"Young comrade, do you know me?" the old man was stunned and asked.
"I know the famous Professor Chen from the School of Arts and Crafts, who is an expert in antique furniture. Who doesn't know him?
However, when I saw him today, I realized that the ancients did not deceive me." Zhang Junping said with emotion.
This old man is Chen Zengbi, a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts. He was the one who designed the canopy bed for the State Guesthouse, and was also the one who sent hairy crabs to Zhang Junping’s master Yang Mingde.
"Little comrade, what do you mean by this?"
"An ancient saying goes, it's better to be famous than to meet in person. Originally, the boy didn't take this sentence seriously!
When I met Professor Chen today, I realized that the ancients really had great wisdom." Zhang Junping said to Chen Zengbi with a smile.
"How presumptuous, you little comrade, can you speak? How did your adults teach you?" Chen Zengbi thought for a moment before he realized that Zhang Junping was scolding him. His face suddenly sank and he scolded loudly.
"My adults taught me to respect the old and love the young, but I won't be polite to those people who don't respect their elders!" Zhang Junping also said with a straight face, full of disdain.
"You..." Chen Zengbi blushed angrily at Zhang Junping, pointed at Zhang Junping and trembled.
"What am I?
After all, you are also a professor at the School of Arts and Crafts, and you are in your sixties. Do you understand the rules?
Or is this the usual style of your craftsmanship?" Zhang Junping stopped Chen Zengbi's words and scolded him sharply.
"You...you..."
"What am I? I'm such a grown-up person and I don't understand any rules. Didn't you see that I was negotiating the price?
According to the rules of the antique shop, you can't interrupt me before I say no, let alone pry him out directly." Zhang Junping reprimanded him unceremoniously.
There is a reason why Zhang Junping was so rude to Chen Zengbi.
One is that the two schools already have a competitive relationship and have conflicts.
Universities also have chains of contempt, and the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts is the one who is despised.
The Central Academy of Arts and Crafts is unwilling to give in and always wants to challenge the status of the big brother of the Central Academy of Fine Arts.
There is another school that wants to challenge the big brother status of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, the China Academy of Art, or Gome for short.
The second is the conflict between Chen Zengbi and Master Zhang Junping.
This old guy didn't hire craftsmen from Beijing to make the canopy bed he designed for the State Guesthouse. Instead, he went to Suzhou to find craftsmen from Su.
This guy just looks down on the craftsmen of Kyoto.
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The most irritating thing is that you run to find Su Zuo, just do it quietly, and you bring over a big bag of hairy crabs. Who would be disgusted?
Originally, Zhang Junping only planned to gradually improve the level of craftsmen in his furniture factory, and one day open a canopy bed store, and compete with Chen Zengbi for the canopy bed in the State Guesthouse.
In a battle over skills, skills must speak for themselves.
However, this Chen Zengbi was so determined to hit the muzzle of the gun that he refused to follow the rules and grabbed the top of the box with Zhang Junping.
Chen Zengbi showed his face, and Zhang Junping was naturally not polite. If he didn't hit him, it would be in vain, and if he hit him, it would be in vain.
Anyway, Zhang Junping feels very happy when he is slapped in the face.
Over there, the middle-aged clerk who had been accompanying Zhang Junping was dumbfounded.
What is going on?
He naturally knew Chen Zengbi, who was an expert in designing canopy beds for state hotels and a professor of industrial arts. To him, he was a proper boss.
He was actually criticized, and he was criticized so violently.
At first, the middle-aged clerk was a little uneasy. If you guys fight, don't let me, a fish in the pond, suffer.
If he is asked to judge, who should he turn to?
But after hearing the end, the middle-aged clerk felt that Professor Chen should really be criticized. You are a big professor, you are so old, and you don’t understand any rules?
The middle-aged clerk has been working in the cultural relics store for almost 20 years, starting as an apprentice and now serving as the cabinet team leader.
From the first day of his apprenticeship, his master taught him the rules of the antique shop. Over the past twenty years, the rules of the antique shop have been engraved in his bones.
Therefore, now the middle-aged clerk is very disgusted, even disgusted, with Chen Zengbi's breaking of rules.
"..." Chen Zengbi's face turned red from the rebuke and he was speechless.
It's not that he doesn't understand the rules, it's just that he suddenly saw a perfect piece of furniture and couldn't suppress his love for it, so he impulsively broke the rules.
Of course, there is something in this. Chen Zengbi has received too much flattery recently. After designing a canopy bed for the State Guesthouse and having it performed by national leaders, Chen Zengbi feels that he has reached the pinnacle of his life and is a little arrogant.
If it were another person today, maybe he would give Chen Zengbi face and give him the top box directly.
He even said some compliments.
It's a pity that he met Zhang Junping.
“Team Leader Li, I want this top box, please give me an invoice!
I'll look at the other items and we'll pay together later." After quarreling with Chen Zengbi, Zhang Junping stopped talking to him and turned to the middle-aged clerk.
Of course, I am also worried that if Chen Zengbi is angered to death, he will not be able to escape the relationship.
"Okay, Director Zhang, please wait a moment. I will issue an invoice for you right now." The middle-aged clerk didn't even look at Chen Zengbi and turned around to issue an invoice.
Chen Zengbi was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. Ever since he designed the canopy bed for the State Guesthouse, no one had ever dared to treat him like this.
"Who is your master?" Chen Zengbi held back his words for a long time before he could speak.
"Zhang Junping, Central Academy of Fine Arts, my master's surname is Yang, and his courtesy name is Mingde.
Professor Chen is welcome to visit CAFA at any time." Zhang Junping said with a grin.
"So you are Mingde's apprentice. Do you know who I am?"
"I know! Professor Chen Zengbi, the one who designed the canopy bed for the State Guesthouse!"
"I am your uncle!"
"Don't! My master doesn't have you as his apprentice, so don't pretend to be my uncle here. Be careful that he comes to chat with you at night. What if he takes you away if you are happy with the chat?" Zhang Junping's words almost made him laugh.
Chen Zengbi fainted from anger.
Chen Zengbi decided not to talk to Zhang Junping anymore and turned around to leave.
Before leaving, he did not forget to say a harsh word, "I'm going to find your master. I want to ask him how he teaches his disciples."
Looking at Chen Zengbi's face deformed with anger, a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed through Zhang Junping's mind.
One toad has four legs, two toads have seven legs?
The deformation effect of visual communication will make the picture more realistic.
A picture flashed through Zhang Junping's mind.
Every picture was shattered and then reorganized when Zhang Junping appeared.
At this moment, Zhang Junping finally realized the meaning of the old lady's words.
Think about the fact that the giant wood sculpture "Morning in Wangfujing" that I carved is really real, and the carving skills are also very good, which can be said to be meticulous.
However, it always looks a little unnatural and uncoordinated.
No matter which part or character is taken out individually, it is perfect.
However, when put together, they always lack a little charm.
Zhang Junping laughed silently, I didn't expect it!
He actually made himself enlightened by criticizing others.