After saying good things, Tang Mo commented on Qixuan's painting: "Your painting is beautiful and profound, and your skills are very deep, but you are too sophisticated." Well-rounded means that you are too sophisticated in technique.
Qi Xuan smiled bitterly: "My teacher has also said this."
Tang Mo said, "If you can't change it, it will be difficult to improve your painting skills." The beauty picture I saw before did not have this shortcoming, and there was no trace of Mr. Shan Weng. Now it seems that the empress dowager is really right. King Xuan is best at figure painting.
After Pang Jinglun asked him this question, Qixuan wanted to change it. However, this kind of thing is not something you can change if you want to.
Tang Mo was not discussing this issue with Qixuan, but asked: "After talking for so long, I still don't know your name?"
"Han Xiaojun."
After Tang Mo heard it, his first impression was that the name was so vulgar: "What do you like to paint on weekdays?"
Qixuan heard this and said, "Landscapes, flowers and plants, birds and insects, these are all painted."
"I ask what is your favorite painting?" Before Qixuan could speak, Tang Mo said, "Just like me, I also paint landscapes, cats and dogs, but my favorite painting is flowers. And I paint the best. It's also a flower."
After speaking, he handed a pair of peony pictures to Qixuan. This painting is bright in color and lifelike, and people will love it at first sight.
Tang Mo waited for Qixuan to appreciate his paintings, and said, "Can you tell me now, what do you like to paint?"
Qi Xuan still shook his head.
Tang Mo patiently said: "In this way, you close your eyes first."
When Qixuan Yiyan closed his eyes, Tang Mo asked him to clear everything in his mind.
In the shop, Niguo and Niti waited for a long time and became a little anxious.
Upon seeing this, Gu Jiu said to the two of them, "I don't know when they will come out. Or else you will sell the things first, and then come back." The literati put together a piece, sometimes he could talk for a long time. In order not to delay time, he thought it would be better to let the two of Niti sell the things.
The two naturally had no objections.
Gu Jiu turned his head and asked the second child of the Tang family: "What is the name of the shop that collects animal skins in the county and where is it?"
Hearing this, the second child of the Tang family hurriedly said, "I don't know what kind of fur you are selling?" The man who came out of the mountain said that he would sell fur, it was definitely not ordinary animal fur.
"Tiger skin."
The second child of the Tang family showed a happy expression on his face: "I don't know if you can show it to me."
The price of this thing in the capital is also expensive, not to mention, and as soon as it is in stock, it is bought by high-ranking officials.
When Niti got a word, he put down the back basket and prepared to take the tiger skin out of it.
Tang Lao Er glanced at the outside hurriedly when he saw this, and then said: "Let's go to the backyard to see."
When Tang Lao Er saw this tiger skin, he was about to buy it. The tiger skin was very well preserved, except for a big hole in the neck.
"I don't know how much you plan to sell this tiger skin?" He has never done a fur business, so he doesn't know the price. However, the price of fur here is definitely not comparable to that of Beijing. Here, a couple of silver can pass a month. But in the capital, you can't buy anything for a couple of dollars.
Niti and Nigu didn't fully understand this, they looked at Gu Jiu.
"A complete tiger skin like Jingcheng costs at least seven or eight hundred taels of silver. It can't be compared with Jingcheng, but it has to be half the price anyway!"
For four hundred taels of silver to buy such a good piece of tiger skin, it is a big profit. But Tang Lao Er still kept the price down: "Three hundred taels of silver, what do you think?"
Although it looks honest and honest, after all, it is a business person who still likes to keep prices down.
Gu Jiu was too lazy to negotiate a price with others, and turned around and asked Niti and Niko: "Three hundred taels of tiger skins, can you sell them?"
The last tiger skin was similar to this one, only sold for one hundred and forty taels of silver. Now it's more than twice as much as the last time, Nicholas nodded: "Sell, sell, sell."
Niguo added: "Uncle Nine, and Hu Gao, would you like to ask him?"
With a hum, Gu Jiu asked Tang Lao Er, "Yes. They also asked if you want tiger ointment, if you want it, 100 tael." This tiger ointment was made by a witch doctor, and it didn't work well. The price of one hundred taels is sure to make a profit if you buy it.
Hu Gao is also the first-class medicinal material. If Tang Lao Er doesn't want it, he will be a fool.
Tang Lao Er originally wanted to bargain. Seeing Gu Jiu's smile, he knew that there was no need to talk about it. He nodded and said, "Yes."
In a few words, he sold the tiger skin and tiger ointment.
Niguo and Niti were overjoyed when they heard that Tiger Balm had also sold for a hundred taels of silver.
You must know that the last tiger skin and tiger cream sold only one hundred and eighty taels of silver. This time the two items were sold for four hundred taels of silver, more than double the previous time.
Old second Tang asked: "Do you want cash or cash? If you want cash, I will go to the bank to get it for you." The three hundred taels of loose silver placed in the shop are usually paid for when the amount is particularly large. Of banknotes. But looking at Niti and the others, Tang Lao knew that they came from the mountains. Generally such people only recognize silver but not silver bills.
Gu Jiu said: "Cash silver." Niguo and the others don't know each word, so how could they ask for a silver ticket.
