From the township test in April to now, the time of the two has passed, which is not long, but it is not short after all.

Chu Feng still maintained his old habits, and after getting up early every day, he played a five-bird play, opened the door of the calligraphy and painting shop after eating, cleaned up a little, and received customers who came to the door.

Morning and evening study of the book will naturally not be put down, "Summer Heat Post" has also changed from the initial adversary, to now the morning back, the evening corrective adversary, although it takes a longer time to do so, but the real sense of progress is also very significant. Mr. Wen Duan naturally gave a few comments and suggestions occasionally, and Chu Feng thought about it and improved it as appropriate.

Danqing, still maintains the appearance before the township test. I went to Mr. Cheng Yuan's place every three days, brought my own work for the teacher to judge, and also changed another painting by the way. It's just that since last month, Mr. Cheng Yuan asked Chu Feng to create another painting by himself according to the theme of the painting in addition to the simple study painting. In this way, it became four paintings in three days, although they were all sketches, but Mr. Cheng Yuan was demanding, and Chu Feng naturally did not dare to slack off, and the time spent was naturally very considerable.

Fortunately, Mr. Cheng Yuan is indeed a famous teacher, and he is often as wise as a torch when it comes to the problems in Chu Feng's paintings, and he never hesitates to give advice, so Chu Feng's painting skills are also steadily improving. Of course, according to Mr. Cheng Yuan's words, if he really wants to be admitted to the art academy, this level is still far from enough.

Chu Feng could also guess this. Although from the perspective of the proportion of people who learn to paint, the current generation is naturally far inferior to the students of later generations. But the status of the Xuanhe Painting Academy, which is directly connected to the royal family, is equivalent to the most powerful art academy in later generations. Moreover, once admitted to the art academy, his identity is not that of a pure student in later generations. It should be said that it is a trinity of students, teachers, and civil servants, and although the matter is trivial, in terms of identity and status, it will not be exaggerated to describe it with the sentence "talking and laughing at Confucianism, and going back and forth with Zhu Zi".

If you want to get into such a place, you can imagine how difficult it is.

Moreover, there is another thing that is different from later generations, that is, the age of the candidates.

In the major art academies of later generations, although there are also people in their twenties and thirties who still work hard to study, but such deeds are a few after all, and they can almost be in the news. Most of the art school entrance examinations are still the work of young people, success or failure, generally speaking, between one or two years, it is rare to repeat twice.

But in the current day and age, the entrance examination of the Royal Academy of Painting is actually not much different from the examination of the imperial examination. In fact, I heard Mr. Cheng Yuan say that at the beginning of the establishment of the examination system of the art academy, it was taken together with the imperial examination, but the subjects were different. It's just that after Wang Anshi's reform, subjects such as Ming Jing and Ming Arithmetic were canceled, and although the examination of the painting academy was still retained, it was no longer synchronized with the ordinary Jinshi examination, but claimed to be a system separately.

But in the final analysis, the examination of the academy is still a part of the imperial examination system, which involves a very different examination from later generations - no matter what age, you can take the examination.

Just like the sentence that people often say, "Thirty old Ming Jing, fifty young Jinshi", the fifty-year-old Jinshi is still young, which shows that most of the people who participate in the Jinshi examination are of what age group.

There is not much difference in the examination of the art academy, and from a certain point of view, the older the painter, the more powerful the vision and pen power are naturally better than the young people. With this kind of time immersion, of course, it is easier to cope with the exam.

Of course, if you compare it purely from the perspective of vision, I am afraid that there are not many people who can beat Chu Feng, and this is naturally Chu Feng's advantage.

However, Mr. Cheng Yuan believes that Chu Feng's pen power is not up to the requirements of the academy. After all, the teacher is a person who has trained a painter in the art academy, and his understanding of the requirements of the art academy is of course much higher than his own.

Chu Feng was determined to enter the academy, so he naturally studied ******** hard work. And Mr. Cheng Yuan's attitude ......

To be honest, it hasn't gotten much better. But Mr. Cheng Yuan is also a wonderful person, and he will not deliberately teach Chu Feng things well because he has a little mustard in his heart. Of course, this is also related to the tradition of this era, unlike the teachers of later generations, in this era, after truly recognizing as a teacher, he is really a teacher for a day and a father for life, and there is no existence where money is given and lectures are not good.

But there are always expulsions and the like. Just like Chu Feng's senior brother, who is now a painter in the academy, Mr. Cheng Yuan may vaguely disagree with this apprentice, but he has not made this action now.

