Glass Butterfly

Ruan Youqing stood up straight, mechanically smiling at the camera of the mobile phone who didn't know how many times today, he spent almost all of this week like this.

His name is accompanied by "healing sculptor", "magician of glass", etc., and titles with a middle-level atmosphere appear frequently on social networks.Young people who like to watch exhibitions, industry seniors and critics, media reporters and individual collectors have appeared at this art exhibition that has aroused topics during the Golden Week. Hundreds of thousands of faces come and go every day before his eyes. In the past, he almost suffered from face blindness.

"I'm more handsome!! My face is so small, so photogenic!" Several girls who bought his glass paperweight chattered before they even walked out the door.Ruan Youqing sighed wearily, and answered countless personal questions that had nothing to do with the work throughout the day, and he repeated it more than a dozen times about hearing impairment alone.

Taking advantage of the lack of people, he sneaked out of the exhibition hall and went upstairs to hide in the empty office to rest. There was still a half-eaten black tea chiffon cake on Tang Tu's table. It was the morning when senior sister Li Yuyao came to see the exhibition with her father. Gift for him.There was a lot of people on weekends, and the exhibition was too hot. They didn't have time to have a good lunch, so they took turns going upstairs to share a cake mat.

I haven't seen my senior for a long time, and I haven't seen my tutor in college for a long time.This kind of reunion is very dignified. Every elder patted him on the shoulder and praised him with relief. Only the senior sister asked mysteriously: "Really, are you in a relationship?"

He neither admits nor denies, as many cameras and eyes are on him.Tang Tu has also kept a distance from him recently, saying that there are enough gimmicks this time, don't let other things divert the focus of the art exhibition, after all, what needs to be paid attention to also falls on the artwork itself.

"Youqing? Wake up, don't sleep here." Tang Tu rubbed his fingertips on the back of his sore neck, almost touching his ears to wake him up softly.In fact, it wasn't the sound that woke him up, but a gust of air rushing in.

He got up from the writing desk, busy putting the hearing aid back into his ears: "How long have I been asleep?"

Tang Tu patted his hand: "Not long, it's over." Then, he touched his ear and took off the hearing aid, "Don't take it, let's go home."

After several days of busy work, everyone in Tubai lost weight visibly, and the journey back was unusually quiet, even Zhang Wenbin, who was always noisy, remained silent and concentrated all his energy on driving.

"Come pick me up an hour tomorrow morning or evening..." Before getting off the car, Tang Tu patted the driver's seat and told the hard-working little driver, "Go back and rest early."

"Okay, then I'll come over at 09:30." As he spoke, Zhang Wenbin yawned, restarted the car and left.

They went into the house to change their shoes, and the entrance was empty without the lighting of the mushrooms.Ruan Youqing stared at the place where the old cabinet was originally in a daze, Tang Tu pushed him on the back: "I guess I won't be able to get it back. Many people have fallen in love these days."

"Huh? Uh..." In fact, he wanted to say that it's okay, and he can do other things.But being consumed by this week, Ruan Youqing felt that her soul had gone out of her body, and her mouth could not keep up with her brain.

"Our young teacher is exhausted?" Tang Tu couldn't help laughing when he saw him in a daze. Recently, too many people called him one teacher at a time, but Tang Tu's voice was different, which was heart-wrenching. Itching, seeing him staring blankly, Tang Tu pushed his back into the room: "Go up and take a bath first, tomorrow is the first day after the end of the Golden Week, everyone has returned to work and there are probably not many people, before the weekend you There is no need to go there."

Ruan Youqing nodded desperately as if she had received an amnesty.He has lived for more than 20 years, and this is the first time he has forced himself to bite the bullet and participate in a social event of this scale: "What about you?"

"I'm still going. Besides the exhibition downstairs, I have other things to deal with." Tang Tu followed him upstairs, reached out and took off their suit jackets and threw them on the stairs behind him.In the past, Ruan Youqing felt that Tang Tu's habit was not in line with his exquisite personality, but today he deeply realized the feeling of not wanting to move his fingers when he returned home after a busy day. Let's tidy up after getting up tomorrow...

Tang Tu helped him put hot water that was level with the last rib, and added a drop of frankincense essential oil: "The water is too deep and it will be uncomfortable, so you can soak for a while." Ruan Youqing stepped into the bathtub and closed his eyes in the relaxing aromatic steam. on the eyes.

"Don't sleep in the bathtub, just rest for a while." Tang Tu took a small glass bowl from the refrigerator downstairs, dug out a scoop of ice cream and stuffed it for him: "The hair hasn't been washed yet, it's all pomade."

When Ruan Youqing thought that Tang Tu lived such a life all year round, he felt admiration spontaneously: "You are so amazing..."

Tang Tu ignored it, took off the shower next to the bathtub and turned it to mild mode, and tested the water temperature on his own hands: "Head up." Ruan Youqing stuffed a spoonful of ice cream, and leaned her neck against the neck pillow at the end of the bathtub.Tang Tu covered his forehead with one hand, and the warm water slid down to the sides avoiding his face, so that he could meet the other's soft eyes when he looked up.The same soft hands rubbed the foamed shampoo into his scalp, massaged with moderate strength, and the accumulated fatigue was eliminated in all directions. He soaked in hot water and ate ice cream, enjoying the comfort of his lover, gradually Flutter up.

"Have you ever washed someone else's hair?" Ruan Youqing asked.

"Yes." Tang Tu's answer was unexpected.

"..." Ruan Youqing blinked her eyes, choked up her throat and didn't know how to answer it.

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, Tang Tu added casually: "When I was young, my neighbor had a very cute fox terrier, pure white, very obedient, and I gave him a chewing stick when I bathed it... ..."

