Almighty painter

Chapter 173 The Exposure of the Bracelet

"No, of course not. Thank you, great opportunity, I am very grateful."

Mona hesitated for a moment.

She showed a very polite smile, didn't kiss or hug, just shook hands with the blond boy in a sense of proportion.

It was difficult for her to say words of blame on this occasion.

If it's just the heroine of an ordinary micro movie, Mona doesn't care so much.But an award-winning microfilm that was reported and praised by the official newspaper, she really couldn't refuse.

Being selected into Mrs. Sakai's improvement class does not mean that it will be smooth sailing when applying for university.

Or,

If it is said that Mona's original goal is only the University of Rotterdam ranked among the top 150 art and design universities in the world, or a "second-rate prestigious school" ranked 150~200.

If it is still the plan now, she feels that the requirements are a bit too low.

A better university means a better circle, better connections, and better development opportunities.

In the art field, of course there are geniuses who catch everyone's attention when they make their debut, and who shock the world when they emerge from the backcountry, but there are only a handful of them.

The reason why those real talents who make a big splash at the Biennale often make super galleries with annual sales of one billion US dollars such as Gagosian, Lisson, and PACE wave astronomical money to chase signing contracts, because of this Class cases are too rare.

Talent that can affect the world is destined to have nothing to do with 99.999% of people.

In many cases, two ordinary art students with similar levels are compared for opportunities. Whoever can be closer to the world art center, whoever has a better school, can enter a higher-end studio for internship...

Anyway, everyone draws the same thing, neither good nor bad.

no amazing talent,
Whoever has a better circle, who has more opportunities, and whoever is more likely to succeed in life.

With such a good starting point, Mona also has greater ambitions.

The higher the university, the more stringent the application requirements.Everyone compares portfolios, grade points, and social service hours. Excellent students from all over the world are competing with you.

She really needs this social welfare resume.

But I don't want Jerry to misunderstand.

"Well, after school, I'll treat you to dinner to express my gratitude." She nodded to Jerry and said with a smile: "You can choose the restaurant, Mr. Jerry Lorenz, please try to choose the most expensive dishes, Otherwise, I would be really embarrassed to accept such a precious gift."

Jerry was slightly disappointed.

Mona's answer was too distant, not as intimate as he imagined.

Although adding a name to the staff list is a free gift for Jerry.

But the girl student council president's response was too tactful.

Appropriateness appears alienated.

He could hear Mona's indifference from her body language and her special emphasis on the price of the restaurant, and he felt a little frustrated.

"Forget it, being able to have a meal together is a good progress after all."

Jerry smiled inwardly.

A star of the school team like him, he had a lot of good-looking girlfriends when he was a student, and he no longer has much interest in girls who can go to bed with a bag and lipstick.

Difficult girls make men feel conquered.

He gently pulled Mona, and the two of them bowed to the applauding audience together like the male and female leading actors at the curtain call of a stage play.

Not being able to see the passionate kiss scene made the students who eat melon a little disappointed, but this scene still made everyone applaud and cheer enthusiastically.

The audience was full of applause and laughter.

The atmosphere was good, as if everyone felt that the talented and beautiful couple on the stage seemed to be born to be together.

Beautiful girls are a scarce resource in the school, and everyone subconsciously thinks that they should belong to a handsome boy like Jerry.

"I thought you would be very unhappy at this time, and wanted to come over to comfort you, but who knew that you were secretly looking at the photos of young ladies in the corner! Is this how boys like the new and dislike the old?"

There was a mocking voice in my ear.

Gu Weijing turned his head to the side, and saw a pair of very charming and bright eyes looking down at him.

"Coco?"

The seats in the auditorium were dimly lit like a movie theater, and Gu Weijing didn't notice when Kou Kou slipped over.

She leaned lightly on the back of the empty seat in front, crossed her hands on the back of the chair, and was staring at Gu Weijing... the screen of the IPAD in her hand.

The screen was not turned off, and the swimsuit photo of Sakai Katsuko on INS was still displayed.

"Oh? I was thinking about artwork..." Gu Weijing explained awkwardly.

"Tch, the artwork you're talking about is a girl's swimsuit photo?" Kou Kou rolled her eyes, expressing her disdain for Gu Weijing's sanctimonious remarks.

She said so, but her expression was still very gentle.

Kou Kou stretched out a hand to rub the boy's hair, as if she wanted to comfort a little pet whose favorite ball of wool was snatched away by others.

