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After talking about this, Qiao Yu suddenly stopped. He realized that he seemed to be in the mood, and asked Xia Xiaoli, "Do you feel bored?"

Xia Xiaoli shook her head, she didn't think it at all, but found it very interesting, he still wanted to hear it.

Qiao Yu got up to get things, and said: "As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, a thinker Zhang Zai said that the beauty of the inside and the outside is called beauty, which means that the beauty of a gentleman lies in the combination of inner fullness and outer appearance. Both internal and external, this principle is also true in the design of buildings and bridges, not only to meet the structural requirements and functionality, but also to strive to meet the aesthetic requirements on this basis, the two are indispensable.”

"It is to have both practical value and beauty." Xia Xiaoli understood it this way.

"That's right, it's the same for engineering and industrial design. After all, what we do is not pure art." Qiao Yu smiled, took the paper and pen and sat back on the carpet in front of the sofa, dragged the small round coffee table, and started casually Paint and paint.

"What is it?" Xia Xiaoli thinks that Qiao Yu's casual painting is also very interesting, a kind of chic that he is familiar with and then shows casually.

Qiao Yu drew black and white stick figures, and said to Xia Xiaoli while drawing: "Pedestrian bridges are ever-changing, almost any form that people can think of, no matter how weird, can be presented, for example-a bridge below the water surface, floating on the water surface the bridge..."

The shapes of these bridges were drawn with just a few strokes, and Xia Xiaoli understood them immediately, and she was amazed: "How can the bridge be lower than the water?"

"Yes, the earliest bridge below the water surface was due to a construction error. The construction party reversed the drawings and built the bridge upside down, but it turned out to have a magical effect. Special technology was used to make the two sides After the water surface would not submerge the bridge, the bridge became famous all of a sudden, and people who walked on the bridge thought it was very interesting."

Xia Xiaoli was amazed when she heard it.

Qiao Yu continued to draw pictures while saying: "In this way, the simplest and most common micro-arch bridge can be changed with a little artistic processing, for example - one side is used as a rest surface, and for example, some wavy skins spread from the bottom of the bridge. To the bridge body, or the top surface of the bridge is covered, the bridge body can also be partially enlarged, the bridge body is bent, and the top of the bridge becomes a set of linear coverage... You see, the five-circle bridge in Copenhagen we saw just now is like this It's changed."

At this time, Qiao Yu was like a magician. The paper was brushed and painted with bridges of various shapes. The ordinary bridge deck, with a little modification, became an astonishing work of art.

The black lines on the white paper seem to move by themselves, becoming longer and shorter in Xia Xiaoli's eyes, stretching and flowing, imaginary bridges are automatically formed in his mind.

This process is amazing. Everything is not over yet. After painting a piece of paper, Qiao Yu threw it away and continued to draw: "You can make the railings of the bridge form waves. Look, in this way, you can also make the bridge deck intertwined. The suspension cables on the side let the lower part of the bridge show the structure, and connect with different height differences. The bridge on the Seine River is like this. It can also be a K-line bridge without height difference, or simply turn the bridge into a Ferris wheel. Is it fun? ? Make a Mobius ring, build a park on a bridge, build an opera house, a library..."

Xia Xiaoli was dazzled, what he knew and felt tonight had completely exceeded his cognition and imagination, all the papers that Qiao Yu had drawn and discarded were scattered on the carpet, Xia Xiaoli picked them up one by one, and he wanted to put them away by himself.

Keep this magical and wonderful night away too.

At the end Xia Xiaoli asked Qiao Yu: "Brother Qiao, what kind of bridge did you design, and is it the same?"

Qiao Yu paused, and said: "When I was studying, I designed such a very artistic pedestrian bridge as a project, but I didn't do this kind of work later. My bridges are very boring. I will show you later."

He also likes artistic pedestrian bridges, but these are still two concepts from the bridges in the category of "building bridges and paving roads" that he mainly studies. Those giants that cross mountains and seas are his home field.

Not so artistic, some are huge and complex steel structures, counting load-bearing, thermal expansion and contraction, and wind resistance, how to make the largest span while resisting the bending of the beam, no matter how harsh the geological conditions are, it can still be transformed into a natural moat. thoroughfare.

His work is not romantic at all, and requires extreme patience and reason. The bridge that allowed him to win the Arthur Haydn Award was not entirely based on creativity and beauty, but he created a new bridge that can be recorded in the history of bridge construction. technology.

In this regard, he and Lin Zhihua have taken two completely different paths. Lin Zhihua is passionate and creative, and the architectural works he designed are just like his temperament, absurd and eye-catching. The work is too boring, saying that you should do more things that can make yourself more valuable.

But what is value?Qiao Yu is unwilling to argue with his lover because of these, but he has his own understanding and persistence on this.

When she was lying on the bed, Xia Xiaoli was still so excited that she couldn't stop. She had experienced so many things that day, she witnessed Xia Xiaoberry's "derailment" and "coming out", she fell into a car and was rescued, and even committed suicide. After knowing what was going on with Jian Rong, he was agitated by those wonderful footbridges.

that's amazing.

