When Lin Tianye was sixteen years old, Ji Shanhai was twenty-six years old.

This year, she entered high school, and her math score was still a mess, and the perfect score changed from 120 to 150, but she should have scored more than 60 points or more than 60 points.

"Reading won't save me. ”

Lin frustrated day and night, he stuffed most of the empty "Five-Three" into the desk, and simply couldn't see it.

Ji Shanhai persuaded her to change her path as an art student, and it was not too late to participate in the art examination training from the summer vacation of her first year of high school.

When Lin Tianye first walked into the studio, he showed an extraordinary talent for art.

The teacher of the intensive training class stood on the podium and wore out his mouth to talk about those boring color theories, hue and brightness contrasting colors and adjacent colors, but Lin Tianye could identify what color it was at a glance, and he would know what color was the best to wear at a glance, and he could use the simplest color to tune it out with three or two strokes.

Her colors are bold, but the picture does not look dirty at all, but bright and transparent, which is a style of its own.

The teacher of the intensive training class is a retired old lady from the Academy of Fine Arts, and when Ji Shanhai came to pick her up after class on the first day, the old lady excitedly praised this little girl who had learned the cultural class so badly.

"This child's sense of color and structure control is very good, and it is difficult for many art students who have been training for three or five years to achieve her level. ”

Lin Tianye has never been praised by the teacher like this since he was a child, and even the most handy essay he wrote in the past was criticized by the Chinese teacher as useless. The college entrance examination prefers a stable and standardized argumentative essay rather than a vivid narrative or prose that Lin is good at.

Ji Shanhai nodded frequently, and with a look of honor, he raised his hand to rub Lin Tianye's hair, but his hand fell down restrainedly and unnaturally.

Lin returned home happily day and night, but Lin Xiaonian looked embarrassed.

The expenses of art students are far from comparable to those of ordinary cultural students, and Lin Xiaonian cannot afford to support an art student.

Over the years, she has worked hard to earn confidence for Lin Tianye's future. Ji Shanhai is not related to them, she can't tolerate that she and her daughter are like silk flowers, relying on others to live with peace of mind.

He's helped them enough.

Ji Shanhai sent her money every month, but Lin Xiaonian barely touched the money in the card except for the most difficult time when Lin was born.

The fire burning in Lin Tianye's heart cooled down little by little, she has been a sensible child since she was a child, and she knows what she can ask for and what she can't.

"Actually...... I didn't like it very much. She said softly.

Lin Xiaonian saw that the light in his daughter's eyes dimmed little by little, and his heart became more and more uncomfortable.

But she didn't have the time, let alone the money, to send her to the training camp.

"I'll cover all her expenses," Ji Shanhai said in a deep voice, "I'll just be responsible for all the pick-up." ”

Lin Xiaonian was stunned in place for a few seconds, and nodded tiredly for a while.

At that moment, she felt that all the hard work she had worked so hard over the years was meaningless, and she still had to rely on Ji Shanhai for her daughter's future.

......

Ji Shanhai began to pick up Lin to the studio day after day, rain or shine.

The sixteen-year-old girl, who had grown into a big girl, put her sketchpad in the back seat, fastened her seat belt and sat in his passenger seat to peek at him quietly.

The sundress makes her collarbone and shoulder blades clearly exposed, and every time Ji Shanhai sees it, he always unconsciously slides his Adam's apple and silently looks away.

Lin would lean back on the seat in the car day and night, chatting with interest about the interesting things that happened in the studio.

"Brother, I am the first in the same period in today's assessment!"

"Brother, there was a cat that followed me during the lunch break at noon today, and I broke a small piece of ham sausage for it, I don't know if it can eat it. ”

"Brother, it seems that my table mate will not be able to come tomorrow, and she will go back to continue her cultural class. ”

"Brother......

Ji Shanhai put one hand on the steering wheel, listened patiently, and occasionally replied with a sentence or two, but more often than not, Lin was talking day and night.

"Brother, there's actually something I've wanted to ask you for a long time. ”

The car came to a slow stop in front of the zebra crossing, and the red light in front of it was a full 90 seconds.

Lin Tianye took a deep breath and continued, "Why haven't you changed?"

Ji Shanhai was silent for a while, calmly trying to get by: "You haven't changed." ”

Lin Tianye shook his head: "You obviously know what I want to say." ”

The signal light in front turned green, Ji Shanhai stepped on the accelerator and didn't speak for a long time.

She turned her head, "You've been the same since I started remembering. ”

Lin grew up day by day, and the small ball of milk grew into a slim girl. Lin Xiaonian is getting older day by day, the corners of her eyes have fine lines, there are more white nasolabial folds in her black hair, and the tear troughs are faintly deepening.

But Ji Shanhai didn't, he was still tall and straight, and his eyebrows were still deep, like a green pine standing in a snow-capped mountain.

"You're not getting old at all. Lin said firmly day and night.

After a long, long time, when Lin Tianye thought that Ji Shanhai didn't plan to tell her at all, he silently rolled up the window and parked the car on the side of the road.

"Yes, you're right," Ji Shanhai turned his head and looked her straight into the eyes, "I don't have the ability to age. ”

He wandered through the world, time stayed in place, and the years did not leave any trace on his body.

Ji Shanhai imagined how Lin would react when he heard this, surprised, suspicious, or incredulous?

Does she feel like a monster, does she feel creepy about the past ten years or so with her?

But Lin didn't day and night.

"That must be lonely, right?"

“...... What?"

"You must be lonely watching the people around you live and die one after another, experiencing life and death countless times. ”

Lin Tianye looked into his eyes intently and said softly.

Ji Shanhai saw his own shadow in her eyes.

His heart trembled slightly, and then he shook his head with a smile: "It's good to get used to it." ”

The pointer on the dashboard slid slowly, and Ji Shanhai restarted the car and drove into a nearby gas station.

He opened the car door smoothly: "I'll go refuel, you wait for me in the car for a while." ”

Has he always been like this on his own?

Lin looked at his back as he left alone, and he didn't know why he suddenly felt sad.