Glass Butterfly

Kawai Meiyu stepped on a stool and wanted to hang a few wind chimes under the eaves of the atrium herself. The new assistant, the little girl, stood by with her arms outstretched in fear.Ruan Youqing was standing not far away eating expensive watermelon, which cost several hundred yen for a small bite.This was a farewell gift for him. Xiao Dao Kong stood aside and ate while lamenting that the time was too fast. Unexpectedly, it had been more than a year in a blink of an eye, and Ruan Youqing's contract ended at the beginning of July.

"Summer is here so soon, Youqing will come again when you have time." Kawaii raised his heels and hugged him.

He nodded: "Thank you teacher."

"Youqing is different now. How are you going to use the bonus?" Kawai looked at him with a smile.

"Let's buy equipment..." He hadn't thought about it in detail. Strictly speaking, he didn't even know that the Kanazawa Award had set a bonus before he got the award notice.The grand prize is 100 million yen, or about [-] yuan, which is not much, but you can purchase equipment or materials.

I heard from Kawai that the committee is currently preparing for the follow-up exhibition of award-winning works. The official website will announce the results after everything is ready. The works will stay here for three months. After deliberation, Ruan Youqing decided to return to China first. Sora Kojima helped deliver the work.

"By the way, did you tell Mr. Tang?" Kojima wiped the corner of his mouth that was stained with watermelon juice.

"Not yet." This is the first time Hao Lai has won an award. He has never found the right time to tell the other party. Recently, Tang Tu is busy with a calligraphy and painting exhibition. Such a nutritious greeting, it is impossible to interject at this time that I have won an award.

Ruan Youqing opened WeChat, and the most recent one was a sentence he sent to Tang Tu when he booked the plane ticket: Summer is here.

It was indeed Zhang Wenbin who came to pick him up at the airport, and he explained as soon as they met: "Boss is too busy these days, I really can't leave, you go to tea with me first."

Ruan Youqing naturally understood that he was dragging a large suitcase of luggage, and the newly bought camping backpack was also full. They were all souvenirs bought at the airport before leaving, mostly desserts and snacks.He took out a bag of Calbee Potato Chips limited to Northeast Hokkaido from the top of the backpack and handed it to Zhang Wenbin: "Sea urchin warship flavor."

"Oh oh oh!! Did you give it to me!" Zhang Wenbin widened his eyes, and solemnly hugged the plastic package into his arms, as if he had received some valuables, and sniffed his nose exaggeratedly, "Young Qing Teacher!! I'm so touched!!"

"Uh..." Isn't it just stuffed with a bag of potato chips...

"Boss came back and brought gifts for everyone...even the cleaning lady...but I didn't..." The other party opened the potato chips with great care, "because I accidentally told Cheng about his chickenpox. Brother Mo and Hanyi...Brother Cheng Mo happened to be talking to Noah..."

"Aren't you careful..." Ruan Youqing didn't want to expose him when he saw his despondent face, and took out a small box from his backpack, "This is for you too." Inside the box was a set of 6 miniature cats that Kawai made before leaving. The glass ornaments are her most representative cell organisms, and a complete set with a clearly marked price on the market will cost at least six figures.But when accepting gifts, their relationship is not between collectors and artists. This is the intention of Kawai as a senior and friend. These strange creatures let more people appreciate the charm of glass art.

The first thing he thought of was Zhang Wenbin, the servant who worked hard between him and Tang Tu.

"The work of Miwa Kawai. It is very expensive." He reminded the other party to cherish it, after all, it is the work of Japan's leading glass artist.

"Yeah... You are so handsome! You are too polite!" Zhang Wenbin pursed his lips as if he was about to cry, "Let's go, let's go back."

They went upstairs from Chuqing's underground parking lot, Ruan Youqing looked at the familiar elevator design with joy that had not been seen for a long time.He is about to meet his boyfriend who has been separated for more than two months, although he has not yet made up his mind how to speak the first sentence when they meet.

With a ding, the elevator stopped on the first floor. Zhang Wenbin habitually moved to the corner, pulling his sleeve to signal him to give way to the people waiting outside, but Ruan Youqing didn't move, standing in the middle of the elevator door.

Because he smelled a familiar smell.

There is a faint scent of incense in the lobby.There was also a messy smell in the elevator, and Zhang Wenbin behind him used perfume, a herbal tone.

But at the second before opening the door, he could clearly discern a gentle scent of soap wafting in from the outside of the elevator.As the metal door slowly opened to both sides, Tang Tu broke into sight, wearing a cream linen suit, holding his right wrist with his left hand, standing straight on the side of the elevator door, with a faint smile on his lips, looking ahead.

The moment the eyes collided, the seemingly absent smile on that face disappeared instantly, and then enlarged immediately, the eyebrows and the corners of the mouth curved together.None of them moved for a while, they just stood there quietly and looked at each other.

Ruan Youqing licked her lips and said softly, "I'm back."

"En. Are you tired..." Before Tang Tu finished speaking, the elevator doors were about to close again.Zhang Wenbin quickly pressed the button to open the door.

"Boss... Let's go up first and then talk slowly, don't stand in front of the elevator door." Xu Hanyi, who was following Tang Tu, pushed people into the elevator. Ruan Youqing didn't even notice that there were many strangers behind them just now.

They were separated by the crowd and stood on both sides, Ruan Youqing silently looked at his expressionless half face over those unfamiliar faces.

