Take what you need

Chapter 21

"Here we come." Professor Leif raised his head from behind the drawing board and glanced at him, then lowered his head to look for a brush in a pile of paint.

Xie Xingzhou walked to Leif's messy desk, found a clean brush and handed it over, "Teacher, the art exhibition is all set up, I made sure to go there yesterday, do you want to go and see it with me?"

Leif: "I don't want to go."

Xie Xingzhou said helplessly: "...All right! Anyway, you can come on the day of the opening."

This art exhibition was specially entrusted by Professor Leif to hold for Xie Xingzhou.

Professor Leif: "Ivy, is your painting finished?"

Xie Xingzhou: "Not yet, the lines are not smooth enough and I plan to change them."

Leif hummed lightly, and continued to immerse himself in the literature.

A year and a half ago, Xie Xingzhou met an old man who was also traveling by car. At that time, Xie Xingzhou was sitting in the front of the car painting. After seeing the oil painting, the old man insisted on taking Xie Xingzhou as his apprentice.

Xie Xingzhou didn't pay attention to his words, because the old man didn't look like a painter at all, and looked more like a tramp in ragged clothes.After being rejected, the old man drove and followed Xie Xingzhou all the way. Later, Xie Xingzhou was annoyed by being entangled, so he reluctantly agreed to him.

After that, I followed the old man to K University, only to find out that the old man turned out to be Professor Leif, a famous modern painter.

Professor Leif rarely accepts apprentices, each of his apprentices occupies a place in the art world, and Xie Xingzhou is his first closed disciple.This exhibition of Xie Xingzhou's paintings was completed with the help of Professor Leif, and it was also Xie Xingzhou's first step into the art world.

In order not to embarrass Leif, Xie Xingzhou hardly had a good night's sleep during the six months of preparing for the exhibition, and his mind was full of brushes, canvases and paints every day.

Fortunately, everything has been prepared now, and the exhibition can proceed smoothly without any accidents.Xie Xingzhou sat in the car and stretched, and decided to reward himself.

bar.

Xu Yunshan patted his left shoulder, went around and sat down on his right, "Whiskeyonice."

"What did you call me for?"

Xie Xingzhou's wine glass was placed by his mouth, and his lips pressed against the rim of the glass, and said, "Drinking alone is boring, come with me."

Xu Yunshan rolled his eyes at him, and looked around: "What's the matter today? You usually don't need someone to drink with you?"

The bartender behind the bar put the whiskey with ice on the bar and explained to him with a smile: "Ivy drove away all the handsome men and women who came to strike up a conversation today."

Xu Yunshan burst out laughing: "Are you ready to cleanse yourself?"

Xie Xingzhou didn't bother to pay attention to him, and drank the spirits in the glass in one gulp. He stood up from the chair and walked towards the dance floor in a chic way: "What's the use of being clean, let's dance."

Xu Yunshan just came out of the company, and his straight suit is not suitable for jumping around on the dance floor. He waved his hand at Xie Xingzhou: "I'm drinking here, you can dance by yourself."

It started to rain again for some unknown reason outside. The fine rain was mixed with cold wind. Pedestrians on the road were busy fleeing home, and the shops were closed one by one.Only here, the most famous red light district in District H, the exquisite and sexy European and American voice drives the excitement factor in everyone's body, Xie Xingzhou closes his eyes and his body sways to the rhythm, this place will not be disturbed by the strong wind and rain, because this is the center of the storm.

......

As soon as Qin Heng got out of the airport, it started to rain heavily. Tang Xiao looked at the tablet and said, "Boss, Missy won't let me book a hotel for you, she said she wants you to go to her house as soon as you get off the plane."

Qin Heng walked forward quickly holding an umbrella, and said, "Yes."

After arriving at Qin Yue's house, the nanny told Qin Heng that Ms. Qin was not at home. Qin Heng took the towel and wiped the water off her body and hair, and asked, "Where did she go?"

The nanny shook her head, "Miss didn't say anything."

Qin Heng pursed his lips: "Where is Little Moon?"

"Little Moon has already fallen asleep, sir, do you want to go up and have a look?"

"it is good."

In the baby room upstairs, a white and tender baby girl was lying on the pink cradle bed. Qin Heng walked into the room quietly after being disinfected.Little Moon was sleeping soundly, lying in a big character shape with bubbles still spitting out of her mouth.The corners of Qin Heng's mouth curled up softly, squatting on the side of the bed and lightly touching Little Moon's tightly clenched fist.

