He took a closer look, looked at it from a distance, and then looked at it through the light, and then smiled, what level of artistic conception, isn't it the two mandarin ducks embroidered by Yan Mu, this person embroidered the two mandarin ducks nestled together, a little more dynamic? The feathers of the wings are of different sizes, and are they expressed by lines of different thicknesses? Really about embroidery, stitches are not as good as Yan's mother!

Lu Xu was humble, "I've been taught, if it weren't for your guidance, I'm afraid I would never be able to understand." ”

The shopkeeper saw that he suddenly realized his appearance, and it was a pity for Yan's mother's embroidery, so he couldn't help but point him out again, "Let your aunt embroider more landscape patterns, it's summer now, the ladies and ladies in the city, it is inevitable to make some fans, to be elegant and not complicated, understand." ”

Lu Xu is thorough at a point, pay attention to the blank space in the composition!

He pointed to the silk fan hanging on the wall and asked, "But do you make fans of this size?" ”

Shopkeeper: "It's like that, it's okay to be bigger and smaller." ”

Lu Xu leaned over to the wall and compared the size, said goodbye to the shopkeeper, took out the money, and turned his head to Liu Ji groceries.

"Buying candy for my sister again?"

"Buy the line today!"

Lu Xu squatted next to the wire shelf and began to carefully select.

Isn't it just a thick line and a thin line, so what level is it? Wait, he can still make a gradient!

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Lu Xu: Oops, I forgot to ask for a name!

Chapter 18: Crying

Lu Xu went home in a hurry and called Yuan Manniang to go straight to Yan Junqi's house.

He arranged the pile of threads he bought horizontally according to the different colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, and then arranged them vertically according to the depth and thickness. After setting up the color line color spectrum, he kept introducing what is gradient, what is composition, what is dynamic, and what is blank.

"We can still use the light, mother, auntie, look." Lu Xu dragged a leaf and put it in the sun, "As soon as the light shines, it will be bright, and I will cover it with my hand to cover the shadow, and it will be dark." Look at the tree at the door, is there light and dark, light and shadow, and then you think, is it different in the morning, noon, and evening? Different colors, we can use the thread to make the difference, but also to do gradients, so that others at a glance, they know that we are embroidering the morning tree, the afternoon tree, the cloudy day tree or the sunny day tree. ”

Yuan Manniang and Yan's mother were shocked.

Lu Xu continued to bomb, "Look, our mountain, if you look at it closely, the stones and trees can be seen clearly, and in the distance, it is a haze, and those who can see clearly will embroider it carefully, and if you can't see it clearly, you will embroider a general shape." The same is this leaf, in front of you, it is big, take it away, and it looks small. ”

Yuan Manniang and Yan's mother heard the words and gestured together with the leaves.

"And with the same thread, the same feathers, and the down, with the fine thread, and the wings, with thick thread."

That's understandable, they nodded.

"As for the composition and blank ......space," Lu Xu scratched his head and drew the size of a fan on the ground with a branch, "It's almost that big, when we embroider, we think this is a painting, we can't fill it, it's too full and it doesn't look good." It can't be too small, too small to see. If I draw a mountain here, and a flower near it, and a butterfly flies on the flower, and the butterfly flies from the grass into the distance, it will look better than embroidering a big butterfly. ”

Lu Xu drew stick figures on the ground, it was embarrassing to look at it himself, and he scratched it off with his feet, "That's probably what it means, if you can't think of it......" He dragged Yan Junqi over, "Let Junqi draw a picture for you on the paper first!" ”

Yan Junqi: "......"

He, he won't either!

But Lu Xu insisted on him to paint, he thought about the flowers and plants embroidered by Yan's mother in the past, took the branches and sketched them on the ground, raised his eyes from time to time to look at the trees and mountains outside, and roughly drew the mountains, flowers, and butterflies that Lu Xu had just exemplified.

Lu Xu looked at it, it turned out to be like that!

"Yes, you can draw it like this!" He ran to dig out the calligraphy and paintings that the unknown young master lent him, "Jun Qi learns more, and you can copy some parts of the paintings!" ”

It is impossible to copy, Yan Junqi took the calligraphy and painting back to the study to study.

He had never painted, only seen others painting and selling paintings in the county and state capitals before, thinking about Lu Xu's theory, referring to the painting in front of him, he first dipped his pen in water and roughly drew a fan on the table to make a draft, and when he felt familiar, he went to the courtyard and folded a bamboo branch and began to paint.

