After using the medicine that Qingtou brought for three or two days, the swollen ankle healed and gradually returned to normal.
Although Song Bokang did not urge her, Xuyu did not want to be absent, and she also wanted to go back early.
If the accident had not happened a few days ago, we would have gone to Zhaowenguan as originally planned.
It was the largest library in the palace, and in addition to the numerous volumes of classics, history, and anthology books from all over the world, it also specially housed various paintings from past dynasties collected by the royal family. But as far as she knew, due to the suppression in the early years of Qiande, there should not be many paintings of Grandpa in the library now, so it would soon be transferred to the Hanlin Academy.
The collection of books and paintings in the Academy was not as large as that in the Shobunkan, but it still had a portion of them. So she was able to go in and out on this basis.
Besides looking up books, she had another purpose in going there that no one could tell.
Hongwenguan and Jixiandian are both within the second palace wall, and this area is still only the area where officials are on duty.
The Academy of Scholars is located behind the third palace wall.
That was the real inner court, where the emperor held court and lived. The Purple Cloud Palace where the emperor now lived in seclusion, as well as the moon-rising waterside and misty flower forest in her dreams, were all there.
During the days of recuperating from the injury, Qingtou had not shown up for some reason. I heard from his tone before he left on the first day of delivering medicine that Qikong would come again. However, the am who delivered the meals was there during the day.
After seeing her off in the evening, Xuyu told her not to come again tomorrow.
She was a Hu person and could not speak the language of the Central Plains, but she could understand. She pointed at Xuyu's feet and muttered something. Xuyu said that her injury had healed and she would return to Zhiyuan tomorrow.
Mrs. Hu nodded and bowed to leave. Xuyu hesitated and called her again.
"What time does Pei Langjun come back every day?"
After she asked, she picked up the pen she had been using to practice painting these days and quickly drew two simple scenes on the paper: the moon rising over the willow branches and the moon hanging in the middle of the sky.
Mrs. Hu tilted her head, looked, smiled, and pointed at the moon hanging in the sky and nodded continuously.
It's too late, it's not appropriate.
She had no choice but to give up and watch the woman go downstairs.
Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Xuyu dressed neatly and went into the palace and came to the direct courtyard as before.
Song Bokang was very concerned about her foot injury. He was relieved to learn that it had healed. He took her and another apprentice, Wang Chunlei, to Hongwenguan that day.
As Xuyu thought, there are only seven or eight original paintings of Grandpa in the museum now, and it is said that they were collected later or donated by the public. The rest are all imitations of the original paintings or copies of the murals. Unfortunately, the long scroll of Heaven and Earth in Beijing and Luoyang was forbidden to be copied by the old saint in order to make it unique. Therefore, after the fire, if we want to reproduce it now, we can only rely on the memories of those who saw the murals and the imagination of the painters themselves.
Under the supervision of the clerk on duty at the Hongwenguan, Song Bokang and his two disciples washed their hands and burned incense, then carefully unfolded the invaluable scroll and examined the original work.
In fact, after a careful look at these "original works", Xuyu felt that most of them were probably imitations, but she would not say that, and there was no need to.
She followed Song Bokang and was listening to him teaching her and Wang Chunlei the exquisiteness of her grandfather's paintings. Word came in from outside that Cao Huan had sent the palace supervisor to look for Ye Xuyu.