When Chen Xun reached out to his schoolbag and took out the eraser, he saw Ning Chaoxi standing outside the pavilion staring at him in a daze, the girl's face looked particularly beautiful and moving in the light and shadow of the sunset, it was a rare quiet and well-behaved appearance, his eyes were cast, Ning Chaoxi came back to his senses and smiled at him.

The corners of her eyes were slightly curved, and the smile on the corners of her mouth made her whole face vivid and delicate, like flowers blooming in early spring, and her eyebrows were picturesque.

"What a coincidence, Chen Xun." Ning Chaoxi stepped forward, stretched out his hand on the crossbar of the gazebo, looked up at him sitting on the bench, and said curiously: "Are you painting?" ”

"Hmm." Chen Xun retracted his gaze, took out the eraser from his schoolbag, and erased the extra lines on the picture.

"You can also draw?" Ning Chaoxi didn't seem to expect him to have this skill, his eyes lit up, and he asked him, "Can I take a look?" ”

"Come here."

The smile on the corner of Ning Chaoxi's mouth became stronger, and he walked up the steps of the pavilion in three steps and two steps, walked to his side, and looked down at the sketchbook he had on his lap.

Chen Xun painted the scene outside the pavilion in front of him, the composition on the picture is ingenious, the priority lines outline the scenery vividly, the highlights and shadows are also handled properly, to put it mildly, it is simply the scene in front of him faded and the lines were printed on his book.

Ning Chaoxi exclaimed: "Wow, Chen Xun, you are so amazing, you paint just like the real thing." ”

Hearing her praise, the corners of Chen Xun's lips overflowed with a shallow smile.

"Can I see what I drew before?"

Chen Xun directly handed her the entire sketchbook.

Ning Chaoxi took the notebook he handed over, sat on the bench beside him, and flipped it carefully, as if he was treating a few priceless famous paintings.

Let out an exclamation while turning, all Chen Xun heard was praise and praise for him.

"Wow, this kitten is so cute." Ning Chaoxi turned to a page and drew a kitten curled up on the ground, fluffy, lazy and cute, when she looked up at him, Chen Xun felt that her eyes were as clear and beautiful as the kitten in the picture.

Chen Xun took the notebook in her hand, tore off the page and handed it to her.

Ning Chaoxi was flattered, and his eyes widened in surprise: "You want to give it to me?" ”

"Well, for you."

"Thank you." Ning Chaoxi smiled, "I will definitely treasure it." ”

Along the way, Ning Chaoxi couldn't put down the painting, and from time to time she had to look down and admire it, the smile on her face had not disappeared since just now, as if she was a child who had eaten candy, silly, Chen Xun pulled her arm for the fifth time to bypass the potholes on the ground, and finally couldn't help but mention it: "Pay attention to the road." ”

"Oh." Ning Chaoxi responded, turned his head sideways and asked him: "Chen Xun, you are so good at painting, have you learned it before?" ”

"I studied with the teacher for a year in junior high school art class." Chen Xun said lightly.

"It's only been a year to be able to draw like this, you're too good, aren't you?" Ning Chaoxi was a little surprised, "Chen Xun, I found out that you are a genius. ”

Chen Xun shook his head and smiled: "I usually practice a lot." ”

"Then do you want to go to the Academy of Fine Arts in the future?"

"I've thought about it." Chen Xun raised his eyes, didn't know what he thought, and added: "Not necessarily." ”

"Why not necessarily? You are so good at drawing, it is a waste of talent not to go to the Academy of Fine Arts. Ning Chaoxi pursed his lips, "Like me, I don't have this skill, so I can only take the college entrance examination step by step." ”

"You don't have good grades?" Chen Xun listened to her suddenly lowered tone, looked sideways at her and asked.

"No, it's above average, I've never been very good at math." Ning Chaoxi kicked the pebbles on the side of the road, and his expression became a little puzzled, "Hey, mathematics is a piece of my heart." ”

Chen Xun stopped to look at her restless feet, twisted his eyebrows, and instructed her: "Walk well." ”

Ning Chaoxi swept away Fang Cai's depressed expression, looked at him with a smile and said, "Chen Xun, you look like my father." ”

Chen Xun glanced at her without speaking, and continued to walk forward.

Thinking that he was unhappy, Ning Chaoxi immediately followed and explained: "Chen Xun, I'm joking, don't you mind." ”

Chen Xun is also a day student, he and Ning Chaoxi walked out of the school gate together, out of the school gate and then walked forward for a while is a fork in the road, Chen Xun took the lead to stop, turned back and asked her: "Which way are you going?" ”

Ning Chaoxi looked up when she heard the sound, and then she found that she had reached a fork in the road, and for the first time, she felt that the road out of the school was so short, as if it had arrived all at once.

"I'll go this way." Ning Chaoxi pointed to the intersection on the right.

Chen Xun looked at the direction of her fingers, nodded slightly, took a long leg and walked in the direction she said, and after walking a few steps and finding that she didn't follow, he stopped and looked back at her.

"Aren't you leaving?"

Ning Chaoxi hurriedly raised his legs to follow, slightly surprised: "Chen Xun, is your family also in this direction?" ”

Chen Xun nodded.

Ning Chaoxi was overjoyed, and said casually: "That's great, we can go back together after school in the future, and have a companion." ”

Chen Xun looked at her smile, his thin lips pursed slightly, and he didn't speak, neither in favor nor against.

And Ning Chaoxi just mentioned it casually, and didn't take this matter to heart.

