Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1371 Brother Pi’s proficiency

Chapter 1371 Brother Pi’s proficiency

"Island country collectors used to be rich." Thinking of those past events, Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Actually, the appraisal ability is still not very proficient. If it were left to this day, I don't know how many fakes I would have to buy back."

"It's normal for them to be short-sighted." After speaking, he tapped the Shi Tao album in front of him, and Zhou Zhi smiled at Cui Ruzhuo: "It's a good thing, I want it. This house is yours now. Let's go through the formalities tomorrow. "

"Great!" Cui Ruzhuo said with great joy, "Then I'll ask Mr. Ma to find some workers tomorrow to help me paint the wall. I'll have to worry about papering on it."

"Okay." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "But I have a request."

"any request?"

"I'll give you 100,000 yuan as a deposit." Zhou Zhi said, "When your big painting is finished, you can keep it for five years and send it to exhibitions and awards. You can just give it to me after five years." "

"Really?!" This was completely beyond Cui Ruzhuo's expectations, and he was inexplicably surprised: "Don't you even care about the subject matter?"

"No need to ask, you can do whatever you want." Zhou Zhi knew the future worth of the painter in front of him. Such a huge work is definitely the most important work in a painter's life. There is no doubt about this.

Therefore, he didn't need to interfere with Cui Ruzhuo at all, and he could just do his best.

In everyone's eyes, this was Zhou Zhi's help in times of need. Knowing that Cui Ruzhuo was short of money, he used this method to help him in disguise.

Also considering the pride of the painter, we did not mention funding, but only said it was a deposit for buying the painting.

Cui Ruzhuo was so grateful for a moment.

As soon as the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opens, the canteen will basically have meat for every meal.

Zhou Zhi: "..."

Except for the occasional hard work at work, Zhou Zhi has basically never experienced any hardship in life. Even if it was difficult when he was a child, from the beginning of Zhou Zhi's memory, it seems that he can still be satisfied with the oil and water in the cafeteria of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau.

However, Mr. Ma also knew that Zhou Zhi was much richer than he was back then, so he smiled and said: "Old Cui is very lucky. This is considered a lucky star. You have to treat me to this meal tonight!"

"Of course I'll do it!" Cui Ruzhuo grinned innocently: "But... maybe I just need to pay for it in advance. To be honest, the course subsidy from the Academy of Fine Arts hasn't come down yet, so I've been eating pickled mustard for a few days and I'm full of steamed buns..."

Under the leadership of my uncle, Jiachuan was a well-known pig county in the country at that time. When fat and meat were not available in major government agencies across the country, the county industrial and commercial bureau canteen seemed to be able to arrange at least one meat dish a week, usually on weekends. , relatives from all families like to choose that time to visit, and the house is as lively as the Chinese New Year.

Zhou Zhi could not imagine the hard life of art students who pursue art these days, so he felt that Cui Ruzhuo was too pitiful, so he decided to pay for the meal himself, and even ordered a few more meat dishes for Cui Ruzhuo to take home.

Mr. Ma also felt that it was ridiculous. His elbow was now developing in the same direction as he had been in the past. A lot of the money he earned from business was used to subsidize the Haima Club and raised a large number of writers and literati who were still unsuccessful at the time.

In fact, Cui Ruzhuo's life is better than 90% of his peers. He even accumulated some savings while studying abroad. Otherwise, even if he encounters "Shitao Arhat Hundred Pages", no matter how low the price offered by the Fujita family is, Not something ordinary people can afford.

However, it is difficult to find out the price of missing items. During the dinner, everyone talked about the fact that there are fewer and fewer opportunities to find missing items in China, but it seems that overseas was still a "Great Northern Wilderness", Zhou Zhi was really moved.

The next day, when Cui Ruzhuo and Zhou Zhi came back from completing the formalities, Haichao Temple, ah no, it should be renamed Cui Ruzhuo Studio now, and a painting wall had been booked on the north wall of the huge main hall. The painting wall is similar to the framed wall. Zhou Zhi has given the plan before. It is made according to the traditional craftsmanship. First, make a wooden frame, then stretch the frame with linen cloth, cotton cloth, and finally seal it with leather paper, and then paste it with rice paper. Here we will use raw xuan to enhance the adhesion, and then brush the affixed raw xuan with the prepared alum water to turn it into cooked xuan for painting.

