Chapter 25: Phantom City

Inherit? Learn? transcend

-- On the new attempts and new achievements of the Chinese painter Du Ruo

In recent years, many young and middle-aged painters, in order to make Chinese painting, which has a long history and fine tradition, more brilliant, and make it stand forever in the world of art, have the courage to break through the ruts, make bold attempts, and deliberately seek innovation, and there is no shortage of people who have made achievements in this regard. And I think that the young painter Du Ruo is one of the best, and he is a trendsetter on the road of innovation.

Du Ruo came to the depths of Bashan as a teenager and worked as a road maintenance worker in a small mountain station with only a dozen people. Du Ruo's representative works are "Morning", "Shepherd Girl", "Golden Autumn", in these works, he integrates his personal concepts and pursuits into his works, he puts the special feeling in Bashan, the broad artistic conception of the unity of man and man, expressed on the picture, his works, indeed a blockbuster, impressive, so "Fine Arts" magazine, "Gongbi Painting Album", "Selected Contemporary Youth Paintings" and so on have selected his works, and give high praise.

Today's "Art World" published Du Ruo's masterpiece "The Girl by the Stream", this painting is mature from the content to the form, all those who have seen this painting are highly respected, and has been widely praised by the art world and society, from this painting, we see both his pious inheritance of Chinese painting, but also see that he does understand what is worthy of inheritance and development, at the same time, he boldly put the world art, skillfully absorbed into Chinese painting, although it feels like Chinese painting, but the connotation is rich, The artistic conception is far-reaching. I believe that Du Ruo's ambition to make modern Chinese painting surpass that of his predecessors will be realized.

"China Times" - Introduction of the artist

Wonderful pen Danqing to create chemical skills

-- Remembering the young painter Du Ruo

Du Ruo is good at freehand flowers and birds, on the basis of inheriting the traditional techniques of freehand flowers and birds in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, he concentrates on pondering, deliberately seeks innovation, and gradually forms his own unique style. His works are novel in conception, rigorous in discipline, simple and vigorous, chic in pen and ink, both form and spirit, and vivid in charm. While emphasizing the interest of pen and ink, we strive for lofty artistic conception. He does not simply seek to please the audience's senses, but pays more attention to enlightening the reader's soul and achieving the purpose of pleasing the eye. Among his many works of flowers and birds, pine cranes, eagles, and cold plums are particularly powerful. He learned from the strengths of many families, absorbed new painting methods, and created batches of innovative works, especially his "Girl by the Stream" was well received by the calligraphy and painting circles.

"Yangtze River Newspaper" - Appreciation of works

The rhyme of dot painting

-- Remembering the railway painter Du Ruo

At night, it was late, drinking tea and listening to the rain alone. Tea is far away, and the autumn rain is thick. The world, soaked in an emotion. Approaching those pictures again, I try to interpret the truth and remoteness that the young painter Du Ruo's pen presents.

Du Ruo exiles nature with a transparent and flexible heart, looks at the world with his eyes, and paints the world with his brush. It can be seen that in the process of learning from the law, Du Ruo's wise eye captured the accumulation of "dots", a perfect combination of form and meaning, and he realized that dot painting is more suitable for the expression of people and scenes. He believes that the continuation of the dots is a swimming line, and the convergence of the dots is an infinite surface, each ink dot, faint and thick, fine and fragmented, constructing each painting and the dream of each painting. It is precisely because of the contrast of many brushes and ink dots that Du Ruo's simple picture flows with the rhythm of sound, and a layer of thought spreads on the concise composition, and his "Water Girl by the Stream" has this kind of charm.

"People's Railway" - railway painter

It's almost time to reach the top of the slope of the Daihuang Highway.

