Delicacy

When get out of class was over in the afternoon, Qin Yuanmu took Lian Xiao out of the classroom on the grounds of inviting him to dinner.Lian Xiao looked helplessly at a few students running away joyfully with basketballs in their arms, and his envy was beyond words.

When he arrived at the cafeteria, Lian Xiao was even more disappointed when he saw Qin Yuanmu treat him to a meal. It turned out to be the cheapest fried noodles.

Qin Yuanmu leaned against the pillar with a smile on his face, and Lian Xiao felt that he was being targeted: "Qin Yuanmu, you have taken up my basketball time, so can't you treat me to something good?"

Qin Yuanmu looked at Lian Xiao's depressed little expression, and the more he looked at it, the happier he felt: "This is called reciprocity. Before you invited me to eat fried noodles, and now I can only give you back this."

"Hey..." Lian Xiao sighed, staring at the oily fried noodles in the pot, his tone was very lonely, "Are you too picky? Are you eating with Wang Ya like this?"

Qin Yuanmu raised his eyebrows: "Why do you keep mentioning Wang Ya? Like her?"

Lian Xiao glared at him: "You are so boring! I care about my classmates. You still say me, you two are so close, she has been missing for a few days, don't you worry?"

Qin Yuanmu chuckled, walked two steps and took out two pairs of chopsticks from the cage: "My teacher told you, Wang Ya is not missing, nor is she playing truant, she is looking for true love."

Lian Xiao frowned tightly: "Why can't I understand what you mean?"

"Stupid, I just went to find Wang Yang." Qin Yuanmu gave Lian Xiao a disgusted look.

Lian Xiao also knew a thing or two about Wang Ya's fart, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't Wang Yang on the other side of the earth? She ran so far alone? No longer going to school?"

Qin Yuanmu looked at Lian Xiao with a tangled expression: "It's not possible to go to the other side of the earth... And why are you so awkward when you say this? Are you embarrassed to say that others don't study? "

Lian Xiao snorted: "Brother's grades, it's more than enough to despise the two of you."

Qin Yuanmu also followed suit and hummed: "Yo, Xueba brother? People call it selfless for love, and it's out of the scope of such low-level issues as whether to learn or not. Who wouldn't want to have a vigorous love at the best age? "

Lian Xiao was very shameless: "I don't want to."

Qin Yuanmu smiled and said, "That means you haven't met the right person yet."

Even though Lian Xiao has talked a lot recently, he is still a clumsy person after all. He didn't know how to refute Qin Yuanmu's fallacy, so he had to change the topic: "The fried noodles are ready, hurry up and swipe your meal card!"

Sitting down with fried noodles, Lian Xiao ate with a look of lovelessness.At this best age, he should be sweating and screaming wantonly on the court at this moment, instead of huddling here like a left-behind child eating unpalatable fried noodles.

As he ate and ate, Lian Xiao became more and more angry: "Hey, since I replaced Wang Ya as your new torture target, do you have to ask me to call Brother Sheng too?"

Qin Yuanmu sneered while picking out the cabbage: "How old are you, do you dare to call me brother?"

Lian Xiao has a serious expression: "I'm a chicken, what about you?"

Qin Yuanmu paused with his chopsticks, and then said naturally: "Oh, then you are not as old as me."

Lian Xiao is smart now: "I remember Wang Ya said that she is a dog. If you call her brother, she should not be as old as her, right?"

Qin Yuanmu put down his chopsticks and smiled: "My little brother is older than you, is that okay?"

"Damn!" Lian Xiao blushed, "What kind of hooligan are you playing in the public? Besides, how do you know that yours is older than mine? You have never seen..."

Qin Yuanmu smiled and said nothing, he had never seen it, but he touched it.Seeing Qin Yuanmu's smile getting weirder and weirder, Lian Xiao decisively ignored him, and ate noodles in silence with his head down.

Qin Yuanmu ate faster, or he threw out more, and Lian Xiao was still eating slowly when he put down his chopsticks.Thinking about having nothing to do, Qin Yuanmu took out his cell phone, thought for a while and dialed Wang Ya's number.

Suddenly thinking of her, Qin Yuanmu also wanted to make a phone call to check if she was all right.

