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Chapter 36 Ch36 Yes But

Except for the time in Jiangcheng where he held the idea of ​​"trying luck for the last time we meet", this was the first time Shen Teng officially visited Qin Zheng's "home".

In fact, he rarely visited other people's homes.

Even after arriving in Qin Zheng's city after landing on the west coast several times before, Shen Teng never tried to mention going to the other party's home for the night.

"Home" is not an ordinary place. Almost all of a person's life may take place in this space, and the meaning of privacy is too strong. avoid.

But what is surprising is that this principle of life seems to have been ineffective for Qin Zheng since they landed in Budapest. Up to now, Shen Teng has invited Qin Zheng to come to his home more than once as a guest. When inviting himself, Shen Teng also readily agreed.

But thinking about it carefully, perhaps Qin Zheng's appearance was an accident in Shen Teng's life from the very beginning.When it comes to matters involving vague principles, he is always very indulgent to his Majesty, no wonder Shen Yuru saw at the first sight that the relationship between the two was extraordinary.

Qin Zheng's room is not big, but the layout is not bad, one bedroom, one bathroom, one kitchen and one living room.When passing by the bedroom with the wide open door, Shen Teng passed by the door without paying attention, but stopped in the aisle next to the bedroom door, looking at the paintings on the opposite wall, biting the drink straw in his mouth, seriously Take a closer look.

If it wasn't for just coming out of the ice and snow a few days ago, Qin Zheng would have been confused by his focused expression at the moment, thinking that they are still looking at Schiele's paintings in the warm Vienna Museum.

But this landscape painting does not belong to Iceland - in the lower right corner of the frame, the author wrote "inParis" in small cursive English, in Paris.

"When I was in Paris, when I was walking on the street, I could always see people painting on the side of the road." Shen Teng said leisurely.

On the steps, beside the bridge, beside the flower beds, under the street lamps... I don’t know if it’s because the style of the romantic city is particularly artistic, so that everyone’s pen tip can produce paintings with different styles and unconstrained styles.

"Have you ever painted?" Qin Zheng asked.

Both of them had been to Paris more than once, but never together.Qin Zheng had also seen those painters that Shen Teng mentioned, but he was more willing to imagine the most special face among them than those strangers.

"No," Shen Teng smiled, "but it's just that many people have painted me."

In fact, most of the time he just went for a walk.

Sometimes I go for a walk in the park, sometimes I sit in a daze on the bridge with the wind blowing, sometimes I just sit on a quiet bench in the city where I can see the Eiffel Tower, and use my ears to collect all the sounds around me-birds, leaves blowing Movement, wind, polite puppies, human panting...

And a warm or shy "Bonjour (Hello)", and then received a painting of himself as the protagonist.

Qin Zheng leaned against the wall with him, and asked softly, "Do you keep those paintings?"

Shen Teng nodded: "I have a special cardboard box for these."

—before he gave up on settling.

After deciding to become a homeless person, Shen Teng obviously couldn't carry a box around the world, so he packed it and other unnecessary luggage and sent it back to Budapest.

He has a lot of miscellaneous things. Although he put labels on the similar boxes in advance when sorting them out, Shen Ma, who lacks order and patience, will soon mix different things together and throw them into categories that do not belong to them at all. .

In his 20s, he is still making trouble for his grandmother. It is not that Shen Teng has never felt embarrassed about it, but after sending the letter with a big pen and writing "no privacy, you can throw it all away", he is one of the few. All the feelings of guilt disappeared.

But it was only after returning home last time that Shen Tom found out that not only did Shen Yuru not throw away his "garbage" at that time, but he also took them out and sorted them all out for him, and then received Shen Tom's room and in the attic.

Although neither of them knew whether Shen Teng would come back, grandma would always be ready to welcome him.

Qin Zheng lowered his voice: "Your grandma is so kind."

Look at this sour tone, it's really contrived.

Shen Teng didn't want to talk to him at first, but for some reason he suddenly changed his mind. He turned his head to look at Qin Zheng's dark eyes, and said word by word: "If you want, she can also be nice to you."

Shen Yuru's goodness is not the kind of meticulous care of spring wind and rain, on the contrary, Shen Teng was almost raised by her, and there are many truths on the way of growth that he learned by himself, but every time—every time of great change in his life, Shen Yuru would always appear at the right time, give advice to his grandson in a few words, and after bringing profound shocks to his little world, he would turn around and retreat behind the workbench in the old house with a quiet smile.