Ruan Youqing raised the dug full spoon and stuffed it into Tang Tu's mouth. He had never been able to speak eloquently, so he could only play a trick.Use the last bite of ice cream this time, and kiss him directly next time.

"Get up, go to sleep." Tang Tu washed the foam off his head and patted him on the shoulder to make him stand up.

"You haven't washed it yet." Ruan Youqing put the spoon in a small bowl, placed it carefully on the window sill, and reached out to Tang Tu.

The other party obviously misunderstood what he meant, and while stretching out his hand to pull him up, he replied, "I'll finish washing right away, you first... hey!" With a low cry, Tang Tu was dragged into the bathtub by him, and the water level immediately rose a few centimeters.

While he was in a trance, Ruan Youqing pulled off the belt around his waist with one hand, peeled off the soaked bathrobe and threw it out of the bathtub: "You washed it for me, so I will help you too."

"Hmm...don't make trouble, I'm going to... the gallery tomorrow..." Tang Tu staggered his lips to avoid kisses, and Ruan Youqing didn't chase after him, and took advantage of the situation to stick his lips to the increasingly fierce pulse on the side of his neck and gnaw gently. Tang Tu knelt on his lap and there was no way to avoid it, and soon he couldn't stick to his principles, so he could only softly tell him, "Be gentle...be gentle..."

Tang Tu was afraid of pain, Ruan Youqing kept it firmly in mind, so everything proceeded slowly and patiently.After many times of running-in, he has become familiar with the other party's preferences, and the other party also likes to gently rub his ears when kissing him.Although he couldn't hear the sound clearly, his sense of touch on the helix and earlobe was very keen. Pressed by his fingertips, Tang Tu seemed to directly pinch the end of his vagus nerve, which made his scalp numb and his back feel hot.

"So soft." Tang Tu always described his ears like this.It is said that a person with soft ear cartilage has a soft heart, and is easy to be manipulated and bullied.

"You too." Ruan Youqing exerted force on her fingertips patiently, looking for a place where the other party's thoughts could fly in the softness.

The trembling hum will remind him, confirm him, and then he can catch up.

"Then, I'll go in now."

Every time he finished saying this, Tang Tu would close his eyes, as if waiting with all his might.

They held their breath and kissed, Ruan Youqing supported Tang Tu's back of the head, and together with him submerged in the undulating ripples, as if this place was not a narrow white bathtub, but a stream in the forest, a hot spring under a volcano, or a certain area on the planet A mysterious sea that has not yet been developed.The dizziness brought about by the suffocation makes the mind melt into a vast galaxy, and they are lingering in love, releasing the joy of body and mind in the agitation.

When he surfaced, Tang Tu leaned on the neck pillow and gasped for breath, his arms were still tightly wrapped around Ruan Youqing's neck and shoulders, unwilling to let go.

It was rare for Ruan Youqing's biological clock to fail. He woke up in the middle of the bed with a pillow in his arms.

He touched the mobile phone beside the bed and found that it was past ten o'clock, and he was the only one left in the room.He got up to wash, stuffed the wet bathrobe thrown by the bathtub into the washing machine, scrubbed and ventilated, and tidied up everything.

On the table was a glass of room-temperature milk and two slices of thick-cut toast. Ruan Youqing followed the example of the housekeeper and fried the eggs with soft eggs, sprinkled with fried white sesame seeds and black pepper.Looking at the barren scenery outside the window, he felt that the small front yard lacked a little greenness, so he could add a red maple or ginkgo.This season will turn into a brilliant gold, or a warm red.Some flowers and plants can be planted around the courtyard, leaving a corner for butterflies to eat and rest.

The spacious working room is filled with quiet afternoon light, and the colorful glass beads are crystal clear.He picked up the gift that had accompanied him all the way since he was five years old, his heart was filled with brisk joy but he didn't know who to tell.He stared at the palm of his hand and said silently in his heart: brother, am I too lucky?

Life is suddenly so perfect that it makes people feel at a loss. It seems that there are only two things left in his life. One is to concentrate on making glass, and the other is to love someone with all his heart.

After the 20-day solo art exhibition ended, Tang Tu could finally breathe a sigh of relief: "Although many people have the intention to buy, I have kept all the jellyfish series and have not sold them."

"That...that's not..." Ruan Youqing was taken aback, didn't that cost a lot of money?Although I haven't asked about it myself, outsiders can see the huge development investment.Although it has caused a certain impact, isn't it a failure for the gallery not to get real money...

"Look at the long term." Tang Tu comforted him, "And you won the Kanazawa Glass Art Award, and your value has doubled. That award-winning work, 20 was taken away by an art bookstore. In addition, Bubble was taken away by Chuqing I bought it myself and put it in the high-end art suite. Someone from the other side contacted me and we are still talking."

Ruan Youqing took the baked pizza out of the heat preservation oven: "I followed the video to make it, it seems quite simple. It's warm, not hot."

Tang Tu opened the tablet and handed it to him: "There's still this, see if you're interested."

It is a special web page of a well-known home furnishing brand.

Ruan Youqing looked around, they seemed to have everything, so what is the meaning of this joint series of emerging artists?

"Someone contacted Tubai today, and they intend to cooperate with you." Tang Tu blew on a corner of the pizza in his hand for a long time before opening his mouth to bite down carefully.

Ruan Youqing held the tablet and studied for a while, and probably looked at the products that he had cooperated with other artists before, such as the pillow series of a Japanese painter and the vase series of a British painter.

"Supporting and promoting art is also a trend among entrepreneurs and businessmen." Tang Tu took the tablet, "They have taken a fancy to your jellyfish. I think it's a good thing for mutual benefit."

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