The Romance of a Young Painter

Zhou Nianjiu quickly forgot what he had just discussed. He opened the car body and found a beautiful leather box inside. When he opened it, it was Parnini's David. It was made into the size of a palm, and the workmanship was very exquisite. .

Zhou Nianjiu raised his eyebrows with joy and asked, "Brother, did you buy it?"

Wen Juan said, "Look carefully."

Zhou Nianjiu turned over the base, and the National Museum was engraved on it, apparently brought back from City B this time.

The National Museum holds international art exchange exhibitions all year round, and Wen Juan occasionally finds time to go for a walk, in order to search for gadgets that he can’t usually buy for his younger brother.This pocket statue was bought during the Sino-Italian Joint Art Exhibition in March. When Wen Juan came back, he packed it tightly in his luggage bag. In order not to be discovered by Zhou Nianjiu, he secretly hid it in the car for almost a month. Originally, it was intended as a present for my younger brother's birthday, but now by accident, it was revealed in advance.

Zhou Nianjiu asked, "Is it for me?"

Wen Juan saw that he couldn't put it down, so he had no choice but to say: "If you like it, just play with it."

"Thank you brother." Zhou Nianjiu quickly focused on studying his new toy.

However, Wen Ju'an started to worry about the need to re-choose gifts. Just now he teased Zhou Nianjiu with the gift of the teacher's meeting, and now it's his turn, really unhappy about the retribution.

When the two brothers arrived home, Wen Wenyuan had already returned from the company, and Xu Xiaomin was also there.

"Brother An, Xiao Nianjiu, you are back." Xu Xiaomin greeted them with a smile.

Zhou Nianjiu greeted her, and then asked: "Sister Xiaomin, today is a holiday, didn't brother tell you?"

"I have something to ask your brother," Xu Xiaomin patted the folder on the table, and said to Wen Ju'an, "Brother An, the registration is almost done, and there are some places that need you to confirm. Also, the office is suitable for the start-up period I also picked a few, you come to pick and choose, find some time to go to the scene together to have a look, if you like it, sign the contract."

Wen Wenyuan sat on the sofa in the living room flipping through the report, but his attention was involuntarily attracted by the elder son. Wen Juan's serious look reminded him of when he first started his business, but the elder son was more successful than him, and was seven years younger. Regardless of his age, he is more sophisticated in handling things than he was back then.After the two young people finished chatting, Wen Wenyuan said: "Seeing that your preparations are quite efficient, why don't you strike while the iron is hot and quickly decide on the location. It just so happens that I plan to sort out the cases of several major clients at home tomorrow, and I will be a day-study for Xiao Nian by the way." , you go about your business."

Xu Xiaomin immediately voted for it.

Wen Juan also agreed.

The next day, Wen Wenyuan took the documents he hadn't read before going to bed last night to the study room. The smaller desk was used by him frequently, and the larger one was used by the eldest son before, but now it has been packed away for the younger son. .

Zhou Nianjiu has already started to study. In front of him, there are several stacks of review materials. Wen Wenyuan knows that there are densely packed study notes inside.He has seen his youngest son's hard work these days. Although he feels distressed, he understands better than others the principle that what you sow and what you reap is better than others. What he can do now is unconditionally support and be his son's strong backing.

Wen Wenyuan put tea on the two tables, and prepared snacks for Zhou Nianjiu, and then started to do his own thing.

In the afternoon, Zhou Nianjiu suddenly received a message from Shen Guangji.

- I was temporarily released by a friend, and I don't know where to go shopping. What do you recommend?

Zhou Nianjiu seldom goes out, and the only place he can think of for a while is TZ square on the Bund. The Bund is famous. He guessed that Shen Guangji had already been there, so he typed:

- You might as well go to TZ Fang to have a look. It is said that there are many creative shops, and there are also artists who set up design offices and studios there.

After a while, the message came back:

-Looks like a good place to kill time, and it's not far from my hotel, thanks for the suggestion.

Zhou Nianjiu put down the phone and thought for a while, then said to Wenmingyuan, "Dad, I'll go out for a while."

Wenmingyuan asked: "Is someone looking for you?"

"It's Mr. Shen Guangji from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has come to Shanghai."

"Is it that very young painter who came to talk to you after the Moore Awards last year?" Wen Wenyuan immediately remembered that he had a good impression of this person.

Zhou Nianjiu nodded and said, "It's him."

"You've been in touch?" Civilization asked far from uncertain.

"No, I met by chance yesterday. He is very knowledgeable in painting."

The youngest son's character is far more clear, although he is not above the top, but he has never seen him praise a few people since he was a child.

Wen Wenyuan asked, "What does he want from you?"

"It's not that he was looking for me," Zhou Nianjiu said, "It's that I need to answer him face to face."

Wen Wenyuan said, "What needs to be said in person?"

Zhou Nianjiu told Wenmingyuan about the exemption quota, and then said: "I have thought about it for a long time, and I decided to take the college entrance examination as planned before, but Mr. Shen is so kind, I want to thank him in person."

The exam-free quota is still from Central America, what a great opportunity to say no to it!Wen Wenming's heart is bleeding, but he has already made up his mind to be a good father who understands and supports his son, so he can only say: "Do you need a father to send you?"

"Need not."

