Almighty painter

Chapter 191 Emotional Education and Decision to Exhibit

midnight midnight,

Midday on the moon.

Katsuko Sakai tiptoed open the door of the hotel suite.

When she opened the door, the room was quiet, the lights were turned off, and it was pitch black, and there was no mother on the sofa bed in the living room.

Sakai Katsuko's heart lifted slightly.

"It won't be discovered, will it?"

She sneaked back to her room first before she dared to turn on the light.

Sakai Katsuko looked around and found that there were still sticky notes on the small refrigerator, and the bedroom was exactly the same as when she left.

Looking at the phone again, Sakai Katsuko was sure that her mother hadn't sent any messages to herself, and there was no notification of missed calls on the screen.

"Well...not bad."

Only then did she gently fan her face with the palm of her hand to regain her composure.

The girl kicked off her leather shoes, shrank her whole body into the king-size palm-colored bed in the bedroom, and let out a long sigh of relief.

It seems that my mother just slept halfway on the sofa and went back to her room.

It is estimated that he did not realize that his daughter had slipped out just now while he was half asleep and half awake.

So much the better.

Katsuko Sakai stared at the crystal lamp stand in the room with big bright eyes, thinking about something in her mind.

"What should I say tomorrow morning?"

She thinks that she is not afraid to tell anyone in the world that she and Gu Weijing are in love, and she is ready for it.

When Ms. Sakai posted on INS, she knew that her mother would definitely see it.

However, when he thought of Mrs. Sakai's serious face, and the tone of his nose and eyes to Gu Weijing in private in front of her in the past.

The little girl was actually a little apprehensive.

"Mom will definitely be very angry. Let her scold me if she scolds me. I'll just keep quiet. If you can't do it, call dad first? He has a better impression of Gu Weijing. Oh, I hope it will dawn Slow down..."

Sakai Katsuko buried her head deep in the pillow, with a little ostrich mentality, waiting for the storm tomorrow morning.

"No matter how you say it... she can't pack me up and send me back to Japan, shouldn't she?"

Sakai Katsuko was thinking wildly.

She casually took off the post-it note on the refrigerator, and when she was about to throw it into the trash can, she suddenly froze for a moment.

The post-it notes are not in my own handwriting.

When Shengzi left, she was afraid that her mother would be worried if she found out that she was missing, so she left a note telling Mrs. Sakai that she and Gu Weijing went to paint together.

right now,

The words on that sheet turned into Mrs. Sakai's handwriting...not the scolding she thought——

【Got it, you have to tell your adults in advance when you leave home. PS: Go to YouTube to watch a beauty tutorial, your eyeliner is really clumsy, I think you are in a hurry to put on makeup. 】

Sakai Katsuko blinked, she thought she was wrong.

Mom found out that she had slipped out, and her reply was...let me learn how to do makeup?

She sat up from the bed, holding the note in her hand, she didn't know if she wanted to cry or laugh, and the circles of her eyes suddenly turned a little red.

"What's the matter, Shengzi, I can't believe my mother is so easy to talk, can you?"

The bedroom door was gently pushed open.

Mrs. Sakai appeared at the door of the room like a ghost, squinting at her daughter.

"Mom, thank you."

Sakai Katsuko sniffed lightly.

It was as if she secretly brought a [-]-point test paper home to sign, only to find that her parents were unexpectedly easy-talking today, she moaned with relief, and said in a wet nasal voice, "I...I Thought you'd be angry."

"Think I'm going to be angry? Well, of course I'm angry."

Mrs. Sakai sat by the bed, took her daughter into her arms, stroked Katsuko's smooth hair, and gently wiped away the tears from her daughter's face with her fingertips.

She shook her head helplessly.

"I'm still crying. Is it so unreasonable for me to be a mother?"

"What do you think your mother is in your heart—the old witch who locked her daughter in a high tower in fairy tales, or the snobbish person who hoped to sell her daughter for a good price? Shengzi, you are my own daughter, our family There is no shortage of money, and the happiness of you and Gang Chang is more important than everything to me."

"Mom, I love you."

Shengzi was so moved, he gently rubbed his head on his mother's chest, and said in a tired voice.