As a result, the cold electronic voice told Qin Yuanmu that Wang Ya had shut down the phone.

Thinking about it, she ran away from home suddenly, her family must be constantly on the phone, and it is normal to shut down the phone.Qin Yuanmu put away his phone and began to observe how Lian Xiao was eating.

Naturally, Lian Xiao didn't have the habit of being a small animal for people to observe. Under the watchful eyes of Qin Yuanmu, he quickly ate up the fried noodles: "I'm full, let's go."

In view of the bad taste of the fried noodles, the two tacitly chose not to send bowls and chopsticks at the same time.

This time is still very early for ordinary students, but for the third year of high school, especially the art students in the third year of high school, it is time to start training.Lian Xiao is clear about this, because when they play basketball every day, the group of sports students on the playground has already started training.Art students are no exception. They have to practice in different classrooms in the art building for the last two classes in the afternoon plus evening self-study. They have everything from vocal music, instrumental music, dance, and fine arts.

As soon as Qin Yuanmu and Lian Xiao entered the art building, they heard the sound of musical instruments coming from different rooms. These sounds, which were not unpleasant at all, mixed together, and there was an inexplicable... feeling of searching for souls with magic sounds.Both of them were ignorant of musical instruments, and they couldn't tell which one was the guzheng and which was the guitar, so they went up to the second floor without stopping.

Compared with the howling ghosts on the first floor, the second floor is much quieter.After walking a few steps along the shady corridor, Qin Yuanmu saw an art classroom through a large glass window.

The students inside were all sitting quietly behind the drawing boards, drawing earnestly on the paper, and occasionally looking up at the still life placed at the front.Tang Qi was also in the classroom, bending over in front of a student, pointing his fingers on the drawing paper, probably correcting him.

Lian Xiao gave a low wow, Qin Yuanmu didn't know what he was good at.

It wasn't until the student Mao Sai nodded suddenly that Tang Qi straightened up in satisfaction and continued to inspect the classroom.

Qin Yuanmu noticed that the layout of the classroom is very bright, but the corners are still very messy. Various plaster statues, still life models, and bundles of old drawing papers are randomly piled up in every corner, and many of them are stained with stains. Paints of various colors.In short, this room is neat and messy, with a bit of artistic atmosphere.

Qin Yuanmu imitated their appearance, staring at the half-headed portrait on the table in a daze. It should be no problem for him to copy it, but if he was asked to draw it in a sketch, he would be helpless if he hadn't learned it.This was the first sight, and Qin Yuanmu felt a deep sense of powerlessness, Huahua was so different from what he had imagined.

Tang Qi in the classroom glanced casually and saw Qin Yuanmu outside the window. Many students who didn't pay attention to the drawing board cast curious eyes, but except for a few girls, the rest He quickly turned his gaze away.

Tang Qi smiled and walked out of the classroom slowly.

"Coming?" Tang Qi, who was under the classroom, had no airs at all, and greeted Qin Yuanmu with a smile like an old friend.

Qin Yuanmu nodded and continued to stare at the scene in the classroom.

Tang Qi rubbed his wrinkled hands on the window, and his tone was a little sad: "Painting is not easy, you have to rely on continuous accumulation. Don't look at them all looking pretty, most of the things they draw are still shit Fortunately, there is still a year to practice."

"Are they going to keep drawing like this from the third class in the afternoon to the self-study next night?" Qin Yuanmu asked in surprise. If so, it would be too tragic, it is simply mental abuse.

Unexpectedly, Tang Qi smiled slightly: "Of course, but this is just the foundation. When the art exam is approaching, in the month before the art exam, apart from eating, sleeping, and going to the toilet, you have to stay inside and draw all day. At that time, basically Every student in the school has the experience of crashing and dropping the drawing board. It's not easy..."

Lian Xiao was speechless: "This is too miserable, isn't it, you won't be allowed to relax all day?"

Tang Qi laughed: "This is how the world is. At least before the college entrance examination, there is equality. If an art student can get into an ideal school with a very low score, he has to pay a lot more than others. It's boring, painful, and collapsed. It’s an essential experience.”

