She sat on Miss Sakai's chest, drilled into Katsuko's curvaceous neckline, and rubbed Katsuko Sakai's chin with the soft skin on the top of her skull, making her giggle.

Ngawang rolled on Katsuko Sakai's body.

After adjusting her position, the tanuki cat found a comfortable position on the girl's chest and fell asleep, claws gripping Katsuko's clothes and holding on to it.

She's very smart enough to know.

If she has to be a doll figure for others to play with, it is much more comfortable to find the fragrant and soft sister Sakai than to play with the energetic Jasmine.

"Ngawang should be well-behaved, don't run around, be careful of falling. If you get lost on the train, we can't find you. ”

Katsuko Sakai rubbed the supple back hair of the tanuki cat and whispered a few words.

"Thinking about things? The little unpleasantness just now has passed, and I'm fine. ”

Katsuko Sakai turned her head sideways to look at her boyfriend.

The girl noticed that since the incident in the waiting hall of the train station just now, Gu Weijing had been a little absent-minded in the past half hour.

Often stunned and in a daze.

"Uh...... I'm fine, just thinking about one thing. ”

Gu Weijing did not leave a shadow because of the time when the military and police asked for bribes.

He was just thinking about Chen Shenglin's rhetorical question.

[Gu Weijing, have you ever thought that if the law of the world itself is like this, then what should you do? The police kill, the underworld kills, and the senators kill. Fairness and justice are not the core of society, textbooks teach children to be kind, but in an adult society, there are only interests. 】

This sentence was like a bronze bell, buzzing in his ears.

Gu Weijing is clear.

In the hearts of many people, serving an underworld tycoon is a very honorable and dignified thing.

It doesn't matter if it's good or bad.

Just like what Alley once said, the big drug lord who is full of evil, the murderous warlord, everyone signed a ceasefire agreement in front of reporters in front of the United Nations investigation team.

He became a beloved high-ranking official in press releases.

From the embodiment of evil to the maintainer of order.

Maybe right or wrong has always been a very vague concept.

Dealing with this problem, Chen Shenglin's performance is much more mature and profound than Gu Weijing.

It's just that for a young man at his age, who has accepted his grandfather Gu Tongxiang's "gentleman" theory and Confucian worldview since he was a child, this truth may be a little too dark and depressing.

"Katsuko, if you find that the essence of this world is not as beautiful as I imagined, and the mode of operation may be much darker and gloomy, what should we do?"

He asked, distractedly.

"Huh?"

Katsuko Sakai was stunned for a moment.

She didn't ask Gu Weijing why she suddenly asked such a strange question, but thought quietly for a few seconds and replied, "I will be a kind person and then draw my own picture." ”

"That's it?"

"Gu Jun, that's it, we are painters. I didn't have any great ambitions to save the world, I just wanted to be a painter. Life is very short, and art alone is enough for me to wander around my life, and I really don't have the energy to take care of other things. ”

Katsuko Sakai chuckled.

"So don't dwell on it."

She patted her boyfriend on the shoulder and stared into his black eyes: "You just need to know that this world is an oil painting penned by Heavenly Father, and if it is warm, I will be by your side." If the rules of this world are cold, then I will also be by your side. ”

She saw that Gu Weijing was still a little distracted, so she left the quiet space to him, and stood up from her seat with the squinted cat in her arms.

"I'll take Jasmine to feed the cats in the open space behind the car, we're going out together today, and when I come back, you'll have to be happy."

Sakai Katsuko gently rubbed Gu Weijing's head like rubbing Ngawang's cat hair.

Gu Weijing nodded.

He's actually feeling better.

"I will draw my own pictures and be a kind person." - Katsuko Sakai's very wise answer made Gu Weijing feel suddenly enlightened.

That's a great statement!

Gu Weijing found that just like he was not capable of representing the young people of the entire city, there was no need for him to think about such a deep question.

He is not Chen Shenglin, nor is he the mayor.

He only needs to play the role of a painter and live his life with kindness and integrity.

Again.

A lotus-like pure and lovely soft girl, who whispers in her ear that no matter how warm or cold the world is, she will be by your side, and it's really hard not to be happy.

Gu Weijing looked at the scenery outside the window for a while, took out his mobile phone and prepared to play a brisk piece of music to change his mood.

