The box wasn't locked, so Vice Mayor Kang simply lifted the lid.
Huh, are they all New Year pictures?
He took out a sheet and looked at it through the small window.
This New Year picture is clearly hand-painted. Its style is very similar to Tibetan Thangka paintings, full of oriental charm. The colors in the picture are beautiful and blended, creating a unique effect that is hard to describe.
The painting features bats, symbolizing wealth and prosperity, lotus flowers, and other auspicious symbols.
Such a vivid painting immediately touched Vice Mayor Kang's aesthetic sensibilities.
He turned to look into the box, and it was full.
So he asked his secretary to wrap the New Year picture in a piece of kraft paper for him.
It was just a matter of the leader picking out a New Year's picture from a pile of junk; the secretary immediately took care of it.
When it was time to leave work, the secretary noticed that Vice Mayor Kang had forgotten to bring it, so he chased after him and presented it to him with both hands.
And so, Vice Mayor Kang took the New Year picture home with him.
Vice Mayor Kang has two sons.
His eldest son is Kang Cheng, the former campus heartthrob of Shen University, the senior student Kang who was the talk of countless girls.
Why do we say "in the past"?
Ever since Bei Chen lectured at Shen University, Kang Cheng was publicly ridiculed and abandoned by the fox demon Qing Ning, and fainted on the tree-lined path.
He was sent to the hospital and eventually became the laughing stock of everyone's conversations after class and meals. Kang Cheng was no longer the campus heartthrob of Shen University.
Kang Cheng had already been discharged from the hospital. That day, he returned to school just as the body of the female college student Qing Ning was being dug up.
He was unlucky; he happened to be passing by there.
A gust of wind blew through the cordon, and the bag containing the body, which wasn't zipped up, was lifted open by the wind.
He saw everything, and the wind even carried the voice of the forensic doctor.
"It has now been confirmed that the body is Qing Ning, the female student who went missing a few days ago."
But according to the investigation, the body was buried here three months ago, and Qingning was still in school a few days ago. This doesn't make sense.
Kang Cheng immediately felt unwell. He swayed, his mind buzzing. Who was the girl he had been intimate with not long ago? And who had so heartlessly abandoned him?
Kang Cheng was so shocked that he fainted again and was hospitalized for two days.
At the home of Vice Mayor Kang.
As soon as Vice Mayor Kang entered the door, his young and beautiful wife came to greet him.
He handed the scroll wrapped in kraft paper to his wife, asking her to frame it and hang it in the living room as decoration.
Curious, my wife opened the kraft paper and unfurled the New Year picture.
"Wow, honey, is this a Thangka painting? It's so beautiful!"
Vice Mayor Kang's youngest son was also curious and ran over to pull the painting from his mother's hand.
"Wow, Dad, where is this painting from? The little animals and flowers in it look so real."
Vice Mayor Kang and his wife didn't think the painting was alive. Perhaps the child was sensitive to color and described the vivid colors in the painting as alive.
The couple affectionately patted their youngest son's head, saying, "Mumu's paintings are also very good, just like his life."
Kang Cheng, leaning on his crutches, went downstairs and saw his father, stepmother, and younger brother enjoying themselves together on the stairs.
He suddenly felt like he was superfluous.
When Vice Mayor Kang saw his eldest son, he felt an inexplicable sense of disgust.
The gentle smile he had just given his wife and youngest son vanished completely.
"What are you standing there for? It's time to eat!"
He then muttered under his breath, "Useless thing."
Kang Cheng was already sensitive, and felt a sharp pain in his heart, as if a needle had been stuck in it.
At the dinner table, Vice Mayor Kang noticed the injury on his son's face, which was covered with a band-aid.
"Kang Cheng! Ri Ma, you went out to fight again? You're such a weakling, and you still want to fight?"
The youngest son joined in the fun, "Haha, now that brother looks like an old man, he's definitely going to get beaten up!"
The stepmother covered her mouth and smiled, "Mumu, just keep it to yourself, don't say it out loud."
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