Ouyang Yuyou was carrying a big shoulder bag, which contained a soft leather notebook, a camera and other things to record learning, she thought that learning was the same as when she was in school, sitting in a proper manner, listening carefully.

As a result, as soon as he got out of the elevator, he saw Yan Lao coming out of the house, he was wearing an off-white fisherman's hat, dressed casually and comfortably, took a wooden-handled umbrella, and went out with Ouyang Yuyou without saying a word.

She didn't dare to say much, when she was studying abroad in the past, the professors of the art college were also like this, they often had whimsical ideas and took students out to collect style, but looking at Yan Lao's outfit, it was about like going fishing.

After walking for a long time, he didn't take a ride, as if he was just hanging out, Ouyang Yuyou followed behind and thought, maybe the masters are so weird.

I didn't expect Yan Lao, who looked elegant and elegant, to be like Ji Linchuan said, very good at gambling, when passing by the overpass, someone put a chess board on the side, and there were people standing around, only to see a white paper signboard that said that he won three hundred.

Yan Lao stopped inside, spent twenty minutes, and finally won the money from the man, and left very satisfied.

Leave a shock.

Ouyang Yuyou was simply dumbfounded, just because she had heard Uncle Chen say that this kind of chess game on the street is all about cheating money, and she didn't know exactly how to cheat, and naturally she didn't know whether Yan Lao was a chess master, or if he had seen through this kind of game-setting method.

Yan Lao's posture of waving his sleeves and leaving is quite the style of a hermit, as if he just came to the downtown for a walk.

Seeing her doubts, Yan Lao smiled and said: "There used to be a young man who was very good at chess, and he mentioned to me that there are these chess games in China, but this is the first time I have seen it today, and it is really like he said, not very smart." ”

Ouyang Yuyou remembered that Uncle Ji and his father also loved to play chess in the past, and Uncle Chen was even more addicted, and he would also play with the two boys in the family, but Ji Linchuan didn't like it, saying that it was too dull and boring.

Chen Jiatang is the only one who is very proficient, and by adulthood, he is already a well-known chess master in the neighborhood.

When Ouyang Yuyou came back to her senses, Yan Lao bought a sugar-fried chestnut on the side of the street, turned around and put it in her hand, it was hot through the paper bag, and it was steaming with a simple and thick fragrance.

It was that familiar taste that reminded her of her father, if he was still alive, he should be about the same age as Yan Lao, and he often bought chestnuts for her to eat.

In a blink of an eye, Yan Lao took her on the bus, thinking that she was going fishing, but she came to the flower market.

A street of European-style buildings, the small shops on both sides are full of potted plants of each family at the door, and the fragrance of flowers on the face is indistinguishable whether it is narcissus or jasmine, and various fragrances are mixed together.

Ouyang Yuyou rarely goes out, Yan Lao asked her the names of many potted plants, she knew that she had raised them on the balcony, and most of them had never been seen in the market.

Yan Lao occasionally squatted down and taught her to identify various flowers and plants, and observed the characteristics of the inflorescence arrangement in the center, Ouyang Yuyou knew for the first time that the leaf type of each plant also changed, alternate, opposite, rotational, and clustered.

Yan Lao told her how to extract concrete design inspiration and how to combine elements to create.

Inadvertently, Yan Lao has already taught a lot of rare experience.

Yan Lao said, "Most of the figurative designs are found from nature, I have seen your design drawings, you have enough knowledge, if you can know how to extract inspiration from all things in life, it will make up for your shortcomings." ”

In a word, Ouyang Yuyou's life experience is shallow, and so far, most of the knowledge that can be used is the knowledge accumulated when studying abroad, and when he heard Yan Lao's words, Fang nodded in understanding.

When she was on the way, Yan Lao asked why she did jewelry design in the first place.

She thought for a while and said: "At first, I just designed a few bracelets, the company introduced by my friend, the price was not expensive, the above was just an ordinary rhinestone inlay, and gradually there were companies to make appointments, to be honest, until now I feel that I am not a real designer." ”

Yan Lao said, "In this industry, good design will only be used in the more expensive jewelry, there is no priceless gem setting, you are willing to spend all your effort to do design, this is very valuable, your skills are not bad, Mr. Ji is doing raw material development, the future will be good." ”

Speaking of Ji Linchuan, Ouyang Yuyou smiled slightly, and he didn't know if he got off the plane? What are you doing now? Thinking about it, he was distracted.

Yan Lao suddenly said, "You are very lucky. ”

Ouyang Yuyou only then noticed that Yan Lao was looking at the ring on her hand.

Yan Lao said, "This kind of benitoite from San Benito County, California, USA, the quantity is pitiful, even if he is a gemstone development, but he can take out two wedding rings of this size, the design is simple and unassuming, Mr. Ji also spent a lot of thought, do you think you are very lucky?"

Ouyang Yu looked at her middle finger, faintly emitting a blue-purple light, remembering that the first time Ji Linchuan gave her was a yellow diamond pigeon egg, because she disliked it too heavy and inconvenient, she refused to wear it, so Ji Linchuan replaced it with this ring that was not too big.

She just looks very pleasing to the eye, and she doesn't know its origin and value, maybe only a knowledgeable person like Yan Lao can see it, after all, few people stare at her ring.

