"Taoxi! Your painting has been shortlisted for the CAC preliminary competition!"
When Tao Xi received a call from Qiao Yitang, he was packing with Lin Qinhe his luggage for the competition in Beijing the next day. He squatted on the ground with his mobile phone in his hand. Before he could open his mouth to say anything, his ears were caught by Qiao Yitang's excited voice. stuffed with:
"Let me tell you, you are the only one shortlisted in our school this year. I guess you will become the number one public enemy in the art class haha!"
"But the most angry is definitely the female devil Jiang Lei. None of the students she brought were shortlisted."
"If you win the prize, you can treat me to a meal. After all, I'm half a nobleman, right?"
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Tao Xi stood up from the ground, waited for Qiao Yitang to be excited and thanked her seriously, Qiao Yitang listened to his calm tone and clicked: "Why are you more and more like Lin Qinhe, the good news is still so calm, It's not pretending!"
Tao Xi thought that Lin Qinhe was always calm, so he couldn't hold back the joy, and hung up the phone after saying a few words to Qiao Yitang.
Lin Qinhe put down the luggage he was packing, came over and asked, "Have you been shortlisted for the preliminary round?"
Tao Xi nodded, without a look of joy on his face, and said, "I'm still far from winning the prize. After all, there are quite a few shortlisted in the preliminary round."
The CAC competition is divided into two rounds. Due to the large number of contributors, in the first round, 100 paintings will be selected for public display on the official website of the competition, allowing the public to vote. In fact, voting is only to increase the interactivity of the competition, and the impact of the voting results is minimal. , the final award is still by the most professional judges, most of these judges are well-known artists.
Tao Xi went to the CAC official website on the computer and saw that his work was No. 82 in the exhibition area. After midnight, the voting channel will be officially opened.
He turned off the computer, walked to the black suitcase that had just been put away by Lin Qinhe, sat on it holding the lever, slid his legs in front of Lin Qinhe, raised his head and looked at Lin Qinhe eagerly and said: " I don't want to go to school anymore, you can pack me up and take me away tomorrow."
Lin Qinhe thought for a while, and said with a serious expression: "I'll ask you a leave, it's still too late to buy a ticket." After speaking, he really took out his mobile phone and pretended to buy a ticket.
Tao Xi was startled, and quickly took Lin Qinhe's hand, widened his eyes and said, "I'm joking, I don't want to miss class."
But Lin Qinhe took it seriously. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at Tao Xi, and suddenly pushed the suitcase. Tao Xi was so frightened that he hugged the lever tightly, but Lin Qinhe just pushed him around the living room, like pushing a small Like a baby carriage.
Tao Xi immediately found it very interesting, and entangled Lin Qinhe and pushed himself a few more times.
The next day Tao Xi took a taxi to the school alone. Because Lin Qinhe had to catch the morning flight, the two of them only had time to eat breakfast together.
Near the end of the semester, the atmosphere of the whole school is tense, and the exams of all sizes have made the students dizzy. Except for the students in the art class, who are suffering because they failed to be shortlisted for the CAC, they have hardly heard of non-art classes like the first class. After passing CAC, the head teacher, Zhou Qiang, found out about Taoxi at noon after learning about it from the art teacher, and congratulated him and encouraged him.
Tao Xi was hungrily pulled by Zhou Qiang and talked for 20 minutes. His ears were full of "you're great", "good boy" and "promising", until he was so hungry that Zhou Qiang suddenly screamed. Realizing that Tao Xi hadn't eaten yet, he quickly let him go.
Tao Xi ran to the cafeteria quickly, and bumped into Yang Duole and Xu Ziqi who were coming out of the cafeteria. Yang Duole glanced at him with no expression, Xu Ziqi's eyes were a little dodgy, and the two quickly missed their bodies and walked away.
Tao Xi looked back at the backs of the two people, took the card and went to make a meal. After eating quickly, he returned to the classroom and walked to the last row of seats as usual, but he was keenly aware that the atmosphere in the class was not right. —
Several classmates were looking at him quietly. After meeting his gaze, they quickly lowered their heads. A few familiar classmates, such as Li Xiaoyuan and Bi Chengfei, saw him and looked around anxiously.
"Brother Xi, what's the matter with your CAC competition?" As soon as Bi Chengfei came over, he took Tao Xi to the corridor outside the classroom. His usual hippie smile was gone, and his eyebrows were almost twisted together.
"What's going on?" Tao Xi was staggered by Bi Chengfei and frowned.
After Li Xiaoyuan looked around a few times to confirm that there was no one there, he handed his mobile phone to Tao Xi and whispered, "Look at this Weibo, it has been forwarded a lot now."
Tao Xi took the phone and looked at it.
This is a long article Weibo, published just a few minutes ago, the publisher is a yellow V number, and the ID is "Things of Wenhua Academy of Fine Arts", which is obviously a Weibo submission platform.
The Weibo title is very eye-catching: "CAC Preliminary Competition No. 82 work plagiarizes the first prize work of the Golden Lottery Cup Competition".
Tao Xi narrowed his eyes and continued to look down. In the text, he first released a comparison between his work and the first prize work of the Jincai Cup that he had never heard of. The two paintings are almost the same, except for the slightly different colors. , the line composition and creativity are almost the same. If it is not for the different sources of the competitions under the two paintings, it is estimated that many people who do not know how to draw will think that the two paintings are just adjusted with software.
The anonymous contributor did not directly name the authors of the two paintings, but just used the abbreviations TX and FYD, and compared the release time of the two paintings with the platform. Obviously, the Jincai Cup was announced last week. The results of the awards, and CAC announced the results of the preliminary competition only yesterday. From the time of publication of the works, there is an obvious time difference between the two paintings.
