my zepple

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The studio plans to go out to sketch in November, and the old man just wants to take the opportunity to take his wife and granddaughter to travel.The three girls in the studio quarreled with the old man for almost a week, and finally settled on the ancient town of Fenghuang in Xiangxi.

Since the studio is almost full of art candidates, it didn't take much effort to ask the school teacher for leave, and the five-day sketching journey kicked off so smoothly.

City C is a bit far from Xiangxi. The group first took the high-speed rail to Huaihua, and then transferred to the bus at Huaihua Bus Station to the ancient city of Fenghuang.

Tong Yu hasn't traveled much, he only went to Beijing once when he was very young.

At that time, he was just walking, and my mother was in good spirits.But Tong Yu himself didn't remember these, it was all heard later.

All his memories from childhood to the present only exist in the purple plain formed by overlapping rivers and the city C growing on the plain.

Tong Yu saw the Yangtze River with his own eyes for the first time when he was sitting on the high-speed rail. Song Rou gave him the seat by the window as he stretched his neck and looked tired.

The train runs southeast along the Yangtze River Basin, and the rails also separate and blend with the river water like a fluid, endlessly lingering.

Tong Yu found it strange that the other side of the Yangtze River seemed not far away, but it took a long time to actually cross it.While the Yangtze River is turbulent, it is still as flat as a handful of brown silk.

It was two o'clock in the afternoon when we arrived in Fenghuang. The weather in the ancient city was not good a few days ago. The torrential rain washed the shallow Tuojiang River into mud. dirty water.Everyone was so embarrassed that they didn't care about the scenery. When they arrived at the scenic spot, they followed the map and went to the pre-booked hotel to rest and put their luggage.

The B&B was also chosen by the girls in the studio. Most of the guides on the Internet said that there are many clearing bars along the Tuojiang River, and it will be very noisy at night, so I chose the place to live in the ancient city.

B&Bs are easy to find in the ancient city. The owner believes in Buddhism and likes tranquility, so he opened a Buddhist temple facing inwards in a clean alley in the ancient city.The interior is scented with calming sandalwood, yellow and old calligraphy and paintings are hung on the wall, and several clusters of green bamboo and dwarf red leaves are planted in the yard.

The guest rooms are all upstairs. The old man and his wife share a room with their little granddaughter, Li Lei and Shi Huanyu share a room, Tong Yu shares a room with Song Rou, and the three girls, Ma Yi Weitian Youyue and Wan Zhenni, live in the largest room. guest room.

A few people were very tired after a day of driving, so they went back to their residences after having dinner and wandering around the ancient city.

At 10:30 in the evening, Song Rou was fully dressed, with her eyes closed, she was lying straight on the bed, her face was calm, her hands were squarely placed in the center of her stomach, and the quilt was thrown aside.

What Tong Yu saw when he came out of the bathroom was this weird scene.

"Are you just sleeping like this?"

"The quilt is too dirty."

"I see, it's not dirty." Tong Yu pulled back the quilt and looked, the pure white quilt cover had no stains on it.

"I just saw a few hairs on it, curly."

Song Rou closed her eyes and looked calm, her voice was weak and sleepy, as if she was going to fall asleep in the next second.

"It's pretty thick. Damn it... who can tell where it's from."

After hearing this, Tong Yu let go of his hand, and fell back to the bed at the corner of the quilt.

Song Rou woke up at two o'clock in the morning, because someone woke her up.

The person next to him also followed him without a quilt, stupid because he didn't know how to find a thicker dress to put on, his teeth chattered from the cold in the middle of the night, and he hugged his arms with both hands desperately into his arms.

An animal that was afraid of the cold put its soft face on the side of his neck, and Song Rou's own hand was still placed on the man's waist very well.

Song Rou thought dizzily at that time, he really looked like a considerate husband hugging his weak wife who was afraid of the cold.

wife?Where did his wife come from? He suddenly sat up and was stunned for a while.

Then he had no choice but to take off the thick sweater outside and cover Tong Yu's body, but it didn't warm up for a while, Tong Yu's teeth began to chatter again and he shrank his head and leaned towards Song Rou. It didn't work if he moved to the bed, that person was After finding the heat source, I headed towards the drill with a stuffy head.

Song Rou was also very sleepy at the time, she folded her arms and turned over to leave a back for him, and Tong Yu followed the trend and stuck her head on it.

All night Song Rou felt that her back was soft, hot and sticky.

The next day when Tong Yu woke up, his face was still on Song Rou's back, he rubbed his face and sat up.Song Rou's spine and the wool on the clothes were worn together, making his face ache.

