Originally, the painter wanted to stop Li Mengzhou's bold move, but he was suddenly frightened by the appearance of the young man, and he was stunned for a while and did not speak.

Shen Jiyue was a little nervous.

Of course, she doesn't know whether Li Mengzhou can paint, but if this painting is destroyed, the owner will be angry, and as an outsider, how can he meddle in other people's paintings at will, which is quite a bit of a transgression, which is a very disrespectful performance.

Li Mengzhou Xu also felt that this was not appropriate, so the well-spoken Korean painter said: "Xiao Ke is just scribbling at will, and I hope everyone will not blame." ”

Then he didn't give the painter time to react at all, and he put his pen down like a god, and focused heavily on the painting.

At the moment when Li Mengzhou's brush fell, the second floor of the teahouse immediately fell silent.

The painter felt a heart-wrenching pain.

Li Mengzhou's so-called graffiti words echoed in his mind, and he was stunned, as if he was stupid.

He thought that this young man would understand something, but he didn't expect that he was just a bold and reckless person who only knew how to scribble.

In this way, is this painting that consumes his energy to be ruined in one fell swoop?

His face changed colors and gradually changed to the color of pork liver.

Glaring angrily at the young man who didn't seem to know what stupid thing he had done, he pushed the other party violently, and said angrily: "You are an ignorant child, you dare to destroy my painting, I will definitely not forgive you!"

Liu Qinshi was also frightened and inexplicable, he knew the temper of his friend, and he could treat anything else gently, only in the painting, there was an extraordinary stubbornness, not to mention that a painting he had poured his heart and soul into was destroyed under his own eyes, and it was probably very possible to kill someone in anger.

He hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Master Fang, and said eagerly: "Brother Fang, calm down, calm down!"

Shen Jiyue silently glanced at Li Mengzhou on the side, obviously preparing to run away.

She didn't expect Li Mengzhou to be so bold, she didn't know anything, so she dared to draw with a pen, and how could she blame the painter for being angry.

Li Mengzhou was also shocked by the excessive reaction of the painter, but he didn't notice Shen Jiyue's eyes.

Thinking that he had already reminded the painter in advance, he didn't refuse, and now shaking his face made Li Mengzhou a little angry.

Those who beat people in anger, those who are eager to fight, and those who are waiting for an opportunity to run away, the originally clean second floor has become extremely lively.

Footsteps suddenly sounded outside the door, and a voice sounded: "Everyone Fang, everyone Liu, someone from the academy has arrived, and it is really inconvenient to stop them, so I can only invite people up, and I hope it is not strange......"

The person who spoke was obviously the owner of the teahouse.

But the scene I saw after pushing the door open made the boss's voice stop abruptly.

The entangled people in the room also looked back at the door in a daze.

Behind the boss stood two people, both handsome young men, one of whom was dressed in a white robe, which was similar to the costume of the palace, but the lines on it were more cumbersome, which was exclusive to the dress of the academy students.

The other person was just dressed in ordinary clothes, obviously not from the Academy, perhaps he was just not wearing the clothes of the Academy.

The status of the academy students in the capital is extraordinary, the capital has the Sword Academy of the Imperial Palace, the Star Picking Mansion, and the mountain does not fall, all of which are the cultivation mountain gates of Jiang Guo, but when they meet the Pear Blossom Academy, they still have to be a head shorter.

The owner of the teahouse was sent away at will, and the eyes of the academy students first swept over Li Mengzhou and Shen Jiyue's bodies, and then placed them on the bodies of Liuqin Master and Fang Painter, bowed slightly, and said with a smile: "Guan Muyun, a disciple of the Lower Academy, happened to hear that there are two people composing music and painting here, if there is any disturbance, please forgive me." ”

Guan Muyun is here, and the person who follows him is naturally Wang Chuan, who failed to be admitted to the academy.

Rao is Fang painter was in the worst mood, but when he heard the young man report his name, he was still taken aback, glanced at Liu Qinshi, and hurriedly waved his hands as a salute, and said: "It turned out to be Guan Xiaogongzi, I have already heard that Guan Xiaogongzi won the first place in this year's academy, and it is a wonderful thing to be fortunate to see it, so why bother." ”

Li Mengzhou frowned slightly, of course he had heard of Guan Muyun a long time ago, and even envied it for a short time, but he didn't expect to happen to meet it today.

