Volume 2 Affectionate Twenty-nine, My Heart Bandit Stone

Cao Zhi heard that Liu Shangzhi had resigned, and he was very surprised, for a new brother, it was not easy to be a subordinate official in Taishou Mansion, this is the qualification for promotion in the future, and last time Liu Shangzhi accompanied Yang Quan, a famous doctor in Yangzhou, to Chenjiawu, and said that he was quite satisfied with being a scribe under Lu Zhijun, why did he suddenly resign?

Liu Shangzhi saw that Chen Cao's eyes were inquiring, and sighed: "Zizhong, you don't know yet, Lu Changsheng, the beloved son of Lu Envoy Jun, has returned to heaven on the seventeenth of last month. ”

"Ahh Chen Caozhi couldn't help but feel sorry, Laide and Ran Sheng arrived in Wu County on the ninth day of the first month of last month, and came back to report that Lu Chang was seriously ill, but he didn't expect to die in a few days, although Chen Caozhi expected that Lu Chang's life would not last long, but now when he heard the news of Lu Changsheng's death, he was still shocked, and he felt very sudden, he had seen Lu Changsheng several times when he was in Wu County, Lu Changsheng was like a tree, his soul was not guarded, and he didn't say anything, and he had no friendship, but he just thought of the pain of Lu Yuanjun's loss of his son, and Lu Weirui's grief of losing his brother, and couldn't help but feel sad, and said: "I didn't know about it, Otherwise, even if you can't go in person, you have to send someone to hang you. ”

Liu Shang said: "Zizhong doesn't have to be sad, your brother Chen Shang has gone to hang, and sent money, cloth and silk to help the funeral, and sent the coffin of the immortal son to the Huating cemetery as a friend, and then went to Jiankang, and I and the immortals and Changkang also set off to you."

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Chen Caozhi nodded and asked, "Then why did Shang Shi resign?" ”

Liu Shangzhi smiled bitterly: "The envoy is so heartbroken that he can't be a director because of the death of his beloved son, and he has already resigned from the imperial court, and Chu Chenglang temporarily took the position of Wu County Taishou, so I had to resign." ”

Chen Caozhi understood: "Chu Jian hates me and is angry with Shangwei? ”

Liu Shangzhi said: "It has nothing to do with it, I don't want to do things under Chu Jian." ”

Ding Chunqiu shook his head and said: "That Chu Jian is narrow and shallow, and in less than three days after taking over the county office, he arranged a lot of drudgery for Shang Value, which is obviously making it difficult and Shang Worth, this kind of person is too hateful." ”

Gu Zhizhi: "It's best to resign." Otherwise, he will be tortured under Chu Jian. What is the point of a mere scribe? At the beginning of the year, my father moved from Shangshu Zuocheng to Jingzhou. How about going to Jingzhou to find a job if you have a subordinate official? ”

Liu Shang said: "Thank you Changkang." I'm still at home for a few months. I don't believe that Chu Jian can be promoted to Wu County Taishou. ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "Chu Jian is a second-class scholar. Talent and learning, and hope to get him to be the Taishou of Wu County. Let him temporarily serve as a Taishou for a few months. Just give way. ”

Chen Caozhi said: "It's good to rest at home." Although Lu Zhijun resigned. But the court will not let him sit idle. They will be recruited. Shang Wei, as a protégé of the land envoy, will be more reused. ”

Liu Shangzhi nodded and said: "I also think so, it's too rare to be a boss like Lu Yuanjun who is not a man of rank and has an arrogant official position." ”

Gu Kaizhi hurriedly said: "My father doesn't have a view of the door. The favorite talent will go to Jingzhou next year to find a job. Why not go along? ”

Liu Shangzhi said with a smile: "My talent is far inferior to that of the immortals, only in calligraphy, but Zizhong can go, Lu Zhijun is no longer in Wu County, and Zizhong's literary work can't be done." ”

