Chapter 896: The whereabouts of the master and the story of the painter of Magu Baiyue
Faced with Yan Tielong's inquiry, Mrs. Tuqilier said that she could not be sure of the authenticity of this information, but there was one thing that could be true to the authenticity of the information.
After Mrs. Tuqilier finished speaking, she took out a portrait and put it in front of Yan Tielong, and when Yan Tielong saw the portrait, he immediately recognized it as a realistic portrait of his wife, Kingsley Yixi.
After seeing the portrait, Yan Tielong did not think that Mrs. Tuqilier was fake, so he said that he wanted to meet the painter who painted this painting, and wanted to ask about his wife.
Madame Tuqiriel nodded, and she led Yan Tielong to the painter they had been holding.
Soon, Yan Tielong followed Mrs. Tuqilier to the lower room of the Flower Moon Pavilion to meet his target, but the painter was making a painting with his left hand wholeheartedly.
Seeing that the painter was painting wholeheartedly, Yan Tielong also liked to paint, so he did not come forward to disturb, but went to the side and asked Mrs. Tuqilier very quietly about the painter in front of him.
She didn't answer Yan Tielong's question immediately, but took Yan Tielong to another room and instructed the servants to wait for Magu Baiyue Painter to inform her when he was ready, and then began to tell about Magu Baiyue Painter.
It turns out that Magu Baiyue is already 30 years old this year, and he has been painting for 27 years, that is, he has been painting since he was three years old.
In fact, Magu Baiyue's family was not wealthy, and when he was young, he couldn't afford to buy painting tools, so when he was a child, he used tree branches as pens and the earth as paper to paint all kinds of animals, flowers and so on that he saw.
It wasn't until he was 12 years old that he learned the techniques of realist painting by distributing food to a one-armed beggar as an apprentice in a bakery, and of course he paid half of his rations, after all, the apprentices in the bakery were not paid.
In the past four years, after the careful teaching of the beggar painter, the painting skills of Magu Baiyue have surpassed that of the beggar painter, and he can already make a living by painting.
Later, a businessman who knew how to paint saw Ma Gu Baiyue's paintings, and he told Ma Gu Baiyue's paintings were okay, but there was still a lot of gap between them and famous painters.
The businessman who knew how to paint said that he was willing to support the money and connections to let Ma Gu Baiyue go to the big city to learn the skills of famous painters, but once he succeeded, he had to paint for the merchant for ten years.
At that time, the beggar painter who lived with Maguki encouraged Magok Momokatake to visit the big city, and said that he could no longer teach Maguki Momokatake.
Encouraged by the beggar mentor, Magu Baiyue agreed to the proposal of the painter, and they came to the kingdom of Zhandes.
Seeing the prosperity of the kingdom of Zhandes, Magu Baiyue was very much looking forward to the famous painter arranged for him by the merchant who knew how to paint.
The merchant who knew how to paint really invested his money, and he spent a lot of money to let Magu Baiyue worship the famous painter of Xigu Yu Jimai as a teacher; you must know that a painting of the famous painter of Xigu Yu Jimai is worth thousands of gold coins, and it is priceless.
Ma Gu Baiyue had seen the painting skills of Nishikoha Kimai, and he knew how much difference he was proud of his painting skills with that of famous painters, so he studied the painting skills of Nishikoha Kimai very seriously.
In the past five years, Magu Baiyue's painting skills have been not inferior to his mentor Xigu Yu Kimai's painting skills, but Ma Gu Baiyue's painting imitation style is too heavy, and has not been recognized by Xi Gu Yu Jimai.
Magu Baiyue, who did not have a teacher, was asked to fulfill the treaty by the merchants who knew how to paint before, after all, the merchants who knew how to paint had already recognized Magu Baiyue's painting skills, and the reason why there was no teacher put the responsibility on Nishikoha Kimai.
There was no way for Magoki to explain his reason and say goodbye to his mentor, but Saikoyu Kimai warned Magokai not to sell paintings in his style, lest he tarnish his reputation.
At that time, Ma Gu Baiyue also promised his mentor that he would not imitate his master's paintings for sale, and was very ambitious to say that he would create his own style of painting.
However, in order to avoid imitating his mentor's style, Ma Gu Baiyue gave up his painting skills, and as a result, his paintings were able to be sold, but the price was very low.
The painter thought that Magu Baiyue had hidden secrets, so he only gave 10% of the original promised remuneration for each painting he sold, which also made Magu Baiyue live a somewhat miserable life, far worse than when he was a mentor in Xigu Yu Jimai.
After all, during the period of studying at Nishikoyu Kimai, Nishikoha Kimai instructed Magu Baiyue to sell many paintings that imitated very similar paintings as genuine products, and Magu Baiyue also had a 10% income.
For three years of painting for a businessman who knows how to paint, Ma Gu Baiyue has not increased his income, but his painting skills have improved a lot, but there is still a lot of gap with the painting style of Xigu Yu Jimai.
