Glass Butterfly

I don't know whether the edge of the lawn has been trampled too much or the weather is dry, but the young grass sprouts that are still energetic in late spring are limp and lying on the edge of the stone in summer.

Walking in the shade of the trees along the way, occasionally spots of light fell from the gaps in the leaves, and my eyes suddenly brightened and then darkened again.

Ruan Youqing opened the plastic curtain of the small supermarket, and the temperature difference between the inside and outside of the air-conditioned room made goosebumps all over her body.

He crossed the rows of small snacks and daily necessities shelves, went straight to the freezer and searched through the transparent glass, quickly opened the door, grabbed a blue-packaged wave soda popsicle with a clear purpose, closed the After confirming that there was no gap in the door, I turned around and went to the cashier.

The El Niño phenomenon made this summer hot early, and there were occasional high temperature days exceeding 35 degrees in June. It coincided with the graduation exhibition and was busy running and working as half a decoration worker. Everyone was sweating until the fabric was tight. The skin is tightly adhered, and it takes two sets of clothes on the same day to get by.

Ruan Youqing tore open the popsicle packaging, and on the wooden stick were square translucent baby blue ice bricks, which were refreshingly cool in midsummer.He took off the metal black earplugs, and the chaos around him immediately became blurred, like the familiar cicadas, running water, buzzing, buzzing, and soon turned into negligible white noise.

He had some hot flashes in his ears after plugging it up all morning. He let go of his hand and only held the popsicle with his teeth. He tore open the package and cleaned the earplugs with alcohol pads, and threw the thing that looked like a Bluetooth headset into his pants pocket.At this moment, the world has finally returned to the quiet zone that belongs to him alone.

He sneaked out of his busy schedule and stood at the door of the small supermarket, slowly eating popsicles. There was always some air-conditioning leaking from the gaps in the plastic PU curtains, and the surrounding was bustling. Occasionally, someone would glance sideways at him, and he would look back calmly. Most people would avoid his gaze, female. No matter what age they are, children are like birds, full of curiosity but shy.

The past half a month has been the art exhibition of their graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts, and it is open to outsiders at the same time. In order to attract students, they have done a lot of marketing. Celebrities in history, the first half of the volume is the introduction of the works of the postgraduate graduation exhibition in July, and the second half of the volume is the content of the undergraduate graduation exhibition.Seriously speaking, their Academy of Fine Arts can be regarded as a traditional famous school, especially the few instructors in the academy are all famous figures in the art circle. Last quarter, there was a work of his former mentor Li Yunchuan at the Hong Kong Art Auction, a new Chinese style oil painting , it was sold at a sky-high eight-figure price, which has become a topic in the art world and even on the news. When Ruan Youqing was volunteering at the exhibition these days, it was natural that high school parents who brought their children asked about this legendary Characters, it is said that I want children to look up at the master's paintings.While politely guiding them to the exhibition hall, Ruan Youqing expressed regret that, unfortunately, this is an exhibition of student works, and there are no paintings by retired tutors.

Even if such a precious work is exhibited to the public, it will only be in a clean and elegant art museum, how could it be in this messy place?

He thought in his mind that if no one noticed that he was not there after eating the popsicle, he might as well go back to the dormitory to pack up his things.Anyway, there was a mixed bag of good and bad people at the scene. Except for a few industry seniors and invited critics and photographers, less than half of the people who really saw the exhibition were probably less than half of them.The non-threshold exhibition has caused many children who have just had a holiday to be brought by their parents to join in the fun. The most important task for the graduates every day is to spare a group of people to protect the works on site from being destroyed by the children who are not serious. Some of the works were poisoned in the two sessions, but they all disappeared in the end. After all, children can deal with most problems when they are young.

At this time, Ruan Youqing felt a little lucky. The good location of the exhibition hall was always given to easel art such as western painting and traditional Chinese painting, which accounted for at least 90.00%, and the rest was mostly photography and calligraphy.His works are in the corner of the small exhibition hall, which is one of the few sculpture works in this session. Many people don’t go in at all. At his personal request, there are no lights around, so it is easy to be ignored, but if you meet someone who is interested, you will naturally Discover the mystery.

