The prince and the eldest sister handed over the matter of buying gifts to Yun'er, Tian Liang and Xiaoli. Yun'er took out a morning every day, with Xiaoli as the guide and Tian Liang as the follower, going out to buy gifts every day. Then come back in the afternoon and paint again, there are a number of gifts, and you can't always buy them.

This kind of gift cannot be bought at the manufacturer, it is bought at the wholesale market, but you can choose as you like. The prince made a list of people who received gifts, about sixty or seventy people, according to a hundred people, in case anyone forgot to offend people.

Then Yun'er asked the eldest sister for advice on what to buy, and the eldest sister also gave a list and told Yun'er: "It's just a rough idea, if you think you should add anything, you can add it, anyway, you have money in your hand." Don't buy something too expensive, just buy something that looks good and is practical. ”

The prince means that the emperor and the queen mother must be magnificent and exquisite, and it doesn't matter if the price is expensive. Give the brothers and nephews of the royal family a certain percentage of wine, drinks, food, candy, stationery, toys for the children, and give them women's cloths, jewelry, small pendants, etc.; For Fujin, it is both beautiful and affordable. Her gifts were such things as clothing, jewelry, and crafts; The wine, beverages, and food for the top management of the government also account for the majority, and Yun'er and Tian Liang have the final say on what to buy. Of course, you can't say words like emperor and royal family with Xiaoli, and you can't reveal your identity.

Yun'er and Tian Liang completed this task very well, and bought gifts suitable for various identities from person to person, and they didn't spend a lot of money. Among the gifts to the emperor is a bronze tripod that symbolizes imperial power, which is more beautiful than the real bronze tripod. There are four big characters of "eternal stability" on the copper tripod, which is very suitable for the emperor as a gift. There is also a resin material "flower ivory", placed on a rosewood base, the outer wall of the ivory is five cents steel hammer-sized flowers, on which there are peonies, lilies, lotuses, roses, begonias, tulips, chrysanthemums and other flowers, covered with the entire surface of the ivory, some are very hollow. The jade-colored ivory and jade-colored flowers give people a rather noble feeling, and this is a gift for the Queen Mother. There is also a glass material for the emperor to imitate the jade unicorn, which looks like jade at a glance. The appearance of the unicorn is vivid and delicate. In ancient times, the unicorn was regarded as auspicious, and it is said that placing a jade unicorn on the court will prevent the traitorous ministers from disturbing the court. At the same time, there was also a pair of binoculars for the emperor. The multiplier is ten times larger than the multiple of the single tube that Westerners gave to Emperor Shunzhi, and this will also make Emperor Shunzhi like it. The others are the women's goods bought for the Queen Mother and the concubines of Shunzhi: fabrics, jewelry, cloth art, small pendants, etc., are all things that women like; There are also toys, food, fabrics, and underwear for princes and princesses. It is also not available in the Qing Dynasty. Yun'er is four months pregnant, and she is still very flexible in moving, sitting and lying down, although they are twins, there is no sign of being unable to move. But the prince and the eldest sister are not at ease, and after buying the gifts, they will not let Yun'er go to the street. In the event of an accident, the consequences are unimaginable. Yun'er also knew that the prince cared about himself very much and acted very carefully.

Yun'er still has a lot to do after being "grounded". The first is to continue to learn to paint with Lan Lan. Although Lan Lan is young, her painting level has reached a very high level, and she is already an up-and-coming young painter. She has been learning to draw since she was three years old. It's been twenty-five or six years now. He mainly focuses on small-scale freehand flower and bird paintings, and is also involved in fine brushwork, and occasionally dabbles in Western paintings. They are all more traditional and very skilled. Because of hard work、Plus the talent is very high。 Although he did not study under the powerful painters Zheng Naijun, Sun Qifeng, Su Baozhen, Xu Zhan and others, he often studied their works and had a lot of experience. And the calligraphy and painting works are majestic and have a profound foundation. She has a unique set of teaching methods, has trained many graduate students dedicated to painting and calligraphy, and is a leading figure in the art department of the college.

Lan Lan used the course of mentoring graduate students to guide Yun'er, and Yun'er was able to understand it immediately. I listened to Lan Lan's suggestion, and changed from painting to specializing in small freehand flower and bird paintings, Lan Lan's joy and happiness could not be expressed, if it wasn't for Yun'er's pregnancy, Lan Lan would have liked to pick her up and pick her up a few times.