Gu Kaizhi said happily: "Yes, Zi Chongnian went to Jingzhou with me with the immortals, Jingzhou is the most important talent under the rule of Huan Da Sima." ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and shook his head: "My mother is not in good health, and I have to serve her old man." He asked Xu Miao again: "How was the Xianmin's Jingkou order last month?" ”

Xu Miao said indifferently: "It is the seventh grade." ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "Immortals and Zizhong are all top-grade talents, and it really makes me feel unfair to be subservient to the lower grades." ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "Don't talk about that, the five of us and the other are together today, it is a great event in life, does Changkang want to make a long night groan?" ”

Gu Kaizhi put the embroidery chopstick, and after he was satisfied, he thought about sleeping, and said: "It's rare that Zizhong appreciates my poetry so much, I'm a little sleepy today, and I will fulfill your wish tomorrow." ”

Xu Miao, Ding Chunqiu, and Liu Shangzhi were all smiling, and Ding Chunqiu said: "Changkang chanted in my Ding's villa for most of the night last night——"

Liu Shangzhi led Gu Kaizhi and Xu Miao to visit Chen Caozhi, arrived in Qiantang yesterday evening, and first went to Ding's villa to see Ding Chunqiu, Ding Chunqiu was overjoyed, and introduced Gu Kaizhi and Xu Miao to his father Ding Yi, Ding Yi wanted to make friends with Gu Yuezhi, and now his son and Gu Yuezhi's son have become friends, and know that Xu Miao is the son of Xu Zao, the great Confucian of the world, Ding Yi is very pleased with his son, and hospitalized Liu, Gu, and Xu, but he didn't expect that these three people would leave Ding's villa early this morning to visit Chen Caozhi, so he asked Ding Chunqiu to accompany him to Chenjiawu, told Ding Chunqiu to make more friends with Gu Kaizhi——

Gu Kaizhi shook his head when he heard Ding Chunqiu's words and said: "The three of you are not my bosom friends, saying that you are listening to my poetry, and in the second half of the night, one by one, I chanted poetry with a dry mouth, and I couldn't hear the cheers, only heard the snoring one after another, and the snoring was especially loud, which simply overshadowed my poetry and aria, which is really unreasonable!" ”

Liu Shangwei smiled bitterly: "It's no wonder that I waited, it's really hard to travel for days." ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "You are not as good as Zizhong, Zizhong appreciates my wonderful chanting the most, I remember that night, every time I chanted seven or eight sentences, I could hear a sound."

'Appreciation,Get Zizhong's praise of this poem is often my proud verse, I didn't think it was wonderful at first,After the Zizhong sighed,I thought about it,It's really wonderful,This good poem also needs to be appreciated——"

Chen Caozhi hurriedly said: "Changkang worked hard to chant poetry last night, let's go and rest now." ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "You and my best friends are happy to meet, how can there be a reason to eat and sleep, Zizhong, since last year's Taolin Xiaozhu farewell, what paintings have you painted, and let me appreciate it." ”

Chen Caozhi hesitated and said: "There are "Bixi Peach Blossom Picture", "Tiger Hill Peony Picture", "Mountain Residence Snow Scene"——"

Gu Kaizhi said with great interest: "Let me take a look, what I want to see most is that peach blossom picture." ”

Chen Caozhi put his hands together and said, "It's not with me, and I haven't taken it back since I gave it to Lu Envoy to read." ”

Gu Kaizhi even shouted that it was a pity, and he said: "Lijiuyao Mountain, Mingsheng Lake, the scenery is beautiful, just as the little lady Run'er said, Changkang and Zizhong tried to draw the same scene and compete." ”

Chen Caozhi said with a smile: "I have studied painting for less than two years, how can I compare to Changkang, this opportunity is excellent, I can ask Changkang for advice." ”

Gu Kaizhi, Liu Shangwei, Xu Miao, and Ding all went to Chen Caozhi's study on the third floor, Xu Miao saw the volume of "Shenghu Talks on Xuanji" on the bookcase, flipped through a page, and was overjoyed, and went to the west window alone to read carefully.

