At the request of the two countries, the organizers quickly prepared a list of items in the garden and broadcast a radio to the audience in the exhibition hall to invite them to go to the garden to vote and judge. Fortunately, this garden is relatively spacious, and there are not many people who visit the exhibition in advance, otherwise it would not be able to accommodate so many people.

Pei He took Assistant Xie to the garden, this is the competition of the flower country, no matter what, I have to go to support, and An Cheng must be there. When Pei He arrived, many people had already come one after another, and they each found the seats arranged by the organizer to sit. And the person Pei Hexin was thinking about was in front of the crowd.

There was an open space in front of the garden, and a square table was placed on the left, in front of which An Cheng was standing, and another young man was on the right, using an easel, adjusting his drawing board and organizing tools.

An Cheng is also sorting out the carved sandalwood box that the Huaguo staff took out of the accompanying bag, which contains the four treasures of An Cheng's usual study. An Cheng unfolded the rice paper, pressed the lotus jade paperweight, took out the pen holder and put it away, then took out the crystal bottle in the box, slowly poured the water into the round inkstone, and took a few small porcelain plates, which contained different colors, and also took out the crystal bottle and added water, and finally slowly grinded.

After everything was ready, the organizers of the Eagle Country arranged a host: "Friends, first of all, welcome everyone, at the request of both sides of the competition, today we will see two painters have a wonderful showdown, these two are the youngest talented painters in the country of flowers and the country of the Eagle - Miss An Cheng and Mr. James. For the sake of fairness of the competition, we decided after consulting with the representatives of various countries that the two of us would complete the work within two hours with the theme of our on-site garden, and finally everyone in the audience would vote for their favorite work, and the winner would be the one with the most votes. I announce, the game - begins. ”

This kind of scene, An Cheng has seen a lot in his previous life, the power of the people in the audience is greater than the other, and the momentum is more than the other, today's scene, for An Cheng, can only be said to be a small scene.

An Cheng began to paint without hurrying, with a slim posture, slightly drooping broken hair, as steady as Mount Tai's arm, only the slender wrist was moving, sometimes with a square inkstone, sometimes with a round inkstone, and even the brush was changed several times. Her casual appearance makes people feel less like painting, but like a fluttering butterfly, and everyone's eyes can't help but be attracted to her. Some audiences who had never been exposed to Chinese painting were amazed and bowed their heads to communicate. Several representatives of the Lion Kingdom changed their faces and muttered that she was really well drawn in this posture?

On the other hand, although James is also painting seriously, most of the people are blocked by easels, and he is sitting, so his momentum is much worse. I couldn't see what he did, so there were almost no people looking at James.

The Hua Guo delegation's hanging heart was half lowered, looking at An Cheng's state of not being affected by foreign objects, he should be able to play a normal level, after all, painting is the most taboo to be interfered with by the outside world, and now it depends on whether the content of the painting can be compared to the other party.

The official representative asked Li Lao softly, can you see what An Cheng is drawing? Li Lao shook his head and said that he didn't know, because he had never used so many and such complicated things to paint.

Time flies, and at the end of the two hours, An Cheng and James have completed the work. The two place each of the paintings on their easels and aim them at the viewer.

The first thing everyone saw was James's work, colorful, colorful abstract flowers, and the exhibition hall behind it as a background, many people nodded to express their appreciation, An Cheng frowned secretly on the side, and sure enough, he still couldn't understand it, only saw a mess of colors, and couldn't see where the flowers were.

Followed by An Cheng's works, when An Cheng turned around, everyone was surprised, the content of the two paintings was very similar, but the flowers painted by An Cheng were all flower bones, and the buds on the painting were shy to be released, vivid, so that people couldn't help but imagine what kind of style this flower would be after it bloomed.

The audience whispered and expressed their opinions, but suddenly saw An Cheng take a small watering can at some point, press it lightly on the scroll, and the mist slowly soaked on the scroll.

When everyone was curious about An Cheng's behavior, they saw the flower bones on the picture scroll slowly blooming, one, two, three, wherever the water was soaked, the flower bones all bloomed one by one, it was simply lifelike!

"Oh my God! There's a real butterfly there! An exclamation came, and the audience looked carefully towards the gesture of the exclamator, but they didn't know when two butterflies flew in, standing on the vivid flowers, and the other butterflies on the paintings could not distinguish between the real and the fake.

One after another, exclamations were heard, and applause continued. Unsurprisingly, Ann Cheng received the most votes and far surpassed James.

