The right way to rescue someone who has been out of the closet

Chapter 30 Aventurine Stone

Early the next morning, after packing up, the two set off to drive to Yunmeng Mountain.From the imperial capital all the way to the north, it takes an hour and a half to drive there.

The mountains in the north are always the same, ordinary and unremarkable, like a mold.Yunmeng Mountain is like a wonderful flower among the mountains in the north, with many strange peaks, rocks, deep valleys and deep valleys, so it is called "Little Yellow Mountain".Looking from the halfway up the mountain, the road when you come here is lush and green, and you can see the fresh green all over the mountains and plains as far as you can see.The peaks that have not been climbed are tall and steep, with jagged rocks all over the mountain, and the exposed rocks have been weathered into strange shapes after being exposed to rain and sun.

Ye Lan seldom travels, and she went to Xiangshan to collect materials for red-leaf-themed ornaments.Ever since Xiangshan was crowded with people in the peak season, Ye Lan only had one impression of mountain climbing, and that was tiredness.The altitude of Xiangshan Mountain is only more than 500 meters, while the main peak of Yunmeng Mountain is nearly 500 meters, which is equivalent to climbing three Xiangshan Mountains in a row.

Qin Qin said that he lacked exercise, which seemed to be true. He had just walked halfway, and Ye Lan sat on the stone bench panting, and could no longer walk.Qin Qin took out drinking water from his backpack, Ye Lan took it and drank a couple of sips, wiped the sweat from his temples, and took a breath: "Take a rest before leaving?"

"Okay." With that said, Tan Qin took off his backpack and sat beside him.

His figure is not that strong, and the muscles of his arms and chest and abdomen are not exaggeratedly bulging. Panting for breath, Ye Lan couldn't help poking him: "Why are you so physically strong?"

Qin Qin held his mischievous finger and replied calmly without being annoyed: "Major operations sometimes last for tens of hours. If you don't have enough energy, you may not be able to last even one operation."

"Ah, I saw on the news that the doctor fell asleep on the ground after the operation, and he was so tired that he needed to drink glucose to supplement his nutrition... Is it true?"

"Really, so you must strengthen your physical fitness." Qin Qin stood up first, and stretched out his hand to pull him, "So you should also exercise your body."

"What kind of body do I exercise, and I don't want surgery." Ye Lan muttered, holding his hand reluctantly, and stood up with strength, "Our designers just need to sit and draw all day long. , and not tired."

After Tan Qin exerted all his strength, Ye Lan stood up and stood by his side.The two were very close, Qin Qin tilted his head slightly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his lips brushed against his ears, and his hot breath poured in: "You want to drive."

Ye Lan shook off his hand like an electric shock, a blush crept up his cheeks, he hurriedly looked left and right, and found that the few tourists were not paying attention to them, so he glared at him bitterly, and took the lead to climb the stone steps, proving his "physical strength" .

Tan Qin followed leisurely. He didn't wear a slim shirt today, but changed into a loose and comfortable casual T-shirt.His forehead hair was wet with sweat, and he randomly pushed it aside, revealing a pair of star-like eyes, staring at the figure in front of him.

After walking for a while, Ye Lan gradually became exhausted and leaned against the fence to rest.Qin Qin didn't say anything, and pointed to the nearby attractions and started to introduce, obviously he had done his homework.He usually doesn't talk much, and his speech may not be very vivid, but fortunately, his words are concise and to the point. Ye Lan was originally engaged in abstract design. Looking at the strange-shaped stones in front of him, and listening to Tan Qin's introduction of allusions, he got some design inspiration.

Just stop and go, finally reached the top of the mountain, Ye Lan cheered like a child, and felt that it was inappropriate to be too excited at this age, so she forcibly restrained herself, took out her mobile phone to take two photos as a souvenir, but was blocked by Tan Qin .

Qin Qin held a brand new SLR camera in his hand: "Use this."

Ye Lan took it over without knowing why: "You want me to shoot with this?"

"Well, the effect should be better than that of a mobile phone."

More than a little better, if you don't count the post-processing, the effect of SLR shooting is simply unmatched.But Ye Lan, who doesn't travel very much, naturally has no experience in taking pictures of landscapes. He stared blankly at the SLR camera in Qin Qin's hand: "What do you want me to take?"

"Shoot whatever you want."

Ye Lan had no choice but to pick it up, feeling uneasy in her heart, and explained in a low voice: "Actually, my photography skills are terrible, so don't get your hopes up."

"How come, Diana said that you are good at taking pictures."

If these words hadn't come from the mouth of the male god, Ye Lan would almost have thought that the other party was ironically mocking him.He shut his mouth, not knowing how to explain PS's technology of turning decay into magic.Retouching pictures of people is justified, taking a bunch of landscapes and going back, and then retouching the pictures, this kind of behavior is a bit strange no matter how you look at it.Photography wasn't his hobby in the first place, it was all for Ye Ying's Taobao shop, but the male god really took it as his hobby, and even brought a SLR camera with his heart.If the male god sees that her photography skills are appalling, wouldn't it refute Wen Jiaojiao's face and embarrass both parties.

But when you travel, what can you do without taking pictures?Ye Lan hoarse, she didn't know how to evade it, so she had to take it, and clicked a few photos in the distance.He was unhappy, and naturally he was not in the mood to take a serious look at the scene. Tan Qin came over to take a look, his face sinking like water, and he didn't say a word.

After having lunch on the top of the mountain, the two slowly descended along the rugged mountain road.In the afternoon, another group of new tourists went up the mountain, shoulder to shoulder with the crowd going down the mountain, and the narrow mountain road became crowded.Walking halfway, there is an open and flat terrain, and a pergola has been built to provide shade and shelter from the rain. Vendors mostly gather here, water sellers, food sellers, and souvenir sellers, taking advantage of the crowds, shouting loudly.

Ye Lan originally took Tan Qin to hide to avoid tourists, but when she saw a stall selling souvenirs, she went to look at it when she had nothing to do.There are no special souvenirs in Yunmeng Mountain, and the stalls sell only ordinary things.There are simple wooden bead strings, rough carved jade pendants, and some small ceramic dolls with some blessings written on the back.

Ye Lan picked and picked at the stall, and chose a few jade pendants.The pendant was carved into the shape of Yunmeng Mountain and was worn by a red rope. Under the sunlight, many impurities and cracks appeared, and the green was not very transparent.Even a layman like Tan Qin could see that it was impossible for this to be pure jade. Ye Lan was half an expert, so she happily bought it.

After walking for a while, Tan Qin glanced at Ye Lan who was happily holding the pendant, and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you buying this?"

"What?" Ye Lan stopped and looked back at him with a smile on her lips.

"This rock is of such low quality, why did you buy it?"

Ye Lan replied naturally: "It's rare to come out, buy it back as a souvenir for my colleagues and my mother."

"Aren't you a jewelry designer? Why do you like this?"

"What do you mean?" Ye Lan looked down at the pendant on her palm in confusion, "Isn't it good?"

Qin Qin stopped: "I mean, don't you designers come into contact with diamonds and emeralds every day? How could you buy stones on the side of the road?" Da Yan, "Like a fashion designer who participated in a Paris fashion show, would he go to Taobao to buy clothes?"

"I..." Ye Lan said a word, then closed her mouth sadly.He wanted to explain, but didn't know how to explain.He didn't know what the male god had misunderstood about jewelry. This thorn was deeply pierced in his heart, and every time he thought about it, his heart hurt like a knife.

He suddenly felt Ye Ying's inferiority complex. The male god is a graduate student of the medical university, but he dropped out of junior high school.The male god is treating diseases and saving lives in the best hospital in the imperial capital, while he is drawing Taobao hits in a copycat company.

There are many involuntary things in this world.He didn't finish junior high school, not because he didn't study hard, but because he couldn't take it for granted that Ye Ying was bleeding and sweating alone.He also doesn't think it is a shameful thing to paint Taobao hits. It is also for making money, and there is no distinction between high and low.

But love makes people humble, and this humbleness goes straight to the dust. Even if the other party has never compared and showed off, the heart will be involuntarily lowered.It's never been harder to admit that his job has never been easier, embarrassment sticking to his lips like glue.

At this moment, Ye Lan was very sad.He remembered what he had said to Fan Yue, he said that only one person was needed to love him.But when that person really appeared, he would mind many other things.why does he love meHow much does he love me?Is this feeling pure enough without a trace of impurities?

He didn't know whether he was too greedy or Tan Qin gave too little love.

