PS: Yesterday at 10 o'clock left for the airport, at 12 o'clock all the procedures were completed, and I was notified that all afternoon and evening flights to Shanghai were cancelled. Helpless to rush to the high-speed rail station, arrived in Shanghai is already midnight, is not lazy to break the change, please be considerate of a woo, ask for a monthly pass, the arrears will be made up!

The two guys are having fun here, and Zhong Haoqing and his wife are not idle, checking their homework one by one.

"You said that if you push it so hard, will it backfire? When I look at Zhong Qi's paintings, it seems that there is no progress. ”

Zhong Haoqing was busy for a while, and did not continue to pay attention to the progress of the two apprentices, so at this time, he picked out a few works painted by Zhong Qi in the past 20 days, and after a little comparison, he slowly raised his brows.

"It's okay, you take out Li Yi's homework from the past few days and the past few days to take a look, and you will know if it has any effect."

For a moment, Zhong Haoqing frowned,

"This guy, he really lacks practice for daring!"

"Well, just looking at the speed of his progress in the past 20 days, you can know that some time ago, his mind was not on this at all! has reached this level, and it can still progress by leaps and bounds, not to mention the bottleneck, and I haven't even encountered a hurdle! Such a terrible talent, if it is wasted, it is a crime! ”

Zhong Haoqing nodded sympathetically, she had always been in charge of Li Yi before, and according to her usual idea, Master, at most, could play the role of guidance and supervision, as for how far he could go in the end, it still depends on the students themselves.

Therefore, Li Yi didn't feel much pressure at the beginning, and at that time, his willingness to learn was relatively strong, and his progress was rapid, so everything seemed very harmonious.

But since gambling in Vietnam, Li Yi's affairs have gradually increased, especially when he arrived in France, he established a relationship with Lu Ningshuang, and it was very easy for him to adhere to the routine of life and rest for several months to be disrupted.

This change was quickly noticed by Zhong Haoqing, but at that time, Li Yi's level was still improving, although the amplitude was very small, but if the time interval was slightly longer, an obvious upward curve could still be seen, so she felt that this guy might be almost at the limit.

But Hu Jinquan didn't think so, he thought that Li Yi should be slacking off and relaxed. After that, Li Yi and Lu Ningshuang broke through the last line of defense between men and women, not to mention insisting on at least two hours a day, twice, this guy even made up for his homework!

Zhong Haoqing immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, but it happened that she was very busy during this time and had no time, so the responsibility of educating Li Yi naturally fell on Hu Jinquan, so there was all this next.

In this sense, Zhong Qi is indeed very unlucky, just because his age has not passed the limit, he was pulled to be Li Yi's companion.

"How long do you think he can continue to improve at this rate? Next, is it still so high-pressure? ”

"I don't know, let's fumble, anyway, this time I'm going to squeeze them to the limit."

"Oh? How to squeeze to the limit? ”

The two masters were discussing how to further squeeze the potential of the two apprentices next, and the two apprentices separated after a period of suspicion, Zhong Qi went home, and Li Yi rushed to the airport, because Lu Ningshuang was about to arrive.

Originally, when the two had just separated, the plan was that Lu Ningshuang would stay in Yanjing for at least a week this time, but now, this time has been compressed to less than a day and a half, one of which is to accompany Li Yi, and the other time is that she needs to go to Jiang's house to take a spin.

"Cleaned up by Master?"

"Woo, isn't it just cleaning up? It was brutal ravage, torture, inhumane and inhumane! So ......"

"So you're going to resist?"

"Nope! So I want to hug, I want to comfort! ”

Li Yi looked righteous and righteous, and then smiled and leaned into Lu Ningshuang's ear,

"Wife, I want to be comforted, and I want to comfort ......"

Hearing this, Lu Ningshuang first gave him a charming and provocative smile, then raised his eyebrows, and made intimate contact with the surface of this guy's feet with his high heels.

I haven't seen each other for more than 20 days, and after seeing it for a long time, I actually know that I have said the comfort in reverse...... However, can that word be used casually?

"Oh, you can't use it indiscriminately, so how do I express my eagerness and urgency?"

"You should ......"

Lu Ningshuang suddenly stopped her mouth, glanced at Li Yi angrily, and bit him on the shoulder in one bite, I will bite you to death! Let you talk nonsense!

Of course, Li Yi won't talk nonsense anymore, because Lu Ningshuang started to be ruthless, and the bite was indeed painful, but just like "holding back your words" has now become a code word between the two, biting you to death obviously has another mysterious meaning.

