The grandeur of the Shaolin Temple was a shock to everyone, but such a large temple complex rarely gave people a personal feeling, after all, it could not be something that anyone here could build on their own. And the second one that Ye Tao chose to present is a very small garden, a small garden that everyone here yearns for and is a little excited. In the time and space where Ye Tao came from, this garden was called the "Master of Nets Garden".

The reason why this garden, which covers an area of only eight acres, was chosen to combat Yuantong, Luo Qin, Song Yu and even the arrogance of the entire Chunnan Kingdom. This is a typical Jiangnan garden, a small classic that has never been presented by a craftsman who has never been from the southern country of Chun, but he first presented it. The layout of the Master-of-Nets Garden is compact, small and elegant, and the successful use of proportional foil and contrasting techniques makes people feel spacious and not cramped in a small space. The elegant temperament of this typical literati garden makes everyone unconsciously want to be in it.

The temperament of the Master-of-Nets Garden is not a simple schematic diagram that can be described, on the side of the schematic diagram, in addition to making annotations, Ye Tao also drew several sketches of the landscape with line drawings. The brick carved gatehouse and the small courtyard named "Ming Xuan" (the actual name is "Dian Chun Xuan", in 1981, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, imitated and built a Chinese-style courtyard, named "Ming Xuan"). I feel that the name of "Mingxuan" is concise and loud, so I take the latter) peony bamboo chrysanthemum into the painting, which is really yearning.

After all, the scale of the Master-of-Nets Garden is relatively small, and the entire schematic diagram is much simpler than that of the Shaolin Temple, and it takes about half an hour to finish drawing. However, after painting the Master-of-Nets Garden, after the continuous time of drawing the schematic drawings of these two gardens, the pride that was aroused by alcohol just now seemed to calm down somewhat.

Ye Tao wiped the sweat that began to ooze from his forehead and exhaled. Motioned to Lu Dan to put on another drawing. The painting of thirty courtyards just now completely subdued Yuantong, and now it seems that it is really not his current physical strength that can hold on. However, now that the big talk has been released, there is really no reason to retract it, and it can't be retracted.

"Young master", Lu Dan hesitated. Although Ye Tao was only fifteen years old, the blood and energy revealed between his words and deeds and the talent he showed really could not be measured by the degree of a teenager. Although Lu Dan is good at martial arts, he doesn't know much about the so-called distinction between high and low literati, but he also comes from a great family, and he has not been taught and learned in literature and ink. Don't draw any more, there is no problem with the current results to subdue the stupid Yuantong, but at this juncture without steps, it is said that you are tired and want to rest, but you really lose face. Lu Dan glanced at the fellow guys on the entire floor who had not yet figured out the situation, and still unfolded another drawing according to Ye Tao's instructions and sandwiched it on the table.

"Liyuan" in the drawing of the head of the position, Ye Tao naturally wrote another name, after drawing two artificial landscape gardens, he naturally thought of this young garden built on the shore of Wuli Lake, after a while, the general plan of a garden has jumped on the paper.

Suddenly, there was a sound of climbing the stairs, and then two sounds of "oops" and "oops" were heard, and it seemed that Luo Qin and Song Yu's subordinates, who were in charge of welcoming guests at the staircase and also responsible for expelling irrelevant idlers, were thrown down directly. Just when everyone was wondering who actually came to the door at this time, the "culprit" had already appeared in front of everyone.

"I've seen Her Royal Highness the Princess." Everyone saluted one after another, and saw this little demon star who was too emotional about doing things, and talked about Wei Ying.

is the same princess, Tan Weiying and her sister Tan Weixin are very different, although she doesn't care much about the difference in status and likes to make friends, and it is easy to get together in a circle of friends to play with everyone, but she is very invincible when she pranks. On the one hand, Tan Weiying is young after all, and she is so cute, even if she throws away her status as a princess, everyone will not really care. And her true princess status is her best umbrella.

"Sister Wanwan, didn't you say you came to play with me? After you waited so long and didn't come, I had to come to you myself. Tan Weiying ignored everyone around her, rushed to Huang Wan's face, eagerly took Huang Wan's hand, and said half resentfully and half coquettishly.

Huang Wan was a little embarrassed, and pulled Tan Weiying and said: "Watching Ye Tao and Ye Gongzi draw the garden scene today, I saw God for a while, and I didn't think it had been so long. ”

Although Huang Wan's words were explanations, they also expressed the hearts of many people present. In this era, there are not many entertainment projects, and a group of young people often have to worry about not finding a topic or a suitable way to spend time, but as long as there is something fascinating at the party, sometimes it may just be a surprising article or a rare object from an exotic land, everyone can be enthusiastic and immersed in it for a long time. And today, Ye Tao's performance is really attractive, this young man's bearing and talent are enough to lead everyone's attention and even lead everyone's thoughts, with his pen, immersed in one imagination after another.

