Chapter 23 Unique White Shoes
The corner of Gu Yuehuai's mouth twitched, and he witnessed more deeply his bad reputation in the Dalaozi Production Brigade.
She coughed lightly and said seriously, "I don't lie to children. How about you give me paper and pen and I'll draw it for you?"
Ding Xinxin was reluctant, but suddenly heard her friend behind her encouraging her: "Ding Xinxin, give it to her. Let's see what Gu Yuehuai can draw. She is so fat, can she draw a big piece of pork?"
Hearing this, Ding Xinxin chuckled and readily agreed.
She opened the courtyard door to let Gu Yuehuai in and handed her paper and pen.
Gu Yuehuai was not intimidated. He took the paper and pen, and sat down directly on the stone block in the yard. He placed the paper on his knees, took out the colored pencils and started painting on the paper. His movements were smooth and flowing, and he did not look like a novice who knew nothing about painting.
Ding Xinxin and her friends squatted on the ground, stretching their heads to look at the paper.
Soon, a girl in a red cotton jacket appeared on the paper, her eyes angry and lifelike. Several friends were surprised when they saw it, "Oh! Gu Yuehuai drew Ding Xinxin!"
"It's really Ding Xinxin! Wow! The painting is so lifelike!"
"Really, it's just like a studio photo, like it was carved! And it's in color!"
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The friends were talking at once, and Ding Xinxin also became excited. She looked at herself on the paper with a red face, and touched her face in disbelief: "It's really me! It's really me!"
Soon, Gu Yuehuai stopped and held up the letter paper so that she could see it more clearly.
"This...is this for me?" Ding Xinxin's eyes sparkled, and the way she looked at Gu Yuehuai changed from contempt to admiration. Children have simple minds. Good is good, and bad is bad.
Gu Yuehuai nodded: "Of course."
"Wow--" The envy on Ding Xinxin's faces was self-evident when she saw her taking the portrait. Ding Xinxin's face turned red. This sense of vanity of "I have what you don't" made her even happier.
Gu Yuehuai's skill completely captured the hearts of several young girls.
She said, "Xinxin, do you like it?"
Ding Xinxin nodded rapidly, and the red rope on her hair fluttered up and down with her movements, looking very lively, which made Gu Yuehuai feel a little relieved. The hatred that had been suppressed in his heart since his rebirth finally eased a little and was no longer so turbulent.
Gu Yuehuai didn't keep the secret any longer and asked, "Can I ask you for a favor?"
Ding Xinxin patted his chest and said, "Just tell me! I will definitely help if I can!"
She is Huang Fengying's daughter. She often sees her mother running around to mobilize and mediate relations among women in the neighborhood. Even at a young age, she has developed a "narrow heart."
Gu Yuehuai raised the box of colored pencils in his hand: "Can you lend me the colored pencils? I want to draw a small picture, and I won't use a lot!"
Hearing this, Ding Xinxin smiled and said hurriedly: "I was just asking what help you need. It's okay, just use it!" After that, the little girl shyly drew circles on the ground with her toes.
Her cheeks turned red and she said, "But you have to draw another picture for me when you're done. I want it to be hung in my room."
Gu Yuehuai nodded and said readily, "Okay."
"Okay! Then you can take it and use it!" Ding Xinxin happily held her own portrait and waved at Gu Yuehuai with an air of being very senior.
Having achieved his goal, Gu Yuehuai didn't waste any more time here and left with the colored pencils.
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On the way home, I ran into Tian Jing who was coming out of the house with a gloomy face.
She looked depressed and her irritability was hard to conceal.
When seeing Gu Yuehuai, the gloominess on Tian Jing's face reached its peak.
Gu Yuehuai pretended not to see it, silently chanted the Heart Purification Mantra several times in his mind, restraining the urge to rush up and strangle Tian Jing to death. When he passed by her, he heard her cold voice: "Gu Yuehuai, don't be complacent, everything has just begun."
Gu Yuehuai paused. Everything has just begun? What did she mean?
Tian Jing sneered: "The one you like, Chen Yuesheng, will come to my house soon to give a betrothal gift. Not only will there be one hundred yuan, but also the MLZL 'three big items'! Gu Yuehuai, do you feel bad? Do you want to cry?"
"Hahaha, I'll let you know that what you've been asking for is nothing more than a small toy that I can easily get."
"What can you do to compete with me?"
After saying that, Tian Jing turned and left.
Gu Yuehuai looked back at Tian Jing walking on the country road, his eyes half-closed, with a somewhat strange and unpredictable expression.
She had never understood why Tian Jing targeted her and the Gu family. Now it seemed that her dislike for her had been there for a long time and had actually started now.
However, when had she ever argued with her? From the beginning to the end, wasn't it only Tian Jing who had been arguing?
The thief cries "stop thief".
Gu Yuehuai's face was gloomy and there was a hint of ferocity in his eyes.
She wanted to see how Tian Jing would fight in this life!
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Gu Yuehuai returned home and found Gu Zhifeng still sleeping soundly. She glanced at the closed door of the inner room and went back to her room.
As soon as she entered the door, she took out the white mesh shoes that Gu Zhifeng gave her this morning.
This pair of shoes carries the knot of her two lifetimes. Even if she could live again, she would not be able to wear this pair of shoes with peace of mind. Instead of leaving them at home gathering dust, she might as well find another way to make use of their remaining value.
In the 1970s, people's food, clothing and daily necessities were quite conventional, but there were always some "foreign girls" in the city who tried every means to highlight their charm. Some of them would wear cotton skirts and tie a leather belt around their waists, making their slender waists very eye-catching.
This pair of white mesh shoes would only fetch two dollars even if I resold it, and I would still have to pay fifty cents in compensation.
Therefore, she wanted to use the advanced knowledge in her mind to draw beautiful printed patterns on her white shoes with colored pencils, and then wait carefully at the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, and she would always be able to find a "fashionable foreign girl" who was willing to pay a high price to buy them.
Just do it.
Gu Yuehuai took out a light colored pencil, outlined lines on the white mesh shoes, and then colored them one by one. After a while, there were strings of trumpet creepers with bright red inside and orange outside on the shoes, adding a bit of vitality and color to the little white shoes.
After one shoe was finished, the asymmetrical trumpet creeper vines were sketched for the other.
The two pairs of shoes are placed together, forming a whole, and they even have a bit of a work of art feel.
Gu Yuehuai looked at the painted shoes and nodded with satisfaction.
At this moment, she suddenly thought of the scene in her previous life when she was protected in an ivory tower and had nothing to do, and he taught her to paint step by step. At that time, she even had a foolish thought that it would be great if she had met him first.
After all, I can turn "wishful thinking" into reality in this life.
She didn't dare to think about what she would say when she saw him again.
Gu Yuehuai was stunned for a long time. After a while, she came back to her senses with a wry smile, and patted her face. When she saw her chubby hands, she smiled silently.
How could she forget that she is still that fat woman who is hated by everyone and covered with fat.
How can I meet him in this state?
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