The driver of the black car was a tall and fat middle-aged man, with rough black skin that people in the mountains were accustomed to, and seeing that Ye Tan was a girl, standing there weakly and couldn't help but feel the wind, or with a foreign accent, he directly stretched out two fingers to her.

Ye Qin sat behind and glanced at it lightly: "So expensive? ”

"It's not expensive, it's not easy to walk up the mountain, you ask who wants to pull it here?" The driver made many excuses, Ye Tan didn't say anything more, and pulled out a roll of money from his bag.

Anyway, there are seven or eight hundred, and they are thrown directly to the front seat.

The driver was confused: "This... Much, right? He reached out to find the money.

Ye Qin had already locked the car door, and looked out of the window with a faint face: "Don't look for it, I'll trouble you for a while." ”

After hearing this, the driver immediately changed his attitude and nodded: "No trouble, no trouble, do you want me to wait for you at the foot of the mountain?" ”

Ye Tan looked out the window and smiled. No squeaks.

The driver stopped talking when he saw her yin and yang, and thought to himself, seven or eight hundred, even if she waits for her to go down the mountain and make a return trip, it will make a lot of money.

"Then sit down!" The driver roared and put down the handbrake to start, Ye Tan leaned on the chair with her eyes closed to recuperate, and the mobile phone rang several times in the middle, but she didn't answer it, and turned it off directly.

Soon the car was driving up the mountain road.

Ye Tan opened the window, and the mountain breeze blew in and stroked her half-length hair behind her ears, and she hugged her head with her hand.

The driver paid attention to her movements in the back seat while driving, and probably sensed that there was something abnormal about this woman.

"Girl, look at your belly... Pregnant? ”

“……”

"A few months? If you are really pregnant, you will not be able to blow the wind, and besides, the wind in our mountains is very wild, and we will have to fall into the root of the disease in the future. ”

“……”

Ye Tan didn't talk all the way, the driver was a little embarrassed to himself, he pinched his nose by himself, it was actually quite cold when he opened the window, and there was snot coming out of his nose.

Ye Qin always kept a straight face and didn't squeak.

The driver couldn't hold back and asked, "Girl, what are you doing on this barren mountain with your stomach alone?" This mountain is not clean, and it is unlucky! ”

Ye Qin finally turned his head to look at the driver, and smiled coldly: "Come to the mountain to find the child's father!" ”

"Kid's dad in the mountains? This mountain is full of ......" The driver's last word "grave" was swallowed directly by him, looking up at the rearview mirror, Ye Qin smiled coldly, so scared that he couldn't grasp the steering wheel steadily, and almost took the car to the ravine.

……

The bodyguards were all guarding the door, and Tang Jingcheng walked around the studio by himself.

Everything is the same as it was three years ago, but everything seems completely different.

There were tools scattered on the table, ashtrays covered with several layers of ash and leftover broken jade, and the sunlight shone in through the courtyard gate, and large expanses of dazzling flying dust could be seen in the air.

Tang Jingcheng walked slowly to his workbench, lowered his head and blew a breath, and the white ash rose to the ground.

How dirty is it, it's only been three years, how can it accumulate such a thick layer?

She casually grabbed her apron from the side and patted it on the chair, it was also a layer of dust, but she didn't care, just sat down directly.

With his hands on the table, next to him is a tube with paintbrushes and drawing rolls, and in front of him is a tool box, on which dozens of carved tools of different shapes are scattered.

She fished it out casually, but her right hand couldn't exert force, so she could only hold the handle with her left hand, and then took the quick broken jade and gently drew a ridge on it......

"You can't do this, your forearms are too stiff, don't break your fingers so tightly... Hold on to the handle. The knife must be accurate... Wrong! …… Hey, where do you look? … Okay, don't make trouble, look at the knife, don't look at me..."

When Tang Jingcheng first pestered Qiu Qiguan, he didn't dare to pick it up, in his eyes, this was just a teenage girl, beautiful. Pure and clean girl.

But Tang Jingcheng had perseverance all the way, Qiu Qiguan hid all the way, and in the end, she simply had a heart and applied for the art school where Qiu Qiguan was still teaching at the time.

After all, Tang Jingcheng originally entered this industry because of Qiu Qiguan, and when she was a child, she never thought that she would eat handicraft rice one day, but she just wanted to be closer to this man at that time, and blamed him for hiding too much, and the only way was to become a student of "Teacher Qiu".

As a result, after entering the school, Tang Jingcheng became the most troublesome student of "Teacher Qiu".

At first, he only thought she was willful, but he didn't expect her to really have this talent, although lazy and without basic skills, but she couldn't stand her high understanding, when she was seven or eight years old, she began to follow Tang Ji in and out of various galleries and art exhibitions, and her sense of smell in literature and art is really sensitive.

In addition, it was taught by "Teacher Qiu" himself, and he didn't admit it, but in the end he was still eccentric.

There are so many students under his hands, and only Tang Jingcheng is taught by him, teaching her to hold a knife, teaching her to hook edges, and teaching her to carve seals. Then carved her seal on the work, so Tang Jingcheng has not graduated yet, and almost everyone in the industry already knows that Mr. Qiu has brought a proud protégé, or a female disciple, and his skills are very good. Young and pretty.

A year before Tang Jingcheng graduated, Qiu Qiguan had already begun to take her to various industry exchange meetings and activities.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that he is paving the way for her, I have never seen such a "teacher" who spoils "students" so much, Tang Jingcheng also accepted it as a matter of course, and opened this studio as soon as he graduated.

At the beginning, she was not profitable, she had no work, and she couldn't pay the rent, she was not in a hurry anyway, and there was Qiu Qiguan horizontally and vertically.

