Be a master through ancient times

The letter stall was not as profitable as Chu Ci thought. He sat here all morning and didn't make any money.

Chu Ci couldn't help but sighed in his heart, what's the matter?Posted twenty cents in vain, and sat here foolishly all morning.

In order to calm down, he picked up the pen, opened the ink cartridge and spread a piece of paper to practice calligraphy.As a scholar, the original owner's characters are very dignified, and they all look the same, as if they were carved out of the same mold.

And Chu Ci was born in a scholarly family, so of course he can write calligraphy.He followed the fashion and practiced his facial features for a while, and then fell in love with the thin golden body, and wrote cursive script for a while.

His cursive script looks magnificent, and once matched with a painting, it sold for 10,000+.

The buyer is a nouveau riche, and he wants to pursue some quality of life when he has money, so he asked left and right to find out about Chuci.Chu Ci was just a freshman at that time, so he didn't count the money, and spent all the living expenses for a semester in the first month.He wanted face, so he couldn't go home to ask for it, so he had to figure out ways to get some money.

He told the man clearly that it was impossible for his grandfather to paint, but he had to pass on both painting and calligraphy by his grandfather himself, and asked him if he would consider him.

The man hesitated at first, but seeing Chu Ci's polite, confident and indifferent appearance, he accepted it.But he also said that the price may be different.We and our grandson are not at the same height.

Chu Ci expressed his understanding, and immediately said that you can pay after watching my results.

After all, that man didn't want to offend the grandson of everyone in Chu, no matter how lightly he looked at him, he couldn't be so poor, so he gave a deposit of [-] yuan first.

Chu Ci knew that this would happen, and then took the 2 yuan to buy paint, paper, pen and ink, and then drew a four-meter-long "Yellow River into the Sea Map", with eight pictures of "The sea is inclusive of all rivers, and its tolerance is great" next to it. Crazy big characters.

The owner's name is Zhao Dahai. He couldn't do it after seeing this painting.Chu Ci made a high-level gesture on the side, saying that this is just a piece of cake.

Because he was so satisfied with the painting, Zhao Dahai also offered a higher price than Chu Ci expected, enough for him to enjoy it for a while.

Thinking of that time, Chu Ci felt even more miserable now.He still wants to make paintings and sell them, but first, his level of Chinese painting can only fool people who don’t know what to buy. Second, he doesn’t have the capital to buy paints and rice paper. The last one, I guess no one here will buy it. painting.

While sighing in his heart, he swiped a pen and wrote a tragic word on the paper.

"Good word!"

Suddenly, a shout of applause appeared in his ears, Chu Ci looked up, and saw a middle-aged man in a brocade robe standing in front of him, his eyes glued to the paper in front of him.

"I'm overwhelmed." Chu Ci said, he felt a little regretful, he knew that he would not write this word, and he had to write a miserable word if it was not good.

"Little brother, I don't know who you learned your calligraphy from. Why don't I seem to have seen this type of font?"

The characters in front of me are more flexible than block letters, and more elegant than running script. It seems to take the essence of both, and there are slight changes in the subtleties. It looks very comfortable.

"This is a way of writing that Xiaosheng figured out by himself. It's hard to be elegant. I'm laughing at you."

This character is written in imitation of Xingkai, but Chu Ci has incorporated some other writing methods into it, so it can be said that it is indeed his own creation.

"That's a good word..." The man wanted to snatch the miserable characters spread on the table and study them.He is the shopkeeper of a bookstore, and he deals with these things all day long. His love for good characters is like a gourmet seeing delicious food, and a drinker discovering old wines. It is really itchy.

"Well, little brother, you are here to write a letter on behalf of me. If I want to write a letter, you can write it to me in these words."

He was embarrassed to ask Chu Ci to send him a set of words, so he could only rely on other methods.

As soon as Chu Ci saw the business, he immediately became energetic: "I don't know what you want to write, but here I count the money by the word, ten words for one penny."

"That's it, you just write like this..." This man, Barabara, had a lot of words, and he just turned a family letter that could have been solved within [-] words into a [-]-word essay for elementary school students. It took four sheets of paper to write it down.

The man held the four pieces of paper fondly, until Chu Ci couldn't help coughing to remind him that he should pay, then he suddenly understood.

