Ning walked along the bamboo bridge to His Excellency Zhuxia, but saw Tongying sitting under the porch in a daze. Tong Ying smiled: "Sister Shu is here?" I heard that Lao Duan went out? Shuning said: "My brother went to the hillside to watch people harvest fruits, I have already asked someone to invite them, and I think I will be back soon." Did the people at the bottom bring tea and snacks? What are the shortcomings of Brother Tong Ying? ”

Tong Ying said: "There is nothing missing, everything is complete, I am also a frequent customer, Sister Shu does not have to be polite." Shuning didn't see his scholar Tianyang, so he asked him where he went, and when he heard that he went to the back of the Water Pavilion to wash his clothes, he couldn't help but widen his eyes: "Brother Tongying has clothes to wash, although it is good to hand them over to our family, why let Tianyang wash them?" "And still behind the Water Pavilion? In the garden? Don't pollute the lake.

Tongying said: "It was he who was naughty and soiled his clothes, of course he had to be punished, and if he didn't punish him, he thought I was really good." ”

Shu Ning saw that there was some hidden anger between his eyebrows, and thought that his mother said that he seemed to be in a bad mood, so she cautiously asked, "Brother Tongying, are you angry?" ”

Tongying looked at her twice and smiled: "It's okay, it's just a little tired." Look at the lotus flowers over there, they are blooming well and smell very fragrant. ”

Shuning followed his line of sight and looked over, it turned out to be the lotus flower in front of Linyuan Pavilion, only eight or nine flowers had bloomed, and some of the leaves had begun to wither, in fact, it should be the last batch of this year, and in the big lotus pond outside, the lotus roots were almost harvested.

Tongying said softly: "Actually, this flower is beautiful, the aroma is pleasant, the cooking is delicious, it is a good flower, there is really no need to be angry for life, is it?" ”

Shuning didn't understand what he meant. Don't talk. After a while, Tong Ying stood up, turned around and smiled: "Don't stand stupidly, although it's autumn, the sun is still big, go into the house and sit?" A few days ago, on your birthday, I wanted to come over to congratulate you, but my sister-in-law was about to give birth. It made the whole family scramble. It's over. The days have also been missed, and I didn't have the time to come until today. I specially prepared a big gift to see if I like it. While speaking, he went to the calligraphy and painting room in the pavilion.

Shuning followed up and said, "Since it was your sister-in-law who gave birth, why did Brother Tongying still go out?" ”

Tong Ying smiled: "It's okay, a bunch of girls are guarding it, and my brother is also there." What can I do there as an uncle? What's more, my sister-in-law is afraid that she doesn't want to see me recently, so it's better to hide and be quiet. He took out a scroll from his painting bag and unfolded it on the desk: "Come and see, do you recognize what you painted?" ”

Actually sent a painting? That's a rarity, and it looks like it's not small. Shuning walked over and took a look.

It was a long scroll with a horizontal axis, titled "Pearl River Style", which obviously depicted the city of Guangzhou. From the middle of the house as the boundary. The ground on the left is a daytime street scene. The shops by the river, the fishing boats in the river, the carts and horses in the streets. The flowers and trees on the side of the road, the big boat looming in the distance, interspersed with clerks, customers, small workers, hawkers, fishermen, flower sellers, children, the elderly, etc., tall, short, fat and thin, men, women and children, all different, and even in the lower left corner of the painting of a Western woman with a Habal shopping; On the right, the painting is a night scene, a full moon in the sky, the fishing boat in the river has been replaced by a painting boat, there are many drinkers on the boat, and there are singers playing the pipa, a small food stall is set up on the shore to sell porridge and noodles, children are running with lanterns, a few old men are sitting on the edge of the threshold while smoking and snorting their teeth, and a small flower cat is at his feet, with black spots on his body, and he is cute and cute.

The whole picture is a white drawing, the layout is very special, the painting is also very careful, the kapok and magnolia on the roadside are clearly recognizable, Shuning can even recognize that the people in the painting boat are eating lychees and bananas, he can't help but be a little moved, he must have spent a lot of effort to prepare this gift, so he said: "This painting is amazing, Brother Tongying must have spent a lot of effort, right?" ”

Tong Ying smiled: "What is this? You look complicated, but it's actually very easy to draw. These worldly things are not interesting to others, so you can like them. Moreover, you also have a small credit for this painting. Shuning asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Tong Ying took out a large paper book from the painting bag to show her, she flipped it, and found that it was a picture of Guangzhou style, or people or things, or houses or scenes, although it was hastily hooked, but it was also interesting, but looking at it, I always felt a little familiar. She raised her head and glanced at Tongying, only to see him smile and say, "You can see it, right?" This is the painting you sent back to Beijing in those years, I borrowed it and repainted it, and now I put these small pictures together to form this "Pearl River Style". ”

Shuning suddenly realized, I see. She carefully compared the painting book in her hand with the big picture, and found that it was indeed a work of 100 spells, no wonder she always felt that something was wrong. On the map during the day, the big boat is copied, and the basket of the flower girl is the same as in the drawing book, but the face is the face of the little girl who sells olive fruits; In the evening picture, the stall selling noodles, the tables and chairs are exactly the same as the tea shacks in the nearby town, but the layout of the kitchen is a bit like the noodle stall of Ah Yin's family in the past, and even the chef in charge of the spoon has the same hairstyle as Ah Yin. The rest is also borrowed here and used there, and even the old man who smokes hookah, the posture of knocking on the cigarette stick is very similar to the old Wu head.

