Love and Gentle Township: Billionaire Sister

Chapter 28 Deadly Vortex (1)
61.PEN

On another weekend after the successful conclusion of the Olympic torch relay ceremony, Fan Dayuan made a new appointment for the calligraphers and painters in Gaisan County, which had been assembled and then stranded.

On the big weekend, Fan Dayuan made a special trip to the provincial capital to invite Wu Lin, the chairman of the Provincial Calligraphers Association, Gu Xiongfei, the chairman of the Artists Association, and another one who didn’t join any other associations but was famous at home and abroad for his paintings of bamboo and portraits. Lanyue, a famous folk painting master, invited them together, and first opened a presidential suite at the Oriental Holiday Hotel and arranged to live there.

Only two people were invited to the calligraphy and painting circle in Xiahe City, one is Mu Shen, the former chairman of the Artists Association who has retired, and the other is Cao Wuji, who is good at painting Phnom Penh peonies.The large framed and laminated peony "National Beauty and Heavenly Fragrance" in Liu Wenying's living room is his proud work.Fan Dayuan is also the chairman of the Municipal Calligraphers Association, and he himself is the host and convener of this pen meeting.With Brother Fan's calligraphers here, no calligrapher in this city would dare to use an axe in this class.

The reason why the Calligraphy and Painter's Club must be arranged on the weekend after the big weekend is that the purpose is very clear, that is, to deliberately avoid officials who wear gauze hats in the officialdom.If there is no need to ask for something, the most reluctant thing for calligraphers and painters is to have dinner with officials.If you are not well-known, people will look down on you; if you are really famous, the officials are also very powerful and affordable, and will be regarded as honored guests.When exchanging cups and cups on the table, you can drop by and ask for your calligraphy and painting. It is difficult to refuse in person, let alone mention the retouching of the pen. Once the work is delivered, the best thing is to say thank you and smile.

This pen meeting at Oriental Holiday Hotel, because it was hosted and convened by Fan Dayuan, a celebrity in the painting and calligraphy circles, turned it into a gathering of friends in the circle that was partly for favors and partly for business.The big benefactor is of course Gaisan County.Although Fan Dayuan is a journalist by profession, he is well versed in art because he has been in the world of calligraphy and painting for a long time.Artists have to go through the stages of germination, skill training, and fame... these stages.The works of most calligraphers and painters are usually produced in the 50 years between the ages of 70 and 20. This is usually the prime time when calligraphers and painters are in the prime of life and occupy the art world with vigorous talent and vigorous writing skills.The several famous artists Fan Dayuan invited to the provincial capital happened to be around 60 years old, and they all made it clear when they invited each other that the favors and remuneration would be expensive, but they had to show their own housekeeping skills.Both Wulin and Lanyue made a resounding promise: "Since they are making ink for the friends of Chief Editor Fan, everyone is a friend who cares about face. If you have powder, you will definitely not put it on your butt." Gu Xiongfei, who is known as the "Plum Blossom King", But he didn't take it seriously, and muttered vaguely, "We'll see how the benefactors behave."

Guxiong Feiyi’s special skill in the painting circle is the "dragon, flying and phoenix dance picture", which is to cross the branches of plum blossoms into a dragon and phoenix dance-like structure in the composition, and then a little bit of red, which is very pleasing to the eye. The finale of the solo exhibition held in Beijing 20 years ago was "Flying Dragons and Phoenixes".It is said that it was picked up by the collectors of the British royal family at that time, and it was purchased at a sky-high price of one million US dollars.Afterwards, "Dragon, Flying and Phoenix Dance" was recreated when the painting exhibitions were held in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia, and then it was rarely sold. "Dragon, Flying and Phoenix Dancing" has a unique conception, dripping with splashes of ink, and dotted plums with cinnabar and rouge, which can be called a masterpiece of the world.The reason why Gu Xiongfei and Fan Dayuan were ambiguous is also the implication: he was afraid that Fan Dayuan would ask him to remake "Dragon, Fly and Phoenix Dance".Without a corresponding buyer, this painting definitely cannot be sold easily.In general brushwork, he only paints the sketches among the four gentlemen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, and does not easily paint large ones.And now ordinary people still can't invite him to paint.Fan Dayuan is an exception, because Fan Dayuan, who just became a reporter more than 20 years ago, is not afraid of tigers. He undertook investigations and interviews under heavy pressure, and helped him vindicate an unjust economic case and avoid prison.Then he wrote a long reportage "Flying Soaring to the Sky" for his experience of becoming famous as a painter.On the road to Gu Xiongfei's success, Fan Dayuan is not just a paving stone, or it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a boat crossing the river.

