Dating a Rich Godfather 7

Hu Wenshan walked into the classroom with a stern face and a somewhat ugly expression. After putting down his painting box, he didn't sit down. He looked like he wanted to say something but didn't want to.

"Let's start the class first." Hu Wenshan held it in for a long time before uttering this incoherent sentence. Now it was class time, and if he said to start the class, it would be the most normal thing to say, but what did adding the words "first" and "bar" mean?

Hu Wenshan took out his painting supplies and was about to start teaching when the radio in the classroom suddenly sounded.

"Ding Dong. Dear teachers and students, good afternoon. This is Dongjing University Broadcasting Headquarters. We are now announcing a congratulatory announcement to the entire school. Congratulations to Du Qingyu, a student in Class 3, Grade 1, Chinese Painting Department, Chinese Studies Branch, for winning first place in this year's Youth Chinese Painting Competition. His work will soon be exhibited at the National Gallery. Congratulations also to his classmate, Xu Shaoyan, for taking third place. These two students have brought honor to our school and will receive special awards. We hope they will continue their efforts and strive to win more awards in other competitions."

The other students looked at Tao Yuan with envy or surprise, but Xu Shaoyan glared at him fiercely, completely forgetting to maintain his kind and generous image.

After the announcement, Hu Wenshan remained silent for a long time before resuming his lecture. However, his speech was disjointed and disjointed, making it difficult for the students to connect, yet it was difficult to interrupt him. Hu Wenshan was following orders from his superiors, and if he hadn't succeeded, he would undoubtedly receive a reprimand, and the promised benefits would be lost. Furthermore, Tao Yuan had nearly given him a heart attack, and he had already invested a lot of personal emotion in the matter, so he genuinely didn't want him to win the award.

Usually, awards like these are only broadcast to the individual branches, rarely to the entire school. However, Tao Yuan's work being selected for exhibition at the National Gallery was an honor definitely worthy of a school-wide broadcast. He was also the first student in the country to have his work selected for exhibition at the National Gallery.

Xu Shaoyan's good news of third place was just a by-product, and it was because his father had an acquaintance in the school that he was mentioned in passing.

After class, Tao Yuan walked to the corridor outside the classroom and leaned against the wall waiting for Xu Shaoyan to come out.

"Congratulations on getting third place." Tao Yuan said as he watched Xu Shaoyan walk out of the classroom.

Xu Shaoyan's face looked particularly ugly. He wanted to say, "Don't be so proud. I will surpass you sooner or later." However, there were other classmates around, so he gritted his teeth and held back his words.

"I've already congratulated you, don't you have anything to say to me?" Tao Yuan asked.

"...Congratulations to you too." Xu Shaoyan lowered his voice and said reluctantly.

"What are you congratulating me on?" Tao Yuan asked with a puzzled expression.

"Congratulations on getting first place." Xu Shaoyan clenched his fists tightly. The blue veins exposed on the back of his hands showed how much patience he had.

"Thank you." Tao Yuan smiled and said, "You regarded me as your biggest stumbling block, doing everything you could to prevent me from participating in the competition, and even had Hu Wenshan deliberately prevent me from painting well, and in the end, you only got third place? Can't you try harder and at least get second place? At least it would prove that you are indeed only slightly worse than me."

"I don't understand what you are saying!" Xu Shaoyan would definitely not admit that those things had anything to do with him.

"It doesn't matter if you don't understand. After all, with your IQ, it's normal for you to often not understand what I say." Tao Yuan stepped forward and said, "Go to the National Gallery of Art and see my work when you have time. You'll know with your own eyes that the gap between you and me can't be made up by those despicable means."

Tao Yuan turned around and went downstairs, and met Liu Xiujie who came to pick up Xu Shaoyan again. He ignored him again and walked past him.

When Liu Xiujie saw Tao Yuan, he subconsciously stopped. He had also heard the broadcast just now. Looking at Tao Yuan's back as he left, he felt very complicated.

