It's wolves, it's birds, it's forests, it's streams, it's nature itself.

A nighthawk flew in from nowhere, landed lightly on the eaves of the window, and chirped "tower, tower, tower", like a spirit of the night intruding into the quiet darkness.

The tundra wolves in the house, looked over at the sound.

It was too late for Wu Lin and Ye Wang to run away. The two covert observers met the eyes of the tundra wolves through the glass.

The air was suddenly quiet.

Wu Lin subconsciously pulled Ye Wang backward, a little away from the window, with the same pace and rhythm as when he met the bear.

As the distance grew wider, the window became more and more blurred.

At the last second before the house disappeared from view, Wu Lin thought he saw the tundra wolf pick up the neatly folded clothes on the other side of the bed.

Not long after, the door of the room opens from the inside, and Qiran Tao, in human form, comes out, wearing the same clothes.

So Li Zhao not only remodeled the door, but also kept his brother-in-law's clothes ready for him to change when he came back?

Wu Lin was thinking about all these things, and when he came back to his senses, Qiran Tao had gently closed the door to his room and came to him.

"What are you two doing here?" Qiran Tao tilted his head in confusion, looking at Wu Lin and Ye Wang as if they had appeared out of nowhere. As for being spied on, it didn't bother him at all.

"Not just the two of us ......" Wu Lin looked at the direction of the guest room with a complicated expression, "There is also a room over there."

Qiran Tao never gave in to his own curiosity, turned around and walked to the window of the guest room, looking in with his face pressed against the glass, unlike Wu Lin and Ye Wang just now, he peeped in an open and honest way.

After seeing the bed of classmates, Qiran Tao turned back in confusion, "What's going on?"

His voice was low and soft, obviously not wanting to alarm anyone, in either room.

Wu Lin glanced at Ye Wang with some difficulty, not really knowing where to start with Qiran Tao: "It's a long story ......"

"Nothing long," Ye Wang said indifferently, "I ran over here on my own first," lifting his chin in the direction of both Wu Lin and the guest room, "and they came over to me."

Qiran Tao blinks, followed by amusement, "You're quite popular."

Ye Wang was surprised by the other's bashful response, "That's it?"

As he is not small-minded, all know that he just said that simply generalized can not be generalized again. This is seven or eight people put the school class does not, suddenly come Changbai Mountain, is a person have to be curious about the ins and outs, right?

Qiran Tao froze at Ye Wang's rhetorical question, and after a moment, nodded in realization, "So now that we've found you, are you going to stay here for a while, or are you going to go back together as soon as possible?"

...... is asking you to dig deeper, not to ask for a follow-up.

Ye Wang's brows rose slightly, realizing for the first time the subtle differences in Qiran Tao.

Rather than being like a wolf, this man was more like the wind, a light and free being, you didn't know where he would blow, and you could never catch him.

"We'll be back tomorrow," Wu Lin said, remembering Li Zhao's wait, and couldn't help but ask, "Brother-in-law, how long will you stay at the cabin this time you're back?"

Qiran Tao smiled mischievously at him, "If I hadn't seen you guys, I would have left by now."

"Now?" Wu Lin was stunned, "You didn't just get back ......"

"Stay too long and you'll be found out." Qiran Tao Priggish.

Wu Lin was completely bewildered: "Brother-in-law, what the hell are you doing?"

"How have you gotten stupid," Qiran Tao frowned slightly, but his bent eyes were all doting and accommodating, "Playing missing, can't you see that?"

Wu Lin: "But why?"

Qiran Tao sighed furtively, "Only then will your one-track minded Li Zhao brother be able to go down the mountain."

Wu Lin was a bit angry, probably because she felt too much pain for Li Zhao, but also because she was angry at her brother-in-law's capriciousness: "Then why did you agree to go up to the mountain in the first place?"

Oh, you promised well in the beginning, and now that you want to defect to the forest on your own, you have to kick someone off the mountain again?

Ye Wang originally did not want to intervene, but hearing this, also felt that Qiran Tao was seeking distance, "You want him to go, just talk to him directly."

Qiran Tao's smile faded, his eyes quieted down, like the color of the veiled moon.

"If my words had worked, he wouldn't have even gone up the mountain and would be in a coffee shop right now, getting on with his life."

Ye Wang and Wu Lin both froze.

What does that mean? Could it be that Qiran Tao also disapproved of Li Zhao leaving everything to go to the mountain? That's why he stayed away longer and longer, trying to get Li Zhao to leave. ......

The two men suddenly realized that they might have entered a thinking error.

Because Li Zhao's animalization has been delayed, they have positioned Li Zhao as a "seeker", or, to put it bluntly, a Qiran Tao implicated in following his own inner actions.

Yet perhaps it was wrong from the start.

The decision was made by Li Zhao.

It was not Qiran Tao who tied him to this mountain forest or this wooden house; rather, Li Zhao was the only thread that kept Qiran Tao from completely returning to the mountains.

Suddenly, the roar of some kind of animal came from the distant mountains and forests, startling the birds resting in the forest with a "flutter".

Qiran Tao hurriedly raised his head to look out toward the flock of birds flying across the sky, and pressed his index finger to his lips, "Shhh--"

The act carried an innocent childishness.

Not to mention the fact that they were a hundred thousand miles away, even if those flying birds were above their heads, there was no way they could have listened to Qiran Tao's words.

But as the birds fly away, the echoes of the mountains fade away.

