Du Qingjiao's entourage, hearing his order, except for the person holding the sword box, the other two acted according to the order, one took out a roll of drawing paper from the burden behind him and spread it on the ground, and the other held the famous inkstone in one hand, and the ink strip in the other hand rotated and grinded ink back and forth on the inkstone.

Ju Jingyue looked at this formation and said mockingly: "If you make such a big formation, others don't know it, and they still think they're killing pigs! ”

Du Qingjiao shook his head at Ju Jingyue with a smile on his face, as if to say: Ignorant woman.

Escaping from the battle has never been done by a general, Du Qingjiao, who used to be the supreme general, seems to have the support of a million troops behind him at this moment, and has no intention of retreating at all, but is domineering, as if he wants to fight a decisive battle to the end in one go.

After Du Qingjiao's entourage polished the ink, he knelt on one knee on the ground, held the inkstone above his head, and waited for Du Qingjiao to use it.

The person who originally laid the paper laid out the drawing paper, put a test paper next to it, and then took out the iron gourd scoop on his back, filled it with water, and also knelt on one knee, put the iron gourd on top of his head, and stood on the left and right of Du Qingjiao with the person holding the ink.

Looking at the cooperation of these entourages, it seems that Du Qingjiao often lays paper and grinds ink like this.

Du Qingjiao rolled up his sleeves, and then took out his pen made of tiger whiskers and tiger hair, and the ivory tube as a rod.

Everyone in the world says that there are seven sages in the world, only he Du Qingjiao is a big old man, he can only fight and kill, today he wants to let the world see, Du Qingjiao can not only kill people on the battlefield, but also dance and write.

Pi Yuzhou and his entourage saw Du Qingjiao's ivory tiger whisker pen, and their eyes were blazing.

Emperor Xuanwu of Wuguo liked to hunt when he was young, and once led five hundred good hands into Huwang Mountain to hunt a fierce tiger. In order to commemorate this hunt, Emperor Xuanwu asked a craftsman to put the tiger whisker and tiger hair together, using ivory as a rod, to make five ivory tiger whisker pens.

When Du Qingjiao killed Xiao Qian, a famous general of the Great Iron Dynasty, and when he entered Beijing to face the saint, the emperor personally gave him one.

It's priceless.

Ju Jingyue snorted coldly: "Such a precious pen, used on people who don't know a few characters, is really blind to such a good pen." ”

Du Qingjiao ignored everyone's gaze, from dipping the ink to test the ink, and then to putting down the pen, without thinking, the movements were done in one go, and it looked like the technique was extremely sophisticated.

This scene not only stunned Ju Jingyue and Pi Yuzhou's group, but even Wu Ling secretly surprised himself. No one thought that Du Qingjiao, who was old and coarse and couldn't read a few big characters, held a pen worth thousands of gold, and danced with a unique flavor.

Wu Ling went up a few steps to the stairs on the ninth floor, wanting to see what Du Qingjiao was painting and how well he was drawing.

When I looked at it, I saw that the original snow-white painting paper had begun to take shape.

Du Qingjiao painted a horse.

Even if Wu Ling's eyes saw that the painting was upside down, he could see that Du Qingjiao's painting was not bad, and he was a little similar.

After painting a horse, Du Qingjiao did not close his pen, and still waved his pen quickly.

It didn't take long for five horses to gallop on the drawing paper.

Du Qingjiao handed his ivory tiger whisker pen that money couldn't buy to his entourage, then got up and looked at Ju Jingyue, and said with a smile: "How do you see my painting?"

Du Qingjiao climbed the Tianxing Tower this time, in addition to being invited by the Fufeng Zhao family to get to know the young talents of Fufeng Town, just to come to the Tianxing Tower to paint a picture, and then hang the painting upstairs, so that the world knows that he Du Qingjiao lives up to the reputation of the seven sages in the world, and is not a person who makes up the numbers.

For this day, Du Qingjiao spent five or six years learning to draw horses. During this period, I don't know how much ink strips and pens were used, and paper was used for more than a dozen sheets a day.

In the past five or six years, Du Qingjiao has only painted his self-created "Five Horses Galloping Map".

Practice makes perfect, and now he can draw a horse in the time of half a pillar of incense.

The young talent behind Du Qingjiao looked at the "Five Horses Galloping Map" on the ground, and immediately stood up and praised: "The horses painted by General Du are vigorous and powerful, majestic and fierce, and the five horses are together, but there is a million galloping momentum, which is really admirable." ”

Someone chimed in: "Just by looking at it, you can feel the sound of horses' hooves coming in waves." Based on this alone, it is not said that it is comparable to the painting of the Holy One, but compared with the current picture, it is not inferior. ”

Pi Yuzhou was not to be outdone, and said: "I think that if you take out a single horse, you can sell it for a thousand gold." ”

One after another, people gave Du Qingjiao their praise.

