Glass Butterfly

Kawai Miu, who used to only show up near noon, showed up at nine o'clock in the morning for an unprecedented time.When Ruan Youqing opened the door and came in, she was standing in front of the tool table cleaning up a messy battlefield. She was busy from midnight last night until now, and the half-meter-high glass sculpture took shape.

"Have you stayed up late?" Kawai leaned closer to observe the work carefully, "I thought you could make jellyfish. Is it almost finished?"

"Well, soon." Ruan Youqing took off the leather apron, wiped it with a damp cloth and hung it behind the door.

Kawai said that he would be away for three days on a business trip to Tokyo, and there would be lectures and exchange meetings that he couldn't escape.Before he left, he asked, "How is Mr. Tang? Are you better?"

At this time, someone suddenly heard Tang Tu being mentioned, and my heart softened for no reason: "It's much better."

"Then we'll see you in two days." Kawai relieved and watched him leave.

Although the spring here is late, except for the morning and night, when there is sunshine, it can barely be considered warm.

He picked up a simple breakfast and tiptoed to open the door to change his clothes. When he entered the bedroom, he found that Tang Tu had already woken up, holding his phone and turning pale with anger.

"What's wrong?" Ruan Youqing went to the bedside, "Who is looking for you?"

"Noah... asked me if my chickenpox was cured..." Tang Tu glanced at the phone, "There are also Han Yi and Cheng Mo. Tsk, Zhang Wenbin is an idiot."

Ruan Youqing pulled out his tightly squeezed mobile phone and put it aside: "Get up and eat."

Tang Tu raised his eyes from the phone screen angrily, and the moment their eyes met, they hurriedly turned their heads away. The other party's face that had been pale with anger instantly turned a thick color of blood, and he fled the bedroom staggeringly, throwing off the quilt.Immediately afterwards, there was a persistent sound of water in the bathroom.

Originally, Ruan Youqing thought that the man would be too shy to face him, but after a while, Tang Tu seemed to have prepared himself mentally, and sat down across the dining table calmly, picked up the sandwich as if nothing had happened, and ate with him He chatted: "Where did you go? I woke up once at six o'clock, and you were not there at that time, and the quilt on the other side was cold."

"Studio." Ruan Youqing smiled, "I couldn't sleep, I wanted to do something...but you passed out."

Tang Tu was taken aback, then took a mouthful of food and chewed slowly, "I just fell asleep..."

Ruan Youqing didn't refute. Generally, people who are asleep can be woken up, but Tang Tu lost consciousness after closing his eyes. When Ruan Youqing helped him put on his pajamas, his limbs were limp and weak, which took a lot of effort.

"There is room for the Sunday night flight."

After breakfast, they nestled side by side on the sofa to bask in the sun, while Tang Tu booked the flight with the computer in his arms.

Counting that Tang Tu spent nearly a month with him in Otaru, this period of war and chaos was a new experience for both him and Tang Tu, which broke his peace and overturned Tang Tu's life. reserved.They were torn apart the gap in their inner world by each other, and gradually merged together.

"Youqing." Tang Tu whispered in his ear, "Go to bed and sleep."

Ruan Youqing raised his head, the sun was too warm, he just fell asleep leaning on the other's shoulder unknowingly.Tang Tu's shoulders were obviously not thick enough without the cover of the shoulder pads, and it was a little uncomfortable to wear only one layer of pajamas.He rubbed his sore side face, dragged Tang Tu up and went back to the bedroom to catch up on sleep. After they were full of sleep, they went to the studio together. He went to the studio to burn glass, and Tang Tu stayed at the desk to handle the work of the gallery. .

"In time." He comforted Tang Tu, "You will definitely be able to do it before you go back."

The experiment was successful. The cyan and green colors with fine flashes melted into the glass like smudged ink, and different angles reacted differently to the light, refracting a thin metallic luster.Tang Tu didn't bother him very much, he didn't watch or ask questions, and he didn't point fingers. He only came to the workshop to find him in the evening with a pack of fried chicken, and fed the boneless chicken nuggets into his mouth: "Eat a few minutes first." Put a cushion on your mouth." They stood at the door of the workshop and quickly ate the fried chicken that had cooled down. Fortunately, Japanese fried chicken is also delicious cold, especially for hungry people.

He put the completed part into Xu Leng Furnace, and it was past eleven o'clock after cleaning up.

The night in Otaru seemed to be getting shorter and shorter every day. They held hands and walked slowly along the deserted canal. Ruan Youqing took off the hearing aid, and neither of them spoke, just walked back slowly.

On the day Kawai rushed back from Tokyo, Ruan Youqing's work happened to be completed.

He deliberately moved the newly assembled works out of the workshop and put them in the bright atrium.The young ginkgo tree has been covered with tender green paper strips, casting a shadow in the courtyard, and the newly released works are placed under the tree.

The first time Kojima stepped into the atrium, he whispered to the shining sculpture: "Ah! It's so beautiful!"

Miwa Kawai, a master glass artist, did not comment in a hurry. She stood not far away and walked completely around the ginkgo tree. After watching for a long time, she stepped forward for a closer look.The sunlight is divided into bunches by the branches of the ginkgo tree, pouring on the glass branches, where more than [-] butterflies of different shapes are almost completely covering the trunk.Some folded their wings and perched quietly on the branches with their companions, while some spread their wings wide, with magnificent and changeable metallic colors on the surface of the wings, deep space blue and blue tones mixed together, like a clean and distant sky, and also like a sparkling sky. the lake.

