Then, a particularly special request was that he wanted a super large collection room in his house to display his various collections, as well as a large study and activity room.
Feel free to improvise on the rest.
Finally, we simply handed him the room number and key, letting him go and observe the place himself.
In the following period, Liu Yihang decided to study calligraphy seriously. After all, Chen Yiping was a master calligrapher and a judge in the competition. It was a bit unreasonable that his apprentice could not win a prize in the competition.
Moreover, Liu Yihang had just learned from Yunyin that Chen Yiping lived alone in the teachers' dormitory all year round, without his wife and children by his side.
He actually has a family, but they divorced years ago because his wife was unhappy with his dedication and obsession with calligraphy, and there were some family conflicts.
His children are all grown up and don't live with anyone anymore; they all have their own families and lives. Because of their lack of understanding of him, they rarely come to see him, and his grandchildren don't even recognize their grandfather.
He taught at Tianzhou University for many years, was very dedicated to his students, and nurtured generations of students.
It has inherited the art and culture of calligraphy.
He was the only one who suffered.
I've even heard that he spends many Chinese New Years alone.
Liu Yihang recalled his initial impression of him: a somewhat pitiful old man.
Most artists are lonely, but also proud; they live in their own spiritual world.
Despite their different stances and living environments, Liu Yihang deeply admires people like this who are willing to give up many things for the sake of preserving art, even sacrificing the happiness of ordinary people.
Chen Yiping is a true calligrapher.
He wanted to make Chen Yiping proud and to prove him right.
He started going to Chen Yiping's teacher's dormitory every day, and he would always bring something he had made for the lovely old man. The two of them would chat and joke around like family.
The stack of Xuan paper, as tall as a person, in the corner of Chen Yiping's house had been almost completely used up by him and Yunyin every day.
Yunyin's performance has improved significantly under Chen Yiping's precise guidance.
Liu Yihang made rapid progress, transforming from a clueless novice into someone with considerable knowledge of all aspects of calligraphy.
Chen Yiping was pleasantly surprised to find that Liu Yihang was not only very talented in running script, but also wrote clerical script, cursive script and regular script quite well.
However, since I've already signed up for the running script course, my main focus should be on practicing running script.
The two trained gruelingly every day, writing until their hands were too sore to lift and they even forgot to eat.
Finally, he gained Chen Yiping's approval.
Chen Yiping was extremely satisfied with Liu Yihang, in particular. Just when you thought that was his limit, he would surprise you again.
Liu Yihang has made great progress in the process of realizing his work by fully integrating Chen Yiping's calligraphy experience. It feels like he is making rapid progress every day.
After the training camp ended, his calligraphy had reached nine-tenths of Chen Yiping's peak level. I gave him one point less to prevent him from becoming arrogant.
Chen Yiping couldn't be more satisfied with this student.
He had seen Liu Yihang's efforts during this time and felt increasingly guilty about what he had said to him before.
He knew that Liu Yihang wasn't actually that obsessed with winning a prize; he was more interested in making him lose face.
When this child works hard, he possesses a terrifying strength that makes people feel that he is bound to succeed.
Based on their current skill levels, barring any unforeseen circumstances or behind-the-scenes manipulation, Liu Yihang is a shoo-in for first place.
Cloud Music also made it into the top three.
Chen Yiping was very satisfied.
After the training camp ended, the two submitted their most satisfactory answers to Chen Yiping, who then forwarded them to the calligraphy association for preliminary screening.
The two now simply need to wait for news of passing the initial screening and participating in the semi-finals.
Meanwhile, good news came from the engineers: they had drawn up a simple design.
Liu Yihang invited him directly to the store to discuss and solicit opinions from Liu Xiangdong and Lin Guihua, and finally finalized the decoration plan for their villa.
The renovation plan for Liu Yihang's villa was decided upon by him and Yunyin together.
It has the large collection room, study, and gym that Liu Yihang wanted, and the dressing room and art studio that Yunyin wanted.
The master bedroom, secondary bedrooms, nursery, nanny's room, etc. are also fully equipped.
Once the general layout was finalized, Liu Yihang handed over the entire responsibility for handling the two houses to the engineers, leaving professional matters to the professionals.
He gave the engineers maximum authority and trusted their aesthetic sense and craftsmanship.
The engineer quoted 200,000 yuan for the renovation of these two houses, and an additional 100,000 yuan if furniture is included. The homeowners can refer to this quote when choosing furniture.
That's equivalent to the renovation cost of a house, which is over 100,000 yuan.
Liu Yihang agreed without even blinking.
Many years ago, he had dreamed of this day when he could spend money on himself and his daughter without hesitation.
I felt incredibly happy.
He went directly to the bank to transfer the money. The engineer was also a straightforward person. Because of Liu Yihang's trust, he directly reduced the amount by 10,000 yuan, and the 290,000 yuan was settled.
Once this matter was resolved, Liu Yihang and Yunyin focused on the calligraphy competition.
Because their initial screening results came back.
Both of them passed.
The semi-finals are the day after tomorrow. All of the more than one hundred people who passed the initial screening will be present at the competition, and they will be scored on the spot.
Both of them were putting in a lot of effort to prepare, but Chen Yiping remained very calm.
With all preparations made, it's best to leave everything to fate.
At this moment, the other judges of the calligraphy association were secretly gossiping behind Chen Yiping's back.
The reason is that one of the calligraphy works submitted by Chen Yiping for the competition was suspected to have been written by him to fill in the gaps for his students.
Everyone has studied his calligraphy; this piece is clearly his own work.
Someone subtly inquired with Chen Yiping and learned that the two disciples participating in this competition were his recent students.
People became very suspicious.
People are saying that Chen Yiping has abandoned all sense of shame in order to win the competition, and that his behavior is disgusting.
However, some are old friends, and I believe there's more to the story.
In short, even before the competition started, everyone had already begun to pay attention to Liu Yihang and Yunyin.
On the day of the competition, the two went into the competition with a relaxed mindset.
Chen Yiping, one of the judges, arrived early and didn't have time to give them any instructions. However, he believed that the two children would not disappoint him.
The two were in different examination rooms and parted ways before entering.
Liu Yihang arrived at his examination room, which was quite crowded, probably around a hundred people.
It seems this calligraphy competition is quite large in scale.
The organizers provided the writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones used in the competition. Liu Yihang checked them briefly and waited for the examiner to announce the questions.
The exam question was to write a poem praising plum blossoms.
After a moment's thought, Liu Yihang immediately came up with a good answer.
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