Click.

The deadbolt of the door makes a turning sound.

An old woman in a black apron pushed open the door, and she flashed away, letting go of the old man on crutches behind her.

Cao Xuan stood in the evening breeze, not knowing how long he had just listened.

Lao Yang hurriedly wanted to run over to help the old man, but was torn away by Tang Ning's disgust.

"Go away, that's my teacher, how can I have your help."

Downing trotted over and reached out to grab the teacher's arm.

"Teacher, don't come out, be careful of the wind, let's go into the house and say."

The old man leaned sideways like an angry child, dodging Tang Ning's outstretched hand.

"Far away at dusk?"

Cao Xuan's eyes were blazing as he stared at the disciples in the courtyard.

Snorted softly.

He looked a little angry, frowned and said, "Since you think in your heart that I don't have long to live, then an old man who wants to hurry while the last ray of the sunset is blown by the evening breeze, I'm afraid it doesn't matter, right?" ”

Lao Yang's heart tightened.

When people are old, they are most taboo to listen to things like time is short.

He usually pays attention to what he says, even some homonyms and numbers that are similar to the pronunciation of "death".

If you can't say it, you won't say it.

Hearing his favorite disciple say such mean words, Cao Xuan's heart ...... I'm sure I'm going to be really sad.

"Well, let's get in a hurry. It's not good for me, Miss Tang doesn't mean that, old man, don't take it to heart-" Lao Yang is quite discerning and ready to liven up the atmosphere.

"Quiet."

Cao Lao also glanced at Lao Yang with disgust, "I'm asking my disciple a question, and there is no place for you to speak here." ”

Lao Yang was very aggrieved.

Lao Yang stopped talking.

"From an emotional point of view, I hope that the old man will last a long time, a hundred years old is not enough, he will live two hundred years old, he will live in this world forever, and be my teacher."

Downing didn't shy away either.

She raised her head and looked directly at Cao Xuan's sharp and bright eyes seriously, "From the perspective of a good student, that was what I said just now. That's what you're doing in my heart. ”

"My teacher, when did you become a person who could only listen to unrealistically beautiful words?"

"If you're confused, you're living in a mess. Even if I really lived to be 200 years old, then the teacher in my heart who was so great and wise when I was young, and who was able to look at myself and the whole world with the same discerning eyes, would definitely feel that I am actually dead. ”

"Then listen to you. If you don't take care of it and push you up thoroughly, you just won't be confused and confused? ”

Cao Lao was silent for a few seconds and asked playfully.

"Why not? Even if the other brothers and sisters were here, I would say the same. ”

Downing said very calmly.

"If you really like him, let Senior Brother Lin teach him. Even as long as you want, I am willing to teach him personally and make him my official student, my founding disciple. ”

"Oh? This is not quite the same as Xiao Ning's tone in the interview with "Oil Painting". ”

Cao Xuan raised his eyelids.

"In my impression, aren't you always a lazy teaching student, thinking that you are all stupid and unsightly? How suddenly I changed my mind. ”

"No, I still don't like him now. However, since the teacher you think he has something to show for it. Just for you, I'm willing to give him a hand. It doesn't matter if I can make the teacher happy, whether I, as a disciple, can look up to him or not. I'll teach him well. ”

Downing said.

Lao Yang whistled silently in his chest.

Take a look.

At the age of 40, he can become a first-class painter who has attracted worldwide attention, and his way of doing things is beyond the reach of others.

Obviously, he came to the door to ask the teacher, how beautiful this is!

not only expressed his tough views, but also left room for maneuver, and patted the teacher's ass.

This is the master!

Many people think that Downing is an arrogant person who is not easy to contact aggressively, and this may be the case, but people's emotional intelligence is actually high.

The starting point of her debut is too high, and she enjoys too many resources, so she doesn't need to use her lover on idle people.

Even Lao Yang thinks that this suggestion is really very good.

Cao Xuan's side, as well as several disciples, can accept it.

Even for Gu Weijing, it may be a win-win outcome......

He had no reason to be dissatisfied with this result.

It's not a shame to let you learn from Downing.

