Sao Nian, you lost your integrity

June 6th, Tuesday, the sky has been cloudy since early in the morning, Yue Chen has been paying attention to the weather forecast, and finally called the head contractor at the farm at nine o'clock, saying that there is no need to come here today, Take a break from the rain.

After Luo Yue and the others went back two days ago, Yue Chen and I started to clean up the lotus pond, planning to put some fish seedlings into it to raise them, but just two days after cleaning up, it caught up with the cloudy and rainy day, luckily no seedlings were released , otherwise, if it rains heavily, you may not know how much you should run away.

Yue Chen looked outside at the sky that was as dark as eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and muttered, "It's time to find someone who can read Feng Shui."

Anyway, he couldn't go out, so Yue Chen started to work around the cats, repairing the cat climbing frame, cutting the cats' nails and combing their fur, teasing them and talking with them.

I took the desk lamp out of the bedroom, and then nestled on the sofa to read the design magazines I hadn’t read for a long time. During this period of time, the graduation exhibitions of various colleges and universities had just passed, and I happened to look at the clothing works of this year.

Yue Chen was sitting on the other side of the sofa, hugging a kitten and sighing, I didn't feel it at first, but after he sighed more than a dozen times, I couldn't help asking: "I said cat, what's wrong with you? "

Yue Chen looked up at me with a confused expression on his face, "What's wrong?"

I was very helpless, "Isn't it you, you have been sighing for half an hour."

Yue Chen continued to be confused, "Did I sigh?"

"Don't pretend to be stupid, ask the cat in your arms if you don't believe me."

Yue Chen really lowered his head, and while smoothing the fur of the yellow raccoon in his arms, he asked, "Did I sigh?"

This yellow raccoon is the one named "Guan Guan". Hearing Yue Chen talking to her, he glanced at me, then at Yue Chen, then lazily turned around, and fell asleep on Yue Chen's lap.

Yue Chen sighed again.

I immediately pointed at him, "Look! This is again, I said, are you worrying about the farm? Not enough money?"

Yue Chen shook his head, and looked at Huang Li again, "I was just wondering... Guan Xiaosan is doing well now, whether he has been left out or bullied."

Guan Xiaosan's chubby face appeared in my mind for a moment, and the silly figure of it staggering and stretching when it came down from the attic, cleared my throat, and I said, "Xiaosan is so likable." , will definitely not be bullied."

Yue Chen sighed again, "I hope so too, but I still don't feel at ease. I brought them up by watching their birth. You won't understand this feeling."

At first, it was because of me that Ye Wen took Guan Xiaosan away. Later, it was because of me that Yue Chen broke contact with Ye Wen. Looking at Yue Chen's loving father's face, I always felt a little embarrassed, so I casually persuaded him. He said, "Little Sanzi is quite cute, or... you should take him back."

Yue Chen immediately corrected my mistake, "Changing owners is not good for cats."

"Ah, that can't be helped..."

"Also," Yue Chen interrupted me and continued, "It's not that I haven't tried it, and I don't want to come back at all."

"What?" I sat up straight suddenly, "Did you go to Ye Wen to shut down mistress?!"

Yue Chen was quite calm, "Yes, what are you excited about?"

I scratched my head, "Ah, um, that... isn't this about caring about the third son?"

"Okay, I didn't see Ye Wen, I just made a phone call, and then he sent me some recent photos of my mistress."

"Oh," I lay back on the sofa and held up the magazine, "What time are you talking about?"

Yue Chen continued to comb the yellow raccoon's fur, "It's not been a few days since you came to me drunk."

"Oh."

The two of them were silent for a while, then Yue Chen suddenly continued: "At that time I told him, don't appear in front of you again, the two of you should have nothing to do with each other at this point..." Yue Chen looked up at me, His eyes were sharp, "But obviously, he didn't take my words seriously."

I was a little annoyed for no reason, and sat up again, "Why are you telling him this?"

Yue Chen looked at me, "What do you think I am doing?"

I said in a bad tone, "It's free."

Yue Chen's tone was not very good, "I'm idle? He has played with you like this for more than half a year, and he still has the nerve to ask me about your recent situation, so what do you think I should reply to him? Smile and tell him that you have How miserable and decadent? Or tell him that you came to me to cry when you were drunk?"

I rubbed my forehead and stood up, "Okay, don't mention this matter in the future, I just pretend that I don't know Ye Wen."