Guan Muyun also looked at Li Mengzhou at this time, bowed slightly, and said: "Presumably, the two of them should be disciples of the Sword Academy, both are new to the Xuanmiao Sect, although they are not in the same place, but in the future, when there is a time to ask for advice, they will be polite first." ”

As he spoke, he solemnly waved his hands and bowed.

Li Mengzhou and Shen Jiyue also returned the favor.

The disciples of the Cultivation Mountain Gate in the world are all senior brothers, and when they meet, they must also be commensurate with their brothers and younger brothers according to their seniority or age, just like Lu Jiuge and Nan Sheng, although they are disciples of Pujiayuan, they also call Ning Haoran a senior brother.

This is more like a kind of etiquette, if there is a conflict between the two cultivation mountain gates, it will naturally not be so polite in terms of title.

And for cultivators who belong to the same capital, this kind of politeness is even more obvious, and those who don't know still think that they are really senior brothers, which can be described as intimate.

Whether it is a student of the academy or a disciple of the Sword Academy, they all look at the cultivation of the master, and if they are not people with excellent relationships, they will not easily judge brothers by age.

Li Mengzhou knows very well that Guan Muyun has just turned fifteen years old this year, two years younger than him, but he has already entered the realm of traveling far away, and in the same realm, it is natural that age is the same, so Shen Jiyue should be Guan Muyun's senior sister.

Not only Li Mengzhou knows Guan Muyun, Guan Muyun also seems to know Li Mengzhou and Shen Jiyue.

The academy and the sword academy successively enrolled students, which was naturally a major event that caused a sensation in the entire capital, so the names of those who entered the academy spread throughout the capital early, and there were even portraits circulating in the streets.

Guan Muyun didn't seem to have any other thoughts, but said very normally: "I didn't expect Senior Sister Shen and Senior Brother Li to also be interested in Qin Music and Danqing, which is quite fateful." ”

Li Mengzhou was not very interested in Guan Muyun's title, and naturally he would not return the title of his senior brother, but Shen Jiyue replied very politely: "We can't compare with Senior Brother Guan, Senior Brother Guan is the first in the academy this year, and he has some attainments in piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, archery, and practice, not people like us who are just interested in being able to compare." ”

Guan Muyun and Shen Jiyue seem to be able to talk about a lot of topics, but Li Mengzhou has no interest in these things, and he is quite tireless.

And Wang Chuan, who also didn't speak, looked at Li Mengzhou at this time, and said with a smile: "I didn't recognize it just now, could it be that this is Li Mengzhou, the most famous Li Mengzhou in the entrance test of the Sword Academy, Li Gongzi?"

The so-called most famous is quite ironic.

The matter of contemplating Amaterasu for half a day has already spread throughout the capital, and the discussion among the people is no less hot than Guan Muyun, who is the first in the academy, and it can be said that the two hottest people in the capital at present are Guan Muyun and Li Mengzhou.

But Guan Muyun was admitted to the academy with his real ability and excellent talent with the first grade, but Li Mengzhou, the so-called 'peerless genius' who entered Amaterasu for half a day, couldn't even see the sea of qi, such a person could still be admitted to the palace, and it was inevitably discussed by many people that the palace was becoming more and more inferior, and what kind of person wanted it.

One is Guan Muyun, who is hotly discussed and admired, and the other is Li Mengzhou, who was ridiculed and relied on the luck of walking shit to enter the palace, which can be described as two extremes.

Maybe Wang Chuan didn't think about it at a deeper level when he said this, but it was difficult not to be thought of crookedly, and Shen Jiyue's face quickly became ugly.

And the Fang painter and the Liu Qin master seemed to have just come back to their senses, and they both looked at Li Mengzhou incredulously.

Li Mengzhou knew Guan Muyun, but he didn't know Wang Chuan, after all, no one would care about the people who failed in the academy.