After finally arriving at Tu Bai's office on the top floor, he couldn't wait to be alone with him and complained about his longing after parting, but Tang Tu picked up the phone again.The other party motioned him to go into the deepest room and wait for him with his eyes.

The wait lasted for an hour. While waiting alone, Ruan Youqing put the raw chocolate in his backpack into the freezer of the refrigerator, and picked out two Kawai ornaments in his boredom, took them apart, and put them on Tang Tu's desk.The people outside the door were busy. He took off his hearing aid and lay down on Tang Tu's desk, and opened the winning email with his mobile phone.Sure enough, the first thing to say is this.

He browsed through the lengthy emails, and only two or three sentences were useful.

Thinking of the bonus, he opened a new page and searched for manufacturers of glass processing and production equipment.Compare the money in the bank account with the existing equipment in the old factory building in Venice to make the best choice.A new type of kiln costs tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands. After looking at it for a long time, I had to buy a few new blowpipes.

"Young Qing?" He was too devoted to writing on the paper, he didn't know when Tang Tu opened the door, "What are you doing?"

"It's nothing." He turned off the webpage and raised his head, "Are you off work?"

"No. Come in to see you. I'm going to have dinner with some artists and teachers. It's a celebration banquet for the exhibition. I can't accompany you for dinner. Let Zhang Wenbin take you back later." Tang Tu apologized, "I'm too busy." Today is fine. Wait for me."

Ruan Youqing turned the chair to an angle, carefully lifted Tang Tu's flat thin suit so as not to wrinkle it, and then hugged it by the waist, the side face just touching the other's soft belly.Tang Tu was taken aback for a moment, then hugged his head, buried her head in his hair and kissed lightly: "Welcome back. Thank you for your hard work."

He returned to a land that was much warmer than Hokkaido, bid farewell to the tranquility, and there were many emotions in his heart that grew together with the vitality of midsummer.He asked in a muffled voice, "Where am I going to wait for you?"

"You'll know when you get there." Tang Tu pulled him out of the chair, "Remember to ask Zhang Wenbin to leave you the key."

Ruan Youqing pushed with his strength, put one hand between the opponent's back and the wall, and put his head sideways to enclose the long-lost lips, and gradually kissed him in, and lasted until the person trembled slightly before letting go: "Then I go first."

When he opened the door, he looked back. Tang Tu was still leaning against the wall, eyes closed but smiling unabated, as if taking a deep breath to adjust back to work.

"Let's go handsome!" Zhang Wenbin leaned over and looked through the crack of the door. Ruan Youqing immediately closed the door with his backhand and pushed him out. Tang Tu's other appearance was not easy to show to others, and that was the secret of the two of them.He shared part of the presents with Xu Hanyi and Liu Yan, and left a glass ornament for Cheng Mo for the girls to pass on, then bid them farewell and left Tubai.

Ruan Youqing thought that Zhang Wenbin would take him to Tang Tu's house. After all, except for Tu Bai's people and his grandfather, no one else had heard of his return, so he had nowhere to go.But the car was driving in a different direction, and for a moment he thought it was because he hadn't come back for a long time and remembered the wrong way, but he didn't realize it was not until he got out of the Fifth Ring Road and the traffic gradually decreased.They stopped outside a red brick three-story building, the car turned off, and Zhang Wenbin got out of the car first to carry his luggage.

"Where is this?" Ruan Youqing asked.

"Huh? Didn't the boss tell you? It used to be an old warehouse, and the former owner was a friend of the boss. Now he sold all his business and went to live in seclusion in the mountains. So the boss bought it and remodeled it," Zhang Wenbin opened the door and took the string of silver Huang Huanghuang's key was solemnly handed over to him, "Now it's yours."

Ruan Youqing was a little dumbfounded. He opened the door to a spacious space with a height of at least two floors. The entrance was as big as a small bedroom. His graduation work was placed in front of the cement gray entrance wall. After watching for a while, the light disappeared by itself.As he dragged the box, it came back on again.It was replaced by induction lighting...

Pulling the luggage around the entrance wall, the first floor, which is more than [-] square meters in size, is divided into two by a black-frame lattice glass sliding door. Several brand-new machines and operating tables are placed in half of the space connecting the large outdoor balcony and the backyard. Material furnace color material furnace Xu Lenglu stood in the corner, neatly brushed with blue paint.On the separate workbench next to it are auxiliary tools such as various types of blowpipes and scissors. It is smaller than Kawai Miwa's studio, but not much inferior.

"The boss designed it himself. That area is your work area, and this half is the reception or rest area." Zhang Wenbin looked at his phone: "The upstairs is the kitchen and bedroom, so I won't go up. I have an appointment for dinner." After dinner, enjoy yourself slowly, see you later."

Ruan Youqing watched him go away like a gust of wind, and climbed up the stairs on one side alone.The second floor is the same spacious kitchen, dining room and living room. Opposite the sofa is a projection screen, and there is a small wine cabinet hidden in the kitchen.He didn't have the habit of drinking, so Tang Tu naturally prepared it for himself.

The bathroom connected to the bedroom is large and separated from wet and dry.A bottle of indoor fragrance was placed on the marble washstand supported by a metal frame. There were a few diffuser sticks standing on the mouth of the bottle, exuding a clean soap smell, which was colder than Tang Tu's smell.When you look up, you can see the blank picture frame reflected in the mirror, which seems to be empty.

He looked at the two toothbrushes with ceramic handles and muttered silently: "Are you living together..."

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Studio and cohabitation in one step!