Seeing that Qin Yuanmu was silent, Tang Qi smiled and said to him: "How, are you scared? If you don't want to experience this kind of pain, you should study hard honestly. If you are willing to give it a try, you must persevere .”

Qin Yuanmu could tell from the tired and numb expressions on the faces of these seniors that Tang Qi's words were not scaremongering.If you think about it, you can understand that even if you just sit for a day, you can't stand it, let alone sit and paint for a day when you are so concentrated. That kind of crime is not something that ordinary people can bear.

However, before people really experience pain, they are always blindly optimistic about their own ability to bear it. Qin Yuanmu does not regard whether he can bear this kind of pain as a problem, but is still thinking about whether it is worth it, just like this matter It's not the same as the problem itself.

"If you really like painting, you won't feel pain," Qin Yuanmu said boldly, "I'm not scared by your words, I'm just still thinking about it."

But what Tang Qi thought in his heart, at least on the surface, he showed a look of approval: "Yes, it is worth encouraging young people to have self-confidence. The teacher hopes that you will really think more about this matter, and parents' opinions should also be referred to. , but the most important thing is your own inner thoughts, if you don’t really like this line of work, the teacher doesn’t recommend you to take this path for the sake of exams.”

Qin Yuanmu nodded, and thanked Tang Qi from the bottom of his heart: "Teacher Tang, thank you."

"Thank you, these words are what a teacher should have said." Tang Qi waved his hand with a smile, "If you decide to paint, you can't come here for the time being. After all, it's still early for you, and the culture class is still The focus right now. But you can come to me in your free time, I will teach you simple sketches first, you can practice more at ordinary times, and it will be much easier when you study systematically in the third year of high school."

Qin Yuanmu nodded, not intending to delay Tang Qi's time, so he took Lian Xiao to leave.

Walking out of the art building, it was completely dark.Looking at the brightly lit teaching building not far away, Lian Xiao breathed a sigh of relief: "The ghost story time is finally not delayed."

Qin Yuanmu deliberately didn't want to make him happy, and laughed after hearing this: "I decided not to go back to work at night, because I need a quiet environment to think about my choice. Maybe the store is a good place."

Lian Xiao was lucky: "What about me?"

Qin Yuanmu took it for granted: "Let's go together."

Lian Xiao made a gesture to run: "Why!"

"The answer to this question," Qin Yuanmu smiled and pulled Lian Xiao back, "I should have told you when I invited you to dinner just now."

After half pulling and half pulling, Lian Xiao was dragged by Qin Yuanmu to the small shop downstairs of the dormitory.

There were not many people around the store, but there were quite a few of them. They gathered in twos and threes, smoking and bragging. They seemed to be the last row of warriors in each class.The appearance of Qin Yuanmu's Lian Xiao didn't attract their attention. To them, such things as running away to study at night were simply not worth mentioning.

In the current weather, it will be cool after the sun sets, and without the slightly depressing environment in the classroom, Qin Yuanmu waved his hand in a good mood: "Take whatever you want to eat and drink, brother please."

"Judging from that meal, I doubt the credibility of your words." Lian Xiao muttered in a low voice, and approached the counter of the store suspiciously.

Qin Yuanmu glared at him: "Would you like it?"

"Yes, yes, you have a really big temper." Lian Xiao babbled to pick and choose in the sea of ​​snacks, but in the end he didn't dare to pick any expensive ones, and only took two packs of spicy sticks.

Qin Yuanmu became annoyed when he saw him cowering, and handed over a ten-yuan bill in a haughty manner: "Two more bottles of Coke."

Lian Xiao looked at him: "Farewell, drinking Coke is not good."

Qin Yuanmu smiled and squinted at him: "Don't worry, I can't kill you much."

Lian Xiao felt that talking to Qin Yuanmu was a typical self-inflicted boredom, so he snorted and shut his mouth.Qin Yuanmu took a few more bags of snacks, and took Lian Xiao to find a corner to shrink up.

The sound of unscrewing the soda bottle made the already comfortable night even cooler. Qin Yuanmu drank half of the bottle in one go, just wanting to have a good time.Lian Xiao unwrapped the snacks silently, making chewing sounds like a little hamster.

