The Great Earthquake (Novella Marriage Romance Novel) Zhang Baotong

The next morning, Ye Nan followed her mother-in-law out of the hospital and came to a makeshift tent on the edge of the city. There is only a small table and two small stools in the tent of the pen ~ fun ~ www.biquge.info pavilion, and a sofa bed, which seems to have been picked up from the ruins of the earthquake. Then there were two rice bowls and a basin, the new ones, as if they had just been bought. Although the things in front of him were so simple, they made Ye Nan feel cordial and stable, and he felt like he was going home.

In front of the tent there was a pot cover made of a few bricks, and the mother-in-law lit some collected firewood and began to cook and stir-fry. Soon, a small pot of rice and a small plate of water spinach were placed on the small table. Ye Nan was indeed a little hungry, so he ate it with a small bowl. He felt it was the most fragrant meal he had ever had. After the meal, as soon as the mother-in-law washed the dishes, she let him stay in the tent to rest, and went out with a small bag by herself.

Ye Nan stayed in the house for a while, feeling bored, so he wanted to go out for a walk, first to buy some pens and paper in the market, and then to go out for a walk. Ye Nan came to the nearby riverside, there is a small market here, there are more small merchants and hawkers, and things are cheaper, so every evening, it is particularly lively here. However, after the earthquake, the riverside market was obviously much more depressed, and there were only a few small vendors in the whole market who were engaged in snack business and a few small vendors who were interested in local products. Although there are many people in the market, almost all of them come here from other places for sightseeing and tourism.

The most common sight seen in the market are vendors with small bags surrounding or stopping those who come here for tourism and sightseeing. Ye Nan had just bought a brush and some paper from a small shop when he was stopped by a middle-aged woman and asked him if he wanted a disc. Ye Nan thought she was selling pornographic discs, so she waved her hand in disgust. But the man said, "Buy a plate, it's very memorable." As he spoke, he handed a disc printed with "Earthquake Forbidden Scene" to Ye Nan. Ye Nan took the disc and looked at it, and saw the head of a girl who had been smashed and deformed printed on the cover of the disc, and his heart couldn't help but tremble. He felt that this kind of image made him more disgusting and disgusted than that kind of explicit pornography, so he said, "Don't, don't." But the middle-aged woman still didn't let him go, saying, "This disc is thirty yuan a plate, but I only ask you for twenty-five yuan." ”

Before Ye Nan returned the disc to the middle-aged woman, a few chengguan personnel with red armbands walked over from not far away, and the middle-aged woman couldn't care about bargaining with Ye Nan anymore, picked up the disc and turned around, and disappeared into the crowd.

Walking quickly to the exit of the market, Ye Nan saw that the sidewalk was full of people, Ye Nan thought it was a car accident, so he got into the crowd and looked inside. The scene in front of him surprised Ye Nan: it turned out that her elderly mother-in-law was sitting on the ground crying. Ye Nan hurriedly went over to help her mother-in-law up, and asked loudly angrily who bullied her mother-in-law. The mother-in-law wiped her tears and said that her discs and packets had been taken away by the chengguan staff. When Ye Nan heard this, he immediately became angry and said, "That person, I'll go find him." The mother-in-law was afraid that Ye Nan would cause trouble, so she pulled Ye Nan home while crying.

My mother-in-law had just wholesaled 10 discs from the wholesale store for 200 yuan in the morning, and only one was sold, so she had people take it away with the bag and disc. When I got home, my mother-in-law didn't even cook, so she sat on the sofa frowning and was stunned. Ye Nan knew that her mother-in-law didn't have much money in the first place, and such a loss would definitely hit her hard. He wanted to persuade his mother-in-law, but he didn't know how.

In fact, Ye Nan has a lot of ideas about her mother-in-law engaging in this kind of business. He didn't want the Wenchuan people to take advantage of the concern and sympathy of outsiders to peddle this kind of disc, nor did he want that nightmarish scene and image to be reproduced in front of people's eyes. However, for those like their mother-in-law, who have lost their livelihood and financial resources, there seems to be no other way for them. Seeing her mother-in-law so sad and uncomfortable, Ye Nan felt that she had the responsibility to help her mother-in-law.

The next morning, Ye Nan and her mother-in-law went out together after breakfast and came to the riverside market. At this time, the sun had just come out, and it was shining brightly on the river. Ye Nan set up an easel and a small stool under a big tree by the river, and began to practice painting against the scenery on the shore. The mother-in-law continued to run her small business with a small bag. But there were only one or two discs in the small bag, and after they were sold, they came to Ye Nan's painting bag to pick them up, even if they were caught by the urban management personnel, the loss was not big.

