"If that's the case, brother, why don't we paint this picture? A hero doesn't suffer the loss in front of you, you have to suffer this sin, suffer this, and are willing to risk going to prison to paint this picture! Honglian looked up with her face extremely warmly, and her chest was intermittently filled with hateful, lamentable, and pitiful feelings, and the humiliation that she had always been deeply aware of slowly subsided, and the fear of fear came to her body, and she unconsciously snuggled her body more meekly into his arms.

"Later, I don't know how I left the work class, one person ran to your house in a fog, and another person walked back to the work area. It turns out that our love is on the verge of danger, and the infinite admiration for love that I have been haunting in my heart has become an ethereal dream! It turns out that you have a noble heart and deep affection, and you have been fighting desperately for our love for days! The little sister said, you don't eat or sleep for me, and you hide in the attic and cry alone all day long. It turned out that my uncle's parents listened to and believed it, for fear that their old face would be ruined for half a lifetime, and they wouldn't let you meet me anymore! I think I'm really a sinmaker! At the age of sixteen or seventeen, when I was dozing, hungry, and sad, I had no choice but to take on the burden of life, to earn wages for the family's life, and to spend my beautiful youth in this deserted ravine. At my age, others sit carefree in a classroom with a few windows, learn cultural knowledge, receive higher education, and grab capital to make a living. What can be done, people have to bow their heads when they go to the low eaves, just be happy to know their fate, get by and live a day, no oil in the pot, no rice in the tank, the poor bare, said that no one has to live. Later, by chance, the creation made people, the work area engaged in the youth culture study class, met Mr. Ren, this is a little absurd idea, with a little belief in climbing the dragon and the phoenix, I always feel that instead of being so nameless and money, rotting with the grass and trees, it is better to learn the toad to stretch its neck to swallow the moon, even if it is wishful thinking, even if it is ruined, in the end there is no loss, I am not still a penniless mountain road maintenance worker. Later, I really worked hard, starting from the first Chinese textbook, and climbing to the mountain of literature and history; Starting from "Mustard Seed Garden Painting", swim into the sea of painting art. Others at my age, is to sit in the office with a bright window and a face, catch up with the tide of the times, enjoy the material civilization, out of the lights of the red wine and green, into the wife and children with each other, what can be done, people to the bend over, have to bend their heads, who called me just a mountain road maintenance worker, a pile of dung like abandoned at the bottom of the society, hard work for more than ten years, no success, no fame, still is still a loach in the small ravine, can not turn up the big waves, shallow beach of the yellow eel, always can not become a dragon. Since I have such a bumpy fate and such a bad fortune, it is not a dream for me to soar in vain. Then I should always take a step back, as the saying goes, take a step back and open the sky, and the prodigal son will not change his money! I just tried to survive in the mountains, I was looking for love in the mountains, who did I provoke and who hindered whom, I settled in the mountains that I was destined to live in, and I harvested love in my bad year, which also blocked his financial path and defeated his gimmick. Could it be that a piece of heaven above my head obscures the draught well in his house, or that a piece of land under my feet has crowded the old grave mound in his house, and that I am guilty of such murder and bloodless harm and evil in the work area to the point of no return, and that I am guilty of such a lack of virtue and smoke in my fiancée's house? I'm not like him, I am sweat beads falling to the ground and earning a few life money, I am not like him, I am wearing a human skin in white and leaning on people's nose to breathe, breaking up my marriage, he is satisfied, watching me suffer and suffer, he can wake up laughing in his sleep. I can't just retreat, I can't just be stupid and cocooned to tie myself, the big living person is called urine suffocation, I can't pretend to be free and easy, I can't just give up and masturbate, and my arms are folded in my sleeves. I'm going to paint, to paint a glorious and original work of astonishment, to completely overturn the untruths that have been imposed on me; I'm going to propose marriage, begging Honglian to let me be her husband who loves each other, and begging Honglian's parents to let me be their son-in-law. It's not that I can't pull out white cloth in the dyeing room, and I can't squeeze four taels of oil from buckwheat grains, which also blocks his financial path and defeats his gimmick. Could it be that a piece of heaven above my head obscures the draught well in his house, or that a piece of land under my feet has crowded the old grave mound in his house, and that I am guilty of such murder and bloodless harm and evil in the work area to the point of no return, and that I am guilty of such a lack of virtue and smoke in my fiancée's house? I'm not like him, I am sweat beads falling to the ground and earning a few life money, I am not like him, I am wearing a human skin in white and leaning on people's nose to breathe, breaking up my marriage, he is satisfied, watching me suffer and suffer, he can wake up laughing in his sleep. I can't just retreat, I can't just be stupid and cocooned to tie myself, the big living person is called urine suffocation, I can't pretend to be free and easy, I can't just give up and masturbate, and my arms are folded in my sleeves. I'm going to paint, to paint a glorious and original work of astonishment, to completely overturn the untruths that have been imposed on me; I'm going to propose marriage, begging Honglian to let me be her husband who loves each other, and begging Honglian's parents to let me be their son-in-law. It's not that I can't pull out a white cloth in the dyeing room, and I can't squeeze four taels of oil from buckwheat grains, so I have to do my best and do everything I have, in the case of the general poverty of the small station's family, pull the banner of a well-off family, and build a typical example of a scholarly family; It's not that it's hard for me to paint the skin and the tiger, and I don't know the face but not the heart, I have to confess with my heart, repay my grievances directly, and pour all my love into the red lotus, and let the red lotus live the most abundant food and clothing, so that the parents of the red lotus can also live the most rich and healthy comfortable life because of the red lotus...... "the most abundant and healthy comfortable life......

