Chapter 48
Chapter 48
The two worked together for several hours, and poured dozens of basins of water out, and the water on them gradually stopped.
Hua Fa took a piece of handkerchief, folded it into a square, and pushed it from one end of the room to the other while kneeling, and then back again.The floor became clean and bright, but it was still covered with a layer of wet water stains.
Fang Suixue was sitting on the ground leaning against a corner of the wall, her slender legs stretched out, her bony hands resting on her knees, and crystal sweat hung from her forehead, making her pair of phoenix eyes even more delicate.He felt pain in his shoulder blades and waist, and he couldn't help but reach out and beat lightly.
After Huafa finished twisting the towel, she saw Fang Fanxue kneading her shoulders with a frown. He hung the towel on the balcony to dry, walked up to Fang Fanxue and squatted down, his eyes sparkled: "Is it twisted?"
"It's okay, old problem." Fang Tanxue said.The work of foundry is very exhausting, and if one is not paying attention, he will be sprained and bruised. His body has injuries all year round.
Hua Fa thought for a while in silence, then pointed to the bed: "You lie down on the bed, I'll squeeze it for you."
"No need." Fang Suixue was not used to physical contact with people and subconsciously refused, but Huafa impatiently rolled up his sleeves to his elbows and dragged him onto the bed.
Only then did Fang Suixue discover to her surprise that although the flower raft looked soft and weak, it was not weak.
But it is also reasonable, Huafa is a man after all.
"I'll just stick a few plasters on." Fang Suixue insisted not to bother him.
Hua Fu didn't try to persuade Fang Fanxue anymore, took Fang Fanxue's ointment from the cabinet to the table, sat on the edge of the bed and said: "I have learned massage before, I will massage it for you, it will make you feel better."
The kindness is hard to give up, Fang Suixue had no choice but to lie down on the pillow with his head on his side: "It's troublesome."
Hua Fa sighed, and lifted up Fang Panxue's clothes, only to see that his waist line was smooth and perfect, and his spine was straight. The fly in the ointment was that his snow-white skin was covered with black plaster.
Because of the hot weather and sweating, the plaster was stuck to the skin. He tried to tear off the plaster, but it was very difficult.
"Will it hurt?" Huafa looked at it carefully, thinking whether to cut it off for him with a pair of scissors.
Fang Suixue didn't even blink her eyes: "Just tear it up, it won't hurt."
Hua Fa had no choice but to grit her teeth and tear off the plaster piece by piece, leaving sticky glue and burning red marks on Fang Sanxue's back without a doubt.
"Tsk, those who didn't know thought the warden tortured you with a branding iron." Hua Fa joked.
Fang Chuanxue was stunned, it was the first time Huafa spoke to him in a tone that was almost joking.
Huafa began to massage him on the painful area. His strength was quite strong, but not too painful. It was indeed a very professional technique.
"You have some lumbar muscle strain." Hua Fa said, "My former master was blind. Although he couldn't see, his other senses were magnified several times, making him more sensitive than normal people. Press it for you."
Fang Danxue hummed, feeling warm in his heart.
He had to admit a fact that he had tried his best to avoid all the time—in this cold cell, it would be much better to have friends to help him than to be alone.
After the massage, Huafa helped Fang Panxue wipe his back clean, put on a new plaster, and finally wiped his hands and said, "You're done!"
After finishing speaking, he stretched his waist and rested for a while, and squatted down in front of the basin that had just been filled with water and hadn't had time to pour it out, not knowing what he was doing.
Fang Chuanxue turned her head to look at him, and saw that he had folded a small boat out of paper and put it on the water, flicking the clear water in the basin with one hand to make the boat slide, with an innocent smile on his face.
"How old are you still playing this?" Fang Suanxue couldn't help asking, infected by his smile.
"I'm here, and Mom and Dad are at the other end." Hua Fa put her chin between her arms, her voice was soft, her eyes seemed to pass through the boat, to a far away place: "If you can take this boat back Home will be fine."
Fang Suixue was not good at comforting others, so she just closed her eyes and said, "Just go out."
Hua Fa smiled and said suddenly, "Hey, do you know what my name means?"
"Raft? Boat?" Fang Fanxue raised his eyes and guessed.
"The cherry blossom petals scattered on the water surface are blown together by the wind and drift with the current, which is a flower raft." He said.
"It's very artistic." Fang Fanxue said.
"My mother took it." Hua Fa smiled innocently.
The relationship between the two broke the ice because of the torrential rain, and gradually began to chat.
