Chapter 1373 Brother Pi’s proficiency
“Collectors from island countries used to be rich.” Thinking of those past events, Zhou Zhi shook his head a little: “Actually, the appraisal ability is still not particularly proficient. If it were left to this day, I don’t know. How many fakes should I buy?”
“It’s normal for them to be ignorant.” After speaking, he nodded at the Shi Tao album in front of him and said with a smile to Cui Ruzhuo. "Good thing, I want it. This house is yours now. Let's go through the formalities tomorrow."
"Great!" Cui Ruzhuo said happily: "Then I'll trouble Mr. Ma tomorrow Find a few workers to paint the walls and paper them. "
"Okay." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "But I have a request."
"What are your requirements?"
"I will give you one hundred thousand yuan, which will be considered as a deposit." Zhou Zhi said: "When your big painting is finished, you can keep it for five years and use it to send it to exhibitions and awards. Okay, just give it to me in five years.”
“Really!” This is really the end. It all exceeded Cui Ruzhuo's expectations, and he was inexplicably surprised: "Don't you care about the subject matter?"
"No need to ask, you can express yourself freely." Zhou Zhi knew the future worth of the painter in front of him. With such a huge painting, It is definitely the most important work in a painter's life, there is no doubt about this.
So he didn't have to interfere with Cui Ruzhuo at all, he could just let him do his own thing.
In everyone's eyes, this was Zhou Zhi's help in times of need. Knowing that Cui Ruzhuo was short of money, he used this method to help him in disguise.
Also considering the pride of the painter, I didn’t mention the funding, but just said it was a deposit for buying the painting.
Cui Ruzhuo was so grateful for a moment.
Master Ma also felt that it was ridiculous. His elbow was now developing in the same direction as he had in the past. He used a lot of the money he earned from business to subsidize the Haima Club and raised a large group of writers and literati who were still unsuccessful at the time.
However, Mr. Ma also knew that Zhou Zhi was much richer than he was back then, so he smiled and said: "Old Cui is very lucky. This is considered a lucky star. You have to treat me to this meal tonight!"
"Of course I'll do it!" Cui Ruzhuo grinned innocently: "But... maybe I just need to pay for it in advance. To be honest, the course subsidy from the Academy of Fine Arts hasn't come down yet, so I've been eating pickled mustard for a few days and I'm full of steamed buns..." < br>
Zhou Zhi: " ..."
Except for the sometimes hard work at work, Zhou Zhi has basically never experienced any hardship in life. Even if it was difficult when he was a child, from the beginning of Zhou Zhi's notes, it seems that the oil and water in the canteen of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau can still satisfy him. of.
Under the leadership of my uncle, Jiachuan was a well-known pig county in the country at that time. When meat and meat were not available in major government agencies across the country, the canteen of the County Industrial and Commercial Bureau seemed to be able to arrange at least one meal of meat a week. Food is usually served on weekends. Relatives from each family like to choose that time to visit, and the house is as lively as the Chinese New Year.
As soon as the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opens, the canteen will basically have meat for every meal.
Zhou Zhi could not imagine the hard life of art students who pursue art these days, so he felt that Cui Ruzhuo was too pitiful, so he decided to pay for the meal himself, and even ordered a few more meat dishes for Cui Ruzhuo to take home.
In fact, Cui Ruzhuo's life is better than 90% of his peers. He even accumulated some savings while studying abroad. Otherwise, even if he met "Shi Tao Arhat Hundred Open Album", even if Fujita No matter how low the asking price is, ordinary people cannot afford it.
However, it is difficult to find out the price of the missing items. During the dinner, everyone talked about the fact that there are fewer and fewer opportunities to find missing items in China, but it seems that overseas was still a "Great Northern Wilderness", Zhou Zhi was really moved.
The next day when Cui Ruzhuo and Zhou Zhi came back from completing the formalities, Haichao Temple, ah no, it should be renamed Cui Ruzhuo Studio now, the north wall of the huge main hall had already been decorated with paintings. The painting wall is similar to the framed wall. Zhou Zhi has given the plan before. It is made according to the traditional craftsmanship. First, make a wooden frame, then stretch the frame with linen cloth, cotton cloth, and finally seal it with leather paper, and then paste it with rice paper. Here we will use raw xuan to enhance the adhesion, and then brush the affixed raw xuan with the prepared alum water to turn it into cooked xuan for painting.
