The Romance of a Young Painter

Zhou Nianjiu was led by Liz to the pomegranate tree in the hanging garden. He found that the two reclining chairs before were gone, replaced by two simple and comfortable chairs facing each other, and another one with a He sat down on one of the small tables for tea and refreshments.

After a while, there was movement in the path we had just walked, and Steve, the owner of the garden, walked through the flowers and sat down on another chair.

"What can I do for you?" Zhou Nianjiu asked. After he and Steve confirmed their relationship, there was no warm welcome ceremony or touching father-son recognition link, which made him a little more comfortable when getting along with each other. a little.

Steve handed him something and said, "I once heard from your mother that meeting ceremony is a very important part in Eastern culture. I didn't have time to prepare it before. I hope it's not too late to give it to you."

It was a beautifully packaged small box, and Zhou Nianjiu opened it under Steve's encouraging eyes, and saw a key inside, and a gold-plated card underneath, with a string of addresses printed on it.

Give away the property if you disagree?Is it true that all fathers have this style, Civilization is far from this, and now Steve is also like this.

Zhou Nianjiu looked at Steve speechlessly, and said, "I am very grateful for your kindness, but I may return to China in a few days, here," he pointed to the address on the card, "I'm afraid I don't have much chance to go live."

"Don't worry, it's always useful." Steve smiled and said, "I heard from Tiger that you've been staying at Westminster Abbey for the past few days, why don't you go somewhere else?"

Tiger was a smart, handsome guy, and Steve had sent this guy with them all the way since he left the Cahill villa last time, as a driver and bodyguard.

Zhou Nianjiu said: "One Westminster Abbey is enough to paint for a long time." He prefers to choose one or two places to savor carefully than to go around the foggy city, so he and Shen Guangji didn't make special arrangements for the itinerary.

Steve asked, "If you like to draw, why did you major in literature in college?"

Zhou Nianjiu said frankly: "I encountered a bottleneck in the process of painting at that time, and hoped to find a way out through this method."

Steve said, "So did you find it?"

Zhou Nianjiu said: "More or less." In a sense, he is a relatively introverted person. Even in the atmosphere of the university, he is still not good at communicating with others. Instead of forcing himself to integrate into the group, he found that it is better to After maintaining a casual acquaintance with the people around him, he will choose to be a listener more often, watching them share their lives and experiences from the perspective of a bystander; The inner world, and finally both of them become the nutrient for his painting, so that his works are no longer as thin as before, but he knows that this is not enough.After seeing so many excellent paintings, he feels more and more that his flaw is not the technique of painting, but a desire for creative expression.This is not because he lacks creative materials, on the contrary, he has a pair of eyes that are good at discovering beauty, and like all geniuses with inner intelligence, he can sensitively distinguish what is suitable to be presented on the canvas and what can be discarded, but it is precisely this instinctive distinction Force disrupts the subjectivity of creation, and his works can almost be regarded as models in aesthetic textbooks, but without exception, they lack stylistic recognition.In this regard, Shen Guangji is just the opposite. His paintings have clear personal characteristics, just like "Judgment" in his early years and "Golden Crow" which was shot a few days ago.

But Steve didn't have time to understand these things. He asked, "Do you want to receive systematic painting learning?"

Zhou Nianjiu shook his head and said, "I don't have any plans for now."

Steve didn't ask any more questions, his eyes moved to the shining gemstone tree.

Zhou Nianjiu didn't know what to say for a moment, noticed his gaze, and said, "The pomegranate tree in my mother's hometown is the one in Zhou's old house in City B, together with the letter in a bottle you buried under the tree They were all moved to Shen Guangji's yard, he is very good at raising flowers and grass, and now the tree is growing very well."

"Have you known Shen for a long time?" Steve asked.

Zhou Nianjiu did some calculations and said, "About seven years."

It was not a short period of time, and Steve asked in a tone of father and friend: "Do you love him?"

Zhou Nianjiu thought about it carefully, and said, "I really like the feeling of being with him, but I'm not very clear about whether it's love or not."

Steve said: "Then let me ask in another way, what would you do if you lost him?"

Zhou Nianjiu shook his head and said, "I'm not good at making such assumptions."

The two fell into silence again, and then Steve pushed the dessert on the table towards Zhou Nianjiu, his deep blue eyes showed some warmth, and he said, "How is she doing in S City? I It's your mother."

"Father is very good to her." Zhou Nianjiu thought for a while and added, "He is also very good to me."

Steve saw his nervousness, so he smiled and said, "I didn't mean to take you away from Mr. Wen, I just wanted to know more about your mother, you know I haven't seen you for more than [-] years. She doesn't even know about your existence."