Therefore, when Fan Dayuan came forward to invite him, Gu Xiongfei had no reason to refuse.

However, what is very frustrating is that almost without exception, people in the art world are all lovers, and their sensitivity and adhesion to the opposite sex are many percentage points higher than ordinary people.It was still early when I stayed at the Oriental Holiday Hotel in the afternoon of the big weekend.According to the original plan, after all the invited calligraphers and painters arrived, we would have some leisure after the dinner, and then we would display paper and ink the next day.However, Gu Xiongfei, Lanyue and Wulin, the three big names from the provincial capital, all cheered up as soon as they walked into the resplendent and resplendent Oriental Building.They are newcomers, and they really don't know that there are such places in Xiahe City, which is located on the edge of the provincial capital.

I went to the VIP room to sit down and drink tea. When Gai Sanxian came to visit the three masters, Fan Dayuan introduced them one by one.This introduction can be wind and water, the spring tide rises steeply.Although Wu Lin and Lan Yue are both gentlemen, they couldn't help but say a few compliments to Gai Sanxian, so they could finally sit still and keep their expressions steady.This kind of words and the scene covered the three counties, and I didn't feel much strange.In her words, the sparrow got into the flue and the smoke came out.When shaking hands with Gu Xiongfei and handing each other business cards, Gu Xiongfei's hands not only trembled, but his heart immediately seemed to be drilled into countless rolling caterpillars, and his eyes were more like surveillance vehicles on the highway The illegal probe seems to be determined to find flaws in Gaisanxian.

The result of the rapid investigation disappointed him very much. He is a famous painter who studies body art, and of course he understands the structural aesthetics of skin color, figure and curves better than ordinary people.However, his great artistry and pickiness can't find any flaws in Gaisan county.Looking back at the several titles on the business card and Gai Hongmei's name, this great painter is even more shocking.All the famous bullish frame sets disappeared in an instant.Some are full of prostration and determination to please her even after death.It was the first time in his life that he saw such a female boss, and he said in his heart: "It's over, and now I've run into a love creditor from my previous life. If I don't hand over "Dragon, Flying and Phoenix Dance", I will feel sorry for myself."

Gu Xiongfei had a panoramic view of the changes in Gu Xiongfei's expression and Fan Dayuan, in order to break out of the predicament, he said: "Use tea, use tea. Cover the boss, this Biluochun is really refreshing."

"That's right, that's good, tea is more fragrant when people are good." The three calligraphers and painters all praised the tea while tasting the tea. It was so surprising.

To say that the physical characteristics of the three calligraphers and painters in the provincial capital are really different.Gu Xiongfei was born with big arms, a round waist and a full sky, but his head is already bald, while the vegetation on his temples and the back of his head is still lush and abnormal. Because of his comfortable and well-nourished life, his bald head is so bright that it can almost reflect the shadow of a person, so he has to stroke it with his left hand from time to time. With his sideburns covered and the top brightened, he teased himself that this was called "local support for the central government".

The skinny Lanyue not only has ribs, but also has sharp edges and corners on her face. What she is proud of is her thick wavy hair. Looking at her back, many guys mistake her for a fair lady with long hair and shawls.To say that the most agile is martial arts, because seborrheic alopecia has long since bald, and even the remaining few hairs are completely wiped out, and one has the demeanor of a Shaolin monk.

