Iron Bull had a puzzle in his eyes, obviously, he didn't hear the meaning of this.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next day, Liu Xunxiang got up early and opened the door of the store as usual, and came out to bask in the sun with a rocking chair.

"Uncle Liu, it's time to eat. ”

Liu Xunxiang squinted his eyes and nodded comfortably, after Tie Niu gave him the porridge, he ran back and brought a bowl out, sat on the doorrail next to Liu Xunxiang, and ate it with Liu Xunxiang.

"Tie Niu, don't learn from your Uncle Liu, he is old-fashioned at a young age. ”

The lady of the biscuit shop across the street looked at the two of them, her eyes were full of helpless smiles, the owner of this study looked about twenty years old, but the life of nearly half a hundred years old often provoked these neighbors to make kind jokes.

Liu Xunxiang also responded with a smile, he knew that these people were very simple.

Tie Niu cheered a few times, and then drank his porridge, he smashed his mouth and said: "Uncle Liu, I may have to come later today, I have a playmate, his cousin is a big family in the imperial capital, and he works as an errand in this state church, and at this time of year, his cousin will come to my house to get some iron tools, so he may be very busy today." ”

Liu Xunxiang nodded, and after Tie Niu took away the empty bowls and dishes, he closed his eyes again and shook the chair gently.

Around noon, when Liu Xunxiang was about to go back to the store to get wine, Tie Niu suddenly appeared happily outside the store, and behind him, there was a pretty girl.

The girl is petite, wearing a light green dress and two buns like buns on her head, which makes the girl look even more cute.

The girl's clothes are not very decorated, they are very simple, but the materials and workmanship of this dress are very exquisite, and it can be seen at a glance that it is not from the hands of ordinary tailors.

As soon as the girl walked into the study, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she didn't care about talking to Liu Xunxiang, so she walked straight to the side, looking at the calligraphy and paintings, Tie Niu took the opportunity to come to Liu Xunxiang, kept squeezing her eyebrows with him, and whispered quickly: "Uncle Liu, don't buy it so expensive!"

After speaking, he hurriedly said to the girl: "Sister Xu, how about it, I said I didn't lie to you, my Uncle Liu's calligraphy and paintings are definitely better than those gentlemen in the south of the city, you can buy a few pairs and go back." ”

Liu Xunxiang looked at this scene, how could he not understand that this Tie Niu obviously felt that in the past half a year, he had never sold a pair of calligraphy and paintings, so as soon as he caught the rich master, he immediately moved his heart to help him solicit business.

This girl with the name of Xu looked at the hanging calligraphy and paintings one by one, her eyes became brighter and brighter, different from Tie Niu, this girl is a person who has seen the world, and now she is following a Tianjiao of the National Education Academy, she can see at a glance that the quality of these calligraphy and paintings is definitely not an ordinary mortal.

Although the calligraphy and paintings made by the gentlemen of Chengnan Academy, in which the pen walks the dragon and snake, the iron and silver hooks, but it always makes people feel like something is missing in it, she stood in front of a pair of calligraphy and was silent for a long time, her hand unconsciously wiped her cheeks, looked at the crystal of her fingertips, and suddenly understood.

Those gentlemen write, pay too much attention to penmanship skills, but ignore the meaning of the word itself, it is so for the note of its shape, but lose the true meaning, and the word in front of you, a horizontal and a vertical, although there is no skill in it, but it is the most simple penmanship, the true meaning of each word, show it vividly.

One is the form, the other is the meaning!

Get carried away!

The woman surnamed Xu had burning eyes, and gently touched the calligraphy in front of her with her hand, which was the first calligraphy written by Liu Xunxiang when she first came.

When Liu Xunxiang wrote this post, what he recalled in his mind was the fragment of returning home for ten years and ten years later, so the first hundred words of this post make people think of their childhood at home, the kind of carefree life under the protection of their parents, and the last hundred words, it suddenly reversed, the meaning of the word changed suddenly, ten years of wandering home, the kind of hometown timidity, let people see it, sadness comes from it....

The fingers of the woman surnamed Xu stroked every word, the expression on her face changed from joy to sadness, and the last tear suddenly fell to the ground, she woke up like a dream, and hurriedly retreated in horror and left the calligraphy.

Tie Niu had been paying attention to her expression early on, he knew better than anyone that these calligraphy and paintings were fine from a distance, but once they touched it, the whole person would feel a very strange force flowing in his fingertips, so he had always only looked at it and not touched it.

The woman surnamed Xu reacted to her gaffe, her pretty face was slightly red, and she quickly changed the topic and said, "Mr. Liu, are all your paintings some strange beasts? ”

Before Liu Xunxiang could speak, the iron bull on the side tilted his head and said proudly: "That is, my Uncle Liu's calligraphy and paintings are all that we don't have in the Song Kingdom, for example, if you look at the tiger-faced human body next to you, do you know what it's called, it's called a roe deer owl, it is said that its body is as big as a small hill, and it can eat people." ”

"Roe deer owl..."The woman surnamed Xu looked at the painting of Tie Niu's fingers, secretly wrote it down in her heart, and continued: "Mr. Liu, how do you sell this meditation post and that roe deer owl picture?" on the first floor

Tie Niu suddenly felt that there was a drama when he heard it, and hurriedly blinked at Liu Xunxiang, there was not only a woman surnamed Xu who came to the store, but also some wealthy businessmen from the imperial capital who had wandered around before, but when he asked the price, he immediately shook his head and left, so he kept hinting at Liu Xunxiang, wanting him not to say such a high price.