If he didn't know that he had the opportunity to pass by the throne of the "emperor" of the painting sect, he would have passed by so closely.

Being accepted by Tang Ning as a disciple of the mountain is already a great opportunity that is difficult to find with lanterns all day long.

Seriously.

Don't look at Lao Yang's age is a few years older than Tang Ning.

When he was studying at CAFA, if there was such a big pie in front of him, he would definitely kneel down to show it to him on the spot.

Be reasonable, don't be the first.

Even if Tang Ning dared to accept it today, his old Yang would dare to kneel immediately.

Hum.

Who let us be such a free and unpretentious man.

"The words are good, then I moved the idea of accepting him as a closed disciple, Xiao Ning, are you unhappy again?" Old Man Cao grinned, smiled, and continued to ask.

"This is different, the closed disciple is of great significance, it is enough for me to be the one. An eighteen-year-old child, he is not worthy. I'm willing to take him as a student because you like him, and I'm making you happy. ”

"I don't allow you to take care of you as a student, it's because the inheritance of calligraphy and painting is too important, I can't let you be confused for a while, and the trust is not human, which is also to make you happy. It's really for your best to stop you from making decisions you don't know. ”

Tangning's tone softened.

"Teacher, this is my suggestion and the most correct one. You've been dragging on the issue of succession for too long, and you've lost patience with it rather than letting other media guess around. Or...... I'm sorry it's not good, but I have to say it. Because the other senior brothers dare not say it, there is no one else in the world who can say this except me. ”

Tang Ning's eyes were full of worry.

"You don't have any children, and a few of our disciples are your children. The ancients said that seventy does not leave the night, eighty does not leave food, and ninety does not leave sitting. I hope you can live longer than Nanshan, however, at this age, there are too many possibilities for accidents. I know you don't shy away from talking about death. What if? What if you don't leave anything behind and go. Do you want to see us, like Picasso's descendants, arguing and making a mess so that outsiders can see the jokes? ”

"Your property, the works you left behind. Whether it is to donate to the memorial hall or to set up a charitable foundation, or to leave it to the senior brothers. I'm all right. I don't want either. ”

Downing is really atmospheric.

As one of the most successful living artists, the Eastern Xia artist Hurun Rich List is unbeatable.

Cao Xuan doesn't say that works like Andy Warhol are worth an aircraft carrier formation.

At all costs.

With assets of more than 300 million US dollars, Cao Xuan must be more than that, not including those paintings that have been left behind, and the price should rise again after his death.

And Cao Xuan doesn't have children yet.

When Lin Tao heard the bet, he reacted so much.

It is because those of them who are disciples know the inside story better than outsiders.

Gu Weijing himself may not be clear.

If this head really knocks down, consider the importance of the closed disciples.

If you're lucky.

Not to mention anything else, it is not impossible to come back with a hundred million or two hundred million dollars directly.

How many great painters who have been famous for a long time can't make so much money in their lifetime.

In the entire history of mankind, there are really not many people who can find such a valuable ringing head with a magnifying glass.

And Tang Ning casually gave all these things to the other disciples.

But Downing is also really stingy.

She only wants the most valuable things, and she will never back down, never give in, and never let go.

"I don't care about that. I just want your place in the art world. ”

"Since the day I was twenty years old at the Modu Biennale, I believed that I was the most suitable person to place your calligraphy and painting bloodline, and I would not let this go at all."

Tang Ning said bluntly without hypocrisy.

"Say whatever comes to mind, I've never been like my brothers, even if I knew I would be knocked with a cane when I was a child, I had to say what was in my heart to you out loud. Isn't that what you liked most about me before? ”

Cao Xuan listened quietly.

The old gentleman also seemed to think of the past when he taught the little girl to paint.

In the study under the warm sunshine, the little girl with braids who smoked the sugar gourd watched him draw on tiptoe, which was vivid in the old gentleman's memories.

Cao Xuan's hair began to turn slightly white at that time, and he felt that he was very old.

Now that I think about it, I find that it was almost thirty years ago.

"yes."

Cao Xuan sighed softly, recalling the events of the year, and the old gentleman's eyebrows and eyes became gentle.