Yue Chen also stood up, "Okay, the premise is that he doesn't provoke you again. If Fan Fan surnamed Ye does something stupid again, I will definitely not let him go lightly!" After he finished speaking, he strode back to the bedroom , Bang slammed the door.

This was probably the first time that Yue Chen and I were unhappy in many years. I was a little anxious, so I followed him and knocked on his door, "Come out, cat, if you have anything else to say, please speak clearly."

He didn't answer me, so I continued to knock on the door, "I said what's the matter with you? Why are you losing your temper with me because of an outsider?"

Yue Chen opened the door, "I've finished everything I want to say."

I patted him on the shoulder, "Okay, I know you're doing it for my own good, but I can handle my affairs myself."

Yue Chen shook his head and looked at me with a sigh, and suddenly came over with his arms wide open and hugged me, he patted me on the back, "I just said too loudly... Sigh, go play your own way, I think Stay by yourself."

After Yue Chen finished speaking, he closed the door and entered the house, and there was no movement. I was alone in the living room facing the heavy rain outside the window, and I always felt uncomfortable.

In order to express my introspection on my behavior of valuing sex and despising friends just now, I started to clean the living room, but probably I am not a housekeeper, as soon as I picked up the broom, the phone rang.

Over there is a sweet and greasy female voice, "Hello? Is this Guan Guan, Mr. Guan?"

"Yes, I am, who are you?"

"Hello, Mr. Guan, this is the case. We are the organizing committee of the China Creative Fashion Design Competition. My name is Ding Shan. First of all, congratulations. You have been shortlisted for the final. Is it convenient for you to surf the Internet now?"

"Come on, it's convenient." I walked towards the notebook.

The other side continued: "We have sent the specific procedures and regulations of the finals to the mailbox you left at that time, you can check it, if you have any questions, you can contact me directly, this is my mobile phone number, you can save it It will be convenient to contact you later, because from now to the end of the finals, I will be in charge of all aspects of your itinerary."

"Oh, then, I'll check the email first, and call you if I have any questions, right?"

"Yes, then please read the email first, and let's contact you if you have any questions."

This design competition is quite formal. Before the start of the competition, there will be a round of preliminary selection, and only those who pass will enter the official competition.Then, in the first round of renderings, most of the designers were eliminated, leaving only [-]% of the designers shortlisted. After being shortlisted, designers have to submit renderings and physical works within the time limit. Up to this stage, everyone is free. Create, and then [-] designers will choose [-]% to stay and enter the finals.

In other words, more than 5000 people participated in the competition at the beginning, and now [-] people have entered the finals. After doing this calculation, I immediately felt that I was pretty good.But there is a problem, I remember that I participated in the competition from the very beginning, that is, renderings plus real objects, that is to say, I participated in this competition from the moment I was shortlisted, so what happened to the preliminaries and the first round?

After pondering for a long time, I came up with several possibilities. First, considering that Ye Wen asked me to participate in this competition at that time, I guessed that there might be some way he used to let me start the competition directly from the finalists, but Not long after, Ye Wen accused me of stealing the blueprints. Thinking about it this way, he has no reason to bother with the competition, so the first point is not very reliable.

Second, someone in the company helped me through the back door and entered the semi-finals directly, but considering that I have no special relationship in the company, it is not true.

And thirdly, maybe I somehow passed the preliminaries and semi-finals, but I don’t know, I remember that I was not the only one in the company to participate in the competition, maybe I sent several people’s design drawings to the competition, including mine.

After much deliberation, I decided to give Wang Yuqing a call.

After greeting each other, I talked about the competition, and Wang Yuqing happily congratulated me.

I really asked the right person to find him.He told me that when the company selected candidates for the competition, they basically used old people, and didn’t count me as a newcomer at all. But not long before the deadline, Li Qiang added an extra file bag when submitting the work. Also tried to find a way to make up my name.

So this is tantamount to saying that he helped me behind the scenes.

In fact, think about it, Li Qiang and I have been friends for so many years. Although he helped Ye Wen trick me, he called me to apologize afterwards, and he also helped me secretly before. Second Master Guan needs to be open-minded. Open-minded, you can't be too stingy and hold grudges, right?

After pondering for a while, I sent a text message to ask Li Qiang for dinner.

Li Qiang is a person, at best, he cares about saving face, at worst, he is hypocritical and vain.You don’t need seasonal discounted clothes, you don’t need a hairstylist with less than a hundred dollars to cut your hair, and you don’t even use the word “Li Qiang” for your name. When it comes to eating, you can’t expect him to follow you to the side of the road. Tan'er drinks and eats barbecue Malatang.