Qiu Qiguan introduced her business, Qiu Qiguan told her about drawings, and Qiu Qiguan placed her works in his solo exhibition, so Tang Jingcheng "debuted" with Qiu Qiguan's aura, and basically did not suffer any resistance in this industry, and developed smoothly until Qiu Qiguan suddenly died in a car accident.

After Qiu Qiguan's death, Tang Jingcheng hadn't carved another thing, except for the jade key hanging on his wrist.

It's been three years in a flash. In the past three years, Tang Jingcheng has experienced ninety-nine eighty-one difficulties, and now that the dust has finally settled, she has picked up the knife again.

There was a gentle breeze in the yard and the sun was very good.

In the middle of a row of yellowed potted plants on the windowsill, tiny green shoots emerged, and a small hairy bud budded. Although it is very short, it stands out on the withered yellow branches.

Tang Jingcheng smiled slightly, tilted his head, put down the knife in his hand, and leaned on the back of the chair stretched.

"Qiguan, I should be back soon."

She wants to pick up the skills that Qiu Qiguan taught her by hand, she wants to make the studio work again, and she wants to get her life back on track.

Tang Jingcheng sat in the studio for a while, cleaned up all the messy garbage and cigarette ash on the table, and only got up to go out when evening was approaching.

Walking into the yard, the phone in his pocket dripped with a sound.

Sms.

She thought it was Guan Luo, and took it out to open the screen, but it was an unfamiliar number.

- "I should try to accept that you told me that gods exist and that they will bless everyone, but I can't admit that you say that life is not easy, and every life deserves to be respected and cherished, because you have not experienced the despair of being truly abandoned. If one day you realized that you walked alone in the wilderness like I did, maybe you wouldn't think like that again......"

After reading this text message, Tang Jingcheng felt a tightness in his chest, and a bad premonition rose spontaneously.

She immediately dialed Guanlu's phone number.

The other side quickly connected: "Guan Luo, is Ye Tan..."

"Something happened to her...", just a few words, and his voice was low and hoarse.

Tang Jingcheng pinched his mobile phone and shook his body, leaning on the stem of the ginkgo tree next to him, and the branches that had not budded were blown by the wind.

……

Guan Luo received the news and rushed to Ping County overnight, Ya Yu drove, and Tang Jingcheng asked to go with him.

At high speed, inside the car, it was already dark outside, there were no street lights, and a car shadow flashed through the window.

The atmosphere in the car was very depressing, no one spoke, Tang Jingcheng leaned over Guan Luo's shoulder, and looked at the sky outside the window.

"Sleepy?" Guan asked as he touched her hair.

Tang Jingcheng shook his head. Fingers scribbling something on the glass window.

"Not tired!"

"Don't be tired and sleep for a while, I'll call you when it's time."

It takes six or seven hours to drive from Yunling to Pingxian, and it is estimated that it will be the second half of the night when she arrives there, Tang Jingcheng's body has just recovered, and Guan is afraid that she will not be able to stay up. But Tang Jingcheng rubbed it in his arms: "It's okay, I can't sleep like this." ”

Since she couldn't sleep, Guan Luo was no longer reluctant, and her fingers circled the ends of her hair, circle by circle, and the car was so quiet that she seemed to only be able to hear breathing.

After a while, Guan Luo thought that the person in his arms had fallen asleep, and was about to pull out his arm and take off his coat, but he heard Tang Jingcheng snort lightly, and said in a faint tone: "It's really strange, why can't you see a star here?" ”

……

All the way to the high-speed past, there were three service areas stopped on the road, delayed for an hour, and it was almost three or four o'clock in the morning to Ping County.

A total of five cars went, led by Ya Yuan.

"Brother Jiu, I've gotten off the highway, go to the police station first or find a hotel to settle down?"

Guan glanced at the girl in his arms, who had fallen asleep on him.

"The police station shouldn't be at work now, and the person on duty shouldn't care about it, or you can find a place to take her to rest first, and I'll go to the bureau to see the situation."

"No, I don't. I'm going to be with you. Tang Jingcheng in his arms suddenly raised his head, his eyes shining in the dark.

I didn't expect her to wake up quite awake from her sleep.

Guan Luo smiled bitterly: "There is no one in the police station so early, forget it, find a place to settle down first, I am probably tired after driving all night." ”

Ya Yue responded, slowing down.

Ping County is not a big place, backed by mountains, almost surrounded by mountains, because of traffic restrictions, the economic development is not very good, but in recent years, the government of Pingshan has taken a fancy to the mountains and rivers of Ping County, and has developed several tourism projects one after another, and rebuilt the mountain roads, so the originally remote and calm town has gradually become lively.

It was already the second half of the night when Guan Luo and his party arrived in the town, probably because of the tourist season, or because Ping County had just been developed, and there were basically no decent hotels.

The few chain hotels in the town are also full, and it is impossible for so many people to stay in youth hostels, so in the end they can only choose a spacious and clean homestay.

Tang Jingcheng may be really tired, after checking in, he hurriedly took a shower, fell asleep, and when he woke up, it was already the next day, Guan Luo was already dressed and standing on the terrace on the phone.

Tang Jingcheng put on a coat and walked on the terrace, the air in the mountains was good, and she couldn't help but stretch her body.

"Okay, I'll go over now."

Before Tang Jingcheng walked to the terrace, Guan Luo had already pinched his mobile phone and came back, his face gloomy.

"How?"

"There's already someone at the police station going to work, telling me to come over now."

"Then I'll be with you!" Tang Jingcheng went back to the house and put clothes on his body, Guan thought about it for a while, and nodded.

"I'll be waiting for you in the car!"