Mute Words

After rubbing myself with soap on both sides of my body, even under my fingernails, until my entire hand was wrinkled and even the tiny wounds in my palm turned pale, I shook my hand dry and walked back into the courtyard.

Erqian was properly chained to a pillar in the main hall, and Mochuan and the broken flowerpot were nowhere to be seen.

If you break something, you can’t just walk away ……

I hesitated for a moment and lifted my leg to enter the main hall.

A white-robed godson sat behind a small table next to the idol, with ink, paper, and inkstone on the table like last time.

“How much is this flowerpot? I’ll compensate you.”

Mochuan didn’t raise his head and said, “No need, it’s not worth a few dollars.

The light in the main hall was rather dim, even in the daytime, it was necessary to turn on the lights. But probably because they didn’t want anything too modern to ruin the sacredness of the temple, even the lights were an orange hue that approximated a candle flame, primitive and dark.

I sat right in front of him, crossed my legs and said, “The flower pot was broken by the dog, but the dog ran away because I didn’t lead it properly, the main responsibility is still mine. I don’t want to owe you anything, so hurry up and tell me how much, or I won’t go.

Only then did he look up at me, and for a moment his eyes converged again, completing the rest of the strokes next to the half-written part, and faintly spitting out two words.

“Casual.”

He is casual, I am also casual, just sit and watch him copy the scripture, anyway, as long as I am not embarrassed, embarrassed is someone else.

Cell phone suddenly vibrated, clicked open to see, is Jiang Boshu sent me a message, asked me if I am free on Saturday, do you want to have dinner together to watch a play.

My hands were a little sore from the fall, plus I just washed my hands in cold water, my hands were too stiff to type, so I could only send him a voice message.

“I’m traveling outside, not in Hai City, you find someone else.”

Jiang Boshu and I have a common friend, we met at a party, he worked in a well-known advertising company, although not involved in the design of this piece, but with me also have a common theme, one to two to get acquainted.

I can feel that he has a good feeling about me, often use the excuse to ask me to eat and watch the game, but he did not say, I also just pretend not to know.

Just a few seconds after the voice was sent, the call came immediately.

My eyebrows furrowed as I looked at the vibrating phone and hit the connect button.

“Where did you go to play, why haven’t I heard from you before?” Jiang Boshu was plain-looking, but his voice was flavorful, containing a thread of loving affection.

“Shannan. It’s a spontaneous idea, my hair young man is here, I happen to be free for a while, so I came to look for him to play with.”

“When are you planning on coming back?”

I laughed softly, “You’re not my friend, why do you care?”

The tip of the pen that fell on the surface of the paper paused for a split second and then continued, unable to see the slightest difference.

The voice on the other end of the phone paused even longer, and only after a while did it speak hastily, “I, I’m not …….”

“I’m joking.” I interrupted him, taking the initiative to lighten the atmosphere by answering his previous question, “It could be back in ten days and a half months, or it could be a month or two, depending on my mood.”

“It’s good to get away. Away from the Internet, away from the strife.”

I listened to his attitude of wanting to have a long talk and quickly stopped: “Well, I’ll make a dinner date with you when I go back to Hai City. I still have something here, hang up first.”

“Ah …… well, then we’ll talk when you come back.” His tone clearly caused the loss.

I was about to hang up when a new call came in. The caller wasn’t a surprise, but he was exceptionally headache-inducing. Between picking up and not picking up, I finally and reluctantly decided to do so.

“Hello ……”

“Baiyin, I’ll give you three seconds to tell me where you are right now.” Huangfu Rou’s voice could be said to be unrelated to her name, cold and hard, but still calm.

“Po, relax, I’m here with my friends in Shannan, there’s no disappearing act going on.” I laughed lightly, trying to calm the other party.

Huangfu Rou is my business partner and is also considered half of my agent. As long as it was a job that had nothing to do with jewelry design, she was usually the one to step in and help me get it done.

This time when I came to Cuoyan Song, part of the reason was like what I said to Yan Chuwen, it was too long without a break and I wanted to give myself a long vacation, and part of the reason …… is a long story.

