Chapter 379 Cloud Tea and Dragon Tail Inkstone

............Yes!" After listening to the middle-aged woman's words, Liu Dong nodded.

"Please come in!" After glancing at Liu Dong with a hint of suspicion on her face, the middle-aged woman opened the security door.

Seeing this, Liu Dong nodded, and then walked in, from the eyes of the middle-aged woman just now, he knew that the other party regarded him as the person who came to give gifts to the county magistrate.

"Lao Liu, come out! someone from my hometown is here!" After walking into the living room with Liu Dong, the middle-aged woman shouted towards a half-open room next to her.

"Someone from my hometown, who's here?" As he spoke, a middle-aged man wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, with a dignified expression and a face that was five points similar to Old Man Liu, walked out.

"It's this young man, who said that our dad asked him to deliver something to you!"

Listening to his wife's words, Liu Weijun naturally saw Liu Dong who was standing in the living room at the moment, carrying a convenient bag in his hand.

"Young man, you are Guan Jiachong's person, why have I never seen you before?" Liu Weijun said with doubts in his words.

Fortunately, Liu Dong stayed in Guanjiachong for more than half a month and learned the dialect there, otherwise he really couldn't understand the meaning of Liu Weijun's words.

"County Magistrate Liu misunderstood, I came from the Guan family, but I was not from the Guan family. It's just that when I went there to sketch a few days ago, I happened to live in Mr. Liu's house, and during this time, I was taken care of by his old man, so when I left this time, I volunteered to bring these things to County Magistrate Liu for his old man!"

"So that's the case! I said why I had never seen you in Guan Jiachong before!" Liu Weijun said that he took the convenience bag in Liu Dong's hand, and then took out two small black jars about the size of a palm and sealed with yellow paper.

Remove the yellow paper from the seal. A stream of tea leaves with a clear and dark color appeared in the eyes of the three people. And with the advent of tea. There is also a faint fragrance of tea rippling on the tip of the nose, which makes people feel shocked when they smell it.

"Hehe, this is the cloud tea that my father fried by himself!" Seeing this tea, Liu Weijun's face couldn't help but show a trace of joy, the most famous specialty of Songzi County is truffle mushroom and cloud tea, and the cloud tea of Guan Jiachong, which is located in the mountains, is the best high-grade tea in various regions of Songzi City, and it is also Liu Weijun's favorite. In the past, when I returned to my hometown for the Chinese New Year, I would ask my father to copy a little bit of his old craft and bring it back to drink. Unexpectedly, Liu Dong was asked to bring it to him this time.

"Liping, cook a few more dishes at night and keep ......!"

Looking at Liu Weijun's questioning eyes, Liu Dong hurriedly said: "County Magistrate Liu, just call me Liu Dong!"

"Liu Dong, then I'll call you Xiao Liu!" After a pause, Liu Weijun continued, "Xiao Liu, stay with me for dinner at night and then leave." Otherwise, when I go back for the New Year, the old man will blame me for not knowing how to be hospitable!"

"County Magistrate Liu. You're so polite!In fact, this time I just left, and I just brought you something, I want to say thank you, I also want to thank Liu Lao, if he hadn't taken me in, then I don't know where to live in Guan Jiachong!" Liu Dong said modestly.

"Hehe, don't call me County Magistrate Liu! We are all surnamed Liu, maybe we used to be our own family, you're welcome, come, sit!" After greeting him, he ordered Li Liping to go to the kitchen to cook!

I don't know if it's because Liu Dong is familiar with his old father, or because Liu Weijun himself is hospitable, or because Liu Dong himself has a very good first impression, or all three, anyway, Liu Weijun, who is the head of a county at the moment, has a very enthusiastic attitude.

And Liu Dong, who was going to leave after delivering things, was not easy to speak.

"Xiaodong, I heard you say just now that you went to Guan Jiachong to sketch, so you learned to paint?" The two sat down, Liu Weijun picked up the cup on the table, and then gave Liu Dong a cup of hot water, and Liu Dong took it with both hands and put it on the table, and asked with a smile.

"I didn't learn to paint professionally, but my parents liked it when I was a child, and I also knew how to paint, so I studied with them for a few years, and I also liked it very much, so I have been insisting on painting until now, but my qualifications are dull, and I haven't painted anything famous!" Liu Dong said.

"Learning to paint is not an overnight thing, you are still so young, as long as you work hard, you will naturally achieve something in the future!"

Listening to Liu Weijun's words, Liu Dong nodded with a smile and did not answer. In fact, according to Liu Dong's current painting level, whether it is Chinese painting, oil painting, or sketching, it is already at the top level among the younger generation, but few people know it. In addition, Liu Dong, who is now worth billions of dollars, no longer needs to make a living by painting, so he has never thought of boasting about anything.

Nowadays, painting, like sculpture and collecting, has become a kind of spiritual pursuit for him.

Just like the famous saying of the famous minister of Qi in the Spring and Autumn Period, which has been passed down through the ages, 'Cang Liao knows etiquette and knows honor and disgrace when he has enough food and clothing'! People always have to pursue a little in life, and after eating and drinking without worry, Liu Dong's pursuit is the artistic pursuit of painting and sculpture. And, of course, the great satisfaction of collecting the world's treasures.

