Rebel Demon King

Chapter 454 Ten Paintings

The teachers’ dormitory was remodeled from the old school office. It is located directly behind the teaching building and forms an equilateral triangle with the cafeteria geographically. If Cheng Mo comes out of the teaching building, he can go directly to the teacher’s dormitory by taking the main road without taking a detour. , It only takes about three or four minutes, which is actually a little closer than going to the cafeteria.

However, Cheng Mo is not taking the main road that can also be connected to the cafeteria at the moment, but the path in the forest that is farther away on the other side, and it will take a lot longer.

It was time for meals, and most of them, whether they were teachers or students, were either in the cafeteria or on their way to off-campus restaurants.Therefore, the bamboo forest path leading to the classroom dormitory is empty, only clumps of emerald green straight dragon head bamboos swaying in the breeze.

Cheng Mo walked on the narrow road paved with blue bricks, and after a few twists and turns, he came to the main road surrounding the entire campus. Across the concrete road, there are some old red brick buildings. This kind of building was very common in the 90s and 02s. , but today, the city is changing with each passing day, and in [-], the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Construction jointly issued a document requiring three to five years to cancel the red bricks, so this kind of buildings that can be seen everywhere in China disappeared.

However, the red brick building in Changya was spared because it was hidden in the depths of the campus. In fact, this three-story building in the Western style was improved in the Republic of China. It is very different from ordinary red brick buildings. With the round arches and square columns inlaid with white marble decoration, it makes people instantly have the illusion of returning to the Anti-Japanese War period.

Cheng Mo approached the small red building surrounded by sycamore trees. The mottled wall bricks were covered with green creepers, and the red brick arch in the middle was carved with five-pointed star reliefs. Entering the arch is a transparent corridor. The doors are all white-painted shutter doors, which look beautiful like some ancient Nanyang manors.

Cheng Mo identified the direction, walked to the left, and walked to the end of the corridor. When he saw the copper door plate with the number 101 engraved, he stood in front of the white double-leaf door and carefully knocked on the door.

After a while, the louvered door opened a crack, and Shen Youyi's smiling face flashed, followed by a gentle whisper, "Here we come!"

Cheng Mo gave a "hmm", and Shen Youyi opened the door, and said with a smile: "It's all ready, just wait for you to start."

Cheng Mo walked into Shen Youyi's dormitory. It was not as elegant as this small building. There was basically no decoration in the room. The reddish-brown wooden floor was covered with wear marks, and a long fluorescent lamp hung on the roof. Very old.On the side of the door is a white solid wood wardrobe, on the left and right sides of the room is a wooden bed hung with a white mosquito net, and at the foot of the bed is a desk.

At this moment, the desk on the right side of the room is covered with brown wooden boxes, which are filled with colorful food, such as tuna salad, tuna egg rolls, boiled fish cakes, fried green beans with shrimps, and saury in honey sauce. There's beef patties and a bowl of sour plum soup with ice cubes
The amount of each food is not a lot, but no matter the color or shape, it is beautifully matched. It is packed in a wooden lunch box with a strong texture, which is beautiful and exquisite like a restaurant's advertising picture.

Shen Youyi dragged Fangzheng's beige wooden chair away, "Drink a bowl of sour plum soup first to whet your appetite. I started making tea last night, boiled ebony plums and hawthorns, and it took me several hours to get it right."

Cheng Mo sat on a chair and picked up a white porcelain bowl. There were some fresh osmanthus flowers floating on the amaranth sour plum soup, and there were tea bags wrapped in gauze inside. The rich scent of osmanthus flowers mixed with the faint smell of plums made the coveted.

Cheng Mo took a sip and thought it was the best drink he had ever had.

Shen Youyi stroked her skirt and sat opposite Cheng Mo, and asked a little worriedly: "How is it? Is Miss Xi's craftsmanship okay?"

Cheng Mo put down the bowl, "I can't find the words to describe it, but I remember Hao Yixing in the Qing Dynasty wrote "Doumen Bamboo Branch Ci". It’s naturally cool in Yanshan; the sound of copper bowls calling in the street, a cup of ice water and plum soup’. If you ask me, it’s probably: it’s like nectar sprinkled on the heart.”

