Chapter 22: Redrawing
There was a sudden silence in the room.
The Ren family knows that the third master is gentle and rarely loses his temper on weekdays.
But just because he rarely loses his temper doesn't mean he doesn't have a temper.
Ren Shimin's study once had a little guy who was waiting for pen and ink to steal one of his inkstones to exchange for silver, this little guy was serving by his side since he was a child, and he was the nephew of his nurse, and he had done this kind of petty theft a few times on weekdays, and Ren Shimin had always been indifferent to this kind of thing outside his body, so he turned a blind eye.
I didn't want Ren Shimin to be furious that time, ignoring the nurse's crying, and immediately ordered the steward to beat the little guy to fifty boards and carry him to the government, and the little guy survived for three days and finally died in prison.
Because there is a clear text in the law of the Great Zhou, if a slave commits the crime of killing the master, adultery, or theft, once it is verified that the master's family has the right to kill him, he only needs to hand over the "file" money of 20 taels of silver to the government afterwards to close the case.
Therefore, although Ren Shimin has always been as modest as a jade gentleman, none of the servants of the Ren family dared to be presumptuous in front of him.
A person who does not play according to the rules of the cards is the most unprovoked, because you don't know what will suddenly anger him, so you can only be extra careful with him.
Ren Shimin flicked his bullet shirt and stood up: "I'm going to the study, you guys should disperse." β
Everyone got up to see each other, and when Ren Shimin walked in front of Ren Yaoqi, he turned his head and said, "Yaoyao come too, for my father, I want to see how lazy you have stolen in the past six months." β
"Father." Ren Yaoying bit her lower lip lightly and whispered.
Ren Shimin turned his head to look at her and said gently, "What's the matter?" β
Ren Yaoying plucked up the courage and said, "Father, my daughter has also been practicing calligraphy and painting for the past half a year. A few days ago, I just finished a picture of a snow scene, and I want to ask my father for some guidance. The daughter knows that she is not as talented as the fifth sister, but ...... But my daughter also really loves to draw. β
Aunt Fang looked at Ren Yaoying and said with a smile: "Miss Jiu, she has really put a lot of effort into practicing calligraphy and painting in the past six months, and when it comes to it, she also needs Xie Lu and Miss Xie Wu to give guidance from time to time." β
"Oh?" Ren Shimin glanced at Ren Yaoqi, thought about it, and nodded: "Since that's the case, you can also come along." β
Ren Yaoqi glanced at Aunt Fang, lowered her head and smiled.
If Aunt Fang counted her agreeing to lend her paintings to her as her guidance to Ren Yaoying, she really had to accept this credit.
However, she knew that Ren Yaoying's painting was indeed not bad.
Aunt Fang is dedicated to planning for her children, so naturally every step is calculated. Before the Ren family collapsed, she was able to persuade Mrs. Ren to let her go back to her parents' house, and took the opportunity to marry her daughter to her younger brother's eldest son.
"Daddy, why don't you come with the third sister and the fifth brother? Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, since the sons of rats will make holes. Then your child should be able to draw, too! Ren Yaochi winked at Ren Shimin and said playfully.
Ren Shimin couldn't cry or laugh: "Where did you learn all this mess?" β
After the last, the four children followed Ren Shimin to the study together.
There is no wing room in the second entrance of the crape myrtle courtyard, but there are two small cross-courtyards in the east and west. The west courtyard was the Li family's warehouse, and the east courtyard was Ren Shimin's study.
There are three study rooms, full of books and paintings, and you can smell the fragrance of ink as soon as you enter the courtyard.
There was a very small pond across the courtyard, the water was shallow but jet-black, and now frozen into ice. After the snow on it was shoveled away, the small pool was like a bright and deep black jade.
This is the pool where Ren Shimin washes his pen on weekdays, and he named it Wenhan Pool.
This place should have been the most familiar to Ren Yaoqi, but after coming in, she couldn't help but look around. Pushing open the door of the study, the clutter inside made it almost impossible to believe that this was a study.
Ren Yaochi remembered that Ren Shimin's study was the most chaotic place she had ever seen.
He doesn't like people coming in to clean up, and he likes to put his books and paintings all over the place.
It's just that he can quickly find each painting himself, and he can be satisfied with it.
The entire Ren family can clearly remember every book in Ren Shimin's study, and the person who places every calligraphy and painting is placed is only Ren Yaoqi except Ren Shimin himself.
Ren Shimin looked back at the four children behind him, frowned and thought about it, and then pointed to the sandalwood inlaid bookcase facing the door and said, "You all sit there, don't move." β
Ren Yaoqi knew that Ren Shimin's writing and painting on weekdays was not on this bookcase, he liked to use the low table in the room on the right, and the bookcase here was where he drank tea on weekdays, so it was relatively tidy.
A few people cautiously walked through the mess and sat in a circle around the bookcase.
