Chapter 39: I'm waiting to regret

He Yu's paintings were unfolded in the botanical garden, and the theme was "savage growth".
The works on display are mainly his oil paintings, inspired by He Yu's childhood life in the mountains.
The vigorous paintings are placed next to real plants, and the colors in the oil paintings seem to overflow the frame and blend into the background.
The day of the exhibition was a Friday, and Jiang Xiaozhen and her friends came over after school in the evening.
When the three entered the venue, they got a brochure about the exhibition, which briefly introduced He Yu and every painting on display in the venue.
At first, Lin Xuemei and Zhao Fugui heard Jiang Xiaozhen say that her friend's painting exhibition, they all thought it was a simple small exhibition in a campus classroom.
Unexpectedly, it would be of such a scale-He Yu's paintings encased an entire botanical garden.
When they enter the infield, there are special service personnel who provide them with free tea and snacks.
Zhao Fugui held a tea cup in one hand and a small cake in the other. His chubby face was full of excitement: "Jiang Xiaozhen, do you know the painter who painted these pictures? I still can't believe it!"
Lin Xuemei hurriedly flipped through the introduction booklet, and nodded in agreement: "I can't believe it, it's so cool."
They acquiesced that Jiang Xiaozhen knew that this exhibition was very powerful, but they did not realize that she was also constantly surprised and moved in her heart.
He Yu is really amazing!
Jiang Xiaozhen swept around the venue, but didn't see where he was.
The botanical garden is too big, and there are a lot of people who come here. There are young people about the same age as they look, middle-aged people in decent clothes, and families with strollers coming to see the exhibition...
The three of them are submerged in the crowd, inconspicuous existence.
Walking around in the botanical garden, the surprise that was initially attracted by the paintings and the environment gradually subsided. They began to pay attention to the people around them and realized that they did not fit well with the environment here.
Staring at the back of a group of people passing by, Lin Xuemei covered her mouth and said to her friend: "Those seem to be high school students, but they don't wear school uniforms. They are dressed so beautiful and fashionable."
"Well," Zhao Fugui also discovered: "It seems that we are the only ones wearing school uniforms here."
They are not only wearing school uniforms, but also carrying school bags, and the three people are inseparably next to each other.
People come and go, they can't help feeling small and a little embarrassed.
Zhao Fugui and Lin Xuemei looked at each other, and said to Jiang Xiaozhen: "Xiaozhen, otherwise, shall we go to the door and wait for you? We don't know how to read paintings either."
Jiang Xiaozhen disagreed: "We just came in, so we should look at it again."
The expressions on the two people beside them said "difficult".
"Well..." She had to let them go out first.
Jiang Xiaozhen strolled in the botanical garden alone.
She has been looking forward to the exhibition of He Yu's paintings for a long time, because since she was separated from childhood, she has never seen his paintings again.
When I saw her today, I realized that all the paintings displayed in the previous school's cultural window were all by He Yu.
In oil painting, his strokes are bold and the landscape is profound.
It is just the overlapping of the shades between the color blocks, and the surging and rough mountain scenery is outlined, vividly on the paper... Jiang Xiaozhen's paintings of him can only be described here.
In fact, she could not experience anything except his painting very well.
You have to feel something when you look at the paintings. Jiang Xiaozhen thinks that she and He Yu are very familiar. Faced with his paintings, she feels strange to him for no reason.
But Jiang Xiaozhen didn't want to leave so quickly. She didn't want to waste the tickets he gave, but three.
After carefully looking at an area, walking around the corner, she caught a glimpse of a familiar figure.
The protagonist of the art exhibition stood there talking with people.
Jiang Xiaozhen subconsciously took a step back, the lush vegetation blocked her.
At that moment, Jiang Xiaozhen suddenly understood where the weird anxiety and frustration in her heart came from.
When she was rescued by He Yu from years of pain, she finally had the opportunity to approach him, and he was willing to share what he had with her...but Jiang Xiaozhen didn't dare.
She seemed to feel at every moment that he was better than she thought.
She knew that the gap between them was huge.
Today's He Yu has become a figure in the center of the spotlight, and today's Jiang Xiaozhen, like her new friends, she is afraid of light.
There is no doubt that Jiang Xiaozhen envied He Yu.
But this envy was just envy, she looked up at him comfortably from the stage.
"Having a friend like me will make him ashamed" thought quietly.
Jiang Xiaozhen grasped the strap of the schoolbag and hurriedly walked towards the exit.
...
He Yu thought Jiang Xiaozhen did not come to see his exhibition.
After a few weeks, he talked to her on the phone, Jiang Xiaozhen sounded busy studying, and every sentence he answered was quite brief.
He understood that she had a lot of things in the new school, and he focused on the key points in her speech.
"I got the recommended quota." He Yu said.
There was a pause on the phone for a few seconds, and her voice suddenly became louder, making his eardrums hurt.
"Really? Which school."
He said a name, it was the top art academy in the country.
This time, Jiang Xiaozhen remained silent for longer.
"He Yu..."
He answered her with his cheek: "Huh?"
She whispered: "I want to go there in two years, the same school as you."
With his ear firmly pressed to the microphone, He Yu struggled to hear her listless murmur.
"Tsk tsk, Jiang Xiaozhen's tone is not small," he said with a sarcasm, deliberately irritating her: "Do you think that my school can be tested by any cat or dog?
Jiang Xiaozhen really got on.
"I will definitely become a great person!"
She regained her original volume all at once, and thumped the table top, as if she was chanting slogans.
"He Yu! If you don't believe me, just wait to regret it."
"Okay," he chuckled softly over the microphone, "I'm waiting to regret it."
Jiang Xiaozhen has never been lucky. It can even be said that her luck is very bad.
When she made a wish with Grandpa God, she didn't have much hope. His old man would take time out of his busy schedule to respond to her.
However, on that day, Jiang Xiaozhen still put her hands together and made a wish very sincerely to him.
After more than ten years, she finally had what she wanted to achieve and where she wanted to go.