Dawn is coming

As Jiang Xiaozheng said, the studio where he works is indeed not far from that convenience store.It was almost 01:30 when they went, and it was not yet the studio's afternoon business hours.

But Jiang Xiaozheng had the key, and after opening the door, he also turned over the "resting" sign and changed it to "welcome".This studio has excellent lighting, the side facing the street is full of large glass, on the right side of the room is a large long table with various tools on it, on the left is a print printing machine, and in the middle against the wall is a Paint workbench.Jiang Xiaozheng asked the two of them to sit casually, and he put up a notice first.I saw him put down his schoolbag, and took out a folder from it, which contained several printed A4 papers.

"Before I went, I murmured that my boss, a self-sufficient person, wanted to put up a job advertisement instead of engraving a print by himself, so he asked me to go to the printing shop near the bank. I am really grateful to him for being lazy all of a sudden, otherwise I would won't meet you."

"...recruitment?" Jian Chengqi asked.

"That's right, this studio was only opened last month. Although I have only met the boss until now, he said that there are still two partners who are also engaged in printmaking. Come later. My boss is good at Chinese. , Communication is not a problem, but he said that those two don't know any other languages, so I have to look for it..."

Jiang Xiaozheng paused his glued hands, and suddenly looked at Jian Chengqi: "Yes, I have met you, so why post a recruitment notice!"

Jian Chengqi was confused by Jiang Xiaozheng's surprise, and subconsciously turned his head to look at Gao Xinye. Of course, he didn't know the situation, so he blinked innocently.

Jiang Xiaozheng quickly moved a chair, sat across from Jian Chengqi, and held up the notice in front of him, his little head tilted out from behind the piece of paper: "They want a translator who can speak Latin!"

Jian Chengqi opened his mouth, never expecting such a coincidence.

"I..." His voice was dry, and he sounded very unconfident, "I haven't touched it for a long time..."

"It's okay, there are very few people who know this language. Ah... You see, I'm in a hurry, but if your work is going well now, of course there is no need to come to this small studio."

Jian Chengxi's inconspicuous Adam's apple twitched, and he rubbed his hands together: "...Actually, I haven't found a job yet."

"Then are you interested in coming here? Let's go together!" Hearing what Jian Chengqi said, Jiang Xiaozheng folded up the notice and put it in his pocket, not intending to post it, and he didn't care about the alpha who seemed to be Jian Chengqi's partner next to him. Holding Jian Chengqi's hand on his knee, he advised him to think carefully.

"It doesn't count if you say it..." Jian Chengqi was really at a loss, "Your boss may not want me."

"How could you not want it? You taught me my language at that time, and he thought it was okay. You are so good, how could he not want it. And I... he doesn't dislike me, and he still signed with me. With a formal contract, you're fine."

As if trying to get Jian Chengqi's approval in no time, Jiang Xiaozheng racked his brains and said anxiously: "My boss is also very nice, and he will definitely like you."

"cough--"

Gao Xinye, who had been silent for a long time, finally couldn't hold back, and coughed softly.

"Ah..." Jiang Xiaozheng was embarrassed, scratched his head, and retreated to the computer embarrassingly, "I didn't mean that, I..."

"I think his proposal is quite good," Gao Xinye lowered his head slightly, looked at Jian Chengqi, and encouraged him, "You can try it."

"Do you think I can do it?" Jian Chengqi frowned, and his voice was so small that it sounded like lips.Gao Xinye could hear clearly, rubbed the tip of his nose against his ear, and then said firmly but in a low voice, of course.

Although Jiang Xiaozheng didn't sit across from them, he kept looking at them. Seeing Jian Chengqi smiled, he felt that this matter was reliable.His boss has the habit of taking a nap, and he is currently resting in the cubicle upstairs, and he will come down after a while. He really wanted them to meet up today, so he asked Jian Chengxi if he wanted to draw.

"Because the studio has only been open for less than a month, it is still doing promotion. The first time you come to experience letterpress printing is free," Jiang Xiaozheng handed Jian Chengqi a pencil and a piece of paper, "There is no need to engrave for the first time. Wooden boards are operated on cardboard, you first draw a rough draft, and draw whatever you want.”