He said that he wanted to treat me to French food, and I said that it would be fine to eat skewers. The two fought back and forth, and finally made a compromise, and made an appointment to meet at a conveyor belt sushi restaurant.

Probably because of something bad, Li Qiang was so enthusiastic and enthusiastic when he saw me, and he was not idle for nearly 10 minutes. He kept telling me that the salmon in this shop was so good, the tuna was so fresh, and the grilled eel was so authentic. , so that I stared at the sushi plate full of eyes, and didn't know where to start.

Li Qiang cleared his throat and finally returned to normal, "Don't you want to eat sushi? Or let's go to another one? There are many places to eat nearby."

I took a can of beer first, and then touched a plate with my eyes closed, "Okay, Mr. Qiang, why are you so unreasonable."

Li Qiang just allowed me to call him Master Qiang, and offered to put mustard and soy sauce on the small dish for me. He sighed in style and said, "Guan Guan, brother, I'm really sorry."

I took a sip of my wine, "Master Qiang, if just saying I'm sorry will work, then why do you need the police?"

Li Qiang immediately slapped his chest, "How do you want senior brother to compensate you? As long as I have the ability, I will try my best to do it. Now my studio has improved. If you want to come over, you can directly be my assistant. Your monthly salary..." He said and stretched out a finger seriously.

I said, "Oh, one hundred thousand, so generous?"

Li Qiang smiled awkwardly, "Oh, look, I haven't been working in this studio for long...but don't worry, as long as you work hard with me, it won't take a few years..."

I patted him on the shoulder, "I didn't think about going to your place."

"Then tell me, what do you want?"

I watched him giggle and touched the small material on the table, "Open your mouth first."

"what?"

"Stop talking nonsense, open up."

When he opened his mouth, I pinched his jaw and squeezed the mustard in with lightning speed, then covered his mouth and said, "Don't spit! Eat it and I'll forgive you!"

Seeing Li Qiang was choked to tears, I had enough laughs, so I slowly started eating sushi.

After Li Qiang drank three cups of tea in a row, he still looked at me tearfully, "Guan Guan, you brat!"

I put my arm around his shoulders, "Okay, Mr. Qiang, a pack of mustard is worth me and let you play for a year, it's not a loss."

Li Qiang ate a bag of mustard, and finally talked to me less stiffly, "Oh, senior brother really didn't know at the time, he lied to you as a grandson, let me tell you, since I know you and Ye Wen may have grown up together Since then, I have been helping you reconcile secretly, you don't know, I..."

"It's okay, don't bother me, don't talk about this matter in the past." I blocked his mouth with sushi, "I know, that's why I came to you today, Mr. Qiang, there is a creative costume contest, You know, right? You helped me with the registration and preliminary rounds, right?"

Li Qiang stared at me for a while, and suddenly realized something, "So, have you entered the finals? I heard that the list of finals has come out recently, but none of the children in my studio entered, so I didn't Too concerned."

"Well, I also just received a call, notifying me that I have entered the finals."

"Haha, I knew you could do it! Do you have any ideas?"

I tapped the rim of the beer can, "It's easy to talk about ideas, but before discussing the design, I want to ask you a question."

"You ask, as long as I know, I'm sure..."

"Okay, don't keep talking big, brother, you cheated me once, you can't cheat me a second time, right?"

Li Qiang immediately became serious, "Guan, I know I'm sorry for you, but you can't beat someone to death just because of one mistake, let me tell you..."

"Okay, stop, just don't lie to me, I just want to ask you a question, although you have started your own studio, but you are all in the same circle, and you have followed Ye Wen for so many years, you should be able to understand something Inside story, right? I want you to tell me honestly, this time I am in the finals, did Ye Wen do anything?"

Li Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, "It turns out that you came to me to ask this question, which made me nervous for a long time." He shook his head, "Guan Guan, are you too unconfident? With your work, you can be listed in the Wuzheng University." Being collected by the department, just making it to the finals doesn’t mean there’s any doubt about it, right?”

"It's not that I'm unconfident, I'm..." I was worried about Ye Wen's hands and feet, or rather, I was a little nervous.

