"I've got a big client to talk about later, I'm going to Diplomat Boulevard, and I'm not in the same direction as Dulwich. I won't send you to school in the morning, so you two can take a taxi by yourself. ”

Uncle pushed the empty soy milk bowl beside him aside.

With a cigarette in his hand, he walked out of the window and pushed open a gap, looked at the waves on the river, and happily swallowed the clouds and exhaled the mist.

Their family has two cars.

A family SUV that pulls goods and supplies needed to enter some calligraphy and painting stores every day, and a baby Lexus of an old man.

Lexus 4.0 large-displacement self-priming eight-cylinder engine in the eighties of the last century, compared with waste oil.

In addition, Gu Tongxiang is old, except for the old man going out to play by himself, or attending important business occasions, he doesn't use it much.

After Gu Weijing reached the tenth grade, he basically took his uncle's car to school in the morning.

"It rained heavily overnight, and it hasn't completely stopped yet, so it's not easy to take a taxi."

Gu Lin didn't seem to have slept well last night.

My cousin was swiping her phone with a dark circle under her eyes.

Wen Yan,

She immediately raised her head and suggested impatiently, "Otherwise, don't you go to school today?" Take a day off, I don't think many people in the group want to go today. ”

"It's the same at school, it's raining, I don't know if there's a class or something."

"What can you do if you don't go to school, you are about to graduate, the school recruitment will be in these two months, and the university entrance examination is a lifelong thing. It costs so much money to go to a private middle school. Now that my brother has signed the gallery, there is a good relationship and a good way to go, have you signed? Other people's relationships don't need you. Thinking about ...... day by day"

The aunt, who was cleaning up the kitchen inside, immediately wrinkled her face when she heard this, and poked her head out to reprimand.

"Okay, okay, it's because I'm about to graduate, so I don't have any classes to learn in school, and my resume has been completed. Prepare for the school recruitment meeting, you can still prepare at home, and you can still settle quietly. ”

Gu Lin's broken mouth skills have a tendency to be better than blue.

She and her aunt muttered to each other, interrupting each other's chatter: "Mom, you are all day long, Rory, it seems that you pretend to carry your schoolbag to school every day, and you have studied seriously, and you are not still watching dramas, and you should be in love......"

Gu Tongxiang looked at the lively scene on the table with a smile.

His grandson is now so promising, and his heart is now an oriental parent, and the heart of the chicken baby has begun to fade slowly.

Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren.

Just go with the flow.

Gu Tongxiang didn't get involved in the quarrel between the mother and daughter, stood up, stretched his neck with his old waist, and listened to a numb creak from his spine.

Only then did he shake his head comfortably and commented.

"It's raining well, it's getting hotter every day. It rained heavily, and it was cool for a few days to come. Late spring is a good time to be at ease, facing the water waves outside the window, brewing a lake of Longjing tea, and putting a storytelling, that is called a comfortable. ”

Old man Gu pouted at his grandson and said in hindsight: "Since last year, I have asked you to go out for a ride with your grandfather, and teach you to drive by the way." I don't have to pretend to hold the shelf and don't go. I've always said that driving is a survival skill that boys have to learn. You see, if I had learned it myself, wouldn't I have been able to drive myself to school now? ”

Myanmar is the same as Thailand.

Locomotives are the most common means of transportation.

Teenage middle school students can get a motorcycle license.

It is also quite common for minors to ride a small pedal, and Gu Weijing was taken by Koukou's motorcycle.

Of course.

Theoretically, a serious four-wheeled motor vehicle license can only be obtained until you are eighteen years old.

Where there is theory, there are exceptions to the wild.

And the land beneath their feet is full of exceptions.

Wild batch explosion.

Even though Yangon is a big city with good order compared to the Golden Triangle in the north, not many people follow the traffic rules.

Yangon province is a large city with a population of more than 5 million, and with only a few cameras, it is completely difficult to make a real difference with this population density.

The number of traffic police is also very small.

In recent years, the government has belatedly realized the problem and is planning to build an urban traffic management system with Dongxia.

In the shops on both sides of the river.

Many minors who are younger than Gu Weijing have already begun to work when their parents are busy.

I drove a van to help my family pick up the goods.

"No, I still have more than two months to turn eighteen and can't drive."

Gu Weijing is a person who is very willing to follow the rules of the law and the legal order in his bones.

How can a country be better if everyone is treated as the norm by breaking the rules?

"Whatever you want, your generation, you are the flowers in the greenhouse, it is good to follow the rules, but life also needs to be brave and uninhibited to break the order. You can't really live like a boring monk. Learning and painting are a part of life, but not the whole story. ”

Gu Tongxiang put on a coat and walked out of the restaurant with his waist dangling, "Your grandfather and I were back then, when we went to the countryside to work hard and collect paintings, if everything was according to the rules, it would be stupid......"

