While Xiang Hai secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he began to rummage through his memory for some important things about that person. As he narrates, he seems to go back to his youthful days, watching the man live like a year. There is nothing you can do about it.

[I don't know when it began, avoiding and ridiculing Hu Yi has become the most tacit thing for people. The children don't know good and evil, but they know how to blindly imitate, relying on their young advantages to bully a newcomer to adult, but they return victorious every time, excitedly showing off to their peers how brave they are, how cowardly the newcomer is, and even a child can't beat it.

I wasn't big at the time, and I didn't have any younger brothers, and after a few fights with those people, I was very embarrassed to lose, and with my parents' warnings to me, I wouldn't blatantly bump into those boring imps again. It's just that I secretly drew a lot of villains, cursed them for getting 0 points in exams, throwing knives and erasers every day.

Ideas are ideas, and I don't really want to verify them, at most I just think about it.

My favorite place to go is still Hu Yi's little dilapidated house. Sometimes he would bring me a little fruit, and I would nibble on the fruit while watching him tinker with oil paintings, and now that I think about it, that time was really a treasure of childhood.

When Hu Yi first came to the village, it was early winter, and it wasn't long before the Chinese New Year was coming. But he is single, and he usually only eats one dish, which is very simple.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

That year, the snow was particularly heavy, and every household was lively and prosperous.

After Chinese New Year's Eve, while my parents were watching TV, I stepped on the red firecracker skin in the snow, ran all the way to the small bridge, and sneaked into his house through the grove.

At the gate where there is often only one small lamp under the eaves of the small courtyard, suddenly two red lanterns were changed, and I looked at the two red lanterns, and my heart was happy, and I felt that this person still had a little joy in life, and he would not always hold the pen dipped in paint to live, and he was finally like a living person.

He sat alone in the dim light of the hall, and he didn't wear much, and it was rare to cook a table of dishes, but he didn't seem to move even a piece. When I got closer, I realized that there were three pairs of chopsticks on the table, and there were three bowls next to the chopsticks, two adults and one children's bowl.

When he saw me coming, he was very surprised, put away the expression on his face that seemed to be longing and pain, hurriedly beckoned me to sit down, took a pair of chopsticks and handed them to me again, and motioned for me to eat with him.

Because it is rare to celebrate the New Year, I made a big bowl of meat at home, and made my favorite shredded carrots, and I have eaten very well, so it is rare to be polite.

Hu Yi saw that I really shirked it, and he didn't want to force me anymore, so he took a piece of peanut rice and chewed it slowly in his mouth, but his eyes wandered back and forth on the two empty bowls opposite.

I was relatively straight-headed at that time, and it stands to reason that I couldn't imagine what he was doing, but that day I guess there was a god guiding me, so I somehow blurted out: "Since you think of them so much, why don't you go to see them, or take them over to celebrate the New Year with you?" ”

Hu Yi looked at me in surprise, probably he didn't expect me to blurt out such a thing. He hesitated, and put another peanut in his mouth, as if it had been a few years, before he said: "That person is only dealing with me, and their mother and daughter are innocent." Since I have already gone simply, it is better to let Hu Yi die completely, it will be the best situation for them. ”

At this, he smiled softly, a little smugly.

"Don't look at me now that I'm poor, my paintings used to be worth a lot of money, hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even more than a million yuan! A lot of people like ......"

At that time, I had no idea of how much money I had, except for buying a few bags of soda to drink, just addition and subtraction in math textbooks. I listened to him happily, and I listened to it myself, and I became arrogant when I spoke: "Then you are quite rich." But are you so poor now, do you give all the money to your wife and your children? ”

"Well," Hu Yi said, "their lives have been messed up because of me, and I have to compensate them in this way." Although my paintings are not as valuable as they used to be, there are still people who want them. Let me tell you, an old friend of mine runs a gallery, and he said that someone asked me to paint by name. As long as I keep drawing, I can send them money. I sent it secretly so that the bad guy wouldn't know. ”

"Who's that bad guy? Why can't he get along with you? Is it true that he has taken a fancy to your paintings, and you are not willing to sell them to him? ”

His face suddenly became a little ugly, and it could even be said to be embarrassed. He seemed to muttered something, I didn't hear it clearly, and I didn't care, but my mind kept turning tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, how much would it have to be if it was cashed in? If I spend some of it, can I figure it out?

It was a special day, and I didn't stay long before I went back. After that, there are all kinds of relatives, sending and collecting New Year's money. By the time I really have time to come to Hu Yi's courtyard again, it is already in the early first month.

It happened to be the weekend, and my parents also went out early to sell breakfast, and I was bored at home alone, and I didn't want to play with Chen Ao and them, so I wanted to sneak into Hu Yi's small yard again. Just caught up with Hu Yi leading the broken bicycle out of the house, and he was carrying a round thing on his body.