It was at this time that he found an unread message on WeChat.

Like Mr. Gu Tongxiang, who needs to maintain relationships with various customers, Gu Weijing also has a large number of various social software accounts on his mobile phone.

Google Mail, which handles work messages, Whatsapp that connects with Mr. Sloth and various people he knows as a detective cat, and he also adds Hanks' Telegram and Katsuko Sakai's Line.

Sometimes.

He was really afraid that he had logged into the wrong account and had been ganged out.

Gu Weijing was thinking about it, or buy another mobile phone and separate the detective cat's social circle.

He doesn't have many contacts on WeChat, and only two of them are commonly used, but they are all full of weight and can be the envy of countless art people.

One is Professor Lin Tao, who gives his own classes every week.

The other is Lao Yang, Cao Lao's personal assistant.

Mr. Cao Xuan's own WeChat, Gu Weijing is not qualified to add.

This new news was sent by Professor Lin Tao.

The professor first sent an emoji commonly used by the elderly, Fei Yuqing, who spread out his hands and showed a mysterious smile.

I get along with Professor Lin Tao a lot on a daily basis, and Gu Weijing has already understood.

Even if he is a signature professor of CAFA with an international reputation like Lin Tao and a great artist worth tens of millions, he is still just an ordinary old man in terms of his taste for emojis.

"Is it about class?"

Gu Weijing remembered that he had discussed with Professor Lin in advance, because he was going to hang out with Miss Sakai on the weekend, so today's class was postponed to tomorrow.

In fact, Professor Lin Tao bluntly said that before Gu Weijing realized this bottleneck, he had nothing to teach him.

The master can lead the door in.

After entering the door, if you want to enter the house, then the last threshold, except for honestly stepping yourself, no one else can replace it.

Gu Weijing's current Chinese painting techniques have come to [Lv.4: Career First Order (4898/5000)].

It's always a breath away from the boundary of the second order of the profession.

This breath reached his throat, but he couldn't spit it out.

"How are the wisteria flowers in your "Hundred Flowers" copyed?" Professor Lin Tao sent a voice.

"It's still like that, it's almost like that, I guess it will take a few days."

"Heh, in a few days, some window paper, if you think about it, it's a matter of a moment, stuck in place, it's weeks, months, or even years."

"A small mistake is a thousand miles wrong." Professor Lin Tao did not look disappointed in his tone, "Young man, some grinding, it is not so easy to be my junior brother." ”

"By the way, Xiao Ning, you go to the Internet to search for the interview with Senior Sister Tang Ning."

"Hmm...... You can see for yourself that she should have mentioned you at this year's spring auction. Professor Lin Tao's tone was mysterious, just like Fei Yuqing's smile in the emoji.

Ms. Downing?

Gu Weijing and this famous Asian female painter actually don't have much intersection.

The "Hundred Flowers" was also sent to herself through Professor Lin, and she even mentioned herself in the interview!

Strictly speaking, they are even enemies, although Gu Weijing is not qualified to be the enemy of a great painter of this magnitude.

But if Cao Lao really accepted an extra apprentice, the one who suffered the most loss of benefits was probably Tang Ning.

Gu Weijing was curious.

While the train was not completely out of the city's signal coverage, and there was still the Internet intermittently, I immediately typed the keywords "artist Downing" and "spring auction" into the browser.

————

[The Language of Time: Sotheby's International Co-Artist Tangning Xiangjiang Spring Auction, with a total transaction volume of more than 260 million! ] 】

[Suspected of spending tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars to buy jewelry, the disciple of Master Cao Xuan appeared in the Taikoo Shopping Plaza in Central late at night in a luxury car, accompanied by bodyguards, looking nervous! ] 】

【HK$263，700，000！ The youngest gold medal winner in the history of the Magic City Biennale, her miracle continues. 】

[A new record for the transaction of female painters in Dongxia, why does Li Chaoren's eldest son have a soft spot for her plum blossoms? 】

[Snap! The female artist and the superstar appeared in Victoria Harbour together for a candlelit dinner, suspected to be an old friend for many years. 818 Tangning's connections in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry. 】

【……】

There's no need to search for it.