Gu Weijing listened to the sound of the old man blowing the calfskin and gradually moved away, and stood up after eating.

He looked out the window at the rain and thought about what he had to do for the day.

Painting with a real immersion of one's mind is something that can be very satisfying and exciting for a painter.

After a night of copying.

He was slightly tired, but not sleepy.

Spirited and up-to-head.

I don't want to spend all the good hours of the day on sleeping.

He actually wanted to go to school today, and there was something else going on at Dulwich, and Mr. Wattle left him a message on Whatsapp.

Let him go to the school, go to his office, and say that he has something to discuss with him.

Gu Weijing guessed that it was probably the "Museum" island, and the sketch teacher must have been very happy to get the painting that he had been thinking about for more than ten years, and he should want to thank him in person.

But.

There's no urgency about this, it's a big deal to change the day.

My cousin is right, this weather is really not good for taxis.

He didn't want to, so he commanded Uncle Alai from the orphanage early in the morning, just to pick him up at school.

Uncle is going to send Miss Jasmine to school.

"If I can't, then I won't go to school today—" He glanced out the window at the rain-soaked pavement again.

"You see, my brother agrees with me. Take a day off. Gu Lin immediately echoed when he heard this.

"It's just right, everyone stays at home, and I can give grandpa some more time to make up for the lesson." Gu Weijing continued, "I have corrected the copying works of those paintings in the past few days, but I think that the knowledge points of "Mountain and Stone Spectrum" have not been absorbed very well. If I happen to be free, I can stare at it one-on-one and repaint all the paintings I copied the other day from beginning to end. ”

Gu Weijing thought to himself.

Gu Tongxiang's current Chinese painting works have been stabilized at the panel data of LV.4 (4700/5000) at the technical level.

It has almost returned to the same level as ten years ago, when Old Man Gu's painting was at its peak.

In less than a week, there will be such a change.

Gu Tongxiang flew up proudly.

But Gu Weijing still felt a little slow.

Grandpa originally had a foundation, if he taught whipping a little more ruthlessly behind him.

Maybe you can pile up to the consummation of the first order of the profession more quickly.

Then you can try to break through.

"Make time for a full day of intensive training. Well, seventeen paintings, seven or eight hours if we were fast enough, should be ...... by night."

"No way!"

Just twisted his waist and went out, ready to make a pot of tea, the old man Gu who was blowing the wind suddenly became unbeautiful.

I don't know when, I sneaked back from the door again.

"That being said, going to school is still important."

I want to be supervised by my grandson and spend a whole day painting in the dark.

Gu Tongxiang's demeanor at the moment, he couldn't tell that he was the same person as the unruly old man who declared that "life needs to break order" just now.

"What is the main business of young people, is learning! If you don't want to go to school, you can't go there? Gu Lin, your father didn't have time to send you to school, I'll send you. As a grandfather, even if he is old, what can he do for his children? ”

Gu Tongxiang grimaced and said.

"Quick, immediately, pack up. I'll drive you to school and leave in five minutes, but don't be late. We are old and have no children who don't want to learn! ”

——

"In other words, on this day, the golden knife ordered Gongyang Jiye to collect the army and return to the camp, watch the sky at night, and see that there will be ...... in the south."

In the car radio, Liu Lanfang's "Yang Jiajiang" was playing from the cigarette lighter interface to MP3, Gu Tongxiang drove with a straight face, and secretly glanced at Gu Weijing and Gu Lin through the rearview mirror from time to time.

The old man quietly thought in his heart: It's good to send your grandson away, it's good to send it away, and if you send it away, you'll be liberated! Send it away, and no one will do reinforcement exercises.

"By the way, grandpa, I thought about it yesterday and had an important matter that I would like to discuss with you, and I hope you can agree."

Gu Tongxiang suddenly felt the chrysanthemum tighten.

I almost hit the brakes.

After stabilizing his mind, the old man took a deep breath.

"I said it in advance, and with the daily copying tasks, I really can't bear it. No matter what you say, I have this ability, and if I draw again, I'm going to have cramps—"

Gu Tongxiang didn't know.

The expression on his face at the moment was the same as Uncle Sakai, who was once thousands of miles away, lying on the fitness chair next to the smith machine, dangling his white belly like a dead pig, facing the fitness coach who wanted him to practice aerobics, and the look of despair.

There is a whopping seven points of similarity.

As long as you practice, you can improve, and there are not many opportunities for people to encounter such good things in their lives.

Gu Tongxiang knew this truth.

But the body is really not transferred by the spiritual will.

Gu Tongxiang is really going to be pumped by his grandson recently.

Nowadays, the amount of copying tasks every day is to bid farewell to the pastime that most old men and old ladies like to see, and they are forced to stand down with a breath.

I added more words.

Even if there is a "carrot" that has become a great painter tied in front of him, the old man is really going to splash and roll, lie on the ground, and rebel.

