Embroidered Pillows and Paper Tigers

For the next few days, Shen Yan deliberately avoided Li Shi'an. When Li Shi'an went out, he excused himself to read a book and stayed in the hotel. When Li Shi'an was resting in the hotel, he used the excuse that he wanted to go to a scenic spot to take some photos.

In short, it's a bit of a deliberate distance.

Soon it was time to go back to the day, and they were on the same journey, but they didn't say anything to each other. Li Shi'an thought that Shen Yan was still angry at him for not being admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts, but he didn't know that Shen Yan already had his own plans.

The two stood at the door of each house, Shen Yan handed the city hourglass bought at the scenic spot to Li Shi'an, and said, "Thank you for your invitation, I have been very happy these days, this is a gift for you, I hope you like it.

Li Shi'an stood at the door of his house holding the box for a long while, feeling that Shen Yan's attitude was very strange, what he said was too "official", and then he didn't see Shen Yanren again for the next few days.

Shen Yan made up his mind to stay away from Li Shi'an. When getting along, he was always tormented by the sense of emotional inequity and the hopelessness of his own emotional deviation. Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain, which is a truth that smart people understand.

He started to lock himself in the room every day during the day and brush questions until it was dark. After the official summer vacation, the swimming pool in the community was filled with water by the property. A group of adults and children soaked in the water day and night. Shen Yan practiced dancing at night Go to Lu Fei's dance studio to practice dancing.

The training class classroom was used until eight o'clock in the evening, so Shen Yan rushed there at eight o'clock and practiced until the building closed at night.

When Li Shi'an came back from Luozhi Lake, he usually went to find Lao Xie and Zhu He, and it was usually daytime when he arrived at the studio. He didn't realize that Shen Yan was avoiding him for a while, only thinking that he was still angry.

Always angry, angry every day, Li Shi'an felt more and more that Shen Yan looked like Sister Lin, but this time it was his fault, and he clearly agreed to her, and after Shen Yan's anger passed, he would go and beg for it again. Okay head office.

Gradually, the two hadn't seen each other for more than ten days. Li Shi'an felt that something was wrong, but he didn't reply when he sent WeChat, and was very depressed for a while, thinking that summer vacation was very boring.

When Shen Yan went to dance practice that night, he bumped into Lao Yu before he entered the door. Lao Yu bought a new table for the studio, and he was reluctant to ask someone to move it upstairs, so he messed around there by himself.

The thing that Lao Yu carried the most in his life was the pen, and the heaviest thing was the cooking pot. He really looked down on himself. It took all his strength to move the table to the floor, and he didn't have the energy to go to the classroom. No, seeing that it was Shen Yan who was familiar with Li Shi'an, he quickly called him for help.

Naturally, Shen Yan also knew Lao Yu, a young man with glasses who wandered around outside their dance room every day and came to find a chance to talk to Lu Fei when he had nothing to do, so he went up to help him without much thought.

This was Shen Yan's first time stepping into Lao Yu's studio. As soon as he entered the studio door, he was attracted by the painting hanging on the wall and looked at it for a long time.

Lao Yu recovered a lot of strength now, dragged the table into place, panted and leaned over to Shen Yan and said, "Shi'an's painting, how about it?"

Shen Yan didn't know how to answer, he recognized the scene on the screen at first glance.

On the screen, in the corner under the street lamp, there is a thing that looks like a satchel, and there is a touch of bright red.

The person in the painting...is himself, the clouds behind him are like a raging wave that will drown people at any time, but the street lamp is like the tranquility in the heart, a guardian of faith.

This painting is different from the ones that Li Shi'an put in their study. Those paintings with regular lines and very stable colors seem to be just the quiet side of Li Shi'an's character, but this painting is different. Shen Yan can't describe it, but he feels the color of the strokes. It fit his mood very well.

That day was the first day that he and Qu Ya moved into Fu Youcheng's house. Shen Yan did remember seeing someone before getting into Fu Youcheng's car, but he never thought that it was Li Shi'an, let alone that Li Shi'an would share what he saw that day. Draw it down.

On that day, the hesitation and struggle in his heart caused him unceasing pain. He should understand that Li Shi'an was able to draw this picture, right?

He understands it all.

Shen Yan finally understood that Li Shi'an, who couldn't be pushed away no matter how hard he pushed, was not because of his personality, but because he wanted to be friends with him from the very beginning, since he saw him dancing.From the time he rushed to the swimming pool and told himself that the phone was repaired and he needed to make up lessons for compensation.From every time he passed coffee candy to himself.

