Return to the Road of God

Rhine leaned on a cane and walked to the window. Large areas of chrysanthemum and heather bloomed in the spring, dotted with monotonous retro buildings.

Young students shuttled around the campus in twos and threes, with pure smiles on their faces, enjoying the happy time in the ivory tower carefree.

"Lock," Rhine said in a deep voice, "I've changed my mind."

Locke didn't understand what he meant: "You don't want to buy that painting?"

"No," Rhine shook his head and said, "I just think it's not bad to keep it mysterious."

Yes, if he hadn't listened to the conversation of the group of students from Florence, he wouldn't be so curious about SAFale's true identity. When he saw that painting, he thought that SAFale was an adult painter with profound art skills and artistic talent, no matter what , at least not a child!

This kind of excitement, hesitation, curiosity, and excitement is like falling in love with someone for the first time, meeting a rare genius inadvertently, and obtaining a treasure hunting map by chance... That's why Rhine is standing here , to personally verify this unlikely rumor.

Will SAFale be that Chinese teenager?Rhine couldn't be sure. Although he knew some Chinese, he still didn't understand it. He just saw some clues from the boy's calm eyes and slightly evasive attitude...

The truth is coming, Rhine is looking forward to it, but is also hesitating.Want to know who SAFale is?Know will not lose the fun of the game?

Rhine saw the group of young and energetic students outside the window, and said slowly: "Locke, we are getting old..."

The emotion that didn't match the preface made Locke smile clearly after hearing it: "I understand."

Rhine also smiled, with a hint of longing in his eyes.

Yes, without knowing the answer, SAFale could be any of them...

Sometimes, they need some anticipation, or an unsolvable mystery, to support themselves to live well for a few more years.

Like now, the feeling of the blood flowing quickly and the heart beating violently, the feeling of being alive, is really good.

Ye Yufan quickly glanced at the content of the email.

Locke said that there is currently a mysterious person who does not want to be named who wants to buy his "Italian Impression". He does not need to come forward. The school will make a transaction on his behalf and ask him if he is willing.

Ye Yufan was taken aback by this sudden letter, the mysterious man?What mysterious person?are you Chinese?Why does he want to buy my painting so much?Do you know Xia Xiaochuan?what purpose?

... A series of questions filled Ye Yufan's mind, and Ye Yufan replied anxiously: "Dear Principal Locke, before answering, can I know the nationality of that mysterious person?"

"He is a nobleman from country F:)" Locke replied quickly, and even put a smile on his face at the end of the sentence, expressing his relaxed tone.

After reading the reply, Ye Yufan became even more nervous!foreigners?noble?Has that painting reached the level that can be seen by "nobles"?Although he was bought a sketchbook when he was sketching in China before, but now he will definitely not be so casual!

It's not that Ye Yufan is "ignorant of fun", but that without recovering all of Xia Xiaochuan's memories, his painting style, which is increasingly similar to Shotray, is his biggest weakness!If he is not careful, he will easily expose "Xia Xiaochuan" to the grievances of his previous life and bring unknown dangers to himself!

The hand holding the phone trembled slightly, Ye Yufan was afraid.

After returning from Italy, his life became a "sensation" like a movie, and the ups and downs that originally belonged to him were spreading at a speed he couldn't control...

A lot of news seems to be a great thing to others, such as the painting being placed in the center of the B0 exhibition hall, such as the promotion team considering letting him jump from the third grade to the sixth grade, such as the principal summoning him in person and suddenly deciding to start a secret on him Protection plan, such as learning that a foreign noble wanted to buy his paintings the next day after the exhibition...

However, no matter how smart and rational Ye Yufan is, how mature and calm he is, for his "self" who is only 16 years old, all of these make him panic, as if there is an invisible force pushing him forward desperately, making him He is very disturbed!

……

While chatting about the past with Rhine, Locke waited for Ye Yufan's reply.

