Ye Zhu, a servant of the Xu Academy, every time he reported Chen Caozhi's words and deeds to the entourage arranged by Chu Wenbin, he could get rewards ranging from dozens of Wen to more than a dozen Wen, but since the third day of the first month of November, Ye Zhu could no longer find the generous person, but he was used to nature, and still observed Chen Caozhi every day, and had a stomach full of things about Chen Caozhi, preparing to say it one by one when the generous person appeared again one day, and receive a grand prize, but the left and right, the generous person never appeared, and Dr. Xu dismissed him.

According to Ran Sheng's temperament, he wanted to give this Ye Zhu two punches, Chen Caozhi didn't allow it, and asked him not to care, so Ran Sheng had no choice but to give up and said: "Forget it, read him and pass on the word, let him be spared." ”

Since Chen Caozhi's birthday on the first day of this month, Lu Weirui has to come to see Chen Caozhi every day, sometimes in Zhenqing Daoyuan, sometimes to Xu's thatched cottage, the two talk about flowers and paintings, sometimes they don't say anything, wandering under the flowers and trees, looking at each other and smiling.

At noon on November 16, the two of them slowly walked down from the mountain behind the Zhenqing Taoist Academy, and Lu Weirui asked, "When will Chen Langjun return to Qian Tang?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "At the beginning of next month, I hope to return to Chenjiawu before the snow." ”

"Why are you afraid of difficult roads before it snows?"

"No, because I promised my niece Run'er that I would go back when it snowed."

The little maid who followed behind smirked and said: "It's snowing for sure, maybe it will snow tomorrow, and Chen Langjun can still turn into a bird and fly back!" ”

Chen Caozhi said with a smile: "The birds can't change, but I will return to my hometown immediately, and I won't delay for a day." ”

Lu Weirui said: "Chen Langjun, how old is your family's Run'er?" ”

Speaking of Run'er, Chen Caozhi smiled, looked sideways at Lu Weirui's face blown porcelain white by the cold wind, and said: "Run'er is six years old, she said that she will be the first lady in Wu County when she grows up, so isn't it going to rob Weirui's little lady of the throne?" ”

Lu Weirui's face turned red, her eyes narrowed, and she said: "What is the first lady in Wu County, that is the county people laughing at me for being stupid, where can I be the first?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "I think it deserves it." ”

The little maid said with a short hoe: "Has Chen Langjun heard the phrase 'Yongsu Xie Daoyun, Lu Weirui'?" Of course, my little lady is the first lady in Wu County, and she is as famous as Xie Daoyun of the Xie family in Chen County, I haven't seen the lady of the Xie family in my short hoe, and it is estimated that she should be slightly inferior to my little lady in Weirui——"

Lu Weirui hurriedly said: "Don't talk nonsense with a short hoe, the Xie lady is talented, how can I compare." ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "Men talk about talent, women don't, women talk about talent is like flowers talking about catty, isn't it boring?" ”

Lu Weirui opened a pair of wonderful eyes and asked, "What is the woman talking about?" ”

The short hoe was a little quick-mouthed, and said: "Naturally, it's about beauty, my lady is beautiful enough, isn't Chen Langjun?" ”

Chen Caozhi looked at Lu Weirui and blushed slightly, and said: "Wei Rui is very beautiful, like a famous flower in the city-"

Lu Weirui's face became more and more red, looking away, but she didn't speak, obviously very willing to listen to Chen Caozhi.

Chen Caozhi: "Men talk about talent, women talk about aura, talent can be cultivated by hard work, but aura is innate, some women have aura when they are young, but the more they grow up, the more they lose." ”

Lu Weirui didn't speak, the short hoe was her spokesperson, and the short hoe asked: "Then Chen Langjun said, my little lady has a lot of aura, has there been any loss?" ”

Chen Caozhi smiled: "A lot, not only has it been lost, but it has become clearer and more pure." ”

The short hoe was happy, although she didn't quite understand what the man's talent and women's aura were, but she knew that Chen Caozhi was praising her little lady, and said happily: "Little lady, Chen Langjun said that you have a lot of aura." ”

Lu Weirui blushed and said, "If there is so much aura, then I will become an immortal." Then he changed the topic and said: "Chen Langjun, let's talk about your family Run'er, I want to hear about her, by the way, there is Zongzhi." ”

Chen Caozhi told Zongzhi and Run'er all kinds of cute and interesting things, Lu Weirui was fascinated by it, and sighed: "Why didn't I think of going to Chenjiawu when I arrived in Qiantang in April-oh, I didn't know Chen Langjun at that time, no, I saw it then, but I didn't know it." ”

When Lu Weirui said this, her coquettish attitude was revealed.