"woke up?"

Song Rou turned over and lay flat, her voice was a little hoarse, her long eyelashes were drooping, and the skin above the tip of her nose and her lips was red.

"You have a cold too." Tong Yu frowned, his nose buzzing.

"That won't work, I'll find a shop to buy some blankets and shawls later, or we'll both die on the bed sooner or later."

Song Rou grabbed the messy curly hair on her head and got up tiredly, sitting on the edge of the bed with thin clothes, looking like she was dying.

The ancient city itself is located by the river and is surrounded by water mist all the year round.It had just rained again, and the air was clammy and cold.Tong Yu sat up with the sweater on his body, touched the clothes on his body overnight and felt that they were still a little damp.He only brought a change of clothes, and he couldn't care less about it right now, so he got out of bed, found some clean clothes, and went in to take a shower.

Although the sky cleared up, the Tuojiang River was still a little muddy, so the group had to shuttle back and forth in the alleys of the ancient city to find a stronghold.

Tong Yu has been a little delirious since he caught a cold last night, his head was in a daze, and he wandered aimlessly along the Qingshiban road with painting materials all day long.Later, he climbed up the earthen city wall with the stray dogs in the ancient city, refilled countless cups of coconut juice at the stall, and only opened his easel when the sun was about to set.

On the city wall, several alleys in the ancient city can be clearly seen at the same time. Tong Yu’s paintings will be fascinated by the ancient city for a while, and only when it is completely dark will he scribble off a piece of gouache.

At this time, he looked down and saw Song Rou, Ma Yiwei and the others coming out of a bar. The girls seemed to have had a drink, and their voices were louder than usual.

Song Rou raised her head and saw Tong Yu on the city wall, she bent her eyes and smiled at him.

He also drank wine just now, and his eyes looked a little red.

Tong Yu noticed that Song Rou was wearing a long red Miao clothes coat, and her hair was braided with colorful ropes like those girls. He knew that there were many Miao grandmas in the ancient city who used colored ropes to braid the hair of tourist girls. Yes, a few dollars a piece, many girls like it.

Song Rou followed his gaze and touched the braid on her head, the corners of her lips curled up slightly.

Tong Yu quickly looked away.

"Tong Yu, have you finished sketching?"

Wan Zhenni looked enviously at the beautiful gouache stuck to the drawing board.

"I haven't finished painting", Tong Yu shook his head, lowered his head and picked up the painting materials.

"We haven't painted yet, and we'll have to stay up all night to sketch and gouache when we go back later." Ma Yiwei's expression was very painful.

"Let's not reply to the message when the old man asks us to comment on the picture, and pretend to be asleep."

Tian Youyue and Wan Zhenni hurriedly nodded in agreement.

"We'll sneak back when the lights in the ancient city are turned off!"

So Tong Yu took the painting materials and followed them to the riverside.

There are still people punting on the Tuojiang River at night. Five people bought a boat and dangled on the river.

The bars and nightclubs by the river are bustling at the moment, and the colorful neon tubes are reflected on the water. Tong Yu has a headache at the moment. Looking at it, he can only feel that the pigments in the water are changing, making him want to vomit.

It was only when she got off the boat downstream and walked back that Song Rou remembered that Tong Yu was very reticent today, she turned her head to see that he didn't follow, and the figure in the black sweater was standing alone on the water bank.

"What are you doing standing still?"

It was only when he got close to the water that Tong Yu's face was blushing strangely.Song Rou reached out to touch the skin on his forehead, and Tong Yu hid for a while.

Song Rou originally wanted to tease him again, but now she frowned and said, "You have a fever."

Tong Yu turned a deaf ear and squinted his eyes towards the distance, as if trying to see something clearly.

Song Rou followed his line of sight and looked forward. In the distance was the lower reaches of the Tuojiang River. The water surface was calm and open, and there were no businesses on both sides of the water. There were only a lot of residential buildings on stilts hanging high above the water.

There is a palm-sized island in the center of the water, and the island is surrounded by mist.There is also an ancient moon-white pagoda on the island. The body of the pagoda is old and the corners of the eaves are hooked.

"What's that?" Tong Yu pointed to the front.

"A tower." Song Rou returned her gaze to Tong Yu's face.

"It's not the tower, look again!" Tong Yu raised his hand again and pointed to the front.

"The tower won't turn, it's turning!!!"

He suddenly raised his voice, and his eyes seemed to be filled with tiny bits of light.

