Before the afternoon of the last day of July, reporters from Nanhua Public Television, Information Channel and Comprehensive Channel focused on Pingnan Primary School. Yan Yan Ku said that the people were alluded to the west wall, and the reporters and artists gathered were already sweating, and the shadows and the figures of the slender man overlapped.

Today is Sunday, the temperature is 35 degrees, the relative humidity is 56%, and the northeast wind is level 2. However, no one dared to take a step even in the hot and humid heat, for fear that the shadow would interfere with the childish figure squatting in the corner of the wall.

The day before yesterday, it was delayed for a day due to a thunderstorm, and today "The Slender Man on the Volga" finally came to the last moment of completion. The reporters who heard the news came with the cameramen, and the artists, who were observing the progress of the paintings every day, also rushed here.

The Volga River meanders from far and near. In addition to the vast yellow river beach, the wetlands by the river are also looming, as if the beautiful scenery is contrasting with the hard work of the slender men. The slender men were tired of leading the boat to the shore, and they were already numb to the commonplace beauty.

…… They frowned and pulled forward, their feet sinking deep into the sand by the river.

Most of the slender men closed their eyes and lowered their heads, replacing the beauty around them with darkness in their minds.

They are clearly a group, but they divide themselves into individuals; They can clearly integrate themselves with the surrounding scenery, but they are comfortable deepening their suffering.

"Garsh, do you see that?"

"Hmm." The artist who was asked replied intently.

People who are already constrained by textbook knowledge and whose thinking is limited may only see "the oppressed people under feudal imperialism"; Those who have not studied the relevant texts and are novice to art may only see the vastness and magnificence of the Volga River; But the artists clearly saw more, the sense of melancholy, loneliness, helplessness - and the sense of self-isolation of the slender man came to their faces.

No matter what is felt in the end, the person standing in front of the giant wall painting can always feel a wave of energy pounding into the heart.

The person who feels the desolation in the painting will have his heart tighten and unconsciously cover his chest with his hands.

People who feel small in themselves will become even smaller in front of the Volga.

Lonely people will find themselves in the same isolation as they are.

This marvelous work is nearing completion...... The immature figure was crouching in the corner, holding the finest palette and the most delicate pen stroke.

"How can he draw so fast?" The reporter lowered his voice and asked the foreign artist next to him.

Riki's painting speed is simply unbelievable, and he still has 20 meters to finish when he goes to the Mathematics Olympiad. Only a week had passed, and the mural in front of me had entered the final stage of painting.

Although it is common to find spray-painted murals on the streets overnight, the grade cannot be compared with the delicate wall painting in front of you. Their artistic quality is like a cloud of mud, and they are not even qualified to be compared.

"See that over there?" The artist asked, pointing to the south side. "The Slender Man" was drawn from the "Gleaners" side, so they were close to the south wall of the school at this time.

The reporter nodded.

"What do you think that's that?" The artist continued.

"A wall."

The reporter answered as a matter of course. The artist is pointing to an empty wall, the only empty wall at Pingnan Primary School, and outside the wall is a laneway full of redbud trees.

It's a very ordinary wall.

"It may seem like a wall to you, but it's a painting in front of him." The artist explains lightly.

"A painting?"

The artist looked at the reporter who was eager to know the answer, and in order not to affect the final ending of the wall painting, he leaned over to the reporter, and then said:

"Don't you Chinese like to say, 'Be confident'? Ink painting bamboo needs to be fast, accurate, and neat. Therefore, before the Chinese painter began to paint bamboo, the bamboo was actually on the paper. ”

"Huh?"

"So what he sees in front of him is not a wall, but a painting, and it makes sense to paint it quickly."

"I see—" the reporter said suddenly.

"But he obviously took his 'confidence' to another level, whether it was a bamboo or a leaf first, as long as the color painted on the wall could eventually form a painting." After saying this, he smiled to himself, "Alas, in addition to his painting skills, his composition and artistic conception are not comparable to us." ”

The artist speaks Chinese very fluently, seems to know Chinese painting in detail, and uses words such as "artistic conception", apparently he has been immersed in silver in the Chinese art world for a while. Hearing his somewhat depressed words, the reporter was relieved on the side:

"You're too modest, isn't he still as good as you?"

"Ignorance. The only skill that a painter can continue to improve through practice is painting. Composition practice reaches a certain level, and he has obviously broken through this bottleneck. As for the artistic conception, comprehending the artistic conception and capturing the artistic conception is a kind of talent! Do you understand? There is something about education or a lesson in the artist's words.

"I'm sorry......" the reporter apologized in a panic.

"Shhhh

The camera shifts, and the immature little painter finally puts down his pen and throws the palette and brush into the bucket next to him. Huh stood up and stretched, dressed in colorful clothes like a little cat.

The headmaster, with a heart of seven up and eight down, slanted into the corner from the gap under the foot of the pear wood.

（…… No blemishes! His hands clenched a little, his fists trembling with excitement.

(That's 500,000 US dollars, 4 million RMB!) ）

With this painting, you can buy half of the school, and if you add another painting, you can run a private school. Pingnan Elementary School Affiliated High School? Oh, the secondary school attached to the elementary school? The name seems a little weird.

Just as everyone was waiting for the little painter to move away, he turned around and made a triumphant gesture, and then announced on the spot:

"Oh, by the way, I don't sell those paintings."

"From next year onwards, I will only paint one painting of this caliber at most every 20 years." He said these two sentences without looking astonishing.

It was as light as a dragonfly, but the ripples spread at an alarming speed, as if forming a twenty-meter-high wave, and everyone present was swept into it, and no one was spared.

Isn't it a shame?

No. Because of his last promise, the three paintings are likely to appreciate in value quickly.

In fact, only Riki knew that he couldn't make a painting of the same level at all. If only I had known that each painting would sell for $500,000...... It is estimated that "Starry Night" and "Guernica" will not be easily deleted by him.

In fact, just last week when I was thinking about countermeasures at the airport, Riki had already come up with a way to improve the efficiency of the manga without deleting any of them, and theoretically just one empty space would be enough to complete the number of manga in a day.

"Riki, this ...... Really not for sale? The headmaster asked tremblingly.

"If you say you don't sell it, you won't sell it!" Riki replied firmly.

If you let others know that your two paintings were sold for $1 million, not to mention the ownership of the walls, even if you only have the copyright, it will be enough to make money. When the time comes, you have to worry about being kidnapped when you go out for a walk, and the big victory man's tricks are not useful. This time, the surname Suo made it clear in front of the TV that he was just a master who drew comics and got the manuscript fee, and he didn't have much money to give if he was tied up.

When the reporters dispersed, Riki whispered in the principal's ear that "rare things are precious".

The old and refined principal doesn't know that scarcity is expensive. However, he is worried that after the expiration of his tenure, the management of these three wall paintings will not belong to him, and without the management rights, he will not be able to "cash out" in the sale of paintings.

That night, Nanhua TV broadcast the completion of "Slender Man", and also conducted a small interview with Limu. Riki mentioned the elementary school painting contest many times in the program, hoping to get "Squirrel Summer" back......

It deeply stimulates the hearts of the organizers of the National Youth and Children's Summer Vacation Painting Grand Prix last year.