Gu Weijing hung up the phone and found a bench on the side of the road to sit down.

Listening to Secretary Du's meaning, there is an undercurrent surging under the sparkling and gentle surface of the Yangon River.

Then again.

At the bottom of the Yangon River, what day is there no undercurrent when the dry bones of the losers are piled up with mud and sand?

Warlords, dignitaries, entrepreneurs, Kun Sha, Brother Hao, these underworld tycoons.

Everyone, you sing and I will appear, in the past one or two generations, the whole country has been a huge Colosseum.

Get used to it.

Sakai Katsuko taught Gu Weijing a very wise truth - they are just painters, and painters should only do what painters should do.

As long as Brother Hao doesn't come to him for trouble, no matter how the wind howls at the eye of the storm, he only needs to deal with his own one-third of an acre and paint his picture well.

Again.

Now he may not be able to play Brother Hao, and if he wants to run, it is still a matter of time.

Those high-level things in the world are things that Boss Chen needs to consider only when he wants to change the city.

Even if the content of the second half of the phone call was a little bad, it still didn't affect Gu Weijing's good mood like an autumn harvest when he focused on the balance of free experience points.

More than 10,000 points, 5 digits of experience points can be assigned.

hey

I have never fought such a rich battle!

Upgrade!

With the harvest of giving lectures to the old man, Gu Weijing's data panel has now become-

[Sketch Technique: Lv.5 Class 2nd Order (3710/10000)]

[Chinese Painting Technique: Lv.5 Career 2nd Order (8120/10000)]

[Oil Painting Technique: Lv.5 Class 2nd Order (4679/10000)]

[Watercolor Painting Technique: Lv.4 Class 1st Order (1276/5000)]

[Printmaking Technique: Lv.3 Semi-Professional (159/1000)]

In the progress bar of the second level of the profession, the Chinese painting technique is one, which has nearly doubled the leading and second-ranked oil painting technique that has stood out from the crowd.

More than 8000 points.

With a wave of his hand, Gu Weijing allocated two thousand points from the experience points he had just gained and added them to the column of Chinese painting techniques.

[Are you sure that you will convert 2000 free experience points into experience in Chinese painting techniques?] 】

"Sure."

【Ding! Chinese Painting Experience +1879! 】

[Reminder, your experience points in the current column have reached the second level of the profession "9999/10000", congratulations, you have activated the LV.6 stage of the Border Breaking Mission.] 】

On the virtual panel of the system in front of Gu Weijing, a new panel that had never been seen before popped up.

【Breaking Quest——】

[Chinese painting, first look at the relics of the predecessors, and the legalists copied, study and explore, and trace the source. Later, he was confused and realized, because he could open it, and borrowed pen and ink to express his temperament. With this teacher, test the gains and losses, and learn the right and wrong of the pseudo-science, and finally reach the heart. 】

[Task content: Please test what you have learned and tutor a painter whose Chinese painting skills are lower than the second level of the Lv.5 profession to become enlightened and reach this level.] 】

[Note 1: The third level of the Lv.6 profession is the last piece of the puzzle on the road to the master, and it is also the first step to embark on the great cause of the founding of the sect of painting.] After that, every time you upgrade, you cross the bottleneck, and you climb a new world. In order to ensure that you can perfectly control the techniques in your hands, rather than being controlled by them. After the technique reaches level 5 or above, each level is complete, and you need to complete a specific breakthrough task to level up, and you will have good luck. 】

[Note 2: You can also feel your own experience and break through the bottleneck without going through the system breakthrough task.] 】

[Note 3: If you clear the bottleneck on your own, the system will reward you with 20% of the total XP of the next stage (Lv.6 Class 3).] 】

"Breach of the border?"

Gu Weijing looked at the prompt on the system panel seriously.

The person controls the pen, or the pen controls the person.

It depends on whether you have a deep understanding of this method of drawing.

For the painter's creative process, it is also two completely different painting feelings.

The techniques obtained by adding points to the system have improved too much.

Here's an example.

It's like a person in the United States who relied on genetic medicine to make you a super soldier overnight from a frail little man.

It's easy to be uncontrollable and guided by power.

If you have enough heart and you can handle it, you are Steve Rogers, The Captain America.

If you don't have enough heart, you are a native of the motherland.

Good and evil, good and bad, are all made of one mind.

Of course, even if an artist is moved by the so-called "power", he will definitely not rush to the Empire State Building on a crescent moon.

The feeling of being moved by the techniques of the pen is like the state of use of Menzel's basic painting experience obtained at the beginning.