Jian Chengqi took it, leaned on his chin to look at the blank paper, and didn't know how to write the pen for a while, after thinking about it, he handed the pen to Gao Xinye, saying that he should draw.Gao Xinye was really rude, but he didn't take the pen, but held Jian Chengqi's right hand.With his strength, Jian Chengqi drew a simple tree on the corner of the paper.

"You..." Jian Chengqi smiled.

Gao Xinye also let go of his hand, and said as a matter of course: "He said that he can draw anything."

"...Then I'll look for an example." Jian Chengqi stretched out his hand to get the thick picture book next to the table.At this time, he heard a knock on the door. Two little boys about four or five years old were lying on the glass outside to attract Jiang Xiaozheng's attention. Come in with me.

"It's a student in an interest class." Jiang Xiaozheng let the two children sit across from Jian Chengqi, "There is a big shopping mall next to it. Some parents bring their children to go shopping, and they will temporarily put them in our studio."

"Do you teach them?" Jian Chengqi asked.

"How can such a young child need to be taught?" Jiang Xiaozheng put the prepared paper and pen in front of them, "They are all masters."

Jiang Xiaozheng was right. The two boys got the materials and started to write without much hesitation. One concentrated on drawing some abstract patterns, while the other was tracing his own hand.They also took the initiative to ask Jiang Xiaozheng for scissors, and the one who drew the palm cut out the pattern and pasted it on another piece of paper, and then went to the workbench to mix the paint and apply it to the thick cardboard used for printing.

They were too short to reach the wheel of the print printing machine, so Jiang Xiaozheng helped them. Jian Chengqi thought he had looked at it all afternoon, but when he looked up at the clock, he realized that only 10 minutes had passed.

"Wow!" Jiang Xiaozheng put the two printed pictures on the table so that they could write the title, date and name next.Jian Chengqi also saw those two paintings, the one in his hand was black and white, but the one with the abstract pattern was particularly colorful, which made Jian Chengqi mutter: "You are really a little Picasso."

"What is Picasso?" The boy just finished writing the date and the title mixed with pinyin, stopped writing, and asked Jian Chengqi curiously.

"It was a very powerful and famous artist two or three hundred years ago." Jian Chengqi replied.

"Two or three... a hundred years ago?" The boy obviously had no concept of this time, shook his head, and wrote his name behind the date.

"Then I'm not Picasso." He held up the painting and showed Jian Chengqi his crooked signature - Lin Yuan.

"This is me." He giggled, pure and pure.

The two children seemed to have a lot of inspiration, and after printing one page, they started to create the next one without stopping.Jian Chengqi read the picture book all over again.As Jiang Xiaozheng said, there is more than one partner in this studio, so there are more than one person's works in the album.But they all come from the same country, and their creative elements overlap to a certain extent. For example, they have all painted national flags, maps, women wearing traditional costumes, the Daugava River that surrounds the capital of the country, and no matter what food they make, they will be sprinkled. A bit of dill grass, and sheep.

The country of La is a plain. Even now, animal husbandry is one of the country's pillar industries. Jian Chengxi dug out Zhang Xiaoyang's picture and wanted to copy it. When he saw the small tree painted by Gao Xinye, he stopped again. up.

"Draw what you want," he heard Gao Xinye say, "You don't have to imitate others, everything you draw looks good."

Jian Chengqi didn't speak.

He is really a person who is easy to belittle himself. Every day in the past, if someone praised him so much, he would definitely say no, no, I can't, I won't.

But he doesn't now.

He gripped the pens tightly, the first two being particularly heavy.Later, instead of holding his chin with his left hand, he held down the piece of paper and carefully drew the ears, neck, wagging tail, and raised hind hooves.Jian Chengxi's lines are not exquisite, but it can be seen that it is a sheep.

"Is it a treasure?" Gao Xinye asked.

"Hmm!" Jian Chengqi drew several lines beside it, making the sheep look like it was running on the grassland.

But he drew a few strokes and then stopped, looking up at Gao Xinye.

"What's wrong?" Gao Xinye touched his shoulder reassuringly, "You draw very well."

