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The controversy caused by the creation of "Love Friends" by the human body in the art world and public opinion circles soon spread to Suzhou in the winter of that year. However, because Lao Wu blocked all news about art, Ah Ni was unaware for a long time. Half a year later, in the early summer when Ah Ni turned 16 years old, on a sweltering Sunday morning during the rainy season, a small painting friend of Ah Ni's original art group in the Children's Palace came to her with an old Hong Kong journal and mysteriously told her that this publication had news about her eldest brother Zhou You, which not only reported in detail the controversy and evaluation of the exhibition, but also published a one-page page page of color pictures of "Lover".

Ah Ni hadn't heard the name Zhou You mentioned for more than a year, and she hadn't even seen her big brother's paintings again. When she was faced with this name, which she had so hard to forget, she could barely make a sound. She just subconsciously begged her classmates to keep the publication, and said that she was willing to exchange it with her luxury fashion magazine. As soon as the classmate left, Ah Ni's tears fell on the strange woman's avatar.

Ah Ni's emotional world, which had been paralyzed for a long time, was like receiving a powerful heart shock, and he began to feel severe pain. Love starts immediately, and memories are quickly revived. Her face was pale, her lips trembled, and her eyes greedily searched for every trace of information conveyed by the brushstrokes on her paintings. Ah Ni, who has experienced bitter love and unrequited love, has far surpassed the level of the average girl majoring in art with her understanding and appreciation of the emotional language on this picture, and she completely understands the content of the painting and the words in her heart when the "lover" calls. Ah Ni's sad gaze passes through the thick walls of the picture, and reunites with Zhou You at the other end of the corridor; In a kind of old oil paint, he looked at Zhou You without words...... She knew that her big brother would definitely go upstairs again to hug the beautiful woman, Miss Shu Li, who was called Zhou You's girlfriend and agent in the report. Her naked body is really beautiful, she has such a plump ** and strong legs, and the kneecaps on her legs can't be seen at all, as if they have grown into the flesh. The big brother will definitely like her, and now she lives with the big brother every day and dances with the big brother, and the big brother has long forgotten Ah Ni. If Ah Ni and Miss Shu Li stood together, like a thin bud that had not yet grown, slanted at the foot of a blooming flower, Ah Ni suddenly felt ashamed of herself for the first time......

What stabbed Ah Ni's heart the most was the postscript introducing Miss Shu Li. Ah Ni suddenly understood that in the days when she was away from her big brother, the future she longed for and longed for a thousand times had been ruthlessly occupied by this woman named Shuli. But Ah Ni couldn't blame this Miss Shuli, or even hate her. It was she herself who lost her big brother. She didn't dare to think back to the two happy but disastrous days with her big brother in Beijing. Since Ah Xiu's mother died, since she lost all her big brother's paintings, the big brother no longer writes to her. The eldest brother didn't let her go to Beijing in the first place, but it was those two terrible days that made her lose everything, and she messed up everything herself......

Ah Ni fell ill again. Holding the publication in the night, I woke up crying over and over again, and several times sat up from the bed screaming, and called out for my mother. But Ah Ni no longer had the courage of the fourteen-year-old, and at dawn she fell into a slumber and fell asleep, running away from Miss Shuli in a terrified sleep. She looked down at her shadow, and now she seemed to have only a precocious but numb beauty left, wandering in mid-air without touching the world. She remembered that her father had said that there may be only two kinds of people in the world who are the most miserable, one is the man who is so greedy that he only has money left; The other is a woman who is so poor that only beauty remains. But money can still be stored in the bank, but beauty has nowhere to store it, and it will be left there alone, and it will be a little less if it is not used, and it will bring so much trouble and fear. That Miss Shu Li must not be a woman who has nothing but beauty, how did she make her big brother like her?

After seeing Zhou You's painting, Ah Ni cried for two whole days and did not go to school. Since Ah Xiu's death, her academic performance has dropped to the average for a while, and then she has slowly barely recovered to the top ten in her class. She seems to work harder than other classmates, but she always feels tired and can't concentrate. Now she felt like she didn't have even the last bit of strength. Dad had already discovered the Hong Kong magazine in her hand and "confiscated" it without listening to her explanation. Dad didn't say anything, but she felt that her father's eyes clearly told her that the "lover" was Zhou You's wife, and they might even have a child...... Ah Ni felt that her father let her understand this sentence by herself, which was even more cruel than he said it.