Gu Zhi looked at Chen Caozhi's unfinished sketches, and also praised them again and again, saying that Chen Caozhi's painting method is unique, and the small flowers and plants are very aura, although the overall composition is slightly inferior, but this can be learned, and aura is a talent and cannot be learned.

Gu Kai asked the servant to go to the ox cart to fetch his two paintings, when Chen Caozhi unfolded it, one was "Qinhuai Spring Rain Map", one was "Xinting Weeping Picture", both paintings are heavy brushwork, adhering to the Wei Association technique, the landscape, trees and stones are outlined with lines, and there is no folding, the mountains and rivers are very beautiful in space, the characters are arranged in a dense manner, the fifteen-year-old Gu Kaizhi's painting skills have been perfected, it is really a rare genius.

When Chen Caozhi looked at the painting, Gu Kaizhi was silent on the side, carefully observing Cao Zhi's expression, only to see Chen Caozhi watching it for a long time, and sighed: "That's it, Gu Changkang is here, how dare I still animate the brush!" ”

Gu Kaizhi was overjoyed, but said: "Zizhong should not be too humble, Wei Shi once said that in today's world, only Chen Caozhi's paintings can match me, Zizhong just learned painting late, and in two years, it should not be under me." ”

Zong Zhi and Run'er were also watching these two paintings, and they both felt that this Uncle Gu Shi was really better than Uncle Ugly, Run'er pointed to the "New Pavilion Crying Picture" and asked Gu Kaizhi: "Uncle Gu Shi, the landscape on this painting is very beautiful, but why are these people crying about this beautiful scenery?" ”

Gu Kaizhi was very surprised that a seven-year-old girl could ask this, pointed to the picture scroll and replied: "This painting is more than 30 years ago, this place is called Xinting, in the south of Jiankang City, at that time, whenever the day is beautiful, the Beidi Shi clan who crossed the river will meet here to drink and watch the scenery, the name of this person in the center is Zhou Kai, when Shangshu Zuo servant shot, he said, 'The scenery is not different, it is its own difference between mountains and rivers', it is a sigh that the Central Plains Shenzhou fell into the hands of the Hu people, and the celebrities and scholars present at that time were relatively tearful, only the prime minister Wang Dao changed color and said, "When the royal family is killed, the restoration of Shenzhou, How can he be a prisoner of Chu relatively! ’”

Run'er nodded and said: "It's useless to cry, if you want to recover Shenzhou, you have to do real things." ”

Gu Kaizhi and Liu Shangzhi were amazed, and they all said: "Zizhong, this Cai Yan of the Ru family is also!" ”

Run'er responded: "I don't want to be Cai Wenji, who is talented and thin." Although Run'er has never read the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", she has heard Chen Caozhi tell the story of Cai Wenji.

Gu Kaizhi's eyebrows and eyes became farther and farther apart, and he asked, "Who is the little lady Run'er?" ”

Run'er glanced at Uncle Ugly, who was smiling at her, and said a little shyly: "No one does it, I'm just Chen Run'er." ”

Gu Kaizhi praised: "Okay, the unique Chen Run'er, I'm going to make a painting for you now."

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Gu Kaizhi is anxious, and now he must have been inspired, so he hurriedly ordered the scholar to bring all his painting tools in the ox cart, Chen Caozhi invited Liu Shangzhi aside and asked Lu Na and Lu Weirui how they were doing?

Liu Shangzhi said: "Lu Envoy Jun is certainly mournful, Lu Xiaoniang is also a little thinner, that day I will tell Lu Xiaoniang about the letter you sent to Germany and Ran Sheng, Lu Xiaoniang wept and said, "Send a message to Chen Langjun, my heart is a stone, I can't turn around, please Chen Langjun take care of your mother'—"

Chen Caozhi stood on the corridor and was silent for a long time, looking at the clear sky, and reciting silently in his heart:

"Pan Bi Bo Zhou, also Pan its stream. If I can't sleep, if there are hidden worries - my heart is a stone, and I can't turn around. My heart is a thief, and I can't ...... it."

Liu Shangzhi now knows Chen Cao's thoughts, knows that it is difficult, and only worries about his friends, and there is no way to comfort him.