Almighty painter

Chapter 871 Alexander's Life and Death Lottery (Part )

"Auguste?"

Anna frowned and called out.

The dog thought about it, then put its head between Gu Weijing's arms holding the magazine, put it in his arms, and whimpered twice.

I had just finished a hair care and maintenance package of washing, cutting and blow-drying at the "True Art Director" Anna's place, and was now preparing to run to the "Technician No. 18" Xiao Guzi's place to receive a scalp meridian SPA massage.

The whole process is seamless, logical and natural.

"That big dog with thick eyebrows and big eyes, who is as big as me, has been raised since he was little. He can scare anyone he wants and show his teeth to anyone he wants. He can chase rabbits in the mountains and even run over my cousin and run around the room. How could he betray me all of a sudden?"

Except in front of her, the woman had never seen her dog be so well-behaved to anyone. Even the head of Austria said no to being touched, and he showed his fangs in a noble and cold manner and refused to let her touch him.

Anna originally wanted August to run over and grin, showing his teeth to scare Gu Weijing, so that the other party would take the initiative to break the silence, roughly playing the role of "The Imperial Army asked me to give you a message."

Who knows.

August grinned, and then... he licked it, he actually licked it!
Miss Elena really couldn't understand.

But she was shocked.

Gu Weijing did break the silence. He held the book in one hand and stroked August's neck with the other.

"Good dog, good dog." The young man said softly.

August gurgled in his throat and rubbed his head against his palm.

"Don't you have anything to say to me?" Her own dog had no conscience and behaved so poorly in such a crucial situation. Now, Miss Elena had no way to continue her silent offensive.

She pursed her lips and spoke, her tone as if she was giving Alexander a "verdict" on the stage, but she unconsciously dragged out her tone slightly.

"Little painter?"

Miss Elena read out.

"What do you mean?"

Gu Weijing asked in a gentle voice, "Ms. Elena."

"Of course, the interview just now." Anna was very dissatisfied with his appearance of asking questions even though he knew the answer. "What else could it be? Oh, if you want to talk about August."

"That's fine," Anna added, putting her small comb into her pocket.

"Auguste?"

Gu Weijing stroked the skin behind the dog's ears with his fingers and watched it chase his palm with its wet nose.

"It's a very good name. A dog named August, very rare, with a very classical temperament. He is——"

"Yes, I know. Augustus is the title of the famous Octavian, or the name of St. Augustine." Miss Elena directly said what Gu Weijing wanted to say.

"Very majestic."

Anna knew how this conversation would go.

Augustus, this word originated from the title of the Roman emperor, and its original meaning is majesty, dignity, and sacred prosperity.

Start from this perspective.

If we use a more rustic translation and understand the meaning a little, Anna's dog's name can also be translated as "Laifu", "Azun" or...

"Awang".

When others first learned that Miss Elena had a dog named August, which means "dignified appearance", similar conversations and compliments happened at least 100 times, if not 80 times.

Anyway, there are so many of them that Anna is so familiar with them that she can predict what Gu Weijing will say, and there are so many of them that Anna is already tired of explaining the specific origin of its name to others.

"Oh."

Gu Weijing paused for a moment.

"I thought it was named after Renoir or Rodin." The man combed the dog's wavy hair with his fingertips and commented, "But it is indeed a majestic dog."

You are such a clever little fellow!
Anna was stunned for a moment, and her deliberately straightened lips couldn't help but reveal a smile.

The woman liked the other person's intelligence, and she immediately remembered that she asked the man to come over after the interview, not because she wanted to "reward" him.

The smile in the mirror quickly faded, and Miss Elena put on the mask of elegant indifference again.

"The name isn't that important."

She automatically switched to "diplomatic mode". "The important thing is, this shouldn't be the first time you've seen him, right? He was a little injured last time. And the parents in the kindergarten know what to say to the parents of other children who were injured."

The woman looked at her dog rubbing against him and felt depressed again.

It's really hopeless!
Anna felt that she looked like a parent who was furious and helpless at her stupid child.

Even though she had arranged to talk to the other parent in private with an attitude of calling for justice for her child, as soon as she entered the door, she saw her child, the one whose nose was scratched by the other child, sauntering over to the other child and asking for candy - she didn't even have time to ask about the crime, so she naturally lost three points of confidence.

When Miss Elena slapped Alexander in the face on the stage.

She had never been so angry before.

"Auguste!"

Anna shouted again with a stronger tone.

"Your ears got hurt last time, didn't they?"

The Springer Spaniel immediately turned its head from Gu Weijing's palm, looked at its owner, and grinned.

Woof woof.

"Yes, yes. This one, this one, this one is the detective cat you were looking for! The one that draws."

If it were changed into human language, the dog would probably bark like this.

The dog's hostility is towards the cat. For humans, there is no competition for location. It's good that the hostess has found the other party!

Springer looked at Anna in confusion, hesitated for a moment, stretched out his head and rubbed against Gu Weijing's body, then turned his head and tried hard to signal to Anna -

Wang.

That's it.

The woman thought her own precious big dog was so embarrassing.

Anna resisted the urge to turn around, rush over, and pull her Springer Spaniel back from Gu Weijing's hands.

"Sorry, it wanted to eat Awang's chicken leg. Awang is my cat and he is quite protective of his food. So they started fighting."

"August never steals other people's food...ever." Anna didn't believe this explanation.

It's ridiculous.

What did he think August was?

Are there stray dogs running around the streets looking for food?

Her Springer Spaniel is professionally trained and raised by her herself. It will never touch any food outside without her order.

Do you know how many people wanted to feed August but couldn't?

In the past, when there were banquets at Elena's Manor, many little kids followed August eagerly, wanting to feed him.

