Chapter 38: The Amorous Woman (9)

It's no wonder that Ma Tan, although he transformed into Ma Youchang in his dream, after all, he is in a different era, his cognition of things is different, and his thoughts and concepts are even more different, and it is inevitable that there will be deviations in his understanding!

If it were in the era of Ma Tan, the peasants did not grow grain, the workers did not work, and they all wanted to do business and be servants to please people, it would have been impossible!

After all, at that time, there was a serious shortage of products, and I couldn't eat enough, even if I was a business wizard, I had to have commodities!

If you also want those who expect others to reward their lives, you have to be careful to look at other people's faces, otherwise it will be difficult to make a living!

Therefore, emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce was the national policy of successive dynasties. As for Ma Tan's ability to learn to sketch in a dream, it is also the result of the era in the dream valuing the servant.

In the dream, the cultivation of children is also fiercely competitive, if anyone's child does not learn a talent, it seems to be called "losing at the starting line!" ”

Of course, Ma Jian disagrees with their point of view, but he can't bear to disappoint Ma Youchang's parents in the dream.

I heard that Zhao Pingping, the beautiful little girl in the village, studied painting, and Ma Youchang reluctantly chose the talent of painting.

He is not very interested in oil painting or anything, but he still puts a lot of effort into sketching, especially charcoal painting, and he quickly learns to do it, and the level is not bad.

When he was in elementary school, Ma Youchang participated in a painting competition, and he painted a portrait of a person, and he once won the first prize in the county.

If it weren't for Ma Youchang's resolute opposition, his parents in his dream almost let him study painting professionally and take the art exam, in that era, art was the best career!

Although Ma Tan agreed to paint a portrait of Sha Dong, because he still needed to prepare, and he was a little afraid of Sha Dong's brutality, he deliberately avoided it, but since he agreed, it was naturally difficult to break his promise.

At this time, he had been preparing the carbon strips for painting, although now the powerful families began to use paper to paint, but the Xiongxi tribe did not have paper, and Ma Jian himself did not have it, so he could only use a piece of white silk one foot square to make a canvas.

These carbon strips are made by Ma Tan himself to the river to pick thumb-thick wicker and fire them by hand, which is a good sketching tool, and the white silk is also a good Shu brocade.

Ma Yan's own brocade silk has already been written by him as a book in the sky, and this piece of white silk is still soft and hard for him, and he asked for it from his brother Ma Liang.

It's been a long time, and when I think of my brother Ma Liang taking out the brocade and cutting off a piece of it, and the painful expression of the flesh, Ma Jian still can't help but laugh.

When Ma Tan saw that Sha Qiu and Sha Dong had come over, he hurriedly brought a stool, asked them to sit down first, and poured tea.

After settling Shaqiu, he began to prepare to paint a portrait of Sha Dong.

Because it is a black and white portrait, the grasp of the brightness and darkness of the light is the key, Ma Tan set up a stool under the bright window, and let Sha Dong sit in a posture and not move.

Ma Tan himself ran out of the window, kept staring at Sha Dong, and kept changing his posture and direction to observe, seeing Sha Dong's shyness.

It stands to reason that in order to paint a portrait of a person, it is necessary to sketch the outline while observing.

However, because Ma Tan was painting on an improvised basis after all, he did not have special painting clips and other painting tools, nor did he have any superfluous Bai Juan, and there could be no mistakes and alterations, so he did not start painting at that time.

Ma Jian observed for more than half an hour, and Sha Dong was a little unbearable because he had kept one posture for a long time.

Ma Jian let Sha Dong rest for a while, and he himself returned to the table, picked up the carbon bar, moved the pen like flying, spread out the white silk, and sketched the outline of Sha Dong's appearance in his mind.

Then Ma Jian asked Sha Dong to change several sitting postures, and it took nearly two hours to paint the portrait almost completely.

Sha Qiu on the side, when she saw Ma Tan painting with carbon strips, her eyes widened, and today she can be regarded as an eye-opener!

Sha Qiu has also read books and can also paint with a brush, but her sketches of flowers, birds, trees and the like are acceptable, but it is difficult to draw portraits.

And the portrait drawn by Ma Tan with carbon strips is vivid with Sha Dong himself, and you can see who is in the painting at a glance.

What surprised Sha Qiu even more was that the bust of Sha Dong on the white silk was not only similar in size to a real person, but also the face and hairstyle were the same, and even a small red mole at the corner of Sha Dong's eyes was delicately exposed.

Looking at this beautiful portrait, Sha Dong looked proud, and Sha Qiu's face was full of surprise, but Ma Jian was still not satisfied!

Until dinner, Ma Jian was still using a thin strip of carbon to make artistic processing for the portrait, and finally, he painted Sha Dong's eyes alive, and that mischievous look was the same as the real one.

Shamoko and Ma Liang returned, and they were also very surprised to see Ma Tan's portrait so expressive!

Especially Ma Liang, he couldn't figure it out, he had never seen Ma Yan's portrait painting!

In the past, although Ma Tan was smart and clever, because he was the youngest son in the family, he was favored by his family, and he was the most fearful of doing things.

In terms of painting, Ma Tan's talent was also good, but because he didn't work too hard and didn't copy much, he still couldn't get his hands on his paintings.

Today, Ma Jian suddenly painted such an excellent portrait, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the best portrait Ma Liang has ever seen, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he really couldn't believe it!

Shamoko asked his subordinates to set up the banquet as usual, because he did not treat the Ma Tan brothers as outsiders, so he left his two younger sisters to eat together.

Ma Liang came back early today, because the matter of the Barbarian Palace's Mansion has come to an end, and Ma Liang is also ready to go back.

Ma Liang and Ma Jian came to Shajiazhai for a long time, from the injury to the barbarian king dispute, it has been almost two months, and the New Year is approaching in a blink of an eye, and the subject brothers naturally want to rush home for the New Year.

In the winter of Wuling Mountain, there is often heavy snowfall, and occasionally heavy snow covers the mountain, Ma Liang does not dare to go too late, and it will be miserable when he encounters a snowstorm.

After returning home, Ma Liang can't be abandoned because of his studies, and he won't come back for the time being, he needs to sort out those copywriting, charters, etc., and hand them over to someone else to manage.

But because there are few literate people in the barbarians, in order to manage the copywriter of the Barbarian Palace, it must be a trustworthy person, Shamoke couldn't find a suitable person to take over for a while, and he was also a little anxious.

Sha Qiu saw the embarrassment of her eldest brother, and with only a few words, she found out the inside story, and as soon as her heart moved, she volunteered to take over these copywriting.

Hearing that her sister was willing to help, Shamoke was a little surprised, because although her sister is a trustworthy person and very capable, her age is not young, and it won't be long before she gets married, and it is not a long-term solution!