I have a favorite piece called “Pine Forest and Water”. The necklace is made of hundreds of aquamarines and diamonds in the shape of a rushing river. The center pendant is a cascading tower of diamonds.

At the bottom of the tower, wrapped in petals, is a fifteen-carat rough emerald. Because it is not cut, the stone has a jade texture that is very different from ordinary emeralds, with a very light color, like a pine forest peeking through the clouds.

It took me more than three thousand hours in total to make this necklace, more than a thousand hours just for the pine-tree inlay process. In order to find the right emerald, I even flew to several places where emeralds originate, and chose the most preferred one among thousands of stones.

This piece not only attracted a lot of attention in my graduation exhibition, but also won me two awards in one of the most important competitions in the jewelry design industry – Best Design and Best Setting in the Star Color Awards.

This was my glory and my gateway to the world of jewelry design. In the three years that followed, countless people tried to buy it from me, but I was never moved, no matter how high the price they offered.

I don’t even allow others to wear it, and even if I lend it out, I have to sign a strict contract.

So when I read on the Internet that Hang Jia Fei was wearing my necklace in the latest issue of MIMA Magazine, and that it was also on the hot search because of its suitability with the necklace, I was surprised.

Hang Jia Fei is a small famous film and television star in recent years, to wear her status, my jewelry is not insulting, but …… not “pine forest running water”.

How can it be “pine forest and water”?

Before this incident, I was unable to draw a satisfactory design for a few days in a row only three or four hours of sleep, lack of sleep and anger made me lose my mind. I personally retweeted the original tweet with a fiery statement.

[She doesn’t deserve it].

The microblog authentication was there, it couldn’t be faked, one stone made a thousand ripples, soon Hang Jia Fei’s fans attacked my microblog, accused me of irresponsible speech, ordered me to delete my microblog immediately and apologize.

I was worried that there is no place to send fire, immediately selected a few of the most unpleasant retweet response.

[@ Baiyin Yann: unworthy is unworthy, I grew up so big still need you to teach me how to speak? //What do you mean she is not worthy? You as a designer, design such a beautiful necklace is very powerful, but also can not talk nonsense, right?

[@Baiyin Yann: Why do I need heat to get a movie? //@FibaoDaBao: want heat want crazy right? Don’t rub everything good under the head man!

[@BaiyinYann: There are worse – roll! //Blue Frog River: talk is also too hard to hear it, what do you think you design is something? I Fei reward face wear is to look up to you]

I’m in the middle of a dispute here, Huangfu Rou a phone call over, with me to explain the cause and effect of the matter.

“Hang Jia Fei used to love ‘Pine Forest Flowing Water’ and even wanted to buy it, remember? Later, you refused it and she came to borrow it again, and I heard people in the circle say that she had an overbearing personality, so I didn’t lend it to her for fear of trouble. As a result, this time I was a hundred times more careless, I didn’t expect her to borrow it through MIMA’s hands.” She said angrily, “I asked Minnie, that day she was looking at the necklace all the time, she just went to the bathroom in the middle of the day, about two minutes, they must have taken advantage of her going to the bathroom to steal it and wear it.

In fact, two people should have been sent so that even if one person went to the bathroom, the other person could keep an eye on it. But that day, since the borrowing was urgent and the scene was full of dignitaries, Huangfu Rou expected it would be fine, so he sent only one assistant.

In the darkness, I looked at the computer screen in front of me on the single cover of Hang Jia Fei, pinched the cigarette and inhaled deeply, finally annoyed, pressed it out into the ashtray on the side. This ashtray, which has not been cleaned in a few days, is already too full to be filled.

“Where’s the contract? I’m going to sue them.”

“I’m still waiting for them to come back.” …… The editor-in-chief and I are friends, so I’ll go ahead and borrow it, it’s my negligence at work, and I’ll take all the consequences.”

I have been her colleague for four years, and she made such a mistake. With her character, she can vomit herself to death without me saying so, but the punishment should still be punished. In the end, the meaning deducted a month’s salary from her.

