Chapter 358 Elder Lu And His Bet...
Chapter 358 Elder Lu And His Bet...
Lu Lijun asked the servent to arrange drawing and painting stuff from in the gazebo. Soon everything was ready there and Jiang Yuyan and Lu Lijun were ready to work, their hands on. There were two stands in the gazebo kept opposite to each other along with all the stuff needed for drawing.
"Everything is ready. We can start now." Lu Lijun said and stepped inside the gazebo.
"Hmm!" Nodding Jiang Yuyan followed him too.
Lu Lijun picked up an apron and passed it to Jiang Yuyan. Accepting it, she wore it. When she was about to tie it on her backside, she realized two tiny hands were already doing their work to tie the apron belts knot on her back.
Jiang Yuyan realized that was Lu Lijun and tried to turn her head to look at him.
"Stay still," Lu Lijun said in an ordering tone.
Hearing it, Jiang Yuyan laughed lightly, so he asked, "What's there to laugh about?"
"You are just like your brother in every way. If I didn't know that you were here, I would have mistaken you as Lu Qiang," she replied.
"But I am not him. Don't expect me to be as nice as him," saying it he finished tying a knot and turned to go towards the other stand.
She looked at this little iceberg who had serious expressions on his face and said, "Sometimes I feel like you are older than me when you behave coldly like this."
"I am like this always. Get used to it as you will be here in this mansion after getting married to the elder brother," He replied and picked up a pencil.
She nodded, "Hmm! I know. Where is your apron?" She asked.
"I don't need it," saying it started to draw.
Jiang Yuyan too started it and just then Elder Lu came there.
"What both of you are up to?"
Seeing elder Lu there, Jiang Yuyan greeted him with a smile while Lu Lijun replied focusing on his work, "Both of us are going to draw something."
"Something? What is mean by that? You must have something clear in your mind what to draw when you are in front of the canvas."
"But I don't have anything in mind grandpa. I will just start something and let's see what will it come out as," Lu Lijun said staring at the white blank paper in front of him.
"Okay! I am eager to see what both of you are going to draw," saying it, elder Lu sat in the chair that was arranged by a servant for him to sit comfortably.
"Are you going to sit here grandpa?" Lu Lijun asked.
"Of course. I want to see your drawings," Elder Lu replied.
"But it will take time and you will get bored."
"I won't as I am going to put one bet."
"bet?" Lu Lijun and Lu Qiang both asked at the same time.
"Both of you just start and whose painting I would like more, I will fulfill one wish of the winner but you only have time till lunch." Elder Lu made himself comfortable in the chair by leaning back into it.
"I don't have any wish grandpa," Lu Lijun said.
"Not me even," Jiang Yuyan said.
"Everyone has something that they wished for desperately. If you think carefully, you will get the answer." Elder Lu said.
Both didn't say anything and continued their work. Suddenly, Elder Lu spoke again, "But the painting should be from your heart and I could see that you poured your heart into it. It should be pretty to my eyes that I should not be able to take my eyes off from it. It should touch my heart."
Both heard him and continued the work. Jiang Yuyan started to draw something with a smile on her face as if she was happy while drawing what was in her mind while Lu Lijung was looking at the blank white paper in front of him with a pencil in his hand.
He was thinking about the last words said by his grandpa that 'the painting should be pretty and it should touch his heart'. Suddenly something clicked in his mind and he started to draw slowly and with full concentration having serious expressions on his face.
Jiang Yuyan was smiling lightly while drawing and Lu Lijun had no expressions at all. He looked like an artist who was immersed in his work forgetting the world around him.
In a while, both done with making an outline for the painting so elder Lu said, "Soon it's going to be a time for lunch and both of you should complete it before that. You have only one hour left"
Both nodded and started to work. Elder Lu was looking at both of them and smiled how busy and focused they were. One hour was about to pass by and elder Lu said, "Now you guys have ten minutes only."
Both started to work faster and stopped at the end of those ten minutes. Seeing time was up, elder Lu looked at them to stop but they were done before that.
"Nice to see it was done before time. Now let me see what you guys did." Saying it elder Lu stood up from the chair and went to both of them. As Jiang Yuyan was closer and standing before Lu Lijun, elder Lu stopped at her and asked, "May I?"
"Hmm!" Nodding Jiang Yuyan stepped back from her place to make space for elder Lu. Looking at the drawing elder Lu smiled and said, "As expected from you. They say you draw what is always on your mind and that you feel from your heart. I can see that my grandson is always in your mind and heart.
Jiang Yuyan smiled and blushed to hear it. She drew the portrait of Lu Qiang. She drew his face as if he was looking at her with love in his eyes having that pleasant and adorable smile on his face. One can see the real Lu Qiang through Jiang Yuyan's eyes by seeing her work on that blank sheet of paper.