"It's so beautiful, look at it!"

He simply stretched out his hand and turned Song Rou's face to Shui Xin.

"You have……"

Song Rou couldn't help but want to scold him for being sick, but she choked back the words. Song Rou thought to herself that he was indeed sick, and she probably fell ill at the moment.

A disgruntled Kung Fu Tong Yu bared his teeth and claws and made a gesture to rush into the water.As soon as one foot was stretched in, Song Rou quickly closed her arms from behind and dragged him back, dragging Tong Yu and kicking her legs to run.

Tong Yu is tall and heavy, but he has no real strength, he only knows how to thump.Song Rou asked a few girls to take the painting materials and shopping back first, and he dragged Tong Yu out of the ancient city like a chicken.

"Song Rou let me go! You are sick!" Tong Yu not only struggled endlessly, but also cursed.

"Yes, I'm sick, I ask you to accompany me to the hospital for treatment."

Song Rou answered her lips and looked for the way. He remembered that there was a health station not far from the scenic spot of the ancient city, and he might be able to go to the emergency room right now.

Song Rou successfully escorted Tong Yu into the sanitation station before scolding Tong Yu's throat.

The nurse sister in the health station spoke in a soft voice, gentle and nice.Tong Yu doesn't listen to Song Rou, but he will listen to Wen Rou's sister.

The gentle sister took his temperature while coaxing him.

Five minutes later, my sister read the number gently and softly: "5 degrees five."

Then she told Tong Yu tenderly: "Let's hang some water."

When Tong Yu just hung up the water, he was so sleepy that he closed his eyes and fell asleep leaning on the hospital chair.

Song Rou went to the nurse and took a blanket to cover him up. After a while, she went outside and had a long phone call with her mother, Ms. Xu. When she came back, Tong Yu was still in her sleeping position, but her eyes were already open. looking at the ceiling.

Song Rou sat down next to him and he didn't move, and Tong Yu didn't say a word until the water was hung up and the needle was drawn.

After pulling out the needle, the nurse sister took his temperature again, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "36 degrees two, it has faded."

Song Rou went to the medicine window to get medicine for him, and it was already past midnight when the two came out of the health station side by side.

"Can I...can I,"

Tong Yu stammered and raised his head.

"Can I go and see there again?"

He looked up to Song Rou's eyes, and found that Song Rou was also looking down at him with her arms folded.

"Now?" Song Rou raised her eyebrows.

"is it okay?"

Tong Yu's eyes were wide open, the dark cores of the eyes were still paranoid and empty, but they trembled restlessly from side to side, fearing to refuse.

"Okay, I'll go with you."

Song Rou reluctantly agreed, it was difficult for him to refuse a seal's request.

Then he took off the red Miao clothes coat and handed it to Tong Yu, Tong Yu hesitated for a moment, but took it over and put it on his body, and the two of them walked downstream along the river again.

The Tuojiang River in the early morning is not deserted, the upstream is highly commercialized, there are many bars, and tourists will not tire when they are interested.The further downstream the music gets quieter and the lights get dimmer.

Song Rou walked in front.

He is wearing a black sweater today, with loose curly hair, broad shoulders and narrow waist, straight legs, and a pair of soft leather boots under his feet. He is very slender when walking under the street lights.

Tong Yu was fascinated by watching Song Rou's back, following every step along the way, so that Song Rou stopped for a long time before he realized that he had already arrived at that place.

He stood on the bank and looked towards the center of the water, but he didn't make a sound for a long time.

"It turned out to be a tower."

After a while he spoke in a hoarse voice, Song Rou turned to look at him and found that his face was already full of tears.

"I'm really crazy."

Song Rou's throat slipped.Almost without hesitation, he blurted out to Tong Yu:

"all the best people are."

He wanted to say, it's okay, so what if you're crazy, all the best people are crazy.This is the way the world is.

Tong Yu looked at him dully, as if suddenly unable to understand what he said.

After a few seconds of silence, Tong Yu stretched out his hand towards the tower again, as if stroking it from the air.

He asked Song Rou: "Do you know what I saw before?"

"What did you see?"

Song Rou took a step towards him, and when she lowered her head, Tong Yu felt that Song Rou's face seemed close at hand.

"The March Hare, Alice, or the stars and the Milky Way?"

"Is it your starry night?"

Song Rou suddenly smiled.

"Little Van Gogh."

All the best people are crazy

From Alice in Wonderland.

It was what Dad said to little Alice, and it was what Alice when she grew up said to Mad Hatter.