Kong You's home, in a small town with beautiful scenery by Taihu Lake called Warm Wind Spring, after graduating from high school, he was admitted to Xuzhou Normal College, majoring in fine arts and brush strokes.
Once, during a school physical examination, kongyou was found to have nodules in the lungs. When his parents heard about it, they were anxious and asked him to apply to the school for suspension and go home to recuperate.
Kong You, but his parents, wrote an application for suspension. The school approved: he was allowed to suspend him for three months.
Kong You returned to his hometown on the shores of Taihu Lake. Every morning, he took up the picture clip, walked for more than ten minutes, came to the lake embankment, supported the picture clip, faced the empty lake that was sparkling under the morning sun, and used the sketch pen to draw the next picture, and the charming scenery of Taihu Lake under the morning sun.
In the early morning room, with the moist air blowing from the lake, according to the doctor's care, this air is very good for him to eliminate the nodules in his lungs.
In the blink of an eye, half a month has passed. It was a mid-spring morning, Kong You, as usual, after breakfast, picked up the picture clip, bathed in the faint spring sunshine, and headed to the lakeside embankment.
In the late spring of March in Jiangnan, it is the long season of warblers and grasses, and the weeping willows on the lake embankment, the willow branches that flutter with the wind, dotted with velvet willows, dance and flutter in the wind.
Kong Youren has not yet reached the lake embankment, and looks at it from a distance: in the past, he used to sketch the land of Wanwan, and someone has occupied it, looking at the figure, it is a woman.
In the place that Kong You chose, the back was two thick camphor trees, and the front view was wide: taihu Lake, where heaven and earth are integrated, clearly presented in front of it, the white sails on the lake are dotted, the isolated islands in the water are hazy, and the red-billed gulls fly up and down.
The scenery in front of you, for a sketcher, that place, the view is wide. It's a great place to sketch and paint.
Who took my place? Kong You thought as he walked. As he got closer, he saw that it was a beautiful young girl in a black tights.
Walking over to the girl, Kong Saidu said, "I'm here every day, and today is the first time I've seen you." ″
The girl was in debt, smiled, and said, "It's hard to have a Sunday, just come to relax." Look at your gear, are you professional? "
"Where is. Kong You said while supporting the drawing board, "Xuzhou Normal University Fine Arts Department to study." "
The girl threw up her tongue and said, "Oh, college student, Heaven's son." ″
"What a correction, the average student one." What about you? "
"Part-time workers work at the Red Maple Garment Company in the town. Because I have loved to draw since I was a child, I used to come here to sketch. Some time ago, the company has been working overtime, and there is no Sunday. Today, I finally didn't work overtime, so I came out to sketch. "
Because they have a common topic, they can talk harmoniously. Through the conversation, Kong You learned that the girl's name was Gu Lan, a native of Anhui. Home in Dabie Mountain Jinji Valley, that place borders Henan, is a remote mountain village in Jiming and two provinces. There is a pair of younger siblings in the family, due to the poor health of their parents, they dropped out of school in the second year of junior high school, and a girlfriend from the same village came to the warm wind spring town on the edge of Taihu Lake to work to subsidize the family.
Kong You listened and sighed: "Unfortunately, the second year of junior high school dropped out, if you can enter high school, you can go to college and choose your favorite major to study." ″
Saying, looking at Gu Lan's sketches, I think her art skills are good, so I said: "You can paint well, especially the lines are clear, laying the foundation for future creation, to be honest, in our brush painting class, some people go out to sketch better than you." "
Listening to Kong You's words, Gu Lan's white cheeks flew up a red halo, making her delicate round face look delicate and feminine, with a well-trimmed hairstyle, with a round face with a pointed chin, plus a decent dress and pants, and her body burst with a lively green atmosphere. She saw Kong You's eyes staring at herself and murmured, "How can I, how can I compare with you college students?" I just loved to draw since I was a child, and until now, I have never given up. I just drew on paper. "
In Kong You's heart, a thought suddenly sprung up that he wanted to get close to the girl in front of him, so he said, "Just in time, I'm taking a three-month break from school, let me teach you how to learn to paint with brush strokes, how about it, are you willing to learn?"
