When the messenger from Guangfu arrived in Tiannan, he was already empty, and only found a group of caravans and those left behind.

In the midst of the rain and mist, I am already standing on the Tanjung Continent, one of the thirteen continents and roads in the territory of Saikaido, which should belong to the land in the south-central part of the Malay Peninsula in the future.

As one of the few continents in the West Sea Province, it was once a subordinate area of the Funan Kingdom in history, from the domestic annexation to the naturalization of the same text and track, and then to the countyization of the same interior, the Tang people have governed and operated for three or four hundred years, and the local area is famous for its rich copper and tin minerals and various crops.

Therefore, during the period of the Nankai Governor's Office, it once became the seat of administration of Seikaido, but with the gradual shift of the center of gravity of development and governance, the seat of governance was moved west to Lion Island, and now it is subordinate to the Seikaido Government Division, and the sub-jurisdiction of the Left Senate.

But he didn't expect that because of the return of a big Situ Makuo, it would become the source and soil for a new round of rebellion and turmoil.

Compared with Tiannan, which has the same hot climate, it is more humid here, especially when it rains, the air is almost full of this moisture, and it seems that the water can be wrung out without pinching, which is a test of the sealing performance of our firearms and medicines, and we have to spend more time and energy to keep and maintain the ammunition we carry with us to prevent moisture.

Many experienced soldiers put the cartridge wrapped in waterproof paper directly close to their body, and used their body temperature to bake the moisture inside.

After arriving at Fenggang, another stronghold of the official army, we were asked to continue escorting the baggage, on the grounds that the officers and soldiers were somewhat short of manpower in the rear.

Of course, because the large and heavier supplies were loaded onto the inland waterboats, and a small number of sailors were in charge, we were mainly escorted by some small light cargo wagons. For this reason, I took chicken feathers as arrows in the local area, and looted a batch of large cattle and horsemen as accompanying capacity, which can be regarded as compensation for this additional task, and anyway, if it is collected in my hands, there are 10,000 reasons not to return it.

Thanks to years of development, between the high and low undulating hills and hills, the so-called rivers and canals are widely spread, dense as spider webs, longitudinal and horizontal, extending in all directions, fertile fields, endless, cities and villages and towns, abound, it is quite convenient to travel, and there is almost no risk of getting lost.

It's just that I don't know if it's been warn, except for a little stay in the post station, the rest of the place has a bit of a lifeless smell. Even on the river, it is rare for boats to fish or pass by.

However, this did not affect my mood too much, and during the short interval, the shelter had been erected.

Under the rain arrangement specially supported by several guards, a person in civilian clothes is struggling to write this group of sketches,

Soon a group of messy graffiti that could not see the original reason, under his repeated wiping and smearing, finally showed the outline of a group of figures' manners, and I naturally rode a tall horse to live in it, carrying a long gun on my back, and my hand straddled the sword,

With the long military columns that extend to the sky, the distant mountains and foothills in the rain curtain, and the streams and rivers, as the vast background, although only the simple and gradually revealed lines, the details of the expressions and movements are still blank, but there is a little left and right, and the old man talks about the vicissitudes of juvenile madness.

I couldn't help but sigh in admiration

"Xiaofang, your painting skills have grown again......"

"I really want to thank the general, for giving me this ingenious opportunity to sketch with the army......"

He wiped the rain on his face with his wet sleeves and smiled humbly

"Well-informed and broad-minded can see the heart, but it is much longer than hiding in a high house and meditating behind closed doors......"

As long as these paintings are waxed, they can keep them fresh for a long time, and they are the first choice for ordinary people who can't afford to hire traditional painters and pay for pigment work, and leave a family heirloom for themselves.

Many ancestral halls are enshrined in such a number of sketches about the ancestors and ancestors, family portraits during their lifetimes, although the level of painting style is uneven, and there is no lack of indiscriminate generations, but it is a cheap choice for the lower-class people in this era to leave their thoughts and skills.

The person who painted for me was called Fang Qingxi, also known as Fang Yingwu, alias went with the breeze, but it was the white painter I met on the flower boat during my short journey to the Jiangning Army.

Bai painting is one of the few relics and painting sources left by Liang Gong, the predecessor of the traverser, mainly advocating the use of charcoal and white paper, the simplest materials to express the artist's artistic conception and senses, so the material conditions for becoming a painter are very low, but because of the low threshold, the number of good and bad is uneven, this vein is also derogatorily called painters or painters by traditional painters, the reason is that they are too focused on the path and limited by their own pattern, it is difficult to produce any outstanding masters.

Among them, it is divided into the sketch school and the portrait school, the former pays more attention to the overall sense and is known for concise and summarized scenes, while the latter emphasizes the carving of details, is more delicate and ingenious, and is close to the preferences of the upper class of society with character portraits

It is said that the sketching school originated hundreds of years ago, and those professionally trained surveyors in the Longwu Army; Not only do they have the knowledge to survey the geography of mountains and rivers, but they have also been trained as painters, so their style tends to be rough and unpretentious.

The photo school, also known as the flower school, the ancestral origin can be traced back to the Qianyuan period, as the prodigal son of the Wang family in the Han Dynasty, Li Qi, the son of the clan is also one of the sworn friends and supporters of the Liang Gong, and he has respected many upper-class children The identity of the convener, his biggest pleasure in his early years is to walk those outstanding women in Beijing, and then find a way to enter the house or climb the wall and house regardless of the identity, visit and get a glimpse of the true appearance, and then depicted by the famous family into a picture album, and the taste is rated as a great wind and pleasure.

Later, it became a major fashion in the teaching workshop, and the slightly famous maids and actresses were proud of having a photo of the flower school and the proof of self-worth.

