Chapter 255: Help

Feng Tao's expression changed with Ye Tao's words, and in the end, he felt that Ye Tao's statement still made some sense. After thinking about it carefully, Feng Hao said, "My lord, you can leave this matter to me." It is impossible to directly use such a reason on the official face, it is the face of both sides at the same time. Or I'll do it, hinting at someone who is high enough, or a key subordinate of someone who is high enough, and the word will naturally be passed on. My lord, you should be casual these days, and you don't have to take all kinds of things too seriously. Although all kinds of drinking and feasting and garden tours and the like, I know that I have never liked adults, but there are some places where I still have to give some face. Moreover, it seems that some banquets are still a bit interesting. Chunnan is hospitable, at least some are delicious and some are delicious, my lord, you are usually used to being simple, people are willing to be extravagant, so enjoy it, right? ”

If those officials in Chunnan and the members of those big families heard Feng Hao talking to Ye Tao like this, they would probably be so surprised that their jaws dropped. Feng Wei smiled and grinned, but he didn't give Ye Tao face. In fact, everyone is very familiar with this casual way of saying jokes.

"Okay." Ye Tao replied with a smile: "I'm relieved that you come to do this." I'm not going to agree to send troops anyway. But in other aspects, you might as well agree to more. It is indeed inconvenient for us to send troops to cooperate with Chunnan, but if Chunnan can raise troops to attack Xiling, if we can kill and injure Xiling's army in large numbers, it will be a good thing. Chunnan has some understanding of my Dongping's technical system, and the last time I talked to Chen Xujing, I found out that those ideas on how to make those ballistas, catapults, fire oil bombs and the like work, can be regarded as having their own reason. Although Chunnan's infantry is relatively outdated in terms of equipment and training methods, its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. Chen Xujing and some other officers and generals in Chunnan have a very good level. The guys in the Intelligence Agency seemed a little less objective. …… In general, once the war starts, it is very likely that Chunnan and Xiling will become a lose-lose situation. ”

"So, sir." Feng Hao pursed his lips and said, "Actually, there is another situation to consider. Chunnan's deception and concealment are very well done. We in Dongping successively sold so many weapons, large ordnance, so many fire oil bombs and other things to Dongping, and also successively sent many officers to assist Chunnan. The cooperation is very close, and I know a lot about the dynamics of the Chunnan military, but I only got some rumors that Chunnan wants to attack Xiling, and the hard work of Chunnan this time can be imagined. …… If it was on the eve of Chunnan's attack. What about a little bit of it? ”

Ye Tao shrugged his shoulders uncertainly, and said, "Let's talk about it then, no matter how fast it is, it will be next year." ”

After discussing with Feng Hao a little, Ye Tao was also relieved. Although Feng Hao has always been lazy, when he really promised something, he handled it properly. Now, all Ye Tao can do is wait for Feng Tao to convey his meaning. The reaction of the other party, and the meeting of Nanami Trading Company in a few days. That night, when Dai Qiuyan mentioned that the next day there happened to be a gathering of a certain painting club held by Da Yan Gong in the villa by the sea, Song Xiangjun and others would go. After getting along several times, Dai Qiuyan and Song Xiangjun and others got along really well. Song Xiangjun, who is known as the first beauty in the world, does not have any arrogance. That kind of calm and gentle, but full of curiosity about many things, makes it easy to talk to her. Dai Qiuyan easily became friends with her. And Dai Qiuyan has another problem, that is, she thinks she can't draw Song Xiangjun well.

Truly. In terms of pure painting skills, Dai Qiuyan, who has been pondering this aspect all day long, has now surpassed Ye Tao a lot, but when she encounters such a creative problem, she still naturally turns to Ye Tao for help. Not only because of her inner affection for Ye Tao, but also because she can always get answers. Ye Tao may not have surpassed her brush, but Ye Tao has an artistic creation idea that surpasses her for I don't know how many years. When she saw that Ye Tao's tone was a little relaxed, Dai Qiuyan immediately begged Ye Tao to attend tomorrow's art club activities, and by the way, she went to see how to make that portrait for Song Xiangjun. And Ye Tao. He shrugged his shoulders and agreed. Isn't it just to look at beautiful women, what a good thing.

