Chapter 62.
In the backyard of Tangli's house, a swing was placed. It was very nice to swing leisurely in the sunshine.
Lan Rujue bought this swing on a whim. She probably saw the scene of children playing in a park when she came home from work, which made her find her own story about the swing from her memory.
In that story, there was not only her, but also Tangli from back then.
Lan Rujue could never forget the naughty and willful look of that cute girl with twin ponytails.
So memory is really wonderful. You think you will forget every bit of the past, but when you see familiar people and things, it is like getting a key, opening the treasure box that has been dusty for many years, allowing you to recall once upon a time.
Lan Rujue did not tell Tangli what she was thinking, but this did not delay Tangli's surprise when she saw the swing. It was as if she had never played on the swing before. She pulled Lan Rujue and they sat together on the exquisite swing.
With the fragrance of flowers and the breath of spring, Tangli leaned on Lan Rujue's shoulders, and they swayed on the swing chatting.
"Xiao Li, where do you want to go this spring?"
A promise made in winter three years ago has evolved into traveling in spring every year, which has become their exclusive time.
This year Tangli has ushered in a new spring. She squinted her eyes lazily, and her fair face became more and more beautiful under the soft warm spring sun. It seemed that her whole body was shining. Tangli said softly: "We're not going anywhere this year, we're just staying home."
"What's wrong?" Lan Rujue touched the top of her hair and asked her.
Tangli smiled, and in order to prevent Lan Rujue from worrying about her, she quickly explained: "It's not that I'm feeling unwell, it's that Sister Rujue is very busy this year, and I'm a little busy too."
"Is Xiaoli currently working on a new comic series?"
When Tangli heard her mention her comics, she immediately opened her eyes, stared at Lan Rujue warily, and asked, "Have you ever entered my study?"
Lan Rujue couldn't help but chuckle, pinched her cheek to remind Tangli, and said: "It seems that you were really sleepy that day. I don't know who held me and said that she wanted to give up, let alone start a new one."
"Did I say that?" Tangli blinked suspiciously, her memory completely broken.
In this matter, Lan Rujue really didn't lie. She helped Tangli recall every detail of that night and said, "Last saturday night, you wore that black suspender nightgown... ."
Tangli noticed something was wrong and immediately shouted to stop, glaring at Lan Rujue, "Please tell me the key points, please?"
"The point is that you were wearing a black suspender nightgown and we went into the bathroom together. Later, you lazily hugged me and told me about your troubles at work, and then you fell asleep."
Lan Rujue obviously loved that suspender nightgown and picked it up twice in a row. Tangli had been with her day and night for so many years, how could she not detect the signal she was sending out now? But Tangli thinks that she shouldn't follow Lan Rujue's wishes. She was the one who wore it last time, so it should be her next time.
Tangli fell softly into her arms, touching the tip of her chin with one hand and stroking her earlobe with the other, exhaling softly and saying: "Sister Rujue's skin is so fair, she must look good in black."
Lan Rujue hummed lazily, hugged her waist, and said with a smile: "It's not impossible, but Xiaoli, our topic has gone astray."
"You are escaping! You have really changed your mind!"
Tangli refused to give up, and finally Lan Rujue reluctantly made a lot of harsh demands to squeeze her. One was willing to fight and the other was willing to endure, and the two reached a harmonious cooperation.
Tang Li turned around and talked about her new comic series, saying: "I have solved the troubles of comics long ago, so inspiration comes out slowly. I have to seize this good opportunity and not miss it. If I don't draw it in time, maybe one day I will run out of inspiration and stop updating, hey."
There was something strange in Lan Rujue's eyes. She lowered her eyes and said softly, "Then let's finish the work at hand this spring, okay?"
"That's what I think."
After going through all kinds of hardships, Tangli finally finished the comic that was serialized and discontinued for many years a year ago. It has been a long time since the completion. People can't be idle. Tangli thinks that she is about to become a salted fish, spending all day with Lan Rujue. Although this kind of life is very sweet, she feels that something is missing without a job.
So Tangli decided that she should start a new one. Even if the previous comic was discontinued, at least it was work and she could stay busy and not let herself become a salty fish.
Thinking of these reasons, Tang Li immediately stopped serializing.
As for new comic themes, she has also thought about them.
Tangli looked at Lan Rujue, pursed her lips and smiled, then put her arms around her neck, feeling extremely affectionate.
Let's just write the story about the two of them.
"Sister Rujue, have you ever been rebellious?"
"No."
Tang Li curled her lips in disdain, looked at Lan Rujue arrogantly from the corner of her eyes, and said, "You're lying!"
