Revival Road

Chapter 73 Self-Portrait

After Tao Tang sent Zhao Qingmin away, he went to the opposite side to have a chat with his daughter who had already fallen asleep, but it was an old topic for her to study hard.Xiao He was most annoyed by this, she was chatting with Tang Tian on her mobile phone, and thought her father was annoying, so she hid in the bathroom to take a shower.

Tao Tang gave Fang Ke 5000 yuan and asked her to give it to Xiao He as appropriate.Graduating soon, there must be a lot of places for pocket money, and I always talk about restricting my daughter's pocket money, but in reality I can't help it.

Fang Ke stuffed the money into the suitcase, "After the high school entrance examination, I will send Xiaohe here. You should spend more time with her. Xiaohe is actually quite lonely. I have seen her cry secretly... I will accompany her during this time, you Don't worry." Fang Ke said.

Fang Ke's personality seems to have changed a lot, and Tao Tang can feel it completely.This made him feel guilty, and he thought that Fang Ke's change was all because of himself.Since Fang Lan's death, Fang Ke has completely focused on himself. These six years have been the best years of Fang Ke's life.Although Tao Tang firmly believed that it was his own right to accept or reject, the sense of guilt inevitably arose and became stronger and stronger.

Fortunately, when it comes to Xiao He, Fang Lan is a competent elder, which makes Tao Tang feel relieved.

"The bus has been arranged, and we will be downstairs at [-]:[-]. Breakfast is at [-] o'clock, and I will call you. I will have a meeting with some people tomorrow, so I won't send you to the station."

"Aren't you going to ask me?"

"Ask you what?" Tao Tang felt a headache again.

"For example, my Qingdao painting exhibition..."

"Yes, what is the result of the Qingdao Art Exhibition?"

"Nine pieces were sold. Another painting was quoted at [-] yuan, which was the highest asking price among my participating paintings, but I didn't sell it, and I didn't want to sell it at first."

"Is it landscape painting?" Tao Tang knew that Fang Ke's major was Western oil painting. There was one hanging in the living room of Binjiang. It was Fang Ke's painting from life in Guizhou. The layered terraced fields become exaggerated and vivid in Fang Ke's works, as if they have life.

"No, it's my first self-portrait, I want to give it to you." Then, Fang Ke took out the scroll from the suitcase and handed it to Tao Tang.

After hesitating for a while, Tao Tang took the painting scroll which was 80 centimeters long and wrapped in a dark blue cloth cover.

"Don't open it, read it after I leave. If you don't like it, destroy it."

Since someone offered a price of [-] yuan at the exhibition, it should be considered a good work. Tao Tang knew nothing about the market, and only felt that top painters were very few after all. It should be enough to sell [-].

"During dinner at night, I saw that you were worried. Is it Uncle Xiao He who gave you bad news?"

"It's nothing, I'm used to it. It's just a repetition of some stories from Shengdong, and it will get better." Tao Tang held the scroll, "It's getting late, you should go to bed earlier." Before he could speak, he turned around out the door.

"What's the matter?" Tao Tang just untied the pink ribbon on the scroll, and saw Fang Ke followed into the room.

Fang Ke didn't say a word, and suddenly hugged Tao Tang from behind.His arms were tightly bound, making Tao Tang a little out of breath.

"Don't be like this..." Tao Tang was a little out of breath.

"Don't move, I'll just give you a hug." She whispered.

Tao Tang was particularly afraid of Xiao He's sudden intrusion, and under the upset, he felt restless all over his body.

"Don't be like this, just speak up if you have something to say." Tao Tang struggled to break free.

"Am I very cheap?" Fang Ke buried his face deeply in Tao Tang's chest.

"No, don't say that..."

"Why don't you accept me?"

"Xiao Ke, let go and talk..."

"I know you have your sister in your heart, but she has already gone. I can give you what my sister has, and I can do what she can..."

"Xiao Ke, let go and listen to me..."

"No, no need, I know what you're going to say! I don't want to hear it." Fang Ke tightened his grip on the man with all his strength, feeling his heartbeat, "I've been waiting for you for six years, it's okay, I will wait Go down!" After finishing speaking, she pushed Tao Tang away, turned around and left, and the door was closed heavily behind her.

Tao Tang seemed exhausted, took two steps back, and fell on his back on the bed, the painting scroll fell out of his hand and fell on the carpet.

After a long time, Tao Tang fumbled to turn on the desk lamp, then picked up the scroll, took off the cloth cover, and turned it on.

The portrait continues Fang Ke's consistent painting style - bright colors and bold composition.The background is the beach under the wind and turbulent waves, and a girl in a bright red swimsuit with long hair is facing the sea.The girl is a full-body portrait, which takes up half of the frame.The girl's bright red swimsuit, fair skin and full chest stand out against the gray waves.

Tao Tang tried his best to focus on the girl's face.It is indeed Fang Ke's self-portrait.The profile is very similar to her, especially the tight mouth and eyes, which are very expressive.

Why did the self-portrait choose the wind and turbid waves as the background?Does this indicate that she is full of wild passion and desperately suppressed heart?Tao Tang did not find Fang Ke's inscription on the painting, and there was not a word in the whole painting.

Just like music is another language, painting is also a language, and any work of art is a language, expressing the author's thoughts to an audience who can understand.Fang Ke obviously likes her work, what is she going to tell herself?
Tao Tang got up, rolled up the portrait carefully, put it back into the cloth cover, and put it in the bookcase.Then he took a quick shower, turned off the lights and went to sleep.

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Early the next morning, both Tao Jin and Tao Meiling came to send Fang Ke and Tao Xiaohe off. The two families unanimously prepared a lot of local products.In the end, each party chose a little on the grounds that they could not carry it.

Tao Tang didn't transfer the bus, but asked Wu Shi'an to drive his old Jetta.Tao Xiaohe curled her lips when she saw the broken car, but fortunately she didn't say anything.Originally, Tao Tang was not going to send them to the station, but Xiao He made a suggestion, and Tao Tang got on the train.After arriving at the train station, before driving, he gave Fang Ke Xiaohe a few words of advice, and then prepared to return to the factory.

"How about that painting?" Fang Ke asked in a low voice.

"pretty good."

"I hope you frame it and hang it in your bedroom." Fang Ke glanced at Wu Shi'an who was talking to Xiao He, "If you want a woman, just look at me."

"Hey, who do you take me for?"

"It's normal. Don't you think you're sick? The girl in the guest house is quite a monster, I hope you move her away from your side." Before Tao Tang could speak, Fang Ke grabbed Xiao He, "Let's get in, we I want to use the restroom...bye Angkor."

"Goodbye, have a good trip." Wu Shi'an and Fang Ke shook hands and said goodbye.

On the way back, Wu Shi'an mentioned Fang Ke, "Second Brother, you should consider Miss Fang. Both Mei Ling and I think it's pretty good. At least it's good for Xiao He... As you can see, she and Xiao He have a good relationship of."

"You don't need to worry about this matter. Besides, it's me first, not Xiao He. Xiao He will grow up and have her own life..."

Ever since Meiling got married, Wu Shi'an and Tao Tang had a good relationship, definitely surpassing Tao Jin in terms of intimacy.So Wu Shi'an can freely talk about his wife and brother's private affairs.

"What you told me yesterday seems to be unfinished." Tao Tang is best at changing the subject.

Yesterday at Golden Olive's new house, Wu Shi'an told Tao Tang about the situation of the marketing department. The topic started with Tao Youdao buying a car.Wu Shi'an said that the son of Lian Fuyu, deputy director of the marketing department, had a wedding this month, and his in-laws married a Cadillac sedan, which was said to cost 50 million yuan.Lian Fuyu's in-laws are the accountants of Wu Shi'an's No. [-] Branch Factory, and they know everything about it. They definitely don't have the strength to buy a Cadillac, and he has also publicly said that the money is all given by Lian's family.In addition, Wu Shi'an also reported a situation, saying that the marketing department recently issued a bonus, which seemed to be money from a small treasury, and the amount was quite large.The latter situation was provided by Wu Shian's brother-in-law, Lei Yun.Tao Tang remembered this name. When he first came to the factory, he asked Lu Qi about the personnel in the marketing department, and Lu Qi once provided him.

"That's all. It's just hearsay. But Lei Yun's words can be trusted."

Lei Yun is Wu Shi'an's close relative, and he even got involved with Tao Tang. Tao Tang believed that Lei Yun would not create something out of nothing, and if he made it up without any basis, something must have gone wrong in his mind.Now that Lu Qi had mentioned the person's name, Tao Tang could trust him.Deep in Tao Tang's heart, he believed in Lu Qi's words even more.One is that Lu Qi has more vision than Wu Shi'an, and the other is...

"Lei Yun used to be the chief of the marketing department, right? Why was he dismissed?"

"It's not that I offended Li Luo. Second brother, Li Luo is too dark and calculating. You really have to be careful."

"The Cadillac thing you mentioned was actually provided by Leiyun, right?"

"No, absolutely not. Li Weibo and I are in the same unit, the office is upstairs and downstairs, and that kid has a big mouth. Who doesn't know in the third branch?"

"Driving your car well, you're in a hurry. Shi'an, I know you're a scheming person, and it's for my own good. But now that you have a different status, don't get involved in any personnel issues of the company. Do you understand?"

"Second brother, don't worry, Meiling and I won't make trouble for you."

"I know that you and Meiling have problems with the boss. How should I put it? The boss also has his difficulties. The sister-in-law is not very reasonable. She is in her fifties. Can you change her at once? It is said that it is difficult for an upright official to solve housework. , Everything is more expensive. Oh, I almost forgot, find an ICBC, and I will issue a card for Youdao."

"Youdao is a good kid. Really. If Meiling has any opinion on you, I am even less qualified to speak. I just hope that they will treat the old man better in the future, so that they can talk about everything."

"That's it." Tao Tang noticed that there was a branch office of Jiagong Bank in the front right, "Okay, pull over."

"Oh, it's an A8. If you don't pay attention, you will always see it as an A6. This car is designed..." Wu Shi'an carefully parked his Jetta behind an Audi A8.

"Rooting! Robbing!" A sharp cry came.

Tao Tang, who just got out of the car, saw a young man running towards him with a bag in his hand.

"Stop!" Tao Tang stretched out his leg subconsciously, tripping over the young man who was rushing over. Tao Tang then stepped on the young man's hand holding the bag. The young man screamed in pain, and his hand let go. Tao Tang picked up the bag.

The whole process is like lightning, in the blink of an eye.But Wu Shi'an saw it very clearly, and while laughing, he gave countless praises to his wife and brother in his heart.Then Wu Shian couldn't laugh anymore,
A security guard rushed out of the branch office, followed by a woman.Two youths rushed out from nowhere, one punched down the security guard, while the other rushed towards Tao Tang and hugged Tao Tang from behind.

Of course Wu Shi'an would not let his wife and brother suffer, so he jumped out of the car and rushed over.

The branch office called 110 early, and the siren sounded faintly.

When Wu Shi'an rushed over, Tao Tang had already been thrown to the ground by the young man hugging him from behind, and the tripped young man rushed forward and kicked Tao Tang on the head.With a roar, Wu Shi'an punched the young man who kicked Tao Tang to the ground.Someone shouted to run, and the thieves ran away.Wu Shi'an was worried about Tao Tang, so he didn't stop him. When the police arrived, the three thieves had already disappeared without a trace.

(End of this chapter)