Squeak, squeak...

The movement sounds like a dog scratching the door. In other words, Zhu Bajie is gnawing a casserole, which is noisy.

The newspaper in Lao Zhang's hand hasn't been flipped for a long time, and the cigarette he was holding was almost burning his mouth.

My eyelids kept beating and felt that they were on the verge of collapse.

finally……

"Xiao Gu, what are you doing?"

Gu Bei, who was fully focused, heard someone talking, and stopped after the last slash of the carving knife in his hand.

When I looked up, I saw Lao Zhang frowning, with an impatient face on my face, and I realized that the movement I made just now was indeed quite annoying.

"Brother Zhang, I'm sorry!"

Seeing Gu Bei apologize, Lao Zhang didn't know what to say anymore, he was just curious.

As soon as I started working today, Gu Bei was writing and drawing, and then he started carving stones for three full hours, as if he was about to grow on a chair.

"It's been all morning, what are you busy with?"

Lao Zhang said as he stood up, walked to Gu Bei, and first looked at the paintings laid on the table. He knew what was being painted without asking.

He is also from the Art Institute of Taiwan, and portraits are not difficult for him.

"Oh! Sun Wukong, this is Zhu Bajie..."

He picked up two pieces of paper on the table and frowned again as he spoke.

"Xiao Gu, what you draw... is different from what you usually see!"

Gu Bei took the initiative to hand over the remaining two.

"Brother Zhang, you are an expert, please help me see."

Lao Zhang nodded and looked at it carefully for a while. In the story of Journey to the West, the characters of the four masters and apprentices are not uncommon. There have been cartoons before and often appear on the opera stage.

However, the style of these pictures painted by Gu Bei is obviously far from people's general impression.

"Your group has already started to prepare to style the characters?"

Lao Zhang also received a notice yesterday that he was assigned to the preparatory team of "Dream of Red Mansions". As an artist, he has not received the task yet.

Director Wang Fulin is going to study for one year after he is out of business. The screenwriter Zhou Leizheng of the Taiwan Academy and Zhou Ling, an expert from the Redology, who was transferred from outside, studied the adaptation of the original work.

The difficulty of work is not very high. After all, "Journey to the West" has been written, but "Dream of Red Mansions" is an unfinished one.

It's still early to set up the character's makeup.

Speaking of this, it is really depressing.

It is also a preparatory team for the adaptation of classic works, and the staffing in "Journey to the West" is not complete, but where is the "Dream of Red Mansions"?

It has not been decided when the construction will start, but every department has already started to take the lead in building it.

The art group alone is divided into three departments: clothing, makeup and props.

Perhaps from the beginning, the leaders of Taiwan had little expectations for "Journey to the West", but because CCTV introduced the Japanese version of "Journey to the West", it was scolded by the people of the whole country, so they also mentioned "Journey to the West" together.

The schedule is finished.

How to do it specifically?

It's completely stocking mode.

"Not yet, Director Yang hasn't assigned the work, I'll prepare first."

Lao Zhang smiled: "You are quite active."

The two have obviously different attitudes towards work. Lao Zhang only took a try and made a turn, while Gu Bei fully exerted his subjective motivation.

The leader doesn’t say anything, do what he should do.

"If the shape is determined according to this, will the audience accept it?"

The four portraits of Gu Bei's group of Buddhist scriptures focus on realistic ideas, especially the two core characters, Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie.

In people's impression, Sun Wukong always wants to curse his face, while Zhu Bajie has long mouths and big ears.

But in Gu Bei's writing...

"Brother Zhang! You just said that what you see and remember are basically on the opera stage. The characters in cartoons are also created based on the appearance of opera characters, but what we are going to shoot next is a TV series."

“What’s the difference?”

"It's a big difference. Director Yang had already decided yesterday. Our scene was not filmed in the studio, but we had to film it outside. Think about it, it was real mountains and real waters, and suddenly a monkey with a curly face suddenly popped up. Is that kind of match?"

Lao Zhang thought about it carefully as Gu Bei said, then nodded and said, "It's really not suitable. If you say so, the character image should really focus on reality."

