Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 449: Art

Wei Yunzhi seemed to like the "task" that Li Yan gave her this time.

At around 10 o'clock in the evening, Li Yan had been reading the analysis report for a long time. Just as he put it down and was about to go to bed, he saw a message pop up on WeChat:
"See you at Rongxi Art Expo at nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

Have you been planning your trip?
"Are you still not asleep at this hour?"

"No problem, I've arranged everything!"

Li Yan felt a little embarrassed. He was just joking. To put it bluntly, he just wanted the beautiful girl to find a place of interest to visit.

Because he really doesn't know where to go shopping and buy good things.

Actually, he didn’t know what he wanted to buy.

Art Expo World?

You don't want to buy art, do you?
Li Yan suddenly had a wonderful idea. Could it be that Wei Yunzhi still remembered the painting her father bought?
For example: "Not only do you not let me see your paintings, but you also sell them?"

So now you go buy other people's paintings to get revenge?

In fact, it was an illogical idea, but Li Yan just made the connection inexplicably.

"Not really, not really..." he muttered to himself. He just had no idea why the beautiful girl arranged for him to go to this place.

On the contrary, I'm really looking forward to it.

"How are you going to get there tomorrow?" Li Yan asked.

"Take the subway. It's only a 200-meter walk after you get off the subway."

"Then I'll take the subway too."

To his shame, Li Yan had originally planned to ask Xiao Gao to drive him to the Art Expo, and he also wanted to pick up Wei Yunzhi.

Once you get used to it, it’s hard to go from extravagance to frugality.

Li Yan slept particularly soundly that night. The next day, she woke up later than the alarm clock, which was rare. She was fully alert after just yawning and brushing her teeth.

“Very good condition.”

Li Yan was choosing clothes in front of the mirror, and then he found that apart from the various high-end clothes he had bought to match his status as a big boss, he really didn't have any decent summer clothes.

"How about wearing a school uniform? ... No, that's too pretentious, and it's low-level pretense, which doesn't fit my pretentious aesthetic."

POLO is prepared for attending some meetings in summer and is definitely not worn when going out.

That leaves only sporty clothes.

After being silent in front of the wardrobe for ten seconds, Li Yan decided to take a few walks, put on a quick-drying sports shirt and set off.

With this height, appearance and body shape, as long as the style of the clothes is right, they will look like haute couture when worn.

Light blue high-end custom quick-drying clothes.

There are still a lot of people on the subway on weekends. In Li Yan's carriage, many people were secretly taking photos, and after taking them they would exchange a few words with their companions.

However, no one dared to come up and say hello, because Li Yan was wearing a mask and headphones, and looked like she didn't want to be approached by strangers.

He was curious. He was not a star. He was handsome, but he didn't show up in public that often. With headphones and a mask, only his eyes were left. How could he be recognizable?
In fact, everyone is just interested in a 185cm tall, strong and handsome guy.

Wei Yunzhi was waiting for him at the subway entrance.

It's also very eye-catching.

The subway entrance is not far from the art exhibition area, so the surrounding environment is decorated with some artistic elements.

Looking out from the subway entrance, there is a row of green plants of varying heights and colors, which is very elegant.

At the end of June, the air is filled with summer, but it’s not too hot to be unpleasant.

The sky is clear and blue, and the white clouds are soft.

The little beauty is getting taller and taller. At the age of 16, her height has reached 170 cm.

She was wearing a white floral dress and holding a light blue parasol. Her waist was slim, and the strong wind at the subway entrance made her long hair flutter, and the clothes also outlined one side of her figure.

Just... doesn't look like a 16-year-old.

This immediately reminded Li Yan of Monet's "Woman with Umbrella in a Seaside Park" - a fresh version.

Many people will take a glance at it when entering and exiting the subway entrance. It is as beautiful as an oil painting, and one glance is enough to make you feel relaxed and happy.

Li Yan said I was staring at it.

The beautiful girl felt a little embarrassed by the evil wind. She held the umbrella with one hand and pulled her skirt with the other, trying her best to prevent the skirt from sticking to the outline of her waist, hips and legs. Her expression also looked a little anxious.

She glanced towards the escalator and her eyes met Li Yan's.

Then the hands that were holding the skirt loosened, letting the evil wind do whatever it wanted.

Huh?

What's going on?
Am I, Li, overthinking?

Obviously this long elevator still has some length to it?
The two of them huddled together with a tacit smile on their faces, and the attention of others was more focused.

The rate of people turning their heads along the way was quite high, and most of them were well-intentioned, as handsome men and beautiful women are pleasing to the eye after all.

Wei Yunzhi's skin has always been very fair. Now the arm covered by the umbrella is cold white, while the arm shining in the sunlight is bright white, with a healthy red dividing line in the middle.

You can't reproduce this kind of color with oil paintings.

"Hello, Boss Li!" Wei Yunzhi couldn't suppress his smile since he met Li Yan.

