travel starts with photography

Chapter 308 Two-person world?

The festive atmosphere in Arles has nothing to do with Paris, but Paris is as lively as ever. Even in the fifth arrondissement, there is no shortage of tourists. The Pantheon and the Botanical Garden here have always been the favorite check-in spots for people who come to Paris.

In his book, Chen Xing did not recommend these well-known places like others. He mainly wrote about the historical streets of District [-] in his book.

There are even many courtyards with European style.

Chen Xing was sketching in one of the courtyards at the moment, put down his camera, and picked up his paintbrush.

Hedwig is trying too hard.

When she came back, she started to practice in seclusion, similar to when Chen Xing first came here, but now she occasionally comes out to cook a meal for Chen Xing, which is quite good, so that Chen Xing does not have to eat takeaway every day.

Although sometimes Chen Xing still thinks the takeaway is delicious, he doesn't need to tell others about it.

She was happy when she had something to draw, and perhaps partly because of herself, and that emotion infected him, too.That's why he came out to sketch today to consolidate the painting knowledge he learned this year.

How should I put it, painting is still a rank higher than photography.

Take your time, Chen Xing is not in a hurry now.

After all, his paintings are worthless, and the photos he took have already fetched [-] to [-] euros a piece.This price is very false, and it is estimated that it will fall back to between [-] and [-] in a month or two, but it is enough for Chen Xing to live a superior life.

This kind of photo refers to the works sold by the gallery and put on the walls of the villas of the rich to pretend to be coquettish.

If there are other special purposes, the price of a photo will be higher than this amount, it depends on the cooperation.

In short, Chen Xing also began to re-plan his time when he was financially independent.

This courtyard is located at No. 252, Sorbonne University Street, District 300. The main body is a historical building more than [-] years ago. What Chen Xing is painting now is the garden under the old house.

There are a lot of art students in Paris, and Chen Xing doesn't want to explain this anymore, although some areas in Paris are indeed dirty.But history has endowed it with a beautiful artistic environment, attracting people who study painting from all over the world.

In this small garden, Chen Xing saw seven or eight art students who came here to sketch.

There are not many blooming flowers in the garden, and it looks a little bleak.

But the reason why painting is higher than photography is that it can accommodate more imaginations of artists.

In Chen Xing's painting, it is still a spring full of flowers.

Unlike when Hedwig was painting, Chen Xing squeezed out the paint and put it back neatly in the bag... He is not in a hurry to paint this painting, there is still half a month before the school starts and the students come back .

"Xing, can I borrow some paint?"

"What do you want?"

"Pure white."

Chen Xing glanced in his bag and said, "I don't have much left, so go out and buy it yourself."

The person talking to him was from the second grade painting class. Chen Xing always went to their class this year, so he also knew him. He was recognized when he came here with a bunch of things. I forgot the specific name. I only know that he has a nickname called Mai Se.

Pure white paint plays a very important role in oil painting, so it is not used well compared to other colors.

In most industries, this kind of material that needs to be used in large quantities must be very cheap, right?
But the oil painting industry says no to this practice!

He is very expensive.

It’s okay to buy cheap paint, but you have to endure the color cast no matter how you adjust it, and you can compare the same painting with those who use top-quality paint.You can tell who is good and who is bad at a glance.

Mai Se quickly borrowed paint from others, and said, "It's so hard to borrow."

Chen Xing nodded slightly, and asked, "When does your class start? Is the teacher still the same as last year?"

"He is still there, but I heard that a new teacher has come, the Danish painter May Bolan, whose paintings can sell for more than 100 million at auction houses in New York. He is a very powerful new painter."

"Then you are lucky." Chen Xing said.

There are few high-end students in Paris, but there are many teachers, and such famous artists are often invited to teach at the school, so in case you meet a real master in one class, and the master takes a fancy to his talent and accepts apprentices, then It really took off.

Chen Xing and others have inquired, and the teachers in the photography class are still the same.

However, it has nothing to do with students like Chen Xing entering the internship period. It is not certain what Chen Xing will do after the start of school this year.

It is possible to follow the project of Mr. Nobel.

At the end of the month, Chen Xing had to go back to Huaxia. He and Tang Shiyi made an appointment for a group of photos. He had already drawn a sketch with a pencil on how to take the photo.This is what Chen Xing wants to shoot the most at the moment, and he has been waiting for almost two months.

