This time, I was drugged Gu because I didn't defend my friends around me, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid it would be better to live than die and let Xie Ze control it. Yunnan will not be a peaceful land, and life and death are unpredictable. However, Gu Xi is not obligated to wade this troubled water for me.

Thinking of this, I raised my head, and my heart softened a little when I met his eyes, but some things still had to be said: "Gu Xi, you have been away from Pingcheng for so long, you must have a lot of things to do, right?" ”

He took another cigarette from the coffee table but didn't light it, only squinted and asked, "What do you want to say?" "His gaze was sharp at this moment, and I couldn't hide it under his nose.

simply spread it out and stopped detouring: "In two days, I will go to Yunnan with Xie Ze and Zhu Ke." ”

It's me, not us. The meaning was clearly expressed, but Gu Xi's eyebrows did not move and asked calmly: "So what?" ”

I didn't answer, I just looked at him silently, "So" the answer behind it, he couldn't have understood.

The next second, he suddenly pressed close to my ear and whispered the words: "I should have made you my person directly just now, and I saved you from being angry with me with your words." As he spoke, he felt a pain in his ears, and was knocked out of his teeth, and the atmosphere that had just been soft suddenly became cold.

I knew that he was deliberately threatening, expressing his displeasure to me, and he would not really do it. I wanted to open my mouth to tell the difference, but I still gave up looking at his dangerous eyes, and I didn't want to provoke him again at this time.

His deep voice came from his ears: "The Cen family has been very active recently, Qin Fu's kid has worked hard, just these two days, I helped him pass this level and was idle." I was stunned when I heard it, but what I didn't expect was that he would take the initiative to mention the Cen family, and couldn't help asking: "Is it because he offended Cen Xi when he was in the imperial capital?" ”

He scoffed, "You have that little daughter in your head." The Cen family is an antique dealer, lurking in the shadows of this Pingcheng to control a force, and the most fundamental purpose of the merchant is profit. So whether it is Cen Mubei or Cen Xi, their behavior is only to maximize benefits. You are going to be the emperor for me? She is trying to get the chain of relationships and interests behind me. ”

I didn't seem to understand what he said, so I thought for a while and said, "They want to expand their influence to the imperial capital?" ”

"No, it won't." Gu Xi categorically denied, "Instead of bowing down to the vassals, it is better to be the emperor of this party, and as long as you are a smart person, you must choose the latter." Now they are negotiating with Qin Fu, and their purpose is just to contain and continue to control the back, but Qin Fu and I both have a bad problem, they like to take the helm themselves, and they can't allow others to dictate their fingers. ”

Gu Xi's posture is lazy when he talks about these paintings, but there is a natural domineering and self-confidence in his words.

Touching a little bit of his mind, he met Cen Xi in a Japanese restaurant during the day, and some questions were better to uncover and say than to cover the fermentation. Cen Xi is not a person trapped by love, he just regards the Cen family as a stumbling block to attack the city and conquer the land on this land, maybe he borrowed the Cen family's power at first, but in the end he still has to dig up this stumbling block.

I'm not so foolish, though.

With him, he didn't learn it carefully, but his words and deeds had learned at least five points, so he asked lightly: "Qin Fu is Tuquan, so what are you Tucen's family?" ”

He paused slightly, his quiet eyes turned to me, and there was a faint smile at the corners of his eyebrows and eyes, "Tujiangshan beauty, do you believe it?" ”

I rested my head on his chest and replied, "I don't believe it." The country is too big, and the Cen family doesn't have such a big mouth; As for the beauty, isn't it in your arms? ”

Gu Xi chuckled lowly, and the corners of his eyes curled, "Do you boast that you are a beauty so much?" ”

I burned my face and avoided his gaze, but I heard him laugh in my ear: "You can not want the country, the beauty must be hugged." After a pause, he pecked me on the lips, "My beauty." ”

The corners of my mouth couldn't help but raise slightly.

For most of the night, he just talked, sometimes he was talking, sometimes it was me. Most of the stories I told about painting in school in recent years, but he talked about the changes in power and desire. Occasionally, they kiss each other, but they don't go deep.

It was so close, and I don't know when I fell asleep on his shoulder, but I remember that the stars outside the window were very bright, and they were engraved in each other's eyes.

As he said, I rarely saw him for a few days, and I stayed in the castle for two days before returning to my apartment.

The original consideration was that if Yu was around me, then at least I could avoid being watched by the other party on Gu Xi's territory. But after thinking about it, I felt that since Yu had already pinched my seven inches, the trip to Yunnan was imperative, even if he was still monitoring me, it was impossible for a second Xie Ze to come out.

