Painting Tang

"You want to draw?"

Yu Tang looked at Mu Jingchen curiously, "But I only draw backs for people, and I'm not considered a professional nude model."

"That's not what you said when the professor asked you just now,"

Mu Jingchen pulled Yu Tang out and pointed to the studio they left behind, "Why did you change your mind when you came to me?"

"It's different."

Yu Tang whispered.

"What's the difference? Do you think my concentration is not as good as those brats in school?"

Mu Jingchen made him amused, and even after getting people into the car in a fog, he still didn't forget to feed him a piece of tangerine peel candy.These few days the weather is fine, the winter sun is harsh, and the car has been parked in the sun to bake. The hard fruit candies that were originally hard teeth were baked into wisps of soft and sticky sweetness, so sweet that Yutang temporarily gave up the relationship with Mu. Jing Chen's argument turned to focus on eating sweets with lowered eyes.

"What does this have to do with concentration... I didn't agree to take them all off. What the professor meant was to let the students learn to draw the calves and elbows today."

"Maybe it has nothing to do with concentration, but it has a lot to do with whether my heart is broad enough or not."

Mu Jingchen said that the ignition had been started, but Yu Tang remembered that this was not the direction to Mu's house.

"Then, is Mr. Mu narrow-minded or tolerant?"

Yu Tang gnawed the candy, not knowing when it started, his eyes on Mu Jingchen changed from alienated and silent to bright and sly, with a bit of confidence that seemed to be nothing.

"Narrow-minded, I still think highly of me. The four words "small belly and chicken intestines" are almost the same."

Mu Jingchen smiled and said,

"And why did Teacher Xiaoyu think that I will ask you to take it all off on her own?"

"It was Mr. Mu himself who said he wanted a 'naked model'."

Yu Tang lightly stroked the uneven shark skin pattern on the door handle of the car with his thumb. Mu Jingchen noticed his small movements, and he knew he was nervous.

"How is your brother? I saw Zou Weiyi's mental state today. He should have taken care of your brother with all his heart."

Mu Jingchen changed the subject calmly, wanting to surprise Xiao Haitang, but he was not willing to let him spend the whole journey in anxiety.

"It was said that Zou Weiyi took him to a big meal, and he also said that he gave him a few books. He liked it very much."

"After that, I will send more books to your brother." Mu Jingchen paused and explained, "Bring your brother off so that he can trust you to me."

"Zou Weiyi's purpose of sending books is not for this purpose."

Yu Tang responded with a smile, as if she was talking about a very light topic.

"How dare he have such an idea?...I heard from the people at hand that the car of Bilinhui was wandering around your house last night. Did you hear any movement?"

Mu Jingchen turned to think of the news that Zhen Hui brought this morning, because there was no noise or dispute, and his subordinates did not approach him, so he probably wasn't looking for trouble.

"did not hear,"

Yu Tang didn't mention anything about Lin Yue, pretending to be dazed and innocent and said, "Perhaps there are people from the Bilin Club who live nearby, and there are everyone in our street."

"It's not just to provoke you. I heard from Zou Weiyi that you are particularly interested in oil paintings. Is there a painter you particularly like?"

"There are almost no theoretical or advanced courses related to oil painting in China. I am just interested and don't know much about it... If I have to say it, I really like Angel."

"Dominique Angell?"

Mu Jingchen took the steering wheel and gradually slowed down the speed of the car, "I also like his style, we can discuss it in depth."

"you mean……?"

Seeing that he had parked the car, Yu Tang looked out the window. They had gradually moved away from the school and art street, and parked outside a large commercial building in the foreign trade zone.

"A few days ago, I read a discussion about "The Grand Palace Lady" in the book. I really want to see with my own eyes what the light will look like when it falls on human skin after being refracted by rubies,"

The shop where Mu Jingchen brought Yutang didn't sell anything else, it only sold gems and agate.

"Mr. Xiaoyu, do you want to take a look with me?"

"Grand Maid" is a famous nude oil painting by Ingres. Yu Tang has seen a few photos about this treasure in the newspapers. The undressed person is lying on the soft bed with his back facing the picture. The picture quietly became clear in his mind - what did Mu Jingchen mean, did he want to paint him like the person in the painting...?

"I'm in a daze again."

Mu Jingchen sighed with a smile, gently scratched the tip of Yutang's nose, and dragged him into the commercial building in strides.

Yutang's previous obsession with Zhou Yuhui's agate bracelet made Mu Jingchen mistakenly think that he was very fond of shiny pearls and gemstones, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that he should take him to buy a few sets.

The moment the rich and powerful young master Mu stepped into the store, because the items sold were too expensive and the sparsely populated commercial building suddenly became lively like a pot exploded. Du Menqing, seeing Mu Jingchen was like seeing this month's performance, and rushed to invite him to the store.

When he learned that Mu Jingchen was buying accessories for Yu Tang beside him, the eye-catching clerk became even more excited—Yu Tang's skin is fair and complexion is good, and it is thanks to him that any jewelry is placed beside him so that he makes it stand out Dazzling and beautiful.

Yu Tang's mind was still flashing back to Angel's oil painting, and Mu Jingchen's plausible "invitation". How does the sunlight sifted by jewels flow through his smooth and thin back, how does it circle around his waist...?

