The peasant boy of crossing

Li Xinyi only wanted to save money to buy a house, but her life was much simpler.He just makes paintings and sketches every day, and sells the paintings on the street, like a down-and-out scholar, relying on selling paintings to save enough for the next Chunwei exam.

Because it was just a small shop, Li Xinyi didn't do the "good business" thing.Although there were neither firecrackers nor flowers, and no relatives and friends to join in, the display of flowers still attracted many people to watch.

It's just that no one buys paintings.

"This talented man, take a look at the painting."

"Sir, is this painting still eye-catching?"

Li Xinyi set up a stall to attract customers for the first time, and she is not very proficient in business.

When these people looked at the painting, they were amazed by this never-before-seen flower painting method, but they didn't take Li Xinyi's words.After looking at it for a while, I went to my own business.

Li Xinyi was surprised, whether his paintings were not good, or the people in this state were unwilling to pay for aesthetics.

For three days in a row, Li Xinyi endured the cold and the cold, but she didn't sell a single painting.

The weather was bad that day, and the sun seemed to refuse to show its face, and hid behind the clouds.Around Shenshi, an old man selling stationery next to him was about to close his stall.

Li Xinyi looked at it, a little envious.I still look forward to the passers-by, hoping that someone will buy his paintings.

Here, the old man has loaded all the goods onto the cart and is about to pull things away.Seeing Li Xinyi wearing a padded jacket, her nose red from the cold, and still refusing to close the stall, she couldn't help but soften her heart and said: "It's not that your paintings are not good, no matter how good they are, they won't buy your paintings."

Now Li Xinyi was really surprised. He thought it would be too simple to only sell flower pictures. Yesterday he drew a picture of the wild cat behind the door overnight, and made a picture of "Kitten Playing", and even brought it here before it could be framed. .

But still no one bought it.

"Dare to ask this uncle, why?" Li Xinyi asked respectfully.

The old man said: "This is the rule of our state. You can't just sell calligraphy and paintings on the street. You have to go to Xijiekou, a place called Moquan Pavilion, and send the paintings there. Moquan Pavilion If someone accepts your painting, you don’t need to set up a stall on the street. If they don’t accept it, you go to the government to ask for an approval slip, and post it in a conspicuous place. In this way, people who want to buy the painting will come and buy it when they see it. "

This is the first time Li Xinyi has heard of such a rule.

He hurriedly thanked the old man, and handed over a picture of "The Blossom of Wealth and Honor" to the old man, saying: "Thank you for your reminder, uncle. This is a peony picture drawn by Xiaosheng, also known as Blossom of Fortune, I hope the old man can accept Xiaosheng's thanks." meaning."

The old man saw that the peony was painted uniquely, and the petals seemed to be stretching and opening.Hastily said: "I just want to mention something casually, your peony is so lifelike, the old man is not worthy of your thank you."

Seeing that the old man refused to accept it, Li Xinyi saw the unframed "Picture of Kittens Playing" again, so she took it down and said, "This painting is a joke made by Xiaosheng, but the cat in the painting is also innocent and lively. If the old man If you have grandchildren, you should treat it as a gift from Xiaosheng to your nephews and nieces."

Li Xinyi persisted, but the old man refused, so he had to continue, "Then thank you for my grandson."

Holding the painting scroll, the old man thought about it, and said a few more words: "This is the first time for the boy to come to Chuzhou."

Li Xinyi hurriedly said: "Exactly."

The old man said: "If you send the painting to Moquan Pavilion tomorrow, you have to prepare money in advance and give the manager some benefits so that he can put your painting in a prominent place. Otherwise, there will be dust in the corner, and no one will be there for ten and a half months." Buy your painting."

Li Xinyi once again solemnly thanked the old man.

After Li Xinyi went back, he began to sort out the paintings he had made these days. Because the paintings could not be sold a few days ago, he added cats, dogs and children into the paintings.

Compared with those landscape paintings and flower-and-bird paintings, the paintings lack a lot of literati's elegance.

Li Xinyi was a little apprehensive. According to his previous life, he was just a painter, and he didn't have any self-persistence at all.He didn't know if his paintings could be seen by Moquan Pavilion.

After thinking about it, he still put away the paintings of cats, dogs and children, and only picked out the framed paintings of peonies, golden osmanthus and other meaningful ones.

Compared with Jingning, Chuzhou is much bigger.To go to Xijiekou, it will take half a day just by walking.

Li Xinyi didn't want her paintings to be underestimated by the people in Moquan Pavilion, so naturally she couldn't carry them all the way.People are looked down upon, how can painting be looked down upon.

So he borrowed an ox cart from a neighbor.

Speaking of this neighbor, he is actually the owner of the house.It is said that the grandfather of the owner ran one of the big cloth houses in Chuzhou.However, after the old man left, the children and grandchildren were incompetent and not filial, and they were divided into the cloth village that the old man had been thinking about before he left.The owner of the home is just one of the grandsons of the old man, and he doesn't get much, just to make ends meet.

Because the daughter-in-law gave birth to a baby again, the family's expenses became more and more difficult, so they rented the West House to Li Xinyi.

Li Xinyi has seen children in their family, two girls and two boys, who look like they were printed out of the same mold as the owner of the house.Even so, the homeowner and his wife still make noise every night.Li Xinyi paints at night, her eyes are dazzled by the flickering candlelight, and her ears are poisoned by the noise from next door, it is really not easy.