There are many strange people in the art world.The different physical characteristics of the three calligraphers and painters made Gai Sanxian suddenly curious. He thought that this forest is so big that there are really all kinds of birds. The four masters and apprentices of Monkey King in Journey to the West are all attracted.Despite thinking this way, Gaisan County's situation was handled seamlessly.While refilling the tea for everyone, he complimented each of the "Masters" one by one: "It's rare for all the masters to come to our small place in Xiahe. Stay for two more days to relax, and if you feel like it, just smear a few strokes and leave a souvenir. Just draw more I'm happy to draw less, I think I'm here to see Brother Fan meeting friends and relatives."

The more Gai Sanxian said this, the more Gu Xiongfei, who was eager to show off his skills, couldn't hold back anymore. Besides, he drank a lot of fragrant tea refilled by a female boss who looked like a fairy, it was absolutely no different from a concubine concubine giving a gift to a warrior. How can he not give up his life and forget about the death of the heroic spirits on the road.

"Brother Fan, the tea is ready, and the ink is ready!" Gu Xiongfei was determined to show off his housekeeping skills and show his skills in front of Gaisan County, just like Guan Yunchang on the stage ordered Zhou Cang to pull the knife.

Gai Sanxian said repeatedly: "No hurry, no hurry. I have come so far, and I have not given my strength to all the masters. It is too embarrassing."

Fan Dayuan knew Gu Xiong Feishun's temperament as a donkey, and he said that when he started, he would take advantage of the wind and set sail, and he was sure that his pen would produce a good job.If you don't want to paint, if you press the bull's head forcibly, you won't drink water.It is already a great honor to be invited here, and painting big and small can only be done according to one's mood.Looking at Gu Xiongfei's eagerness to fight now, he must be swaying a priceless masterpiece.So he said to Gai Sanxian: "It's better to obey than to be respectful. Since Chairman Gu is interested, let's all go to the chairman's meeting room on the third floor. The master can only let go when he is at the big table."

Watching celebrities write and paint is actually very interesting.With Gu Xiongfei's majestic and unrestrained size and momentum, it is easy to imagine that Lu Zhishen is pulling green onions in dry land when he handles the pen.In fact, it is not the case. To truly create a large-scale work, you must not only have a very solid brush and ink skill, but also have the bearing of hanging your elbows and lifting a catty in the air.

Fan Dayuan spread the canvas for Gu Xiongfei on the large painting table, and then covered it with a piece of Xuan.The two waitresses who called the pen and ink waiters didn't know how to cook, Gu Xiongfei asked them to pour all three bottles of Yuntouyan ink into a white porcelain washbasin, and then put some water into a large brush wash.Gu Xiongfei took out three brushes from the satchel he brought with him.This large paintbrush makes the layman look dumbfounded.Because it is almost comparable to the little mop that the driver of the car dusts the body of the car.

Gu Xiongfei moistened the ink with a large brush confidently, and after a little shaking, he lifted it up and rolled it left and right on the big inkstone, twisting it around, like an oolong stirring the sea, and then lifted the brush and turned the right side into the clear water The pen was slightly soaked in the plate, and the clear water in the plate immediately melted into a faint ink rhyme.In this way, a large brush dipped in ink forms two elliptical hemispheres with appropriate shades.Everyone in the calligraphy and painting circles knows that Gu Xiongfei's painting is simply a martial arts performance. With the spirit of the dantian, he lifts the pen from the left side of Zhang Erpixuan and writes it calmly, sometimes up and down, leaning forward and backward, twisting his body and back, it is by no means as easy as Lu Zhishen pulling a green onion in a drought, but exerting strength like pulling a weeping willow upside down Strong.After a while, Gu Xiongfei gently put away the pen as the qi in his dantian gradually released.The body of a soaring dragon that has fallen from the blue sky to the yellow spring has already appeared on the paper. The dragon's head, dragon body, and dragon tail are alternately virtual and real, and the shades are appropriate.

