Rebirth of the Painted Soul

After Liang Hanqing heard this, she turned her head to look in shock. Gao Shi was very calm. He stared at Liang Hanqing's clear and dark eyes, and said slowly: "I have been wandering outside for so long, and I have no money or time to paint. I worry about not being caught every day, and I have no time to think about those beautiful lines and beautiful colors. When I come back, I can teach others except theoretical knowledge. Now, I can’t draw anything at all. As long as I pick up a pencil or a drawing tool and face the drawing board, my mind goes blank, and when I finish drawing, what is left on the paper is not a beautiful drawing, but a bunch of clueless lines."

Liang Hanqing stared blankly at Gao Shi. If he could no longer draw his favorite paintings, what would his world be like?He didn't know how Gao Shi survived, it was so painful.It is so sad that I can't even draw the simplest ones in all the fine paintings in the past.

"Then...then have you seen a psychiatrist?" Liang Hanqing always felt that it was a psychological reason, so she asked.

Gao Shi put his right hand on his eyes, with a bitter smile on the corner of his mouth, he said dumbly: "I don't know if I've been to a psychiatrist, I've even been to a neurology department, and they all said it's useless, I can only heal slowly on my own. "

The room was quiet again, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone into the studio, mottled.The cool evening breeze outside the window blew across the room, and the choking smell of cigarettes just now has faded.

Liang Hanqing leaned back on the window sill again, remained silent for a while, and said, "What about the bet, does Teacher Yang Kai know your situation?"

Gao Shi said: "Yang Kai still doesn't know about that bet, I'll ask him out another day, let's have a good talk."

Liang Hanqing knew that Gao Shi, a person who was so proud in the past, would never allow himself to be defeated by a former loser like this.

----

The next morning, Liang Hanqing went to the studio early with breakfast. Yang Kai was already in the studio. When he saw Liang Hanqing coming, he immediately dragged Liang Hanqing downstairs and said as he walked, "I knew I could catch him in the studio." You. Gao Shi asked me to come to the school to take you away. You must go when we meet today. There is something important."

Yang Kai's military-colored jeep had already driven downstairs, and Liang Hanqing, who was dragged all the way downstairs, didn't know how Yang Kai drove the car in.

Sitting in the car, Liang Hanqing was a little hungry. He untied the bag and wanted to eat something to fill his stomach. Just as he was about to ask Yang Kai if he wanted to eat, the food in his hand was snatched away by Yang Kai who was driving the car. Yang Kai frowned. Frowning, he said, "You eat such rubbish in the early morning, no wonder you look so weak. Let's pick him up from your Teacher Gao's house first, and then the three of us will have a good meal."

"..." Liang Hanqing is actually not thin. She is about 1.7 meters tall and well-proportioned, but she looks a little thin. How could she be so weak...

So Liang Hanqing, who was hungry, was taken to Gao Shi's house. After knocking on the door, the door opened after a while. Gao Shi had already dressed and held a box of instant noodles in his hand. breakfast.

Yang Kai took the instant noodles from Gao Shi's hands again, put them on the neat dining table, and then began to educate Gao Shi, saying, "How are you two, don't you know what nutrition is?! Gao Shi, hurry up and pack up our food." Gao Shi glared at Yang Kai, with no other expression on his face, as if he knew Yang Kai would do this, and slowly went into the bedroom to put on his coat.

Looking at Gao Shi's back, Yang Kai muttered helplessly: "If this kid can't find a virtuous wife, he probably won't even know how he will die in the future, so he sighed, as if he was very worried.

"..." Liang Hanqing.

The three of them went to a clean chaotic restaurant, and after a night of hot wonton stew, Liang Hanqing immediately felt that he had come back to life, starving him to death.He raised his head to see that Yang Kai on the opposite side was eating deliciously, while Gao Shi on the other side held up a spoon and stared blankly at the chaos in his bowl.

"... Teacher, teacher, teacher, hurry up and eat, don't be in a daze." Yang Kai was right, if Gao Shi didn't marry a more virtuous wife in the future, he wouldn't even know how he died.

