Childe actually decided to go to the mixed hall to take a bath halfway, which was unprecedented. Lu Jiu was caught off guard, he could neither throw Li Dan into the mixed hall used by the small people in the market, nor did he dare to walk forward along Jingzhao South Street, it was too fragrant over there!

With a twist of his mind, he turned onto Xueyan Road and walked south along the river from Wanhe Bridge. The west bank of the Cai River is close to the official residential area and is much more urbane.

Inquire all the way, and an old man pointed out that there is a Fengrun Hall in Gujing Lane in front of him, but it is a good place for elegance and quietness, and he also said that there are often officials who patronize this house, but the carriage can't get in.

So Lu Jiu stopped at the entrance of the alley, and Li Dan took Mao Zai to walk along the alleyway that was only eight feet wide. The Fengruntang lit a sheepskin lantern at the door and put it on the ground, and it could be seen from afar in the dim alley.

Before he arrived at the door, he saw two people in Taoist robes walking out of it, but Li Dan recognized one of them. hurriedly smiled and bowed forward: "Dan greets Zhu Xiang, why is Youtao (Zhu Zhan Yuan) so idle today?"

Zhu Zhan was amused: "Yo, Li Tanhua, do you have free today?"

"Well, it's not! My nephew was so busy early this morning that he hit the back of his head and ran sweating! No, I'm trying to freshen up, otherwise this kind of embarrassment is really hard to see."

Zhu Zhan knew that he was in charge of the department, so it was difficult to ask him what he was busy with, so he nodded and said, "You are busy first, I have to help my friend find a tooth man to sell the garden, and we will talk at home when I get back."

Because of the letter from his brother Zhu Zhanji, he wanted him to pay attention to this young man, and this person had a lot of help to his nephew Zhu Qizhen, so he talked to him like an uncle and nephew, and there was no slightness of being a minister, which made the person next to him very surprised.

Li Dan originally wanted to say hello, but when he heard him say the words "sell the garden", he immediately became interested. "What to sell, garden? Uncle Shi, please stay, can you let Dan know how big this garden is and where it is?"

"What, do you have the heart to buy a property?" Zhu Zhan Yuan only remembered at this time, this kid is a big money owner!

It is said that he built the Dongsunsheng carriage, as well as the cast iron furnace of the Wanfu briquette, the briquettes that are now used by every household, and the pencils that are in fashion.

"This garden is not far from the Jincheng Bridge." After he finished speaking, he patted his forehead and hurriedly introduced the person next to him: "This Shen Zhenji, Mr. Nan Zhai, a person from Changzhou, Jiangnan.

Hehe, he built a 'Banyuan Garden' by the Jincheng Bridge, but it's very famous! Now he wanted to return to his homeland, so he planned to sell the garden.

But ......, now that he has been listed for half a year, he has not succeeded in making a move, and he is very anxious when he is trapped in Beijing, so he came to ask the old man for help."

"What about you...... Have you already found a home for Brother Shen?" Li Dan asked.

"No, I just said that someone wanted to see the house, and Brother Shen came to look for me, I have to go quickly, I can't make people wait too long."

Li Dan looked at Shen Zhenji, and knew in his heart that he was a scholar who couldn't pull down his skin and bargain with others, so he found a helping hand. I was amused in my heart, but Li Dan still gave up:

"Uncle Shi, let's go and get busy, but don't agree to the other party immediately, wait for the little nephew to freshen up, rush over to see what is going on, and then make a theory, how about it?"

Zhu Zhan wanted to help the Shen family very much, and with Li Dan's financial resources, he was very convinced, so he nodded: "Okay, just handle it like this, let's go first, and San Lang will come quickly!"

After saying that, he took Mr. Nansai and left. Shen Zhenji didn't know why, and asked, "Brother Youtao, who is this person, is he familiar with you?"

"It's ripe, it's too ripe." Zhu Zhan bared his teeth: "If he is interested, there is a chance that you can make a move in this garden!"

"Why?"

