Chapter 7: Up the Mountain
"Silly boy, there is still in the pot, you can eat, if your aunt wants to eat, you can go and eat it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info That's right, after eating, you draw some colors and shapes for your aunt, you eat slowly, and your aunt goes to the carpenter Wang in the village to borrow a pen. ”
Seeing her eating happily but not forgetting to let herself eat too, Aunt Lin said to her with relief, and turned around and walked out.
"Draw with a brush? I'm here, I think I'd better find something handy to draw on my own, but it's a pity that there are no ink ingots here. I'm not hungry and I've eaten most of it, so let's find a way to get something to draw. ”
Aunt Lin said this, knowing that the old man expected her to paint, in the previous era, in addition to painting, she also really learned to cook. It's a pity that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice at the moment.
Thinking that people in this era use brushes to paint, and they are at a loss to hold the brush, although she has lived in the General's Mansion for a few months, she has designed her own pen with ink ingots, and now she is allowed to use a brush.
Wan Ling didn't know the bottom of her heart, put down the bowl that only half of the corn cake was left, and went to the stove to find a tool to draw things.
Anyway, the old man used firewood to light the fire, but she found two unburned firewood branches, and when she took them, she slipped the edge of the stone in the courtyard where the old man should have sharpened his sickle, and a black mark could clearly appear.
"It would be nice if this thing could be sharpened," looked at the gray carbon that fell on the side next to the black mark, and the evening bell regretted, carefully taking the branch that had been burned on one side and carefully skimming the one with his hand the thickness of the needle, holding the sharp burned place. I went back to the room and found out that Aunt Lin was reluctant to use the straw paper that prepared for her to go to the toilet these days.
In this way, he used the sharp but somewhat soft bark of a tree that had been burned by fire, and gently drew on the paper. Although the poke paper is a little rotten, it draws a simple outline, although it is only an ordinary flower, it is much more beautiful and complex than the embroidery that Aunt Lin embroidered before.
Although she drew two in a row, the paper was a little broken, and the evening bell still found the strength to draw the straw, and the action of drawing things was more careful and gentle, and she drew a few in a row, although the strokes were a little skewed, but she was finally slightly satisfied and proud in her heart.
After all, she had studied painting before, and this was not difficult for her at all.
"I'm back, Ling'er, this is what you painted?"
Just when she was painting those simple graffiti and was satisfied with her ideas and works, the fence door in front of the courtyard gate was pushed open, and Aunt Lin came in happily, and when she saw six or seven paintings at her feet, her eyes were full of disbelief and asked.
"Yes, I painted it. I think if you embroider these things on your purse or belt, you'll be able to sell them for more money than before. ”
Aunt Lin put down the brush in her hand and a little ink ingot, and was as happy as a treasure to take the paintings she had drawn, and Wan Ling saw that the old man was happy like this, and said proudly with a small chin. Of course, drawing is just a basic line or a small pattern, which is a piece of cake for her.
"It's really good, it's much better than my previous embroidery, and it will definitely sell for a good price." I borrowed a pen and ink, if you want to draw, why don't you help me draw more, and keep it for me to use later. ”
The evening bell was slightly confused because of pride, almost becoming a line but crooked eyebrows. Aunt Lin had to put away the baby one by one, and even the straw paper she began to draw was a little torn, thinking that she had this hand, she was full of joy.
"Okay, let's finish all this papyrus. There are too many paintings, and the straw paper is too soft to last long. ”
The old man's words, although drawing in such a way, were strange and difficult for the evening bell. Seeing the happy smile on the old man's face, Wan Ling nodded in response, and took the straw paper he took out and drew them one by one.
It wasn't until she finished drawing the straw paper in her hand, about a dozen of them, that she got tired and let go.
"Well, that's all on my mind for now. It's still early in the dark, so take care of your aunt, pack up these paintings, and take me to the mountain in front of you. ”
Seeing that Aunt Lin picked it up one by one and put it on her lap and looked like she couldn't put it down, Wan Ling put down the branch bark in her hand and stepped forward to be coquettish to Aunt Lin. In my heart, I thought that maybe there were really good things on the mountain, as long as I was full and had enough food and clothing to solve it slowly, wouldn't it be a matter of time before I made money.
"On the mountain? Okay, wait for my aunt to clean this up, do you need this? No, I'll go and return it to Carpenter Wang, he has precious ink and pen. ”
Hearing her say that she was going up the mountain, I don't know how she had such an idea. Thinking that although this girl asked herself to be called Auntie, she was finally her own child, but Aunt Lin still put away those paintings and watched her get up and wash her hands.
Thinking about the burnt bark and twigs she had just used to draw things, she instinctively asked about the paper and ink she had borrowed.
"No need, we don't have inkstones at home, only these are not easy to use, you better take them and return them to them." I'll be waiting for you at home. ”
Thinking of this difficult brush, Wan Ling shook his head and said to the old man, watching the old man go out and wait in the courtyard.
Soon Aunt Lin came back, and Wan Ling followed the old man with a basket to the front of the village, and there was a small stone bridge in the middle of the mountain.
"Aunt Lin, go up the mountain, this girl is ......"
Just as she followed Aunt Lin out of the courtyard and went down to the field path below, several women came over with baskets full of wild vegetables in their arms. Seeing Aunt Lin coming over from the other side, she greeted her, and at the same time asked her about the evening bell who smiled at them because they were close to them.
"This is the daughter of my old Zhang's distant relative, and she asked me to call my aunt according to her generation. Something happened at home, and no one relied on us to come here and join us. No, I'm taking her up to the mountain to teach her how to pick wild vegetables, you've all picked so much......"
Seeing the shyness and strangeness of these people, I don't know what she has experienced and what her true identity is. I thought that everyone in the village had fallen asleep that night, and my wife carried her back, saying that she had been rescued by the river in the market town.
Thinking that these people didn't know her identity, but they moved from outside, Aunt Lin chuckled and told those people about the origin of the evening bell, seeing them chuckling and nodding their eyes at the evening bell, seeing that she was even more embarrassed, and took the evening bell away.
"The daughter of a distant relative of the old Zhang family is really handsome, except that she is not dressed very well, I look like that, she is more handsome than the daughter-in-law of the rich Zhang family in our village who married from the city."
As they departed, the women who had seen her whispered as they walked into the village.
"It's not, it's just that I don't know if I've ever decided to marry, if I want the old Zhang family not to dislike it, I want to propose a kiss to her for my big cow."
When the woman finished speaking, a woman spoke.
"You pull it down, look at the appearance and figure of others, will your big bull be willing? In my opinion, the old Zhang family probably has the intention of marrying her to the landlords in the market town or the city, otherwise they are so poor, how can they have the energy to raise their mouths again. ”
When the big cow girl finished speaking, a mean-looking woman took over.
"I said Tiger Girl, you just demolished my stage. What's wrong with my big cow? Anyway, he is also a strong young man, which is enough to match the old Zhang family. Why can't you come to your door? You can't give birth to a son and envy me, don't you? ”
When this tiger girl said something, the big cow girl was dissatisfied and slandered the woman.
"Alas, I said what's wrong with you, I just said casually, you slander me like this, I can't give birth to a son to do anything to you, you can give birth to a poor person like me who lives by digging wild vegetables, what's the big deal."
Although Hu Niu Niang is usually very mean to people, she has only had two daughters for many years and has never been able to give birth to a son, and her mother-in-law Zhang has always rejected her. Seeing that she just said something casually, the big cow girl grabbed her sore spot and said, Hu Niu Niang jumped to her feet and quarreled with her at that time.