"...I had just graduated from the Royal Academy of Art that year, wandered around, and met Celia in Florence... At that time, she didn't know my real identity, and thought I was a poor boy with empty fantasies!"

Locke laughed loudly and said, "When that beautiful girl found out your real identity, she got mad at your lies and hid from you for a while?"

"Yeah," Rhine's eyes were full of tenderness, "she is special, she loves the penniless Chris Feon, not the last name of Rhine. That painting, you know Locke, I stood there, I thought I forgot, but I didn't... That painting almost painted all the memories of my time with Celia in Italy. Every detail in the picture touched me, so I buried them in From the bottom of my heart..." As he spoke, there was a hint of sadness in Rhine's eyes again, "I never knew that there was a painting that could resonate with me so far, even when I saw Kramskoy's "The Unknown Girl" with my own eyes. Nothing like this—the woman in the portrait is very similar to Celia, but it’s just a similarity. The magic of Italian Impression can only be felt by those who have memories in Italy. Every fragment on it is like The key to the memory, reminds me of Celia's smile, her husky voice, the tulle shawl she likes to wear, the smell of her perfume..."

Locke smiled and listened to him, and at this moment, the computer notified that a new email had been received.

"How is it?" Rhine asked eagerly.

"Well," Locke really didn't want to hit him, but he had to tell the truth, "Rhein, SAFale said he wanted to think about it." Although Ye Yufan didn't directly refuse, this attitude is surprising enough!

"God!" Rhine was depressed and excited at the same time, "This kid is so calm!"

"Yes, he is very special." Locke held back a smile, and it was rare to see this old friend deflated. "To be honest, he didn't even plan to exhibit at first."

"...I don't understand, what kind of 'special status' makes him keep a low profile? What does he need to consider?" Rhine became more and more curious.

"Rhein, artists don't create works of art to sell them." Locke thought of the perverted family rules of the Shotray family, and thought, Ye Yufan is not bad.

"I know." Rhine nodded, and said helplessly, "I'm just a little excited."

……

In the next few days of the theme exhibition, more and more visitors came for SAFale’s Italian Impression. As expected by the school, many countries also reported the popularity of this painting, and the name SAFale gradually became popular all over the world. well known in the art world.

In order to deal with the media, the school released a little private information about this student—SAFale, male, an ordinary fifth-grade student.

This stingy content is almost the same as nothing, but it has aroused the appetite of followers, especially the fifth grade students of the Royal Academy of Art. They doubt the authenticity of this news, and the campus is full of "SAFale is who", "has anyone seen SAFale".

In fact, SAFale is not the best performer in this exhibition. There are many senior works better than him in Hall A, but he has attracted everyone's attention because of his "mystery"!

A few days later, an art newspaper in country A published an interesting piece of news: "SA Fale, a mysterious student from the Royal Academy of Art, whose true identity is unknown to the teachers and students of the school!"

The media in other countries looked at it and rushed to follow suit——

"Who can unravel the mystery of SAFale?"

"The former president's daughter is a student of the oil painting department of the Royal Academy of Art. She used a false identity to study at the school, and suspected that SA Fale is the queen of a celebrity!"

"On the expressive techniques used in ItalianImpression..."

……

Although the Internet in [-] was not strong enough to allow netizens to know everything, it was still enough to check news from all over the world, especially in country A, which was enlightened and technologically advanced. There are active students promoting various news on the BBS. Recently, the topic of "SAFale" is naturally indispensable.

On the last day of the theme exhibition, the B0 exhibition hall was extremely crowded, and many people brought their cameras to take pictures.

A brown-haired young man stood in front of the huge painting, pointed to one of them, and asked his classmates, "Don't these fragments look familiar to you?"

"...I seem to have seen it in Shotray's sketchbook..." The person who spoke was Han Rui, a fourth grade student in the same studio as Ye Yufan.

"That's right! That's him! That Chinese friend of yours! We exchanged sketchbooks on the train, and we thought he was very good at that time! Everyone is guessing who SAFale is, do you think it will be Shotray?" The brown-haired The youth joked.

