Chapter Seventy-Six: I Looked Uncomfortable
The weather in Kaifeng in winter is very cold, and Su Lu can't do without charcoal fire on weekdays, and this expense alone has to make his brother paint a lot of paintings.
Su Buwei didn't know if he had taken the order, no matter how many orders King Kong found for him, he was willing, and he went out to paint again today.
Xu is his style of bells and whistles is particularly popular with the rich, and yesterday's father of Party A was very satisfied and introduced a new order.
Su Buwei painted all day before returning, his slender hands covered with colorful paint.
Su Buwei sat in front of the fire reading a book, and when he caught a glimpse of Su Buwei coming back, he hurriedly asked someone to bring Su Buwei a basin of water to wash his hands. He put down the book in his hand and stepped forward to send warmth to his brother: "Brother, is there anyone who is embarrassing you?" If someone embarrasses you, you must tell me, we don't want to be angry! ”
Su Buwei has grown a lot in the past few months, except for occasionally delaying a lot of time for the first step on the left foot or the right foot first, he is basically a mature painter.
Hearing his brother's words of concern, Su Buwei's heart warmed and said, "How can anyone make me angry?" If you don't feel good when you draw, you won't be able to do it well. They all paid for the paintings, and they definitely hope that I can paint better, so they definitely won't embarrass me. ”
If he hadn't been thinking about the food at home, he would have been left by the Lord's family to eat today!
Su Lu saw that Su Buwei was washing his hands without hurry, and his expression was not reluctant, so he also put his mind at ease.
He wanted to exercise his brother, but he didn't want to let his brother go out to be tortured, he wasn't so mad!
When it was time to eat, Wen Tong and Wang Anshi came.
Su Lu was very curious about what Wang Anshi looked like, and it was rare to go out to greet him actively.
Seeing the person Wen Tong led in from a distance, Su Lu was stunned for a moment, and was a little skeptical that Wen Tong was leading in Bao Zheng.
This person's face is dark, his eyes are quite sharp, and after looking at him, he will have a kind of panic of "I have been seen through by him" for no reason.
Now they are in Kaifeng, and what comes is a middle-aged man with a black face!
Look at the appearance of the person who came, this momentum, who is not Bao Zheng?
Su Xun was stunned, and Su Xun had already greeted him. He is one round older than Wang Anshi, although he has no official position, he is not too restrained, and the two exchanged their names and called Brother Fu and Brother Mingyun.
Su Lu listened to their conversation, and realized that this person was indeed Wang Anshi.
It's just that why does Wang Anshi look so dark?
This is not at all the same as the literary and political bigwigs he imagined!
Su Lu stared at Wang Anshi suspiciously, and Wang Anshi naturally noticed.
When he saw four boys, the youngest, he couldn't help asking, "Is this your nephew Su Lu?" ”
Su Lu blinked, he didn't expect his name to come out of Wang Anshi's mouth.
Su Shi's father and son are his relatives, and before he returned to Meishan, he had accepted such a family of relatives in his heart, and when he really saw people, he was only a little shocked at the beginning, and then he was able to get along with a normal heart.
Now such a big man in Chinese textbooks and history textbooks is standing in front of him, looking as if he has heard his name, which makes Su Lu realize once again that he is really in the Northern Song Dynasty, an era of cultural prosperity, wealth and prosperity in history.
The Wang Anshi in front of him once presided over the law change work, and he did not hesitate to be the enemy of the entire era, and successfully made the "Wang Anshi Law Change" named after him one more time in history.
It's just that from the difficulties that followed Jingkang, we can know that the change will inevitably not succeed, and all the efforts will eventually become chicken feathers.
It is undeniable that the old and new party rivalries during the reign of Shenzong were like a rolling torrent, engulfing everyone towards a not so good future.
Now he was standing in front of this torrent.
Wang Anshi, one of the leaders of this torrent, is now only in his thirties, and he is still very young in terms of age and mentality, and he has neither climbed to the top nor fallen off the trough, so at this time, he is like an ordinary civil official, and when he learns that someone he wants to make friends with has arrived in the capital, he is full of expectations to visit.
Su Lu straightened his waist rarely, and saluted Wang Anshi solemnly: "Yes, I am Su Lu, and I have seen Mr. Wang." ”
Wang Anshi saw that he behaved moderately, and he couldn't help but feel a little more fond of it. He remembered that his friend said in the letter that Zhang Fangping would rebuild Du Fu's thatched cottage and build an ancestral hall for Du Fu, or because of his student Su Fu's proposal.
