Four days later, Liao Xiaofei and I were in a bakery class together, and when I told her what had happened last Friday, she lamented, "I've never seen such a stupid woman." ”

I broke an egg in a hurry, and I said, "Xiao Fei, why didn't you get to the point?" The point is that Song Qiwen said that Qin Yan 'bogged' me back that day, and he also said that he wanted to eat with me. ”

She reacted and said, "Oh oh, I'm sorry...... But it's normal for him to carry you back, you can't use an excavator to transport you back to your room, huh...... He also said that he wanted to eat with you, but what about later? ”

I said sadly, "No later, I texted him the next day to ask if he had time, and he didn't reply to me at all." ”

Liao Xiaofei frowned and said, "Didn't reply to you?" He didn't see it, you just called. ”

I snorted and said, "I don't dare, I'm afraid he's busy, I'm afraid he'll reject me......"

She looked at me like an alien: "You don't dare? You dare to dissect a frog with your bare hands in high school biology class, you dare to go to the barren mountains and mountains alone, you dare to go to the world's scariest Fuji-Q haunted house, and you fucking told me that you didn't dare to call him? Are you still Li Qiao?! ”

I thought about it, yes, what would you not dare, this is not at all in line with the style of the stars in the sky that I said to go. I pressed the mold on the dough hard: "Okay! I'll go find him later! Auntie, I'll do it tonight! ”

Liao Xiaofei hurriedly covered my mouth: "Baby Li, let's be quiet......"

At half past three in the afternoon, I ran to Qin's headquarters with a box of freshly baked dim sum, and the front desk lady still had an impression of me, and said to me with a smile: "Miss Buck, you came to find Mr. Xiao Qin, he went to the project today, and he may come back later." ”

I thought she was quite interesting about Qin Yan's title, and I said, "Oh, that's it, then I'll wait for him here." ”

The front desk looked at the box I had placed on the countertop, the box was translucent, and she asked me suspiciously, "Is this a gift you want to give him?" But I remember that Xiao Qin doesn't like sweets? ”

I was stunned: "Really? ”

"yes." The front desk put his hand to his mouth and told me in a low voice: "Usually when we help him order food, he only orders salty, and he doesn't even let us put half a little sugar when he drinks black coffee, and we all wonder if he is lactose intolerant." ”

I held my forehead in amazement, I knew that I would make him salt-baked chicken feet and make waffles. After thinking for a long time, I said, "Do you have salt here?" When he comes back, you tell him that this cake is very special, and you must soak it in salt water to eat it, just like soy milk fried dough sticks? ”

The front desk hesitated for a while: "...... Okay, I'll try to tell him. ”

waited until half past five in the afternoon, Qin Yan still didn't come back, and in the evening he had already said that he would go home for dinner, so I had to leave with hatred.

That night I stayed up late reading a novel, and I didn't go to bed until 4 a.m., and I woke up almost noon the next day. After waking up, I saw two unfamiliar missed calls on my phone, and I thought it was another company to make an appointment, so I transferred the phone number to Xiao Nan for processing. A few minutes later, while brushing my teeth, I heard Xiao Nan say to me: "I contacted the other party, but the other party said that he didn't want to ask you for an appointment, but wanted to ask you for a favor." ”

I rolled my eyes and said, "Who, I don't know the number, telecom fraud, right?" ”

Xiao Nan said: "I don't know, he said to let you contact him yourself, his name is Qin Yan." ”

"Poof-" I sprayed the foam from my mouth on the mirror.

I hurriedly turned out the missed call just now and dialed back, Qin Yan was indeed looking for me to help, he said that there was a customer who wanted to catch up with the line was not easy to talk to, and he heard that the other party liked Mr. Li Kuchan's painting very much, so he wanted to give a painting as a gift when he visited tomorrow, but the time was a little rushed, and he didn't know where to buy the real thing, so he asked me for directions.

I laughed when I heard it, this painter has been quite popular among collectors in recent years, but no more than ten paintings have been sold at public auction, and there are few paintings in circulation, but a few years ago I happened to get a freehand landscape painting from a Hong Kong collector. I asked Qin Yan to meet in my studio, and he muttered for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll leave now, and I'll be there in half an hour." ”

I was stunned, hung up the phone, and immediately cleaned myself up with the momentum of the wind and clouds, and then raced seven kilometers in ten minutes in the city center, and when I arrived, I had time to see if my makeup was worn in the rearview mirror.

Qin Yan was already waiting for me at the gate of the community, I parked the car and led him into my apartment, which was decorated as a studio. I asked him to wander around the living room and go into the collection room to get the painting. Walking out of the room, I saw him standing with great interest in front of a bush of grafted vegetation to observe the buds, the flowering period has just arrived, two days ago the peach tree in front of him just bloomed the first small white flower of the year, the sun outside the window in the afternoon projected in, shining on him half dark and half bright, I immediately thought of the red fruit holly between his eyebrows on the rainy day ten years ago, sure enough, regardless of the sunny day and rain, autumn chrysanthemum and spring orchid, he is so complementary.

