Chapter Eighty-Four: A Cheap-Mouthed Man
It is a very beautiful screen, and it is painted with lifelike landscape paintings......
But in the upper left corner of the screen, there is a whole piece of mold, if it is rubbed heavily, it is only damaged.
The lights in the room were still on, and I was standing on the side watching the man fix it.
I saw that he first covered the left side of the screen with a very thin and transparent silk layer.
Others stand in relative darkness, facing the light, and the original pattern of the screen is reflected by the light.
The pen in his hand never stopped, tracing the pattern on it bit by bit.
He didn't start with the place where the mold damage was the most severe, but covered a much larger area.
The painter's brushwork is regular, especially the long scroll landscape in front of him.
In the process of restoration, he strives to follow the old brushstrokes, and also adds his own understanding and grasp of the whole.
Wherever the pen goes, if you don't look at the covered silk layer, you can see it through light and shadow, and you can hardly see the difference.
After the preliminary completion, he took off the piece of silk with a loud voice.
The so-called big horn is just the feeling he gives me between gestures, but not the fine movements of his fingers that touch the screen.
He took out a sharp, glowing blade from his waist and slashed the moldy spot with a single movement.
My heart was pounding, and I knew that the damage was for the next complete repair, and even though I understood it, his movements made my breath tighter.
The blank space was slowly covered.
I know that the most important part will be in front of me. Sure enough, he glanced at me and cast a look.
I was stunned when I received the message. As far as the eye could see, there were a lot of things on the workbench next to me, what kind of paint, gold dust, pens of various thicknesses, and even needles and threads.
I glanced at it in a hurry, and my eyes were fixed on one of the inconspicuous jars.
I have good eyesight. The speed of seeing things is also fast, and there is only one thing on the whole workbench. I really don't know what to do.
Without hesitation, I took the small jar and opened it in my hand, and sure enough, it was something like glue. Hints of sheen.
Reach out and hand it to him. I didn't have a word with him the whole time.
He looked at me with wide eyes and a smile on his lips.
He took the jar from me.
I watched as the overlapping areas of the silk slowly penetrated into the glue and finally stuck together.
Except for some slightly moist traces, I can't see more flaws.
It was only at this time that he breathed a sigh of relief and said to me the first thing he said after meeting: "This glue will completely seep in after a day, and you won't be able to see it later." ”
"You've got two brushes." I exclaimed, and then there was silence at this time. I can't stand this person's superb craftsmanship.
He snorted through his nostrils, "You're a fool to be the Empress of Sealand." I don't have this unique skill, and she can promise me to pick any one I want. ”
Although I listened to his conceit, there was a faint joy in his eyes, and my eyes never left the repaired screen.
"Whose painting is this?" I know that the empress is very rich, and since the baby is sent to him here to repair it, the landscape paintings on it must be from a famous artist.
"A painter in the previous dynasty, Sealand's most famous, has been dead for many years, this old guy's painting is really good, I'm seeing you for the second time."
Although he admired, there was an indescribable contempt and disdain in his tone.
I glanced at him suspiciously, seeing that the obvious scar on his face moved with his expression, I asked, "It's not that he has been dead for many years, or he is still a painter of the previous dynasty, and there should not be many paintings left to this day, where did you get it?" ”
"Of course, it's time to dig up the grave." "I turned over a bunch of coffins that time, and I don't know how the contents of one of them were preserved, but when I opened a box, the painting was good, but it's a pity"
I had just been tingled by what he said, and I instantly recalled the incident that scared me half to death when I met him, and when I heard his tone turn, my curiosity came up again.
"You found the painting, what is the pity, shouldn't you celebrate your luck?"
"I only looked at that painting for a short time, and then it was all destroyed."
I made up the picture in my mind, and immediately understood what he meant, although the storage conditions are good, after all, it can't withstand the underground for many years, and as soon as it is taken out, it will be weathered.
Moving my eyes back to the screen, I asked in a low voice, "In this way, it took a lot of effort to only damage a small part of the palace collection for many years." ”
"Not really." He straightened up, walked to the table, moved a chair and pointed, "You're polite, sit down." ”
"Reasoning, you're going to call me a master."
I sat down, shook my head, and said, "I'm not interested in this. ”
"Do you have a choice?"
"Interest is the best teacher, your craft is passed on to me, it's a pity, to find a girl who really likes this thing to do, that's what is called like a fish in water."