The emotions of all the manuscripts are almost all locked at the level of "simple works".

I can't go up, and I can't get down.

You are just a servant of the system.

The upgraded [real world] skills are free from the emotional shackles of creation.

But Gu Weijing has changed from a servant to a carrier of a great soul, and is filled with a strong painting style that belongs to Menzel and carries everything in his pen.

In the field of watercolor, he is above the sky, and the invincible is Menzel.

He was only a guest who borrowed the moonlight from heaven with a water cup.

Bright moon, not Gu Weijing himself.

Gu Weijing can control this painting style to a certain extent, but he can't change this style, and he can't turn it into his own artistic style.

This feeling is not obvious when the skill level is low.

The higher the level, the more delicate and delicate the articles are, and the more obvious the feeling of being invisibly dragged by the brush without enough tempering.

Gu Weijing had hesitated to add points for this reason before, and was unwilling to directly allocate experience points to pile up Chinese paintings from Lv.4 to Lv.5.

Instead, I hone my wisteria painting there.

Only now did he realize that he was overly worried.

It's not that the system is not aware of this problem, but it is estimated that in the system judgment criteria, the level of techniques at level 3 and level 4 is really simple and cannot be put on the table, and there will be no problem that cannot be controlled.

So I don't care if I have it or not.

At Lv.6, the rank that is described on the panel as the final piece of the puzzle leading to the Master's Realm, the system finally feels that it is worth taking seriously.

Therefore, it is necessary to complete a specific Breach mission in order to continue to level up.

Like the enlightenment in the Royal Botanic Gardens, it does not use the springboard it provides to break the realm, just like an ordinary painter, pure wild enlightenment upgrades.

It seems that the system is also very encouraging.

According to the description on the quest panel, that will directly reward an additional fifth of the free XP in the next stage, which is at least a few thousand points larger.

However, that state of mind is hard to come by.

It's a matter of fate.

"Career 3rd Order...... It is the first step to embark on the great cause of the founding school of painting. ”

Gu Weijing looked at the introduction on the virtual panel enviously, although he suspected that the system was there to tie radishes to the little donkey and draw a big pie.

His heart still moved hard.

That's the founding of a sect...... The ultimate dream of every painter, the only way to reach the $100 million mark.

Forming a Jindan guest is my generation. has reached the level of the third order of the profession, and it seems that in the eyes of the system, there are finally some qualifications to be able to touch the avenue of the sect.

It's right to think about it.

The combination of East and West, pondering the level of Chinese painting of Lang Shining Lang Shilang who came out of the new style painting, also happened to stay at the stage of professional painter third order on the system panel.

"Well, for the task of breaking through the bottleneck, this realm breaking requirement is quite simple, and the task given by the system this time is not difficult."

Gu Weijing nodded.

I don't know if it's intentional on the part of the system.

This task coincides with his current behavior of instructing his old man to paint every day.

In the case of better luck.

This Chinese painting breakthrough task and the third step of the professional task can be done together with the grass and rabbits.

"It's just that now it seems that the priority of teaching the old man to draw should be a little higher."

Gu Weijing pondered.

This little whip has to be tightened and hammered harder!

……

"Ahh

"I vaguely dreamed of it, and my heart was turbulent, putting aside the world and breaking grudges, and accompanying him to the sky...... Sneezing ...... The desert is vast in all directions, a-sneeze! Ahh ”

More than a dozen kilometers away.

In the courtyard of Gu's calligraphy and painting shop.

While swiping the Douyin video, while following the accompaniment, the old man Gu, who was swaying under the tree with his old waist, sneezed a few times.

"In the spring, it's cat hair and pollen, and the nose can't stand it, and it's tired."

Gu Tongxiang took out a piece of toilet paper, wiped his nose vigorously, threw it on the table on the side, and raised his eyes to look at the rice paper and picture album next to him.

His brow furrowed like a bitter gourd.

The time to draw a Chinese painting can be long or short.

If it is short, it can be done in a few minutes, but if it is long, it may take three or four days, a week or two. A huge work of this magnitude like "The Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival" is a common occurrence even if it takes a few months or a few years to paint.

Naturally, what his grandson asked him to copy would not be so exaggerated.

That's not training Old Man Gu, that's a tired silly boy.

The selection in "Mustard Seed Garden Painting" is all classic handwriting by famous artists, but the content of the volume itself is not complicated, but even so. Take one of the tree spectrum, the mountain stone spectrum, and the plum orchid bamboo chrysanthemum spectrum.