What Tao Yuan despised most was people like Liu Xiujie. If Xu Shaoyan and Hu Wenshan were despicable and shameless, then Liu Xiujie was childish and selfish. He hated people like this who bullied you when they couldn't get what they wanted the most. They were not even qualified to be his opponents, so he didn't even bother to look at him.

Liu Xiujie liked the original owner, but after pursuing her for a while without getting any response, he felt very embarrassed, so he got together with Xu Shaoyan. Then he helped Xu Shaoyan find ways to bully the original owner, while at the same time trying to get her attention.

Tao Yuan thought to himself that it was fortunate that the original owner did not fall for someone like Liu Xiujie, otherwise he would have been disgusted to death if the original owner had been having a good life with someone like Liu Xiujie.

After Wei Shicheng learned that Tao Yuan's works were going to be exhibited at the National Gallery, he asked him to go with him to see it.

Tao Yuan thought, they couldn't show up at the same time, otherwise people would definitely gossip about them, so what was the point of going together? But considering that he was his employer, he agreed.

After the car stopped, the two people who were hugging and kissing separated. Tao Yuan released Wei Shicheng's hand and said, "I'm going down first, godfather."

"Well, wait for me inside." Wei Shicheng said.

"...Okay." Tao Yuan suppressed what he wanted to say, agreed with a smile, then opened the door and got out of the car.

Wei Shicheng had to go through another entrance. At Tao Yuan's request, although they were visiting the exhibition together, they wouldn't walk together and would pretend not to know each other. So Tao Yuan was about to say, "Once we get in, we won't know each other anymore. Why should I wait for you?"

Tao Yuan entered the exhibition hall and quickly found his own work. The works on display were all masterpieces by masters of traditional Chinese painting. He was very proud to have his work featured prominently here. His work had already been reported in the news, and reporters would interview him after the awards ceremony.

There are always a lot of people at the National Gallery every day. There are still a lot of people coming to see the exhibition today, and some people are already standing in front of his works.

"It's really shocking that such a majestic landscape painting was created by a student who is not even 20 years old. He must be a genius!" An old voice exclaimed excitedly.

The others around also nodded in agreement. If it weren't for the introduction of the painter written on the note board next to it, no one would have believed that this was the work of a college student.

Because the competition required submission of a video of the painting process, the jury chose him as the first place without any doubt and allowed his painting to be displayed in the National Gallery.

"Contact the director of the exhibition hall and ask him to give me the contact information of the painter. I want to buy this painting." The old man who had just expressed excited admiration turned around and said to his assistant.

The moment the old man turned around, Tao Yuan recognized who he was. He was the Go master Su Yongfu, known as the contemporary Go Saint.

"I am the author of this painting. If you have any questions, you can tell me directly." Tao Yuan did not expect to meet the chess master Su Yongfu here, but this was a good opportunity for him.

Everyone turned to look at him, and Su Yongfu even began to look at him directly, but there was some doubt in his eyes.

Tao Yuan took out his student ID and handed it to him.

Su Yongfu took Tao Yuan's student ID card, compared it with the information on the annotation card, and then returned it to him and said, "Name your price, young man. I want your painting."

"Can I make a request of you?" Tao Yuan asked.

"What do you want?"

"I want to play a game of Go with you. If you beat me, I will give you this painting." Tao Yuan said.

Su Yongfu raised his eyebrows and looked at Tao Yuan and said, "This painting of yours is worth a lot of money, and you're just going to give it to me like that?"

"A painting is nothing to me?" Tao Yuan said with a smile.

Su Yongfu raised his hand and touched his goatee, thinking that the young man in front of him had an outstanding temperament and an air of scholarly family. It seemed that he was not only good at painting, but also good at playing chess.

Su Yongfu has won countless times and has become a little numb to it, so he often plays chess with some young people to feel their style of chess, or to simply amuse them.

