When I arrived at the art museum in the Lin family's car, the exhibition had already started for more than an hour, and the opening ceremony had already ended.
In the soothing light music, well-dressed men and women strolled leisurely in the spacious and bright pavilion, admiring the paintings, and chatting occasionally.
This is a world that Tao Xi has never been to before, but he doesn't feel that he is out of place. Instead, he has a calmness that he should belong to here.
As soon as Qiao Yitang arrived, he reunited with his long-awaited college boyfriend and walked away. Tao Xi took Lin Qinhe and Tang Nan all the way to find the booth of his paintings, the most remote corner of the exhibition hall.
"This is my painting." Tao Xi pointed to the painting he was hanging on the wall and said to Lin Qinhe.
On the canvas is a little girl in a red corduroy gown. She has a dark curly head and bright almond eyes. She is galloping in the golden rapeseed field in spring, chasing a pink butterfly.
There is a large butterfly-like erythema on the little girl's chubby cheeks, which spreads from the bridge of the nose to the left side of the face, but people who look at the painting will not think that the little girl is ugly, because the smile on her face is brighter than the spring in March. To be brilliant.
Tang Nan looked up at the painting and asked curiously, "Brother, who is she?"
Tao Xi looked at the girl in the painting intently, with longing in his eyes, and said softly, "This is my sister."? He turned to look at Lin Qinhe, and asked with a smile, "Is my sister cute? ?"
Lin Qinhe snorted and said in a low voice, "same as you."
Tao Xi was startled and bit his lip to hide his embarrassment.
Lin Qinhe looked at the painting, but finally understood why Tao Xi was always in a hurry to make money. He knew very well what a child with lupus erythematosus meant to a mountain village family with a meager income.
He looked at the boy who was looking at the painting.
At that time, he thought, this person may have worked harder than he thought.
Tao Xi noticed that Lin Qinhe was looking at him, he looked back and was slightly stunned.
He heard Lin Qinhe say to himself, "Tao Xi, you will have your own art exhibition in the future, and many people will come to see your paintings."
The tone is serious and determined.
Tao Xi was stunned for a while, then rolled his eyes and said, "If I had my own exhibition, would you come to see it?"
Lin Qinhe answered without hesitation: "Yes."
Tao Xi's eyelashes trembled, he looked at Lin Qinhe's beautiful profile, blinked, and said with a smile, "Okay, when I have my own exhibition, I will be the first to tell you that you must come. !"
Tang Nan, who was on the side, didn't quite understand it, so he shouted, "I want to come, I want to come too!"
Lin Qinhe patted the top of Tang Nan's head and said indifferently, "Forget it."
The two took the children to look at other paintings in the exhibition hall. On the way, they met Qiao Henian and several seniors from the Painting and Calligraphy Association. The old man had the intention to let his students know more people, and dragged Tao Xi away.
Originally, Lin Qinhe was always beside him, but Tang Nan suddenly complained about stomach pain. Tao Xi asked Lin Qinhe to quickly take the child to the bathroom to solve it, so as not to hold back any problems.
Lin Qinhe carried Tang Nan away with a dark face.
Tao Xi was brought by Qiao Henian to meet several seniors in the literary and art circles. He was somewhat nervous, but he still tried to be polite and decent. Those seniors knew that Qiao Henian had accepted students after many years and was very curious. , is very enthusiastic about Tao Xi.
One of them is the current president of the Painting and Calligraphy Association. His name is Guan Shuwen, a famous calligrapher. He joked to Qiao Henian, "Elder Qiao, your student looks a bit like one of my daughters."
Qiao Henian knew that this young and romantic president had an illegitimate daughter, and he once tried to find him a teacher to learn painting, but he refused, he didn't like it very much, so he said: "Really? One of my former schoolgirls was more like that."
When Guan Shuwen heard the words, his face was a little unsightly, as if he had remembered something.
Tao Xi didn't notice the undercurrent between them. After saying goodbye to several seniors, he planned to find Lin Qinhe, but on the way he was attracted by a painting hanging in the not-for-sale area of the exhibition hall.
In that painting, there is a paddy field with green crops and white water in the mountains. A young peasant woman in a straw hat and black rubber shoes is planting rice in the paddy field. On the edge of the field, a young woman in a long white dress is sitting in front of an easel and painting. , A few egrets flew from the fields to the damp misty mountains and fields, making light ripples on the water.