Apart from this point, the owner of the house is still very warm and generous, with smile lines all the year round, and looks like a good person.For example, he not only lent the ox cart to Li Xinyi, but also drove him to Moquan Pavilion himself.

Li Xinyi was so flattered that she drew portraits of the four children and sent them to the owner of the house as a token of gratitude.

Li Xinyi followed the reminder of the old man who set up the stall, and stuffed a red envelope for the steward of Moquan Pavilion as soon as he entered the door.

The steward is a shrewd and capable middle-aged man with a small stubble beard.He didn't accept the red envelope when he saw it, but said he wanted to see Li Xinyi's painting first.

Li Xinyi quickly collected the money, followed the steward into the inner room with the painting in her arms, took out the painting, and showed it to the steward.

The steward looked at his painting, but there was no expression on his face. After pondering for a while, he asked, "How do you want to sell this painting?"

Li Xinyi didn't understand the market either, so she just multiplied the price in Jingning and said: "I heard that the business in Guige is very reputable and the price is reasonable, so I came all the way here with the painting. The requirement is not high, as long as it is not lower than this number."

It was indeed the first time that the steward had seen someone paint flowers so vigorously. Because he didn't know Li Xinyi's details, he didn't dare to lower the price, so he said a number.

This was much higher than Li Xinyi's expected price, so he didn't really refute, and finalized the money for a few paintings.

After accepting the red envelope from Li Xinyi, the steward also promised that if the market of the painting is good in the future, the price can continue to be negotiated.

After coming out of Moquan Pavilion, he invited the owner of the house to drink in the restaurant.This strong man was also a straightforward person, so he took Li Xinyi to an old shop immediately, and the two of them drank a whole pot of wine and talked all afternoon with a plate of beef and a plate of peanuts.

When Li Xinyi went to check out, she specially bought another pot of wine and gave it to the old man who set up the stall to express her gratitude.

Since then, Li Xinyi has temporarily stabilized in Chuzhou.

Since Mr. Wei smashed a set of tea sets that day, he changed his past focus on landscape, taught students according to their aptitude, and started to get busy. There were often strange carriages and horses coming and going in Wei's mansion.

Even the magistrate of the county has become elusive. Apart from dealing with daily government affairs, he doesn't even go to the aunts much.The magistrate's wife wondered if her husband was getting old.

She made indirect remarks several times, but the county magistrate accidentally offended Mr. Wei at a critical moment, and he might not get a good death for the rest of his life.After no results, the magistrate's wife had no choice but to decide for herself, and asked someone to buy a bullwhip and stew soup for the magistrate to drink.

In the study room of the Wei Mansion, Mr. Wei was slowly cutting off the yellowed leaves of a pot of molan. The student wrote with the same year.

"I just left for a while, and this group of people really jumped up and down." Mr. Wei turned around after cutting the leaves, and said, "Wen Qian, it's time."

The county magistrate hurriedly got up and replied respectfully, "Students would like to follow the teacher's instruction."

As he spoke, he backed away slowly, with a suppressed smile on his face.

"Ziqing, what do you think?" Mr. Wei asked.

At this time, a person came out from the shadows and replied: "There is more than respect, but not enough courage. But loyalty is trustworthy."

Mr. Wei said: "The use is the inadequacy."

The man replied: "Yes."

After discussing with others that day, Wu Su's father asked others about the court affairs one after another.

The dynasty actually had a coup not long ago. This is the second coup since the founding of the country.The first coup was a little far away, so let's not talk about it for the time being, but let's talk about the second time.

Since becoming the ancestor, there have been several emperors in succession. They are good emperors who are diligent and promising, and love the people like their sons. They have left a prosperous world for their descendants.

His Majesty the new emperor thought that facing the prosperity of the world, there was nothing he could do in the internal affairs, so he could only start with the foreign affairs.In order to allow the historian to write down a few more notes for himself in the history books, His Majesty the Emperor went on a personal expedition to expand the territory.

However, His Majesty the Emperor has neither the experience nor the preparation for the expedition.Armaments, food and grass, everything was too late to arrange, relying on "following the heavens", they led the subjects to the northern Xinjiang in a mighty way.

However, matter does not depend on human will. His Majesty the Emperor and his subjects ended this expedition that "came suddenly and ended suddenly" with a "disastrous defeat".

Unfortunately, His Majesty the Emperor was captured by the enemy.

We Chinese people have always straightened our spines.The subjects refused to accept the enemy's persuasion to surrender, and also rejected the captured emperor.Under the leadership of the proud and loyal ministers, Huaxia ushered in a new emperor, the younger brother of the previous one, and issued decrees to serve the king everywhere, vowing to defend the territory and protect the emperor to the death.

How can Yangyang Huaxia be no match for Miner Xiaobang, the enemy had to retreat to make peace, and sent back His Majesty the emperor who was captured before, but now it should be the "Supreme Emperor".

Once the emperor and the courtiers, in today's court, the subjects of the "overlord" have almost disappeared, and those who are active are all supporting the new emperor.However, according to rumors, His Majesty's body seemed to be a little out of order, so all kinds of ghosts and monsters became active again.

Wu Su's father was just a villager, and he had a heart of "fighting against the sky and the earth, and having endless fun".His Majesty Taizu was just a villager before the incident.Wu Su's father was far from disobedient, it's just that once a person lives, he always has to pursue something.

Coincidentally, old Mr. Wei is not willing to be far away in the rivers and lakes and can't get his hands on the affairs of the temple.

Wu Su's father finally found his chance.

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