"How is it possible, he's only in the third grade..." Han Rui laughed, but he stopped halfway through the laugh because he saw a more familiar scene!

The brunette youth asked: "What's wrong?"

Han Rui frowned and said, "I'll go to the studio!"

"Eh? What are you doing? I haven't finished watching it yet!...Wait for me!"

……

Ke Jing never expected to encounter such a situation abroad—crowded!Is the nerdy nerd at the Royal Academy of Arts out in full force?

Ke Jing never imagined that he would do such an impulsive thing—to take advantage of the last day of the exhibition to review the recently popular "Italian Impression"!

Really, since that woman left, I haven't been so enthusiastic about "art", have I?Ke Jing thought a little funny.

At this moment, a familiar name suddenly came from the crowd, and Ke Jing listened intently, only to hear the sentence "Could SAFale be Shotray..."

He was startled, looking for the source of the sound, only to find that there were only a few middle-aged people who looked like tourists standing there...

Ke Jing shook his head, and then looked at the painting in front of him, but his mind subconsciously thought about that sentence—is the Shotray they are talking about Ye Yufan?But Ye Yufan said that his English name is different from others, so he changed it to Van. Are there other Shotrays?

"...The more I look at it, the more I feel the familiarity of the painting style is very strong..." A few days ago, Guo Zhekai's unconscious emotion suddenly appeared in Ke Jing's mind, and even Ke Jing didn't know why he thought of it.

He is a fifth grade student, and he is very curious about having such a mysterious and powerful classmate by his side. Recently, he often goes to BBS to watch everyone's discussions and speculations about SAFale, but he has never doubted Ye Yufan—the distance between Ye Yufan and him is too great. It was close, so close that there was no reason to use a false identity to hide it from them.It’s a good thing to have an excellent work and to be noticed, so what’s there to hide?Ke Jing knew that Ye Yufan was very powerful and a genius. He had seen his paintings before, and indeed his painting style and brushwork were very similar to this painting, but Ye Yufan hadn't reached this level yet, right?He himself admitted that he was not as good as SAFale.

Ke Jing rationally analyzed that there are many facts that can prove that Ye Yufan has nothing to do with SAFale, and that Ye Yufan is in the third grade instead of the fifth grade... Although the psychological feeling is a little weird, Ke Jing still forced himself to stop this absurd guess .

There were too many people, and Ke Jing couldn't stand it after watching it for a while. He exited the exhibition hall in disappointment, and sent a text message to Ye Yufan: "What are you doing? Have you had lunch? I'll come to your dormitory, let's go out to eat together."

After waiting for a while and seeing no return, Ke Jing stuffed the phone back into his trouser pocket and swayed slowly.

Speaking of which, Ye Yufan has only been learning to paint for more than a year. When was the last time I saw him paint?It seems that it was just after the new year, and it has been three months.If he learned painting for a few months before applying to the Royal Academy of Art, he went from zero basics to the third grade level, then it is not surprising that he has gone from the third grade to the SAFale level in these three months, right?

Uh... The corner of Ke Jing's mouth twitched, and he broke into a cold sweat from his own association!

Halo, that guy is not an alien, how could he have such an incredible speed of progress!

The trouser pocket vibrated, and Ke Jing took out his cell phone.

Ye Yufan: "Alright, I just came back from the studio and I'm starving to death."

Ke Jing: "Did you go to the studio to draw? You worked so hard!"

It seems that even a genius needs 99% sweat to create it!Moreover, if Ye Yufan really had some inexplicable reason—such as not being from Earth—to conceal his identity, he would definitely refuse to paint in front of others in order to avoid being recognized. Going to the studio is almost impossible, right?hehe!

The phone vibrated again, and Ke Jing pressed the search button in a good mood, only to see Ye Yufan reply: "No, I got up early in the morning and went to the studio to pack my things. I will draw in the dormitory from now on, and I won't mix with the studio."

Ke Jing: "..."