Chapter 53: The Grasshopper
Zhen Pu looked a little stupid, but soon came to his senses.
He hurriedly put the axe aside, then wiped his hands, reached out, and took the hot tea handed by the jade hairpin girl.
Lift the lid, the tea soup is like Qin, and the tea fragrance is overflowing.
Just smell it, and it will be refreshing.
This is just the tea that ordinary people have at home, and this tea set is just an ordinary tea set, which is not as particular as what he used to drink, but Zhen Pu feels that this is the best tea he has ever drunk in his life.
He took a sip, and felt that the whole person was hot, and he was no longer afraid of the north wind.
The jade hairpin girl looked at him sipping hot tea, and her eyebrows and eyes were as annoying as peach blossoms.
She smiled and said, "Young Master Zhen, it's cold outside, let's go back to the house!"
"Hmm. ”
Zhen Pu nodded, smiled a little awkwardly, and then followed the jade hairpin girl back to the house.
When the jade hairpin girl turned around, because her body was shaking, a small ornament she tied around her waist accidentally fell to the ground.
It was a green grasshopper, which the jade hairpin girl had just bought from a stall some time ago.
In a blanket of white snow and ice, this green color is particularly eye-catching.
When it was tied to the waist of the jade hairpin girl just now, it really looked like a green grasshopper was on her body.
But Zhen Pu knew that at this time, it was cold and frozen, and there were no gnats.
They will not grow until the beginning of spring, when the weather is warm and wet, and then they will crawl out of the ground.
Moreover, the green grasshopper had a red rope tied to its head, which proved that it was nothing more than a grasshopper woven from green grass blades.
The jade hairpin girl didn't seem to notice that her ornament had fallen off, but she still moved lightly, holding the tea tray, and walked towards the house.
Zhen Pu followed behind her, and didn't make a sound to warn, just bent down and picked up the fallen grasshopper for her.
He took it in his hand, held it in the palm of his hand, followed her, and went into the house.
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In the studio, the two sat next to each other.
If nothing happened in the usual case, they would be silent with each other, not saying a word, and then when the tea was finished, the girl would pack up the tea set and continue to paint in front of the desk, or go back to the room to take a nap.
He, on the other hand, would go outside the house and sit still.
Alone, looking up at the boxy, narrow sky in the courtyard.
But today, there was a "grass grasshopper" episode.
The grasshopper on the jade hairpin's waist is still in his hand.
He had to give her back, and to give her back, he had to speak first.
Zhen Pu held the tea, took another sip, then put down the teacup, took out the grasshopper from his sleeve, put it on the table, and slowly pushed it to the jade hairpin girl.
He didn't look at her, avoiding her gaze, but whispered: "Miss Yuchai, this is what you just dropped, I picked it up for you, you can take it back." ”
The jade hairpin girl was also drinking tea, she looked at his eyes wandering around, and in her heart, there was something unpleasant.
She is also a beautiful woman, in terms of appearance, she will never lose to the bewitching women around him before, but he doesn't like to look at her, and he doesn't have the appearance that a man should look like when he is fascinated by a woman.
This made the jade hairpin girl a little discouraged.
She never expected that Zhen Pu's son, who had no "meat" and was unhappy, had already begun to become a vegetarian.
The jade hairpin girl looked at his underbeaten appearance, and a sly smile suddenly appeared on her face.
She said: "Zhen Gongzi, do you know that the grass grasshopper, in fact, I deliberately dropped it!"
She dropped it on purpose, and the purpose of doing so is naturally obvious.
I want him to take the things, come and give them back to her, and talk to her.
When Zhen Pu heard what she said, his hand was obviously stunned, and he pressed it on the green grasshopper, forgetting to move it.
In the past, he was the only one who molested women, and no woman had ever dared to turn around and tease him.
Zhen Pu smiled bitterly in his heart, but still, he didn't look back at her.
He just looked at the blue brick floor in a daze, looked at him left and right, and said, "Your hands are stained with some ink, black, remember to wash them with water when you go back to sleep in your room." ”
The girl looked at her hands, and there was indeed some ink, which is a common occurrence for a painter.
But when he said this, the girl remembered the portrait she had painted for him.
She got up from her chair with a smile on her face, went to the drawing, took the painting, and showed it to him.
Since he didn't want to talk to him, she didn't have anything to say.
"Look, I just painted it, doesn't it look like it?"
No matter how many times a painter looks at his own painting, he will never get bored with it.
Zhen Pu finally looked at his eyes.
He looked at the painting, in which he was holding an axe and chopping wood, and the wood was split in half and broken into two pieces, and the rest of the painting was blank, empty, and there was nothing.
In the painting, he is smiling at her.