The villa is located on the top of the hill just behind the willow embankment. Due to its high location, it has a panoramic view of the entire harbor and the harbor, which is indeed a very good viewing spot. No one thought that Ye Tao would come like this without any notice. He set up a table and chairs on the terrace by the sea, made a good pot of tea and sat like that. I didn't expect Ye Tao to be like this without prior notice, it seemed that there was no destination just like this, and at the same time, the people attending the meeting came up to say hello, and Ye Tao was so indifferent. Respond politely. But I don't talk much to people I don't know well. Ye Tao came here just to accompany Dai Qiuyan. By the way, come to see the beauties and the beautiful scenery, I was not going to add luster to such a calligraphy and painting exchange activity, but Ye Tao would not put up any shelves or do anything to cool off.

"Brother Ye......" Just when Ye Tao and Liu Yong were chatting about different types of merchant ships and warships in the port, commenting on the advantages and disadvantages of various warships, Dai Qiuyan suddenly ran over and asked, "Brother Ye, they asked me to paint a seascape, can I help?" ”

There were many people quietly behind Dai Qiuyan, and when they heard Dai Qiuyan's request, many people were in a cold sweat. Although many people know that Dai Qiuyan's earliest artistic enlightenment was carried out by Ye Tao, Ye Tao never seems to have any works circulated, which is very different from Dai Qiuyan. And Ye Tao's current identity, to help Dai Qiuyan? Chunnan people also know that in Dongping, the status of women is much higher than in Chunnan. This time, in the mission sent by Dongping to Chunnan, there were people like Tan Weiying who could call the shots, and even in Dongping, especially in Yunzhou, female officials began to appear one after another. However, the status of women is one thing, but it is obvious that it is very unexpected for a young and powerful minister to paint his wife.

But Ye Tao just shrugged his shoulders easily, and took Dai Qiuyan's hand to the terrace on the other side. It turned out that at today's calligraphy and painting meeting, there were really a lot of wonderful works that were brought out. And today, Dai Qiuyan, who was mixed into this kind of confrontation between students from the two countries for the first time, was unconsciously driven by the atmosphere, and simply and directly, she pointed out the shortcomings of several seascape works with her own judgment. In this way, Dongping students certainly have face. But he also put himself in the position of being attacked.

Dai Qiuyan is indeed very simple, when someone suggested that she paint a work on the spot, she didn't even think much about it and said: "Okay." Then she generously asked, "What type of painting can you make?" ”

What type? Dai Qiuyan has already produced several oil paintings, pencil pastels, gouaches, watercolors, drawings, and ink paintings. In this kind of activity, where there are mostly scribes, facing an amiable and lovely young woman like Dai Qiuyan, or Ye Tao's wife, naturally no one dares to pick the type that Dai Qiuyan is not good at, but everyone really doesn't know what Dai Qiuyan is good at. Dai Qiuyan's simple rhetorical question actually caused an instant cold effect.

Dai Qiuyan still looked at the scene by herself, and she understood very well that the realistic painting method was too time-consuming. And if she paints ink and can't fully show the scenery she wants to paint, she says to make a color ink herself. However, Dai Qiuyan still felt ...... This kind of direct on-site painting with color ink, according to her extremely picky temperament of the pair of colors, I am afraid that a painting will take more than two hours, and at least half of it is spent on color adjustment. This time they came to Yuhang, and they really didn't bring the maid who was used to cooperating with Dai Qiuyan...... Able to do the grading. That is, Ye Tao.

In the scorching eyes around him, Ye Tao was very calm. After chatting with Dai Qiuyan for a little about the desired effect, he began to work skillfully. Suddenly, Ye Tao replaced Dai Qiuyan and became everyone's focus. And doing this kind of work as a scholar and maid, Ye Tao not only did not feel the slightest embarrassment. On the contrary, there is a sense of professionalism in every gesture.