Du Qingjiao happily accepted the praise from his surroundings.

In Du Qingjiao's eyes, his "Five Horses Galloping Map" is much better than Gongshujing's "Lonely Picture", and he deserves these praises.

Not to mention painting anything else, just talking about painting horses, Du Qingjiao is confident that he can be compared with ancient and modern sages.

Wu Ling was stunned by the actions of the young talent behind Du Qingjiao.

This flattery is too open, isn't it?

Perhaps because Du Qingjiao is a martial artist who has been on the battlefield, he has seen more of the galloping appearance of the horse, and the horse painted by Du Qingjiao has a running posture that is a little more crazy and wild than the horse painted by many people.

Most of the horses painted by scholars are obviously running, but they look like they are leisurely, and they do not show the vigor and momentum of the horses when they are galloping, but Du Qingjiao has done a good job at this point.

The young talents behind Du Qingjiao saw this and kept praising in this regard.

However, Du Qingjiao is very well drawn, and his shortcomings are also obvious.

It's just that the details are not in place, especially on the sideburns and ponytail.

Under normal circumstances, when a horse is running, the direction set by the horse's sideburns is to keep the opposite direction of the horse's advance, and if it is running in a strong wind, it should keep the same direction as the wind, but this is not the case with the horses painted by Du Qingjiao, some of the horse's sideburns are towards the left side of the painting, and some are attached to the horse's neck.

There is also the inappropriate shade of ink.

In general, Du Qingjiao's painting is okay, but it is far from the exaggeration that Pi Yuzhou said that a single horse can be sold for a thousand gold, let alone to the point where it can be compared with "The Picture of a Child".

Putting aside Du Qingjiao's fame, if you take it out and sell it, if you meet someone who knows how to paint, it should be no problem to sell it for three or five.

It's not that I despise Du Qingjiao, but that in today's world, the paintings of people who are not famous can't be sold for a few dollars, or even can't be sold.

Du Qingjiao looked at the egg and bent down to look at the "Five Horses Galloping Map", Ju Jingyue, who had not spoken, sneered: "You don't know how to draw because you can't draw, so I'm embarrassed to say it!"

Ju Jingyue commented: "Your horse is indeed a good drawing!"

Du Qingjiao's eyes showed a fierce light, and he said imposingly: "Then why did you just say that I can't comment on the paintings of Gongshujing?"

Ju Jingyue stood up, completely unafraid, and said, "I haven't finished my sentence yet! Your horse is indeed well drawn, as they say, it has a fierce spirit and a galloping momentum, but the shortcomings are also very obvious. ”

"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, or you'll ......"

Du Qingjiao's expression suddenly became serious, and he took two steps forward, as if he wanted to suppress Ju Jingyue with momentum, so that she couldn't speak.

It's just that Du Qingjiao underestimated Ju Jingyue too much.

As a princess of a country, how could she have the consciousness of being afraid of oppression by the powerful.

Ju Jingyue sneered: "What, do you want to kill people and kill people? Do you only allow you to evaluate others, and not allow others to evaluate you? Could it be that I am afraid that I will say that you have too many shortcomings in your paintings, and you will not be able to save face?"

Du Qingjiao said confidently: "Then you can say as much as you want, I want to see how many you can say." ”

"So confident?"

Wu Ling secretly wondered in his heart, it was the first time he had seen such a confident person.

And he is confident enough to let women find fault.

"Look at the horse's sideburns. ”

Ju Jingyue pointed to the painting on the ground and said unceremoniously: "When your horse runs, its sideburns are still attached to its neck, motionless? You say that if you don't move, don't move, so what's the matter with this horse's sideburns to the left? And the horse's tail hair, why is it flat, is this a galloping wild horse or your second slipper with a cut tail? And there are also this horse legs, one big and one small, one long and one short, the horse legs are patched together, right? There is also ......?"

Seeing Ju Jingyue talking seriously, Wu Ling realized that it turned out that the woman was chattering endlessly, and it was also quite cute.

At the same time, he also laughed at Du Qingjiao, who said that the painting had any shortcomings, and went to find a woman who was not afraid of you.

Isn't it because I haven't drawn enough faults?

Compared with Wuling's leisure to watch a good show, Du Qingjiao's face at this moment is as ugly as it is.

Du Qingjiao's face darkened, interrupting Ju Jingyue and saying, "Are you sure you're not making trouble unreasonably?"

"Don't interrupt, I'm not done yet!"

Ju Jingyue was talking about having fun, and she didn't mean to stop at all, "And when you paint, what does it mean to ask your entourage to help you carry water and polish ink? Ancient sages painted, did anyone do this like you? You called two people to help, do you mean that this painting was painted by the three of you?"

Ju Jingyue's angle of commenting on the painting can make Wuling laugh.