Tang Tu had seen the trunk of the cherry tree made of glass before, but compared with it, the transparent trunk this time was still hollow, but there were some changes.It seems to be colorless at a glance, but once there is light, it is difficult to tell what its true color is, but it is somewhat similar to the few bubbles in the bubble, covered with lavender polarized light, creating such a Liquid-like flow of light.

"Youqing..." Kawai lightly touched the largest and most beautiful butterfly, and his voice became turbulent, "This is your masterpiece." She asserted, "It will also become your masterpiece."

This butterfly does not have a complete right lower wing. Instead, it is a piece of blue mesh tissue pulled out of glass filaments, like a piece of connected nerve dendrites, and the trunk just below the butterfly is covered with gemstones. shards of glass, as if falling from a residual wing.

"Although I used similar techniques, Youqing's style is much different from mine." Kawaii looked back at Tang Tu excitedly, "He is the most energetic and romantic child I have ever seen. Where did you find the baby? .”

Tang Tu was obviously more shocked than Kawai, but whenever he put on a suit, his emotions were habitually hidden, which made people a little unpredictable.Ruan Youqing didn't know whether he was surprised by this work of art, or just because of the butterfly with broken wings: "Yes, where did you find it." He looked at Ruan Youqing and asked, "Does the work have a name?"

"What do you think?" Ruan Youqing asked back, he thought Tang Tu must understand.

And the other party immediately confirmed his thoughts without any hesitation: "Rebirth."

They all understand that butterflies in reality do not have this ability, just like bunnies in reality cannot blow bubbles, but this does not prevent this beauty from being appreciated.They sent the work away together, Kawai almost wanted to celebrate him in advance, but Ruan Youqing and Tang Tu exchanged glances and rejected the teacher's kindness.

"There are people out there." Tang Tu said what he wanted to say for him.

So what if you are shortlisted, so what if you can participate in the touring exhibition, even if you win the grand prize, it is just a piece of work.It is neither the beginning nor the end.

They kissed on the window sill of the living room at night without turning on the lights. Ruan Youqing took off the suit for him by the clear moonlight and light outside the window. Tang Tu wanted to untie the black fixing belt tied around his thighs, but he hurriedly pressed his hands: " Don't untie it, keep this."

With a firm push, he made Tang Tu sit on the window sill and kissed his fierce heartbeat through the shirt.

"Take good care of... um... myself..." Tang Tu's words were broken into several fragments.

He put his fingers into the straps and pulled them loose, with a snap, an inconspicuous wave of flesh popped out of the smooth skin surface, Tang Tu froze, and then hugged him even harder.

"Does it still hurt?" Ruan Youqing asked next to his ear.

The other party shook his head vigorously, in the middle of his raised neck, his protruding Adam's apple rolled over, he couldn't wait, panted, opened his eyes, and lowered his head to urge.

......

"Aren't you going to keep me?" Tang Tu rushed him back with the shower, and finally asked.

Ruan Youqing shook her head: "It's been too long here, there must be a lot of work."

"I think so too? Don't you feel reluctant?" The shower was turned off, and Tang Tu took the lead in putting on a bath towel. Most of the chickenpox scabs fell off and replaced with a newborn tender powder, which would completely blend with the skin next to her in a short time.

"Fortunately, you always do what you like. I am the same. And aren't we together." Ruan Youqing thought hard, "I mean, we miss each other, so we are together."

"Looking aside." Tang Tu put a towel on top of his head and rubbed it casually, "Wipe it up and go to sleep. Didn't you say that you will take me to Sapporo tomorrow, to that Takahashi House." I don't know what came to mind. , Tang Tu inadvertently pursed his lips.

Ruan Youqing nodded and shook her head: "Don't say it."

"Ok?"

"I feel like Sapporo is a flag. Every time I say I want to take you there, something will happen. So don't say it..."

The first time was when her wrist was injured, and the second time was when Tang Tu fell ill... Ruan Youqing went back and forth to the place half an hour away by car, but this time was extremely difficult.

"Superstitious." Tang Tu put on his pajamas and nestled under the quilt, and soon fell asleep.After intimacy, he always fell asleep quickly.

After Ruan Youqing confirmed that he was asleep, she quietly opened the curtains of the bedroom, took out the hanging decorations made a few days ago from the storage cabinet in the kitchen, stepped on a chair and hung them on the curtain rails.

"Happy birthday." Due to the difference in biological clocks, Ruan Youqing can always wake up earlier than him.

"Huh?" Tang Tu was a little dazed, picked up his phone and looked at the date, and confirmed that he remembered his birthday correctly: "It's only next week..."

"It's ahead of time. Today is your birthday." Ruan Youqing pointed diagonally upward, "The gift is over there."

Tang Tu looked in the direction of his fingertips, and there was a string of irregularly shaped icicles hanging on the silver bed curtain rod.For a moment, he seemed to be back in the icy and snowy courtyard, where his warmest memories were stored. He only mentioned it once, but Ruan Youqing remembered it in his heart.At that time, his grandparents were still alive, and unlike his parents who were busy with their careers and concentrated on art, he experienced the love between ordinary family members in those short three years.

He lifted the quilt and stood in front of the window, reaching out to touch those lifelike glass cones, which are a string of ice that will never melt, and will hang in front of his window forever.

"Let's go to see the cherry blossoms." Ruan Youqing pushed him to wash and change clothes.But Tang Tu didn't want to leave here. From this moment on, he even began to look forward to the next winter of ice and snow.