Chapter 272: Hello, Huai En
Chapter 272: Hello, Huai En
That day, as usual, I was rowing and casting nets in that bay wearing a straw hat, and when the setting sun sank into the sea level, I made my way back.
At this moment, I suddenly heard a woman's voice on the pier yelling at me: "Uncle, wait until I finish painting this painting!"
I searched for the reputation, and saw a woman sitting on the stone of the pier in the glowing red sunset, with an easel in front of her, a pen in one hand and a tray in the other, probably oil paint.
Due to the backlight, I can only see her silhouette. She has short hair that reaches her ears and is a little messy by the slight sea breeze.
When I took off my hat and looked at her, she waved at me with her pen-holding hand.
I smiled to myself, I didn't expect that I would become her scenery, what an honor it should be.
I looked around and saw that the scenery at this moment is indeed quite charming. The sky is full of sunset glow, the river is full of red, the evening wind and waves are setting, and the light boats and weeds grow tall. I think this is indeed a rare natural scenery.
So I put on the straw hat again, and sat on the bamboo raft waiting for the girl to finish her painting. I was even a little curious about how she kept such a grand scenery in an inch.
After about a quarter of an hour, the girl stood up, waved to me and shouted loudly: "Uncle! You can go ashore!"
I looked at her beautiful figure in the dark purple sunset, and I couldn't help showing a smile. I think this girl really has the sensitive insight unique to art students, who can easily find that the world is everywhere but is ignored by most people. Unseen beautiful scenery.
I moored the bamboo raft and went barefoot to the pier with the net bag. The girl had already packed the painting equipment, but she didn’t leave, but waited quietly for me to come ashore.
This girl is about 23 or [-] years old, she looks pure and pleasant, with big smart eyes and short ear-length hair, which perfectly interprets the youth and vitality she should have at her age.
"Thank you, Uncle!" She smiled and said to me, revealing a pair of beautiful dimples and two cute little canine teeth.
As I walked to the shore, I said, "You're welcome, the little girl is finished painting? It's getting dark, hurry up and go home!" I reached out and took off the straw hat on my head and fanned it in my hand.
"Well, the painting is finished, then...back to..."
She looked at me with a slight smile and said, she suddenly stopped when she said the next few words, and saw that the smile on her face gradually disappeared, and there was a trace of doubt in her eyes, and then her eyes slowly opened wide, with a smile on her face. His expression gradually solidified, revealing an incredulous expression.
Then she stepped forward and came to me as if she had finally determined something, her eyes were still fixed on me, and then she showed an almost surprised expression and said excitedly: "Uncle is you? How did you get here ?”
I froze for a moment.What she said seemed to mean that she knew me, but I was almost sure that I had never seen this girl in front of me in my thirty-odd years of life.
"You? Know me?" I asked suspiciously, I think she probably recognized the wrong person!
"Hmm..." She pondered for a while. "It's not considered acquaintance, but you may not know, I've been looking for you for a long time!" She still couldn't hide the joy in her heart, and I could clearly see the strange light in her big eyes in the slightly darkening sunset.
"Little girl, are you mistaken? Where have we met?" I asked my question.
"You can't be mistaken, it's you! We met two years ago, in Tibet!" She replied with great certainty.
Tibet?These two words made my heart ache, but the doubts in my heart were even worse. Although the time was indeed right, I still couldn't remember meeting this girl in Tibet two years ago. .
Seeing my doubts, she continued: "In the winter two years ago, the snow just stopped that day. I went to sketch by a lake called Cangyongcuo, and I happened to see you..." Her voice suddenly stopped abruptly, like Thinking of some taboo, the excited expression on his face gradually froze.
The girl’s words reminded me that on the day I left Tibet, after I said goodbye to Annie, I was in a trance, as if I saw a girl wearing a knitted hat sitting not far away, and there seemed to be something real in front of me. An easel.
At that time, I thought it was just a hallucination after I was drunk, because when I looked closely after that moment of trance, I couldn't see anything. I thought it was just a hallucination after drunk, but now it seems that it is not the case.
"That day, I saw you drinking in front of a grave. I was always not far behind you, but you never noticed me. I was shocked by your appearance at that time. I have never seen a person give birth It's so sad, so I want to draw this picture!" She looked at me with a solemn expression.
"You didn't notice me until I finished painting, and you didn't even turn your head. I think you must be too sad. You didn't stand up until the bell on the opposite mountain rang, and you were ready to go! I called you at that time, you She looked back at me but ignored me, and then stood silently by the lake for a long time. I saw that you were too drunk to come forward to talk to you, so I... I just left!" She described our relationship to me. The situation of the first meeting, but I have no memory of what he said.
I believe what she said was true. Not only was I drunk at the time, but also, as she said, I was indeed drowning in great sadness, so I was not very sensitive to the passage of time, thinking it was just a momentary glance back , God knows how long it has passed.
