Chapter 23: The Ink Society

"Mr. has returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and it will be a few days before he returns."

Chu Feng looked at the rain flowing down Liu Zhengqing's body, and shook his head helplessly: "Why don't you go out without an umbrella?" The ground I just wiped has been soiled by you again. ”

"Okay!" Liu Zhengqing glared when he heard this, and joked with a straight face, "You don't pity me for being poured into a soup chicken, don't say anything, you even blame me for soiling your ground!" Anyway, I've been running around for you these days, you're ......"

"Running for me?" Chu Feng was slightly stunned and looked at him puzzled.

"Uh......" Liu Zhengqing knew that he was speechless, his eyes swept around the room in embarrassment, and at a glance he saw the seal that Chu Feng was carving, and hurriedly stepped forward to play with it in his hand, "Yo!" This is what you engraved? Entering the country is fast! It seems that in a few days you will catch up with Mr. Wenduan? When do you have time, can you carve one for your brother and me? ”

Chu Feng saw that he didn't want to say more, so he didn't force him much, he only shook his head and said: "It's still far away, now I can only carve a clay mark, do you want to hang a clay mark every day to show off?" Also, Brother Liu, don't you want to mess around anymore, do you have to dirty all my clean places? ”

Liu Zhengqing looked down, and sure enough, he found that the whole house was covered with his own footprints, and he couldn't help laughing twice, and chanted: "'Spring and color are three points, two parts of dust, and one point of flowing water', brother, this spring in the south of the Yangtze River is dusty, you can't blame me alone!" ”

Chu Feng had no choice but to sigh and clean up without mentioning such a brazen person.

Outside the house, it rains and bells, but there is no cold and poignant autumn mood, but a school of spring and scenery.

The sound of rain falling is very touching and calming. Liu Zhengqing stood aside with a towel to wipe his face, looking at Chu Feng's appearance of sprinkling and sweeping there.

In the background is the rain outside the door, the eaves are low, the rain is falling like beads, and it looks like an old landscape painting. Chu Feng stood on the lower right side, bending down slightly to clean, his occasionally exposed hands and forearms were shrouded in a faint halo, almost glowing.

Liu Zhengqing looked at this situation and thought: Chu Feng is Chu Feng, even doing this kind of heavy work, he can be so elegant in his actions, the so-called "Zhilan Yushu" refers to such a character! It's a pity that his origin is not very clear, and he doesn't have the heart of the imperial examination, otherwise such a beautiful boy, what kind of girl can't find it! The wife said that she found a few medium-sized matchmakers, but they all excused themselves...... The meaning of those words clearly pointed out that Chu Feng was just a confidant of a small calligraphy and painting shop, and he couldn't marry a girl from a middle-class family. However, is such a beautiful young man from Zhilan Yushu going to marry a woman from the butcher's and porter's family?

In "Tokyo Menghualu", it is said: "There are several matchmakers, and the top ones wear hijabs", "say the grace of the official palace garden", and "wear a crown in the middle"...... It is said that matchmakers are divided into three, six, nine and so on, and what they say is also a person of three hundred and sixty-nine and so on. The high-class matchmaker only talks about the royal family and the eunuchs' families, the middle is second, and the inferior is again.

After all, people are different in rank, and this is something that everyone has to admit, even if they don't say it.

And what Liu Zhengqing was angry about was that a character like Chu Feng was treated as an inferior person by those matchmakers. These people are really blind to their dog eyes, and the dog's eyes look down on people!

But now, this mind-blowing thing can only be left by Liu Zhengqing to sulk in his heart, and he can't talk to Chu Feng. He came to Mr. Wen Duan this time for this matter, but he didn't expect to pounce.

Regarding the matter of marrying a wife, Liu Zhengqing once tested Chu Feng's tone, and Mr. Wen Duan also asked, but it seemed that Chu Feng did not have the slightest intention of marrying a wife, so they didn't say much.

Of course, Chu Feng is not in a hurry, he is only seventeen years old, and it seems that in the future life, there are still several years before the legal age of marriage, and marriage is really too far away for him.

As for love...... He hasn't talked about it in earnest. There are naturally girls who like her, and when she is in school, there are naturally girls who like her. It's just that the two don't coincide, so although there is a faint feeling floating in the air, it doesn't achieve any positive results in the end.

Chu Feng didn't think that this was anything worth griefing, and occasionally he was a little sad, and he poured out it into the painting. However, he is not very good at painting Chinese characters, and he occasionally paints a sketch, which is naturally inseparable from the difficulty of the characters in Chinese paintings. The characters in Chinese painting pay attention to the charm of the bones, which is a kind of thing that needs to be seen in the bones of people, which is different from the aesthetics of Western paintings, which emphasize form, light and shadow. Chu Feng asked himself if he didn't have that kind of eyesight, so he didn't dare to try it easily.

Naturally, he painted a few paintings, but the result was not satisfactory, so he was burned by Chu Feng.

It's not that it's "burning manuscripts to break infatuation", but for Chu Feng, all the infatuation with girls is not as good as Danqing itself.

Now he still doesn't know what his husband and Liu Zhengqing are "plotting", otherwise he doesn't know what kind of reaction it will be......

"Brother Liu, don't you have to teach today? So idle? ”

The ground that was soiled by Liu Zhengqing was cleaned up, Chu Feng chatted.