Ah Nizhi looked at the empty wall in a daze, and said to his father, "...... Please take me to Beijing again, I want to see my big brother, I want to apologize to my big brother in person...... It's me who is not good, I lost so many good paintings from him, I can't afford to pay for it, and I regret it in my heart...... Dad, you can take me once, this is the last time, I beg you to buy me a painting of the big brother, as long as one, you have to pay the big brother a lot of money, when I grow up and earn money in the future, I will return the money to you to buy the painting...... Good father, promise me, I don't have a big brother's painting in my room, I'm going to be sick again...... My head hurts, and there seems to be something in my chest that is always moving...... Daddy, please......"

Lao Wu hugged his daughter, only to feel that his heart was also a pang of cramps. He didn't expect that nearly two years had passed, and Ah Ni still hadn't really forgotten her big brother. That damn big brother is like a ghost attached to her, and no one can completely banish him from the bottom of Ah Ni's heart. What Lao Wu is really worried about is that if that demonic ghost lingers in front of Ah Ni's bed, Ah Ni, who is in adolescence, will only get worse than before if the old disease recurs, and it will even be difficult to cure. Worriedly, he stroked his daughter's hair and said, "...... Of course, it's okay to go to Beijing, but Dad doesn't know that Zhou Youken won't sell us the painting. There are so many people who want to buy his paintings, we can't just sit in front of his house every day and wait for him to draw one...... Besides, besides, if you really meet him, what if you can't control yourself and get sick again? ”

Ani shook her head with tears in her eyes.

Lao Wu said again: "Don't blame the eldest brother for not waiting for you, Zhou You is fifteen years older than you, and marriage is his freedom, and no one can force it." You didn't protect his paintings, and he didn't blame you. Ah Ni, I don't think he doesn't like you, but between you, no matter what aspect, there is too much difference, and you are so far away. I told you a long time ago that early love is hard to come to fruition. Now you should stabilize your emotions first, study hard, you are only sixteen years old, think more about the future, and strive for a good future for yourself......"

Ah Ni curled up in his father's arms aggrievedly and said: "I already understand what you said, I just want my big brother's paintings, when I had my big brother's paintings in the past, I was so happy every day, and my homework was the best." If I could have another painting of my big brother, my body would be fine. ”

"I think maybe it's the opposite, if you have Zhou You's paintings, you will become uncalm again......"

"Dad, why don't you understand me at all!" Ah Ni shouted. "I asked my mother to take me there, and she had already said that she was going back to Suzhou to visit me......

Lao Wu broke out in a cold sweat and said sharply: "Don't mention your mother to me, I can write to prevent her from coming back." There are so many bad guys nowadays, what if someone knows that you have a painting of Zhou You, and they keep an eye on us? We can't have anything in our house anymore......"

Ah Ni looked at her father with gray temples and swallowed back the words on his lips. She remembered that since Ah Xiu died, her father didn't even have a girlfriend, and for more than a year, she and her grandmother had been guarding her and her grandmother after work, and the three of them had depended on each other. She didn't dare to contradict her father, and she would make her father angry again. She had to hide this wish in her heart for the time being, and she believed that there would be another opportunity.

The next night, it happened that Boss Bai drove to pick her up and her father to go to the theater. While Dad walked away to change clothes, Ah Ni made this request to Boss Bai. For more than a year, Boss Bai has been a frequent visitor to their house, almost like a relative in their family. On Sundays and holidays, he often drove his father and daughter or Ah Ni's classmates to Changshu, Wuxi, Yixing, Huzhou and even further afield. Every year on Ah Ni's birthday, he will hold a grand birthday party for her. Every time he goes abroad for an inspection or participates in some trade fair, he always comes back, and he never forgets to bring back beautiful clothes and skirts for Ani...... Ever since his mother left, he seems to care about Ah Ni very much. Ah Ni seems to have become accustomed to this kind of care, and sometimes she is unwilling or inconvenient to say things to her father, so she relies on Uncle Bai's help. Ah Ni can't say that he likes this Uncle Bai, and he can't say that he doesn't like it; He always looks very young, his hair is shiny, meticulously combed, he is a famous brand from head to toe, and his generous and chic style sometimes makes Ah Ni feel a little respectful.

"Uncle Bai, haven't you been asking me what gift you want for this year's birthday?" Ah Ni said with a sly squint. "Now that I've thought about it, I want you to buy a painting of Zhou You's big brother and give it to me, okay? You take me to Beijing, as long as I see my eldest brother, he will let me pick my own ......"