Gu Lan was a little surprised, and she said shyly, "If you are willing to advise, of course, Teacher Kong." ″
Young people are easy to get along with, listen to Gu Lan is willing to learn to paint with himself, Kong You and her each added their own WeChat, when they broke up, he drew a white drawing for Gu Lan, saying that after returning home, he used the pen pastel technique, and after re-creation, he would send it to her on WeChat.
It is a three-storey garden-style townhouse. Kong You's mother worked in the town investment office, his father was the chairman of the town maple leaf group, the family's economic conditions were superior, Kong You returned home, entered his studio, and used the white painting material of Gu Lan to create again.
Gongbi painting, also known as fine brush painting, is one of the Chinese painting techniques, which is symmetrical with the freehand painting technique and belongs to the neat and delicate painting method.
Due to the delicate brush stroke technique, it shows the original image of the object clearly; like Western classical oil painting, it can show the direction of the tendons on the arm of the character very delicately.
Gong Brush Stroke emphasizes the technique of guarding the god with form and having both form and god. The forms of expression are: white drawing, gongbi pastel, gongbi heavy color, and boneless painting four major types of techniques.
Kong You used the pastel technique of the pen to recreate Gu Lan's portrait, and under his brush, Gu Lan's bright eyes and teeth were vivid and moving, just like the portrait left by the machine, vividly presented on the drawing paper.
Thick makeup was always appropriate, and Kong You walked back and forth in front of the portrait, and for the first time in twenty-five years, he was deeply attracted to this girl.
At school, there had been many girls who had actively pursued him, but somehow he had never been so excited and excited as he is today. Is there a common interest? Or is he attracted to her ChuChuk people? Gu Lan's smile had melted into his heart. Isn't she the same person she has been looking for and waiting for for twenty-five years?
The studio door was pushed open, and Kong You's mother, Hua Qinfen, walked in from outside and said, "Ah You, what's wrong with you, you haven't heard you eating?" What are you thinking? "
Kong You woke up from his reverie, saw that it was his mother, his face was flushed, and he was busy covering up: "I didn't think anything, I painted a portrait of someone." ”
Hua Qinfen walked to the portrait with great interest, took off her glasses, looked at them carefully, and stood up straight and said: "Perfect, it is so perfect, those big stars are not as good as she looks!" The key, looking at her chuchu and moving appearance, people can't help but feel pity. "
Listening to his mother say this, Kong You said proudly: "Mom, you all say that she is beautiful, and your son is steadfast in his heart." Mom, her name is Gu Lan, a girl I just met, twenty-one years old. "
At this time, the parents did not care about whether they were beautiful or not, and Hua Qinfen asked, "What kind of work does she do?" Where are the people? "
When the son told Gu Lan about the situation, the mother's brow immediately wrinkled, saying: "Oh, it turned out to be a migrant girl, and she was a foreigner, but it is a pity that this beautiful face is a figure!" Son, you wouldn't want to make friends with her, would you? "
Kong You knew his mother's thoughts, so he said, "We just met, your son is not an Arab prince, people may not necessarily look at you?" ″
The mother said, "I wish I knew this." Ah You, you are about to graduate, you don't want to be distracted by a girl's academics! After graduating home, you like to go to school as a teacher, just go to be a teacher, don't like to be a teacher, just go to your dad's group company to work. Remember, don't act arbitrarily. ″
Mother and son talked and came out of the studio.
At the dinner table, Kong You's father, Kong Changlin, listened to his wife talk about Gu Lan, went to the studio, returned to the dining table and sat down, and said: "Ah You, you painted that girl so beautiful, is she so beautiful?" ”
At the mention of Gu Lan, Kong You was excited, and he said unabashedly: "Real people are better than portraits." Gentle in speech and elegant in demeanor, she is really a girl who makes people fall in love at first sight. ”
The mother listened and said, "No matter how beautiful and gentle and elegant she is, isn't she a migrant girl from a foreign country, Ah You, don't forget what I just explained."
Kong Dalin said, "Ah You, I think this girl is worth pursuing." What happened to the migrant girl from abroad? Now, the whole country is a big family, high-speed rail in all directions, minutes of things, Hua Qinfen, this concept of discrimination against outsiders, you cadres of the Investment Office, should not have ah? "
Hua Qinfen was choked by her husband, annoyed, and said: "You men are, and when you see a beautiful girl, your heart is soft!" I don't care: Ah You, remember, completing your studies first is a top priority. ″
After saying that, he got up and left the dinner table. Kong You's father and son smiled at each other, and Kong You also gave his father a thumbs up and gave a thumbs up.