Liu Zhengqing said with a smile: "Anyway, you also open a calligraphy and painting shop here, and you should at least pay attention to the things in the industry, okay?" ”

Chu Feng was a little puzzled when he heard this, and looked at him suspiciously.

"Every year during the Qingming Festival, the calligraphy and painting shops in Hangzhou will hold a grand event, led by the Fan family, where I teach, and the whole city will participate in the calligraphy and painting shops. Everyone took their own collection of the best paintings and calligraphy to the exhibition, and then the Lord Zhizhou judged the best works. Although there are not many rewards for the winning shop, the scholars and literati of the whole city will come to see it, and the winning store will also be famous, and it will naturally be full of customers at that time. Liu Zhengqing explained.

"Lord Zhizhou is so Yaxing. Has this been going on for many years? Chu Feng thought to himself, this kind of thing is similar to the calligraphy and painting exhibitions in later generations, but private people fight with calligraphy and paintings, and they also alarm the mayor to evaluate this, and it is naturally impossible for future generations to have such a scale.

Liu Zhengqing said with a smile: "It is still a custom left by Mr. Dongpo, Mr. Dongpo held it several times in Hangzhou General Judgment, and we Hangzhou people also felt that it was elegant, so it continued." After all, for Lord Zhizhou and Lord Tongju, this is also a good time to have fun with the people! ”

"Is it only the calligraphy and painting guild that will come to fight the law? If my prediction is correct, since this kind of thing has become so famous, I am afraid that there are some literati who have some ability in calligraphy and painting, and they will also take this opportunity to show their means, right? Chu Feng said curiously.

"That's a good point." Liu Zhengqing bowed his head and said, "The people in Hangzhou City call this fight an ink meeting. This ink painting will be divided into two sessions, one is a competition between calligraphy and painting lines, generally speaking, each calligraphy and painting shop is the treasure of each town's store, tsk, it is really called a famous ceremony. Last year, the Fan family actually took out a picture of Li Sixun's "Falling Pictures of the Sea and the Sky", tsk, it's amazing! ”

Li Sixun was the most famous landscape painter in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, and Dong Qichang of the Ming Dynasty respected him as the ancestor of the "Northern Sect", laying the foundation of the Northern Sect's landscape painting, which can be described as a real historical master.

This kind of ink painting will be able to see Li Sixun's true handwriting, and Chu Feng's eyes can't help but light up.

I only heard Liu Zhengqing continue: "The other is a local literati who exhibited their proud works on their own. There are not a few people who have always been appreciated for this ink painting, and there are also people who have become famous because of this, because of the excellent calligraphy and the many people who have been appointed as government officials by the Lord Zhizhou...... Yes, Brother Chu, do you want to give it a try? Your calligraphy is very good, if you can take up an official position in the Zhizhou Lord's Mansion, even if it is a sword and pen officer, it will be more ...... than here now."

Liu Zhengqing was straightforward, and after saying this, he felt that these words seemed to be derogatory to Mr. Wen Duan, so he hurriedly stopped talking about it.

Chu Feng smiled slightly when he heard this, shook his head and said: "Serving in the Zhizhou Lord's Mansion is just a case, where can I live freely here with Mr.?" ”

Liu Zhengqing still wanted to persuade again, opened his mouth, and didn't know where to start, so he had to sigh and sigh.

"The day after tomorrow is Qingming, the Fan family has been busy these days, and I don't have to go to Nafu to give lectures. Brother Chu, if you have nothing to do, you can also go and take a look? Anyway, on the day of Qingming, even if your calligraphy and painting shop is open, no one will come at all. Liu Zhengqing said.

There are famous calligraphy and paintings, Chu Feng naturally will not shirk, and immediately responds.

I just couldn't help but think in my heart, if only my husband was also at home, at least I could decide whether to participate in the ink club. But to tell the truth, there is really nothing in the store that can be handled, and this little thing in the store, except for the "Beijing Wine Post", other calligraphy and painting may not be at my own level...... I'm afraid it will be a shame to take it out! However, after all, "Kyoto Wine Post" is not owned by the store and cannot be exhibited.

Liu Zhengqing seemed to see Chu Feng's thoughts, and said with a smile: "How about borrowing my "Beijing Wine Post" from you to participate in the ink painting meeting, and treating it as the treasure of this calligraphy and painting shop?" But then again, although this "Beijing Wine Post" is Su Dongpo's handwriting, after all, the years are too short, and the quality is not well preserved, and it is not Mr. Dongpo's best handwriting, so it may be very difficult to think of the top few. But in the end, it is a famous thing, and the people in our Hangzhou City have great admiration for Mr. Dongpo, after all, if there is no Dongpo, our Hangzhou City will not know how many more floods it will suffer! ”

Chu Feng had learned a little in the Chinese class, it was about the historical background of the song "If you want to compare the West Lake to the West, light makeup and heavy makeup are always appropriate", the class talked a little about Su Shi building the Su Causeway when he was in Hangzhou, and he didn't care too much about it at the time, and then listened to Liu Zhengqing's words, only to know that this Su Causeway is not only an excellent scenery, but also has an unusual practical value.

"Brother Chu, the exhibits of the calligraphy and painting store take the "Beijing Wine Post", your own exhibits, should you also prepare them?" Liu Zhengqing asked with a smile.