"Pass it to you?" He suddenly laughed and said, "You think it's beautiful! ”
"I'm the only one in the gang who can do this, and I'm not interested in accepting apprentices until I'm seventy or eighty, otherwise if you learn, wouldn't my job be it?"
"I haven't asked you yet, why did it come to you?" He looked at me and said.
"What you said, you still want the entire Sealand Palace to be left to your choice," I glanced at him proudly and said, "Although you are skilled, but the empress is just perfunctory to you, so she randomly selected me from among the new palace maids, on the surface, it is to give you the right to choose, in fact, what is the difference between choosing or not choosing?" ”
"It makes sense, like you, it makes no difference whether you come or not."
"Hey, that's not what I meant," I leaned back in my chair, "I'm not up to this, I was going to the Shangshi Bureau, and even the female officer who trained me knew about it." ”
"I see." He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "I said how to choose you, it turns out that you told the female official that you were going to the Shangshi Bureau." ”
"Didn't they say anything when you came? I'm working alone here, in the backyard by the lake, in the house, which is my makeshift kitchen, and I said find a girl to come and cook for me as an apprentice. "Ah," I said as I looked at him with wide eyes, "why didn't you say it earlier, but I only said that I wanted to go to the Shang Shi Bureau, and I didn't say that I was good at cooking, so why didn't the female officer ask carefully." "Who are you, just like you, the most suitable for cooking or something." "Where else do you want to make this ugly look, the man in Lin De Hall saw you and kicked you out." "The Huanyi Bureau will want you, you look like you haven't washed yourself, and you can rest assured that you can wash the clothes for those noble masters." "The Weaving Bureau wants you? That's a dream, you see what you look like you're ingenious, stupid and stupid. "Ah, don't go, what I'm saying is the truth."
A man with a cheap mouth!
I stood by the door angrily and looked at him and said, "You find someone else to cook, I can't serve this errand!" ”
Knowing that when the gang outside judged my appearance, they said a lot of immoral things, but the scar-faced man said even more excessively.
By the way, Scarface Man, look at his face, it's not fifty steps and a hundred steps.
I changed my mind, paused, walked back to look at him and said, "You're glad you just said, right, you want me to stay, I think you are quite reasonable even though you speak very badly." ”
"For a while, I can't restore my original appearance, I still have something to do, in this palace."
"Instead of going to a place where I don't need me, it's better to stay for a few days and just observe and learn."
"You're spinning fast?!"
"Those who know the times are junjie, I will never admit death, and I can't get along with myself."
"I didn't drive you away, but you didn't say goodbye several times, and took the initiative to leave, now that you have figured it out, stay and do things."
"You just saw me tinkering?"
"Well, I see, it's a wonderful craft." Even if I hate his mouth again, I have to admit that his skills are not?!
"This craft is not something that can be learned in a day or two, you just need to stay well, work on the side, and when it's time to cook, go and help me get something to eat, I don't ask for much, only two or three dishes are enough."
"Agreed."
I turned and walked to the place he said, the room by the lake, and cooking still didn't bother me, and besides, I had to see where I would work for the next few days, right?
Things that need to be added, vegetables that need to be prepared, thinking of this, I turned my head and asked him: "Your little kitchen is a little strange, isn't the one standing in the courtyard outside, isn't it the boss here?" ”
"No one has this treatment, you have such a big face."
"I am dedicated to helping the empress do things, repairing the treasures in the palace day and night, don't you see that there are still boxes piled up in the courtyard, which are all precious things sent from all over the palace."
"Even if you want to do something, you have to let me eat and drink well."
"Well, I'm going to make you -- eat and drink -- well."
As soon as I walked out of the door, I turned around and closed the wooden door tightly.
The sun shone on his body, and several people who were busy in the yard all swept their eyes over.
"The weirdo took her?"
"No, I thought I would be replaced, looking at this posture, I actually want to stay."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I really stayed."
In any case, their expressions made my depressed mood a little better, and I saw that the boy named Xiaosi who was leading the way was doing some hands-on work.
It seems that he is also a junior apprentice like me.
I walked over and said to him in a friendly manner: "I'm going to cook for the person inside, and I'll go to the small kitchen by the lake in a while, it may be inconvenient to go back, you are more familiar with the palace than me, can you please go to my original place for me?" (To be continued......)