"Senior brother, I'm here to learn martial arts from you."

Shen Xi turned around and saw that it was Wang Lingzhi.

Wang Lingzhi was wearing a brand-new cyan power suit today, holding rice paper in his hand, and looked at him with a grin.

After Wang Lingzhi changed into new clothes, he was in a lot of spirits, the clothes were made of satin, a pair of thick riding boots were on his feet, the belt was tied tightly, and the short support outside seemed to be specially prepared for martial arts, which was very different from the previous outfit.

Shen Xi asked a little strangely, "Why did you change into such a body?" ”

Wang Lingzhi said proudly: "Senior brother, you also think it looks good, right?" Yesterday, my husband took the school exam for my studies, and I answered it fluently, and my father was happy to reward me, saying that if I study hard in the future, there will be good things. ”

Shen Xi secretly thought: "This kid only knows how to dance with guns and sticks on weekdays, but I didn't expect to tell him that he must read and write to study martial arts cheats, and he will be able to study seriously after he goes back...... The child's reading really needs to arouse his interest first! ”

At this time, Shen Xi was worried that there was no one to help, so he beckoned: "You have to study the martial arts taught to you two days ago, and help me get this today." ”

Wang Lingzhi asked in surprise, "Senior brother, do you think that my current cultivation has reached the realm where I need to cultivate 'mind'?" ”

"I think beautifully, I don't have anyone to help, do it quickly, otherwise I won't teach you new martial arts."

Wang Lingzhi pursed his lips when he heard this, but he still stepped forward to help.

Although Wang Lingzhi has a little temper as a young master, but in the end he is just a child, and no one in the Wang family plays with him on weekdays, and finally there is an existence of Shen Xi's age, who can not only play together but also learn "superior martial arts" from Shen Xi, so he gradually treats Shen Xi as a friend.

The two of them were busy for a long time to put the painting in order, and Shen Xi constantly adjusted the angle to the sun in order to speed up the speed of the painting.

Wang Lingzhi was a little surprised: "Senior brother, what are you painting when it's dark?" ”

Shen Xi sat next to the calligraphy and painting, holding a straw in his mouth, and spit out the grass stalk when he heard the words, and said, "Landscape painting, you don't understand." ”

Wang Lingzhi: "It turns out that this is a landscape painting, it doesn't look like a landscape at all, this black paint is like piece by piece, and the pavilion painted on it is quite interesting." ”

Shen Xi saw Wang Lingzhi touching it with his hand, and immediately scolded: "Don't touch it, if it is broken, I will have to do it again." And the tub underneath you don't touch either, or you'll burn your hands. ”

Wang Lingzhi was taken aback, and said stiffly: "I'm not that stupid...... Hehe, senior brother, since you worked hard to draw a picture, why do you smoke it well? ”

Shen Xi naturally couldn't explain to Wang Lingzhi why calligraphy and painting should be old, so he could only say vaguely: "This is a very profound martial art, and it is not yet time for you to learn, I will teach you the basic skills when you practice the basic skills for a while." ”

Wang Lingzhi said happily: "Senior brother, you have to count when you speak, now that I have learned a lot of fourth-level martial arts, you will teach me more clever moves in a few days...... Yesterday I had a fight with a kid I didn't know at the door, and I kicked him down with a side kick, and the martial arts you taught me really worked, senior brother. ”

Shen Xi couldn't help coughing when he heard this, and his face was slightly hot...... This kid really got into a fight with the "martial arts" he was taught, and I don't know which unlucky guy was kicked. Shen Xi stiffened his face: "The master said that my generation learned martial arts in order to hoe the strong and help the weak, and to be chivalrous, and not to bully the weak...... If you bully people again, I won't recognize you as a junior brother. ”

Wang Lingzhi hurriedly said: "Don't be senior brother, I have only learned a little bit to become so powerful, presumably the third-level and second-level martial arts are even more amazing, not to mention the top-level ones." Okay, it's a big deal I promised you not to do it in the future, but what if they hit me? ”

"Then you can fight back in the name of righteousness, and come without being rude. He punches you, and you kick him back ten. ”

Wang Lingzhi nodded busily, flattering in his mouth: "Senior brother Gao Jian." ”

At noon, Shen Xi taught Wang Lingzhi to take a horse, emphasizing that he must stand firm in order to practice martial arts well, although Wang Lingzhi felt bored, but he heard that it was related to whether he could practice superior martial arts, so he gritted his teeth and insisted, and then he left and went home to study by himself.

Shen Xi continued to fiddle with his fake paintings, and when the sun went down, the first painting had been smoked into a finished product, and he picked it up and observed it carefully, very satisfied. Shen Xi's level of imitating Wang Meng's landscape paintings can be said to be perfect, and there is a history at a glance on the paper, it is estimated that even Wang Meng himself may not be able to tell whether this painting was made by him or not.

