The Pentium Era - South to North

"Is there enough light here?" Gu Shufang asked.

"That's enough." Zhang Chen nodded. He opened the easel, put the canvas on the easel, adjusted the height and fixed it.

"Where should I sit?" Gu Shufang asked.

"Just sit on that chair."

Zhang Chen said that if Zhang Chen really had to choose from a painter's perspective, what Zhang Chen would like to paint the most would definitely be Gu Shufang sitting like in Ingres's "The Bathing Girl of Valson". Zhang Chen would really like to paint it. Her naked back is different from the plump body of "The Bathing Girl of Valson". Gu Shufang has a skinny body.

But they have skin with the same delicate and fair texture. Under the reflection of light and surrounding objects, it will emit charming light and shadow changes like porcelain. The two slightly raised shoulder blades and the trapezius, infraspinatus, and round muscles The changes in muscle and deltoid muscle formation must be interesting.

But Zhang Chen couldn't make such a request. He could draw her face, her eyes, and the blush on her face, but he couldn't ask to draw her naked back, because he might get slapped.

Zhang Chen himself also laughed.

Just when Zhang Chen was distracted, Gu Shufang had already posed in what she considered the most graceful and noble pose. Every woman probably had a movie star looking at the cover of "Popular Cinema" posing in the same pose as them. , the experience of looking left and right in front of the mirror, Gu Shufang's sitting posture, at first glance, it is an imitation of a certain star.

Zhang Chen frowned slightly.

Gu Shufang turned slightly sideways to Zhang Chen, her back straight, her hands folded on her thighs, her chin raised slightly, and her eyes looking diagonally upward. This was probably what she understood as the most noble and dignified posture.

Zhang Chen thought for a while and said to her: "Accountant Gu, today we are painting, not taking close-ups. Don't put too much pressure on us. Just relax and be casual."

Gu Shufang put her hands down and straightened her chin. She looked at Zhang Chen and asked, "Is that so?"

Zhang Chen was thinking in his mind that he was relaxing, not letting go. He walked over, pulled Gu Shufang's arm, and found that her whole body was stiff.

Zhang Chen smiled and said, "Is it the first time for Accountant Gu to be a model?"

Gu Shufang became nervous: "Why, isn't it okay?"

"Okay, okay." Zhang Chen sat back in front of the easel, and he said to Gu Shufang: "How about we come and have a casual chat? I am a painter now, not your colleague. We need to communicate openly. I need to be more I know more about you so that I can draw out your unique temperament. I don’t know if Accountant Gu can understand what I say."

As soon as Gu Shufang nodded, she immediately stopped and returned her head to its original position without daring to move.

Zhang Chen pretended to draw on the canvas with charcoal strips, but actually drew nothing. He told Gu Shufang, "It's okay. You don't have to keep still. You can do whatever you want, just like you usually chat with others." .

"I usually don't chat with others." Gu Shufang said.

"Do you have any good friends?" Zhang Chen asked.

"There are in Suzhou, but not here."

"By the way, Accountant Gu, there's something I'm curious about. If I offend you, please forgive me."

"Didn't you say that as a painter? For the sake of work, I will answer you anything." Gu Shufang said.

"Oh, yes, it's my fault." Zhang Chen couldn't laugh or cry. He said, "What I'm curious about is, since you hate Hainan so much, why did you come to Hainan in the first place? Were you assigned here?"

"No, I was deceived." Gu Shufang said bluntly.

"You were deceived. Are you saying... it's Mr. Fu?" Zhang Chen asked.

Gu Shufang shook her head and said, "Myself, I was deceived by myself."

"You were deceived by yourself?" Zhang Chen didn't understand.

"Yes, it's me. I was deceived by my young self. When I was young, I always wanted to be as far away from my parents as possible. I always thought that the distance was very romantic, and there would be poems, stories, and all kinds of adventures. Young When I was young, all I wanted to do was go far away, and I was absolutely disgusted with my surroundings. By the way, aren’t you like that?”

Zhang Chen nodded and said: "It is true, but a big reason for us is that we feel that this is a special zone, and there will be more opportunities in the special zone. Shenzhen failed to catch up with the development, and Hainan's large-scale development was We caught up and we wanted to change ourselves.”

