Gu Hanhan stood on tiptoes and pulled the canvas out of the frame. Gu Hanhan thought that she had seen several handsome men, but the moment she unfolded the canvas, she was impressed by the grace of the man in the painting.
The oil painting shows the back of a young man, stepping on a spaceship, standing in front of the dark and endless abyss of the universe, with stars twinkling above his head. His unrestrained and heroic spirit reminded Gu Hanhan of a poem he accidentally saw in the Ranger Volume of the "Sacred Code":
Our hearts are so free and our thoughts are far and wide.
Wherever the wind blows and the sea of stars rolls, this is our empire.
Measure our territory and see our hometown!
Breaking through the waves in the symphony of the storm, there is nothing you can't handle.
Our bold life,
Not you, pampered slave,
And the vain nobles who are happy and dissolute,
All you can experience!
Who knows the joy, unless his soul has been baptized by pain,
And soared proudly across the vast sea of stars.
For this joy we face the battle;
For this joy, we enjoy adventure.
Hope is awakening and spirits are soaring.
Come, as God pleases, we seize the life of life,
Let the sea of stars cover and contain our bodies.
The warrior bid farewell happily.
Gu Hanhan was shocked by the aura and fell speechless for a moment. His thoughts seemed to fly with the majestic sea of stars, freely and heroically welcoming the baptism of storms again and again...
When David returned to the living room, what he saw was the scene of Gu Hanhan being shocked and speechless in front of the oil painting.
"What are you looking at?" David walked over quickly and put his hand on Gu Hanhan's shoulder.
"Who is the person in this painting?" Gu Hanhan raised the painting a little more. Because her emotions had not yet fully recovered, her tone sounded a little confused and misty.
As soon as David's eyes came into contact with the person in the oil painting, his eyes turned cold and his face darkened.
"Where did you find this painting?" he asked stiffly.
But because his back was to David, Gu Hanhan didn't feel anything was wrong at all.
"There!" She pointed to the gap in the corner of the frame, "I don't know whose painting it is, and how it could be hidden in there. Is this a famous painting? I don't quite understand..."
"That was painted by my mother," David said softly, but more like talking to himself, "I thought she had thrown it away many years ago, but I didn't expect that she hid it here..."
"Did your mother draw it?" Gu Hanhan was surprised.
David held Gu Hanhan's hand, was silent for a moment, and then said slowly, "She has been painting this painting since I can remember..."
"At that time, I was sitting here playing 3D puzzles. When I got tired of playing, I would climb up and open up those large encyclopedias that I couldn't understand a word of." David pointed to the carpet under the bookshelf and told Gu Hanhan, Then, he pointed to the long couch next to the fireplace, "My mother is sitting here. Because she suffered a lot when giving birth to me, she is in poor health and is afraid of the cold. When the weather turns cold, she coughs desperately. What? The medicine doesn't help, but sitting by the fire makes me feel better."
He recalled, "She painted this and that painting for many years. When it was serious, she would even cough a few times every time she painted a stroke, but she always had a smile on her lips and a gentleness like water in her eyes. Later, when I was about five years old, One day when she was 18 years old, she suddenly scratched the canvas, and she never mentioned the brush again until her death..."
Gu Hanhan quickly turned the painting over, and sure enough, he saw that on the back of the canvas, there were several vertical and horizontal stripes that were so thin that they were almost invisible, which were the traces left by adhesive darning.
"Then the person in the painting is..." Gu Hanhan regretted halfway through the sentence and wanted to bite off his tongue.
Do you even need to ask? With such a poignant and melodious melody, it is obviously a vigorous love story, and it is also a love tragedy. For example, the noble lady and the Loto Ranger, or Romeo and Juliet...
——The man in the oil painting is either David’s mother’s lover or her ex-boyfriend.
But David's answer surprised Gu Hanhan - "He should be my dad."
"Your father?" There was a rumbling sound in Gu Hanhan's mind, which was no less shocking than when Su Daqian told her that her parents were bound to die together in front of the Aerospace Monument.
No matter how imaginative Gu Hanhan is, he can't imagine that the handsome man in the oil painting and the round-faced middle-aged man in the photo in the Dulan showroom are actually the same person!
In Gu Hanhan's mind, it was as if the back of a man walking out of a knight-errant epic overlapped with the arrogant and proud fat face of a middle-aged nobleman, which suddenly gave him a chill -
Are these two really the same person?
"It can only be said that time is a butcher's knife," Gu Hanhan lamented in his heart, "So the species of male gods should die in their prime..."
"Your father was quite handsome when he was young," Gu Hanhan comforted David and said, "Really, if he met him, I would be blind!"
David pursed his lips and his voice suddenly tightened: "I have never seen what he looked like when he was young!"
"Yes, you must not have been born yet at that time..."
Gu Hanhan didn't quite believe that David had never seen his father when he was still charming, but she understood why he said that.
