Chapter 9 Chapter nine

There's a counter clerk at the door of the building, and I can't pass him freely because of the damned blowgun. I'd at least have a chance of bluffing him into letting me go if I walked in empty-handed and pompous, but with such a black guy sorry sir.The clerk said: It must be reported. Lai Tangnuo.I said: Come and see Mr. Huangfu. He sent the message up on the walkie-talkie.After a while, he said to me: Mr. Lai, Mr. Huangfu is not free to see you right now, but his wife is willing to meet you in the studio, on the 20th floor, on the other side of the building. I will ask a younger brother to take you up.

Thanks.I said. Thinking about it again, who can surprise this Mr. Huangfu so much that you can see his face change color? This guy protects himself so well, this is the conclusion. A younger brother and I took the elevator up to the 20th floor. When we got to the 20th floor, instead of taking me up to the apartment elevator room on the roof, he turned in the opposite direction into an aisle and rang the doorbell of apartment 20A. Mrs. Huangfu came to open the door with a smile on her face, full of kindness.She was wearing a painter's white smock, and the room smelled of turpentine. When she saw what I had brought, the smile on her face disappeared, replaced by surprise and excitement in her eyes.

Bowgun!she says. Blowgun, I said: I also brought Mr. Lai, please come in and sit down. She nodded to her younger brother to show her back, and I went into her studio. It's my hobby, she half-explained: I spend a lot of time here, I like to draw, and my husband, he knows, I have a lot of time to draw. She looked at me and said mischievously: People say that when it rains to beat a child, it is better to keep your hands idle. Therefore, you are afraid that your hands will be idle.I asked. Not afraid.She said: It's better like this.She looked at me again and said: Besides, my hands are never idle.Come in and have a look at my studio.

This apartment was obviously designed as a studio when it was built, with large frosted beveled pane windows facing the sun, with curtains on the windows to adjust the light, and some easels with canvases on them.There are more than a dozen picture frames on the ground, and a nude model is standing on an altar. We went in and she was doing a fairy shape marked on the head of a car. Oh, I forgot about you.Huangfu Feili said: I don't think you will blame me too much. Forget it, it's too late to object anyway.said the model girl. Huangfu Feili laughed and said: I dare to say that Mr. Lai has never seen naked ones anyway.

She walked to a chair, looked around and said: Where are your clothes, Xuewei? I took it off and hung it in the closet. I'll get it for you.Mrs. Huangfu said: I will introduce you later. The girl laughed and said: Oh forget it, just introduce me to him. After the introduction, I will go to dress myself. Feili said: This is Miss Ha, and this is Lai Tangnuo. He has a job and is bringing something to Youtian for him. Ha Xuewei smiled and said to me: Nice to meet you, Mr. Lai. She walked gracefully to the closet. Putting on a burqa, she came back and sat down on a chair. For the first time, I had the nerve to look at her face. Her face was not unfamiliar. I had seen her nude photos in a bunch of photos of Bai Linan earlier.

Suddenly, I had an idea. You have a blowgun and Mrs. Huangfu asks. Bowgun.I said firmly, causing her to interrupt her speech. oh i thought you said you had Bowgun.I interrupted her with a smile again.Another assignment for the job was in progress, but I turned to the model girl and said: I suppose you're a professional model, Miss Ha? She shook her head and smiled. In fact, Mrs. Huangfu said: She is a friend of mine. Apart from being my model, she is meticulous.But recently she's considering going professional.Her own personal situation has changed a bit, so Ha Xuewei laughed and said: Oh, you can't talk about other people's embarrassing things.

She turned to me and said: My husband is not very up-to-date. He took advantage of me and ran away with another woman.Leave me with nothing.Philly was too nice to me, pretending I was doing her a favour, when in reality she was doing me a favor. I know she paints and pays for models.I also know that I have this condition, so I asked her to pay me the official price, and I will be her model. Mr. Lai, this is a fact. I never feel that there is nothing to hide. Anyway, I am doing a serious job for a living. I looked around at the finished works and I said: You obviously had a great time working together.

Fei Li laughed: I didn't notice that you have seen it clearly. She has very beautiful curves. I will use various poses to draw her on the canvas. I noticed.I said. painting? curve. I think you noticed.Xuewei said seriously. Your husband is not free now?I asked Mrs. Huangfu. My husband, she said: It is a ridiculous idea to prepare a hibernation room for himself. When he has work to do, he goes in and locks the door. Once he is in, there is nothing, absolutely nothing. bother him.Mr. Lai, his wife can't see him, his friends can't see him, anyone can't see him. Especially when he was writing a travel book, he would sit and record for an hour

Bring a secretary?I asked. No tape, after the recording is finished, ask the secretary to type.She said: There is a small kitchen in his hibernation room, which he also likes, but it is an advantage to prepare food that is not difficult, canned or instant food, and he can maintain his body without eating fresh food.Sometimes, he would stay there for two or three days. So he didn't have much interest in getting the blowgun back. Of course he was interested, very interested.But we have no way of notifying him until he comes out of the hibernation chamber. Do you know when he will come out?

She shrugged her beautiful shoulders. I put the blowgun up against the corner of the room, will you put it here for now? Can.Mr. Lai, how did you find it?Where did you find it?How could it be so fast. I said: It's a long story, but a simple one. Ha Xuewei looked back and forth between the two of us, and finally she asked: Has the blowgun been stolen?Felli nodded. Was anything else stolen?Xuewei asked.I could hear a little more concern in the voice than a normal casual question. A Jade Bodhisattva.Mrs. Huangfu said: It is a pair with the Jade Bodhisattva who disappeared three weeks ago.