She said: "It turned out to be a hundred puzzles, no wonder there was something wrong." She pointed to the painting and said with a smile: "How can kapok and magnolia open at the same time?" The hawker is a rice dumpling, the flowers in the basket are frangipani and chrysanthemums, and the foreign woman wears a winter hat on her head; Also, looking at the full moon and children's lanterns, isn't it in the Mid-Autumn Festival? But the guests on the boat used lychees, the seasonal fruit of summer, are obviously used. This painting is simply a net of Guangzhou all year round. ”

Tongying's face turned red when she heard this, and she coughed lightly and said, "Give me some face, I have put a lot of thought into it." Shuning smiled and said, "Could it be that if I tell the truth, Brother Tongying will be angry?" Tongying thought for a while and touched her head: "No." You're correcting me wrong. Shuning nodded with satisfaction: "Then, I'll tell you the biggest mistake." The name of this painting is wrong, the Pearl River is outside the city, and the scenery you paint is clearly inside the city. ”

Tongying's eyes widened: "No......" Shuning smiled at Mimi: "Yes." This scene is more like a jade belt, and this is not the case on the edge of the Pearl River. Tong Ying sighed: "I should have thought of the ground, something I haven't seen with my own eyes." Sure enough, the drawing is not good. Shuning said: "Actually, Brother Tong Ying doesn't have to be presumptuous, if you don't pay attention to the details, this painting is originally very good, but it reminds me of a poem I read." ”

She took a blank piece of paper, Tong Ying helped polish the ink, she picked up the pen and wrote:

Guangnan is rich and prosperous all over the world, and the atmosphere of the four seasons is as long as spring. The Great Wall is in the white clouds, and the spring river is in the area under the city. …… Teenagers have fun everywhere. The south side of the city is more prosperous. …… Min Ji Yue Nu fattening cat 5200 Yan Ruhua. The wild song is hoarse. A'e big ship reflects the clouds. Jia Ke has thousands of rooms. …… You Ye stays and wants to return,

The fire is rotten. Visitors pass everywhere into a brocade array, and the flowers are full of embankments when the son is drunk. … Huoqi Mountain, Frangipani Litian Fragrance Country. Don't come to the atmosphere is unbearable, there are few autumn flowers on the wine bottle. Looking back at the old song and dance place, the west wind is slanting and the sun is light and dusk.

After writing it, Tong Ying took it and read it. I felt that most of my paintings matched my own paintings, so I asked whose poem it was. Shuning said with a smile: "This is Sun Wei's "Guangzhou Song", which is about Jade Daihao. This Mr. Sun is a figure in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, and he is the head of the five gentlemen of the Nanyuan Poetry Society. Sister Zhenzhen and I both like the poetry of the South Park Poetry Society, when my brother and I were in Guangzhou, I often went out with Sister Zhenzhen and them to play, and I went to the South Park a few times, and then parted at the dock. Sister Zhenzhen also specially burned a kang screen with a Nanyuan poem and gave it to her brother. The word 'South Park' is our four earth codes. As soon as we saw these two words, we knew that it was each other. ”

"Four?" Tongying's heart moved, "Could it be that there is still Chongli?" ”

Shuning nodded: "Originally, it was just me and Sister Zhenzhen going out." But the brothers were not at ease, so they followed. ”

Tongying smiled and said, "This poem is good, why don't you just write it on the painting?" Sister Shu wrote it herself, right? Shuning hesitated, and Tongying said, "What's this?" Horizontal and vertical is given to you, and others will not know. Shuning thought about it, so she picked up the pen, brewed for a while, and inscribed the poem.

