Even sent by Tianqing?

Xu Wen took two steps forward and saluted the other party: "May I ask if you are ......?"

"My name is Fang Fan, and I help your master with chores. Fang Fan looked at Xu Wen with a scrutinizing gaze, but soon showed a hearty smile again, and handed him a box in his hand, "Your master asked me to give this to you." ”

Xu Wen took it suspiciously, and was a little hesitant to open it immediately.

"It's nothing, it's just two booklets, you read it slowly. In the past two days, I was in the city, and I was asked to go to the City God Temple to find Xiao Shami to deliver a letter. After Fang Fan finished speaking, he turned around and left, and looked up and stared in the direction of the eaves a few times before leaving.

Xu Wen hugged the wooden box, watched his back leave, and also turned his head to look at the eaves.

Oil lamps hang from the eaves, and the lights flicker, and the shadows illuminate the intricate patterns.

The finches under the eaves of Yuemuxuan are also very complicated, the light is too dark to see clearly, and it can only be vaguely seen that it is a phoenix bird or a green luan, hanging long tail feathers along the roof beams.

Its carving style is completely different from Sun Boran's, and it is also quite distinctive.

Just this finch substitute, it can be seen that Yuemuxuan is worthy of being a third-level wooden workshop, and his handwriting is really not small.

Xu Wen took two steps forward, stared at the finch for a long time, and then looked back at the direction Fang Fan left, probably knowing what he was doing.

He returned to the room with the wooden box in his arms, placed it on the table and opened it carefully.

Inside the box were two cyan written booklets, both in size and in the way they were bound, exactly the same as those on the shelves of Liantian Azure Warehouse. When I opened the booklet, the pages were full of pictures, and all the drawings were made of various wood carvings.

Sure enough, Fang Fan is the kind of person that Lian Tianqing said before, they travel all over the place, collect the works of various craftsmen, and draw them into drawings to keep them.

In a way, this is actually a collection of materials, but in this era, it is equivalent to a kind of theft, which is against the rules of the craftsman's trade.

That's why Fang Fan came at night, and left without saying a word after delivering things.

And now that he thinks about it, Xu Wen can't even think of what he looks like. Apparently he had some camouflage on his face, trying to blur his physical features so that he could hide in the crowd and disappear into the memories of others.

However, why did Lian Tianqing ask Fang Fan to send these two booklets over when he first arrived at Tonghe Mansion?

These two booklets, like those on the Azure shelves, are numbered in an inconspicuous place to distinguish them from the others, and there is no other indication of the creator of the items in the register.

This gives the impression that the craftsmen who created them are not important at all, only the works they have survived......

In fact, in the era to which Xu Wen really belongs, isn't the situation just like that?

There are always only a few craftsmen in the museum who can leave their names, and in most cases, only the artifacts themselves are placed there, as if a time condensed from the past.

Xu Wen was slightly distracted, and his attention returned to the album in front of him.

The handwriting of the album is still fresh, and the faint scent of ink still remains on the paper, so it is easy to guess that they were recently painted and sent in a book.

If you look carefully at the patterns in the album and savor the style in it, Xu Wen will soon understand why Lian Tianqing would let people do this.

All the patterns in these two booklets were created by the same person, who had a completely different style when he was older than when he was younger, and he was about to become the chief examiner for Xu Wen's apprenticeship exam - Sun Boran!

The drawings on this page are all from Sun Boran's hand, all of them are his style in recent years, and I don't know how Lian Tianqing was collected at such a fast speed in such a short period of time.

Obviously, although Lian Tianqing doesn't seem to care about everything, he still values him as an apprentice.

Previously, out of personal preference, he had been using Sun Boran's works when he was young as an example, and the result was likely to affect his exam results this time.

This situation is equivalent to before the big exam, the teacher got the test scope wrong, which is very fatal.

Now in order to remedy it, Lian Tianqing brought Xu Wen a new examiner's recent question set, and asked him to temporarily cram for it.

With someone else, it is now less than two months away from the official exam, and it is no longer very useful to crush when this time comes, but for Xu Wen, the last thing to worry about is time......

"Meow?" Qiuqiu was curled up on the bed and sleeping on Xu Wen's burden, when he seemed to feel his master's mood, and looked up at him with sleepy eyes.

Xu Wen smiled, went over and stroked its head, and whispered, "It's okay, you can continue to sleep." ”

Qiuqiu made a purring sound, put his head on Xu Wen's palm, and lay down to continue sleeping.

Xu Wen returned to the table and continued to read Sun Boran's album.

Looking at this, Xu Wen's biggest feeling is that aesthetics is indeed a very subjective thing.

Lian Tianqing doesn't like Sun Boran's current style very much, and even the pattern only accepts the most representative one, but in Xu Wen's opinion, this style is a completely different feeling, and he likes it quite a bit.

Sun Boran's new style is grandiose and royal, but not rigid.

It is indeed not as vivid as Sun Boran's spirituality when he was young, but sometimes sharp, sometimes majestic, sometimes solemn, and the momentum is very amazing.

His younger style may have been more secular and intimate, but now it has taken on a kind of lofty divinity, which can only be said to be different styles, and it is difficult to say who is good and who is bad.

But looking at it, Xu Wen suddenly realized something, and frowned with some doubts.

"No, you have to see it for yourself...... he muttered to himself, closing the album and flipping through it from beginning to end, making sure of what he thought.

Early the next morning, Master Yao called him and Lu Cheng over to arrange the itinerary, saying that they had just inquired about it, and Sun Boran had something to do out of the city a few days ago and had not come back yet.

The two major events they came over in advance this time are to register for the next exam, and the other is to meet the examiner this time as the head of the previous year.

Now there are still a few days before the official registration, and the examiner is not in the city, so the business has to be put on hold for the time being.

Yao Zhiyuan is not Xu Wen's official master, of course there is no way to arrange for him, and now he is called over, just to ask for his opinion.

If you want to work hard before the exam, you can pay Yue Muxuan to prepare materials and places for him, and if you want to go to the city to play, you can also take advantage of this gap to go out.

Master Yao spoke to Xu Wen with a pleasant face, never thinking that he would choose the latter.

Unexpectedly, after listening to his words, Xu Wen immediately raised his head and asked, "It just so happens that I want to go to the City God Temple, but I don't know where the City God Temple is, can Master Yao help me find Yue Muxuan to introduce a guide?"

Master Yao was a little surprised, but after taking a deep look at him, he nodded and said, "Of course, I'll help you out." Do you need some change in case of emergency?"

"No, I made some money last year with water, and I haven't used it up yet. Xu Wen readily refused, and Master Yao didn't say much.

When Xu Wen was talking to Master Yao, Lu Cheng was next to them. As a result, until Xu Wen went out, Lu Cheng was working hard without raising his head, let alone begging the master to let him go with Xu Wen.

Master Yao looked at Xu Wen's back and left, looked back and saw his apprentice, touched his beard and smiled.