Ye Qingning and Cai Zhi had been waiting in the venue room early in the morning, and guests were arriving one after another.
"The time is coming, are you two ready?" Cai Zhi walked in.
"Ready, teacher." A slightly green boy said.
He is Cai Zhishou's new apprentice, named Yi Jie. Just half a year after entering college, he became the focus of the school because of his brilliant performance in competitions. At this moment, he was wearing a straight suit, and his youthful aura had faded a bit.
"Where is your senior sister?"
"She said she was going to make a phone call..."
Just as he was talking, Ye Qingning came in. Wearing an ink cheongsam, she looks extremely elegant.
"master."
"Just come back and get ready to start."
"good."
The two of them followed Cai Zhi, and when they saw Ye Qingning, many people were a little surprised. The camera clicked on the faces of the three of them.
"Didn't you say you only accepted one boy? Why is there one more?"
"Who is this female doll?"
"I heard that Mr. Cai collected it a long time ago. He didn't want to show his face, so he hid it. This time, Mr. Cai came to visit him personally."
"Going to the door in person? This girl is so powerful, how can she let Mr. Cai do this?"
"Who says it's not the case? You'll know when there's an exhibition of their paintings."
A group of people wanted to say something more. Cai Zhi patted the microphone, and the group fell silent instantly. Jiang Lanxi and Ye Shaohua looked at Ye Qingning on the stage, their eyes full of pride.
"Today I, Mr. Cai, am hosting a apprenticeship banquet, and I would like to thank all of you for coming to support me. This is my new apprentice, Yi Jie. He is hard-working and down-to-earth, hard-working and has aura. He is particularly outstanding in flower and bird paintings. I will also invite you to watch the paintings later. Give me some more guidance.”
Yi Jie bowed to the audience, then quietly returned to stand behind Mr. Cai.
"There must be many people who don't know this well. She is Ye Qingning, the apprentice that I, Cai, accepted five years ago. It's just that the apprentice is shy and doesn't want to be too public, so very few people know. This time, I'm taking advantage of the apprenticeship banquet. Cai also feels that the time has come for me, his apprentice, to come and see the world, and everyone can feel free to comment boldly during the painting evaluation session.”
As soon as the words came out, many people were a little surprised. No wonder Cai Zhiyi was unwilling to accept an apprentice. It turned out that he already had an apprentice, and he seemed to be very attached to this apprentice.
Just as he was talking, the door suddenly opened and everyone looked back. Suddenly, there were more whispers and the venue became noisy. Even Mr. Cai was stunned.
"Why is he here?"
"That boy from the Ji family is here too."
"Aren't these two people abroad? When did you become friends with Mr. Cai?"
"Master Ji Huaiyu and Mr. Cai have a very good relationship. It makes sense to come to congratulate him, but the other one...isn't he famous for being eccentric?"
The people in the audience didn't know why, but Mr. Cai on the stage knew that the arrival of the two had nothing to do with him. He paused and thought of Ye Qingning.
"Ning Ning, the friend you are talking about cannot be..."
Ye Qingning smiled and nodded. "They are all very talented people, so I just wanted to invite them to come and have a look."
Even for someone like Cai Zhi who has seen the world, he couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth.
These two people... are more than just talented.
One reason is that I had no intention of pursuing this career, but my paintings are still hanging in the courtyard.
As soon as he debuted, he won various art awards that year. In the past two years, he even won the awards that Mr. Cai had been pursuing all his life but always missed. The most annoying thing is that he still focuses on carpentry and construction, or A mixed race!
He only specializes in one subject in his life, and he is the one who has been exposed to both rain and dew, and Keke is at the top when he debuts! It's not an exaggeration to say he is a genius.
"I know Huaiyu, how do you know Leo?"
"Teacher, do you know Leo?"
"You don't know Leo?" Cai Zhi asked, but Ye Qingning was confused by the question.
In fact, Ye Qingning couldn't blame this matter. When she met Leo, he was like a street kid, so she didn't check him out at all.
The arrival of the two men suddenly took away the shine of the protagonist of the apprenticeship banquet.
