Be a master through ancient times

"Uncle, are you going out?" Chu Xiaoyuan carried a basket on his back, holding a small sickle, and seemed to be digging wild vegetables.

"Well, my uncle will go to the town to make money again, and if he makes money, he will take you to play with him next time."

"Well! Uncle, you have to work hard to make money, and I have to work hard to mow the grass!" Chu Xiaoyuan held up a sickle in a struggle.

"Aren't you going to dig wild vegetables?"

"No, there are no wild vegetables left. I'll mow the grass and dig earthworms for these chickens to eat. They haven't laid eggs very much recently." Chu Xiaoyuan was a little depressed. If the chickens at home didn't lay eggs, they had to buy other people's houses. The eggs cost a penny per egg, so expensive.

Seeing that he was depressed, Chu Ci comforted him, "Xiao Yuan, when my uncle earns money, let's eat more than a dozen eggs for a meal."

"No, no, let's buy a few more chickens, and then we can pick up several eggs a day!" Having said this, Chu Xiaoyuan's eyes brightened, as if seeing a group of chickens clucking and laying eggs in their yard .

"It's up to you!"

The two uncles and nephews walked out while talking, reached the intersection and parted ways.

Having been to the town once, Chu Ci's curiosity faded a lot.It is obviously unnecessary to go to the stall again, and it is not possible to have a big client with a letter of [-] Wen every day, and Chen Xiucai has to read it himself.

The place he was going today was the only bookstore in the town.This book store does not look very big, but the business is good, because the scholars in the surrounding villages come to them to buy books.

The paper, pen and ink used by the children in the private school are basically bought from their home.A monopoly business is more profitable than everyone imagined.

Chu Ci walked into this calligraphy and ink bookstore, and first looked around like a guest.In the bookstore, apart from one clerk, there were two or three people standing by the bookshelves reading.

The clothes on them looked a little more patched than Chu Ci's, and they presumably came here to read a book.Generally, shopkeepers would not be very happy when encountering such a customer, but Chu Ci took a look at the guy, and found that he had a gentle expression and a smile on his lips, obviously he didn't mind.

This made Chuci's favorability for this bookshop soar. As the saying goes, "It is better to bully a white-headed man than to bully a young man who is poor." Can also benefit a lot.

If the boss has such a heart and vision, he must be a person worth making friends with.

"My little brother, may I ask if the manager of your shop is here?" Chu Ci asked politely.

He was dressed in a light blue gown, and his handsome eyebrows were smiling. It was hard to refuse his request when he looked at others sincerely.

"The shopkeeper has something to go out, you can tell me if you have anything to do."

"Hey, that's how it is." Chu Ci was a little embarrassed, "Do you need copyists in your store?"

"Did you see that over there? They are all copying books in our store. There are not many people who study in our town. A few of them are enough scholars."

The guy spoke in a reasonable and orderly manner, and Chu Ci was too embarrassed to ask other questions, and wanted to leave after thanking him.

Seeing that his original smiling face dimmed, the guy couldn't bear it, so he called him back: "Hey, scholar, can you draw?"

"Painting? I can do this. Do you want to recruit painters in your store?" Chu Ci's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned and returned to the counter.He prefers painting to copying.

Because copying books is too much work, you have to say a single word wrong, and try to make your words look the same, just like a "humanoid printer".He was not used to copying, so he must have wasted a lot of paper.Painting is different. Occasionally, there are omissions that other people can't see.

"Uh," the guy was frightened by Chu Ci's enthusiasm, and said after hesitating for a moment, "It's not the kind of large landscape painting, it's painting for a storybook."

"Storybook?" That is to draw illustrations for novels. Although Chu Ci has never done it, he thinks he should be able to do it.

"Yes, you have to draw according to the content of the story book. After the drawing is finished, show it to our shopkeeper before you can take it back to draw." Some scholars have said that they can draw, but the things they draw are ugly, let alone their shopkeeper. , even he just wanted to shake his head when he saw it.

"Can you show me that script first?"

"Here, here it is, just look."

Chu Ci took the book, the cover was black on a blue background, with three large characters "Biography of Xiu Niang" written on it.

The length of the novel is not very long, and a book is about [-] to [-] words. It is about a embroiderer who meets a poor scholar when she goes out to pick mulberries. She and this scholar fall in love at first sight. At that time, Xiuniang's parents found out.

They despised the scholar's poor family and refused to let Xiu Niang be with him.In order to be with the scholar, Xiu Niang used all the money she had saved over the years to subsidize the scholar to go to Beijing to take the exam.The scholar was grateful for her affection, and vowed that one day he would come back and marry her immediately after winning the first prize.

As the days passed, Xiu Niang was still looking forward to the scholar's return, but she never waited for him.Xiu Niang resolutely packs her bags and goes to Beijing to look for Ai Lang, but finds that Ai Lang has been recruited as a son-in-law after winning the first prize in the examination.