In this era, expulsion from the sect is almost the same as expulsion from the clan, and it is a stain for a lifetime. Unless you really do something rebellious, as an elder, you won't do such a thing.

Mr. Cheng Yuan listened to Chu Feng's views and opinions, and he couldn't fully agree with him, but on the other hand, he didn't completely deny it, and it was like being in an ambiguous realm.

So these days, the courses that should be taught still have to be taught, and the places that should be pointed out naturally can't pretend not to be seen. It's just that Chu Feng is indispensable to suffer a little, scolding him with a small flaw in the painting, pretending that Chu Feng is late to punish him for helping to clean up the house, etc., but this is too small a thing, Chu Feng only smiled and obediently accepted the punishment.

In contrast, Mr. Wen Duan's side is naturally much more pleasant. The kung fu of carving is also taught every day, the mud seal is no longer used, the master and apprentice got some ordinary wood to carve, and the carved seal can also be used as firewood after it is useless, why not.

Of course, before the seal itself is burned for cooking, there will still be a bottom on the paper. First, it is to leave a souvenir, and secondly, you can also leave the seal carved each time to compare with each other to see where there is progress and strengthening, and whether there is some progress.

Mr. Wen Duan encouraged Chu Feng to teach, but the course was often arranged very casually, and did not require Chu Feng to put too much effort, but urged Chu Feng to practice painting carefully. After all, the autumn test is the painting Danqing, which has nothing to do with the seal.

Calligraphy is more important than Mr. Wen Duan, after all, calligraphy and painting are not separated, according to the development trend of literati painting in this era, the promotion of some poems on the painting is also a very elegant thing.

"Chu Lang, you are accomplished in poetry, calligraphy and painting. The Academy of Fine Arts only examines the painting as a matter of your current ability...... To be honest, I'm afraid it's a little more difficult. Of course, there will always be something to achieve after another three or five years of training, but depending on what you mean, it seems that you want to be the first in one fell swoop this year, so you must work surprising new aspects. ”

"In the past few years, I have found a sentence of a Tang poem at random and asked everyone to paint a painting with more specifications. For example, the sentence 'Lonely boat, fishing alone in the cold river and snow', the same painting requires the realm and pen power. In these two points, your realm is high enough, but sometimes you will inevitably see the master lower, that is, the pen power is not loaned. Although this can be practiced, it seems that it may not be too late now. Fortunately, you can also make use of your calligraphy as much as possible......"

"What the old man means is that although there is no clear rule that you need to write that poem, with your calligraphy attainments, if you write it, you will naturally not lose points. Of course, if you can make use of your poetry talent and compose a poem on this topic by the way, it will be a plus point among the extra points! You know, it's easy for people to study in one direction to the end, but if you are a generalist, it's a great thing! ”

This is what Mr. Wen Duan once said to Chu Feng.

Chu Feng naturally listened to it in his heart, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Mr. really thinks too highly of me." How is my calligraphy, sir, you are looking at it, in fact, it is really nothing, and it is really impossible to make a splash with it. As for poetry, it's really almost nothing. ”

With such an explanation, Mr. Wen Duan naturally laughed it off. And Chu Feng had no choice but to continue to work hard.

In addition to such daily study arrangements, occasionally go to Fan's house a few days to discuss calligraphy and painting with the little lady of the Fan family and Liu Zhengqing, which is also something that Chu Feng likes very much.

Before painting and calligraphy, there is beauty to travel. This is like reading a book at night with red sleeves, and I am afraid that it is something that every man who has read at night today is very yearning. Even if the red sleeve doesn't know any poetry and songs, and doesn't even know the words, this is already a very beautiful picture.

What's more, the people who are now invited to taste the same calligraphy and painting are not only like-minded people, but even stronger than themselves in the pen power of flowers and birds. Dealing with Fan Qiubai is not only pleasing to the eye, but also can learn a lot of things......

After all, a woman's mind is more delicate, and many small methods and tricks in using a pen can probably only be thought of by a girl like her.

Every time he thought of that Fang Qianying, Chu Feng couldn't help but smile.

Opening a shop, exercising, calligraphy, danqing, compiling carving, and coming and going, these are things that Chu Feng does every day and enjoys in it.

In addition, there are some endless trivial matters, which always linger inside and outside the Lu family's calligraphy and painting shop.

That's the people who come to ask for calligraphy and painting.

Initially, there were not many people in this category. Although everyone heard about Chu Feng's characters, most of them were curious and came here to see the excitement.

This situation actually started to happen very early, after all, at the ink meeting, Liu Zhengqing's actions left an impression on too many people, coupled with the matter of Mr. Cheng Yuan's acceptance of apprentices, which directly pushed Chu Feng to the forefront.

