"Why, the dim sum you made with your own hands is a priceless treasure, and I can't bear to eat it. Katte quipped.

"Priceless treasure, then if I make more, won't I be able to take more gifts from you?" Tong Ran gradually relaxed in the face of Katte's joke, and said with a smile.

If I could eat the snacks you made every day, I thought to myself, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of my mouth.

Tong Ran lowered his head to drink tea, and the light fragrance of tea with temperature permeated between his lips and teeth, making Tong Ran, who had been blown all the way by the autumn wind, feel a trace of warmth.

This is the first time Tong Ran has come to the place where Katte lives, and Katte's home is very different from the Yi family. The Yi family is actually very traditional, so that Tong Ran always feels that he lives in a family in old Shanghai during the Republic of China, and it is full of the collision of modernity and tradition. Katte's home, on the other hand, is like a small art gallery, with many carvings and carvings in addition to the beautiful paintings that can be seen everywhere.

Tong Ran looked at the works in Katte's house with great interest and praised: "These paintings and statues are so beautiful. ”

"If you like it, I can give it to you. Katte said.

Tong Ran tilted his head curiously and looked at Katte and asked, "Do you like to give gifts?"

Katte groaned in thought and said, "If that person is you, yes." ”

Tong Ran said with a smile: "In this case, one day I will take Jia Frame to blackmail you, I am responsible for choosing, and he is responsible for pulling you home." ”

"It seems that the Yi Group is going to go out of business in his hands, otherwise the dignified young master and young grandmother of the Yi family can actually look at the tattered things in my thatched hut. Katte raised an eyebrow and said deliberately.

Tong Ran rolled his eyes, the person who gave someone a seven-figure necklace as soon as he made a move, was actually embarrassed to say that his home was a burrow. Where the hell is this house?

"Forget it, I can't afford to sell any of your oil paintings. ”

Katte disagreed: "I spend it myself, it's worthless." ”

Hearing Katte's words, Tong Ran was very surprised, and she asked in a somewhat unbelievable voice, "You painted this?!"

Katte nodded, propped her hands on her chest, and looked at Tong Ran with a smile, like a child waiting for praise in front of her parents: "Are you surprised?"

Katte's profession is a well-known fashion designer. It's only natural to be able to paint oil and draw well.

"Surprise is a little, surprise is no. Tong Ran said, "I just didn't expect that these were all painted by you." ”

Not only is it well drawn, but it is also prolific. Tong Ran looked at the works that could be seen everywhere on the wall and was amazed.

"My parents were very fond of art and had great expectations for me from a young age. Since I started studying oil painting, all the works have been well preserved by them, so it is not surprising to look at many of them. Katte explains.

Tong Ran was even more curious, she pointed to the blooming rose on the wall and asked, "When did you paint this painting?"

Katte looked at Tong Ran and replied, "When I was 8 years old." ”

"Eight years old?!" Tong Ran's eyes widened, she was still playing with mud when she was eight years old, okay!"The difference between people and people......" Tong Ran couldn't help but sigh, and even looked at Katte with admiration.

Seeing this, Katte took the opportunity to ask further, "Do you want me to show you around my studio?"

"It's a great honor. Tong Ran readily agreed, although she didn't have any artistic cells, but she was still very happy to appreciate beautiful things.

Katte's studio is located in the attic, starting from the staircase on the first floor and continuing to the attic on the top floor, each floor is hung with a different oil painting by Katte. As if guiding the way, he guided Tong Ran and Katte all the way to the door of the attic's studio.

Katte said as she opened the door, "The studio is a bit messy, don't worry. ”

Tong Ran nodded and followed Katte into the studio.

The studio was not as messy as Katte said, just an empty attic, with an easel in the center near the window, and a number of white cloth frames placed on cabinets around the attic, and many white frames were placed randomly against the wall.

Tong Ran walked up to the easel, and on the canvas was a half-drawn autumn scene. Tong Ran looked at the painting and praised: "It's so beautiful." ”

As soon as I turned my head, I saw the open window, through which the always empty highway could be seen, and the woods beyond.

Tong Ran turned back to Katte and asked, "Is this painting a landscape of the woods opposite?"

Katte nodded, "Well, I was halfway through the drawing and I didn't expect to see you." ”

"Looks like I'm disturbing the artist's artistic creations!" said the playful Katte wink.

Katte spread her hands and looked like she was going to collect a debt: "So how are you going to compensate me?"

"I didn't send you snacks, you can't be too greedy. Tong Ran looked at Katte and spoke earnestly.

"That snack is obviously a return gift for the previous necklace, one yard to one yard. Seeing that someone was about to mess around, Katte had to warn him.

"Cut, why do you know it so clearly!" Tong Ran directly lied, "Besides, I wanted to send a snack and go back, but you took the initiative to invite me to come to your house to disturb you!"

