Gu Weijing didn't know that at this moment, the world's most famous UP owner on the other side of the ocean was browsing the homepage of the store he had just created on Fiverr in his bulletproof Lincoln car.

He is now slightly excited, waiting for his first major international art project.

This morning is the official start of the [Shwedagon Pagoda Mural Restoration] project.

According to the expected process, there will be a small official ceremony in the morning, in addition to the invited artists, the mayor of Yangon, the staff of the Dongxia, the Indian embassy, etc., will also appear, and his grandfather will also need to be present.

After Gu Wei came back from running in the morning, Gu Tongxiang was ready to go.

After he took a simple shower and changed into a decent outfit, Gu Weijing got into the back seat of the car.

There were originally two cars parked in the parking space in front of the book gallery.

One was a low-cost SUV from Volkswagen, which was very common on the streets of Myanmar, which I bought a few years ago, and drove away when my aunt and uncle took their cousin back to their parents' house during the Chinese New Year.

Mr. Gu Tongxiang now drives an old car, a 1983 Lexus LS, and he got second-hand goods from an RB merchant in the nineties.

There is also a little story about that era.

When the old man was young, there were few people who studied art in Burma, and even fewer who could appreciate Western paintings.

Ignoring the opposition of his family, Gu Tongxiang mortgaged the house and a few small yellow croakers left by his elders at the bottom of the box, smashed the pot and sold iron, and obtained a few old Victorian oil paintings from the hands of missionaries in the 19th century from the hands of missionaries in Southeast Asia from a French-Burmese half-breed whose ancestors were colonial civil officials.

Prosperous antiques, troubled gold.

As the worst economic place in the world, everyone wants to fill their stomachs, and they sell cabbage prices.

Later, RB businessmen came to Myanmar to build factories, which coincided with the climax of the RB bubble economy, and the entire RB businessmen were spending a lot of money in order to buy the world's spirit, and the entire art market rose with the tide, tossing these artworks made the old man make a windfall.

Their family is not very wealthy in Myanmar now, but Gu's Book Gallery can change from a small workshop to a storefront of hundreds of square meters, and Gu Weijing can now afford to attend expensive art classes in international schools, and it is also due to the old man's keen eyes.

"Who is in charge of the mural restoration project?"

Gu Weijing asked expectantly, he didn't know which master the person in charge of the entire project was.

"Guess what......" Gu Tongxiang sold a pass.

"Guess whatever."

Gu Weijing sat up straight and folded his hands to count.

"Since it's an official international project, I guess Myanmar will definitely have internationally renowned artists. It is also the restoration of murals in oriental temples, at least there must be a foundation of fine brushwork, and it cannot be a pure Western-style painter. That's not a big deal. “

"The great painters of Eastern Xia, Lin Tao, Wei Ziming, and Tang Weiqing...... Or RB's Akira Kotani, Hidekaze Tanaka, Kazunari Sakai ......"

Gu Weijing's grandfather, who kept shaking his head from the rearview mirror of the car, became more and more confused.

This is already the essence of the painters of the whole of East Asia, and any one of them has won important international awards, who else can they be.

"Wait, it's not going to be...... It can't be Cao Lao, right? ”

He suddenly thought of a possibility, and his heart beat a beat slower.

"That's right, it's Cao Xuan, Master Cao, who is in charge of the restoration of the mural this time." Gu Tongxiang knocked on the steering wheel hard.

Mr. Cao Xuan, a native of Huizhou in Eastern Xia, is a representative of the Jiangnan School.

It can be called the Taishan Beidou of Chinese painting.

Compared with oil paintings, Chinese paintings, especially modern Chinese paintings, have been given a cold reception by foreign buyers in the European auction market, and even some treasure-level masterpieces, most of the people participating in the bidding are Asian.

But Cao Xuan ...... The exception to this name is this.

He relied on his unique oriental aesthetics and meticulous painting skills to conquer the prejudiced foreign judges, and was the first Asian face in history to win all the internationally renowned art awards.

In this way, in today's Chinese painting industry, Cao Xuan is the only one who can auction his works at auction on the order of 8 million to 10 million US dollars.

A lot of people don't know what this concept is.

You know, even Monet's works, some of which can be won for only a million dollars.

"How can it be Mr. Cao? He's in his nineties. ”

Seeing this kind of old gentleman who is an idol in the eyes of young painters, Gu Weijing was not only happy, but also a little unbelievable in his tone.

The names he said before are certainly famous, but compared with Cao Lao, they are still an order of magnitude worse.

Cao Xuan is a treasure-level artist, everyone has their own long creative cycle, and in order to complete a work, it may take several years of undistracted conception and creation, flawless.

These masters are not short of money and have strange temperaments, and they are rarely willing to preside over the tiring, time-consuming, and suspicious work of mural restoration.

And as long as they don't want to, no one will invite them at all, and even if you give 100 million dollars, others will just treat it as a fart.

Gu Weijing also knew that Cao Lao announced the closure of the pen five years ago.

Today, he is invited by the University of the Arts Hamburg to serve as the dean and tenured professor of Oriental art in Germany, only occasionally giving lectures, and has long since retired from painting.

"It's also luck to be able to invite Master Cao Xuan this time."

Old Man Gu stroked his somewhat gray beard.

He is only half a generation younger than Cao Lao in the strict sense. A painter of his age is a witness to the legendary career of the other party.

Now when Cao Xuan is mentioned, there is still some child's excitement.

"Originally, the presiding officer of the mural restoration was Kazunari Sakai of Tama Art University, but the Burmese official just sent a tentative invitation to the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts with a polite nature, and I didn't think that I could really invite the old man, who ......knows."

"Who knew that Cao Lao agreed?"

Gu Weijing asked.

"Yes, Cao Lao has been teaching and educating people all these years, and he is dedicated to letting more young people in the world understand the artistic charm of the East, and he has long put down his brush."

Gu Weijing explained, "But the old gentleman believes in Buddhism, and this time I heard that it was the renovation of the murals of the Shwedagon Pagoda, a holy place for Buddhism, and finally decided to make his own efforts after hesitation." ”

The old man looked at Gu Weijing through the rearview mirror: "Being able to learn from Cao Lao, this opportunity is rare, you have to cherish it." This kind of master's eyesight is completely incomparable to grandpa. If the other party is willing to give you a few random words, it will be enough for you to benefit for a lifetime. ”

"I understand."

At the moment when Gu Weijing nodded, a new prompt on the panel suddenly popped up in front of him.

[Current Task: Improve the proficiency of Chinese painting skills to Lv.3 semi-professional by painting murals]

【Reward: (Knowledge) "Maha Notes"]

[Mission time limit: three days (current remaining time - 71 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds)]