Boss Bai obviously felt embarrassed. Perhaps there was no other request that displeased him more than this. He hesitated slightly, but replied happily, "Buy a painting?" It's easy to do, but why go so far to buy it, I can buy a painting by a painter more famous than Zhou You and give it to you, except for Zhou You, famous paintings, you can choose, you want to buy it at an art auction in Shanghai......"

Ah Ni's face was stunned, and tears welled up all of a sudden. She said: "No, I don't want any famous painting, I want my eldest brother's painting, I want to see him, you take me to Beijing...... In the future, in the future, I will definitely listen to you, please......"

Lao Wu's voice came from outside the door: "Ah Ni, how can you ask Uncle Bai for something!" He is very busy in business, how can he have time to accompany you to Beijing, you don't have to think about it anymore. ”

"I'm just going to see Big Brother!" Ah Ni screamed, fell on Boss Bai's shoulder, and cried.

"Ah Ni, Ah Ni, you listen to me......" Bai Honggen panicked and clumsily stretched out his hand to support her. For more than a year, he used his time, money, and all the patience of a man to carefully care for the shadow left by this water rainbow, and never dared to take a step beyond the thunder pool. However, when Ah Ni fell on top of him and cried for the first time, he was a little overwhelmed......

"Okay, okay, I'll take you there, don't cry first......"

"Then you go buy a plane ticket now......

"When I arrange the business matters, I can't just leave......"

Ah Ni raised his head suspiciously, and when he saw his father's stern eyes, he buried his head and sobbed again. Naturally, the play that night couldn't be watched, Lao Wu and Boss Bai tried their best to make all kinds of promises, and almost persuaded Ah Ni for one night, trying to get her to dispel that idea, but she had only one sentence over and over again: Take her to Beijing to buy a painting of her big brother, she must see her big brother again.

That night she had insomnia. The mental exhaustion caused by insomnia forced her to start calling in sick again. She stared at the empty walls in a daze every day. In a trance, the small living room by the river, which had long been far away from her, slowly floated towards her again. One by one, she recalls the works of her big brother on the living room wall, contemplating the colors, parts, and relationships on each painting; She often stared at the wandering frames in the air for a long time, trying to reach out and grab them, but they always passed by her, like clouds in the wind, and suddenly changed shape. It was only in the incandescent light of the night, in her sleepless nightmares, that she was able to bring all the paintings back to her cabin and fix them on the walls around her. So the walls were full of big brother's paintings, and the frames were like big brother's arms, surrounding her, hugging her so much that she couldn't breathe. She kissed the fragrant oil paints and paints on the painting, and the colorful pictures gradually flowed, like a multicolored river, in the center of which there was a multicolored whirlpool, and she struggled in the water, tightened by the multicolored ribbons, and slowly sank and sank in the whirlpool......

She always seemed to be asleep, as if she was waking up, and after dawn, her head hurt like it was about to crack......

Lao Wu wanted to move Ah Ni's small bed to his room like last time, with her father by her side, maybe she could have fewer nightmares at night. But this time, she was rejected by Ah Ni, and she insisted on living alone. In the panic of sleepless nights, Lao Wu often got up in his clothes and walked to the door of Ah Ni's room on tiptoe to listen to the movements of Ah Ni's room. He heard her often say something inexplicable for no reason, intermittent and fragmented; One moment it's a big brother, another time it's an art group; Sometimes she would cry for a long time and shout that she couldn't wake up; Sometimes she would whisper in her dreams, the lyrics were vague, only the tune of the song, which sounded like the song "The Wolf of the North......

For more than a year, Lao Wu's biggest fear was that Ah Ni would re-become ill when he was stimulated by the outside world, and now his biggest fear seems to have come to the city. He invited the best neurologist in the city for Ah Ni, hoping that she could at least return to a peaceful sleep; Boss Bai invited an ancestral Chinese medicine master and a qigong master to treat Ah Ni Fagong; But Ah Ni was still drowsy all day long, and when she woke up, she grabbed her father or Boss Bai's hand and asked them to take her to Beijing to buy paintings......

Lao Wu, who was helpless, was extremely frightened and uneasy, and finally made up his mind to write a long letter to Shui Hong. The cause and condition of the onset of Ani this time are described in detail. He asked Shui Hong to send a piece of Zhou You's work by express mail or other means, and it seemed that there was no better doctor to treat Ah Ni's illness. As soon as the letter was sent, he chased after several urgent telegrams, and he remembered that Shui Hong seemed to have mentioned in a letter that they were moving, and if there was a phone call in the new house, he could also discuss countermeasures with Shui Hong on the phone. After doing this, he hurriedly comforted Ah Ni and said that he was trying to contact Zhou You, as long as Zhou You was not on a business trip, as long as Dad could find Zhou You, she would definitely get the big brother's painting again......