One morning, after the roll call, Hua Fai was walking towards the restaurant, when Fang Tanxue suddenly called out: "Let's have breakfast together?"
It was the first time to invite a cellmate, and Fang Fanxue looked a little embarrassed, just like a freshman who just started school and flirting with a roommate.
Hua Fa smiled friendly: "Okay."
The two lined up to buy food together, and Fang Chuanxue helped him get a pair of chopsticks, and said to him, "Do you think that a prison is actually a lot like a university?"
Hua Fai blinked and said truthfully, "I haven't been to college, so I don't know what college is like."
Fang choked on Xuexue for a second, then said again: "A way of living that has never been done before can still be very exciting."
Hua Fa smiled nonchalantly: "Tell me, what does it look like? I'm a little curious."
"Have you noticed that everyone here is scrambling to impress the warden and earn points, and it's the same in school."
"Seems to be......"
"Moreover, there is a regular schedule here, and you can learn knowledge and skills." Fang Fanxue continued.
"Well, someone like you who is a good student in school can also gain points here and become a good prisoner." Hua Fa concluded.
He suddenly remembered something, and his tone became low: "I have a friend who is also a high-achieving student. Am I not worthy of being friends with you?"
Fang Tuanxue was startled, frowned and said, "Don't say that."
"Will you look down on me?" Hua Fa bit her lips, "You should look down on me, right?"
"If it's only right for me to look down on you, then it's only right for me to be looked down upon by others after I get out of prison." Fang Suanxue finished her meal, took a deep-fried dough stick and an egg for Huafa.
Hua Fa puffed her cheeks, and took another egg for herself: "This way, I can get [-] points in the test, and I am also a top student."
Fang Chuanxue thought he was too interesting, and couldn't help reaching out to help him arrange the rolling eggs: "Not all exams have a full score of [-]."
Knowing that Huafa had made a joke again, she lowered her head and sighed non-stop. Fang Tanxue looked at his frustrated face, smiled and turned her head away.
He hasn't smiled so heartily for a long time - his new friend Hua Fa is very cute.
The days flowed smoothly, which was different from the previous state of being flat and watery. After the appearance of the flower raft, Fang Suanxue's days became more bright.
In fact, the flower raft had appeared a long time ago, but the communication between the two of them was blank in the first half year. Fang Tanxue prefers to call that period the days when the flower raft did not appear.For Huafa, he hated seeing each other late.
That day, Fang Chuexue was reading a book, and Hua Fai was lying on her stomach playing with her fingers.Hua Fa commented on the TV show outside. In the show, a man killed a woman because she cheated. Everyone scolded that man for being impulsive, but he said that he could understand that man very well.
Fang Suixue has no interest or opinions on emotional disputes, and does not express her own opinions, only saying: "Actually, in real life, most people commit crimes for money."
Hua Fa supported his head and said stubbornly: "You are right about Su Xue, but you should not underestimate the power of emotion."
Fang Suanxue raised her eyes lightly: "Don't overestimate the power of emotion."
"Then I hope you will never meet someone who makes you feel really emotional, otherwise you will definitely regret what you said today." Hua Fa insisted, there was something in her eyes that Fang Suixue couldn't see through.
Fang Tanxue chuckled, looked down at the book, and didn't speak any more.
"What are you looking at?" Seeing that he was not paying attention while chatting with her, Hua Fai walked over curiously, flipped through the title page of his book, and wanted to read the name of the book.
"Faust?"
"Well, Faust."
"Looking at how old your book is, I know you've read it many times and still can't understand it." Hua Fa gloated.
Fang Chuanxue didn't refute, but just looked at him and admitted: "Yes, I don't understand." I don't know why that person can understand.
"Is Faust a good guy or a bad guy?" He was asking himself as well as Hua Fu.
Hua Fa stared at Fang Suixue for a moment, then burst out laughing: "You still ask me how old I am, and how old are you?"
Fang Suanxue was puzzled by his reaction: "What?"
Hua Fa calmed down for a while, let out a sigh of relief, leaned on the edge of the table and looked outside: "Only when I was a child, I read books and watched TV. When I came out, I asked him if he was a good person or a bad person. Aren't people all complicated?"
"Faust's motives are impure." Fang Suixue frowned.People who love words have a cleanliness obsession with words and characters.
"So you mean that his behavior should be condemned or even punished?" Hua Fa laughed and bent over.
"Of course, karma recurs, and good and evil are rewarded." Fang Fanxue's eyes were clear.