Her original handwriting was actually delicate, but now that she writes it, it is slightly rounded at the turn, giving people a sense of wealth and leisure, which matches the picture very well. Tongying praised a few words, but Shuning said: "Actually, it's nothing, I practice calligraphy almost every day, and sometimes I get bored of practicing, so I make some changes in the font, and it is more interesting to write." ”

Tongying was silent for a while before smiling slightly: "Yes, people can't always be satisfied with just one style, and occasionally try something else." He turned to Shu Ning and said, "Sister Shu, I have been learning painting with a Jiao master for nearly a year, and he suddenly asked me to re-study flowers, birds, and landscapes a month ago, and said that if I only concentrate on the figures, I will not be able to achieve anything." I didn't quite understand it at first, but now I seem to understand it a little. ”

Shu Ning guessed a little, and said: "I believe that Brother Tong Ying will be able to learn well, with your current age, you have already drawn the characters so well, only with more care, the rest must be fine." Tongying smiled: "Thank you, accept your auspicious words." ”

Shuning smiled and said softly: "I also want to thank Brother Tongying for the gift, I like this painting very much, it looks like going back to the old days in Guangzhou." Tongying paused and asked, "Do you miss those days so much?" Shuning nodded: "At that time, I went out when I loved to go out, and I did whatever I liked, although I was very comfortable here now, but it was not as easy and happy as it was then." Tongying smiled: "You are also unlucky, the first time you went back to Beijing to meet a state funeral, the second time you came back, you have to keep filial piety, you haven't really played in Beijing, right?" In another half a month, you will be able to walk around Beijing freely, how about I take you to play when the time comes? Shuning smiled and said yes.

She put away the painting, looked at the sky outside the window, and exclaimed, "It turns out that it is almost evening, why hasn't my brother come back yet?" Only then did she see a bottle of Amaranth on the table in front of the window, and it seemed that it was her own farming, but this kind of flower has always been rarely used to insert bottles, how could there be here?

Tong Ying saw her looking at the flowers, and hurriedly said: "This is when I went to the garden first, I saw that the flowers were blooming well, so I asked Tianyang to fold a few branches to insert a bottle, please don't be surprised." ”

Shuning hurriedly shook her head and said: "It's nothing, we also grow a lot of amaranth, I just think that this flower is lined with azure ground bottles, although it is beautiful, but it is a little plain." And there is a lotus fragrance here, and the fragrance of this amaranth is mixed in it, but it is not visible. ”

Tong Ying smiled: "Although the lotus is fragrant, it will get tired after smelling it for a long time, I prefer the smell of this lily, it is fragrant and elegant, and you have to get close to know its benefits." I was going to put it in my bedroom at night...... when I went to bed," he froze, and suddenly stopped.

Shuning was smelling the flower, and when she heard him suddenly stop talking, she turned her head to see what was going on, only to see him looking at him in a daze, his eyes were a little complicated, and he asked, "Brother Tongying, what's wrong with you?" ”

"No, it's nothing...... Tongying lowered her head, cleaned up the four treasures of the study on the table, and was a little flustered, "By the way, why did that kid from Tianyang wash for so long?" Aren't you lazy? Ah, the old man is really, I came, and he didn't come back sooner. ”

Shuning was a little strange, glanced at him a few times, and saw that he seemed to be thinking something, so she said, "It's not early, how is my dinner prepared." Is Brother Tong Ying eating here tonight, or is he going to eat with us? ”

Tong Ying didn't raise her head and said: "It's okay here, you can ask someone to send the food to Linyuan Pavilion, and I will let Tianyang get it." He put the pen and paper on the left to the right, and the inkstone on the right to the left, and he didn't know what to think.

Shu Ning looked at him strangely, and saw that he didn't seem to want to continue the conversation, and it was very late, so she took her leave, and when she left, she took the bottle of Amaranth to a place away from the light, so that it would no longer be exposed to the sun, although it was only the sunset.

After walking a distance, she looked back and saw Tong Ying patting her head constantly, wondering if he had suddenly become nervous.

The night was spent peacefully. The next day, Tong Ying appeared in the front house, and her behavior was very natural, so Shuning didn't have any suspicions.

With Tongying's consent, the clan revealed to him that the little grandfather lived in the back garden, but also made it clear that the other party didn't like others to disturb him. He Tara complied willingly.

But when Tongying sent someone to invite her daughter to chat, she dressed up for her daughter very enthusiastically and instructed a lot of words. It's a pity that she didn't expect that for Su Su, her admiration for Tongying was already yesterday's yellow flower, and now she just regarded him as a great friend. Su Xu also guessed her mother's intentions slightly, and she was very embarrassed, although she answered her in her mouth, but when facing Tongying, she was just a little cramped at first, and then returned to her original state. His Tala's calculations were in vain.

Tongying came this time, but she just wanted to change her mood, so she stayed for two days and left. He Talashi found it boring, and took his daughter back to his house. Although the house has been idle for a while, and her stay in Beijing this time is not long, her precious daughter is very reluctant to go back to the Earl's Court, so she has to go home.

When she left, Zhang Bao's whole family breathed a sigh of relief, and even Xiaobao was happy that she would not be rolled by her "aunt" again. It makes it easy for the whole family to "hurry up" for a few days. On the third day of the ninth lunar month, the whole family took a carriage and returned to the Earl's Court in the capital.