Glass Butterfly

"What's wrong? Youqing?" Kojima brought him a cup of coffee.

He shook his head and crouched next to his trash can to rummage through.

This is not the first time.It was the same a few days ago, he entered the production area from early in the morning and soaked in it all day, until the evening.As usual, he took off the hearing aid and threw it on the closed laptop to take a shower to get off work, but after changing his clothes and returning to the desk, he found that the hearing aid on the laptop had disappeared.The others had already left, so he rummaged through the entire public area by himself, and finally found it in the trash can next to his desk, covered by a few pieces of A4 waste paper.

... The last time I encountered this kind of low-level prank was in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school... Ruan Youqing was really surprised by this. Watanabe Minato didn't seem like someone who would do such things to vent his anger, although the other party never concealed his love for him Discrimination and hostility.

In order to avoid the same situation from happening, he deliberately brought the drying box together. Every time he took off the hearing aid, he would put it in the box carefully, but this time even the box was thrown away together.

"Youqing? Are you looking for something?" Xiao Dao Kong saw that he was silent, so he squatted next to the trash can with him to sort out the waste paper peels he dumped.

No, there's nothing in the trash can... Where would it be... Wouldn't it be really thrown outside?That's not a prank or an understatement...

I don't know if it's because of the cleverness developed by being Kawai's assistant, Kojima looked him up and down and pointed to his ear: "Is it possible that I can't find this?"

Ruan Youqing nodded and looked at the trash cans of the others.He naturally skimmed over to get the one, walked to the small island table and squatted down.

"Not here, I took out the garbage before I left yesterday..." Kojima fell silent after speaking halfway.

Ruan Youqing grabbed those suspicious blank A4 paper balls, underneath which seemed to be his hearing aids.The lid was removed, and the dry pack and two hearing aids fell to the bottom of the trash can.

He took out the things, tore off the alcohol pads he carried with him, and wiped the earplugs inside and out. Fortunately, the trash can was still clean.

"Youqing! Me, I don't know why it's in my trash can... I really..." Kojima explained in a panic.

Ruan Youqing turned her head and saw that the bottom of the scarf she had no time to take off in the future was tightly held by the girl, so she hurriedly smiled at him: "I know it's not you."

"But..." Kojima showed embarrassment.

Ruan Youqing can understand her struggle.She didn't do the thing, so it was naturally Watanabe who did it.But as long as the other party doesn't admit it, such trivial matters will not do any good except to make the working atmosphere stiff.

"It's okay. Go get busy. I'm going to do something." Ruan Youqing turned around, but the girl grabbed her sleeve.

"Go after breakfast... You stayed up all night yesterday..." Kojima Sora took out a rice ball from a brown paper bag and handed it to him, "Don't do things hungry." After finishing speaking, he dragged a chair and sat on him beside.Ruan Youqing felt a little hungry when she saw the plump and white rice grains in the transparent packaging of the rice ball, so she took it and said thank you.

"Youqing, Teacher Kawai likes you very much. She said that you will definitely become a glass artist comparable to her." Kojima Sora took a sip of his coffee, "But Mr. Watanabe has not been recognized like this for so long. He may just be unable to accept you for a while...a moment of confusion..."

Ruan Youqing remembered that Tang Tu also said something similar, as long as there are many years of practice, everyone can become an excellent craftsman, but there are very few artists, because it involves creativity and requires talent.This means that many people can't become artists even if they work hard all their lives, and the truth is cruel.

Ruan Youqing once again understood that the Japanese are afraid of trouble and like to maintain a polite character on the surface.But he didn't want to do anything at first, so he went to complain in front of Kawai?Watanabe's daring to be so blatant is just because he feels that he is not familiar with the place here and has no backing. In addition, he sees Miu Kawai's naive nature and has no intention of caring about these vulgar right and wrong.

"I won't ask him." Ruan Youqing finished eating the rice ball, "Thank you for your breakfast. Don't worry, we won't quarrel."

This kind of childish behavior is not worthy of Ruan Youqing's heart. It is nothing more than assigning keys to the drawers afterwards, storing all personal items properly, and trying not to leave them in public areas.He was not interested in knowing whether the other party did this out of envy of his peers, or discrimination against the hearing-impaired, or maybe he simply hated foreigners.None of this matters, that's not what he came here to do.

After half a month of continuous rotation, Mr. Kawai came to see the progress every weekend, and finally completed the whole work as scheduled.

He watched Miu Kawai making the final adjustments alone, while Watanabe stood in front of him and handed over the tools graciously, and couldn't help but praise it as a masterpiece.

"It's the result of our joint efforts." Kawai is in a good mood, "You have worked hard these days, and you and Youqing. It was completed a week earlier than I expected, so we can take a good rest for a few days."

Kojima went to a nearby store to buy fried chicken and sushi, and by the way, opened her favorite red wine for Kawai. Ruan Youqing shied away from drinking and opened a bottle of marble soda to clink glasses with them.

"Why do you drink such a childish thing..." Kawai shook the large glass that didn't match her figure, "That's right, you're still a child... How old are you?"

"Under 24 years old." Sora Kojima answered for him.

"You're so young... Tang Tu showed me your work for the first time, and I was really surprised. I wondered if this could be done by someone who just graduated. Obviously, life has just begun."

