Miss Mona didn't want to run into any of her school classmates at this time.

She is the president of the women's student union, a popular figure on campus, and an excellent little queen. At this time, this tearful and fragile appearance did not have the demeanor of his past at all.

If there was anyone she was particularly reluctant to meet.

Then it's Gu Weijing.

The moment she saw the other party, Mona was even a little flustered for some reason.

She always has a psychological advantage when she gets along with Gu Weijing, feeling that she should be a strong, elegant, and noble party.

With a hint of arrogance.

But now that my eyes are red, I have just cried, and I am obviously insulated from the words elegance and pride.

Adolescent love is like a peacock on the screen, whether Mona realizes this or not, subconsciously she doesn't want to show her small side to the other party.

"Yes, I did try to curry favor with Professor Cruz, and I didn't succeed. But so what? ”

Mona wrinkled her upturned nose and forcibly suppressed the panic in her heart, ready to use sharp words to drive away this untimely guy who appeared.

"I at least tried, and I don't regret it, whether it turned out better or worse. What about you? How many days have you not been to the studio! If you Gu Weijing had done the same thing with courage, I would have looked up to it even more. ”

"If you're here to taunt me for going through the back door, do with you. If you come to comfort me, you can get out, I don't see your mercy. ”

She scoffed.

"It's not like that. Miss Mona, we are good friends. ”

Gu Weijing bent down and shook his head.

He looked at the stubborn Indian girl and said softly, "I saw the message you sent me over the weekend, and I know you're worried about me." It's just that I was busy drawing outside that day......"

"Worried about you? Who should worry about you, I'm not your mother. ”

Mona pursed her lips.

As soon as it comes to this.

The fire in her heart rose again.

I hesitated for a long time that day before I kindly sent a message to Gu Weijing.

As a result, she hugged her mobile phone and waited for half an hour, but she only waited for the word "busy".

What a big shelf!

Love doesn't come.

It's as if Miss Ben is in a hurry to beg the other party.

"When I got home, I wanted to contact you again, but you seem to have deleted me directly."

Gu Weijing said softly.

"Oh, how I like to do it, what does it matter to you."

Mona said expressionlessly.

I deleted you just to express "I'm upset".

I didn't block you again, and if you really cared about me, you wouldn't try to add it back yourself?

She sneered inwardly.

Gu Weijing shook his head and stopped talking.

Mona saw Gu Weijing take out a white sketch paper sandwiched in a notebook from the small bag behind her and hand it to Mona.

"I don't know why I've you off lately, but Miss Mona, here's my little gift to you. I think this should make you happier than Jerry's roses. ”

Gu Weijing said with a smile.

Mona's expression was stunned.

On the sketch paper in the boy's hand is a sketch of a girl with long hair and a shawl.

This was very different from the usual sketching style of Gu Weijing that she had seen before.

Not only are the drawing methods very different,

And the brushstrokes are extremely exquisite.

On the painting, the girl has a slightly sideways face.

The clean and crisp curves of the pen pulled out a ponytail at the back of her head, and she wore a skirt with a belt fluttering in the wind, a string of gold rings buttoned around her bare arms, and a bright and confident smile on her face.

"This is my portrait."

Looking at the pretty girl jumping on the paper, Mona's original anger towards Gu Weijing was mostly consumed in an instant.

She went to an art class.

With Mona's popularity in her studies, there are also male classmates who put a sketch for her in a love letter as a way to confess.

It stands to reason that

A cliché little routine like a portrait can't impress Mona.

But Gu Weijing's painting is completely different from the feeling that those works give Mona.

The beauty of the penmanship is one thing.

What's more, the emotions contained in the picture.

The very concise lines of pen and ink clearly point out the girl's sensitive and confident temperament, making this painting no longer pale, as if it is alive.

Mona fell in love with the painting in an instant.

She understands that this sketch is definitely a very, very careful work.

It may even take quite a long time, countless exercises, and scraps to complete such a painting.

Pity......

He should put this mind into his portfolio for applying to college!

"The boys and girls in the school apologized, either to the concert, or to give a new mobile phone, or at least to eat high-end Japanese or French food. As a result, you're going to take a cheap sketch out of it to deal with me? ”

Miss Mona, who has an arrogant personality, warms her heart, and her mouth is still unrelenting ridicule.

She glared at Gu Weijing, hesitated for a moment, and still took the sketch paper in the boy's hand.

"You want me to forgive you, okay, I have three requirements for you."

Mona thought for a moment, and she held out three fingers.

"First, give up your idea of a big picture that doesn't make sense. It's good to have artistic ideas, but you should keep your feet on the ground. ”

"Second, every day at noon, after school, Saturday and Sunday, I would come to the studio with me to prepare the materials for applying to the university. I have already checked the information, and in this year's school recruitment fair, the University of Rotterdam gave a bonus point for Fashion Design. In addition to the basic portfolio, we need to prepare about 10 to 15 additional fashion-inspired art designs to be on the safe side, and the time is already tight. ”

"Thirdly, Professor Cruz's office is in the teaching building on the north side, which is Room 203 of Block B. Now there is something to do, but I ask you to take time to visit this professor this afternoon. You are right about one thing, this lady is indeed not a good-looking woman, but she is the wife of a great artist, and people are qualified to be arrogant. Actually, your basic drawing skills are better than mine, and it is not difficult to make a good impression on the professor, and it is not difficult to become a student of Professor Cruz, remember that the attitude must be respectful......"

The corners of Gu Weijing's mouth twitched.

He listened to Miss Mona teach him in his ear how to please Mrs. Sakai, and there were some strange feelings in his heart that he couldn't speak.

"What are you doing with this expression, I'm serious."

Mona frowned and reprimanded: "At this time, if you are high and can't let go, it will not be good for you, you must learn to be smart." Coco's goblin is going to shamelessly flirt with the new beautiful transfer student. ”

first poked and poked a casual stab, and then Mona continued: "The art industry is the most networked, and if you can get in touch with the family of this kind of art giant, maybe you can avoid ten years of detours." ”

"Thank you, Mona."

Gu Weijing smiled.

Even if the girl's tone was a little harsh, he could still hear it for his own good.

"Mona, let me ask you a question, will you believe me?"

He looked at his childhood sweetheart and spoke in a serious tone.

"What do you mean?"

Mona frowned.

"I think good art is penetrating, and a good enough work, even if it is just one, is more moving than a hundred mediocre paintings. As for the studio, it is close to life that I can paint really moving paintings, and I found a better place to paint than in school. If you'd like, I'd love to invite you to my new studio and paint together. ”

Gu Weijing patiently explained.

"You've been my best friend since I was a kid. I'd love to share all the good things with you. Even if you can't get into Mrs. Sakai's improvement class, it doesn't matter, if you believe me. Then I'd like to take time out of my time to design a portfolio for you and guide you in your paintings......"

"Alright, that's enough!"

Mona's face sank, and her pretty little face was as cold as ice.

"I don't know who you think you are? Conquer the judges with a picture, if that Miss Sakai said, I believe it. You? It's the funniest joke I've ever heard this year. ”

"Gu Weijing, I never knew that you were so naïve, and you got a few good grades in school and thought you were really a great painter. Even your grandfather Gu Tongxiang is just a second-rate painter in the art desert! ”

"Sorry...... Mona, please trust me. I have my reasons, but I can't talk to you about it right now. ”

Gu Weijing stared into the other party's eyes.

Cao Lao's matter is a private agreement, and the content of the paper written with Katsuko Sakai also needs to be kept secret for the time being.

There is another reason at work.

Ever since talking to Mrs. Sakai,

Gu Weijing didn't know how to deal with the relationship with Sakai Katsuko.

Especially in front of Miss Mona, who has a faint affection in her heart, she is a little afraid to mention it.

Miss Katsuko, of course, is very good.

But if he asks himself now,

Which one is more important to herself, Mona or Miss Sakai, is probably the deeper relationship that Mona has precipitated from being with her since she was a child.

"You don't have to apologize to me, if you insist on going your own way, reality will slap you. As for me...... That's the answer I'm giving you. Gu Weijing, you are really disappointing. ”

Mona folded the sketch in her hand, threw it into the dustbin on the side, stomped her foot angrily, and turned away.

……

In the afternoon reading room, there was silence.

Only the rustle of rapidly flipping files, the typing of the keyboard, and the occasional conversation sounded.

"In Ms. Carroll's writing, the technical characteristics of Impressionism are very mature. For this view, we can mirror Shapiro's "Theory of Still Life......"

Gu Weijing, who entered the state of work, put what happened in the morning behind him for the time being.

He flipped through the well-marked sticky notes in the literature and whispered his opinion.

On the side, Katsuko Sakai's white fingertips jumped lightly on a small laptop keyboard, typing the ideas for the papers they had discussed into a complete manuscript.

"By the way, I actually have an opinion, should it be revised here? One of our speculations about Carol's true identity is whether Monet's lover and first wife, Carmel, is too arbitrary, and this possibility is too small. ”

Gu Weijing's fingers paused lightly on a point Sakai Katsuko had written in her notebook.

"A century and a half have passed, and the possibility of finding information about the original painter himself is very small and long."

Katsuko Sakai explains, "My father's point of view is that it's just guessing anyway, and the more bluffing the content, the better. ”

When they began to write their dissertations, Carol's exact identity was still a fog in their minds.

But Uncle Sakai still suggested that they give a few speculations about Carol's true identity.

This is a little trick when writing an essay.

Liberal arts papers, especially those with a certain "archaeological" nature, are often based on pure guesswork for the owners of some unknown works.

It's like when a hunter casually shoots at an empty wood, if you finally find a duck in the blindfold, you are naturally awesome.

The value of the paper is multiplied.

If you don't hit, a few gunshots will go off and you'll be able to bluff the reader, which is also good.

You could say it's water, but that's pretty much the unspoken rule of the knowledgeable people in the industry.

It is much more outrageous than Uncle Sakai's suggestion to put an impressionist work of unknown origin on the head of Monet's wife.

Classic examples include the fact that there are a large number of unknown tombs of the Eastern Xia and Han dynasties that have been argued by N professors in N different articles as the tomb of Cao Cao.

In the end, whether it was the academic community or the media, they were aesthetically tired of finding the news of Cao Cao's tomb.

But there are also positive examples.

For example, the famous merchant Schlieman, a fan of ancient Greek legend, dug a lot of places in the Balkans in the 19th century, and announced that he had found the ruins of Troy whenever he dug up something.

Academics think he's,

As a result, one day he happened to be fooled by him, and he suddenly became famous overnight, becoming a big figure in archaeology like Carter, who discovered Tutankhamun's tomb, Cordewe, who discovered the city of Babylon, and Shang Boliang, who cracked hieroglyphs.

Of the several preliminary lists they have put forward that could be Carroll, the most important name is naturally this Monet's first wife, Carmel.

Although there is a certain similarity in the names of the two of them, they are also similar in age. However, Carmel's hair color is clearly recorded as dark, and according to the missionary's diary, the young female painter's hair color is a rare golden red. ”

"Maybe you have dyed your hair?" Katsuko Sakai said.

Since it's a random guess.

Judging from reason, in fact, there is a high probability that Carol's true identity will not be able to verify the results.

So to be able to put this painting on the head of Monet's wife, whether it is the market value of "The Old Church on a Thunderstorm" or the academic gimmick of the thesis, is much more valuable than the head of an obscure little painter.

"It will probably be about a decade before commercial hair dyes are promoted by L'Oréal on a large scale, and the possibility of hair dyeing is not very high."

Gu Weijing shook his head.

"I found it in the Paris telegraph register in the French Archives from Uncle Sakai, and found that in the neighborhood near the Moulin Rouge in the Red Light District, where the Impressionists frequented, there was a studio owned by a woman named Cara. Personally, I think we can use her instead of Carmel. ”

(End of chapter)