She is a good guide among secular parents who wrap too much helplessness with love and warmth; and among those guides who always maintain a sense of boundary distance, Shen Yuru is also a person who sometimes makes people feel uncomfortable. Heartwarming, nice, nice family.

Shen Teng is very fortunate that she is his grandmother.

And when he says this to Qin Zheng now, even if it is only in a literal sense, it seems that he can and is willing to share his grandmother's love for him with Qin Zheng.

According to common sense, such words cannot be spoken casually, and it is only possible to make such a promise to the other party when the two have a certain written or unwritten social relationship with certain contractual constraints.

However, Shen Teng's tone just now was sincere and calm enough, so that Qin Zheng realized right away that Shen Teng was more like "supporting the orphan" than "sharing".

But is it Shen Yuru or Qin Zheng who he wants to entrust to another person to take care of?

"Do you want to?" Shen Teng asked again.

It seemed that as long as Qin Zheng wanted to, he could immediately call Shen Yuru and ask the old lady to register the second young master's name in their home.

Qin Zheng changed the topic.

"Do you like to draw?" he asked.

Shen Teng's brows twitched slightly.

His lips trembled slightly as if he wanted to say something more, but in the end he sighed silently, smiled again, and answered Qin Zheng's question naturally: "I can't say whether I like it or not, I just got used to it."

As a violin maker, the outline of the violin body and the complex or simple lines and patterns on the violin need to be sketched by the maker one by one and then carved on the wood one by one. Appreciate all kinds of doctrines that others can't understand, so that you don't know when to use them for yourself in the future.

Shen Teng took off the headband that bound her long hair, leaned her head back against the wall covered with cloth paper, thoughtfully: "When I was a child, I always saw my grandma leaning over the desk, facing some things that only had written records. Books and various pattern prototypes, trying to reproduce the long-lost musical instrument structure on paper. Compared with other children's children's books, those may be my earlier enlightenment readings, and when I get older, sometimes I will try Do the same thing as grandma."

Shen Yuru specialized in violin making when he was studying, but Shen Teng learned more complicated ones. In addition to violin, he also spent a lot of time researching other styles of musical instruments. Classical plucked string instrument.

"But that's what I did when I was in school."

When she was in middle school, her peers were playing football on the playground, but Shen Jiaying, like a freak, only wanted to run home and carve things.In Oslo, too, every time he handed in homework, he always wowed the audience with his fancy skills.

But after taking this hobby as a job, Shen Teng seemed to suddenly lose most of his interest.

He will still study the symmetrical symbols in those ancient religious books, and devote himself to studying how to modify and engrave them into a three-dimensional world, but that is only because of Party A's request.

"There was a client who wanted me to move the water lilies painted by Monet in his later years to his piano. Can you understand what an outrageous idea this is?"

Monet is a master of Impressionism. The most important style is to change the painting method of shadows and contour lines. In his paintings, neither very clear shadows nor prominent or flat-painted contour lines can be seen. The guests are simply whimsical.

Qin Zheng: "But."

Shen Tomato: "Well, but I did it."

In order to do this, he often goes to places where Monet's remains can be found.

There are too many famous scenic spots in Paris and its surrounding areas. The Garden of Givenchy Monet, the former residence of the painter, is even more lively all year round, but during that time, the Orangery was the most visited place.

From the Louvre, walk through the Tuileries Garden to the end, next to the Place de la Concorde is the Orangery Museum.

It is said that oranges were really grown there before.Compared with the crowds of the Louvre and Orsay, the Orangery, which is also located in the city center, is definitely a quiet place.Although the museum is small, it is famous for its six giant works of Monet's water lilies. Three rectangular paintings are placed in each of the two circular exhibition halls on the first floor, which are exhibited at 360 degrees. At the same time, the special design makes the room illuminated by natural light. .

When you sit on the bench in the center of the exhibition hall and stare at the painting quietly, time will pass quickly unknowingly.

"Thanks to that time," Shen Teng squinted his eyes nostalgicly, "Later, my favorite place in Paris, except for a small cafe near my home, is the Orangery."

Without continuing to talk about how he moved Monet's water lilies to the Qin, Shen Teng looked at Qin Zheng again, his eyes were so clear that it was impossible to avoid any of his questions, and he did ask: "Is there any?" It's a question I've been meaning to ask you."

Qin Zheng bowed his head and approached Shen Teng politely: "Huh?"

Shen Teng rolled his Adam's apple, hesitated for a moment, and then fluently read the sentence that he had been grinding in his heart more than once: "I want to know, when you give some sincerity, or feelings close to the sincerity, will you expect some A reciprocal response. And if the response is doomed, when will you finally feel tired?"

