Zhou Dingcheng patted his shoulder with a smile and shouted: "Little friend, don't mix with the Zhou family kid in the future, the one who is close to ink is black, and be careful to get infected with his family's copper smell." ”

Obviously, the lotus flower has been firmly in his hands, and he is no longer called a brother, but a little friend. It can be seen that the madman is just crazy, not stupid, and he still has to be reserved.

Everyone laughed, but they all wondered in their hearts, this crazy man may really talk about fate when dealing with people, usually no one buys anyone's account, but today he is a brother and sister with this little hairy head. As for how valuable the lotus picture was, they didn't know and didn't dare to talk nonsense.

Only a diligent calligrapher and painter like Zhou Dingcheng, who has been doing it for decades, can understand the meaning of that lotus picture, and even if it is not clear.

Moreover, the lotus flowers painted casually, the old to the refinement of the brushwork are all under Zhou Dingcheng. However, this painting seems to open a window in front of Zhou Dingcheng's eyes, allowing him to see another world, although his eyes are only dotted with stars, and more are still at a loss, but in any case, he has seen the direction and possibility that he can break through.

I have been trapped in the current situation for more than ten years, and suddenly it seems that the person who has fallen into the bottom of the valley has discovered the ladder to climb upward, and he can't help but be ecstatic.

Although Zhou Dingcheng looks crazy, he is old, and these are not revealed. In the future, I will have to interact more with the situation in order to understand this technique, and this banquet will be inevitable anyway.

Zhou Wenbin Zhou's family is a well-known cloth merchant in the south of the Yangtze River, mainly dealing with the palace, it is a royal businessman, this messenger is also inherited from generation to generation, mainly for the palace to buy all kinds of brocade fabrics, naturally is the wealth of the male side.

In all dynasties, no matter how rich a merchant was, he still couldn't compare with the prestige of the dignitaries. Zhou Wenbin's father has accumulated a lot of money, and he also hopes that his descendants can get ahead in the imperial examination and sweep away the copper stench in his house.

Zhou Wenbin is studious and a prodigy. This made the father see the hope of changing the court, so he decided not to let his son go into business, but to concentrate on his studies and take the road of the imperial examination, in order to change the family's copper smell into a book smell.

Since the establishment of Jinxiang Academy in the second year of Jiajing, it has been famous, and Zhou's father decided to invest heavily in shares, also for the future of his son and the glory of the Zhou family. Running the academy itself is not profitable, but it has a great reputation, but there are other ways to make money.

The development of the academy mainly depends on two kinds of people, one is the great Confucian, who needs these people to give lectures, to praise the reputation of the academy and improve the status of the academy, and the other is the businessmen who are rich and willing to pay, the funds required for the operation of the academy are not a small number, and the high officials who come to give lectures need to be paid, and some high-ranking officials who come to give lectures are also great Confucians. The Zhou family is one of the major shareholders of the academy, so Zhou Wenbin can have some say in the academy.

Deyue Lou is not like an ordinary restaurant, there is no lobby, just a luxuriously decorated room, the whole building looks like the mansion of a powerful person in the previous dynasty, so it is destined to be unsuitable for ordinary customers, only those who are willing to spend a lot of money will come here.

Zhou Dingcheng selected a room on the second floor, set a banquet, and after a while, there were guests coming one after another, it turned out that Zhou Dingcheng had appointed his subordinates to ride fast horses on the way to the restaurant to send out some Cambodian posts, inviting some people to come to eat and drink. Based on this, it can be seen that Zhou is not crazy, but crazy.

In the evening, the guests arrived, but they didn't understand why Zhou Dingcheng invited them. It's not that he's stingy, but that he's among the guests, and it should be someone else who invites him, and if he arrives in Beijing, he should be the east.

People came one after another, and Zhou Dingcheng also introduced them one after another, basically they were all literati with famous names in Suzhou Mansion, and although they had never seen them, they had heard of their names, so they had to see them one by one.