What's more, I suspect that Xie Ze is nothing more than a tool he uses to test Gu Xi's abilities. Because he has more ways to urge me to go to Yunnan, without letting Xie Ze use Gu to harm me.

In addition, after asking Zhang Qian to hand over the report to the tutor that night, the tutor gave me a phone call the next day, and I hung up after some side knocks, but I still haven't found a chance to talk to Gu Xi about the school's art department. I don't think these are particularly important, what really matters is that I can't suppress the restlessness in my heart.

On the way back from school, I passed "time" and stopped to stop.

Today is Monday, and the business in the store is a little deserted in the afternoon, and Lisa and the others are standing at the bar and chatting, and they all come up in surprise when they see me entering. After the pleasantries, I looked into the bar and asked why He wasn't there, and Lisa pointed into the corner and leaned in to me and whispered, "Isn't that there?" Alice, let me tell you, our boss is in love. ”

I reflexively took a step back, causing Lisa to froze for some reason. Smiled at her apologetically, wishing that he didn't want to have too close contact with anyone after the Xie Ze incident.

Looking in the direction she was pointing, it was a corner of "Time" that I had proposed. It's a semi-enclosed screen made of floral arrangement, and then the wall is hung with my paintings, if anyone likes to buy it, he Zhixu will be an intermediary to negotiate the price with me. I guess it's a corner of my gallery, so to speak.

Looking through the flower arrangement, I could vaguely see He Zhixu, and there seemed to be a woman in the seat opposite him. Suddenly, I thought of the "coincidence" of him sitting at the same table with Cen Xi in the restaurant that day, and just now Lisa said that he was in love, isn't it......

Subconsciously walked over there, but when I turned the screen, I saw a strange and quiet face.

He Zhixu also found me, with surprise in his eyes, but asked me gently, "Why did you come here?" ”

I looked at him, and then at the girl opposite him, and the girl also asked: "......Who is this?" He Zhixu replied with a smile: "She is my friend, I'm sorry, let's stop here today, can we continue tomorrow?" ”

I felt a little sorry and nodded as she walked by, and she smiled politely at me and left "Time". After seeing the figure disappear outside the door, he turned his eyes and said to He Zhixu, "Did I disturb you?" ”

"No, it's going to be over." He Zhixu looked at me with soothing eyebrows, and asked in a harmonious voice: "Why didn't you come over for coffee a few days ago?" I froze, there were too many things that happened later that afternoon, and my eyes flashed slightly and then I changed the topic: "Isn't it here today?" He Zhixu pursed his lips and smiled, and asked as he walked to the bar with me, "Or caramel macchiato?" ”

The boss came back, squeezed his eyebrows at me and pretended to go to the hall to serve, He Zhixu walked into the bar and skillfully took out the coffee beans to grind the powder.

After looking at it for a moment, I asked, "What should I do if my mind is not calm?" ”

He Zhixu shook his hand and raised his eyes slightly to look at me, "What are you best at?" I thought about it for a moment and replied, "Draw." ”

"Then why don't you sit down and paint?"

"If my mind is not quiet, it is difficult to make a painting, and I will feel at a loss when I hold the pen." It's been a restless distraugh for the past two days, and I've struggled to put into writing even the paintings that have put me into the most devotion, and to be honest, I'm panicking.

He Zhixu lowered his head again to mix the coffee in his hand, but said in his mouth: "Go to your dormitory in the back and take out the easel, just doodle casually, and see if you will still be irritable after this afternoon." ”

I couldn't help but wonder, "How can there be an easel here?" "I used to paint here, but I didn't bring an easel with me, and most of the time I would just start working on the table. He Zhixu didn't raise his head and said, "You can see it yourself." ”

When I came to the dormitory, I saw a familiar easel in front of my bed, similar to my original color, but my was broken apart in the hooligan smashing accident. When I got closer, I was surprised, this was my one, but someone had nailed it up in the place where it had been broken, and put it together. There are some places where the paint on the surface comes off after I have used it for a long time, and there are other places where I have accidentally used a knife for a moment, so these marks are more nostalgic than familiar.

At this time, I naturally remembered that before I left Pingcheng and returned to my hometown, I had left my box of "belongings" here. I still remember that Qin Fu also commented that I was holding a box of tatters, but where did I think that in addition to the easel, many broken old things were also glued together and neatly placed in that cardboard box, and the painting tools were specially arranged and placed on the table with a cardboard box.