"Forget it, just look at it, Miss Shengzi is indeed the kind of cute, soft and cute girl, not only young boys like you who have hormonal disturbances and can't get rid of love. My mother feels very moved when she sees it. "

Kou Kou bared her teeth and waved her small fist.

She tilted her head and looked at the screen of the tablet computer, and said in a tone like an old man watching the Victoria's Secret supermodel show on TV: "Unfortunately, the style of the swimsuit is too conservative. This kind of plump girl has such a good curve." , you have to show it boldly in a bikini to be dazzling enough!"

The same evaluation was made by a plump, curvy girl.

It doesn't look greasy, but rather cute.

Kou Kou raised her upper body, looked left and right, and found that the attention of the students and the teacher was on the stage, and no one paid attention to it.

She didn't bother to forgive.

Supporting the wide velvet backrest of the auditorium seat with one hand, and pressing the hem of the school uniform skirt with the other hand to prevent it from getting naked, Kou Kou turned over from the front seat like a big flexible cat .

This scene absolutely does not comply with the "Dulwich College Student Code of Conduct and Discipline".

If Mona saw such an unladylike scene, she would order the student council to deduct Koko's conduct points.

Gu Weijing only felt a gust of fragrant wind lingering on his face.

Kou Kou's body was extremely light, she turned over the seat, and the corner of the skirt gently slapped on his shoulders, the skin of her thighs under the flying petticoat was faintly visible, like snow that had just solidified in winter.

"so cool!"

He applauded quietly.

"Hmph, that's great. Turning over the seat is nothing. The dance teacher who taught me is a Russian aunt. When she danced "The Nutcracker" in St. Petersburg, the last scene had to be rotated 1080 degrees in situ, all on one right foot The strength of the thumb on the top is powerful."

Kou Kou sat beside Gu Weijing and hummed.

Unlike the understatement in her words, the girl's pretty eyebrows and expressions showed that she was quite proud of her heroic appearance just now.

"Actually... I just watched that micro movie, and I didn't think it was anything special."

Kou Kou thought for a while, then murmured in a low voice: "College student film festivals are all fools. This kind of local government cultural festival, my father said, basically, it is the best outstanding newcomer, the best student actor and actress. , Best Love Award, these cat and dog small awards are all negotiated with performing arts companies and public relations companies."

"It's very easy to give a few thousand dollars! The more than 3 dollars you donated to the orphanage is enough to cover all these miscellaneous fish awards."

Kou Kou raised her brows and said softly: "As for the "Yangon Economic Weekly", it is indeed a bit difficult, but it needs to be operated a little bit, mainly depending on the connections."

"At the beginning, I just participated in a fencing competition, and there were newspapers of the same kind. They wanted to please my dad, and they wanted to write a small column for me. My dad thought it was inappropriate, so he refused..."

Gu Weijing let out a soft "Oh".

He wasn't actually jealous of Jerry.

Their micro-movies are really well shot, the material selection is bright, the editing and soundtrack are also very professional, and the network is also part of the ability.

Jerry can win the award, he has nothing to be sour about.

Mona and Jerry Lang are in love, and I can't control it. His childhood sweetheart has clearly stated many times that it has nothing to do with him.

It would be meaningless to get entangled.

Kou Kou was a little unhappy seeing that Gu Weijing still had that indifferent look.

Kou Kou thought that the other party must be very sad seeing her "ex-girlfriend" on stage with other boys, so she ran over to comfort him with good intentions.

In the end, she thought for a long time to make an excuse, but she only got a reply like "Oh", so three sticks down, she couldn't make a fart.

This made Kou Kou feel as if she was speaking stand-up comedy to the sculpture, without any sense of accomplishment.

"Thank you, Coco."

Gu Weijing turned his head, looked at Kou Kou's big eyes, smiled and said seriously: "Although I don't really need comfort, I still thank you very much."

"I am very touched."

"I know, I didn't come here to comfort you on purpose. Staying in the seat is just staying there. It's quite boring. Why don't you find someone to chat with..."

Looking at the serious eyes of the other party, Kou Kou was stunned for a moment, then turned her head slightly, and explained in a low voice, but the corners of her mouth still curled up uncontrollably.

The two sat side by side in silence for a while in the last row of the auditorium where there was no one in the corner.

After Jerry walked off the stage, the old principal did not sit back in his seat, and was still talking about the construction of campus culture in front of him.

Kou Kou was not in the mood to listen.

