At night, the underground parking lot located on the east side of the Shwedagon Pagoda.
"Teacher Gu, Mr. Gu, I'm very sorry about what happened this morning. I have a bad mouth. I was too anxious at the time and spoke erratically. Please don't be the same as me..."
When Gu Weijing followed his grandfather Gu Tongxiang to the parking lot after a long day's work.
I actually met an unexpected but reasonable person here.
It's Lao Yang.
Lao Yang seemed to have been waiting here for a long time. As soon as he saw Gu Weijing and his grandson approaching, he trotted over with a smile.
He handed over a gift box.
"What are you doing?"
Gu Tongxiang didn't know that his assistant Lao Yang had been furious when he saw Gu Weijing painting on Lao Cao's mural in the afternoon. He had a confused look on his face.
"It's okay, it's not your fault."
Gu Weijing nodded politely.
In the afternoon, Lao Yang had already looked for an opportunity to apologize to himself, thinking that the matter would just go away.
Don't hit the smiling person. Besides, it's understandable that you were emotional at the time. It's hard to blame someone for this kind of thing.
What Gu Weijing didn't expect was that Lao Yang, as Cao's personal assistant with a tight schedule every day, would wait for him alone in the parking lot.
"Master Lin Tao may want to accept you as his disciple. I think there may be a young hero among the masters soon. This is a little gift from me to you."
Lao Yang said beautiful words that made people feel like spring breeze, and handed over a gift box in his hand.
He didn't know that Mr. Cao proposed to accept Gu Weijing as a closed disciple, he just thought that Lin Tao liked Gu Weijing.
The bet was too shocking. Only Gu Weijing, Professor Lin Tao and Mr. Cao knew the news.
This is what Mr. Cao himself meant. Young heroes are most afraid of being conceited and arrogant. It will not do any good to Gu Weijing if he praises his children too much at once.
Even Mr. Cao’s words about being more powerful than me in the afternoon were only circulated among the few parties involved who saw this scene.
However, Lao Yang was still keenly aware of Mr. Cao's love for Gu Weijing, so after thinking about it, he decided to prepare a gift himself and then go out alone to build a relationship.
Lao Yang can become a top assistant because of his shrewdness.
For a potential stock like Gu Weijing, it is much more useful to greet him before he becomes famous than to lick him after he becomes famous.
"You are so polite, how can you be so embarrassed."
Gu Tongxiang held Lao Yang's hand with both hands, feeling flattered in his tone.
He knew that the art assistants of such big shots had amazing connections and were invisible big shots in the circle.
If it weren't for his grandson, no one would even bother to take a look at a young painter like himself.
Gu Tongxiang felt that the bag was very heavy and looked down at it.
"This is... Lukes's [Master Art Set]?"
There was a hint of surprise in his tone.
"You can't afford this set for twenty thousand dollars, right? It's really too expensive."
Lao Yang smiled. He liked the other person's tone of surprise when he saw the gift box.
People who give gifts are most particular about catering to their liking, and are most afraid of those who receive gifts being incompetent.
This is the benefit of being an insider.
Although Gu Tongxiang couldn't afford such a good thing, he at least knew his stuff.
If you want to give the contractor Qinggao Hetang an antique such as the Jin Ping Mei, it will be regarded as a pornographic book. This is a failed gift-giving and a waste of natural resources.
In the gift box is a set of German painting tools.
As a long-established oil painting powerhouse, Germany has the largest number of luxury-level art painting equipment manufacturers in the world, such as Faber-Castell, which produces colored pencils, and Schminck, which produces top-level painting equipment.
LUKES is an old paint and painting equipment brand established in the mid-19th century.
This manufacturer will sell a limited number of fifty sets of "Master Art Sets" every year. Each set sells for more than 20,000 euros. It is considered the Hermès haute couture among art supplies. It is also sold only to VIP buyers like the limited-edition Ferrari sports car. .