"If brother, if this is the case, we will paint this painting wholeheartedly, you are not afraid of going to prison and letting people step under your feet, and I am not afraid of losing face and causing a gray nose, see who dares to splash dirty water on us at will, pointing at our backbone and spraying feces!" Red Lotus stretched out her fingers to press her lips in annoyance, and then bent her arm to fetch the bath towel behind her back, her whole face cynically pale like clotted cream.

Du Ruo's heart moved, got up and picked up the red lotus and ran to the easel a few steps, quickly moved the pen to paint the unyielding mood of the red lotus on the canvas, and stared at it for a while, and after a long time, he flashed his eyes unsatisfied, and both returned to the sofa and sat down without regret, "I made up my mind to go to the township to ask the township chief Yucheng, a night when the water and the moon are suitable, and the night is quiet, I brought a framed painting of flowers and birds, and knocked on the door of the township chief's house." After a moment of surprise and doubt, the township chief looked very hospitable, he had already heard that there was a painter in our poor ravine, and it was better to meet than to be famous! Sister Lian's matter, don't worry, I will take the time to talk to her father, don't enter the turtle gate, don't get angry, the children's family is free to love, as long as Sister Lian is willing, the optimism of being a parent, do you still need so much heart? You just said that public opinion is not right, there is a lot of resistance, I don't think it's a big deal, the people in the mountains, the ancient road is warm, the people are kind, there are two gossips that don't listen, it's also a very common thing. Look at your paintings, listen to your words, I can trust your character very much, why should I put such a thing of chasing wind and shadows in my heart! But in the future, you have to treat the lotus girl well, how can it be, be kind to others, the beauty of sincerity and benevolence! It's useless, you are willing to come, it is full of face, and I really deserve to give such a valuable gift, but it is disrespectful! When to do a happy event, a word, then I will come to the door to congratulate, where, where, a little joy, ask for a glass of happy wine to drink!