Li Shi'an has been tolerant, tolerant of his selfishness, awkwardness and unreasonable troubles.

For a moment, "long-term pain" and "short-term pain" are bullshit, and "emotional inequalities" are also bullshit. Being cherished so much without knowing it, Shen Yan feels that he is the biggest fool in the world!

"This kid is very talented, it's a pity." Lao Yu watched Shen Yan staring at the painting intently, and said with a sigh.

what a pityIt's a pity that I can't enter the Academy of Fine Arts?Does it matter whether you want to enter the Academy of Fine Arts?Shen Yan was no longer obsessed with this.This painting conveyed a feeling that made him feel that his weight in Li Shi'an's heart was much more important than he imagined.

"It's not a pity." Shen Yan suddenly said to Lao Yu, "Many people are in a mess when they are alive, and they are said to be talented after they die. What is talent? With constant enthusiasm... I love Van Gogh."

After speaking, he ran out and ran on the road, leaving the hot summer night wind behind him.

Li Shi'an spent half a day painting and watching movies at home. He was about to go out for dinner at this point. As soon as he opened the door and turned around to take it, a giant human jumped up and hugged him.

Li Shi'an: "???"

Ignore people on WeChat for a few days, and want to hug and kiss when you come up?Li Shi'an really couldn't understand what stimulated the child, but the atmosphere at this moment did not allow him to ask or even speak.

After a while, Shen Yan seemed to have finally recovered, and let go of Li Shi'an. The two big boys hugged each other for several minutes without speaking, and at this moment they finally felt the slightest bit of embarrassment.

Li Shi'an has his own way of dealing with embarrassment, that is, when what happened just now didn't happen, he asked Shen Yan, "Do you want to eat Ma Xiao?"

The two of them got into the taxi as soon as they left the house, and the aftereffects of the embrace came out. Those who looked at their mobile phones looked at their mobile phones, and those who looked out of the window looked out of the window. Neither of them spoke, but they still wanted to say something in their hearts.

For example, Shen Yan wanted to say: Li Shi'an, I will no longer be sensitive, petty, or awkward.

For example, Li Shi'an wanted to ask: What kind of smart medicine did Shen Yan take to know that he should take the initiative to reconcile with others?

Of course, the reality is that only the radio in the taxi keeps broadcasting the sound of the rainstorm warning, and the two of them didn't say a word until they got out of the car.

The bustling supper street is crowded with people, and there are quite a few people seated, drinking, eating, and bragging without delay.

Small shops have moved their stoves outside to cook and sell, hung up lamps, set up sheds, and the night snacks on the whole street are either barbecue or crayfish.

Li Shi'an ordered four catties of crayfish and a grilled fish, and went to the next door to order a few skewers of barbecue. When he came back with the skewers, he saw Shen Yan was still carrying a bag with his practice clothes on his back. He guessed that this guy must have not practiced dancing today. As for why there was no dance practice, I don't know.

All the dishes were already on the table, Shen Yan frowned and looked at the big plate of crayfish without any intention of moving.

Although he and Li Shi'an also had hot pot once and takeaway for a few months, at least the food on the table was vegetables, the meat was meat, and Shen Yan had never dealt with shelled creatures like crayfish.

Li Shi'an knew that he had always been relatively restrained in his diet, and asked: "Half of the happiness in life is hidden in food, don't think of eating restraint at such a time, okay?"

Shen Yan: "No... I don't know how to peel."

"..."

Li Shi'an resigned to his fate, and peeled a few for Shen Yan. Of course, Shen Yan learned this kind of non-technical difficulty, and it was rewarded in a short while. He saved a small bowl and gave it to Li Shi'an. Lobster enjoys this treatment, of course he accepts it all.

After eating and drinking, he walked home and ate a stomach full of high-fat, high-calorie and heavy food. Li Shi'an was extremely thirsty after not walking too far. He went to a street shop to buy two cans of frozen drinks and handed them to Shen Yan. One bottle, and the remaining bottle was "gurgled" and downed.

When eating, his mouth is occupied, and he can't go anywhere without talking, but now he walks differently and needs to find a topic. Li Shi'an knows Shen Yan's character, so he takes the initiative to take the job of finding a topic. Just asked an important point: "You didn't go to dance practice today."

"I went." Shen Yan thought for a while and added, "But I didn't make it."