"But I don't know where it went. It's just one, where can it go?"

"Who said it was the only one," Gao Xinye said, taking another pencil from the pen holder, and adding a slightly larger sheep beside the live treasure.His brushstrokes are completely different from the sense of distance given to strangers. He will paint the wool as fluffy and his body is plump, appearing docile, cute and non-aggressive.

"He has a companion," Gao Xinye said, "He has someone to accompany him."

Jian Chengqi smiled, and once again rested his chin, looking at the two sheep running close to each other.He also suddenly had an idea and added a puppy at the top of the picture.The dog was also running, but turned his head to see if the two sheep were following.Then Jian Chengxi drew some lines representing vegetation, and then a draft was completed.Jiang Xiaozheng gave him another piece of thick cardboard and a blunt-tipped screw pen, and asked him to paste the draft on the cardboard and scrape the back of the draft with the screw pen, so that the graphite on the draft would be printed on the wooden cardboard.

Jian Chengxi was not left-handed, but he used his right hand to shave normally, but he had cut his wrist several times, and the tendons in his hand were so injured that he couldn't use his strength. hand, to help him.Afterwards, re-drawing the lines on the wooden board also required a lot of strength. Jian Chengxi sketched it again, Jiang Xiaozheng touched it, but still felt that it was not concave enough, Gao Xinye took it, and followed the traces that Jian Chengqi had sketched to carve again. Once again, with his strength, he can do it effortlessly, but he is not in a hurry, Jian Chengqi is lying on the table, watching the nib of the pen pass by silently.

Because of the close proximity, except for the pen, everything else in his sight was as if covered with a layer of veil. He suddenly thought of something and told Gao Xinye that he had participated in a painting competition when he was in the second grade of elementary school.

Except for the high school in South District [-], Jian Chengqi’s education before that was all in the regional center of South District [-]. His primary school ranked only in the upper middle of the center, but it took a lot of effort from his parents to get it sent him in.Neither of Jian Chengqi's parents went to college, and they suffered from being illiterate when they first started the leather business, so they are willing to invest in education for Jian Chengqi and Jian Li, hoping that they will have a good diploma and find a good job. Don't suffer what you have suffered.At that time, Jian Chengqi liked to draw, and his parents sent him to some interest classes. The teacher also thought he was pretty good, so he was asked to participate in a live painting competition with the theme of "Science Fiction Future".

He actually can't remember what he drew until now, but in the pre-competition stage, his own paintings were not satisfactory to the instructor. The teacher gave him a picture album of winning works in other competitions over the years, and asked him to draw One of them was modified slightly, and this other person's painting was memorized during the competition.

"But I still drew my own picture. The instructor could see his student's drawing later, and he asked me why I didn't draw the award-winning one, and I said I was nervous and couldn't recite it." Jian Chengqi still lay down He said softly, "The teacher is very angry. We have been preparing for more than a month, and copied more than 20 copies of the same painting, but I couldn't recite it at that time."

"Actually, I can recite it." Jian Chengqi paused. "I was also very conflicted. In the end, I didn't draw the approved one. It was someone else's. I wanted to draw my own."

"But none of my own stuff won."

He smiled, quite helplessly: "I won't learn to draw anymore after that."

He turned his head sideways so that he could see Gao Xinye in addition to the pen.Gao Xinye has been listening silently, and the movements of his hands have not stopped.After Jian Chengqi finished talking about this little episode in his memory, he also finished sketching and put down his pen.

They could call Jiang Xiaozheng to take the next step at this time, but none of them had one head resting on their arm, and the other stretched out a hand to gently rub each other's hair.In the silence, Jian Chengxi would think about what Gao Xinye would say. Alpha is not reticent, but he will never be eloquent. What would he say to comfort him?Is it perfunctory such as "but people have to look forward", commonplace such as "you can't make everyone like you", or inspirational such as "how many people who have achieved in this field have been hit in another field that they are not good at" ?

He has none.

He just said sincerely and calmly to the point of a little stubbornness: "But you drew what you wanted to draw."

Jian Chengqi frowned and smiled.

Yeah, he looked at Gao Xinye and said, I didn't regret it at all.

Now too.