Qiran Tao nodded in satisfaction, smiling lightly out of the corner of his eyes, as gentle as moonlight.

At this moment, Wu Lin suddenly felt a strange envy.

Qiran Tao is really melting himself in this mountain range, he never worries whether his language can be understood by the birds or not, he is a part of this vast sea of forests, a wolf, a bird, a forest, a stream, nature itself.

Underneath the gentleness, his faith is like a deep sea.

It was clear that he was able to animalize himself, yet Wu Lin was still confused, wishing that he could have a day like this, knowing exactly what he wanted, what he wanted to pursue, and for that reason, not turning back, and insisting on moving forward.

The night air returned to silence.

Qiran Tao's distant gaze returns to Wu Lin and Ye Wang.

"Let Wu Lin save his breath," he said to Ye Wang first, deliberately tensing his face, a hint of dissatisfaction in his low voice, "and don't run around on impulse."

"......" Ye Wang frowned in knots, feeling the need to refute every word, but unable to justify it for a moment.

After nagging the trouble maker, Qiran Tao turned to Wu Lin, his expression softening, even a bit pathetic: "Don't tell Li Zhao that I've come back."

Wu Lin is tempted to nod, but--

His eyes crossed Qiran Tao's shoulder and looked in the direction of Li Zhao House, his eyes gradually becoming complicated.

Qiran Tao knew it was over when he frowned.

"Can't run away." He exhaled as if sighing and slowly turned backward.

At the entrance to the main house, Li Zhao stands in silence under the eaves; no one knows how long he's been out.

He looked fixedly this way, his eyes deeper than the night.

The moon is as clear as if it had been washed by daytime rain.

Li Zhao The intensity that had always sunk deep into his eyes almost broke through the night.

Qiran Tao, however, turns around and quietly hides all that is true, heavy, and ungrateful, as if he had never been at the bedside, never babied anyone.

"Why do you sleep so lightly, the slightest movement wakes you up." Turning to Li Zhao , Qiran Tao only had a capricious grumble on his face.

"When were you going to tell me if I wasn't going to wake up?" Li Zhao opens his mouth, with a hint of somber huskiness.

"Hmm?" Qiran Tao plays dumb, innocent eyes blinking, "Tell what?"

Ye Wang realized who Wu Lin had learned the trick of pretending to be innocent from.

Li Zhao glanced at Wu Lin and Ye Wang, clearly not wanting to have an open discussion with Qiran Tao: "Go inside."

Qiran Tao didn't respond for a moment and didn't move his feet.

Li Zhao's demeanor didn't change, "If you decide to run away now, you'll never come back, and you don't have to sneak back."

Qiran Tao eventually went back to the house with Li Zhao.

When only Wu Lin and Ye Wang were left in the courtyard, Wu Lin suddenly slapped his head, "I forgot to tell you about the animalization!"

Ye Wang looked to the main room, which was still dark with two people already inside, and shrugged, "They can't care about us right now, so we'll talk about it tomorrow."

Inside the main house, Li Zhao stood where the night met the moon, half light, half dark, unable to say whether it was about to be all blackened by the night, or whether it was the light that was breaking out of the darkness.

Qiran Tao hoped it was the latter.

He doesn't want to do Li Zhao's night.

However, Li Zhao never follows anyone's wants or dislikes, no matter before or now.

......

Five years ago.

Qiran Tao: I'm staying in school.

When she received this tweet, Li Zhao was in a newly renovated cafe, ready to launch the first spring of her career.

With an hour to go before the grand opening, the hired pianist was in place and all the store staff were busy with final preparations.

Li Zhao gave a few brief instructions and went up to the second floor.

There was a vacant room, spacious and ready to be used as a studio for Qiran Tao, who was returning from graduation.

Being a teacher? -- Li Zhao leaned against the wall of the empty room and replied to the message.

Qiran Tao: Well, stay in school and teach.

Li Zhao: Got it.

Qiran Tao: That's it?

Li Zhao:?

The microsoft side was quiet for a bit longer this time.

Then, Qiran Tao came back with a message: Don't you want to come to Beijing?

Li Zhao: Will you stay in Beijing?

Qiran Tao: I think so.

Li Zhao: No more painting in the mountains?

Qiran Tao: Go, of course I will, the biggest reason I agreed to stay in school is that being a teacher gives me summer and winter vacations [smiles smugly.jpg].

Li Zhao ：When I make enough money, you don't have to be a teacher, you can paint in the mountains all year round.

Qiran Tao : Don't always paint me a picture, I'll take it seriously.

Li Zhao: I'm afraid you don't take it seriously.

Li Zhao ：[Photos][Photos]I'm about to open my store.

Qiran Tao : You really opened a store?

Li Zhao : I said I would try to make money.

Qiran Tao : ...... Then you should get BBQ, I haven't seen many coffee shops making money.

Li Zhao : Not by coffee shops, by house prices.

Qiran Tao:?

Li Zhao: The door market is worth money, according to the current trend of housing prices, buy the hands of a steady annual appreciation, than most of the sale of money.

Qiran Tao : So coffee shops are just a ...... hobby?

Li Zhao ：Decoration, so as not to look unrealistic in the future when the "store for sale".

Qiran Tao : [You sure are still rich.jpg]

Li Zhao: Raising you is not enough.

Qiran Tao: ......

Li Zhao: There's a studio on the second floor for you.

Li Zhao : No matter when you come back, I'm here for you.