Chatting with Mai Se about school affairs, Chen Xing walked back with his things until it was dark at seven or eight o'clock.

He is very familiar with this area.

The school is in the fifth district, and the place where I live is in the fifth district. I used to have dinner and take street photos in this area.

Specifically, where is the five arrondissements of Paris? Chen Xinghui suggested buying his upcoming book as soon as possible.

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After returning home, Chen Xing habitually went to the refrigerator to get a drink. There was a little movement in the house, which is normal. It may be that Hedwig is cooking again. It seems that I am a guinea pig again tonight up.

The food Hedwig made was not unpalatable, but it was a bit unfamiliar, after all, she hadn't learned it for long.

If you want to learn seriously, Chen Xing thinks that cooking should be very simple.

Although he couldn't do it himself, Chen Xing thought so.

Tearing open the can, there was a splashing sound from the drink. Paris is still a bit hot now, and it is very comfortable to drink a bottle of iced drink after returning home from the outdoors.

As soon as he came out of the refrigerator, Chen Xing saw Sha Rukh Yazan who was carrying a box downstairs, that is, brother Ah San who lived next door to Chen Xing.

This was the first time Chen Xing had seen him since graduating in June.

The two reunited after a long absence, their eyes wide open, and they were both stunned.

Two seconds later, Chen Xing suddenly sprayed a smoky Coke on the ground, almost dying of pain...

"Ahem!! Ah, Sha Rukh, when did you come back?"

"Are you OK?"

Sha Rukh asked with concern.

"I'm fine." Chen Xing coughed twice, wiped his mouth with a tissue on the dining table, and said, "I didn't know you were back, I thought it was Hedwig who made the noise. Where are you going?"

"Hedwig? If you didn't tell me, I thought she wasn't here..." Shah Rukh first laughed at Hedwig's social fear, and then said, "I met an islander who likes games like me at school. We want to Let’s open a game store together in Paris.”

"Game store?"

In Chen Xing's mind, those video game cities in the small town when he was very young appeared in his mind.

At that time, it was not called a video game city, but one or two ordinary doors were opened in places where no one would normally go, and then they were blocked by cloth curtains. Once inside, it was full of the smell of cigarettes, wine, and gangsters. place.

Chen Xing's cousin Chen Jie was very active in their town at that time, and Chen Xing followed him to meet him.

When he grew up a little bit and was also called brother, this kind of store was no longer seen, and the video game city that appeared later did not have the feeling of that time.

Chen Xing made a comparison with Sha Rukh.

Sha Rukh quickly shook his head and said, "Who still plays this kind of thing now? The games I'm talking about are the ones I usually play, PS5, or Switch. What do you think of the Red Dead Redemption that I recommended to you last time? "

"It's okay." Chen Xing said.

He knew about this game from others when he was climbing a mountain before, but he didn't have time to play it on the computer until this year.

The story is good and touching.

But after playing the first episode, I got a little tired... The plot is excellent, the picture is very shocking, but it doesn't seem to have much replayability.

Still online games are fun.

"Then why are you moving things?"

"I'm going to move this one to use it. Anyway, I will go there every day, and I won't have time to play games at home. My room has been retired, and I can just live in a small room over there for sleeping. .”

Chen Xing understood.

"Did you know that Hedwig and I are in a relationship, so you want to move out so you don't bother us?"

Sha Rukh shook his head, responding that Chen Xing was not like that.

Did he set up shop to make money?
No, it’s for playing games with other people. In this house, Hedwig is a social horror artist. Chen Xing is really easy to talk to, and the two communicate a lot, but Chen Xing doesn’t play games, so living here is no fun. .

But after shaking his head, his eyes widened.

"You and Hedwig?"

"Uh-huh."

"Hey, brother, you are so confused... Sometimes I even forget about her. To be honest, I didn't see her in this house until a week, or if my uncle and aunt went to deliver her meals, I thought She lives outside."

"Why are you with her?"

Beautiful, what can I say?

Chen Xing glanced upstairs and said, "Keep your voice down, otherwise she will be sad again."

"Are you serious?"

"It's meaningless to be true or false. We still have our own lives, but since I am her boyfriend, I have to maintain and take care of her. Anyway, you didn't move out because of us, otherwise I will be very embarrassed."

Sha Rukh rolled his eyes.

