Li Rui stared at the painting, but saw that the background is an endless mountain range, in which the forest is dense, the grass is thick, in the mountains, there is an ancient temple, the palace is old, but the eaves are clear, the temple wall is heavy, and it gives people a sense of seclusion of the ancient temple outside the world, a path appears outside the temple, winding down in the mountains and forests, and finally crossing a wooden bridge, leading to the outside world. The whole painting is thick and light, using black and blue, but it perfectly depicts the characteristics of mountains, stones, forests, grasses, temples, bridges, and rivers, which can be described as lifelike.

"Good painting!"

After Li Rui saw it, he couldn't help but praise it, but he wondered in his heart, although this painting is good, but is the president of the Provincial Agricultural University eye-catching?

Hearing his praise, the beautiful woman took a bamboo stick with a fork on her head from the side with an expressionless face, lifted it up, took off the painting, took it in her hand and rolled up most of it, turned around and walked to the west, and said, "Come here." ”

Li Rui raised his hand and wanted to stop, because he really didn't have confidence in this painting, but seeing that the beauty was so calm, he swallowed back the words that came to his lips and quickly followed.

The beautiful woman went into a small room to the west, put the scroll on the table, took out a seal from the drawer, and printed it on the painting with a solemn face.

Li Rui took a closer look and saw that the words on the seal were all seal scripts, and he couldn't recognize a single word, but seeing that the texture of the seal was red jade and crystal shiny, it seemed to be a high-grade seal, and he became more and more suspicious in his heart, what is the origin of this beauty.

The beautiful woman stared at the chapter on the painting, and said in a light tone: "I sell paintings on weekdays, I don't need a chapter, I don't need this side, today is for you to save the emergency, so I made an exception to use this chapter." But you don't have to thank me, I just make up for the time you spent waiting for me to paint, so that you don't have to talk about it all the time. ”

Li Ruixin said that this girl is also very clear, and asked with a smile: "What is written in this chapter?"

The beautiful woman didn't answer, and said, "Three thousand! My painting is one thousand, my chapter is two thousand, cash or card?"

Li Rui was stunned, not because she wanted a lot of money, but because the price of the seal was higher than the value of the painting itself, which was amazing, and wondered: "What kind of seal is that, why is it so valuable?"

The beautiful woman ignored him, rolled up the scroll, tied it tightly with a tie, took out an antique rectangular picture box from the bookcase behind her, put the scroll in it, closed the lid of the box, buckled the buckle, pushed it in front of him, raised her head and looked at him with a cold face, as if asking, can you pay the money?

Li Rui already knew that she was a woman with superb painting skills and a good background, and she was very confident in her appearance, so she didn't think about it anymore, she listened to her with a heart, and took this painting to the president of the Provincial Agricultural University.

After brushing the three thousand yuan, Li Rui thanked the beauty and went downstairs with the box in his hand. The beautiful woman will also close the door and go down with him.

When he was about to walk to the door, Li Rui looked at the paintings on the wall, suddenly thought of something, stopped and asked, "Why don't you sell paintings and don't have seals?"

The beautiful woman said: "People who love paintings love the scenery and artistic conception on the paintings, not the chapters." ”

Li Rui said: "You use the chapter, can't you be more famous?"

The beautiful woman asked in a cold tone, "What's so good about being famous?"

Li Rui was stunned, looked at her deeply, and said in his heart that this girl's temperament is really weird, so she didn't ask anything and said goodbye and left.

At 6:45 a.m. the next day, Li Rui saw three familiar women, Ling Shuyao, Li Jing and Jin Rui, next to several cadres from the Municipal Government General Office and the Municipal Education Bureau, as well as three official cars, which constituted the team of the Provincial Agricultural University.

Li Rui walked up to Li Jing with the picture box, patted the picture box, and said, "Mayor Li, I bought this as a gift." ”

Li Jing was slightly surprised, staring at the painting box, and asked, "What is in this?"

Li Rui said: "A landscape painting, the painting is very good, I hope the principal will like it." ”

Li Jing frowned and said, "Paintings? Didn't you say that paintings are not easy to buy? Celebrity calligraphy and paintings are too expensive, and ordinary calligraphy and paintings can't be used, so what are you buying? Don't tell me, you bought celebrity calligraphy and paintings with a huge amount of money." ”

Li Rui shook his head and said: "Of course not, it was painted by an unknown painter, that painter knows the Provincial Calligraphers and Painters Association very well, and told me with certainty that this painting will definitely be able to impress the other party, if the other party does not accept it, she will be responsible for all our losses." ”

Li Jing smiled bitterly and said, "It's easy to talk about the loss of money, but I'm afraid that I will make the principal unhappy again, and it will be even more difficult to do public relations in the future." ”

Li Rui sighed: "But now there is no better way, so I can only give it a try." ”

Li Jing snorted and instructed Jin Rui: "Let's see if everyone is together, get in the car and set off when everyone is together." ”

Five minutes later, the last cadre arrived, everyone got into the car, and the three cars were connected end to end and drove towards Jingnan, the provincial capital.

