"What's the matter? Is something wrong?" Gu Junlin turned around and asked lukewarmly.
"Can you come with me to the exhibition hall on the second floor? There is a master painter there who admires your crappy paintings and wants to talk to you."
Zhong Fabai spoke reluctantly, and then threatened: "Don't be ungrateful. If you don't come with me, you will have a hard time in the Zhong family in the future.
"No time." Gu Junlin refused directly.
"You bastard!" Zhong Fabai became angry with embarrassment. He took a step forward and stretched out a hand to grab Gu Junlin's arm and pull him down.
"Stop!" A loud shout suddenly came from behind.
Zhu Wenshan came to Zhong Fabai with a serious face, and beside him stood Zhong Fabai's girlfriend Dai Wenyue.
Zhu Wenshan glanced at Zhong Fabai and asked coldly: "Who are you? Who told you to be so rude to this gentleman?"
Zhong Fabai was already full of blood now. He put his hands on his hips and raised his chin: "I am the young master of the Zhong family. What's wrong with Zhong Fabai? This Gu Junlin is my son-in-law of the Zhong family. I can scold him as much as I want."
"This is a cultural center, please don't make trouble here!" Zhu Wenshan suddenly emphasized his tone.
"What's wrong with the cultural center? Why did I cause trouble?" Zhong Fabai had now fully revealed his dandy nature and started making a big quarrel in the corridor.
Zhu Wenshan frowned and said no more. He called the security guard and asked Zhong Fabai to be driven away.
"Kick him out!" Zhu Wenshan waved his hand casually, and Zhong Fa Bai was kicked out of the cultural center with curses.
Zhong Fa left in vain, and the entire cultural center became much cleaner.
Zhu Wenshan then looked at Gu Junlin with a smile and asked, "Are you Mr. Gu Junlin? Did you draw the "Chicken Eating Rice" picture at the entrance of the cultural center?"
"Yes, you are?"
Gu Junlin looked confused, Zhu Wenshan quickly introduced himself, and then invited Gu Junlin to meet Mr. Zeng.
Gu Junlin shook his head regretfully: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhu, I really have something to do now. I came here to discuss something with Aunt Xu Lin."
"You mean that Xu Lin who can embroider?" Zhu Wenshan showed a knowing smile: "You don't have to look for her, I'll call her and ask her to come over. We are good friends."
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Wenshan dialed Xu Lin's number, and the door at the corner behind the corridor was opened.
An intellectual and elegant elderly lady glanced at Zhu Wenshan with a mobile phone in her hand, and immediately walked towards him with brisk steps.
"Zhu Wenshan, why are you calling me if you're fine? I made an appointment with a young man here today to talk about something."
Xu Lin is already fifty-six years old this year, but her personality is still like that of a little girl, that is, she is young and old. When she saw Zhu Wenshan, she said angrily.
"Haha." Zhu Wenshan actually smiled shyly and pointed at Gu Junlin beside him: "I'm not looking for you, this young man is looking for you."
"You are..." Xu Lin looked at Gu Junlin doubtfully.
Gu Junlin quickly introduced himself: "Hello, Aunt Xu, I am Gu Junlin. Mr. Tang Junshan introduced me to talk to you about embroidery."
"Oh." Xu Lin patted her forehead and asked, "Then how did you find Zhu Wenshan?"
Zhu Wenshan answered on his behalf and told what happened just now about Gu Junlin painting and Mr. Zeng wanting to see Gu Junlin. Xu Lin was greatly surprised and looked at Gu Junlin with interest and said:
"I didn't expect you to be able to paint. I used to be able to paint. We are in the same league. Why don't we go see Mr. Zeng first and then talk about cooperation."
When Xu Lin opened her mouth, Gu Junlin couldn't resist and nodded in agreement.
Several people came to the exhibition hall on the second floor. People in the exhibition hall cast curious glances at Gu Junlin and whispered:
"This is the person who drew "Chicken Eating Rice". I didn't expect him to be so young."