Lan Rujue couldn't help but laugh. She was very curious about why Tangli said this, because Lan Rujue herself had a stable character, and all the reactions in adolescence had no effect on her. Throughout her teenage years, she was calm without any disturbance and boring.
"Why do you think I lied?"
"Do you remember that one summer, after the college entrance examination, I went home after a party at night. I didn't ask the driver to pick me up that day. I took a taxi with my classmates, so I walked home alone. I saw someone standing under a tree smoking, of course I can identify that person as you based on my sharp eyes."
It was only from that day that Tangli realized that Lan Rujue was not as indifferent as she appeared. She was not able to strategize everything with ease, and she also had troubles that she could not solve.
As soon as Tangli finished speaking, Lan Rujue remembered what happened that day.
The tip of Lan Rujue's shoes touched the ground, causing the swing to start swinging again.
She said slowly and unhurriedly: "You are talking about that day."
In the summer of her senior year of high school, Lan Rujue knew that she and Tangli would be admitted to different universities because she already knew this from Tangli.
At that time, the relationship between the two of them was within the scope of ordinary friends. Tangli would never change her mind for Lan Rujue. Of course, the same was true for Lan Rujue, so this was a very helpless and realistic problem.
Lan Rujue doesn't have many friends, and her personality makes many people shy away from her. During her student days, the only person she was closest to was Tang Li.
She is the only one, so she becomes important.
Besides, Tang Li and she had a childhood friendship, so in short, she was a unique existence.
However, for such a friend, Lan Rujue and her still faced the time of separation.
She was in a gloomy mood that day, a bad mood that Lan Rujue only had on rainy days, because she remembered that one rainy day she went to Tangli's class with an umbrella to look for her, but she was informed that Tangli had already left.
Lan Rujue knew that she was angry about the rainy day, but she still couldn't help but blame the rainy day for making her so embarrassed.
Lan Rujue smoked because Tangli's words put her in such a dilemma. At that time, she planned to go to school to meet Tangli, but she overheard the conversation between Tangli and her classmates.
The classmate asked: "Tangli, I remember that you and Lan Rujue from the next class grew up together? Wasn't she also cold when she was a child?"
Tang Li smiled and said, "I don't remember. How can I remember so clearly what happened when I was a child?"
Yes, she has forgotten her childhood friendship, but why does she still remember it so clearly?
Lan Rujue left alone in silence. When she returned home, she saw Tangli's house with the lights on. Lan Rujue entered the house with a sullen face, and came out not long after waiting.
She stood under the tree, letting the tree block her figure, and lit the pack of women's cigarettes in her pocket. The smoke filled the air. Under the tree with insufficient light, Lan Rujue's expression was obscured by the smoke.
The breath of cigarette hypnotized Lan Rujue. She took the last puff of cigarette vigorously, stamped out the cigarette butt, and her head was wet she left without looking back.
Lan Rujue didn't notice the movement of the people behind her at all that night. She was stubbornly stuck in her own thoughts. Now that the truth was revealed, Lan Rujue's hand around Tangli's waist was trembling unconsciously.
It turns out that she discovered her.
Tangli pressed Lan Rujue and asked, "Why were you hiding behind a tree and smoking that day? Fortunately, you were praised by my mother for being a good student in morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor. You, a good student, actually smoked. I really regret not taking a picture, look at how my mother still praises you in front of me."
Lan Rujue tried her best to suppress the emotion in her heart. She looked at Tangli seriously and murmured, "It's because of you."
"Me? I never bought you cigarettes. Why are you smoking just for me?"
Lan Rujue gently stroked her hair and said with a faint smile, "Do you still remember what you said in school that day?"
Tang Li frowned in embarrassment and said, "I just remember seeing you smoking. I can't remember much else. You also know that I won't remember things that are not important to me."
Lan Ruju silently hugged her tightly with her fingers and said in a deep voice: "What about me, am I important to you?"
"Do you have a fever in your head?" Tangli touched her forehead. She didn't have a fever. How could she ask such an incomprehensible question?
"You told your classmates the other day that you didn't remember what happened when we were kids. You just said that, and you will forget what is not important. So Xiaoli, am I important?"
Tangli connected all the information at once, and came to a conclusion, "Is it because of my words that you are standing under the tree smoking bitterly?"
"Is there any other answer?"
Lan Rujue rested her head on her shoulder, her slender neck exuding softness and vulnerability. Her words made Tangli feel a strong emotion that spread from her heart to her whole body.
Tang Li frowned helplessly and distressedly, and explained: "I remembered it when you said that. I remember a classmate asked me if you were as cold as an ice cube when you were a child."
"Um."
