Almighty painter

Chapter 139 The Price That Can't Be Rejected

"The renovation of the orphanage was blocked by the power bureau for construction approval?"

Chen Shenglin just thought about it for a while, and he understood the twists and turns.

He smiled and looked at the people accompanying him, including the city officials of Laiyada District.

The lower-level leaders of the district government can only be regarded as little ones among the pedestrians. They are not qualified to follow the big entrepreneurs like Kou Kou's father, so they can only respectfully accompany the last seat on the periphery of the crowd.

City officials also don't have any interest in drawing by middle school students.

He was directing his photographers to take promotional photos, racking his brains to figure out how to frame the scene so that he could highlight the importance of Chen Shenglin and the big police inspectors, and at the same time allow himself to show his face in the corner of the photo.

He didn't expect to stay well, when suddenly such a big black pot flew over and hit him on the head.He was so depressed that he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, and the sweat fell down his face.

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Shenglin's tone was still gentle, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"I don't know about this...Maybe the urban cable system here is relatively old, and the industrial load is heavy, so it's not easy to handle."

The little bureaucrat racked his brains to explain: "I'll go and find out what's going on when I get back, and I'll give Mr. Chen an explanation quickly."

"Let me deal with it. I will order my colleagues in the Audit Court to follow up on this matter. If there is any corruption, it will be dealt with seriously." Father Kou shook his head angrily, and glanced at the little bureaucrat.

Myanmar's police system itself has the function of monitoring and auditing, so he has to say something at this time.

Really ignorant!

The inspector can't be bothered to care about this kind of nonsense.

But today my task is to accompany Mr. Chen.The rich are willing to invest more or less in Yangon, which may be the gap of several points in GDP.

As a result, the mother met such an out.

Annoyed Mr. Chen, none of them have good fruit to eat.

The little bureaucrat is really going to vomit blood this time.

Few of the low-level market officials in this poor industrial area are completely innocent. If you really want to investigate to the end, it's just a matter of how much black hats the other party is willing to take away.

"Ugh."

Chen Shenglin withdrew his gaze, and said helplessly, "I am the new chairman of the Myanmar Charity Chamber of Commerce, but I asked a little doll to make such a request for me... It's really slapping me in the face."

"However, a promise is a promise. Young man, approval for orphanage renovation?"

Chen Shenglin looked at Gu Weijing: "I'm not boasting, but in Yangon, I can do a lot of things. Think it over, you want this?"

"En." Gu Weijing nodded.

"No regrets?"

"Ah."

Chen Shenglin was in a complicated mood.

He is used to countless people in this city carefully trying to please him.

They flatter, they flatter, and they always have flattering smiles on their faces.

Just to get a little wealth or power from oneself.

As a result, Boss Chen was finally in a good mood today, and agreed to give the middle school student a promise, but the other party only lightly asked him for a permission document for the renovation of the orphanage.

While marveling at the character of the other party, Mr. Chen felt a little hurt his self-esteem.

If the omnipotent devil in "Faust" has the power to change the world, all the calls from his employers are requests to take the kitten down from the tree.

I think the devil will also live without a sense of accomplishment, okay?

"Why? Boy, you could have asked for something more valuable. I could even turn off the lights in downtown Yangon for a day at night, or send you to the Antarctic to see penguins." Chen Shenglin is not someone who likes to show off his power Man, he's just really, really curious about what's going on in this young man's head.

"I can go to the zoo to see the penguins. As for the former...why should I let the city center lights go out for a day?" Gu Weijing asked calmly.

Dostoevsky believed that people without greed are more likely to reap happiness.

No desire is just.

He really didn't need the help of collectors. Gu Weijing had just received an astronomical amount of income from the publishing group.

Mr. Chen is not a system and cannot improve his painting skills.

As far as he is concerned, an approval document for the renovation of the orphanage is already what he needs most now.

"alright, I got it."

Chen Shenglin stared at Gu Weijing for a moment, then suddenly exclaimed: "You are such a pure person. If I had your heart and mind back then, maybe I could really become the artist I dreamed of when I was young."