"I became a big boss, are you happy?"

The beautiful girl immediately stopped smiling and said, "Of course I am happy to see you. I don't need you to be the boss."

"I'm glad to see you, too."

The girl blushed.

Li Yan felt refreshed when the wind blew on her face. She was in charge of a company with more than a thousand people and had seen so many big scenes. Now it was time to take control of you, my beautiful adolescent girl.

"Actually, I originally wanted to wear school uniform today." Wei Yunzhi said.

"original?"

"I feel like we're in high school uniforms, going out together like this, it looks like puppy love. Now that you're famous, I'm worried it might have a bad influence on you."

Why is it this reason? Shouldn’t it be “My mom said I can’t fall in love too early”?
"Wouldn't it be different if I didn't wear the school uniform?" Li Yan continued to maintain the "carefreeness of a prodigal son" - that's what he thought.

"Not 'early'."

……really.

Except for her face that looks like she is 16 years old, Wei Yunzhi looks like an adult in other aspects. She is tall and can easily hold up clothes of mature styles.

When she’s not wearing school uniform, she can no longer be associated with the image of a “little girl”.

But at 16 years old, she is no longer a little girl.

This is what is meant by being graceful and elegant.

As for Li Yan, in fact, including himself, few people really regard him as a minor.

He doesn't look like that at all. After his voice has gone through the voice change period, people who don't know the situation can't tell whether he is really young or just well-maintained.

Considering that Li Yan's appearance didn't show any signs of age, he now looked not much different from the 24-year-old he was when he was reborn in his previous life... and because of the physical improvements brought about by high-intensity exercise, the baby fat that was still visible until he was 24 in his previous life has now disappeared.

Apart from emphasizing "minor" when doing publicity, who can relate this person to a 16-year-old?

Without wearing high school uniforms, these two walking together look like a college couple.

This should be what Wei Yunzhi meant. He just said it’s not too early, he didn’t say he doesn’t love her anymore.

Li Yan didn't respond. He felt that something was wrong. Before, he had dodged the straight ball hit by the beautiful girl, so he thought that it was Wei Yunzhi's turn to dodge the straight ball when it was his turn.

It seems that Wei Yunzhi is preparing to use Tai Chi to take advantage of the opponent's force and return it! "How did you think of going to the Art World?"

"I'll buy you something, keep it secret for now."

The Rongxi District Art Expo World sounds like a very popular place.

In fact, it's the opposite. It's stuck in a position that's neither here nor there.

If you want to talk about awesome stuff, the really awesome ones are all in museums, and the New Taipei Art Museum and the like are the core areas.

To be more down-to-earth, there are many great artists living here, including retired professors from various art academies, famous painters, emerging artists, etc., and they have opened many personal studios.

In fact, it is just a place for oneself to create art works, paintings, sculptures, modern art installations... but there is no photography. In this art circle, photography is at the bottom of the contempt chain. I heard that several photography artists were dissatisfied with this and specially instigated the New Taipei City Photography Association to set up an office there. It's very interesting.

But precisely because it is a place where a group of artists come to have fun, there is basically no worldly atmosphere here.

The paintings sold are very expensive, and even if you are rich, people may not necessarily buy from you. The people who come in and out are people who come to see the exhibition because of its reputation, and people from the gallery.

The authorities originally wanted to build it up and even tidied up the surrounding environment, but after a few years it became half-dead and no one bothered to take care of it.

The architectural styles here are very mixed. Some are like old factories, some are made of red bricks and concrete, and some are built into villas. From time to time, a courtyard suddenly appears...

Therefore, the road was quite complicated, and Wei Yunzhi had to stop and frown after walking a few steps.

But judging from the situation, he should be someone he knows.

Sure enough, after wandering around, the two came to the entrance of a small courtyard.

Wei Yunzhi rang the doorbell, and soon an unkempt old man in slippers came to open the door, smiling.

"Hello, Grandpa Lin!" Wei Yunzhi greeted him energetically.

"Xiao Yunzhi is early, Li Yanzhi is early."

"Hey, good morning, Grandpa Lin."

The courtyard is very casual, just like the style of Grandpa Lin.

The old man is very recognizable, with a bald head and a gray beard that looks like a broom, but it is growing in the wrong direction.

"Lin Yao, a retired professor from Linjiang Academy of Fine Arts, and a good friend of my father." Wei Yunzhi introduced, "My father likes Grandpa Lin's paintings very much and bought quite a few of them. You should have seen them before. Grandpa Lin, this is..."

"I know, Li Yan. Yang Chengzhang's chief disciple." Lin Yao likes to stare when he speaks, and his expressions are very rich.

"Professor Lin knows my master?"

"How can I not recognize you? We are old friends! He kept praising you to me, saying you are amazing, so young, and so handsome." Lin Yao looked around Li Yan, "No wonder Xiao Yunzhi fell in love with you."

