four year itch

Cheng Jun is used to getting up early, and the new year is the same.But last night he slept too late, so he yawned and opened the door.

Last night, I fought back to the north, and now I am starting from the east.

In the early morning of winter, everything is still sleeping, the street lights outside the window are still on, the faint morning light cuts through the hazy fog covering the city, and the whole room is outlined in purple by the light.Cheng Jun saw a black figure sitting quietly in such a haze, as if waiting for the world to wake up.

"... Xiaobai?" Cheng Jun tentatively called his name.

The man turned his face slowly before Cheng Jun dared to walk in: "What are you doing here so early in the morning? Did you not sleep last night?"

"Happy New Year, Miss Jun." Xu Ruibai raised his head and smiled at him.

Cheng Jun felt that Xu Ruibai seemed a little different from yesterday, he seemed to have just completed a very satisfying thing, and his whole body fell into a kind of fullness.

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year." Cheng Jun said repeatedly, and then took out a thin red envelope from the pocket of his coat, "Your sister Ziwen and I wrapped a red envelope for you. It's not much money. a sign."

Xu Ruibai stared at the red envelope for a few seconds, his expression was blank, as if he was unfamiliar with this common custom.It took a while to pick it up, and said in a low voice, "Thank you, Miss Jun."

Then he took the painting in front of him off the drawing board, handed it over and said, "It's a New Year's gift."

It was a painting with blue as the main tone. Xu Ruibai's left hand was not very good at lines, so the whole picture was dominated by colors.The horizon is the dividing line, which is divided into two completely different worlds. Above the horizon is a highly saturated blue, and below the horizon is an almost dark blue. The two colors do not blend but are extremely harmonious.

Whales belong to the sea and stars belong to the sky.

And the sky and the sea should have blended together at the horizon.

"This can't be the one you've been drawing with your left hand these days?" Cheng Jun asked.

After getting Xu Ruibai's definite answer, Cheng Jun's expression could almost be described as unbelievable.

"Are you a genius, aren't you?" Cheng Jun couldn't help admiring the details repeatedly. She wasn't very good at painting, but Fang Ziwen liked it, so she learned a little bit about it.But even so, she could still see the difference between this painting and Xu Ruibai's previous ones.

Beyond aesthetics and techniques, the power to shock the soul is the most intuitive.

Cheng Jun paused when he touched the writing on the back.

Then she returned the painting to Xu Ruibai, and said with a smile: "I think this New Year's gift may not be for me. Let's give it to someone who should."

Xu Ruibai smiled slightly, but didn't intend to take it: "It's okay, I don't want to give it to anyone in particular."

CX330 has completed his mission, it's time to leave Ah Cha's life a little bit.

The following story should be left to Xu Ruibai and Ye Jia to continue.

After all, this is just an ugly painting.

But Cheng Jun waved his hand and refused: "I'd better send you to the gallery. It's too expensive, I can't bear it."

A painting worth spreading often comes from a burst of inspiration, not just about techniques. Every artist needs that moment, and some people have been waiting for that moment all their lives.

Cheng Jun thought, this might be Xu Ruibai's moment.

"It's just a painting." Xu Ruibai smiled, but didn't say anything more.

Ye Jia feels that CX330 seems to be intentionally or unintentionally alienating himself recently.Even if he still says good morning and good night to himself regularly.But Ye Jia still noticed it sensitively.

So he went back to the source, trying to find some clues.

He thought, it should start with the message on the first day of the new year.

"The editorial department just told me that there will be a signing event in City G in early March. Do you want to come? I'll leave a ticket for you~" After receiving the notice from the editorial department, the first person Ye Jia thought of It is CX330.

Ye Jiade admitted that when he saw the reply, the loss in his heart was real.

CX330 said: "Acha is great, but I'm really sorry, I may not be able to go to your signing."

"I should not be in City G throughout March."