It is said that at that time, Su Fu and his brothers were strolling along the banks of Huanhua Creek, and heard their brothers mention that Du Fu built a thatched cottage in Chengdu Mansion that year, and admired Du Fu's poems and others very much, and mentioned this matter to Zhang Fangping after returning.
This point is clearly written in Zhang Fangping's "Rebuilding the Thatched Cottage of the Du Gong Department"!
Children who like Du Fu will definitely not be far behind!
Both sides have a good impression of each other, Su Xun invited Wang Anshi to stay for dinner, and after the meal, they talked freely and exchanged each other's articles.
Since he came, Wang Anshi didn't shirk much, and called the old servants who accompanied him to go back to pass the word, and by the way, he brought over the article that Su Xun said he wanted to read.
Cultural people, meeting nature is to meet friends in writing.
When a guest came to the door, Yun Niang prepared two more dishes, and called King Kong to go out and buy ready-made meat to come back to entertain the guests.
The kitchen in the temple is not good for cooking meat, and no one cares about drinking and eating meat behind closed doors, as long as it doesn't go too far.
Turning to the dinner table, Wen Tong and the others were not so reserved, and they all sandwiched the vegetarian dishes made by Yun Niang, with a generous look of "I don't like to eat meat, let it be given to you".
Su Lu is not a picky eater, he eats everything. He glanced at Wang Anshi and found that Wang Anshi only clamped the braised meat in front of him, so he couldn't help but curiously follow a piece, stuffed it into his mouth and chewed it.
Ordinary and featureless!
But Wang Anshi still kept clipping.
Su Lu asked Wang Anshi curiously: "Do you like to eat braised pork very much?" ”
Wang Anshi didn't expect Su Zhen to care about what he ate, so he stopped and replied, "It's all good." ”
He doesn't care much about what he eats and wears, and he naturally eats which plate is closest to him.
Wen Tong then remembered that Wang Anshi had brought it himself, and also greeted: "The meat and vegetables are bought from outside, how can there be a delicious dish made by Brother Jiefu, Brother Jiefu, you can also taste it." ”
Wang Anshi couldn't refuse, so he raised his chopsticks and grabbed a piece of fried tofu.
As soon as the fried tofu was in his mouth, Wang Anshi noticed that this dish was not ordinary, and the taste was simply delicious.
He praised "It's really delicious", and then continued to solve the rest of the rice with the braised pork in front of him.
Wang Anshi behaved so calmly, he didn't plan to join the vegetable grabbing army at all, but he made Su Shi and them a lot of rules.
They are all such big people, they really shouldn't fight with chopsticks for a bite to eat.
Lose face!
After the meal, Su Xun and the others had to engage in candle night talks.
Su Lu listened to the side for a while, and began to faint.
These cultured people just bully him for being uneducated!
You guys are so awesome, can you memorize the periodic table? Do you write chemical reaction equations? Can you build cars, airplanes, and guns? You can't do it either!
Su Lu quietly withdrew from the second candlelight night talk activity.
He sneaked out and found his third brother standing in the courtyard looking up at the sky and the moon, with a handsome frown and a sad face.
"Third brother, what are you worried about?" Su Lu stepped forward in time to care for his brother.
Su Buwei sighed.
Is the problem so serious? Su Lu asked nervously: "Did you make a mistake today that all men in the world will make?" Which girl is it? Is it good-looking? Don't be a scumbag who turns your face and doesn't recognize people, you have to be responsible for what you do! After speaking, Su Lu added, "Of course, you must also pay attention to the screening traps, don't accidentally become the pick-up!" ”
Su Buwei was stunned when he heard this.
He hurriedly shook his head and said, "Where did you think of it?" ”
Su Lu said: "Then what are you worried about? ”
Su Buwei glanced at the room with a lamp not far away, and saw that the people inside would not come out for a while, so he told his brother about his discovery: "I found that Judge Wang didn't wash his face. ”
Wang Anshi served as the judge of the herdsmen, and Su Buwei called him the judge Wang.
Su Lu was silent for a while.
"If the dirt on his face is washed off, it can be used as ink."
Su Buwei honestly stated his observations.
"I look sick."
Su Lu recalled Wang Anshi's dark face.
Well, isn't it?