"Okay!" Almost everyone who knows what to do but who doesn't know how to do it applauds in unison, "It's really a master, a master, and a master."

"This is what it means to be like a big pen, and a soft pen to let the top down." Fan Dayuan's admiration was beyond words, and he almost wrote a poem impromptu.

Gu Xiongfei brought up the No. [-] pen again and dipped it in thick and light, so that he was so excited.Then from the right side of Zhang Erpixuan to the left, the shadows are vague, outlined, alternate with virtual and real, and well-proportioned. In a short while, the main structure of the phoenix head, phoenix body and phoenix tail is written on the ink paper.

"It's wonderful." Fan Dayuan blurted out his colorful poems again when he was touched by the scene, "This is called waving his body to draw the wind and ribs in the sky, and his pen draws dragons and phoenixes dancing. The ancient chairman's painting is a masterful hand, a great master, famous all over the world, and priceless!" "

"Don't talk about the priceless value, it should be the priceless love." Gu Xiongfei complacently responded, and the three pens took turns to go into battle, and after a while, the dragon claw, dragon beard, dragon tail, phoenix claw, phoenix wing, and phoenix tail were all drawn. Attempt to turn into branches and flowers of plum blossoms, and then start to touch the plum blossoms with cinnabar rouge, pitch and sideways, each with a posture, some are budding, some are full of red, full of the fragrance of plum blossoms, floating proud snow and frost The beauty has always left everyone dumbfounded, and their eyes are full of red plum blossoms in the snow.Gaisanxian was naturally even more delighted, and he was grateful to Fan Dayuan for his chivalry and righteousness, for his dedication to help his friends, but he never wanted anything in return.

After painting, before the bell seal, Gu Xiongfei inscribed two lines of poems with smooth cursive lines: The dragon roams the five continents and sows rain diligently, and the phoenix dances in the summer river and the snow is red.The inscription is: Written for the grandeur of Chairman Hongmei Restaurant, Xiongfei Wuzi Year Midsummer.The purpose of the painter's inscription is to prevent the painting from being given away or sold.Fan Dayuan is well versed in this unspoken rule in the world of calligraphy and painting, and at the same time feels that Gu Xiong's flying this time is really a big face to the sky.Although "Dragon, Flying and Phoenix Dance" has been generously sold, its intention is not to pay for the appearance fee, but to show favor on purpose.

62.Quatrains

There are obviously fewer official dinners on the big weekend.The reception banquet for the three calligraphers and painters in the provincial capital was arranged at Swan Lake TAG Heuer in the restaurant on the second floor of the hotel.Fan Dayuan invited two painters from Xiahe City to accompany him.Mr. Mu Shen, who is good at flower and bird painting, has arrived early, while Cao Wuji, who is much younger than him, has not been seen for a long time, and he is always on the phone. "What kind of tricks is this bird man playing?" Although Fan Dayuan and Cao Wuji are close friends, they are very tired of this imprecise broken watch.I have already talked to three calligraphers and painters in the provincial capital to invite Cao Wuji to accompany them, and they are also very close friends in the painting and calligraphy circles.Even Cao Wuji, a rogue boy, couldn't invite him, Fan Dayuan felt that he really couldn't afford to lose face.So he asked Gaisanxian to sit down with everyone to drink tea first, choose some recipes, and then drove to look for them in person.Fortunately, it's in this city, so it's not too far away and it won't take long.