But after all, as for whether the two of them bit that night, or how long they bitten, Hongchen, the only person who could have known, replied like this, Phuket Island, because Brother Yi had just arrived at Jiayi, he smashed over 10,000 oceans, and he took it and ran to the hotel to open a room!

The next day, the refreshed Li Yi took Lu Ningshuang to the master's house for lunch, and then the two went to Jiang's house for a spin, and early in the morning of the third day, he sent Lu Ningshuang to the plane to Bordeaux. Two weeks later, the second phase of the new National Young Painters Competition finally kicked off.

"I'll go! Lao Lin actually came to join in the fun, and Fang Sisi also came...... Uh, Xia Qian, Mi Yilin...... Mr. Hu, can I apply to participate in the next session? ”

Hu Jinquan ignored Zhong Qi, who had a resentful expression on his face, and took the list of participants in the second stage just announced by the organizing committee of the competition carefully, and then put the list on the table with a frown, and the whole person leaned back, half lying on the rocking chair, and shook it gently......

The list is simple, just three sheets of paper, with 40 names printed on each of them.

These names are also very simple, there is no deliberate ordering, and there is not even a word of introduction, for those who don't know, whether they represent a man or a woman has to be guessed literally.

But if you change to a person who knows more about the domestic painting and calligraphy industry, he will easily find that the 120 people on this list are not only all the newcomers who have emerged in the painting world in the past ten years, but also at least three or five people, who are even barely worthy of the title of the backbone of today's painting world.

Hu Jinquan and the three of them are all people who know more about the domestic calligraphy and painting industry, and because of the relationship between the appraisals, Li Yi is even more familiar with these names than the two of them.

In addition to him, there are as many as 69 of the 119 people who have appeared on the list of cutting-edge talents provided by Tongruibao, and the remaining 50 people. There are more than 10 who have appeared in the list of famous artists of various schools, reaching an astonishing 12, one tenth!

These people, when Li Yi first learned about their information, he felt that they were all, but after he really stepped into this field, as his level improved, his vision became higher and higher, and some people slowly faded out of his sight.

However, even if these people are deducted, even if it is assumed that there are no hidden masters among the remaining unknown people, Li Yi believes that among these 119 people, there are at least more than 30 people who are about the same level as him, and there should be as many as 6 to 8 people whose level is obviously above him!

This is the overall situation, and if you look at the landscape painting department, the proportion is even worse, because landscape painting has always been the most competitive of the three painting disciplines!

Li Yi looked at these names while thinking about the relevant information, and he could roughly judge their level of 31 of the 39 opponents in the landscape painting department. Among them, there should be about 12 people who are on the same level as him, and there are as many as 4 who are obviously above him!

For each painting subject, there are two first prizes, 4 second prizes, and 6 third prizes, although the total number of winners is not much, but the proportion is not low, and even reaches 30% of the number of participants!

But in fact, judging from the previous awards, it is very normal for the first and second prizes to be absent, and sometimes, even the third prize may be dissatisfied!

Because the final award is not based on the ranking of the works, but the frame is drawn in advance, and then the work is held and put inside. Otherwise, even if you rank first in all your works, but your level has not even crossed the third prize, you don't want to get any awards, you would rather all 12 awards be vacant!

Of course, this has never happened before, but when it comes to explaining this rule, this is an example cited in the competition-related literature!

This is the shortage of the Young Painters Competition! It is also the fundamental reason why it has been able to maintain its vitality and even become more and more prosperous.

Looking at the list of flowers and birds painting again, Li Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head. In recent years, because of the strong rise of the Southern Painting School such as the New Shanghai School and the New Jinling School, the competition in flower and bird painting has also been extremely fierce, and in some cases, there has even emerged to catch up with and surpass the landscape painting department!

"Li Yi, how many prizes do you think you can get this time?"

"How many prizes? Do you know what I'm thanking about right now? ”

"Rejoicing in what?"

"I'm glad, fortunately, the rest of the excellence awards are ranked in no particular order, otherwise, I'm really worried that if I don't play well, I will be ranked directly to the bottom!"

In fact, before getting the specific list of players, although Hu Jinquan told them that there would be a few very powerful people to participate, Li Yi was still relatively confident.

Later, when he went to Shidu to sketch, Hu Jinquan said that some people would practice the same painting for more than ten years in order to win the award, which affected their overall level, and they would be killed by the new rules of this competition. But now, from the moment he saw this list, he understood that he had been fooled by the master again!

Hu Jinquan said that there may be, or definitely have, but this situation is not the majority of what he understands, but a very few, or even so small that it is impossible to have any impact on the results! (To be continued.) )