MTL - Wildfire-Chapter 15

Tang Ning lived a little far away from here, about 40 minutes by car. The two of them didn't talk much on the road, and the car was very quiet. When Tao Xiaodong helped him move things down, Tangning said, "Thank you Mr. Tao for sending me here. I'll trouble you to walk around to see me after it's so far away."

"You're welcome, Doctor Tang, it's not easy for you to take a taxi at this point." Tao Xiaodong asked him, "Are you going back? I'll wait for you for a while?"

"No, no, no," Tangning shook her head and said, "I won't reply."

Tao Xiaodong then nodded: "Then I'm leaving."

"I won't invite you to do it until the house is cleaned up. I'll treat you to tea next time." Tangning smiled and thanked Tao Xiaodong again.

Tao Xiaodong waved his hand and got into the car.

When they got home, the two little ones had already finished their meal. Tao Xiaodong opened the door and came in. Tao Huainan sat on the sofa with his knees hugged and listened to TV, while Chi Cheng read a book in the room.

Tao Huainan called "Brother" and asked him, "Have you finished your meal with Dr. Tang?"

"Well, have you two eaten yet?"

"I've eaten," Tao Huainan nodded, "Brother Ku cooked noodles for me."

"It smells good." Tao Xiaodong said.

After Tao Xiaodong changed his clothes, he came out to watch TV with his brother for a while. Tao Huainan reached out to touch him, and after a while he lay down gently on his side, with his head resting on his leg.

Tao Xiaodong then put his hand on his younger brother's head, gently scratching his soft hair.

"What are you talking about?" Tao Huainan asked warmly.

"Crap, talk about everything." Tao Xiaodong said.

Tao Huainan let out an "oh".

After a while he asked again: "Did you talk about me?"

Tao Xiaodong smiled and said, "Yes, I said that I will bring you to dinner next time."

Tao Huainan squinted his eyes with a smile, and put his hands on his brother's lap obediently: "Okay."

He grew up with Tao Xiaodong since he was a child, and after his parents passed away, only Tao Xiaodong took care of him. Tao Huainan was actually very clingy to his brother. The past few years have gotten better. In the first few years, as long as Tao Xiaodong was at home, he basically stuck around him.

He has never been naughty since he was a child, and he is easy to take care of, but he is a little clingy, but when Tao Xiaodong is about to go out to work, he doesn't make trouble and is always obedient. Now Tao Xiaodong was lying quietly and scratched his legs with his fingers from time to time, a bit like when he was a child.

Tao Xiaodong flipped his hair and asked him, "What are you thinking about?"

"I didn't think about anything," Tao Huainan pointed to his head, and said softly, "It's empty."

That night Tao Huainan was very attached to him, Tao Xiaodong stayed with him to listen to TV, until Tao Huainan fell asleep with his lap on his head. Tao Xiaodong carried him back to the room, and Chi Cheng asked in a low voice, "Sleeping?"

"Sleeping." Tao Xiaodong asked Chi Cheng, "Studying so late?"

Chi Cheng said, "I'll read for a while."

"Don't be too tired, rest early." Tao Xiaodong touched his head before going out, "Xiao Nan is sometimes headstrong, don't hold grudges if you get angry."

Chi Cheng didn't look up, just said: "I've never been really angry with him, brother, don't worry."

"I know," Tao Xiaodong smiled, "You are sensible."

Having Chi Cheng saved Tao Xiaodong a lot of worry, otherwise he would have worried a lot more than this for so many years.

This younger brother was born when Tao Xiaodong was in college. He hadn't been home for a year, and when he did, there were suddenly more people in the family. Tao Xiaodong was stunned at home, unable to speak for a long time. After being stunned, his mother put the little thing in his hand and asked him to hold his neck when he hugged it.

Baibaijing was a small meat dumpling, the teeth hadn't grown yet, and within a minute of being in Tao Xiaodong's hands, he urinated all over his body.

At that time, Tao Xiaodong's father's eyes were not good enough, almost blind. His mother already had to rely on his mother alone for the family work, and this added another person, all of which were carried on his mother's shoulders.

Tao Xiaodong was actually angry and helpless, feeling that his parents were too confused. But looking at the little thing lying on the small bed gesticulating its arms and legs, it was his own brother. He was almost eighteen years younger than him, almost a generation away. But since they all came, it was by fate.

The next day Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng were both on vacation, and Tao Xiaodong brought them both with him when he went to the store.

When I came the day before yesterday, I still had the face of an uncle with stubble, but today I have shaved off my face. The shopkeeper looked a little uncomfortable and asked him, "Brother Dong, has your look changed?"

