Xie Shan went to Qian'an again.
He thought that Cui Yuan brought Buddha incense when he returned to his hometown, so that he would be able to escape this overseas business trip. No one expected that it had been so long. His family members came back from outside and wrote another letter to let him go. He took it to the little son Cui.
Qian'an is full of mountains, water, and wild forests. It is a place where there are not many serious people to live. Is it easy for him to take a trip? Their family has a thousand households in fine clothes and guards. They say that the lower part is busy with official business, and the higher part is the person that the emperor cannot do without. What does he always ask him to come to this country place to find a young gentleman from the Wenchen family
He complained in his heart, but he didn't dare not to do a good job. Following Xie Qianhu's instructions, he bought a basket of high-quality paints as usual, added gold powder and silver powder compared to the last time, and hurried to Qian'an. He also ran here a few times, and when Cui Yuan saw it was him, he hurriedly let him in, and asked the newly hired Niu Chef to cook tea to entertain guests, and then asked his son to go to school to ask for leave to bring Cui Xie back.
Cui Xie has to focus on the renovation of the library these days, and he has to produce a map of the heroes of the Three Kingdoms. He is also preparing an article to read to Lord Nafuzun... In addition, the exam in February next year is constantly coming, he can no longer To increase the review time, it means to devote extra energy to the class, and the whole child is immersed in the article, and he is not aware of his own affairs. Holding the inkstone to pick him up and taking him to the school, he told him that "Xie Shan" had come to be a guest at home, but he was still stunned before he remembered—
The name sounds a little familiar.
This seems to be the name of Xie Qianhu's family
Isn't this the Xie Shan who pretended to be a rich man and bought the "Four Books of Dialogues" that their family couldn't sell? !
It was only then that he completely woke up, tightened the big furry cloak that Ping Yan had put on him, dragged his cool little hand, and returned to the Cui Mansion against the cold wind.
Mr. Lin's book is cold, and the road is windy and frosty, but the Cui family's side hall is a bedroom remodeled, with a half-room kang burning inside, which is as warm as spring. Cui Xie went home and changed into thin cotton clothes before going to the hall to entertain guests. After spending a lot of time in the middle, when he saw Xie Shan, he apologized and said, "It's been a long wait."
Xie Shan hurriedly stood up to salute and said with a smile: "I shouldn't have disturbed the small official on this day, but we have something to ask the small official to help, and specially asked me to send a letter. The letter and him asked me to take it with you. Everything is here, please take a look at it."
Cui Xie thanked him, took the letter and unfolded it.
When he read the letter, Xie Shan also looked at him.
It’s been more than half a year since the last time the two met. Although Xie Shan went to Qian’an to buy books again, he avoided seeing him. This time, he found that he had a lot of smoke and the soft flesh on his cheeks. Cleared, the cheeks are slightly cut, the chin is pointed, the eyes are a little bigger than before, and the nose is more open and straight.
There was a faint blue shadow in his eyes, his eyelids drooped slightly when he read the letter, and the bright divine light in his eyes subsided, showing a distressing haggard.
It turns out that reading is such a hard thing, to be a good child, after reading a book will be like this... Xie Shan thought endlessly in his heart, wishing he could persuade him to study less books, paint well, and be a worshiper in the palace in the future .
After Cui Xie finished reading the letter, he folded the paper and put it back in the envelope. He hurriedly straightened up and asked, "Young master, do you know what our master meant? When will you be able to draw it?"
Cui Xie smiled slightly: "This is not something you can get for a while, you leave it to me, and when I finish the drawing, I will have someone send it back to Beijing. I guess I will catch up, and I should be able to do it in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. Come on, you can reply to Lord Qianhu on my behalf, and I will do it with all my heart."
Xie Shan said: "The villain knows, the villain is waiting here, the young master should write a letter."
Cui Xie nodded, stood up holding the letter, and said, "I still have some things here, you can take them back to Beijing..."
Xie Shan said with a smile: "Young Master, can't we adults buy those books, papers, etc. in Beijing? According to me, it's better to give me a portrait of myself. You see that you have grown taller, and I've grown thin, and I'll tell Qianhuyi when I look back, doesn't he have to think about what you are like? If there is a portrait, he won't know if he looks at it."
Cui Xie used to be the kind of veteran cadre who didn't post selfies in his circle of friends. He was silent for a while before saying, "Then when you go back, just tell Qianhu that I'm tall, don't say I'm thin."
He was an inch taller than when he first arrived.
He is only fifteen years old this year. According to this growth trend, he may be more than 1.8 meters tall when he enters Beijing in four years. Thinking about standing in the pile of brocade clothes and guards, and being able to be taller with them without wearing height-enhancing shoes, or even a scalp above, it feels really good!
