CH.25 The Shadow Approaching
In the next performance, He Tianran slowly drank the half bottle of white beer.
The first time he drank, he drank very lightly, but when Cao Aiqing watched him from the audience, in addition to playing the piano, he could only drink to cover up.
Gradually, his spirits became high, and the pressure of studying accumulated in Su Ri was released in one song after another, which made him feel very relaxed, and he played harder.
Cao Aiqing will applaud vigorously every time, but a single girl like this, who is beautiful and beautiful, will inevitably be accosted when she comes to this kind of place, but fortunately, Xue Yong found out in time that she was a flower messenger, and the little brothers were very good, and they didn't deliberately invite her to her table to drink, but just came over from time to time to chat, and drove away a few waves of talkers.
"Do you want to ask someone else to come up and participate? You've finished drinking, and I don't see you acting. ”
The lead singer teacher will joke with He Tianran in the interval.
"It's just a friend helping out, and I didn't know she was coming."
He Tianran responded honestly, took the time to glance at Cao Aiqing, and then silently continued his performance work.
The female college student who played the bass covered her mouth and smiled, the drummer boss instructed the bartender to send a few plates of snacks and fruit platters to the little girl, and the lead singer hummed in her mouth, and sang a song "Old Boy" again.
"That's the person I miss day and night, and I love deeply. How do I express it, will she accept me? ”
He Tianran suspected that the whole band was manipulating him now, but he couldn't do anything at all, he was now eager to find a hole to get into, or tell them bluntly that in fact, his relationship with Cao Aiqing was not what they thought.
It's just this kind of thing, and now the explanation will only get darker and darker.
So, he simply chose to shut up.
The performance ended at ten o'clock, and Cao Aiqing waited until ten o'clock.
With the shift of guitarists coming to the store, He Tianran finally finished today's day's work.
He first glanced in Xue Yong's direction, and the animal looked like he was watching a good show, and his hands slammed outward, signaling him not to approach his table.
He Tianran had no choice but to walk towards Cao Aiqing.
When the girl saw him coming, her body suddenly looked a little restrained, and she picked up the boiled water on the table in a panic and drank it in a small sip, but just like the beer He Tianran drank, there was not much water left in it.
"Well, now that I'm in front of you, there's really no secret."
He Tianran shrugged his shoulders and made a joke that wasn't a joke.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, he separated from Wen Liang and broke up with Jiang Xixi, he is a rich second generation, and even the current part-time job, Cao Aiqing seems to know everything directly or indirectly.
"You said it yourself, you can't blame me!"
Cao Aiqing responded with a smile.
"But I didn't really think that you would actually come, how did you know that this is here?"
He Tianran picked up a nut from the snack plate and threw it into his mouth.
"I ...... Xue Yong posted a circle of friends, I guess it's you, so I came......"
"Good fellow, you observe me not only but through my friends?"
"I didn't, I saw it by accident...... It is...... Curious...... I'm afraid you'll do something bad......"
Cao Aiqing argued, but the more he spoke, the quieter he spoke.
"Hey, what a bad thing is begging for life, the class leader can rest assured......"
He Tianran chewed something in his mouth, his eyes flying.
The two were silent for a moment, and the boy noticed the opening on the other's sweater and asked:
"What's wrong with your clothes?"
Cao Aiqing hurriedly grabbed the hole in the sweater with his hand and didn't speak.
Do you want to say that you accidentally scratched it when you came down because you skipped class because you climbed over the wall?
This kind of talk makes the innocent girl a little difficult to speak.
"That's right!"
He Tianran suddenly thought of a question, and Cao Aiqing looked at him carefully.
"It's past ten o'clock now, and it's okay for you to go back so late?"
Cao Aiqing was stunned for a moment at first, and the next second, his eyes widened visibly under his long eyelashes, and then he quickly stood up uneasily.
She took out her mobile phone and looked at the time, at 10:15, the screen still showed three missed calls from "mothers".