Perhaps hearing the footsteps stop, Qin Yan turned his head to look at me, and smiled at the corner of his beautiful mouth: "You look like a small rainforest here." ”

I came back to my senses, walked over to him with the painting, and said, "Huh? Originally, when I first bought this place to renovate and make a studio, my dad just let people use some pothos and mosquito repellent grass in this kind. Later, when I went to school, I saw that someone in the school sold silkworm babies, and I bought them back to raise, but silkworm babies want to eat mulberry leaves, and I don't have mulberry leaves here, so I began to learn to plant mulberries, and then I learned to plant others, so I slowly planted them all. ”

He nodded and said, "It's beautiful, which one is the mulberry?" ”

I put the painting on the table and replied, "Oh, mulberries, I don't have them." ”

He wondered, "Why?" ”

I thought about it for a moment and explained briefly: "Once my cousin came to play with me, she didn't know that there were silkworms on the mulberry leaves, and they were bouncing around, but she accidentally hit the tree, and the silkworms on the tree fell off her, and she thought that her head and body were full of maggots, maggots you know? It's a bit like a silkworm, but it's a small lump. She got sick and lay in the hospital for days, and I haven't been raising it since. ”

After I finished speaking, Qin Yan was quiet for a long time, I was silent for a while, bowed my head and said: "Let's talk about this painting, do you want to take a look, it's actually very good, it's hard to find such a large authentic work now...... Uh, and when is the latest you want it? I'll have someone send it and wrap it up before I give it to you. ”

He was stunned for a moment, then reacted and said, "You want to give me your paintings?" ”

I was confused for a long time: "Otherwise, everyone's paintings are only auctioned for hundreds of years, and now you want to ask for it temporarily, and there is no other way than to give you mine." You're lucky, if your client happens to like his teacher Qi Baishi, I really can't help it. ”

Qin Yan pondered for a moment and said, "The secretary helped me check the auction price of this painter's work, and it was at least eight figures. I won people's favor, buckwheat, how much money did you buy this painting at that time, I paid double. ”

I paused and shook my head, "No need. ”

He frowned, a little puzzled, I pretended to be relaxed and said: "Hey, it hurts to talk about money, what is the relationship between our parents, there is no need to see each other like this." I didn't study Chinese painting myself, so I was collecting and playing at the time. And I didn't come to this painting through the guò auction channel, it's not that expensive...... I haven't given you any gifts since you came back, so I'll just take it as a gift for you. ”

Qin Yan looked at me for a few seconds, and suddenly smiled very lightly: "If it is a gift you gave me, I would not be able to take it out and borrow flowers to offer Buddha." ”

I was stunned, "Huh? That's not what I meant. ”

He said, "So what do you want?" ”

I was stunned again, looking into his eyes, I whispered in my heart, I want you to like me, but after a few seconds, I could only smile casually: "You are so generous?" Then I really have to think about what is missing. After a pause for two seconds, he simply changed the subject: "By the way, what is your mobile phone number?" I didn't know the number you called me today, that's why I didn't answer, I took your phone from my dad and texted you and you didn't reply. ”

He thought for a while and said, "When I first came back, I used the previous number for emergency, and then I changed it. ”

I said, "Oh, no wonder......" The phone in my pocket rang at this time, I looked down at the screen and said, "I don't mean it's my teacher, I have to pick it up, you are free." ”

I went to the separate collection room to answer the phone, and it was an old professor I had been studying oil painting since I was 14 years old, and she said that there was an exchange exhibition of Chinese and foreign paintings and calligraphy in Tokyo next week, and she had a place and wanted to take me there, and by the way, there was a five-day tour of the local monuments.

After asking about the time and the things that needed to be prepared, I hung up the phone and walked out of the room, Qin Yanren was not visible in the living room, I walked to the other side of the studio, and found him standing in front of the easel, looking at the painting on the easel that I hadn't finished painting. After looking at it for a while, he walked towards the desk next to it, where the computer and a pile of line drawings were placed.

I glanced at the table casually, suddenly gasped, rushed to Qin Yan before he walked over, propped up the desk with both hands behind his back and said, "I, I'm a mess, hehe......"

Qin Yan looked up and down at my tangled posture and said, "It's okay." Then he tilted his head slightly, and I blocked his line of sight, and he raised his eyebrows: "What can't you show me?" ”

I said hastily: "No, it's nothing, it's just a bunch of sketches, nothing to look at, if you want to see it, there are two of my portfolios on the bookshelf over there, bound up, if you want to see it, just look at that." ”

Fortunately, he didn't insist, took a step back, was quiet for a few seconds, and said, "I'll go first, I'll send someone to pick it up tomorrow." I also received what you sent yesterday, thank you. ”

I said, "Oh, it's nothing, I just stopped by yesterday so I ......" and said reluctantly: "Okay, then you can give me the contact's phone number at that time." ”

He nodded and said yes, I sent him out, and before going out, he turned back to me and said, "Buckwheat, I owe you a favor." ”

Before I could say anything, Qin Yan had already left, I returned to the studio alone, took the sketchbook on the table, flipped a few pages casually, looked at the people in the painting and thought helplessly, what does he owe or not, he doesn't know at all, I am willing to do anything for him.