After the meal, Kong You took a picture of Gu Lan and sent it to her after taking a picture with his mobile phone. A moment later, Gu Lan wrote back, saying that he was very grateful to him, painting himself so beautifully, and said that this brush stroke, the truth was taken by the camera, it was so delicate and clear, he must learn from Teacher Kong well.
Next, the two of you came and went, the more they talked, the more speculative, until Gu Lan's middle shift time arrived, and the two stopped chatting. Thanks to modern technology, the distance between men and women can no longer be hindered.
The next day, when Kong You and Gu Lan met at the lake embankment, both of them seemed more restrained and did not chat so casually on their mobile phones.
When the two were sketching, Gu Lan seemed to intentionally or unintentionally ask, "Teacher Kong, your parents will not oppose our interaction, right?" ″
Kong You slammed his brush into the paper and said, "No! You learned to paint with me, how do you learn to paint without interacting? It doesn't matter what they think, it doesn't matter. XiaoLan, yesterday your portrait was seen by my parents, and they all praised you for being beautiful and good-looking. My dad, in particular, really praised you. Make an appointment, come to my house, let them meet, is the real person better than the portrait. ″
Kong You's words made Gu Lan blush, she smiled, and her eyes stared at the man next to her who was four years older than herself, his slender, angular face revealed a simple and kind look, this kind of man is a person worthy of the girl's trust and dependence.
Since fate allowed himself to meet him, he must firmly grasp the fate and give himself this opportunity. Gu Lan secretly encouraged himself in his heart.
Men and women interact, some words in person, often difficult to say, such as the way of using WeChat chat, anyway, the two sides are not face to face, some words are easy to say.
That night, when Kong You was chatting with Gu Lan's WeChat, he couldn't resist the impulse and sent her this sentence: "Xiao Lan, I want you to become my first girlfriend in twenty-five years, are you willing?" ″
After the message was sent, Kong You waited nervously for the other party to echo. A minute, three minutes, five minutes later, the phone jingled, he knew that the other party replied, with nervous excitement, clicked on the phone, only to see Gu Lan reply to a face-covering meme, no text.
Kong You looked at the face-covering emoji on the screen, pondering the meaning in his heart, was it embarrassing? Or did you agree by default? Before he could, he replied to her: "If you don't answer, I'll agree with you by default."
After a moment, Gu Lan replied: "Teacher Kong, I can know you, I think it is also providence, if the company does not pray?" What if I don't like to draw? Perhaps, the two of us in this world, there is no way that we can know each other. However, I am just a migrant girl who came out of the mountains, you are the proud son of heaven, don't be dazzled by my beauty for a while, think twice! A 'love' word is not something that can be uttered with a flutter. ″
Kong You looked through the screen of his mobile phone, as if he saw Gu Lan's frowning and serious look. He replied immediately: "Yes, to tell you from the heart, your beauty deeply touched me, but I am very awake, not dizzy, not a momentary impulse, like a person, after twenty-five years of waiting, the other half of his life suddenly appeared in front of me, and after twenty-five years of waiting, will he be indifferent?" No, never. "
This pair of young men and women, using modern technology, open their hearts, you come and go, confiding their own voices.
If there is no mobile phone WeChat, can Kong You and Gu Lan become lovers?
This night, jingle bells, Kong You and Gu Lan's mobile phone, ringing non-stop. Kong you are fine, one person sleeps in one room. Gu Lan slept in a dormitory with her girlfriend Xiaofang, and later, she had to mute; without the bell, Gu Lan felt less atmosphere.
Girlfriend Xiaofang, who left home to work at the age of fifteen, when she heard Gu Lan talk about the experience of knowing Kong You, she clapped her hands and said: "Xiao Lan, the Prince Charming in your life has appeared!" Grab, get on the horse and don't let go. This boy's surname is Kong, or will his father be chairman Kong of our group company? For such rich children, we still have to keep an eye on it to prevent eating crookedness. ″
Gu Lan smiled and said, "Perhaps, his father is really Chairman Kong." Xiao Fang, your reminder makes sense. Yes, in the face of such rich children, they must have the destiny of self-knowledge. ″
In the mid-spring season, pink and willow green, Kong You used his mobile phone to explain the theoretical basis of Gong Pen painting to Gu Lan and guide her techniques in the use of color. The rest of the time, he asked her out, and the two of them wandered on the taihu lake embankment and talked about it.