Liu Xunxiang glanced at the picture of the roe deer owl, which was still a half-finished product, and said, "Two pictures totaling thirty taels of gold." ”

As soon as Tie Niu heard Liu Xunxiang's offer, he suddenly slapped his head, and secretly said in his heart, it's over again...

But unexpectedly, the woman surnamed Xu just frowned, so she immediately took out thirty taels of gold from the pocket of her sleeve and put it on the table, and then saluted Liu Xunxiang, then took off the two calligraphy and put them away, and hurriedly left the study.

Tie Niu's eyes were dull and he looked at the heavy bag of gold on the table, and it wasn't until the woman surnamed Xu left for a long time that he reacted and whispered: "My God, two calligraphy and paintings, thirty taels of gold, converted, one tael of gold is fifty taels of silver, and thirty taels of gold is fifteen hundred taels of silver, and my father can only earn less than one tael of gold when he is in the best business in a year, so it can't be like this every year..."

Liu Xunxiang looked at Tie Niu's appearance, shook his head and smiled, took out two taels of gold and handed it to him, Tie Niu looked at the gold in front of him, and was stunned for a while and didn't dare to take it.

"Uncle Liu, you... You are..."

Liu Xunxiang raised her eyebrows at him and said, "You deserve the introduction fee." ”

Indeed, if it weren't for this iron bull to pull this woman surnamed Xu over on an errand in the National Education Institute, he really wouldn't have been able to sell a pair of calligraphy, plus in the past six months, he can be said to have eaten the Zhou family, drank the Zhou family, and never gave a penny, so he was not stingy with this gold.

"Thank you, uncle. Tie Niu's eyes were curved like crescent moons, he wiped his hands, took off his coat, and carefully wrapped the two taels of gold.

That night, Zhou Tiesheng's family made a few hard dishes and called Liu Xunxiang to drink wine and eat meat.

At the dinner table, Tie Niu looked at Liu Xunxiang's appearance, and secretly made up his mind in his heart that he must learn calligraphy and painting with this Uncle Liu in front of him, isn't it sixty years of time, if he learns it, will he still use it for food and clothing in the future, for this gold, admit it!

The young Tie Niu didn't think about it, he learned this calligraphy and painting in sixty years, even if he didn't worry about food and clothing, it would have to be sixty years later...

And the woman surnamed Xu, this time she went home because the Chinese New Year was about to begin, and the Tianjiao of the National Education Institute were also preparing to return to the family to reunite with her family, so she was allowed to go home, and she encountered these two calligraphy and paintings.

After she left the store, she didn't even have time to say hello to her father, so she found a carriage and went straight to the end of Qingyun Street, the Anglican Courtyard located in the middle of the hill.

As for the remaining bag of gold, Liu Xunxiang casually threw it into the cabinet in front of the stage, without even looking at it.

For the calligraphy and paintings in this store, he only cares about the rest of the pictures except for the autumn killing post and the vermilion bird, and he doesn't care about the rest at all, these calligraphy and paintings are just tools for him to calm down and understand the way of movement and stillness.

He believed that when he was able to completely draw the roe deer owl and the vermilion bird, his cultivation would break through to a realm again, and even after comprehending the way of movement and stillness, as long as the aura was enough, it was not impossible for him to break through to the realm of transforming the spirit in one breath.

When he left that night, Zhou Tiesheng was already drunk, lying on the kang and muttering continuously, and he didn't know what the Shi was talking about, Tie Niu also hurried back to help his mother clean up the dishes and chopsticks after sending Liu Xunxiang home.

Liu Xunxiang lit the candles in the shop, slowly poured himself a pot of rough wine, and then poured the wine into the inkstone, and began to grind it carefully, the aroma of the wine was accompanied by the fragrance of ink, filled in this slightly simple study, and after a while, the ink in the inkstone was covered with the bottom of the inkstone.

Liu Xunxiang picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and continued to sketch on the paper one by one....

Gradually, with his outline, a strange beast with the body of a tiger beast appeared on his paper again, and with the formation of this strange beast, a strong wild atmosphere began to emanate from this paper, but this time the breath was very strange, as if it was sealed by this paper, this breath can only be on the paper, but it can't come out.

With each additional stroke of Liu Xunxiang, this wild atmosphere became heavier, and finally, this roe deer owl picture appeared on this paper again, but as usual, this roe deer owl picture, the eyes under its armpits were not drawn by him.

Seeing that there was only one stroke left, Liu Xunxiang hesitated, looking at this piece of paper, he sighed softly, put the pen aside, and then pinched the roe deer owl figure into a ball and threw it back at will.

In a corner not far behind him, there was a large wooden box.

In this box, there are already half of the paper balls.

If you open these paper balls, you will find that there are people with beasts, sloppy old men, half-cut bracelets, white punishment heaven, sound heaven, three-line golden scorpions, roe deer owls, red birds....