Zhu Zhanji introduced him in a low voice, and Shen Zhenji was shocked: "This is what the storyteller in the teahouse said: 'Li Sanlang who rode into Shangrao alone? Why is he so young?"

"People are very capable! Wu Neng quelled the rebellion, Wen Kao Tanhua, His Majesty's favorite courtier now, is about to go to the Liao Overseer Army to fight the Kerco.

You don't know, a few days ago, His Majesty Weifu went to his house to give a face-to-face lecture, and when he returned in the evening, someone in the cabinet secretly called him 'Foreign Minister.' Therefore I say, If he takes a fancy to your garden, then you will have a heart

Put it in your stomach!"

"Yes...... He's not going to take it by force, is he?"

"Just kidding, people have strict discipline in governing the army, pay attention to the three major military disciplines and eight points, and even the grass ropes of the people are not allowed to move, let alone you have a garden......?" Coming to the carriage, Zhu Zhanyuan patted the carriage:

"See? I bought it from him, and they had money money, and even the military bonds issued by the Kerr people this time were underwritten by his trading company. Where is the money for your garden?"

A smile appeared on Shen Zhenji's face: "If it goes well, I will definitely dedicate it to Brother Youtao with my heart."

Zhu Zhan laughed: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say!"

Because of this one, Li Dan didn't delay too long in the mixed hall.

Hurriedly came out to change into the new clothes prepared by the store (the changed clothes will be washed and sent to the home for the guests), the shopkeeper and the proprietress diligently sent them straight to the entrance of the alley, and then watched Li Dan get into the car in amazement, only to know that the person he received turned out to be Li Tanhua of Jinke.

"Oh, why did you let this Wenqu star go?" The shopkeeper stumbled and said, "Even if you ask for a few words, it's good!"

Banyuan is actually only 300 steps away from Jincheng Bridge, the location is very good, although it is not facing the street, but it is quiet in the middle of noisy.

There is a Song Well more than 300 steps to the east (there are many ancient wells near here, so it was once called Gujing Village, and the Gujing Lane where Fengruntang is located comes from this), and there is a hillside behind the well.

It is said that a large number of wild cranes died in the East Lake when the previous dynasty attacked the mall, and there were literati who gathered their corpses to bury here, so it was called Heling. After the lush hillside of Heling, there is the back wall of the Great Enju Temple.

Sitting in the Banyuan not far from here, listening to the bell of the temple, it should be a quiet heart, right? Li Dan didn't go in first, and after getting out of the car, he walked around the side wall of the garden first.

Look at the environment, understand the terrain, and know what to expect. Then he turned back to see what was going on in front of the door.

The road and the field in front of the gate are unexpectedly open, and there is no problem accommodating a dozen carriages. Lu Jiu leaned over and whispered, and Li Dan looked south in surprise, and realized something.

It turned out that the three mansions in front of it were Fan Zhengxiu, the left Shaoqing of Dali Temple, Chang Jun of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, and Fan Xitong, the left waiter of the Criminal Department.

Hey, the three law divisions are gathered, no wonder this garden can't be sold! Li Dan was convinced, it is estimated that when the garden was built, the master thought that such a pattern would be formed later, right?

"Do you think we should buy this garden?" Li Dan asked as he looked at the vitality inside the wall.

"Why don't you buy it?" Brother Mao sneered: "Those who don't dare to buy are ghosts in their hearts, our son is above board, even if the palace is placed here, there is nothing that he doesn't dare to buy!"

"That last nonsense is redundant!" Li Dan glared at him: "You are becoming more and more arrogant!" Frightened, Ah Mao quickly shrank his neck. "What does Lao Lu think?" Li Dan asked.

"Readers say how Tianyu suffers from it, I don't think there's anything wrong with the first half of Mao's sentence!"

"Heaven does not take it, but suffers the blame." Li Dan turned around: "But there are a lot of our brothers, Ah Mao will walk around again to see if there are any empty houses and vacant land, can they accommodate so many people?"

