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From spring to summer, Lao Wu often wrote to Shui Hong, telling her some information about Ah Ni and himself, so that Shui Hong could rest assured. From his letter, Shui Hong saw that Lao Wu had slowly regained his calm, gradually eliminated the resentment against Shui Hong at the beginning of the incident, and became friendly and open-minded again. Shui Hong didn't know whether it was Lao Wu's innate immunity that played a role, or whether his sincerity moved Lao Wu. In short, Shui Hong reads Lao Wu's letter, just like chatting with a close friend for many years, and they can talk about everything with each other. After experiencing the major changes in the riverside tragedy, the two sides seem to have boarded the same boat again, drifting hand in hand in the wind and rain of life.

Lao Wu told Shui Hong in the letter that now he is working except for Ah Ni, and surgery is the only way for him to get rid of the pain. His surgery became more and more beautiful, and even foreign businessmen from the city's development zone and Shanghai came to visit him. Recently, he has been promoted to vice president, but he has no intention of administering and still serves as the chief surgeon and undertakes riskier surgeries. A reporter from a newspaper in the city wrote a report about him, which was reprinted by the provincial newspaper, and it was said that the TV station would also make a feature film about him. The new successes and honors, the gratitude and respect of the patients, also made some compensation for his crippled life. The women and new suitors who had been secretly in love with him had merged into a new encirclement, but he really didn't dare to let marriage and love arouse his hidden pain. His only pleasure outside of work is to tutor Ah Ni in his studies, and he often sits on the side, looking at Ah Ni's pretty face and figure under the soft light, which is his great spiritual enjoyment. Ah Ni is becoming more and more like her mother, and sometimes, he feels as if Rainbow hasn't left here.

Although Ah Ni still often has nightmares and occasionally faints suddenly, it is a temporary phenomenon of mental damage during adolescence, and as long as she is properly recuperated and emotionally stable, she may be able to recover naturally after a while. Now, under the careful care of her grandmother, Ah Ni's face has gradually become ruddy, her height and weight have increased, and she looks like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl. Walking on the street, the rate of pedestrians turning back is too high, and several boys wrote notes to her, and she tore them all in front of her father. Although her academic performance was not satisfactory, she was sixth in her class in the mid-term exam, but she was determined to do better in the final exam. Ah Ni has agreed to apply for the general high school, and said that he will strive to be admitted to the key points. She seemed to attach great importance to English classes, and once occasionally revealed to her grandmother that she was going to study abroad in the future and go to art schools abroad, which scared her so much that she almost hid her English textbook. When Lao Wu asked her again, she just avoided answering. But she basically doesn't touch the brush anymore, and often hides and writes in her diary alone. Lao Wu said that as long as she doesn't paint, it doesn't hurt to write a diary.

He also told Shui Hong in the letter that her old classmate Bai Honggen was very concerned about Ah Ni, and often took her and her classmates to a sports club on the edge of Taihu Lake on Sundays to play tenni, saying that playing tennis was good for Ah Ni's physical recovery, and Ah Ni also seemed to be obsessed with tennis. Once, when it rained heavily, when Ah Ni came home from school, he fell on the muddy gravel road at the school gate, and Bai Honggen immediately funded the construction of an asphalt road for the school, which was connected to the bus station. In case of bad weather, he would personally drive to the school to pick her up before school was out, park the car a little away from the school gate, and sometimes wait for an hour or two. Bai Honggen can be said to be obedient to Ah Ni and responds to requests. Since he took over the responsibility of protecting Ah Ni, Ah Ni has not been harassed by hooligans. But Lao Wu seems to be a little worried about this, although at present, he can't see whether there is more and deeper content after Bai Honggen's elder-like care. But in the long run, things will always develop, what will happen to Ah Ni? He had no choice but to tell Shui Hong all of this truthfully, and asked Shui Hong to consider it.

Shui Hong can somewhat understand Bai Honggen's thoughts. Her old classmate had fallen in love with her since she was fourteen or fifteen years old. At that time, his family was poor and his academic performance was too poor, Shui Hong never looked at him squarely, and he naturally did not dare to confess to Shui Hong. But she always felt that he was secretly protecting her, once in order to drive away a group of hooligans who were following her, Bai Honggen actually fought with the other party to the point of bleeding, and in the end, he only asked Shui Hong to bandage him with one of her handkerchiefs, she just took out the handkerchief from her pocket, and he kissed Shui Hong's handkerchief fiercely. Shui Hong knew his mind and never ridiculed him, but it was only not far away. He didn't go to college after graduating from high school, so he went to sea early, wanting to earn an enviable job so that Shui Hong would be impressed by him. He started from taking over his parents' small grocery store, set up stalls, engaged in contracting, pouring clothing, and running a garment factory. His pursuit of Rainbow's resilience and patience is the same as his indomitable style in business. It's a pity that his upbringing and character are far from Shui Hong, otherwise, it would be difficult for Shui Hong to resist his perseverance for nearly twenty years. However, in the end, Boss Bai still didn't get the rainbow. When Lao Wu came to Beijing, he also mentioned to her that after she left Suzhou, Boss Bai really made a lot of effort to inquire about her whereabouts. When Lao Wu repeatedly told him that Shui Hong had fallen in love with someone more powerful than him, he seemed to have died down. Then he disappeared for a long time, and it was not until the Wu family was in trouble that he reappeared.