I have been practicing for a day, and I think it is okay, so I drew a few sparse and oblique bamboo sticks on the paper.

Simple patterns, Yuan Manniang can also embroider, she finally found some comfort, and took the needle and thread to the next door to discuss with Yan's mother every day. How to match the color, how to match the thickness, how to express the depth and light, I feel that the embroidery is wrong, so I dismantle it and start over.

They also asked Lu Zhou to fold the reeds and insert the bottle, and fiddling back and forth to find the angle to see how to embroider it to look good. Yuan Manniang's embroidery is not as good as Yan's mother, she can't learn the skills of looking at a reed that can embroider the moon season and peony, so she has to carefully observe the flowers and plants that can be seen in front of her, she called Layue and Lu Zhou to catch a butterfly, and the three of them watched how the butterfly flapped its wings.

After secretly crying a few times, Yuan Manniang gradually embroidered decently.

Lu Xu came home one day and found that she had drawn a shallow draft on the cloth with burnt charcoal without a teacher, perhaps inspired by his stick figures, embroidered a picture of a childish butterfly, the child with the back of his head exposed on the picture was Lu Rui at a glance, and the movement of running with open hands was captured vividly, and the flying butterflies were still shining in the light because of the thin velvet thread, which was really like.

Lu Xu put down the embroidery piece in admiration, suspecting that his little stepmother had some great artistic talent in her.

You know, the girls here learn embroidery, but they are all taught by their elders from generation to generation.

How the mother embroiders, the daughter embroiders, so Yan's mother's mandarin ducks are embroidered unchanged.

Imitation and creation are not the same thing, Yuan Manniang has never learned art at all, he casually taught the theory, and he can realize that it is like this, this, it is not good, he is also a genius!

Yuan Manniang pinched the handkerchief and asked him worriedly, "Xu'er, how do you think I embroidered?" ”

Lu Xu: "Okay! Very good! I think it's better than the Yan family's aunt's embroidery! ”

Yuan Manniang was stunned, her eyes were red, and tears came down.

Lu Xu: "??? ”

Yuan Manniang covered her handkerchief and cried so much that she sobbed, "Woo, I can't embroider well, I can't do anything, I can't cook well, I can't do farming well, embroidery is not good, without your father, I can't do anything, why am I so stupid, woo, I finally learned, woo woo......"

Lu Xu: "......"

Layue and Lu Zhou heard the movement and ran over, and Lu Rui, who was playing on the mat, threw the cloth ball and shook it and threw it into Yuan Manniang's arms, looking up at her.

Layue saw her mother crying, and then she cried, Lu Rui also cried, Lu Zhou's eyes were red and she was about to cry, Lu Xu was stupid, he was shocked, he didn't know that Yuan Manniang was under so much pressure!

Lu Xu stood aside stupidly, and he didn't know how to coax or persuade him, he didn't leave, he didn't stay, he just pulled a stool and sat down, accompanied them, and watched them cry silently.

After Yuan Manniang finished venting and began to coax the child, Lu Xu said: "Mother, I think you are very powerful, really." ”

He began to count Yuan Manniang with his fingers, "Look, you can weave cloth, make clothes, and make shoes, the shoes are soft and comfortable, you are also responsible for the washing and washing of our whole family, and you also have to go to the fields, dig wild vegetables, and feed Lu Rui, none of which is simple." The only drawback is that the cooking is not so delicious, but it is by no means inedible, the seaweed soup made in the past two days is very good, and the porridge is better than the original. People are good at and not good at it, such as me, if you force me with a knife, I can't embroider such a beautiful butterfly. Your steamed steamed buns are not as good as the third grandmother, and the third grandmother's embroidery is not as good as you, and how old are you? People should do what they are good at, and give what they are not good at to others to do, you see, you can use the time to embroider steamed buns, embroider to make money, and then buy steamed buns, isn't this everyone happy? ”

Yuan Manniang looked at him in a daze, "Aren't you useless to dislike your mother?" ”

"I think you're good." Lu Xu said seriously, "Although you are not my biological mother and Lu Zhou's biological mother, I think that if our mother is here, she probably won't do better than you." ”

Yuan Manniang was about to cry again, "You, you always had to drive me away before." ”

Lu Xu shook the pot, "That's before, I don't know what to do!" "Lu Xu in the past, what did it matter to him?" Wasn't I ignorant at that time, and I didn't really let you go, I was just angry. ”

Lu Zhou also nodded heavily.