Du Ruo stood on his heels, pulled the towel tied to the handle of the cart, wiped the sweat on his forehead, bent down to pull up the full car, and walked out of the slope to the top of the slope. At this time, the sunset has sunk in the vast sea of clouds in the western sky, and the cloud belt above the top of the slope is like a painted mountain peak, and the fragrance of pine leaves and cypress is very strong. In the past six months, Du Ruo has been incognito, alone in the Jiangcheng Hanxi Railway Freight Yard as a porter, although lonely, tired, and without any life security, but a month, he can earn more than 100 yuan. Every twenty-five days, Du Ruo always cleans himself up, gets a haircut, shaves, changes into a white-washed suit, and goes to the post office after receiving the money, sending living expenses to Honglian's mother and son, sending living expenses to Sang Chen's college education, and not forgetting to send festival expenses to his hometown during the New Year's holidays. It was only on this day that Du Ruo felt that he was still an individual, and he could still fulfill his obligations and responsibilities as a person. More often, Du Ruo feels that he is a dog, the dog still has a nest, and he can fill his stomach with three meals a day, Du Ruo always sends more money with all he has every month, and it is fortunate to leave a fraction of it for himself. He slept in a bathhouse, just to save a night's accommodation and help other boilermen add water and coal in the middle of the night; He slept in the cabin and helped the boatmen look after the ship's cables just to save a few days of accommodation. He once explained the calligraphy and paintings on the Yellow Crane Tower to people on the Yellow Crane Tower without a grain of rice for a day, and was fortunate to mix a bowl of instant noodles to eat; He once commented on the story of the guqin platform on the guqin platform without drinking a drop of water for a day, and was fortunate to win a bottle of mineral water to drink. Sometimes he was so hungry that his eyes were dazzled, and he wandered all night at the head of Parrot Island in order to relieve hunger, and he also wanted to learn from the poet Immortal Taibai to sink into the river and fish for the moon under the Chengling Rock, but when he thought of his son who had never met before, and the red lotus who had lived so much for him, he resolutely dispelled the idea of suicide, and mustered up the courage to live again; Sometimes he is really sick and his legs are weak, and he spends all day on the Yangtze River in order to drive away the disease, he also imagines the poet Lao Du traveling west in a flat boat on the edge of the Xiangjiang River, but when he thinks that he has been sinking with the dog for half a lifetime, and his wife is separated and his reputation is ruined for painting, he resolutely gives up the idea of being world-weary, and has strengthened his confidence to fight again. He walked hungrily through the streets and alleys of Jiangcheng, just to find some work; He searched all over the construction sites in Jiangcheng with dust on his face, just to be able to do odd jobs. Later, he found a job to help people deliver goods in the railway freight yard more than ten miles away from the city, at first he used a flat pole to pick it up, and then he used a board car to deliver it, and at night he stayed in an abandoned duck shed more than a mile away from the freight yard. When there was no work to do on rainy days, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts to listen to lectures, went to art museums to copy, and at night went to the city library to read books rain or shine, and went to the antique bookstore to pottery books. I tensed my nerves like crazy all day long, listened to this lesson, listened to that lesson, read this book and read that book; For a moment or three, he pressed his needs low as if he was stupid, and he did not care about the world or himself. The only thing that is a little comforting is hanging at the head of the bed in the duck shed, and opening my eyes every morning at the construction sites of Jiangcheng and Jiangcheng, just to be able to do odd jobs. Later, he found a job to help people deliver goods in the railway freight yard more than ten miles away from the city, at first he used a flat pole to pick it up, and then he used a board car to deliver it, and at night he stayed in an abandoned duck shed more than a mile away from the freight yard. When there was no work to do on rainy days, he went to the Academy of Fine Arts to listen to lectures, went to art museums to copy, and at night went to the city library to read books rain or shine, and went to the antique bookstore to pottery books. I tensed my nerves like crazy all day long, listened to this lesson, listened to that lesson, read this book and read that book; For a moment or three, he pressed his needs low as if he was stupid, and he did not care about the world or himself. The only thing that gives me some solace is hanging at the head of the bed in the duck shed and opening my eyes every morning

Du Ruo suddenly felt that the cart was light, and when he turned his head, he saw someone behind the car pushing a bicycle with one hand and helping him push the cart with the other. Du Ruo smiled gratefully and increased his pace to pull up the slope. Kankan pulled to the top of the slope, Du Ruo put the cart on the side of the road, and took out a bottle of mineral water from his bag. The man parked his bike in the back of the car and looked back with a smile. Du Ruo's face changed suddenly, his fingers couldn't help but tremble, the mineral water fell to the ground with a bang, and he hurriedly pulled up the cart and was about to walk past the man.

"You go, you have the ability to never recognize me, you Du Er pole who can only escape from reality!" Ren Yan grabbed the handlebar, and looked up with a surprisingly red face, her eyes fixed on Du Ruo's face.

"Eldest sister, you ...... You've mistaken someone, I'm ...... I don't have the surname Du, I'm just a cart! Du Ruo lowered his head in pain, tears blurred his eyes instantly, and he was incoherent for a while, like a patient who was not healing.