Seeing Liu Dong nodding, Liu Weijun thought that the other party had listened to his warnings, and he couldn't help but have a kind of 'teachable' appreciation in his heart.

"By the way, Xiaodong, what are you studying? Chinese painting, or oil painting?"

"Chinese painting!" Liu Dong quickly replied, he knew that if a county magistrate like Liu Weijun knew calligraphy and painting, it must be Chinese painting and calligraphy, so even if he didn't do what he liked and took the opportunity to please, but he could get closer to the relationship between the two sides, why not do it!

"Hehe, it just so happens that I also like Chinese painting, now we have to discuss it!" As he spoke, Liu Weijun patted Liu Dong's arm, stood up and walked towards the room he came out of earlier.

And Liu Dong naturally followed.

"This is my study!"

Listening to Liu Weijun's introduction, Liu Dong also looked around.

Liu Weijun's study is not very large, the whole room is rectangular, about 267 square meters, like most private small study, the whole desk is facing east and west, and the window is on the south side. Behind the desk is a row of bookcases full of books. On the opposite wall facing the desk, there is a large fan hanging, on which is written a vigorous and powerful character 'forbearance'.

In addition to this fan with the word ninja written on it, there are also some paintings and calligraphy hanging on the wall next to it. In Liu Dong's eyes, the level of these calligraphy and paintings is still excellent, and it can be seen from the inscription next to them that they are the proud works of Liu Weijun and Liu County Magistrate next to them.

Perhaps noticing that Liu Dong was looking at the paintings hanging on the wall, Liu Weijun couldn't help but ask with a slight smug look on his face: "How is it, Xiaodong, is it okay?"

"Uncle Liu's calligraphy is gentle but not soft, the force contains it, the upper and lower undertakes, the echo is coherent, and the level is very high!" Liu Dong is not pedantic, he naturally knows how to pick up good words, not to mention that Liu Weijun's calligraphy is really good.

However, compared to calligraphy, his painting skills are relatively poor, so Liu Dong just admired it and didn't comment on it!

However, Liu Weijun was able to become the county magistrate, so he naturally knew the three flavors in observing words and colors, and he could guess one or two of what he was thinking from Liu Dong's subtle changes in expression. However, his own family knows his own affairs, so he naturally understands that compared with calligraphy, his level in painting is inferior. After all, his main job is the county magistrate, and calligraphy and painting are just a hobby.

Being able to have his current level is the result of his years of hard work. Moreover, his calligraphy is also quite famous throughout Songzi County.

"Xiaodong, come, let me see how you are now!"

Listening to the meaning of the school examination in Liu Weijun's words, Liu Dong did not refuse.

Then he followed Liu Weijun to the window in his study, where a large long table was placed, as well as the four treasures of the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and study, as well as the commonly used things in the study such as pen holders and pen washes.

"Uncle Liu, you have all good things here!" Liu Dong, who likes to collect, naturally saw at a glance that the pen, ink and paper inkstone placed on the table at this moment, especially the inkstone, is the old peng's She inkstone, also called Longwei inkstone, and the Tao inkstone of Gansu-Sutao-Zhou, the Duan inkstone of Guang-Dongzhao-Qing and the Chengni inkstone of Shan-Xijiang-County, and are called the four famous inkstones in China.

With the perennial mining, it is difficult to see the real high-grade She inkstone, and Liu Weijun is still a high-grade Venus dragon tail inkstone.

According to the record of "Xin'an Zhi": During the Southern Tang Dynasty Yuanzong, he guarded the offering of inkstones, and recommended Li Shaowei to be promoted to the official of inkstones. Since then, the mining of the stone has changed from private to official and organized mining. Under the supervision of the imperial court, some famous stone products gradually came out and were presented to the emperor as tribute.

Among them, the famous stone products are divided into: five products and 25 kinds. "Pin" is the major category of the stone, these five categories are: outer mountain ribs, inner mountain ribs, eyebrow lines, Venus and donkey pits. These five categories are further subdivided into: brush silk stone, gold and silver, nail marks, lying silkworm eyebrows, Venus, silver star...... and so on twenty-five kinds.

Each of these varieties has its own merits, but the most valuable is the "Venus" stone with pebbles covered with the stars of the Han Dynasty.

Because the stone is forbidden to private mining, so the famous products in the stone are more precious and mysterious, and later the famous Southern Tang Dynasty lord Li Yu, the top grade dragon tail inkstone has become a national treasure.

Tang Xun, a native of the Song Dynasty, said in his "Yanlu": Li Yu "pay attention to the pen, the Chengxintang paper used, Li Tinggui's ink, and the dragon's tail inkstone, which are the best in the world." It is said that the Yan Yan is expensive to pebbles, the big one is extremely rare, the largest one is only four or five inches, the ancients mostly made the eye inkstone (a kind of bull's eye size of the Yan Yan), because the range of She River is very small, and before the Song Dynasty, the hometown of She Yan is centered on this, most of the famous stones are from this. (To be continued......)