No matter how much she tried, it seemed like she was doing useless work. Every time she is about to succeed, she is greeted only by failure, and those fires seem to be hitting her self-confidence, as if telling Xia Chongming: Give up! You can't do it alone!

She lifted her pen, her wrist sour. Xia Chongming sighed softly, put the pen on the table, pressed the table, raised her ass a little, and looked at the cinnabar ink in the inkstone in front of her. She had grinded a lot of cinnabar before, but now that she had used up the blocks, there was no moisture at the bottom of the inkstone, and some of the cinnabar had turned into powder.

What went wrong? Is it the reason why she uses too little cinnabar? It shouldn't be that she appropriately increases the amount of cinnabar every time, until finally this brush can no longer hold more cinnabar. She couldn't finish this little fixation spell, and she couldn't draw it perfectly.

This set of things must have been used by Su Jin, and it must have been painted with some special methods, but now she has no personal guidance by her side, where does she know any special methods!

Xia Chongming stood up, she turned around and walked to the side of the bed, lay on the bed, she turned her whole person into a big character, looked at the ceiling, and thought wildly in her mind how this could be successful.

She raised her hand and flipped it over. She found that the outside of her right arm had been rubbed with red cinnabar, which was obviously the result of her hard work. It was getting late outside the window, and she had been practicing this in her room for an afternoon, but she hadn't come up with a reason.

Or maybe that's it! When Su Soul comes back after a while, it's not too late for her to ask Su Soul again. She retreated in her heart, and she didn't want to practice anymore.

Xia Chongming began to think crankily in bed, and her thoughts were pulled back to her elementary school days. At that time, there was a special art course in the school, and the school paid great attention to the quintessence of the country, so the teacher of the course was a disciple of a master of Chinese painting in China, and the teacher was also very responsible, teaching students to draw some interesting paintings every time.

And Xia Chongming's painting skills were cultivated at that time. The teacher was a man in his thirties, with a beer belly and a dark brown pelo fir every day. He held up his palette before each class and asked the group of students under the podium, "What are we going to draw today?" ”

His palette can be said to be a true palette "palette". Why? That's because the palette doesn't look like the art utensils you see on the market, with separate grids, and this plate is a white porcelain plate that he took from his home at random. It's round and white, and there are traces of paint on it that haven't been washed off.

Xia Chongming always wondered how he could use this kind of palette without grid so that each color would not mix together. However, his later answer to this question was that he deliberately mixed the colors together, and he thought that there was no need to put each color in a box, and that "colors" were meant to be "mixed" together.

When the students in the audience heard his words, they often replied in unison: "Draw small animals!" Draw small animals! ”

"Teacher! You taught us how to draw pandas last week! ”

"Teacher! He misremembered! Last week, it was obviously a painted angelfish! ”

"No, no, no! You're all wrong! It's a sparrow! It's a sparrow! ”

Classmates, you and I discussed it sentence by sentence, and of course the teacher taught all of what they said. It's just that he taught too much, and Xia Chongming still can't remember how many kinds of small animals he has taught. The teacher's favorite thing to draw is animals, and he also likes to teach his group of students to draw animals.

After all, it was too difficult for children of that age to draw dead objects and mountains and rivers that they had never seen before. These small animals can not only attract their attention, mobilize their spirits, but also exercise their painting skills. After all, there are not many people who can draw these brushes to life.

That day, he smiled and said to his classmates, "How about I teach you how to draw shrimp today?" The corners of his eyes were smiling, and his tone sounded very relaxed.

But this sentence is not easy at all in everyone's hearts. Although they had never painted shrimp before, they had heard of its difficulty. Many people know that the ancestor of the teacher on the stage is a well-known shrimp painting master in China. The craftsmanship is exquisite, and the skill is unparalleled. It's not that the students don't want to learn, but it's just that it was extremely difficult until this time, and some retreated.

They all looked embarrassed, and some of them seemed to want to say, "Teacher, forget it, it's too difficult." "It's not that they don't want to learn, but they feel that they are too young now, how can they master it?

How can the transparent body of the shrimp be outlined with a brush and monotonous ink. How do you draw the two slender whiskers on the head of the shrimp with a soft brush? If they paint this thing well, it is just an image, and they can't paint it alive. If you can't draw well, to put it mildly, it's a mess of ink on the paper, and the abstract can't be more abstract.

