After Cao Ningning separated from Chen Xu, she returned home, opened the door with a key, closed the door after entering the house, and put on slippers.
The floor of the living room was in a mess, and all kinds of things fell to the ground. On the ground beside the dining table, there was a bucket of noodles turned upside down, and the juice flowed all over the floor.
She turned a blind eye to all this, went straight to the door, pushed the door and walked in, and closed the door behind her backhand.
The room was tidy. She picked up the remote control of the air conditioner, turned on the air conditioner to heat up, hung the small schoolbag on the hook behind the door, walked to the desk and sat down.
The desk was full of textbooks and various tutorial books. In the middle, there was a mirror. She looked at herself in the mirror, and stretched out her fingers to gesture.
Amidst the humming sound of the air conditioner, the temperature in the room gradually rose.
She took off her coat, opened the drawer, took out a piece of paper, and spread it out on the table. It was a half-drawn sketch, which should be a human face, with only a rough outline.
She took out her phone, opened the photo album, and entered a folder, which was full of photos of people's faces, with names written by editors on the side.
She flipped to one of the photos of a young woman with the words New English Teacher next to it. After carefully looking at it for a while, I put the phone upright on a fixed stand.
"It doesn't seem right."
She took out a pencil from the pen holder, tilted her head and compared the half-drawn sketches and photos, muttered, grabbed the paper, crumpled it up, and threw it into the paper frame in the corner.
Then, take a brand new sheet of paper out of the drawer.
She bit her lower lip, tapped her nose with the tip of a pen, stared at the photo for a while, then shook her head suddenly. I reached out and swipe on the phone screen, changing a photo.
A middle-aged woman, next to it is written, the aunt on the first floor.
Another swipe, it was a man in a security suit, and it was written "New Community Security".
On the second row, it was a young man with Chen Xu written next to it.
She paused her fingers, stared at the photo for two seconds, then nodded slightly, "It's just you."
She raised a pencil, measured the approximate proportions against the photo, and began to draw on paper.
After an unknown amount of time, her cell phone rang suddenly.
While drawing the lines, she glanced at her mobile phone, and there was a message on the top, showing a line of words, "Ning Ning, I have something to do when I go out, you..."
She looked away and continued to draw.
She painted very attentively, and she didn't stop writing until a strong sense of hunger hit her. Stretching for a while, took the phone, exited the photo, opened WeChat, and read the message just now.
"Ningning, I have something to do when I go out, you can get something to eat yourself." Later, another red envelope was sent.
She clicked to receive, and there were two hundred yuan in the red envelope. She quit WeChat, opened takeaway A, ordered a takeaway, called up the photo again, picked up a pencil, and continued to draw.
...
Cao Ningning was about to continue after lunch, when the phone rang, and she wanted to hang up, but after seeing the name, she picked up again, "Lily, why are you calling me at this time?"
"Are your parents at home?"
"Not here."
"Then let me go."
"Row."
After she hung up the phone, she picked up the pen and continued to draw.
Not long after, the doorbell rang outside. She carefully traced the shadow of her nose before she put down the pen and went outside to open the door.
Lily was her classmate, an ordinary-looking girl. When she entered the door, she saw the living room and asked in a low voice, "Are your parents fighting again?"
"Yes." Cao Ningning nodded.
"What's the reason again this time?"
"My dad didn't come home the night before yesterday."
Lily gave her a sympathetic look and said, "Otherwise, let's go outside."
Cao Ningning said, "I bought new headphones last week and I ran out of pocket money. What about you?"
"I just bought a new dress, too."
The two looked at each other, both feeling a little helpless, both had no money, and suddenly lost interest in going out.
After entering the room, Lily looked at the sketch on the desk, walked over to look at it, and asked her, "Who is this?"
"Chen Xu." Cao Ningning walked over, "Don't move, the painting is not finished yet."
"Huh?" Lily was at a loss at first, and after thinking for a while, she didn't think of anyone she knew with that name, so she asked, "Who is that?"
Cao Ningning didn't look up and said, "A kind passerby."
"Ah?" Lily was even more puzzled, "Since he is a passer-by, why should he remember his appearance?"
"Hmm." Hearing this, Cao Ningning rested his chin with his hands, thought for a while, and said, "Because he looks more pleasing to the eye."
Lily leaned over and looked left and right. Although she wasn't ugly, she couldn't be called handsome either. Why was she pleasing to the eye? I can't complain about my friends' aesthetics.
"Speaking of which, you have been learning sketching for several years. You have drawn hundreds of pictures before and after. How many people do you remember?"
Cao Ningning said, "There are about twenty or so."
"That's just a little bit, so isn't your sketching for nothing?"
"That's not true. After I draw it, I can still remember it for a period of time. Those who don't meet often will forget it."
Lily said, "I just can't figure it out. You have such a good memory, and you can recite words much faster than me. Why can't you remember other people's faces?"
"The doctor said that it's a certain part of the brain's insufficiency. It's a kind of disease. It's not too serious for me. Anyway, I'm used to it."
Lily said sympathetically, "Oh, you can't even appreciate the handsome little brother, you are too pitiful."
"All right."
Cao Ningning drew the last stroke, put the pen back into the pen container with satisfaction, picked up the painting, and unfolded it in front.
"Hey, the drawing is really good. You have learned sketching for nothing in the past few years." Lily looked at the sketch and said with some surprise, "Especially this look, it really seems to be peeking at you, wow, Great. Ningning, I think you can consider studying art."
"Well, I think too, this is the best work I've ever painted."
The more Cao Ningning looked at it, the more he felt satisfied, and said, "It's decided, I'm going to post it, right there."
"Isn't it?" Lily was a little surprised. It was too strange to post a sketch portrait of a strange man in the room, and he was not an idol.
Cao Ningning has already taken out the transparent glue and asked her to help.
"Others put up celebrity posters, but you, even if you want to post them, you should find someone who is more handsome." Lily said, and stepped forward to help.
The two worked together and quickly posted this sketch.
Only then did Cao Ningning feel a little thirsty, and asked, "What are you drinking?"
"Let's see what's in your refrigerator." Lily said without hope.
The two went to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. There were still a lot of things in it, and the only drink was soda water. The two took a bottle each and went back to the room to chat.
"Let's watch TV. There is a variety show on love recently, which is very interesting." Lily suggested.
"OK."
Cao Ningning took a tablet and handed it to her. The two sat side by side on the bed and watched.
When the advertisement was playing, Lili suddenly remembered something, "That boy in Class 6 who is very good at basketball, named Zhou Yang, asked you to watch a movie, didn't he? What happened afterwards?"
Cao Ningning thought for a while and said, "You mean, the tall guy with a lot of sour sweat?"
"..."
Lily opened her mouth and finally said, "Let's watch TV."
S: It will be strongly promoted next week, and it will be officially launched on May Day. Speaking of one thing, I haven't asked for votes since I got off the new book list. However, everyone's enthusiasm for voting is relatively high. Thank you in advance. Then, I just want to ask for a wave of recommendation tickets, and see how many tickets can be raised in the last week before it goes on the shelves. If you have a vote, just vote for it.