It sounds simple, but when the painting needs to be extended to a size of twenty meters by three meters, it is quite difficult.
There are countless craftsmanship details here, such as "cut Xuan". When the rice paper is put on the wall, it must partially overlap with the surrounding ones, and then a knife is cut on the overlapping part to just cut the top and bottom Only after the two layers of rice paper are cut through and the scraps removed can the edges of the two layers of rice paper be completely joined together.
But if there is only one layer, the rice paper will be easy to separate here after drying, so it is necessary to laminate another layer. The rice paper used for lamination should be staggered with the gaps of the bottom rice paper and bonded to each other, so that It's very reliable.
Two layers of some drawing papers are not enough. For example, in ancient times, some calligraphy and painting papers often had to be laminated with three to five layers. Patterns were also rolled out on the middle layer of paper, which were pinched up and down to form a watermark. .
For a senior "mountain brother" like Zhou Zhi, these are all basic operations. The test of pure manual work is proficiency. After these two months of "devil-level" training, the skills are even better. Go up a level,
It took two days to finally paint the "painting wall" that Cui Ruzhuo wanted. Zhou Zhi was ready to jump off the movable wooden platform and clapped his hands: "It's finally done. If the painting is not good, I want you to give me back one hundred thousand yuan for all my hard work."
"Just look at it, I guess. It can be completed in a week." Cui Ruzhuo handed Zhou Zhi a thick stack of manuscripts and thumbtacks on the table: "Boss, don't rush down and pin the first draft. Let's take a look at the effect first."
Since. Zhou Zhi gave Cui Ruzhuo 100,000 yuan, and Cui Ruzhuo changed his name to Boss Zhou Zhi. The two regarded it as a joke.
"That's what the boss gives you, right?" Zhou Zhi murmured as he reached out to take it, and stapled the numbered papers written in pencil to the drawing board one by one.
"Hey! Is this the work Xiao Cui is going to create?" When Mr. Wang led Mrs. Yuan and Wu Qiaomu into the door, Zhou Zhi happened to have almost nailed the painting. The painting on the wall, which was just white, It's now covered in ink.
"What do you think of Tsuen You? It seems pretty good, right?"
"It's indeed pretty good. Xiao Cui's skills have improved a lot since he came back, but it can still be seen that these are still sixteen pieces of 'two feet'. It cannot be regarded as a whole. "
"Grandma Yuan is here!" Zhou Zhi jumped down from the platform and greeted Wu Qiaomu: "Hello, foster brother, you haven't been back this holiday?"
"Qiaomu has a lot to do. "Mrs. Yuan was afraid that Zhou Zhi would criticize Wu Qiao. Mu, cut off the thoughtful question and put in good words for Mr. Qiao: "In addition to work, I also have to study at the art academy. The summer vacation is two months long, which is just enough to master it systematically."
"In addition to painting What else is there to do?” Zhou Zhi was curious when he saw Mrs. Yuan speaking for his sworn brother, but before Wu Qiaomu could speak, he turned to Cui Ruzhuo and said, "These drafts can be considered the preliminary preparation for the big painting, and they are also part of the two hundred thousand miles." ! ”
Before Cui Ruzhuo could answer, Zhou Zhi turned his head again: "Brother, have you found a place for work-study studies? That's right, let's give full play to our fine traditions."
"Look at how busy you are." Wu Qiaomu saw He looked so considerate and couldn't help but smile.
After arriving in the capital, I don’t know if their auras are connected with the aura of the capital or something else. The temperaments of Master Qiao and Wei Yi have become more solemn and majestic, full of an "institutional flavor": "It's Sister Yi. Before I left, I recommended that I work as a simultaneous translator in the ministry.”
“Damn it, this is much more high-end than when we shouted and sold watermelons—”
(End of this chapter. )