Shen Youyi took another piece of light yellow tuna egg roll and put it in the brown wooden bowl in front of Cheng Mo, "Is it really that good? When I was studying in Beijing, there was a snack bar near the school that made sour plum soup. It took me a long time to find out the general method. This is the first time I make it for other people to drink. I don’t know how it will be. Don’t be afraid of offending me. Just tell the truth. In case I make it for others next time, I am ashamed, but you are to blame!"

"Sister Xi, you know, I usually seldom use this kind of half-literate sentence pattern, but this bowl of sour plum soup, although it is a very common drink for the public, makes me feel very elegant and literary. To describe it in Bai's words, it doesn't feel that good, so I can't help being a little sour."

Shen Youyi smiled lightly and said, "Hearing what you said, I feel that I can open a small shop to make a living."

Cheng Mo shook his head, "Sister Xi is modest! If you are going to open a shop, it is definitely not just for making a living. With a little operation, you will definitely become an online celebrity shop. By then, the names of sour plum soup Xi Shi, sugar water Xi Shi, box lunch Xi Shi, etc. must be famous. yours"

Shen Youyi saw that Cheng Mo was serious, and knew that he was not joking. Although Cheng Mo made two bad jokes yesterday, it was probably out of pleasure, most of the time Cheng Mo spoke seriously.What's more, Shen Youyi still has a certain understanding of herself, knowing that with her appearance, it is more than enough to be an Internet celebrity. When she first entered the school, a student of Changya posted her photo on the Internet.

Everyone was overwhelmed by Shen Youyi's beautiful figure and elegant temperament. Many netizens left messages saying: "With such a teacher, who still misses class?"

"I'd rather never graduate!"

Changya was also selected as the happiest school because of Xie Minyun and Shen Youyi.

"China's most beautiful teacher" was also a hot search, and photos of her in the classroom were not only uploaded everywhere on Weibo, but there were also many posts about her on the Internet.

The perfect face and devilish figure have fascinated foreign netizens, saying, "This is my ideal type!"

The title of "the most beautiful teacher in China" was given to her by the netizens of the Republic of China.

But in fact, Shen Youyi disliked the title of "the most beautiful teacher in China", and had to repeatedly ask the students not to secretly take photos of her in class, and not to post her photos online, and even asked the school to negotiate with some websites to take down her photos.

Shen Youyi has no interest in being famous at all. Shen Youyi knows that if she had sent the photo and the manuscript to the editor back then, she would have become a "beauty writer" long ago.

Shen Youyi has always believed that writing should not be linked to appearance, and writers should not sell their personality, so they never thought of using their appearance to achieve their ideals.As for becoming an "Internet celebrity", that's not the life Shen Youyi wants.

So she also shook her head, "That's boring, I like to cook, but I just feel that sometimes life must have a sense of ritual, and eating is something that can be very interesting in life. The mood of doing things and the attitude of doing it well if it’s just for making money, it’s too boring.”

Cheng Mo said: "Yeah! I think so too. Selfishly, I still think it's best for Sister Xi to cook for me."

"That's good! When you get rich in the future, hire Sister Xi to be your exclusive chef!" Shen Youyi said with a smile.

"You don't have to wait for the future! Sister Xi tells me the number, and I can invite you right now." Cheng Mo said with a serious expression.

Shen Youyi froze for a moment, the air seemed to freeze for a moment in the silence, Shen Youyi didn't know how to answer Cheng Mo's words, thinking of the famous brand on Yuelu Mountain, Cheng Mo was also called "Mr. She made a joke that shouldn't be made, and Cheng Mo is a person who doesn't take jokes very much. At this moment, Cheng Mo is very serious. If she still responded with a joke, it would be too superficial; if she refuses, she is afraid that Cheng Mo will be hurt. .

In the struggle, Shen Youyi could only hide the embarrassment by eating. She picked up a piece of fish cake that she had cut into stars, put it in her mouth, chewed slowly, and looked at Cheng Mo's face as if nothing had happened. , smiled and said: "If you can solve the 'mysterious chalk painting' case, Sister Xi will promise you." After a pause, Shen Youyi held up his chopsticks and said, "It's just Sister Xi! Teacher Shen is still Teacher Shen! As for The salary, Cheng Mo, should be paid with inspiration! If our two works can be published in the future, Sister Xi will not divide your copyright fee."

Cheng Mo nodded, "It's a good deal."

Shen Youyi asked again: "Then do you have a clue about solving the case?"