"I mustered up the courage to go to your aunt's house and beg her for her tolerance. I remember you said that my aunt was strong and generous, but she had no children and no daughters under her knees. Your father was brought up by your aunt when you were a child, and you lived in your aunt's house when you were a child. Be reasonable, as long as your aunt agrees, your father will not disobey him, then our marriage will be inseparable. It was the time when the morning dew was wet and the mountains were green, so I got up early and took a pair of gold bracelets and a few sets of high-quality clothes that I bought from Jiangcheng. When I came to my aunt's house with a clumsy and apprehensive voice. My aunt is really kind, a pair of eyes that have been rusted by the hardships of life and lost their luster exude a wide and generous warmth, and a face that has been abrased by the wind and frost of the years shows an amiable smile. You came, go to the house and sit, you said what to do now, you touched the mold, encountered the trouble, the needle tip of the big hole made into a big wind, your uncle did not agree to this family business, the lotus sister is looking for death and life to make the surname, you are so good to talk about friends and live a life, you have to paint something, and it is not that you can't get by, so that the rumors of the four towns and neighbors are flying all over the sky. Your uncle can't stand the slightest anger in his life, this is good, and he can't speak clearly. You are a smart person, you don't need a hammer to sound a drum, you don't need a whip to whip a fast horse, you can't do anything, you can't do anything, you always have a fixed star in your heart, you don't have a foolish account, you can't get it from a small family like us. Sister Lian is young, just out of the school door, don't know the etiquette, you have crossed more bridges than she walked, why are you still so ignorant, get lice on the head, make some gossip to others! Do you want to get married, when? is the only way to stop other people's mouths. Your uncle came to me and said, it is not possible for this big girl to still have her surname, I am heartbroken for the girl I raised intimately and close to the flesh, it is not my aunt who said you, you still have to suppress your temper, pay a little attention, admit your mistake in front of your uncle, say no, lose face and lose face without going out of the house, what is it! Oh, you baby, what are you doing with this valuable thing, you have become a family, and you are still holding on to this false trick and fuss ceremony. My aunt is not old yet, and she can still move, when will my aunt be bedridden, my aunt will really only rely on you and my sister Lian!

"If brother, if we are really as my aunt said, after painting this painting, we will not engage in creation, be a painter in peace and stability, paint arts and crafts paintings, make some money in a dignified manner, and live a decent life, you have to do the Chinese dream, what kind of painter is embarrassing, the old saying also says: The tree is big and the wind shakes the tree, and the name of the person is lost, so that the family is worried about you!" Honglian echoed with deep feelings, stood up with a melancholy face, picked up the coat that Du Ruo threw on the back of the chair and draped it over his shoulders, and bent his arm again to pull the bath towel that fell on his back......

Du Ruo was slightly shocked, and suddenly felt a ray of spiritual light flashing in his mind, and he was busy concentrating his mind to capture the spiritual light, but in an instant, Tong Shan was wet, and there was no trace of paw prints as if Feihong was stepping on slush and snow, and there was no sign of even the auspicious light and feathers that were aroused. Du Ruo shook his head in frustration, looking at the image on the canvas with empty eyes, and then at the red lotus wearing a bath towel, and couldn't help but continue with a gloomy heart, "So I went to your house to propose marriage in one go, when I walked into your house with a large bag of seasonal gifts and bulging bags of fashionable clothes. The little sister innocently took the backpack, with a little surprise and a slightly shy smile, and said if brother, why didn't you come earlier, my sister is sick and has been lying for a few days, I went to the field to call my parents back, you are not allowed to be like last time, my parents are gone, and they are gone! I smiled embarrassed and uneasy, and ran into your room in a few steps. You turned your head crookedly and saw that you sat up from the bed with your sickly fluffy hair, and your dry and red eyes were filled with fine tears in an instant. I immediately felt a split in my spirit, on the verge of a breakdown, as if I had fallen into a bottomless abyss, dizzy and dizzy from time to moment. I stepped over to the bed, and hugged you tightly to my chest, and beheld your cheeks, which were as white as peach, and which were pitifully withered, and which were full of ruined and worried smiles; Look at your eyes, which are as bright as spring mountains and autumn waters, they are also pitifully dimmed, and their eyes are full of dull and unhappy brilliance. I said Red Lotus, if my brother is lowly and incompetent, I pity the worm, and you will suffer with you. You shook your head weakly and weakly, and your teardropping eyes flashed with perseverance, you said that if you brother, Honglian is not afraid of suffering and sinning, who doesn't have a big bowl and a small bump to touch the heart-wrenching thing, as long as we have a clear conscience, have a way to live, and have a pursuit, Honglian is willing to fall into the well and flutter all his life.

