The setting sun is like a huge fireball, suspended at the edge of the sky and the earth, slowly and leisurely falling. The cloudless sky is blue and swaying, like a clear heavenly lake, radiating the light of gemstones. That touch of sky blue gradually wants to transition to royal blue, more and more close to the enamel glaze, and seems to be filled with countless broken gold, golden and bright. Lan Eucalyptus and Ruoping couldn't help but stop for the sunset, and in the afterglow, a boy with black-rimmed glasses was sketching in his sketchbook.

Ruo Ping stared at the sunset picture and exclaimed, "Huo Chen, you are so beautiful in painting!" Huo Chen came back to his senses from a burst of concentration, "It's you!" Are you out of class? Ruoping nodded with admiration, "Aren't you on duty today?" Huo Chen stretched out his hand and lifted his glasses, "In the afternoon, my colleague was on duty, and I originally wanted to go to the open class, but when I passed here, I found that the scenery was too beautiful, so I wanted to draw it." Lan Eucalyptus couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, "What?" Aren't you a student at our school? Huo Chen hammered his stiff arm and slowly stood up, "I'm a security guard, and I've only been on duty for a month." ”

Huo Chen's height of 185cm is dark and thin, and he looks like a big boy, but his face seems to have been weathered. Lan Yu shook his head in disbelief, "But this painting you painted is obviously of a professional level!" At least half of my classmates are inferior to you! Ruoping smiled calmly, "He's really a security guard, he started working in the library last month, and I saw him several times when he was at work." Huo Chen is actually two years older than us, and he was supposed to take the college entrance examination in the same class as us, but unfortunately he had a car accident the week before the college entrance examination, and he couldn't go to the college entrance examination and was still hospitalized, so he is now repeating while working. Lan Eucalyptus smiled gossipily, "Looks like you know him well?" Ruoping's heart was so weak that her face turned red, "What? I just talked to him when I was working in the library. ”

Ruoping said that it was indeed true. Huo Chen was just discharged from the hospital at the beginning of last month, and followed his fellow villagers to Y City to work. Originally, he just happened to go to M University that day, and he was still holding a large bag of luggage, and the security guard at the door asked him if he wanted to find a job, and he thought that the job had not been settled anyway, so he agreed. When he was not on duty, Huo Chen would go to audit public classes, or observe the paintings hanging on the wall in the corridor, and he would also listen to some lectures by celebrities, and he gained a lot.

The security guard's shift schedule is irregular, sometimes even night shift, and when his spare time is extremely compressed, Huo Chen still draws around the school with a small book. Huo Chen is a sober-minded person, although he was accidentally delayed the opportunity to take the first college entrance examination, so he can only work as a security guard temporarily. Security is an ordinary profession with a low salary, but Huo Chen did not look down on this profession too much, he used his hard work to support himself and pave the way for the future. After all, most people become security guards for half a year or a few months, and no one will regard security as a lifelong career.

The biggest advantage of being a security guard in a library is that you can come and go as you like in the library, and you can read any book without having to apply for a library card. How could Huo Chen have seen so many books? He was immediately fascinated by the vast sea of books, and whenever he had the opportunity to enter the library, he would lean on the bookshelf and read without sleep or food. Huo Chen almost hated seeing these books too late, and he sometimes thought about how good it would be if he had lived in a scholarly family since he was a child!

Huo Chen was born in the countryside, his mother died in childbirth when he was 5 years old, in order to give birth to his sister Huo Xiang, and his father has been a bachelor ever since, and many people in the village often laugh at their family. The father worked hard to bring up the two brothers and sisters, and the family did not have enough food to eat, and the father worked in the field hungry for three days, and he had to leave a full meal for the brothers and sisters in the pot. Fortunately, when my father was 30 years old, he happened to catch up with the tide of reform and opening up, and he worked hard to win a game for himself and the family, and set up an industry in the township.

In the second year, Huo Chen's family became unexpectedly rich, and the people in the village who used to laugh at them in the past were secretly red. However, Huo Chen's father is not a person who loves to hold grudges, he has arranged jobs for every father, old folk, and relatives of the same clan who ask for him, and when he finally gets rich, he will take everyone to get rich together, and survive in this world, who doesn't want to live a good life?

