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After returning to X City, Ji Yusheng finished handling the company's trivial matters, and soon it was the day when Dr Watson retired. Ji Yusheng wanted to go to congratulate him on his retirement, help him clean up, and send him home.

Since Shi Yu left, Ji Yusheng often went to the university to look for Dr Watson. On the one hand, Dai Shiyu took care of Dr. Watson who was getting older. On the other hand, it was also because Dr. Watson has rich life experience and art knowledge, and he can always learn a lot from chatting with him. , when he chooses the art course he is currently studying, he also received a lot of useful advice and help from Dr Watson.

After so many years, the relationship between them has become closer and closer. Although according to Dr Watson's playful nature, their relationship is more like friends than father and son, but Ji Yusheng has taken care of Dr Watson as his second father Yes, so he was also very worried when he heard that Dr Watson was going to retire early because of his poor health. Fortunately, Dr Watson later told him that his condition had gradually stabilized and he retired early just because he wanted to enjoy the benefits while he was still in good health. Ji Yusheng was relieved to be living in retirement.

"Dr Watson." After the students dispersed, Ji Yusheng knocked on the door and called out. Dr Watson looked up and saw that it was Shengsheng, and immediately opened his arms and walked over to hug him enthusiastically.

"Ah, Shengsheng, you're here!" Dr Watson's face was blushing, presumably because of the enthusiasm of the students, which made him more excited on the retirement day.

"Well, here we come." Ji Yusheng stretched out his arms to embrace Dr Watson.

"Dr Watson, congratulations on your retirement." Ji Yusheng handed Dr Watson the flowers hidden behind his back.

DrWatson stroked his beard, waved his hand and said:

"Oh, what's the point of congratulations! People have been going downhill since they turned 30, and they're going to die when they retire!"

Ji Yusheng let out a haha, recalling that Dr Watson talked with him about life after retirement, almost every time he talked about going to travel around the world, so he said:

"No, Dr Watson, after you retire, you will have time to travel around the world. Didn't you always say you wanted to go?"

DrWatson narrowed his eyes and nodded, saying:

"I used to think this was very good, but now I always feel that when people are old and sick, everything in nature seems to be laughing at me. The boundless sky is like an eternal thing laughing at me." DrWatson said with a trace of melancholy on his face, "I don't have much interest when I think of it."

Hearing this, Ji Yusheng immediately shook his head and said in denial:

"Nature is not eternal. Flowers bloom and fall in four seasons, and reincarnation changes, which is the same as us. In comparison, we are much luckier than everything in nature. They can only go through one season, but we can There are many more witnesses than them!"

"And Dr Watson, how old are you! I think you are younger than me, and you are more childlike than me!"

"Haha, don't comfort me."

"I really think so. The "Cloud's Smiling Face" you showed me earlier, Professor, is really cute, full of childlike innocence and infinite imagination."

DrWatson's paintings have a distinctive style, most of which are based on fairy tales, with bright colors and fine composition comparable to the Rococo style, but there is no superficial arrogance and indulgence, but with their own deep hopes and wishes.At the same time, he is not like many other artists of the same period, who gradually became infected with other people's preferences, or more and more in line with the public aesthetics of the society. When he is staring at the eyes, or alone in the dark woods, his paintings always stick to the innocence in his heart.

Every time he sees DrWatson's paintings, Ji Yusheng can see the soul hidden behind the paintings, who has always pursued art with the simplest original intention, dedicated his life to art, and is always in the mood for love.

Dr Watson always said that it was pedantic and old-fashioned, but Ji Yusheng knew in his heart that he acted like this because he had been unswervingly sticking to and pursuing the beliefs and ideals in his heart.

That's why he admires Dr Watson so much.

Ji Yusheng always thinks that if his father is still alive, he must be like this, firm, brave, and stick to his heart.

"Really? Haha, thank you! That painting is of me one morning──"

While chatting like this, someone knocked on the door suddenly, the two of them turned their heads together and saw a shy girl with her head lowered.

"Mandy?" Seeing her, Dr Watson seemed a little surprised.

The girl walked over with her head down, but she didn't stay silent and didn't speak until DrWatson called her again, then she raised her head and saw her eyes were red and swollen, she bit her lip and tried to hold back her tears and said softly:

"DrWatson, congratulations on your retirement, I hope your...life will go smoothly in the future." She clearly said words of blessing, but despite her patience, tears still flowed down inappropriately.

Dr Watson listened to her, looked at her with heartache, and said, "Oh Mandy...thank you..."

DrWatson looked at Mandy's tears, and couldn't help the redness of his eyes, but he finally smiled and asked, "Mandy, can I give you a hug?"