After saying that, he opened the drawer, took out the manuscript papers inside and handed them to Gu Bei.

"I'll give it to you, I won't be ugly."

What's the meaning?

Gu Bei took it and found that Lao Zhang gave him four pieces of paper, and the portraits of the group who learned from the Buddhist scriptures were also drawn, but these four pictures were basically based on the appearances of characters on the Peking Opera stage.

"My teacher Wang Chongqiu asked me yesterday, not only me, but also other artists in the station. We asked us to draw a picture of the master and apprentice. This is mine, but... there is no need, I will give it to you!"

As Lao Zhang said, his eyes turned different when he looked at Gu Bei. Yesterday he just regarded Gu Bei as a newcomer. Today he really regarded Gu Bei as a colleague.

"After all, I am a young man, with active thinking and many ideas. The most important thing is to be brave, not stick to the original rules and regulations, and dare to jump out and recreate. Compared with you, I feel old."

Old Zhang is only in his thirties and is less than forty years old. I am afraid that even he himself would sigh.

Gu Bei was about to speak, but Lao Zhang stopped him again.

"I just saw you sitting at that moment, what? Seal?"

"It's just carving and playing."

Gu Bei handed over a seal he had just engraved, with six seals of all sizes on his desk.

Lao Zhang reached out to take it, but didn't care much about it. First of all, the materials were very ordinary. I don't know which flower bed Gu Bei picked it up from, but after looking at the words engraved at the bottom of the seal, he was immediately attracted.

"Oh! Xiao Gu, yes, you know Xiaozhuan."

Although Lao Zhang’s education is not high, his educational level is not low.

"Juran? Monk Juran!"

"That's right."

Lao Zhang frowned and puzzled: "Xiao Gu, why are you carving this? It is illegal to carve seals in private."

Gu Bei was holding a teacup, and when he heard this, he almost threw a cup of hot tea on his face: "Brother Zhang, don't scare me, Monk Juran has been dead for hundreds of years, I have never heard of it, it is illegal to carve ancient seals.

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Although he said that, after thinking about it carefully, what he is going to do now seems to be true...

At least the conscience of foreigners will not be condemned.

Gu Bei comforted himself.

"That's right, the craftsmanship is not bad."

Lao Zhang also felt that he was overly worried. He had never heard of it. He took the seals of ancient people from hundreds of years ago to commit crimes.

I have to say that people in this era are very simple, and no one could have expected what Gu Bei wanted to do.

"Do you have any useless materials? If there is one, I will also carve one for me."

Gu Bei took the seal back and placed all the useless stones in front of Lao Zhang.

"You choose it yourself. Let me tell me which one you like. I have time to carve it for you."

Lao Zhang didn't expect Gu Bei to agree so happily. Speaking of which, the two of them met yesterday, and he was a little embarrassed.

"Not bothering, right? You just joined the team, so you should worry more about work. I... am not busy."

As he said that, he looked at the stones, and he was indeed right. These stones were picked up by Gu Beilin in the flower bed in the intermediate courtyard before he left the door.

After watching for a while, nothing could catch your eye.

"Xiao Gu, I have a piece of Qingtian stone seed material at home. I'll take it back and you..."

Halfway through his words, Lao Zhang felt a little reckless. The piece of seed material was his beloved item. It had been stored for many years and had been reluctant to use the knife, for fear of destroying the material.

What's wrong today?

He can actually trust such a young man as Gu Bei.

Gu Bei also saw it. He was surprised when he heard it was Qingtian stone. It was not very rare for Qingtian stone to be seen, but anyone who had a good quality would not show it to others easily.

Seeing Lao Zhang's face full of entanglement, Gu Beishan said understandingly: "Brother Zhang, please spare me. I don't dare to do it easily. Let's do this. Wait until you find other materials, and we will talk about it later."

"Oh! OK, OK!"

Old Zhang went down the donkey and did not mention this matter again.

I wanted to see the other seals that Gu Bei had engraved, but I saw that Gu Bei had already put them away.
To be continued...