It's just that what I don't understand is what she means by saying that she has been looking for me for a long time. Even if I did meet her by chance, why did she look for me?
She seemed to see the doubts in my heart, so she told me what happened next.
She had just graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts that year, and it was also her first trip to Tibet.Because I don't know much about the weather in Tibet, I was trapped in Tibet for more than a month by heavy snow.She was living in a hotel in a small town at the time.
Out of boredom, after the heavy snow stopped, she wandered around aimlessly with her easel on her back, and accidentally went to Cangyongcuo, just in time to see me saying goodbye to Anne because she decided to leave.
She said that the moment she saw me at Cangyong Cuo, she was greatly shocked. As for the reasons, I have already mentioned above.
She thought she was a very cheerful person, but the moment she saw me sitting alone by Annie's grave drinking, her heart was deeply affected by me.
She said: "I have never seen a person so sad. Although I don't know your story, I can feel the grief in your heart. That's why I want to draw this picture."
As for how she approached me later, it was probably like this.
After she left Tibet, in the spring of the second year, the work she painted near Cangyong Co participated in the national oil painting competition. Unexpectedly, she was easily shortlisted for the final, and finally won the gold medal unexpectedly.
Although her work has won the highest evaluation in the industry, although it is a joy for her, it makes her enter another kind of shackles.In fact, since seeing me that day, it seems that some kind of shackles have quietly taken root in her heart, which made her unable to let go of me, a stranger whose name is not yet known.
Especially after her painting won an award, the man in the painting almost became her demon, which made her feel a strong obsession. She must find that man and give him the painting look.This obsession made her linger no matter what, and even troubled her life.
As for why this happened, she didn't know herself, she only knew that the power of thinking in her heart was getting stronger and stronger.
So she finally took the painting and traveled thousands of miles to that small town in Tibet again. However, I had already left sadly at that time, and she searched all over the town but could not find me.
"Perhaps it sounds unbelievable to you, even I think this is unbelievable, we only met once, but I have such a strong urge to see you again. I don't know what's wrong with me, But I know, if I can't see you, I'm afraid I will be troubled by you as a stranger for a long time." Her tone became deep.
"I went to the town and asked everyone. I asked them if they had seen a tall, thin man with long hair and a scar on his face. Everyone knew you. They said you were gone. I asked them where you were. Where, but no one knows." She looked at me and narrated.
I sighed secretly in my heart, I don't know if this is the heart knot that the world says?Now it seems that the so-called heart knot is indeed true.I know that if I want to solve this kind of thing, I should find the source, just like the stone hanging around my neck. If I can't find Wei Jianguo, I'm afraid I will be pressed by it for the rest of my life. The moment I put it down, I really felt a sense of relief.
Regarding her narration, although I don't know why her heart knot was born, I can empathize with her. The so-called most difficult thing in the world is human feelings!
This can't help but make me feel embarrassed. In this vast world with no end in sight, there are actually countless invisible threads all over the place. A thread has been quietly pulled between them. After experiencing endless reincarnation and passing through the bustling sea of people, one day they will be drawn together by this invisible thread.
"Why did you appear here?" I suddenly thought of this question.
"I'm an art teacher at the school in the town, and I just came here at the beginning of school!" She looked at me, with a look of joy on her face again, probably happy that her long-cherished wish had finally been fulfilled.
"Where does your family live?" I couldn't help being slightly surprised by this coincidence.
"My family lives in the county seat!" She replied.
It turned out that this is the case, and it dawned on me, and at the same time, I became more convinced of the saying that there is a destiny in the dark.Unexpectedly, I traveled thousands of miles from the border of the motherland to the end of the other end, but by coincidence, I came to the hometown of this woman who I have been unable to find. It is also an indescribable fate.
I walked back with her, and she couldn't hide the joy in her heart along the way, and the pair of cute dimples on her face almost never disappeared for a moment.
"Uncle, how did you come here?" She turned her head and asked me, with a curious light in her eyes.
"I also came here by chance. I thought it was a good place, so I settled down." I replied casually.
"Where do you live, uncle?" she asked again.
I pointed to my yard facing the sea not far away and said, "That's my home!"
"Uncle, you shouldn't be a local. Did you buy that yard?" She seemed to have endless questions, calling me uncle one after another.
I had no choice but to answer patiently: "Yes, I'm not a local, that yard is an abandoned yard in the village, and the original owner agreed to let me live there for free!"
"Do you... live alone?" She asked again, she hesitated a little when she asked this question, probably because she was afraid of touching my scar.
"Yes, alone!"
"Uncle, what's your name?"
"Wei Jinsheng!"
"Uncle, haven't you asked my name yet?"
"Then what's your name?"
"My name is Fang Huai'en, the pagoda tree of the locust tree, thank you! You can just call me Huai'en!"
"Hello, Huai En!"
"Hello, uncle!"
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