen Qiaohan could speak, Zhou Yamin said: “This is specially bought for you, he doesn’t like to eat fruit.”
Tao Xiao’s hand paused slightly, and then he continued to eat the cherries without leaving any trace, and asked with a smile: “Really?”
After talking for a while, Liu Zhao looked at his watch: “I have something to do in the afternoon, I’m leaving first, you guys can chat slowly.”
After a few minutes, Tao Xiao yawned several times in a row, raised his hand to rub his forehead, Zhou Yamin finally realized something, stood up and said goodbye, and asked for Shen Qiaohan’s contact information.
The ward was finally quiet, Tao Xiao looked at the half of cantaloupe and cherries left on the table, and sighed softly.
It’s not that he is fragile, and Zhou Yamin has bought him food before, but today’s different treatment still makes him feel a little upset.
However, Tao Xiao has experienced many upset things, and he is actually used to it.
Zhou Yamin changed lovers frequently. He was extremely caring and affectionate to each of them. Except for the luxury goods that he could not afford, he basically responded to all their requests. The “Xiao” bar was partially invested by Zhou Yamin. Although he was now the lead singer of a band there, he actually took a share of the bar’s entire profits. He made a lot of money, but he basically spent it on his little lover.
Tao Xiao just watched him spend his money like a drunkard.
Putting aside the feelings suppressed in his heart, Zhou Yamin had saved him, given him a job, and helped him a lot. He couldn’t just turn his face and deny it.
Whether he liked Zhou Yamin or not was his own business. Even if he didn’t get a response, as a man, Tao Xiao felt that he could live without love, but he couldn’t be unrighteous.
Since Zhou Yamin treated him as a buddy, he would treat him as a buddy without any other selfish motives. That was good.
The phone dinged, and a WeChat message came in. Tao Xiao chewed a cherry and clicked on the message, and found that it was a message from Zhou Yamin: an emoticon package of a rabbit dancing happily.
Tao Xiao subconsciously clicked on the emoticon bar to find an emoticon to reply, but found that there were only a few dice and other things that came with WeChat in the emoticon bar. Then he realized that he was using Shen Qiaohan’s WeChat.
While she was distracted, Zhou Yamin’s follow-up message came again. It was a voice message: “Keep in touch in the future!”
Tao Xiao pondered for a while and replied with one word: “Okay.”
The other party replied with a long voice message almost immediately:
“Let’s have dinner together later. I also want to hear you talk about your experiences in France in the past few years!”
“Oh, did I disturb your rest?”
“By the way, your car has been sent for repair. If you don’t mind, if you need a car in the next few days, I will lend mine to you. Although it is not a high-end car, it can at least be used for transportation.”
“Well, you take a rest, I won’t disturb you!”
Tao Xiao looked at the messages that kept popping up, took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, turned on the silent mode of the phone, and put it upside down on the pillow.
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At the bus stop outside the hospital, Shen Qiaohan, who had just been discharged from the hospital, watched Zhou Yamin scratching his head and sending a lot of nonsense. He couldn’t help but wonder in his heart, after many years, meeting a childhood playmate again, is it really so exciting?
If you have a car, why are you waiting for the bus in the hot sun with a patient with an injured ankle?
After Zhou Yamin sent the last sentence, he sighed a few times, turned his head and asked: “Hey, should I rent a car? What if he really asks me to borrow a car, I must have something to show for it!”
Shen Qiaohan was silent for a moment, and said lightly: “He won’t ask you to borrow a car.”
The author has something to say: Zhou·Puffing up his face·Instantly seen through·Yamin
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The first two chapters are waiting for high-level review. Recently, an AI Xiaomei has been added to the reviewers. I really have nothing to say about its judgment criteria (manual goodbye)
Ivy: I really don’t know if having an AI as a reviewer is a good thing or not…
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