"Well, if you like that Gu Weijing, you love me, but if you don't like that bastard, you don't love me anymore. Your sweetheart is much more important than your mother. Right?" Mrs. Sakai said in a fluent manner as usual.

"That's not what it means."

Miss Shengzi shook her little head coquettishly.

"Actually, I don't mean to blame you... Who hasn't been young before."

"I also did the stupid thing of stealing lasagna with raw meat sauce from the kitchen at home, baking it in the oven, and sneaking out to feed your father as a supper." Mrs. Sakai said softly, "I told you, Your grandma has an exclusive secret recipe for lasagna, which is well-known in the local community, but it’s troublesome to make and not often made.”

"I found out later that your grandpa had an important business partner coming to the house, and your grandma prepared the lasagna for the family dinner in the evening of the next day."

"and then?"

Sakai Katsuko was aroused curiosity.

"I was terrified when I realized I had gotten into trouble."

"Your grandfather didn't think much of that Eastern classmate I was dating, and he once said in front of my face—do you want my grandson to look like a yellow-skinned Tatar (note)... something like He said that, and now he's ruining his perfect family reception."

(Note: Tatars, Mongolian steppe people, here is a race that does not clearly distinguish Asians.)
"Finally, your grandma quietly asked the servant to go to the supermarket to buy some instant lasagna and came back. Faced with my grandpa's angry question, she kicked me under the table, and said that the cat at home had put the lasagna in the lasagna. The foil plate of the lasagna was overturned."

Mrs. Sakai recalled the past of her youth, and smiled: "That big orange cat hasn't gotten good looks from your grandpa for six months. I have always felt for a long time that I am sorry for the old cat at home."

"You and Dad still have such a thing."

Katsuko Sakai seldom hears about the past of her parents falling in love.

She just knows that her mother's family conditions are much better than her father's.

However, every time I go to the seaside villa in Barcelona for vacation, the little old man of my grandfather is very kind to the family.

Constantly excitedly showing off to all the neighbors that his "son-in-law of a great artist" came to see them, he wished to be closer to Professor Sakai than to his mother's older brothers.

"Shengzi, I'm telling you this story to tell your mother that she understands your feelings and the joy you feel when you first find out that you like a boy. Your mother is not your enemy. On the contrary, your little boy Friends may abandon you, but your parents will never abandon you and will always stand by you."

Mrs. Sakai stroked her daughter's side face.

"What really annoyed me today is that you didn't think about discussing it with me before you sneaked out. Have you ever thought about how worried I would be if I suddenly found out that you were not there after sneaking out so late. "

"I thought……"

Sakai Katsuko opened his mouth to explain.

"I know what you want to say. I really don't think much of Gu Weijing all the time, and of course I don't want my daughter to go out to play with boys so late. It's all right because I'm your mother."

"I hope your life will be smoother, richer, and more likely to succeed. If you regard life as a game, marrying Komatsu Taro is the Easy mode. But if you prefer to choose the Hard game, then I would also like to wish mine Daughter had fun."

Mrs. Sakai said softly, "It's just that you may suffer more."

"I'm not afraid."

Sakai Katsuko raised her head from her mother's arms and repeated firmly: "I don't care."

"Whether you care or not, this is the path you choose. We will grow old one day. After all, the person who will be with you for the rest of your life is your husband, not me, my mother."

"If your husband is up to date, that's great, and you will receive countless envious looks. Your grandfather looked down on my husband so much, isn't it a treasure now? Huh, all the neighbors and friends when I was young are saying, The Cruz girl hooked up a nice guy worth billions."

Mrs. Sakai poked her neck like a 40-year-old princess.

"What if... I mean, what if Gu Jun doesn't succeed? Will you always look down on him?"

Sakai Katsuko asked slowly and carefully.

There are too many uncertain variables on the road of art, and all agents who swear by their chests and swear that you will succeed will most likely be liars.

There are so many geniuses who hurt Zhongyong that they cannot be counted.
It is not uncommon for a good painter to fail.

Even if Sakai Katsuko herself, she can't guarantee that she will be as successful as her father.

It can only be said that maybe, probably, the probability of success should be higher than others.

She believes in Gu Weijing's ability, but Sakai Katsuko understands that success depends on luck.