61.8%, just a little more than half.

Is there any way to add some more weight?Is it possible to return one percent of the position by offering one hundred percent of oneself?

Qin Qin kept looking at him, but he didn't seem to be looking at him.The mountain wind came through the woods, blowing the hair on his forehead and messing up the darkness in his eyes.He came over and said "I'm sorry" in a low voice.

Ye Lan shook her head lightly, followed behind him, and went down the mountain in silence.

Going down the mountain was much easier than going up the mountain, and the two had their own concerns. No one spoke along the way, and they went back to the car without stopping. Counting the time, they were able to go home for dinner.

Tan Qin put the backpack in the trunk, returned to the driver's seat and started the car, Ye Lan was still staring at the pendants in a daze.He was already thin, but looking at it from this angle, he was as thin as a piece of paper, crumbling in the wind.

Tan Qin sighed inwardly, put his hands off the steering wheel, and said again seriously: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that just now."

Ye Lan raised her eyes, but there was no weakness or hesitation in her eyes.As if he had made up his mind, he said, "No, you're right. I told you before that my mother gave birth to me out of wedlock, and fled to the imperial capital alone to make a living. She's an underage girl, How can we support the two of us? After I dropped out of school, I opened a Taobao store with my mother. I didn’t study for a few years, let alone go to college. I mispronounced your name when we met for the first time. I feel ashamed and sorry.”

Before Tan Qin could speak, he laughed at himself: "Photography is not my hobby. I only take photos of the models in my mother's Taobao store. I don't know how to take pictures of landscapes. I'm not a young artist with style. As you said See, I buy cheap stones on the side of the road, and that's the only stone I can afford. I grew up doing one thing, trying to make money to survive. I'm just kidding myself when I say I'm a jewelry designer It’s not as glamorous as you thought. You’re right, I’m the one who specializes in painting imitations for Taobao, and I’m not even a designer. I’m the one who should say I’m sorry. I’m sorry for disappointing you. .”

"It doesn't matter..."

"It's related." Ye Lan interrupted him softly, "You hate jewelry, don't you? And my job happens to be in the jewelry industry. Speaking of which, my growing environment has nothing to do with jewelry. When I was young, Before elementary school, my mother had to work to earn money every day. She had no time to take care of me, so she put me in the mall where her part-time job shop was located, and told me to play by myself in the mall. I had no friends and no father. My mother left early all day I came home late and had no one to play with me. At that time, I didn’t know what loneliness was. My biggest wish was that someone could be with me all the time. It doesn’t need much, just being alone is fine. Later, I accidentally went through a custom-made A jewelry store for wedding rings. I saw the advertisement at the entrance of the jewelry store saying, "There is only one person in life, and jewelry is with you forever." The salesperson in the store was selling diamond rings to a young couple, saying that diamonds can tie a person's heart At that time, I thought, ah, diamonds can bring me that person and keep him with me all the time. So I desperately wanted to own a diamond. After my mother’s Taobao store made a profit, I went to I worked part-time in a jewelry workshop, and only then did I realize that the words were said by the salesperson in order to get couples to buy rings, how can diamonds have such magic power."

He raised the pendant in his hand, facing the afternoon sun, the dots of light reflected on his face through the jade, flickering on and off.

"Look, this is aventurine stone. It's not even jade, it's just a green stone. The market price is very cheap, and it is often used to pass off jadeite, as if its existence is only used as a substitute. Aventurine stone In fact, I am not happy. Although it is not transparent and pure, it is also very beautiful! I think its particles and variegated colors are very similar to the colorful green vegetation on this mountain, and it has a natural beauty. I bought it just because I I just think it looks good, and it has nothing to do with its value. Just like I like to do jewelry design, I don’t care how much the work can sell in the end, as long as someone wears the jewelry I design, I am very happy. I like all kinds of jewelry. I want the most suitable jewelry to appear in my design. But after seeing all kinds of gemstones, my favorite is diamonds.”

Qin Qin had been listening quietly, and suddenly asked, "Why do you still like diamonds? Don't you already disbelieve in the magic power of diamonds?"

"The existence of gemstones has no meaning. People give different meanings to various gemstones. I prefer diamonds because of their meaning: love and loyalty." Ye Lan explained, trying to eliminate Qin Qin's prejudice against jewelry.After confessing his past, he finally had the courage to pull out the thorn, "What about you, why do you hate jewelry?"