Watching the door close in front of his eyes, Wenmingyuan suddenly felt the loneliness of the empty nester in advance—so why should he stay at home in order to create dating opportunities for the eldest son? Both sons should stay at home!

When Wen Wenming's thoughts diverged to the point where both his sons went out to study and got girlfriends to marry and have children, Zhou Nianjiu also took a taxi to TZ Square. He dialed the phone and asked, "Mr. Shen, where are you now?"

"TZ Square, I'm visiting a music box store."

"What's the name of the store?"

There was a pause over there, and he said, "Sky, the name of the store is Sky Music Box."

"Mr. Shen, please wait a moment, I will be there soon."

The small shop is not far away, Zhou Nianjiu followed the navigation and found it. It was a very conspicuous small shop. Doll soldiers who were about the height of a real person were standing guard at the entrance. Going up the stairs, he saw a variety of gadgets on display. In the lobby, there were quite a few people in the store, but he found Shen Guangji standing in a corner at a glance.

Shen Guangji is admiring a huge vertical organ-style decoration. The brass on the organ exudes a charming color. Shen Guangji standing tall and tall beside the organ looks like an elegant scenery. secretly looking at him.

"Teacher Shen." Zhou Nianjiu quickly walked over.

"Why are you here?" Shen Guangji asked.

"About yesterday's question, I want to answer Mr. Shen face to face." Zhou Nianjiu said.

"I hope it is an answer that satisfies us all." Shen Guangji said.

Zhou Nianjiu said: "The world is very big, and I am very small, but I still want to see this big world as much as I can, and also want to discover more unknown beauties in this world. I spent a long time Time to observe the beauty that I see, and then to put the best of them on the canvas, but I feel that this is not enough, I feel that I have been limited, I want to know how to use my heart instead of my eyes Painting, so I want to stay away from the pure artistic creation atmosphere for a while, to experience other different things, and see if I can open up this situation.”

"You have your own ideas, that's great," Shen Guangji didn't show any displeasure on his face, but he still said regretfully, "It's just a pity that I didn't give out the guarantee ticket for the first time."

Zhou Nianjiu said shyly, "Thank you, Mr. Shen."

Shen Guangji said: "If you really want to thank me, just accompany me for a walk, I just need a guide."

Zhou Nianjiu said, "I rarely come to these places."

Shen Guangji said: "Do you know the way?"

Zhou Nianjiu said, "Huh?"

Shen Guangji said: "It's okay, let's go."

After walking through the same alley for the third time, Zhou Nianjiu finally understood what Shen Guangji meant when he said, do you know the way? This seemingly mature and stable painter is actually a road idiot!After realizing this, Zhou Nianjiu directly took over the right to lead the way, and every time he reached the intersection, he was the first to go to the front.

Shen Guangji didn't say anything, but the raised corners of his mouth proved that he was in a good mood.

Zhou Nianjiu felt that it was very easy to get along with Shen Guangji, not only because he was easy-going and did not have the airs of a famous painter, but also because he felt that he was very similar to him in many aspects, including the way of seeing things and his views on things. On the same frequency, there is a rare tacit understanding.

By evening, the two of them had become quite familiar with each other.

"Mr. Shen, look at that store, isn't the scene very Renoir?"

What Zhou Nianjiu was talking about was a small tavern. The owner had set up a few tables and chairs outside. Several young people couldn’t wait for the dark to sit outside, drinking and talking and laughing. The smiles filled their faces, and the alcohol made their complexions rosy. , eyes sparkling.

"Yes, there is a bright and sweet atmosphere." Shen Guangji said, "In fact, your paintings are also very bright, but there is a kind of coldness that overrides them, just like the painter who stripped his emotions and overlooked the depicted scenery from above. I started to pay attention to you because I was attracted by your uniqueness, and I also noticed that you only paint landscapes, not figures.”

"It's not that I don't draw characters, it's because I didn't draw them well." Zhou Nianjiu was very frank.

Shen Guangji said, "Is it because of the subtraction you mentioned earlier?"

Zhou Nianjiu nodded and said: "I always ignore some deep-seated things unconsciously, or it's not ignoring, but hard to understand, so it's hard for me to grasp the personality of the models, and the paintings are always not like them."

Shen Guangji looked at his distressed look thoughtfully, and suddenly said: "Let's go, accompany me to another place."

"where to?"

Shen Guangji said: "Xintiandi."

"Ah? Okay." Zhou Nianjiu checked the time, first sent a message to Wenmingyuan saying that he would be back later, and then said, "Mr. Shen, let's go out on TK Road and take a taxi."

Shen Guangji said: "No, let's go by bike."

"Bike? What kind of bike?" Zhou Nianjiu looked around in confusion.

Shen Guangji turned on the navigation and said, "Let's go, the car is parked in front."

Zhou Nianjiu glanced at his phone, saw the little red dot on it representing the destination, and thought of Shen Guangji's road-crazy attributes, probably because he had marked it long ago in case he got lost and couldn't find it.Zhou Nianjiu followed behind Shen Guangji, watched helplessly as Shen Guangji walked towards the parking belt for bicycles on the side of the road, then took out the key and calmly unlocked a small electric donkey—a tender pink color.

Could it be that there is actually a girlish heart hidden under Teacher Shen's elegant appearance?

Zhou Nianjiu's whole body is not well.