Chapter 155: Training Painters
"Okay, go ahead." Mrs. Zhou responded and opened the door of Youlian Paper Shop.
Gu Xiaoyou walked a few steps quickly, took out the key and opened the door of the shop. When he pushed the door open, he smelled the smell of paper and ink in the room.
Opening the windows for ventilation, Gu Xiaoyou casually walked between the tables and flipped through the books copied by the students on the desks.
"This shop has quite a literary atmosphere." Gu Xiaoyou commented with a smile and put the book back.
She was about to go to the backyard to clean up the room when she heard footsteps and several voices talking.
"I think Mr. Feng's love novels are the best. They are more innovative than the stories about the scholar and the lady."
"That's right. Who said that we scholars must like our ladies? My wife is very good."
"You are still narrow-minded. Stories about love and love are not as interesting as martial arts novels. I am currently copying the fifth volume of Aotian's Legend, and I hope to show off my skills in the world of martial arts."
"You look so weak, are you going to fight with that pen?"
"Hahaha, let's make money by copying books."
Several students came to the shop while laughing. Unexpectedly, when they saw Gu Xiaoyou in the shop, their expressions suddenly calmed down and they all bowed to greet Gu Xiaoyou.
"I didn't know that Boss Gu was here. Please forgive me for my nonsense."
"No need to be polite, what you said is very interesting." Gu Xiaoyou said with a smile. He didn't expect that these students would discuss the content of the story in private.
Seeing that the students were still a little restrained, Gu Xiaoyou said with a smile: "The story is written for people to read and discuss. The viewpoints you mentioned are quite novel. You can discuss them with the gentlemen who write books next door."
The students relaxed a little and said, "Thank you very much, Boss Gu Haihan."
"Okay, you go ahead and write. If anyone comes, let them go to the backyard to find me." Gu Xiaoyou warned, turned around and walked towards the backyard.
She opened the room in the backyard, and tables and chairs were already placed inside. Gu Xiaoyou wiped the table with a rag: "I prepared extra tables and chairs just in case, but I didn't expect to use them so quickly."
The room is usually cleaned by servants, and there is basically no dust on the tables and chairs. Gu Xiaoyou wiped it clean after a few times.
She also prepared pens, inks, paper and inkstones and placed them on each desk, and specially made a large piece of rice paper and pasted it on the wall.
As soon as the rice paper was pasted, the student led a few people over: "Boss Gu and these people are here to see you."
"Thank you." Gu Xiaoyou thanked the students. He looked at the people who came and recognized them as the painters recruited yesterday. He smiled and said, "Please come into the room."
The six painters walked into the room as instructed. Gu Xiaoyou pointed at the table and chairs: "Sit anywhere you want."
"Yes." The six painters responded and each found a seat to sit down.
After the painters sat down, Gu Xiaoyou took out a few tissue packets from his sleeves and said loudly: "I invited you here to paint such a pattern."
As he said that, he put the tissue bag into the hands of the painters: "You guys have a look first and you can ask any questions."
The painters carefully observed the paintings on the tissue bags and were curious about the patterns on them.
"Excuse me, what kind of painting is this?"
"This kind of painting is called simple painting, which is to draw things in life with the simplest strokes." Gu Xiaoyou introduced.
"Simple drawing..." the painter muttered: "The painting is just like its name."
"What are the things in the painting? Can you answer it for us?"
"Okay, let's do this. I'll tell you what it is while teaching you." Gu Xiaoyou said.
"Okay, please." The painters responded.
Gu Xiaoyou picked up the brush and started drawing slowly on the rice paper on the wall. She spoke softly and said slowly: "First draw a circle, draw two long ovals on each side, and at the point
Add the eyes and mouth, and then use cinnabar or water red to make the artist blush... There you have it, a shy rabbit is painted."
After Gu Xiaoyou finished painting, he looked at the painters at the table and saw that they all had silent expressions on their faces. He coughed slightly in embarrassment and said, "Ahem, although it's a bit childish, it looks cute."
Only then did the painter come back to his senses and said with a smile: "It's really cute. This is the first time I've seen such...such an expressive rabbit."
"Yes, a shy rabbit is very strange."
The painters complimented one after another. Listening to the painters' sincere compliments, Gu Xiaoyou curled his lips. These people don't understand art.
"Okay, no matter what you think, you have to learn. After all, there are still many people who like it." Gu Xiaoyou turned around proudly and continued to draw on the rice paper: "Now I will teach you how to draw cats."
Gu Xiaoyou drew a few strokes and found that the painters were only listening but not drawing. He said with a serious face: "You all have to start drawing. I will check it later. If you don't draw well, you will be detained in court."
"Yes, yes, we will draw right away." The painters quickly picked up paper and pen and started drawing with Gu Xiaoyou.
In this painting, they discovered that a few seemingly simple strokes require a lot of thought in order to make it round and cute.
The painters couldn't help but correct their attitude and followed Gu Xiaoyou's example stroke by stroke.
Gu Xiaoyou looked back from time to time and saw that they were learning seriously. He felt a little satisfied and slowed down his speech and continued to teach them how to paint.
The morning passed quickly. Gu Xiaoyou took a sip of tea and asked, "Have you learned everything?"
"Yes."
"I'll check." Gu Xiaoyou walked down and checked at the table. She felt like a kindergarten teacher, and felt a little funny in her heart.
However, the painters' works all satisfied her. From being unfamiliar at the beginning to now, the paintings are all decent, which gave her as a little teacher a sense of accomplishment.
"You all painted well. Now go take a lunch break. You can have lunch in the backyard next door. Just come back later."
"Yes, I really want to take care of the boss." The painters responded, put away their pens and ink, and walked towards the next door.
Gu Xiaoyou went to the paper shop to have dinner with Mrs. Zhou. After the meal, she went to the second floor of the medical center to rest. She set an alarm clock on her mobile phone for one o'clock in the afternoon and fell asleep slowly.
Half an hour later, the alarm clock vibrated on time. Gu Xiaoyou turned off the alarm clock in a daze and let out a long yawn: "I really don't want to get up."
She stood up slowly and walked slowly towards the store.
As soon as he walked to the door of the backyard, he heard several painters talking. Gu Xiaoyou hid behind the door and eavesdropped.
"This simple drawing seems simple, but it is quite interesting to draw."
"It feels like returning to nature."
"I find it quite childlike, simple and vivid."
Gu Xiaoyou couldn't help but raise the corner of her mouth while listening to the discussions of the painters. If her painting skills weren't insufficient, it would be like learning a comic and drawing it in the right time to shock these old antiques.
She listened to a few more words and then deliberately opened the backyard door to make a noise.
Chapter completed!