Starting from this, it seems to be gradually drifting away.In fact, it's not like he didn't notice it. After he hinted that they could meet a few times, he responded in a nonchalant manner.

This is a rather complicated emotion. When a person participates in his own life and understands all the trivial things about himself, but he still has no face, he will always want to get closer.Go meet and sit in the sun and chat.This is not some shady emotion, it's just an idea that most ordinary people would have.

Ye Jia even wondered a little darkly, whether CX330 is not good-looking, or why would he be so unwilling to meet him.

If you really want to see someone, how can you not meet them?

But Ye Jia understands that there is no problem with CX330.

It was he who gave the other party too much expectation without the other party knowing.In fact, the other party has no reason to respond to this expectation.

CX330 can accompany and encourage him, read poems and send flowers to him, and give him enthusiasm in the virtual world, but CX330 can also not want to see him.

"It's ok."

Knead all the anticipation into a short response.

He always dived headlong into a relationship like this, but never thought about whether this relationship would cause trouble to the other party.

Whether he ran off to see Xu Ruibai without hesitation, came to G City without hesitation, or sent an invitation to CX330 self-righteously, all of them were dramas that moved him.

Ye Jia suddenly realized that he naturally put CX330 and Xu Ruibai together.

Maybe there really are similarities.

Even though they are two people with completely different personalities, they have the same things that can attract them.

It was a kind of casual romance and madness, as if the enthusiasm under the calm sea would burn itself in the next second.

Whether it is 20-year-old Ye Jia or 25-year-old Ye Jia, they will all be attracted.

They just showed themselves undisguisedly and had no other intentions, so he couldn't wait to get close.

Xu Ruibai seems to have a new hobby recently.Aside from drawing and sleeping and the requisite band rehearsals, he seems to spend all his time obsessively polishing a rock.

"What is this?" Cheng Jun walked to him, the stone had been ground halfway, and some powdery stone surface mixed with crystal powder of gemstones stuck to his hand.In the winter sun, there are dreamy fragments, like fragments of the Milky Way, which is a disease of the universe.

Xu Rui replied without raising his head, "Opal."

"?"

"A gem."

"Where did it come from?"

Cheng Jun doesn't care what Opal is, what she cares about is: Xu Ruibai actually has gems? !

Xu Ruibai paused and said, "It was given by someone else."

"Who gave it?"

Who would give gems to others so generously?It doesn't look small.

"..."

Cheng Jun thought of the strangely dressed woman on New Year's Eve, so he asked calmly, "Did you bring it yourself?"

"Yes." Xu Ruibai didn't evade either.

"Why do you suddenly want to polish it?"

"Send someone."

"To whom?"

Xu Ruibai was silent for a while, then lifted the half-polished stone and placed it in the sunlight, which became translucent due to the color-changing effect.It's obviously just a stone, but after being polished, it has the background color of the Milky Way.

He said, "Give it to the one who gave it back to me."

He once imposed the rough stone of life on his lover regardless of the reason, and the rough stone in the weathered shell became ugly and hard, hurting the other party bloody.But now, he has finished polishing the stone, revealing a bright color and a soft heart. It is indeed a gem that is unparalleled in the world.

The day when it was finished was the day of Ye Jia's autograph signing.

"Do you want to go out?" Fang Ziwen asked him.

"Yeah." Xu Ruibai put on his coat and put the opal in the pocket on his chest.

"Come back for dinner?"

"Well, you guys eat first, don't wait for me."

Xu Ruibai opened the door, the draft blew past, and the bone-piercing cold rushed towards his face, the sky was shrouded in indelible gray, gloomy and gloomy.This should be the last time the temperature drops in winter, and the spring will bloom after it is over.

How could he miss such an important moment in Ye Jia's life? He was going to see Ye Jia, who was covered with flowers, and hand over the polished Opal to him, and let him know the answer to the mystery of that stone.

——In the name of Xu Ruibai

So Xu Ruibai wrapped his coat tightly and walked into the wind.