No one wants to go home to show their parents such a picture, everyone wants to learn something simple and easy to use, so that their parents can praise it when they get home.

But just then, a voice in the corner stood out, and she said, "Okay! I heard that your ancestor became famous by painting shrimp! Teacher, can you teach us too? ”

It was Xia Chongming who spoke, her face was immature at that time, and her small face was fleshy, revealing a natural pink. She sat in the last row of the classroom, with sleeves on her arms, holding on to the desk, raising her hands and looking at the teacher standing on the podium expectantly.

Her words instantly attracted the attention of many people, and these eyes were full of incomprehension, and some people even had some disgust with Xia Chongming's behavior. The teacher on the podium said kindly: "Of course I have to teach!" Don't be afraid, I'll teach you some tricks. ”

He soothed the agitated students, took out a toothpick from his backpack, held it up and asked, "Look, what is this?" ”

"Toothpicks." The students replied.

"Well, that's a toothpick. Now I'm going to use a toothpick to draw shrimp. He nodded, and then picked up a small brush, dipped a toothpick in ink, and dipped it in some water.

He first used a toothpick to lightly sketch on the rice paper, and then used the brush dipped in water to smudge the lines that he had sketched. Finally, I reused the toothpick dipped in thick ink to outline the shrimp and pull the two long whiskers. The last two strokes are the finishing touches, he squeezes out the water from the brush with his hands, then soaks the tip of the pen in ink, and with two strokes, the shrimp's eyes come out.

The whole process took only five minutes, and the students in the audience watched a monotonous line on the rice paper at the beginning turn into a vivid shrimp! The shrimp body is crystal clear, the shrimp legs are slender and long, the roots are distinct, and the long shrimp whiskers seem to be swinging in the water waves. It didn't look like it was drawn, but a live shrimp on paper!

The students in the audience were amazed by the practice, and Xia Chongming was also very fascinated by it. The fact that the teacher can draw shrimp vividly is not enough to surprise the students, after all, he is a teacher! But he only used two tools the whole time, that is, the toothpick and the little white cloud brush. Who would have thought that a toothpick would be such a great drawing tool!

"Teacher! Isn't it necessary to use a brush to draw Chinese paintings? How did you use a toothpick! A questioning voice sounded somewhere in the audience, and this question happened to be what Xia Chongming wanted to ask. She looked forward intently to the teacher's answer next, thinking about the reason why she might use a toothpick.

As a result, the teacher actually threw the toothpick he had just used into the trash, and said sharply with his hands behind his back: "When did I tell you that you can only use a brush to paint Chinese paintings?" People in our country paint with absolute freedom and ease! No one has ever stipulated that you need to use a brush to draw, isn't a toothpick a 'pen'? This painting should also pay attention to the selection tool, different tools can draw different effects......"

Different tools can draw different effects. This sentence has been in Xia Chongming's heart for so many years, and what this teacher wants to express is that painting cannot be limited by the only tools in his hand, can't chopsticks and toothpicks be used as pens? Since the brush is not good, then replace it with a toothpick, don't you think it's a lot easier?

Xia Chongming suddenly sat up from the bed with a "rub", and she suddenly understood! It's not that the way she writes is wrong, or that she doesn't use enough cinnabar ink. On the contrary, she was wrong from the very beginning, from the very fundamental choice of tools!

It's a talisman! If you don't paint Chinese painting, how can you use a simple brush to paint? Even if this kind of thing is drawn as an attack, it can't be called a rune! It's nothing more than a useless piece of waste paper!

What kind of tools to use, what kind of "drawing" to draw. And the talisman seal belongs to the cultivator's world, what is the root of the cultivator's cultivation of spells? What is the most basic need?

It's spiritual power!

Xia Chongming patted her head, how could she just forget this? If you had remembered it earlier, you wouldn't have wasted so much cinnabar and rune paper!

But how do you use this spiritual power? If you can't grasp or touch spiritual power, how can you use it as a "pen"? Although she thought of using spiritual power to draw the talisman seal, she still didn't understand how to draw it successfully.

However, after Xia Chongming's thinking, some simple ideas had already taken shape in her mind. She is extremely intelligent, as long as she understands this, the rest of the matter is not difficult for her.

She walked over to her desk and sat down again.