Chapter XVII: The Hidden IOU
"For a complete sketch still life, the relationship between black, white and gray must be handled in place."
"What's the main problem with your painting? In this group of pictures, this jar is the main body, and I use an 8B pencil to blacken it and highlight it, and the layering of this picture comes out. ”
Li Ye got up from the stool behind the drawing board, and then handed the pencil and eraser back to the girl standing behind him.
This girl's name is Li Wei, and she is Wang Chao's student, and she is the girl who saw that the teacher was not taking the initiative to let Li Ye help change the painting when Li Ye came for the first time.
Nowadays, art education, unless it is a high-priced individual teacher, it is basically impossible to achieve one-to-one education, and each teacher of Yihang Art has to teach about ten to fifteen students on average, so when students have any problems, they may not be able to find a teacher to solve their doubts immediately.
Learning is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat, the same is true for hand-painting, if you don't paint for a long time, it is inevitable that you will be hand-painted, so Li Ye has come to practice hand-painting when he has time in recent days. The students here all know what level he is these days, so they like to come to him for help whenever they have time.
Although Li Wei is only a sophomore in high school this year, she has a delicate figure, white skin and beautiful appearance, especially a pair of little white rabbits on her chest, which is quite large, and she almost jumps out of a thin T-shirt when she walks.
"Your biggest problem is the foundation, you remember this, what you are learning now is not art, it is technology, you know, how technology comes from, of course, it is practiced, this thing does not depend on talent, it depends on who is diligent. Keep practicing, I'm leaving. ”
Wang Chao was guiding the students next to him, he turned his head to look at Li Ye's old-fashioned guidance students with a green face, how did this picture look and how uncoordinated, he suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, and said: "It's so early today, don't you have a meal and leave?" ”
"Well, I made an appointment for lunch, and I'll go back first." Li Ye walked to the sink in the corner of the studio, washed the lead ash on his hands, then said hello to Lu Tianyu, walked out of the school and hailed a taxi, he had already called Xia Yanan yesterday and asked her to wait for him at a café on Huiwen Road.
Xia Yanan sat alone in a white dress in the coffee shop, her gentle and quiet temperament attracted the men at the next table to look here from time to time, she held the magazines on the shelves in the store and flipped through them, but her eyes were a little sloppy, obviously not reading the magazine, and she didn't notice that she had become the focus of the men in the store.
"Why don't you drink it? Is it because you can't get used to drinking? ”
The sudden sound pulled Xia Yanan back to reality from her contemplation, she watched this familiar figure sit down on the empty seat opposite her, stuck out her tongue a little embarrassed, and pointed to the cup in front of her, "It's too bitter to drink." ”
Xia Yanan has a gentle temperament, giving people the feeling of being a big sister next door, and suddenly seeing her make a girlish action like sticking out her tongue, Li Ye was instantly fascinated.
Coffee culture in 00 has not yet been popularized in China, except for the white-collar class, few citizens take the initiative to go to coffee shops, so it is normal for Xia Yanan to be unaccustomed to drinking coffee.
Li Ye got up and went to the bar, and soon came back, he brought Xia Yanan's coffee to his hand, "Don't drink this if you're afraid of bitterness, give it to me, I'll order you a cappuccino and some food, two-thirds of the cappuccino is milk, and the taste of milk can dilute the bitterness of the coffee, so you should be able to accept it." ”
"Hey, don't ......" Xia Yanan just wanted to stop it, but Li Ye had already picked up the coffee cup and drank it.
"I've had a small sip of ......"
Li Ye put down the cup and looked at Xia Yanan narrowly, with a smile on his face, "Ah, have you drunk it?" Forget it, I don't mind. ”
As soon as Xia Yanan saw this kid's expression, she knew that he was clearly intentional, so she pretended to be angry and stretched out her hand and pinched Li Ye's face fiercely, "Oh, it turns out to be made of meat, so thick, I thought it was iron." ”
Watching the waiter bring over the cappuccino and light meal ordered by Li Ye, Xia Yanan let go of Li Ye's face.
"Sister Nan, you have lost weight, eat more and make up for the meat."
"Nonsense, I haven't seen you for such a short time, how can there be changes so fast, but it's true that you are fat."
Xia Yanan did feel a lot haggard during this time, after the case, as a whistleblower, she accepted a long-term inquiry from the Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Procuratorate and other government departments, and even made notes overnight, and the pressure on her body can be imagined.
Li Ye has been living a leisurely life these days, going to Yihang Art all day long to practice hand-painting and teach the girl by the way, and the bamboo pole figure when he was just reborn has slowly grown some flesh now.
Watching Xia Yanan eat pizza in small bites, with a little red tomato sauce on the corners of her mouth, lining her small lips more and more delicate, Li Ye's index finger moved, and he also ate it in a big gulp.
After the two finished eating, Li Ye settled the account, and then walked out of the coffee shop together.
Li Ye walked next to Xia Yanan, looking at her beautiful figure unscrupulously from the side, the white dress tightened the waist, highlighting her small waist like a water snake, and the skirt hung down to the knees, revealing a lotus root-like calf, which made people can't help but want to hold this leg in their hands and play with it.
"Sometimes I think, in fact, in the future, I can open a coffee shop like this, a chair, a book to spend a whole afternoon, without contact with the intrigue in the workplace, and not have to face the intrigues in the business field every day, this kind of life is not bad."
Hearing her say this, Li Ye reached out and grabbed Xia Yanan's wrist, "That's not good." ”
"Sister Nan, didn't you say that you would be a maid for me?"
Xia Yanan's left hand was tightly held by Li Ye, so she stopped and wanted to pinch the little scoundrel's face with her free right hand, but saw him take out a piece of paper from the pocket of his pants with his other hand and hand it to him, so she stopped and took the note.
"This! This is! …… When are you!? ”
"That day in the finance room, after my father left, I found this when I was looking through the contract, and you were called out by my father at that time, and I was the only one in the finance room, so I secretly hid this. That's why I asked you not to tell you about the coercion you were coerced by the Zhenghe Group that night, and the most important thing was to hide the money that the Zhenghe Group lent you. ”
Yes, the note that Li Ye handed to Xia Yanan was the IOU written by Xia Yanan herself, and it was this palm-sized note that finally forced her to go to the extreme, if it weren't for Li Ye, who happened to go to the riverside, she would have died a long time ago.
"Zhenghe company takes all the black and white, some accounts can't be put on the surface at all, the company has a private account, banquet officials, gifts and bribes, and if something happens, the money is private, and the thugs are invited to settle in, including the money lent to you by the company, all of which are this account."
"I've read all your transcripts, they just mentioned that the company had asked you to go to Lai Zhigang to go into the water, but they didn't explain in detail how much money they lent you, after all, you didn't promise them. Now that the Zhenghe Group is finished, the court has seized all the funds of the Zhenghe Group, and those who should go to prison have gone in. This account has become a rotten account, and no one will force you to pay it back. ”
Xia Yanan covered her mouth with one hand, forcibly not letting herself cry, but the big stone in her heart was suddenly unloaded, and the catharsis of emotion still made her eyes quickly covered with a layer of fog, Li Ye took the IOU back from Xia Yanan's hand, and with a force in his hand, he tore the IOU into countless pieces, and sprinkled it into the sky, and a gust of wind blew over, blowing the shredded paper in all directions. He hugged Xia Yanan's slightly trembling body, leaned his head on Xia Yanan's shoulder, and whispered in her ear.
"What I promised you, I did it, Sister Nan."