A week later.

"A copy of the Myanmar Mirror, thank you."

Gu Weijing stopped in front of the newsstand, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve, and said to the stall owner with a little dark skin.

Morning jogging is a habit he has always had, a healthy body can have a longer artistic life, and painters are originally an industry with more violent mood swings in creation.

Few of the great painters in history lived long.

Every morning when he wasn't going to school, he would set off from the calligraphy and painting shop, listen to the French radio (a minor language required by international schools to take art classes), and run along the bluestone paved road to the embankment of the Yangon River.

After a 20-minute jog along the Yangon River, you will return to the calligraphy and painting shop, where you will buy a copy of the Myanmar Mirror from a newsstand.

As the only two national newspapers, many old Yangonites have the habit of reading the Mirror.

For example, his grandfather, in today's increasingly developed electronic media, Gu Tongxiang is still used to reading paper newspapers every day.

"Brother Gu, I'll pay."

A yellow-haired boy who sucked his slippers out of nowhere, clicked over, casually took out two crumpled Burmese coins from his pocket, threw them to the shopkeeper, and then snatched a mimeographed newspaper from the newsstand.

"First, I'm not Brother Gu, I'm just a middle school student. Second, I don't have the ability to help Brother Hao do things, thank you. ”

Gu Weijing put 100 kyats on the newsstand, nodded at the stall owner, ignored the little brother with an ugly face, turned around and left.

He now runs into these Shamats who came out of nowhere every morning jog, and these people don't do anything else but pester themselves.

This is obviously a new strategy for the bald head to woo himself.

No matter what Gu Weijing thinks, it is to create a feeling that he is entangled with others and them.

People have inertia, and they accumulate over time, and under the criticism of others, they are not a group but also a group.

Call the police?

First of all, on what grounds did you call the police? Have a non-mainstream pay for yourself all day? Or is the bald brother coming to his door to give himself a red envelope during the Spring Festival?

Secondly, if the patrol is useful, what do you want the underworld to do.

According to the ranking of cities such as The Economist, Yangon's safety score is perennially the top spot in the ranking of tourist cities, along with Kuwait City or Bogotá, the capital of Columbia, as the suffering three brothers.

This country is not a place of stability.

The reason why the bald head maintains restraint and gentleness is that the location of Gu's calligraphy and painting shop takes a lot of advantage.

The Yangon River basin is an important tourist area to welcome foreign friends from the Eastern Xia, RB or Europe, and it also generates a large amount of foreign exchange every year, and it is also the most stable place in the whole of Myanmar.

This is also the confidence that Gu Weijing and the other party can "pull" each other with a certain tacit understanding.

If you go a few hundred kilometers further north, you don't need to go into the jungle, you just need to leave the control of the government army and come to the territory of the warlords and drug lords.

Then it's no longer a question of whether you have the courage to refuse the underworld......

Otherwise, he began to flee for his life with the supreme courage of the movie "Out of the Amazon", playing in the wilderness to survive while hoping to get the help of his border villagers, or the whole family would die and there would be no third way.

Of course, there is no Wolong Phoenix Chick who can't open a calligraphy and painting shop in the Golden Triangle.

The bald method is simple and effective, and the young painter who mingles with the counterfeit antiquities dealers......

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

No matter how Gu Weijing defended himself, he had already noticed that the other cultural and creative antique merchants on this street were not looking at him right.

He shook his head and walked like home.

……

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, USA, it was dusk.

Thomas, who had just been awarded an honorary San Francisco citizen by the mayor of San Francisco at a dinner, was being driven back to his home in the "Pacific Heights" neighborhood by his bodyguard.

Pacific Heights, one of the most famous wealthy residential areas in the United States, sells for as much as $260,000 per square meter, similar to Beverly Hills, where Hollywood celebrities gather, and can be more low-key and younger.

Most of the people who make their home here are the bosses of Silicon Valley's billion-dollar tech unicorns, or the heirs of the world's top energy giants.

However, Thomas is neither a tech upstart, nor a wealthy second generation with a consortium waiting to be inherited.

He's a vlogger.

If there is a definite phrase on this identity, then he is the most famous vlogger in the world.

Not one of them.

Who is Thomas Sebastian?

Most people will be at a loss, but if you see his stubble face, most people will immediately reflect his online name on the video site - Mr. Hyperion.

Mr. Hyperion – known for shooting the world's most interesting and eye-catching short videos.

In his videos, he once spent millions of dollars to give away private yachts among fans, and also once gave a villa to the takeaway brother in a live broadcast.

Today, on YouTube, he has more than 150 million followers.

This number is roughly equal to five hundred Icelands, thirty Norways, seventeen Switzerland, three Spains, or half the United States.

According to the analysis of data companies, the "ratings" of watching his videos exceed the ace talk show of ABS TV in the United States, which is valued at more than 100 billion US dollars, and his number of fans is about equal to the combined number of Hollywood top movie stars Al Pacino and Daniel Washington.

Every year, YouTube alone earns nearly $100 million in video creation based on the number of fans playback, and he also has his own website, fashion brands, peripherals and business cooperation.

The New York Times called Mr. Hyperion "the greatest Internet miracle of all time." ”

Thomas himself was swiping his phone at the moment, preparing to shoot his new "From a Dollar to a Million Dollars" series of short videos.

[From one dollar to a million dollars.] 】

This is one of the most watched series on his channel, with more than 300 million views over the past few episodes.

This series of short video content is to choose a theme, and then upgrade the consumption step by step.

For example, what kind of toy piano can be bought for a dollar, whether a piano for ten dollars can play sound, and what is the sound of a second-hand broken piano bought at a hundred dollars flea market...... Until spending a million dollars to shoot the Steinway piano used by Queen, and show the audience what kind of sound can be played.

Fans are intrigued by such comparison videos.

Thomas has done the piano, computer special effects, cars, and marine sports from a dollar to a million.

He plans to return his new video to the art element – the theme is painting.

Painting artists are a profession with a certain mystique to audiences all over the world.

People know that the prices of different painters' works vary greatly, but they don't necessarily have enough appreciation to distinguish the difference.

In other words, the average viewer can only feel that a work is well painted and beautiful, but they don't know why it is beautiful, where the specific beauty is, and why the painting is a thousand times more expensive than the same work that looks similar.

Thomas plans to spend a total of seven grades of $1, $10, $100, $1,000, $10,000, and $1,000,000 for his new video to different strange painters, and invite world-renowned masters to blindly rate the works from low to high.

"The show must be very explosive."

Thomas thought to himself.

There are fixed candidates for $1,000,000, $100,000 and $10,000 requests.

Jane Arnaud, winner of the Turner Prize, the Césherine Prize and other fine arts awards, and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres des Arts et des Lettres et des Lettres de l'Ordre des Lettres des Lettres des Arts et des Lettres (Césers), internationally renowned illustrator Jean Julien, and Peter Rosen, a rising illustrator who graduated from the Royal Academy of Art.

For a dollar, he found a random homeless painter on the side of the road in San Francisco.

As for the 10 dollars, 100 dollars, and 1,000 dollars, he is ready to look for suitable freelance artists on various part-time platforms.

Thomas casually opened Fiverr on his phone, selected the Art Painter category, entered the amount "Ten Dollars", and clicked Filter.

As the page refreshed, a poster of a fat cat with monocles jumped onto his phone screen.