Be a master through ancient times

Chu Ci wrote more than a dozen Moyi questions on the paper, satisfying Zhang Wenhai's desire to brush up the questions.After handing the test paper to Zhang Wenhai, Chu Ci said a word, and walked out the door with a paper in his arms.

He wanted to go to shopkeeper Lu, hand in the painting first, and then talk to shopkeeper Lu about the possibility of publishing this collection.

Shopkeeper Lu is also in the bookstore today, but he is not at the counter, but went to the backyard to bask in the sun.Chu Ci was taken to the backyard by Hu Zi, and he saw the shopkeeper Lu sitting on a rocking chair, holding a book of Chinese script in his hand and reading it intently.

"Ahem," Chu Ci first coughed, and seeing shopkeeper Lu turning his head, he said, "Xiaosheng came here uninvited and became a bad guest, disturbing the peace of shopkeeper Lu. I hope you will forgive me."

"What did Chu Xiucai say? It's hard for me to come to invite a rare visitor like you. I can only be happy when you come. Please sit down and try my new Pu'er by the way to see how it tastes. Sample."

Chu Ci picked up the cup of tea, first put it to his nose and smelled it, and then put it in his mouth to taste slowly.After a while, he said: "It is mellow and smooth, with a sweet aftertaste, good tea."

What Amway gave to others was affirmed, and shopkeeper Lu smiled so hard that he knew that Chu Xiucai had more taste than ordinary people.

"Shopkeeper Lu, I came here today to hand in the paintings."

"The painting is finished? Chu Xiucai is really fast. It's only the fourth day. Where is the painting? Can you let me have a look?"

"Of course you can, please."

Chu Ci slowly opened the picture scroll. In the painting, the woman has bright eyes and white teeth, is delicate and graceful, and is dressed in a red dress. She is walking in the plum forest.

Shopkeeper Lu stared dumbfounded, unable to calm down for a long time.After a long time, he said: "Chu Xiucai, the picture of beauties you drew has both form and spirit. This old man is dumbfounded."

Most of the current paintings are intended to express the spirit, and Chu Ci's obsession with form is definitely not very popular in the painting circle.But for ordinary people, this painting is just like a real person, it looks so beautiful!

Chu Ci rolled up the scroll again and put it aside.He said to shopkeeper Lu: "Besides the matter of handing in the painting today, Xiaosheng has something else he wants to discuss with shopkeeper Lu."

"Chu Xiucai just say so."

"I want to come up with a collection of titles. I wonder what regulations are there in the county bookstore?" Chu Ci first inquired about the publishing rules.

"Examination set? This is good! Every time I have a county test set in my store, the supply is in short supply. It's a pity that there are only so many distributed in the county, so I can only ask scholars to copy the books. If you come out with a set of test questions , then print more, and our store will definitely make a lot of money by then."

Shopkeeper Lu looked at Chu Ci with gentle eyes that were a little scary. He didn't expect that he just met by chance at the letter stand, and he could bring back a cash cow for the book store.

Chu Ci laughed, he was just a little more confident, but he didn't expect that shopkeeper Lu had so much confidence in him.

Since he said so, it should be no problem to engrave the question set in the instruction workshop, he just needs to go back and write the questions carefully.

After Chu Ci left, shopkeeper Lu didn't dare to delay, he called out to prepare the car, and hurried to the county seat with the loaded picture scroll in his arms.

Yuanshan County is seventy or eighty miles away from Ping'an Town. Shopkeeper Lu is leaving now, and he can still enter the city before closing the city gate.

After working hard all the way, the carriage finally stopped in front of the bookstore.Shopkeeper Lu gave the concierge some money and asked him to help inform, while he waited at the door.

The concierge came out quickly and asked shopkeeper Lu to follow him in.

Shopkeeper Lu walked in with the painting in his arms, and immediately saw Steward Huang from the bookstore drinking tea with the man he met last time.

"Hello, Guan Huang, and Mr. Xu. I have done what I said last time, and today I am here to present a painting. I hope I won't disturb the two of you."

"Shopkeeper Lu, you're being polite. If it wasn't for your generous help, I'd like to invite that visitor from the sky, but I'm afraid I won't even be able to find him." That old master Xu laughed loudly.

Manager Huang's expression was calm, he was in charge of shopkeeper Lu, so naturally there was no need to give him too much face. "You said you were here to offer a painting, but what about the painting?"

"The painting is here, can you two open it?" Shopkeeper Lu took the painting out of the long wooden box in his hand.

Mr. Xu was faintly agitated, he forced himself to hold back, and said "good".

Shopkeeper Lu slowly opened the scroll, and a woman in red appeared in front of everyone.Master Xu looked at it, and suddenly burst into tears, his expression full of nostalgia.

Manager Huang also showed surprise in his eyes, as if he saw something extraordinary.

Shopkeeper Lu didn't know why, seeing their performance, he also realized that this matter might not be as simple as he imagined.

He originally thought that Master Xu simply liked Chu Xiucai's painting skills, so he wanted to take a painting home to admire every day. Now it seems that this painting should hide some unknown secrets.

Master Xu's expression gradually returned to normal. He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and then said: "Xu lost his composure for a while, which made the two of you laugh. This painting is very good, Xu has never seen anything like this before."

"That visitor from space does have some painting skills." Guanshi Huang also boasted.

Master Xu took the painting from shopkeeper Lu, then took a bag from his body, and handed it to shopkeeper Lu. "Just be careful, and I hope that shopkeeper Lu will pass it on to that painter for use in embellishing the brush."