Facing Wang Chuan's words that he didn't know whether it was deliberate or unintentional, Li Mengzhou's expression was very calm, and he smiled faintly: "I am the person you said, I didn't expect that I was already so famous within a few days of coming to the capital, and I could call my name by any person." I don't know how much my name is worth, but if someone is willing to spend a copper plate to buy it, then I will write hundreds of copies of him. ”

Wang Chuan was a little stunned.

Guan Muyun frowned, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Senior Brother Li, don't misunderstand, Brother Wang Chuan doesn't mean anything else. ”

Li Mengzhou said with a smile: "Of course I didn't misunderstand, it's just that the name of this brother named Wang Chuan is quite familiar, presumably it should be the one who fell off the list, right? Many scholars in the world have not given up until they are forty or fifty years old, or even in their eighties, and they will definitely become one of them with Brother Wang's ability and perseverance. ”

Wang Chuan's stunned expression gradually changed color.

How could he not understand the meaning of Li Mengzhou's words, which made him shout with some shame: "How can you insult those admirable old gentlemen, they have put in a lifetime of hard work for this, even if they are not rewarded for a while, they should be admired, and they should not become the capital of others to laugh and talk." I'm ashamed to be with you!"

Wang Chuan did not mention himself, but felt sorry for those old gentlemen who still did not give up the examination for fame at the age of eighty, which is indeed a very infuriating thing for people in Jiang Guo's Confucianism who have serious beliefs.

In the face of Wang Chuan's righteous accusations, Li Mengzhou's expression was still calm, completely ignoring the strange eyes of Shen Jiyue and others, and said flatly: "Do everything within your ability, those old gentlemen are indeed worthy of admiration, but that's all." Blindly asking for things that you can't get at all is not done by smart people, it is simply stupid to read books, and it is extremely stupid.

What kind of things can't be done well with so much time? I just waste it all, and I only end up with an admirable name, I'm afraid that I won't even be able to fill my stomach, and who will be the one who starves to death? I'm afraid that many people at such an age will already have children and grandchildren, and it's good that the younger generations will work hard to get rich, but if it's a poor family, won't it hurt the family to go hungry?"

Wang Chuan intended to refute, but he was stunned and didn't know where to start.

Guan Muyun felt that what Li Mengzhou said was quite reasonable, and seeing that the situation was deadlocked, he hurriedly played a round and tried to expose this topic.

Shen Jiyue also helped to echo it, more things are better than less, there is really no need to make things bigger.

Li Mengzhou didn't have much heart to deal with ordinary people like Wang Chuan, although he didn't care about his reputation, but when he was mentioned in person, he couldn't bear it, that was definitely not his style.

He didn't care whether Wang Chuan had the purpose of mocking him, or really blurted out unconsciously, he only cared about Wang Chuan's embarrassed appearance now that he was red-faced and powerless to refute.

In order to change the topic more perfectly, Guan Muyun's eyes were on the painting on the table.

His eyes lit up.

After carefully watching it for a while, he couldn't help but say to the painter: "It is worthy of being painted by the Fang family, the artistic conception of this painting is majestic, although it is mainly pure, but it is extraordinary in the plain, which makes this painting alive and can be called a good product." ”

Painter Fang just smiled a little embarrassedly, but he didn't take it too seriously, this painting had been ruined, he thought it was Guan Muyun's polite words.

However, this also brought up the anger he had forgotten again, and he stared at Li Mengzhou with some resentment.

After knowing that Li Mengzhou was a disciple of the Sword Academy, he couldn't do anything like before, after all, compared to a cultivator, his status was really nothing to say.

Although he has some fame in the capital, he will not narcissistically feel that he is already the highest peak among painters, how dare he argue with cultivators.

But what he didn't expect was that Liu Qinshi and Shen Jiyue originally just glanced at the painting casually, but they seemed to be suddenly frozen, stupidly unaware of why.

"This ......"

Although Liu Qinshi does not know how to paint, but after all, he is a friend of Fang painter for many years, as the so-called close to Zhu Zhechi, no matter how he doesn't understand, he can also say some doorways, as he observed, the original unfinished paintings, always almost meaningless, although tangible but no spirit, but I didn't expect to look at this painting that Li Mengzhou had scribbled at will, it actually has the essence of the essence, although the pen and ink added are not much, but like the finishing touch.