Yan Lao said: "There are many big bosses who are worth a lot of money, who have come to me to design wedding rings, and I asked them, do you have any requirements for rings? Listen, how ridiculous, no matter how valuable my Yan Gui's name is, it can't be worth his lifelong marriage, although the ring is small, but wearing it will bring a sense of ritual to life. ”

Ritualistic?

Ouyang Yuyou recalled that he had taken it off several times and put it in a mess, but was picked up by Ji Linchuan, because he almost didn't fight with her for this, he always warned her that if she dared to lose such a valuable thing, she would strangle her, and forced her to wear it to get used to it, and never took it off again.

I always thought he was distressed that the ring was expensive.

Yan Lao took her to visit her friend's studio again, kneading clay, making leather goods, and carving wood carvings, all of which were new and interesting to her.

Yan Lao's friend's surname is Yang, she wears reading glasses, comes to Ouyang Yuyou's side, personally demonstrates the skills of pottery, on the rotating round platform, a pair of slightly fine lines of hands like a skilled dancer, flexibly on the work to complete the work.

Ouyang Yuyou wanted to make a slender vase, the clay was soft and delicate to the touch, and Yan Lao and his old friend sat on the terrace chair outside and chatted.

They sat not far away, and the voice came faintly.

Ouyang Yuyou didn't deliberately listen, but she could occasionally hear a sentence or two.

"Lao Yan, you've been on vacation for most of the year, and I've always heard that you've come back recently, but I still don't believe it. ”

Yan Lao said, "I didn't plan to come back, Tongtong, this child is erratic, she rarely contacts me, but she can't come here." ”

"Yan Tong has been back for a long time, isn't she?"

Yan Lao sighed and said, "She is willing to work now, and she hasn't mentioned that person again, which is somewhat a good sign, hey, it's a piece of her heart, and it's not easy to ......get better."

The turntable in Ouyang Yuyou's hand kept spinning, and Yan Lao's sigh floated in his ears, and he was suddenly a little curious, people like Yan Tong would also have heart disease?

When he went back, Yan Lao chose to take the subway, the roaring train stopped, Yan Lao stood in front, walked in first with a wooden handle umbrella, it didn't rain all day, Yan Lao probably used the umbrella as a crutch.

The two found a place to sit side by side, Yan Lao came out of his old friend, his face was melancholy, his sunken eye sockets and nasolabial folds on his cheeks looked very dignified, Ouyang Yu didn't know the site, he was afraid that he had sat down and stood up, Yan Lao Yan Lao shouted a few times, and he came back to his senses, "What's wrong with you?"

He rubbed his eyelids and came back to his senses and said, "Oh...... remembered what happened in Tongtong before. ”

The relationship between father and daughter is about the same. Ouyang Yuyou said, "The first time I saw Miss Yan was at an auction, when she went to auction a brooch, and I heard that it was your work?"

Yan Lao recalled for a while, and said, "Yes, it was more than 20 years ago, I didn't have a reputation at that time, I opened my own studio, and that brooch was the first work I sold with a facial mark." Yan Lao said with a smile: "I remember that it was a middle-aged man who bought it at the time, and he said to buy it back and give it to his daughter." I asked him how old his daughter was, and he said that he had just been born, and he was a little embarrassed, saying that he wanted to buy her everything beautiful and wear it when she grew up. ”

Yan Lao turned his face and said, "I especially understand his mood of being a father. In a blink of an eye, I almost forgot about this thing. But just five or six years ago, a young man came to me and said that he wanted me to design another wave-shaped brooch that was exactly the same as the original. ”

Ouyang Yuyou asked, "What happened later?"

"Later, that young man came to grind me every three or five days, he can play chess, and he is very interesting, Tongtong likes him very much. Yan Lao shook his head and sighed, "It's a pity, they are not suitable, that young man never came back later, but Tongtong has a strong personality, and he has been chasing him to China two years ago." ”

"So, Miss Yan has been in China?" she bought the brooch at auction because of the person, not because of Yan Lao.

Yan Lao nodded and said, "She has been staying here and has never been back." “

Ouyang Yuyou frowned, a little puzzled.

I clearly remember the time I sent Yan Tong back to her residence, she said that she had just returned to China and had not bought a car yet.

But the fact is that she stays here all the time?

Why is she lying?

Just thinking about it, Ouyang Yuyu's afterglow was keenly aware of a pair of eyes, and he was looking here not far away.

She looked at her suspiciously.

At the junction of the two rocking carriages, there stood a familiar person, who looked at her without a trace of surprise in his eyes, as if he had been looking at her for a long time.

Ouyang Yuyou retracted her gaze, her eyes stunned.

Yan Lao got up and said, "It's time to stand." ”

Ouyang Yuyou glanced back at that position again, and the person was gone.

Yan Lao is the old building area, the surrounding trees are particularly dense, the roadside is sprinkled with hibiscus flowers, the flowers are white in the morning, turn pink in the afternoon, and the flowers close in the evening, and turn into crimson again, at this time it is already full of wilting red residual flowers.

Yan Lao gave her a few manuscripts and asked her to take them back for study.

Leaving Yan Lao's residence, not long after he walked to the intersection, the branches began to sway in the wind, and there were a few thunderous sounds, and it rained heavily in an instant.

remembered that Yan Lao took an umbrella for a day, but he didn't expect it to rain......

She ran to stand under the tree, anxiously stopping the car, when suddenly someone pulled her and said, "Why don't you have any common sense?"