Tang Lao Er asked Xiao Er to take care of the shop, but he went to the backyard and asked his buddy to go to the bank to withdraw money.
Gu Jiu's eyes flashed as he watched the two go out.
After Qixuan closed his eyes and remained silent for two minutes, Tang Mo asked, "What do you want to do the most now?" If it were him, the first thing he would think about was to see the flowers that he raised.
Qi Xuan blurted out: "I want to go home and see my mother."
Tang Mo joke, but quickly recovered his calmness: "Then you go back and draw a picture of your mother. After the painting is finished, show it to me."
Qi Xuan hesitated.
Tang Mo said, "You can paint and miss your mother so much. Why don't you make a picture of your mother."
Qi Xuan said, "I'm afraid that the painting is not good." To paint badly, he offended my mother.
Tang Mo smiled and said: "In fact, whether you are painting or playing the piano, you can only move people with your own feelings. I believe that as long as you paint in this state, this painting will definitely be painted well."
Qi Xuan struggled for a long time, and finally nodded and agreed to Tang Mo's proposal.
After discussing the art of painting, Qi Xuan asked: "Old gentleman, I don't know how much this painting is worth?"
Tang Mo touched his beard and said, "Five taels of silver." The price was fair.
Qixuan was a little disappointed, the price was too low.
Tang Mo smiled and said, "The people here don't like paintings of mountains and rivers. But if you want to sell them at a high price, you can paint tigers or leopards." Portraits of beasts are more popular here, and no one wants landscape paintings here. There are not many scholars, who like these things. It's a beast, some superstitious people will buy it home for the town house.
Qi Xuan smiled and said, "Okay, then I will draw a tiger next time." I will draw the big colorful tiger that was hunted last time.
After the two talked, Tang Mo let him go out. He himself continued to take care of the flowers and plants in the yard.
When he arrived at the front yard, Qi Xuan did not see Tang Lao Er: "Where is the shopkeeper?"
Gu Jiudao: "The shopkeeper just bought their tiger skin tiger ointment, and the money is not enough to go to the bank to get the silver. You sit down first, and you will be back soon."
As soon as the words fell, Tang Lao Er returned with his buddies. The two guys in the family are actually the guards Yuxi gave to their father and son. Because they don't understand the language here, the two are just doing chores. But if Tang Lao Er was going out, the guard would go with him.
Gu Jiu took the silver box, put his hand upside down, and squeezed it with an ingot of silver. After confirming that there was no problem, he handed the silver box to Nity.
Niti put the forty twelve-weight silver ingots into the cloth pocket, and then put them in the back basket.
Qi Xuan said to Tang Lao Er, "The old man said that my paintings are worth fifty taels of silver." Although not much, I can buy a lot of things anyway. These rice noodles, this time you can buy one or twenty catties back.
Tang Lao Er didn't go to the backyard to verify, and went directly to the counter to fetch the silver. He could see Gu Jiu, his eyes twitched.
Fortunately, Qixuan didn't think much about it. Otherwise, I'm sure to wear it.
Gu Jiu asked: "Is the county's public security not good?" If not, it is impossible for Tang Lao Er to open a store without even daring to put seven or eight hundred taels of silver.
Tang Lao Er glanced outside and saw that there was no one outside and lowered his voice and said, "Because this county is relatively small and taxation is very low every year, the court did not appoint a county magistrate. The county Cheng is good, fair and clean. However, because of illness, he resigned and went home to recover. This county Cheng came last year. Since his arrival, the people here have paid 20% more taxes than before. Then in the county. There are also more local ruffians and hooligans, and what is even more absurd is that people have to pay city fees when they enter the city last month."
Qi Xuan's face instantly became as black as the bottom of a pot.
Gu Jiu looked at something wrong and said to Tang Lao Er: "It's getting late, let's go back!"
After sending the people away, Old Tang went back to the backyard and said to Tang Mo, "Father, I told them what happened here. Father, what's the use of telling them?"
Tang Mo smiled and said: "This world belongs to their Yun family, and King Xuan knows that this matter will not stand by."
Old Tang's eyes were about to stare out: "It was King Xuan who came just now? It's impossible. I've seen King Xuan before, it's not like this at all."
Tang Mo smiled and said: "He is not only tanned now, but he is also dressed in such a poor style. How can he compare to the capital."
Before Tang Lao Er only knew that the Queen Mother asked them to come to Shu to do one thing, but he didn't know what it was for: "Father, we came to Shu for King Xuan?"
Don Mo nodded.
Passing by a restaurant, Qixuan wanted to go in for lunch. But I think I have to buy some cloth to make clothes, and I have to save some flowers for fifty taels of silver. So, I finally dispelled the idea: "Go to the cloth shop to buy some fabric, and then go back." The two clothes I made before were scratched and worn, and I don't know how many patches have been applied. Nowadays, you have to make two clothes to make money.
Since childhood, but now wearing old clothes with patches, Qi Xuan feels that he is also quite adaptable.
I bought two cloths, a blue one and a light blue one, and spent two taels of silver. Qixuan didn't buy other things, and planned to buy them in the town.