Gao Shi stood up slowly after being called back to his senses, and said: "Ah, oh, I don't have a big appetite, you guys continue to eat, I'll go outside to smoke a cigarette first." After that, without waiting for Liang Hanqing to stop him, he went straight Out of the store.

Liang Hanqing turned to look at Yang Kai, with worried eyes, obviously wanting Yang Kai to bring Gao Shi back to eat something, Yang Kai was about to finish eating, seeing Liang Hanqing looking at him like this, put down the spoon in his hand, wiped it with a paper towel Wipe your mouth, turn around and go out.

Yang Kai went out of the store, looked around for a while, and saw Gao Shi leaning against a lamppost under a billboard.

Gao Shi was smoking a cigarette, looking at him from a distance, as if he was thinking about something.

Yang Kai also took out his silver-gray Zippo, lit a cigarette and leaned against the pillar.

Gao Shi turned his head to look at Yang Kai, didn't say anything, and turned his eyes to the distance again.

"Gao Shi, you have something to hide from me." Yang Kai's eyes were blurred in the smoke, he said slowly and firmly with a cigarette in his mouth.

Gao Shi was silent.

Yang Kai didn't care, and continued: "We have known each other for so many years, and we have experienced so many things together, what are you still hesitating about, is there anything you need to hide from my familiar old friend?"

Gao Shi took a puff of cigarettes. In fact, he was really not used to smoking strong cigarettes like Yang Kai, so he could only smoke some other relatively mild cigarettes, such as the classic Marlboro.

Yang Kai glanced at the cigarette in Gao Shi's hand, then smiled slightly, and said, "Our tastes have not changed, you still like Marlboro, and I still smoke camels."

Gao Shi glanced at the cigarette in his hand, his white body was slowly engulfed by the sparks of the stars, and he returned to yesterday in a trance, when those things hadn't happened yet.

Unknowingly, Gao Shi said: "I——I can't draw anymore."

Yang Kai frowned and looked at Gao Shi's hand, and said, "I remember that your hand is not injured, why can't you draw?"

Gao Shi said: "Psychological reasons, I have seen many doctors, but they all said that it cannot be cured."

Yang Kai's frowning brows did not loosen, and he said, "Is it really impossible to draw? When did you start doing this?"

Gao Shi returned: "After I was released from arrest, I couldn't draw anything while sitting in front of the drawing board."

Yang Kai stared at Gao Shi's quiet side face. He is a painter, so he naturally knew how sad it would be for a person who loves to paint if he can't paint, just like a writer holding a pen but with a dry mind: It's like a musician facing a piano, but can't play beautiful music.

There was silence for a while, until the two cigarettes were slowly burned out, and the cigarette butts were stubbed out. Yang Kai said, "You can't draw anymore, so what about the bet? If you haven't changed after all these years, you can't because of This reason admits defeat to Zhang Wei.

----

Liang Hanqing sat at the dining table and waited for Yang Kai and Gao Shi for a full 10 minutes. He didn't know that during these 10 minutes, he had been "sold" by those two people.

After Yang Kai and Gao Shi came back, they paid the bill and drove to the place where they met - a famous teahouse.

Liang Hanqing looked up at the wooden plaque, on which was written the name of the teahouse - "Drunk Thought Teahouse".Liang Hanqing was a little disapproving. A teahouse had such a name. Those who didn't know it thought it was a tavern. Liang Hanqing followed the two adults in front and silently slandered.But if he knew that it was the gathering place of major painters, would he immediately fall in love with this strangely named place?

The teahouse is decorated very well. Pass through the antique hall and open a carved door. Inside the door is a small courtyard. After entering the courtyard, Yang Kai leads Gao Shi and Liang Hanqing to a room. In front of the door, after opening the door, several people have already come inside.

Yang Kai and Gao Shi exchanged greetings one by one, until the last group of people finished greeting each other, a woman in her 40s who had been standing in front of the window stared at Liang Hanqing and asked Yang Kai, "Who is this kid? He looks pretty good-looking." Yes."

Liang Hanqing raised her eyelids and glanced at the woman. If she remembered correctly, Gao Shi seemed to call her Teacher Pan just now.