Take what is in front of you and say,

Like Detective Cat, the artist elder sister who has almost perfect sketching skills and deep aesthetic understanding, was not still drawing ten dollar illustrations before being noticed by Mr. Hyperion on Youtube.

"If your husband is useless and has been just a little painter with no reputation all his life, in fact...it's okay."

Mrs. Sakai smiled and said: "Even if I don't like him anymore, can I still help him? Even if Gu Weijing achieves nothing, if he is ridiculed, he will be ridiculed. Who made him incompetent? You shut the door and live your own life." On a small day, as long as he treats you well, you can reap happiness, which is also great. I would like to bless you too."

"I only have a few hard requirements for my daughter's other half that are absolutely not allowed to change. First, he can't gamble, and second, he can't take drugs and cough medicine. You know, because it's too easy to get money, playing women and men, racing cars, surfing These stimulus projects are also tired of playing, and there are not many people in our circle who are bothered."

Mrs. Sakai held Katsuko's porcelain-like cheeks, looked at her daughter, and said seriously.

"Gambling, the family breaks up too quickly. For a family like ours, if we go on vacation and buy some consumer goods such as bags and shoes, the money will never be spent in a lifetime. But it may only take one night to gamble away the wealth of thousands of dollars. As for drugs, People who are addicted to desire don’t care about their families at all. If they are addicted to drugs, they will ruin their whole person. If they kill themselves, they will die. The probability of drug addicts beating their wives is also very high. I will never allow you to sleep with your pillow That's what people are."

"The last point, don't get involved in the money laundering business."

Mrs. Sakai thought for a while, and added: "Don't talk about gangsters, even if the group of underground artists related to gangster culture is chaotic, I don't need to tell you specifically."

The most successful street artist who is engaged in underground art or street spray painting is KWAS.

The godfather of global trendy toys has mixed reputations.

His street art became popular on INS, and various co-branded artwork clothing, hand-made office accessories and trendy toys became popular all over the world.

The joint products of Uniqlo and KWAS are all out of stock from Asia to Europe, from the Pacific Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, and clothing stores can line up hundreds of meters long.

Every year, the turnover of KWAS's various co-branded products is close to Kanye's coconut, and the fans are more sticky. In the past two years, there have been many works with a single piece exceeding [-] million US dollars.

The successful case of KWAS has driven a large number of semi-gangster-related street spray gang members into the art field, similar to rap culture.

An investigative reporter once published a special news report that a large amount of criminal funds poured into the art industry, hoping to launder money by hyping trendy art.

However, art investment is a high-incidence and hard-hit area of ​​traditional money laundering, and it is not bad.

It’s just that this kind of street spray painting is more chaotic. A few gang members live broadcast on the Internet and go to paint on other bosses’ sites, just like hyenas peeing on other ethnic groups’ sites, and they often turn into gun battles.

What's rather dark and humorous is that although KWAS is popular on the streets, it is not a street at all. KWAS is a graduate of the Illustration Department of the New York School of Visual Arts and a Disney illustrator.

"This kind of money is not reliable. It will be credited into your account in the morning, and you may get your head shot inexplicably in the evening. Besides, your father Sakai Kasunari is serious and earnestly relied on his own efforts to become famous. Our family can't touch this kind of thing." Mrs. Sakai instructed.

"The rest is to live. Whether a man can live up to his expectations or not has the ability depends on his own fate." Mrs. Sakai pinched her daughter's face and teased: "It also depends on your ability to train your husband." .I think your father was trained very well by me."

"Ah."

Sakai Katsuko let out a nasal sound, her cheeks flushed red.

She thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Mom, did you see the picture I posted on INS! I think Gu Weijing is quite proud of being able to draw such a picture."

"That painting...is so-so, the brushwork is green, and there are a lot of frizz."

Mrs. Sakai cast a straight face and glanced at her daughter,
Looking at her daughter who can't wait to show her sweetheart's talent as a treasure, hoping to get affirmation and anticipation.

She finally smiled.

"Considering this kid's age, I can barely give him a good review."

Mrs. Sakai patted her daughter on the head.

"Gu Jun wants to participate in this year's Singapore Art Exhibition. Mom, I also want to participate." Katsuko Sakai said suddenly.

(End of this chapter)