He Tianran slowly drank the half bottle of white beer during the rest of the performance.
The first time he drank, he was very light drinker, but when Cao Aiqing looked at him in the audience, he could only drink to cover it up besides playing the piano.
Gradually, his spirit became high, and the accumulated study pressure was released in the sound of a song. This made him feel relaxed and he played harder. He played several guitar solos with great fluency, and on the stage There was a roar of applause.
Cao Aiqing would applaud vigorously every time, but for a single girl like this, who is beautiful, she would inevitably be talked to when she came to a place like this. Fortunately, Xue Yong discovered it in time and became a flower protector. The friend was very polite and didn't deliberately invite her to his table for a drink. He just came over to chat from time to time and drove away a few waves of chatters.
"Do you want to ask others to come up and participate? You have finished drinking and I haven't seen you move."
The lead singer teacher would tease He Tianran during the breaks.
"It's just a friend who is helping out. I didn't know she would come."
He Tianran responded honestly, took a moment to look at Cao Aiqing, and then continued his playing work silently.
The female college student who played the bass covered her mouth and smiled. The drummer boss asked the bartender to bring several plates of snacks and fruit platters to the little girl. The lead singer hummed and sang "Old Boy" again.
"That's the person I miss day and night and love deeply. How should I express it? Will she accept me?"
He Tianran suspected that the entire band was trying to mess with him, but he had no idea what to do. He wanted to find a hole in the ground to crawl into, or tell them directly that his relationship with Cao Aiqing was not what they thought.
It's just that for this kind of thing, the current explanation will only become darker and darker.
Therefore, he simply chose to shut up.
The performance ended at ten o'clock, and Cao Aiqing also waited until ten o'clock.
As the guitarist who changed his shift came to the store, He Tianran finally ended his day's work.
He first glanced in the direction of Xue Yong, and the beast looked like he was watching a good show, and swung his hands outward to signal him not to get close to the people at his table.
He Tianran had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk towards Cao Aiqing.
When the girl saw him coming over, she suddenly looked a little reserved. She hurriedly picked up the boiled water on the table and took a sip, but just like the beer that He Tianran drank up, there was not much water left in it.
"Okay, now I really have no secrets in front of you."
He Tianran shrugged and made a joke that was not a joke.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, he and Wen Liang broke up, he broke up with Jiang Xixi, he is a rich second generation, and even his current part-time job, Cao Aiqing seems to know everything either directly or indirectly.
"You said most of it yourself, you can't blame me!"
Cao Aiqing responded with a smile.
"But I haven't really thought that you would actually come. How did you know this place?"
He Tianran picked up a nut from the snack plate and threw it into his mouth.
"I...Xue Yong posted on Moments. I guessed it was you, so I came..."
"Good guy, you're not just observing me, you're observing me through my friends?"
"I didn't, I saw it accidentally... I was just... curious... afraid that you would do something bad..."
Cao Aiqing argued, but his voice became softer and softer.
"Hey, it's not a bad thing to make a living. Don't worry, monitor..."
He Tianran was chewing something in his mouth, his eyes darting around.
The two were silent for a while. The boy noticed the holes in the other's sweater and asked:
"What happened to your clothes?"
Cao Aiqing quickly pulled the hole in the sweater with her hands and said nothing.
Could it be said that he skipped class because he climbed over the wall and accidentally scratched it when he came down?
This kind of words makes it difficult for the innocent girl to say it.
"correct!"
He Tianran suddenly thought of a question, and Cao Aiqing looked at him carefully.
"It's past ten o'clock now. Is it okay for you to go back so late?"
Cao Aiqing was stunned for a moment, then his eyes visibly widened under his long eyelashes the next second, and then he quickly stood up uneasily.
She took out her mobile phone and looked at the time. It was ten fifteen, and three missed calls from her "mom" were still displayed on the screen.
"I...I...I have to go back quickly!"
Cao Aiqing hurriedly said something and was about to go out, and He Tianran also stood up.
"I'll take you back. It's too late. You're alone and I...it's time for me to go back."
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The two walked out of the Yanjiao Lane tavern. He Tianran was carrying a guitar and walking in front, leading the way and saying:
"where is your house?"
"Songshi Street..."
He Tianran was stunned. Jiang Xixi's family also lived there, not far from his home. However, if the school was used as a circle, there were two directions, but here, it was one direction.
"As for Songshi Street, you have to transfer twice to take the subway from here. However, there is a bus station nearby with a direct connection. Let's rush there now. Maybe we can catch the last bus at 10:30. Let's go quickly."
After saying that, the two of them ran all the way, and finally hurriedly caught up with the last bus that was about to leave.
There were three or four passengers sitting sporadically in the car. The boy leading the way went straight to the seat in the last row, and then his body collapsed, and the girl followed him and sat down.
The car door closed and the car started. The two of them shook their bodies, and their tense nerves finally relaxed.
The boy and girl looked at each other involuntarily, and laughed when they saw the somewhat gray and embarrassed look in each other's eyes.
He Tianran looked at Cao Aiqing's smile. Her little face was moist and flushed. Even though her hair was a little messy by the night wind, she had a different kind of beauty in this look.
He suddenly closed his eyes, raised his head, and breathed heavily, apparently trying to relieve his heart that was beating violently from running just now.
Cao Aiqing lowered her head and held her cell phone, thinking about how to explain to her mother that she was home late this time. The pub was too noisy just now, and she never paid attention to the call.
As luck would have it, the phone rang again.
She answered nervously, and the questions from the other side came as promised.
"Mom... I... I was doing test papers with my classmates at school today, and I wasted some time..."
"No... I just went to the toilet just now and didn't look at my phone..."
She obviously didn't know how to lie. She spoke awkwardly, as if her mother was right in front of her, and her panicked look made people nervous.
"Hey, monitor, don't leave yet. I found that this question is wrong. Please help me take a look."
He Tianran suddenly said in a deep voice beside him. Cao Aiqing didn't react at all. He only heard the boy switch to his 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 doing it? Do you insist that we stay with you in class?"
Cao Aiqing came back to her senses, held back her laughter, and said to the other end of the phone: "Mom, I'll be back soon, don't worry, um, um, I got it, oh, my classmate has already left the classroom, um, that's it, bye !”
The girl hung up the phone, turned her head and smiled, pretending to be serious, and said nothing.
The boy leaned back on the seat and rubbed his forehead with his fingers, looking like he was about to thank me.
"What should I do if I get dressed?!" She held the responsibility accountable.
"I won't cheat. People who don't know me can't tell the difference from my tone of voice." He vowed.
"My mother just asked me who He Tianran is."
"Just say, he is the varsity of our school."
"Bah! Shameless!"
"This is called maintaining a high degree of consistency between reality and self-perception!"
After He Tianran said this, he felt so disgusted that his body began to tremble and he burst into laughter.
"Weird look!"
Cao Aiqing slapped him on the shoulder.
The bus was bumpy occasionally, especially when they were sitting in the last row. He Tianran was a little tired after two hours of performance, and unknowingly closed his eyes and took a nap.
Cao Aiqing looked at him with evil intentions now, and thought of him who was standing blankly outside the car door.
I never expected that these two images would actually be the same person.
She knew all of He Tianran's secrets, so she also witnessed his entire transformation process.
"It's amazing..."
The girl murmured, and she imitated the way he slept and raised her head.
Occasionally, when passing a stop, the lights in the bus will come on, and then go off again when the bus starts.
When it lit up, Cao Aiqing noticed that their shadows would be very close.
But she preferred the darkness after it was extinguished.
Because this way, the shadows will blend together.
