Chapter 24: Infatuation
None of the four of us spoke, pondering the painting all the way. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info quickly went back to the boys' dormitory, and the window in the management's office on the first floor was open, and smoke came out of it, and it looked like Mr. Li was smoking again.
I knocked lightly on the door a few times, there was no answer for a long time, and after a while, Mr. Li came to open the door by himself, looking at his appearance, he must have not eaten at noon, there was nothing on the small stove, and judging from the cigarette butts of the ashtray in the house, Mr. Li must have been sitting in this room smoking after we were separated.
"Mr. Li, is it because of that painting?" I asked straight to the point.
"Yes, it's because of that painting!" Teacher Li's answer was also crisp.
"Who is the person in the painting? You must know each other, right? Yu Qun asked the questions everyone wanted to ask directly.
"Yes, not only the person in the painting, but also the person who painted the painting!" After Mr. Li finished speaking, he lowered his head deeply, as if he was in pain.
We didn't rush him, but watched him quietly, and after a long time, he took out another cigarette and said sorry to us, he meant that smoking in front of students is not very good, and people who can have this kind of consciousness at that time can be said to be also highly qualified.
While smoking a cigarette, Mr. Li told us a story about this painting.
It turned out that the painting in the exhibition room was painted by one of Mr. Li's students, and that was eight years ago, when he didn't care about the dormitory, but was leading the class, and was the head teacher of a class in the third grade of junior high school. There is a boy in this class, who likes literature and art very much, especially good at painting, and this child is surprisingly handsome, so there are many girls in the same class who are pursuing him, which is also a very strange thing in that era, because the students at that time were not very open, so it is a rare thing to let girls chase.
But this boy didn't have any feelings for the girls who chased him, but fell in love with Meng Na, the representative of the music class in the class, Meng Na is a lovely girl, the family education is very good, her mother is a university teacher, her father is an engineer, Meng Na has been learning piano since she was a child, so the rhythm is very good, and she naturally became the representative of the music class in the class.
The boy's name is Xiao Qi, and because he has a secret crush, he always secretly observes Meng Na, and then sketches over and over again, and the characters in that painting are all Meng Na without exception.
In the winter of that year, his portrait of Meng Na suddenly appeared in a magazine for junior high school students in our city, and Xiao Qi probably didn't expect to be selected as the cover, so when the magazine was released, it caused a sensation all of a sudden, and the school was also commended by the district education bureau for Xiao Qi's painting, so the painting has been placed in the exhibition room.
But then the story is a little bit magical. Because of this sensation, Xiao Qi and Meng Na also became celebrities in the school and class, but at this time, there was a rumor that Xiao Qi and Meng Na were in early love, otherwise how could they draw such a realistic portrait.
And at that time, if this kind of thing happened, the head teacher must come forward, so Mr. Li talked to the two of them, in fact, Mr. Li didn't think it was a big deal, at that time Mr. Li had just graduated, and he could still understand the small feelings between students. But because he is a teacher, he talks and talks like preaching, and he may be talking a little heavily, anyway, Meng Na came out of the office with tears in her eyes.
Later, after a few days, the rumors became more and more serious, and some of them turned out to be a little outrageous, so Mr. Li talked to their parents again, but on the second day of this conversation, that bizarre thing happened.
(To be continued)