Act 3 Charcoal and board
On this day, Guan Kunyu was in a daze in the attic of the iQue Library in his yard, when he suddenly heard a voice outside whistling from far and near. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"The merchant Zhang is here, the merchant Zhang is here! Everyone, come out quickly! ”
Guan Kunyu snickered and pursed his lips, this Aunt Sun's lion roar skill is getting higher and better, and she is about to catch up with the siren.
Aunt Sun called along the road, and the neighbors went out one by one, ready to find the merchant Zhang Xun to find some things that the family lacked. The modern Huangpu River is a land of every inch of land, even in the Chongzhen period, it is also densely populated and full of fertile fields, but now it is the early years of Wanli, and this piece has just gained some popularity in the last ten years, and many household products need to be supplied by the merchants who walk the streets and alleys.
Due to Aunt Sun's ventilated message, the merchant Zhang was surrounded by a group of women as soon as he entered Tunpu, Guan Kunyu was afraid of being squeezed by this group of aunts who were crazy about shopping, so he waited until the people had dispersed before he walked over.
At this time, there was only one old woman who was still in front of the merchant Zhang, who was still bargaining for two pennies, and Aunt Sun, who was dead and alive in order to talk more about gossip outside the place.
"Uncle Zhang is very majestic every time he comes."
When the merchant Zhang saw that Guan Kunyu from a hundred households was coming, he immediately threw down the old woman who was tired of his two pennies and greeted him with a smile.
"Xiao Kunyu, you're wrong, I'm just a merchant, and the word majesty is wrong. Xiao Kunyu, think about it again, how should you say it? ”
"It's majestic, that's right, every time Uncle Zhang comes, Aunt Sun sings the street for you, just like a prefect traveling. The prefect is the official in charge of people, and the merchant is the official in charge of goods, right? ”
Watching Guan Kunyu say this seriously, the merchant Zhang and Aunt Sun were both amused.
"Hahaha, Xiao Kunyu, this official is not something that anyone can do, I am a merchant, I buy some needles and threads for others, but I am not an official. However, if we can have Sister Sun to roll call for us, we can be regarded as shaking back our majesty, right? ”
Aunt Sun smiled and said, "Since we are all shaking our prestige for you, will we wipe the fraction of this Aunt Wang?" ”
The merchant Zhang had already been grinded by the old woman, so he just pushed the boat down the river and said: "Okay, since Sister Sun has said so, I don't want these two dollars." ”
The old woman was overjoyed, and grabbing Aunt Sun's hand was a fierce compliment.
Guan Kunyu, who was watching the play on the side, couldn't help but sigh, who said that the ancients were simple? These are all human spirits!
Aunt Sun's eyes were sharp, and she had long seen that the merchant Zhang was not good, or it would not be long before she would have agreed to erase the two pennies. And what about the merchant Zhang? He originally planned to erase these two pennies, but since Aunt Sun brought it up, he had a good impression with a touch of the situation. As for Aunt Wang, they got the benefit of two cents, and they also saved a lot of lip service!
Obviously, no one paid anything, so they let these people brush each other's favorability.
At the end of the greetings, Guan Kunyu said what he meant.
"Uncle Zhang, did you bring my things for me?"
"How could I forget? To give. Saying that, the merchant Zhang gave three thin planks to Guan Kunyu, "A few thin planks, light and thin, find some scraps and put them together, and I will help you get them when I pass by Carpenter Xu, but what do you want to do?" ”
"It's useful." Guan Kunyu didn't want to say more, and after paying for ten copper plates, he took out a small piece of rice cake from his arms, stretched out his hand and handed it to the merchant Zhang, and said with a childlike face, "Uncle Zhang helped me get the wooden board, and I will give Uncle Zhang rice cakes." ”
The merchant Zhang Le took it and stuffed it into his mouth: "The planks are spelled, and the scraps are made up, otherwise this is a lot of money, if you go directly to Carpenter Xu, people are embarrassed to ask your little doll for money." Six copper plates are considered errand money, and I can't pit you little doll for the rest. ”
After speaking, the merchant Zhang gave Guan Kunyu four copper plates.