Ye Lan didn't get an answer for a long time after she finished asking.He waited patiently, whether he was perfunctory or telling the truth, he just waited.God had closed many windows in his life, he thought, trying to open one.

Tan Qin blinked, his eyelids stretched and then folded again, like a black and white silent film switched in an old movie.His voice was low and soothing, without much emotion: "There is a woman who likes jewelry as much as you, and she loves diamonds very much. She believes in 'diamonds are a woman's best friend', and her husband and son are not as reliable as diamonds."

He spoke slowly, as if he was just telling other people's stories casually, regardless of whether Ye Lan was listening: "She married a man, thinking that he could bring her family jewels, but the man's parents would not agree. But The man loved her so much that he gave up the whole family for her, so naturally he lost everything she wanted. The man became very poor, which frightened her. But she couldn't help it, she was already pregnant at this time. Maybe she She also thought that she would just live her life like this, but not long after giving birth to her child, she encountered a god-sent opportunity."

Ye Lan held her breath, and had a faint guess in her heart: "And then?"

"And then she made it, and finally lived a life with diamonds."

Ye Lan was stunned, holding a breath of foul breath in his chest, and it took a long time for him to exhale slowly.He seemed to understand something, but he didn't dare to ask.After waiting for a while, Tan Qin didn't speak anymore, and then he leaned over and hugged him with all his tenderness as if he were dealing with a fragile object.

Tan Qin leaned on his chest, allowing him to caress his back, and wrapped his fingers around his neck and hair, dissipating the hostility from his body little by little.He raised his head slightly: "Do you still remember how you first fell in love with a man?"

"I, I don't remember..." Ye Lan thought hard, "I always thought that I was born with it, maybe because I lacked the love of my father since I was a child, and my mother is not very reliable. I have always felt insecure. Yes. Maybe mature men are more likely to attract me than women who need protection. The girls in my impression are all weak and weak like my mother. When I realized it, I couldn’t be attracted to girls anymore. "

Qin Qin looked at him from bottom to top, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, the winter snow melted, and the spring flowers bloomed."As far as I remember, it was the proudest thing in my life," he said.

Ye Lan smiled: "Gay and Proud?"

"Ah."

Seeing his smile, Ye Lan somehow remembered Wen Jiaojiao's WeChat.

He tried to bend the corners of his mouth, but found that he couldn't smile.

The author has something to say: the slogan "There is only one person in life, and jewelry will last forever" comes from my friend's hard disk file, which has been authorized to be used, and I would like to thank you.

I'm sorry I didn't have time to update it yesterday. This chapter was written too depressingly, and I felt that it was not well written.

【small theater】

last night.

Ye Lan was hugged naked by Tan Qin, she closed her eyes and was about to fall asleep when the phone rang suddenly.

He crawled out of the gentle village with all kinds of difficulties, quickly finished talking on the phone, and continued to lie back in Tan Qin's arms to sleep well.

Qin Qin helped him pull up the quilt: "It's so late, whose call is it?"

"Nian Gao, it's nothing to worry about tonight." Ye Lan frowned, and suddenly lost all sleepiness, "Then what should we do? Just hug it until the next day?"

Qin Qin's eyes moved slightly, and he laughed: "Or, do something else?"

tonight.

"...I'm so hungry." Ye Lan lay on the bed, pursed her mouth, and asked in pain, "Can I get out of bed and cook a bowl of noodles?"

"Nian Gao didn't write that you got out of bed to cook noodles." Tan Qin touched him, "Be patient."

"Then what should I do? I've been lying on the bed for a whole day! If this continues, I'm going to die!" Ye Lan turned over, lay on Tan Qin's body, and said angrily, "When the rice cake comes back, let It first writes [-] characters and we eat a full banquet!"

Rice cakes are back.

Nian Gao wrote: "The next morning, after packing up, the two set off to drive to Yunmeng Mountain..."

Ye Lan said in horror: "Wait! Where's the Manchu Banquet as agreed?!"

Tan Qin got out of bed to find the car keys, dragged Ye Lan up from the bed, and threw the clothes to him: "Get up, let's go."

"Damn, at least let me cook a bowl of noodles!"

In this way, the poor protagonists went to climb the mountain hungry.