When Lao Wu said this, he found that he was once again forced to make concessions to Ah Ni.

That day, Shu Li accompanied Shui Hong and Zhou You to attend a friend's solo exhibition. That place was not far from Zhou You's parents' house, and after the event, Zhou You remembered that he hadn't been back to his parents' house for a long time, and he should go back to see and retrieve the latest email. Shu Li drove Shui Hong to her nest, and after Zhou You picked up the letter, he came to her to pick up Shui Hong, and then sent them back together. Soon after Shui Hong and Shu Li entered the door, just after making coffee, Shu Li took out a lot of recently bought new fashions, and Shui Hong tried them on one by one in front of the mirror, but when they heard the doorbell ring suddenly, Zhou You broke in with a pale face and a gloomy expression, the bulging briefcase fell on the table, the letters were scattered all over the ground, and he held a red-edged express and a few green-edged telegrams in his hand, and handed them to Shui Hong without saying a word.

Shui Hong saw Lao Wu's handwriting on the express envelope at a glance, as if she had been electrocuted, her heart was pounding, and an ominous premonition firmly grasped her. For nearly two years, she has always had a nervous oversensitivity to letters from Jiangnan. She longs for news of her daughter every day, but is afraid that the letter will bring something she does not want to hear. Both the express mail and the telegram meant something special going on - she suddenly remembered that she hadn't called Ah Ni for about ten days recently due to the busy moving business. For more than a year, under the careful care of her father and Uncle Bai, who loved her the most, Ah Ni has gradually healed the wounds in her heart, and her studies are recovering, and when she is older, she will be able to make a wise choice about her future. The ripples in the water town in the south of the Yangtze River have slowly calmed down, and Shui Hong originally thought that in another year or two, when Ah Ni has the ability to bear as an adult, she may be able to tell Ah Ni the whole truth. Zhou You's fatherly love may be able to alleviate Ah Ni's original pain...... In her and Zhou You's plan, in half a month, she should go back to Suzhou to visit Ani......

What will happen? Looking at Zhou You's melancholy face, Shui Hong's hands suddenly trembled......

The arrival of this long letter immediately shattered the quiet life that Zhou You and Shui Hong had just established - Shui Hong never imagined that the Hong Kong magazine and Hong Kong newspaper would infiltrate the small city of Suzhou; I didn't expect that a painting "Love Friend" would set off such a huge storm in Ah Ni's heart; Shui Hong didn't estimate that for more than a year, without any big brother's paintings and information, and under the conditions of absolute water and electricity cuts, Ani's persistent love was still beating tenaciously and dying......

Shui Hong tasted a more tragic and painful blow than the last Suzhou Xiaohe bloody case. Now her pain has been tied into two dead knots, one south and one north, firmly on her neck, one cannot be loosened and the other cannot be untied; After more than two years of love with Zhou You, she felt that she could no longer leave Zhou You, Zhou You was the support of her soul, and Ah Ni was an integral part of her life. She didn't know what to choose between life and soul—Anie's love was terminally ill, and Zhou You's fanaticism was just as sick as her marrow; She used all her tenderness and love to finally stop Zhou You at the door of the madhouse; But perhaps if she was distracted a little, he might be able to burrow into the canvas wall. Originally, she planned to wait for the new house to be completely settled, and then officially register her marriage with Zhou You, and that kind of warm and peaceful family life will definitely gradually bring Zhou You back to peace. However, at the corner of this bumpy road to the smooth road, Anie's love was miraculously resurrected. Judging from Lao Wu's letter, Ah Ni seems to be not as crazy and surging as more than a year ago, and poor Ah Ni has exhausted all her strength, leaving only the last faint bit of light. But Shui Hong feels that this kind of love at the end of the love may be the most terrifying. Two years ago, Shui Hong was deeply moved and completely conquered by Zhou You's love to the end of his life. She was worried that she and Zhou You would be moved by this kind of girl's infatuation, so that from then on, they would be separated by maternal love and father's love on both sides of the galaxy, and there would never be a magpie bridge...... Maybe she should really go back to Suzhou immediately, return to Ah Ni and Lao Wu, be a good wife and mother again, and never come back. Maybe she really should give Ah Ni to Zhou You? Or return Zhou You to Shu Li? She was the one who made all these relationships messy, and if there was a god who could restore everything to its original order, she would be willing to endure the harshest punishment in the world......

