After arriving at the location indicated on the invitation, Li Yunqing and Dante were a little surprised: it turned out that the wedding was taking place in a small resort. Seeing the signboard of the resort from afar, Dante was thrilled and felt a kind of remorse for his recklessness: I still shouldn't have come! This place is not a park or a restaurant on the street, and the surveillance camera inside has recorded his face, so what will happen if it will affect the work of the group in the future? Unexpectedly, the moment the car drove into the "village", he found that there were no cameras at the gate or on the fence. Further inside, there were no surveillance devices or signs in his eyes that he swept around quickly. However, through the glass of one of the houses, you can glimpse that the banner with the words "Opening Reward" has not been removed. Dante judged that the resort had only been open for a long time, and the owner was lazy or trying to save money, so he did not install monitoring equipment for the time being.

Although the "village" is not large, the corresponding facilities are also readily available, but unfortunately although it is a weekend, whether it is a villa building, or a tea room, a swimming pool, a gym and other leisure and entertainment places in the resort, it is very deserted, and there are not many people to see. I don't know if it's the off-season for tourists, or if the regulars don't dare to come now.

The only exception is the large auditorium located in the backyard. This large ceiling brick house that reminds Dante of the university cafeteria is plastered with gold and red, and from a distance, it looks like it has been repainted by these two dazzling colors, but the combination of the two is not harmonious, like a pile, Li Yunqing and Dante invariably feel the strong atmosphere of the old wealth when they look closer. There is a conspicuous sign erected at the front entrance of the auditorium, and the red paper on it is written vertically with a brush: "Mr. Zheng Haohui and Miss Jia Yan have been together for a hundred years." ”

The interior of the auditorium is much simpler than the outside, but once you enter, you can see the bouquets of flowers lining up on both sides of the aisle and the word "囍" glued on the walls all the way to the main hall that served as the wedding scene. Dante kept the same distance from Li Yunqing as she had dinner that night, and like her attendants, she watched the staff in different uniforms in the aisle serving dishes, carrying tables and chairs, and busily walking around, making the aisle, which was quite wide, a little crowded.

"Why don't they have wedding photos?" The two signed at the door and left a red envelope, and soon after entering the main hall, Li Yunqing's casual question seemed to give Dante some kind of reminder - strange.

While still in the aisle, a large part of his attention was inevitably drawn to the sound of singing—nay, bursting out of the main hall. Dante certainly can't be named, but it's not tactful or solemn, but a fast-paced, hysterical foreign-language rock song, much like the one looped in a fast-food restaurant or a big supermarket. Fortunately, the volume is not turned on too much, otherwise it will give the illusion of being in a rock concert. Mr. Zheng Haohui and Miss Jia Yan are not a pair of children's song fans, right?

Follow the rock music to the door of the main hall, look inside, the decoration of the scene seems to be nothing special on the whole, and the wedding form common in the well-off families in the city is as gorgeous as this year. "Hello two, may I ask who you are......" "Ah, hello, we are from the groom's side...... Friend. "Oh, then this way, please. They were greeted by a man in a suit with black-rimmed glasses, certainly not a waitress at the resort, but a relative or friend of the newlyweds, helping to keep the ceremony in order. The large round tables used to entertain guests were covered with golden tablecloths and were divided into two rows by a long red carpet, with a small sign with the word "bride" written on it in the center of each table in one row, and the other row was naturally the "groom". "Please sit casually. The man with glasses led them to the "groom" row, smiled politely, and hurried back to the door. "Let's sit there. Li Yunqing pointed to the round table at the back, where no one had yet taken a seat.

There were peanuts, melon seeds, pistachios, etc. on the table, but Dante didn't like to eat dried fruits, and Li Yunqing didn't eat them. Looking around the main hall of the auditorium, there are six round tables, one with ten chairs. Dante had never attended the wedding, and he didn't feel anything, so "Sister Yun" was different - judging from the pomp and circumstance inside and out, this wedding was not meant to be hasty and perfunctory, but this six-table banquet made Li Yunqing puzzled: Even people like us who are so far away have been invited, how can only sixty people come? In fact, when she walked in, she already felt that this room that can accommodate 200 people was slightly unpopular. With the addition of relatives near and far and close friends on both sides, it would be nice to be able to sit down at sixteen tables. Six tables, really ...... "Are you thirsty?" she didn't wait for Dante to answer, picked up the teapot on the table and poured a cup of tea for Dante and herself, and then held the teacup and secretly counted the number of people in the hall. There was still about an hour and a half before 12 noon, and there were more than 40 guests sitting down and strolling back and forth, and even if there were still guests to come, who knew how many more?