At this time, Shen Xi had a fake in his hand that was not inferior to the original, and the biggest problem was that there was no way to turn the painting into silver. He is a little kid who goes out to sell precious calligraphy and paintings, and whoever believes that it is true is a ghost.

At dusk, Zhou took Lin Dai back, Shen Xi didn't mention that he didn't go to class, and asked about the new words he learned, Shen Xi wrote a few casually, all of them were clear-eyed, and Zhou went to cook with relief.

The next day, Shen Xi still didn't go to the school. He was going to take a walk around the city and study the situation of the antique market in Ninghua County.

The county is prosperous, the pedestrians are bustling, but most of the stalls and shops on the street are daily necessities, Ninghua is located in the inland of Fujian, eight mountains and half water, half a field, half a road and a village, the output is extremely limited throughout the year, how many people have spare money to buy calligraphy and painting to fill the scene?

But in the end, Shen Xi really found a calligraphy and painting shop, but looking at the simple face, it didn't look like a big business at all.

Just when Shen Xi was about to go home, the street suddenly became lively, and a crowd of people rushed towards the north of the city. Shen Xi followed the pedestrians with curiosity, and when he arrived at the north gate, he learned that Langzhong of the Ministry of Works, who was originally from Beijing, had arrived in Ninghua County.

Shen Xi saw the figure of Master Xia from the officials who greeted him, but he was haunted by the bellows of the day, and for these bureaucrats who liked to make a noise, Shen Xi decided to stay away as much as possible before they achieved fame.

On the way back, some people got together, and it turned out that the county government released a list of texts, saying that they would collect scripts for southern opera, rehearse new plays, and give them to the Ministry of Industry Langzhong Lin Zhongye at the reception banquet.

With the Ming Dynasty Chengping for a long time, drama has made great progress, and the main popular in this era is the "Southern Miscellaneous Opera" sung with southern music, commonly known as Southern Opera, to distinguish it from the "Northern Miscellaneous Opera" that flourished in the Yuan Dynasty.

Shen Xi doesn't know much about Southern Opera, even if he is a professional archaeologist, he doesn't have the energy to dabble too much in things that he doesn't like. In his opinion, Southern Opera should be a way of interpreting opera that circulated in the local area before the formation of major operas in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and it is not clear that Southern Opera at this time had the lofty status of "national opera" of Peking Opera in later generations.

Shen Xi squeezed to the bulletin board and looked at it, and the list said that Han County Ling specially invited the Southern Opera Troupe from Tingzhou Fucheng, and now he wants to find a storyteller in Ninghua County to write a play, and if there is a good writing, there will be a reward.

This list of Wen Shen Xi has a problem at first glance.

Thinking that Gongbu Langzhong, although he is not a dignitary in Beijing, at least he often goes to the Jiaofang Division, Qinglou and other venues and the homes of the powerful, and he has naturally heard countless operas.

It may be that Han County Lingdi heard that Lin Zhongye and Lin Langzhong liked to listen to the play, so he did not hesitate to spend money to invite him from the Fucheng Trick Team, but when he asked, he knew that the repertoire of the drama team would be mediocre, and it was a little difficult to impress Lin Zhongye, so he had to find someone to write the play.

Just when Shen Xi was pondering whether he was able to earn this reward, a middle-aged man said: "If you want to say that this thing is strange, how many storytellers do you say there are in our county?" It's nothing more than the people in the south of the city, the north of the city and the teahouse by the river, all they are talking about are old books, let them write drama books, it is better to bury them directly in the coffin. ”

The people around laughed.

At this time, most people like to join in the fun, but whenever there is anything in the government, they like to get together and have a hot discussion. It is also the lack of entertainment activities in this era, casual workers on weekdays or cool in summer, always looking for a conversation, if you don't have a person to talk to, it's really hard to talk to someone.

Shen Xi felt that this was a good way to get money quickly, so after returning home, he immediately started to write a script, which was much simpler than making a fake, as long as there was a pen and paper.

Shen Xi pondered that it was best to take the scripts formed by later generations, such as "The Drunken Concubine" and "Qin Qiong Selling Horses", which have both historical allusions and mass foundations, plus classic lyrics, and a little modification can become a very good script.

It's a pity that Shen Xi can recite no opera, he originally wanted to feel the cultural atmosphere when he listened to the opera, where did he want to memorize the lyrics of the opera?

After thinking about it, Shen Xi found two familiar operas, one is "The Female Concubine" and the other is "Shiro Visits the Mother", mainly considering the inheritance of historical romance, many stories will not gradually spread until the late Ming Dynasty, and it is a bit risky to become a drama before romance.

But Shen Xi is a little unsure whether there is a romance book formed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty for "Shilang Visiting Mother" from "Yang Jiajiang", so he can only write it head-on, because the government has a tight time to collect drama scripts, after all, Lin Zhongye has already arrived in Ninghua County, and the reception banquet can't be delayed for a few days.