"I ...... I...... I'm going back quickly! ”
Cao Aiqing hurriedly said that he was about to go out, and He Tianran also stood up.
"I'll send you back, it's too late, you're alone...... It's time for me to go back, too. ”
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The two walked out of the Yanjiao Alley Tavern, He Tianran carried his guitar on his back, walked in front and said while leading the way:
"Where's your home?"
"Songshi Street ......"
He Tianran was stunned, Jiang Xixi's family also lived there, not far from his house, but if the school was the dot, it was two directions, but here, it was one direction.
"If you want to take the subway from here, you have to transfer twice, but there is a bus stop nearby, there is a direct connection, we can rush over now, maybe we can catch the last train at half past ten, go quickly."
After saying that, the two ran all the way, and finally hurried to catch the last bus that was about to depart.
There were three or four passengers in the car, and the boy in front of him walked straight to the last row of seats, and then his body collapsed, and the girl sat down with him.
The door closed, the car started, and the two of them shook their bodies, and the nerves that had been tense finally relaxed.
The boy and girl involuntarily glanced at each other, looking at the embarrassed appearance of the gray face in each other's eyes, and they all laughed.
He Tianran looked at Cao Aiqing with a smile, her little face was moist and red, even if her hair was a little messy by the night wind, but in this way, she had a different kind of beauty.
He suddenly closed his eyes, tilted his head, and gasped for breath, as if to relieve his heart, which had been beating violently from running.
Cao Aiqing lowered her head, holding her mobile phone and thinking about how to explain to her mother about this late return, the tavern was too noisy just now, and she didn't pay attention to the call.
Coincidentally, the phone rang again.
She answered nervously, and the question from the other side came as promised.
"Mom...... I...... I was doing the exam papers with my classmates at school today, and I was delayed for some time......"
"No...... I just went to the toilet and didn't look at my phone......"
She obviously didn't know how to lie, and she stumbled a sentence, as if her mother was right in front of her, and her panicked appearance made people nervous.
"Hey, that squad leader, don't leave yet, I found that this question is wrong, you can help me take a look."
He Tianran suddenly said in a deep voice, Cao Aiqing didn't react for a while, only to hear the boy change to a normal voice again, and shouted impatiently:
"Oh, He Tianran, let's go, what time is it now, you can't finish the test paper, can't you go home and continue to do it? Do you insist that we stay with you? ”
Cao Aiqing came back to her senses, couldn't help laughing, and said to the other end of the phone: "Mom, I'll be back soon, don't worry, um, um, I know, oh, I'm out of the classroom, well, that's it, bye!" ”
The girl hung up the phone, turned her head sideways and pretended to be serious with a smile on her face, and did not speak.
The boy leaned back in his seat, fingers rubbing his forehead in thanks.
"What if I get a goof?!" She held accountable.
"I can't help it, I have a tone, and people who don't know me can't tell it at all." He swore by it.
"My mother just asked me who He Tianran is."
"You just say it's our school's grass."
"Phew! Shameless! ”
"It's a high degree of consistency between reality and self-perception!"
After He Tianran said this, he was so disgusted that his body trembled first, and he laughed.
"Strange looks!"
Cao Aiqing slapped him on the shoulder.
The bus was occasionally bumpy along the way, and it was especially obvious that they were sitting in the last row, and He Tianran was a little tired after two hours of performance, so he unconsciously closed his eyes and took a nap.
Cao Aiqing looked at him who now had a bad heart, and thought of him who was stupid outside the car door.
I really didn't expect that these two images would be the same person.
She knew all the secrets of He Tianran, so she also witnessed the whole process of his change.
"It's amazing......"
The girl murmured, and she threw her head up, as he had slept.
Occasionally, the lights in the bus will turn on and turn off as it starts.
When it was lit up, Cao Aiqing noticed that their shadows would be very close.
But she prefers the darkness after it is extinguished.
Because in this way, the shadows will melt together.