As long as Gu Weijing typed in the name Tang Ning, a dazzling array of messages completely filled the screen of his mobile phone like a waterfall.

Against the backdrop of the uncertain situation of the international art market this year,

Downing.

The youngest disciple of Cao Lao still generated a turnover of 260 million Hong Kong dollars at the just-concluded special auction held by Sotheby's International in Hong Kong for her 52 personal works, which attracted worldwide attention.

A living female painter sold $40 million in a special auction, which was enough to cause a global sensation.

"The Little Prince" or something, compared with Ms. Tang Ning's Xiangjiang Spring Shooting, is not worth mentioning at all.

Downing's Sotheby's Spring Auction was one of the most talked-about news in the entire Asian art scene of March.

If you don't take into account the upcoming oil painting fund, as well as the various stormy undercurrents of the oil painting magazine and the Elena family.

Then looking at the entire world beauty scene, it is also the most discussed news in the past few months.

The total transaction price was HK$263.7 million.

Among them, the "Biaowang" "Cloud Flower" that appeared in the spring auction alone sold for a sky-high price of 54 million Hong Kong dollars, which greatly refreshed the new price record of Tang Ning's personal art transaction.

After the end of this auction, both the price record and the total amount of the transaction.

Ms. Downing easily entered the top 100 of the world's most expensive artists.

In the top ten female artists in the subdivision, second only to Degas's confidante, the female impressionist master Miss Mary Stevenson Xartre ranks seventh in history.

If only the living "living" painters are counted.

Even in Asia, Downing can already claim to be the second in the world.

Even regardless of the average price, fame, and status, there is still a very big gap between Yayoi Kusama, whose status in the history of art can even slightly overpower Cao Lao's half.

But on the bright side.

Compared with the rest of the Korean and Filipino painters like Liang Huigui and Pacita Abad, they are also the current first-line female painters in Asia.

has also obviously pulled out a big lead, and it is no longer an order of magnitude at all.

Kusama is 93 years old this year, and Tang Ning is only 43 years old, not half the age of the old lady Kusama, which is a slightly youthful age for Mesozoic painters.

There used to be local art media in Japan who called Downing Katsuko Sakai 20 years later, and Yayoi Kusama called Katsuko Sakai 70 years later.

Miss Katsuko Qiaoqiao told Gu Weijing that it was actually an advocacy advertorial written by Tokyo Gallery for her.

Just laugh at it.

She doesn't deserve it.

Every year, a large number of "young Picasso", "the next Leonardo da Vinci", and "the third reformer to lead Pop Art after Andy Warhol and Yayoi Kusama" are born in the art circle.

This kind of propaganda is all to deceive the novices of art.

is similar to "the strongest high school student in the United States", "California five-star high school student", and "epoch-making school team all-round bouncing beast" in the field of basketball.

Beast classmates and the strongest high school students, there are a lot of them every year, and Jordan and Kobe Bryant can really produce one in the NBA for 20 years.

Whether you like it or not, this coppery smell is a statistical method for ranking artists one, two, three, and four.

The most valuable in the art world is always the turnover of real money bought by collectors in the auction market.

Play basketball and throw the ball into the hoop to score.

Great players can control their own destiny when they have a basketball in their hands.

There are too many uncertain factors in the value of the painter.

Katsuko Sakai said she was unworthy.

Gu Weijing knew that the girl did not mean that she did not have the courage to be the first on the road of art.

She believes that when she is forty years old, she is definitely not weaker than her predecessors, and can have good enough painting skills and picture expression.

Even there is enough self-confidence to the Sakai family's network resources.

Her paintings can't be cheap.

But no one dared to guarantee that she would become the next painter like her father, Kazunari Sakai, let alone Yayoi Kusama.

It can only be said that there is a certain relationship between the good painting and the expensive sale, but ...... It doesn't matter that much.

Works under one million dollars look at the hard work, the award-winning qualifications, and the operation of the gallery, and there are mature commercialization routines to pursue.

More than a million dollars - Uncle Sakai once joked with his daughter with rice balls in his mouth at the dinner table.

His own works can be sold for a total of 100 million US dollars, the main reason is good fate, and the second is that he has married a good wife, painting skills or something, and he can rank third at most.

Ultimately

It's still a good fate.

(End of chapter)