Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Old Man's Letter

After the semi-finals, all students can do is wait patiently for the results.

On Monday, May 31, the day before Children's Day, Limu received a notice from Mr. Li that he had passed the semi-finals with a perfect score. It was supposed to be a happy day, but in the two weeks after the wall painting was completed, the system didn't give a hint that the task was completed...... Fortunately, the mission was not declared a failure.

The judgment conditions for the special experience task seem to be very low, and the judgment content is: [Task requirements: Please create a work of 100 meters or more in the state of "image projection", at least let 100 people understand the artistic conception of a painting. 】

Therefore, the task of "Mind Wall Painting" can be understood as "drawing multiple 100-meter wall paintings, one of which is understood by 100 people, and the task is not limited to time." This is a task that you will not fail as long as you don't give up, and if you give up, you will really admit that you have a problem with your ability to express yourself, and then you will obediently accept the "curse of words".

Riki never dared to delete the remaining two large paintings, and plausibly agreed to the principal because he was worried that "The Battle of Red Cliffs" would not pass. "The Gleaner" and "The Slender Man" were not dusted in the end like "Starry Night" and "Guernica". They were only cleared out of the system early in the morning because Riki wanted to draw more 2P comics every day. If a real artist knew about it, I was afraid that he would want to come to Nanhua and strangle him.

But Riki is not really an artist, he paints wall paintings just to improve his skill level.

The next day, on Children's Day, he didn't go out to play, so he asked Mo Moxin to find the original team and come to the north wall to paint "The Gleaner".

The north wall of the school is the garden where the gardeners plant flowers behind the school building. Due to the low flow of people, it should be a place not suitable for completing tasks, but this inaccessible "forbidden place" allows him to concentrate on painting. By the time the summer semester is graduated in July, the West Wall will be much cleaner when only the students in the interest class occasionally come to school.

Purity means concentration, and concentration means efficiency.

With the wall painting skills honed in "The Battle of Red Cliffs", Riki has now made a big leap forward in his painting speed, and he can paint at least 5 meters a day in places that don't need to pay too much attention to detail. When drawing people and ears of wheat, it is necessary to use the smallest brush to sketch carefully, which is not difficult for Riki, who is used to drawing delicate sketches.

With the support of "mapping projection", he saved a lot of time compared to ordinary painters. For example, ordinary painters need to withdraw from a few meters away to observe the angle after painting a part of the wall, and Limu, who has an adaptive projection of the wall, does not have to worry about drawing the wrong place at all; For example, when others paint, they often need to change their brushes and pigments, and the pear wood with a phantom shadow paints a single color, and then washes the brush or changes the brush to another color.

(It's wonderful!) The old man Chu Jiguang no matter how many times he looked at it, he didn't feel like it, it was obviously a painting from the east to the west, a cluster of yellow, layers of white, and these colors could be painted in the end! Every day, the old man watched with pleasure as he slowly improved in composition, grasping the color of the paint, and controlling the strength of the brush.

On June 18, the old man received a reply from his old friend.

[To my friend Brother Jiguang:

[The handwritten book has been received a lot, and now I am a little free, and I write a few words.

[Back then, they were jokingly called the Eight Immortals, and the Eight Immortals crossed the sea, each showing their magical powers. I don't want the five immortals to have returned to their places, and only you, me, and Xu are left behind. Mr. Shiraishi taught Yu the art of painting shrimp, which was accidental, and unexpectedly became a small family of his own ten years later. In fact, Chinese paintings and foreign paintings are all open-minded, and foreign paintings have not prevailed, which is not the sin of Jiguang's brother.

[I am happy to hear that Er's apprentice, and the rest is the uncle, which is still far away and cannot be observed. Entrust a painting, a stroke, an inkstone, and inherit the gift of the teacher......

[The rest of the years are getting higher, the ambition has not been fulfilled, and I only want the successor to die well, and there is no good disciple...... Nai is still far away, and I can't get together. Therefore, I will transfer to Wenmo, and I wish to pass the news at the time.

【The twenty-three mangs of April in the year of Ji Mao - the first Qishan of the Eight Immortals】

The parcel arrived in Pingnan along with the letter, and it really came with a landscape ink painting, an old brush, and an ancient inkstone with the fragrance of ink. I'm afraid that they are all goods that money can't buy, although Limu is not his apprentice, the old man immediately laughed and found an excuse to transfer to Limu.

The old man knew that the worst of the eight immortals was himself. After being stubborn for decades, it was not until ten years ago that he had to give up oil painting and switch to Chinese painting, and later opened a small class to train young people in Chinese painting. After all, it was still unsatisfactory, and finally quit his job to be supported by his children at home, but the children did not have time to take care of themselves, so they spent money to send themselves to a nursing home.

