When the three of them sat down, Lu Feiyin said: "Madam, you are a master of Chinese painting, and I had the honor to see the paintings exhibited in Beijing four years ago. He said: "Your painting "Spring and Autumn of Home" has made me unforgettable to this day. ”

When it comes to art and paintings, Mrs. Wang's eyebrows are very vivid: "The works in that exhibition were painted by me to commemorate the 80th anniversary of my grandson's birth. She smiled: "Now I am so dizzy that I can't make a painting like that anymore, but fortunately, there are still many talented students, and it is also the inherent wish of our husband and wife to cultivate talents." ”

Seeing the disbelief in Jiang Qi's eyes, Mrs. Wang smiled and said, "I am seventy-two years old this year, and my deceased husband is one round older than me." ”

It turned out that it was not sixty years old, but seventy! Jiang Qi touched his nose depressedly, the age of a woman is really hard to guess.

"Speaking of which, at the Hong Kong auction in 09, I also auctioned the paintings of your husband Mr. Liu Shenghe, and I remember that the transaction price was 3.72 million yuan," Lu Feiyin said with a smile: "Compatible with Fu Baoshi and Zhang Daqian's style, it is now a hot collection." ”

"Oh, it's that freehand landscape painting," Mrs. Wang remembers very clearly: "My grandson is a disciple of Mr. Fu, and his bouldering brushwork is a true inheritance." ”

Jiang Qi just doesn't know history anymore, and he also knows the reputation of Fu Baoshi and Zhang Daqian, but he didn't expect that the people in front of him have a relationship with these celebrities.

"The untimely death of your husband, Mr. Liu, is really a great regret in the Chinese painting industry. Lu Feiyin said: "But Mr. has a spirit in the sky, and I think he will be very pleased to see that Mrs. you have inherited his wish and spared no effort to promote the development of Chinese painting art." ”

"My grandson is just as delicate and sensitive as his paintings, and he is always spotless," Madame Wang smiled faintly: "It was actually expected that he would not survive that era." ”

"Then what kind of belief has supported you through those years?" Lu Feiyin suddenly asked, this question made Jiang Qi glare at him without a trace.

The old lady didn't think it was offended, and said calmly: "I received a notice from the organization to collect my son's ashes - I didn't even see him for the last time." I sat on the train and was so angry that I thought about burying him and going with him, but I had a dream on the train. ”

Mrs. Wang smiled slightly: "I dreamed that I was wandering in an endless place, there was only one road, and on both sides of the road were all the paintings of my grandson, he stood in front of the road, and told me to fulfill his wish, inherit the painting ideas and painting skills of Fu and Zhang, and not let Chinese painting decline." ”

I opened my mouth but couldn't make a sound, and suddenly I came to a studio again, I saw that the paintings here were all I had never seen before, but there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, I looked at it carefully, but I didn't want to see my own style under the painting. ”

"Is it a dream, is it not a dream? By the time I woke up, it had only been two minutes. Mrs. Wang said, "Is two minutes enough time to have such a long dream?" So this is not a dream, this is my grandson's request to me, and he came to see me. ”

Jiang Qi shook his head slightly and said, "This is a very beautiful dream. ”

"Perhaps," said the old lady, smiling meaningfully, "but the wonderful thing is that all the paintings of mine that I have seen in my dreams have now been painted by me without exception." She put her hand on the hairpin, stood up and said, "In this showroom in front of me, there are even three of my works." It's almost time to start, so you can enjoy it. ”

After that, Jiang Qi and Lu Feiyin roughly watched the art exhibition, and after coming out of the library, Jiang Qi took Lu Feiyin to see the room.

The house is still very good in all aspects, and it has not gone through any bargaining links, but when Jiang Qi asked about work, he was a little unacceptable.

"What does it mean to have no job," Jiang Qi looked at him in disbelief, wondering if this person was a scoundrel: "Where do you get the money to support yourself without a job?"

"I do some consulting," Lu Feiyin said slowly, "but there are very few people who initiate consultation, so I don't regard it as a job." ”

Jiang Qi nodded slightly and said, "What kind of consultation is it?"

"It's a bit interesting to say, only the unrecognizable weirdness, the unsolvable puzzle, the unsolvable confusion, and the subtle that is difficult to explore are worth my attention. Lu Feiyin said succinctly: "There is still a certain threshold." ”

"Sounds incomprehensible," Jiang Qi couldn't understand, so he simply asked directly, "I'll just ask, are you a god stick?"

"Only ask the common people, not the ghosts and gods. Lu Feiyin said.

"It's quite interesting," Jiang Qi secretly sighed that this kid can say that he has a future, and said, "Then will you have a customer interview?"

"Yes," Lu Feiyin said, "But as I just said, there are very few." ”

However, this is not the case, and on the third day after Lu Feiyin officially settled in the tenant, a customer came to the door.

Jiang Qi opened the door, and a young man with an ordinary face stood outside the door.

"Mr. Lu?" he said, "I'm Li Chuyi, and I'm the client who made an appointment with you." ”

The name is interesting, Jiang Qi looked at him again, convinced that this was not a school child, although his face was young, but the blue and black and haggard look at the moment made Jiang Qi vaguely have a feeling that he was engaged in a high-load work, maybe something had bothered him for a long time and said not necessarily, he hoped that someone could solve his doubts.

"I'm not," Jiang Qi leaned sideways: "Mr. Lu is inside, please come in." ”

The man sighed a little awkwardly, but his body didn't move, and after two or three seconds, he seemed to have reacted to Jiang Qi's words, and then he showed a sudden look. "I'm sorry. He involuntarily clasped his hands together, and it wasn't until Jiang Qi stretched out his hand to point him in Lu Feiyin's direction, and at the same time made a gesture of invitation, that he stepped in through the door and walked to the living room.

