Chapter 145 Souvenirs and Cakes

Author: Apricot and Pear

Chapter 145 Souvenirs and Cakes

"I really want to go."

Sakai Katsuko's eyes lit up, and then she said with some loss: "It's a pity that she can't go."

"I have to go to the improvement class that my mother has run in the afternoon. Senior Komatsu and I are both assistants in the improvement class, and we can't get rid of it... As soon as school comes out, we have to go back to the Aman Hotel with our mother."

Katsuko looked at Gu Weijing: "My mother wouldn't let me run around in Myanmar, nor would I let me go out for fun with the opposite sex except senior Komatsu."

The security environment in Myanmar is indeed not good. Although Yangon is already the most stable place, it is a good suggestion for a beautiful girl not to run around at night.

Of course, the ban on not going out with other wild boys on the night Mrs. Sakai issued, and the answer was actually very obvious.

Gu Weijing was obviously on Mrs. Sakai's blacklist, and was an unstable factor that could take away their baby Xiaocai at any time.

"By the way, I remembered one thing. I went to the Big King Tower on the weekend. I haven't given this thing to you yet."

Speaking of this, Sakai Katsuko's tone became cheerful again.

She took out a gift box from her schoolbag on the side and handed it to Gu Weijing.

"The souvenirs sent by officials from Yangon Tourism Department are available for every artist involved in the Great King Tower restoration project. I will help you get yours."

The national cultural relics protection project led by a major painting master like Mr. Cao is highly valued by the government.

This should be a commemorative gift box sent to artists after the first phase of the restoration project is completely completed.

A young man like Gu Weijing has benefited from it and has also made a fortune.

Sure enough, he saw the note on the ordering gift box with the words "Mr. Gu Weijing's honor" written on it, and the signature was the official seal of the government of the Ministry of Culture of Myanmar.

"Show it opens up and there's a surprise." Sakai Katsuko said with a smile.

Gu Wei opened the large envelope, and the first title was a thank you letter.

[On behalf of the Dajinta Management Committee, Yangon Culture and Tourism Bureau, and the Myanmar National Government, I would like to thank the artist Mr. Gu Weijing for his outstanding contributions in the Dajinta Cultural Relics Protection Project...]

This English thank you letter was written on the machine and the language was relatively formulaic.

The highlight is that in order to show respect and attention to artists, the signature is the handwritten signature of an extremely high-level official of the Ministry of Culture of Myanmar.

Gu Weijing stayed on the signature for two seconds.

He estimated that the surprise Miss Sakai was most likely not referring to it.

This kind of thank-you letter written by a national leader should be very impressive for local painters, and they wish they could frame it and stick it on the wall and be praised every day.

In Southeast Asian society, such handwritten thank-you letters from senior officials are the thing that best reflects the social status of the painter.

Not only local painters look up to you, but the underworld also retreats.

It is not a big problem to hang on the wall to scare foreigners, and even if the business in the store is not done well, it will be almost certain.

However, Katsuko Sakai's personality should not care much about this.

Moreover, Miss Sakai comes from a family of big artists and is a model of seeing the world.

Uncle Sakai once painted a set of Ukiyo-e for the Tokyo Olympics and also worked in government projects in the field of culture.

From the INS, Katsuko alone may have to have double digits of the head of state and senior officials he had met with his father during the years of the bid for the Eastern Olympic Games.

I should be used to this kind of thank you letter.

Gu Weijing put the thank you letter aside, and there was also a set of painted calendars in the gift box. Each page of the illustrations on the calendar are entirely composed of the murals they drew in this Great Golden Tower restoration project.

He turned to the No.17 mural.

Even through the photos taken by the photographer, the "Picture of Respecting Buddha and Protecting Dharma" written by Mr. Cao Xuan is still as shocked as before.

Below the calendar insert, it is written in beautiful flower letters - [Joint Repair Artist: Cao Xuan, Gu Weijing].

Mr. Cao Xuan was unwilling to take credit for the child, so he added Gu Weijing's name to this most important mural registration form.

In theory,

From now on, as long as he is a little shameless, he can claim to have done formal art creations with Cao Xuan.

Even... it's not a question of whether it's thick-skinned or not.

When most young painters encounter this situation, they want to cut this photo off the calendar and paste it on their foreheads, and show it wherever they go.

The master of painting is willing to join hands with your children. It is estimated that the old seniors want to support young people, which is also a great affirmation of your level.

Don't say anything else,

If Gu Tongxiang was not his grandfather, he was too young, so he could only rely on his experience jointly signed with Mr. Cao.

