"It's not too early, so I'll go back first." After saying it clearly, Du Jinning was about to leave.

"Senior Brother Du, you can sit down again." Xu Chengyuan said, looking at her and stopping.

Xie Shi was worried that he would mention family affairs again, which would embarrass the two families, and it would be difficult for them to get along in the future, so he hurriedly said: "Brother Yuan, didn't you write a new book again?" Are you going to let Brother Ning guide you again? ”

"Senior Brother Du, come and sit in my room." Xu Chengyuan invited.

"Okay, then bother Senior Brother Xu for a while." Du Jinning was also curious about what Xu Chengyuan wanted to say.

Xie Shi was helpless, so he had to use his eyes to signal his son not to talk nonsense.

Xu's house is a courtyard, with three main rooms, two east and west wings, and an inverted seat in the north as a kitchen and utility room.

Xu Chengyuan's bedroom and study are in the east wing. Du Jinning followed him to his study.

Although there is not much furniture in the study, there is only a bookcase, a bookshelf, and two chairs, but it is clean and tidy. On the wall of the study, there are two paintings and a word, look at the payment, but it is Xu Chengyuan's own work.

"Senior Brother Xu can also draw?" Du Jinning looked at the two paintings and asked.

In the two paintings, one is fishing in a lonely boat, and the other is drinking alone under the flowers, and the painting technique is different from today, using a small freehand processing brush. The previous painting of rivers and heaven and earth uses a freehand method, and the figures and lonely boats are brushwork; The same is true for the latter painting, where the trees and eaves are freehand, and the tables, chairs, wine glasses and figures are brushwork. But the combination of these two methods of painting is extraordinarily harmonious.

"It's just a random drawing, and you can't put it on the table." Xu Chengyuan smiled embarrassedly.

"Why doesn't Senior Brother Xu paint and sell them? Instead, learn to write a script? Du Jinning said strangely.

Xu Chengyuan is not only good at painting, but also naturally loves it. Doing what he likes and making money by the way is better than learning to write a script from scratch, right? How to put the cart before the horse?

Xu Chengyuan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Although our family used to be worry-free, it was good to send me to study, how can you teach me to draw?" I learned this painting skill from an old talent nearby. Later, when I went to the academy, I realized that this method of painting was not well understood. I have been practicing this painting technique for seven or eight years, and my master has passed away, so I am not willing to change my master to learn new painting skills. When the family is in the middle of the road, if you want to rely on it to make a living, you can't rely on it. You also know that the people of Lishui County like to write freely. Even if my paintings sell for a very low price, they can't be sold. So I put this mind to rest. ”

"I see." Du Jinning was stunned.

She doesn't have much research on painting, but she can't stand Guan Lehe is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and is also famous, and people often come to ask for books and paintings. She has been exposed to it for a while, and she also knows some about the situation in the calligraphy and painting world in Lishui County.

There was a painter in Lishui County before, and the painter's painting skills were appreciated by the emperor, and the paintings he made were also collected at a high price, and were respected by the people of the time. And this painter's painting method is freehand, and under his influence, the readers of Lishui County also respect the freehand painting method.

The Zhuang family doesn't know a single big character, and they won't spend money to buy paintings to hang; Those who can buy paintings are all scholars who like to be vassal. The county is prosperous, and Xu Chengyuan's painting method is naturally regarded as a small road, and it is reasonable that it cannot be sold.

However, this painting skill is nothing in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Du Jinning, it is the same as a baby.

"Senior Brother Xu, I want to cooperate with you on this painting." She walked across from Xu Chengyuan and sat down, her eyes shining.

Xu Chengyuan asked Du Jinning to enter the study, intending to find out Du Fangfei's thoughts from Du Jinning. can see the hint in his mother's eyes, and then think about the fact that the Du family has no intention of getting married, even if he asks, it will be useless, but it will embarrass each other, so he put down this full of thoughts and frustration, and went to the bookcase to sort out his newly written unbound book, and planned to show it to Du Jinning and ask for advice.

At this time, he could hear Du Jinning's words, he was stunned, raised his head, and looked at Du Jinning in a daze: "What, what do you mean?" ”

"I think you also know that I wrote "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and "Dragon Babu", and now they are said by the storyteller of Boyue Teahouse, which is very popular. I plan to open a bookstore in the next year and print these two books for sale. But there are not many literate people, and many more are illiterate or only a few words. I just looked at your drawings and thought, if you were asked to draw the plots of these two books page by page, there would be a lot of people who wanted to buy them. Would you like to work with me? ”

Speaking of this, she blinked her eyes: "There can be two ways to cooperate, one is to draw a thirty-page album and give you five taels of silver; You can also take a cut based on sales. For example, if I sell a picture book, you can take a 20 penny, and the more you sell, the more money you get. ”

The idea of selling villain books was already planned when Du Jinning wrote "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" and handed it over to the storyteller to tell the story. The villain books of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century and the cartoons of the 21st century are all illustrated and illustrated, and they don't sell too well. In ancient times, where there were no entertainment activities and a storytelling of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" could cause a sensation, I think that the villain book will definitely bring a fresh experience to the ancients.

However, the plan to open a bookstore to sell books and villain books, she plans to wait for the teahouse to make money and the constraints of school have been settled before implementation, first, she is short of money, and second, she is also short of painters who can draw villain books. At that time, she was still thinking that after she went to school at the academy, she would slowly look for it among the students. I didn't expect it to come to life now, but it didn't take any effort to get it now.

Xu Chengyuan is willing to spend time learning to write a script in order to make money, so he doesn't think he will refuse to draw a villain book for her, right?

"Really?" Xu Chengyuan's gloomy eyes suddenly lit up because of the rejection of his family.

He is not only to make a lot of money immediately, but also because he really likes the book "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".

As a seventeen or eighteen-year-old brother, he was able to ask a child in his early teens for advice, and said that he would worship him as a teacher, and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" played the most crucial role. After all, the master is a teacher, and the person who can write such a magnificent and wonderful script is not an ordinary thing, and he is convinced.

Now, Du Jinning actually took a fancy to him and asked him to draw this book and show it to everyone, which was a great honor for him.

Du Jinning nodded; "Naturally."

"So, when does that start?" Xu Chengyuan looked at Du Jinning with bright eyes, eager to try, and geared up.