Chuai reached out and squeezed Ruan Youqing's strong arm. She occasionally squeezed it like this when co-creating, with a look of envy, "Youqing, you know, it may be the reason why you are here." She stared at Ruan Youqing's Hearing aids, hang your fingers in front of your ears and gesture, "So you have a pair of particularly bright eyes. You also have a young and powerful body, a gentle and steady heart, and more importantly, a free and imaginative soul. Be good. Appreciate that talent."

The artist's expression is always sensational and generous, Ruan Youqing tapped the wine glass in her hand with a translucent blue glass bottle: "Thank you."

Watanabe Minato, who was still smiling at first, obviously collapsed, drank the red wine in one gulp, turned around and took out a set of glass wine vessels.

Contains a burgundy wine glass and a diamond-shaped decanter: "Mr. Kawai, this is for you. Next week is your birthday, but I am going to participate in the glass exhibition in Osaka, so I will give it to you in advance."

"Ah! It's so beautiful. Thank you!" Kawai didn't look very happy when he took the exquisite gift box, but asked briefly, "Did you just make it? I've been so busy recently, didn't it delay you from making your own work? "

"Where is it, my things are still not comparable to the teacher's. I only made a few sets of inferior products that are not eye-catching. But only the teacher's set is a Burgundy cup. After all, this is your personal hobby. I made it specially. adjustment."

"That's it, anyway, thank you, Watanabe-kun." Kawaii handed the box to Kojima Sora and motioned for her to put it away.

It was only then that Ruan Youqing realized what this colleague was busy with recently, no wonder he didn't have time to do the part that Kawai gave...

"Teacher, it's almost time for us to go back." Sora Kojima took away the empty wine bottle for Kawai, "Everyone needs to rest."

"That's right. Then, we'll see you later!" Kawai stood up awkwardly, "Ah, it's almost August...the flowering season in Furano is coming to an end, it seems that this year won't be able to catch up... I haven't visited for a long time It's..."

Kojima Sora pushed her to the door. Although it was summer, it was still cool after the sun set. She took out a thin knitted cardigan and handed it to Kawai: "Teacher, please get dressed and wait for me in the car. I'll take you home right away."

"Sorry, I don't know the teacher's birthday next week, so I may not have time to give you anything..." Ruan Youqing helped Kojima Sora clean up the mess.

Seeing Watanabe leaning aside to bid farewell to Kawai, the girl suddenly whispered, "It's been hard lately. I know, you've done most of it." Kojima winked at him, "And the teacher just looks confused, she should I also know, I blame Watanabe for being too attentive. She thought you two were rushing to work, but she didn't expect that person to do so many other things..."

Ruan Youqing shook her head: "It's very interesting to be a teacher's design. It's just that the time limit is too short and I'm afraid it will be too late."

"To be honest...a person with no talent like me can more or less understand Watanabe's jealousy. I really envy people like you...You are still so young and you have already left older people behind. behind."

Ruan Youqing thought of Tang Tu inappropriately again.

That person also had a similar argument, always emphasizing that he is an ordinary person, a businessman, and cannot be an artist.There is a little regret in those words, but there is no element of jealousy. When talking to him, Ruan Youqing always feels flattered by being understood and cherished.

The next day, he finally got enough sleep. At noon, he went to the station to buy a ticket to Furano, and took the time to see the lavender fields that were about to be out of season.It's a pity that countless tourists want to catch the tail of summer just like him. The lavender hills are full of girls taking pictures. He has to walk slowly along the sea of ​​flowers to a small shop not far away. At least he can taste the lavender lavender. ice cream.

The temperature in the afternoon was neither too hot nor too cold. He waited patiently in the ice cream line when a simple butterfly flew over and landed on the sleeve of his T-shirt. , black wing veins, white background, half of the warm light passes through its translucent wings, Ruan Youqing heard the tourists behind him whispering in Chinese: "Wow, butterfly! Take a quick shot!"

He didn't bother the girls behind him, pretending that he didn't understand and didn't see it.Unexpectedly, this little butterfly followed him all the time.

Ruan Youqing held up the ice cream and took a photo with the intertwined flower fields of various colors like a patchwork pattern in the distance as the background. The butterfly happened to fly up at this moment and moved to the back of his hand.

"If you like me so much, do you want to go back with me?" He whispered, "If you don't go...we went to buy potted plants for you?"

He carried a luxuriant lavender potted plant back to the apartment, and the icy silk butterfly fluttered around the clusters of branches in his arms all the way.

Before going to bed, he posted another circle of friends, with the text: new roommate.

Sure enough, it didn't take long before someone called him.

He just pressed the answer button and spoke to Convenience, as if he believed that he would not take the initiative to speak: "Going out to play?"

"Yeah. Furano, look at the flower fields."

Tang Tu smiled: "How are you doing recently? Are you used to it? The studio environment."

They haven't been in touch for a month.Ruan Youqing went to Watanabe Minato's various activities, and only said: "It's very good, I made a lot of things, Mr. Kawai is great. The environment is great, I like this place very much. Thank you for sending me here..."

"...You..." The person on the opposite side smiled lightly, and then sighed, "You don't have to report good news and not bad news like this. Are you wronged?"

"...Huh?" Ruan Youqing opened his eyes in a drowsy state.

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The teacher is good at complimenting people...