Since that time, there have been people who probed their brains at the door of Lu's calligraphy and painting shop, or pretended to come here to buy some small things of pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and secretly looked at Chu Feng by the way to see what kind of guy this person was.

There are such people who come alone, and there are many people who come in groups. Chu Feng didn't care much about this kind of thing, anyway, he had a lot of flesh and blood on his body, it didn't hurt to see it, everyone just watched it at will, and by the way, he could increase the income of the store, which was also something why not do it.

But after the township test, Chu Feng was very abruptly ordered by the chief examiner Liu to be a fellow villager. Things began to gradually change a little bit of taste.

The number of people who came to Lu's calligraphy and painting shop gradually increased, and everyone's gaze at Chu Feng began to gradually turn into scrutiny, contempt, and even a little disdain. It is not uncommon for those who are bold enough to directly say something unpleasant. Fortunately, there are not many of them, but everyone puts on the moral high ground, saying something like "Chu Langjun is also a slightly talented person, why do you want to do such a thing to sell your reputation, it is really insulting" and so on. That's good.

There were even some people who pointed at his nose directly in front of Chu Feng and scolded him with words like "insulting Sven" and "I don't know what kind of ulterior path I have taken". Sometimes, Lao Zhang felt very uncomfortable watching from the sidelines, and walked up to hug his arms and yelled a few times, which frightened these literati and scholars to disperse.

Chu Feng didn't care much about this kind of thing. To be honest, he is not a gentleman who is "like cutting and learning, such as grinding", and he can't do that kind of completely noble conduct.

This kind of indifference, more, is like a kind of laziness. I don't bother to say anything more to these people, because it's useless to say it, and there is no superfluous value other than giving feedback to the other party to make their bombardment more interesting.

There is no need to do things that are disproportionate to input and output.

Fortunately, similar things didn't last long, after the banquet in the West Lake, Chu Feng's "fellow villagers tried their origins", but after the explanation of the level of entry for those who were admitted to the academy came out, everyone's hostility towards Chu Feng naturally quickly subsided.

What's more, in what happened during the night of the West Lake banquet, people were more concerned about the "Man Tingfang" about the rhyme of the piano exercises. People were amazed by her talent and amazed by her beauty. With such a pearl and jade in front of him, Chu Feng's things are like the tulip flowers after the arrival of summer, and they really "bloom to the tulip flowers".

But in any case, after experiencing this wind and rain, Chu Feng has become a figure in the entire Hangzhou City. In this era of lack of entertainment conditions, occasionally coming to visit Chu Feng in groups has become a thing that everyone is willing to do after dinner.

It's just that one morning, when someone came to Lu's calligraphy and painting shop, he saw that Chu Feng was on the job, so he opened his mouth cheekily and asked Chu Feng for a word. Chu Feng felt that it was difficult to refuse, so he wrote and handed it over.

The man brought a chicken the next day, saying that it was to be used as a pen. Chu Feng thought about it and felt that it was okay to accept it, so he asked Brother Zhang to take it and boil the soup at night.

Chu Feng naturally didn't expect that after that, things would become a little ...... It's out of control.

More and more people began to come here to ask Chu Feng for calligraphy and painting, and the pen polishing fee brought by him also began to rise.

However, Chu Feng will not accept too complicated calligraphy and paintings, and he will not ask for too expensive polishing pens. Who knew that after going like this, he would gradually gain a reputation as "Jian Ao" for himself, and Chu Feng felt a little crying and laughing.

It's just that at this point, it's impossible to brake. Fortunately, the way of calligraphy and painting was originally based on diligence, and the pen polishing fee that everyone took could also maintain his livelihood with Mr. Wenduan and Brother Zhang.

Around the Dragon Boat Festival, Chu Feng was almost trapped by people who came to ask for words, and from the first day of May, people came to ask for words one after another. And the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, Chu Feng was almost pressed in front of the table all day long, and he didn't move much......

This is because there is such a custom in Hangzhou at this time, on the fifth day of May, a pair should be hung at home, and "May 5th Tianzhong Festival, bare mouth and white tongue will be wiped out" to ask for good luck.

Official eunuchs, scholars, and the like will naturally write it by themselves. But ordinary people can't even read and write, so they can only ask for books everywhere, and I don't know who was the first to take the lead and ask for Chu Feng, so other people began to follow suit.

Ordinary people are naturally limited to what they can get, but fortunately, when Chu Feng saw that the customs were like this, he only regarded it as doing good deeds, and did not ask for anything, and those who came did not refuse.