Gu Junlin was generous and said hello to Mr. Zeng under Zhu Wenshan's introduction.
However, Mr. Zeng suddenly made a request: "Young man, your painting of "Chicken Eating Rice" is indeed extraordinary. Can you draw another one on the spot to open everyone's eyes?"
Whoosh!
Everyone's eyes were fixed on Gu Junlin again, wanting to see if this boy could draw a second work of the same quality.
Gu Junlin was a little embarrassed. He just came to Xu Lin to cooperate and didn't want to make any limelight at all.
After thinking about it, Gu Junlin said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Zeng, my painting "Chicken Eating Rice" was also copied from someone else's. I will never be able to paint a painting of the same level again."
Mr. Zeng suddenly showed a disappointed expression and said calmly: "So that's it. Originally, I wanted to accept you as a closed disciple."
Zhu Wenshan and Xia Qingyu also felt very sorry for Gu Junlin. If Mr. Zeng accepted him as a closed disciple, this boy would definitely have nothing to worry about in his life.
The bystanders breathed a sigh of relief. If this kid had the skills of a master of traditional Chinese painting at such a young age, he would be fine in the future. Fortunately, he was copying others.
On the other hand, Gu Junlin's face was neither sad nor happy, he looked like a fine person.
Xu Lin watched from the side and nodded secretly, thinking to herself, this young man can really keep his composure.
Seeing that Gu Junlin refused to paint, Mr. Zeng lost interest in chatting and began to take over the position of tutors Zhu Wenshan and Xia Qingyu, commenting on the merits and demerits of the graduates' works one by one.
Gu Junlin and Xu Lin stood aside and quietly discussed cooperation.
"Aunt Xu, here are the samples of the clothes and the embroidery patterns I designed. Can you see if you can make them?"
Gu Junlin looked humble.
Spread the sample picture prepared in advance and the picture "A Hundred Birds Pay Attendance to the Phoenix" on the table.
Originally, Xu Lin didn't want to take this job. She planned to meet Gu Junlin and find a reason to send him away, as a favor to Tang Junshan.
But when she looked at the sample pictures provided by Gu Junlin, Xu Lin's expression immediately became excited.
She is a master of embroidery, so she naturally also knows how to design. She is already familiar with all the popular styles on the market.
But the pattern drawn by Gu Junlin was actually novel and unprecedented. Not only was it solemn and elegant, but it also had a sense of simplicity.
Not to mention that the picture "A Hundred Birds Paying Attention to the Phoenix" is so in line with Xu Lin's wishes. With Xu Lin's eyesight, she thinks that the level of this "Picture of a Hundred Birds" is still higher than that of the "Picture of Chicken Eating Rice"
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"Did you really design this?" Xu Lin couldn't help but cry out excitedly.
When she shouted, the attention of the people in the exhibition hall was drawn here again. When they saw the painting "Birds Paying Attention to the Phoenix", everyone's eyes lit up and they secretly said what a beautiful painting.
"Gu Junlin, you said you can't paint, who painted this?"
Zhu Wenshan, as if he had discovered a treasure, walked up to Gu Junlin and asked loudly.
His eyesight can naturally tell that the quality of this painting is still higher than that of "Chicken Eating Rice". Just now, Gu Junlin said that copying it was definitely a lie.
"Copying." Gu Junlin naturally would not admit it. He just wanted to finish talking to Xu Lin about the cooperation and go back to cook for Zhong Huixue.
After speaking, Gu Junlin ignored Zhu Wenshan and asked Xu Lin directly: "Aunt Xu, can you take this job?"
"Of course!" Xu Lin blurted out, she couldn't wait to have this novel wedding dress come out.
As a top embroiderer, it is impossible not to show off your skills, but it is a pity that there are no good sample pictures.
Now that Gu Junlin has sent a top-notch sample picture to her, she is happier than anyone else.