seven years later

In the years that followed, the children gradually grew up, and Yang Yang had already gone to middle school. When the clean and tidy young man stood in front of them, Gu Ye often thought, he must be really old, and Qian Wei is still in that kingdom. the emperor.

When Wen Jiang was released from prison after serving his sentence, there were three teams of people who came to pick him up, Gu Ye, Ji Hui and Qian Hui.

Wen Jiang walked towards Qian Hui with a smile on the other hand, the young man's eyes still had texture when he looked closely, he had grown up, he was stable and mature, judging by the car he drove, he should be worth a bit, Wen Jiang laughed and said to him:

"Goodbye."

Then turned around gracefully, turning a deaf ear to Qian Hui's call behind him, it was already too indifferent, those years and those feelings.

Wen Jiang and Ji Hui left. Before leaving, he gave Gu Ye a firm hug and whispered in his ear, "Thank you."

After that year, Gu Ye never saw Wen Jiang again.

Yang Yang liked Zhang Liu since he was a child. After Zhang Liu came back, Yang Yang also learned to draw from Zhang Liu. Simple and soft is rare, Zhang Liu likes to teach Yang Yang very much.

On this day, Yang Yang came back with a sad face again. The half-sized child who had grown up to Gu Ye's shoulders, as soon as he got home, he threw himself on Gu Ye and buried his head and sobbed. Gu Ye patted the child on the back and asked if he was right? Your uncle octopus is bullying you again?

Yang Yang shook his head, sniffled and said:

"Uncle passed out again today, Dad, I'm afraid."

Gu Ye's eyes were red, and he asked Yang Yang to go upstairs first, and he had to go out to pick up the mouse and the big bear.

At the gate of Mouse and Big Bear's school, Gu Ye called Long Er, and Long Er said hoarsely, "Brother Gu, I'm scared."

Gu Ye wiped the corners of his eyes, thinking to himself: I am also afraid.

Mouse and Big Bear, who didn't know how to worry, saw their father's car parked at the door, ran over laughingly, opened the car door and rushed to be the passenger seat, Gu Ye pursed his lips and smiled and pushed the children into the back seat.

The mouse and the big bear chattered to Gu Ye about the homework assigned by the teacher at the school, which girl the mouse held hands with again, and whose skirt the big bear lifted up again, both of them were selected for the Mathematical Olympiad class, and both of them were good at foreign languages. I got full marks...

Gu Ye didn't start the car in a hurry, and listened quietly there. Yes, 20 years ago, when Zhang Liu was a naughty child, he held his hand and reported cheerfully:

"Brother, brother, the girl in the next class wrote me a love letter, I don't like her."

"Brother, can you help me with my homework?"

"Brother, take me to the zoo."

"Brother, can you give me a set of brushes?"

"elder brother……"

Gu Ye sent the children directly to Madam Qian, and asked grandma to watch them first. Madam Qian comforted Gu Ye when she saw Gu Ye's unsightly expression, "Human life is in heaven."

Gu Ye nodded, went back to pick up Yang Yang, made an appointment with Qian Wei, and went directly to Zhang Liu's place.

Zhang Liu was already emaciated. At the end of the period, he refused to undergo chemotherapy in the hospital and returned to the old house of the Long family. At that time, Zhang Liu teased and said: "Brother, I really think that the ancestral house of Long Tubie is dedicated to me. It’s as if it’s made to order, and I’m going to panic if I don’t think about it for a few days.”

Long Er respected his opinion and took Zhang Liu back. Zhang Liu continued to paint his paintings. He had held many exhibitions before. Zhang Liu always said that he hadn’t drawn the most satisfactory work yet. He said , I haven't drawn anything for Long Er alone, even if I leave by myself one day, I still have to leave something for Long Er as a souvenir.

Zhang Liu joked, Longtubie, I gave you a painting, you have to hang it in your bedroom and you can see it when you look up, lest I leave and you always think about fooling around with others.

Long Er hugged Zhang Liu and replied: OK, you draw well, I hang it in the most conspicuous place, and I read it countless times every day.

Today, Zhang Liu said that he finished the painting and it was time to give it to Long Er. By the way, he invited everyone to have a meal.

When Gu Ye went there, he saw that painting, it was just a sea, deep and shallow blue, with faint white waves, and he could see some wind and waves, and some calmness.

Sitting in a wheelchair, Zhang Liu pointed at the painting and said to them with a smile:

"Look, here is the Sea Dragon King, and there is also an octopus, isn't it, creative enough."

Gu Ye smiled and said, "Yes, everything is ready."

At that meal, Zhang Liu said a lot, saying that he knew about his illness when he was abroad, and he wanted to let it go for a few years, but he couldn't let go of the people here, so he came back, Zhang Liu said that he was sorry for Longtubie, and he should have been so cruel that he would not come back, so that Longtubie would feel better.

Speaking of this, Long Er suddenly got up and went out. Zhang Liu looked at his back and said with a faint smile:

"This guy has been having a runny nose lately, really, like a child."

Zhang Liu leaned on Gu Ye and continued to chatter. He said, brother, I am a bit reluctant. Although it is a pain to be alive, I still want to see the world again. I am worried about leaving Long Er alone, and I want to see it too. Yangyang and the others grow up, and they are very envious of having a child. If they are in good health, they want to adopt a bunch of them.Brother, bring the mouse and the big bear over in a few days, I miss them.

Zhang Liu said that Long Er's father passed away not long after he became a vegetable. This is God's punishment for him, and let him bear this, but poor Long Tubei, brother, I don't want to leave.

Zhang Liu said to Qian Wei: "Brother Qian, with you by my side, I will feel at ease when I die. Well, this sentence has finally come into use. Come to Yangyang to show me, Yangyang, my painters Everything is left to you, you make good use of it.”

Yang Yang nodded fiercely.

Zhang Liu asked Yang Yang to call Long Er in, and said to him:

"When I'm gone, hold a painting exhibition for me, make it more gorgeous."

After being tormented by stomach cancer for more than ten years, Zhang Liu finally passed away quietly.

The middle-aged people who have become vicissitudes attended Zhang Liu's funeral. Long Er, Gu Ye, Qian Wei, Qi Hui, Zheng Yu, Liang Bin, Xie Feng, familiar and not so familiar, stood quietly in the cemetery Here, watch him die in peace.

Mrs. Qian held the hands of several children, and Yang Yang also held her two younger brothers tightly.

One of their relatives is gone.

At the end of the show, Qi Hui pulled Gu Ye over, hugged him, choked up and said:

"Come on and cry."

Gu Ye smiled and cried: "Zhang Liu has been talking about you, if he was here, he would still call you Brother Qi."

Long Er watched silently beside the cemetery for several days without eating or drinking, and then went to organize the art exhibition.Long Er hired the venue, but did not hire a worker. He prepared the materials and tools by himself, closed the gate of the venue, and held a painting exhibition for Zhang Liu with his own hands. Every exhibition board, every word, every rope, and every nail , do it yourself.

On the opening day of the art exhibition, many people from the industry came to mourn. Zhang Liu is already an excellent painter.

What is not on display is the last painting Zhang Liu left for Long Er.

That belongs only to Long Er, a love affair between an octopus and a dragon king.

After the exhibition was over, Long Er left the city.

What can I do, I love you so much.