"If you don't recognize me, it's okay, I'll only say three words, it's up to you whether you listen or not!" Ren Yan hated it for a while, and couldn't stop her angry tears, "Your painting "The Girl by the River" won the award, the first prize of the all-road art competition, and the road bureau sent it to the exhibition!" Seeing that Du Ruo was still indifferently pulling the handlebars, looking at the ground with a dull gaze, Ren Yan snorted hatefully, "Honglian was kicked out of the house by her in-laws, and now she lives at her aunt's house, this is a photo of your son!" ”

"You...... What did you say! Du Ruo's heart was shocked, a wisp of tears flashed in his suddenly dilated pupils, he put down the cart with a bang, snatched the photo from Ren Yan's hand, and cried with a handful of snot and tears.

Ren Yan was bitter for a while, with a bitter taste in her throat, and took out a handkerchief to wipe away the tears on her face, "I just came back from the mountains, and in order to find you, I ran all over the mountains." You are so ruthless, you are in Hanxi, but you went to Wuchang to send money, and I have been looking for this for half a month. I also looked for the duck shed where you lived in the morning, and I knew it was you when I entered the door. Fortunately, I have worked hard for most of the past half a year, and I have not lost my paintings, and we have not lost the hardships and sins we have suffered with you. The Road Bureau wants to transfer you back to the city and work in the Bureau's Literary Association, you can clean up and report with me tomorrow. As soon as you disappear, you will be more than half a year, and you will not care about all of us, and you are not afraid of going to hell after death! ”

"You...... Aren't you opening a store? The store is not open? Du Ruo raised his head hesitantly, his heart pounding in hesitation, and the tears in his eyes were still pouring out.

"Aren't you surnamed Du, and you still care about our life and death! The store has been sold a long time ago, not long after you left, the little evil skin went to Macau to gamble, owed a ** gambling debt, the gambling company wanted to destroy his people, Fen'er cried bitterly, the little evil skin was a shareholder in the store, Red Lotus sold the store, and I also sold the house in the city to help him pay off his gambling debts. Do you know what we have lived for most of the past six months, my orphans and widows live in the railway shantytown, and the orphans and widows of the Red Lotus are under the fence. It's good for you to suffer a little sin, to suffer a little humiliation, to hide in the city alone and enjoy the blessings, and you still want to deny me. I'm really blind, I've been unlucky all my life, and I've been anxious for you for so many years! Ren Yan was heartbroken for a while, and the idea of donating a lifetime of shame threshold was intertwined in her heart like Xianglin's sister-in-law.

"Ren...... Teacher Ren! Du Ruo sobbed his mouth, opened his eyes in fear, and added a worried cloud to his face in the gloomy mist that appeared one after another, "......Thank you, thank you!" This ......, in this life, you still treat me as a person! ”

"Du Ruo, as long as you know, don't encounter a little setback, you will become unrecognized, we are born as women and we really have no choice but to suffer!" Ren Yanbei came from it, with big tears in her eyes, looking at Du Ruo's disheveled clothes, her hair was unkempt, and her face was as black as charcoal, but she was heartbroken and picked up a wet handkerchief to wipe away the tears on Du Ruo's face, "Let's go, go back, even if the past is over, the good thing is still behind, my son is almost four years old, and I haven't seen you yet!" ”

"You're doing Ma Daha again, you always have a mouth to say about others, but no mouth to talk about yourself, to be precise, your son is three years old, eight months and eight days, how do you do a mother, you can't even figure out the simple count of your son's birthday?" Du Ruo pretended to hold his head high freely, trying his best to break free from the sad and desolate state, and a miserable smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"You...... You remember it so well! Ren Yan was inexplicably sad and happy, and suddenly felt that he often gathered in the bottom of his heart for fear that he would forget all about the past, and a smile suddenly bloomed from his face, and his eyes couldn't help but stare at Du Ruo.

"What's wrong with you, I don't remember, it's the umbilical cord I cut for your son in the mountains, the first time I took your son out of the full moon bath. It's a pity that my own son hasn't seen it yet, and he doesn't know if he can talk and walk, and he doesn't know if he recognizes me? Du Ruo turned his head gloomily, trying not to let the tears in his eyes roll down his cheeks, and sighed remorsefully.

"What's so difficult about this, it's so sad, in a few days, when things in the city are settled, I'll go back with you, Sister Lian sees you, I don't know how happy I should be, and I won't let you see my son!"

At night, the two of them rode a bicycle and came to the railway shantytown at the foot of Snake Mountain, which was still the workshop left over from the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge in Jiangcheng in the fifties, the most famous slum of the Road Bureau, a house of more than ten square meters squeezed three generations of old and young is a common thing, and there is no lighting, no ventilation, no windows, it is as hot as a stove in summer, and it is as cold as an ice cellar in winter, there is swill and dirt everywhere, and the front of the house is full of debris like a pigeon cage.

