After a simple breakfast, the three of them prepared to set off.

Before leaving, Yu You suggested going up to get a camera. Seeing everyone looking at him, he smiled and explained, "I also learned some amateur photography in college, so I'll take it with me and see if I can take some photos later."

Yu Ci raised his eyebrows and acquiesced.

Arnold is an orphan who lives in a stilt house with other children in the village.

Children in the village whose parents are not around live here, making it convenient for adults to manage them centrally.

This stilt house is located at the end of the village, right next to the village doctor I visited yesterday.

The door was only half open and the windows in the hall were not opened.

Yu Ci walked in front with ease and went up the stairs.

There were several children sitting in the living room on the second floor, each holding an exercise book and working hard at it.

Yu Ci curled his lips and walked towards an older child sitting in the corner: "Arnold."

Arnold looked up from the table and saw him. His little adult face suddenly smiled: "Brother Yuci, you're here."

The children sitting next to Arnold also raised their heads and called out, "Brother Yuci, come and take a look at my homework."

"No, look at mine first. I'm almost done."

"I've finished writing. Read mine first."

The living room, which had been quiet just a moment ago, was now in chaos.

Yu Ci rubbed his brows and said with a straight face: "Be quiet, do your homework first."

So the children all lowered their heads and did their homework obediently.

Yu Ci walked to Arnold's side, bent down slightly and looked at the album in his hand: "What are you drawing this time?"

Arnold shyly hid the sketchbook in his hand and said, "Just drawing casually. It's not good."

Yu You leaned over curiously, his eyes fell on the album, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

It's not just a bad drawing, the drawing level is almost the same as that of his six-year-old nephew, all stick figures.

Yu Ci asked a few questions and walked to the other side.

The child over there was younger, and when he saw Yu Ci coming, he happily pulled him aside and asked him all kinds of questions.

Shi Jin walked to Arnold's side and cast a faint gaze on his album.

Arnold tightened his grip on the paintbrush.

He didn't like others watching him draw, but the good-looking older brother in front of him was brought by Brother Yu Ci...

Arnold bit his lip unconsciously and continued writing.

It was indeed a little difficult for him to concentrate at the beginning, but as he painted, he was immersed in the world of painting.

When he finished drawing a few little people holding hands, Arnold realized that the big brother was sitting next to him.

He blushed a little, and stopped drawing another little man.

"Let's try to determine the framework first." Shi Jin stretched out his hand and pointed at the blank surface of the album with his fingertips: "First determine the positions of the points, lines and surfaces."

Arnold was very smart and understood what he meant almost immediately.

He decided where to start writing according to Shi Jin's instructions, and then looked at him eagerly: "And then?"

Shi Jin paused.

Drawing people is a slightly later course in sketching, but...

"Determine the structure." Shi Jin pursed his lips: "To draw a person, you first need to determine the frame structure of the human body, but you need to lay a solid foundation before you can learn this."

Arnold lowered his head somewhat listlessly, but soon he raised his head again with sparkling eyes: "Big brother, are you good at drawing?"

Shi Jin shook his head: "Only a little bit."

Shi was studying design, and design and painting are inseparable, but her sense of space was not very good. When she first learned to paint, she was often overwhelmed by three-dimensional surfaces and pestered him to practice with her.

So his sketching was basically practiced over time.

So it can only be considered a little bit.

But in Arnold's eyes, knowing a little bit is already impressive.

His eyes were bright. The young boy who had just tried to remain calm snapped his fingers and said in a small voice: "Can you teach me how to draw?"

As if he was afraid that Shi Jin would refuse, he quickly added: "Just draw one. Tomorrow is Teacher Bai's birthday. I want to draw a picture for her."

"certainly."

Arnold then happily took out a photo from the exercise book in his schoolbag.

This photo was taken with a Polaroid camera and is carefully preserved in a book.

Arnold shyly handed the small photo to Shi Jin: "This was taken by a big sister who came to travel before. It's a photo of us and our teacher."

In the middle of the photo is a young girl with a neat high ponytail and a beige backpack. She is half-squatting, hugging the children on both sides with open arms, smiling brightly at the camera.

She is a young and beautiful girl.

Shi Jin took a quick look and quickly determined where to start.

It’s just right to draw a Q version of a character.

Shi Jin picked up the pen and patiently taught Arnold how to draw the frame and outline.

He soon discovered that Arnold had a great talent for painting. He just had no one to teach him before, but he had a strong ability to absorb knowledge. Shi Jin only taught him twice, and he could basically paint well on his own.

There was a calm look in Shi Jin's eyes, and the corners of his lips were slightly curved.

Just as he was about to put down his paintbrush, he heard a light shutter sound beside his ear.

“Crack—”

Shi Jin turned his head and faced Yu You's dark camera.

“Crack—”

Another one.