Let's take a look, besides, it's just a half-old child, and he doesn't seem to have a name, is he the son of Zhou Dingcheng's closest friend? Zhou Dingcheng has a strange temperament, he doesn't know what to say, and it is inconvenient for everyone to ask in detail.

The next heavyweight was the sacrificial wine of Jinxiang Academy.

Generally, the seowon was built on a mountain, so the dean of the academy was called the mountain chief, and later almost all academies were based on this rule. Jinxiang Academy is an imitation of the pattern of the two Beijing Guozijian, so the dean is called sacrificial wine instead of the mountain chief.

This sacrificial wine lord is a well-known figure in Suzhou Mansion, known as Chen Zhengjun.

In fact, his real name is Chen Musa, because he belongs to Chen Baisha's school of science, no one remembers what he called when he was a child, since he began to study science, he changed his name to Musa, and regarded himself as the successor of Chen Baisha's faction.

The Ming Dynasty was inherited from the Song Dynasty, and it was basically the line of Cheng Zhu Lixue, especially Zhu Xi's Lixue was in the first place. Outside of them are the two most famous factions, one is Chen Baisha, and the other is Wang Shouren's Yangming efforts. The prosperity of lectures in the Ming Dynasty is from the beginning of Wang Shouren, where he is an official, where he lectures, the lecture hall is his official office, and then his disciples are everywhere, and they have established academies to give lectures, and Yangming theory has gradually become the mainstream.

This Chen Musa adhered to Chen Baisha's vein, and did not reconcile with the mainstream, so he became a literati in the field, and he was famous, and the court also wanted a hundred flowers to bloom, so he forcibly recruited him to go to the capital to be an official, and it is said that he had drawn up the official position of the squire of the Ministry of Rites, but after he arrived in the capital, he wrote to the court day by day, asking for illness and returning to his hometown. The bigwigs of the imperial court were also the grandmasters of the Yangming School, and naturally they didn't want heretics to mix up their doctrines, so they took advantage of the situation to persuade the emperor and sent Chen Musa back to Jiangnan.

Although he went in vain, his fame has become bigger and bigger, everyone calls him Zhengjun, which means that the emperor made him an official, but he has noble intentions and is not friendly to princes, so he resigned from the official position.

Jinxiang Academy needs a heavyweight to lead, and in the Suzhou realm, there is naturally no more suitable candidate than this Chen Zhengjun. I don't know what those people behind the scenes said about him, this person who refused to be an official in the imperial court actually agreed to the recruitment of the academy's sacrificial wine.

As soon as Chen Musa came in, except for Zhou Dingcheng, they all hurriedly stood up and bowed to the ground, the middle school students of the academy were like this, and so were those literati, which showed the importance of his fame and high status. Moreover, nature is no exception, and it is like a ritual to follow all living beings.

Even Zhou Dingcheng, who had no one in his eyes, had a little respect on his face, and said with a smile: "Thank you old master for appreciating the light." ”

"You must have a saying among the guests, I am quite curious." Chen Musa's face was expressionless, like a dry well without waves.

"I have a new friend, and I am happy, so I invite you to come here for a drink." He said and introduced the situation to Chen Musa.

"Besides, I think I've heard the name. Wenbin told me, right? Chen Musa's eyes looked at Zhou Wenbin.

"Old Master, this is the prodigy that the student told you about years ago." Zhou Wenbin stepped forward and said.

"Well, since you value it, you can't be wrong." Chen Musa just glanced at him, and then didn't look at him anymore, just sat on the chief, looking at his nose and his nose.

Besides, if you are convinced, you can still practice your mind on this occasion, and you really deserve to be a master of science. But whether there is any interest in being a person to do this, he really doubts.

The finale who was finally present was Lian Daning, the prefect of Suzhou Prefecture, the local parent official.

As soon as he arrived, the atmosphere became lively, obviously all the beings felt close to him, respected Chen Musa, feared Zhou Dingcheng, and was much closer to the prefect Lian Daning, of course, it was not that he was disrespectful, but in comparison.