"I'm Li Chuyi," the man said, "I'm a dream controller." ”

Jiang Qi couldn't help but stumble under his feet, and he subconsciously touched his ears - what did he hear?

"I've heard your name," Lu Feiyin said, "The depth you have reached in your field is beyond the reach of others. ”

"My dream is a little deeper than others," Li Chuyi sat opposite Lu Feiyin, and said slowly: "But the ensuing troubles are also incomprehensible to others, just like climbing a mountain, the first person to climb the mountain, who knows what kind of path he has opened up, and what dangers he will encounter in front of him?"

His clasped hands still didn't let go, and Jiang Qi felt that it was a kind of psychological tension.

"Dream Controller-" Jiang Qi couldn't help but speak, "Let me interrupt, do you mean that you can manipulate dreams?

"He's my assistant and he's in charge of recording conversations," Lu Feiyin explained briefly, "and what he's going to ask is what I'm going to ask, so please answer." ”

The man took a deep breath and turned his head to Jiang Qi: "Let me ask you a question first, are you-dreaming?"

"Of course," Jiang Qi said, "everyone dreams." ”

"Yes," he said, "everybody dreams." And when you wake up, can you still remember what dreams you had?"

Jiang Qi thought for a while and said, "Most dreams are forgotten the moment they wake up, and only a very few particularly bizarre ones can retain a little memory, but it will become fainter and fader after a long time." When I was a child, I had many dreams, but I can hardly remember them until now. And now most dreams are forgotten as soon as you open your eyes. ”

He suddenly fell in love with the topic because he had lost a lot of dreams himself, and he really wanted to recall them.

"Ordinary people are like this," Li Chuyi: "How can a person know that he is dreaming when he is dreaming, in fact, most people don't remember how many dreams they have had." You mentioned Inception just now, I think you have also seen this movie, the characters in it dream halfway, find that some places are very unreasonable, suddenly realize that it is a dream and not reality, wake up from this dream, but enter another dream, such a bizarre plot seems incredible to you, right?"

Jiang Qi nodded: "I admire the imagination of the screenwriter and director. ”

"Haven't you thought that there is also a dream within a dream in life?" Li Chuyi: "Lucid dreaming is the state of staying awake when dreaming, also known as lucid dreaming. This is a term that was clearly put forward in the West a hundred years ago, but I believe that people's perception of lucid dreaming is not only a hundred years old. Although there are still many records of this kind in the classics of the East and the West, it is still in modern times that it has been studied as a phenomenon. ”

"Lucid dream," Jiang Qi heard a novel term, and he chewed on the meaning of the word: "You just said that lucid dreaming is when the dreamer keeps his consciousness awake in the state of sleep, that is, in the state of sleep, the dreamer can have the ability to think and remember when he is awake in the dream—is that true?"

"Yes, you know you're dreaming, you're swimming in your dreams. Li Chuyi praised Jiang Qi's comprehension: "People with higher comprehension can even make the feeling in their dreams as real as the real world, but they also know that they are in a dream. ”

"If you say that knowing that you are dreaming is the basis of lucid dreaming, then is the dream control technique you are talking about a higher level - you can control your own dreams?" Jiang Qi tried his best to keep up with his thinking: "Just like in the movie, you can set up multiple dreams for yourself, the main body of the dream is your own structure, you can dream whatever kind of dream you want, in the dream you control, you can do whatever you want, is that so?"

"Mr. Lu, this assistant of yours is very quick to think—" Li Chuyi smiled and nodded, his eyes crossed with appreciation.

Lu Feiyin said: "Some people are born with lucid dreaming, and most people who can have lucid dreaming can also achieve it by relying on acquired meditation and training - in this way, lucid dreaming is nothing more than a struggle between the conscious and the subconscious in the sea of consciousness in the brain, and the conscious mind wins, it wins the dream that should belong to the subconscious control." ”

The subconscious mind is a kind of unconscious inner conscious activity of the subject, which is an involuntary mental activity, a mental activity in a state of conscious loss of control in a dream, while the conscious mind is the consciousness that people are consciously aware of and is controlled by a purpose. Jiang Qi vaguely remembered a little bit of these theories, which were the topics assigned to them by the noisy old professor when he was in the psychology course of his sophomore minor.

"Ordinary dreams are dominated by the subconscious, and the so-called dreams are letters written to us by the subconscious, which are the expression of subconscious desires. Li Chuyi's hands made a gesture and then clasped them tightly together, he said: "And when you are awake and dream, you are fully conscious, and people are in a state of wakefulness, and it is unreliable to apply Freud's theory." ”

Lu Feiyin and Li Chu looked at it together, and their brows were furrowed.

"Wonderful experience?" Li Chuyi made a voice similar to mockery: "At first, maybe it was." But what about when your dreams become so vivid that you can't tell the difference between dreams and reality? When you want to have a peaceful sleep but you can't help but fall into a lucid dream, and you wake up exhausted like running a marathon? Or are you trapped in your dreams and can't get out of your dreams anymore? Do you still think it's a wonderful experience?"

"How can you not get out of the dream?" Jiang Qi asked: "The dream realm of the lucid dream is set by yourself, and the entire level plot of the game is out of your hands, how can you be trapped in it?"

"Maybe it's because it's too real, the dream is too real - it satisfies all your fantasies and hopes, which is what you can't ask for in real life," Lu Feiyin said: "Then you know the huge contrast between dreams and reality, are you still willing to wake up and face the real life you want to escape?"