It lies there gracefully, never responding in any way, except occasionally baring its canine teeth to scare away anyone who gets too close.

August hates people who have no sense of distance the most!

But... seeing how clingy it was at this moment, Miss Elena began to have slight doubts about her just-confirmed argument.

"I saw it before going on stage. I was very surprised. Before today, I never thought that it was you, Miss Irena, who was discussing Goethe's poems with me in the room that day." Gu Weijing put the book in his hand aside and said softly.

The man said, "Maybe the conversation at the Raffles Hotel could only be regarded as a bad one, but personally, we had a very pleasant conversation at St. Andrew's Church. I was really happy that day. I even felt a sense of familiarity, like meeting an old friend again."

"At that time, I thought it was hard to imagine that I had said so much to someone I had just met for the first time, through a window. And strictly speaking, that was only our second meeting."

"Me too."

When this matter was mentioned, Anna's expression gradually softened.

"An unexpected, pleasant conversation. Thank you, Mr. Gu. I felt very upset that day, but you...your words helped me a lot."

She was half-kneeling beside the candlestick, silently confessing and praying.

The woman's heart was filled with sorrow, and she was anxious and grief-stricken.

After someone outside the window answered her words.

The candlelight in front of her slowly reflected into her heart, not burning, but light, full and warm.

She was like a completely different person.

It was at that moment that Anna truly understood how Kara felt when she stood in front of the drawing board one hundred and fifty years ago.

"not me."

Gu Weijing shook his head.

"Miss Elena, it was because of that conversation that day that I believed that such a person had warmth in her heart, and something was burning. I slowly began to no longer believe that the person who knelt alone in front of the candlelight and whispered Goethe's poems would not be someone who could not feel the power of warmth. Nor would he be someone who would not speak except for checks and gun muzzles."

"You changed my mind, Miss Elena."

Gu Weijing said seriously.

"For my part, I am very, very grateful for many of the things you did on stage today that I would not have wished on that person in the cafe at the Raffles Hotel if I had been facing her. And I certainly would not have asked him to do the same if I had been facing Alexander."

"But I am facing you, the one who kneels alone before the candlelight, reciting Goethe's poems in a touching tone."

“I was thinking, you can do it.”

Gu Weijing grabbed August's claws.

"In the philosophy that ancient Eastern sages yearn for, benevolence itself is also a kind of power. Inaction is also action. We cannot destroy anyone who offends the Elena family."

Gu Weijing made a quotation mark gesture with his fingers and said.

"'KILL' or hatred itself does not solve the problem. People with bad intentions like Alexander will always exist. Love and understanding, you talked about this over and over again in your speech today, why is it different when it comes to you?"

"If I am to be lynched for offending your family, then I should be the one who should be most worried, right?" Gu Weijing shrugged.

"You are trying to change the subject, Mr. Gu. We are talking about completely different things."

Miss Elena won't fall for Gu Weijing's tricks.

If Gu Weijing wants to win a debate against Miss Elena, he probably has to start practicing from the Stone Age.

The love and understanding she talked about were for Monet and Camille.

It is for Gu Weijing.

Who the hell is Alexander? Don't get involved with him.

"If you talk about love and understanding when you make a mistake, how can fairness and justice be maintained? You forgave people like Alexander, which is unfair to you. Okay, even if you have a lot of love, it is also unfair to Claude Monet and Camille. Isn't their fairness fair?"

"Love and understanding, is it useful to talk about love and understanding to some people?"

She got angry whenever Anna mentioned this.

"You were very restrained and modest on the stage today. Well, maybe you did change Rosings's opinion, even though you paid the price of donating a painting. But did you change Alexander? I pushed him away gently time and time again, but he rushed back more and more fiercely. Facts speak louder than words!"

"Well, now, at this moment, maybe Alexander's attitude has indeed changed, and then what? Did he truly realize his mistake and then repent? No, he is just afraid, terrified, and then grateful. Believe me, he won't even be grateful to you! Of course, if you ask me, he doesn't deserve to be grateful to you."

Miss Elena spoke in a tone that sounded like she was disappointed with someone.

"You told me about the philosophy of power. Well, I will tell you about the philosophy of power, too. In my opinion, this so-called leniency is not really leniency. It is the same as the favorite trick of the Russian tsars in the classical era, dragging the criminal to the execution ground. Before the execution, the executioner tapped the criminal on the shoulder with a sword, broke the sword in half, and said, "Your Majesty has pardoned your sins." Is there any difference?"

Gu Weijing shook his head.

When it comes to moral issues, he has never been able to win an argument with Miss Elena.

But he did not agree with the other party's view.

In his heart, he believed that the benevolence in the minds of true Eastern philosophers and wise men was different from the examples given by Miss Elena. It was a kind of power that was different from the tricks of power... a truly warm power.

Just like the sun, the spring breeze, and the candlelight.

"I never said that Alexander didn't need to pay a price or accept punishment. He is already paying a price. You and I both know very well what such a big embarrassment at the interview with Oil Painting magazine means to his academic career."

"He will pay the price for what he has done. He will be ridiculed and attacked by the academic community for the injustice he caused Monet and Camille to endure. If that is not enough, the descendants of Monet and Camille may even sue Alexander. He should bear all of this."

"What I want to say is that since there is a stable artistic order and a set of social rules, those who want to stir up trouble should pay the price and be condemned by those who want to stir up trouble. Instead of letting the high-ranking Irina family make him pay the price."

Gu Weijing explained.

"Then what about the injustice suffered by Elena's family and Kara's injustice? If I were not here today, think about it, what if Kara did not leave those records? What if Alexander had the upper hand today? Does that mean that Kara will disappear forever in the long river of history?"

Anna's face showed anger towards Alexander.

(End of this chapter)