After chatting for a while, Guan Kunyu happily took the wooden board and left.
After the merchant sent Guan Kunyu home, he exclaimed:
"Guan Baihu is so blessed to have given birth to such a sensible and good child as Kunyu."
Aunt Sun first nodded, and then lamented:
"Kun Yu is sensible, everyone knows it, but it's a pity that you haven't stayed in the tun for a long time, and I haven't seen him in a daze. This Guan Kunyu is handsome and sensible, but he is a little stupid, his head is not very bright, and he often sits in a daze. ”
"Daze?"
"Yes, it's just in a daze."
……
Guan Kunyu didn't know what the two were talking about him, and similarly, the merchant Zhang and Aunt Sun didn't know that Guan Kunyu was unhappy at this time.
"It's just a little bit of a plank, but I still have to be coquettish and cute, how can people live this day! Alas...... Six copper plates! I want to get so many copper plates...... It's all tears. ”
Shaking his head and sighing, he put the wooden plank on the ground, and brought the shelves and charcoal prepared in advance, Guan Kunyu quickly forgot about his discomfort and devoted himself to his work.
What kind of work can Guan Kunyu, who is only three years old, do at this time? And what kind of work requires these planks?
The answer is simple – he's drawing.
As for the reason, it's also simple - boring! Extremely boring! In the environment of the Ming Dynasty, what can he do as a three-year-old child? Playing in the mud with other kids? Or do you pretend to be a slug in front of adults?
There is no doubt that this is all complete torture!
After thinking about it, Guan Kunyu felt that it was better to stay alone as much as possible, pretending to be a child every day, too tired! When he was alone, he dived his consciousness into the library attic to read, which was good, but he didn't know that this kind of behavior was in a daze in the eyes of others, and his reputation had spread throughout the camp.
The books he was interested in in three years had almost made Guan Kunyu read, and he also needed to find something else to change his mind after reading, so he found the merchant Zhang.
What is Kwan Kunyu's biggest hobby? Undoubtedly, it's drawing! He has painted Chinese paintings, oil paintings, sketches and even comics, and he has copied Akira Toriyama in elementary school, and the group of aunts who liked CLAMP in middle school, and when they are old and sensible, they immediately abandoned these old antiques, and offered their knees to my ghost moon god, bowed and worshipped, and looked forward to it day and night, holding MH in his hand, holding C88 in his mouth, and staring at C89 in his eyes, not only to see the collection, but also to try to copy, the level is not bad, and there can be seven or eight points of charm.
Although Guan Kunyu's painting skills are all amateur self-taught, not from a professional class, the level is still not low, otherwise he would not have changed careers to work as a part-time artist in the end to make a living.
So, what better thing to do than to kill time than drawing?
In front of outsiders, he has not yet enlightened his literacy, so he naturally can't read openly, and besides, the Guan family only has Confucian classics and no miscellaneous books to read except for the second uncle. As for drawing, don't children like to doodle, as long as you are careful, you are not afraid of being discovered, even if you are discovered, it can be explained completely, anyway, in modern times, it is not uncommon for children who have drawn a level of genius at the age of six or seven.
Although the paper at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not expensive, it was not linked to cheapness, and as a military family, it was impossible for the adults of the Guan family to provide a large amount of paper to Guan Kunyu, a three-year-old child, to "mess around".
That's why he prepared a thin wooden board to make paper and charcoal to make a pen, which he washed with water after painting and dried it to be used repeatedly.
Now that everything was ready, Guan Kunyu couldn't wait to set up an easel in the courtyard, and then grabbed a carbon bar and poked it on the board.
"Click" echoed, and the carbon strip broke into two.
Guan Kunyu shrugged helplessly, the painting tools he used to use were all bought directly from the store, where had he used the combination of carbon strips and wooden boards, and the carbon strips he had seen were by no means the remnants of the burning stick in his hand......
Fortunately, not every carbon bar is so pitted, and soon Guan Kunyu found a usable one.