So, has he now empathized with his unfulfilled intentions to Ah Ni? Shui Hong didn't dare to conclude. Maybe it's because Ah Ni looks too much like the rainbow when he was young, and he just pinned his unfinished feelings on Ah Ni in order to seek a kind of psychological satisfaction? Or had he become accustomed to such hopeless pursuits, and admiring and approaching them had become an indispensable part of his life? What a strange thing people are sometimes, everyone walks through the world, with their own unfulfilled wishes and dreams, even at all costs, and it is difficult to discard them until death. Shui Hong felt that he still knew Bai Honggen's personality to some extent, and he didn't think anything wrong about Ah Ni. In her reply, she persuaded Lao Wu not to make too much fuss, as an old friend of her mother for many years, it is reasonable for Boss Bai to care about Ah Ni. Besides, Ah Ni also urgently needs to be freed from the nightmares of the past, and her vision should expand from a small self to the broad social life. Don't keep Ah Ni at home, let her make more friends under the protection of Boss Bai, it will be beneficial to her recovery. Lao Wu also agreed with Shui Hong's opinion, saying: "It seems that in this crisis-ridden flowering season, more sunlight and ultraviolet rays may be able to resist viruses and bacteria a little more." ”

As the weather warms day by day, the elm leaves and plum blossoms on the street are blooming brilliantly day by day, and the mood of the rainbow is gradually relaxed. This is the first spring after Shui Hong left home, and the flowers outside the window, like a pair of soft hands, soothed the pain in her heart.

As the pressure in the south waned, the wolves of the north regained their free and passionate nature. During the day, he forgets to paint quietly, and at night he embraces the rainbow, trying to improve the quality of every love, swimming in the starry sky and surfing in the sea of love with the rainbow.

Zhou You's fiery and innocent love washed away the spiritual burden that lingered on Shui Hong's chest. She was given to her by Zhou You one surprise after another, and brought back to the frenzy of love. Zhou You's excitement and joy stemmed both from his instinct and from the success of his artistic explorations. High-grade love and beauty give him inexhaustible energy and wonderful feelings. Shui Hong found that Zhou You, after the bombardment of paintings in Suzhou last summer and autumn, had entered a second peak period of creation. Like surfing, he leaps with all his heart to the higher peaks of art, rushing into the sky, into the ground, hitting the permafrost, washing away the mediocrity and kitsch of the art world; Paintings of all sizes, imbued with the spirit of modern freedom and full of artistic tension, poured out like a high-pressure blowout. Zhou You does not paint the human body of Rainbow every day, after the heating stops at the end of March, there is still a cold chill in the room, he is reluctant to let Rainbow be frozen, so he temporarily let Rainbow do his own thing, he usually notes some of the feelings in his mind, conceived into a picture, and then painted into a work. During this period of his creation, the colors became more and more arrogant, the compositions became more and more grotesque, and the pictures became more and more concise; He painted a series of abstract paintings mixed with colorful and dark colors, and after painting, he was titled "Impressions of the City at the End of the Century", which has a strong sense of humanity and symbolism.

It wasn't until this group of paintings was completed that he grabbed Shui Hong and held her to the front of the paintings for her to admire.

Shui Hong stood in front of his painting, smiling and not saying a word.

Zhou You asked nervously: "Tell me quickly, what do you think?" ”

Shui Hong said: "For the first time, I discovered that anger is not only a poet, but also a color. The angry colors are particularly beautiful and particularly effective. However, if you still want to take it out to the exhibition, it's best to change the title to an untitled series or something......"

Zhou You squinted at the painting, pondering Shui Hong's words, and suddenly knocked on the top of his head and explained to Shui Hong:

"Look at this one, this one, I named it myself, it's called 'Luxury Port-au-Prince', oh, the sun, the sand, the giant prickly cactus, behind the fat palm thorns is a mansion...... Post-impressionist landscapes, how's that? That bay was originally called Port-au-Prince, that's the name of the place, don't look at the literal righteousness, of course, the work of art will cause people's associations or reverie, if it can't pass the censorship, it can only mean that the cactus hurts, then I have to export it and then turn it to domestic sales, there is Port-au-Prince everywhere in the world......"