"When we were young, there was basically no such thing as opportunity. Everything was arranged by the organization. When I went to Hainan, I was transferred through the organization. When there is an organization, individuals can only obey and have no chance."

"That makes sense, Accountant Gu."

Gu Shufang frowned and said, "Can you please stop calling me Accountant Gu? It's too formal."

"What did I call you then? It wasn't..."

"Okay, that's right. I asked you to call me Accountant Gu. At that time, I wanted to keep a distance from you." Gu Shufang said with a smile.

Zhang Chen was confused. At that time, he needed to keep a distance, but now he doesn't?

"You call me Sister Shufang." Gu Shufang said, Zhang Chen agreed, I was going to call you eldest sister.

"It sounds so ugly, what eldest sister? Is eldest sister the same as my elder sister?" Gu Shufang said angrily.

"Okay, I understand, Sister Shufang." Zhang Chen said quickly, "You haven't finished telling me how you got to Hainan."

"At that time, I was working as a waiter at the Nanyuan Hotel in Suzhou. He didn't know why he went there to study. At that time, he was very honest, didn't talk much, and couldn't speak Mandarin well. He was alone in Suzhou and had no place to go. Go, just like to play behind us waitresses, help us carry bags and so on.

"He also gave me a set of postcards from Hainan and told me that his family lived by the sea. Every day when he got up, he could see the sea. How could an eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl not be attracted by the sea? Anyway, later, I fell in love with him, no matter how much my parents objected, it was useless.

"At that time, his master had just become the director of the guest house of the Shanghai South District Administrative Office and had some power. He went to see his master, and his master sent a transfer letter to our Nanyuan Hotel. I was quickly transferred here. I was the organizer. The relationship came to Haicheng first, and then the talent came to Hainan for the first time.

"We walked on the road for two days and two nights. When I first saw Haicheng, I cried. You know how different Haicheng was from Suzhou at that time. It was shabby and shabby, just like a small fishing village. Really? I totally feel like I'm on a pirate ship.

"But there is nothing I can do. The raw rice has already been cooked, and I have no way to go back. Even if I have a way to go back, I feel that I have no shame in going back to face my parents.

"There is no need to say more about the following story. It is all gloomy anyway. I made this mistake when I was young, but I have to spend my whole life regretting it. Sometimes I think about it, it is really not worth it, and being a human being is not worth it. "

When Gu Shufang said this, her eyes dimmed, and both of them were silent. Zhang Chen watched Gu Shufang's every move very carefully, and he hadn't caught the right posture yet.

"I heard Sister Shufang say that you have a daughter?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Yes, my daughter is in Suzhou." Gu Shufang said. She remembered something and said to Zhang Chen, "I'm sorry."

Zhang Chen asked curiously: "What are you sorry for?"

"Those words I told you when we first met."

Zhang Chen laughed: "I have already forgotten."

"Just forget it." Gu Shufang said, "After my daughter was born, my parents forgave me. They came all the way to see us. When my parents left, they took my daughter away at any cost. They said If I stay here, they won’t worry and will have nightmares every day, so I finally agreed.”

"Where's Mr. Fu? Mr. Fu also agrees?"

"He just didn't care."

"Ah!" Zhang Chen was surprised, "Why?"

"Pricho to boys! Don't you know that Hainan people are very patriarchal?

"He is, and so is their whole family. They all feel that it is useless to have a daughter. From my daughter's childhood to adulthood, whether it is his family or him, let alone never thought of going to Suzhou to see her, even mentioning it in daily life. None of them would mention it, except for me. Their whole family had the attitude that it would be best if they left.

"My parents regard my daughter as a treasure. Tell me, if it were you, would you let your daughter stay here?"

Zhang Chen was silent.

Gu Shufang continued: "Their whole family's only thought was for me to continue giving birth to a boy for their family, but my heart was already dead. From the day my daughter left, I, I never gave up. He touched me."

Gu Shufang's face turned slightly red, she folded her hands in front of her chest and said coldly.

"Okay, Sister Shufang, this is the position, stay still."

As Zhang Chen spoke, the charcoal strips in his hand moved quickly on the canvas.