After a night of brewing, the next day Huangfu Rou used the studio’s microblog to send out an announcement, succinctly stating the studio’s position, condemning MIMA Magazine for disregarding the terms of the contract that “no individual is allowed to wear it” and letting Ms. Hang Jia Fei wear “Pine Forest Flowing Water”. Ms. Hang Ka Fei wore “Pine Forest Water” on the cover of the last issue of MIMA magazine.

Soon after, both Ms. Hang Jia Fei and the magazine came out to respond.

Ms. Hang Jia Fei said directly that she didn’t know about the agreement between the magazine and me, and that people from my studio were present on the day of the shooting and didn’t stop her from wearing the necklace.

The magazine was even more shameless, saying that since they hadn’t received a contract, they didn’t know that I wasn’t allowed to wear the necklace. The magazine said that they didn’t know I couldn’t wear the necklace because they hadn’t received the contract, and then they just said, “There may have been a lack of timely communication.

I can see that they have to collude to make a good statement.

This matter has become a Rashomon, everyone saying their own thing, but two against one, my side is still a bigger loser. In addition, Hang Jia Fei’s side bought water army, marketing number unified tone said that I am arrogant, discriminate against women, a moment online in addition to scolding me, there is no second voice.

Since childhood, I have always been the one to make others suffer, but no one has ever been able to make me suffer.

It’s impossible for me to swallow this for nothing.

After a night of thinking, I took the Pine Forest Water out of the safe, caressed it lovingly, and then lifted the ashtray aside and smashed it down hard without blinking.

The emerald is a very fragile gemstone with many cracks, and when smashed, it looks like a crushed kiwi fruit with the deformed pine tower.

I took a picture and edited the text to send it.

[#Dirty, don’t want it]

After that, like stabbing a hornet’s nest, the comments, private messages, vicious curses tumbled everywhere. I didn’t care about them anymore, uninstalled my microblog, dialed Yan Chuwen’s number, and bought an overnight plane ticket to fly to Shannan.

This time, I really came to avoid the wind.

“Did you really smash ‘Pine Forest Flowing Water’?” Huangfu Rou asked in a silent voice.

The smile on her lips narrowed slightly before widening again, “Well, really, you can still collect its corpse for it by going to my house now.”

Huangfu Rou didn’t make a sound for half a day, as if she was very excited.

Leaving her alone to face the sound waves on the Internet would have been a bit too much, the voice will be more and more soft.

“It’s okay, they can not affect me, you don’t have to be too ……”

“Baiyin, how far?” Huangfu Rou’s voice through the tired, “necklace do this kind of thing out is not for people to wear? You think Hang Jia Fei is not worthy, then who is worthy?” This should have been bottled up in her heart for a long time, and taking advantage of today’s opportunity is a good way to get it off her chest.

Lapis lazuli earrings on Mochuan’s left ear show a rich purple in the warm light, the back cloud worn on his body is not the same string as yesterday’s, today’s string is a long string of pearls when viewed from the front, and the style of the back is not noted, but it should be simple and elegant in favor of more.

He such a strong colorful features, in fact, is not very suitable for bias plain jewelry, the more splendid and more extravagant, only the more complementary, not to be his face pressure to go to the sense of existence.

“No one fits.” I said quietly.

“Then you designed it for the gods to wear, didn’t you?” Huang Fu Zuo was about to laugh in despair.

“Consider it done.” Interrupted by these two calls, I didn’t feel like spending more time with Mochuan and stood up, ready to go, “I’ll go back after a while, hang up Bao, love you.”

“Wait …….”

Without waiting for her to finish, I hung up. I put my phone back in my pocket and walked straight out the door, not even bothering to say goodbye to Mochuan.

I had only stepped one foot out of the doorway when I heard two low syllables behind me, unfamiliar and familiar.

I immediately stopped my steps and turned back in disbelief, “What did you just say?”

Mochuan slowly kneaded the paper in his hand into a ball, sniffing and looking at me openly, his face completely devoid of the faintheartedness of being caught in the act.

“I said, have a nice walk.” He said without blinking.

More waves rippled through my mind.

Bullshit, you’ve just called me ‘frivolous’ in the language of Cenglu!