Chapter Eighty-Three: The Battle of Red Cliffs
In the warm spring, the alley outside the school gate is covered with bauhinia flowers, which cover the entire tree thickly. If it weren't for the large leaves the size of a peach, it would look as beautiful as a cherry blossom tree from a distance. From time to time, slightly fragrant petals fall, shaped like butterflies, and red or pink have long covered the lanes. Like most plants in South China, redbud is an evergreen all year round, but the petals are more luxuriant than the green leaves in spring.
However, although the flowers have fallen, people have not yet emerged.
On the evening of the second Thursday in May, parents waiting outside the school gate were puzzled that their children should have come out when the bell rang, but now they waited 10 minutes longer than usual and still saw no one. Seeing that other children have come out, is it their own children who are playful? But the children who came out one after another were only a small part.
"Big brother, why don't you get out of school yet?" Unable to pull down her face to ask other people's children, a mother asked the doorman as she walked back from school.
"Alas~ah, it's been released." Because he had to come back to change shifts at this time, the doorman felt regret from the bottom of his heart and sighed deeply.
"Then why hasn't the child come out yet?"
"Because I'm almost done, and I'm almost done, and I'm still a little bit close." Speaking of this, he complained with a look of dissatisfaction because of regret.
"You're almost done?" The mother was even more confused.
"Murals?" The parent next to him suddenly asked.
He remembered asking his children at home one day, "What did you learn at school today?" The child excitedly told himself, "I learned Chinese, mathematics, and English...... "The child only read out the subject and said it, which means that he didn't say it." In order to give the child the purpose of revision, it is natural to ask questions in detail.
As he talked, the child seemed to be unable to remember the content of the lesson, and he was left and right. Talking about the strange thing about the east wall of the school, there was about a second and third grader painting on the wall every morning. When asked, "Won't the school catch him in class?" the child replied that there was a teacher watching.
Could it be that the original walls were too simple, and the school organized a large-scale wall painting activity? No, I heard that there was only one student who painted.
"Yes, the students surrounded the inner and outer three floors, all waiting to see the final pen." The doorman glanced back, although the school was rectangular as a whole, but the school road turned a small corner, and you had to walk over to see the wall painting.
Originally, no one knew how long the wall painting was, but the student had already drawn a straight line after the wall painting today. Usually, the shape of the steps is a combination of [∠ convex], so when the painting is completed every day, the picture is the [convex] step type. But now not only were the steps set aside, but the paint had also moved from the steps to the ground, a sign that the painting was almost finished.
"Isn't it a kid drawing? What are you drawing? So many children want to stay there and watch. Parents asked. Unless there is a special reason, parents are not allowed to set foot on campus at will.
"The school didn't enforce the retention of the children, but the children gathered there voluntarily, just like watching the inauguration ceremony. And it's not just the children who stay there to watch, but the principal and more than twenty teachers are waiting for the last ......" With a grudge against the last one, the doorman turned his head towards the school again.
On the wall behind the corner is a giant wall painting measuring 2.4m x 99.9m.
The giant wall painting is rigorously composed and skillfully crafted, and the entire picture centers on the solemn battle scene of wielding weapons on the riverside. Cao Ying's soldiers' expressions were resolute, and Jiangdong's soldiers were excited. Although one side was defeated, it still rode a horse and rode the waves, and the other side won the first victory and drove a boat from the river. In order to better render the atmosphere, even the red flowers in the sky are dyed with the momentum of burning the ship. Regardless of victory or defeat, the soldiers who went out on the expedition were all fierce and unlucky, and the soldiers in the front section of the wall were waiting in formation, and the soldiers in the back section were already in close contact.
The brother fell off the horse, the brother was half lying in the water, holding the younger brother with one hand, his heart was like a knife in grief, and the other hand was still separated to meet the enemy; The left and right sides have been broken by the enemy, and the two sharp knives are about to reach its neck, and there is no way to avoid it, so it can only roar and stab forward, wanting to kill one more person before death.
The slender mural can carry many pictures, and the technique of revealing the psychological state of the characters from multiple sides is used here, so that this tragic war scene has a rich and readable surname. The fierce spirit of the Cao army warriors contrasted with the already approaching fiasco, and the tragic atmosphere was even more obvious.
Imposing wall paintings stand beside the school road, and everyone waits for the last small space to be filled. I saw a little boy dressed in spots of paint, with brushes of different sizes constantly changing in his hands, and even using a brush to paint in detail.
The last 5cm *10cm!
One last touch!
One last little bit!
Finally......
"Wow, whoa, whoa!" There was a cheer in the school.
There is no need for an artificial organization. After a month of watching the wall painting grow, today, thirty-one days later, this work is finally completed under my nose! It's as if the plants you observe are blossoming and bearing fruit, and as excited as if a child is growing up in front of your eyes.
However, this wall painting was not completed until Limu signed his name in the last corner of the wall painting.
【limu】
After swearing ownership of "Red Cliff", the students realized that now is the real end. Along with the principal's applause, the students also applauded, and the applause and cheers were endless.