Lao Lu pays attention to pedestrians. I'll meet the owner of this house when I go in." After speaking, Li Dan stepped forward.

The main entrance is a three-on-six side door. In the middle of this kind of door is a pair of slightly wider, for the host and guests to enter and exit. There are two green copper bracelets on the door, which looks like the owner's family rarely interacts with each other.

Li Dan stretched out his hand and was about to knock on the door, when the door squeaked open, revealing the face of a young man and looking at him in surprise, and then arched his hand and asked, "Is it Li Tanhua on the other side?"

"Right down there." Li Dan's eyes widened when he saw the adoration on this young man's face, and he couldn't help but smile: "May I ask the little brother, who are you?"

"Are you really Lord Li?" The young man suddenly took a step back and saluted deeply: "Grass people Changzhou Shen Zhou, meet Master Li!"

"Shen Zhou?" Li Dan frowned slightly: "Shen Qinan?"

"Hey, how do you know the grass people's words?"

Li Dan thought to himself, I don't know, after a few hundred years, you will be famous all over the world, if you don't know, you will be embarrassed to say that you are a cultural person, okay! "I've heard of your calligraphy and painting occasionally, and I thought I would have had the opportunity to learn from each other in person." Li Dan said.

"Oh? Do adults like these too?"

"I've studied from the teacher for a few years, but you learned from Mr. Fa Dafu (Huang Gongwang) and Plum Blossom Daoren (Wu Zhen), but I am Yeluzi himself has realized more, but I am afraid that I can't compare!"

Seeing that Li Dan spoke kindly and had the same interests as himself, Shen Zhou had a smile on his face, and gradually became talkative.

He led Li Dan to a bamboo forest, and when he bypassed, he saw several simple thatched houses, where Zhu Zhan and Shen Zhenji were sitting in the courtyard and talking.

Seeing them coming, the two got up from the bamboo chairs and glanced at each other. Li Dan noticed this action and asked, "What's the matter, but the little nephew came late and neglected the two of you?"

"No, never." Shen Zhenji hurriedly waved his hand.

Zhu Zhan laughed, pointed at Shen Zhou and said, "This nephew of his, has always been calm, and he is always lukewarm to visiting officials. Brother Fang Cai Zhenji was worried that if he asked him to meet you, there would be a verbal conflict, I said no, and it turned out to be true!

Seeing you two talk so affectionately all the way, you know I've won!" Li Dan begged Shen Zhou to take him around the garden, and Shen Zhenji relieved himself and readily agreed.

The two turned east along Yuanzi West Road, chatting all the way, talking about the cultural people of this dynasty, who has good calligraphy and whose painting skills are good, and talked about Qian Min's collection of books and the bookworm champion Dou Qing.

Relying on the insight and understanding of his two lives, Li Dan introduced to Shen Zhou the difference between Western painting and China.

"Western painting is inseparable from engineering construction, and Westerners want to know how things are calculated, so they strive to be precise and accurate in their drawings.

In China, on the other hand, we are attached to painting and expressing our intentions in painting, so what we pursue is the far-reaching artistic conception, and the expression and swaying of the painter's mood under the brush, the two are very different.

For example, in the same painting "Dwelling in the Mountains", the Chinese work is probably the thatched grass roof exposed under the majestic peaks and thousands of trees, and the wooden shoes placed by the owner under the eaves.

If a Westerner paints this picture, he will not necessarily see the mountains, but the thatched huts in the rocks under the shade of the trees, the sill windows, the rising smoke of the cooking, and the sunlight shining through the distant peaks, shining into the windows, faintly visible half of the owner's face and the beard ...... on his face."

"So there is such a difference?" Shen Zhou was surprised: "Could it be that my brother has seen Western paintings with his own eyes?"

Li Dan stood still, looked at him, and suddenly smiled, "I can let the virtuous brother appreciate the magic of Western techniques now, would you like to give it a try?"