The only commendable thing is that he apothesized and insisted on marrying the old friends of people in the dust, which caused an uproar among the government and the opposition, and felt that the family was ashamed.

However, fortunately, he had a strong enough protector, and in the end, he became the first clan to divide the clan overseas.

After the Yiwei Rebellion, the descendants of the Liang Xia army were embraced into the territory of the Anxi Protectorate, and the so-called small court of the Northern Tang Dynasty was established to recruit and accept the remnants of the various Longwu clans persecuted by the national dynasty.

Later, the Li Tang clan of the mad emperor, before and after the Yongjia march, was killed by various feudal towns, the third generation of the small court of the Northern Tang Dynasty, Li Wenge, under the escort of the Western Army of the Hehui Zhudao, defeated the Southern Dynasty coalition army with Xijing, and finally entered Luodu, ascended the throne as Emperor Chengguang, reopened the mountains and rivers and continued the Tang Dynasty, which is the ancestral source of the Son of Heaven in Luodu of the Northern Dynasty.

Therefore, the photographic school is quite prosperous in this time and space trajectory, and it has also produced famous artists such as Wen Tingyun and Li Shangyin. This Fang Yingwu is a line of the photographic school that he learned.

It's just that I thought it was just a fragment of a chance encounter on the road, but I didn't expect that after a few months, he also came to the Southern Dynasty by chance to join his relatives and make a living.

It's just that the luck of going with Qingfeng is not very good, when he came to Jinnei, the person he wanted to defect to was long gone, and there was no news, he could only be trapped in a dirty hotel outside the city, sitting on the empty mountain while looking for people, just in time for the Qingyuan military turmoil, he was carried into Guangfu by a group of refugees, but found that all his bags and utensils were lost.

There were only a few carcoal pens left, so he had to walk on the street to buy paintings, but unfortunately he was born at the wrong time, if the ordinary years are not good, with the wealth and prosperity of Guangfu, how much can be mixed with a stomach.

Then the current situation is tense, the poor people have to work hard for their livelihoods, and the slightly wealthy people also have to worry about the high prices that rise three times a day, but no one wants to buy his painting skills at all, as for those rich rooms with a little wealth, they have their own familiar painters and doors, and they don't look down on his little skills, as a strange foreigner with a northland accent, he doesn't even have the opportunity to get close to the doors of these people's homes.

When the neighborhood beggars, and can't compete for those strong local old Tuan households and local bones, the guy who was broken to eat, pulled his head to the black alley and taught him a hard lesson. Even frightened and beaten, and then got a cold and a high fever, and in desperation, he actually came to the carriage to beg for death.

Fortunately, in this carriage, there was a mysterious creature that was heading to Baoquan Street, but the people around him were very experienced in this suspected method of touching porcelain, so they immediately sent someone to check it, and if it was a fraud, they would be beaten half to death and then sent to the official. After discovering that he was just a patient with a high fever, he originally wanted to help him aside to fend for himself.

As a result, the mysterious creature at that time was in a hurry, and there was no time to speak to deal with it, and the person who dealt with it did not dare to assert it, so he took it back to the old street in a daze, and relied on a little soup to support the corpse for two days.

As a result, he recognized me, but I saw that in this troubled journey, I could meet again on the basis of the pitiful probability, and spent some money to treat and recuperate him, just like a poor cat and dog. It's just that after he recovered from his injury, he seemed to change his personal determination and vowed to repay me for the grace of rebirth.

Question, do I need a helpless painter to repay the favor, but fortunately he is not really useless, and in the end I signed him as my personal painter at the cost of three pocket money a month to cover all the materials.

This time, I also took it with me in the army, and I had to leave a few sketches every day as a kind of disguised record of my military career.

Guangfu, Qingquan Old Street

A stack of sketches sent back first was also sent to a study somewhere in the Luo mansion, on a king-size desk specially customized according to the human body, with two pink barefoot girls, but no one could be seen.

Leaning comfortably on the elastic rattan chair, he didn't care about revealing the scenery under the white thighs and skirts, and was a mysterious creature in a straight and relaxed state, looking at these bound sketches, while revealing a certain little girl's attitude, thinking about something.

"Paint more landscapes, bastard"

"I want to see a bunch of rough guys......"

"The old lady is not a lover of Tanmei...... I like to watch a group of beautiful muscular men, and my brain makes up for their ambiguity

Then, she couldn't help but take another sip.

"What kind of aesthetic is this, it's too malicious and funny to ......"

"It's a round hat again, and it's a neck curtain,"

"You're the ...... of the cob devil who entered the village"

"It's still a mix of pre-loved neon and modern versions......"

"What kind of earthen battle, isn't this a copy of the iron artillery team vs. cavalry......"

"You think I haven't played Shinno and Taiko......" "You look like that Sixth Heaven Demon Ace there......"

In her own words, the stacked ledgers on the desk, representing thousands of money flows, were unceremoniously placed under her feet, and with a swaying movement, they fell to the ground.

Knowing that the female official named Ah Zi had re-sent the receipts, it interrupted her for a moment of comfort and leisure.

"I rely on it, and I want to customize clothes, three pieces of ...... for each person in the cold and summer."

"For your whim, it cost another 3,000 yuan......

The enigmatic creature rubbed his forehead with annoyance, and complained

It's a pity that this appearance and image are really difficult to convince the public, and she can't take it out of the stage, so even if she has all kinds of means and knowledge, she can only retreat behind the scenes and give orders, and she can only act in the name of a certain man, even if she is given almost omnipotent authority, what is the use, she can only make wedding dresses for others.

As soon as she thought of this, a certain imbalance in her heart made her crazy again at the air in front of her.

"You're out there with troops to tour the mountains and waters......"

"But why should the old lady bear this kind of responsibility......"

When the cute wails and complaints came out of the room, the people around them were already doing their own thing.