Fox Song

Chapter 40 Young Painter
After Lin Junjie finished cleaning up, he took the towel on the easel, wiped his hands, and then walked towards Zixuan.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting." He pulled a chair over and sat down. "What's your name?"

"My name is Bai Zixuan, this is my business card." She took out a business card from her bag and handed it over. Now that they had already met, there seemed no need to hide her identity from JJ Lin.

JJ Lin took the business card with both hands, glanced at it, and was secretly shocked: Bai Zixuan, the chairman of Qianqiu Group!
Although he is a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, he often pays attention to news and current affairs or financial information. Therefore, he is not unfamiliar with Qianqiu Group, the flagship of the southern department store industry. A few days ago, his girlfriend Guan Ruoshui was still talking about why Qianqiu did not go public. She has been paying attention to it and will definitely buy its stocks if it goes public.

She also bought a lot of stocks based on recommendations from friends, and sometimes dragged JJ Lin to study stock trends, so he was very familiar with the information on the business card.

He raised his head and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Miss Bai, could it be that... we knew each other before?"

He couldn't help but feel a little confused about Bai Zixuan's identity. Although he would take some business orders in his spare time, such as painting and designing, he would never be so confident that the chairman of a group would come to him in person for no reason. This was not normal.

"This is the first time we meet." Zi Xuan seemed to see what he was thinking, and explained with a smile, "I am an old friend of your college's Vice President Liu Fen. Our Qianqiu Group's Jinling branch will hold its 5th anniversary celebration in two months, and we need a large oil painting...President Liu recommended you to me."

"Oh! So that's it!" JJ Lin nodded, feeling relieved.

What Zixuan said was both true and false, but after she said it, JJ Lin no longer had any doubts. Instead, he was filled with gratitude towards Liu Fen who had just left.

What Zixuan didn't know was that JJ Lin was originally from Jinling and had worked with Liu Fen in Hangzhou. For the convenience of family life, he found a way to transfer his job from Hangzhou Normal College to Jinling Art College, but he was two years earlier than Liu Fen.

When Zixuan represented the group and Hangzhou Normal University in participating in the student aid activities, JJ Lin no longer worked in the college's art department. The two had no contact at all, so of course she didn't know him.

When Lin Junjie was working at Hangzhou Normal University, the department head Liu Fen took good care of him. Now that she is the vice president of the Academy of Fine Arts, she also introduced some business to him, which he naturally thought was reasonable.

JJ Lin then asked, "So what type of paintings does your company want?"

"Is there any water here?"

Zixuan did not answer his question, but asked this question with a smile abruptly.

Of course, this was not an excuse, she was indeed feeling a little dry in the mouth.

However, she was obviously asking the question even though she knew the answer - the huge studio had a panoramic view and there was no water dispenser or bottled water installed.

There is a square table against the wall of the studio. On the table is a thermos cup, but it must be JJ Lin's own. It seems that the water that teachers usually drink in class is brought from outside.

JJ Lin was stunned when he heard this, with an apologetic look on his face, then he patted his knee and stood up.

"I'm really sorry, there's nothing here! I was inconsiderate. Please move to my office and sit down..."

"Okay." Zixuan nodded, adjusted her collar, and stood up.

The two walked out of the classroom.

When he reached the door, JJ Lin suddenly felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned back to look at her in confusion. There was no one else here, so who else could it be if not her?

Zixuan smiled and pointed to the ground, "Look, there was a spider on your shoulder just now. I took a picture of it."

He looked carefully and saw that there was indeed a small black spider crawling on the ground.

"Thank you!"

"It's okay, it's easy."

"But, I didn't expect you to be so brave, Miss Bai!" Lin Junjie said with a smile as he closed the studio door. "My girlfriend is scared to death of these things, spiders, mice, cockroaches, etc. Every time she sees them, she screams and urges me to beat them up." "Your girlfriend?"

"Yes! Her name is Guan Ruoshui, she's very easy to get along with. I'll introduce her to you someday!"

"Okay, I love making friends the most."

The footsteps gradually faded away, and the black spider in the studio was crawling around here and there. I felt very strange - I was clearly sleeping soundly on the web in the corner of the ceiling just now, how did it suddenly come here?

It's so high, how can I get back? Oh my God!
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JJ Lin’s office is on the second floor. There are four desks in the room of about 20 square meters.

Zixuan and Linfen had been to this office before. Now, dozens of minutes later, the office was still empty, just like before.

"Miss Bai, please sit anywhere." JJ Lin walked to a table and raised his hand to gesture to the table opposite.

"All three of them went to the job fair to provide on-site guidance today. Today's campus job fair is mainly for students from our School of Fine Arts and School of Design, so the leaders of the colleges pay more attention to it." JJ Lin said with a smile.

"Oh, Teacher Lin, why didn't you go?" Zixuan asked casually.

"Three is enough. And as you just saw, several students are going to participate in a competition in a few days, and they need my guidance."

"I understand!" Zi Xuan said with a smile, "No wonder Dean Lin Fen recommended you to me..."

“That’s Dean Lin’s kindness.” JJ Lin smiled calmly and said nothing more.

JJ Lin opened a locker in the office and took out a set of tea sets from it.

Seeing this, Zi Xuan was quite surprised, "Miss Bai, would you like a cup of black tea?"

"Okay!" Zixuan nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll trouble you, Teacher Lin."

"It's not a big deal." JJ Lin carefully placed the tea set on the coffee table in the office and said a little embarrassedly, "To be honest with you, Miss Bai, I don't know much about the tea ceremony. But besides painting, this is the only thing I like."

"Teacher Lin, you are too modest!" Zixuan responded casually.

She thought to herself, this JJ Lin is quite a wonderful person as he doesn't mind the trouble of making tea in the office like this.

There was a water dispenser in the corner of the office. JJ Lin was holding an electric kettle and bending over to collect water.

The two chatted about this and that. If you were an outsider, you would never think that they were meeting for the first time. They looked like they had known each other for many years and were getting along very well.

But JJ Lin didn't know that Zixuan's mood at this moment was not as relaxed and natural as it seemed, but was actually quite heavy.

At the door of the studio, Zi Xuan used the little black spider as a pretext to probe Lin Junjie's body with her spiritual sense the moment she slapped him.

She confirmed her previous judgment again. There was no familiar aura on JJ Lin's body, nor any trace of the fox spirit seal.

It was obvious that the young painter in his thirties in front of her was not the man she was looking for—the man who had been reincarnated!

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(End of this chapter)