"You're staying here all these times!" Du Ruogao pushed the bicycle with one foot and one foot low, and the potholed road under his feet made the wheels jump and jump, and there was a dim street lamp from a long distance.

"This is still taken care of by the leader, it's good for me to be a single woman to have a room to live in, it's good when you come, double workers, see if you can give us a unity household!" Ren Yan held the items on the back seat of the car with both hands, and her steps were twisted and twisted, and she also greeted acquaintances who passed by from time to time.

"What kind of house is divided, I won't buy the house in Hankou again!" Du Ruoshu walked forward with shame, a heavy sense of guilt in his heart groaned, and he rushed out a proud word.

"You're crazy, how can you get more than 200,000 yuan, and now there's money there?" Ren Yan exclaimed, staring at his figure as if he was looking at a visitor from outside the sky, and laughed again when he was young, and the joy of dying jumped on his eyebrows. Turning a street corner, she almost flew forward, pushed open the door of a room with a bang, and turned back with a flying eye, "Son, come and see, who's coming!" ”

Du Ruo parked the bicycle, untied the items on the back seat of the car, just walked into the house, and saw the ** behind the black and swarthy door, a little boy was staring at him with wide eyes, staring at him indistinctly, when he was young, the little boy cheered, and ran towards him with his arms outstretched, shouting loudly, "Dad, Dad!" ”

Du Ruo was stunned, and hurriedly picked up the little boy, and glanced at Ren Yan with a blank gaze, "Dad, where have you been in the past few years, why did you go home, my mother is lame in order to find you, and I am also obedient, waiting for my father at home every day!" ”

"Son, tell Dad what your name is!" Ren Yan eagerly tilted her face, her eyes staring at her son's face with anticipation.

"My name is Du Ruoxu, my father's name is Du Ruo, Dad, my name is one word more than yours!" The little boy pursed his lips proudly, and his chubby, ruddy face like an apple showed a great color.

"Why do you bother, I am already a calamity, and I will bring bad luck to my son in the future!" Du Ruo hugged Xiao Ruoxu with a smile on his face, and threw it up and down a few times like throwing a ball, causing Xiao Ruoxu to giggle, and then grabbed Xiao Ruoxu's legs, put him on his shoulder, and bowed down to run back and forth in the house like a big horse.

"Is it easy for me, he has already turned out our wedding photos at that time, and has been asking who you are all day long, children raised in single-parent families are prone to autism, and I don't want my son to grow up and not be talented. Besides, I have to shout a dry word, so it will be a score, anyway, I have to be single for the rest of my life, and the surname will be wrong, and it will be an explanation for my son. Now it's okay, you don't have to hide it anymore, you two have a good time, I'm going to cook, I have prepared a bottle of good wine, and I won't get drunk tonight! ”

After a while, Ren Yan leaned against the bed and propped up the folding table, and placed the dishes and chopsticks on the table in the smoke. Du Ruo saw that there was almost no place to stand in the room, but there were stacks of his paintings next to the bed, and there was not even a decent piece of furniture in the room, but his paintings were trimmed and decorated one by one. Du Ruo was ashamed, his eyes were covered with remorse and self-blame, he put Xiao Ruoxu on the edge of the table and sat down, and went to the kitchen with smoke to help serve the dishes. At this time, the night moon outside the window is bright, the bright moonlight flows like mercury pouring into the city, there are occasionally a few whistles of the river ship berthing in the distance and the roar of the train when it crosses the Yangtze River Bridge faintly, on the street where people come and go in front of the Yellow Crane Tower, the lights and colorful neon all the way constitute a gorgeous picture, and the towering TV tower on the opposite bank highlights a bright color in the night sky with thousands of miles of frost.

"Come, Calamity, this is your order, take a good look, just for this piece of paper, how much have you suffered, the family is not easy, I will toast you first!"