"Rest assured. It's not a matter of increasing the number of new paintings. Gu Weijing shook his head.

"That's good...... You say. ”

Gu Tongxiang breathed a sigh of relief.

As if thinking of something, he hurriedly added, "I can't do any review and strengthen exercises!" Your grandfather and I have been growing hair recently, and the doctor told you to go to bed early. It's just those precious hair follicles, if you don't take care of them well......"

"Grandpa, I think, as soon as I graduate, we will simply pack up our belongings, sell the calligraphy and painting shop, and move. The whole family went abroad. ”

Gu Weijing spoke softly, saying what he had firmly thought yesterday.

Squeak –

The car slowed down sharply and came to a stop in the shade of a green street tree on the side.

The atmosphere in the carriage was quiet almost instantly.

The Lexus LS series is worthy of being the crown of Japanese cars at the time, and the flagship car in sales and price beat Mercedes-Benz S in the 80s.

Forty years have passed.

After Gu Tongxiang's diligent maintenance and replacement of the aging rubber sealing strip, it still maintains a high level of sound insulation.

As the wheels stopped, most of the noise from the outside world was cut out.

The only sounds in the trunk were the sound of storytelling, the sound of rain sliding between branches hitting the windshield, and the slight tremor of the engine when idling.

"Moving?"

Gu Tongxiang had a calm face, turned down the volume of the radio to the lowest expressionlessly, and didn't say a word.

Gu Weijing also stopped talking.

Seeing that the opportunity not to go to school slipped away, cousin Gu Lin had been stinky and browsed the dressing guide on INS there.

At this moment, I heard Gu Weijing's words.

She opened her mouth slightly in shock, and handed Gu Weijing a look that obviously contained schadenfreude.

Dare to say this.

The guts are quite fat.

She can clearly know the weight of this calligraphy and painting shop that has been passed down from generation to generation in her grandfather's heart.

His father and grandfather were born here, grew up here, grew up here, grew up here, and were buried in the cemetery not far away.

Gu Tongxiang himself was born here.

From a child in open crotch pants to an old man with wrinkles on his face.

This is where the condensed roots of generations of family memories lie.

Orientals say that where the graves of their ancestors are, their souls are rooted.

Since the family sold the house in the capital Baishun Hutong and came to Yangon, this riverside painting shop is the deep roots of the entire Gu family in Myanmar for five generations.

A strong memory of hundreds of years of family affection.

For her grandfather.

This is the root of life.

If Gu Tongxiang agrees to move, doesn't he want the old man's life.

The silence seemed to last for a long time, and then it seemed like only a few seconds had passed.

Finally.

Gu Tongxiang spoke: "Well, let's talk about it?" When would you like to move? Where to move. ”

"The sooner the better, just this summer, book a ticket to go."

"If you can, leave as soon as you graduate. If you want to go back to your true hometown, go to Dongxia. Otherwise, if you'd like to continue running a painting shop, Katsuko Sakai's mother has a vacant house in Nagoya. She was very tactful and wanted to invite us to come and stay. It is also a land influenced by the Dongxia cultural circle, and it is said that with a slight change, you can directly open a gallery, which is a ready-made choice. ”

"Japan?"

"Well, but personally, I would recommend that we move to Germany. I'm going to spend my entire college career there, and if things go well, I'm probably going to be there for many years to come. The family is closer and easy to live in. And Germany and France are next to each other—"

Gu Weijing's tone paused for a few seconds, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke again.

"It's close to where my dad works, so you haven't seen each other in years. Just do a short route on the weekend and go to the door. ”

Gu Weijing had already thought through these things clearly.

At this moment, when it comes to moving arrangements, there is already a rough plan.

He knew his grandfather's old love plot, so he specially moved out the father who had been separated for many years.

This is an example.

Gu Weijing just hopes to impress the other party with family affection.

After all, father and son are connected...... It is not Gu Weijing who is connected with his father and son, but Gu Tongxiang and his son, father and son.

Feelings are to be cultivated.

Not long after Gu Weijing was born, his father directly moistened.

Gu Wei has not really met his father a few times after 18 years except for phone calls.

Let's be honest.

Gu Weijing didn't have too deep feelings for his father.

On the contrary, although Gu Tongxiang is a tough old man, he never takes the initiative to pay attention to the second son who was originally pinned on by him and inherited the family business.

But it was still a child brought up by the old man since he was a child.

Gu Weijing knew in his heart that after being separated for so many years, the old man's heart must still be missing.

"Japan can't do it, and it's not suitable."

Gu Tongxiang thought for a moment and slammed the steering wheel with his palm.

The "beep" of the car horn seems to be a negation of this suggestion.

"Let's not say anything else."