"You will always be the one who is the most courageous, and the one who is the least afraid of me. I always thought at the time, such a female baby with such a personality must be very eclectic when she paints. ”

This time, he reached out and let Downing hold him.

"As it turns out, you're not bad at all." Downing smiled and reached out to grab the teacher's arm.

"That's a good point. People, listening to too many smiling flattering words, and then listening to others say a few words in their hearts, it is like drinking too much soft and soft sweet porridge that is not beneficial to the body. These words have been held in my heart for a long time. Lin Tao, Ziming and a few of them may think the same way, but no one dares to tell me in person. ”

Cao Lao shook his head.

"The twilight is far away, perverse, and only you dare to say this to me. This is indeed what I like very much about Xiao Ning. Let's go inside. ”

Lao Yang stared at this strange pair of master and apprentice.

At this moment,

He finally believed that the phrase "said well" when Cao Lao opened the door was indeed not a yin and yang weird thing.

Lao Yang looked at the man who was holding hands like a father and daughter.

"Mr. Cao Xuan, do you agree with Ms. Tang's suggestion?"

He couldn't help but move slightly, as if he realized something.

——

Cao Xuan's temporary room is the former residence of the national treasure painter Klimt, although it has not been converted into a tourist attraction like the coffee shop Zweig frequented or the Mozart house on the corner.

However, the descendants of the great painter are still very careful to preserve the old furnishings as much as possible.

A white carved fireplace, a brown log frame, a garden-shaped crystal ceiling hanging from the ceiling, and an oriental-style porcelain vase with standing ears.

The painting in the frame is, of course, an imitation.

Klimt's descendants could not have allowed millions of dollars worth of paintings to be roasted by the smoke of the fireplace for decades, but it is clear that they worked hard to freeze time in the square room in the mid-seventies of the nineteenth century.

No TV, no cars.

But it was the most glorious era of the entire Habsburg dynasty.

Downing could imagine Klimt painting in silence in this room, next to him sat his model, a young woman wearing the most fashionable white sunhat of the time, on the couch.

The Klimt brush fell, and the girl's flesh-colored skin shimmered on the linen canvas in front of him, with the eerie and magnificent light characteristic of the Viennese Secession.

From Klimt, to Cao Xuan, to her.

The art time spanning the centuries is solidified into one in a small room.

It was as if Klimt had just pushed the door open for dinner half an hour ago, and the next moment, she and the teacher walked in together.

Downing saw red wine, two goblets, sliced Argentinian sausages, and blueberry petit fours on the coffee table.

This is obviously not for Lao Yang.

"It turned out that the teacher said that he couldn't see me, and he was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, but in fact, he was still waiting for me. After all, the teacher spoiled me the most. ”

Seeing this, Tangning became even bolder.

Anyway, that's all for today, so I'll be done thoroughly.

"Teacher, you have indeed done a lot of wrong things in the past few months. I won't mention anything about the annual meeting, and I will make that bet on a whim. I heard that Gu Weijing also rushed to send a painting to please you? ”

Tang Ning pursed his lips and counted.

"And you actually took it?"

"You have personally set the rule of three don't buy and five don't take."

"The reason why a principle can be a good talk is that it cannot be easily overcome. Even a child's drawing is accepted. If this kind of thing gets out, what will those famous artists you have refused to give away paintings think? What will those dignitaries think? What would Senior Brother Liu's father think? You're slapping them in the face. ”

"It's so confusing!"

She couldn't help but complain.

"Xiao Ning?"

Cao Lao sat on the sofa and spoke softly, interrupting the other party.

"Well, teacher, please speak."

"Xiao Ning, what you said is good, it makes sense. You've said so much tonight, so why don't you listen to me too? ”

Cao Lao asked slowly.

"You're all very good and right. When I think there's only one thing, you probably haven't thought it through. ”

"Something." Downing's brow furrowed.

Old Man Cao turned his face sideways, looked at his female apprentice, and asked softly with a smile.

"Have you ever wondered what to do if you can't teach Gu Weijing? What if he draws better than you? ”

All of a sudden.

Rock breaker.

(End of chapter)