I couldn't hold back the surging passion in my heart anymore, I suddenly realized that the momentary impulse for love and the empty enthusiasm for art that I had been worried about in my heart were right, I hurriedly told you that I went to the township to visit the township chief, and asked the township chief to match with me, and I went to my aunt's house to confess my relatives, and begged my aunt to become a jade from it. Your eyes widened with joy at that time, and a few strands of sad smile lines that had been condensed on your lips for a long time were gone, you said that if you are brother, you have spent so much money for Honglian, Honglian is really ashamed. I bowed my head in deep shame, my face was ashamed, I said Red Lotus, silly wife, it should be me who feels guilty, you are like a fairy in my barren heart sprinkled with the rain of love, so that I have wandered for many years The emotional boat finally has a harbor of love to rest, it is you who have lit the guiding light on the wrong path of my unconscious life, so that I can wander The car of faith is finally no longer sluggish, I love you all my life, thank you, it's not enough, how can you still have such unreasonable thoughts, And such unreasonable thoughts. You smiled charmingly and shyly, with two thin teardrops in the corners of your eyes, and then you suddenly approached the root of my ear, and your sweet voice was as delicate as a candied fruit, you said that if you are a brother, you will be a father, and the little baby is often naughty. I suddenly felt that my heart was full of joy, and after a moment of soul fluttering, the sorrow that had been stuck in my mind was completely gone, and then I only felt that the world was so vast, and my heart was so open-minded, I couldn't help but bury my face deep in your chest and abdomen, and wanted to listen to the kicking sound of the fetus of our love when it was restless in the mother's womb. You smiled and shrunk your shoulders to dodge, while struggling uneasily, you couldn't raise your head in shame for a while, and then you sighed faintly, and suddenly raised your tearful eyes with a touch of loss, you said if brother, what should I do now, if my parents really don't agree.

I suddenly felt a burst of panic in my heart, the six gods raised their heads without a master, and comforted you with a hesitant tone that I couldn't believe, I said no, red lotus, no, people are always bones and flesh, there are only unfilial children in the world, there are no unvirtuous parents, as long as we are benevolent to righteousness, love to courtesy, and what parents do not want their children to live happily. You shook your head softly, your face was covered with a layer of melancholy clouds, you said if brother, if only my parents thought like you, what can be done, one step and a hundred wrong steps, who told us to come to this point! I have already thought about it, when I am well, let's sincerely ask my parents to agree, if my father does not agree again, he just rubs his face with ashes and fills the black bread, and he refuses to turn around when he dies, then I will run away from home and go to you alone, just if he did not give birth to me and raise my daughter in this life. I felt a throbbing heartstrings at that time, and I was stunned all of a sudden, and the joy and pain that rolled over converged into a torrent that flowed through my eyes, I didn't expect your weak chest to beat with a loyal and unyielding heart, I didn't expect your immature shoulders to bear the weight of gossip like a mountain, I didn't expect your love for me to be so sincere, I didn't expect our love to go such a tortuous and rugged road, I can only hug you further, Tears of gratitude and sorrow poured down his eyes......

"--Ouch, sister, it's really hard to say goodbye when you meet, I haven't seen you for a few days, and I look like a tired person crying and crying, are you ashamed?"

I was shocked, and hurriedly stood up, and saw the little sister carrying a bamboo basket, stepping on the threshold with one foot, and bending her cheeks exaggeratedly and sarcastically. You laugh and curse in annoyance, tug at your crumpled shirt, and lift the quilt and rub it off the bed. The little sister smiled, and raised her pink smile in a sneer, yo, sister, this time the illness is also cured, this time you should thank me for being a matchmaker! You smile generously, twist the little sister's eyebrows and eyebrows, you have a broken mouth, a lot of sharp and thin tongues, you are about to read middle school, and you are so crazy all day long! The little sister grunted shyly, and her smiling eyes couldn't hide a cheerful look. You sighed gently and plainly, a few traces of confusion and loneliness flashed over your melancholy and haggard face, you said little sister, brother came to recognize his relatives, I don't know what you like, brother said to give you some money, keep it for future tuition, little sister, you have to study hard, don't waste this heart of your brother and sister, and strive to get into a university, my brother is because he didn't study, so he was hated, and my sister is also because I didn't read, so I am so unproductive, even our dad looks down on us! The little sister shook her head disapprenously, opened her two eyes that became very bright in an instant, and glanced at me with a smile, sister, is it so cruel as you said, our dad is a little old and stubborn, my mom is still towards you, our family also comes to ** centralization, the minority obeys the majority, see what else our dad has to say! You smile and walk out of the room with an increasingly sad look.

