Chapter 12 Choices at the Crossroads
There was nothing to say all night, the starry sky and the moonlight came and went. Hu Tu sat by the river, watching the dawn like a sharp sword split the night, looking at the mountains and fields in the sky ushered in the first ray of morning light, hearing the whistling wind waiting for the harmony of the birds, feeling the temperature of the air from desolate to warmth... He felt that he had become a part of the flowers, plants and mountains.
"I never thought of spending a whole night like this before. I watched the quiet night gradually disappear so clearly. Every day is similar, but every day is different. It's so beautiful!" Hu Tu was still not satisfied, but time did not stop. Then he took out his feet from the river, and more than a dozen piles of abrupt sand and soil by the river lined up like soldiers. "I will change my place tomorrow, otherwise others may be suspicious if they see such piles of sand and soil and cannot find the source."
When he went back, Hu Tu found that the door of the study was open. He muttered, "I remember just closed the door!" Looking inside, Xu Suwan sat at the desk with her back to the door, holding the nuclear sculpture he made last night and watching.
"What did you do?" she asked with a look.
"Yes!" he nodded and asked, "Is it okay?" He smiled confidently, with a look of pride.
"Not really!" She shook her head unexpectedly. When she waited for Hu Tu's confused expression, she seemed to have succeeded in a prank, and smiled into a flower on her face, adding, "It's far worse than the works of some masters, but you are just a beginner, and it's already very good to have such a level." She didn't know whether the core sculpture was good or bad, but only knew that Hu Tu was a beginner, so her works were naturally not much better. And she couldn't deliberately attack her family, so she said this.
Hu Tu breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Mom, you scared me. I thought something was wrong!" His face was filled with a strong smile. He was very happy to be recognized. This was the first time he recognized it. He believed that more and more people would be added in the future.
"Why are you laughing?" Xu Suwan seemed to be smiling and cursing, "I asked you to review your homework well at home, so you can do these things for me? You still have the face to laugh. Do you not plan to take the college entrance exam and want to eat the rice of carving?"
"I do have this plan!" Hu Tu admitted. No matter what, he finally achieved some results and something that could be shown. He no longer concealed as before. He expressed his point of view, "Even after finishing college, he still had to make money and have a meal, there was no difference!"
This is in line with the view of a young man, it is flashy and confused. This proves that young people must be well guided by their elders, and it is useless to rely on their own travel alone.
Because traveling means growing up through mistakes. But if all the mistakes made by young people are made by elders, then there is no growth or transcendence, and the experience accumulated by elders will be useless.
Life is short, and to experience more possibilities in this short time, you need to understand the mistakes they have made under the leadership of good elders, and then stand on their shoulders and continue moving forward. This is the meaning of education, so that you can go further.
"Of course there are differences, and there are big differences." Xu Suwan suddenly said very seriously, "You are still young and don't know how powerful you are. Many people blindly choose the industry they don't like because they don't understand the use of studying. Look at me, because I have been studying for a few more years, I have the opportunity to do what I like."
"Mom!" Hu Tu suddenly complained embarrassedly, "You haven't read a few more years than me!"
"What did you say?" Xu Suwan stood up, pointed Hu Tu's forehead with the index finger of her right hand, and cursed, "How old am I this year, how old are you? Can you compare? What is the era I was born in? What is the educational environment when I was a child, what is yours, can you compare?"
She raised a series of questions and hit Hu Tu's deepest heart. He thought, "My mom is right. People from different eras cannot be compared together. So, don't look down on those who are not as good as you. They may not have as good experience as you." Because of Hu Xiaolian, he has a little more understanding of this principle than others.
The two of them were imaginative for a while and then pulled the topic back to the core carvings. Hu Tu regretted not buying a string of core carvings. Xu Suwan replied with a smile: "It doesn't matter, I can just buy it myself, let alone, you have always had a bad vision and can't buy any good-looking ropes."
The "eye" mentioned by Xu Suwan refers to aesthetics. Because he is still a teenager, Hu Tu's eyes are still childish. He likes and dislikes simply like a child. A person's liking is a special experience and has no common progress in human culture and aesthetics.
"My vision is not bad." Hu Tu defended, "Mom, the things you bought are colorful and colorful, and I don't like them either." After saying that, he shined a lot, as if he was afraid that Xu Suwan would come over.
"Why do I want you to like it?" Xu Suwan didn't mean to convince others with martial arts. She just said contemptuously, "As long as I like the things I buy, I can do it. If you even like it, I will doubt whether my aesthetic view has gone wrong." Beauty is objective, but liked is subjective. Debating on subjective issues is destined to be difficult to get the same result.
Finally, Hu Tu surrendered with both hands and ended the argument. Then, he watched Xu Suwan put all the core carvings into a small cloth bag, which she used to pack the books. Although she didn't read books, she had to change the books in the bag every once in a while to prove that she was reading. Today, she was searching while changing books and found the core carvings placed in the box.
She didn't think these works were made by Hu Tu overnight, but she didn't ask. This was not the answer to the question she wanted to know immediately. What she wanted to know more was whether these works were valuable and could they support a person?
Where she works, people who like to communicate flower art should also have considerable knowledge of nuclear carvings. She needs to ask some advice: if these nuclear carvings are really valuable, she will take the opportunity to show off; if they are not valuable, she will also have reason to scold Hu Tu when she comes back, which is not a little harmful to her.
Hu Tu also hopes that Xu Suwan can bring him good news. He continues to practice while looking forward to it all day, which is quite diligent.
Every time he carved a work, he would spend a little time analyzing the defects of the work and the methods of improvement. When encountering problems, he would query information for specific problems and make targeted improvements. Through these methods, he would make considerable progress in his skills and theory.
By night, there were almost no more than two kilograms of black olive kernels left.
Chapter completed!