I don't know how long it took before I fell asleep, and all kinds of things in my mind were like a ticking lantern, but at the end of everything, Qiao Yu's face and his voice were frozen in his mind, and they fell into a dream together.

When she woke up the next day, it was high in the sun, and Xia Xiaoli was in a daze for a few seconds before realizing that she was not at home.

Laying back in bed again, covering herself in the quilt and waiting for her physiological reaction to subside, teenagers will automatically "raise the flag" almost every day, but Xia Xiaoli is still a little embarrassed in someone else's living room.

Qiao Yu has already woken up, the living room looks a little tidier than last night, he cleaned it up early in the morning, and he will be cooking in the kitchen.

Xia Xiaoli rubbed over with a sleepy face, Qiao Yu was frying eggs, "Are you awake? How did you sleep?"

"Ha——" Xia Xiaoli yawned and nodded contentedly: "I slept well, and I can sleep for a few more hours."

Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Can all young people sleep like this? Come, let's see how your injury is doing?"

He wanted to take care of the food in the pot, looked at Xia Xiaoli's arm, asked him to raise his leg, and said, "I'm recovering well, let's take a shower, the water should not be too hot."

After taking a shower, Xia Xiaoli felt very comfortable. Qiao Yu's breakfast was also prepared, milk cereal, fried bacon and eggs, very simple food.

"Don't sit down yet, apply the medicine first." Qiao Yu asked him to bring the medicine, and rubbed it on carefully.

Xia Xiaoli said: "I just remembered that my father seems to be building some kind of bridge recently. I heard him talk about it before, but I didn't pay attention to it."

"Really? Where?" Qiao Yu asked.

"Xing Shui, do you know where it is? It's in the province."

"I know, it's a famous scenic spot."

"Yes, it seems that the bridge is in the scenic area. I don't know the details."

"Building a bridge is a very hard job," Qiao Yu said.

"Yeah, it's hard work for Dad to make money." Xia Xiaoli sighed. Dad is getting old, and he hopes that one day Dad can retire early.

The two chatted back and forth and finished applying the medicine. After Xia Xiaoli took a shower, her body smelled fresh and refreshing. Qiao Yu thought, it seems that the shower gel she bought doesn't smell so good when she uses it on her body?

"In a while, your sister will come over with clothes for you to change, and then take you home." Qiao Yu said.

"Oh." Xia Xiaoli was a little reluctant, but she also knew that she couldn't stay here forever and had to go home.

He asked Qiao Yu: "Brother Qiao, what are you doing today?"

"There is no arrangement, maybe I will go back to my parents' house." Qiao Yu said that although he has moved out, work has not started yet, and the two old professors in the family still hope that he can go home more often for dinner.

"Actually—" he thought about it, and it wasn't that he didn't have arrangements: "I wanted to take advantage of the time before I joined the job to run through the city's representative bridges in recent years to see urban construction and the like."

"I'll be with you." Xia Xiaoli said anxiously, choking on the milk and oatmeal she swallowed.

"Eat slowly..." Qiao Yu looked at him, "Okay, wait until your leg is healed."

"It just so happens that I'm very unfamiliar with this city now." Qiao Yu said, he originally wanted to call Chen Ke together, but hesitated to say so, thinking that this guy would probably not be interested.

"I know you well. I'll be a tour guide." Xia Xiaoli immediately became happy: "I've lived here for 17 years!"

Qiao Yu smiled, feeling that the emotions on the other side were really contagious.

Not long after eating, Xia Xiaoberry came over, and asked Xia Xiaoli to change into the long-sleeved trousers she brought, and said, "You're dressed so abnormally, you won't be able to hide it from our mother for long, so be prepared to be scolded by her, but most likely you won't be able to bear it." I'm scolding you, Xia Xiaocheng is going to be in trouble, and I will give you a motorcycle, the culprit."

Xia Xiaoli was chanted by her sister, and waved goodbye to Qiao Yu: "Brother Qiao, I'm leaving. I'll be fine in two days, and I'll come to visit you again."

"Hey, Xia Xiaoli, you changed your name to brother in just one night? That's enough, you." Xia Xiaoberry exclaimed.

"Why can't you call me if you can, brother Qiao?" Xia Xiaoli smiled sweetly.

Whenever this guy acted like a baby, Qiao Yu felt overwhelmed.

The author says:

The professional knowledge reference books involved in this book include: Essay on Bridges by Wan Mingkun et al., Outline of Chinese Bridge History by Xiang Haifan et al., Conceptual Design of Chinese Bridges by Xiang Haifan et al., History of Bridges by Mao Yisheng, And the ex-boyfriend who is engaged in architectural design (covering his face), the author is not a professional, and there may be many bugs in the professional part later, if a professional passes by, please forgive me and pass by with a smile :)