Chapter 24: Bewitchment (II)
Her small boudoir is exquisitely furnished, and it is prosperous and brocade.
It's not because of how luxurious the interior is, but because the furniture inside is very exquisitely arranged, although it is simple, it has an indescribable charm.
A blue and white porcelain is placed next to the small fish tank, as if the proposal is sunny; Put a dried flower on one side of the tea set, maybe the tea watering can make it bloom another warm spring.
What caught my attention the most was the large and small Chinese paintings on the wall, they have different brushstrokes and different methods, but they all praise love.
Because in each painting there is a pair of men and women leaning up to each other, in the grass house, on the bank of the river, in the palace, on the couch.
"Miss Hu Tao, it seems that you love ink painting very much."
"You forgot that I have been studying Chinese studies since I was a child, so I will naturally like these."
I scrutinized each painting and was silent.
"It must have taken a lot of time for the young lady to collect these paintings."
"These ...... Actually, they were all drawn by one person. Hu Tao seemed to be talking to me, as if he was talking to himself.
"Alone? But these seem to be the styles of different dynasties, you can see that some of them are empty and freehand, leaving large blank spaces, and some of them are stuffed with rich colors. "After opening the tea shop, I also put a lot of Chinese paintings in the tea shop, so I still know a little bit about it.
"I didn't expect you to really know how to draw, and it really impressed me." Hu Tao nodded at me as she unbuttoned her coat. "After painting for a long time, I can naturally control any style."
"With such a perfect painter and so many painting styles, he must be a contemporary master."
Hu Tao was just looking at the painting on the wall with me intently at this moment, and there was no trace of wind and rain on his face. "It's my former boyfriend."
She took off her thick coat and hung it aside, and gently stroked the silk shirt on her body, his jade body looming in the small grid. Then he began to skillfully fiddle with the tea set.
"You're freezing outside, let's have a cup of tea first."
She used boiling water to warm the purple clay pot, the fair cup, the smelling cup, and the tea cup. Then with a flick of his soft fingers, a small handful of tea leaves fell into the teapot like a scattered flower. The boiling water was washed into the pot for the first time, and the impurities on the surface of the tea were sifted out by her, and then the phoenix nodded three times, and the water sound was three rings and three light, the waterline was three thick and three thin, the water flow was three high and three low, and the pot flow was three ups and downs, and a cup of fragrant tea was served into the tea cup in front of me.
The whole process is smooth, and this kind of tea art is not inferior to her dancing.
I took the teacup and held it in the palm of my hand, but I couldn't bear to taste it in front of her, I was afraid that I would drink it rudely, and I was even more afraid that I would spoil the delicacy of this cup.
"Mr. Liu, what you said about my feelings for me is from the bottom of your heart?"
Hu Tao's wind chime-like voice suddenly reached my ears through the layers of tea smoke, making my heart tremble.
"It's true, it's all true."
"Mr. Liu won't be in the same family as your friend now."
I quickly shook my head and hung my head. Hu Tao asked me a little timid, did she see through my disguise a long time ago. "No, absolutely not."
Hu Tao laughed, and the smile was as gentle as tea.
"You're really interesting, it's obvious that you're here to talk to me about your feelings, why do you need me to ask you everything, and you're still so nervous."
"I ......"
"Alright." Hu Tao picked up the teacup, lowered his head and took a sip quietly, leaving a shallow lip print on the teacup. "I can't bear to embarrass you when I look at you, so I'll ask you a question, what are you willing to do for your sweetheart?"
A familiar question, which she had asked Gao Gao that night, and now came to me again, and I knew that it would be a life-threatening answer for me.
I don't know how to answer.
I'm just a small tea shop owner who can barely support myself, and I can't give my beloved a luxury house and a luxury car.
I don't want to lie, because I'm afraid that I will be punished by her, either by her or by my own heart.
Just bowed his head and swallowed the tea desperately, without saying a word.
"Is this difficult, sir?"
"I ...... Never thought about it. ”
"Is it too late for you to think about it now?"
At this moment, Yuge's face appeared in my mind, and the fragments of the night I met her were salvaged again in my mind, and her smile, her singing, and her hand plucking the strings were my heart booster at this moment. I recall the night she was hurt, the rain falling in despair, and how desperate I was at that moment.
It's really not hard to answer this question, as long as you're willing to face your truest self.
"I ...... I didn't think about it, because this problem is not predictable in advance, and it is not proven in a few words, and at that time, at that point, everything will seem to be going smoothly, and you will do what you think is right for her. ”
Hu Tao looked at me quietly, her red lips soaked in water vapor were even more beautiful at the moment, as if she had stepped out of a painting on the wall.
She spoke.
"Sir, I don't know what you're answering? But I can see that you are sincere. You're not like a lot of people. ”
"Then if Miss were you, what would you say?"
"It doesn't matter how I answer, it doesn't matter how you answer, there is no answer to emotional questions."
This conversation always made me feel weird, I wondered what she wanted me to know?
"Sir, can Hu Tao ask you another question?" She put down the teacup, and although it was still gentle, the tea was still splashing inadvertently.
"Hmm."
"Would you be in pain if your lover was killed?" She said indifferently.
This sentence was like a sharp sword, piercing deep into my chest, making me sit on a wooden chair like pins and needles.
