After the beginning of winter, the weather is as cold as a day, get up early to climb the Lion Rock, the surface of the mountain rock is covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost, the withered pines and cypresses seem to be frozen and black, the mouth exhales white gas, the winter of Wu County has arrived.

Chen Caozhi and Laide both put on winter clothes, but Ran Sheng refused to wear them, just two single shirts, said hot, touched his hands, and it was really hot, Ran Sheng's physique was really not ordinarily strong.

However, the weather in October was not completely cold, and the winter sun was shining for several days, and it was so warm that it seemed that spring had arrived in advance across the ice and snow.

On October 16, Chen Caozhi and Liu Shangzhi followed Gu Kaizhi to Shanluo Village, and had lunch at the house of a tenant surnamed Mao.

On the way back in the afternoon, Gu Kaizhi said: "Zizhong, it's fine today, when a round of bright moon comes out at night, my "Moonlit Night Pounding Clothes" can be drawn, which is much faster than the gift of the guard." ”

Chen Caozhi used to only paint landscapes, and he had never learned to draw characters, so he said: "Changkang, I want to learn to draw characters from you, Master Wei is not energetic, and he has no time to teach me." ”

Gu Kaizhi said with a smile: "Okay, I can be regarded as teaching art on behalf of the teacher, but you still paint your landscapes and trees first, I feel that you are very aura for painting those, first familiar with the skills of using pen and ink, and next year I will teach you to draw characters - do you also want to draw beauties?" ”

Chen Caozhi said with a smile: "Naturally, it is indispensable to draw beauties." ”

Gu Kaizhi asked: "Then how many wives and concubines are you going to marry?" ”

Chen Caozhi said strangely: "What do you have to do with marrying a wife and painting a beauty?" ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "The Mao tenant said that he wanted to give his daughter to me as a concubine, I politely refused, and promised to exempt him from a year's field rent, I am only fourteen years old, although I am lustful, but I am not lewd, if I have to marry home every time I paint a beauty, then how can I stand it!" ”

Chen Caozhi and Liu Shangzhi both laughed.

Gu Kaizhi said again: "It's not impossible to marry back, it's just that it's really boring to watch that Shao Yan grow old by the erosion of time every day, so I only paint their most beautiful moments, and then never see them again." ”

Chen Caozhi praised: "Changkang's affectionate and witty words can be passed on to future generations." ”

Liu Shangzhi said: "That Lu is the first beauty in Wu County, why don't Changkang paint it?" ”

Gu Kaizhi said: "The Gu and Lu families have been at loggerheads, and they haven't been in contact with each other for thirty years, how dare I paint the Lu family's girl!" When Zizhong learned to draw characters, let Zizhong paint, and he had few regrets. ”

The three of them returned to the Taolin Xiaozhu, and the Wei Association said to Chen Cao: "Before noon, a servant of the Lu family came to look for you, but he didn't say anything, and when he saw that you were not there, he went." ”

At this time, the day has set in the west, and tomorrow is Dr. Xu's lecture day, so I have no time to go to Lufu, so I can only wait for three days to take a break from school, and return the last borrowed Wei Heng's "Four-Body Calligraphy" and Xie An's "Poems for Wang Hu" together with two borrowed books and paste them to copy.

Because he wanted to see Gu Kaizhi finish painting "Moonlit Night Pounding Clothes", Chen Caozhi stayed overnight in Taolin Xiaozhu, at night, a bright moon rose, Wei Xie, Gu Kaizhi, Chen Caozhi, and Liu Shangzhi walked south along the stream, but met Xu Miao and Ding Chunqiu stepping on the moon, so they enjoyed the moonlight together.