"Yes! But ......." Shen Zhou raised his eyes and looked around: "There are only lotus ponds, bamboo forests and wooden bridges here, and there is no pen and paper, how can my brother paint?"

"Wait a minute." Li Dan took out a small notebook and pencil from the incident, compared the proportions of the scenery in front of him a few times, and then stood and drawn.

Shen Zhou quietly walked behind him and looked at him, unconsciously stunned. With a few strokes, the scenery in front of me has jumped on the paper, and the sunset seems to be spreading over the rockery behind it, shining a little bit of light on the water in the pond.

Li Dan stopped his pen, took off the paper and handed it to him: "How?"

"Brother, how did you draw so realistically?" Shen Zhou's eyes straightened.

"Simplicity, proportion and light. The former determines the size and position of the object, while the latter determines the light and shade, thus expressing the texture of different substances.

The same light is reflected on ponds, rocks, and trees, so that the eyes can see different colors and shades. Which ones should be soft, which ones should be hard, and which ones should be bright and which ones should be dark, and this needs to be carefully understood and discovered by the grid."

Li Dan continued to introduce as he walked: "At the same time and under the same light, the brightness of the table near and the table near are different, and the details and textures that can be seen are also different.

Therefore, the study of Western painting can imitate specific objects very realistically, and they are superior to our Chinese painters in this regard, but in terms of artistic conception expression and pattern bearing, Western painting is often difficult to express.

They are too focused on what's in front of them, so they have some limitations.

Therefore, Chinese painting and Western painting have their own merits, each with its own expression, each with different techniques and painting tools, if we can learn from each other and introduce each other's advantages, it must be a wonderful thing!"

"Hearing my brother say this, are you with the West?

Did a technician learn to draw?" Shen Zhou couldn't wait to ask.

"I sent people to Guangzhou back then, and invited a group of Taixi people from there, among them two Taixi monks are good at painting, one is good at painting people and the other is good at painting landscapes."

"Can you introduce you to my younger brother?"

"Huh?" Li Dan stopped: "I heard Uncle Zhu Shi say that you are going to sell the garden and go back to the south, right?"

"Ahem!" Shen Zhou smiled bitterly: "My family has land and shops, and I don't have to worry about eating and drinking, but no one has been out for three generations.

My father and uncle thought that they should try and try, so they donated the national son of prison to my uncle, but he failed the three exams and was a little disheartened, and finally discussed with his father to go back to repair the music score of the Tang Dynasty.

As for me, I had no intention of pursuing a career in the official ranks, and I was willing to live between the mountains and rivers, and I was really not interested in the imperial examination, so my uncle said that I wanted to go back, so I decided to go back with him. But ......,"

He suddenly hesitated, "Hearing about your introduction has aroused my curiosity, maybe I can stay a few more days and ask the two Taisi people about Western techniques?"

Li Dan laughed, thinking that it was over, maybe this kid's painting would be more valuable in a few hundred years! "Absolutely, they all speak Chinese."

Li Dan nodded and said, "I have obtained Your Majesty's consent to help them buy a vacant land to build a worship hall on the vacant land south of Zijing Road in the east of Baohe.

Twelve Taixi people jointly signed a loan of 500 taels, of which 150 taels were used to buy a farm of more than 200 acres near the suburbs of Beijing, so that they could be self-sufficient and have the spare ability to repay the loan.

So if you want to find Rhodes and Bamont, they live there, and I can write you a letter of introduction." Li Dan said and brushed and wrote in the notebook, and said as he wrote:

"Rhodes is good at sketching the human body and painting, and Bamont is good at landscape painting, and this guy has been to a lot of places, and he is a traveler. He's got enough to say for days and nights!" After writing, he took off the paper and handed it to Shen Zhou.

Shen Zhou was dumbfounded: "This, this is Taixi?"

"One of them, which is called Latin, is very popular among their missionaries and nobles."

"What is this written about?"

"Tell them I'll introduce you to meet them and learn about Western painting techniques, and then my autograph." Li Dan pointed and said, "The word Dan is pronounced Daniel on their side, so when they mention Daniel, they mean me."

