Deer in the forest in early autumn

"Congratulations, Miss Shen, you won the prize!" The Lego clerk said with a smile while Shen Yanqiu was stunned.
Shen Yanqiu was stunned for a moment holding the first prize ticket in his hand, and then he spoke slowly and softly: "Okay. What is the first prize?"

"Ms. Shen, please wait a moment."
After saying that, the clerk took the first prize ticket from Shen Yanqiu's hand and turned to walk towards the counter at the other end.

In less than a minute, she came over with a huge box of Lego bricks. "Miss Shen, here, this is a prize."

There is a beautiful pink and purple fantasy candy house painted on the box.
Shen Yanqiu blinked her eyelashes, and her girlish heart almost melted.

Really like.
Could it be that the koi is possessed today?
"Thank you." A hint of joy appeared on Shen Yanqiu's lips.
She happily accepted the huge first prize - a Lego candy house.

Return to No. 99 Beiyuan.
When he started to assemble the candy house, Shen Yanqiu discovered that Lego was not so easy to assemble.

She lowered her head and took out the instruction manual, studying it carefully for a long time. Finally, she found that she seemed to have made a mistake in a spelling!

This is such a headache! Shen Yanqiu, I didn't expect your gaming black hole would even include Lego.
She pouted angrily, looking like an angry pufferfish.
Suddenly, my feet felt cold.

It seemed like something cold hit me!
"Ahhh!" Shen Yanqiu was so scared that he shrank back and didn't move.

After a moment, she looked down tremblingly.
A round sweeping robot was standing at his feet.

This thing seems to be... brought back by Lin Sen'an yesterday.
Unexpectedly, I am now scared by a sweeping robot.

Shen Yanqiu frowned and took a deep breath.
He patted himself gently with his hands to calm down his ups and downs mood.

I took a closer look at the round sweeping robot in front of me.
A round pancake that moves?

"From now on, your robot will be called Bingbing." Shen Yanqiu said softly.

"Little rabbit, open the door..." The sweeping robot, which was just named Bingbing, sang.
……

Isn’t this the nursery rhyme that I randomly played on my cell phone when I was at Lin Sen’an’s house last time?
Many fragments of that day flashed through Shen Yanqiu's mind, and her face began to feel slightly hot without her noticing.

Bingbing, you'd better leave here and sweep the living room!
A minute later, Shen Yanqiu neatly and quickly asked the sweeping robot Bingbing to leave his room.

When Shen Yanqiu returned to the white desk, he realized that he had only put one-fifth of his Lego candy house together after half an hour of hard work, and it seemed that he had put it wrong. But what was wrong?

There was a hint of sadness in her eyes. She continued to look at the instruction manual for a while, and the blush on her face slowly faded away. After a while, she finally found the wrong part - the roof, and started to remove it.

Suddenly, there was a howling wind outside.
The cold wind blew quickly into her face.

Shen Yanqiu couldn't help but shudder and sneezed, covering her mouth.
"cold."

Shen Yanqiu looked at his window. The sky outside was dark.
From time to time, there were a few dazzling flashes of lightning, and it seemed that a heavy rain was about to fall.

She was shivering with cold and took a white woolen coat from the coat hanger and put it on herself, not caring if she looked like a hibernating bear wrapped in a blanket. Then she pushed her wheelchair to the window and closed it with all her strength, even though the wind was still howling.

There was a loud crash just at the moment when the window was closed.
Heavy rain fell.
Hua Hua Hua——

The world outside the window seemed to have fallen into darkness, pitch black, and the sound of cold rain was filled with an oppressive gloom.

"Miss Shen, it's raining. Are the windows in your room closed?" Aunt Zhang's voice came from outside the door.
"Aunt Zhang, I just closed it." Shen Yanqiu pulled at the white coat she had just put on. Only the soft warmth in her hands made her feel better.
Aunt Zhang said "OK" and left.

Shen Yanqiu was pushing the wheelchair back to the table when suddenly a flash of lightning appeared in the sky, accompanied by several deafening thunders.

Shen Yanqiu couldn't help but let out a soft scream.
She has been afraid of the dark and thunder since she was a child.
Especially with such deafening thunder.

Just then, a figure appeared beside her.
Someone gently covered her ears with their hands.
"Don't be afraid, Qiuqiu."

Shen Yanqiu knew it was Lin Sen'an.
The next moment she raised her pale little face and looked at Lin Sen'an.

There are many emotions hidden in Lin Sen'an's eyes: anxious, deep, concerned, and a bit of tenderness.
"I, I'm fine. Lin Sen'an." Shen Yanqiu said slowly and softly. At this time, the warm hand beside her ear did not fall down.

Lin Sen'an nodded slightly.
After a while, the thunder in the sky gradually subsided.

Shen Yanqiu blinked.
Lin Sen'an lowered his slender, bony hand from her ear and just stood beside her quietly without saying a word.