"Besides, little friend, I've heard of it below." As soon as Zhou Dingcheng introduced, Lian Daning remembered, "Ling Zun is a miracle doctor, I have heard for a long time that the son of the miracle doctor is a prodigy, but I have never seen it." ”

"Your father is a doctor?" Zhou Dingcheng was surprised.

"Yes." Besides, he looked at him suspiciously, wondering if this belonged to the category of "shouldn't".

"I thought you should be surnamed Han, but you weren't, and I thought your father must be a master of painting, but he was a doctor, this ......" Zhou Dingcheng was obviously a little crazy, feeling that these things encountered today were too illogical.

Everyone couldn't help laughing, not knowing what grotesque logic he had in mind.

Lian Daning seemed to understand him, and said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, you still can't get rid of the idea of reincarnation in the past and the afterlife, you are good at painting, so you think that you are the descendant of Gu Kaizhi, even so, you should be surnamed Gu, right?" But your surname is Zhou. Moreover, even if there are previous and later life sayings, such as Dongpo, who thinks that he is the descendant of Bai Juyi, he is also surnamed Su and not Bai. What's more, these theories of reincarnation are too slim, so why bother to delve into them. ”

"I understand this, but how can a businessman, a medical practitioner, give birth to such a prodigy son? It's not fair. "He's still a little crazy.

"What is it like to have a son, and is there any fairness or unfairness? People call you crazy, but it's true. Lian Daning smiled bitterly and shook his head.

The rest of the people just snickered, not daring to make a sound.

At the beginning of the banquet, Zhou Dingcheng couldn't hold back, and once again took out the lotus picture to show people. A few literati don't seem to know how to paint, and after reading it, they will pass on some marginal compliments to others, but Chen Musa is straightforward, and he doesn't look at it, so he handed it to Lian Daning, and hummed: "The small skill of carving insects is a waste of effort, with this kung fu, it is also good to recuperate Tianyuan." ”

After Lian Daning took it, he watched it carefully, and then said with some surprise: "No wonder Brother Zhou wants to treat you, this lotus painting is indeed a wonderful work, I have never seen this kind of painting." It is said that the lotus flower painted in this dynasty should naturally take the crown as the most, but the crown is not this way of painting. ”

"I know, I'm afraid you're the only one who can see the mystery, and others look like they're playing the piano to a cow." Zhou Dingcheng sighed and said, "That's why I specially invited you, they are just accompanying guests." The lotus picture of the crown is very rare among the people, and it is basically preserved in the big house, so I have the opportunity to feast my eyes and be amazed by the heavenly works. Moreover, Xiaoyou's painting method seems to be unique, and it may be the rebirth of the crown in the future. ”

There is only one person who knows how to paint, and the rest of the people know more about calligraphy, because they write every day, even if they don't specialize in calligraphy, they always know a lot. Although there is a saying that calligraphy and painting have the same origin, the difference between painting and calligraphy is still not small. Therefore, everyone just tastes the wine and food, and the banquet of fifty taels of silver for a table is impossible for Zhou Wenbin to enjoy every day.

Zhou Dingcheng talked about painting with Lian Daning, Chen Musa just poured himself drinks, and the dishes only picked some light entrances, chewed slowly, and had deep health skills. Others take the opportunity to binge munch.

Besides, it's a little dizzy to watch, these elegant gentlemen are too ugly to eat, not to mention that there are three division commanders and parents at the table.

"Brother, why don't you eat? Today you are the host and guest, we are all stained with your light, uncle said that your painting is worth a hundred taels of silver, only then I ate fifty taels, next time I find a chance to eat again, I will eat back. ”

Zhou Wenbin looked a little dazed and persuaded with a smile.

"That's it, brother, let's eat." A student next to him also encouraged him, "There is no dignity and humility at the banquet, everyone is equal at the table." Ignore them, let's eat ours. As he spoke, he took a prawn with his chopsticks and put it on the plate in front of him.

And this theory?

Besides, they can't turn around for a while, but it seems that they often eat and drink together, maybe the academy is really the rule.

"Besides, Xiaoyou, is your painting method an ancestral tradition?" Lian Daning suddenly looked at the situation and asked.

Besides, I have a heart: what should come is always coming.

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