The most painful thing in old age is that the ambition is not rewarded, and the son does not inherit the father's business. Recently, I inquired that Limu was born in the wild road, and he learned to paint from the picture album at home, and even had the intention of accepting him as a disciple.

The next day, that is, on June 19, Hua Qishan received the posterior letter.

[To my old friend Qishan: I didn't say that I had sent a letter before, meaning that he had arrived left and right......]

"Don't say it...... "At a glance, it is clear that it is not a reply, and the letter cannot be delivered so quickly, even in modern communication with clear roads, it will take at least ten days and half a month."......

【…… April 25 of the year of Ji Mao - Jiguang】

The time of writing the letter was the second day after Hua Qishan handed out the reply letter, thinking that Chu Jiguang couldn't wait to introduce the apprentice first, but there were only a few words of greeting in the letter.

The focus of the letter is on photographs - the 10 photographs that are attached.

The first photo is a group photo of Chu Jiguang and a child. Chu Jiguang is over seventy years old, and he looks quite healthy, and he is very energetic when he takes a photo with the child. And the child with clear eyebrows, beautiful eyes, pink carving, wearing a pair of big headphones and feeling a little rebellious, is probably the disciple of Chu Jiguang who is full of praise.

The second photo is of a wall. The walls are scrawled with yellow paint, and the photos look incoherent. The third photo is still the same, but the color of the graffiti has changed to green...... Then there is gray, white, blue, black. Take away a photograph and before you know it, these unrelated colors make up a painting, and by the time you turn to the ninth photo, even the details have already been sketched.

It's as if someone first wrote a "two" word, and then wrote a pen "||", and the word "mouth" appeared in the end, which was as surprising. Of course, the word "mouth" is too simple, whether it is from the point of view of writing speed or aesthetics, or according to the traditional two-stroke writing method is superior. Non-complex 100-meter wall paintings are comparable.

[In the past, those who memorized books upside down like streams, if there is a book in front of them......]

[Today, it is said that this son paints on a high wall, and there is a vertical painting in front of the wall......]

As soon as he started writing two sentences of thoughts and waiting for a reply, he saw two more photos fall out of the original letter, and his eyes lit up when he glanced at them.

One is meticulously photographed, with flags standing in a forest, and horses stepping on the Yangtze River! There are people next to it, but the photo is only so big, and you can't see the left and right sides of the picture when you turn it over.

The other, which is far away from the mural and is rougher, makes it difficult to see the detailed figures, presumably the panorama of the previous one, on which the figures obviously have their own expressions. The image is rich and there is no sense of jerkyness.

"I really want to see the original painting...... the thought once it pops up, I can't contain it. He also added excuses such as "meeting with old friends", "not going to the Jiangnan water town for a long time", "it is not suitable to improve arthritis for a long time".

Finally, in the reply letter, it was written-

【…… When you look at this letter, Yu has already arrived in Nanban, do not use the reply letter, and focus on this Buda.

[The sixth day of the fifth month of the year of Jimao - Huaqi Mountain]

At the beginning of July, he asked people to buy air tickets, gathered Lou Xu and other friends, and arranged a trip to Nanhua.

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Pingnan Elementary School finally got into the summer vacation, and the principal of Pingnan Elementary School, who was ready to rest at night, suddenly received a call from the Education Bureau.

"Principal Ping? That's right, the former president of the National Chinese Painting Society, the former chairman of the National Art Association, the former director of the National Art Council, and the former National Art Research Association...... And the chief's relatives want to come from Yanjing to inspect the teaching of your school's painting interest class, I will inform you of the specific time, please arrange the relevant reception in the school. ”

“……”

Senior Ping Sixue hung up the phone, pondering the meaning of the call from the Education Bureau.

What's going on? Inspecting the painting interest class? Nothing went wrong with our school, right?

Ping Sixue touched his Mediterranean head, and he couldn't remember anything else, except for the words "country", "chief's relatives" and "Yanjing", which lingered in his mind until he was in bed.

……

"Ge Laozi." Principal Ping slept on the bed and thought about it again and again, suddenly sat up, patted his thigh and suddenly realized: "Saying that Maozi inspected the interest class, it is simply that the gang above found an excuse to travel at public expense!" ”

Principal Ping's series of actions frightened Li Qihua to sit up, looked around blankly, and asked in a daze, "Is there a thief at home?" ”

"Nope."

"Then what are you doing with all your surprise?"

"It's okay, it's okay, sleep on you." Principal Ping pressed Li Qihua back to the bed and covered her with a towel and quilt again.