Many young people wanted to be his disciples. He wasn't one to hide his talents; if he saw someone with talent, he would offer some guidance. He thought this young man was probably looking to become his disciple. So, given his amazing talent for Chinese painting, and if his chess skills were any good, he would take him on as his disciple.

Su Yongfu asked his assistant to get the Go set from the car, and then set up the chessboard in the rest area next to the exhibition hall. The two of them sat down and started playing right away.

Some people who came to the exhibition noticed that someone was playing Go in the exhibition hall. Out of curiosity, they took a closer look and recognized that the person playing Go was Go Master Su Yongfu. They immediately walked over and joined others in watching.

Wei Shicheng was delayed for about twenty minutes before entering the exhibition hall because he had received a phone call in the car. After finding the work with the words "Du Qingyu" written next to it, Wei Shicheng took a few steps back and looked up at the painting.

Wei Shicheng was shocked at first sight. He took two steps back and took in the entire painting. He was shocked by the magnificent landscape in the painting.

After the shock, Wei Shicheng felt puzzled, wondering if he had made a mistake. He walked closer and carefully examined the annotation board next to it. Indeed, Du Qingyu's name was written on it. Could it be that the exhibition hall staff had made a mistake? The National Gallery of Art should not make such a low-level mistake.

After standing in front of the painting for more than ten minutes, Wei Shicheng was still shocked. He was determined to ask Tao Yuan to sell the painting to him. He wanted to hang it in his office and look at it every day.

Wei Shicheng went looking for Tao Yuan, thinking he had gone to look at other paintings, but after searching around, he couldn't find him. Seeing a large group of people gathered in the rest area, Wei Shicheng felt that Tao Yuan was not the type to join in the fun, so he turned around and looked for him somewhere else.

Wei Shicheng looked around again but still couldn't find him. He took out his cell phone and wanted to call Tao Yuan, but turned around and looked at the crowd over there. He put his phone away and decided to go over and take a look. After all, it was not a good idea to make a phone call in a place like an exhibition hall.

Wei Shicheng, taking advantage of his height, peered over the crowd and saw someone playing Go. He then looked at the player, who turned out to be Go Master Su Yongfu. No wonder so many people were gathered there. Looking at Su Yongfu's opponent, he was immediately stunned, wondering why Qingyu was sitting here playing Go with the Go Master. No wonder he hadn't found him after searching twice.

Wei Shicheng didn't want to disturb them in front of so many people, and he had promised Tao Yuan to pretend not to know them, so he stood outside the crowd and watched the game. He also knew a little about Go, and after taking a closer look at the chessboard, he was surprised to see the black and white pieces facing each other with unyielding strength, and it seemed like they were evenly matched.

If two masters of similar skill had played out this position, it wouldn't have been surprising. But the person sitting there was a young man under twenty, and his opponent was the Go Grandmaster Su Yongfu. It was hard not to be surprised.

Wei Shicheng looked at Tao Yuan's serious face and thought that this kid really surprised him more and more. It was nothing special that he could play the piano, draw and play chess. The important thing was that he was so young, but he had achieved the level of a master in all these things. Who else in the world could achieve the same level as him at his age?

Tao Yuan picked up a chess piece and placed it on the chessboard. He held the white piece because he liked the color white. White looked simple and pure, but it was actually the most complex color and also the most inclusive and accepting color.

At the end of the game, Tao Yuan smiled and said, "I lost. You are indeed a chess master. I still lack some skills."

Su Yongfu had heard this sentence many times, but it was the first time he had heard it from such a young man. And although he won this round, it was a narrow victory. Being pushed to this extent by a young man under twenty was the first time in his life that he had experienced such a thing.

"The painting is yours now. When the exhibition is over, just send someone to pick it up. I will greet the director of the exhibition hall." Tao Yuan stood up after he finished speaking. He saw Wei Shicheng out of the corner of his eye, pretended not to know him and continued to walk out.

Su Yongfu was still sitting there, staring at the layout on the chessboard motionlessly, unable to come back to his senses for a long time.