Shui Hong lost her usual reserved demeanor and collapsed on Shu Li's bed, staring at the chandelier on the ceiling with wide eyes. The ornate and heavy chandelier seemed to be suspended from a strand of a woman's hair, and the delicate and fragile glass lampshade faced the hard parquet floor below...... Rainbow had only faced the difficulty of saving two people in the past, however, at this moment, she had to face the pain of three people. What to do?

Zhou You's body was buried deep in the couch, holding his head tightly for a long time. Two dark images appeared in front of his eyes: one was the darkness of falling into an abyss canyon before he launched an autumn offensive against the water rainbow; The other is a huge black skin bag assembled with a modern freak freak...... And this dark world, which even he can't avoid, is approaching that lovely Ah Ni step by step. He felt a pang of cramping and suffocation in his heart. For more than a year, the little speck of light, which sometimes filled his heart with light, glowed with dying light in the distance, flickering and flickering, intervaling longer and weaker, about to be swallowed up by the dark night that was like a tide...... The only time in Zhou You's heart that the pure and desireless love of a boy and a girl surged again. He couldn't wait to grab the phone and say to Ah Ni: Little sister Ah Ni, the eldest brother is about to fly to Suzhou to see you, and bring you a lot of paintings, more than before, so much that you can hang the walls of your small room...... The big brother takes you to climb the mountain again, carries you on his shoulders, and makes you shout at the top of the mountain...... In that case, maybe A-Ni's illness will get better immediately......

But his mind, which had not yet gotten out of control, told him that he couldn't touch the phone at all. Now, even if he has the slightest concern and intimate expression of affection for Ah Ni, it will trigger a storm of love in Ah Ni's heart, and the defense line that she has built with great difficulty will collapse and collapse in an instant, and it will be rampant and raging endlessly ever since. He will destroy her by pity on her, and hurt her doubly by loving her; Maybe her condition will be temporarily relieved by him, but what about when he leaves? The pain of her unrequited love will sink into deeper despair......

Zhou You suffers from the love in the world, which cannot be separated or shared. The moment he got the rainbow, he had lost Ah Ni forever. But Shui Hong is the bright world of love that he has only gotten through countless cruel darkness. He couldn't stand that torture anymore, Rainbow was his only and all he had, and it seemed impossible for him to make a new choice in his life. Zhou You looked at the chandelier on the ceiling in a daze, the crystal glass pendants, like the teardrops of an ice meteorite statue, were so sad that they froze into ice and couldn't drip down. She had flown tens of billions of light-years in the cold of space before she finally came to his side. She seems to have just melted a few tears of happiness from fanatical love, and in the blink of an eye, she has become a cold beauty with ice and jade. If he left her, she would have brushed the earth and returned to the lonely space of space, never to return. Then he will also become a lifeless ice sculpture, falling into a dark world from which he will never recover......

Zhou You's heart hurt like a knife cut a gap, but he couldn't find the sheep intestine that could be stitched up. He stumbled to his feet, walked over to Shui Hong, and shivered and took her cold hands and pressed them against his cheeks, and the two of them were relatively speechless......

Shu Li propped her elbows and sat silently at the table. She read Lao Wu's long letter over and over again, and was frightened by the scene described in Lao Wu's letter at first. The beautiful little Ah Ni, whom she had never met, jumped out of Lao Wu's letter alive with such a crazy and desperate attitude, and bravely approached Zhou You and Shui Hong, and seemed to be approaching her. Shu Li suddenly felt that she saw her own shadow from the vague and clear Ah Ni girl. Her heart was gradually enveloped by a great and profound sympathy, and she could not help but be deeply touched by the tenacious and unfortunate love of this young girl. In this world of continuous assembly and separation, fakes are getting more and more fake, even in the friendship between her and Zhou Youshuihong, you can squeeze out some fakes with benefits. But the hazy love that grew in the flowering season between the ages of thirteen and sixteen is for the most astute and discerning businessmen to identify, and no one doubts her sincerity and purity. Who can help her? Reach out to her an adult hand and pull her over the first quagmire of life? Shu Li raised her head and looked at Zhou You and Shui Hong, who were knocked down by sadness in front of her, the couple who had always made her love and hate, with all kinds of flavors and chaotic thoughts in their hearts. Shui Hong can use her otherworldly love to balance Zhou You's artistic madness; can assemble her friendship with Shu Li; But she can't balance and assemble love and maternal love. Shu Li was in a trance for a while, not knowing where she was in this difficult and grinding love field......