Cheng Mo chewed the fried green beans with shrimps, and said vaguely: "There is no progress yet. How the other party completed such a complicated chalk drawing in 15 minutes is the key point, but this is not what I am wondering about." Yes, what I am wondering is, what is the motive of the other party? I roughly looked at the ten chalk drawings, and felt that the meaning expressed by the other party did not seem to be as obscene as everyone thought."

"Huh? Really? I also think his paintings are very good. If the protagonist is not me, maybe I can appreciate it objectively." Shen Youyi said with some regret.

Cheng Mo whispered: "But if these paintings are not only artistic, but also have other meanings, it is actually a very bad thing. In this case, this person is even more dangerous, because people who engage in art are often unconstrained and cannot use common sense and logic to speculate His thoughts and judgments of his actions, for example, normal people usually go to restaurants to eat, and the accuracy rate is as high as 90.00%. unintentionally offended him"

"Hmm! Most serial killers in novels are like this! But I don't think the other party is as evil as you said!"

"I think so too, but his paintings remind me of Toshio Saeki, the master of Japanese erotic paintings, especially the smiling boys in school uniforms who are tied to chairs and the female teachers with pointers who step on boys in high heels. If you look closely at that painting, you will find not only blood dripping from the pointer, but also a pair of peeping eyes drawn on the side. I can feel the outline of death from it. The peeping eyes set up to enhance the drama are essentially Pointing to the emptiness, after seeing the carnival of the bystanders who saw this painting, everything escaped into a kind of nothingness." Cheng Mo looked at the void and murmured like a memory.

"Is it as mysterious as you said? I really want to take a look at what you said. Do you have photos here?" Shen Youyi asked.

Cheng Mo nodded, put his chopsticks on the bowl, took out his mobile phone and found the chalk drawing photo that Fu Yuanzhuo had sent him, and handed the mobile phone to Shen Youyi.

Shen Youyi took the phone and looked at it seriously, "It's really Ukiyo-e style! I was in a hurry to wipe it off, but I didn't study it seriously. It seems that there are traces of imitating the style of Toshio Saeki and Nobuyoshi Araki. The teacher and Nobuyoshi The role of the student is quite traditional and ordinary when viewed alone, but it is incredible when combined with the abuse plot, making it difficult for onlookers to look directly at it, but on the contrary, in the works of Toshio Saeki and Nobuyoshi Araki, women are displayed as objects, But in these chalk drawings, the male students are shown as objects."

"In addition, there is a surrealist painter in France, Camille Clovis Trouille. Both of them have a cult style of painting. Although one uses a Catholic background and the other uses a time-space metaphor from a Japanese novel, I always feel that if Mr. Saeki is French , should also become a painter like him. For example, exuberant erotic expression, religious view of original sin thinking, composition from the perspective of voyeurism, black humor, worship of women, unique SM aesthetics, strong expressiveness of stories, and The preference for death horror and darkness, the grafting of surrealism and fashion, the longing for retro aesthetics, the dazzling strong colors, etc., I have to say that the two modes of thinking have many similarities." Shen Youyi used to be extremely disgusted. She didn't have the courage to look at these paintings, but under Cheng Mo's suggestion, she faced it with a peaceful mind, and saw a lot of things.

Cheng Mo sat up straight, frowned and said, "That's true. Although these paintings do not have the deep subconsciousness of surrealism, they also express that there are desires and desires that are difficult to perceive in the thoughts under the skin. Delusions. This has the same characteristics as Zueki’s paintings—fantasy eroticism. The function of this type of work is that when it is presented in front of you with intuitive pictures or words, you will find that your inner desire is nothing but Saeki’s Sir's paintings also have a particular penchant for dead shadows and grotesque objects, which are absent in these chalk drawings, but I can see a split."

"Split?" Shen Youyi asked with some doubts.

"Hmm! The other characters don't have shadows, but the female characters do. In addition, each painting has one or several pairs of peeping eyes."

Shen Youyi stared at the chalk drawing photos on the mobile phone, and said in a very long voice: "Speaking of which, when I was a child, I was very sensitive to ghosts and supernatural phenomena, and I liked listening to my mother telling ghost stories. I was taken to a movie, so I asked what movie I was watching. The average parent would definitely not tell their children that kind of thing, but my mother who is very good at telling ghost stories just said, 'the head that was cut off Rolling around, dripping blood' or something..."

(End of this chapter)