Among some local calligraphy and painting associations, Gu Weijing's name may be ranked in front of his grandfather.

It's like in physics, you and Einstein jointly published a paper. Even if it's just a popular science article, because the status of the boss is too high, your academic status will rise.

The cover of the calendar homepage is a photo of a dark gold-toned monument.

The monument has just been completed in the tourist square outside the Grand King Tower, with the names of 47 invited artists participating in the project.

The top thirty people are all qualified painters.

Of course, the first one is Mr. Cao, the second and third ones are Professor Ichise Sakai and Professor Lin Tao.

His grandfather Gu Tongxiang ranked 35th, and Jing accompanied the last person to become a famous painter.

To Gu Weijing expected, he himself ranked first in the list of nephews and students who came to "gilded" by these artists.

Immediately after his grandfather's name, he ranks 36th, even higher than the 37th Katsuko Sakai.

Sakai Tsunamasaki only ranked forty-one.

"The order of the list of young people is based on the amount of tasks completed, the working time and the evaluation of master artists of you. Gu Jun worked very hard, our names are next to each other. Look at this-"

Sakai Katsuko stretched out her finger and picked up the last item in the gift box for Gu Weijing.

It was a small box of dark velvet cloth, with a string of exquisite agarwood beads placed in it.

The bracelet is filled with the slight smoke of grass and wood after burning incense ash, and the beads are inlaid with a small jade ring on the head and tail.

On the top of the jade ring, there is an exquisite jade craftsman who uses extremely fine carving knives to engrave the name "Gu Weijing", and on the bottom of the jade ring is engraved with Buddhist Fu seal patterns.

"The bracelet for consecration?"

Gu Weijing looked at the bracelets.

The religious holy lands all over the world, no matter which god you believe in, almost all have blessings and consecration business from India to Jerusalem.

From consecrating bracelets, bracelets, crosses, to consecrating the latest IPHONE, graphics cards, and XBOX gaming consoles. Only you can't imagine, no one can't do it.

The Great Golden Pagoda is a key place in Buddhism, and Myanmar is a Buddhist country.

The Myanmar government gave artists a consecrated Buddhist bracelet as a gift, both beyond expectations and reasonable.

It seems that the Ministry of Culture has invested a lot this time.

This kind of item that is blessed by a serious monk is not cheap. Not to mention, agarwood is a precious wood, and the texture of the two small jade rings looks very good.

"Officers from the Yangon Tourism Bureau said that the souvenir gift boxes given to the artists this time are the same, and only the jade rings on this bracelet are of different color. Although they are all old pit jade, the higher the ranking on the monument, the better the jade texture."

"Old Cao, my father and Professor Lin are both glass jadeites. When we arrived here, they have become ordinary ice-type."

Sakai Katsuko raised his right hand, and Gu Weijing noticed that Miss Katsuko also hung a bracelet that was exactly the same as before her.

Glass type is the most precious clarity among jadeite, followed by ice type.

Don’t look at the bracelet as long as the size of a small fingernail, it costs tens of thousands of dollars in the international market. If it is imperial green, it may have to double it.

Even the ice-type jadeite in front of Gu Weijing will cost thousands of dollars.

The government is quite willing to do so.

Of course, on the other hand, all jadeites in Myanmar are state-owned, and it is very easy to get good jadeites. They also like to use jadeite as a national gift or various diplomatic gifts.

Giving it to a great artist like Mr. Cao is worth tens of thousands of dollars, and it is really impossible to make a comeback.

A world-class master of art is willing to carry a string of jade bracelets with you.

In high-end art occasions where celebrities gather, the invisible advertising effect brought about is much stronger than giving garbage goods that cost a dollar a bunch of money at the entrance of other tourist attractions. If they are sent, they will be thrown into the trash can.

"You are thirty-six, and I am thirty-seven. The official told me that the jade rings on the bracelets of both of us happened to be mined from the same pebbles-sized ice jade ore. Both the moisturization and color are almost the same."

Sakai Katsuko took off her bracelet and put it together with Gu Weijing's bracelet.

The sunlight shone in from the window, and the two strings of jade rings with almost the same color and clarity are as clear as ice. The slight white cotton-like impurities in the jade ring are not ugly, like small stars solidified in the ice crystals.

"Exactly the same, close together."

Sakai Katsuko tilted her head and said softly, "It's so good."

"I'll put it on for you."

Miss Sakai stretched out her hand, gently unbuttoned the silver buckle on her bracelet, and tied it up to Gu Weijing.

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To be continued...