Xie Shan said honestly: "That's not possible, can I tell our thousand households that it's not true? Besides, it's not easy to endure the three days of the training field. Your body has caught up with the hemp, waist It's not as thick as my thighs. If I don't make it up, how can I still have knowledge of the world in my stomach?"
Cui Xie shook his head helplessly: "What's the matter? I'll make up for it by eating more during the New Year. Thank you, little brother, don't sit down. I'll go and reply to Qianhu."
Xie Qianhu wrote in his letter that he wanted him to draw a picture of a fairy to Eunuch Gao. That picture was to be promoted, and it wanted to imitate the style of "Cui Meiren". Don't draw it too well—don't draw it as a gift to him. The picture is so good, don't write your own style.
When Cui Xie first saw the word "Eunuch Gao", he remembered how Eunuch Gao came to Qian'an with Xie Ying and held his hand to support him.
When he told Cui Ming, he had no confidence in his heart, but he had to pretend to be so fierce. It was indeed Eunuch Gao's post that completely relieved his worries. He has always kept this kindness in his heart, but Eunuch Gao is in the palace, and he has nothing to do with ordinary people like him, and he can't find a way to repay his kindness.
In his heart, he wanted to do his best to paint a good painting, but when Xie Ying asked him to name his name later, he was suddenly clear.
Yes, he is a person who wants to enter an official position in the imperial examination. If he has the reputation of dedicating paintings to the emperor through the eunuch, he is either lucky or lucky. Xie Qianhu took this matter to himself, did not let him and Eunuch Gao's reputation be implicated, and let him really relieve this regret in his heart, which is really well-intentioned.
- It's not that he is narcissistic, if Xie Qianhu really cares about his reputation and future, they Jinyiwei will find someone to do business, or do the emperor's formal business, do they need to be so roundabout? Don't even write a letter to tell him this or that, directly ask Xie Shan to pass a message, and limit it to a few days, he doesn't dare not try his best to get it out!
Cui Xie felt a little unreasonable complacency in his heart, and wrote back to Xie Ying, telling him to rest assured. He knew the importance of it, and he would definitely use the pure Cui Meiren technique to draw a picture of a real immortal that could be dedicated to the emperor.
Since his kindergarten, "Journey to the West" has been broadcast on TV every winter and summer vacation. Although he stopped watching it later, those characters and pictures have long been deeply imprinted in his heart. Speaking of immortals, what else would you paint if you didn't paint Journey to the West
It's Antiy Conference!
He has lived for such a long age, and the serious immortal conference in his mind should be like that. It is not easy to teach him any master's immortal pictures!
Because the study and the library decoration could not be delayed, I had to put aside the illustrations of the last few volumes of the Three Kingdoms, freeing up time to draw pictures for the emperor.
"Three Kingdoms" cannot be updated in time, and Cui Xie also feels very guilty to the readers. He asked the craftsmen to change the pages with colored pictures from ordinary cotton paper to light cloud-colored pink paper, which was finely printed on thick paper. The cover was also replaced with a single portrait of a hero or beauty in this volume, and the name was changed to "The Six Talents Criticize the Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which was regarded as a new book and republished from the first volume.
An announcement was added before the manuscripts of volumes 10 and 11 that were edited and published soon, informing readers that the copyright of "Six Talents Edition Three Kingdoms" had been transferred to Ju'anzhai. In addition, the new store, in line with the attitude of being responsible to the readers, will proofread and revise the old edition from scratch. The old blue-covered old edition needs to be reprinted after proofreading. The new edition will be released at the same time as the last two copies of the old edition.
What if I bought almost half of the paperback book and suddenly cut it in half, and the merchant changed it to a hardcover book that was more expensive but also more eye-catching? Should I buy it from scratch, or wait for the new edition to come out where I haven't bought it yet
The majority of ordinary book lovers hesitated according to their wallets, and immediately some pirates took a fancy to this market, and they also found a few talented people to comment, calling people to imitate painting heroes, and to publish the editions after the twelfth volume. This kind of book also had a market at first, but most of the readers bought it back to look at the pictures and reviews, some of which were too pedantic and unsatisfactory; some were fresh but not enough to provoke a fight;
They are all money-making works, far less than the real feelings of the six talents in Qian'an.
Criticism is not as good, and the picture is even less than that of the Cui family. The pictures of the old figures can still be imitated, but the new figures are either not drawn vividly and realistically, or they look like old people. They all followed the same trick that they used to fool Eunuch Gao: if you change Zhou Yu's clothes, you will call him Lu Xun, if you paint Queen Fu's white hair, you will just call him Wu Guotai, and if Pang Tong's face is black, he will call him Zhang Song...