Talented people are respectable, after James saw An Cheng's painting skills, and heard the people in the flower country say that An Cheng is an orange guest. The previous arrogance has long disappeared: "Miss An, I apologize to you for my previous superficiality and recklessness, but I didn't expect you to be the author of "Ten Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains". You are a man of beauty and talent. It's an honor to compete with you, can I buy this painting at a high price? I will encourage myself with this painting. ”

"I'm afraid this won't work, Miss An has already promised to sell me this painting before." An Cheng frowned slightly, and was about to say no, when a familiar but domineering voice sounded.

It turned out that Pei Hejian saw the end of the game and was about to come over to greet An Cheng, when he happened to hear what James said. Seeing An Cheng's reluctant expression, he immediately spoke out to help her out.

James looked at the man who suddenly appeared and was obviously not an artist, knowing that this was the audience who came to the exhibition, this kind of person was either a political official or a successful person in business, so he didn't want to offend too much, and his attitude was relatively mild, but he still said for it: "This painting was just painted by Miss An, I am sure that Miss An has not been in contact with you just now, I don't know when Miss An said that it was sold to you." ”

"Oh, you don't know." Pei He said a little perfunctorily, "I am friends with Miss An, we made an appointment before, her next painting will be sold to me, I thought it would be a long time, but because of the competition with you, I will have the next one so soon." ”

James held his breath, this person was obviously lying, but looking at An Cheng next to him, he let this man decide, so he had to grit his teeth and say: "I am willing to bid five million, I don't know if Your Excellency can cut your love?" ”

Pei He shook his head and said with a little smugness: "Do you think I'm a bad person?" Don't say five million, it's ten million, ten million, I'm not bad for that money. Pei He thought to himself, in the face of An Cheng, he seemed to have the advantage of money left, but unfortunately An Cheng didn't look down on it.

"For me, Miss An's paintings are priceless, not something that money can replace."

Feeling inexplicably showcased, and not daring to get angry, James left with a flushed face.

When the Huaguo delegation saw An Cheng's friend coming, they all took a step first, and the staff packed up the painting and handed it to Pei He. An Cheng put away the four treasures of his study, and was about to pick up the box, Pei He took the initiative to bring it over: "How can you let the lady take the things by herself." ”

After everyone left, Pei Hecai, who had a serious face, apologized: "I'm sorry, An Cheng, I just saw that you didn't want to sell your paintings to that foreigner, so I lied, I hope you don't mind." ”

An Cheng shook his head: "No need to apologize, I also want to thank you for helping me out!" After all, I really don't want to give paintings to this kind of person, others don't have the ability to provoke, and if they have the ability, they want to please. If you offend someone and want to be forgiven by saying two good words, what does the law do? The upbringing in his bones makes An Cheng not swear and not easy to get angry, but it doesn't mean that he doesn't have a temper, "After all, it's an international exchange, I have to find some euphemism to refuse, just thinking about it, you're here." Anyway, aren't you on vacation with Aunt Yan in the villa? How did you get here? What about Aunt Yan? ”

The two talked while walking towards the rest area, Pei He took advantage of An Cheng's lack of looking at him, and touched his nose uncomfortably: "After you leave, my mother will be bored in the villa, so she will pack up her things and go back to the imperial capital." When I got back, I received an admission ticket from my secretary, and I thought it would be okay, so I took my assistant to see it. ”

When I arrived at the rest area, I watched An Cheng put the box in the exclusive storage place of Huaguo, and waited for the staff to take it back to the hotel. Pei He reluctantly handed over the picture scroll in his hand, "By the way, there is also your painting, you put it away." ”

An Cheng tilted his head and wondered, "Don't you like it?" Then I'll draw a new one for you another day? ”

"No, no." Seeing that An Cheng had misunderstood, Pei He hurriedly explained, "I like this painting very much, but just now I said that buying a painting is just an expedient measure, according to our friendship, I said that you will be angry if you take the money, and I am embarrassed to take your painting for nothing if you don't take the money, after all, I only received a painting from you two days ago." ”

"If you like it, it's just my handy work, if you like it, you can keep it, this painting is really nothing to me, don't look at it so important." An Cheng shook his head indifferently.

Pei He praised sincerely: "Is this just a casual work? An Cheng, you are really amazing, the bloom of the flower just now made those painters dumbfounded! I've always known that your painting skills are good, but I didn't expect that you have reached the peak of your mastery. ”

An Cheng covered his mouth and laughed: "Where is it as good as you say?" The blooming of flowers is just a small trick, I just used the ink that appears when it meets water and the ink that does not melt when it meets water, the key is the water in the crystal bottle. The only thing that shows the skill is the weight of the brush, the direction of the gesture, the design of the layout and the distribution of the ink. ”

"That's also very powerful, whether it's ink or painting skills, that's not something ordinary people can do." It's not to curry favor, Pei He really thinks so.

No one doesn't like to listen to good words, and An Cheng is no exception: "Then you should accept the painting with peace of mind, even if you praise me as a gift." ”