The room was silent and solemn, and all three of them were pale and worried......

Suddenly, the phone rang in a thrilling tone.

Shu Li picked up the microphone. She heard the faint voice of a young girl from far away.

"I'm looking for Miss Shuli...... Please don't hang up...... I, I'm calling in Suzhou, my name is Wu Yunni, and I'm the little sister of Brother Zhou You...... Are you Miss Shuli? I've called you twice and I'd like to have a few words with you......"

Shu Li hurriedly covered the microphone and said to Zhou You and Shui Hong: "Hey, it's Ah Ni!" Suzhou! ”

"Turn on the amplification button, I can listen to her." Shui Hong jumped up from the bed and rushed towards the telephone at the same time as Zhou You.

"Hey, are you Miss Shuli?" The trembling voice raised slightly.

"I'm Shu Li." Shu Li replied hurriedly. She took a deep breath, calmed down, and said, "Oh, you're Ah Ni, your big brother often talks to me about you, and the first time I heard your voice, you speak Mandarin so well." I've seen your portrait, you're so beautiful, tell me, how are you? ”

"Miss Shuli, thank you. I'm calling because ...... Because I saw the picture that my big brother drew for you...... Is Big Brother at your place? I want to hear the voice of the big brother, I haven't heard it in a year and a half...... Big brother, why don't you write to me and call me...... It's my bad friend who didn't listen to you and lost all your paintings......"

Ah Ni said, and her whining cry came from the microphone.

Shui Hong hurriedly wrote on a piece of paper: Tell her that Zhou You is not here now.

"Ah Ni, Ah Ni, don't cry, listen to me, your eldest brother is not here, he went out to sketch, and it will take a while to come back. Ani, what is the matter with you, tell me okay, I will tell him...... Oh, how did you know my phone? ”

"I ...... I saw your name in a magazine, and then I called the Artists Association, art magazines, and galleries in Beijing to look for you, and an uncle happened to know you and told me your phone number......

"A-Ni, you are so smart, are you in good health, why didn't you go to school?"

"I'm on leave...... I was sick, I had a terrible headache, I couldn't sleep, the doctor always told me to take sleep medicine, I slept for several days, and when I woke up, I had a headache like it was about to crack...... I want to see Big Brother, I want to see him. ”

"You have to rest well, as soon as the big brother comes back, I'll ask him to call you...... However, I don't know when he will come back, and sometimes he walks so far as he goes......"

"Then you tell him that it's okay for him to come to Suzhou to see me? My father wouldn't let me go to Beijing. You must tell him that I want to see him because I want to apologize to him in person, and that the paintings were stolen by robbers, not ...... I didn't lose it...... It's not me ......," Ani began to cry again.

"Ah Ni, it's been more than a year since this incident, and the big brother has never blamed you, if you lose the painting, you can paint it again......"

"No, the eldest brother blames me in his heart, he doesn't like me anymore, so he doesn't write to me and doesn't call me......"

"I know that big brother really doesn't blame you, but at that time you were sick, and your father was afraid that you would be stimulated, so he didn't want your big brother to write to you again......"

"Later, when I got better, my eldest brother forgot about me...... When I was in Suzhou, my eldest brother said he would wait for me to grow up...... But after he returned to Beijing, he didn't like me anymore because of you......"

"Ah Ni, that's not the case, these are two different feelings...... Your big brother told me that you will always be his little sister in Suzhou, and he will always love you......"

"Love me? I don't believe it...... Miss Shu Li, are you married to your big brother? ”

Shui Hong hurriedly wrote on the paper: I'm about to get married.

"Ah Ni, if I marry your big brother, will you hate the big brother? Will you hate me? ”

"I don't hate my big brother, I only hate myself...... I don't draw anymore, I'm a bad boy...... But at that time, my eldest brother was the best to me, and he painted me every day, and he blamed me...... If I don't go to Beijing...... Ah Xiu's mother and little brother will not ...... Ah......h

As she spoke, she seemed to be unable to control herself at last, and screamed, but there was no sound in the microphone.

"Hey, A-Ni, A-Ni!" Shu Li called continuously, but there was still no response. The three of them were in a hurry, and Shui Hong hung up and fought again, but Suzhou Wu Zhai was always occupied. It seems that there is no one at home, and the nanny must have asked Ah Ni to go somewhere in advance, and Ah Ni really fainted next to the telephone......

After dozens of minutes, I played again, and the line was still busy. Shu Li then called again, and after more than half an hour, she finally got through, and it was the nanny who picked it up. She said that Ah Ni didn't know why she suddenly fainted just now, Boss Bai had just come and had already gone to see a doctor, and Mr. Wu hadn't gotten off work yet.

Shu Li put down the phone, her eyes were red, and she sighed softly: "I really didn't expect that Ah Ni would be sick like this...... She's still too young, we've got to find a way to save her! ”

Zhou You held Shui Hong's hand tightly, his lips trembled, and he couldn't say a word. His eyes stared straight at the window, not knowing what to say. Shui Hong asked him anything, but he didn't answer. Looking at his bruised face, he also looked like he was sick, and his forehead and palms were hot.

Shu Li quickly soaked three bowls of "Master Kong", and simply made some cold dishes, and made dinner. Then drive them back.

Back at his home, Shui Hong hurriedly called Lao Wu again. Lao Wu asked for the phone number of her new house and asked her to wait, in order to avoid Boss Bai and the sleeping Ah Ni, he went outside to make a long-distance direct call to Shui Hong. The call finally came, and Lao Wu said that Ah Ni was already on the verge of schizophrenia, and he was dying, and it seemed that suppression and avoidance were not good methods, and they must be completely resolved. But even he couldn't make up his mind, whether to bring Ah Ni to Beijing to meet Zhou You? Or do you send Zhou You's paintings to Suzhou immediately? Or let Zhou You come in person? But once Zhou You really shows up, Ah Ni's mood may become more and more excited, which is really worrying. If you don't get it right, maybe two artists, one big and one young, will be sent to the hospital together......

Shui Hong sobbed into the microphone and said, "Don't talk about it, I've thought about it, I'll go back!" I went back with Zhou You's paintings. I can't care so much, keeping Ah Ni is the first thing, I will take the first flight to Shanghai early tomorrow morning, you send a car to pick me up! Without waiting for Lao Wu to speak, she put down the microphone without saying anything.

However, as soon as she took out her suitcase and began to pack her bags, Zhou You hugged her.

"Do you want to go alone?" He screamed hoarsely. "If you want to leave, even I will take it with me, I will go to Suzhou with you, the two of us will go to see Ah Ni together, let's just take Ah Ni back to Beijing......

Shui Hong leaned down and hugged Zhou You tightly, tears overflowing from her eyes. She thinks about how fragile men are, and how vulnerable art is in the face of the cruel reality of life. At this moment, Lao Wu is probably also holding the unconscious Ah Ni - after more than two years of bitter love, the first to fall are two artists, one big and one small. Lao Wu's prophecies have been fulfilled one by one. Snake-like spasms swirled in her chest, tightening her neck and leaving her breathless. Art is an emotionally out of control industry, and perhaps she not only failed to regulate her fanaticism, but even she was about to lose control. She grabbed the handle of the wardrobe and tried her best to stand firm, but she didn't know where to go, if she really went to Suzhou with Zhou You, then this deviant story really couldn't end......

Shu Li, who had been silent, suddenly stood up. She broke Zhou You's hand holding Shui Hong, helped him to the sofa and sat down, and then turned on all the lights in the room, as if to make Zhou You and Shui Hong wake up from their nightmare. He bent down again and closed Rainbow's suitcase, put it back in the closet, then turned to the two of them and said:

"Listen, you two, neither of you can go, it's even more chaotic to go. I think that the most suitable person to send a painting to Ah Ni is no one else but me! ”

Shui Hong and Zhou You didn't seem to react for a while.

Shu Li repeated again: "You two go to see Ah Ni, no one can solve the problem." Just let me go to Suzhou. I just heard on the phone that Ah Ni is actually quite willing to talk to me, and she is jealous and curious about me. If I go to see her as Zhou You's fiancée and give her Zhou You's paintings, her mood will calm down. In my special capacity, I can talk to her a lot, as long as her nerves relax, open an opening, and slowly enlighten her, there will be ......"

Shui Hong was stunned for a moment, her eyes full of tears opened wide, and a glimmer of light flashed in the dimness. She seemed to have taken a shot in the arm, suddenly perked up, grabbed Shu Li's hand and said, "You're right...... With a woman's intuition, I think that if you go to see Ah Ni, you may have unexpected miracles...... Ah Ni's illness this time is caused by watching the painting of "Lover", and the bell must be tied to the bell, if you and Ah Ni can talk from the bottom of your heart, maybe you can really resolve the distress in her heart......"