She felt a bit bored sitting in such silence, lowered her head, played with a strand of hair curled up by her ear with her fingers, and occasionally hummed a few unpopular English ditties in her mouth.

"what?"

The girl seemed to see something interesting suddenly.

She suddenly grabbed Gu Weijing's sleeve, looked at the jade bracelet exposed under the sleeve, and blinked in surprise.

"Is this shape the consecrated bracelet enshrined in the Shwedagon Pagoda?"

Kou Kou shook Gu Weijing's wrist, as if she had discovered some new world, and said strangely: "This kind of bracelet is very difficult to make, and you actually have a bunch."

She carefully moved the ice jade inlaid on Gu Weijing's wrist bracelet with her fingertips, and looked at the word "Gu" carved on it with a very fine carving knife.

"Your surname is also engraved on it. The Shwedagon Pagoda doesn't have many bracelets like this in a year." Kou Kou smacked her lips, "I don't even want it."

"Very rare and precious?"

Gu Weijing turned the bracelet around his wrist, since Katsuko Sakai put it on for him, he has not taken it off.

Remember, all the artists participating in the Shwedagon Pagoda restoration project should have such a bracelet.

"This is the bracelet you bought, is it precious, you ask me?" Kou Kou squinted at Gu Weijing.

"I didn't buy it, I gave it away."

"That's it... that's a very thoughtful gift."

The national gift given by the Myanmar government to well-known artists should indeed be regarded as a heartfelt gift.

"So precious?"

"It doesn't have to be expensive, but it must be rare."

Kou Kou bit her lower lip and said softly: "Buddhas and Bodhisattvas don't distinguish living beings by high or low, so the materials of these bracelets and Buddhist beads are often good and bad. Your string is of good material, but it is made of rosewood and cheap agate stone. A string of similar bracelets may only cost a few hundred kyats, which even porters carrying poles by the Yangon River can afford.”

"In this case, why don't you just offer thousands or tens of thousands of strings and let everyone buy them?"

Gu Weijing was surprised that although he grew up in Yangon, a place with a strong Buddhist atmosphere, he was not a believer, so he didn't understand such particularities.

"Bah! Buy whatever you want. Think of it as steamed buns in the cafeteria. This kind of thing pays attention to sincerity. You want to ask for the people you care about, and you have the best wishes for safety and success. How can you be sincere if you sell it casually? Monk Tang is going to the West Paradise There are ninety-nine and eighty-one difficulties to learn the scriptures, so why didn’t the Buddha just give him the scriptures casually.”

The most famous of the four masterpieces in Myanmar is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". It is said that the drug lord Kun Sha never leaves his body, followed by "Journey to the West", which almost everyone has read.

Kou Kou seems to be very concerned about this bracelet, and is very dissatisfied with Gu Weijing's statement that he doesn't care.

She stared at the small bracelet in Gu Weijing's hand, and said softly: "The Shwedagon Pagoda has only about fifty niches for such consecrated bracelets and Buddhist beads every month. It is difficult for ordinary people to get a string for each niche. Arrived."

"If you want to get consecrated bracelets, if you don't go through government channels, then no matter how high or low you are, you have to go to the golden shrine of the Buddha statue in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda to register for watering early every weekend. For three consecutive weeks, it has been ranked in the top five. Top ten, it means that your heart is sincere enough, you can get the opportunity to own such a bracelet, if there is an interruption in the middle, you will start all over again."

Burmese worship Buddha not only by burning incense, but also by offering water to the flower garden in front of the Buddha statue.

When Gu Weijing painted "Worshiping the Buddha and Protecting the Dharma" before, the reason why the adult artists were not there was because everyone followed Mr. Cao to water the Buddha and worship the Buddha.

Pouring the first bowl of water before the Shwedagon Pagoda opens every day is equivalent to burning the first stick of incense in front of the Lama Temple in the capital. Legend has it that it is particularly effective.

So many people came early to line up.

Wanting to rank close to the top [-] for three consecutive weeks is indeed a physical effort like learning from the West.

"When I was a child, every year my mother would ask me for a string like this to keep me safe and healthy." Kou Kou looked at the jadeite string on Gu Weijing's wrist, showing a yearning expression.

"Auntie is too lazy to run away for you now?"

Gu Weijing raised his eyebrows.

He has seen Kou Kou's mother, an aunt who looks very coquettish, and Kou Kou looks like sisters, more like a mother and daughter.

"No, my mother has been dead for many years. The vixen you saw is my stepmother." Kou Kou said indifferently.

(End of this chapter)