"I ...... I don't dare to think about such a question. ”
I rubbed my hands together restlessly, unsettled.
"Then I'll ask you another question, will you avenge your sweetheart?"
Revenge? This is a word that seems to have been forgotten in this era, and happiness and hatred are no longer admired by everyone, but if you really ask me, will you? Putting aside all the pretense and self-inhibition, putting aside those moral shackles, I may indeed not be able to accept such a thing.
I think everyone is like this, no one will be willing to bear the pain that others have given you, and they will all want to pay it back, but the method is different at different times.
"I should do."
"Sir is really honest."
"Really? I just didn't dare lie in front of Miss. ”
"Hey, hey." Hu Tao is smiling like a flower again, which makes people's hearts wither again. "She must be very happy with your one. But if you say you like me, but you think about you in your heart, it doesn't seem to be very honest. ”
"Little ...... What do you mean, Miss? My heart shrank, did she already realize that I was lying to her? But I didn't show any flaws at all.
"Mr. Liu, your acting skills are really clumsy, and you are a little laughing when you perform in front of a demon fox in front of me?" Hu Tao was not angry, she was still so calm.
"I ......" I was so frightened that my soul began to fidget.
"I guess Sir already knew I wasn't human, right?" Hu Tao stroked her hair elegantly, and as soon as she shook her head, her hair was instantly covered with snow.
Her hair turned white, as if her years had run out in an instant.
When I looked at her again, there was a big fluffy tail behind her.
The aroma of peach blossoms became more and more intense.
"You! You really are a fox demon! "My voice was hoarse and my head was sweating.
She is still so beautiful, and at this moment a silver thread makes her even more cold, and that kind of demeanor is really more unbearable to touch than ice and snow, just looking at it from a distance is enough.
"Do you know why I'm willing to reveal my true identity in front of you?" Hu Tao asked me rhetorically.
My Adam's apple was trembling so much that I had to use all my strength to say a word. "Because my life has ...... Want...... It's going to end. ”
Hu Tao smiled again, and now she laughed more heartily than before.
"You're really kidding. And said that he wouldn't make girls happy? "Hu Tao's soft eyes are rippling straight at me at this moment, this is the first time I have looked into her eyes tonight, there is no murder, no hatred, there is just an indescribable helplessness." Rest assured, I will never hurt someone who has no grievances. ”
I was finally relieved of my breath, and I collapsed weakly on the wooden chair, my hands still shaking.
"I guess yours isn't as human as I am, I've smelled you. Now that you already know, I don't need to bother to hide it. Hu Tao said.
She had already guessed everything, so the way I was pretending to be a joke to her was a joke of self-deception.
"Sir answered my question honestly, and I won't hide anything from him, I think Sir must have something to ask me when he came to me this time."
"I saw three bodies in the basement of the company, it's really you ......"
Hu Tao sighed, and this sigh seemed to sigh all the sadness and desolation in her heart.
"Why did you do that? Just because they're amorous? But they will not sin unto death. I said angrily.
She shook her head and smiled bitterly. "What does it have to do with me? You think that's why I did that? ”
That tone told me there was a story in it that we didn't know.
"The two hiding behind the door are here, why don't they come in?" She flicked her fingers slightly.
Boom! The locked door of Hu Tao's house opened on its own. Two figures emerged from the darkness.
"It turned out to be a little birdman." Hu Tao's smile.
Compared with Hu Tao, Yu Ge's appearance is obviously menacing. "You are so cruel, you don't even give the whole corpse, it's really unconscionable."
The feathers in the sky struck the walnut like a chaotic arrow, and the wind was galloping, covering the sky and the sun.
"Yuge! Don't, don't hurt her. ”
But it was too late, the walnut was already wrapped in an airtight air, and I had seen the power of the birdman's spells, and the suffocating force was that even the hardest steel would be squeezed and deformed.
"Yu Ge, stop it, she optimizes what she wants to say."
The fragrance of peach blossoms suddenly became stronger, the picture album on the wall crumbled, I stared at the past, it was a pink light, seeping out of the gaps, it was dazzling for a while, the white feathers suddenly lost their strength, they fell one after another, they were stained with pink, and turned into peach blossoms before landing, and the small boudoir was already full of petal rain.
The transition between the two worlds is here and there.
Hu Tao slowly emerged from a cluster of petals. Still sitting there.
There is not a trace of decay on the red face.
"Is Mr. Liu concerned about me? Thank you. But you're underestimating me too much, can you hurt me so easily? ”
Yu Ge was very unwilling to see that he didn't succeed, so he prepared for the next wave of more fierce offensives.
Hu Tao turned to her suddenly, and his eyes were like a cluster of fiery red in the night, and like a lighthouse suddenly lit up in the deep sea, deep and amazing, gentle and sharp.
Yu Ge was frightened by this look, and she stood stupidly in place, not daring to move.
"Little sister, I've been practicing for thousands of years just by practicing, don't waste your mind anymore."
Yu Ge is a smart person, and she may know that she will not be Hu Tao's opponent, so she does not attack again.
I just kept my eyes on the two of them, but I never noticed Xiaoyan, who had been trembling for a long time.
At this moment, she looked at Hu Tao in a trance. "How...... How are you. ”