Chapter Seventy-Five: The Great Shopkeeper of the Book of Calligraphy and Painting
The three cabinets of the "Calligraphy and Painting Dictionary" wanted to scold again, but they didn't expect the scholar to ignore the elegance, pounce on him and hug his legs, and his body was unstable and fell to the ground for a while. A few buddies and martial artists are busy walking out of the pawnshop, and the pawnshop will be equipped with a few strong martial artists in addition to ordinary guys, in addition to guarding the store to prevent lawbreakers from coming to rob, there is also that if someone is a very valuable thing, these martial artists can also escort the silver two.
At this moment, the three cabinets fell to the ground, and screamed in their mouths, the scholar cried and the three cabinets were panicked for a while, and there were more and more onlookers, and the three cabinets shouted at the guys and the martial artist: "What are you doing in a daze, quickly drive him away." "Those few people hurriedly stepped forward to pull the scholar, but where was the scholar willing to leave, the martial artists were mostly rough people, and when they saw that this scholar was playing with Lai's fist, he was going to fight." Stop it! Two shouts rang out, and the two of them walked out of the crowd inside and outside the store, stopping the martial artist's imminent fist in unison.
Lu Yunzhi shouted "stop" and strolled out of the crowd, originally the three cabinets wanted the martial artists to drive them away, but when they saw Lu Yunzhi's instrument Yuxuan raised his eyebrows with a bit of extraordinary energy, he didn't dare to make a mistake and stopped talking. There was also a man in the shop, who was dressed in long sleeves, tall and thin like a bamboo pole, holding a large abacus in his hand, and a pair of small glasses on the bridge of his nose, framed with tortoiseshell legs made of brass, and tied behind his legs with a cow tendon rope to tie the silver mirror behind his head. Lu Yunzhi had never seen glasses, and he only saw them with Fang Qingze some time ago when he was bartering with Timur, and he only knew what this was after Fang Qingze's explanation, and he felt amazing at the time, so he paid attention to it.
The man walked out and looked Lu Yunzhi up and down, and there were several people standing behind him. When Lu Yunzhi was watching, he had already observed the plaque and flag in this store, and there was no mark that Fang Qingze's shop was used to, so he didn't step forward to be polite, but just smiled and arched his hand. The man shook the cards in his hand slightly, and then walked over with a shock to his body, and arched his hand at Lu Yunzhi. The people around were all talking, some pointed to Lu Yunzhi and said that he was going to get into trouble, and some were talking about what was on the eyes of the person in the store.
As soon as the third cabinet saw the man walk out, he hurriedly broke free from the scholar who was still holding him, and said: "The big shopkeeper, this rotten Confucian he wrote a bunch of broken words by himself, I said that he was not happy to buy him by the pound, and if I didn't give it to him at a high price, you see, ......" The crowd exchanged ears again, and after listening to the words of the three cabinets, they knew that the person who walked out was the big shopkeeper of this calligraphy and painting dictionary.
The big shopkeeper stretched out his hand to stop the words of the three cabinets, walked to Lu Yunzhi's side and arched his hand and said, "In Xia Dongde, dare to ask Mr. Gao's name." Lu Yunzhi also clenched his fists and replied: "Don't dare, don't dare, the contemptible surname is Lu." Dong De saw that Lu Yunzhi was reluctant to give his full name, so he didn't chase after him, but continued: "It turned out to be Mr. Lu, I have been looking up for a long time, what happened when Mr. stopped shouting just now?" "Just a fair." Lu Yunzhi replied indifferently.
Dong De turned to look at the three cabinets, what else did the three cabinets say, but Dong De scolded angrily: "You guy, I came to check the accounts today and encountered such a thing, and I don't know how you treat guests on weekdays." As he spoke, he went to help the scholar, and when the scholar saw that someone was finally in charge, and he was also the shopkeeper of this store, he couldn't help but tremble with excitement, and couldn't help but suddenly fall to his knees.
"No, if you have something to say, you will worship your parents, won't you want to torment me if you worship like this." Dong De said politely, and with a kind face, he hurriedly stretched out his hand and supported the scholar vigorously, "Come, take out your words and let me see them." Dong De continued. The scholar stood up and thanked him, and also recovered a little bit of the temperament that a literati should have, and then took out the scroll and opened it, Dong De held the paper and looked at it, Lu Yunzhi also looked at the word, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. The scholar said with grievances: "This paper, ink, pen and inkstone are all left by the older generation, and the family once told me that as long as I practice well, one day I can use these things to write priceless words and draw paintings that shock the .......world."
Dong De nodded while listening, and the scholar looked more energetic and wanted to say something, but he saw Dong De roll up the letter, handed it back to the scholar and said, "Your handwriting is ....." "How is it, how much is it worth?" The scholar asked with concern. Dong De sighed and replied, "I'm sorry, these words are worthless." The scholar sat down on the ground with a sad and angry voice, and Dong De squatted down with concern and asked, "Are you okay, brother." ”
"What should I do, the family has run out of food, the scholar is worthless, the scholar is useless." The scholar wept sadly, and Dong De took out a silver ingot from his arms, which was more than thirty taels. It seems that Dong De has a lot of money on him, and he is still so thin in his arms, I really can't imagine what his body will look like after he puts these things down.
The scholar saw that Yinzi's eyes were straight, but when he saw the group of martial artists behind Dong De who were still eyeing him, he didn't dare to snatch it up. Dong De said softly: "Don't be afraid, I don't have any other habits, I like to write with old paper and old pens." Since you said that these are all paper, ink, pen and inkstone handed down by your ancestors, they are not worth a few dollars, but for the sake of you being a scholar, this money is for you, can you give me these four treasures of the study. ”
The scholar sat on the ground and nodded in disbelief, opened the painting box he was carrying, and said excitedly: "You are such a good person, I really don't know how to thank you." These things have been given to you, but there are not many pieces of paper left for painting, you....? "It's okay." Dong De said and handed over the silver, and was about to reach out for the painting box.
At this time, Lu Yunzhi snorted coldly and said, "Wait." The scholar's hand hadn't caught the silver yet, but he was startled by Lu Yunzhi's shout, and it took him a long time to react. The scholar stood up, pointed at Lu Yunzhi and scolded: "Who are you, do you want to say that you have older paper and pens at home, and you want to rob me of my money, seeing that your temperament is not bad, I didn't expect it to be this face, it is really the world's style and people's hearts are not ancient!" The scholar scolded vigorously, completely forgetting that Lu Yunzhi had just stopped the martial artist from beating him.
Lu Yunzhi sighed, looked at the scholar and then at Dong De, turned around and showed an imperceptible smile on the corner of his mouth, but said lightly: "Profiteer." With that, he turned around and walked away.
Dong De is not a bright ear, although the voice is not loud, but the people present can hear it clearly, so he hurriedly shouted: "Brother Tai, please stay, Mr. Lu, I respect you, but you insult me, don't think about leaving." As soon as the words fell, the martial artists immediately surrounded Lu Yunzhi as soon as they heard the big shopkeeper's words.
Lu Yunzhi turned around and said unhurriedly: "Do you want to do it?" Why bother? What is the reason why the shopkeeper Dong keeps me? Dong De sneered twice, wanting to get close to Lu Yunzhi, but he didn't dare to seem to be afraid of him, so he had to stand in place and say: "I will return the words you said just now to you, I just want justice." ”