I never thought that within a few years, the financial crisis occurred, a large number of enterprises closed down one after another, and the factories that the old Huo family worked so hard to build were not spared. The trees fell and scattered, and many villagers who had made money from Lao Huo in the factory changed their faces and stopped bothering their families. My father seemed to be a different person, and often did not go out for many days in a row, and borrowed alcohol to kill his sorrows all day long at home. Huo Xiang was careful, she secretly told her brother while her father was asleep, "Dad always cries at the black and white photos of my mother when she was young, and she still speaks vaguely in her mouth, as if she is confiding, Dad misses Mom!" Huo Chen's father and mother were childhood sweethearts and free love, which is very rare in the countryside, but unfortunately, they were separated prematurely after 7 years of marriage.

The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although the factory run by my father has closed down, the family conditions are always much better than before when they were just farming, but they can no longer withstand the toss. After Huo Xiang graduated from junior high school, he stopped studying, and took advantage of the fact that the family's situation had not completely decayed, and he got married in a hurry. The brother-in-law is a young student who is 3 years older than Huo Chen, and his family conditions are far inferior to the old Huo family. That year, Huo Chen was in his third year of high school, and he lived on campus on weekdays, and only went home once a month.

After the car accident, Huo Chen's mood fell to the bottom, but his unspeakable mood was nowhere to say. Originally, his assessment score was at least on the second line, but he was really unwilling to give up his college dream like this. But Huo Chen was embarrassed to continue to eat and drink at home, the few months in the hospital had already bottomed out the family's savings, and he didn't want to embarrass his sister, who had been married for less than a year. So, as soon as his condition improved, Huo Chen went through the discharge procedures without hesitation. It happened that a fellow was going to work in Y City, the provincial capital, and Huo Chen followed him out to make a living.

At noon that day, after Huo Chen and his colleagues handed over the shift, he sat on the edge of the bookshelf in the library as usual and watched it with a fascination, and he didn't even notice Ruoping standing by his side for a long time. Ruoping patted him on the shoulder curiously, "Huo Chen, whose book are you reading so intently?" Huo Chen raised his head in surprise, only to find Ruoping standing in front of him, "It's Yu Xiuhua's book, my mother liked Yu Xiuhua the most when she was alive." Huo Chen vaguely remembered that his mother was extremely smart, but she didn't have much education in school, and there was a reading corner donated by charity in the city in the village, and her mother always liked to borrow books from there to read after picking up housework. And Yu Xiuhua's name was accidentally found by Huo Chen from the borrowing book in the reading corner when he grew up. In an instant, Huo Chen's long-sealed memories gushed out like a volcanic eruption, when he was 3 years old, it was his mother who taught him to paint, in the countryside, such art enlightenment is extremely rare and precious. Later, when the family was a little wealthy, Huo Chen used the pocket money given to him by his father to sign up for an art cram school in the town, if it weren't for his mother, Huo Chen would not have become associated with art......

Ruoping's heart chuckled, but she didn't dare to show a sad expression in front of Huo Chen, "I also like Yu Xiuhua." If poetry is compared to painting, then Yu Xiuhua's poems are three-dimensional. Because between the lines, there are emotions, thoughts, pictures, time, senses connected with the natural world, and the sorrows and joys of all things in heaven and earth! ”

Huo Chen was a little shocked when he heard her words, and couldn't hide the inferiority complex in his eyes for a while, "You really deserve to have studied in college, and you can see so clearly, I really envy you!" Ruoping disagreed, "What's wrong with going to college, this can't be generalized, many students in our class don't even know who Yu Xiuhua is, they never read extracurricular books, they play games and chase dramas every night, and they are crammed for the final exam." Ruoping paused, then said, "If you work hard and repeat your studies for another year, you may be able to get into college!" ”

This sentence is impartial, poking into Huo Chen's heart, the sea of people is vast, and it is really a blessing in life to be able to meet a confidant while wandering in a foreign land. Huo Chen suddenly felt that the girl in front of him was very intimate, but only in front of her, he could find the confidence and warmth that he had lost for a long time. And Ruoping actually had some little admiration for Huo Chen, and she looked at Huo Chen's every eye with stars twinkling. Huo Chen and Ruoping are rightfully in love.

The second semester of freshman year passed very quickly, and it was almost the end of the semester in a flash. Teacher Wu Shuxian's desk was full of sketch homework to be graded and registered, and she felt that it was too much for her to register alone, so she had to call Lan Yu to help. Lan Yu put down the matter at hand without saying a word, and took advantage of the noon time to come to Mr. Wu's office to assist her in doing things. Time seems to have gone back to when Lan Yu first met Mr. Wu, but the careful Lan Yu found that the furnishings in the office had changed a lot compared to the last time she came.