The whole painting reveals the tranquility and tranquility of the mountain village scenery. The two women in the painting are busy and idle, but the expressions on their faces are calm and peaceful.
Tao Xi held his breath and looked at the name framed by the black frame below.
Fang Sui.
He clenched his fingers for a moment, his eyes reddening uncontrollably, he thought.
It turned out that in the eyes of his mother, the years in the mountains that gave birth to him were peaceful and beautiful.
It turned out that her mother also drew Guo Ping, who was the last companion to her in her life, into her own world.
But, but...
"Taoxi?"
Tao Xi suddenly heard an unfamiliar and familiar voice calling him, he turned to look in the direction of the voice, and saw Yang Zhengming walking towards him with a smile, and a graceful young woman beside him, holding Yang Zhengming's arm .
It was difficult for him to describe his mood at the moment, so he could only try to suppress the surging emotions, raised the corner of his mouth mechanically, and greeted Yang Zhengming, "Uncle Yang."
Then he glanced at the woman beside Yang Zhengming, and a strange feeling filled his heart instantly, because the woman in his twenties looked a bit like him, especially those eyes.
The woman looked at him and was stunned for a moment, but soon raised her chin slightly to reveal a smile.
Yang Zhengming's tone was polite: "Are you coming to the exhibition alone?"
Tao Xi shook his head and said, "I came with my classmates."? He didn't say which classmate it was.
Yang Zhengming smiled and said, "I saw your painting at the booth over there just now. I thought it was good and wanted to buy it back, but I heard from the staff that it has been sold."
Tao Xi was stunned, and couldn't hide his surprise: "Sold it?"
Yang Zhengming didn't expect that Tao Xi didn't know, and said, "Yes, I heard that the exhibition was sold soon after the start of the exhibition. The buyer is Su Yun, don't you know?"
Tao Xi shook his head dazedly, and said, "I don't know."
But Yang Zhengming knew the secretary of the chairman of Ruize Group. He was surprised but said nothing, and instead introduced his female companion to Tao Xi and said:
"This is the vice president of the Qinghua Association, Guan Fanyun, maybe you can get to know each other."
Guan Fanyun didn't seem to be satisfied with this introduction. She glanced at the man beside her angrily, handed a business card to Tao Xi, and smiled:
"Hello, my name is Guan Fanyun. I also think your paintings are good. You can join our Qinghua Association and meet many like-minded friends who are about your age."
Tao Xi guessed that this woman named Guan Fanyun was Yang Zhengming's lover. She was not like herself, but like Fang Sui.
The Kesi people have gone, what's the point of doing so for the dead
He took Guan Fanyun's business card with both hands and said thank you.
People who are not familiar with each other should go their separate ways after greeting each other, but maybe Yang Zhengming saw that Tao Xi was too focused on the painting, or maybe it was because of some natural connection, Yang Zhengming couldn't help asking Tao Xi:
"You also like this painting?"
Tao Xi was silent for a few seconds and said, "The place in the painting looks beautiful."
That's where he was born and raised, and beauty has bound him for sixteen years.
Yang Zhengming looked at the painting and seemed to evoke some memories. The always polite smile on his face faded a little, and said slowly:
"This is a painting of my deceased wife, who loved it and spent her last days there."
Guan Fanyun glanced at Yang Zhengming and held back what she wanted to say, but her expression was already a little unhappy.
At that moment, Tao Xi thought about a lot of things and wanted to ask Yang Zhengming a lot of questions, but in the end he only asked one question to his father:
"Didn't you go to see there later?"
There are your children.
Yang Zhengming was silent for a while, then raised the corners of his mouth and smiled helplessly, and said, "I really want to go, but I don't dare to go. Once I arrived at the entrance of the village and planned to visit the house where my wife stayed when she was pregnant. But I still went back, there is no way, sometimes people are so cowardly."
Tao Xi breathed for a while, he thought, why did he ask this question
Cruel and pointless.
He suddenly wanted to escape from here. He didn't want to see this painting, which proved that his mother once cherished Guo Ping, and he didn't want to see this father accompanied by his lover.
When he was about to walk away, someone tapped him on the shoulder and said to him, "Why don't you come to me?"
Tao Xi looked over, and Lin Qinhe was frowning slightly at him.
He looked at Lin Qinhe and looked hard, as if he had finally found a shore where he could moor after wandering in the water for a long time. He raised a smile and said, "I have come across a very good painting, and I will look at it more."