When Yu Tang was absent-mindedly led back to the car by Mu Jingchen, he realized that the young master had bought almost everything recommended by the clerk - emeralds like green springs, sea sapphires as big as thumbs, and aquamarines that were too big to buy. Burmese rubies made into thumb rings...

For a moment, Yu Tang thought that Mu Jingchen led him to rob a certain large bandit den, or raided a certain country's National Treasure Museum.

"Are you spending money a little too extravagantly...?"

Of course Yu Tang would not accept it, and Mu Jingchen didn't seem to intend to force him to wear it either. Compared to giving away a huge jadeite piece, it was Xiao Haitang's obedient and contented smile when eating candy that made people's hearts move.

"I only spend money on you,"

Mu Jingchen smiled, "Compared to other dandies who spend their days and nights, my father already thinks that he has accumulated virtue in his previous life, and the things I snatched from the bandit's den are enough to cover his expenses."

"Do bandit dens usually hide gold and silver treasures?"

Yu Tang seemed to be unintentionally following Mu Jingchen's words and asked, "When I was a child, I heard people say that only those who were too poor would become bandits."

"Part of it is due to helplessness, but most of them are gangsters who are full of crimes. Some of them are for money, and some just enjoy killing and setting fire. Now bandits have learned to be smart and often pretend to be innocent villagers. It’s rare to see bandits wandering in the mountains wearing friezes and knives with their fierce looks exposed.”

"Could it be that some of the villagers are really just villagers, and not pretending to be gangsters?"

Yu Tang turned her head slightly to look out the window, not wanting Mu Jingchen to notice his uncontrollable trembling eyelashes.

"No, Mu's army is not a thug, and they won't do anything indiscriminately."

Mu Jingchen's voice has always been clear and refreshing, like the morning light that cannot be concealed by the layers of green pines in the mountain stream, people can't help but trust him.Will such a clean voice be used to tell lies?

Yu Tang gently closed his eyes, because the emotions that flashed through his mind were too complicated, and he hadn't decided what to say next, whether to continue the routine, or to deal with it sloppily.

"I heard from Zou Weiyi that your birthday is on the fifteenth of this month,"

Mu Jingchen's voice came again, bringing Yutang back to the sunny reality from the memories of gravel blizzards and bloody gunshots.

"I prepared a gift for you in advance, and I will take you to see it?"

Yu Tang froze for a moment, it was rare for her to smile easily,

"it is good."

Zou Weiyi didn't know his birthday, so it could be seen that Mu Jingchen secretly sent someone to investigate.After he and Yu Mian wandered all the way here and settled here, in order to avoid revealing their flaws, they both changed their date of birth. It is not worth being nervous if this information is exposed.

The car traveled through the city for another ten minutes, and when it stopped again, it seemed that it had driven to a place Yutang was all too familiar with - Panhua Tower.

But this time Mu Jingchen led him straight into the pavilion opposite Panhua Tower. The shops originally stationed on the first floor had quietly closed down at some point, and the entire pavilion was unified into a hall.The noisy first and second floors were transformed into a spiral staircase corridor for daylighting. When you go all the way to the third floor, the quiet sandalwood fragrance can already block the noise of the market outside the building.

"arrive."

Mu Jingchen stopped, and Yu Tang poked his head out from behind him curiously, only to see falling light dust pouring down from the huge skylight, illuminating the entire spacious flat floor warmly and brightly. From the pear wood furniture that sounds like easels and rattan chairs, as well as some precious paintings, it can be seen that this is a studio that has been carefully decorated.

It's just an elegant studio worthy of a world-renowned painter.

"Is this also your family's property?"

Yu Tang looked at the painting table directly under the skylight. There were various brushes and inkstones on the table, allowing people to sit down and start painting at any time.

"It will be yours from now on,"

Mu Jingchen dragged Yu Tang to the table, not only the brushes for traditional Chinese painting, but also all the painting tools needed for oil painting and sketching.

"Ms. Xiaoyu should be the one who likes to paint the most, right?"

Mu Jingchen smiled lightly.

When Yutang looked at the painting and touched the brush, the light in his eyes also fell into his eyes. He could clearly figure out what Xiao Haitang liked, what he hated, and what he was perfunctory.

Yu Tang nodded slightly in surprise.

Before the Yu family was destroyed, his doting father specially built a Yayuan study room for him, which was filled with his painting utensils and paper, but then time passed, and sometimes he couldn’t even make up the money to buy medicine for Yu Mian. , and was often blocked by people from the Bilin Society to urge him to repay the debt, so he stopped talking about painting.He doesn't have the energy, nor the right to enjoy hobbies.

It's just that he didn't expect that the slight liking that occasionally leaked from his eyes was actually taken seriously by Mu Jingchen.

"I... haven't touched a brush seriously for a long time, and I may not be able to draw long ago."

Yu Tang stretched out his index finger and tapped the Zihao pen placed on the table, and was about to lower his hand with some regret, when Mu Jingchen, who was standing behind him, raised his hand to hold his wrist,

"I'll teach you slowly,"

"It's your reward for being my model."

The warmer breeze poured into the studio from the skylight, blowing away the curtains in front of the deeper compartments, and slowly reflected a soft bed decorated with silk in Yu Tang's pupils.

It coincided with the picture of Angel's oil painting in Yu Tang's mind.