Li Qiang smacked his lips, "Although you may not believe or like to hear what I said, but no matter what kind of feud you have with Ye Wen, he is not the kind of person you imagined. He will not interfere with the result of the game by means. Do. Sigh, you probably don’t understand that Ye Wen is actually a bit rigid with integrity.”

"Heh, integrity? The person who tricked me for a year and accused me of stealing the blueprints, you actually say he is upright?"

Li Qiang sighed, "I am also very puzzled about what Ye Wen has done this year. Let me put it this way, since he told me that he would use any means to get you into the company, although there is no difference on the surface, according to my I understand that he has almost changed during this period of time. A person who used to hate playing tricks in the dark suddenly became meticulous and calculating every step of the way. Alas, I don’t know how many times I have inquired, but I still don’t understand why he would become what it is now.”

After he finished speaking, he looked at me with deep meaning in his eyes. After I lowered my head and ate several pieces of sushi one by one, I said to him in a puffy voice: "Ah, by the way, the final is a proposition creation, the theme It's 'chrysalis', you know?"

"Well, I heard, it's quite an interesting theme, what do you think?"

"Well, I didn't have much interest at first, but after carefully looking at the competition awards, No.1 can get sponsorship to go to Central Saint Martins, fuck it, that's Saint Martins! I'm sure I can't be sloppy! So I want to ask, you How much do I know about this competition, should I focus on practicality or conception in this kind of proposition creation?"

Li Qiang knocked on the table with his index finger, "I said Junior Brother, you can't even understand this?"

"I looked at the game requirements carefully, but I didn't get it."

Li Qiang took a plate of salmon sushi, ate it slowly, swallowed it and drank tea before squinting his eyes and said: "Where does No.1 go to study? Central Saint Martins. And why you can enter the finals while everyone else in the company can't do it?" Didn’t make it in? Guanguan, let me tell you, among the students in the next few classes, you have no advantage in craftsmanship or fashion, but you have a little advantage. After spending so many days in styling, what do you think? Ideas are always surprising.”

"Oh, you put it that way... I understand."

"Come on, come to me anytime you need it."

I smiled at him, "Then look for it now."

The final is the creation of a proposition, and it takes one and a half months for each designer to prepare and produce. During the process, the photo of the work is first sent to the mailbox of the competition organizing committee, and then the competition will make unified arrangements for the final selection in Shenzhen.

The works will go through the logistics in advance. After the designer arrives in Shenzhen, he will stay in the hotel arranged by the competition party. There is still a week of preparation time for the exhibition, which will be held in the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center.Each of the fifty designers has enough space to arrange the exhibition, and the finalists will make a comprehensive selection based on the works themselves and the exhibition effect. There is a chance.

Fortunately, the organizers of this competition are not stingy, and all the air tickets, accommodation, and meals are covered. Otherwise, I will not be able to carry it with my wallet.

On Monday, August 8th, I rested in the hotel for a whole morning, followed the organizing committee to the exhibition center to confirm the venue in the afternoon, and in the evening, more than 15 designers and messy reporters, city leaders and the organizing committee of the competition After meeting the staff, they gathered in the hotel lobby to attend the welcome reception.

Because the nature of this competition focuses on art and ideas, the designers present were dressed in a variety of styles. Basically, only the staff wore suits and ties.

On this sweltering day, although the air conditioner in the hotel is cool enough, I still feel suffocated seeing them wearing so many clothes. After socializing and chatting for a long time, I finally found an opening to get out of the crowd and ate and thought about it for a long time self-help.

Eating steak and drinking champagne, the state of the whole person is immediately different when the stomach is full, and even seeing things is clearer than when you are hungry.

Holding the plate in one hand and the fork in the other, I was eagerly waiting for the chef's steak. When I turned my gaze, I happened to see the corridor not far away.

"Sir, your steak, sir?"

I looked at the people walking out slowly from the depths of the corridor, a man and a woman, the woman was wearing a nude dress, and the man was wearing a slim black suit.

The woman gracefully took the man's hand...

Just as I was staring blankly over there, the line of sight over there just happened to pass over me.

The plate in my hand almost fell to the floor.

"Sir!" The cook took the plate and said something else I didn't listen carefully, but soon he stopped talking because the whole place fell silent.

After the organizer of the emcee said a few words on the stage, he pointed his hand down the stage, "Next, we invite the first champion of the China Creative Fashion Design Competition, who is also an outstanding graduate of the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in the UK. Ye Wen, the founder of the domestic first-line original brand NegativeSentence, Mr. Ye."