What you are talking about is the one I have seen that is very transparent green, carved in the shape of Nirvana, thinking deeply, concentrating on it, with a peaceful expression? It's that one.Fei Li said: Xiao Tian attached great importance to this object and quarreled a lot. Oh, he should.God, why is this the most beautiful sculpture I've ever seen in my life.I once said that it would be nice if I had a copy.I once asked Yoda if he could make a copy out of plaster and you lost that one too? lost.Fili said. Oh my god.Ha Xuewei said. I smiled and said to Mrs. Huangfu: Do you think your husband really wants to know that I have found a blowgun for him, and it is worth disturbing him and informing him. There is no way we can notify him. Of course his hibernation chamber would have a door.I said: Let's knock on the door. There are two doors, both locked.There is a storage room between the doors, and there is no knocking on the door. No phone inside? She shook her head.That room was specially designed by him.Let me tell you, it is completely impossible, unless there is a real emergency and he What about him? Since he's not working, I might catch his attention from the window. I wait. She bit her lip researchingly, picked up the blowgun, and said to me: Please come with me. She left Ha Xuewei, who was sitting on a chair with her legs crossed, wearing only a thin burqa with a belt knotted at the waist, and the hem of the burqa was separated in a V shape below the strap knot. It hangs down. I followed Mrs. Huangfu into a porch, she opened the door of a bathroom, smiled and said to me: Squeeze a little closer to the window, let's try. I squeezed toward the narrow bathroom window, and she opened the frosted glass window, and she pointed to a window about twenty-five feet away across a light well, fifteen feet above us.The two of us squeezed so close because she was pointing sideways, her hair could scrape my cheek, and there was a light in the window. The upper window is where he is now.She said: Sometimes he closed the curtains, sometimes you see, this time he didn't close the curtains, sometimes he just sat in one place and the recording didn't move.Sometimes he just walks around the room looking for inspiration, and when he walks past the window, we can flash our flashlight to get his attention. You wait here.She said and walked out of the bathroom. She brought in a flashlight with five dry batteries in no time. If we see him walking up and down, I'll come and signal him.She said: "But I don't want to take on the consequences of it being my own idea, we might get yelled at, he really doesn't want to be bothered when he's up there. I can see that your husband is a man of strong character.I said. Still need you to say. She approached me and said: This position is really indecent, you see we are squeezed between Mr. Ma and the wall She squirmed her lithe body and put her arms around my neck to make the space a little wider.In this way, she said: it will be better If your husband happens to see us right now, I say: We will be scolded twice by him. Don't be silly, she said: Two people stretching their hands out of the bathroom window to make love? You should admit we're pretty close together. Of course, we were squeezed very close.God, what is this?A pen in your coat pocket? a pencil. Take it out and put it in another pocket. I took out my pencil and threw it into my coat pocket. I didn't see him walking around. She lowered her voice and said: You said something about Jade Bodhisattva, didn't you? I said I was about to find Jade Bodhisattva. Oh, I thought you said you found the Jade Bodhisattva. I may not have made it too clear. Oh, you don't have to be embarrassed.It's my fault, I didn't hear clearly. I think my husband may be concentrating on his work, so I think I'll try. She turned on the flashlight and shone it directly on the plain glass window. There is another open window on the right side of this window. What room does it lead to?I asked. Didn't I tell you that there are two doors to his hibernation room.There is a small storage room between the two doors, and this window leads to the storage room. There are only two doors and one window in the storage room. One door leads to his hibernation room, and the other door leads to the apartment. locked. Let's try to look through the open window.I said. The strong light of the flashlight passed through the lighting patio, through the twilight of the evening sunlight, and shone into the open window. I saw a shelf in the corner of the room, on which more than half a dozen different objects were displayed.Not enough light, no idea what it was. Suddenly, she extinguished the flashlight.I'm a little scared.She said: Let's go, let's forget it, I will tell him as soon as he comes out of hibernation, he will be very excited, Mr. Lai, can you find the blowgun for him, can you tell me, how did you find it? not now.I said. Why?she pouted. It may affect the retrieval of Jade Bodhisattva. She closed the window, so that there was a layer of frosted glass between us and the building's light well, and she twisted to face me, her body still huddled together. Tang Nuo, she said: I'll tell you something. What? you are fine. Why? You don't take advantage of others, she said: But I still want to give you some rewards. Suddenly, she gave me a friendly kiss and pushed me away.He took out a piece of toilet paper and stuffed it in my hand, and said: Wipe off the lipstick line, I don't want Xuewei to know that I will be impulsive. She laughed, and while I was wiping off the lipstick, she turned to the mirror and quickly smoothed the lipstick marks on her lips with her pinky. Are you ok?she asked. very good.I said.By the way, I also looked at myself in the mirror. She opened the bathroom door and entered the studio through the hallway.Said: It won't work, Xuewei, I can't attract his attention. She turned to me, coldly, listlessly, and said dismissively: "It seems that's it, Mr. Lai, I will let him know that you have found the blowgun." And the whereabouts of Jade Bodhisattva is also known.Ha Xuewei said. And the whereabouts of Jade Bodhisattva is also known.Huangfu Feili said the same. I hesitated. Well, Feili said happily: The rest time is over, we start working, Xuewei. Xuewei stood up from the chair without making a sound, loosened the belt of the gown, took off the burqa and put it on the back of the chair, and walked onto the painting circle naked, making a professional posture. Mrs. Huangfu straightened her white blouse, put her thumb into the hole in the palette, picked out a paintbrush, and said to me from behind her shoulder: Mr. Lai, thank you for coming to see us. nothing.I said.She filled the brush with paint and painted on the canvas. Thank you very much.I said. nothing.She didn't take her eyes off the canvas. Nice to meet you, Miss Ha.I said, putting my hand on the croquet, and couldn't help but add: Hope to see you again. She smiled at me and I left satisfied.