-- The cement gray walls are so weak compared to what they are now!
"Whew-" Riki let out a long breath, a smile on his face. It was the first time he had been working for such a long time after 31 days, and it felt like he was nurturing his child every day, and his parents would be proud of his maturity.
"Good at drawing—good at top, Riki, it seems that you have a talent for drawing more than mathematics."
The more the principal looked at this wall painting, the more he liked it, and the golden iron horse swallowed thousands of miles like a tiger. In the future, the leaders of the municipal party committee will come to inspect and have one more thing to visit, and the itinerary will not be as boring as looking at tables, chairs and awards in the past.
The elderly in the welfare home, who enjoyed the special seat, stood up tremblingly from their wheelchairs. This "Battle of Red Cliffs" is not only very simple, it has been out of the category of ordinary wall painting, it is a perfect combination of oil painting and wall. The layman may not be able to see it, but ......
"Headmaster, where is it, it's still very unpopular."
But the painter was only a nine-year-old child, and he was humble in the face of the schoolmaster's praise, and claimed that the giant oil painting was not yet in the stream. It can be seen from the way he paints that he is at least a child with a famous teacher (the ultimate painter), rich experience in oil painting (called regular tasks), and a very high talent for painting (systematic skills).
No matter how far the old man misunderstood.
At this time, the headmaster stood in the way of his view, causing the old man to stretch out his trembling hand and lose the opportunity to get close to Limu. The headmaster and the colorful pear wood came closer, but still kept a step or two away.
"That, you see, the north wall of the west wall of the school is empty and empty, can you also help add color to the two paintings?" The principal rubbed the green tendons on the back of his hand, as if he was afraid of rejection, and asked with some trepidation.
"No sponsorship fees, right?" The corners of Rimu's mouth curled up with interest
"Don't take it, don't take it!" The principal said with a smile on his face.
"I'll consider it when I have time." At this time, Riki responded to the principal's request with an understatement.
Although there are answers, it is still unknown whether to draw or not. The principal is old and wonders if Riki is obsessed with the previous sponsorship fee, but it is impossible to refund the sponsorship fee that the school has eaten. I measured the value of the wall paintings here...... It seems that you can really consider paying him to paint the walls? If the other two paintings were also painted so well, the leaders of the municipal party committee would not have been so boring to inspect next year.
"What did the dead old man say, Riki finished ahead of schedule today to prepare for the Olympiad semi-finals the day after tomorrow, don't bother him at this time." Li Qihua inserted the position between the two, and was quite dissatisfied with her husband's deliberate comparison of painting and mathematics.
"Grandma." Limu took a small step back, he didn't want the paint on his body to stand on Grandma Li's clothes. After being silent for a long time, he said with a serious attitude that was completely different from just now:
"Don't worry, I'll try to be number one."
"Students, let's disperse, disperse, go home as soon as possible after school, don't let your parents worry about knowing...... At the same time, the principal began to seize the moment to disperse the students. The wall painting has been painted, and the moment of witnessing the completion has passed, and there is plenty of time to enjoy it later.
"Limu, you can't favor one over the other." Seeing the back of a large number of students leaving, the principal's face was filled with jealousy. Riki calls his wife grandma, but he calls himself the principal.
"Quack-" Riki laughed dryly.
But not everyone can make him willing to be a grandson. If there is not enough emotional foundation or admirable place, the word "grandpa" can be called casually, but "godfather" cannot be recognized casually.
"Hehehehehehe......" Teacher Li smiled happily between the two.
Parting from this happy picture, the car from the welfare institute drove to the campus, and the old man's work finally ended.
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In the middle of the night, in the nursing home next to the welfare home.
[To my friend Qishan:
[Long greetings, presumably everything is a good victory? Today, I said that I saw a good seedling, and I was very happy, so I told you.
[Eight immortals, at the beginning, Yu and the others claimed to be eight immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers. In the end, the winner was divided, and it was right to take the road of Chinese painting, and oil painting still had no way out in China, but the ideal of the past month has also dawned.
[Yu is in the hospital for the elderly, the body is still suitable, and he does not worry about food and clothing. A month ago, a woman came to the hospital to look for a job, with a salary of 300 and 51 months. There is nothing to do, the painting is still there, the complexion is acceptable, and it comes out. The work is detailed, but pretending to be an expert in painting, pretending to watch a son paint, and calling on others to stay away from nuisance. Yu went back to his old job, resting in between, accompanied by vegetables and fruits, even like a vacation. Looking at this sub-painting, the words fast and quasi-two words are the main, and the strokes have been put into the pen, and the composition is very good. Do not change the pen material, dip the east and dip the west, so that one color can be changed to the other. Yu has written to the view, so that he pays attention, and he must not cut off this son.
[The ideal of the rest, the ambition of the rest, will eventually be entrusted. Smell this or a few words and then paint, if you are lucky enough to see it again...... I won't go into details, so I'll leave it at that.
[The seventh small man of the fourth month of the fourth month of the year of Ji Mao - friends of the eight immortals Jiguang]