Li Rui sat in Li Jing's car and sat in the back row with her. Soon after hitting the road, Li Jing became interested in the painting and asked Li Rui to open it and take a look.

Li Rui opened the lid of the box, took out the painting scroll, untied the lacing, and unfolded it as much as possible, asking her to take a look.

Li Jing doesn't know how to paint, at best she can see the scenery on the painting, and she can't appreciate the finer things, she glanced at it a few times, nodded and said, "The painting is pretty good, uh...... How much did you buy this painting?"

Li Rui answered truthfully.

Li Jing said: "Okay, go back and give me the bill, and I will reimburse you." Three thousand is not expensive, but it is not cheap for the work of ordinary painters. Being able to set this price also shows the author's confidence in his work. But I'm still a little worried that the headmaster may not have seen the picture in his eyes. ”

Li Rui put away the scroll and said, "It's pointless to worry about this now, let's go and take a look." What I can tell you is that this painter was invited to join the Provincial Calligraphers and Painters Association, but she refused, and the implication was that she didn't look down on others. In other words, the principal, who is the vice president of the Calligraphers and Painters Association, is far inferior to our painter, so we should appreciate and admire her paintings. ”

Li Jing hummed and said nothing more, but her slightly nervous look still showed her concern about this gift.

There was nothing to say all the way, and before nine o'clock, the convoy rushed to the provincial capital, and after another ten minutes, it arrived at the campus of the Provincial Agricultural University, and the embarrassing things that made Li Jing, Li Rui and others happen quickly.

As for the Agricultural University, not only did it not send a reception team of the same specifications, but only sent the assistant to the president and the director of the office downstairs to greet them, and they didn't care about Li Jing and others after they were brought into the living room, except for a bottle of mineral water in front of everyone, there was no school staff to greet them.

It doesn't matter if no one greets you, it's okay for your principal to come out to meet and talk, after all, yesterday I had made an appointment with the Provincial Agricultural University Office through the General Office of the Qingyang Municipal Government, but the principal was also reluctant to show up. Li Jing and her entourage were all hung in the living room, and no one paid attention to them for a quarter of an hour.

Although Li Jing and Li Rui had expected that this trip would suffer from the slow treatment and white eyes of the Provincial Agricultural University, they didn't expect the other party to play so hard and not do any face-saving efforts, but in fact, is there such a big hatred between Qingyang and the Provincial Agricultural University?

Li Jing is even more angry, he is also a deputy mayor, although the president of the Provincial Agricultural University is at the level of the main department, but it is only the level of the position, it is a false position, there is not much power in the local area, even if he is not attentive to himself, at least he must have the most basic respect, okay, this shows that he does not hesitate to do it, it is really hateful.

Jiang Songbei, Li Jing's secretary and one of the deputy secretaries-general of the Municipal Government Office, got up and came to Li Jing's side and asked in a low voice if he wanted to go out and talk to the assistant principal.

Li Jing said with a calm face: "Do you still need to ask for my opinion?"

Jiang Songbei was blamed by her in public, very embarrassed, said "yes", and walked out of the living room.

Li Rui saw him go, and said in his heart that this eldest brother really has no eyesight, so it's good to do this kind of thing directly, why do you still ask Li Jing more? As a secretary like him, it is estimated that he will not be able to gain the recognition and reuse of the leader for ten or twenty years.

Jiang Songbei went out for less than two minutes, and walked back accompanied by the assistant principal.

The assistant principal walked straight to Li Jing's side and said with a smile: "I'm really sorry, Mayor Li, our principal was just about to come over, but he was suddenly stopped by a phone call, can you please wait a while? The call is very fast, and it will be almost the same in a while." ”

When Li Jing heard this, although she was very unhappy, she couldn't complain, let alone get angry, which would make her seem that she was not open-minded enough, and said in a light tone: "It's okay, we came to visit your school this time, we came with sincerity, and we can afford to wait for more time." ”

The assistant principal is also a human being, otherwise he would not be the assistant to the principal, and when he heard the potential dissatisfaction in her words, he smiled and said, "Okay, then please take care of Mayor Li, I will go back and urge the principal." With that, he turned and left.

Li Jing watched him go out of the house with a cold eye, and when he went out, she sneered coldly and whispered to Li Rui, who was sitting next to him: "He won't lie or tell! He is a little assistant, and he dares to urge the principal? We are all fools!"

Li Rui smiled, and secretly used his brain, should he do something to break this deadlock, otherwise who knows when?

At this time, the assistant principal had already pushed the door and walked into the principal's office not far from the living room, walked briskly to the outside of the large class table inside, and told an old man in his fifties sitting inside about Li Jing's reaction just now.

The old man sneered twice after hearing this, and said, "Can you afford to wait for more time?" Okay, then just let them wait." When they lose their temper, say goodbye to me, hum. ”