Immediately afterwards, the contributor, as an alumnus of FYD University, the author of the Golden Lottery Cup, described very provocatively how FYD came from a poor background, and how he was excellent in both character and study, and how difficult it was to win the first prize of the Golden Lottery Cup this time.
Tao Xi didn't read the whole nonsense that followed, and turned to the Weibo comment area. There are already thousands of comments. Those who have good things have already picked up the information and wrote the names of the two authors directly. FYD name For Feng Yadong.
"Did my eyes see it wrong? This isn't plagiarism, it's just copy and paste, right?"
"How can a competition as big as CAC pass this kind of work and be shortlisted for the preliminary round? Has the judge's brain been eaten by a dog? I went to send an email to complain and report it."
"This painting is really good. Although I don't understand it very well, why did the author vote for such an unpopular competition as the Jincai Cup? It should be voted for CAC."
"I checked and the person who copied this is a high school student or Wenhua No. 1 Middle School. How could such a person come out of such an awesome high school?"
"It's not easy to be able to study at Wenhua No. 1 Middle School. Who knows if the shooter was hired by the parents, but the shooter was irresponsible and copied someone else's painting."
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These comments are relatively peaceful, and there are more unsightly insults. All sharp accusations and attacks are directed at Tao Xi alone. There are even rumors that Tao Xi has a deep background and speaks with nose and eyes.
A poor college student's painting was copied by a high school student from a prestigious school from a powerful family, and he was shortlisted for a higher-quality competition. The news that Kochi parents helped their children forge research papers not long ago can easily ignite the public's sensitive points.
Even if everything is just speculation, no one cares about the truth or the fake. The maliciousness on the Internet is crazy and cheap. They only need a target and enjoy the thrill of knocking down the target. The truth is not important.
Tao Xi opened the retweet expressionlessly and glanced at it, and saw that three or four big Vs had already retweeted this Weibo, and the words were full of gunpowder. Stir up public opinion.
"Brother Xi, we must believe in you, someone is definitely trolling you!" Bi Chengfei said indignantly, in his knowledge Tao Xi would never do such a thing.
Li Xiaoyuan was afraid that Tao Xi would see too many bad remarks, so he quickly took the mobile phone back from Tao Xi's hand. He actually didn't know what was going on, so he could only comfortably say: "Yes, everyone in our group. will be on your side."
Two people surrounded Tao Xi, one mouth after another, to comfort and comfort, for fear that Tao Xi could not stand the stimulation, but found that the client himself looked calm from beginning to end, only frowning while reading Weibo.
Tao Xi's cell phone vibrated. He took it out and saw that it was Lin Qinhe's phone number. After thanking the two of them, he walked away to answer the call.
"Tao Xi, I've already asked you for leave. You can take a taxi home now. Don't look at your phone when you go back. Wait for me at home. I'll be there soon in the afternoon. I probably know what's going on, don't be afraid. , it will be resolved soon.”
Lin Qinhe spoke a little faster, but his voice was still as calm as usual.
Tao Xi walked to the corner of the corridor, looked at the dead branches outside the balcony, and said to Lin Qinhe:
"Don't come back, take the exam tomorrow, and I can handle it myself."
Lin Qinhe paused and said without doubt, "I've already bought a ticket."
Tao Xi took a deep breath, and after a moment of silence, he still said stubbornly: "I wanted to tell you after the competition, but I didn't want to affect your competition. If you come back, my previous plans will be in vain."
After he finished speaking, he was suddenly lightly tapped on the shoulder by a hand. He turned his head to see Qiao Yitang with a dignified expression, and whispered to him, "Grandpa asked me to take you back."
Tao Xi nodded, and continued to say to Lin Qinhe who was silent over there: "Really, you trust me, I will handle it well, you can take the exam with peace of mind, and I still want you to win the national first prize."
He told Lin Qinhe several times, but after a few minutes of grinding, Lin Qinhe still did not agree, but gave him a business card on WeChat, whose name was Su Yun.
Tao Xi opened WeChat and found that there were a lot of new news sent to him by his classmates, some who believed in him, some who comforted him, and some who were indignant.
He was a little surprised, because he had only been in this class for less than half a year, and he did not expect to gain the trust of his classmates in this matter.
After getting into the taxi, Tao Xi added Su Yun's WeChat account. Su Yun first sent him a bunch of information. It was Feng Yadong's personal information and past paintings. He read it carefully from beginning to end. The second-year student of Wenhua Academy of Fine Arts has participated in many art competitions, and his resume is not bad at first glance.
Qiao Yitang sat aside and looked at the comments on the Weibo. At this time, the number of comments doubled again. The latest comment was extremely unpleasant. Her eyes were red with anger, and she could not wait to tear it apart in the comments. Stopped, and cursed a few swear words in a low voice.
Tao Xi tilted his head to look at Qiao Yitang, and said with relief: "Don't look at it, just let them scold."
Qiao Yitang was stunned for a while. Seeing that the person who should be the most angry and unhappy had a calm expression, he didn't panic at all, and asked with fire at the corner of his mouth, "Why aren't you in a hurry? I just saw that you were so calm on the phone with Lin Qinhe, I thought You don't want him to worry about pretending, but you're really like a nobody?"
She is almost dying. The plagiarism of artistic creation is the easiest to explain. Once this hat is attached, it will affect the creator's reputation for life. Tao Xi will soon apply for a foreign school. If he stays in the CAC competition For a disgraceful sum, absolutely no school is willing to accept him.
"After all, I didn't do it again."
Tao Xi smiled at Qiao Yitang, leaned back in the chair, raised his eyelids, and zoomed in on the painting of the first prize of the Golden Cup on his mobile phone. After looking carefully for a while, he found it in the WeChat address book. A person's WeChat ID, click into the circle of friends, find a few pictures in a pile of selfies, open them.
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