"Power outage?" Li Shi'an guessed.

Shen Yan shook his head, feeling that it was not good for him to answer a question, so he took the initiative to say: "Teacher Yu asked me to help him move things, I..."

Li Shi'an crushed the can and threw it into the trash can by the side of the road, waiting for Shen Yan's next words, but when he turned around, he saw that Shen Yan's pestle had not moved.

"I saw your drawing."

I saw your painting, which means that I understand that I am not optional to you, which is very important to me, so important that I feel that I must tell you how I feel.

But when it came to the matter, Shen Yan couldn't say anything.He hates himself for being the kind of person who always blurts out venomous and hurtful words, but utters the truth like every word is worth a thousand dollars.

Li Shi'an never thought of telling Shen Yan about the painting, but he didn't expect that Shen Yan would recognize it by himself one day. With Shen Yan's intelligence, he should be able to guess what supplementary lessons and what mobile phone screens are all deceitful.

Speaking of which, the screen of Li Shi'an's mobile phone has not been changed until now, but it doesn't matter whether it is changed or not, it can be used anyway.

Looking at Shen Yan in front of him, Li Shi'an walked over gracefully and bumped him on the shoulder, and said badly, "Are you deeply impressed by my artistic attainments? If you want to buy my paintings, it's time to rush out of Asia and go international. You can't afford it."

Shen Yan is also used to his gags. Li Shi'an felt pain in his stomach after his fart. Shen Yan saw him squatting down from behind and felt something was wrong, so he hurried over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Shi'an grinned and gasped: "I don't know, maybe I was in a hurry to eat just now, so I took a taxi and went home first."

Shen Yan obeyed Li Shi'an, took him back by taxi, and helped him into the room. Seeing his pale face and beads of sweat dripping down his face, he panicked: "No, I have to go to the hospital."

Li Shi'an was most afraid of going to the hospital, so he grabbed Shen Yan: "No, look for the medicine for stomach pain in the drawer in the living room downstairs, just take two pills."

Shen Yan agreed again, went downstairs and ransacked the cabinet for a while, and found only cold medicine, asked the name of the medicine, and immediately decided to go out and buy it.

The location of the community is remote, and there are no pharmacies nearby that are open 24 hours a day. Where else is there a pharmacy that is open 24 hours a day? .

When he came back sweating profusely, Shen Yan was stunned at the door of Li Shi'an's house. The door was locked. He saw that Li Shi'an had entered the password countless times, and he knew it by heart, but as an outsider of this family, he shouldn't be like this. Go in, but if you call Li Shi'an, Li Shi'an has to go downstairs to open the door, or tell yourself the password.

Should he act like he doesn't know anything about Li Shi'an's password?After thinking about it, he finally raised his hand and entered the password.

Li Shi'an fell asleep when he opened the door again, but his furrowed brows and sweaty forehead showed that he was in pain, Shen Yan shook him awake, and fed him the medicine.

Li Shi'an was ill, Shen Yan was worried and went home like this, hung up on Qu Ya and decided to stay there.

Shen Yan couldn't sleep, and Li Shi'an couldn't fall asleep very well. In the middle of the night, there was a thunderstorm, and Li Shi'an suddenly sat up like a dead body. Shen Yan asked, "Does it still hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore." Li Shi'an fell down in a daze and went back to sleep, holding Shen Yan's arm tightly with both hands, and putting one leg on him.

The lights in the room were not turned on, he thought Shen Yan was Li Qishan.

Although he was thin and thin when he was young, he had a solid skin and didn't often get sick. Whenever he was sick, he would seize the opportunity to cling to others, hugging his neck and thighs, asking Li Qishan to guard him.

But Shen Yan wasn't Li Qishan, Li Shi'an made him feel flustered, just as he pulled his hands away from his arms, his head was back on his shoulders.

Li Shi'an's hair has not been taken care of for a while, it has grown a lot, and it is not as hard as it looks, and it is numb and itchy when it is brushed on the neck.

After adjusting his breath a few times, Shen Yan buried his face in Li Shi'an's hair. With a flash of lightning, he saw that the little black glue stick that had been on Li Shi'an's earlobe all year round was pushed off by him. It looked like a small pit in the dark night, Shen Yan couldn't hold back for a moment, and touched the cat's scratching mat-like earlobe with his hand.

"Good night, ten."

Thunder and rain are loud, quiet and stable, and the night belongs to him at this moment.