Chu Ci guarded the small pile of money on the table, feeling extremely happy. He wrote 520 four words for a single penny. After rounding up, he earned 52 pennies for this letter.

He put the money in the bag and waited energetically for the arrival of the next guest.

Throughout the afternoon, Chu Ci entertained a total of four guests, and the letters from the four guests were basically limited to ten characters, such as "Well, don't read, hope to return early" and the like.

Mosquitoes are meat no matter how small they are. At least one penny can buy two steamed buns with wild vegetables.

At dusk, a man came to collect the stall.After Chu Ci entrusted him with good things, he was ready to go back.

When he was about to reach the gate of the city, Chu Ci saw a group of children standing under a tree playing games, and suddenly remembered his little nephew who was as thin as a radish head.

He turned around and went back to the market, rounded up the few remaining buns left by the owner of the bun shop, and then went to the side to buy a few pieces of caramel.With just this little thing, he spent almost all the money he earned today.

Chu Ci didn't care. As the saying goes, "If all the money is gone, it will come back." He is so talented, how can he be poor all the time?

When he got home, it was already dark, and his mother was standing at the door, and came up to meet him as soon as she saw him.

"Little Er, why have you been here for so long? I'm so worried. I forgot to tell you not to go on the road this morning. You didn't come across a wild boar, did you?"

"Mother, don't worry, I'm fine. Today I went to the town to make some money, so I wasted time, and it won't be so late in the future."

"That's good, come in quickly. Today the village divides the meat, and the five of us also share ten catties. I asked your sister-in-law to cut a piece and stew it. You will eat more to nourish your body later."

Chu Ci nodded and helped his mother go in.He has lived here for almost ten days, and he has already discovered that his mother seems to be a bit night blind, and she can't see clearly at night.

Chuci knew that this disease was caused by a lack of vitamin A. His mother's symptoms were not serious, so he could just buy more food containing vitamin A for him in the future.

Entering the house, Chu Ci found that his sister-in-law was arranging dishes, his brother was repairing farm tools, and his little nephew was sitting on the threshold playing with two wooden sticks. cross together to make something.

"Brother, sister-in-law, Xiaoyuan, I'm back."

"Xiao Er is back."

"Uncle is back."

Xiao Yuan was the happiest. He threw his things away and threw himself on Chu Ci: "Uncle, you are finally back! I heard that you went to town today? Can you take me with you next time?"

"Xiao Yuan, don't make trouble with Uncle, come down quickly." Shen Xiuniang feigned anger, she knew that the relationship between Xiao Yuan and Uncle had been warming up very quickly recently, but she couldn't let Xiao Yuan be presumptuous.

"Sister-in-law, it's okay. Xiao Yuan is the grandson of our parents, and he should really see more of the world." Seeing Xiao Yuan's eyes brighten, Chu Ci said, "But uncle can't take you to town yet, wait After a while, my uncle will earn some money, and I will take you to the town to have fun."

Xiao Yuan yelled, "Uncle, you are so kind!"

"Don't worry, you're complimenting me now, what will you do later?" Chu Ci said while putting the things he was carrying on the table.

Seven big buns, including four meat buns, and three wild vegetable buns.Originally, there were four wild vegetable buns, but I ate one on Chuci Road.

Besides the steamed stuffed bun, it was the small bag of snow-white caramel.When the oil-paper package was opened, Chu Ci found that Xiao Yuan's eyes were shining, full of disbelief.

"Xiao Er, why did you buy so many things and come back?"

"Mother, I am writing letters for others today, and I earned more than 30 yuan per letter. Thinking that all the expenses at home have been saved because of me these years, I feel really uncomfortable. This is my first Although the money I earned this time is not much, I want to share it with you.”

What Chu Ci said was so sincere that everyone else was moved.Chu Ci was filled with emotion, his family was so kind to him, although his contribution was less than one-thousandth of theirs, but they were still as happy as if they had obtained the whole world.

That night, the whole family gathered together and happily ate meat buns.Chu Ci made the excuse that he had already eaten, and only took a wild vegetable bun to eat.

The other four held the meat buns and ate them in small bites, as if what they were eating was actually delicacies from mountains and seas.

Still have to work hard to make money!Chu Ci made up his mind that he had to go to town tomorrow to have a look.