commanded the two guards to put together two tables, and checked the stability according to the habit that everyone in the Ye Workshop had begun to obsess; Take out the largest piece of felt from the painting box, brush it open, and spread it flat; A series of painting tools are placed on the table, and the most precious of them is naturally the color ink toolbox. When those palette palettes placed on the top of the toolbox are taken out. It caused a burst of gasps from the surrounding connoisseurs. Dai Qiuyan's toning utensils are all pure white new products of the new cloud kiln, and each shape is carefully designed, and these toning utensils are works of art in themselves. At present, Yip's workshop has not solved the technical problem of using tin tubes to hold paste-like objects, and considering that it often has to travel long distances, and also considering the convenience of use and color mixing, the color ink is a powdered soluble. In addition to the dozens of standard colors that are often used, the other colors are up to the painter himself. It can be mixed in advance, or it can be rendered and overlapped directly on the picture scroll. Color is only one of the problems, and in the case of a coherent ink painting, a variety of problems with color grading can affect the quality of the painting, such as if there is a block of paint that is not sufficiently dissolved and is brought to the paper by the brush. There is a good chance that a painting will be ruined. Even if the paint is too dry, too thin or too moist, it may affect the coherence and mentality of the painter...... More serious problems are those colors that are to be used all the time. Restricted by the size of the palette, when you need to repeat the same color, how to ensure that the color of the thing is the same every time, and the degree of dryness is the same? This is quite a difficult technical task.

And Ye Tao's performance has far exceeded the level of mastery. His movements are accurate, coherent, and powerful, but he rarely lets these precious dishes and the like hit each other, making any crisp sounds to affect Dai Qiuyan. As Dai Qiuyan began to paint, everyone continued to complete the whole work and continue to present it in front of everyone, and found that Ye Tao seemed to have an accurate judgment on the layout and tone of Dai Qiuyan's entire work from the beginning, and always prepared the right color at the right time and put it in Dai Qiuyan's hand, and even the amount of paint handed over each time was just right, never letting Dai Qiuyan leave too much in a painting, and the next time she used this color, she needed to add water to adjust it again...... It's summer after all, and it's steaming too fast.

The people around her could easily tell from Dai Qiuyan's face, and her emotions were constantly rising because of this extremely tacit cooperation and extremely smooth painting process. And this is indeed the most comfortable impromptu creation in Dai Qiuyan's history. How can the maid who needs her constant guidance and training to keep up with her creative ideas be compared to Ye Tao, who introduced her into the palace of painting art? When I'm drawing, I enjoy the feeling of having a color in my head and a color at hand......

And the most breathtaking scene appeared at the end. When Dai Qiuyan completed all the details of the painting with unprecedented high emotions and unprecedented speed, ready to finally use a large piece of ink to spread out the color of the water surface in the bay, slightly condensed her eyebrows, as if she was ready to make some requests, a plate of extremely moist water color was handed to her hand, at that moment, she who had been writing carefully and elegantly seemed to be occupied by another soul. Her figure seemed to rise and expand in that moment, and she used her pen to splash a large amount of paint on the paper, then spread it out with the pen, and finally even poured it directly with the saucer of paint...... In the short time when she was so focused that she almost forgot to breathe, the painting was finally completed in her burst of heroism.

When Dai Qiuyan finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the entire scroll with satisfaction, and then turned her head to look at Ye Tao, she found that Ye Tao was ready to take the palette and pen from her, and was ready to wash the pen and palette thoroughly, wipe them dry, and put them back in the box. The whole toolbox is closed again. Ye Tao even calculated Dai Qiuyan's entire creative time just right, turning this accidental impromptu creation into a show.

The crowd around them had not just forgotten about things like applause and applause. Color ink painting is a very unfamiliar but attractive field for Chunnan. And Dai Qiuyan's painting, even if the color is skimmed and only the layout, lines, brushstrokes and other aspects are considered, it can be regarded as a rare masterpiece. Not to mention this kind of impromptu creation, the way the two work together, and the tacit understanding between them, is almost a wonderful performance in itself. Most of these people present knew very well that the emergence of this situation was definitely not something that Ye Tao and Dai Qiuyan could design and practice in advance. The topic of today's discussion, what will happen today, is completely accidental. And it is precisely this kind of accident that greatly magnifies the effect of such a performance.

Everyone looked at each other, quietly. It wasn't cold, it was shocked.

"What do you think?" Ye Tao asked kindly.