Liu Shangzhi invited Chen Caozhi and Xu Miao to go to Taolin Xiaozhu for lunch, and Xu Miao went to ask his father, so he didn't see the scene just now, and after listening to Liu Shangzhi's story, Xu Miao said: "This is Chu Wenbin's intention to stay in the school, he wants to build a strong enemy for Zizhong, and wants to involve land birds, which is really despicable and hateful!" ”

Liu Shangzhi remembered something and said: "Zizhong, didn't Ge Xian Weng write two letters of recommendation for you, one for Dr. Xu and one for Lu Taishou, why don't you take Ge Xian Weng's letter to meet Lu Taishou?" As long as Lu Taishou appreciates and values you, Chu Jian and Chu Wenbin can help you, Lu Fowl will naturally not challenge you. ”

Chen Caozhi said: "I want to find an opportunity to meet Lu Envoy Jun, the first brother was also promoted to the rank after being appreciated by Lu Envoy Jun back then, but there is no reason to enter, and it seems inappropriate to go recklessly." ”

Xu Miao said: "Yes, I will suspend school the day after tomorrow and ask my father to bring Ge Xianweng's letter to the Taishou Mansion and hand it over to Lu Zhijun, what does Zizhong think?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "This is very good. ”

The three of them came to the small building of the peach forest, Gu Kaizhi was still lying in the grass hall, and the Wei Association was walking by the stream with a cane, and when they saw Chen Caozhi, they said with a smile: "The came just in time, last night I heard Liu Langjun talk about Huan Yi's gift of the flute, and I was very interested, and I wanted to make a picture with this as the theme." ”

Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "The kid can enter the picture scroll of the guard, how fortunate is it." ”

Liu Shangzhi said: "Master Wei's complexion is getting better today, could it be that the dry paint pill is still effective?" ”

Wei Xie covered his heart and said in surprise: "Don't you say that you are old and forget, in the past, my heart hurt when it was close to noon, and I don't feel pain today-"

Before he finished speaking, the pain lurking in the heart of the Wei Xie immediately flareed up as if he had been reminded, and the Wei Xie's face changed.

Chen Caozhi and the three of them hurriedly helped the guard association into the grass hut to sit down, Gu Kaizhi woke up at this time, heard the movement, and hurriedly came over to say hello.

Wei Xie gasped for a while, gradually subsided, and the emaciated face showed a smile, and said: "I can't say, I have an attack as soon as I say it, but it seems to be shorter than before, and the pain is not so bad." ”

Gu Kaizhi said happily: "Master Wei only took five pills to see the effect, and if he takes fifty pills a day in the future, his heart disease will definitely be cured as soon as possible." ”

Everyone laughed.

Gu Kaizhi saw that everyone was laughing at him, scratched his head and said, "You can't take more, right, I thought that the more Han Xin's soldiers, the better." ”

Speaking of painting, Chen Caozhi said to Wei Xie: "Cao Zhi wants to learn painting from Wei Shi, I don't know if Wei Shi is willing to accept another disciple?" ”

Wei Xie looked at Chen Caozhi with a smile and said, "There is only one apprentice so far, and that is Kaizhi-"

Gu Kaizhi said: "Master Wei once said, you can't be careless when making friends, you can't be careless when teaching apprentices, painting is not as good as Confucianism, everyone can learn, learning to paint requires talent, does Brother Zizhong have a talent for painting?" ”

Chen Caozhi asked: "How did Brother Changkang discover his talent for painting by the Wei Shi in the first place?" ”

Gu Kaizhi said proudly: "I can chant poetry at the age of seven, can be endowed at the age of eight, when I was nine years old, my father invited a lot of painters to teach me, but I drove away one by one, not that I don't respect the teacher, but those painters are not worthy of teaching me, until the eighth day of April when I was eleven years old, I first saw the 'Seven Buddhas' painted by the Wei Shi for the Jinling Buddhist Temple, and exclaimed that my master was originally here, and the Wei Shi saw my sketch and immediately agreed to accept me as a disciple - Wei Shi, what the disciple said is not exaggerated, right? ”

Wei Xie nodded with a smile, and said to Chen Caozhi: "My master Cao Buxing, only I am a disciple, and now that I am old, I have no energy to teach apprentices anymore. ”

Chen Caozhi said: "The kid just loves calligraphy and painting, but it is enough to ask the master to allow the kid to watch when he paints." ”

Gu Kaizhi said with a smile: "If you are allowed to watch, it will be equivalent to entering the hall and accepting you as an apprentice, Master Wei, let Zi redraw a few written tests to see if he has any talent for painting, can you?" ”

Wei Xie agreed, Gu Kaizhi immediately ordered the servant to bring the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Chen Caozhi looked at the brush, it was special, I don't know what to use, sharp and thin, and said: "Please ask the guard teacher to come up with the question." ”

Wei Xie pointed to the peach tree facing the grass hall and said, "Let's sketch this peach tree to see if you have the talent to learn painting." ”

When Chen Caozhi painted the peach tree, in addition to Wei Xie'an sitting still, Gu Kaizhi, Xu Miao, and Liu Zongzhi all stood behind Chen Caozhi to see how Chen Caozhi painted.

Gu Kaizhi smiled at first, his eyes were very innocent, and he thought that Chen Caozhi's brushwork was unfamiliar, he couldn't grasp the weight of the brush, the lines were blurry, and it seemed to be deliberate, which was really ridiculous.