It sounds simple, but when the painting needs to be extended to a size of twenty meters by three meters, it is quite difficult.

There are countless craftsmanship details here, such as "cutting Xuan". When the rice paper is placed on the wall, it must partially overlap with the surrounding ones, and then a knife is cut on the overlapping part to just cut through the upper and lower layers of rice paper. Only after removing the scraps can the edges of the two pieces of rice paper be completely joined together.

But if there is only one layer, the rice paper will easily separate here after drying, so it is necessary to laminate another layer. The gap between the rice paper used for lamination and the bottom layer of rice paper should be staggered and bonded to each other, so that it is very strong.

For some drawing papers, two layers are not enough. For example, in ancient times, some calligraphy and painting papers often had to be laminated with three to five layers. Patterns would also be rolled out on the middle layer of paper, and the upper and lower layers would become watermarks.

For a senior "mountain brother" like Zhou Zhi, these are basic operations. The test of pure manual work is proficiency. After these two months of "devil-level" training, his skills have reached a higher level.

It took two days to finally paint the "painting wall" that Cui Ruzhuo wanted. Zhou Zhi was ready to jump off the movable wooden platform and clapped his hands: "It's finally done. If the painting is not good, If all my hard work is wasted, I will ask you to pay me back 100,000 yuan."

"Just take a look, I guess it can be completed in a week." Cui Ruzhuo handed Zhou Zhi a thick pile of manuscripts and thumbtacks on the table: "Boss, don't rush down and pin up the first draft. Let's take a rough look at it first. Effect."

Since Zhou Zhi gave Cui Ruzhuo 100,000 yuan, Cui Ruzhuo changed his name to Zhou Zhi's boss, and the two regarded it as a joke.

"That's what the boss gives you, right?" Zhou Zhi murmured as he reached out to take it, and stapled the numbered papers written in pencil to the drawing board one by one.

"Hey! Is this the work Xiao Cui is going to create?" When Mr. Wang led Mrs. Yuan and Wu Qiaomu in, Zhou Zhi happened to have almost nailed the painting. The wall of the painting that was white just now was now dripping with ink.

"What do you think of Tsuen You? It seems good, right?"

"It's indeed good. Xiao Cui's skills have improved a lot since he came back, but it can still be seen that these are still sixteen pieces of 'two feet', and cannot be regarded as a whole."

"Grandma Yuan is here!" Zhou Zhi jumped down from the platform and greeted Wu Qiaomu: "Hello, sworn brother, you didn't go back this holiday?"

"Qiao Mu has a lot to do," Mrs. Yuan was afraid that Zhou Zhi would criticize Wu Qiaomu, so she cut off Zhou Zhi's question and put in a good word for Mr. Qiao: "In addition to work, I also have to study at the art academy. The summer vacation is two months long, which is just enough to master it systematically. ."

"What other jobs are there other than painting?" Zhou Zhi was curious when he saw Mrs. Yuan speaking for his adopted brother. However, before Wu Qiaomu could speak, he turned to Cui Ruzhuo and said, "These drafts can be regarded as the preliminary preparation for the big painting. It also counts as part of the two hundred thousand!"

Before Cui Ruzhuo could answer, Zhou Zhi turned his head again: "Have you found a place for work-study studies? That's right. Let's give full play to our fine traditions."

"Look how busy you are." Wu Qiaomu couldn't help but smile when he saw Zhou Zhi's look.

After arriving in the capital, I don't know if their auras are connected with the aura of the capital or something else. The temperaments of Mr. Qiao and Wei Yi became more solemn and majestic, full of an "institutional flavor": "It was recommended by Sister Yi before she left. Work as a simultaneous interpreter in the ministry."

"Damn it, this is much more high-end than the watermelons we used to sell -"

(End of this chapter)

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