"Then I saw that outside the house, in the jagged shadows of the foliage and the dome of the roof, your father and mother had returned from the field. I hurriedly left you, suppressed the slight nervousness and timidity that had risen in my heart, and stood at the door of the house with a sense of anxiety. Your parents have a cold attitude, and they both coldly deflect their heads and pretend to turn a blind eye. I wanted to take the dung bucket from your father's shoulder, and call out to my father, but your father walked in front of me without saying a word, and his gloomy face was like a dark halo on the ground; I wanted to take the dung basket from your mother's shoulder, and call Mom with a smiling face, but your mother said absentmindedly and passed by, her kind face like the swaying light and shadow in front of the door, suddenly adding a layer of mysterious gloom. Later, I staggered back to the house with a desolation in my heart like a black curtain, like a sleepy beast, your father sat on the stool next to the table of the eight immortals in the upper room with a blue face, your mother lowered her voice as if muttering something in her mouth, while rolling up her sleeves and wiping the corners of her eyes, while walking to the kitchen in a panic, you leaned heavily on the chair in the corner, glancing at me with resentment, while stubbornly gritting her teeth, the little sister was hurriedly looking for a teacup, and her red and hot cheeks showed a little relieved smile from time to time. I staggered to your father, and I wanted to call him with the most humble smile and the lowest of tones, but a terrible haze took over my mind, and I wanted to say no with the most reverent care, and in the most solemn tone, but a terrible fear swept over me. I only felt that my face was deformed, my heart was contracting, my legs were shaking violently, and I took out a cigarette from my pocket and sent it to your father with both hands respectfully. Your father snorted coldly, his face was gloomy, and he added a layer of disdain to his extreme disgust, he waved his hand to beat the paper cigarette, with a look of hatred and hatred, and pointed at the tip of my nose angrily, look at your virtue, not stupid and stupid, my sister is blind, crazy, her parents are not blind in the sand, and there is a breath in the sand, you quickly take your things and get out of the door, we are poor and small, for a kind of evil and resentful look, Angrily pointed at the tip of my nose, look at your virtue, not stupid and stupid, my lotus sister is blind, crazy, her parents are not blind to the sand, and the breath is in the sand, you quickly take your things and get out of the door for me, we are poor, we can't afford you to be such a god, stay away from our house in the future, don't be like flies and stinky to haunt my lotus sister, I simply open the window and say bright words, don't dissipate any crooked brains, my lotus sister is so stupid that no one wants it, marry a deaf, blind, camel, Nor will you be at the door of your dog-faced beast-hearted thing!

I felt a rush of blood rush to my head, and my face was as white as ashes in the indignation of being spurned. You screamed heartbreakingly, and suddenly slipped off the chair in a panic, and the little sister lost her voice and ran over like a fly, and you shook your head with a blank face, and fell sideways to the ground and cried. I tried my best to suppress the unbearable rage and despair in my heart, and to control the unbearable tremors that were sifting chaff all over my body. Your mother shouted in the kitchen, "O son of my wretchedness!" A handful of tears and snot flew out. Look at your father's stiff cheeks, the hatred and resentment in his heart completely frozen on his face, look at your mother and son crying in a ball of loneliness and sorrow, look at the tablet of your ancestors who are enshrined in the dim candlelight by the fragrant fragrance under the eaves, I suddenly feel a feeling of exhaustion from the heart that makes my eyelids astringent, my skull wooden, and I can't help but 'plop' on my knees on the ground. All of them kowtowed three times in a row, I said that the ancestors of the red lotus are on the top, Du Ruo kowtowed to the ancestors, Du Ruo married the red lotus as his wife, and hoped that the ancestors would be tolerant and blessed, Du Ruo would remember the kindness of the ancestors, and he would live up to the red lotus in this life, Du Ruo swore in front of the ancestors' spirits, and Du Ruo was destitute in the future, saying that there were no three meals, no night, and the red lotus should be happy for a lifetime, and the ancestors would have mercy on the ancestors! At this time, your crying stopped abruptly, and after a moment of hesitation, you struggled to break free from your mother's dissuasion, and also knelt down beside me in a panic, you said Dad, please forgive your daughter for the sake of your love for raising your daughter for more than 20 years! My sister also said Dad, you are a feudal idea, my sister is willing, if you don't agree again, you will violate the marriage law! Your mother wiped a handful of tears and walked in front of you tremblingly, Lian'er, you both got up, Mom saw it, your head was knocked down, you knelt down, you should have done your duty, Mom agreed with you, if this old ghost is afraid of losing face and losing his face, let him live alone, Mom will take my little sister with you, I don't believe it, the girl I gave birth to will be blind, and a mouthful of spit can drown people! Your father lowered his head helplessly, staring at me with hatred, a wry smile hung on the corner of his mouth, you two get up, Dad is also forced to fight, people fight for a breath, trees earn a layer of skin, as long as you are a bright and bright friends, worthy of the name of the marriage, do not make some right and wrong let people chew their tongues behind their backs, poke the backbone, I am too late to be happy, how can I bear to tear you apart, set a date, invite the five relatives and six relatives to the left and right neighbors, let's do the happy event lively, everyone has it for all to see, You haven't done anything unseemly, so get married! "It's done, everyone can see it, you haven't done anything unseemly, you just get married!"