Lin Qinhe didn't mean to blame Tao Xi, so he looked at Yang Zhengming and called "Uncle Yang" indifferently.
Yang Zhengming looked at the two teenagers in front of him, remembered the painting that was bought by Su Yun, showed a thoughtful smile, and said, "Qinhe, I thought you wouldn't be interested in the exhibition."
When Luo Zhengyin held an art exhibition for Fang Sui, Yang Zhengming and Yang Duole also went there, but they never saw Lin Qinhe.
Lin Qinhe slightly blocked Tao Xi behind him, and said indifferently to Yang Zhengming, "I wasn't interested before, but it doesn't mean I am not interested now."
Yang Zhengming smiled, feeling that he was not welcome here, he said goodbye and left with his female companion.
Lin Qinhe turned around, looked into Tao Xi's eyes for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Would you like to take a rest?"
Tao Xi still looked at him and nodded obediently.
Whenever Tao Xi showed such an expression and looked at him with reliance on his eyes, Lin Qinhe wanted to raise his hand to rub his hair, but he finally endured it and took Tao Xi to the coffee break in the corner of the exhibition hall. There sat Qiao Yitang, who was bored playing with his mobile phone, and Tang Nan, who collapsed and slept on his stomach after having diarrhea.
"Have you finished reading? My boyfriend was found by the tutor and left me and ran away." Qiao Yitang pouted unhappily.
Tao Xi sat down at the coffee table, saw Lin Qinhe pour a cup of coffee in front of him, and asked him, "Do you want to add sugar?"
He nodded and said, "Yes, a lot of sugar."
He wants to eat a lot of sweet things now.
Lin Qinhe put a whole plate of candy at the tea break in front of him and asked, "Are these enough?"
Tao Xi looked at the exquisitely packaged candies in front of him, and suddenly remembered that in the hospital that night, Lin Qinhe put a candy with a smiling face in his hand and said to him, "All children will become happy after eating this candy. ".
He raised his head and smiled and said to Lin Qinhe, "Of course it's enough."
This person seems to always be easily aware of his unhappiness.
Tao Xi picked up a candy, removed the candy wrapper and put it in his mouth, feeling the sweetness on the tip of his tongue. Gradually, the sweetness spread from the tip of his tongue to his chest, as if there was no bitterness at all.
The three sat and chatted for a while, mainly because Qiao Yitang was complaining about how unreliable her boyfriend was, Tao Xi occasionally responded, and Lin Qinhe didn't say much, and lowered his head to play with a colored candy wrapper.
Not long after, a staff member came over and said to Tao Xi, "Hello, Mr. Qiao asked you to come over."
Tao Xi was stunned and looked at Qiao Henian across from the exhibition hall. There were several middle-aged people, men and women, who seemed to be waiting for him to pass by.
Qiao Yitang said, "Someone must be interested in your paintings. Don't be nervous, just chat and go."
Tao Xi looked at Lin Qinhe subconsciously, Lin Qinhe nodded to him and said, "I'll wait for you here."
He just got up and left.
Qiao Yitang glanced at Tao Xi's back, and laughed at Lin Qinhe and joked, "Don't worry he will go alone? Won't you accompany him?"
Lin Qinhe took a sip of coffee and said calmly, "He will always have to face many people and things by himself in the future. I believe he can handle it."
Qiao Yitang tutted: "Look at your tone, like an old father."
Lin Qinhe gave her a cold look.
Qiao Yitang was not frightened. She looked at this old friend who was obviously a year younger than herself, but seemed to be much older than her. She thought to herself, when will such an awkward person get what he wants.
She suddenly remembered that when she was a child, because the two families were close friends, she and Lin Qinhe often came to play with each other. When she was about seven years old, she had a white kitten at home, which was very clingy. At that time, Lin Qinhe came to her. At home, the cat kept entangling Lin Qinhe's legs, but Lin Qinhe was indifferent at that time, no matter how cute the cat was, he would throw it to her while holding the cat's neck.
However, after that, Lin Qinhe came to her house suddenly more often. Every time he entered the door, the cat would meow and pester him.
She secretly hates that her cat eats inside and out, but she pays it wrong, but once she happened to see Lin Qinhe squatting in the corner of the stairs, taking out some small dried fish from her pocket and feeding the cat , while feeding and stroking gently, obviously loving it.