Tangli stroked her back and said softly: "I only said that because I didn't want other people to know about our past. I am very concerned about face. If my classmates ask me that I bullied you when I was a child, wouldn't I become a sinner? In order to avoid this trouble, I have to say that I have forgotten it. Sister Rujue, how can I forget about our affairs?"
Lan Rujue never expected that this was the reason behind the incident that made her sad and lost. She was embarrassed and refused to raise her head. She was really too embarrassed to see Tangli.
She even wondered if Tangli would dislike her, thinking that she was someone who liked to think wildly.
Lan Rujue suddenly regretted telling Tangli the whole story.
Tangli felt Lan Rujue's stiffness, and even her breathing was cautiously relaxed. Tangli couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile, "It seems like Sister Rujue really likes me."
"Um."
She was finally willing to speak, no longer like an ostrich.
Tang Li said softly: "I really like you too."
"Um!"
The two people hugged each other, quietly immersed in this spring afternoon.
The sky is blue, the flowers are fragrant, and the two of them love each other deeply.
This kind of life happens every day. By understanding and getting along with each other, you will find that the relationship is deepening day by day.
This is the best lover mode.
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Tangli and Lan Rujue both have their own study rooms and rarely go in and out of each other's study rooms because they don't like anyone to disturb them when they are busy at work.
Lan Rujue's cell phone on the table rang. It was a reminder for Tang Li to take medicine. She was worried that she would forget, so she used her cell phone to set the time in advance.
She sent a message to Tangli, but the other party didn't reply immediately as usual. Lan Rujue couldn't help but worry, so she could only send another message, but it still didn't get any response.
She temporarily closed the chat interface with Shi Chaoyan on her computer, hurriedly opened the door and rushed to Tangli's study.
In the past few years, Shi Chaoyan resigned from her position as an assistant, and she and Jiang Chen started their own business. Because Jiang Chen's escape from marriage was rejected by his family, except for his mother who would support him financially, the family seemed to regard Jiang Chen as nothing. Later he left home, determined to make a career.
The two of them did not live a smooth life, and there were some quarrels. Later, when the company improved, Shi Chaoyan broke up with Jiang Chen.
She didn't break up with him when she was going through hardships with him, but she broke up with him when life got better.
After Tangli learned about it, she asked her, and Shi Chaoyan said: "The bad point in him is gone, so he becomes a perfect man in the eyes of another woman."
After the breakup, Shi Chaoyan left the city and returned to her hometown. She stayed with her mother and fell in love. Her life was more nourishing than before. It can only be said that after leaving the trash man, the air became fresher and she had good luck in everything.
To use Lan Rujue's words to describe Jiang Chen's company, it couldn't last long. Shi Chaoyan finally did something smart.
Lan Rujue quickly arrived at Tangli's study, knocked on the door, and then opened the door.
She saw the curtains in the study room being blown up by the wind, and she also saw Tangli sleeping on the sofa wrapped in a thin blanket.
Lan Rujue breathed a sigh of relief, stood at the door and shook her head with a smile.
She walked softly and silently to the sofa. Her eyes lingered on Tangli's face. After tucking the thin blanket for her, she noticed the computer with the screen on. After hesitating for a moment, she decided to get up and take a look at the computer.
Although she can also watch it after it is released on the comic platform, how can Lan Rujue, a loyal fan, miss the benefit of watching the comic in advance?
She felt guilty about Tangli in her heart, but even so, her mind still controlled Lan Rujue's hands, and she looked through the drawings that Tangli had drawn.
There were two beautiful little girls on the drawing that had not yet been colored. The familiarity between their eyebrows made Lan Rujue cover her lips in surprise.
The scene in the painting instantly moistened Lan Rujue's eyes. She saw the girl with a ponytail giving a barbie doll to the girl with double ponytails sitting on the bed. Lan Rujue blinked her sour eyes, She looked at Tangli who was sleeping soundly with tenderness and concentration.
The gears of memory began to reverse, and Lan Rujue, who was looking at Tangli, thought of them in childhood.
She remembered that the first time she saw Tang Li, she was led into the house by Tang's mother.
The little girl with bangs and ponytails was staring curiously at Lan Rujue. She was wearing a pink princess dress. She pointed at Lan Rujue with a sweet voice and asked Tang Mu, "Mom, Who is she?"
Tang's mother held Lan Rujue's hand and squatted beside the two little girls. She smiled while holding Tangli's hand and handed Lan Rujue to her. Tang's mother said lovingly: "She belongs to the neighbor's daughter, her name is Lan Rujue, and her name is the same as Xiaoli's. They are both related to fruits. Does Xiaoli know what this is? This is fate."
Lan Rujue unnaturally let go of Tangli's fingers. She pursed her lips, her face looking mature beyond her age.
