Reborn as a great painter, with a system, you can be willful

Chapter 4, New Goals
After dinner, Jiang Zhe and his mother cleared the table together.

When he returned to the big house, he saw that his father had prepared three cups of tea and was holding one cup, sipping it slowly.

"How are you preparing for class tomorrow? Selling paintings may be a coincidence, don't be distracted." Jiang Yi said. At the moment, the most important thing at home is Jiang Zhe's college entrance examination.

"I'm ready. I'll go back to read in a while. You and my mom can watch TV." Jiang Zhe picked up a cup of tea.

Jiang Yi shook his head: "Don't look, the sound will affect you."

Jiang Zhe's house has only two rooms. The big room is the living room and his parents' bedroom, and the small room is Jiang Zhe's room.

It’s pitiful how loving parents are. Ever since Jiang Zhe entered his third year of high school, the old-fashioned TV at home has become a decoration.

Jiang Zhe knew that he couldn't persuade them, so he picked up a cup of tea, told his parents that he was going to read a book, went back to his little room, closed the door, and prepared to study.

He looked around his little room.

The seven-square-meter room, with furniture and my own painting supplies, was already very crowded. I lived in this environment until I was 30 years old.

However, with the help of the system, I believe I will soon be able to make money and improve my life.

He wanted to figure out his next goal.

I will buy myself a mobile phone after I earn the bonus next month. After the Chinese New Year, I will face the art exam, and I need a place to live close to the exam site to avoid wasting time and encountering traffic problems.

If you don’t have enough money, you can rent a temporary residence which can also be used as a studio.

Therefore, we must find ways to earn more rewards.

With goals and motivation, you don’t need anyone to urge you to study.

The 2001 college entrance examination is divided into arts and science, and most art majors belong to the arts. Applicants need to take exams in five cultural subjects. For students in this province who choose art majors, the calculation method of college entrance examination scores is somewhat special.

Most colleges and universities require students to take four subjects: Chinese, history, foreign languages, and ideological and moral education. Mathematics is not included in the total score. Only a few schools have special requirements for math scores. Therefore, students like Jiang Zhe actually only have four courses left after the math exam in senior high school.

Jiang Zhe is most confident in Chinese and history, thanks to his understanding and interest. For him, Ideological and Political Science and Foreign Languages ​​are two difficult subjects.

Ideological and political education requires a lot of memorization and accumulation, especially the explanation of various terms and issues before 2001.

Foreign languages ​​require more memorization, but there are currently no oral exams.

The sound of reciting words could be heard in the cabin.

……

There is a smoking room in the luxurious suite of a five-star hotel in Binhai.

Smith sat on a single sofa. In front of him, on the small round table were cigar utensils and a landline phone.

He prepared a cigar, lit it, took a slow puff, and dialed a number while savoring the taste.

A voice from the other side of the ocean came from the microphone.

"William, I'm fine. This is such a beautiful place..." Smith changed the subject after chatting with his friend about family matters.

"I met a young painter today and bought three of his watercolors. They were great and very cheap. I have sent the paintings back to see how the market reacts."

On the other side of the phone, his friend raised questions.

"Please trust my judgment." Smith let the smoke swirl in his mouth, savoring the special aroma with the taste of cedar wood and honey.

……

Two hours later, Jiang Zhe stopped studying and took a short rest.

He saw on the system panel that the two courses, Foreign Language and Ideological and Political Education, would each have an additional hour of accumulation time.

In order to adjust his brain, he took out the practice paper and started to copy the sketches. The subjects of the art exam include sketching and color, and some schools will add sketches or designs. Sketching is a good way to improve modeling ability.

When Jiang Zhe was learning painting in his previous life, he was lucky enough to meet a wise man. This teacher always advocated that students should learn from the masters of painting who left their names in history from the beginning of learning painting, and proposed the goals and methods of copying at different stages.

Jiang Zhe chose to copy the sketches of Menzel and Schiller.

Menzel was once persuaded to drop out of the Academy of Fine Arts, but he became a painter with his passion and hard work, and was awarded the highest honor of the Kingdom of Prussia, the "Black Eagle Medal" and the title of nobility. He left behind 80 sketchbooks and nearly 7000 single sketches in his lifetime, and he is a painter with fans all over the world.

Unlike Menzel, Egon Schiele was a talented painter, an expressionist painter in the early 20th century, and a representative of the Vienna Secession.

Jiang Zhe chose the works of these two painters to copy because some of their styles of works can not only meet the requirements of art examinations, but are also suitable for his current learning.

After copying for a while, he started studying cultural subjects again, alternating between studying and not taking a break until his mother urged him to.

……

Early in the morning, Jiang Zhe got up early.

With the goal of making money and a system to aid learning, waking up early is no longer so painful, and you may even feel uncomfortable lying down.

He finished his breakfast, said goodbye to his parents and left home.

Xu Li stood in front of the window and watched her son walk away before returning to her room.

"Lao Jiang, do you feel that Xiaozhe has been a little different these past two days? In the past, when he went to school, although we didn't need to urge him, he was in a bad mood and looked sad. But these past few days, when he went to school, he was always in high spirits, as if something was attracting him."

Jiang Yi answered as he packed his bedding: "When you grow up, you have to be more sensible. Maybe it was what happened yesterday, or maybe his grades have improved recently, which gave him a sense of accomplishment, and that's why he started to change."

Xu Li offered her help and guessed, "Do you think he might have fallen in love with a girl? Hey, the last time he went to the parents' meeting..."

"Don't make wild guesses. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at?" Jiang Yi denied it outright: "You went to the parents' meeting a year ago. With his personality..."

"I made you run a few more times, and look at you complaining..." Xu Li threw down the bedding and turned to the kitchen.

……

Jiang Zhe walked on the sidewalk with big strides.

The pedestrians were walking hurriedly, their clothes looked a little old, and there were also a lot of people riding bicycles of various types on the road. The motor vehicles on the road were mostly old models, with one or two luxury private cars occasionally seen.

His home was a few stops away from the No. 7 High School where he studied, and because the buses were too crowded at that time, he chose to walk.

Walking on this familiar road, he does not feel the time is long nor does he feel tired. Occasionally seeing some familiar or almost forgotten things will make him think a lot.

Binhai is a coastal city once famous for its light industry.

Now, most of the buildings on both sides of the road are left over from the 60s to the 90s. In the next 20 years, the changes here will be faster. A large number of old buildings will be replaced by modern high-rise buildings. People's lives will also change at an incredible speed.

Jiang Zhe then thought that in the past, his self was always trying to keep up with the pace of the times; after his rebirth, he would have the help of the system and could also enjoy the beauty of the times.

There are more and more students on the road.

Jiang Zhe's clothes were not eye-catching. At that time, many high school students were wearing military coats, which came in military green and blue. Who would have thought that 20 years later, this thing would become popular again.

He arrived at the school gate and saw the director of moral education and members of the student union checking the clothes of the students entering the school.

Jiang Zhe walked through the small square with cement slabs and entered the main teaching building where his class was located. When he went up to the third floor, he saw the head teacher walking towards the classroom door.

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