Chapter 139 An irresistible price

"The renovation of the orphanage was blocked by the Electricity Bureau and the construction approval document"

Chen Shenglin only thought about it for a moment and understood the twists and turns.

He smiled and looked at the people accompanying him, including the municipal officials of Layada District.

The lower-level leaders of the district government can only be regarded as minions among this group of people. They are not qualified to follow big entrepreneurs like Kou Kou's father, and can only accompany the last ones on the periphery of the crowd.

City officials also have no interest in middle school students drawing.

He was originally instructing his photographers to take publicity photos, racking his brains to figure out how to frame the scene, which could not only highlight the importance of Chen Shenglin and the police inspectors, but also put himself in the corner of the photo. Show your face.

I didn’t expect to stay well, but suddenly such a big black pot flew over and hit me on the head. He was so depressed that he almost spit out a mouthful of blood, and the sweat fell from 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 city cable system here is relatively old and the industrial load is large, so it is not easy to handle."

The little bureaucrat racked his brains to explain" I'll go check what's going on when I get back, and I'll give Mr. Chen a quick explanation."

"I'll let my colleagues from the Command Audit Institute follow up on the matter, if there is any corruption. , deal with it seriously." Father Kou Kou shook his head angrily and glanced at the little bureaucrat.

Myanmar’s police system itself has the function of supervision and auditing. At this time, he had to say something.

Really ignorant

The inspector is too lazy to care about such nonsense.

But today my task is to accompany Mr. Chen. If the rich are willing to invest more or less in Yangon, the difference may be several points in gd.

What the hell happened.

After irritating Mr. Chen, none of them got any good results.

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

Few of the low-level city officials in such slum industrial areas are completely innocent. If we really want to get to the bottom of it, the only difference is how many shackles the other party is willing to remove.

"Sigh."

Chen Shenglin withdrew his gaze and said helplessly, "I am the new chairman of the Myanmar Charity Chamber of Commerce, and to have a little kid make such a request to me is really a slap in the face. My face."

"But a promise is a promise, young man, the orphanage renovation approval document"

Chen Shenglin looked at Gu Weijing, "I'm not boasting, but I admire you. Guang, there are so many things I can do. Think about it, you want this."

"Yes." Gu Weijing nodded.

"No regrets"

"Yeah."

Chen Shenglin felt a little complicated.

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

They flatter, they flatter, and they always have a fawning smile on their face.

Just to get some wealth or power from oneself.

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

While marveling at the other person’s character, Mr. Chen felt a little hurt in his self-esteem.

If Faustrid, the omnipotent devil with the power to change the world, the calls he received from his employers all day long were all requests to take the kitten down from the tree.

I think the devil will also live a very unfulfilled life, okay?

"Why young man, you could have asked for something more valuable. I could even have the lights in the city center of Yangon turn off for a day, or send you to the Antarctic to see penguins." Chen Shenglin is not a People who like to show off their power are simply really curious about what this young man is thinking.

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

Dostoyevsky believed that people without greed are more likely to gain happiness.

Having no desires leads to strength.

He really doesn’t need help from collectors. Gu Weijing has just received an astronomical amount of income from the publishing group.

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

For him, an approval document for the renovation of the orphanage is already the thing he needs most now.

"Okay, I understand."

Chen Shenglin stared at Gu Weijing for a moment and suddenly praised, "You are really a pure person. If I had your character back then, Maybe now I can actually become the artist I dreamed of when I was young."

Mr. Chen actually used the honorific.

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

"An approval document for power transformation, very good."

"This kind of thing is my obligation as the president of the Myanmar Charity Chamber of Commerce. It should not be concerned about by young people like you. "Out of respect for you, I want 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 in many places has remained in the pre-colonial era. As the president of the Charity Chamber of Commerce, I must allocate resources and power as equally as possible. The tens of millions and hundreds of millions of kyats needed to renovate an orphanage are nothing, but no matter how much money is diluted by such a large sum, it will not matter. There is nothing left.”

“So if it weren’t for you, I think this orphanage would have been operating in such a difficult situation for many years.You are the one who brings light to this orphanage and you are truly amazing. ”

Everyone applauded.

Dad Kou Kou felt a little pity that Gu Weijing used up such a precious opportunity so easily.

At the same time, he had to admit that he 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 do." I think character is more important than ability. If I had an outstanding son like you, I would be able to retire long ago. ”

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

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

"The money paid by Gu Weijing"

Mr. Police Officer Raising his eyebrows, he thought it was a donation raised by the orphanage from the public.

The headmistress whispered a number.

Dad Kou Kou was already here today. My daughter's classmate has been surprised enough, but he can't help but be surprised at this time.

This is not a small sum of money.

The family of Dulwich College is not rich. There are very few people who can easily donate this money to the orphanage.

“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, so he just said it lightly.

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

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

"You can keep it. Since you are an upright young man, you only want this. Then I shouldn’t be too stingy, so be it. "

Chen Shenglin paused and looked at the draft on one side of the drawing board, lost in thought for a moment, and then raised his head.

