25, sketchbook
"Of course, I have a lot of brothers and sisters."
This should be the first time that Chen Wen asked Ye Xingtong about his brothers and sisters in the six months since the two had been dating for half a year. This question seemed to turn on a switch, allowing Ye Xingtong to gush about her cousins, cousins, and more distant brothers and sisters.
She said she was almost the youngest child in her generation. Since I was a child, I can often see my brothers and sisters during winter and summer vacations, birthdays, and red and white banquets. Maybe it's genetic, most of their families are girls in this generation, but they are fat, thin, tall and short. As we grow older and our families become more urbanized, we move less and less with each other as our children enter middle school and university.
The day after tomorrow may be the largest in a decade. This made Ye Xingtong, who was pampered and cared for by his brothers and sisters when he was a child, especially look forward to this opportunity to reunite.
And Chen Wen still didn't have the courage to ask a question like "Is there any sister who looks very similar to you?"
The day after tomorrow, in two days, he will be able to see those sisters. He decided to use his own eyes to see if there was the person in the dream in Ye Xingtong's house, and whether there would be a person who had blurred his memory six years ago like himself.
But at the end of the day, he still doesn't want such a person to exist.
Ye Xingtong continued to operate the mouse as he spoke. Chen Wen also saw clearly at this time, she was not really watching TV series, but looking for what kind of theme song and ending song were matched with the TV series played by certain actors.
"New job assignment?"
"It's not a task yet, it's just that Sister Betty asked me to prepare and see if I have a chance to sing for some episodes. These leading actors are all in the same agency as me, so they always have a bit of priority. ”
This is good news, and Chen Wen likes to silently watch Ye Xingtong do things seriously.
"Then I'll be with you for the past two days."
"Really? Two full days? It's a rarity. ”
"What's this, I just finally made up my mind to do the right thing."
"I'm here for you today, so let me accompany you. If you work with peace of mind, you should accompany me, and I will find a desk here for you to write something. Ye Xingtong brought his milk tea to Chen Wen's mouth and fed him a mouthful, and shouted loudly, "Li Fei, can you do me a favor." ”
"Yes, yes, yes. What's the matter with my sister-in-law? ”
She snickered at the title of sister-in-law: "Take my car keys and help me get the guitar in my trunk." ”
The children in the company who were holding milk tea and snacks in an inefficient action exploded. They were jubilant, mistakenly thinking that Ye Xingtong was going to sing in the Minxue Teaching Software Company.
Maybe the employees here shouldn't be called children in general. Some people, including Li Fei, Xiao Gao, and Xiao Zhou, are actually one to two years older than Ye Xingtong.
"Okay, I'll go now."
Li Fei ran in and took the key from Ye Xingtong's hand, and ran downstairs again. In just two or three minutes, he walked back briskly with his guitar in his hand.
Ye Xingtong prepared the pen and paper, picked up the guitar and sat at a workstation not far from Chen Wen where there was no one today. The others seemed to be looking forward to the sound she would make with her guitar, and although they were still working, they lost their usual conversations, and even typed much softer.
Ye Xingtong didn't open his voice, just played it lightly for a while, hummed a few words softly, and then made a record.
After about forty minutes, perhaps she felt that this kind of intermittent short segment was really sorry for the children's expectations. She exchanged glances with Chen Wen, then changed her direction and officially played and sang a more complete song to the children in the company.
Ye Xingtong played and sang while gently shaking his body, causing the children in the company to turn their chairs and listen attentively.
Chen Wen had heard this song, but it was only a small part of it. It was a tune that Ye Xingtong hummed while walking in the forest park. The lyrics have been modified so that osmanthus is no longer sung so obviously. She sings a kind of companionship, a kind of plain and unassuming, but still guarded by the fragrance of flowers.
This is a song that inherits "A Leaf Blind" in style, and the lyrics and composition are somewhat similar. It seems that Ye Xingtong has made up his mind to go down the road of love songs.
Because it was not yet a complete finished product, Ye Xingtong stopped after singing the chorus. She stood up and bowed to everyone in apology, then sat back down next to Chen Wen amid applause and cheers.
"How's that, does it sound good?"
"Sounds good."
At this time, Ye Xingtong took out a booklet slightly smaller than A4 from the bag he was carrying, and shook it in front of Chen Wen.
"What is this?"
"Didn't I say that you and I wrote the lyrics for my new song?" As she spoke, she put the notebook on the table in front of Chen Wen, "I found it when I went to your house to tidy up my things and prepare to move to a new home, do you remember it?" ”
Chen Wen actually didn't have an impression of this thing. He took the notebook, opened it and looked at it.
It is a sketchbook for drawing, but it is used as a tool for recording inspiration. There are some sketches in the booklet, and there are also a lot of written records.
Although the impression of this booklet is completely absent from his memory, the brushwork of the paintings and the handwriting in it are all too familiar to Chen Wen. This is his own penmanship and handwriting!
He casually flipped to a page and wrote the dialogue between the male protagonist Cheng Ke and his sister Cheng Miaoxin in "Milk and Chocolate". Chen Wen remembered that this paragraph was not included in the official work.
There is another page, a sketch of a street sprinkled with fallen leaves. A ginkgo biloba leaf was also carefully drawn.
Turning another page, there is an interesting picture, which is the picture of looking up at the sky through the sunroof from the car. Two sentences were also written in the lower right corner: "I thought I was stuck in this side of the sky, but I forgot that it was enough to invite you to swim." ”
You can't be wrong, these are Chen Wen's handwriting, things that he has forgotten, that he has written and painted.
Turn the page one more time. What he saw this time made him so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.
This is where he woke up in his dream, where he lay down with the girl who looked like Ye Xingtong. It is a sketch of the bedroom from the entrance perspective.
Ye Xingtong on the side asked with interest: "What kind of place are you painting, and why is it different from your home?" ”
Chen Wen shook his head: "I don't remember. ”
After saying that, he was a little glad that he had done this answer. At least he didn't lie, and he didn't have to feel empty.
"Was it the bedroom you designed for the heroine during Milk and Chocolate?"
"Why ...... Heroine? ”
Ye Xingtong smiled and pointed to a corner of the painting: "Look, there should be a bunch of plush toys painted here, and also, boys' bedrooms generally don't have more than one mirror, right?" ”
Yes, a bunch of stuffed animals, and several mirrors. It's a girls' bedroom.
"Hahahaha, Chen Wen, are you deliberately funny?" Ye Xingtong suddenly laughed at the painting.