Zhen Pu frowned and said, "It's not like the painting, I didn't laugh, it's wrong for you to do this." ”
The jade hairpin girl snorted: "What's right, it's not up to you, I'm the painter, how to paint is my business, you can't care about it." ”
As he spoke, he looked at him and added in a whisper.
"You're not me!"
Zhen Pu was stunned again, not knowing how to answer.
How could he not understand this woman's intentions?
She's not his person now, but she wants to be his person!
It's just that Zhen Pu knows that she is not worthy of her, she is like a snow lotus on a mountain cliff, she has never been polluted by vulgar things, and she should never be tarnished by him, a pickled person.
She should have a good home, a husband who loves her, and after three or five years, she will give birth to a son and a half daughter, and have a complete and beautiful family.
And he was buried in the soil for a long time.
Zhen Pu looked at the painting, changed his words, and said: "The painting is very similar, the painting is very good, I like it very much." ”
Then he stopped talking again.
No matter how much the jade hairpin girl provoked him, he just drank tea quietly and remained silent.
After about half an hour, the tea was finished and the water was cold.
The jade hairpin girl held her arms and cheeks, and looked at him for a long time, but Zhen Pu was expressionless after all, like a "stone".
Like a stone man.
The girl was no longer bored with herself, she stood up, stretched lazily, and yawned.
"I won't wash this teacup, it's such a cold day, you go wash it. ”
She was suddenly a little overbearing.
"Well, I'll wash it. ”
Zhen Pu nodded, and then finally spoke again.
Miss Yuchai also knew that after he answered this sentence, he would not pay attention to her anymore, and she was angry.
At last she stomped her foot, turned around, went back to her room, and, as usual, went to sleep for herself.
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"This dead man, there's a big beautiful woman sleeping next door, and I don't close the door when I sleep, won't he come into the room and do something to me?
The jade hairpin girl was lying on the bed, still huffing.
It's just that Zhen Pu will hear what she says.
Zhen Pu was in the kitchen at the moment, preparing to wash the tea set they used when they were drinking tea just now, far away from her room.
Zhen Pu stood in the kitchen for a long time.
He stared blankly at one of the two teacups, the one from the Jade Hairpin.
He looked at it and struggled for a long time.
In the end, I don't know how, he finally made up his mind.
He picked up the teacup, lifted the lid, and then, opening his mouth, took a sip of the teacup, which was already as cold as ice.
The tea was left over from the jade hairpin girl, and it tasted like her, and her red lips had been kissed on the rim of the cup, and he sipped the rim of the cup as if brushing her red lips.
"Bang-"
Outside the courtyard, a gust of north wind swept through again, blowing down something I don't know, making a big noise.
This sound disturbed the jade hairpin girl's dream, and also made Zhen Pu quickly throw the intoxicating teacup away from his mouth like a frightened bird.
But fortunately, the teacup was not broken, and the "clang" outside the courtyard was not the jade hairpin girl.
Zhen Pu sighed, took a wooden scoop, scooped a scoop of water into the water tank, and poured it on top of the two teacups.
In this way, there is no trace left.
He washed them and put them back in their place, and he went back to the studio in the house.
The windows of the studio are still open, and the north wind is blowing in.
Zhen Pu was afraid that it would snow later, and the snowflakes would drift into the house and destroy the painting that Miss Yuchai had worked so hard to paint, so he gently closed the window, and then went to clean up the paintbrush on the case.
However, when he grabbed the pen, he stopped again.
His eyes were on the picture that Miss Jade Hai had drawn for him.
He looked at it carefully, but in the end, he still felt that this painting was not very good, compared to the flowers, birds, fish and insects she painted, it was worse after all.
Zhen Pu is also a good hand and a good painter.
He took the pen and dipped it in ink, and painted a raised "stubborn stone" in the blank space of the painting, and then he grabbed another brush, dipped it in green paint, and painted a "high-spirited" and vivid grasshopper on the stubborn stone that had just been painted.
Its hind feet were raised high, its two long whiskers were like silk, and a pair of eyes stared directly at the man chopping wood, its eyes were intent, and it was full of momentum, as if it was about to leap onto him.
Draw, pen stop.
Zhen Pu washed the brush, pressed the painting and paperweight, and then quietly exited the studio and went outside the courtyard to see the high and distant sky.
The courtyard walls were so high that they obscured his vision, and what he saw was not everything.
However, he looked at the tightly closed courtyard door, and after all, he did not have the courage to go out again.
Outside, it is no longer his domain, only in the world of the jade hairpin girl, he can feel at ease.
He remembered the scene he had just seen in the kitchen, and in his heart, he couldn't tell what it was like, and he didn't understand his own mind.
All he can do now is be silent, the only way to escape.
"Grasshopper, will you survive the winter?"
This wind has blown!
There was no answer.
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