Hailing barren city

Tao Rujiu was still in the back row last time, the difference was that this time even the scenery ahead was blocked by the back of the flowers.The air conditioner was turned on in the car, and the smell of leather and car freshener was mixed together. The young man soon began to regret having breakfast.Just when he was about to be swallowed by dizziness, the window on the right side was automatically lowered, and the brackish sea breeze rushed towards him.

He raised his head and murmured thanks.Tao Rujiu saw his sharp and expressionless face in the rear view mirror.On the other side, Qin Huakai turned his head and smiled.

Only now did Tao Rujiu remember that last time he told him sharply that no one else should be allowed to sit in the passenger seat. Now it seems that that seat is not really inviolable, but reserved for specific people.

What kind of special relationship does flower bloom have with Ling Li?

He couldn't figure it out, so he simply ignored the two people in the front row and lay down on the spacious back seat instead.The sky outside the window was blue, and Tao Rujiu felt the sea breeze blowing on his face, temporarily forgetting that he was a superfluous and unwelcome existence, and closed his eyes tiredly.

After a while, he realized that he actually fell asleep in the car.

He opened his eyes and stood up, the car had already parked in a place that looked like a free market.The car door was wide open, and the two seats in front were already empty. Tao Rujiu looked out the window, and Ling Li was sitting on a flower bed beside him, smoking.

"Boss Ling... Where are the flowers blooming?"

With a sharp finger holding a cigarette, he pointed not far away.

"Going to see something, he doesn't trust you alone, so let me wait for you to wake up."

Tao Rujiu said "Oh" and got out of the car.Sharply pinched the cigarette and locked the car, and walked towards the market together.The young man had no desire to talk at first, but looked sharply at the back of the flowers blooming not far away, and asked the first sentence: "You have been doing pretty well with the troupe these few days, right?"

"Yes."

Tao Rujiu answered truthfully, "Maybe everyone attaches great importance to the person introduced by Mr. Ling, not only the troupe, but all the staff are very kind."

"Hua Kai seems to like you very much."

"I like him a lot too."

Having said that, Tao Rujiu deliberately strengthened his tone.

"Hua Kai has been sleeping with me in my room for the past few days. The reason why I did not leave Hailing City is indeed inseparable from his help."

What is the meaning of saying these words, even Tao Rujiu can't figure it out, he just has a sharp intuition and doesn't like to hear it.

Facts proved that Ling Li was really unhappy, he simply stopped and stood in the middle of the market.

"Then if today or tomorrow, I say that Hailing City will no longer accept any interviews, what should Reporter Tao do?"

Tao Rujiu also stopped and looked at him.

"You want to drive me away?"

"It's not rushing, but please cooperate with the work of the park. There are frequent typhoons in summer, and the park cannot guarantee the personal safety of reporter Tao."

"It's okay, I bought insurance."

Taking a deep breath, Tao Rujiu looked directly into the eyes behind the sharp sunglasses for the first time.

"When the typhoon comes, there will be more materials. I won't leave until I finish the interview task and write the manuscript."

"That's fine too."

Sneered sharply, "But you have to buy tickets, every day."

"I have a press card and can get free tickets."

"Please leave Hailing City before the park closes every day."

"Then wait for Mr. Ling to watch me leave at the gate in person."

The last layer of harmony was being slowly peeled off, and Tao Rujiu's face flushed red with excitement.He is not good at arguing or confronting people, but even if he wants to calm down at this moment, the other person will not let it go.

Ling Li approached suddenly and grabbed Tao Rujiu's wrist.

"Do you believe I'm going to find someone to beat you up?"

The tyrannical force left pain on the wrist, and the man's movements made Tao Rujiu suddenly recall the nightmare of the first night.That pair of big, bone-like hands grasped both herself and the flowers at the same time.

"Do not……"

He yelled shortly, and at the same time slapped his sharp hands away, and the crisp sound was exaggerated, which attracted the attention of many passers-by.

Ling Li obviously did not expect Tao Rujiu's overreaction.He watched the young man throw away his hand and take a big step back, his face quickly faded to pale, his lips trembled, and his eyes under the glass lenses were even a little red.

"you……"

He even began to wonder whether Tao Rujiu had been threatened in this way before, or even had been subjected to violence, so that he had such a strong reaction.

In fact, I just wanted to scare him.

Looking back by chance, Hua Kai found the two standing not far away with weird expressions.When he approached full of doubts, both Ling Li and Tao Rujiu returned to their usual expressions.Hua Kai asked Ling Li with sign language, but the other party just said "It's okay" very coldly.

However, Hua Kai, who was careful, still found that for most of the time after that, Ling Li had been observing Tao Rujiu without any trace, as if playing with a mystery.

Contrary to Tao Rujiu's expectation, after the flowers bloomed, all he bought in the market were seafood.It's funny to say that, although Hailing City is considered to be built on an island, there are very few fresh seafood that can be eaten during the fishing moratorium.The residents in the fishing village on the edge basically changed their careers and started selling souvenirs because of the film and television city.As a result, the seafood at Xiyao Market has gradually become the most anticipated meal of the troupe every week.

Sure enough, almost all the people who came back to Cuiying Pavilion were carrying black plastic bags from the seafood market.The left-behind Master Lu has already filled the two large tanks under the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the yard with seawater. Everyone guessed that the seafood has the habit of throwing them into the two tanks, and the ones that have been killed are directly thrown into the front shop. in the refrigerator.

Looking at the big pieces of conch falling from the bag into the splashing water in the tank, Da Fu and Xiao Li showed happy trance smiles on the left and right.

