Bai Qichang and Wu Tong were waiting in the front hall, and Wu Tong asked with a smile: "Brother Bai, it seems that the son-in-law of the Chen Mansion is not good." He raised his eyebrows again, and continued: "Miss Chen's husband is even more difficult to do." ”

Bai Qichang snorted lightly, put down the teacup, and replied, "I, Bai Qichang, have never encountered anything difficult to do. ”

Wu Tongwu smiled to himself and said, "Brother Bai can do things that ordinary people can't do, and Wu believes this." ”

Bai Qichang was smiling, and he didn't care about Old Man Chen's delay in seeing him.

If it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that he would have been in a hurry for a long time, but Bai Qichang only recognized one point, that is, he had a marriage certificate, Chen Chun was his husband, and this marriage was facilitated by him, so today's wait is just to give himself a dismissal.

Bai Qichang is a humble gentleman and an extremely smart person, and he has been prepared for this, so he has that strange painting made in advance.

Sure enough, after a short while, the old housekeeper of the Chen Mansion slowly came to the front hall.

The old man, as always humble and enthusiastic, entered the door with his robe, and arched his hand towards Bai Qichang and Wu Tong, but before he could speak, he had a smile on his face.

"Bai Gongzi, Wu Gongzi."

Bai Qichang and the others hurriedly got up to salute back, and then asked, "Steward Fu." ”

Wu Tong laughed and said, "Haha, Steward Fu, are you here to invite my white brother?" ”

The old man smiled and said, "Wu Gongzi is really clever. Ha ha. Then he said to Bai Qichang: "The master is waiting for Bai Gongzi in the back hall." ”

Bai Qichang raised his hand and said, "Please lead the way with Steward Fu." ”

The old man also stretched out his hand, made a "please" posture, and walked in front.

Speaking of which, Bai Qichang in the back hall of the Chen Mansion also came several times, but every time Chen Chun, who had finished teaching, came back to rest, and there were only one or two times when he really entered the back hall.

The old man took Bai Qichang to the door and stopped walking, and reported: "Master, Bai Gongzi has arrived." ”

After a pause, Chen Chun's reply came from the door: "Qichang come in." ”

When the old man heard this, he opened the door for Bai Qichang, Bai Qichang took a deep breath and entered the door with his robe.

The sunlight shone into the door from behind, and the room lit up briefly for a moment, and after Bai Qichang entered the door, the door closed, and the room fell into darkness again.

Chen Chunzheng was sitting and said, "Sit down." ”

The doors and windows in the room were closed, and there was no light, and although it was blue and white outside, the light in the room was not good.

Bai Qichang sat down as he said and arched his hand: "Teacher." ”

Chen Chun didn't look at him, but just said, "Qichang is seventeen years old this year, right?" ”

Bai Qichang arched his hand and said, "Yes, the disciple is seventeen years old." ”

Chen Chun smiled and said: "I have also come from your age, I have experienced a lot of ups and downs in life, and you are just like me yesterday." ”

Bai Qichang didn't know why Chen Chun wanted to say this, but when he was easing the embarrassment, he was a little embarrassed. The person in front of him is his husband, and his own painting is indeed a little excessive.

He responded, smiled slightly, and said, "Sir wants to tell your disciple about his youth?" ”

Chen Chun smiled and said, "I'm afraid you don't want to listen." ”

Bai Qichang pushed his hand and said: "The former is wise, how can the next life not want to listen?" Tell me about it, sir. ”

Chen Chun looked into the air, only to see a ray of light shining in through the crack in the door, casting a dappled light on the ground. He looked at the light with a little excitement.

Such a gaze, like a teenager.

"I was born in the prosperous area of Suzhou, my family is still good, since I was a child, I learned from my brothers and sisters to Tao Ran landscape, I never seek progress, I only think about day after day, and I have to get by."

He seemed to be back to his youthful appearance, in that day when it was drizzling.

"That day, the brothers who were familiar with the clan went to play outside the city, and when the mountain rain was coming, we went to the pavilion on the mountainside to hide from the rain. Who knows, as soon as I entered the small pavilion, I saw a young scholar. This man is very strange. Chen Chun's tone was raised, and his eyebrows and eyes smiled unconsciously.

Bai Qichang smiled and asked, "What's the blame?" ”

Chen Chun said: "It's raining outside, but he is not embarrassed at all, when he sees us entering, he just looks at us with a smile, and then faces the outside of the pavilion, and he is self-drumming." After a while, I saw him spread the paper on the ground, and he was lying on the ground, looking at the mountain rain outside the pavilion, while painting, you say it's not strange. ”

Bai Qichang smiled, nodded and said, "It's weird." ”

There are many reasons why this person is strange, such as, if you want to paint, there are many particulars in the selection of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, even if you don't know how to paint, you must also know these so-called "exquisite".

There are three types of pens: hard, soft, and somewhere in between.

The hard pen is mainly made of wolf hair, and there are also pens made of badger, mink, rat hair or pig bristles, which are rigid and strong. Commonly used are "small red hair", "clothing pattern pen", "leaf tendon pen", "calligraphy and painting brush" (large, medium, small), "orchid bamboo" (large, medium, small), and large "wolf brush" and so on.

The soft pen is mainly made of sheep's hair, but also made of bird feathers, which is soft in nature and has various models of size and length. The pen is made with the matching of sheep hair and wolf hair, or sheep hair and rabbit hair, and the nature is between rigidity and softness, which is neutral. For example, large, medium and small "white cloud pen", "seven purple three sheep", "five purple five sheep" and so on are commonly used and milli pens.

Beginners don't have to be too particular about the pen, but at least prepare a few large, medium and small branches, and the flexible use of the pen is very helpful for the foundation of painting.

Generally, when going out to paint, everyone will prepare a small curtain made of fine bamboo wire, which is called a pen curtain. It is used to roll the pen in the pen curtain, which is easy to carry and can protect the bristles from damage.

Speaking of ink, there are two kinds of ink: "oil smoke" and "pine smoke".

The painting is made with soot ink. The so-called oil smoke ink is made from the smoke burned with tung oil. Pine smoke ink is ink made by burning tobacco from pine branches. The oil smoke ink is shiny in color and is suitable for painting, while the pine smoke ink is black and dull, suitable for writing, and is not commonly used for painting.

Occasionally, butterflies are painted with pine smoke ink, or as a dark purple base color. For example, to paint a purple peony, you must first use pine smoke ink to lay the foundation.

Ink grinding should be done with water, and it should be pressed and pushed lightly when grinding, not too fast.

The grinding circle is larger. If you need more ink, you can pour the ground ink into another bowl and store it, and then add water to grind it several times.

After grinding the ink ingot, be sure to dry the ink mouth to prevent dry breakage. It is best to wrap a layer of ink with paper and apply a layer of wax to prevent breakage and avoid staining hands.

With only two kinds of brush and ink, there is so much exquisiteness, so if the painter wants to go out to sketch, he has to prepare too much.

The strange thing about this person who paints on the ground is that he is too casual, which makes people suspicious.