He made up his mind to go back to the dormitory, but the mobile phone in his pocket vibrated untimely. He took it out and saw that it was the senior who told him to go back to the exhibition hall immediately, someone wanted to see him.The senior sister used a row of exclamation points in her two sentences. Ruan Youqing chewed off the popsicle in two or three bites, took out a tissue and wiped her hands while trotting all the way to the exhibition hall, carefully passing through crowds of people.

Senior sister is one of the persons in charge of Zhanzi, and she has always cared about her juniors and girls, and she never lied to anyone, saying that someone was in a hurry to find him, it must not be some insignificant cat or dog, maybe it was someone introduced by the tutor?Or maybe someone took a fancy to his craftsmanship, or introduced him to a job?Ruan Youqing has spent a lot of trouble on this recently, it would be great if it is.

During the whole year of his senior year, he did not find a satisfactory way out. Seeing that the graduates of the same department had settled down one by one, some went to graduate school, some changed careers, some went to a game design company, and some went to a design institute. I advised him to change his direction and not focus on playing with glass, a niche material. Even oil painting, a traditional project recognized by the market, is very difficult to do pure art, let alone glass art that cannot be developed by a single major.The instructor also said that ten years later, there may not be a second student who uses glass as the main medium, which is naturally unconvincing.If you want to find a way out, you still have to base yourself on reality.

So Ruan Youqing submitted his resume to the design company honestly, even if he didn't make glass, he could still make a living by other crafts.But because of his hearing impairment, he encountered many obstacles.The tutor introduced him to an interior lighting design company. After HR read his resume, he ignored the work, but the conversation turned directly to why he went to school with healthy people since he was a child, and did not go to a special school for the disabled.It was a long story, and facing a few pairs of curious eyes, he didn't feel offended but he didn't want to over-emphasize the twists and turns, so he just told them a brief version: "At the beginning, the family didn't find the problem of hearing impairment. , There is no problem with school grades, it has always been like this, let nature take its course."

This beginning aroused other people's interest: "Have you always spoken so slowly?"

This statement is a bit impolite, and Ruan Youqing doesn't know whether it's because she wears her hearing aid late, or because she was born with it, in order to speak clearly, she always speaks slower than ordinary people.But it is only a few beats slower, and the articulation is clear.

After more than half an hour of the interview, he silently crossed out the company. Of course, others may not accept him. Most of the long chats were because it was the first time he saw a hearing-impaired person applying for a job. It was fresh.It’s okay to chat, but when it comes to recruitment considerations, this must be a minus item, even if the other party knows that he is no different from a normal person with a hearing aid.

After that, I went to a few places I was interested in and tried it, and the situation was similar, so I asked him to wait for the notice.On his resume, he did not state his hearing impairment. This was the result of a joint discussion between the senior and the tutor, in order to prevent others from being filtered out in the first pass before showing up.

"You have to let them see you in person, so that they don't see the word hearing impaired and somehow associate it with a sick image." The senior sister said: "A considerable part of HR is girls, and your image is enough to make up for it. Other weaknesses are strengths! Who doesn't like good-looking colleagues!" She didn't seem to be joking, but analyzed seriously: "Even if you feel unsuitable for a while, I will definitely remember you as a person. There will be vacancies in the future Maybe I can think of you. Believe me, people are visual animals, especially those who are engaged in art. If you are handsome, you should use it. Don’t feel embarrassed.”

Ruan Youqing followed suit dubiously, but the facts were not as the senior sister expected. Everyone is obviously very rational in front of the interests.