Xiuniang was heartbroken, and wanted to say goodbye and return to her hometown, but she was discovered by the princess. The princess was kind and generous, and asked the scholar to marry Xiuniang as the second wife. From then on, the two maidservants and one husband lived happily.

After Chu Ci finished reading it, he was very shocked and didn't know what to say.The embroidered lady in the book is beautiful and lovely, affectionate and righteous, the princess is kind and lovely, generous and hearty, why do you all fall in love with this scholar?This is clearly a scumbag!

In modern times, if men can get one of them to be their wife, they will burn incense and worship the Bodhisattva. This scumbag actually enjoys the blessings of being equal to everyone. I can't even imagine it!

However, the story belongs to the story, what Chu Ci pays attention to is the part left blank in the book.

The first picture is about the scene where the embroidered lady and the scholar fell in love at first sight in the mulberry forest.The second picture is the scene where the two were opposed by their parents and the embroidered mother was fighting.The third picture is the scene where Xiu Niang handed over her wealth to a scholar and sent him to Beijing to rush for the exam.The fourth picture is the scene where the embroiderer was discovered by the princess when she said goodbye to the scholar.The fifth picture is to draw the scene of wedding candles in the bridal chamber.

Chu Ci conceived one by one in his mind, and when he had a plan in mind, he asked the clerk for three things: paper, pen and ink, and prepared to start painting.

Chu Ci wrote quickly, and first drew the surrounding mulberry trees on the paper. These mulberry trees are of different shapes and intertwined to form a very beautiful mulberry forest.Under the mulberry tree, a plain-clothed woman was holding a basket, holding a high hand to pick a mulberry leaf from a high place.But her eyes secretly looked in another direction, with a girlish shyness on her face.

On the other side, a man in a scholar's robe was sitting under a mulberry tree, holding a book in his hand and reading it seriously.But if you look closely, you can see that the scholar's eyes are obviously looking at the mulberry picking girl over there.

There is an inexplicable meaning lingering between the two, to put it bluntly, it is the sour smell called love.

"Wonderful and wonderful!"

Suddenly someone beside him praised, and Chu Ci shook his hand, almost ruining the painting.That hand passed over Chu Ci, and picked up his painting, "This painting is exquisite, the characters are vivid, especially the artistic conception inside, it is simply superb!"

"Xiaosheng is ashamed, he's making a fool of himself." Chu Ci turned around with a smile, and saw yesterday's big client at a glance. "It's you?"

The shopkeeper heard it, and his eyes shifted blankly from the drawing paper to Chu Ci's face, and then immediately became overjoyed. "Oh, little brother, I finally found you!"

Since Lu Feng got the letter yesterday, he couldn't put it down.It's a pity that these papers are not good enough, some of the ink has melted, and the characters look a little changed.

In the early morning of the next day, he prepared a few good student announcements himself, and waited to see the elegance of those words again.

But he went around the whole town, but he couldn't find the stall that wrote letters for him.He didn't give up, and went directly to Chen Xiucai's home, wanting to find that young man.Unexpectedly, the door of Chen Xiucai's house was closed. Hearing that something happened to a relative's house, the family went back to their hometown.

He could only walk back in frustration.

Entering the bookstore, he saw a young man lying on the desk drawing something, and he also bent over to take a look out of curiosity, and this look directly sucked his soul away.

Now knowing that the person who drew the picture is the same person who wrote the letter yesterday, Lu Feng was overjoyed, and only then did he understand what is meant by "there is no place to find when you step through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it".

Chu Ci didn't understand why he was so enthusiastic. Could it be that his letter yesterday played a big role?

"...You don't know, I walked around the town in the morning, and I caught you. Huzi, take care of the pen and ink, I want this little brother to write me a few words." word." Lu Feng was very excited.

"Are you the shopkeeper of the book shop?" Chu Ci guessed from the way he was talking to the staff.

"No, don't talk about other things, just use your yesterday's words and write a few more for me. Yesterday's paper was a little bit worse." Lu Feng caught the real person, and began to dislike yesterday's paper , in fact, if he didn't meet Chu Ci today, he would still stare at those few pieces of paper as if they were treasures.

Chu Ci was a little helpless, but he still obeyed him, and wrote the couplet on the paper with a big stroke of a pen, "There are roads in the mountains of books and hard work as a path, and the sea of ​​learning is boundless and hard work".

"Good words! Good words!" Lu Feng felt that he had read the right person. The handwriting was good, and the couplets he chose were in line with the artistic conception of their store. He must frame the words and hang them in the store for the public. People who come and go appreciate it.

"Thank you for the compliment from the shopkeeper." Chu Ci said, "The words written below are really average, but I still have some work on the drawing. I don't know what the shopkeeper thinks about this illustration?"

He can't help it, if he doesn't have to worry about eating and drinking now, of course he is willing to sit down and drink tea with the shopkeeper.But now that livelihood is a problem, I still have to lose face.