Yuan Manniang looked at the two brothers with teary eyes, hugged Lu Zhou, choked up and said, "I promised your father to raise you well, your father is gone, I have no relatives next to me, I only have a few of you in my life!" ”

Layue threw herself into her arms and cried and thought about her father. Lu Zhou's eyes turned red again, he choked twice, and wiped his tears silently with his cuffs.

Lu Xu touched his head and murmured silently, he only had them.

They are pitiful, orphans and widows, and all they can rely on is each other......

After the whole family cried, the feelings seemed to have been washed and purified, and it was wonderfully changed.

Yuan Manniang cried in front of them, she was very embarrassed for two days, and when she eased up, the elders collapsed a lot, she didn't have any temper, and she couldn't be dignified with her children, and she was even more like a sister at this time.

She couldn't make up her mind when she cooked, so she asked Layue and Lu Zhou to help her, "Do you want to stay up for a while?" ”

Lu Zhou: "Let's boil, big brother likes to drink thicker." ”

Layue thought for a while, "Put an apricot, put some sugar!" ”

Yuan Manniang sprinkled some dried apricots and threw a piece of candy, and the whole family was happy.

Yuan Manniang added firewood to the fire and called Lu Zhou, "Zhou'er, are you going to see if your brother is back?" ”

As soon as Lu Zhou opened the door, he saw the third aunt who was puffing up.

He was stunned and let the door open, "Third aunt, mother, third aunt is here." ”

Yuan Manniang came out of the kitchen in a daze, "Why is the third sister-in-law here, have you eaten?" ”

The third aunt puffed up: "Cooking at home, Manniang, is Xuwa back?" ”

Lu Xu didn't know that something was new at home, so he came to the blacksmith shop at the appointed time.

The old blacksmith watched him put down the hammer and told his younger son to go and bring the pot out.

Lu Xu saw the frying pan first.

It was a circle larger than he had planned, two inches deep, and the traces of the beating could be seen on the edge, and I don't know how it was done at the bottom, it was very smooth. Lu Xu is very satisfied, although when the wok is a little bigger, when the pancake is still perfect.

The only drawback is probably that you use more iron, so you have to add money......

The old blacksmith wiped his sweat with a handkerchief, and said apologetically: "The flat-bottomed one will be given to you first, and you will wait for the cauldron, and I will ponder it later." ”

Lu Xu has no opinion.

The first time I did it, I had to make a mistake and I asked, "Then when will I come to pick it up?" ”

The old blacksmith muttered, "Wait a little longer." ”

Lu Xu thought about it, "Okay." ”

If it doesn't work, he can't find another blacksmith shop.

The pan paid five taels of silver, and the blacksmith charged him half a tael of lost wages because the cauldron was overdue, and the big iron pot was estimated to run twenty taels. Lu Xu paid the money and felt a pain in his stomach, this iron ore was dug in vain, and the iron was not still expensive after digging!

The little blacksmith helped put the iron pot on the cart, and Lu Xu pushed it home without much delay.

Lu Xu pushed the cart before he got home, and saw his little stepmother accompanying his third aunt to sit and sew clothes in the yard of his house, and his third aunt was quite unhappy when she saw it.

Lu Xu wondered, could it be that the third aunt heard that he had repaid his aunt's family debt first to collect the debt? The third aunt wanted to buy cattle, and wanted to buy it back before the summer planting, he wanted to pay it back, but he ordered an iron pot, and he had to pay for the pot first, and the price of the pot exceeded expectations.

When Lu Xu looked at the third aunt again, he felt a little weak-hearted, thinking that he really couldn't do bad things as a man.

He knew that he owed his debts, so he put down his posture with a correct attitude, prepared to be scolded, put down the cart and called obediently: "Third aunt." ”

The third aunt was very anxious, and asked him urgently, "Xu Wazi, was it your idea to sell steamed buns to the third grandmother next door?" ”

Lu Xu: "Huh? ”

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The whole family cried, Lu Xu was stunned, Lu Xu was shocked, Lu Xu repented, is he unsociable? Should he also cry (bushi)

Chapter 19: Fritters

Bun? Not to pay off debts?

Lu Xu was stunned, "It's me." ”