Shopkeeper Lu didn't take it over, he seemed hesitant to speak.

"Shopkeeper Lu, if there is any difficulty, you might as well tell me."

"Well, I asked him for a painting that day, and that day when the foreign visitor learned that it was Huang Guanshi from the bookstore who was accompanying him in person, he immediately agreed. He is a scholar and has a reputation as a scholar. In order to benefit students from all over the world, he wanted to write a book. Collect them for practice." Having said that, all the smart people present naturally understood what Shopkeeper Lu meant.

Master Xu glanced at Guanshi Huang, then nodded slightly.

Guanshi Huang then said: "Presumably he is worried about the issue of the ISBN? Naturally, the sooner the better for such things that benefit the people's livelihood and the country, I will report to the clerk and approve a quota as soon as possible."

Shopkeeper Lu was overjoyed, stood up and cupped his hands towards them and said, "The two masters are so caring about the people's livelihood, it is really a blessing to the people of Yuanshan County, and I will thank you two from the next generation of visitors."

"Accept this embellishment pen too. He is a student, and life is not easy. Naturally, we can't just sit back and watch."

As the saying goes, poor scholars, rich people.A talented person can draw illustrations for others, and his family must be very poor.

Shopkeeper Lu couldn't refuse, so he could only accept it.

After shopkeeper Lu left, Guanshi Huang said, "Brother Xu, why did you approve the ISBN for him?" 50 taels of silver was enough for a painting.

"To be able to describe my young lady so realistically, even if his requirements are higher, it doesn't matter if he is old. My little master must be very happy when he sees this painting. Before she passed away, the young lady gave me the name of Yan Jijiu. It is more than enough to run a book number in the county." Master Xu sighed.

His family's master was Jiayou's Jinshi for 16 years.Because he had no interest in officialdom, he returned to his hometown to be a wealthy idler.

His young lady is the master's first child, and the master loves her very much, so he took her by his side and taught her to read and write, and he did not want to criticize her from a worldly perspective.

When the young lady was six years old, the wife gave birth to another son, but passed away due to arrhythmia.The master is in great pain, because the two children need to be taken care of, he can only fight hard.In his heart, he felt sorry for the two children whose biological mothers died young, and never got married again, and only wanted to raise them well.

In Miss Sixteen's year, she went out to play with the master. On the way, she met a down-and-out scholar who fell on the side of the road and was about to starve to death.

His family's master was kind, and after rescuing him, he tested the scholar's knowledge.The master saw that he was a man who could be made, so he thought of accepting him as an apprentice, and brought him back to the mansion to teach him carefully.

The young lady of his family has a natural nature, and loves to read as much as the master, and often goes in and out of the study to listen to the master's lectures.As time went by, when she got along with the scholar, the two gradually fell in love.Although the master of his family felt that it was not reasonable, he was also happy to see it succeed, so he made the decision and betrothed the young lady to the scholar, so that the two surnames could be married.

One year after the two got married, the scholar went to Beijing to take the exam. At this time, the young lady was already pregnant, so she was at home waiting for the delivery.Unexpectedly, the scholar never came back, and there was no news from him.

The young lady was in great pain, and not long after giving birth, she resolutely went to Beijing to find her husband.Guided by a caring person, she went directly to a house where a wedding banquet was being held.The person who talked and laughed at Yan Yan in the crowd and toasted and drank was her husband who had never heard from her.

The young lady wanted to sever ties with him on the spot, but unexpectedly, she was detained by the servants and locked in a woodshed.Later, she learned that this person went to Beijing to rush for the exam, but unfortunately failed the exam. When he was relaxing in the temple, he accidentally rescued the daughter of the county lord Jiahui who came to offer incense.

The woman fell in love with him at first sight, and she would not marry unless he was the only one. The county owner and his wife had no choice but to agree to this matter.Now that his young lady is making a fuss, almost the whole capital is waiting to see the excitement of the county head's house.

In the end, the county owner and his wife came up with a way to let her daughter pretend to be generous and welcome his young lady back to be a noble concubine.At that time, no matter who mentioned the county lord's daughter, they would praise her for being tolerant and worthy of a lady.

Poor young lady of his family, a well-behaved lady in the main family, was demoted from his wife to concubine, it really makes people sigh endlessly.

He didn't know how his young lady agreed, but after that, she never laughed again.Because of this incident, the master of his family was depressed all day long, and he only said that he was ignorant of people, harmed his daughter, and passed away three years ago.

Not long ago, Miss also passed away due to illness. Her last wish before death was to return to her hometown for burial, and she asked the young master to stay here for three years before returning to Beijing.

I don't know who wrote the "Biography of Xiu Niang", but it alludes to this incident.It's a pity that as soon as his young lady dies, there will be those black-hearted people who will slander her reputation. The book describes his young lady as a woman who does not obey the rules, does not know etiquette, and elopes with others. It also highlights the princess's understanding of righteousness and scholarly gentle and affectionate.

Butler Xu was furious when he saw it in his young master's study. He didn't know who was so vicious, so he gave the book to his young master.

But the young master said: "The woman in the illustrations in this book looks like A Niang, Grandpa Xu, I miss A Niang."

Steward Xu looked at the white and tender young master looking at him with tears in his eyes, and couldn't help scolding the heartless man for being unfeeling.

But since the young lady passed away, the young master has been ignoring food and drink all day long, and his figure has become thinner and thinner day by day.Butler Xu couldn't bear to see him holding those pages of illustrations every day.So he searched for many relationships, and finally got this painting, which is more like his lady than the person in the illustration.

I hope that the young master will feel happier after watching it.