Shicai's unfinished painting is only a form and no god, but now it is both form and spirit, don't say that people who know how to do it, even if they don't understand anything, can know that this painting is definitely not bad.

Famous paintings and antiques have always been valuable, not only those businessmen and rich gentry, even the officials and nobles in the court, they are also eager to go, and even the emperor often rewards meritorious ministers with famous paintings, so the top painters have a certain status in the capital.

But the living painters are obviously not as famous as the paintings left by the deceased painters, and the square painters have only just gained a name, but they are only respected in the outer city, and they cannot be passed on to the inner city, not to mention the ears of those famous families and emperors.

Liu Qin's previous paintings have basically been admired with his own eyes, but there is no one who can compare with the painting in front of him, which can definitely be called the pinnacle of the painter above.

The Liu Qin Master was inexplicably a little excited.

He couldn't help but tremble his hands, stroked the painting, and said: "The famous paintings of celebrities that are sought after, even if they are golden, some people will buy them, although this painting is not as good as those top paintings, but it is definitely super-first-class, if this painting comes out, Brother Fang's reputation will definitely rise, and it will be the same for a while." ”

Master Fang looked at Master Liu Qin in surprise, and said incomprehensibly, "Brother Liu, what do you mean by this?"

Guan Muyun also waved his hand at Master Fang at this time, and said: "Everyone Fang's painting skills are really at the peak, I am ashamed to say that Xiao Ke originally came with the purpose of comparison, but he didn't think about it, but he was ugly. ”

Listening to Guan Muyun's praise and Liu Qinshi's excitement, he vaguely seemed to understand something, and hurriedly stepped forward to carefully look at the painting that he thought had been destroyed.

After a while, he looked at Li Mengzhou with a dull expression.

Guan Muyun may indeed be a person who likes to paint, his excitement is different from that of Liuqinshi, and he doesn't care about being polite or impolite, and said: "Xiao Ke is not talented, I am willing to ask everyone Fang for advice and learning, and I hope everyone Fang will not refuse." ”

Fang Huashi looked at Guan Muyun with a stiff face, a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and said, "It's not that I don't want to, I really don't have this qualification." ”

Guan Muyun thought that this was a polite rejection of him by the painter, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he was still unwilling to give up, and immediately said: "I still hope that everyone Fang will be successful, I have entered the academy, and there is no way to worship the teacher again. ”

Painter Fang ignored Guan Muyun this time, but looked at Li Mengzhou, gave a solemn salute, and said sincerely: "Fang Cai is reckless, he doesn't know everyone's hands, I'm really ashamed, I hope that everyone Li will not blame, forgive me." ”

Not only did Guan Muyun not understand the appearance of the painter Fang, but Wang Chuan, who came back to his senses, felt even more incredible, he also took the time to look at the painting, and said very confusedly: "Why do you want to salute that person, where can such a person be called a person?"

Painter Fang glanced at Wang Chuan with some displeasure, and said with a cold snort: "What does this little brother think of this painting?"

Wang Chuan said very seriously: "As Liu said before, although this painting is not the top painting, it is definitely the only one. ”

There is a sentence in his heart that he didn't say, if the painter is dead now, then this painting will definitely be the top famous painting after a hundred years, even if it is more than ten years later.

Famous paintings are not only valuable if they are painted well, but also who is looking at the painting, and what kind of good story is in the painting, a large part of the value of the antique painting is in the story, and if the person who painted the painting dies, then the value of the painting will be doubled several times.

Although Wang Chuan is a scholar, in fact, he doesn't have much understanding of painting, and he doesn't have the ability to appreciate it, but Guan Muyun and Liu Qinshi both said that, at least it shows that this painting is indeed extraordinary, and he does look at this painting comfortably, since it can make people look comfortable painting, of course, it is a good painting.

Seeing that Wang Chuan acknowledged the painting and highly admired it, he continued: "Although this painting is indeed painted by me, the person who completed this painting is not me. ”