"A particularly good classmate?" Tao Qiran jokingly repeated Lin Wu's words, looking at Wang Ye with a smile, "Let's stay and have a meal together."
Tao Qiran's eyes are similar in shape to Lin Wu, but they give people a completely different feeling.
Lin Wu's eyes are always like a faint mist, and those feelings and secrets that are unwilling to be revealed are hidden in the misty forest.
In Tao Qiran's eyes, there is a sky, vast and clear, as if he can see everything, but he goes with the flow of everything.
Wang Ye didn't plan to stay, Lin Wu was visiting relatives, he didn't need to join in the fun.
Just as he was about to refuse, Lin Wu turned around and went back to the car, and happily invited him again: "Yes, let's come together."
For Lin Wu, this is not a family gathering, but a gathering that can cover all beautiful images. Therefore, the closest person sits on the left, and the friends who have a good time sit on the right, and hug each other from left to right.
Wang Ye knew that Lin Wu was a real invitation, not a fake courtesy, but he still felt it was unnecessary, so he said bluntly: "No..."
Lin Wu's eyes flashed with disappointment.
Wang Ye: "No...where to park."
Lin Wu thought that Wang Ye would use "unnecessary" to ruthlessly refuse. Hearing this, he immediately cheered up: "Yes, just in front of the coffee shop." , is it possible to park in front of your store?"
Zhao Li: "No problem."
Lin Wu immediately retreated to the side, gave up his seat in front of the store, and greeted Wang Ye: "Come on, stop here—"
Wang Ye: "..."
What is shooting your own car.
When Wang Ye parked the car and got off, Lin Wu immediately introduced him: "This is my uncle, Tao Qiran, this is Zhao Li, you can call me Zhao Li after me, my uncle's hair is young, the most iron buddy... "
"Let's talk in the room," Zhao Li didn't say much, but his voice was calm, "It's cold outside."
Tao Qiran was the most active supporter of this decision, he immediately wrapped his down jacket tightly and went back to the store first.
Zhao Li turned around.
"This store is opened by Zhao Lige," Lin Wu whispered to Wang Yedao, "Every time my uncle goes back to Shenyang, he comes here."
Wang Ye looked at Tao Qiran's back and was a little puzzled: "Your uncle's family is not a wolf?"
According to Awakening statistics, those who are usually related by blood have similar families and genera.
"It should be... Maybe." Lin Wu hadn't asked Tao Qiran's awakening family, but looking at the other party's cold back, he was a little less confident about this "awakening blood relationship theory".
Although wolves are not as resistant to freezing as "Siberian animals", their cold tolerance should be reasonable.
The decoration in the coffee shop is in a retro art style, and when you enter the door, you see an old-fashioned phonograph.
Wang Ye is not sensitive to this kind of accent and tone, but the paintings hanging on the walls are quite interesting. Oil paintings, sketches, impressionism, abstraction, types and styles are a hodgepodge. Sophisticated decor and the sombre retro vibe created by the old gramophone are completely separated.
"Brother Zhao Li, aren't you opening the store today?" Lin Wu realized that they had just come in, and Zhao Li locked the door again.
Even in the past, even in the store, business was done as usual.
"Not today," Zhao Li took off his coat and put it on his hand, "I won't open it in the future."
Lin Wu was surprised for a while, and his first reaction was, "Have you rented the store to someone else?"
The first and second floors of this store are owned by Zhaoli. The coffee shop is not easy to open, so it is easy to rent it out.
Zhao Li shook his head and said calmly, "Sold it."
"Sold?" Lin Wu was stunned.
"Okay," Zhao Li smiled, his tough facial features softened a little, showing a deep handsomeness, "Let's talk during dinner."
Lin Wu was full of doubts, but Zhao Li didn't want to say it now, so he didn't ask, after all, this is a personal choice.
It's just that my uncle likes it very much, and I don't know if he knows about it.
Lin Wu looked up to find Tao Qiran, and found that the other party and Wang Ye were standing together on the stairs to the second floor.
The stairs leading to the second floor have paintings on one side of the wall, which is the most concentrated place for paintings in this cafe.
Lin Wu walked over, only to see that it was Wang Ye who was looking at the painting, and his uncle was more like a leisurely play.
Also, Lin Wu could count the paintings in the coffee shop one by one with his eyes closed, let alone Tao Qiran, it was nothing new.
What Wang Ye was looking at was a sketch, with a few strokes, outlining a mountain hut. The picture was very light, even a little scribbled, and it was extremely inconspicuous among the many dense paintings around.
Lin Wu was very surprised, because all the paintings on the bright side of the store, this one was really painted by Tao Qiran. Although it was just a random graffiti in high school, the other paintings were made by Zhao Li from the roadside. bought.
Classmate Wang is quite insightful.