This Cao Wuji is not only in Xiahe, but also in the calligraphy and painting circles of Beining Province, he is also a well-known rogue man.I don't know if he has found a family tree with real evidence. He claims that Cao Cao, who was defeated by Chibi in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is his ancestor.Cao Wuji's most embellished Danqing painting is Phnom Penh peony. After collecting scenery in Xibaipo Peony Garden, "Sacred Land and Heavenly Fragrance" he created won a national award.This guy is a prodigy in the art world with a genius but no formality.She almost exhausted all her efforts and painstaking efforts to catch up with a girl, but she disappeared after less than a year of marriage.Originally, I had a good wife, a happy family, and a good job, but I didn’t follow the right path, and I didn’t want to eat the right food, and I just liked to eat wild food outside.Friends all admit that he is very talented, but at the same time feel very helpless to him.Fortunately, this person has no private affairs that he dare not tell others, but he dares to do things that should not be done.If you ask him to either don't do it or don't say it, it's like playing the piano with a cow.

Just when everyone had just ordered the dishes, Fan Dayuan insisted on getting Cao Wuji here like a policeman arresting a thief.

Cao Wuji's originally clean face turned into a black-eyed chicken at some point, his ankle seemed to be injured, and he limped and trembled when he walked.Cao Wuji, who was originally looking very depressed, immediately cheered up when he met Gu Xiongfei, the leader of the provincial capital and an old friend of his seniors, and the others, and shook hands one by one in a circle to apologize, saying: "Damn Wuji, let all the teachers and leaders Awaited."

After exchanging greetings, sit down in order of seniority.Several dishes have been served, and the eight little swans have already filled their cups with wine to wait for the guests.Gu Xiongfei is the guest of honor, so of course there is no need to apologize first: "This time I came to Xiahe to practice pens. I am grateful to the editor-in-chief Fan for his love. Boss Hongmei is kind enough to be the host. Gu is very honored. Because of a bad heart, a certain I’ve never drunk alcohol, I’m happy today, so let’s start the precept. Let’s have a drink first, and congratulate the friends from the calligraphy and painting circles in the provincial capital and Xiahe City to celebrate at Boss Hongmei’s Dongfang Hotel.”

Everyone raised their glasses together and drank it all in one gulp.The Wuliangye ordered by Gu Xiongfei has a strong taste. Many people put down their glasses and take a sip of chrysanthemum tea for a slow release.

The eight little swans all went to pour the wine carefully for the guests they were in charge of in time.After being seated, Fan Dayuan and Gaisanxian originally had wine words in their hearts, and wanted to welcome the guests in the provincial capital as landlords.Unexpectedly, Gu Xiongfei was so impatient that he turned to the guest and rang the opening gongs and drums first.The two had no choice but to follow the rhythm of the guest first, and then express their welcome when he landed on the board.Looking at Gu Xiongfei's behavior in the world, he can only do what he wants, and must not let him be disappointed.Since he sold "Dragon, Fei and Phoenix Dance" without bargaining, we can only do everything we can to make him happy.

Gu Xiongfei really wanted to control the dinner, and he still didn't let go after three cups, and immediately asked the question: "There are rules in the wine field, and the army is not uniform. After three cups, discipline should be strictly enforced, and penalties should be imposed first. In the circle of calligraphy and painting All of you here should be Younger Cao Wuji, who is young and promising, not to mention that the three of us all came from the provincial capital on an excursion, even in terms of age and seniority, I am also your elder brother and elder brother, I did not expect that you are so close, but you are long in coming Please tell me the reason for being late. If there is a legitimate reason, I will be punished for three cups. If there is no legitimate reason, you will be fined six cups, brother Cao, to thank the Fang family and the righteous people in the world."

"It makes sense." Everyone in the audience supported Chairman Gu's reasoning and decision in unison.Cao Wuji hesitated to speak, and asked Miss Swan to fill up five more wine glasses to form a triple pair.After that, he got up and clasped his fists to greet Chairman Gu and everyone in turn: "Senior Chairman Gu, all teachers, brothers and colleagues, Wuji has little virtue and talent, and he came late. , but to tell the truth, you need to be strong and courageous. In order to apologize to everyone, I will accept the punishment first.”

(End of this chapter)