"Do you know how to speak them?"

"Of course!" Li Dan nodded:

"Don't you know? I am also the head of the Ministry of War, and I am fluent not only in Latin and Eko, but also in English, to a lesser extent Germanic, Iberian (before the Kingdom of Spain was formed) and Frankish, and to be proficient in Japanese and some Korean."

Shen Zhou was silent, and the two walked for a while, passing through the courtyard wall next to the flower hall and returning to the front, before he stopped Li Dan, stood there and crossed his hands and said, "Zhou knows that there is a sky outside the sky, and he will not dare to underestimate the people of the world from now on!"

"Brother Xian is too humble." Li Dan helped him up and said kindly: "I don't think the virtuous brother is too arrogant, it is a good thing for a literati to have a backbone, as long as it is not too much, it is self-righteous to go too far."

After he finished speaking, he patted Shen Zhou on the shoulder: "Let's go, the two seniors are still waiting for us." You pursue the realm of calligraphy and painting, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

There are people in the world who are engaged in business, some people who are engaged in politics, and there are those who practice martial arts and worship others. There is a kind of people, whom I call cultural people, who spread knowledge, carry on traditions, and spread morality at home and abroad.

Since the virtuous brother's family is rich and does not worry about food and clothing, there is nothing wrong with being a literate person.

Studying books, studying music, and studying calligraphy and painting, but the important thing is not personal improvement, but to pass on these to future generations. You have done this well, and you have also contributed to the country and the people!"

"When we learn calligraphy and painting, can we also contribute to the country and the people?" Shen Zhou thought thoughtfully and nodded slightly.

After seeing the whole garden, Li Dan is still quite satisfied.

His original intention was to find a large enough place for the whole family to live, and this place should be able to take over the rest of the family and not be crowded

And there is a certain amount of rich space, and at the same time it can meet the needs of receiving guests and office.

The total area of this garden is as big as two gardens in Yangzhou, which is enough!

The disadvantage is that the owner is too attached to the natural landscape, so the landscape garden is far more than the residence, and the living part is insufficient and too simple, and it needs to be repaired a lot in the later stage. I guess this is another reason why it can't be sold.

But as soon as he entered the house, Li Dan's eyes lit up, the walls were full of calligraphy and paintings, and the fish tank in the house did not put fish and water, and it was also full of scrolls.

Among them, there are not only masterpieces by Shen Zhenji and Shen Hengji, but also works by Shen Zhou, and some may be gifts and studies by visiting celebrities.

The Shen family spent more than 300 taels of silver to buy this land, and 2,400 taels before and after the garden, layout, and landscaping.

Now they are asking for 3,000 taels, but the buyers think that they have bought a farmstead, and where is it worth 3,000 for this thatched hut?

Li Dan listened to the words and said, "Uncle, you will definitely have to pay for the passage when you return to the south, and I will give you a total of 3,200 taels."

In addition, Ling's nephew said that he intended to continue his studies in Jingduo Panhuan for a few days, and the small courtyard where I lived after I moved here could be used for him free of charge, and the food was also subsidized by my trading company. But there is one condition:

Every painting and word in this house is the property of our trading company from now on.

Uncle and nephew can discuss, and if they agree, I will pay a deposit of three hundred taels of tickets now. How?"

Not only were the Shen family's uncles and nephews stunned, but even Zhu Zhan didn't expect this result.

The two sides immediately laid out paper and ink to set up a note, Zhu Fatzi, a cabinet scholar, as a witness, and then Li Dan counted out three hundred taels from his arms and completed the delivery.

The uncle and nephew of the Shen family didn't expect to be so resolute, and when they looked at Li Dan's back, they felt that they were in a dream. didn't know that Li Dan was ecstatic in the car: Children and grandchildren, our family can get rich today!

"Alas, this is called a big hand, a big hand!" Zhu Zhan shook his fat head and sighed.

"Opportunity is for those who are prepared!"