Shui Hong slapped Zhou You with a smile and said, "I see that you are getting more and more oily, and it is time to change the word Zhou You to three points of water oil in the future." ”

"Can you paint without oil? Even if you call me Zhou Oil, people must think that it is the oil of toning oil, not the oil of fritters and rape, believe it or not? Zhou You began to play poor with Shui Hong.

"That's not necessarily, maybe it's the oil in the oil field, if it's me, I'd rather you are a big oil field, a high-yield oil well, as soon as the oil comes out, it will be sprayed directly on the screen, how trouble-free......"

The two men burst into laughter.

Shui Hong cherishes every day with Zhou You, and her writing plan gradually has an outline and framework. In painting, the rainbow is Zhou You's beautiful mannequin and the spring of artistic inspiration; In writing, Zhou You is also the artistic model and the wings of thought. Shui Hong plans to write some art criticism while embarking on a monograph on Love and Art, which she has always wanted to write. It focuses on the love and artistic creation of artists, especially the relationship and interaction with art creation. and the positive and negative effects of love and art on people, society and spirituality. These days, she asked Zhou You to borrow some books, picture albums and art theory works she wanted to read from the library and teacher friends, and copied a large number of cards. Shui Hong felt that writing this book in Zhou You's "wine cellar" and embrace was really a very enjoyable thing. The smell of oil, wine and the body fragrance of Zhou You's manhood are the yeast that arouses her desire and impulse to write. When Shui Hong is tired of writing, he will lie in Zhou You's arms to rest; When Zhou Youhua was tired, he would quietly walk behind her, hug Shui Hong from behind, and lean on her soft body to relax. They cook and do laundry together, learn from each other and raise each other's bars during meals, and talk to each other and play with each other during leisure; The two of them only had contact with the outside world through television, newspapers, and letters, and Zhou You told Shui Hong that this was why he had been restless on the phone. It was as if they had moved their studio to a space capsule with only two astronauts. This capsule does not depart from the gravitational pull of the center of the earth, but it has always maintained a relationship with the earth society that the well water does not interfere with the river water. Create the strange beauty of the inner universe in distance.

If it weren't for Ah Ni, Shui Hong really wanted the moon to preside over her and Zhou You's wedding immediately, and use its clear light to make a moonlight wedding dress, and then cut a piece of the sky of Dai Mo to cut a black dress for Zhou You. In this capsule, a wedding march, they can circle the earth for several weeks, and a long kiss can cross most of China. She felt that this light blue sphere would become more beautiful if she distanced herself from it like an oil painting. Distance is an escape from greed and cruelty, from troubles and pollution. If human strife and hatred are to be completely eliminated, it is necessary to rely on highly developed science to separate the increasingly dense population from the earth. Scattered to countless spaceships, scattered to distant new planets and new spaces, dispersed into the vast universe. It is only when humanity is scattered to the point that friendship and peace regain their attachment to each other. At the time when primitive tribes were sparsely populated and far apart, the people of tribal societies were extremely friendly; Later, when the number of tribes increased, the boundaries crossed with each other, and the distribution of resources was scarce, human vendettas and strife followed; The high concentration of population brings prosperity and ugliness, and the hospitality of the inhabitants of the desert steppe benefits from the alienation of living space. Could it be that the virtues of human goodness and goodness should be for such a simple reason?

Shui Hong feels more and more that from the perspective of human happiness, distance beauty is still a valuable bonanza that needs to be explored. She especially admires NASA's space development program. She pays attention to all the new news in the newspaper about the search for aliens, the search for planets where humans can live, and the exploration of human survival on the moon and Mars. With love and art combined with science, is there no longer any reason for humanity to despair? Since Shui Hong owned the artwork that Zhou You gave her to cherish for the rest of her life, she had a heartfelt sense of the future and responsibility for these long-lived children, and she was really reluctant to let them be destroyed in the future catastrophe. Her space complex is getting deeper and deeper, and it seems that the only way for human beings to solve the living space is to rush out of the earth and go to space to find a new continent. Shui Hong has considerable confidence and grasp of the spiritual connotation of his monograph, and seems to have a faint glimpse of the future of mankind.

"Zhou You, my dear, let's draw it later, you listen to me read a paragraph to you, come here!" Rainbow often shouts loudly from across the room.

"Shui Hong, can you help me see the color effect of this painting......"

They spend too much time in love. But love saves them more time. It may be that in the case of a person, with a thought barrier that cannot be broken through for half a year or a year, after a frenzy of love, there will be a hole. They are often excited by each other's new feelings, discoveries, and creations, and when both of them confirm that this is a new breakthrough, they will get carried away hugging, kissing, drinking and laughing. Shui Hong became lazy, and she didn't let Zhou You get up early. When they woke up in the haze, the two of them chatted endlessly in the morning light, saying that they were tired and would sleep again.