Just as Lin Wu thought about it, he heard Tao Qiran ask Wang Ye, "Do you like this picture?"
Wang Ye put his hands in his pockets: "I can't talk about it."
"..." Lin Wu froze in his heart.
Tao Qiran: "Is your painting bad?"
Wang Ye: "General."
"..." Lin Wu wanted to go up and grab a sack to put him down.
Tao Qiran held back a smile and pretended to be sad, "I drew this one."
Wang Ye nodded, not surprised at all: "Only this one can still be seen."
Tao Qiran restrained his jokes and looked at Wang Ye with seriousness: "You can draw? There is a studio upstairs, let's play together?"
Lin Wu hurriedly said, "He's a mechanic, so he can't draw. At most, he's mechanical drawing, and it's not the same category as you."
Wang Ye looked over and did not speak.
Lin Wu raised his eyebrows: What's the matter, is it wrong for me to set up steps for you to come down
Trying to prove yourself for the sake of others' opinions is the stupidest thing in the world.
Wang Ye has always thought so.
"Where is the studio?" Wang, who always thought so, asked succinctly.
Tao Qiran's studio is on the second floor of the cafe.
Although Wang Ye didn't understand why the cafe opened a studio, he forgot everything as soon as he walked in.
There is only one work in the studio, or a semi-finished product, placed on the easel, and the paint next to it has not yet dried. It is obvious that the creator has just left.
On the canvas is a forest and a stream. Several sika deer are drinking water by the stream. The forest looks like it has just snowed, and the silver-blue paint spreads a smog.
The deer hasn't finished drawing yet, it's just a faint outline, but it also reveals the lightness and agility of an elf.
Wang Ye can see God.
It's a good painting, even if it's not finished.
"Come here." Tao Qiran put on a new easel and asked Wang Ye, "Would you like to draw on paper or canvas?"
Wang Ye: "Paper will do."
When the drawing paper was spread out, Wang Ye took a pencil and started to draw casually without even thinking about it.
For a while, there was only the swishing of pencils in the studio.
Lin Wu watched a completely different forest appear under Wang Ye's brush... Uh, is it a forest
Although the mountain forest seems to be a mechanical structure, the beasts of all sizes follow the hardcore gear style, and the whole picture is completely steampunk, but the momentum and wildness of the beasts in the mountains are vivid and vivid.
Lin Wu doesn't understand art. Usually, at times like this, I can only say, "Damn it, the painting is really good."
He never knew that Wang Ye had this kind of skill, so now that Wang Ye has a filter added to it. Take the pen rotation as an example. In the past, he thought it was a scumbag who was distracted. Now watching Wang Ye turn the pencil, It feels like a painter roaming in the hall of thought of inspiration.
Zhao Li first went to the store to clean up the kitchen, and then went up to the second floor and found that everyone was crowded in the studio.
I stood at the door and looked at it. I had a general idea of what was going on, so I whispered to Lin Wu, who was closest to the door: "I'm going to prepare lunch. Do you and your classmates like to eat meat or vegetables?"
After the wild awakening, people who are familiar with it have to ask about the taste again.
Lin Wu pointed to himself: "meat", and then pointed to Wang Ye's side, "a lot of meat."
Zhao Li smiled: "Received."
In the end, Wang Ye didn't really complete the work, at most 70% of the painting was finished, and many places were still roughly outlines, and there was no fine carving, but he was too lazy to do it.
I haven't painted for a long time, and it's always by hand.
But Tao Qiran liked it very much. As soon as Wang Ye got up, he immediately sat in front of the painting, looked left and right, and admired it at close range.
Lin Wu cared more about Wang Ye, but now he was shocked and amazed at the other party, but also hugely confused: "Why don't you study art-related majors?"
Wang Ye looked at him inexplicably: "Why study art?"
you still need to ask
Lin Wu: "You're so good at drawing, it's a waste if you don't learn."
Tao Qiran in front of the easel heard them talking, looked over and asked, "Wang Ye, do you like to paint?"
Wang Ye shrugged: "Nothing special."
Tao Qiran threw his hands towards Lin Wu, which was a pity, but quickly relieved: "That's it, talent is sometimes not necessarily linked to love."
"Then you like machinery?" Lin Wu asked Wang Ye again.
Wang Ye: "I don't feel anything special."
Lin Wu sighed deeply: "Classmate, is there anything in this world that you feel or like?"
Wang Ye didn't hesitate: "Animals."
Lin Wu: "..."
Tao Qiran was teased, leaning back and forth, feeling that listening to the two children could make a day of fun.
When it was time to eat, he was smiling.
Zhao Li brought the prepared lunches from the back kitchen. They were all simple meals in the coffee shop, and the semi-finished products could be processed just a little - black pepper steak, curry pork chop, salted chicken, slate grilled sausage, red braised beef, Caesar salad.
