Chapter 80: The World Is Falling
The sun rises in the east, and a new day arrives in people's sleep. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the early morning, the government of Guangliang County posted a notice, ordering all the catchers to do good deeds and accumulate virtues, and go to various villages to help orphans, widows, and old people harvest grain.
There has never been a precedent for letting the catchers go to the countryside to harvest grain for others, and the first reaction of the catchers was that this notice was fake, but when they saw clearly that the lower left corner of the notice was covered with the big seal of the county order of Guangliang County, they were all dumbfounded.
This notice turned out to be true, and it was also regarded as a government affair, and it was stamped with an official seal.
For a while, there was a commotion in the yamen, and all the arresters accused Tang Yun of giving such a ridiculous order indiscriminately, and no one took the initiative to set off.
After a while, the big catcher Lei Hu Leopard walked in leisurely, and a group of catchers hurriedly stepped forward to ask for advice after seeing him appear, whether to go or not.
Of course, many people still expect that Lei Hu and Leopard can disobey the order, after all, this day is too hot, and they don't even want to do such light work as patrolling, let alone go to the countryside to harvest food for others.
Lei Hubao lived up to expectations, spat according to the notice, and scolded: "I, what kind of ghost order is it given? I'm not going anyway, if you want to go, go by yourself, I won't stop you, I'll drink tea and take advantage of the coolness. ”
After that, Lei Hubao really swaggered out of the yamen and walked towards the teahouse in the market. Seeing this, all the catchers also followed suit, took a sip according to the notice, and followed the footsteps of Lei Hubao to the teahouse, but they were so excited that they didn't find that there were a few people missing, such as Lei Dazhuang, the stupid nephew of Lei Hubao, and a few new catchers who had just joined.
None of these people were there.
The weather in the midsummer season is extremely hot, and the temperature in the early morning has reached a terrifying height, and the hangover Chen Fang originally wanted to sleep in bed for a while, but he couldn't stand the smoking heat and got up early.
After eating the salty and light pickle white porridge, he spread out a blank piece of paper in the shade of the small courtyard and Shi Shiran began to paint.
"Brother Chen, do you think they will go?" Tang Yun cared about the notice and was worried, but in fact, she didn't have the intention of fighting with the crowd, and the reason why she posted the notice was only based on her trust in Chen Fang.
"Don't worry, everything is under the control of the old man." Chen Fang Lao Shen Lao Dao tried his best to make a dusty gesture, and slowly wrote a big "quiet" word on the paper, and after the last stroke was finalized, he picked up the rice paper and proudly waved to Tang Yunxian: "How is it, my brother's handwriting is beautiful, is there a little bit of everyone's demeanor?" ”
Chen Fang's pride is not unreasonable, in his grandfather's teaching, he has been teaching him since elementary school, writing Chinese characters, and the kung fu between strokes is considered to be superior among his peers in later generations, but the superior of later generations can only barely take the last train in this era of ancient calligraphy as a normal correspondence exchange. In the eyes of Tang Yun, a person who has been accompanied by qin, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, his word "quiet" is really not a good word, and in all fairness, it is a little ugly. However, Tang Yun is not a worldly Xiaohong, she took the rice paper, looked at it very carefully for a while, and gave a good-sounding, but "decent" evaluation.
"Brother Chen, your handwriting is square and powerful, with sharp edges and corners."
I...... Chen Fang glanced at Tang Yun gloomily, he originally thought that Tang Yun would say flattering words such as strokes like silver hooks and walking with dragons and snakes, but he never thought that he would get an angular evaluation, this is really not a good word, you must know that a good hand or with a deep and smooth hidden foundation, or with a strong and powerful edge, the edges and corners are barely said to be neatly written.
Alas, it seems that there is still a distance between them and Ouyang Zhongshi and Pang Zhonghua. Chen Fang comforted himself shamelessly, and then threw aside the rice paper on which he had written, and began to draw the Eight Classics, while Tang Yun still stood aside worriedly, although his eyes kept staring at the rice paper, but his mind kept guessing about the consequences of that notice.