“Grandpa Lin!”

"Oh no no, no wonder Wei Yili fell in love with you."

It’s even more your fault, old man.

The two followed Lin Yao around his treasure house and admired his work area, inspiration collection area, tea drinking area and warehouse.

Li Yan's skill values ​​are there, and her understanding of painting and art is not false. When she sees a painting that interests her, she will stop and take a closer look.

After a few words, Lin Yao's excitement was beyond words.

"Good boy, no wonder Lao Yang likes you so much! You're amazing, let's take a look at this picture."

As the two of them started talking, Wei Yunzhi was left aside with a confused look on his face.

She only remembered that Li Yan frowned and looked at a place for a long time, and suddenly said, "You hesitated here, didn't you?" Lin Yao covered his heart with his hands.

In just over ten minutes, Lin Yao had already begun to scold Yang Chengzhang for not sharing his good disciple.

But until now, Li Yan still didn't know what Wei Yunzhi wanted to buy, until Lin Yao took out two wooden boxes and a burlap bag from under his drawing table.

"Xiao Yunzhi asked me to ask a friend to buy this for me," Lin Yao opened the wooden box, which contained many tubes of paint. "This box is McHardin's paint. Xiao Yunzhi picked out a lot of hard-to-find colors and helped me a lot."

Li Yan was still very interested in these things, and she really didn’t know much about them before.

Lin Yao was immediately interested. "There are also these ones, Brooks' traditional color collector's edition, hand-ground!"

Artists still attach great importance to this kind of humanistic value.

"This box is rock color, all of which are rare colors, with high purity and high price." Lin Yao curled his lips and smiled, "It's easy to be cheated if you don't know the person. Even your master can't get such good goods as mine."

Sounds weird?
Lin Yao took out a few more glass tubes from the sack. "Amber resin varnish. This quality is hard to come by. When Xiao Yunzhi came to me, I told her that I might not be able to get it."

"And these pens... this scraper has a history... and this palette is extraordinary..."

Lin Yao spoke like a treasure trove, his eyes sparkling.

Li Yan listened carefully and was indeed moved. She turned to look at Wei Yunzhi and said, "Are these what you wanted to bring me here to buy?"

"Yes." Wei Yunzhi looked embarrassed.

Lin Yao pushed the things to Li Yan. "Originally, I wanted to earn some transportation and labor fees from you, but I like you very much, so I only charge you the cost price, which is 21,800 in total."

"I'll give you a zero. Thirty thousand."

Is there such a way to round off to zero?

As a result, Lin Yao insisted on giving Li Yan a small painting, and insisted on inviting the two young men to have a meal together. Finally, when Li Yan and Wei Yun insisted in unison, he suddenly realized:
"It won't delay your romance, so go quickly."

Li Yan's face was frozen with laughter. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she heard the old man shouting from behind:

"Xiao Li Yan, come and see me when you are free. I am here every day now."

"Aren't you going home?" Li Yan just said casually.

"I didn't want to go back. My wife insisted that I go back before. I was not happy at all because of the daily necessities. We had many arguments. Later I said that I had been with her for so many years, gave her a lot of money, and had grandchildren. It would be great for her to live happily with her children and grandchildren. I said that if she wanted me to die in two years, she should let me go home. So she let me paint outside."

Li Yan was stunned.

"Hey, you two youngsters, don't learn from me. Live in harmony with each other."

Why are we brought up here again!

The two of them looked unnatural after hearing what the old man said. Li Yan took the paint and Wei Yunzhi took the painting. They walked out for a long time without saying a word.

"I really like the stuff," Li Yan decided to break the weird atmosphere, "It's thoughtful."

Wei Yunzhi pursed her lips and shook her head. "I originally wanted to ask him to choose something and then I would buy it. Just as you said you wanted to spend money, I thought about coming here to buy it together. But Grandpa Lin was too enthusiastic and looked like he was trying to sell me something..."

"Not really, not really. The stuff is very good, I know."

"Oh, if I had known earlier, I would have bought it for you." Wei Yunzhi sighed.

Li Yan originally thought that if you bought it for me, it was the same as if your dad bought it for me... Then she suddenly realized that twenty thousand yuan might really be pocket money for Wei Yunzhi.

"What's the matter? You mean there's something else to buy later?"

"Yeah, over there, buy some canvas, and there's a really nice...brush-washing pot."

"Are you going to give me the whole package?"

It seems like he said something unpleasant again.

Soon all the things that needed to be bought were bought. It was neither too much nor too little, and at least all four hands of the two people were used.

"Okay," Wei Yunzhi shook the brush holder in his hand, "The next step is to go sketching!"

So this was the arrangement. Li Yan smiled from the bottom of her heart.

It’s nothing else, I just think this bright girl in front of me is a little too cute.

"What are you drawing?"

"A flower. It's in the park next door."

(End of this chapter)