Shen Yanqiu felt a little uncomfortable. She turned her head away to avoid Lin Sen'an's gaze.
I have been avoiding Lin Sen'an recently. This is the first time in so many days that the two of them are so close.
But she didn't know what to say.
The little mouth opened and stopped somewhere. "Qiuqiu, you seem to be avoiding me recently?" After a while, a cold voice sounded like the cold moonlight.
"No...no." Shen Yanqiu bit her lip and shook her head.

"Qiuqiu, I don't want you to...hate me." Lin Sen'an continued.
"I didn't. Lin Sen'an, I don't...hate you."
"It's just... I don't know how to face you for a moment." Shen Yanqiu was silent for a moment, then he mustered up the courage to speak in a low voice, his voice as small as muttering to himself.

Lin Sen'an's eyebrows seemed to rise, and he said aggrievedly: "Qiuqiu, never mind. Anyway, you have to be responsible for me."

"You...you" Hearing this, Shen Yanqiu raised his palm-sized face.
When did Lin Sen'an become so clingy? Shen Yanqiu's deer eyes revealed a look of surprise at this moment.

"Then Qiuqiu, see you tomorrow. Remember not to hide from me in the future."
As he spoke, Lin Sen'an looked at Shen Yanqiu, with a faint smile on his face.

That smile seemed to have a bewitching feeling.
At this moment, the world in front of Shen Yanqiu seemed to have quieted down, with only the gods descending.

The rain is still pouring down outside the window.
After Lin Sen'an finished speaking, he touched Shen Yanqiu's head and left the room. Shen Yanqiu rubbed his hair and gradually came to his senses.

the next day.
After Shen Yanqiu finished eating the wontons made by Aunt Zhang at the dining table in the living room, he went to the refrigerator in the kitchen to get something to drink.

As soon as she looked up, she found a giraffe-shaped sticky note in the refrigerator.
There are powerful and elegant handwriting on it.
When I saw autumn coming
Reminds me of the hug we had when we were young
Are you also secretly missing Starry Sky Giraffe and me?

The hidden love seemed to break through the paper.
It turned out to be a three-line love letter written by Lin Sen'an. Are you telling me that you miss me?

Shen Yanqiu's eyes gradually turned red, with a slight soreness at the corners of his eyes.
It seemed that when I met Lin Sen'an again this time, many things had changed.

In the past, she always ran after Lin Sen'an.
Now, Lin Sen'an seemed to have stopped and was waiting for her, slowly moving closer again.

She glanced at the giraffe sticker again.
As if he had come across something extremely precious, he carefully took the sticky note off and placed it in the palm of his hand.

At this moment, she thought of the theme of her last oil painting about missing, about our giraffe and the starry sky.
Back in the room, facing the wooden easel, Shen Yanqiu sat quietly for a while.

Spread out the drawing paper.
She began to write carefully.
Stroke by stroke, the dark starry sky gradually took shape.

A few sparkling little stars are scattered on the deep blue picture.
Finally, the two giraffes snuggled together under the stars.
The world is far away, but you are always by my side.

The third oil painting is finally completed.

Ding Dong! The master is calling!
Shen Yanqiu looked at the display and found the person in charge of the Pure White Department.

"Hello. I'm illustrator Q." Shen Yanqiu's voice was very soft.
Sheng Mu on the other end of the phone was stunned for a second after hearing this. Then he said in a serious tone: "Hello, Painter Q. I am Sheng Mu, the person in charge of the Pure White series. Our exhibition will be held in a week. I would like to meet with you today to discuss the details of the exhibition."

"Okay." Shen Yanqiu looked at the candy house on the table that had not been completed yesterday.

7 p.m.
Shen Yanqiu wore a beige windbreaker and a gray scarf and entered the restaurant where she had agreed to meet with Sheng Mu.

Soft music was playing in the restaurant.
The fountain reflects the glittering stones, and several koi fish are swimming in the pond.
"Hello, Painter Q. I'm Sheng Mu." The man opposite was wearing a clean black coat and had his hair cut very neatly.

"Hello." Shen Yanqiu said as he took the exhibition plan handed over and looked at it carefully.

"Is my art exhibition in the largest exhibition hall this time?" Shen Yanqiu was a little surprised. This seemed a little beyond her expectations.
"That's right. Painter Q, the quality of your work is obvious to all. And our investors said they like your paintings very much." Sheng Mu nodded.

"Excuse me for asking, could you tell me who the investor behind your exhibition is?" Shen Yanqiu hesitated but still asked the question in his mind.

"Gold medal investor Mr. Z."
Z? The Z who started buying many of my paintings two years ago? I didn’t expect that he was also an investor in this exhibition.

"Painter Q, you don't have to feel any psychological burden. The difference in the area of ​​the exhibition halls in this exhibition is not that big." Sheng Mu joked.

Shen Yanqiu didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment.
She nodded subconsciously and continued to look through the plan.

"Shengmu, can you help introduce the scene lighting design of this exhibition?" During Shengmu's leisurely conversation, Shen Yanqiu learned many details of the exhibition planning.

Finally, she signed her name with satisfaction.
Q Painter, real name Shen Yanqiu.

"Ms. Shen, it's a pleasure to work with you."
"Pleasant to work with."

(End of this chapter)