As soon as he left the room, Qin Yue called.

"Hello! Qin Heng, come and pick me up!!!" Qin Yue shouted at the top of the phone, Qin Heng frowned and moved the microphone away.

"I'm drunk, come and pick me up." Qin Yue's voice became smaller and smaller, probably drunk and fell asleep, and soon a strange female voice came from the phone: "Hi, hello, yes Is it Qin Yue's younger brother?"

"Ah."

"Qin Yue is drinking too much now, we can't take her back without driving, can you come and pick her up?"

Qin Heng sighed and rubbed his temples: "Okay, tell me the address."

"We're at the Galant's bar in the H block."

"Understood, please take care of her."

Tang Xiao was making the bed in the guest room, Qin Heng asked her for the car keys and drove to the bar.Because it was raining outside and there were not many cars on the road, Qin Heng arrived at the Galant bar in less than half an hour.

It was already late at night, when the cheers were boiling in the formal bar, and the deafening music made Qin Heng's head explode after a day of flying.He stood at the door pinching his temples, took a deep breath before going in.

Across the dance floor in the middle, he searched according to the direction given by Qin Yue's friend, and soon found Qin Yue in a booth who was drunk into a puddle of mud.

He walked over and patted Qin Yue's face: "Sister, wake up."

Seeing that she couldn't make it through, she immediately picked her up from the sofa, nodded to the friend on the side and left the bar.Qin Yue also lay restless in his arms, swearing at people in his mouth, and even punched and kicked Qin Heng.

"Scumbag, dead scumbag."

Qin Heng reluctantly put her on the back seat, and covered her with a blanket for a whole day. "All right, scumbag, he's a scumbag."

After closing the door of the back seat, Qin Heng realized that Qin Yue seemed to have forgotten his bag inside.

When crossing the dance floor again, Xie Xingzhou suddenly saw a familiar profile, and uncontrollably wanted to chase after him, but there were too many people. He was crowded by the crowd, and when he waited to look over again, the familiar profile had already disappeared. disappeared.

Qin Heng stood on the spot and looked around but couldn't see the familiar face again.

He lowered his head and pressed his hands into fists against his forehead, thinking that he must be too tired to have hallucinations.

In the alley outside the back door of the bar, Xu Yunshan leaned against the wall panting, shouting: "Did you see a fucking ghost? Running so fast?"

Xie Xingzhou followed the breath in his chest, "It's scarier than seeing a ghost."

"Damn it!" Seeing his expression, Xu Yunshan seemed to guess something, and asked, "Could it be...you saw Qin Heng?"

Xie Xingzhou gave him a look to shut him up.

"I'm going, it won't be so coincidental, will it?"

Xie Xingzhou leaned against the wall side by side with him, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case, and slowly puffed out the smoke ring, "What's such a coincidence?"

Xu Yunshan reached out and took out a cigarette from his cigarette case, lit it with the lighter in his hand, and said, "The day before yesterday, our company recently had a cooperation with Qin, and they sent a representative to discuss cooperation with me. No I thought it was him!"

Xie Xingzhou sneered: "How can you still cooperate?" After all, what happened last time nearly bankrupted the Qin family.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Xu Yunshan said vaguely: "In the face of absolute interests, there is no eternal enemy. Now there is a big piece of cake in front of us. Only the two of us can cooperate to eat it."

Xie Xingzhou glanced at him and walked towards the exit of the alley. He dusted off the cigarette ash and said, "Unfortunately, I don't like cakes."

Xu Yunshan ran after him and caught up with him, "Tell me what happened to you two?"

Xu Yunshan glared at him: "If you don't gossip, you will die?"

"That's not true, just curiosity." Xie Xingzhou walked forward in the rain without an umbrella, his hair and the clothes on his shoulders were soaked.Xu Yunshan quickly stepped forward to hold an umbrella for him, and when he was about to reach the entrance of the alley, the light in front of him was suddenly covered by a black shadow, Xie Xingzhou raised his head from under the umbrella, and when he saw the face of the person in front of him, his brain suddenly went blank for two seconds Zhong, the two looked at each other for a long time, carefully confirming whether the other was the person they were thinking of.

The sound of the rain in the ear became more and more clear. The heavy rain composed a melody of reunion for them that night. Xie Xingzhou took the cigarette from his mouth, slightly raised the corners of his lips, and said with a smile, "Long time no see."