Once, Shui Hong saw Zhou Youzai signing an agreement with NASA officials in a dream, and he was going to dedicate one of his most beautiful body paintings in the East to the spaceship that explored aliens, so that the spacecraft that flew out of the solar system would take the painting to meet the aliens that might be encountered later. What surprised Shui Hong was that Zhou You's picture was not her, but a man and a woman, and the other person was Zhou You himself. The nude male and female figures on the screen are surfing passionately, splashing the earth-shattering waves......

When the two woke up, Shui Hong depicted her dream to Zhou You. She said that this may allow aliens to understand human beings, understand human love and art, and understand the most beautiful performance art of human reproduction. They are the messengers of humanity and can forever love, surf and roam in space. Even if it explodes and burns down one day, it will be the most expensive and exciting space funeral for human society to date......

Zhou You applauded again and again, immediately lifted the quilt and put on his clothes, grabbed the picture book, leaned on the head of the bed, and quickly drew the picture of Shui Hong's words. Then he hurriedly got up and recreated the picture. He drew two beautiful surfing drawings directly on the outer wall of the huge silver-white spaceship. In the background, the dark space and the swirling galaxies - pink hugging couples, silver shiny hulls, and deep black cosmic bodies, three overlapping bodies, hanging high in the distant starry sky.

Shui Hong was wearing pajamas, combing her hair while admiring Zhou You's color draft, laughing so much that tears came out.

"I said Zhou You, if your painting is on the canvas, can you allow it to be exhibited? People will say that you are selling spring palace pictures under the sign of the universe. Now even the body painting is under control, you are good, you want to send the ** scene to the elegant hall, isn't it whimsical? ”

"Not necessarily!" Zhou You said. "If I submit my proposals, ideas, and drawings to NASA, maybe people will really approve me to go to the spaceship to paint this huge painting of the human body, and if the painting is successful, it will be really launched, and it will be lively."

"Then it's not a city full of wind and rain, but a ball full of wind and rain."

"Haha, at that time, this human painting of mine had to be crazy, it flew into space, but the replica will be famous all over the world." Zhou You was completely immersed in his own imagination. "Then our surf will really go to the sky, and let the laymen be stunned, you think how exciting. Science is the new lover of art accidents, and their union will inevitably overwhelm the tyranny of the cult! Are you right? ”

Shui Hong smiled and bent over, and said, "But don't forget, the economy of the United States is also sluggish, and a spaceship to explore aliens has just flown out, and the next flight will not know when it will take off, so just wait!" ”

"Then we have to give our idea a try, and it is also valuable as a draft proposal. If people can't be whimsical, how can there be progress. Maybe in the future, when China's aerospace industry develops, it will also launch such a spacecraft, and I can make a suggestion to the Ministry of Space, whether it approves it or not, I will keep this record! ”

Shui Hong restrained her smile and said, "When the time comes, you will become the number one rascal, and I will become a super **, and we will not have a quiet life from now on." Forget it, my big fantasist, I'm playing with you, you're serious, you really think that aliens are waiting for you in the sky! ”

Zhou You stopped his pen, sighed and said: "But the idea of this painting is really amazing, I still want to paint, Shui Hong, you see, if I draw the surfing action more subtlely, will it work?" ”

Rainbow shook her head.

Zhou You looked at the painting in frustration, and said: "I'm still unwilling, then if I don't paint surfing, it's always okay to draw kissing!" ”

"You're not afraid that aliens will misunderstand, and when you see kissing in the future, you will think that earthlings are making offspring...... Forget it, I'll submit your proposal in the next century, I think there is still hope......"

Shui Hong tightened Zhou Youxin's boundless thoughts with a long kiss. However, the mind can run wild at will, and the space of reality is so narrow.

Zhou You's paintings accumulate more and more. Shui Hong gradually felt that this home was a little too small. Except for some large paintings that were originally stored in the warehouse, the four walls of the house have been hung full, and several large paintings have been stacked at the foot of the wall. If you continue to paint, there is no room in the room to turn around. And the body painting can't go to the warehouse to make, and more importantly, there is no observation distance when painting, which directly affects the effect of painting. Shui Hong really wanted to buy a big house for Zhou You that could be a studio, but she couldn't sell her paintings to raise money. She wanted Lao Wu to send her money to buy a house for Zhou You, but Zhou You refused to let her, and when she mentioned buying a house, Zhou You looked like she was incompatible, which really made her feel embarrassed. She actually liked this cozy nest, which was the bay where she and Zhou You surfed for the first time, and it is a place of eternal remembrance. But the studio of artistic fantasy may be much more important than a wine cellar of love. Every day, Shui Hong writes her own book while being a model for Zhou You, even if she has to worry about housework, she still feels relaxed and happy; However, once she began to plan the funds for the purchase of the house, her pen became sluggish, and the space in her heart dimmed.