Zhou Nianjiu felt relieved a little, judging from Shen Guangji's previous performance, Steve should be a big shot, and he didn't want to bring trouble to Wenmingyuan because of himself.

Zhou Nianjiu talked with Steve about her mother for a long time, and even told him about the scene of her death. Steve then talked about how he met her, how he fell in love, and how he was forced to say goodbye temporarily. My lover went back to country E, but when he came back, he told Zhou Nianjiu that things were different.A few years after they separated, they married each other, but Steve was a typical marriage, and this marriage only lasted for two short years, while Zhou Sulan walked by Wenmingyuan's side until the last moment of her life.

"She has a better life than me, and she deserves it." Steve stood up with a sigh, and he took off the glass bottles from the gemstone tree one by one, and then told Liz to find a place to put them away.

Zhou Nianjiu stayed to accompany Steve to have dinner, and once again declined the other party's invitation to stay overnight at the villa before returning to the hotel.Today Shen Guangji had something to leave, he couldn't say whether he was waiting for the other party to come back or something else, in short, he just didn't have the idea of ​​living with Steve.He flipped through the sketches of Westminster Abbey that he had hand-painted in the past few days, and used them as materials to outline the outline of a medium-sized work. Wait to sleep.

The doorbell rang.

"Didn't you bring your room card?" Zhou Nianjiu asked suspiciously. He looked out through the peephole, and it wasn't Shen Guangji outside the door, but Tiger.

In the study of Cahill Villa, Snark was reporting the latest progress of something to Steve: "Yuan Xun is missing."

Steve asked, "What happened?"

Snark said, "Not sure, Leo is looking."

Steve asked, "Where's Shen?"

Snark said: "Mr. Shen was injured in the process of negotiating with Yuan Xun before, and now he stays where he is."

Steve said: "Protect him, and besides, let Tiger send Zhou back to the villa."

After Snark went out, Steve frowned. He planned to use Shen Guangji as a bait to hang Yuan Xun first, and then settle accounts with him after the truth was confirmed, but he didn't expect that the other party was so alert and slipped away in advance.

Snark came back soon and reported: "Mr. Zhou is not in the room. The people who stayed in the hotel checked the surveillance. It was Tiger who took him out. I have located the transmitter on Tiger, and the people who stayed in the hotel are also going floor by floor. search."

Steve took a few steps in the study and said, "Check all the places Yuan Xun has been to in the past few days, and ask Leo to take someone directly to find Tiger. He will probably bring Zhou and Yuan Xun to meet up."

The facts were almost the same as Steve’s deduction. Zhou Nianjiu, who was defenseless, was held hostage by the opponent after opening the door for Tiger. Now his lower back was pressed against a cold object, even though he had never touched him before. Time to guess what that thing is.Although there was no sense of reality, Zhou Nianjiu was not sweet enough to cry out for help like a victim in a film and television drama. He passively followed the other party's instructions and walked forward.

"I said, have you ever had this kind of experience before?" Tiger was very close to him, and the two looked like a pair of close friends.

"How is that possible?" Zhou Nianjiu said, not to mention kidnapping, Huaguo at least has gun control.

"For the first time, your performance is really good." Tiger whistled.

He doesn't want any compliments from the kidnappers, okay?And this person is obviously Steve's person, why would he shoot himself?Zhou Nianjiu thought to himself.

The two walked forward for a short distance, Zhou Nianjiu saw a very inconspicuous car parked on the side of the road, and the person in the car opened the door when they saw them approaching.

"Get in the car." Tiger pushed him in.

"Yuan Xun?" Zhou Nianjiu immediately recognized the person in the back seat of the car.

"Meet you again," Yuan Xun said apologetically, "For some reason I have to ask you out in this way, I hope you don't mind."

"Do I mind if it's useful?" Zhou Nianjiu saw that the car was moving away from the hotel, because he was completely unfamiliar with the fog and he didn't know where the other party was going. The driver and Tiger in the car had obviously practiced before. Seeing that the slightly weaker Yuan Xun was also stronger than him, he simply relaxed his body and sat on the car seat.

Are you in chaos?Steve, he's a lot like you, except for his eyes.Yuan Xundao showed his usual casual smile, and said: "Next, I will take you to play a game. As far as I know, you must have never played it before. Do you want to know what it is?"

Zhou Nianjiu looked at him coldly and said, "No."

"Yuan, the people from Mister's side are chasing after you." Tiger reminded.

"As expected of Steve, the efficiency is still so high," Yuan Xun didn't seem to have the self-consciousness of a fugitive at all, he calmly ordered Tiger, "fasten the seat belt for our friend, he is important Guest, I don't want to hurt his face during the game."

Is it a guest?The hostages are more or less the same.Zhou Nianjiu avoided Tiger and put on his seat belt on his own initiative.