The most striking thing is that there is an extra bookshelf with a glass window in the office, and Lan Eucalyptus accidentally glanced at it and found that the bookshelves were all literary books, and the author of several books, Lan Eucalyptus, also liked them, such as Zhang Ailing, Mu Xin, and Schopenhauer. This discovery made Eucalyptus blue excited, "You even like to read their books!" I thought your shelves were full of art books? Are these books yours or Mr. Xu's? ”

Teacher Wu kindly stopped what she was doing, "It's my own book, Teacher Xu, she didn't bring the book to the office." The school has bookshelves in every office this semester, but there is no hard and fast rule about what books must be placed. Eucalyptus, it's a good thing that you love to read. Half of life is on the road, half is in the study. Literature has a transmutative effect, and the weaker the heart, the more literature is needed. Painting and literature are inherently interconnected, because they both belong to the category of art. Reading can enrich your experience and be beneficial for your future illustration creation. Lan Yu nodded obediently, "Well, teacher, I remember." ”

The sketches on the table piled up, and the blue eucalyptus began to bury his head in registering the scores, and the only thing left in the office was the "rustle" of turning pages. It happened that a gust of fresh wind was blowing outside the window, and the blue eucalyptus smelled a faint fragrance of green tea, and couldn't help but take a deep breath, "What a fragrant tea, why do you feel that the taste is very close, in our room?" ”

Teacher Wu was not surprised, "It was from Mr. Xu's teacup, and she now has to drink tea every day." Lan Yu looked enviously at Mr. Xu's desk, and saw a set of lotus leaf pots and lotus cups from the pink and green Ru kiln on the table.

The veins of the lotus leaf pot spreading from the center to the surrounding are full of three-dimensionality, like a breeze blowing through the edge of the lotus leaf, undulating like a skirt, as light as a skirt, lifelike. The teapot spout is unglazed, and it has been dyed brown for a long time, forming a unique copper mouth decoration. The inside and outside of the pot are covered with powder green ru kiln glaze, about the teapot often has tea moistening, out of the cicada wings open piece, the vessel has life. The glazed opening is as fine as the blooming plum blossom petals, mostly obliquely cracked, the depth is intertwined with each other, and it is like a piece of fish scales shining with silver light.

The glaze of the lotus cup next to it is as smooth as jade, red in the green, as if coated with a layer of powder, faintly flashing with a subtle and warm color, and the essence is connotative, dignified and deep. The lotus petals are distinct, and the texture on them is obviously carefully outlined, translucent as emerald, warm as fat jade. The color of the tea soup in the cup is golden and bright, the aroma is fresh, some of the bud tips hang upright and float on the water surface, and some sink to the bottom of the cup, the shape is like a group of bamboo shoots unearthed, and it is like a silver knife standing upright. Obviously, the tea brewed by Mr. Xu is Junshan silver needle, which is made of ununfolded fat buds, the bud heads are fat, straight, and even, and the surface of the buds is covered with hairs.

The lotus leaf pot and lotus cup are padded with weathered old elm planks, and the natural texture is antique. Teacher Xu is not in the tea but it is not cold, Lan Eucalyptus can't help but wonder, "Why doesn't Teacher Xu take a lunch break in the office?" She hasn't drunk her tea yet. Teacher Wu smiled and said, "She was temporarily called to the office by the principal......" Teacher Wu only said half a sentence and didn't say any more, and a little melancholy spread on his face. She didn't know that the principal asked Xu Ye to talk because although she was young, she had already been rated as a professor, and it hadn't been long since she was rated a while ago, so maybe she was going to take up some administrative position this time!

Wu Shuxian and Xu Ye are the same teachers recruited into M University, and when they first joined, they were inseparable every day except for classes. But how can the feelings of the adult world be endless? Over the years, even if she didn't say it, Shuxian felt that the relationship between Xu Ye and her had gradually faded. Maybe it's because Shuxian has only been rated as an associate professor so far; Maybe it's because Shuxian has a family to take care of, and she has to run around for a big family every day, and Xu Ye is still single; Maybe it's because Xu Ye knows how to tie up with the school leaders and show his work ability from time to time, but Shuxian only buries herself in teaching. That green and beautiful friendship can't resist the cold wind of reality after all, and it is going away little by little......