Not many copies were sold, and readers would not be fooled. Those who have money buy the new edition with peace of mind, while those who don’t have the money will just look at the cover of the new edition in the bookstore to satisfy their cravings, holding their wallets and waiting for the old edition to come out.
By comforting the readers, Cui Xie will be able to spare an hour every day to paint the Antiy Conference without distractions.
The scene of the Antiy Conference was also huge. The Jade Emperor was sitting on the main seat, the Tathagata and the Queen Mother were on the left and right, and the god and Buddha were sitting in the same case. There was Xian'e holding a pipa and dancing with Chang'e. Shaocheng dance floor, the immortals participating in the banquet are far away. When he wanted to draw the voices and appearances of the gods, he couldn't draw the whole scene from a bird's-eye view, but he had to draw it into a long scroll.
It took him a week just to write the draft, and it took nearly a knife of paper to determine the final composition.
The picture starts with the feasting statues of the Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother and the Buddha. In front, the immortals are dancing with Chang'e in their arms, surrounded by white jade railings on all sides. Behind the fence is a table with a short table. The one facing the picture is the one he remembers. If you are clear about Taishang Laojun, Guanyin, Puxian, Li Tianwang, Yang Jian, Marshal Tianpeng, Taibaijinxing, etc., if you are not clear, just give the half-pull back.
After these people, the golden armored soldiers stood up from the upper half of their seats, facing the left side to greet the Four Seas Dragon King, Kui Mulang, Mao Riji and other twenty-eight star officials who he still remembered from holding the jade Gui... After that, the seven fairies Holding a basket of fairy peaches, he came, and the picture behind him was finally hidden in a cloud of mist.
I haven't watched Journey to the West for more than a year, and the palace gauze curtains and the expressions of the characters in my memory are still in front of my eyes, falling on the paper, just like taking a clip from a TV series and turning it into an ink panorama picture.
It's so good to be young, and his memory seems to be better than before after crossing over! Not only the endorsement is easy to memorize, but also the TV series that I haven't watched for so long have not been forgotten!
He painted this picture so hard that it was just the composition. When he really painted the characters, he was very familiar with it, and he didn't enter the twelfth lunar month until he had finished painting it. He and Xie Qianhu decided to hand over the manuscript in the middle of the twelfth lunar month. Seeing that it was still a few days away, he bought some imitation pictures of ancient people and immortals on the market. He added and modified some jewelry and ornaments according to them, and adjusted the gold mud, silver mud, Mica powder hooks the decorations on the gallery columns, paints the jewelry and the meat buns on the heads of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and hooks a faint round light behind the heads of the gods and Buddhas.
This picture is to be dedicated to the emperor, to let others know that his handwriting is not good. He simply did not even frame it. He only put a layer of rice paper on his own, and after drying it, he rolled it up and put it in a wooden box. Two seals were also added, asking Cui Yuan to personally send it to Beijing and hand it over to Xie Qianhu.
Only Peng Yan looked at the picture he drew, and couldn't help but ask him: "How did eldest brother draw so many immortals? It's okay to draw the Three Kingdoms, after all, no matter how brave the general is, he is also a mortal. Do you dare to do these gods, Buddhas and fairies? Have you seen it? He is full of immortal energy, and he doesn't look like a mortal at first glance!"
Cui Xie was accustomed to his bragging for a long time, and he was not worried that he was going to open up the old bottom of his traveler. Instead of complimenting me, why don't we invite someone to teach you how to draw, and when I pass the exam next year as a scholar, I will teach you and me this technique, and when I become an official, you can still help me draw and write a book."
Holding the inkstone immediately blushed: "Then, where can I do it! Big brother, you are a Wenqu star in the sky, you can do anything, I am a book boy..."
"Then you are also Wenquxing's book boy." Cui Xie tapped the tip of his nose and said with a smile, "I didn't just let your father and son go well in Qiuyue, and asked your father to be the owner of Ju Anzhai? You? How can a young master still treat himself as a book boy every day. You will be the owner of the No. 1 bookstore in the world in the future, so how can you do that if you don’t know how to write and draw?”
"Well, isn't that why you said that you haven't become a child yet, and you don't have property in your name, so you put Ju'anzhai on my father's head? That's your business, and our father and son are working for you. ..." Holding the inkstone more and more anxiously, his face flushed red. Cui Xie wanted to tease him more and more, twisted his soft cheeks and said with a smile, "When your eldest brother becomes a jinshi master, you really don't want to touch those things, Xiao Pingyan, you have to work hard. ."