Chapter 435: Onlookers
Her time was just right, and after greeting everyone at this time, Kang Shilin, Peng Guoan and others arrived.
As soon as they arrived, the gong was struck, the game began, and the people around her returned to their places.
Zhao Ruxi gathered his mind, laid out the pen and paper, and began to quietly grind the ink and adjust his state.
In the preliminary round, she only painted mountains, and in the semi-finals, she painted water, and in the finals, she naturally painted mountains and rivers together.
Since she has made up her mind to make a name for herself with one hit, she naturally has to go all out and no longer hide her strength. She needs to show her best condition in this noisy competition field, come up with a pinnacle work, and be recognized by the world.
Fortunately, after a period of practice, her painting skills have become more and more mature, she is very easy to paint, and she enters the state very quickly, and she no longer needs to go to the top of the mountain to see the scenery to stimulate her potential.
After grinding the ink and adjusting her condition, she splashed ink and began to draw.
She not only wants to show the highest level of painting, but also naturally expresses the grandeur and grandeur of her landscape paintings. The field of view of the painting should be broad, and the size of the painting should not be small. So more than an hour passed, and everyone else had finished drawing and stopped writing, but she still hadn't finished drawing.
Zhang Xiuyan, who was behind her, finished painting at this time. He checked it and found that he was probably holding his breath just now, he drew his highest level, and he couldn't help but feel proud and looked up at Zhao Ruxi.
Seeing that Zhao Ruxi was still painting, he glanced at the lit incense, and couldn't help pouting, looking forward to Zhao Ruxi's overtime.
After all, the painting competition is different from the Four Books and Five Classics exam, and the most important thing is to draw well. If it is timed out, it will not be directly judged as a failure, but will only deduct some overtime points and reduce it by one grade.
But in the master competition, if you drop a small rank, you may miss the leader.
As long as Zhao Ruxi is out of time, Zhang Xiuyan feels that with the level of his own painting, he will definitely be able to compare Zhao Ruxi. If Zhao Ruxi can still win the first place in this way, it will definitely be shady. Zhang Xiuyan had to make a big fuss with his master.
Mr. Deadwood often said that his master was not of good character. Now that he himself is playing favoritism in the competition, Master must be happy to take advantage of this to step on Mr. Deadwood, ruin his reputation, and wash away the shame of the past.
In order to avoid interfering with each other, the tables were separated from each other, and Zhao Ruxi's figure was blocked, Zhang Xiuyan couldn't see how she was painting, so she simply looked elsewhere and looked back at the situation of other people's paintings.
Painting is not as good as other exams, you can't copy the answers, and looking around is not a violation.
Looking at this, Zhang Xiuyan found that because they were worried about overtime, most people hurried to paint, and the size of the painting was not too large, so they were basically finished painting at this time. Others were probably not satisfied with their paintings and were tinkering with them.
There is no need to hand in the paper after the drawing, and the contestant can leave the venue by pressing the four corners of the paperweight. When the time comes, its own judges will score it line by line.
However, I was worried that someone would take advantage of the inattention of others to splash ink on their paintings, so those who finished painting basically did not leave, but sat in place and waited for the time to come, and everyone would leave the scene when everyone left.
So everybody is looking around.
Zhang Xiuyan noticed that everyone's eyes were looking at their corner, and their expressions were the same, and everyone looked puzzled and curious.
Some people even left the scene immediately after hesitating, and did not leave after leaving, but got out of the fence surrounded by ropes, and ran directly to the upper right corner of them, and finally stood very close to Zhang Xiuyan, stretched his neck and drew Zhao Ruxi.
Zhang Xiuyan turned his head following the man's traces, and then noticed that at some point, the corner outside the fence was already crowded with people, and everyone looked at Zhao Ruxi's paintings, and their expressions were very excited.
Although almost all of the people who came to watch the painting competition were painting enthusiasts, there were also people next to them to maintain order. But when people are excited, they will inevitably be unable to control their emotions and make some noises. Dozens of people are crowded here, and the movement is loud.
But these people seemed to be worried about disturbing Zhao Ruxi, although they were very excited, they still restrained themselves, held their breath, stared at Zhao Ruxi's paintings, and stood there motionless without making a sound.
The contestant who had left the venue early just now was standing there at this time, dumbfounded, looking shocked.
Zhang Xiuyan couldn't help but be curious. He craned his neck to look ahead, too.
It's just that Zhao Ruxi's clothes today are wide robes and big sleeves, and the clothes are fluttering, blocking most of the paintings, even if Zhang Xiuyan stretches his neck, he can't see the whole picture of Zhao Ruxi's painting.
Fortunately, the size is relatively large, and no matter how wide Zhao Ruxi's clothes are, they still can't cover it completely, and some paintings are exposed on both sides.
Zhang Xiuyan studied it and found that Zhao Ruxi's paintings were not like figure paintings, but landscape paintings. When he looked up again, he found that what Zhao Ruxi was holding was not charcoal, but a brush. He was puzzled for a moment.
Could it be that Zhao Ruxi did not come to the competition to paint her original charcoal figure drawings that attracted the attention of the imperial court, but to paint ink landscapes that she learned from Kang Shilin?
Because I can't see the whole picture clearly, I can't see anything anymore. Zhang Xiuyan had no choice but to withdraw his gaze and look back at Lin Yunshen and Zhong Lei.
Zhong Lei was frowning and adding to his painting.
Lin Yunshen finished painting, and at this time, like Zhang Xiuyan, he was curiously stretching his neck to look at Zhao Ruxi. It's just that he is farther away and can't see what Zhao Ruxi is painting at all.
Seeing Zhang Xiuyan looking back at him, he showed an inquiring expression towards Zhang Xiuyan's gaze.
It's okay to look around, but not to make a noise. I'm afraid that some people will think that they are not good at drawing and interfere with others to achieve their own goal of improving their ranking. Once someone speaks out loud and is discovered by the invigilator, his drawing will be invalidated and expelled from the competition venue.
Therefore, Zhang Xiuyan turned a blind eye to Lin Yunshen's inquiring gaze, and turned his head to look at Zhao Ruxi.
Then he found that Zhao Ruxi had stopped writing and was studying his paintings. After looking at it for a while, she probably felt satisfied, and there was no need to add changes, so she swung the pen in her hand in the pen wash and put it on the pen stand.
At this time, there seemed to be more onlookers watching her. The people on the periphery couldn't squeeze in, and they couldn't see what Zhao Ruxi's paintings were like at all, so they were so anxious that they scratched their ears and cheeks one by one.
The invigilators had already noticed the movement here, and a few of them ran over, staring at the onlookers to maintain order.
Zhao Ruxi is completely selfless in his paintings, and he is not disturbed by the surrounding environment at all. At this time, after finishing the painting, she was slightly startled when she saw these crowds of onlookers.
Fortunately, she had seen the world in her previous life, and she didn't know how many competitions she had participated in, so she looked calm and began to pack up her things.
It is most convenient to use your own things, so the competition party only provides the venue, tables and chairs, and the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are all brought by yourself. She needs to pack her things before leaving.