Yu You took off the camera and looked at the pictures with satisfaction: "Brother Shi Jin, you are so photogenic, do you want to see the pictures?"

Shi Jin was not very interested in the photos. He shook his head and gently refused: "No."

Yu You felt a little sorry, but he quickly turned his eyes and found Yu Ci on the other side: "Brother Yu Ci, look at the photos I took!"

Yu Ci raised his head from the group of children clinging to him: "What photos?"

Yu You puffed out his chest proudly: "Brother Shi Jin's photo!"

Yu Ci raised his eyebrows: "Let's take a look."

He assigned a few questions to the chattering children, watched them quietly concentrate on solving the questions, then stood up and walked to Yu You's side.

Yu You handed him the camera and silently took two steps back.

Yu Ci was tall and had long legs, and when he stood next to him, he made him look like a dwarf.

He should take two steps back.

Yu Ci took the camera and looked at the screen.

This photo shows a hand holding a paintbrush.

Yu You found a very good angle; the background of the picture is the half-open window of the bamboo building.

It was raining outside the window, the drizzling rain was entangled with the rising moisture, and mottled water marks were winding on the window frame.

Looking out through the window frame divided by bamboo blocks, you can see the low sky, which is covered with dark clouds due to the rain, outlining the blue with a light gray tone.

Against the gloomy and decadent background, the hand in the center of the picture appears particularly white.

Delicate, cold white, with distinct joints.

Yu Ci’s gaze lingered for a while.

Yu You scratched his chin and urged him, “There’s another one.”

The next photo is still in the same position, but the difference is that this one shows a person instead of a hand.

Still the background of the window frame.

In the center of the picture is a young man in black with a slightly sidelong glance.

There were fine cottony rain threads hanging outside the window and scattered water droplets dotted the window frame.

In the hazy drizzle, the young man's cold skin, raven-black hair, and pale lips all seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist by the mist behind him.

What attracted people the most were the young man's light amber eyes.

Through the cold camera screen, the lingering alienation came directly into my eyes.

......also reflected in my heart.

Yu Ci's heart skipped a beat.

Yu You's smug voice was heard beside my ear: "How about it, I took a good picture, didn't I?"

Yu Ci cleared his throat to cover up: "Not bad."

After a pause, he added: "Give me a copy of the photo."

"No problem." Yu Youbangbang patted his chest, looking happy: "I'll pass it on to you when I get back."

Yu Ci returned to the table.

The moisture outside the window seemed to float in, wrapping around his palms with a sticky mist.

The palms of his hands were stained with moisture, wet just like his heartbeat, chaotic and irregular.

"Brother Yu Ci, how do you solve this problem?"

Yu Ci calmed down and looked sideways: "Where?"

Shi Jin, the subject of the photo, was looking at the album Arnold gave him.

Arnold is indeed talented. After a short period of study, the Q-version figures he draws already have the basic framework and are very cute.

Shi Jin praised him: "Not bad."

Arnold tried hard to purse his lips to prevent his smile from being too obvious. He held his album with sparkling eyes and said, "Thank you, Brother Shi."

After saying that, he picked up the sketchbook and started painting again.

Shi Jin's gaze also fell on him.

People in the village basically wear clothes they sew themselves on a daily basis, and Arnold is no exception.

Shi Jin's eyes passed over the plain buttons on his front and fell on Arnold's cuffs.

The clothes seemed a little long, and the cuffs were turned over and folded twice, so the complicated buttons sewn on the cuffs could not be seen.

Shi Jin stroked the buttons in his pocket with his fingertips and pursed his lips: "Arnold, what else do you do besides painting?"

Arnold lowered his head and painted: "Before, Teacher Bai would take me to the square to learn how to dye cloth. When she was not free, I would go up the mountain to cut bamboo thatch and bring it back to burn."

Shi Jin caught a word in his words: "Before?"

"Yeah." Arnold's voice was much lower: "Teacher Bai is gone."

Noticing Arnold's low mood, Shi Jin did not ask any more questions. He took out the button from his pocket and said, "Arnold, is this button yours?"

Arnold looked up, his eyes suddenly changed, and before Shi Jin could see his expression clearly, he snatched the button away: "It's mine, maybe I accidentally dropped it before."

He lowered his head and said, "Brother Shi, I'm a little sleepy. I want to go back to sleep first."

Shi Jin paused for a moment and said, "Okay."

Yu You, who had been watching silently from the side, was a little puzzled: "His reaction seems a bit big."

Shi Jin: “Indeed.”

More than a little, very much.

The thoughts in my mind were confused, but there seemed to be a faint line emerging.

Shi Jin frowned slightly, and just as he was about to get up, he heard Yu You muttering something beside him.

His brows furrowed. "What did you just say?"

"Ah?" Yu You was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly repeated: "I said, the teacher Bai in the photo is so beautiful, why don't I see her on the school's photo wall?"