poppies in the attic

46.

Sensual, grotesque, grotesque, Wu Pengzhi can only think of these two words in the roaring music and electronic sound.

The men at the same table were all very excited. If they had money, they would naturally want to indulge themselves, otherwise what's the point?They are about to get rich, and the bright future is swaying towards them not far away, like those writhing women on the stage.

Wu Pengzhi's heart was pounding with the powerful music, exhausted.But she didn't want to spoil everyone's happiness, and the contract was basically negotiated today.We all need to celebrate, to relax, and to make up for the emotional damage these days of fighting for each other.Cooperation is still needed in the future, and superficial harmony and mutual trust is a must.

Wu Pengzhi needed to take a break between sets, so she picked up her mobile phone, signaled everyone to go away for a while, and walked out of the bar through the uncontrollably excited crowd.

Wu Peng urgently needs to listen to Xiang Jin's voice to calm his restlessness.

Xiang Jin's quiet voice came from the other end of the phone. It was a quiet and clean voice that can only be found away from the hustle and bustle of life.

Wu Pengzhi coquettishly told Xiang Jin that he drank a lot of wine, because in bars, drinking is somewhat interesting.

"Your life is very lively." Xiang Jin didn't know how to answer Wu Pengzhi's words.She doesn't like city life, but she can't deny Wu Pengzhi's life, and Wu Pengzhi is of course a typical city life.

It has been several months since he came back to China. Although Xiang Jin can be regarded as living in isolation, he is still out of breath by the city's restless atmosphere.It's not just a matter of air, but a breath, the breath conveyed from everyone's face and posture.

"I'll bring you to experience it next time, and you won't say such soulless words." Wu Pengzhi smiled. "Take you here, and you will know how lonely city people are."

"Lonely?" Xiang Jin was surprised.She has never paid attention to urbanites. Is loneliness hidden behind the restless carnival?

Huayue said that Wu Pengzhi didn't like to laugh, and Wu Pengzhi said that he couldn't hear other people's heartbeats. Are they all lonely?

Xiang Jin thought of the big mirror in Wu Pengzhi's room, and a picture of Wu Pengzhi □□ standing in front of the mirror appeared in his mind, with a thin body and a face without a smile.

Xiang Jin's heart ached.

"Hey, aren't you listening to me?" Wu Pengzhi raised his voice and asked dissatisfied.

"Go and play, go back to the hotel early to rest. Let's have a good talk when you come back." Xiang Jin hung up the phone in a hurry.She wanted to record the picture in her head just now.

Xiang Jin walked back to the studio, picked up the sketchbook, and began to draw, relying on her memory and imagination.

Perhaps because of Wu Pengzhi's extreme familiarity, Xiang Jin's first painting was not particularly bad, and it was much easier than painting Laura.

Wu Pengzhi was exhausted when he returned to the hotel.She collapsed on the bed, not even wanting to take a shower.So he called Xiang Jin again.

Wu Pengzhi was not worried that Xiang Jin would sleep, the only thing he was worried about was affecting her painting.This would make Xiang Jin angry.However, she missed Xiang Jin so much.Every time she came back after spending a lot of time, she always felt very lonely and lonely.

Xiang Jin's quiet voice came again, it's so good, it's like eating a bite of ice cream.Now, only ice cream can reconcile the alcohol in the stomach and the irritability in the heart.

Hearing Wu Pengzhi's slack voice, Xiang Jin asked worriedly, "Did you drink too much?"

"I didn't drink a lot. I just miss you. It would be great if you were by my side." Wu Pengzhi was not drunk, but tired.

"I'll send you a sketch, we'll talk about it after we finish." Xiang Jin hung up the phone, and then sent a picture.

Wu Pengzhi clicked on it, and then sat up in shock.If Wu Pengzhi was not particularly impressed by the previous sketch drawn by Xiang Jin, this one will be impressed at a glance.

The picture is obviously Wu Pengzhi's bedroom. The room is split in half by the sunlight, and the thin naked woman standing in the center of the room is also split in half by the sunlight. The upper body is bathed in the sunlight, the lower body and the big bed behind her are covered hidden in the gloom.The woman's back is turned to the frame, facing a mirror.The mirror reflected a face without a smile, eyes that looked hollow and indifferent.

What surprised Wu Pengzhi was that he would often stand in front of the mirror in a daze like this.The light was virtualized by Xiang Jin, but Wu Pengzhi felt that this upside-down light arrangement just more fully expressed the feeling of loneliness.

The painting is just a sketch without too many details, but the grasp of emotions is extremely accurate.

"Because of our chat just now, did you find inspiration?" Wu Pengzhi called again and asked.

"Yes." Xiang Jin said excitedly. "Pengzhi, you inspired me again. Now I think I can stay here a little longer, maybe I can draw a picture of lonely people in the city. But it's just an attempt."

"Well, everyone in the city is lonely, all kinds of loneliness. Plato once told a fable: At the beginning of the world, human beings were two bodies glued together back to back, and all organs were twice as many as today's people , the power is extremely powerful. Zeus and the gods worried that human beings were too powerful and disrespectful to the gods, so they split people in half. So each of us is only half a person. It is even more difficult for people living in cities to find their other half .So we are doomed to be extraordinarily lonely.”