"I didn't see it, I think you are very happy."

Chen Xing smiled and said, "Really?"

I asked for the address again.

They opened a store in the [-]th arrondissement. This place has the Center Pompidou and the Temple of the Old Lady in Paris. It is also a place where tourists gather. It is not cheap to set up a store here.

But the matter of money is not a problem for Shah Rukh.

They are old Indian nobles, and they don't lack this money.

He found a car and parked outside, and Chen Xing also helped him move things back and forth twice.

It is probably very easy for people who are rich and have no old things to move. Sha Rukh took some favorite clothes, books, and five boxes of physical disks or cards, and took away everything else.

After everyone left, Hedwig came out of the room.

"Is it Shah Rukh?"

Chen Xing nodded and said, "He found a new place to live, in the fourth district."

"Is it because of us?"

"I knew you wanted to do this. Don't worry. They have found a bunch of friends to play games with. It's fun. It's not like me. I can't even find someone to play games with me. How to say, come to my room at night Come?"

Chen Xing hinted frantically that Hedwig lowered her head and pretended to be an ostrich.

With Hedwig's character, it might not be long before she will take the initiative, so Chen Xing is not in a hurry. He has never met such a woman, and she is very fresh at the moment.

Uncle Feida and Aunt Lizi are going to move to the countryside, and Shah Rukh is going to leave too. Isn't this big house their world for two?
The world between the two was separated by one floor, and Aunt Lizi rushed back from the countryside the next day.

After opening the door and coming in, I saw that the house that I hadn't returned for half a month was still clean, with a smile on my face.

Hedwig, girl, although she was a bit sloppy, she still accomplished what she promised very neatly.

She was sure that Chen Xing or Sha Rukh did not clean up the house. These two people never cared about the living room, bathroom, corridor and stairs.Chen Xing can only clean up his own room, and Shah Rukh can only clean up his pile of rags.

Suddenly a head appeared on the second floor.

Seeing someone, Chen Xing said hello, "Auntie, are you back?"

"Well, you're back too, is Hedwig okay?"

"She is the same as before." Chen Xing said.

Li Zi went upstairs to look at Sha Rukh's room, and said, "Sure enough, there are so many things left."

A few days ago, Sha Rukh told her to find a new place to live. When she left yesterday, she made a video. She saw a lot of things left in the room before she came back.

"I contacted a second-hand dealer, and after a while you follow to see if there is anything else that is useful."

Second-hand dealers in Europe are different from those in China. Huaxia still resists second-hand clothes or bedding on the surface, but there are special second-hand shops in Paris.You can even buy cheap LV bags or Dior perfumes that have only been used a few times.

Aunt Lizi is also getting old, so she doesn't know much about young people.

He was afraid that he would pack up some valuable things, and if it was cheap, the merchant would be the next best thing. If Sha Rukh found it again, it would be troublesome to ask for it.

Chen Xing said: "There should be nothing left over, I asked many times yesterday."

The merchant lives nearby and comes quickly.

When Sha Rukh left, he only took away what he wanted, but after clearing the room, except for the beds and tables that could not be moved, the rest of the pile was almost full of a pickup truck. Before that, Chen Xing I never expected that there would be so many second-hand goods that could be sold for money.

Aunt Lizi said to Chen Xing in a tone of 'I said there will be a lot': "Those who have moved house have a deep understanding. Sometimes you don't know if you don't clean up. If you tidy up a little, there will definitely be more things." Unexpected."

But so many things did not sell for a few dollars.

Aunt Lizi came back with the money, sighed and said, "School has already started, so it might be hard to find someone to live here. Chen, do you think your neighbor is a beautiful woman or a man?"

1: Beauty

2: man

Is this a multiple choice question?If you are a man, you should choose 1.

Chen Xing didn't choose anyone, and took this room with the reason that he wanted a study.
"You want a study room? That's fine, anyway, it's good that someone is using it, otherwise one room will always be empty, and many things will easily break."

She stopped taking Chen Xing's money.

Chen Xing was also not polite, sometimes being polite hurts the relationship.

Li Zi came back to Paris to deal with the matter of this room. Now that it's over, she has to take a friend's car back to the farm. While waiting for someone on the way, she even cooked a meal for Chen Xing and the others.

She invited Chen Xing, who had never been to the farm, as a guest.

Chen Xing readily accepted.

(End of this chapter)