"No matter how you say it, this painting is similar to I'm destined. If you fail to participate in the exhibition, you call me and I will still want this painting. And if you really win an award at the Singapore Art Exhibition, I will personally go to Singapore and give you a purchase price that you cannot refuse. " His tone was flat and domineering.

Gu Weijing didn't know what the "unrejectable" price was.

Mr. Chen didn't explain that he was in the Good Luck Orphanage again. After staying for a short while and saying something to the officials of Laiyada District, he left directly, waving his hands without taking away any clouds.

On the other hand, Kou Kou's father was looking after Weijing. After wandering around for a few times,

"Well, it's Kou Kou's birthday party in two months. The kids have time to come over to the house to play." The police inspector finally hummed and walked away.

Kou Kou holds a large party at home every year for her birthday and invites classmates from school to play.

Gu Weijing went there once three years ago.

The birthday cake alone is a flag cake as big as two long tables put together.

There is also a small band playing music.

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

People were full after eating a third of the cake, and then started to play around with each other by smearing cake cream on each other. Kou Kou, surrounded by a bunch of gifts, does look like a little queen.

Gu Weijing has been there once and stopped going. It’s not that Kou Kou no longer invites him. Kou Kou is always very generous in this regard. Basically, he will invite all his classmates and will not specifically ignore anyone.

But Mona was a little jealous and dissatisfied with Kou Kou acting like a arrogant young lady at the birthday party.

She always wanted to outdo Kou Kou in school, but after all, her family only ran a jewelry store. Even though she was a wealthy daughter, she still couldn't compare with Kou Kou's birthday party grandeur.

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

She did not explicitly say not to let Gu Weijing go, but whenever Kou Kou had a birthday party on the weekend, she would always "happen" to invite Gu Weijing to watch movies or visit museums or amusement parks together.

This is probably what girls think.

As night fell,

Gu Weijing returned home.

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

He read the white text of the publisher's internal version of the fairy tale for a while at the desk. He felt that he was in a good mood, so he took out three separate pen drawings from the drawer beside the bed in the bedroom.

Kings, roses and drunkards.

These three portraits he has already completed for the fairy tale character of the little prince, which have reached the level of feeling, are his preparation before officially painting illustrations.

Gu Weijing lined up these three paintings.

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

This kind of writing practice copying work that does not need to be saved can be treated casually.

According to past habits, Gu Weijing would take some time to use sandpaper to gently remove the uneven paint traces on the surface, and then apply a layer of titanium dioxide.

After letting it dry for two or three weeks, you can continue to draw some informal practice works on it.

Second use of canvas.

This is a little money-saving trick for poor painters.

From the moment oil painting was born, natural linen canvas was a big expense for low-level artists, and it was common to use a canvas to paint repeatedly.

A collector even used a tomography scanner to examine an old Renaissance painting and found that four different layers of oil paintings were covered layer by layer like building blocks. Each new layer of painting was directly added to the old painting. Painting on canvas.

In fact,

In industrial society, as long as it is notLuxury-grade imported canvases and simple linen canvases are not unaffordably expensive.

It is more a matter of habit. Mr. Gu Tongxiang was used to being poor, so this way of dealing with things was passed down as a family tradition.

Moreover, it’s hard to put away the paint when there are so many students practicing their works at home, so it’s better to shovel out the paint and reuse it.

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

Miss Sakai never had this problem 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 specifically to store all her daughter's practice works from childhood to adulthood.

Not even a single childhood scribble was left out.

Mrs. Sakai plans to open a special commemorative exhibition to review Katsuko’s artistic career in the future, after Katsuko Sakai becomes famous and has a family.

Out of respect for the Schostic Publishing Group, Gu Weijing took out a brand new canvas, mixed the paint, and made preparations for painting.

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

Gu Weijing found another old version of The Little Prince from the bookshelf, and took a final look at the original illustrations drawn by Saint-Exupéry.

Generally, when illustrating such classic works, there is an unchanging rule, which is to try not to deviate too far from the original work in composition and character.

This point was clearly pointed out in the detailed instructions given by the publisher.

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

Readers have already had a preliminary familiarity with classic fairy tale images over the past half century.

Illustrators can draw better based on this preset, and readers will be pleasantly surprised.

However, this default cannot be significantly subverted.

If the little prince turns into a little princess, the fox turns into a wolfdog, and the rose turns into a peony, the audience will tear up the book and curse.

For example, the Little Mermaid, the daughter of the sea, became Black Pearl, and in the Harry Potter stage play directed by Ms. JK Rowling, Hermione became a black girl.

We do not evaluate the social stance of this kind of behavior.

From a purely commercial perspective, even in Western Europe, where the atmosphere of political correctness is strongest, the overturn is actually quite serious. .

Gu Weijing flipped through the illustrations of the little prince, matching the characters drawn by the original author with the sketches he drew under the guidance of Mr. Sloth. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft