"The orphanage was renovated and the construction approval was stuck by the Electric Power Bureau?"

Chen Shenglin only thought about it for a while, and then he understood the twists and turns.

He smiled and looked at the people around him, including the municipal officials of the district of Leada.

The lower-level leaders of the district government can only be regarded as a small minion in this line, and they are not qualified to follow the big entrepreneurs like Koukou's father, and can only accompany the last seat on the periphery of the crowd.

City officials also have no interest in middle school students drawing.

He was originally directing his photographers to take promotional photos, racking his brains about how to shoot them, which could not only highlight the importance of Chen Shenglin and the police inspectors, but also allow himself to show his face in the corner of the photo.

I didn't expect to stay well, and suddenly there was such a big black cauldron flying over and smashing it on my head. He was so depressed that he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, and the sweat on his face fell.

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Shenglin's tone was still gentle, but there was no smile in his eyes.

"I don't know about that...... It may be that the urban cable system here is relatively old, and the industrial load is large, so it is not easy to manage. ”

The little bureaucrat racked his brains and explained: "I'll go back to find out what the situation is, and I'll give Mr. Chen an explanation quickly." ”

"I'll take care of it. I will order my colleagues in the Court of Auditors to follow this matter, and if there is really corruption, deal with it seriously. Daddy Coco shook his head in annoyance and glanced at the little bureaucrat.

Myanmar's police system itself has a regulatory audit function, and he had to say something at this point.

It's really sensible!

This kind of about the old sesame seeds and rotten grain, the police inspector is too lazy to care.

But today's task is to accompany Mr. Chen. The willingness of the rich to invest more or less in Yangon could be a difference of several points in GDP.

As a result, the damn encountered such a one.

annoyed Mr. Chen, none of them had good fruit to eat.

The petty bureaucracy is really going to vomit blood this time.

Few of the low-level market officials in this kind of slum industrial area are completely innocent, and they really want to investigate to the end, but it is only the difference in how many black yarn hats the other party is willing to get rid of.

"Ugh."

Chen Shenglin retracted his gaze and said helplessly: "I am the new chairman of the Myanmar Charity Chamber of Commerce, and I asked a little doll to make this request to me...... You're really slapping me in the face. ”

"However, a promise is a promise. Young man, orphanage renovation approval? ”

Chen Shenglin looked at Gu Weijing: "It's not that I boast, but in Yangon, there are a lot of things I can do." Thinking about it, you just want this? ”

"Hmm." Gu Weijing nodded.

"No regrets?"

"Hmm."

Chen Shenglin's mood was a little complicated.

He was accustomed to the countless people in the city carefully currying favor with him.

They flatter, they welcome, and they always have a smiling smile on their faces.

Just to get a little wealth or power from yourself.

As a result, Boss Chen was finally in a good mood today and agreed to make a promise to the middle school students, but the other party only lightly asked for a permit document for the transformation of the orphanage.

While marveling at the other party's morality, Mr. Chen felt a little hurt to his self-esteem.

If the all-powerful devil in Faust who has the power to change the world, all the summons he receives from his employer all day long are requests to take the kitten off the tree.

I think that the devil will also live a very unfulfilled life.

"Why? Young man, you could have asked for something more valuable. I can even turn off the lights in downtown Yangon for a day at night, or send you to Antarctica to see penguins. Chen Shenglin is not a person who likes to show off the power in his hands, but he is really curious about what this young man is thinking in his head.

"I can go to the zoo to see the penguins. As for the former...... Why should I turn off the lights in the city center for a day? Gu Weijing asked calmly.

Dostoevsky believed that people who are not greedy are more likely to reap happiness.

If there is no desire, it is rigid.

He really didn't need the help of a collector, Gu Weijing had just received an astronomical income from the publishing group.

Mr. Chen is not a systematic, and he cannot improve his painting skills.

For himself, an approval document for the transformation of an orphanage is already the thing he needs the most.

"Okay, I see."

Chen Shenglin stared at Gu Weijing for a moment, and suddenly exclaimed: "You are really a pure person, if I had your heart back then, maybe I can really become an artist I dreamed of when I was young." ”

Mr. Chen even used an honorific title.

He liked this young man even more, and Chen Shenglin no longer regarded him as a child who could draw a good stroke, but as an equal interlocutor.

"An approval document for power transformation, very good."

"This kind of thing is the obligation of me, the president of the Myanmar Charity Chamber of Commerce, and it should not be the concern of a young person like you. Out of respect for you, I'm going to explain a little more. ”

Chen Shenglin glanced around.

"Yangon alone has hundreds of orphanages of all kinds. And Yangon is already the most developed city in Myanmar. Affected by the war, the infrastructure construction in many places is stuck in the pre-colonial era. As president of the Charity Chamber of Commerce, I have to divide resources and resources as evenly as possible. The tens of millions of kyats needed to renovate an orphanage are nothing, but no matter how much money is diluted by such a large pool, there will be nothing left. ”

"So if it weren't for you, this orphanage would have been operating in such a difficult state for many years. Young man, you are the one who brought light to this orphanage, you are really great. ”

The crowd applauded.

Daddy Coco had some substitutes in his heart, and it was a pity that Gu Weijing had used up such a precious opportunity so easily.

At the same time, he also had to admit that this was definitely a very upright young man.

Mr. Chen patted Gu Weijing's shoulder and sighed with emotion: "I really envy your parents, I have always believed that heart is more important than ability, if I had an excellent son like you, I guess I would have been able to retire with peace of mind." ”

"Xiao Gu is the best child I have ever met. The children in this orphanage are very fond of him, and he also paid for this renovation. ”

The female dean has long wished that everyone in the world knew that Gu Weijing was good.

"Gu Weijing's money?"

Mr. Police Officer raised his eyebrows, thinking that it was the orphanage's collective fundraising from the public.

The dean whispered a number.

Daddy Coco has surprised enough of his daughter's classmate today, and he can't help but be surprised at this time.

That's not a lot of money.

There are many wealthy families at Dulwich College, but there are very few who can easily donate this amount to the orphanage.

"Looks like you really don't need my funding."

Mr. Chen is a person who is used to seeing a lot of money, and tens of thousands of dollars are far from enough to move him, so he just said lightly.

"Thank you Mr. Chen for your help, I can't thank you enough."

promised that he had already used it, and Gu Weijing handed back the business card he had just received to Chen Shenglin.

"You can keep it. Since you are an upright young man, you only need this little thing. Then I don't want to be too stingy, so be it. ”

Chen Shenglin paused and looked at the draft on the drawing board on the side, fell into deep thought for a moment, and then raised his head.

"Anyway, this painting is related to me. If you don't make it, you call me and I'll still ask for the painting. And if you do win an award at the Singapore Art Fair, I will personally go to Singapore and give you a purchase price that you can't refuse. His tone was flat and domineering.

Gu Weijing didn't know what the price of "unable to refuse" was.

Mr. Chen didn't explain, he stayed in the Good Luck Orphanage for a while, and after saying something to the officials of the Leyada district, he left directly, waving his hand without taking a cloud with him.

It was Coco's father who walked around Gu Weijing a few times.

"Hmm...... It's Koko's birthday party in two months, and the children have time to come to the house to play! The inspector finally snorted twice and walked away.

Every year at the end of April, when her birthday falls on her birthday, she throws a big party at home and invites her classmates from school to play.

Gu Weijing had been there once three years ago.

The family lives in a large government-allocated yard close to the city center, with a separate swimming pool and a garden full of rosewood.

The birthday cake alone is a flag cake the size of two long tables.

There's also a small band playing.

It doesn't look like a little girl's birthday, but like the Queen's anniversary celebration.

People ate a third of the way and then started smearing each other with cake cream. Surrounded by a pile of gifts, Kou Ko really looks like a little queen.

Gu Weijing went once and didn't go, it's not that Kou Kou no longer invites him, Kou Kou is always very generous in this regard, basically all the classmates will invite, and they will not deliberately snub anyone.

It's Mona's jealousy and dissatisfaction with Koukou's arrogant appearance at the birthday party.

She wants to be overwhelmed everywhere in school, but after all, her family only runs a jewelry store, even if she is also a rich daughter, she still doesn't have the ability to compare the style of her birthday party with her.

If Mona doesn't go, Gu Weijing won't be able to go.

She didn't explicitly say that she wouldn't let Gu Weijing go, but every weekend when Kou had a birthday party, she would always "just happen" to invite Gu Weijing to watch a movie or visit a museum or amusement park together.

This is probably the careful thinking of girls.

……

Night falls,

Gu Weijing returned home.

He looked at his watch, and there were still more than two hours before the connection time he had made with Mr. Sloth.

He read the white text of the fairy tale in the internal edition of the publishing house at his desk for a while, and when he felt that his mood was almost over, he took out three separately preserved pen drawings from the drawer next to the bed in his bedroom.

The King, the Rose, and the Drunkard.

These three are the profiles he has already completed for the fairy tale characters of "The Little Prince", reaching the level of heart-feeling, which are the preparation for his formal illustrations.

Gu Weijing lined up these three paintings.

Then he walked to his easel, removed the old church that he had copied on the weekend, and received it aside.

This kind of practice pen copying works that do not need to be preserved can be treated casually.

According to past habits, Gu Weijing would take some time to gently grind off the uneven pigment traces of the surface pigment with sandpaper, and then brush a penny of titanium dioxide.

After two or three weeks of drying, you can continue to draw some informal exercises on it.

Secondary use of the canvas.

This is a money-saving trick for poor painters.

From the moment oil painting was born, natural linen canvas was a large expense for low-level artists, and it was common to use a canvas to paint repeatedly.

There was even a collector who examined an old Renaissance painting with a tomography scanner and found four different layers of oil paintings, covered in layers like building blocks, and each new painting was painted directly on the old canvas.

In fact

In an industrial society, as long as it is not a luxury imported canvas, a simple linen canvas is not too expensive to afford.

It's more a matter of habit, the old man Gu Tongxiang was used to being poor back then, and this way of dealing with it has been passed down as a family style.

Moreover, it is not easy to leave so many students at home to practice their works, so it is better to shovel the paint and reuse it.

The different classes of artists can be seen from a small canvas.

Miss Sakai has never had this problem when she studied painting.

She told Gu Weijing that when her mother was born, she bought a constant temperature and humidity warehouse in Osaka, which was specially used to store all her daughter's practice works from childhood to adulthood.

Not even a piece of childhood letter pen graffiti was missing.

Mrs. Sakai plans to wait for Katsuko Sakai to become famous and start a family, and then open a special commemorative exhibition to review Katsuko's artistic career.

Out of respect for the Scholastic Publishing Group, Gu Weijing took out a new canvas, adjusted the paint, and prepared for painting.

He picked up the painting knife, hesitated for a moment, and then put it down again.

Gu Weijing found an old copy of "The Little Prince" from the bookshelf, and finally looked through the original illustrations drawn by Saint-Exupéry.

Generally, there is an unchanging criterion for the illustration of this classic work, which is to try not to deviate too far from the original composition and character image.

This is also clearly stated in the detailed instructions given by the publisher.

It's not just a matter of respecting the original author.

Readers have a preconceived notion of the classic fairy tale images that have become familiar to them over the past half-century.

Illustrators can draw better on this premise, and readers will be pleasantly surprised by it.

But this presupposition cannot be subverted drastically.

If the little prince becomes a little princess, the fox becomes a wolf dog, and the rose becomes a peony flower, the audience will tear up the book and scold the mother.

For example, the Little Mermaid in "Daughter of the Sea" becomes a black pearl, and in the "Harry Potter" stage show directed by Ms. J.K. Rowling, Hermione becomes a black girl.

does not evaluate the social stance of such behavior as right or wrong,

Purely from the perspective of commercial effect, even in Western Europe, where the atmosphere of political correctness is the strongest, in fact, the overturn is quite strong.

Gu Weijing flipped through the illustrations of "The Little Prince", and reflected the characters drawn by the original author and the sketches he drew under the guidance of Mr. Sloth.

(End of chapter)