Lan Lan said: "I know that the painters of your time are mainly gongbi, and you should not give up gongbi, but your personality is more suitable for freehand painting." I think your achievements in painting freehand flowers and birds are definitely much greater than the achievements of painting brushes, and you will learn the Tao very quickly. From the serious attitude of Professor Xu's album you bought in the bookstore, you know that you are more suitable for freehand flowers and birds. And your free-flowing, quick, chic, and hearty personality is also more suitable for freehand flowers and birds. But it's up to you to decide what you learn, and if you learn freehand, I will instill in you all what I've learned, and I won't leave a single trick. ”

"Lanlan, I don't know how to thank you. Actually, I know that it is more suitable for freehand painting, but I will learn it from now on......"

"It's not too late, it's not too late! You already have a solid foundation, and you can do anything. Mr. Qi Baishi, the great painter here, was originally just a carpenter, and he only began to learn painting at the age of twenty-seven or eight. Gongbi and freehand are not insulated. Qi Baishi's paintings belong to the freehand, but the insects in the picture are all painted with the brushwork of a gongbi, delicate and realistic, which fits the main content quite naturally, without a trace of stiffness. ”

Lan Lan also told Yun'er: "When you are learning freehand, you must engrave every image in your heart." For example, if you learn to draw peonies, you must have a solid understanding of peony painting, including its flower head and petals, which change with the changes of light and shade, time, scene, and environment. For example, peonies under the sun, peonies in spring, peonies in summer, peonies in the snow, peonies in the wind, rain, fog, and dew, as well as various forms such as leaning and backing. You also have to treat those flowers as people with thoughts and feelings, and you have to paint buds, leaves, and branches as important parts, and you can paint until you remember them by heart, practice makes perfect, and even you can move on to other paintings. For example, if you draw a monkey, you have to draw it accurately, so that people can see that the monkey is not a horse or a sheep, and then there are all kinds of dynamics, what it looks like when it goes up a tree, what it looks like when it eats fruit, what it looks like when it catches lice and feeds a little monkey, and its expression, whether it is happy or angry, whether it is afraid or quiet, all have to be drawn. Don't draw a few leaves and immediately go to the fruit, you can paint one content. It's because of this that people feel that painting is boring and very difficult. In fact, I think that being a painter is the best profession, and what I paint is beautiful things, such as flowers, vegetables and fruits, animals, birds and birds, and every day I am facing these refreshing images to repeatedly describe, one flower and one petal, one branch and one leaf, spiritual attention, and nothing else. In fact, this is a state of meditation, just like an old monk meditating, replacing ten thousand thoughts with one thought, so his mind is clean and detached from the world. It is a very common phenomenon for calligraphers and painters to live longer, but if they paint well, it may not be the case if they use their paintings as bargaining chips to make a fortune. Wait a minute! The phenomenon I'm talking about is different from the idea that you sell paintings to send to the national treasury. If you draw without distractions, and when the time comes, you will sell for money, and you don't regard selling money as a burden and a goal, then your realm will be too high. ”

Yun'er blushed and said, "That's what Yun'er thinks, just think about how to paint well, keep improving, and then don't be too deliberate about how much money she can sell." ”

"Cheng, Yunyun, you make me admire you so much, ...... at a young age"

"People aren't much younger than you, they're four or five years younger."

"Hahaha, hehehe......" Lan Lan laughed heartily.

In Yun'er's time, there were freehand painters, such as Zhu Qi, a Bada Shanren, who was a master of freehand painting. He was a member of the Ming Dynasty royal family, and had a strong attachment to the mountains and rivers of his homeland, and disdained the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, his flowers and birds are all white-eyed, and there are not only literati style in his painting style, but also a lot of helplessness and decadence. Zhu Qian should be a contemporary of Yun'er.

"Yunyun, I suddenly remembered one thing, I want to ask, are the rice paper and pigments you have there expensive? If it's expensive, why don't you buy more from here and bring it back. I have a subscription to the "Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper" here, and there are mail-order prices for paper, ink, and pigments for painting and calligraphy paper, ink, and pigments in the middle seam. ”

"And selling rice paper? Let me see. ”

Lan Lan gave Yun'er a copy of the "Calligraphy and Painting Newspaper" to tell her the location of the mail order. She took out the price list that Master Gan Lin asked her to investigate before she came here, compared it with the same kind of products of the same specification, and then converted the money here into silver in the Qing Dynasty, only to find that the rice paper here was much cheaper than that of the Qing Dynasty. There is also a specific reason for this: the rice paper of the Qing Dynasty is operated manually, and the process is complex and time-consuming, so it is very expensive. The reason why the vast majority of the common people in the Qing Dynasty are illiterate is because paper is expensive, paper is expensive, and books are more expensive. Ordinary people can't guarantee three meals a day, who has the money to let their children study?