"Brother Ruo, you should know now, it's so difficult for the two of us to start a family, and it's not brought by your past ruffians! We are the little people in the mountains, it's good to have something to eat, you have to swallow the snake and swallow the elephant and want to be a painter, you have to eat the tengu to go to the city to sell stupid! Leaders don't make it difficult for you, and parents don't worry about who you worry about! Listen to me, throw away this illusion, keep to yourself and paint well, earn some money to live in the mountains, and no one will be able to live with you! Look at this disgraced appearance, I don't paint anymore, I don't have any count in my heart, and I just toss myself to paint again! The red lotus walked over with a bath towel, and the two rays of sunlight shining mottled through the bright tiles of the roof shone on her, blending with the darkness of the surrounding dusty mist, like the green calyx on the branch clustered with white blooming flowers, which was very bright for a while.

Du Ruo suddenly realized, as if the spiritual light had passed away, his mind instantly illuminated, and he picked up the paintbrush excitedly. It turned out that he couldn't get out of the trap of realism many times and times, because he didn't understand the essence of freehand, and he couldn't jump out of the similar fence three times and four times, and he didn't grasp the opportunity of god-likeness. The affection is deep and long inside, the scenery is far and large, not limited to the appearance of the image, not stuck in the internal structure of the landscape, the pride of reading things, and the creativity of writing. The ancients Zong Bing said: Vertical three inches, when a thousand feet high; The horizontal ink is several feet, and the body is hundreds of miles. The painter Shi Tao also said: Ten buckets of vomiting blood are better than chewing snow. The old man Baishi even said: The beauty of painting lies in the similarity and dissimilarity. As long as the intention, taste, and style of the picture are expressed, and the characters' unwilling humiliation, universal love and simple spiritual outlook are displayed, why bother to stick to the elegance of the pen and the level of the gesture? Taking it for granted to stay in the pursuit of techniques, and setting up misunderstandings for oneself in creation, this is the only way to succeed in the history of art!

Red Lotus bowed down and watched Du Ruo write and paint on the drawing paper, first the mountains are not like mountains, and the water is not like water to draw a rough outline, and then the mountains are dyed with light ink, thick ink dotted with moss, and the underwater is written with a pen, and the old brushes are draped, outlining several realistic pine strange stones, and then a dusty girl holding a lotus canopy appears on the drawing paper. The ink place is the strange and beautiful mountain light and material state, and the white place is the empty mountain valley that arouses people's reverie; When using the pen, there are "sharp, qi, round, healthy" categories, when dipping ink, there are "burnt, thick, light, light" ingenuity; Gradually, the mountains are green, the water is green, the people are alive, the paper is clear and clear, there is a texture, the color is harmonious and elegant, there is a contrast, there is a graceful and elegant taste, the whole picture is sparse and dense, and the face gives people a feeling of ethereal and moisturized......

"Brother Ruo, you are really amazing, you have painted this "Girl by the River" to life!"

Du Ruo put down the paintbrush in a daze, looked down in disbelief, and turned on all the lights in the room and looked up in a dream, and then walked quickly to the window and opened the curtains, squinting hesitantly, and finally flew up to pick up the red lotus with passion, and tears burst out of his eyes with emotion, "Red Lotus, we finally succeeded, without you, how can there be this painting, this is the crystallization of our two people's hard work, the fruit of our love, this life will be with you to grow old together, love for a lifetime!" (To be continued.) )