She finally understood the reason why her cat was pestering Lin Qinhe, and she also felt that this younger brother was really weird. He obviously liked it, but he awkwardly refused to admit it.
Not long after that, the cat fell ill and died. She cried a lot and buried the cat in the courtyard. Lin Qinhe heard from nowhere that she soon came over. He moved a small bench and sat beside the cat's grave. A few dried small fish were placed in front of the mound, and they sat like that for an afternoon without crying or speaking.
Later, Lin Qinhe rarely came to her house.
Qiao Yitang remembered this interesting childhood incident and smiled. After thinking about it for a while, she couldn't help but take the gesture of her sister and said to Lin Qinhe earnestly:
"You have done so much for him, let him study in our school, let me take care of him in the art club, introduced him to my grandfather as a teacher, and even bought him clothes for the art exhibition. Today's paintings are afraid of being stolen. I bought it early in the morning, so many things, why didn't you tell him?"
She believed that in places she didn't know, Lin Qinhe must have done more unknown things for that person.
Lin Qinhe looked at the person who was laughing with Yan Yan in the distance, was silent for a while, and said calmly:
"I just want him to be a good and proud person, looking at me with a straight eye, not out of gratitude or indebtedness, and without giving me anything in return."
Qiao Yitang was stunned for a moment, but she was silent when she heard the words, and it was rare that she didn't joke anymore.
She just suddenly felt that the ten relationships she talked about suddenly seemed to be insignificant.
Perhaps the real love is to treat a person silently and restrainedly, not to use this kindness as a means of pursuit, nor to ask for anything because of this kindness.
Qiao Yitang also looked at Tao Xi in the distance. The beautiful young man in an expensive dress was talking calmly with several elders. It seemed that her gloom when she first saw him had faded from her body, and she couldn't tell his origin at all. in the lowest mountain village.
It seems that he was born a proud young master from an extraordinary background, and has become the excellent and proud person that Lin Qinhe hopes.
But the so-called self-confidence and arrogance have always been watered by pampering, and it is difficult to joint and grow flowers in the muddy swamp.
Qiao Yitang looked over there in a trance, and suddenly found that Qiao Henian and the middle-aged people who were talking before had left, and a young beautiful girl walked over to talk to Tao Xi.
She moved in her heart, looked at Lin Qinhe on the side, and found that Lin Qinhe was also looking over there.
She counted the time in her heart, and sure enough, before the two of them had finished talking for a minute, Lin Qinhe got up.
Qiao Yitang smiled and said, "What? Can't bear it anymore? Didn't you just say he could handle it?"
Lin Qinhe ignored Qiao Yitang and walked over there.
He thought, how could he be as glamorous as he said.
He couldn't bear Tao Xi and others talking more, painting for others, smiling at others.
He hoped that Tao Xi would only look at him forever.
Obviously he was the one who brought him here, he thought darkly, he even wanted to hide him in a place that only he knew.
But he knew he wouldn't do it.
He won't let Taoxi become a canary or dodder that only clings to him.
He wants to make Tao Xi as bright as a star, as bright as the moon, and to have a beautiful life.
And he.
"Are you going?"? Tao Xi looked at Lin Qinhe who came over in surprise.
Ding Yanan, a freshman academy of fine arts student who was talking to Tao Xi, stared blankly at the tall handsome guy who came over, his face flushed, and he hurriedly looked at Tao Xi, who he had just met, and hoped that he would introduce this handsome guy.
But since this person came, Tao Xi's attention was locked on him, and he didn't give her any more.
Lin Qinhe didn't even look at the girl, and said to Tao Xi, "It's getting late, let's go back together."
Tao Xi nodded and said apologetically to Ding Yanan: "I'm sorry, I have to go back to catch up with my homework. I will consider joining the Qinghua Association as you said, thank you."
Ding Yanan felt a strange feeling in her heart. She felt inexplicably that the two boys in front of her seemed to have only each other in the world, and even if she stood beside her, she seemed superfluous.
She smiled and said, "No thanks, I still really hope that you will join our association."
Lin Qinhe was about to turn around and leave, and Tao Xi, who was behind him, said goodbye to Ding Yanan and quickly followed.
He paused in his footsteps, and only started to walk back when Tao Xi was completely by his side.
And he.
He wants to be a fellow traveler in this beautiful life.
The author says:
The number of omg words has exploded to more than 5000, and I don't want to interrupt it and divide it into two chapters
Doubtful update tomorrow, may fix the previous bug