"Even if you were tempted by the devil at the beginning, you will end up on the right path to heaven. Faust, you are such a half-divine, half-demonic person. I think you are so old-fashioned , or "The Analects" is more suitable for you." Hua Fa tilted her head and looked at him.
Fang Suixue closed the book and said nothing, but looked at Huafa a few more times—although the two had different opinions, Huafa was not as ignorant as he seemed, and in some respects, he even had extraordinary sensitivity and perception force.
Careful and good at empathy, much like his big brother.Analytic text looks like that too.
Fang felt that Xue's slight distraction made Hua Fa think that she had offended him.
Hua Fa walked over lightly and sat down next to him: "Don't be angry, Su Xue, everyone has different things that resonate with you, you should read it several times, or leave it alone for a few days, maybe you will come back It suddenly became clear. Look at that Mandela, who was released from prison for decades and became president, and Sima Qian, who wrote "Historical Records". You can do it too."
Fang Suanxue was amused: "You mean, if I go to prison for 100 years, can I be better than them?"
"Can't you tell?"
"Hahaha."
People who are geniuses in some aspects are always weak in some aspects.Fang Suanxue was very helpless.
After turning the sand for more than two years, Fang Fanxue finally changed his job and changed to making bronze handicrafts.
This is his field of expertise. He got a lot of beeswax blocks and went back to the dormitory to carve them.
Wax is used to make a casting model, and then pottery embryos are used to fill the clay core and spread it into an outer mold. When the hot metal liquid flows in, the wax block will melt and then drain out, finally obtaining the desired decoration and shape.This method is called the lost wax method.
Hua Fa was more interested in these wax blocks than he was, and he would not let go of the tools when he picked them up. Fang Fanxue was also happy to have someone help him, sitting at the table and working with him.
"Why are you in prison?" Hua Fau blew on the wax block, blowing down the fine powder, with a normal tone.
Fang Suixue's movements faltered, and it was nothing to think about, trying to make his voice sound calm: "The case of cultural relics lost."
"Oh, stealing antiques." Hua Fai nodded, understanding the situation very well.
"It's not theft, it's a negligence that caused the loss." Fang Suixue corrected.
"Isn't it the same thing?" Hua Fa smiled.
"I didn't steal." Fang Suixue insisted, looking at him coldly.
"Okay, okay, I believe you, don't be angry." Hua Fa also stopped and apologized to him.
Fang Suixue narrowed her eyes, and her voice was harsh: "What is your reason?"
"I, I threw my imitation thing into the mountain, and was mistaken for a tomb robber, so I caught it." Hua Fa said helplessly.
"Gua Tian doesn't take off his boots, Li Xia doesn't wear a hat, who told you to go there." Fang Tanxue smiled.
"Are you gloating?" Hua Fa raised his eyebrows.
"No." Fang Fanxue said.
Hua Fa sighed: "We two are brothers and sisters, we are not the same. I should have known, I should have cut out all the words on the screen outside, so I could sell some money."
Fang Suixue was dumbfounded by his petty bourgeois mentality: "No wonder the metal engravings on ancient sites are always missing words and missing characters, and some even scratched the metal, so it was made by people like you."
"Be poor, always find a way not to let yourself starve to death."
"After you get out, don't do this again." Fang Suixue said sincerely, "Come find me if you can't make it through."
"Are you going to go out?" Hua Fai counted the days and suddenly looked at him with reluctance in his tone.
Fang Suanxue smiled lightly: "A few months earlier than you."
"When I get out of prison, can you come pick me up? You are the only friend I have." Hua Fa said softly.
"Okay." Fang Suanxue readily agreed.
Hua Fa's eyes brightened: "It's a deal."
"It's a word."
The first snow came again, and a few days before Fang Suixue was released from prison, everyone was called out to clear the snow.
A thick layer of snow is required to be swept and piled up, and finally an ice wall must be built.
Fang Suixue took the broom and said, "It's true that everyone swept the snow in front of the door."
Hua Fa walked up to him and swept it a few times and said with a smile: "But I can also help you sweep your door."
Fang Suixue looked at his small body, holding a big bamboo broom looked a little funny, poked him with the broom: "Just take care of yourself."
"The warden also said to build an ice wall. Snow is snow, no matter how thick it is, it won't turn into ice." Hua Fa sighed and fell into her own world.Just as he was in a daze, a snowball hit him, and when he turned around, he saw Fang Suixue's shoulders trembling, trying to hold back a smile.
Fang Fanxue, who has always been calm and composed, dared to tease herself. Hua Pai was also aroused to fight, picked up the snowball and threw it at Fang Fanxue.