Before Dr Watson could finish speaking, Mandy embraced Dr Watson, and tears wet Dr Watson's shoulders like a torrential rain released at the end of summer.

Ji Yusheng thought, apart from sadness and reluctance in this heavy rain, it was more about gratitude and blessings.

People who inspire themselves in art must make themselves grateful and sincerely blessed. No one has a deeper understanding of this than Ji Yusheng.

After releasing DrWatson, Mandy took out a framed painting from the black bag, wiped her tears with her hands, and said:

"I don't know DrWatson, do you still remember, you reminded me when I was sketching in the first grade, saying that I can't blindly imitate, just look at the styles of emerging artists and imitate them, and keep changing with the trend, Works should have their own style and mind. This suggestion inspired me to blindly imitate emerging artists at the time, and then I calmed down and practiced hard on my weak colors, and drew more paintings that I wanted to create.”

"I have drawn this painting for a long time, and I have revised it many times. Although it is still not good, it is only a poor work in the eyes of the professor who has seen famous paintings, but I think it is at least better than the painting back then. Yes, thinking that there may not be many opportunities in the future, so I still want to give you a little bit of my heart."

Mandy held DrWatson's hand and said:

"Happy retirement, DrWatson. Thank you for your teaching, and remember to come back and visit us when you have time."

DrWatson hugged Mandy and said hoarsely:

"What are you talking about defective products... In my eyes, my students' paintings are more precious and worthy of collection than paintings by famous artists."

After Mandy left, Dr Watson wiped his tears with a tissue and said:

"This child always hides in class and doesn't ask questions very much. The only time he came to me specifically was to help the group ask questions in the group homework. I didn't expect that she would always remember my words... I didn't expect her It will also miss me."

Ji Yusheng, who witnessed the whole process by the side, said with a smile: "Dr Watson, you have always treated art and them with your heart from before to now. After they feel it, they will naturally treat you with heart."

Wanting to dilute the parting atmosphere that had just suddenly become intense, DrWatson stroked his beard and laughed and said:

"It's a good thing they didn't dislike me, a pedantic old man."

Looking at Dr Watson's outfit, Ji Yusheng was wearing a trendy floral suit with mainly roses and other patterns of different flowers on it. He paired it with a pair of dark brown retro leather shoes, and joked:

"If Dr Watson is old-fashioned, there will be no trendy people in this world."

Seeing Ji Yusheng's eyes resting on his clothes, Dr Watson pulled his suit jacket, straightened it, and said proudly as if showing off his long-cherished treasure:

"How is it? Is this suit well chosen?"

Looking at the rose pattern on Dr Watson's suit that lost its bright colors, Ji Yusheng soon understood the meaning of Dr Watson's choice of this suit.

Ji Yusheng looked at Dr Watson's suit, smiled, and said:

"Eviter les roses."

DrWatson smiled and said:

"C'estfinimaisc'estaujourd'huiquemaviecommence."

Ji Yusheng bent his eyes, handed the bouquet hidden behind his back to Dr Watson, and said:

"So, Dr Watson, congratulations on starting your new journey today, and I wish you a more vigorous and free new life."

DrWatson took Ji Yusheng's flower just now, narrowed his already small eyes, as if a line had been broken from the middle of the lens, and said:

"Mercibeau coup."

While admiring the flowers, the professor teased Ji Yusheng and said:

"Shengsheng, your French has improved a lot. What kind of motivation did you have?"

The complex singular and plural yin and yang parts of speech in French really make it difficult to master the language. Ji Yusheng blushed a little embarrassedly when he thought of the reason why he worked so hard to learn French.

In fact, his reason is very simple, he just wants to understand Mr. better.

French is one of the most romantic languages ​​in the world, and to sir, he doesn't want to stop at the briefest love quote in the first chapter of a college course.

That sentence is something that everyone can say at will, so it is unavoidably a bit vulgar.What he wants to express is much more than that simple sentence. His feelings for Mr. cannot be expressed with just an abbreviation and two words. Thinking that was too little, he wanted to know how to express more.And he felt that such a unique person as Mr. should be accompanied by a unique love poem.

He wants to read hymns to his husband, from praising his clean eyes, his dancing eyes, to his fragrant smile, melodious voice, and finally to his outline that can bear the light (1).

He wanted to read love poems to his husband, the yearning in the fragrance of flowers in spring, the heat sent by summer, the trembling of the heart at dusk, and finally ended with the ripples of rainy days.

"Shengsheng? Who are you thinking about?" Dr Watson looked at Ji Yusheng who was a little lost and asked with a smile.

The author has something to say:

(1) The original text of Pauléluard's love poem "Lacourbedetesyeux" is a bit long so I won't post it here. If you are interested, you can go and have a look. It is really moving and good at writing

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