Lan Lan told Yun'er: "I once mail-ordered twenty knives Huixuan, which is the brand rice paper manufactured in Jing County, Anhui Province, the quantity is very small, the manufacturer mailed it through the post office, not a knife was lost, and the quality is also in line with the propaganda, it is a four-foot special clean skin Shengxuan, writing, painting freehand painting effect is very good, I will give you a few cut pens, if you think it is good, you may wish to mail order some, first a small amount, and then in a number of manufacturers in Jing County to select goods, let serious, Hailong and Mr. Fu they personally go to Anhui to select goods, You buy more than 100,000 yuan, you can't take it lightly, in case they are shoddy, we can return it, but it also delays time, isn't it? I also understand the seriousness of rice paper. We can mail order some first, as a stone to ask for directions, if you are satisfied, buy more, and sell it yourself to make money, how about it? ”

Yun'er couldn't sit still, and when the prince came back in the evening, Yun'er told the prince about wanting to buy rice paper. Wang Ye said: "Then what else to try, you give me the manufacturer's address and phone number, and book the ticket tomorrow, and then Liangzi and I will go to buy rice paper." ”

"Lan Lan said that Lawyer Yan is very expert in rice paper, can you invite him and Hailong to go with you, they are more expert in bargaining."

"I'm afraid that people have something to do, don't delay."

Lan Lan said that Lawyer Yan wanted to open a law firm because he helped us put it down first. That office is not so easy to open, so let's ask him to help. ”

The eldest sister said, "Okay, I'll ask him if he has time tomorrow." How are you, your belly hasn't been big these days, your waist is thick, and if you feel uncomfortable, tell your eldest sister. Originally, Ling Juan would take care of you when she came, but suddenly there was such a thing, she seemed to be too frightened and too sad, and she has been languishing these days. ”

"It's okay, it's okay, let Sister Ling get well. Yun'er can't draw every day, and there is no danger. Lan Lan is really powerful, and she became a graduate tutor at the age of twenty-eight or nine. ”

Wang Ye took over the topic: "If you were also born in a family like the eldest sister's family, your parents carefully cultivated you, and you worked hard yourself, you could be the same as Lan Lan." But in our place, your talent is not allowed to be displayed. ”

"How can Yun'er compare with Lan Lan? In fact, Yun'er is more worry-free than Lanlan, and she is a rice worm for her husband, and she is also at ease. ”

"Now I'm your rice worm, okay? All the expenses are the expenses of the little rich woman, don't you think I look like a very big rice worm? ”

Yunyun was lying on the bed with a smile, how to think about how big the prince would be if he became a worm. Not only do you have to eat a lot of rice, but you may also eat people.

The eldest sister couldn't help laughing.

The next day, the prince talked to Zheng Zheng about going to Anhui to buy rice paper. Said seriously: "Don't talk about going to Anhui, even going to Hainan is nothing, free travel is what I yearn for, we are jumping into the well without hanging our chins, and the whole family is not hungry when one person eats enough." Mr. Fu is in charge of buying tickets. "It's fast enough.

Hailong hurriedly said: "I'll go too, the matter of booking tickets will be mine, go back and say hello to my dad, and let him manage the hotel and accessories store." It's not the summer vacation or the Spring Festival, so it's easy to buy tickets. ”

Seriously know, Hailong runs a hotel, and it is commonplace to book tickets for guests.

Two hours later, Hailong took the ticket back and said to the prince, "Sir, prepare the tooth set and a change of clothes, and get on the bus at night." I'm sorry, I didn't ask you to buy four sleeper tickets, and I went to sleep when I got on the bus. By the way, I got everything ready to eat and drink. ”

The prince said, "How can you prepare to eat?" How much did you spend? ”

"What are you doing? Look down on us poor people, don't you? I bought three meals, in addition to bread and sausages, drinks, snacks, and mustard......"

Seriously, "How old are you to eat what these girls like?" Why don't you take Xiaoli with you? ”

"Don't pay the price, we are all men, it's inconvenient to take her."