Painting is very familiar to Ye Nan, it was a hobby before going to college, and a major after graduating from college. His profession and his fame, and even his love and marriage are closely related to painting. However, when he picked up the brush again and faced the drawing board, he did not even have the slightest confidence. Because his right arm is crippled, and his left hand is not only unable to draw, but also has difficulty holding a pen.

The first picture he painted was a tent under a big tree on the other side. The tent was made of striped cloth and looked very rudimentary. In front of the tent there was some firewood, grass and sundries, and some washed clothes were dried. However, he added a bamboo bed in front of the tent, and an elderly man sat on the bamboo bed. The old man sat alone and sluggishly on the bamboo bed, and a dog lay beside him, looking at the old man with concern. After finishing the painting, he gave the painting a theme called "After the Earthquake".

However, when he put down his brush and began to look at it with professional eyes, he felt very frustrated and disappointed: this is painting, it is simply a child's graffiti. So he immediately took the painting off the board in anger and tore it to pieces, and then drew a second one, but the second one still didn't look like it, so he tore it up and drew a third. After several days of painting, he was still not satisfied.

He had never felt so difficult to draw. He wondered if he was a little old and no longer had the same talent and mental strength as before, or maybe this kind of difficult art was not something that his left hand could take on and compete. Thinking like this, he lamented that his artistic career was over, and there was no hope. So, he threw his pen to the ground and sat down on the grass under the big tree, never wanting to draw again.

After a while, the mother-in-law jumped over from the market and showed Ye Nan a red ticket of 100 yuan. Ye Nan knew that he could only earn five yuan by selling a disc, and it seemed that there were still seven or eight of the ten discs that were wholesaled in the morning. Therefore, seeing his mother-in-law holding a hundred-yuan bill, Ye Nan felt very puzzled, and said in confusion, "Mom met the God of Wealth, right?"

The mother-in-law said excitedly, "It's not that I've met the God of Wealth, but I've met someone who bought your paintings." Ye Nan was stunned unconsciously and said, "Who else do I want this painting?" because he felt that the painting he painted was too simple, just like a child's painting. And those paintings painted by talented students who graduated from art academies can buy one for only twenty or thirty yuan.

But the mother-in-law said, "The person who bought the painting was a young and beautiful woman who drove a new car, and she looked like a rich person." The mother-in-law took a sip of mineral water, and then said, "I just took a disc from you, and when I walked to the intersection of the market, I saw a car parked next to me, and then a woman came out of the car. I think she wanted the disc, so I took it out and showed it to her. But she didn't ask for my disc, but she looked at the painting of the disc and said she wanted to buy it. I said it didn't cost money. But she said that the painting was so good that she couldn't do it without money, so she gave me a hundred yuan. Before leaving, she said that I would bring her a painting every other day. As soon as Ye Nan heard this, he smiled and said, "I'm afraid this person has too much money to spend." ”

Since the paintings he painted can be sold for money, Ye Nan has the interest and motivation to paint again. He knew that he was not learning to paint, but creating. Therefore, every stroke must be carefully crafted to ensure quality, and then inscribe some words, stamp it, and hand it to the mother-in-law. My mother-in-law took the painting, and she carefully put it in a piece of paper and sent it to the intersection in front of the market every other day, waiting for someone to pick it up.

Because his paintings can be sold for money, Ye Nan feels that his life and work have become fulfilling, although the unit leader sent someone to ask him to go back to the unit to work, but he feels that the unit is busy with reconstruction work all day long, and he is disabled, so he can't do anything, so he didn't go. However, that morning, the unit notified him to go through the registration procedures for incumbents.

After completing the formalities, I chatted with my colleagues in the unit for a while, and remembered that my mother-in-law still needed my own help, so I left the unit in a hurry. When we walked to the riverside market, it was close to noon. At this time, Ye Nan saw her mother-in-law holding a painting in her hand from a distance, standing at the intersection and waiting for someone. He bought a bottle of mineral water to bring to his mother-in-law.

Just then, he saw a black sedan parked in front of his mother-in-law. Then, a young woman stepped out of the car. The woman wore a pale yellow dress, and her long, slightly curly hair was beautifully draped behind her. may be a famous car, which makes her bearing and identity more graceful and noble.

She said hello to her mother-in-law, took the painting from her mother-in-law's hand, looked at it carefully for a while, and then, while smiling and talking to her mother-in-law, she took out two red tickets from a delicate little leather bag and handed them to her mother-in-law. But the mother-in-law felt that the woman had given too much money, and insisted on only charging 100 yuan. However, the young woman insisted on putting 200 yuan in her mother-in-law's hand, and then opened the car door.

Watching the young woman get into the car and gradually disappear into the distance while driving, Ye Nan couldn't help but burst into tears, because the woman he saw was Cui Meiying, the woman he loved and hated the most in his life.