The time of sweetness and happiness is always short, and the three-month sabbatical of Kong You is coming. He went to the hospital for examination, and the doctor said that the nodules in his lungs had basically disappeared, and he usually did not stay up late and did not smoke.
With the advent of the separation time, Kong You and Gu Lan, who have more and more harmonious feelings, the two of them jointly visited liyuan and Yuantouzhu on the edge of Taihu Lake, the Huishan Ancient Ancestral Hall Group in Xihui Scenic Area, the Jichang Garden, a model of Jiangnan garden architecture, borrowing the erhu song of blind Ah Bing: "Erquan Yingyue", the famous "Tianxia Zi Erquan", and the plum garden of Meilin Garden.
The day before they parted, Kong You took Gu Lan home, and when he watched the two of them walk into the house with their arms around each other, Hua Qinfen knew that her son was already in love. But when I saw Gu Lan's appearance, I really felt that she was very moving and pitiful. Unfortunately, how did such a beautiful girl grow up in the mountains? Her face was silent, and she warmly welcomed her daughter-in-law who came to her door for the first time.
Gu Lan was a clever girl, and from the look in Kong You's mother's eyes, she vaguely felt a hint of dissatisfaction.
After the family banquet, when Kong You sent Gu Lan home, his mother asked him, "Ah You, you and her have no room to turn around?" "
Kong You said incomprehensibly, "What room for turning?" Gu Lan and I are almost a wedding! Mom, why do you still think gu lan is not good, think she is a foreigner, the education is not high? "
Hua Qinfen said: "People, it must be good, that is, in terms of identity, I always feel that it is inconsistent with you and our family." ″
Kong Changlin said at the side: "Hua Qinfen, how come your thinking is still feudal: the door is right, more than ten years ago, you and I were not all farmers who cultivated land." I look at that Gulan, dignified and decent, beautiful people, with us Ayou, completely qualified! It is also a blessing for our son to be able to find such a girlfriend. If he hadn't taken his school days off to go home, where would he have gone to find such a good girlfriend. Really, Hua Qinfen, you are satisfied! ″
The man's words, Hua Qinfen was speechless for a while, speechless on the mouth, but in the heart, there was always such a knot.
It was this knot that made his son almost collapse later.
After Kong You returned to school, due to the nourishment of love, the motivation to learn was even more sufficient. He forcibly endured the thought of Gu Lan, and only made more than ten video calls with her every day, fortunately, the graduation exam was coming, and when he returned to his hometown after graduation, he was sure to let Gu Lan make up for his lovesickness.
With the sound of cicadas, graduation season has arrived. Kong You's professional achievements have achieved excellence. A heavy color painting called "Morning Exercise" created by Gu Lan as the prototype has won the affirmation of the teachers: on the lake embankment where the mist is light, on one side is Taihu Lake where the sky and water meet, on the other side is the wetland where the weeping willows are flowing, and a young girl wearing red sweatshirts and pants runs on the lake embankment. In the hazy morning fog, the figure of the young girl was like a beating flame.
Because of the delicate expression technique of the brush strokes, the beads of sweat on the girl's face were clearly visible.
Four years of college life is coming to an end, you can return to the warm wind spring town by the Taihu Lake, stay with the beloved girl Tian Tiansi, thinking of this, Kong You's heart is full of good hopes for the future.
However, what he did not expect was that on this day, when he was preparing to make a video call with Gu Lan, he couldn't figure it out. He immediately called her cell phone, and the message came: the phone had stopped.
This shock, not trivial, made Kong You turn around in a hurry, he didn't understand what was happening on Gu Lan's side, he was guessing in his heart, and he didn't have a clue. In a hurry, he thought of his father and begged him to find out gulan's situation immediately! Why does the phone suddenly stop? "
Kong Changlin felt his son's anxiety and panic from his son's tone, and he also guessed why Gu Lan suddenly stopped the mobile phone? Does this not cost the son's life? Now young people are in love, how to spend a day without a phone call?