Mr. Chen actually used the honorific title.

He liked this young man even more, and Chen Shenglin no longer regarded him as a child who could draw a good painting, but as an equal conversation partner.

"A power transformation approval document, very good."

"This kind of thing is my duty as the president of the Myanmar Charity Chamber of Commerce. Young people like you shouldn't care about it. Out of respect for you, I have to explain one more thing."

Chen Shenglin glanced around.

"There are hundreds of orphanages in Yangon alone. Yangon is already the most developed city in Myanmar. Affected by the war, the infrastructure construction in many places has stayed in the pre-colonial era. As the chairman of the Charity Chamber of Commerce , I have to distribute resources and strength as evenly as possible. The tens of millions of kyats needed to transform an orphanage are nothing, but no matter how much money is diluted by such a big mess, there is nothing left .”

"So if it wasn't for you, this orphanage would have to operate in such a difficult state for many years. Boy, you are the one who brings light to this orphanage. You are really great."

The crowd applauded.

Kou Kou's father felt a little pity for Gu Weijing for using up such a precious opportunity so easily.

At the same time, he had to admit that this was definitely a very upright young man.

Mr. Chen patted Gu Weijing on the shoulder and said with emotion: "I really envy your parents. I always think that character is more important than ability. If I had a son as good as you, I would probably be able to retire with peace of mind."

"Xiao Gu is the most outstanding child I have ever seen. The children in this orphanage like him very much, and he also paid for the transformation."

The female dean has long wished that everyone in the world would know that Gu Weijing is good.

"The money paid by Gu Weijing?"

Mr. police officer raised his eyebrows, he thought it was the orphanage's collective donation from the public.

The headmistress said a number softly.

Kou Kou's father had already been surprised enough by his daughter's classmate today, and he still couldn't help being surprised at this time.

This is no small change.

There are many wealthy families in Dulwich College, but those who can easily donate the money to the orphanage are still rare.

"It seems that you really don't need my support."

Mr. Chen is used to seeing big money, tens of thousands of dollars is far from enough to move him, he just said lightly.

"Thank you Mr. Chen for your help, I am very grateful."

Promising that he had already used it, Gu Weijing handed back the business card he had just received to Chen Shenglin.

"You can keep it. Since you are an honest young man and you only want this little thing. Then I can't be too stingy, so let's do it."

Chen Shenglin looked at the draft on the drawing board for a moment, fell into a moment of contemplation, and then raised his head.

"No matter what you say, this painting is destined for me. If you can't participate in the exhibition, you call me, and I will still ask for this painting. And if you really win an award at the Singapore Art Exhibition, I will then I will personally go to Singapore and give you an undeniable purchase price." His tone was flat and domineering.

Gu Weijing didn't know what the "unable to refuse" price was.

Mr. Chen didn't explain either. He stayed in the Lucky Orphanage for a while, and after talking to officials in Laiyada District, he left directly, waving his hands without taking away a cloud.

It was Kou Kou's father who wandered around Gu Weijing a few times.

"Hmm... It's Kou Kou's birthday party in two months, the kids are free to come and play at home!" The superintendent finally hummed a few words and walked away.

Kou Kou's birthday is at the end of April every year, and she will hold a large party at home and invite her classmates from school to play.

Gu Weijing visited once three years ago.

Kou Kou's family lives in a large yard allocated by the government near the city center, with an independent swimming pool and a garden full of red sandalwood flowers.

The birthday cake alone is a flag cake the size of two long tables put together.

There was also a small band playing music.

It doesn't look like a little girl's birthday, but rather like the Queen's anniversary celebration.

People were full after eating a third of it, and then began to smear each other with cake cream.Surrounded by a bunch of presents, Kou Kou really looks like a little queen.

Gu Weijing went there once and stopped, not because Kou Kou no longer invited him, Kou Kou is always very generous in this point, basically all the students will be invited, and no one will be deliberately left out.

It was Mona who was jealous and dissatisfied with Kou Kou's arrogant appearance at the birthday party.

She wanted to overwhelm Kou Kou everywhere in school, but after all, her family only opened a jewelry store, even if she was a wealthy daughter, she still didn't have the ability to compare with Ko Kou's birthday party.