"Miss Sakai's family is rich, and we are grateful that they have this heart. But our family isn't so poor as to ask for food, right? You haven't done anything yet, but you live in someone's girl's house, what do you look like? People don't care about a house, and they may not care about the money at all, but that's a matter of principle. They are kind-hearted, we can't be ignorant, and we can't take advantage of Miss Sakai's family. Otherwise, in the future, when you two children get along, you will always have a bad breath in your heart. ”

Gu Tongxiang's tone was resolute.

Gu Weijing's eyes lit up slightly.

Grandpa only said that it was not okay to move to Japan, not that it was not possible to move, and the tone here was very subtle.

He remembered that when his father wanted to take him to live in France with his newborn, Gu Tongxiang stiffened his neck and slapped the table and shouted, if no one inherited this ancestral inheritance, it would be broken in his generation. So he turned around and went to jump into the Rangoon River.

For Gu Tongxiang, the old stubborn character of the Oriental patriarch, it is also a great change.

"Don't you criticize me? I thought you'd be angry. ”

Gu Weijing said tentatively.

"Criticize you for what? Criticism: Do you want to go to a higher place and live a better life? Your grandfather wasn't that old and stubborn yet. ”

Gu Tongxiang shrugged his shoulders and lowered the window slightly, letting the cool air outside the window hit his face.

"I didn't want to leave before, on the one hand, I felt that this is the ancestral industry after all, our family has been in this business for more than ten generations, and this calligraphy and painting shop alone has been open for hundreds of years, and it is broken in my hands, after all, it is not a matter in my heart. On the other hand, I think that your father's business of financial speculation is vain, no one has a landing, and success or failure is fast. ”

"Don't look at the opportunity to work in France, I was full of ambition and pride. In a few years, I don't know what it will look like. And our calligraphy and painting shop, well, let's not say what kind of businessman or cultural person put gold on his face. Our grandchildren know in their hearts that our family's original business is not in line with the serious high-end gallery industry. We're just little craftsmen. ”

Gu Tongxiang sighed.

"Craftsmen don't make a lot of money, but they often don't starve. It's just to eat a stable meal. You see, in such a difficult turbulent years, didn't my parents still rely on this small painting shop, by painting New Year's pictures for Chinese people, writing Spring Festival couplets, and raising me steadily? ”

Gu Tongxiang smiled warmly: "Actually, your grandfather and I are not a very peaceful person, and I also had ambitions back then, but when Gu Lin and you, as soon as the two grandchildren were born, grandpa's heart instantly became small." I don't want to think about wealth and glory, and I feel that the most rare thing in life is stability. ”

"Changed your mind now?"

Gu Lin asked curiously.

"Heh, because here, it's not safe to be a craftsman. Nowadays, the world has really changed, when I was growing up, the art market was far from being as glamorous as it is today, and although it was chaotic, it was just warlords fighting each other, so we just had to shrink our heads and avoid bullets. There will be no godfather of the underworld who wants to pull you into the gang just because you draw a good picture. ”

Gu Tongxiang shook his head, "After Brother Hao came to the door, I often wondered if I delayed your life by not letting you go to France in the first place. It wasn't until later, first the Shwedagon Pagoda, and then the Mars Gallery. I had the confidence to raise my head and stand up. Your dad knows an egg, my grandson was born to be a great painter. ”

"I've lived in this city all my life. So I can vaguely feel that lately, the taste here is not quite right. ”

Gu Tongxiang pointed to the old capital of Myanmar outside the window.

"It's time to go."

He took a long breath.

"If my grandson is a craftsman, then the ancestral industry is still worth nostalgia, but my grandson was born to be the most beautiful top painter, so a small painting shop of several hundred square meters is a fart. Forcibly kidnapping you here with 'family affection' or 'morality', isn't that delaying your life! Then I should have fallen into the Yangon River and drowned. Let's go, not only the two of you go to school abroad, but our family is gone. Walk cleanly, so as not to worry about worry. ”

"Are we really going to move, is there enough money? Are we so rich now? Doesn't my mom say all day long that just raising money to study abroad in college is about to drain the family! ”

Gu Lin's eyes lit up.

For a girl of her age, being able to settle down and live abroad is a very petty bourgeois and attractive thing.

"Money is not an issue. However, do not move to Germany. Your grandfather and I are so old, and I am learning German from scratch, which is so difficult. Moreover, you have to think about it for Gu Lin, your parents, even if they move, do they stay at home every day and do nothing. We're definitely going to have to move to an English-speaking country. ”

"Even if I don't mention it today, I want to discuss it with you in a few days."

"Your grandfather can sign a contract with Mars Gallery now, and in the second half of this year, the British branch of Mars Gallery has a new era art development plan in cooperation with Oil Painting, and I want to participate. It's also a way for you to explore. ”

Gu Tongxiang seems to have thought about this issue very seriously long before Gu Weijing spoke.

(End of chapter)