"Ye Qingning, congratulations." Leo used his somewhat broken Chinese to draw other people's attention back and glanced at Ji Huaiyu provocatively.
Ji Huaiyu curled his lips and smiled, completely ignoring his provocation. He faced the stage and made a gentleman's salute, like a knight coming to take his princess back to the castle.
Ye Qingning smiled and nodded slightly, elegant and reserved.
After going back and forth, the people attending the banquet naturally knew who the two people were here for.
Seeing the scene, Cai Zhi said no more. After announcing that the exhibition hall is open, everyone can go there and evaluate on their own before coming down. Ji Huaiyu stepped forward to support him, and Cai Zhi patted his hand, looked at a loving junior, and exchanged a few words with him.
Leo also came forward, probably also saying that the reason he learned ink painting was because he saw his paintings, which shocked Cai Zhi and made him smile even more.
"Ning Ning, Yi Jie, come here." Cai Zhi raised his hand, and they came down one after the other.
Ji Huaiyu held Ye Qingning's hand and led her down. The two of them looked at each other, obviously they didn't say anything, but they seemed to have said everything.
Mr. Cai did not pull the two of them to talk too much, but led them to meet their friends in the circle one by one, one of them was Chen Wenxiong.
"Cai Zhi, Cai Zhi, you are making a big splash without making a fuss." Chen Wenxiong's hair was gray and there was a sense of fatigue in his eyebrows. When he saw Cai Zhi coming, he cheered up and congratulated him.
"That's right." Cai Zhi hugged Chen Wenxiong and then introduced him to the two of them.
"This is my senior brother Chen Wenxiong. When you see him, you should all call him Teacher Chen, you know?"
"Hello, Mr. Chen." The two of them greeted each other in a polite manner without trying to steal the limelight or gain face.
On the contrary, Chen Wenxiong was stunned when he saw Ye Qingning, but he quickly regained his composure and looked like nothing happened, so no one noticed.
"Hey, this painting... what do you think?" Cai Zhi looked behind him and saw that the painting Chen Wenxiong was looking at was painted by Ye Qingning.
"There is tension in the softness, the details are well handled, and the conception is wonderful. It has some charm of your youth."
"Qingning, come here and listen. It's a rare thing in a hundred years to hear my senior brother's comments."
"Look at you, you put me up again." Even though he said this, Chen Wenxiong was not really angry. Instead, he looked at Ye Qingning with more appreciation in his eyes.
"Did you complete this painting?"
"Yes." Ye Qingning explained his intention in creating this painting and what he wanted to express, while Chen Wenxiong nodded in agreement from time to time. Seeing his protégé talking to his senior brother, Cai Zhi nodded with satisfaction and took Yi Jie to meet the next person.
The conversation was going on freely, but the two men who were called by Ye Qingning to 'open their eyes' were surrounded by a group of old men, asking questions one after another.
Ji Huaiyu was doing Tai Chi with a standard and distant smile. Leo's eccentric character was not used to being surrounded by a group of people, and he couldn't say that he didn't understand the language. He wanted to lose his temper but was afraid of causing trouble to Ye Qingning, so he had to hold back his temper. Coping with it.
But at some point, Ji Huaiyu escaped from the crowd and walked towards Ye Qingning. Leo looked worried, but couldn't break through their encirclement.
"If you don't mind, please leave your contact information. I want to buy this painting after the exhibition."
Ye Qingning was surprised and happy, but still restrained his words and actions.
"It's a great honor to thank you for your love."
"You can come and visit my house if you have a chance. My wife will probably like you very much."
"Please also allow me to come and visit."
"Then I'll go around again and won't disturb you young people." Chen Wenxiong looked at Ji Huaiyu's approaching figure with some meaning.
Ye Qingning followed Chen Wenxiong's gaze and realized what he was hinting at. He immediately blushed, feeling more shy than a little girl.
"Teacher Chen, please walk slowly." Ye Qingning bowed slightly.
Chen Wenxiong glanced at her, as if he was looking at someone through her, his eyes full of nostalgia and sadness. But he didn't say anything, and walked towards the other side with his hands behind his back, his back a little desolate.