The little maid short hoe has followed Lu Weirui everywhere in the past two years, thinking that the little lady can continue to play like this, she doesn't know the depth when she is young, and said: "Qian Tang is not far away, anyway, now I know Chen Langjun, the little lady can go again, and the short hoe also wants to see Run'er." ”

Of course, Lu Weirui will not be as ignorant as a short hoe, her face is flushed and hot, as if she has blown frost and wind, listening to Chen Caozhi not speaking, peeking to see, this handsome and handsome young man frowned slightly, looking at the layers of clouds in the sky, his eyes were complicated, and he didn't know what he was thinking?

……

Well-known painters from several counties near Wu County rushed to the county town on the 18th, preparing to participate in tomorrow's flower and tree painting collection, which is a good opportunity to become famous.

At noon on the 19th, Chen Caozhi asked Dr. Xu for a half-day leave and went to Lufu Xiyuan with Wei Shi.

Lu Na sent someone to invite the Health Association, and the Health Association also knew that Zhang Mo would come, if he didn't go, it would be stage fright, so he would naturally go.

The Wei Association is a northern scholar clan, and Zhang Mo and Zhang Andao are famous families in Jiangdong, and they are the Zhang family of the four surnames Gu, Lu, Zhu and Zhang in Wu County.

Wei Xie and Zhang Mo, the two most well-known painters in the world, gathered in the Lufu Cherishing Garden in Wu County, which was really a big event.

Zhang Mo was accompanied by his female disciple Lu Weirui and his brother Lu Yu, Zhang Mo looked at the handsome young man beside Wei Xie from a distance, and said curiously: "Is that Gu Hutou, how can it be so different from his appearance when he was young, so handsome!" ”

Gu Kaizhi's nickname is Tiger Head, eight years ago, Zhang Mo saw the six-year-old Gu Kaizhi in the Gu Mansion of Jinling, and then learned that Gu Kaizhi worshiped the Wei Association as a teacher, and now when he sees the handsome young man next to the Wei Xie, he naturally thinks it is Gu Kaizhi.

Lu Yu said: "How dare Gu Kaizhi come up here, this is Chen Caozhi of Qian Tang Hanmen, a newly accepted disciple of the Health Association." ”

Zhang Mo listened to Lu Yu's tone was quite unfriendly, glanced at Lu Yu in surprise, and asked Lu Weirui: "How is this Chen Caozhi's painting?" I have seen one of Gu Kaizhi's paintings, and it is really a genius, and it is fortunate that the Wei Association has such a disciple. ”

Lu Weirui said: "Chen Caozhi has been learning painting with Mr. Wei for less than two months. ”

Zhang Mo said "oh", and then didn't ask Chen Caozhi how he painted, what kind of painting can he paint after learning to paint for less than two months!

A total of 27 painters came to participate in the collection of flowers and trees painting in the garden, including Wei Xie, Chen Caozhi, Zhang Mo, Lu Weirui, and the local scholars and celebrities in the county, about forty or fifty people, everyone lingered in the rockery of the garden, pavilions and pavilions, and praised the strange flowers and flowers in the garden.

Taishou Lu Na is very interested, specially placed a number of prizes, the paintings selected into the nine products have awards, the prizes are nothing more than famous paintings, as well as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, etc., the painters come here, not for profit, is to seek fame.

The paintings were collected early, numbered with sixty jiazi, a total of forty-three paintings, because some painters handed over two, these forty-three paintings were read by the Wei Association first, and the Wei Xie was in the west wing of the Baihua Pavilion, while writing a comment on the paper according to the number of the paintings, while telling Chen Caozhi who was standing on the side about the painting styles of various schools in Wu County, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of these paintings in front of him, so that Chen Caozhi benefited greatly.