"Dude, long time no see! We're meeting again, by the way, be careful with my second brother. ”

Seeing Zhao Tianming, Li Xiushan said hello, and at the end, he came to his ear to remind him.

Zhao Tianming was a little inexplicable, but he still subconsciously stayed away from him.

Zhao Tianming focused his attention on the picture scroll, which is a picture of a lady, to be precise, a "Spring Palace picture". This scroll is about one meter long and two meters high, and the picture looks very fresh, I don't know how the ancients preserved it, no wonder it is difficult to judge.

What's even more rare is that this is a colorful painting, the picture is colorful, the lines are strong, the Qiluo is gorgeous, and the weather is noble, it can be seen that the owner spent a lot of money, please Tang Bohu to start writing.

Tang Bohu's paintings integrate the north and the south, and he is good at landscape painting and ladies' pictures, and most of the ladies' pictures are for the sake of life and money, including many spring palace pictures.

When Zhou Lao saw it, he couldn't help but be moved, this is a rare masterpiece, which is completely different from Tang Buhu's other pictures of the Spring Palace that are painted at will and sold for money for wine.

Zhou Lao knew that this painting should have been obtained by a few young people who came with the fifth master, and it was likely to come from the wrong way, but he didn't say anything about it, in the antique world, there were already a lot of gray areas, and he had seen a lot of them at his age, so he didn't care.

"Tang Bohu actually painted a picture of the Spring Palace, worthy of being a romantic genius!" Li Xiushan had seen that painting, but he felt that it was average, much worse than the modern high-definition ones.

Speaking of Tang Bohu, most people's first impression is that he has a lot of money, a romantic family, a group of wives and concubines, and the first romantic and talented man in the south of the Yangtze River. However, in reality, he is the polar opposite of the literary image. ”

The fifth master said with a smile, Tang Bohu, as a Gusu person, is also the pride of their Gusu people, and he is naturally very interested in his life.

"Tang Bohu was born in a small merchant family, his father ran a tavern, 'everything is inferior, only reading is high', feeling the low status of businessmen, so Tang Bohu began to study since childhood. Tang Bohu also lived up to his father's expectations, he was talented and intelligent since he was a child, never forget, familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and learned painting from a teacher when he was a teenager, and his painting art was refined.

When he was sixteen years old, he was admitted to the Xiucai with the first place, which shocked the entire Suzhou City, and was also favored by Shen Zhou, a great painter of the Wumen painting school, and accepted as a disciple, and became famous for a while. Subsequently, he married Xu, which can be described as a geometric and proud life. ”

However, this happy life did not last forever, and when Tang Bohu was twenty-five years old, his father died. But he had not yet recovered from the grief of losing his father, and then great pain ensued, his mother died, his wife died in childbirth, his son died, and even his sister, who was already married, died. Within a year, one by one, his relatives left him forever, as if he had been cursed. ”

"This is the Tiansha Lone Star, right?Kill your family?" Li Xiushan was dumbfounded, it turned out that Xing Ye was a liar, and he was still very envious of Tang Bohu at the beginning.

Several other people also felt that their perception of the merry and talented Tang Bohu had been completely subverted, if it weren't for the fifth master's words, they would have slapped the liar who fooled them.

"He didn't die completely, he also had a younger brother, and later his heirs were all inherited by his younger brother. The fifth master said.

"Such a cruel reality, I'm afraid no one can accept it. Such an experience crushed Tang Bohu heavily, and his life fell into despair from then on, and his family fortune quickly declined. ”

Zhou Lao was also quite emotional, saying that geniuses are easy to break, although Tang Bohu did not die early, God also sent him a lot of tribulations, I don't know if it is a test, or a price?

However, suffering from this ordeal, Tang Bohu did not remain depressed, and with the encouragement of his friend Zhu Zhishan, he picked up poetry and books again and studied hard to gain fame and revive his family business. At the age of twenty-nine, Tang Bohu lived up to expectations and participated in the Tianfu Township Examination, winning the Zhongjieyuan in one fell swoop, and his fame shocked the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Zhou Lao looked at a few young people in the hall, as if he had a warning.

With his talent at that time, if it were not for the later events, he would probably have gone higher and farther, and it was not impossible to challenge the highest honor of scholars since ancient times, the Sanyuan and the first, and become another legend after Shang Chen. He has become an understanding of the yuan, and with his talents, the yuan and the champion are by no means out of reach.

Once again, however, fate played a joke on him. It may be that Tang Bohu's article was written so well that the chief examiner of the Tianfu Township Examination at that time deliberately left the paper for another person to read. But he wouldn't have thought that this would become the fuse of another tragedy in Tang Bohu's life. The person who has read the paper is Cheng Minzheng, and in his second year, he will be the chief examiner of the Beijing examination. ”

"How is this tragic? The examiner will look at him differently after reading his test papers?" asked the second child puzzled.

The next year, he was full of ambition and confidently embarked on the journey to the capital, at that time he had become famous all over the world, and all the people thought that what was waiting for him in front of him was an incomparably magnificent splendid future, where he would be named on the gold list, glorious life, and obtain his own honor. ”

Zhou Lao said that life is impermanent, standing at the peak of the most beautiful scenery, one step forward, it is likely to be a cliff.

The more tragic thing is still to come, on the way, he met another fellow imperial examination person, Xu Jing, so the two walked together. Xu Jing, you may not have heard of this person, but he has a very famous great-grandson, that is, Xu Xiake, I believe you have all heard of it. Xu Xiake's family has an ancestral motto, descendants are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination and gain fame, the source of which lies in Xu Jing's person and the experience of going to Beijing to take the exam. ”

"Next, it was the fraud case, Xu Jing's family was very rich, very rich, bought Cheng Zhengmin's servant, got the test questions, and as a result, Tang Bohu was also implicated, fell into prison, and his fame was in vain. ”

"Isn't it just cheating on the exam? What's the big deal? And it's just implicated, and there is no conclusion," the second child rolled his eyes and said.

"Hehe! Cheating in the ancient imperial examinations was a crime of bullying the king, which could be big or small, and it was possible to fill the army and distribute it, the following three generations were not allowed to conduct scientific examinations, and even kill the head and exterminate the clan. Moreover, in ancient times, there was nothing like 'no doubt about the guilt', 'the doubt and the benefit of the defendant attributed to the defendant', and it was not important to pay attention to indulgence, but there was a word called joint sitting, one person broke the law, and the whole family was implicated, abounding. ”

The fifth master smiled at the few of them, as if he meant something.