On both sides of the stream, the leaves of the peach trees are gone, only the edged branches are left, the stream is murmuring, jumping and sparkling, occasionally you will hear the sound of fish "splashing thorns", all the colors of the day are shrouded by this moonlight, only black and white are left, but just as the ink is colorful, there are black, white, thick, light, dry, wet and many changes, the scenery under the moon is also very rich, clouds, distant mountains, farmhouses on the other side, sparse peach forests, bright eyes of fellow travelers-

Suddenly, a little light lit up in the distance, breaking the hazy black and white realm under the moon in an instant.

Gu Kaizhi high-fived and shouted, "There is!" Running back, a Gu servant hurriedly followed.

Ding Chunqiu asked in surprise: "Why is this?" What happened to Brother Changkang who was so anxious? ”

Wei Xie smiled: "I must have suddenly realized it and was in a hurry to paint." He added: "The winter night is cold, and the old decay will go back." ”

Everyone returned to the cottage together, and saw that Gu Kaizhi was already painting at the desk, and it only took half an hour for a four-foot long scroll "Moonlit Night Pounding Clothes" to get out of draft:

A full moon rises on the east mountain, the clouds are like light yarn to make the moonlight hazy, the stream twists and turns, a girl with a drooping hair squatted on a protruding stone on the bank of the stream, the wooden pestle in the girl's hand is raised high, towards the newly woven cloth on the cutting board, it seems that you can hear the cold anvil sound of "popping" along the stream far away, behind a sparse forest, there are several huts, the door of the hut is ajar, a lantern pokes out, and a white head, presumably the girl's old father saw that his daughter was pounding clothes late at night and did not return, and wanted to greet him, The lantern light was also a little faint yellow in the moonlight—

When everyone was appreciating this "Picture of Pounding Clothes on a Moonlit Night", Gu Kaizhi's eyes only stared at Wei Shi, and when he saw Wei Shi's lips move slightly, he said eight words: "The rhyme is vivid, and the painting is like a soul." ”

Gu Kaizhi was overjoyed and bowed deeply to the Wei Association: "Thank you for the praise of the Wei Master, I'll go to sleep." ”

Gu Kaizhi has this habit, and when he encounters something particularly happy, he likes to lie on the bed alone, tossing and turning, enjoying things, imagining them, and laughing from time to time.

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The next morning, Xu Zao finished speaking "Erya Yinyi", the students dispersed, it was three o'clock in the morning, Chen Caozhi collected the pen and paper and returned to his grass room bedroom, ready to use memory to sort out the sound and rhyme knowledge that Dr. Xu said, and re-copied it on the volume he bound into a book.

Ran Sheng came over and said, "Xiao Langjun, someone is looking for you over there, just behind that row of cypress trees, it's an ox cart, I've been waiting for a long time." ”

The ox cart was lonely behind a row of cypress trees, and a little maid poked her head behind the trees, but it was Lu Weirui's personal maid short hoe.

When the short hoe saw Chen Caozhi, he said happily: "Chen Langjun, my little lady has been waiting for you for a long time." ”

Lu Weirui, who had bright eyes and bright teeth, lifted the curtain and said with a smile: "Chen Caozhi, I sent someone to ask you to go to Zhenqing Taoist Academy to see the camellia yesterday, you are not here, I think the school is open today, you are always there, just come and wait, just now I saw my sixth brother's ox cart passing." ”

Chen Caozhi asked, "Is the Zhenqing Daoist Academy far away from here?" ”

Lu Weirui said: "It's not far, just outside the West Gate." He looked at Chen Caozhi with an eager face.

Chen Caozhi hesitated slightly, and Lu Weirui opened her eyes and asked, "Is there anything wrong?" ”

Chen Caoyi smiled: "There's nothing wrong, let's go." Xin said: "What is there to scruple about, just two flower lovers." ”

Chen Caozhi returned and ordered to drive in Germany, following the Lufu ox cart in the direction of the county town.

Chu Wenbin, who has always paid attention to Chen Cao's moves, discovered the ox cart of the Lu Mansion, and was secretly strange, so he let his ox cart be far behind Chen Caozhi's ox cart, to see who was sitting on the Lu Mansion's cart?

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