Since each portion was small, I doubled everything except the salad.
As the only vegetable, it lies alone on the edge, and it is beautiful by itself.
Four people are seated.
When Lin Wu saw this dish, the four carnivores didn't run away, and finally found the opportunity to ask, "Uncle, what kind of family did you and Zhao Lige awaken?"
Tao Qiran deliberately betrayed him, and said to Lin Wu, "Let's talk about you first."
"I'm a coyote," Lin Wu said without going around in circles, "he's a Siberian tiger."
Tao Qiran looked at his nephew and then at Wang Ye, and nodded in agreement: "The temperament matches."
No, it doesn't match.
"My height, this aura, obviously should be a big wolf!" Lin Wu still has some opinions on the size of the coyote, more than dashing, not fierce enough.
Wang Ye happily ate the crispy salted chicken without commenting.
"The coyote can adapt to the wild and survive in and around the city," Tao Qiran said. "It's good."
Lin Wu didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Why is this so awkward, I am awakened, not really a wolf, no matter what I awaken, I can survive in the city."
"I'm a tundra wolf." Tao Qiran announced his family.
"Tundra Wolf?" Lin Wu blurted out, "Then you're still afraid of the cold?"
Tundra wolves are mostly found in tundra and Siberian taiga where the temperature is low.
"It's not that I've always been afraid." Tao Qiran muttered.
"Where's Brother Zhao Li?" Lin Wu looked at the man who had not spoken, "What is your family?"
Zhao Li: "Goshawk."
For a moment, Lin Wu's mind was full of images of eagles soaring: "So handsome."
Wang Ye bit off half a slate sausage in one bite.
I thought that after the exchange of families and genera, this lunch can enter the free chat time.
Lin Wu also wanted to tell Tao Qiran an interesting story about the school.
Tao Qiran said lightly first: "I resigned."
Resigning from a well-established university, Tao Qiran said is as simple as throwing a cabbage on the side of the road.
Lin Wugang tried to put a mouthful of salad in his mouth and almost bit his tongue.
Zhao Li obviously knew everything and continued to eat in an orderly manner.
Wang Ye consciously had nothing to do with this matter, and concentrated on eating.
Lin Wu was left alone to digest the information: "Resigned? From university?"
Tao Qiran nodded: "Yes."
"And then?" Lin Wu tried to think for the better, "Have you found a better unit?"
"No more," Tao Qiran smiled lightly, "Go up the mountain."
Lin Wu: "Up the mountain?"
Tao Qiran: "I have always liked the mountains, you know, only there can I meditate and create."
Lin Wu: "But you can go up the mountain during winter and summer vacations."
"Not enough." Tao Qiran said quietly, with a distant mountain in his eyes, "The longer I stay in the mountains, the less I want to go back to the city."
Lin Wu couldn't understand: "Then you don't have to quit your job, leave your job without pay, or take a long vacation, don't you really want to stay on the mountain for the rest of your life?"
"Why not?" Tao Qiran rested his chin with one hand and blinked earnestly.
Also ask why...
"Let me make sure first, are you going to be self-sufficient in an unoccupied place like going up the mountain in winter and summer vacations, like surviving in the wild, or do you want to find a village and idyll with the villagers?" There is still a fundamental difference.
Tao Qiran didn't hesitate at all: "Of course, just like going up the mountain before, looking for a place where no one is there. If there are people, it is not called returning to nature."
"That's the problem," Lin Wu was about to die in a panic, for fear that his uncle's head would get hot, so he didn't care, "Everyone has social attributes. If you go to the mountains during winter and summer vacations, you should retreat. That's fine, but you can't really stay in the mountains. For the rest of your life, you will always come back."
Tao Qiran smiled, and in his unhurried voice, there was a calmness that had already settled down: "When I used to create on the mountain during winter and summer vacations, I always thought that if the vacation didn't end, I could always live in that environment. It’s fine. But like you said, people have social attributes, and many times, it’s not how you want to be…”
Lin Wu: "Yes..."
Tao Qiran: "Let's talk about the most realistic problem, just relying on people's physical strength and survivability, it is difficult to survive in the mountains and forests like animals..."
Lin Wu: "Yes, yes..."
Since you understand the truth, you must live a good life.
"But what if I'm no longer?" Tao Qiran's voice was suddenly light and ethereal.
Lin Wu was stunned: "What's not anymore?"
Tao Qiran moved the dinner plate in front of him and put his hand on the table.
There was a sudden rustling sound in the air.
No, not in the air, but Tao Qiran's hand.
The white and slender hand was rapidly growing silver-gray wolf hair, and as the bones deformed, it eventually became a wolf claw.
Tao Qiran: "Since life has given me a second chance to choose, why should I turn a blind eye?"