Zuo Yunshan once asked Ye Gang about the couple's income. Ye Gang's income is uncertain, about 5,000 yuan per month, but half of it has to be used as a fund to reward him for transferring his business to his acquaintances, socializing with friends, and often taking a car to a unit where he may have a business to buy paints and painting tools, which will cost half of his income.

He Zhi's bar in Shinjuku earns about 7,000 yuan a month. Because I had no experience, I didn't earn much at the beginning, but I started two years ago and finally reached my current level. The bar was relatively simple, so the clothes were very economical, and she had been seduced by outsiders several times, but she refused them all in disgust. Ye Gang also didn't approve of her being transferred to a luxurious bar.

Ye Gang is not good at living independently, and it is much better for two people to live together. For the future, He Zhi is desperately saving money, and Ye Gang also wants to let He Zhi quit his job at the bar as soon as possible, and his current life is certainly not his original intention. At present, he hopes to have an ideal client, to own a design office, and He Zhi Savings is for this. As a pattern designer, if you can't stand on your own, you can't develop.

When Zuo Yunshan moved into this apartment, Ye Gang was already living next door, and the relationship has been very good since the neighborhood. Zuo Yunshan has no friends, and Ye Gang doesn't have any contacts, sometimes he goes to some friends for help.

Ye Gang also said that he had a clumsy mouth and was not good at socializing. He tried his best to flatter the acquaintances of the graphic design shop who had transferred their business to him. In order to entertain them, eating and drinking tea alone cost him one-third of his expenses. He often returned to the apartment with a humble.

This mood prompted Ye Gang to have the belief of turning to Zuo Yunshan for help. When He Zhi was not at home, he worked alone in the house until late at night, waiting for Zuo Yunshan in the adjacent room to come back from work.

Ye Gang's small room didn't even have a place to stay. The table with a small lamp was inclined like a design table, with small drawings on it, scattered scraps of cut paper, four or five open reference books, and a dozen or so small pens and pen washes, drawing boxes, large and small crow-beak pens, compasses, dividers, etc., and some paint bottles with open lids.

In the living room lay a drawing board with water on top and newspaper underneath, and paint was scattered all over the room, and even the bed sheets were dyed. On the side of the drawing board was a bottle of paint, and a plate with paint was placed on the floor. There are many brushes, brushes, and long-pointed pens for painting huge paintings.

There were also rolls of drawing paper, rules, drawing tools, etc., and there was a small canister attached to something that looked like a car pump, which was a color sprayer. Around, some of the broken paintings were torn, some were crumpled and thrown into a room. On the wall, the albums are piled up like hills. These are concentrated in the open space outside of furniture such as old cupboards, so that people who come in from the outside have to stand straight and wait for the owner to vacate a space. Only the place where Ye Gang was sitting was empty in the room.

"I'll make room for you to sit."

Ye Gang bent over and hurriedly packed up the drawing paper and the open album.

"Alright, I'll sit down." Zuo Yunshan stood there and looked at the eighty percent of the paintings on the panel, "Yo, it's a poster!" ”

The picture shows three red mountains connected together, with undulating clouds floating in the blue sky above, and small dolls painted on the corners below.

"Well, actually, I called you here to show you this."

Ye Gang looked at the painting together next to Zuo Yunshan.

"This seems to be the autumn scenery of the northern region!"

After listening to Zuo Yunshan's words, Ye Gang said happily:

"Yes, this is a poster for the autumn of the railway, it is an open call, and the first prize is 50,000 yuan......"

"Ah, it would be nice if I could win the lottery!"

"The prize of 50,000 yuan is not much, but the name of the winner can be widely known, and if it is to be published, it will be very beneficial to my business."

"Can I raise the painting fee?"

"It's not going to improve all of a sudden, but my name will be known to a part of the design community. Even if it is a small lead letter, but it is on the corner of the central newspaper, it is not simple, it is meaningless to ordinary people, but it is a hot topic among our peers! ”

"Really?"

In that case, you won't have a problem becoming a first-class designer. Oh, I wish I had done it sooner! ”

"You'll make it happen, no one is as diligent as you."

"No, everybody's doing it, and I've wasted some time, Nanguang has a lot of young and good people."

"I'm also 26 years old, and I can't just mess around anymore."

Ye Ya's voice sounded in Zuo Yunshan's mind. I'm going to see the location of the new store tomorrow, and it's just around the corner to move out of this apartment. The words of comfort to Ye Gang gradually became boring.

"You are 5 years younger than me, you can work for 5 more years, it's enviable!"

"A five-year difference is nothing, and that's not a problem for talented people."

"What talent do I have!" Ye Gang sighed, "Actually, I wanted to hear your opinion before waiting for you to come back." Ye Gang changed the topic and pointed to the painting pasted on the drawing board. He has a cowardly personality, but he has a tenacity for painting.

"I'm a layman.

"No, where you are, you're always right and to the point. I think you're very knowledgeable about styling. ”

"I really don't dare you say that."

"Really, that's what I told Hezhi. How about it, what are your opinions after reading it? You're generally proficient in these. ”

Ye Gang stood aside and looked at Zuo Yunshan enthusiastically, looking very confident.

"It's good!"

"Really?" Ye Gang looked excited.

In fact, the painting gives a sense of unease. Where does this feeling come from? The three red mountains as the main body are abstract, but the painting of wavy clouds in the sky is realistic, and it is this dissonance that makes people feel unstable. The small puppet figure in the lower right corner is probably added as a symbol of the northern region, and this is more concrete, which further aggravates this dissonance, and is suspected of adding to the snake.

The depiction of undulating clouds is delicate, but lacks bold purification, and is thus separated from the main mountain. Without unity, no matter how good the skill is, you can't draw a good picture.

He often looks at Ye Gang's paintings, so he has some feelings. Ye Gang seems to be more skillful in detail, rather than bold in his ideas, just as this poster is a mixture of abstraction and figuration, deformation and realism, and he lacks the sense of painting.

Zuo Yunshan thought that in his heart, but he didn't say it directly. Looking at Ye Gang's expression as he was expecting him to say what he thought, he didn't want to disappoint him.

"Are there any drawbacks? You're welcome, just say it! Ye Gang looked at the painting and then looked at Zuo Yunshan's face and said. The mere word of perfection does not satisfy him, he needs to listen to an analytical opinion.

"No, it doesn't seem to have any obvious drawbacks."

If he had told him what he had done, he would have reworked it all and redrawn it.