"No wonder David doesn't like to go home. It must be because he blames his father for betraying and hurting her mother, so he doesn't want to meet him, right?" Gu Hanhan thought, "Mr. Garr said that David was born in the Coral Sea Summer Palace. So when David said he had lived here since he was a child, he actually moved the palace here. He often hid here alone, hiding in the beautiful memories of his mother and him when she was alive..."
Now, Gu Hanhan finally understood why David had such deep attachment and memory for his late mother. It is said that all Oedipus complexes are accompanied by a profound patricide mentality. David's tone contained a very obvious disgust for his father. Apparently his father had an affair after his mother gave birth to him, and was raped by his mother. Discover.
Gu Hanhan guessed that David's mother must have been extremely sad and even lost her mind. She speculated that maybe his mother tried to win back his father's heart and her own love by having another child, which led to her eventual loss of life. That's why David was so resentful that he used "a foolish birth"...
"David's father and mother must have had a passionate and unforgettable love," Gu Hanhan lamented inwardly, "Otherwise, it would be common for the nobles of Lighthouse Star to have affairs within their marriages. Each husband and wife would keep their mistresses and mistresses, the female slaves would have sex together, and the male servants would have sex together. It’s weird to be so sad because of betrayal and cheating! If Sister Lian loves Anthony so much, if one day he runs away with another woman, the most she can do is get drunk and call him a bastard twice, and then find an opportunity to beat him Dun, you won’t kill yourself!”
"So you have to keep your eyes peeled when looking for a partner when getting married!" Gu Hanhan finally came to the conclusion and secretly warned himself, "God-like beauty can also be damaged. Even the love sworn to each other has a shelf life!"
David held the oil painting in his hand, ambivalent about whether to hand it to the attendant. He was slow to come up with a clear attitude. He seemed to want to sternly order it to be burned and destroy it completely, but also wanted to regret it and keep it as carefully as this villa.
Gu Hanhan snatched the painting from David's hand. "Give it to me," she said, "I like it very much and want to keep it as a souvenir."
David nodded happily, seemingly getting rid of a big problem.
Because the portrait incident made David depressed, Gu Hanhan felt very sorry - if he hadn't looked around and dug out this old portrait, wouldn't everything have happened? So, when the tailor came to measure the size and look at the gemstone style, Gu Hanhan would always find some questions to ask and tease David.
"David, is this dress more beautiful or the previous one?"
"David, do you think it's okay for me to wear such a waist-girdled style? Have you ever noticed that my waist has become thicker recently, and my shoulders look strong!"
"David, does the color of this gem not take advantage of my skin?"
…
In this regard, David and Anthony, the heartless man, are completely opposite - although in the past, every time Gu Hanhan came home, one of the valets would always ask the tailor to come to his door. Every time the tailor came to take measurements, Anthony would often sit there. He was nearby, but he was either flipping through the newspaper, reading the entertainment section, or reading red wine and cigars. In short, he refused to look at Gu Hanhan. When he asked him what he wanted to order, he responded perfunctorily. He said something in his mouth and even pointed a finger without raising his eyes. It’s very honorable.
David, on the other hand, would respond seriously to whatever Gu Hanhan asked, even questions that seemed a little silly——
"Both two look good, so ask them to prepare a better one for you. You have to believe that there is always something unique in the world, and you don't need to worry about choosing. Your waist is quite thin, the kind that can be held in one hand The aesthetic of a thin waist is only related to the vice of the Acropolis and has nothing to do with beauty. In fact, the arms that are too thin are not good-looking, because they cannot support any decent jewelry. The color of the gems matches your skin color very well, and you I think it doesn’t look good because it’s too big, and the light is exposed. When worn on the head, it takes over the spotlight. You should change it to a smaller, energy stone-level gem. I feel that you should be very suitable for energy stones, especially the high-energy level ones. …”
Regarding beauty, David had a particularly different view from the Acropolis. To be precise, it was a different view from the generally popular aesthetic view applicable to the "Acropolis Mistress" class. This view coincided with Gu Hanhan's simple aesthetics after being baptized by the dark universe and the lighthouse star of freedom, so the atmosphere in the discussion gradually heated up and became cheerful.
Later, David, who was very interested, suddenly got excited and suggested: "Why don't we go out and stroll around the downtown area of Torini, just the two of us, without anyone else."
"Okay, let's go now!" Gu Hanhan agreed with surprise, "I've been to Lighthouse Star for so long, and I haven't even gone shopping once! I've never been to any tourist attractions outside of the university town. I'll wait for the summer vacation. When I got home, my Ms. Li Shufen asked me to talk about my experiences, but I had nothing to say!"
So Gu Hanhan happily went into the room to change out of his pajamas.
David also wanted to change his clothes for going out. He stood up and asked the attendant to get ready first. He also ordered him: "Transfer the valet named Charles to be Miss Gu's head valet. He should know how to collect the information from the collection." Choose from here instead of from the gem merchant’s rack.”
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