About two quarters of an hour later, Tang Yun heard the sound of Chen Fang putting down his pen, and when he came back to his senses, he found that Chen Fang had drawn several wooden barrels with strange shapes, and the side of the barrel was marked with structural words such as "exit", "entrance", "water inlet", etc., and couldn't help but be curious: "Brother Chen, what are you painting here, bucket?" She asked, uncertain.
"Yo ho, the chick is very smart, this is the bucket!" Chen Fang picked up the rice paper and looked up and down proudly, and from time to time he blew air on the rice paper to speed up the speed of ink drying.
The title of chick is frivolous, and Chen Fang will always come up with such a title to Tang Yun inadvertently, at first Tang Yun instinctively refused and didn't like it, but later he got used to hearing it, and knew that Chen Fang had no intention of being obscene, but he had a kind of careful thinking of secretly happy, so he listened to it.
"What kind of buckets are these, why are they all so strange?" Tang Yun was still very curious.
"Well, hehe, you'll know then." Chen Fang smiled and didn't explain, but slowly rolled up the air-dried rice paper and put it into the painting tube.
In fact, what he painted is not an unusual thing, it is called a steaming barrel in the postmodern era, and he is really not used to drinking the wine of this era, he plans to make a batch of wine himself, but he wants to make it is not liquor.
Rolling up the rice paper, Chen Fang beckoned Tang Yun to go to find a skilled craftsman together, but Tang Yun has the background of an eldest lady after all, and the craftsman is a cheap job, where does she know where there will be a skilled carpenter?
But the road is in the mouth, and the people are also in the mouth, so if you don't know it, you can inquire.
A quarter of an hour later, Tang Yun, who had changed into men's clothes again, wandered the street with Chen Fang. I have to say that a woman's shopping talent is incomparable to that of a man, and after three or two efforts, Tang Yun found her goal...... Ahem, it was Tang Yun's goal.
Looking at Tang Yun, who was standing in front of the jewelry stall and trying it on with great interest, Chen Fang was speechless.
Fortunately, Tang Yun was not an ignorant rotten girl, and after looking down for a while, she asked the stall owner about the carpenter.
"Auntie, whose carpenter in our Guangliang County does the best job of live juice?" Tang Yun asked the stall owner's aunt.
"Young man, do you buy hairpins?" The stall owner's aunt is very old, and her eyes are not very good, so she can't see that Tang Yun is daughter at all, so she hurriedly tempted her and said: "Young man, buy one for your lover, the girls will be very happy when they receive it." ”
"That, auntie, I'm not going to buy hairpins, I just want to ask who is the best carpenter in our Guangliang County? Where is it? Tang Yun said embarrassedly, who knew that although the stall owner's aunt was old, her ears were still very bright, she looked at Tang Yun with a smile and said: "Young man, I know you want to inquire about people, and I also know where the person you want to inquire is, but if you don't buy things, how can I tell you?" ”
The stall owner's aunt smiled, looking like she was eating Tang Yun, which made Tang Yun, who was being promoted, cry and laugh, turned around and pouted to sell cuteness to Chen, but the meaning was very clear.
"Auntie, let's buy one then." In the face of the super lethal pout, Chen Fang had no choice but to surrender, stepped forward, and was ready to buy a hairpin, but when he approached, he found that the eldest lady's hairpin was extremely beautiful, and the craftsmanship of depicting phoenixes, hollowing, gold glaze, light carving, etc. was extraordinary.
"Why don't you buy two more?" After paying the money, looking at one of the beautiful silver chain hairpins, Chen put down his consciousness and felt that Liu Meiniang would definitely look good with it, but he couldn't clearly say that it was specially bought for Liu Meiniang, so he had to use Xiaohong as a shield, "Xiaohong took care of me very hard last night, well, since I bought it, let's bring one to Miss Liu by the way." ”
Where did Tang Yun know Chen Fang's careful thoughts, he only said that he wanted to give gifts with good intentions, so he naturally let him be the master.
Picked two more headdresses, and the stall owner's mother informed Chen Fang and the others of the names and addresses of the carpenters in Guangliang County, but after seeing the two leave happily, she shook her head and lamented: "Alas, it's really the world is declining, people's hearts are not ancient, and two handsome young people actually got together, which makes those young girls embarrassed?" ”