Chapter 65: Meng Pingchuan
"Master Meng, this is the gentleman who was entrusted by Old Man Fu to buy your two paintings, Mr. Stephen, the grandson of Old Man Fu. Next to Mr. Stephen was his female companion. Mr. Meng's agent took Stephen and Xia Wanwan to a courtyard next to the exhibition, where Master Meng sat on a stone bench under a large plane tree, with a fine purple clay pot in front of him, and was sipping tea with great interest.
"Hello, Master Meng. Stephen blurted out not F Chinese, but flower language.
But apparently I haven't said it for a long time, and it's a bit unskilled to speak.
"Hello, Mr. Stephen. Master Meng got up and shook hands and said.
"Mr. Meng can also call me by the name of the flower, Fu Peiyi. Stephen also deliberately looked at Xia Wanwan when he introduced, he had not officially introduced his flower name in front of Xia Wanwan.
"Hello, Mr. Fu. Master Meng nodded, the old man of the Fu family has collected his paintings for many years, and he will generally appreciate the people of the Fu family.
"Master Meng would allow me to introduce my female companion, Miss Xia Wanwan, who is now working as a fashion design director at the lead company of the Yung Group, and she is very interested in your paintings. Stephen's introduction to the point.
"Hello Master Meng. Xia Wanwan stretched out her hand towards Master Meng.
"Hello Miss Xia, I have heard of the brand of Lead Hua. Master Meng also stretched out his hand towards Xia Wanwan.
However, with the expression on her face, Xia Wanwan could see that what Master Meng had heard was definitely not any positive news about Lead Hua.
"I'm glad that you, a calligrapher and painter, can hear about our lead-hua brand, but obviously what you have heard before is not positive news. But it doesn't matter, the previous things are all in the past, and the current lead is led by me. Xia Wanwan said generously.
She didn't want to hide the things in the past, and she knew she couldn't hide them, but she didn't need to cover them up.
The previous things were caused by the former design director, and she, the current one, didn't have to wipe his ass for him.
Master Meng didn't expect Xia Wanwan to say this matter so directly instead of covering it up, which made him think highly of her.
Ascending to the position of design director at a young age is naturally not a simple character.
It's just that I don't know if she ascended to this position, whether she relied on her own ability and true talent, or because of her relationship with this Young Master Fu.
This Young Master Fu made her a ladder so neatly to introduce connections to her, and looked at her eyes full of affection, from here it can be seen that she is definitely not a simple woman.
"What does Miss Xia think of my paintings?" Master Meng asked suddenly.
"Mr. Meng is a contemporary master, your paintings do not care about the form, and the artistic conception in your paintings is not something that ordinary people can achieve. Xia Wanwan smiled and blew a wave of rainbow farts.
"Miss Xia is polite, Mr. Fu and Miss Xia should sit down first. Master Meng was so praised by a beautiful woman with a very good look, and he also praised the idea, so he naturally laughed happily, which was very useful for Xia Wanwan's rainbow fart.
"To tell you the truth, I also studied Chinese painting before I studied design, but compared to yours, it is really not worth mentioning. Xia Wanwan said with a look of shame.
Master Meng was a little surprised: "You are also from a Chinese painting? I happen to have a pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, so it is better for Miss Xia to make a painting, and I and Mr. Fu can also taste it." ”
"Don't dare, I really don't dare to make an axe in front of a master like you. Xia Wanwan waved her hand and said.
"Wanwan, you can try it, we don't have outsiders here. Stephen also began to persuade Xia Wanwan, and gave Xia Wanwan a look.
What he can do for Xia Wanwan is to introduce him, but if he wants to negotiate cooperation with Master Meng, he has to rely on Xia Wanwan's own charm to conquer Master Meng, and he can't help him.
After Xia Wanwan pretended to shirk it a few times, she also understood the meaning contained in Stephen's eyes and got up and said, "Then I will be ugly, and if I don't draw well, I have to ask Master Meng for more advice." ”
Seeing this, Master Meng's agent went to get the pen, ink, paper, inkstone and Chinese painting paint, Xia Wanwan hadn't taken the pen of Chinese painting for a long time, and she was a little rusty, but after holding the pen and getting familiar with it a few times, she began to paint on the rice paper, and after a while, Xia Wanwan blew the ink on the painting and signed her name.
"I'm really ugly in front of you. Xia Wanwan saw Master Meng and Stephen approaching, and said with a little shyness on her face.
"The little girl has a good handwriting, a bit of style. This painting, you are studying under Professor Long Ruiping Long of Yandu Academy of Fine Arts, it is decent, and it can be seen that I haven't held a paintbrush for a long time, and I am a little rusty. Master Meng pointed out very unceremoniously.
"You are as wise as a torch, I didn't expect you to see who I had studied with. Xia Wanwan was a little embarrassed on her face, didn't she insult her former teacher.
"Long Ruiping is my junior brother, and I am naturally familiar with his style, but I have always felt that his paintings are too ingenious. ”
Master Meng shook his head and said, then looked at Xia Wanwan: "What do you think?"
Xia Wanwan couldn't continue with these words, no matter what, Professor Long was her former teacher.
Xia Wanwan thought for a while and said, "I can't answer what you say, but today is considered an insult to my teacher, and I don't dare to say to others that I am Professor Long's student in the future." ”
Xia Wanwan simply pulled the topic back to herself.
"You girl didn't say it, I still see it myself. Master Meng felt that this girl was cunning and easy to talk about.
But after all, he was a former student of his junior brother, and if he was called a teacher, he would be called an uncle, but he added two points of cordiality to Xia Wanwan.
He has also seen this painting, and Xia Wanwan is definitely not here today just to show her face in front of him.
"I wonder if Miss Xia is here today for anything else?" asked Master Meng.
"There's one thing, it's quite presumptuous. Xia Wanwan took out the sketchbook from her bag.
"This was inspired by the fact that I just looked at your paintings. ”
It was full of some elements that Xia Wanwan quickly recorded.
"You want to use this in your costume design?" asked Master Meng with a frown.
"Yes, I want to use these elements and inspiration in the clothes I design, I don't know if you mind?" Xia Wanwan asked with a little caution as she looked at Master Meng's expression.
"It's just a little element, even if you don't tell me directly about it, to be honest, I won't pay attention to it, but you shouldn't just let Mr. Fu introduce you because of such a simple thing, right?"