Qin Yuanmu couldn't see Lian Xiao's face clearly in the dark, and of course Lian Xiao couldn't see him clearly either, so Qin Yuanmu unscrupulously set his eyes on Lian Xiao's outline, his thoughts went astray for some reason, he remembered Scene from that night.

It may be that the long silence made Lian Xiao a little embarrassed, so he forgot the feeling of being bored just now, and started talking to Qin Yuanmu again: "It's getting colder, maybe I will have to add clothes in two weeks."

Qin Yuanmu didn't even bother to say yes, but still stared at Lian Xiao quietly.

"Qin Yuanmu?" Lian Xiao raised his head suspiciously, his big eyes were shining in the darkness, the moment Qin Yuanmu looked at him, he felt nervous that his dirty thoughts were seen through and there was nothing to hide.

However, Qin Yuanmu's tone was as usual: "Can you stop speaking in such an old-fashioned tone? Add clothes, the last time I heard this word was when my grandma was alive."

"Damn it!" Lian Xiao angrily threw the packaged bag that he had eaten up on the ground, "You like to tease me so much? Is it cool to tease me?"

Qin Yuanmu obviously misunderstood, coughed dryly and said: "It's generally cool... let's get down to business, it looks like I won't be able to serve you a plate in the future, what are you going to do in the future?"

After hearing this, Lian Xiao sighed sadly: "Aren't you still pissing me off? What else can I do? There is no art test for chefs in the university... I can only study harder in the future, and the ghost story part will be cancelled!"

"Actually, I think," Qin Yuanmu tried not to irritate Lian Xiao as much as possible, "your grades have nothing to do with the ghost story, and you don't want to memorize this pot ghost story."

Lian Xiao shook his head: "Never mind him, anyway, you have found your way, brother congratulates you first. As for me, let it be like this, do my best and obey the destiny, even if I really can't get into college, at worst I can go home and become a cook. "

Qin Yuanmu nodded, and suddenly laughed: "Lian Xiao, is the topic of college entrance exams something we two skippers should talk about?"

Lian Xiao has already broken the jar: "So what's the matter, can't you talk about it?"

Qin Yuanmu snatched a pack of spicy sticks from Lian Xiao's hand by the faint light in the distance: "Although I haven't made up my mind about painting, I probably will choose this path. You might as well follow me Learn a little, and find an art to practice while you still have time."

"I can't." Lian Xiao shook his head like a rattle, "If I did that, I would definitely not have learned art, and my grades would be even worse. I would not be able to learn those things. I think you are quite suitable for painting. There is a kind of... how should I put it, don't laugh at me, I think you have a kind of cool atmosphere of an artist, which is suitable for painting in a cat's house alone for a day."

Qin Yuanmu gave him a fake kick: "Don't you just say I'm crazy?"

Lian Xiao evaded with a smile: "No, I'm just complimenting you. When I first saw you, I thought you were quite aloof. It's perfect for playing art."

Qin Yuanmu doesn't know what to say, Lian Xiao is... what kind of way is judging people by their appearance?Qin Yuanmu's tone suddenly softened: "I am cold? Then do you want to see my passionate side?"

Lian Xiao couldn't even tell the difference between good and bad words, so he naturally didn't pay attention to the subtle changes in Qin Yuanmu's tone: "What do you mean? Are you going to take the funny route?"

"..." After holding back for a long time, Qin Yuanmu did not show his violent side on the spot, "Lian Xiao, you have not been beaten to death since you grew up, it is really the rule of law society that saved you."

Lian Xiao snorted lightly, expressing that he did not agree with this point of view.

After finishing off the few snacks, Lian Xiao clapped his hands and planned to leave: "Eat and drink, let's go back to the classroom?"

It was indeed a little early to go back to the dormitory at this point, and it was easy to be caught by the patrolling teacher. Qin Yuanmu nodded in agreement, and walked out of the darkness with Lian Xiao.

"I just realized it all of a sudden, why are we hiding here like thieves? I don't know, I thought we were dating..." Lian Xiao muttered behind Qin Yuanmu.

The corners of Qin Yuanmu's mouth twitched, but his tone was weak: "Then you should treat it as a date, or you will panic."