Ren Yaochi reached out and took the cylindrical bamboo tube in the middle of the bookcase that was upside down like a flat-bottomed bell, and then uncontrollably took out a few Go grains from the drawer under the bookcase and put them in, and was about to put them to her ear and shake them, but was snatched by Ren Shimin, who was sitting next to her.
"Daddy has said it many times, this is Daddy's tea, not a toy, and you are naughty." Ren Shimin grimaced and disagreed.
Ren Yaoqi came back to his senses, blinked, and quickly blinked back the tears in his eyes.
Ren Shimin was stunned for a moment, thinking if his tone was too harsh, and he could only put the bamboo cup in his hand back into his hand and said helplessly: "Forget it, this cup hasn't been used for half a year, let's play with it, Daddy will make another one tomorrow." β
Ren Yaoqi looked at the rough bamboo cup in his hand and burst into laughter.
There are two more of these cups in the small camphor wood box under her bed, and when she was a child, she always liked to use the bamboo cup he made to shake the dice when her father didn't see it, and she was caught twice and enjoyed it.
The look of jealousy flashed in Ren Yaoying's eyes, but her smile was seven points naΓ―ve, three points curious, and she couldn't see half of the malice: "Did the fifth sister just play a game?" I heard that my uncle is the best at this, and the fifth sister learned it from my uncle, right? β
Ren Shimin's face sank suddenly.
Ren Yaohua's razor-like eyes looked at Ren Yaoying coldly, Ren Yaoying held up a smile, but couldn't help but shrink back.
The only one who can be called an uncle by Ren Yaoying with great fanfare is his mother's brother.
Ren Yaoqi played with the cup in his hand and smiled disappreciatively: "Didn't my aunt say that my sister is well-read?" Why don't you know that shaking the dice is actually a method of divination? What kind of game? Where does the nonsense come from? β
Where do the children raised in the boudoir know this? But Ren Yaoying has never been in contact with her so-called "uncle". She only knew what she was saying from other people's mouths.
Ren Shimin reluctantly held back his anger and said lightly to Ren Yaoying: "Didn't you say that you want me to guide you to draw?" β
Ren Yaoying was stunned, bit her lip and lowered her head to take out the scroll she had been holding in her hand, glanced at Ren Shimin, and carefully spread it out on the bookcase.
Ren Shimin raised his eyes, the expression on his face softened slightly, and he nodded and praised with a rare nod: "Sure enough, the progress is fast, I can see that you have worked hard,"
Ren Yaoqi also looked at it carefully, and in all fairness, it was really good to be able to draw a painting of this level at Ren Yaoying's age. She knew that Aunt Fang was very strict with her children, and Ren Yaoying had indeed worked hard in the past six months.
It's just with Ren Shimin's critical eye......
Sure enough, I listened to him next: "However, in addition to paying attention to brush and ink, we should also pay attention to composition. Yin and yang, to the back, vertical and horizontal, undulating, opening and closing, locking knots, back hugging, hooking, overjointing, and reflection, must be ups and downs, and the roll is free, so as to avoid work without rhyme. What your painting lacks is the dexterity of the composition. β
In fact, according to Ren Yaoqi's understanding of Ren Shimin, this is a high-level evaluation, because according to his temperament, he can say "acceptable" at most implicitly for the paintings he doesn't like, and he will definitely not spend so much saliva.
But Ren Yaoying didn't know what to say, so the smile on her face was a little stiff.
"Daddy often praises the fifth sister for painting well, why don't the fifth sister help me see how to change this painting?" Ren Yaoying suddenly looked at Ren Yaoqi expectantly.
Ren Yaoqi remembered that Ren Yaoying had also asked like this in the previous life, but she was too young to write at that time, and she didn't like Ren Yaoying, so she immediately refused. Ren Yaoying didn't really want her to help, so Ren Shimin helped her change a few places.
But this time, Ren Yaoqi nodded generously and smiled: "Since my sister's paintings are all learned from me, it is natural to help you change them." "A look of indeed.
Ren Yaoying's forehead jumped, and she was very uncomfortable with Aunt Fang's elevation of Ren Yaoqi before.
Ren Shimin glanced at Ren Yaoqi with a smile, and took the pen and ink from the right room with an obvious look of watching the show. Her daughter was taught by her, and he knows a little bit of ability. Ren Yaoqi's level may be stronger than Ren Yaoying, but it is still limited after all.
Ren Yaoqi melted the ink while looking at the painting by herself, and after the ink was polished, she picked up the pen and added a few small strokes to the snow scene, and finally added the double bamboo of the bamboo body bent by the heavy snow.
Although it is only a few strokes, it makes people feel the strength of the bamboo after it is bent, and the vigorous vitality is immediately revealed from the picture.
Ren Yaoying's original paintings seem to have become the background, but on the whole, they seem to be extremely coordinated, without any abruptness. The tone of the whole painting immediately raised several notches.
Ren Shimin's expression that was originally going to see his daughter's joke slowly became serious.
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