As a result, at the end of the day, at night, the entire calligraphy and painting shop was almost covered with chicken feathers, goose feathers, ears of wheat, wild vegetables, and other strange things, and even some strange things such as bamboo dragonflies, tiger head shoes, and embroidered fans for women were scattered in the corners...... After that, they were all given away by Chu Feng.

Although it was a day of chaos, after this day, Chu Feng's reputation in Hangzhou City was getting bigger and bigger, and ordinary people praised him for a good word. This matter later reached the ears of Lord Zhizhou, who smiled and praised "good conduct", and then waved his hand and wrote such a plaque, asked someone to frame it and sent it to Lu's calligraphy and painting shop.

This matter was handed over to Liu Zhengping to do, Liu Zhengping naturally did it with twelve points of heart, decent scenery, beating gongs and drums with the plaque on the street, and after half of Hangzhou City knew about it, he sent the plaque to Chu Feng.

After such a fuss, Chu Feng's reputation became even more prosperous.

Fame and fortune, Chu Feng will not exhaust his mind to force anything, if it is really simple or even inexplicable, he will not pretend to shirk anything, just simply accept it.

But Chu Feng didn't think it was a big deal, it was not a good thing to be touted to the clouds or something, and Chu Feng had always been sober about this.

Of course, this is naturally related to the fact that he doesn't really enjoy too many benefits of fame and fortune, and what makes people fall into it is never a sudden event. After all, freezing three feet is not a day's cold.

So far, the fame and fortune that Chu Feng has obtained is actually very simple.

In terms of interests, it is only some pen polishing fees, to be honest, he is still just a young man after all, although he has been praised by some officials in calligraphy and painting, but it is still far from the real sense of "everyone", so the pen is not high. You can eat with these brushes, but it is still very difficult to become rich and expensive because of these paintings and calligraphy.

And in terms of reputation, Chu Feng really didn't feel much.

A few noticeable changes...... First, many people on the street knew him, and some people would take the initiative to say hello, at this time, Chu Feng smiled and said a few polite words, to be honest, this feeling is similar to walking on campus, it is very casual, and there is no gap in status.

The second point, perhaps a little more obvious, is that Chu Feng will gradually receive some famous assassins and invitations, inviting him to banquets and other things.

Chu Feng didn't want to spend too much time on this kind of thing, so most of them politely pushed it off. Therefore, he couldn't help but get a few complaints, "I really think I am something", Chu Feng has also heard such words, but he has taken them as a deaf ear and does not care.

A real friend, Chu Feng, naturally will not shirk. Liu Zhengqing also took him to the banquets of the scholars several times, and he was very familiar with Liu Zhengqing, so the banquet was also casual, there was not too much embarrassment, flattery and the like, and it was very comfortable to talk and laugh.

I went there again after drinking the moon boat, and met with the piano girl, but only played a small tune and left. I heard that the piano gymnastics girl has been turning purple recently, and I don't know how many scenes to turn around in one night, and time is really money.

Chu Feng looked at the woman from a distance, only to feel that she was still quiet and elegant, no matter how she wandered in the world, her whole body seemed to be immaculate, clean and amazing.

How did he know that Qin Cao had sent someone to Chu Feng to ask for calligraphy and painting many times in private. Those calligraphy and paintings are now quietly placed in the room of the piano exercise, for her to take out and enjoy Mosuo when she has occasional free time......

Life is in a hurry, but it is also delicious.

On this day, Chu Feng told Mr. Wen Duan about the Fan family's lady hiring a boat to go north in a few days and inviting a few of them to go together. Mr. Wen Duan thought about it and felt that this matter mainly depended on Mr. Cheng Yuan's thoughts.

"Tomorrow when you go out of the city, the old man will also walk with you. Cheng Yuan is also a gentleman, but he is too stubborn, and it depends on how the old man persuades him! Mr. Wen Duan stroked his beard and smiled, looking confident.

Although Chu Feng didn't dare to believe it completely, with Mr. Wenduan's words, a hanging heart could be regarded as letting go of three points.

After breakfast, when he opened the door of the store, Chu Feng saw a figure standing with an umbrella.

A red rain covered her figure with a cloak, but it couldn't hide the slight arrogance emanating from her bones. The red cloak had been soaked in rain in many places, revealing a half-worn look, as if it had blended in with the gray tones in front of him.

The rain curtain was so dense that it was impossible to see anything ten steps away. The eaves on the opposite side vaguely outline a line, as if it would be blown away by a breeze.

She held a pale yellow oil-paper umbrella, stood quietly with her back to the door, as if she wanted to blend in with the rain.