Tan Weiying pouted and said, "Painting? What did you draw? Let me see. ”

Lu Dan consciously and interestingly put together the two tables, flattened the drawings and put them on the table, and said very humbly: "Your Royal Highness Princess, these are these two sketches of garden strategies. ”

Tan Weiying was a little surprised to see Lu Dan, the "guard" who often saw Tan Weixin, suddenly change his outfit and appear on this occasion, and she immediately asked, "Lu Dan, what are you doing here?" Why are you dressed like this? ”

Lu Dan bowed down and replied calmly: "Your Highness, now I am the housekeeper of Ye Tao Ye Gongzi's mansion." ”

Tan Weiying was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "You haven't retired from the military, you have two salaries, and you want to buy me a gift when you go back." ”

After finishing speaking, Tan Weiying turned his head and looked at the two schematic diagrams carefully. But Tan Weiying's words entered the ears of those around him word for word. Who is Rudan? Everybody knows that. also knows that the reason why Lu Dan is mixed in the princess's mansion as a guard is not because he has no talent or his family can't recommend him to be a servant, but simply because he is good at martial arts, coupled with his youth, and his family doesn't require his children to be officials or anything, so he is happy to be a guard in the princess's mansion. But Princess Zhaohua Tan Weixin asked a guard in service to go to Ye Tao to be a housekeeper, and this child of the family couldn't see any dissatisfaction. The inside story between this, I'm afraid that even if Lu Dan made it clear that he had to do this because he lost the bet, no one would believe it. Everyone's opinion of Ye Tao is invisibly a few points higher.

For the schematic diagram of the garden, Tan Weiying originally just looked at what it was, just curious, and didn't think he could understand it. However, when the line drawings of the landscapes of the Master-of-Nets Garden are in my eyes, I really feel that I can't pull them out. Those delicate details, and the leisurely fun in the plain may not be the fastest thing Tan Weiying noticed, but she really felt that this small courtyard was very beautiful.

Tan Weiying had already seen Ye Tao, she turned her head unrestrainedly and asked Ye Tao, who was standing on the side, "This is what you painted?" ”

Ye Tao replied: "It was painted by Xia Shicai. ”

"I heard from my sister that you have built a few gardens, is this garden a picture of something that has been made?" The thought in Tan Weiying's mind at the moment is that if it has really been made, then how can it be scraped out of the money from her sister to buy it.

"No, it's just a garden planning and design, just a thought in my chest, not a brick and a tile." Ye Tao saw that Tan Weiying seemed to be very interested in this garden, so he naturally knew the elegance by listening to the string song.

As expected, Tan Weiying nodded with satisfaction, and the little princess, who was not yet ten years old, made an adult posture that looked particularly cute. "I want this picture, you can help me build a garden. Well, let's go with me, let's go to my sister, I'm going to ask her for money. ”

Tan Weiying has always thought of what to say, and the unscrupulous family atmosphere of Dongping Kingdom, especially the family of the lord of the country, has always indulged in this characteristic of her. The surrounding gentlemen, as well as the literati and painters who happened to the meeting, all wanted to laugh but didn't dare to. Tan Weiying didn't really retaliate, but let her remember her name, so as not to be played a little prank.

Tan Weiying was not ready to ask Ye Tao's opinion, in her opinion, Ye Tao should naturally agree. Since Ye Tao is favored by his sister Tan Weixin, the people hired into the mansion, with the close relationship between their sisters, basically Ye Tao is also equivalent to the person he can send, and the logic of Tan Weixin has always been like this. What's more, she also vaguely heard her sister say that Ye Tao still owes her a gift.

After all, he was born in the Dongping royal family, and he finally remembered to greet the host of the reception. After saying goodbye to Luo Qin and Song Yu that was not salty or light, and could not even say a little polite goodbye, Tan Weiying pulled Huang Wan and let Ye Tao go with him. What's more, the deputy head of Ouchi, who was following Tan Weiying, ran downstairs to settle the account of this drinking party with a salary and talked to himself, but waited until the princess's car left before sending a guard back to say hello to everyone. Luo Qin and Song Yu's faces were even worse.

Not to mention that the goal of winning over the literati in Dongping and establishing a good image of Chunnan in Dongping has not been achieved, and even the minimum task of maintaining the face of Chunnan has not been achieved. Wanting to do everything possible to overwhelm a teenager has become such an embarrassing situation, Luo Qin really doesn't know how to go back.

In fact, Chunnan is far more in need of cooperation and even alliance between the two countries than Dongping. Wen Tian Wuxi's Chunnan Kingdom could only strengthen its military power by introducing a series of weapons and equipment from Dongping Kingdom, assist in defending the Xiling Kingdom through an alliance with Dongping, and slow down the expansion of the share and influence of the increasingly powerful Dongping maritime merchants in the entire maritime trade market through the concessions of the Dongping State in terms of tax rates. However, what they saw was that although Dongping was willing to form an alliance with Chunnan out of various considerations, most of the officials and people were not very enthusiastic about this alliance. What's the problem?