Li Yunqingzheng felt more and more that something was wrong, and a long whistle from the singer suddenly came from the stereo, which startled her. The stereo is next to the rostrum where the bride and groom take vows, exchange rings, drink glasses of wine, and possibly kiss. There was a large-screen LED TV on the rostrum, but the screen did not put any dynamic pictures, just like the sign in front of the auditorium on the red background to type a line of white words "Mr. Zheng Haohui, Miss Jia Yan for a hundred years", and around this line of words dotted with colorful flower patterns. A minute after looking at this digital plaque, Li Yunqing said the words that reminded Dante.

Although it was daytime, all the lights in the auditorium were still lit up, adding to the rare bustle of the resort, and the effect of the two two-tone crystal chandeliers on the roof was even more obvious due to the red curtains in the main hall. By the bright light, Dante, who had been habitually scanning faces, looked up to see where wedding photos could be placed in the large room. Soon, he saw that except for the side of the rostrum, the other three walls were hung with exquisite gilded wooden picture frames, three of which were hung on each wall, but he could not see clearly what was embedded in the frame, only a few black dots seemed to be on it. Perhaps for this reason, other guests don't pay much attention to these well-hung frames. "I'll just take a walk. With the permission of "Sister Yun", he stood up and walked leisurely towards the nearest frame.

It turned out that the black dots were not smudges, they were painted, they were "heads" - on the white paper in each frame, two dots were drawn as heads, four "stickmen" consisting of torso and limbs. Their postures and movements also vary from one painting to another. How old are the bride and groom? Dante laughed out loud. He had drawn a lot of stickmen as a child, some of them maybe in the wooden box under his bed, but he would never frame them and hang them out on such occasions.

He moved slowly with a mocking attitude, admiring the nine colorful "stickman" paintings, pondering how to make Li Yunqing's description more interesting later. Unexpectedly, when he saw the last one, he seemed to suddenly realize, and hurriedly went backwards to look at these paintings again. "That's what happened. He muttered to himself. Next, he opened his eyes wide and stared at the two stickmen who were crossing between the frames, pacing back and forth along the wall, smiling with surprise and appreciation – not meaningless graffiti, but an ingenious caricature!

One of the two stickmen has no hair, and the other has long hair, and they are clearly a man and a woman. The images in the different environments in which they live are anthropomorphic or symbolic, such as the sun smiling on a clear sky, the dark clouds yawning on a cloudy day, the squinting and grinning of the flower shop door on the street, and the crowded passers-by on the sidewalk blurred like an undulating wave. In addition, the stickmen also interacted with the images around them, such as a picture depicting the two of them traveling in the mountains, the man reaching out and pulling the woman, climbing the steep place with difficulty, and the mountain also staring and spreading his arms, carefully helping them to smooth the steep mountain road as much as possible to ensure their safety. Nine drawings, with plots and characters, telling different things, constitute a complete set of comics, not printed or cut out by pictures and drawn by computer, but drawn by hand. The lines are not complicated, and the brushwork is not superb, but they all contain the deep affection of the author. From composition to color, from detail to whole, from scene to allegory, the author's painstaking efforts are integrated everywhere. The slightly scribbled "Haohui" inscription in the lower right corner of the picture makes Dante firmly believe that the scene in each painting is experienced by the bride and groom together, and the theme of the nine comics is their love, which is actually telling the sweet process of the two from acquaintance to love. Shang Yiming was once again convinced today: Zheng Haohui, well, he really has the ability to be creative. These are the crystallization of true feelings! When I have this day, I should also insist on this aspect...... He suddenly wanted to look back at Li Yunqing, but he still held back.

It's just that he has figured out that this set of cartoons has not yet depicted the final ending, that is, the perfect chapter of the two stickmen cultivating each other's feelings into a positive result and entering the marriage hall. He looked at the other corners of the main hall, but he couldn't find the tenth frame.