We stared at each other for a few seconds, and then I jumped directly into the back seat of his bike, and he glared at me: "I'm going out to sell paintings, and you'll come back when I come back." ”

As soon as I heard that he was going out, I naturally felt fresh. My parents were so busy that they didn't have time to take me to the city for a walk, and I listened to Chen Om often talk about how prosperous the city was and how delicious KFC was in class. I've always wanted to go but I didn't have a chance, so how could I miss this great opportunity now?

I grabbed the back of his bike with my legs, and no matter how much he tugged, I wouldn't go down.

He was so helpless that he patted me on the shoulder and said, "Do your parents know you're coming?" You always come to me to be gossiped about. ”

I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't figure out what he meant, so I patted the saddle of the bicycle: "Let's go to the city, go to the downtown area, and see what KFC is like." ”

He was utterly defeated to me, with a sigh. I was elated to achieve my goal and sat on the back seat of my bike a few times and almost got upside down.

Our little broken village is very far from the city, and I don't know how far it is, but I remember that he took me on a small broken bicycle from the early days of the day until my hungry cooing.

By that time, the sun had clearly set in the west, and he was only concerned with saving his energy, and he didn't talk to me much along the way. When I got to the place, he smiled apologetically at me. I was so hungry that I protested, he smiled and took me to eat a meal of KFC, and the green vegetable noodles he ate himself, clear soup with water, very pitiful.

After eating noodles, he rode me back and took me left and right into a small gallery. As soon as he entered, the boss with a donkey's face looked directly at the painting and kept nodding: "The painting is very good." But now that you are being suppressed, only he dares to buy your paintings all the time. But you also know the price. ”

He hurriedly said, "I know, I know, you must help me thank that buyer." ”

The boss had a strange look on his face when he heard this, and seemed to be a little eager to speak, but he thought about it, swallowed the words back, just lowered his head and smiled, and said, "It's still that price, I'll give you the money." ”

Hu Yi led me to stand aside, and I waited for the person to leave, and then I came to Hu Yi's ear and secretly said: "I don't think this person looks like a good person, he must have something to hide from you." ”

Hu Yi looked at me funny, reached out and rubbed my head, and said helplessly: "This boss is a good person, what he doesn't want to say must be what I don't want to know, since this is his kindness, I'll accept his love." ”

Of course I don't understand, I thought to myself that he bought your things, but he was hiding something from you, which was obviously deliberately lowering the price for you! Your painting is so good, he must have secretly lowered the price for you, and then sold it to someone else at a high price!

Before I could say anything, the boss came out with an envelope, and a donkey's face was full of radiance.

"If you paint, I'll charge as much as you want, and it's all at that price. To tell you the truth, I've got 50 of these envelopes ready here, and I'll send them whenever you have a painting. ”

"Done."

Hu Yi took the envelope and went out with a thousand thanks. I was always unhappy in my heart, and before I went out, I glared at the boss fiercely, and the boss was stunned for a moment, and actually laughed.

I still feel uncomfortable: "That person must have lied to you about something!" ”

"Hmm." Hu Yi nodded indifferently.

"Then let's go back and get the painting back and sell it in another gallery. Your paintings are so good, there will always be people who want them. ”

Hu Yi smiled, picked me up on the back of my bicycle, and rode me into the post office.

I sat on the rest chair, boredly picking at my fingers, and Hu Yi lay on the side to fill out the paperwork. After filling it out, he counted a few 100 pieces from the envelope and stuffed them into his pocket, and put the rest into a large envelope bag. I watched him fill in the delivery address, and the sending address was only written "inside".

I distinctly remember that he didn't have an address in it.

After filling it out, he stared at the address for a long time as if checking for a typo, and then took it to the staff and paid the money, and watched the envelope being stored in a large blue basket.

He seemed to have finished a matter on his mind, and when he came out, he had a smile on his face, patted the few hundred yuan in his pocket, and asked with a smile if I wanted to eat anything else. I thought to myself that your money is not as much as mine, and you still invite me to eat, so I shook my head.

He still bought me a string of sugar gourds for me to eat on the road.

Due to the long distance, it was already late when we got home. Not surprisingly, I went home and was beaten, and was ordered not to go to Hu Yi again, but to find him again and beat him once. I bowed my head to the violence, and I didn't dare to go to Hu Yi again for 10 days and a half months. 】

Lin Yilan said: "If a stalker like you doesn't bother others, people are afraid that it will be too late to be happy." ”

Xiang Hai was speechless, paused, as if remembering something, his eyes lit up, and he raised his chin and said, "Who said that?" I even saved his life! ”