CHAPTER XVIII

"What are you looking at? So distracted. Hua Yu couldn't help but ask a few questions, after all, in such a gloomy day, sitting in a few teahouses is really a bit boring.

"No, nothing." Xiang Ziyu came back to his senses, and couldn't help but look at the painting shop opposite, just now he saw a girl dressed in crescent moon white and wearing a veil, followed by a girl in red clothes, with two small haircuts walking into the painting shop.

Look familiar, especially the back, no matter how you look at it, it looks like her. Hua Yu suddenly called, interrupting his thoughts, took a sip of tea, and replied: "Just looking at this gloomy street, most of you in Jiangnan are cloudy and rainy days, such days should be common, right?"

Hua Yu smiled: "Although most of the days in Jiangnan are cloudy and rainy, unlike Chang'an, the dark clouds there will not be so heavy, and the rain will not be majestic, it will be light rain, and the smoke and rain will be misty." It's not as depressing as it is here. ”

"What you said, I want to go to Jiangnan to have a look." Xiang Ziyu responded casually, and his mind was still on that back.

Hua Yu took a sip of tea, looked at the overlapping yellow walls and black tiles, and sighed: "When I left Chang'an, it seemed to be such a rainy day, gloomy and terrible, I was afraid that I would never come back, after going to Jiangnan, they all said that Jiangnan, Xiaoqiao people, and Chang'an's majestic atmosphere is completely different, but... It's never a place to be. I still have to go back to Chang'an. ”

Xiang Ziyu smiled knowingly and touched the mouth of the wrong cup, "Jiangnan is a good place to recuperate, but Chang'an is a place where you can display your ambitions. ”

"That's true."

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"Miss, found it, found it!" Hua Lu exclaimed a few times, heard the movement of Suo Suo at the front door, and consciously lowered her voice: "Wow... Miss, do you see this one? ”

As he spoke, he used his boss's strength to pull out a pair of paintings from a pile of paintings, the paintings were a little overcast, and the ink in several places was smudged, it was estimated that it was a painting by an unknown painter, and after the painting, it was sold directly to this painting shop, and even the binding was troublesome.

Hua Rong took the painting, looked up and down, the area mark that fell on the top is Nanshan, the painting is good, it is the scenery of Nanshan Bashui, although there is a place where the ink is smudged, but it does not affect the overall beauty, the brush is soft, but it outlines the magnificence of Nanshan, but it makes Huarong a little surprised.

"Yes, it's indeed Nanshan's painting, look for it again, and see if the other one is there?" Hua Rong squatted in a pile of paintings, rummaging around, since he had found this one, Hua Rong was a little more convinced of the existence of the other one, "Hua Lu, hand me that pile to see." ”

"Oh, good." Hua Lu reacted quickly, stepped forward a few steps, picked up the thick one and put it in front of Hua Rong, and then continued to rummage.

The two of them worked together, and after a while they found another, on the other hand, the thick stacks of paintings in the corner had almost been turned over, and this one and the one should have been the same person in terms of style and brushwork.

"Boss." Hua Rong stretched out her pink fist and tapped it lightly on the high table, "Both paintings have been found." ”

"Huh? Got it? The shopkeeper stretched lazily, waking up from a big dream, yawning several times in succession, provoking Huarong and Hualu to be infected, and also wanted to hit a few, "The two girls are very lucky, this thing has been piled up with me for several years, and it was about to be taken and thrown away, but I didn't expect it to be really found by you." ”

Hua Rong looked at the painting and said puzzledly: "It looks like the painting is good, and it can be regarded as perfect, much better than the ones outside." Hua Rong casually pointed to the two paintings bordered by gold wire not far away, and compared them, I don't know how much better the one in my hand is, "Why did you throw it away?" If you take it out, you will definitely be able to sell it for a good price. ”

The shopkeeper glanced at the gold-trimmed painting a few times, and then glanced at the painting in his hand twice, and said casually but irrefutably: "Oh... Those two paintings are everyone's works, and they are also famous in Chang'an City. And the girl has these two pairs in her hand..."

The shopkeeper looked at it and smacked his tongue: "It's good, it's good, but the people who can't paint this painting are unknown, and even the people who can't paint this painting are unknown, and even the painting is sunk into the sea, and Nanshan is a remote and poor place, who would like to paint Nanshan?" Those dignitaries and nobles like the majestic ancient city paintings of Chang'an, and no matter how bad they are, they have to be the smoke and rain paintings of the rich places in the south of the Yangtze River. It's not uncommon for people to appreciate this kind of painting. If the girl likes it, I can sell it to the girl at a discount. ”

The last two sentences are extremely casual, as if it is not a problem to give it away directly, of course, it is better to collect that money.

Hua Rong couldn't say a word of rebuttal and defense for the store's words, but sighed and put the two words on the long table, "Then wrap it up for me." ”

"Okay!" The old face of the shopkeeper was suddenly full of smiles, and his lazy body was also a lot sharper, "Although these two paintings are not famous, they are still good paintings, this is a gloomy day, there are few guest officers, the girl is the first order, I will give the girl an affordable price, how about two ten taels?" It's a good start. ”

"Two pairs of ten taels?" Hua Lu was immediately unhappy when she heard it, after listening to so much, it was nothing more than that no one appreciated the famous painting, plus there were some places on it that were smeared, and these ten taels were indeed some..."Didn't you see that we were easy to bully, and we sincerely liked this painting, so we robbed it?! You can see that several places on this painting have been blurred, and it's already been..."

Listening to Hua Lu crackled and said a lot, the shopkeeper hurriedly disarmed and surrendered, originally thinking that there were two wronged leaders, and they wanted more, but they didn't expect it to be a good stubble, "That's it, that's it." I see that the two girls sincerely like it, so how about five taels? Five taels can't be less. No matter how young or old I am, I will lose money! ”

Hua Lu pondered for a moment, and as soon as it dropped by half, five taels or two could indeed be reluctantly accepted, so she was silent and waited for Hua Rong to speak.

Hua Rong didn't think too much about it, and directly took out five taels of broken silver from his sleeve and put it on the table, "Please trouble the store to wrap it up." ”

"Okay!" The shopkeeper took the broken silver, and Ben's hand that paused to bandage became numb again, and when he buckled the rope, his fingers reached into the ribbon and paused for a moment, and then he took a hemp rope and bandaged it casually.

"By the way, do you know who painted these two paintings?"

"The one who painted?" The shopkeeper paused, raised his head slightly, and thought for a while: "A poor scholar, from Nanshan, I didn't want to accept these two paintings, but at that time, he had no food to eat, and he was about to starve to death.

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper handed the bandaged painting to Hua Rong, walked to the door from behind the long table, pointed to the west and said, "Na... I remember that he used to live in a small thatched hut in that area, I heard that he had read a lot of books, and wanted to participate in the scientific expedition, but unfortunately there was no way out, so he didn't come to Chang'an to try his luck, so he lived there. "Take a hundred plating and read the latest chapter of "Soul Crossing Spirit Claw Book House" for free for the first time.