Tao Xiaodong said "ah" and asked, "Are you handsome?"

"Handsome, but looks small."

Huan Ge looked at Dong Ge and Xiao Nan, laughed and said, "I didn't think so before, but now that you've shaved, you two look alike."

"You said that," Huang Yida patted Tao Huainan's head, "the two of you are brothers."

Tao Huainan squeezed his brother's arm, nodded and said, "This is my real brother."

Tao Xiaodong still has to go out this month, and there is still the second phase of the previous medical aid, and it will take another ten days and a half months to leave. Tao Huainan has been very attached to him recently, and one day he said that he wanted to go out with Tao Xiaodong.

Tao Xiaodong asked him, "You don't go to school anymore?"

Tao Huainan said, "Come back and make up."

Tao Xiaodong told him not to be self-willed, saying that he would take him out during the summer vacation. Tao Huainan only said that he wanted to go to many places.

He did have something on his mind during this time, and Tao Xiaodong was always used to children, missing a few days of school was too insignificant to him, so he should take him out to have a good time.

But after all, it was a hospital project, Tao Xiaodong still told Tang Suoyan. One night, I sent a message to Tang Suoyan and called him "Brother Yan".

Tang Suo replied to him: Yes, what's the matter?

Tao Xiaodong asked: Will you lead the team next time you go to Gansu?

Tang Suoyan: It's me.

Tao Xiaodong: Xiao Nan is in a bad mood recently, I want to take him out for a walk.

Tang Suoyan: What happened to Xiaonan?

Tao Xiaodong: It's okay, it's just that the child has reached his age, and he has something to worry about from time to time, it's nothing.

Tang Suoyan: Are you okay? You have time to bring him to my place to have a look.

Tao Xiaodong: I'm fine, but I'm not in a good mood.

The two of them are indeed familiar, just like that, you and I chatted for a long time. It was impossible for Tao Xiaodong to talk to Tang Suoyan like this before it was released. At that time, he tried to finish everything he had to say in one article.

In the end, Tang Suo said: It's good to take him out to get some air, don't keep trapping him just because he can't see.

After Huang Yida knew about this, he said that Tao Xiaodong was too used to children. When his brother wanted to go, he had already applied for leave.

Tao Xiaodong was drawing sketches casually at the time, and the tattoo artist always had a flash of inspiration, and when the inspiration was the most powerful, he designed the picture according to his feeling, and then put it in the library waiting for someone to take it away. Tao Xiaodongku is quite plump. He can draw pictures as long as he holds a pen in his hand, without relying on inspiration. The paintbrush and tattoo machine are already too proficient in his hands.

"Son, it's just been a good few years. In two more years, I'll let him be self-willed and he won't have that childlike spirit anymore." Tao Xiaodong kept moving his hands and only spoke.

The picture he is drawing in his hand is a palm-sized eye, which is not a very beautiful eye shape, and even at first glance, it looks a bit crooked and the proportion is wrong. There is a lot of content in the eyeballs, messy lines, scattered small objects, light flow into the eyes like a river, carrying those broken images.

Huang Yida said: "This picture is beautiful, and the arm in the tattoo is suitable."

Tao Xiaodong said: "Anywhere will do, don't pick a place."

Huang Yida watched him draw. In fact, he enjoyed watching Tao Xiaodong draw pictures and get tattoos. He said before that Tao Xiaodong was born to do this. His hands always complete a work in one go, very smooth, you watch a piece of blank skin or drawing paper gradually change into another appearance in his hands, this process is magical and enjoyable.

Huang Yida said: "This picture will be picked up soon."

Tao Xiaodong laughed and said nothing.

Eyes are commonly used by Tao Xiaodong, and he has tattooed many eyes. Tattooists are all particular about it, and some tattooists talk too much, no matter what kind of pictures they don't click their eyes. Not Tao Xiaodong, he likes to draw eyes.

"I still think this picture should be done on the small arm, an inch above the wrist, so work hard." Huang Yida sighed.

Tao Xiaodong said after a while: "It should be tattooed on my lower back here."

"Back waist?" Huang Yida raised his eyebrows.

"Two inches above the waist." Tao Xiaodong kept writing, lowered his head and said slowly, "The narrowest part."

Huang Yida never disputed with him in this field, he was only a half-expert, and Tao Xiaodong was right.

After finishing the painting, Huang Yida admired it for a long time and said, "I'll sweep it out? Pass it to Curry?"

Tao Xiaodong picked up the paper and put it in the notebook: "This is not passed on to the library."

Huang Yida looked up at him: "What's the matter?"

Tao Xiaodong said: "It's nothing, I drew it casually, so I won't pass it on."