The two happily had a snowball fight, and a few men taunted them from behind: "Fang Suixue, you're too bad at pity."
Fang Suixue's eyes turned cold: "What did you say?"
"You two have always been inseparable, and we can't get in. Are you leaving soon? If you leave, you won't be able to protect the flower raft. Hurry up and make room for us." A man said.
Through Ye Suilu's relationship, the warden will take extra care of Fang Suixue and will not allow anyone to embarrass him.The flower raft was protected by Fang Suixue, so they could only stare blankly and dare not approach it.Now that Fang Fanxue is about to be released from prison, they can no longer hide their dirty thoughts, and even start to show off their power in front of Fang Fanxue.
Fang Suanxue clenched his fists and stepped forward, but was stopped by the flower raft. He shook his head and told Fang Suanxue not to be impulsive.
"So what if you are angry? If you are really capable, you can take the flower raft out with you when you get out of prison, or, are you willing to stay in this damn place for a few more days?" The man was still provocative.
"It's none of your business what I do. If you dare to bully him, be prepared to be retaliated by me after you get out of prison."
As soon as these words came out, the men were all shocked.That's right, with Fang Suixue's back relying on Ye's such a strong backer, they will either hide in the cell forever and never go out. Once they go out, nothing can be left to them.
They were speechless and could only watch Fang Suixue lose her broom and pull the flower raft away.
Soon to be released from prison, Fang Suixue was at the factory, wiping the batch of handicrafts made by him and Huafa.These handicrafts are not sold as fakes, and the requirements for fidelity are not so high, as long as they are beautiful.He stroked and checked them one by one, as if saying goodbye to them.
When he touched the small tripods made of flower rafts, he found that there were uneven marks on the bottom. When he turned them over, he saw a flower-like imprint.
Sakura symbol.
At that moment, the nerves in his brain seemed to be burnt out, jumping and jumping.
He is very familiar with this symbol, because he has rubbed this symbol countless times, even carrying its imprint in his sleep.
When he examined the vase with an electron microscope, he found the symbol on the bottom.The engraving on the vase was very shallow, invisible to the naked eye. For a while, he wondered what it was, thinking that it might be a natural scratch.
But the traces on this bronze statue are very obvious, and they are completely exposed and open to the public.
It looks like it's showing off and demonstrating.
Xiao Heyue's pursuit of Han Xin's fake plum bottle was made by Hua Fa.Fang Suixue's palms were clenched tightly, her heart beating like a drum.
He gently put down the handicraft, and walked to the room of the person who had spoken ill of him and Hua Fu a few days ago.
The next day, Fang Suixue's sentence was extended for several months because of fighting with his inmates.
He didn't hurt people in any way, after all, he didn't want to drink, he just wanted to buy himself more time to talk in Hua Fu's mouth.On the contrary, those inmates were very cooperative. Since they had formed a dispute a few days ago, they were afraid that Fang would think that Xue would really do something, so they quickly called the warden over.
Huafa was surprised when she learned about this, Fang Fanxue only said that she couldn't help being angry with those people, it had nothing to do with him, and told him not to blame himself.
Hua Fa nodded and accepted his words.
But in the next few months, Huafa didn't reveal anything to Fang Suixue. Whenever he talked about cultural relics, he would be led by Huafa to change the subject.
Fang felt that Xueyue was getting more and more anxious, and was thinking about whether to repeat the same trick and extend the sentence for a few months, when the warden brought him another message.
Ye Suilu made a big fuss because Fang thought Xue couldn't come out at the due date, so she had to pick him up no matter what.Fang Suanxue wanted to continue to search for the truth, but had to compromise and follow the arrangement to get out of prison.
His intuition told him that Huafa definitely knew something about what happened back then.
Where is the real vase?Was the fake vase dropped by Huafa, or did someone take advantage of his craft?Too many questions are unknown.
On the day she was released from prison, Fang Suixue finally said to Hua Fa: "Xiao Heyue chased Han Xin Meiping, have you heard of it?"
Huafa helped him fold the prison uniform he had changed, and smiled softly: "It's a very famous bottle, of course I've heard of it."
"Do you know where that vase is now?" Fang Suixue's heart was pounding, he was very nervous about the answer that was about to come out, and at the same time he had a premonition that the truth might not be something he could bear.
"Xiao Heyue is chasing after Han Xin Meiping. It seems to be a pair. One is in the mountains, and the other is said to be in the hands of Ye Suichen, the president of the Ye Group. Which one are you referring to?"
The author has something to say: Xuexue: It must be the one in the mountains.
Memories are over~
armyinform