Tang Li saw that she didn't hold her, her round black grape eyes stared at Lan Rujue familiarly, and said, "I'm the one who always shakes off other people's hands, you can't let go of me!"
She saw that Lan Rujue didn't like being touched by outsiders, so Tangli held hands with her mischievously, jumped off the sofa, and pretended to be disobedient: "If you let go this time, I will pull your ponytail."
Tang's mother was so angry at Tang Li's wayward look that she spanked her and educated her: "Xiao Li, don't bully Ru Jue. If mother finds out, your double breast milk today will be confiscated."
Tang Li smiled sweetly, not afraid of Tang Mu's threats at all, but she would not deliberately anger her mother, so she nodded obediently and said, "I know, how could I bully Xiao Jue."
"I'm older than you, you should call me sister."
Tangli frowned, pulled Lan Rujue's chubby little face closer, and asked tangledly: "Are you older than me?"
Tang Mu thought for a while and said, "It's true, she seem to be a month older than you, Xiaoli."
"It's only a month, Xiaojue Xiaojue." If you don't like hearing it, then she has to call more!
Lan Rujue stubbornly corrected her and said slowly: "You have to call me Sister Rujue."
Tangli's smile disappeared, and she shook off Lan Rujue's hand without any hesitation. She turned around and walked upstairs, "Call you sister? No way, unless you give me a gift. My sister's name is very valuable, so I want your most precious and favorite thing to give to me."
Tang's mother helplessly raised her head and wanted to persuade Tang Li to change her mind, but Lan Rujue stood there and replied: "Okay, but after you receive the gift, you have to call me Sister Rujue."
Tangli stood on the stairs, sneered and put her hands on her hips, "Come upstairs with me, and I'll let you see my toy room to open your eyes. If I don't like your gifts, I'll throw them away!"
Lan Rujue didn't move. She... didn't know whether she should go or not, and hesitated in silence.
Tangli stimulated her and said, "Don't you dare come up with me? You are a coward."
This time she looked at Tang Mu and received Tang Mu's kind smile. Lan Rujue caught up with Tang Li. Although she didn't speak, her actions showed what she meant.
"That's pretty much it."
The two little figures gradually disappeared on the stairs. Tang Mu squatted down and held her face in her hands, murmuring: "It's so cute."
The Yan Control Party won.
Four days had passed since that day when Tang Li saw Lan Rujue again. She almost forgot about that incident, but after waking up from her nap, she saw the cool and expressionless Lan Rujue again.
Tangli was wearing a goose-yellow skirt, and her smooth black hair was messy because she rubbed against the pillow, so the look of her blushing face and rubbing her eyes was deeply imprinted on Lan Rujue's heart at this moment.
She hugged her Barbie doll tightly, and suddenly she no longer felt distressed about the gift she was about to give away.
"Xiao Li, take good care of the little guests. Mom will prepare some fruit for you. If Ru Jue needs anything, you can call me."
"Goodbye, mom."
Lan Rujue waved her hand to Tang Mu, and then took the initiative to close the door.
In Tangli's room, they were the only two left.
Tangli looked like she hadn't woken up yet. She yawned and said in a soft voice, "You're finally here."
Lan Rujue's heart was hit. She had never been expected by anyone. Her mother cared about her father wholeheartedly, and her father would not show too much paternal side to her, so Tangli's words filled her empty heart instantly. Full, just like the goose yellow skirt on Tangli, it can bring warmth to people.
She silently raised her Barbie doll and said, "Xiao Li, this is my favorite toy, given to you."
Tangli has many barbie dolls, and this one did not attract Tangli's attention, but Tangli saw the anxiety in Lan Rujue's eyes, which was an emotion completely different from her appearance.
Quite cute.
Tangli looked at Lan Rujue and saw that her face was getting redder and redder. She accepted the gift with a smile and said, "Sister Rujue, thank you for the barbie doll. I will treat it well."
The scene of the sweet girl holding barbie doll stunned Lan Rujue. Her memory was very strong, so she knew she would never forget this scene.
Therefore, when Lan Rujue saw the drawings on the computer screen, she remembered the stories of her childhood.
Lan Rujue wiped the tears from her eyes. After her eyes recovered, she sat on the sofa and woke up Tangli.
"Xiaoli, it's time to take medicine."
Tangli sat up in a daze, got into Lan Rujue's arms, took the medicine and warm water handed to her, drank it, and went back to sleep.
Tang Li didn't know what happened on this day.
After waiting for a long time, Tangli accidentally discovered a secret of hers.
Tang Li exclaimed: "Sister Rujue, the number one on my list turns out to be you!"