Du Ruo hurriedly stood up, took over the order with both hands, a layer of shame rose on his grateful face, he picked up the wine glass and touched Ren Yan sincerely, and poured the glass of wine down his throat with his neck up, "How can I say it, if I want to say thank you, it will be too outward, not to mention that I don't want to go in my heart, it's not that you are running around in front of me, I can't imagine that I can be transferred to the city, maybe I will nest in the railway freight yard for the rest of my life, and work hard to pull the car!" ”

"If only you knew that!" Ren Yan took a sip of wine, raised her head with a smile on her face, a look of joy appeared on her tattooed eyebrows, and thousands of soft silks suddenly appeared in her embroidered shadow lines, lingering on Du Ruo's body, "From now on, we will work in one unit, you have to be careful when encountering things, don't say what you shouldn't say, and don't do what you shouldn't do." People in the city see and see a lot, and there are many flowers and intestines in their stomachs. It's not bigger than your slap in the mountains, everyone looks down and doesn't look up, there are not so many rules, there is not so much attention. If you want to say something, don't look at people who laugh at you, a pot-bellied Maitreya like enthusiasm is so hot that people die, in fact, they still look down on you in their bones, after all, you grew up eating red lotus in the mountains, you are a stupid hillbilly, you are born with a layer of separation from you, but you can't find a way to make fun of you for a while. If you don't believe it, let's go back and see, if you don't behave properly, don't pay attention to what you say, and make a mistake from time to time, people don't think you are a human being one day, two days when you are a ghost, three days pinch you into the water, count me salty and eat radish ** lightly; If people don't drown you with a mouthful of spit, and don't make you psychologically shorter than them from now on, count me as a big fuss and use an embroidery needle as a mallet! Think about it, how much suffering you have endured and how many sins you have suffered in order to have a job in the city, and now you are in your thirties, and there is no woman with you to ask for warmth, let alone an innocent and lively child Cheng Huan. Life in the world, a flash through three winters, three times a world. What do you think you can do? What's the future? You have what others have, and you have what others don't have, isn't this a happy life! When you go out, you are greeted by a smiling face, and when you go home and have a hot meal, this is not considered a successful career! You are really ready to live a life like this wild and uninhibited, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and you prefer to go to the tiger mountains! For those unseen and untouchable fame and fortune, contributed youth, and then contributed life? Tell me, who can understand this, and who is ready to say a good word and live a life so wildly and uninhibitedly, knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, and preferring to go to the tiger mountains! For those unseen and untouchable fame and fortune, contributed youth, and then contributed life? Tell me, who can understand this, and who can give a good word? You keep saying that you have read a lot of books, and you can do everything in literature, history, and philosophy. I ask you, who in history is lamenting 'a handful of bitter tears full of absurd words'? Who is sighing, 'Endure the floating name, and change it to sing in a low voice'? Let's talk about Giorgione, the Italian Renaissance master you admire the most, was not a wooden man with a stone heart during his lifetime, he was destitute, and his famous painting "Venus Sleeping" was completed with the help of his student Titian after his death! Having said that, I'm not asking you to give up drawing, just get by and be a fool in the unit, you still have to show yourself when it's time to show yourself, and you still have to draw the pictures you should draw, but everything has to be done step by step. When you are familiar with the people in the Literary Association, the relationship between your superiors and subordinates is good, and you are well-known in all aspects, then I will support you in painting with one heart, and then try my best to help you hold an art exhibition. After all, I was born in the city and grew up in the city, and many teachers and classmates eat this bowl of literary and artistic rice, and I guarantee that you will show your face when the time comes. Only in this way can you and I get acquainted in vain, in order to have today's day, you and I have walked so many bumpy roads in life! ”

Du Ruo's heart was rolling for a while, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but burst **, and his face was shining like a layer of oil paint. Seeing Ren Yan leaning over slightly, he was also in a happy and relaxed mood, and after taking a few sips of wine, his ruddy cheeks were rippling with layers of happiness. Du Ruo's face couldn't help but show a shallow sorrow again, the surging enthusiasm gradually turned cold, and he didn't know how to face the sorrow of this bad fate gathered in his mind, so he picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all.