But while painting, Gu Kaizhi saw something different, the peach tree painted by Chen Caozhi was very similar, it was as if it had shrunk and moved to the drawing paper, and the nodules and stumps of the tree were finely expressed-

Gu Kaizhi turned around and called, "Master Wei, please come and see." "I used to come over with the Health Association.

Wei Xie squinted his eyes, looked at how Chen Caozhi put down his pen, was quite surprised, and asked, "Who did you learn painting from before Caozhi?" ”

Chen Caozhi: "I haven't learned, I just love landscapes, flowers and trees, and I paint and play by myself." ”

The Wei Xie stopped making a sound, waited for Chen Caozhi to finish painting the peach tree, and then took the sketch and spread it in front of his lap, but asked Gu Kaizhi: "How do you see Caozhi's painting?" ”

Gu Kaizhi: "The penmanship is very strange, unprecedented, and it can be described as a geek." ”

Wei Xie nodded and said: "It's really weird, the brushwork seems to fly white instead of flying white, which is very unique, but,, you have to worship the old decay as a teacher, then the old decay has to say a word, no teacher can paint to this step, you are a genius, but if you continue to paint like this, you are not a painter, but a painter. ”

Modern Chinese painters have looked down on Western paintings for a long time, Chen Caozhi didn't dare to argue, but the Wei Xie had already expressed his willingness to accept him as an apprentice, and immediately knelt down to bow to the Wei Xie.

Gu Kaizhi is very happy, and even calls Chen Caozhi his junior brother, in fact, in terms of age, Gu Kaizhi is only fourteen years old, Gu is the top gate valve in Jiangdong alongside the Lu family, but Gu Kaizhi is not as arrogant as Lu Fowl in addition to being infatuated and crazy, but he is naïve, he does not understand world affairs, regardless of dignity and inferiority, he likes to laugh the most.

Xu Miao suddenly said: "Oops, it's time to pass now, Daddy is going to talk about the Book of Filial Piety." ”

The three of them didn't have time to sit and chew slowly, so they took the bread and hurriedly ate a few pieces, and when they rushed back to the Xu Academy, as soon as they sat down, Dr. Xu Zao paced up the pavilion.

Lu Yu and Chu Wenbin did not come to listen to the "Book of Filial Piety" in the afternoon, and neither of them came to the "Zhuangzi" at night.

At this time, it was raining slightly, and the children of the well-pampered scholars couldn't help but complain, saying that Dr. Xu was not close to people, why not put "Zhuangzi" in the afternoon and talk about it, but let them go around three times a day, it was simply deliberately difficult!

Liu Shangzhi said goodbye to Chen Caozhi and was about to go back to Taolin Xiaozhu, but he saw Gu Kaizhi jumping down from an ox cart and shouted: "Senior Brother Caozhi, Master Wei wants to see your Ke Tingdi, and is ready to draw the story of Huan Yi's gift flute to you, come with me, and rest at my side at night." ”

Chen Caozhi went to inform Dr. Xu, and took Ran Sheng, Gu Kaizhi, and Liu Shangzhi to Taolin Xiaozhu, and the Health Association was waiting for them under the lamp.

A few people sat down, the servants of the Gu family offered fragrant tea, and the Wei Association asked Huan Yi about the details of the flute he gave that day and the surrounding scenery, and then looked at it and muttered: "Fenglin Ferry-Keting Di-Awning Boat-Huan Joins the Army-Piper Boy-Qian Tangjiang-Xieyang-Wuling——"

The health association was so muttering like this, that he dozed off.

Gu Kaizhi looked at Chen Caozhi's surprised appearance, blinked and smiled, and said in a low voice: "Master Wei is like this, every time he wants to paint, he is extremely sleepy, and it seems that he will not wake up until noon tomorrow." "Let the servants help the guard to rest.

Chen Caozhi said: "Since Master Wei is asleep, it's not too late for me to go back to the school." ”

Gu Kaizhi hurriedly stopped and said: "It's raining coldly outside, you and I are brothers and sisters, and we are talking at night." ”

Liu Shangzhi saw that it was not good, so he quickly slipped away, Gu Kaizhi ignored him, and talked about books and paintings with Chen Caozhi, the deeper the night, the more interesting Gu Kaizhi's conversation became, and he began to chant hundreds of four-character poems and five-character poems since he was seven years old, and sang endless arias in the Jinling dialect.

Chen Caozhi asked: "Changkang, why don't you learn Luo Shengyong?" ”

Gu Kaizhi said disdainfully: "What Luo Shengyong, the old maid's voice is extremely ugly." ”

Gu Kaizhi has such arrogant qualifications, Chen Caozhi high-fived and admired, Gu Kaizhi became even more energetic, chanting loudly, tireless at night.

Chen Caozhi thought that he would go to the school tomorrow to listen to the lecture and go to rest, but Gu Kaizhi held on, saying that he was making great progress in poetry, and Caozhi's junior brother could not sweep him Yaxing.

Chen Caozhi: "The night is cold in early winter, I sit in the bedroom, Changkang sings here, I listen in the next room, and admires from time to time, how about it?" ”

Gu Kaizhi agreed, and continued to chant poems with great interest, Chen Caozhi came to the adjacent room, spread out the futon, and said to Ran Sheng: "Xiao Sheng, you will sleep again tomorrow morning, stay up now, and I will cheer in the future." ”

Chen Cao slept until dawn, and when he woke up, he heard Ran Sheng praise: "Wonderful! ”

Gu Kaizhi's voice in the compartment was slightly hoarse, and he said: "Zizhong, you are really my confidant, this night is too enjoyable, I will go to sleep and moan another day." ”