Come with your heart, come well.

If you draw one stroke at a time, if you concentrate on the drawing, the muscles of the whole body will be stiff, the back will be sore, and three or four hours of the morning will pass.

Old man Gu pouted and responded to this matter by thinking that he wanted to fight for breath in front of his grandson without steaming steamed buns and wanting to save face.

After really drawing two pictures.

He was a little intimidated.

Thinking that such a dark day would have to spend a whole month, Gu Tongxiang suddenly felt ...... Actually, uncle, my face is not so important.

People are old and idle.

Gu Tongxiang found that he would be as simple as he was when he was a child, practicing dozens of high-intensity exercises every day, and doing hard work.

It's a bit unbearable.

He Gu Tongxiang is not a master who is calm and successful.

In my mind, Aunt Sun, who sells steamed buns, and Old Man Wu, who plays chess, is panicked.

I want to wander around to play, but I'm embarrassed to lose face on my grandson.

As he was drawing, he took out his mobile phone and swiped up a small video of the elderly in the name of soothing his muscles and bones.

"Hah, or else...... Wait for a nap at noon, get up in the afternoon and take a walk, and then paint. Anyway, this is a long-term job, so I'm not in a hurry. ”

Gu Tongxiang couldn't help but want to be lazy.

That's when it happened.

"Chirp! Meow! ”

It just so happened that a pale yellow figure jumped down from the low place in the treetops. Peng! On the ground there was a slightly heavy sound of a fat man falling to the ground.

Scare!

Gu Tongxiang, who was about to walk away with his hands behind his back, was taken aback.

only to find out that it was the fat cat raised by the grandson.

The cat squinted its paws against a brown-red bird, which looked like it was just bullying the critters.

Ngawang looked around, his face full of "Applause!" Cheer! You've ever seen such a powerful cat! Be stunned, Lao Tzu is so handsome! Expression.

It glanced at the old man.

The Yangon River bully was sure that Lao Guzi was not fortunate enough to have a glimpse of the heroic appearance of the cat, and he should offer canned cat food with both hands to pay tribute to the consciousness of knocking, shook his head disdainfully, and made a contemptuous "meow".

Not sensible.

It completely stunned the protected animal suspected to be the "Burmese chickadee" under its paws, held it in its mouth, twisted its fat buttocks, and slipped out to play.

Gu Tongxiang was stunned.

I have never seen such a flexible "fat man".

Such a fat and round cat, at least thirteen or four pounds of weight, can complete such a difficult action as volleying birds?

Old man Gu didn't understand, he couldn't understand.

But he was shocked.

He remembered the battered teapot in his study.

"Could it be...... It's really so useful to practice your skills every day? ”

Gu Tongxiang stopped, and his eyes fell on the rice paper room on the open-air bookcase in the courtyard on the side, he pouted his teeth, and his face showed a struggling look.

Eventually.

was still shocked and educated, and hesitated to pick up the paintbrush.

——

When Gu Weijing approached the campus cafeteria, he was still thinking about his grandfather's training plan.

He picked up the tray.

I casually took a glass of milk, a glass of orange juice, and a little pasta, sat in the corner, and ate it by myself.

"Well, let's see how the practice progress is in the past two days, and I don't know if I can advance this month."

Gu Weijing casually sipped the milk and frowned.

It's a bit cold.

Dulwich fees are very high and the campus conditions are really good.

As a private school that provides a full British aristocratic education at its own expense, several on-campus canteens at Dulwich College offer a free-to-all-access British buffet like many historic private public schools in Europe.

To be fair,

At least at Dulwich's British cuisine is not as dark as it is rumored, with a wide variety and no strange taste. Special meals such as turkey, pie, and taco burritos are also available on select festivals.

It's just that a lot of the dishes are very strange and made cold.

Including the drinks in the campus cafeteria, from orange juice to coffee, every water from the beverage machine is chilled, and even the occasional fried rice with strange methods, stainless steel plates are soaked in ice water.

Very much in line with Asian dining habits.

Gu Weijing has been studying at Dulwich College for so many years, but he is not used to drinking 2°C or 3°C iced milk.

He was interrupted by the taste of Bing Sensen, and suddenly realized that it was not only the milk in the cup that was cold in the cafeteria today, but also the atmosphere in the air.

"Hey, did you hear about it, she's going to be out of luck at home."

"It's said to be corruption, but it doesn't look like she's not here today, and she never missed the cheerleaders' rehearsals before."

“……”

(End of chapter)