Faced with Tong Ran, who began to play tricks, Katte was helpless, and smiled with a doting face: "Okay, okay, what you say is what you say, it's my fault, I don't concentrate on painting but find someone to chat." ”

"It's pretty much the same!~" In the face of Katte's softness, Tong Ran became proud. But he soon discovered his "arrogance", and he simply didn't treat himself as an outsider!

Tong Ran's slightly embarrassed gaze swept away, and he happened to see the picture frame in the corner of the wall covered by a white cloth, and changed the topic and asked, "What is that?

As he spoke, he stepped forward in three steps and two steps, and reached out and ripped the white cloth from the picture frame.

"Wait, don't touch!" Katte stopped Tong Ran when she saw Tong Ran reach out and take it, but she was still a step too slow, and Tong Ran had already ripped off the white cloth, revealing the oil painting.

It was a finished painting of the protagonist standing by the bridge, her long hair blown by the sea breeze, and the dappled night scene behind her.

The content of this painting is very familiar, Tong Ran thought to himself, not only the content is familiar, but even the people on the painting are also familiar.

Familiar enough that she had just stood in the studio, reaching out to unveil it.

“……”

“……”

Tong Ran let go of his hand and re-covered the barrier that had originally covered the painting: "I didn't mean to. ”

Katte's lips were pursed into a straight line, and no expression could be seen on her face, which made Tong Ran's heart even more worried. In addition to embarrassment, it was still embarrassing, Tong Ran once again hated why he was so cheap!

"I was supposed to give it to you as a birthday present three days later, but it looks like it was revealed ahead of schedule. After a brief silence, Katte sighed and said helplessly.

Tong Ran bowed his head silently and did not speak.

"Would you like to get the gift back now?" asked Katte again in order to break the eerie atmosphere.

"Katte, is this painting really a birthday present you want to give me?" asked rhetorically, without answering Katte's question.

Katte didn't speak, and quietly listened to Tong Ran continue.

"I'm sorry katte, I can't take it. Tong Ran looked up at Katte and said flatly.

Tong Ran could tell that this painting was not a recent painting by Katte. It had been stacked there for a long time, so long that when Tong Ran lifted it, it raised a layer of dust. The lock on this painting is the scene when Tong Ran was thrown by Yi Jiajiao on the cross-sea bridge. And that day, she took Katte's hitchhike twice, once to see Wang Zimu, and once to Katte to pick her up and go home. If Tong Ran was not mistaken, this painting should have been painted shortly after that.

"What you said is unacceptable, is it this oil painting, or something else?" Katte's expression on his face also became serious, he looked at Tong Ran, and said with a serious face, so that Tong Ran couldn't help but say the following words.

However, Tong Ran still said it. She exhaled deeply, looking directly at Katte's gaze, "All." ”

Katte is not unaware of her feelings, but she loves Yi Jiajiao. For Katte, for Tong Ran, it is more like a good friend to talk to, Tong Ran is not like making himself and Katte more and more awkward and estranged, only to make everything clear.

Katte didn't speak for a long time, but finally sighed deeply, "Are we still friends?"

"I've always considered you a friend. Tong Ran replied.

Hearing Tong Ran's words, Katte had a sarcastic smile on her face, Tong Ran had been treating him as a friend since the first day she met him, and nothing else.

"Since you regard me as a friend, then you can't stop accepting the birthday gift I gave you. ”

Tong Ran glanced at the painting again, and said lightly: "Of course I will accept the birthday gift given to me by my friend, but are you sure that it is the birthday gift you prepared for me?"

Katte was silent again, this painting was certainly not a birthday present for Tong Ran. In fact, Tong Ran did not guess wrong, this painting was indeed painted by Katte that night after taking Tong Ran back to Yi's house.

If you ask Katte when she had a different affection for Tong Ran, it would probably be that time.

The first time he met Tong Ran in his studio, Tong Ran's every move surprised him, because Tong Ran was not as scheming as the outside world rumored, admitting that he paid too much attention to Tong Ran, but Katte only thought that it was just a concern for his friend Yi Jiajiao.

The second time we met, Katte already had a deep understanding of everything about Tong Ran, and it was an accident to meet Tong Ran halfway, probably eager to judge whether Tong Ran was really as the survey data said through his own observations, so that Katte, who has never been nosy, took the initiative to let Tong Ran hitchhike.

On more than one occasion, Katte thought that he must have gone crazy, otherwise how could he be in a state of near-obsession with such a woman who was not even familiar. While he disdained to admit Tong Ran's attraction to him, he deliberately appeared in front of Tong Ran again and again to confirm it. In the end, even Katte himself didn't know that it was in the process of this constant confirmation that he fell into it.