"It's really dreamlike to think about a lot of things now, I thought that this wrong love song we performed at the wrong time and in the wrong place would be dispersed with the passage of time, and it would only leave a faint melancholy when I dreamed back at midnight with you and me. At that time, none of us laughed at you for being a shell mantis crawling on the books-pretending to be a showman, a sloppy dog biting the head--didn't know that the sky was high and the earth was thick, and even we girls were funny and scared to each other or were afraid after getting up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet, we would use you as a psychopathy to threaten you, saying that Du Ruo, a famous man from the fighting side, was coming; If someone talks to someone who falls apart or who is too picky and picky to find a friend, or someone pranks you when you are a street rat, saying that you have to pick and choose again, I will introduce you to the artist Du Ruo next time. People who laugh are really laughed at now, and people who are laughed at are really laughing at people now. You may not believe it, but since the art contest was organized by the whole road a year ago, I quickly realized that this was the time for you to get ahead. I went to the leader of the road bureau twice in three days, and the leader said that I heard that there is such a person, who is quite talented, but he was hit a little bit in the first two years and left his post, but it doesn't matter, as long as there is a grassroots recommendation, there are works to participate in, we must report. I hurried to the work area, and after all the good things I said, I finally got the recommendation form, and I went to the red lotus again to bring the "Girl by the Stream" back to the competition. One day, when I saw the news of your award and the full-page art review and character introduction in the Railway Daily, I was dizzy with joy, and all that flowed out of my heart were respect and admiration, and I was really surprised and happy, anxious and hateful for a while: what surprised me was that you had a bad fate, and there were always so many sad and bitter things entangled with you; The joy is that you have finally succeeded in your career, and the emperor has lived up to his hard work; The urgency is that if you leave for more than half a year, I am afraid that you will forget about me, an enlightened person, in the back of your head; What I hate is why I am so short-sighted, and the world is cautious to find good men, and as a result, good men always pass by me! For several days, I was undecided and unprepared, and I was always stunned by our wedding photos at the bedside. My son opened a pair of bright eyes curiously, Mom, why doesn't Dad want us to go to Sha, where did he go? I said proudly, silly son, why doesn't Dad want us? Dad is a painter, and he went sketching! My son was puzzled at once, his innocent face was full of dazed and ignorant weirdness, Mom, Dad went to sketch, it won't be a few years, isn't it coming back soon? I was speechless for a while, thirsty and withered heart like a sweet rain that I hadn't seen for a long time, and my eyes that had been dull for a long time were like a bright rainbow and shining, I said stupid son, don't ask if you shouldn't ask about adults, maybe your dad is really coming back! My son was excited all of a sudden, and he flipped a few times in a row in **, ah, my dad is coming back soon, my dad is a painter, and the painter is older than the principal, Mom! I couldn't help but burst out laughing, and my son smirked as well. I vividly remember that this was the first time that our mother and son laughed proudly since returning from the mountains, the first time they had the most carefree and heartfelt laughter. Within a few days, I heard that the Road Bureau was going to set up a literary association to recruit talents who have made achievements in literature and art! I immediately thought of you, I think this is the best opportunity for you to transfer to the provincial capital, this is the best time for you to stand out from the ravine, and this may also be the best turn for our love that only blossoms but does not bear fruit to bear the most beautiful and bright fruits! Dad is a painter, and the painter is older than the principal, Mom! I couldn't help but burst out laughing, and my son smirked as well. I vividly remember that this was the first time that our mother and son laughed proudly since returning from the mountains, the first time they had the most carefree and heartfelt laughter. Within a few days, I heard that the Road Bureau was going to set up a literary association to recruit talents who have made achievements in literature and art! I immediately thought of you, I think this is the best opportunity for you to transfer to the provincial capital, this is the best time for you to stand out from the ravine, and this may also be the best turn for our love that only blossoms but does not bear fruit to bear the most beautiful and bright fruits!

"One night when the moon is falling in the middle of the moon and the sky is fragrant and the clouds are drifting out, I took your painting and walked into the door of the old secretary of the road bureau with my teacher, the old secretary and my teacher are old classmates, and they have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace!" Oh, you're a busy man, the world is full of peaches and plums, what wind blows you here! ''Alas, let's laugh, Fanglin new leaves destroy Chen Ye, the front wave of flowing water makes the back wave, old, useless, can only do some embarrassing things to build ladders and pad shoulders, this is not at the expense of the old face, to recommend a talent to you! ''Hey, look at what you always say, since ancient times, the jade of Jingshan and the song of Nanshan are a good story for recommending talents, and you are also a talented young talent, right? Who do you keep talking about? Du Ruo, alas, this is really a pot to say a pot, a can to say a can, we have already decided him, he is the designated talent named by the Road Bureau, and he is ready to elect him to be the vice chairman of the Literary Association, but some time ago we did not do a good job, so that he suffered a little blow, encountered a little setback, it is said that he has been off the post for several months, you can rest assured, we will send people to find it, after all, everyone has the heart of talent! After that, I ran to the personnel department every once in a while, who knew that a few days passed, I didn't hear any news from you, a week passed, I didn't find any movement from you, half a month passed, you were like a yellow crane, gone without a trace. At this time, I immediately felt the seriousness of the problem, and I felt that creation was so deceptive to me! People are suddenly like a flat boat caught in the turbulent waves of anxiety, and the little long-cherished wish that has grown in their hearts with great difficulty has also come to naught. I don't think I can just be so helpless, I can't just be helpless and resigned to fate! This opportunity is only possible once for you, and this opportunity is also difficult for me to find iron shoes, maybe there will be no such shop in this village! I will do my best to find you, and I will do all my best to find you, and I will do all my best to find you, even if you are poor and falling, I will know where you are hiding!