An extremely calm and gentle question, with words so polite that it is impossible not to answer them, but also in a way so explicit that it is impossible to answer them.

And compared to the question he hesitated until now and finally asked, Qin Zheng also gave Shen Teng enough careful consideration and thinking.

"I never regret the sincerity I paid, and I don't even think that those who live up to it have suffered a loss or something."

Qin Zheng seriously gave a conclusive answer to his question, then raised his eyes to meet Shen Teng's gaze, and continued to explain to him in the same peaceful way: "If you can't get the so-called reciprocal response at a certain moment, then you can only It proves that I and the other party are not in the same pace at that stage, so we cannot avoid missing it, but maybe we have been in the same place before, or we will walk together again in the future, this is not sure."

As if he didn't think of his answer, Shen Teng pursed his lips and thought for a while before slowly opening his mouth: "Your view of feelings..."

He chose his words, and finally said with emotion from the bottom of his heart: "Very good."

It's hard to imagine that Qin Zheng is a person who is willing to give his sincerity, but perhaps because of this, his sincerity is particularly precious.And what Qin Zheng said just now made people... people envy him for his insight.

"But, is there a but?" Shen Tomato asked with a smile.

Qin Zheng looked at him for a while, then looked away with ease: "Of course there will be."

However, no matter who it is, even Qin Zheng, there will always be unwilling thoughts at some point.Even if he is ready to let someone go, he still can't help but look forward to a completely different ending after opening his eyes every day.

Even though he knew that he probably couldn't wait for this ending.

"In fact, when I said those assertions about 'sincerity' just now, I thought of my parents."

Sensing Shen Teng's surprise when he suddenly raised his eyes, Qin Zheng smiled: "Actually, I have expected their love."

Even Qin Zheng gave love for it.

And although the fact is now obvious that they did not give any feedback to Qin Zheng's past expectations, Qin Zheng will not feel that he is so stupid for having expectations.

"You are so good, you can afford it, and you can let it go." Shen Teng sincerely praised it.

Qin Zheng raised his hand and rubbed Shen Teng's head: "But, there are buts."

But he did not say the specific content of the "but".

But Shen Teng can almost imagine what the part he didn't say is.

Just as Qin Zheng was Shen Teng's accident, Shen Teng was not Qin Zheng's accident.

Shen Teng tilted his head, rubbed against Qin Zheng's palm like a cat, and left his body temperature with a smile, and stood beside "inParis" from opposite to "inParis".

"I always feel that our topic will develop in the direction of philosophy if we don't pay attention." He pouted.

What is philosophy?For non-professionals like them, the content that is mysterious and incomprehensible is all labeled as philosophy.

Qin Zheng also shrugged his shoulders: "Praise, this is not my intention."

After spending too much time in the aisle, Shen Teng finished his drink, and after throwing away the trash, they finally got up and walked into the house together.

There are many handmade candles on the window sill of Qin Zheng's living room just like Shen Toma's house. Besides, the first impression people get when they walk into the room is "clean".

very clean.

Apart from the necessary furniture, there were hardly any redundant and useless parts. Qin Zheng's room was so tidy that a boy of this age would not be able to do it at all.

And in such an environment, a certain brightly colored doll on the sofa seemed a bit abrupt.

Seeing Qin Zheng put the lamb he gave him next to the doll, Shen Teng couldn't help asking: "Do you still like cactus?"

The size difference between the cactus doll and the lamb doll is too large. Qin Zheng concentrated on studying how to arrange them harmoniously, and with his back turned to Shen Teng, he replied casually: "Graduation gift from Southern California."

Shen Teng blurted out: "Isn't your school's mascot a white horse...?"

His tone became weaker and weaker, and Qin Zheng also stopped what he was doing.

Amid Shen Tom's strong resistance, Qin Zheng still turned around in slow motion that cannot be played back, raised his eyelids, and asked leisurely, "How do you know?"

Shen Teng remained silent.

In fact, there are many possible answers.

Qin Zheng graduated from the Marshall School of Business of the University of Southern California. Well-known alumni include Steven Spielberg, the No.1 Armstrong who landed on the moon, and other top figures. The school ranks very high in the United States and the world. As long as you are interested, you can search it, or listen to a few chats with an alumnus you happen to know, and you will know.

But at this moment, Qin Zheng looked at Shen Teng who was trying to be calm, but asked calmly in a tone that seemed to have been understood for a long time: "Last summer, you actually came to my graduation ceremony. Isn't that right, Shen Jiaying?"