At that time, he also got a love affair, and Ma Gu Baiyue's love partner was a 19-year-old girl Mai De Xuexue who made a living from laundry, cloth, and bed sheets, and Ma Gu Baiyue promised Mai De Xuexue that as long as he earned enough 300 gold coins, he would propose to Mai De Xuexue's father.
However, a few months later, Mai Dexuexue's father was in debt for gambling, so Mai Dexue approached Ma Gu Baiyue, hoping that he would buy her and her sister.
Ma Gu Baiyue is not as rich as Mai De Xuexue imagined, he can't even take out three gold coins, how can he take out fifty gold coins to save his lover.
In order to ensure the authenticity of the painting, the merchant who knew how to paint asked Magu Baiyue to take a look, after all, Magu Baiyue also obtained the true transmission of Xigu Yu Kimai's painting skills.
When Ma Gu Baiyue saw the painting brought by the merchant who knew how to draw, he immediately recognized that it was not the real thing from his mentor, but a fake that he imitated, but this fake was sold by the tutor's family, so it can also be considered genuine.
After listening to Magu Baiyue's description of the truth and some inside information of the painting, the painting businessman's eyes lit up, and he proposed to let Magu Baiyue imitate the painting in the style of Guyu Kimai in the west, and he bought it at half the market price.
Ma Gu Baiyue remembered that he had sworn to his mentor not to paint or sell paintings in the style of his mentor, so he did not hesitate to refuse the request of a merchant who knew how to paint.
The painter was very annoyed by Ma Gu Baiyue's stubbornness, and deducted the wages of the three paintings.
A few days later, Madesnow found Magu Baiyue once, and she told Magu Baiyue that he must raise sixty gold coins within three days, otherwise they would not be able to meet each other.
Hearing that he had gathered sixty gold coins in three days, Magu Baiyue had no choice, so he came to the house of Mentor Xigu Yu Jimai and knelt down and begged for sixty gold coins.
However, Ma Gu Baiyue did not expect that his former mentor not only did not see him, but also asked the servants to beat him out.
Thinking of the praying eyes of the lover and the ruthlessness of the mentor and the temptation of the painter with freedom, Magoki Baiyue agreed to the painting merchant to obtain a hundred gold coins and freedom with ten imitations of the Saikoha Kimai painting.
And the merchant who knows how to paint gets ten fakes that can be faked and authentic, and he directly sells them at a high price, which also attracts the attention of Nishigu Yu Jimai.
Knowing from a painter that it was painted by Magu Baiyue, Nishikoyu Kimai thought that Magu Baiyue had broken his oath, so he spent a lot of money to send someone to directly smash Magu Baiyue's house, and broke the metacarpal bone of Magu Baiyue's right hand.
Magu Baiyue's right hand was strongly healed, but his right hand was no longer able to hold a pen and paint, which also caused him to collapse, after all, he thought that he had lost the value of life at that time.
Mai De Xuexue, who has become the wife of Ma Gu Baiyue, learned that her husband's right palm was broken because of her and her sister, and she carried the family expenses alone, while constantly encouraging her husband to get back on his feet.
Ma Gu Baiyue, who thinks that he has become a waste, ignores his wife's encouragement at all, and lives a drunken life every day.
It wasn't until a few months later that the beggar mentor of Magu Baiyue arrived, and when the beggar mentor learned what had happened, he told Magu Baiyue that he used to be a left-sided man, but because he offended some people, his entire left arm was cut off and his family was ruined, but he did not give up on living, and supported himself with his right hand painting, and encouraged Magu Baiyue to regain his strength.
Seeing that his encouragement had no effect, the beggar mentor also stayed to paint for passers-by to help his family's family tide over the difficulties, and at the same time hoped to ignite his disciple's enthusiasm for painting.
At first, Magu Baiyue's painting was very bad, after all, his left hand was very unaccustomed, but fortunately, the beggar tutor was very experienced in teaching any methods and techniques to improve one-armed painting.
After three years of continuous training, Ma Gu Baiyue's left-handed painting skills have surpassed that of the beggar mentor at one time, and he has actually mastered his unique style.
However, due to the previous counterfeiting incident, no rich nor businessmen would buy his paintings, and even the prices of his paintings were very low, and some even gave them away as gifts.
After listening to Aunt Tuqilier's introduction to Magu Baiyue, he couldn't help but express that if the deeds of Magu Baiyue were inspiring.
As soon as Yan Tielong finished sighing, the servant reported to Tuqilier that the painter of Magu Baiyue had been completed.
When Yan Tielong came to Magu Baiyue's room once, they saw a lifelike beauty picture, so Yan Tielong couldn't help but say that he wanted to buy the lifelike beauty picture in front of him.
However, Shitu Qiliel said that she asked Ma Gu Baiyue to draw the beauty picture, and she liked it very much, so she would not cede it.