Kong Changlin immediately asked the assistant to go to the Maple Leaf Garment Company to find out the situation of Gu Lan, the sooner the better! Don't say that the son is in a hurry, he himself feels anxious to get on fire.
The assistant went for ten minutes and came to a phone call, saying that the female worker named Gu Lan had resigned and returned to her hometown, and the reason for the resignation was that her father was seriously ill.
Kong Changlin listened to the assistant's phone call and thought that this was over, and his son must have been hit hard. Think about it again: Gu Lan returned to his hometown, how to replace the mobile phone card? There must be a reason, the real situation, only when the son returns, let him know for himself.
In as calm a tone as possible, he called his son back and told him what he had learned. He had just finished speaking when he heard his son whimpering over there. The son's crying made his father's heart sour.
Unsurprisingly, the next morning, Kong You hurried back, he gave daily necessities to a poor student in the lower grade, completed the graduation procedures, and did not want to take graduation photos, there was no high-speed rail at night, he bought a green-skinned train ticket at midnight, took the midnight train, arrived in the city, took the first subway in the morning, and rushed back home.
Kong Youyi entered the house, rushing to the parents who were eating breakfast, crying bitterly, Kong Changlin and his wife, seeing their son such a strong young man, crying like a child, for a while overwhelmed.
Suddenly, Kong You stopped crying and turned and walked out of the gate. Hua Qinfen frowned and said to her husband, "You see, such a big person, like what cavity?" Isn't it just a female friend who wants to do this. ″
Kong Changlin said, "What's so bad about our son? He is loyal and kind, and he and Gu Lan, I think, are in love, absolutely compatible. ″
Hua Qinfen waved her hand and said, "What is absolutely matched?" She is a foreign girl, that is, she is interested in the economic conditions of our family, and when she is married, she will be exposed in its original form, are there few such examples? "
The couple two of you said a word to me and argued.
Kong You rushed to Gu Lan's dormitory, knocked on the door, saw her girlfriend Xiao Fang was there, and before he could speak, Xiao Fang said, "Teacher Kong, you don't have to talk, after reading the letter that Xiao Lan left for you, you will understand everything." ″
Saying, he handed Gu Lan's letter to Kong You.
Kong You couldn't wait to pull out the letter paper, and Gu Lan's handwriting was presented in front of him:
Ah You, in the days when you and I were separated, although we met every day by video, I still looked forward to the moment when you would return to me after graduation. To tell the truth, I often secretly ask myself: Can I, a migrant girl in the mountains, get you: the true love of a boy with a superior family and a college degree? However, you used real language and subtle actions to gradually dispel the doubts in my heart. Let me see, the hope for a better future.
"Unexpectedly, however, on the day I was expecting to hug you, your mother suddenly came to me and asked me to sever my relationship with you, and as compensation, she said she was willing to give me two hundred thousand dollars.
"Ah You, you have heard me say that I have a wish in my heart: When I have saved enough money, I will build a primary school in my hometown, so that those children in the mountains will not walk more than a dozen miles to go to school." I myself can be a teacher, even a private teacher.
"Ah You, if the marriage of a child is not supported by his parents, it is the biggest flaw in marriage. The world's mothers are all thinking about their children, your mother is not wrong, she is thinking about you, hoping to find a daughter-in-law who is right at the door. But my identity...
I accepted the money your mother gave me, just when I sold the love in my heart. I went home, and from now on, take care of each other!
Kiss you and love your cougain.
After Reading the letter, Kong You did not say anything to Xiao Fang, hurried home, hurriedly packed his bags, and looked at his parents with pity to say hello and went out.
On the way, Kong You called his father and told him what Gu Lan had said in the letter, and before he could do it, he said to his father, "Dad, I must not lose Gu Lan!" I will go to her house to find her, and I will stay with her forever, for the rest of my life, with a white head and an old age. Dad, you put some money on my card first. The son can't do filial piety in front of the knee, you and my mother must take good care of ourselves. ″
Father and son, each choking on the phone. Kong Changlin silently blessed his son in his heart, hoping that he could find Gu Lan and have a harmonious and happy ending for the two.