The troupe has a small gas stove, which is usually not taken out.Just doing seafood at this time of the week.Fresh seafood is most suitable for eating raw and scallion oil. The chefs are Uncle Tan who sings Guansheng and brother Zhang who sings boudoir.The two played Tang Minghuang and Yang Guifei respectively, so they were nicknamed "husband and wife file" by everyone.

"Gong'e, bring a giant shovel, I will cook with my concubine."

Someone laughed and sang.

That night, except for Wang Baihu, who was dating his girlfriend, who was absent, everyone in the troupe plus Tao Rujiu and Ling Li sat in the second courtyard.The four Eight Immortals tables are put together, and the dishes, chopsticks and spoons are placed, which has a festive atmosphere.

Ling Li obviously often hangs out with members of the theater troupe during vacations.In addition to contributing a lot of seafood, they also brought two cases of beer.He has a lot of respect for Master Lu, and he is very casual when talking to the rest of the troupe.Because of his special status, everyone involuntarily focused their attention.Even Huakai smiled and talked with Ling Li in sign language from time to time.They talked about some topics that Tao Rujiu didn't fully understand, and talked about the past of Hailing City with a smile.As a reporter, Tao Rujiu should have listened quietly and recorded it carefully.But sitting far away on the other side of the crowd, the young man only felt lonely.

He found that he not only wanted to listen but also wanted to join, to be a part of Hailing City.But the fact is that I am like a drop of oil repelled by the sea, floating alone on the surface.

Fortunately, this melancholy did not last long. After the cold beer was served, the slightly emotional memories turned into chatting all over the world and board games with a local flavor.

After entering the stove, the aroma of scallion oil gradually wafts out, which is tempting to move your index finger.

Raw blood cockles, oysters, horned snails, scallion oil yellow croakers,!Mussels, mussels, sea melon seeds, scallops, chicken leg snails, steamed blue lamb crab, fried safflower crab with assorted sauces, rich shrimp with salt and pepper, and two large pots of cold seaweed and jellyfish... After more than 20 seafood dishes were served one after another, Tao Ru The old ones can be regarded as having truly seen the style of the seaside.

After eating and chatting for a while, the person in charge of picking melons left the table, and after a while came back with five watermelons and threw them into the well.As the night darkened, the lights came on, "Speaking of which, it will be Taotao's turn to go to the melon fields tomorrow, who will guide him?"

Someone suddenly asked.There was an even number of people picking melons in the troupe, and when it was Tao Rujiu's turn, there was no one to partner with him.

Everyone didn't pay much attention to this matter. The next trip to the underground palace is not a big deal for them. When the time comes, see who is free, and just go with them.However, at this moment, there is a special person who volunteers to go with Tao Rujiu.

"If you lead the way, let me go. I guess I will have to eat your watermelon here for a while."

Tao Rujiu stared sharply at the other end of the table with wide eyes.The man smiled nonchalantly, as if the dispute during the day never existed.

As he said this, he stood and walked towards Tao Rujiu holding a wine glass.

"Reporter Tao, don't you mind going with me?"

Surprised by Xie Lingli's sudden change of attitude, Tao Rujiu was in a daze for a while, and didn't react until his wine glass was also filled with beer by Lingli.

"If Reporter Tao is willing, we'll do it."

Ling Li took the lead in gulping down the beer in his glass, in exchange for a burst of applause from all around.Tao Rujiu had no choice but to raise his wine glass, but he was even more puzzled.

What is this, a stern apology?

They also drank a whole glass, and the interaction between the two aroused the excitement of others.After the dishes on the table were wiped out, everyone focused their attention on the two cases of beer.Persuading people to drink too much alcohol has gradually turned into fighting for alcohol consumption.

Except for the fact that the flowers were under the age of blooming and could only drink soft drinks, and Master Lu insisted on drinking tea, no one present at the end was not red-faced.

After drinking at ten o'clock, there were only four people who could still sit on the stools, among them were Ling Li and Tao Rujiu.

Ling Li is used to alcohol, the low-strength beer in front of him is nothing to him.The other two obviously "exercise" every week, but Tao Rujiu's drinking capacity surprised Ling Li.

The young man propped his head on one hand and leaned on the table.The dim light shone on his forehead, casting the shadow of dark eyelashes.He closed his eyes, as if he fell asleep like this, but he still held half a glass of beer in his right hand, ready to deal with the fierce "challenge" at any time.

"Have another drink."

Smiling sharply, she sat beside Tao Rujiu and wanted to help him fill up the half glass of beer.The young man slowly raised his head to look at him, half drunk in his hazy eyes.

"…cannot……"

The supported hand flicked weakly, trying to cover the beer that the glass refused to pour, but Ling Li took his glass away first, and brought it directly to his mouth after filling it up.

"How is it? Do you have the guts to drink one last glass?"

Feeling the cool beer approaching his mouth, Tao Rujiu subconsciously clenched his lips, and he tilted his head back to avoid it.But Ling Li held his head from behind again, almost pushing his head into the beer.Caught off guard, he even inhaled a lot of wine through his nose, and immediately began to struggle violently, pushing the wine glass with one hand, and poured half of the wine on him and Ling Li at the same time.

Before he could dodge, he shared the fierceness of the beer bath, frowned and let go of Tao Rujiu, letting him fall on the table, but before he could think of a further move, Tao Rujiu had carefully helped Qin Huakai up.

(Tao Tao drank too much, I sent him to rest.)

Ling Li took a few napkins and wiped the beer stains on his clothes casually, watched the flowers bloom and helped Tao Rujiu into the house, suddenly remembered what Tao Rujiu had said during the day, and immediately followed him in with concern.

Pushing the door open, the first thing I saw was Tao Rujiu lying unconscious on the bed, while Hua Kai was sitting by the bed, ready to unbutton his clothes.