When I stepped on the rugged path in the mountains, my eyes were suddenly filled with tears, and I saw that the surrounding plants and trees were still tender and green in the light singing and dancing, and the birds and insects were still singing and singing lightly, and the blue sky was clipped by the dark mountains, and a very familiar scarlet cloud was flipped out of the blue sky, and my heart suddenly seemed to be crawling with thousands of ants! Who is like me, looking forward to love, praying for happiness unforgettablely, and in a blink of an eye, he is almost the age of, and he still relies on landslides and waters, just for a little hypocrisy and foolishness, he hypocritically abandoned a love that should have belonged to him, and ruined a happiness that should have belonged to him to pieces! I wiped away the tears of sadness from the corners of my eyes, resisted the heavy regret in my heart, and came to the office of the small stationmaster, who was leaning down on the desk, and his highly myopic eyes stared at him from the top of his glasses: Ho, the distinguished guest is here, needless to say, it is for the sake of Painter Du! The stationmaster smiled and put down his glasses, and stood up with emotion, "I received a call from the Road Bureau, I immediately sent someone to find it, on the railway line from the mountain city to the river city for thousands of miles, which one is not like combing a comb, combing it two or three times, who knows which family of wind this Du painter is, which one of the evils, he is hiding from the smoke and extinguishing the fire, and he doesn't even see a ghost!" The stationmaster clicked his mouth and reached behind his glasses to pick out the eyes that were still a little sleepy after lack of sleep. 'You can rest assured, the instructions of the superiors, there is no opinion to do, there are opinions and reservations, not to mention that we were comrades in the same trench, together through ups and downs for more than ten years, there is no emotion and friendship, there is no friendship and there is a side of the elegance, look at the Du painter breaking the wall and taking off, look at you stumbling and finally become a family, I am not also short to watch the play with the cheers and cheers of the people, bald head followed the moon all the way to borrow blessings, and then went to the city for a meeting to study a business trip or something, There's also a place to have a glass of wine! I felt a kind of sorrow and compassion spread very strongly in my heart, and at the same time there was a lot of pity, sin, and indignation unhindered, and I pretended to be silent, and tried to hide the unhappy look on my brow, and tried my best to hide the applause, and followed the moon all the way to borrow blessings, and then went to the city for a meeting to study a business trip, and a place for a glass of wine and conversation! I felt a bitter feeling of compassion spread out in my heart, and at the same time there was a great deal of pity, sin, and indignation, and I pretended to be silent, trying to hide the unhappy look on my brow, and trying to hide the look of unhappiness on my face, and with a hope more heartbreaking than sorrow, I rushed to the house of Red Lotus in the dark.

However, Honglian had already run away from home with the child. Honglian's mother-in-law blocked me at the door with one foot in the door, and her skinny face showed a disgusting angry look, and after a long time of stiffening in the dull atmosphere of mutual suspicion, she suddenly scolded in a bitter tone, and she was angry and out of control, and finally developed to the point of scolding: 'What a stinky**, she is not a person in my house for a long time, her ancestral grave of the last eight generations has not been buried, and her grandmother grew up eating, I gave birth to such a person who sold the top and sold the head, and the shameless goods, this stinky ** didn't have a serious image when she was a girl, in order to make a few stinky money than her mouth addiction, in order to wear a few torn clothes to swagger through the market, she actually took off her pants and wore a ** painting body that made people touch and pinch, her stomach made people bigger, she couldn't cover her ugliness, and she came to coax my son nonsense, my son is the same as her who cuts his nose and eats it, and doesn't want a skin face? Is our home, like hers, a toilet hanging on the eaves, a notorious portal? We have already driven this stinky **, she is now on the market to set up a sign**buy** sell, we suffer losses and can't fool her door, she is lying on the road with sores and maggots, we are blind and dead without eyes to see! ’