Ning Chaoxi's home is very close to Xilin Middle School, about twenty minutes walk, if you are in a hurry, take the bus, there is a bus stop in front of her house, basically every car can go directly to the school gate, it is only seven or eight minutes.

Ning Chaoxi found that Chen Xun's route home was similar to his own, at least where there were crossroads along the way, he followed him.

Passing by a boutique on the way, Ning Chaoxi asked to go in and have a look, Chen Xun's painting has been held in her hand, such a thin piece of paper is easily damaged, she wants to find out if there is a frame of similar size that can frame this painting.

originally wanted Chen Xun to go back first, but after listening to her words, he raised his chin at her and motioned to go in together.

The boutique is not a gallery, and there are no special frames to sell, so Ning Chaoxi turned around and asked the boss, who told her: "We only sell photo frames here." ”

Ning Chaoxi thought about it, if there is no frame, the photo frame can be replaced, although it is not solemn enough, but she just wants to protect the painting from being damaged, she followed the instructions of the boss, walked to the shelf where the photo frame was placed, and casually picked up a photo frame and compared it, it was too small, not even half of the paper.

The store of the boutique was a little small, Chen Xun was tall, and as soon as he walked in, he felt that there was nowhere to move, and he saw Ning Chaoxi standing in front of the shelves with a frown, and walked over.

"What's wrong?"

Ning Chaoxi put the photo frame in his hand back, pursed his mouth, and looked a little lost: "It's too small to fit your paintings." ”

Chen Xun glanced at the shelves, reached out and picked up a light blue photo frame, and handed it to her: "How about this?" ”

There is also a cat head on the photo frame he selected, which is somewhat similar to the one he painted, Ning Chaoxi reached out and touched the cat, his eyebrows stretched: "Ah, this is so cute." ”

She picked up the drawing paper and compared it on the photo frame, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but go down: "It's still small." ”

"I have a way." Chen Xun said.

After speaking, he took the photo frame in Ning Chaoxi's hand, walked to the counter, pointed the utility knife in the glass cabinet with his slender fingers, and said to the boss: "I want a utility knife, settle with this." He placed the frame in his hand on the countertop.

The boss drew a utility knife from the cabinet and gave it to him: "Twenty in total." ”

Ning Chaoxi hurriedly walked over, took out the change bag from the schoolbag, and was about to give money when Chen Xun buckled her wrist, she was stunned, and saw that he had already taken out a twenty and handed it to the boss, Ning Chaoxi immediately opened his mouth to stop and said: "This is what I want to buy, I'll give the money." ”

"No, you don't." replied lightly, Chen Xun watched the boss collect the money before letting go of her hand.

He picked up the utility knife and photo frame on the countertop, walked out of the door of the boutique, and Ning Chaoxi followed behind him and said, "Chen Xun, I'll return the money to you." ”

Chen Xun didn't look back, but it was still the same two words: "No." ”

Ning Chaoxi scratched his hair: "How embarrassing is this......"

Chen Xun walked to the stone bench not far away, asked Ning Chaoxi to give him the painting, looked up and saw that she was still entangled, his thin lips moved slightly: "It can be regarded as your thank you for giving me medicinal wine." ”

Hearing him say this, Ning Chaoxi no longer insisted.

Chen Xun took out a pencil and ruler from his schoolbag, measured the length and width of the frame, wrote down the values, drew a frame of the same size on the back of the drawing paper with a pencil, and then used a utility knife to cut off the remaining edges.

Only the cat in the middle is the main body of the whole paper, and Chen Xun cut out the other blank parts so that they can be put into the frame.

Ning Chaoxi's eyes brightened inch by inch with his movements, and he patted his head: "I'm so stupid, why didn't I think of this method." ”

Chen Xun handed her the installed photo frame, Ning Chaoxi took it, touched the kitten embedded in the photo frame, could not hide his joy, and the smile in his eyes seemed to overflow.

Chen Xun was infected by the smile in her eyes, and hooked his lips imperceptibly: "Do you like it so much?" ”

"Well, I love it!" Ning Chaoxi hugged the photo frame in his arms and showed a big smile: "Chen Xun, thank you." ”

Chen Xun moved his lips and was about to say something, when the mobile phone in his schoolbag rang.

He picked up his phone and walked to the side to answer the phone, Ning Chaoxi noticed that his mobile phone was an old-fashioned Nokia, the kind that could only make calls and send messages, and it was clasped by his white and clean fingers, which looked extremely small.

After going to high school, the school did not allow students to use smartphones, Ning Chaoxi saw that there were many students around her who were using this kind of button mobile phone, she originally wanted Ning's father to buy her one, which could be used to contact her, but Ning's mother did not allow it, and the matter was not resolved later.

Ning Chaoxi took advantage of the interval between his phone calls to put away the leftover paper and threw it into the trash, and as soon as he turned around, he had already hung up the phone and came over.

"Let's go."

Ning Chaoxi nodded.

Their family does live in the same area, walk through the traffic light intersection Ning Chaoxi to the entrance of the community, Chen Xun at the intersection and her separated, Ning Chaoxi saw him turn left into an alley called 'Qianguan Village', both sides of the alley are full of shops, it is a meal, there are many pedestrians coming and going, one after another, there are fireworks floating in this alley, Chen Xun's tall body wearing a school uniform is very conspicuous in the crowd, and it also looks out of place.

Ning Chaoxi stood at the intersection and watched him being overwhelmed by the crowd, and only when she completely faded out of her sight did she walk towards the entrance of the community.