Rewind the clock to a week ago, o d tm

In one of the high-end parlors of Noah's headquarters building, a young girl is directing several colleagues in the company's logistics department to replace some decorative paintings on one wall in the living room.

This wall is densely decorated with a number of small decorative paintings. Now, all of the new ones are landscapes of some of the low-rise buildings in the game world. They are full of classical and traditional oriental customs.

The girl was dressed in a secretary-style black professional outfit with long ponytail hair tied up in a palm. Her name is Ma Xiaoya, and she is the assistant general manager of the president's office in the company. Although she is young, she is very capable and meticulous in her work.

"Sister Ma, why do you want to replace all the murals of simple buildings? This style of painting seems to be too monotonous. Isn't it better to see the original flowers, plants, landscapes, etc. "A colleague who was busy seemed a little curious.

"Because, in the afternoon, there is a very famous master of architectural aesthetics in China, Mr. Wang Shu, who wants to come to our company as a guest. Classical architecture has always been his favorite. Ma Xiaoya replied.

The overall decoration of this high-end living room is not too luxurious, but it has a unique style. The floor is covered with plain carpets, and the furniture is made of plain rosewood. The four treasures of the study, calligraphy, calligraphy and painting, bookshelves, floor-to-ceiling screens and other simple decorative elements make this living room full of Confucian bookish atmosphere.

Ma Xiaoya and other colleagues, after replacing some murals, did some cleaning and tidying up the whole living room to make it look generous and clean.

Mr. Wang Shu, who will come over in the afternoon, is a well-known expert in ancient architecture in China, a master of architectural aesthetics, and the only person in China who has won the Global Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is also the dean of an architectural art school under the National Academy of Fine Arts, and a partner of a well-known architectural firm.

The CEO of Noah Company has always wanted to hire him as a part-time art director at Noah Company with a high salary. However, several attempts by intermediaries over the past few months have ended in failure. A master artist is a master artist, and it is not something that can be impressed simply by money.

A few days ago, under the pretext that Noah was going to build a 28-storey future company headquarters building, he invited Mr. Wang Shu to come over and be the chief designer and planner of the building.

Surprisingly, this time, after the intermediary conveyed Noah's intention to invite, Mr. Wang Shu agreed and agreed to come over today to talk about the two sides.

Step may be very happy to prepare for this reception with great care.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, on a flight from X city to Guangzhu city, Mr. Wang Shu and one of his young male assistants sat side by side in the cabin.

The distance is a bit far, probably more than an hour to fly. Mr. Wang Shu, who is in his fifties and has slightly gray hair, was not idle on the plane.

In his hand he was holding a thin hardwood board the size of A4 paper, with some plain white paper on it. There is a small box of colored pencils next to it, and there are many colored pencils in it.

Mr. Wang Shu held a colored pencil in his hand and sketched a few times on the white paper from time to time. What he was drawing appeared to be a rendering of the exterior of a supertall building, with the general outline of half of the building already emerging.

Although it is a hand-drawn drawing, the picture is extremely delicate and delicate, and the effect is not much worse than that of computer drawing.

Occasionally, the plane encountered some turbulence, so it was a little bumpy. Mr. Wang Shu's body shook a little, but his hands were still very calm, and he seemed to be completely unaffected by the turbulence. The extraordinary craftsmanship of the senior literati craftsmen is completely exposed at this moment.

While he was resting, the young male assistant next to him asked him a question:

"Director Wang, the other party just asked to design a small high-rise building with a height of 28 floors. Such a trivial matter that is not difficult, can't you just call an ordinary architect in the office to deal with it? Why do you have to travel long distances yourself? ”

Mr. Wang Shu's eyes were still staring at his paintings, but he slowly replied:

"This game company called Noah wants to have direct contact with me, not for a day or two. I've always had a lack of interest in them, so I've never been too lazy to meet them. But something has happened recently that has made me a little interested in them. ”

"Xiaoyun and Xiaojun, in the past six months, the mental outlook of their disciplines has suddenly changed a lot. Every architecture specialist book I recommended and explained to them to read, they read it very seriously. It's still very complete, more than I expected. ”

"At first, I didn't understand why they were suddenly reborn, the so-called three days of Shibei, when they were impressed."

"You know what they're doing so seriously? It turned out that it was just to cope with the upgrade exam in an online game world. The online game they are addicted to day and night is called, which is exclusively developed and operated by this Noah company that we are going to go to in the afternoon. ”

"The real purpose of my visit to Noah today is to see with my own eyes what kind of magic this company has, which can so positively affect the mental outlook of a generation of young people in school, so that they can fully release the power of their hearts. As for designing a high-rise building or something, that's secondary, it's not important at all. ”

Mr. Wang Shu's unexpected answer made the young male assistant beside him stunned.

Mr. Wang Shu's Xiaoyun and Xiaojun are his nieces and nephews, who are currently studying architecture at universities in China. During the winter and summer vacations and Saturdays and Sundays, these two people often come to the architectural firm where Mr. Wang Shu has a stake for internships.

The male assistant thought about it very carefully, and the two young people seemed to have improved a lot in various aspects of architecture in the past few months, and began to become a little "karmic specialty" and "head to the Tao" in their words. Director Wang has always been very fond of his nieces and nephews, and he is extremely pleased to see their great academic progress in a short period of time.

It turned out that today, Director Wang came here to do private investigation for the business of a "private detective agency", not for a small business of a commercial design contract.

Suddenly, Mr. Wang Shu said something that the assistant didn't quite understand:

"Maybe what I just said isn't quite right, but the building they're going to design is also very important. Its original idea is extraordinary, and so is its long-term significance. ”

Mr. Wang Shu did not give any explanation for this sentence, but continued to work on his own hand-drawn drawings.

The assistant was also inconvenient to ask more, for fear of disturbing his drawing mood. Suddenly, he saw Director Wang beside him and opened the drawing paper in his hand upward.

Underneath this drawing, there is another A4 drawing.

It appeared to be a four-panel picture with some of the exterior of a very rudimentary building painted on it. The building wasn't tall, it seemed to be only six or seven stories tall.

At a simple glance, the assistant noticed that the exterior of the building was very special, and it felt like an oversized traditional layered bookshelf.

The four-grid drawing in Mr. Wang Shu's hand was drawn by Yao Yayao semi-hand-drawn for answering Noah's third written test answer sheet.

The assistant saw that his boss was examining the sketch very carefully, with a rare seriousness in his eyes, and a look of appreciation and indulgence that seemed to be rare.