The graduation exhibition is limited due to safety considerations. There are people waiting in line at the entrance of the exhibition hall. Some people read the brochure carefully to see the works and the author's profile, but most of them use the A5-sized brochure as a fan, and the sweat in the hall is blown out. smell and perfume.Although the building is not as hot as outside, it is still stuffy when there are many people. Many men in suits have long since ignored their appearance, took off their jackets, unbuttoned a button or two at the collar of their shirts, and took them from their female companions in embarrassment. Wipe your neck with a tissue.Ruan Youqing looked around but didn't see the senior sister, took out his mobile phone and walked upstairs with few people, but was dragged by his arm at the corner of the stairs, when he looked up, the senior sister was talking to him, the surrounding was noisy, vague It can be heard: "This way."

He was caught off guard and dragged in front of strangers like this, without even wiping the sweat off his forehead.

The other party was quite different, with his hair neatly pulled back to reveal his light and handsome facial features, he looked at him leisurely, like those young and promising elites on the TV screen, but he didn't have the conceit of a domineering president, maybe because his eyes were clear and soft , neither sophisticated nor arrogant.

In this hot weather, the man's formal attire is not sloppy, a powder blue T-shirt in a breathable linen pane suit, trousers with one side showing ankles and a pair of matte carved Oxford shoes.He kept a distance of one and a half meters from Ruan Youqing, exuding a faint scent of soap, which makes people think of a clean and tidy white shirt hanging upside down on the roof, which is transparent by the sun and flutters in the breeze. It doesn't seem so annoying on a hot day up.

Ruan Youqing raised his eyes, and the man kept a decent smile all the time, a pair of thin metal-rimmed glasses resting on his straight nose, covering some small eyesight.The other party moved his mouth, even if he couldn't hear it clearly, he could tell from the shape of his mouth that it was a very ordinary sentence: "Hello." He took a step forward and slightly leaned forward to extend his hand to Ruan Youqing.

Ruan Youqing was glad that he didn't like sweating his hands and was not too embarrassed, he shook that hand lightly, looked down and saw the natural and beautiful leather strap wrapped around his thin wrist, and replied softly: "Hello. "

The man let go and took a small step back. Ruan Youqing touched the hearing aid in his pocket with one hand through the fabric and hesitated. It seemed that he had missed the best time now. He really didn't want to put them on his ears in public. It was inevitable that there would be another round of politeness. Although the other party didn't look like someone who would embarrass others, he really didn't want to teach strangers about hearing impairment and hearing aids anymore.

The surroundings were noisy, so he could only stare at the pair of vibrating lips. Fortunately, the other party spoke clearly and did not slack off, and he could handle it with the help of smooth intonation and lip shape.

"I just saw your work in the exhibition hall. It's very interesting, so I asked Yuyao to introduce it to me. It's really disturbing." The man said and smiled at the senior sister beside him, and the two looked familiar. The senior sister's cheeks were abnormally red, and she looked at the man with a smile, her pupils were brightly lit: "No way, my dad said let me learn more from you."

Looking at her, Ruan Youqing couldn't help but think of the word "puberty".But everyone has a love for beauty, and how many people would be indifferent to seeing such a personable, gentle and successful person.

The elder sister's name is Li Yuyao, she is the only daughter of his former tutor Li Yunchuan, she has studied oil painting for many years since she was a child, but she prefers sculpture when she grows up, and she is currently a sophomore in graduate school.The elite in front of her called her so intimately, and it seemed that she had a close relationship with her. Most likely, she was also a collector or investor in the art circle.After all, it is not easy to have friendship with Li Yunchuan, a master of Chinese oil painting. Mr. Li has always been high-spirited, and he cannot make friends with non-celebrities.

So what would such a person do for him?

Ruan Youqing nodded and waited patiently for the next sentence.

"My name is Tang Tu, and I'm an art dealer. Of course, I also have the habit of collecting..." He stopped abruptly at the beginning of his words, Ruan Youqing looked away from his pale lips Moving to the eyes, he found that the coolness flashed across them, and the expression between the brows and eyes stagnated.

Although it wasn't obvious, this person's peaceful mood swayed, and a trace of resistance flashed in his eyes.

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It's a little slow, I hope you like it.