After coming out of Shen Qiongzhi's place, Tang Ning quipped to Du Shaoqing: "Brother Shaoqing, just now I found that Miss Shen looked at you with affection in her eyes, and the two of you talked about it so closely, anyway, she is considered to have never been married, so you can just marry her as Mrs. Ru!" ”

Du Shaoqing shook his head and said: "In that case, wouldn't it seem that I am the same as the salt merchant, and I have already said that I will not marry anyone else in this life." And if I have one more woman, will there not be one more man without a wife in this world? Why do such things? ”

Then the conversation turned and quipped: "Or Brother Fan, you will take her!" ”

Tang Ning is arguing for Du Shaoqing's sentence "If I take one more woman, wouldn't there be one more man without a wife in this world!" And ashamed of himself, now when he heard Du Shaoqing say this, he smiled bitterly and said, "Me? I'll forget it, I'm almost old enough to be Miss Shen's father, so I won't delay her good years. ”

Then he changed the topic and asked: "By the way, Brother Shaoqing, I heard that there is a strange person named Ji Yunian in Nanjing City, who writes well?" ”

Du Shaoqing nodded and replied: "That's right, there is such a person, but his temper is not very good." Someone once begged him to write with a large amount of silver, but he scolded him; And although he writes well, he refuses to follow the ancient law, and has always written his own style by his temperament, so if you want to see him, you must be mentally prepared! ”

"The so-called strange people and strange things have their own differences, if they follow the rules and are the same, then there is no need to see, and I am confident that he will be very enthusiastic about me." Tang Ning said confidently.

Although he can make money by selling words this season, he never saves money, and he spends all his money when he gets it, so he is homeless and unemployed, so he lives in the temple and eats with the monks every day, so Du Shaoqing took Tang Ning to the temple to find him.

As soon as they met, Tang Ning didn't say that he begged him to write, but asked him: "I heard that Mr. Ji is well-read, so I don't know if you have seen this kind of calligraphy?" As he spoke, he wrote two lines of words on the rice paper he brought: "Wen Bihan Gong can read and write, and poetry chases Lao Du Zhuan." ”

After this pair was written, not to mention Ji Yunian, who was obsessed with calligraphy, even Du Shaoqing on the side and the monks who had been trained in Ji Yunian's calligraphy for a long time were stunned on the spot, not only because Tang Ning's calligraphy was well written, but more importantly, he used an unprecedented penmanship.

After a few seconds, Ji Yunian raised his head and asked Tang Ning in surprise: "You, you are Wei Bei?" ”

"Yes, it was born from Wei Bei." Tang Ning nodded and replied.

At this time, Du Shaoqing, who was relieved, praised on the side: "It is indeed a Wei monument, but the character of Brother Fan is the most monumental writing I have ever seen, especially the structure and parallel lines of the length of this word, which really give people a feeling of architecture, which is completely different from the traditional Wei monument and Han monument." ”

Hearing this, Tang Ning couldn't help but secretly praise Du Shaoqing's vision, because his calligraphy imitated the famous Qing Dynasty artist Yi Bingshou. The Qing Dynasty belongs to the Zhongxing generation in the history of Chinese calligraphy, and the most significant achievement is to break through the cage of the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, and create the "stele science", and Yi Bingshou in the Qianlong period is one of the representatives, his calligraphy is a family of its own, unparalleled. This is why Tang Ning learned calligraphy skills from Kong Yiji, a late Qing literati, so he was talented

"Mr. Fan, can you give me this calligraphy, I can study it carefully." Ji Yunian's rare pleading.

"Of course you can, but you have to give me a pair of words!" Tang Ning replied with a smile.

"There's no problem with this, but I have to trouble Mr. Fan, you wait for me for two days, my writing habits are not very good." Ji Yunian replied embarrassedly.

Du Shaoqing laughed on the side: "It turns out that you also know that your writing habits are not good." ”

Then he turned his head and explained to Tang Ning: "This guy has at least three days to write a letter, and before writing, he must fast for a day, and then grind the ink for a day, and no one else is allowed to grind it for him, he must grind it himself; In the end, when he writes, he has to use someone else's broken pen, and three or four people have to brush the paper for him, and once he doesn't brush well, he will scold and beat, anyway, I never ask him to write. ”

Ji Yunian replied curtly: "Well, in fact, you don't need others to brush the paper, but the previous fasting and ink grinding are indispensable, because that is the stage of my figuration, otherwise the words are really not good." ”

As a former part-time network writer, Tang Ning can actually understand these quirks of Ji Yunian, in fact, most of these creative personnel have quirks, which may seem difficult to understand to outsiders, but this is actually a way for them to enter the creative state, take yourself as an example, if the page, font and even the icon of the input method are not familiar to you, then you can't calm down to write, and it is easy to be distracted by these places that make you feel awkward, this kind of distraction is not something you can not pay attention to if you want to.

So Tang Ning said very tolerantly: "It's okay, it just so happens that I still want to stay in Nanjing for a few more days, by the way, Brother Shaoqing, I heard that there is a strange person in Jingyuan in Nanjing, can you take me to get to know him?" ”

Du Shaoqing agreed: "No problem, speaking of which, this Jing Xian lives more freely than me." ”

This Jing Yuan is a tailor on the surface, but in addition to tailoring clothes every day, he also likes to play the piano and write, especially poetry, and he writes poems very well. Then someone asked him, "If you want to be a gentleman, why do you still do what you do?" Why are there different schools where people get along with each other? ”

Jing Yuan replied: "I don't want to be an elegant person, but only for a similar temperament, so I often learn at this time." As for our lowly business, it is left by our ancestors and fathers, can it be that we are literate and become tailors? Besides, those friends in school, they have other knowledge, how can they get along with us? And now I find six or seven cents of silver every day, and I have eaten enough, I want to play the harp, I want to write, and I have everything to do, and I do not covet the wealth of men, nor do I serve the color of men, and I do not accept the heavens, nor the earth, but I am not happy? ”

After going around in Nanjing for a few days, after getting Ji Yunian's words, Tang Ning said goodbye to a group of newly met friends and set off again, and finally came to the capital after trekking all the way through mountains and rivers.

PS: I watched "Late Night Book House" for a while last night, and I don't know why when I read it with this chapter, a good book of supernatural things actually made me laugh......