If Mona doesn't go, Gu Weijing won't be able to go either.

She didn't explicitly say that Gu Weijing would not be allowed to go, but whenever Kou Kou held a birthday party on the weekend, she would "just happen" to invite Gu Weijing to watch movies or visit museums or amusement parks together.

This is probably the little girl's mind.

……

As night falls,

Gu Weijing returned home.

He looked at his watch, and there were still more than two hours before the scheduled connection time with Mr. Sloth.

He read the white text of the fairy tales in the publishing house's internal edition for a while at the desk, and felt that he was in a good mood, so he took out three pen drawings that were kept separately from the drawer beside the bed in the bedroom.

[King], [Rose] and [Drunkard].

These three are the profile paintings that he has completed for the fairy tale characters in "The Little Prince", which have reached the level of feeling. They are his preparations before formally drawing illustrations.

Gu Weijing lined up the three paintings.

Then he walked to his easel, dismantled the picture of the old church that he copied on the weekend, and put it aside.

This kind of copying work that does not need to be preserved can be treated casually.

According to past habits, Gu Weijing would take some time to gently sand off the uneven paint traces on the surface with sandpaper, and then brush it with titanium dioxide.

After two or three weeks of drying, you can continue to draw some informal practice works on it.

Secondary use of the canvas.

This is a money-saving trick for poor painters.

From the moment when oil painting was born, natural linen canvases are not a small expense for low-level artists, and it is common to use a canvas to paint repeatedly.

There was even a collector who used a tomographic scanner to examine an old Renaissance painting and found four different layers of oil paintings, covered layer by layer like building blocks, and each layer of new painting was painted directly on the old canvas.

in fact,

In the industrial society, as long as it is not a luxury-grade imported canvas, pure linen canvas is not too expensive to afford.

It's more a matter of habit. Mr. Gu Tongxiang was used to being poor back then, so this way of handling it has been passed down as a family tradition.

Moreover, leaving so many students practicing works at home is not easy to put away, so it is better to scrape off the paint and reuse it.

The different classes of artists can be seen from a small canvas.

Ms. Sakai never had this trouble when she was studying painting.

She told Gu Weijing that when she was born, her mother bought a warehouse with constant temperature and humidity in Osaka, which was specially used to store all her daughter's practice works from childhood to adulthood.

Not even a piece of childhood scribbles was missed.

Mrs. Sakai plans to open a special commemorative exhibition for Katsuko to review her artistic career after Katsuko Sakai becomes famous and married.

Out of respect for Scholastic Publishing Group, Gu Weijing took out a brand new canvas, adjusted the paints, and made preparations for painting.

He picked up the oil painting knife, hesitated for a moment, then put the oil painting knife down again.

Gu Weijing found another old edition of "The Little Prince" from the bookshelf, and looked through the original illustrations drawn by Saint-Exupéry for the last time.

Generally, there is an unchanging criterion for matching pictures of such classic works, that is, try not to deviate too far from the original works in terms of composition and characters.

This point is also clearly pointed out in the detailed rules and regulations given by the publishing house.

It's not just a matter of respecting the original author.

In the past half a century, readers have already had a preliminary presupposition that they are familiar with the images of classic fairy tales.

Readers will be pleasantly surprised that illustrators can draw better based on this preset.

However, this presupposition cannot be substantially subverted.

If the little prince turns into a little princess, the fox turns into a wolf dog, and the rose turns into a peony flower, the audience will tear up their books and scold their mothers.

For example, the Little Mermaid in "The Daughter of the Sea" has become a black pearl, and in the stage play "Harry Potter" directed by Ms. JK Rowling, Hermione has become a black girl.

The social stance of not judging such behavior is right or wrong,

Purely in terms of commercial effects, even in Western Europe, where the atmosphere of political correctness is the strongest, the overturning is actually more serious.

Gu Weijing flipped through the illustrations of "The Little Prince", comparing the characters drawn by the original author with the sketches he drew under the guidance of Mr. Sloth.

(End of this chapter)