Zhou You also seemed to have taken a dose of rejuvenation soup and quickly came to his senses. He leaned on the sofa, clasped his hands into fists, gave Shu Li a look, and said in a hoarse voice: "Hao Lili, thank you so much, now only you can save Ah Ni, if you let Ah Ni recover, I really don't know how to repay you......"

Shu Li smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, you talk sweetly to me." I'll be foolish about it, it's not as easy as selling paintings. If I do it, you will thank me; If it fails, don't blame me, I can only do my best and engage in a well-intentioned conspiracy......"

Zhou You was stunned for a while, looked at Shu Li and added: "Oh, Lili...... You'd better not have a fiancée or fiancée, and make it true in the future......"

Shu Li said angrily: "It's here again, isn't it?" Zhou You, when will you love me as much as you love their mother and daughter? Let me tell you the truth, I went to Suzhou to see Ah Ni, not for you, not for Shui Hong, I am for myself. For the sake of a woman's heart that she can't let go of and can't understand, I think that my personality and Ah Ni's personality are quite similar, I am sympathetic to her, and I am probably the only one who can best understand her suffering......"

Shui Hong said: "Ah Ni will like you, really, I believe ......"

Shu Li looked at her watch, immediately called a friend in civil aviation, and booked a plane ticket to Shanghai tomorrow. After receiving a positive reply, he dialed the phone number of the Wu family in Suzhou and introduced himself to Lao Wu. She told Lao Wu that after Shui Hong and Zhou You heard about Ah Ni's situation, they were extremely depressed, and both of them fell ill, so they had to entrust her to send paintings to Ah Ni. She will be in Shanghai tomorrow and ask him to send a car to pick her up at the airport. Without waiting for Lao Wu to answer, she asked Lao Wu to call Ah Ni to answer the phone.

When she heard Miss Shuli's name in a drowsy state, she immediately struggled to take the mobile microphone on the bed.

"Is it Anie?"

"It's me, I'm Ani."

"I'm Shu Li, I'll come to Suzhou tomorrow to see you, and I'll bring you a recent work of your eldest brother, which is a very beautiful oil painting."

"Great, I'm so happy." Ah Ni exclaimed excitedly. Panting again, he asked, "What about the big brother?" Won't he come? ”

"Big brother paints far away. In the afternoon, he happened to give me a call, I told him about you, he called you, but you were asleep, so he didn't wake you up, he asked me to take the painting to Suzhou to see you immediately, he also said that he will always love his little sister in Suzhou, he is about to go to the desert, there is no way to call, but he will definitely come to Suzhou to see your ...... in the future"

"I really want to meet him...... No, I want to meet you too......"

"A-Ni, I've booked my plane ticket, and we'll meet tomorrow. You must have a good night's sleep tonight, I want to meet a more beautiful Ani than a portrait. I've never been to Suzhou before, can you accompany me to see the bridges and the boats in the river......"

"Of course, I have a lot to say to you......"

"Go to bed early, see you tomorrow!"

"See you tomorrow ......"

Shu Li hung up the phone, and Zhou You and Shui Hong both breathed a long sigh of relief.

The three of them went to the Tibetan studio in the warehouse overnight to select paintings for Ah Ni. It took a long time to choose a landscape painting of a good size. The picture is a green grassland, and the brilliant sunset paints the sky and grass with a golden-red afterglow, which has a magical effect of changing light and color. This is an impressionistic work that Zhou You has just completed to explore the transformation of light and color, and all three of them feel that Ah Ni will like this lyrical and colorful color, which will neither stimulate her nor misunderstand her. Zhou You is even more confident that the distant and tranquil connotation of this painting will calm Ah Ni and realize what the big brother wants to say to her......

It was late at night, and Shu Li drove home. When the car turned, Shu Li saw from the mirror that Zhou You was holding Shui Hong, still standing under the street lamp, watching her go away, in Shu Li's later memory, it was like a freeze-frame shot in the movie, which could no longer be re-edited. The deserted street is like a long corridor without roofs, and the towering buildings on both sides are like uncapped pillars on the eaves, closed doors and windows, suspended under the neon lights in the night sky. Is there a door open for her? She didn't know. There seemed to be no end in sight to the corridor, and she could only keep going......