I didn't dare to delay for a minute, and walked more than ten miles of mountain roads overnight to reach Honglian's aunt's house, when a bright moon hung obliquely on the treetops in the courtyard, sprinkling mottled broken shadows, a few wind whistles and a few water sounds outside the courtyard escaped on the infinitely quiet mountains, and it seemed that the courtyard was cold and lonely outside the courtyard. I raised my hand to knock on the door, but suddenly I hesitated and started to be stunned, my whole body trembled involuntarily, I hesitated in front of the door for a long time, a strong desire to see you was torn into pieces by the embarrassing thought that I could not face when I saw the red lotus, and finally I could no longer be distressed and bored to the point of staying still, and mustered up the courage to knock on the door. Honglian hurriedly put on her clothes, and a few locks of bangs on her forehead were scattered on her sleepy-eyed eyelids, and after a moment of surprise and confusion, she pulled me into the house, "Oh, Sister Yan, how could it be you, this night when the black light is blinding!" After that, we lit the pine lanterns in the mountains, closed the thick curtains, and sat around each other with heavy hearts. I said, 'Red Lotus, do you know, the organization wants to transfer Du Ruo to the city, but there is no one in the four roads, I don't know where he has been hiding for most of the year?' Red Lotus sighed, got up and took out a few remittance slips from the drawer and handed them to me, I saw that there was no address on the remittance slip, but when I looked at the somewhat vague postmark, I immediately knew that you were in the city. I wept with joy like vertigo, and a source of supreme and luscious happiness surged rapidly in my heart, and the sorrow and pain that had been tormenting me all this time in my mind disappeared at once. I said, 'Red Lotus, Du Ruo is in the city, you have been alone with a child like this, why don't you want to get back together with Du Ruo?' Honglian sighed lightly, lowered her head slightly, and looked at the diagonal lattice silently for a long time, with a look of confusion in her eyes, "Alas, how is this possible, Sister Yan?" I left him at the most difficult time, so that he lost his job and his career, and he was alone in the city without relatives, and now he is a painter, and you also treat him as a person in the organization, and you have to transfer him to the city. You said that this is a matter of being condescending and respectful, burying bones for thousands of years without being ashamed, how can it be enlightened, I'm afraid that I am willing to kneel on the ground and beg him, maybe he really wants to say that he is ashamed to die, and he will not even lose a good face to me! I was stunned for a while, and I didn't feel a smile of mixed regret, and I said, "Honglian, I can't imagine that you are such a quiet person, and your mind is full of feudal thoughts, you are like my sister, looking at your family's happiness, I will be happy and happy, I will go back to the city at dawn, as soon as there is news, I will notify you immediately!" ’”

Ren Yan said this in one breath, the face that had been immersed in grief and sadness suddenly turned into a kind and soft smile, and the eyes that had been soaked in tears also seemed to break free from a deep despair, warm and lovely exuding a soft and flirtatious female charm. Du Ruo suddenly felt his heart sinking, his whole body trembled as if he had been electrocuted, and even his breathing became rough and rough, seeing that Ren Yan just flashed his eyes affectionately at him, the corners of his mouth full of provocative thoughts were flattened at first glance, and his bright and dazzling face turned to the dim light and shadow on the other side of the table, Du Ruo breathed a sigh of relief, reached out and wiped away a layer of cold sweat that suddenly appeared on his forehead, and the difficult color of Ren Yan's tenderness appeared on his face, making him raise the wine glass in his heart and swallow it all.

"After returning to the city, I didn't care about putting down the luggage, so I went straight to the secretary's house, saying that you are in the city, the old secretary suddenly smiled after a moment of surprise, and his face suddenly rose in his heart A stone fell to the ground of the stretch and suitability, when I solemnly took out a red lotus collection of oil paintings from my bag, said that this is your painting before the pen, its value is no less than your famous work, please the secretary smiled, and hope to advise Luo! The old secretary is even more smiling, the corners of his eyes are a sincere smile that can't be hidden, since Du Painter is in the city, which can always be found, tomorrow I will notify the personnel department to send an order, this is also respect for knowledge, respect for talents! I came out of the old secretary's house with my heart, I don't know when the street has been dripping with a light rain, look at the street coming and going or covering a small umbrella Qing Qing I my couple or husband holding the child in front of the wife with an umbrella in the back of the affectionate couple, I was full of bitterness to start, God knows how long I have not been on the street, in my spare time I always bind myself in the lonely ** cicada clothes, imprisoning my soul in the shackles of sorrow, I thought that this life would be so unsatisfactory and unsatisfactory for a day, and I thought that all the emotions in this life would be wiped clean by the eraser of past repentance! Who admits that there is no endless road, and in a blink of an eye people are middle-aged, this ghost-like heaven has sprinkled a road of flowers and birds in my boring years, and has rippled a ripple of spring on the marrow of my ancient well without waves, so that I can also enjoy the ups and downs of love like the red men and green women on this street, so that I can also feel the joys and sorrows of the world like the loving couple on this street unrestrained! (To be continued.) )