Generally, only painters with certain influence are eligible to purchase.
If you are just an art school student who is not short of money, or an ordinary wealthy businessman who wants to paint, no one will sell it to you if you want to buy it.
It is undeniable that this is actually a marketing hype factor. This money can buy an ordinary car, and it is indeed too expensive for painting tools.
However, the painting tools in the [Master Art Set] can be considered real materials.
This set includes a set of master paints, three brushes of different sizes, a silver painting knife, top-quality turpentine...
All brushes are not only exquisite in wood, but also pursue the ultimate in craftsmanship. Common paint brushes are divided into three types: wool, wolf hair, and chemical nylon.
Not only are the wool materials for all pen tips of the Master Set made from a specific breed of wild mink tail hair that is more moist, but they are also hand-selected to ensure full elasticity without causing any tangled hairs.
This is the little gift Lao Yang chose for Gu Weijing.
Giving away money or something is too tacky.
Give me an IPHONE? He was too disgusted to take action.
Besides, how many years can a mobile phone last? There is no need for a set of painting tools that a painter uses every moment of the day. Whenever I use it, I can always think of his goodness, Lao Yang.
"It's nothing. This kind of manufacturer will rush to send me a lot of their products every Christmas or something. I can't refuse. Mr. Cao rarely paints oil paintings, and he also has an original art sponsor contract. Why don't you let me borrow flowers to offer to Buddha?"
Lao Yang had a charming smile on his face.
His vision is not at the same level as that of young Yangon native painters like the grandfather and grandson of the Gu family.
The circles that Lao Yang usually interacts with are all the real big names in the art circle, the top artistic predators among oil painting brokers.
In the eyes of these oil painting brokers, are those top painters painting paintings?
That's a knife, it's a Dollar!
A piece of paper of a few hundred grams can sell for tens of millions of dollars, but even the Federal Reserve doesn't print money like this.
In order to be able to sign various famous names to their respective galleries, some were given Rolls-Royces, some were given small private islands, some were given Gulfstream private jets, and some were given yachts with matching Victoria's Secret supermodel yacht girls...
In the eyes of Lao Yang, who is used to big scenes, a set of painting tools really means nothing.
What he said is correct. Every year during various festivals, from Mitsubishi (the Mitsubishi of Mitsubishi Motors, they are also a manufacturer of high-end writing instruments in Asia) to various unknown small manufacturers, they will sell all kinds of luxury goods. The painting supplies were delivered, and they were piled up in two studios.
Although they didn't have much hope, what if Mr. Cao liked it?
Isn’t there a story to tell?
The biggest gimmick that makes Lukes so far is still the legend that Van Gogh loved their paints.
"Mr. Gu? You are here too."
A voice came from a distance.
Gu Weijing turned his head and saw Professor Sakai and his children standing in a parking space more than ten meters away in the same parking lot.
A black Mercedes-Benz S65 was parked next to them, seemingly coming to pick them up.
It was Katsuko Sakai who called her name.
Due to religious customs, she was assigned to Fuhui Temple aside and has not been seen for several days.
She seemed to be preparing to get in the car in the parking lot, but she happened to see a few people here.
"grandfather?"
Gu Weijing turned to look at his grandfather.
"Look at what I'm doing, you're not calling me this old guy, this little girl is calling you."
Gu Tongxiang waved his hand as he hated the iron.
"Oh, by the way, Teacher Gu, I also heard that Mr. Gu has encountered some social troubles recently. I know some officials in Yangon. If you need my help..."
At this time, Lao Yang had the foresight to pull Gu Tongxiang away.
Before leaving, Lao Yang saw the tall young man sitting in the driver's seat through the transparent windshield of the Mercedes-Benz S65. He was well-informed and seemed to have thought of some gossip in the circle.
"He's the heir to the Komatsu gallery family. He actually chased Katsuko Sakai to Burma. I heard he's a difficult young man."
Lao Yang shook his head slightly.