Wu Ling simply sat down on the stairs, intending to watch a good show first.

After all, if you miss such a scene, you can't see it, but it's even harder to see than the works of the sages of Tianxing Tower.

As for the closure of the Tianxing Tower, I can't come back tomorrow morning to climb the Tianxing Tower again!

It's a bit of a pity that there are no melon seeds and peanuts at this time.

"Shut up!"

Du Qingjiao yelled angrily, and stepped forward to grab Ju Jingyue's neck.

When Wu Ling saw this scene, he immediately got up from his idle sitting.

Ju Jingyue stood in place, and had no intention of dodging, but raised the sword in his hand, held it horizontally in front of him, and laughed: "They are blind, are you Du Qingjiao also blind, can't you see what kind of sword this sword is, and what it represents?"

Hearing this, Du Qingjiao was about to grab Ju Jingyue's hand by the neck and stopped.

Du Qingjiao's green tendons jumped violently, and his five fingers opened into a grasping hand, and he was only half a palm away from Ju Jingyue at this time.

Du Qingjiao looked at the sword in Ju Jingyue's hand and frowned, "Water Moon?"

The words "Moon in the Water" engraved on the scabbard made Du Qingjiao withdraw his hand with lightning speed. Thirty-three years ago, the sword Shui Zhongyue, which won the championship in the Xishu Sword House, was bought back by the Northern Zhou Emperor with a city as a gift for the tenth birthday of his most beloved daughter Ju Jingyue, which spread as early as Kyushu.

The moon in the water is now in Ju Jingyue's hands, and Ju Jingyue's identity is self-evident.

Du Qingjiao immediately changed his face and said with a smile: "It turned out that Her Royal Highness the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty came to our Martial Kingdom, and as a common person of the Martial Kingdom, I would like to welcome it." ”

Just now, he was still fierce, and he wanted to kill Ju Jingyue, but now he didn't do anything, and greeted Ju Jingyue with a smile, Du Qingjiao's face made Wu Ling admire it.

No wonder people in the market often say that people don't want to be invincible in the world.

"It turned out to be a princess, and now there is a good show to watch. ”

Wu Ling sat down again, he wanted to see how Du Qingjiao would end.

Ju Jingyue didn't stop mocking because of Du Qingjiao's stoppage, "Du Qingjiao, one of the seven sages outside the world, the general of the martial kingdom and the top of the Ming Dynasty, actually wants to beat a woman in front of the sages, it's really better to be famous." No wonder he looked even more powerful than a sage just now, just by beating a woman in annoyance and shame, Du Qingjiao is indeed ancient and modern. ”

After knowing Ju Jingyue's identity, no matter what she said, the expression on Du Qingjiao's face remained the same, still with a smile.

However, Du Qingjiao had no intention of scolding, and said with a smile: "Princess Jingyue's ability to speak well, I'm afraid no one in Kyushu can compare." ”

Ju Jingyue is the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, but not the princess of the Wu Kingdom.

So Du Qingjiao was not afraid to argue with Ju Jingyue, but he couldn't do anything to her anymore.

The young talents behind Du Qingjiao knew that Ju Jingyue was the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and they all kept their mouths shut. Although the princess of the Northern Zhou Dynasty can't control them, her aunt, the current queen of Wuguo, wants to govern them, and it is still easy.

Ju Jingyue said coldly: "It's far worse than General Du, after all, General Du is a person who can compare with the sages!"

Du Qingjiao said: "Why can't you compare to a saint?"

Comparable to the ancient sages is Du Qingjiao's lifelong dream.

However, people in the world have always admired the ancient sages too much, and they all feel that the ancient sages cannot be surpassed.

Ju Jingyue sneered: "Why are you comparable to the ancient sage, with that painting full of loopholes?"

Without waiting for Du Qingjiao to speak, Pi Yuzhou stood up from a group of silent young talents, stepped forward and said, "Why not?"

Everyone present, whether it was Wuling or Du Qingjiao, was surprised by Pi Yuzhou's sudden interjection.

Pi Yuzhou didn't care about everyone's eyes, and after nodding slightly to Du Qingjiao, he said to Ju Jingyue: "You said just now that in this painting, the horse's sideburns are wrong, some are not moving, and some are deviated to the left, but what if you add a gust of wind blowing in the direction of the left side of the painting?"

For Pi Yuzhou, this is a good opportunity to impress Du Qingjiao.

For this year's autumn test, Pi Yuzhou is not worried about not being able to pass. Not only Pi Yuzhou, but also a group of young talents behind Du Qingjiao. Not surprisingly, they will all enter Beijing as lifters next spring.

Du Qingjiao is a celebrity next to the prince, as long as he says a few good words in front of the prince, even if there is no title on the gold list in the end, he will have a good future in the future.

This is exactly the purpose of their coming to ascend to the Star Tower with Du Qingjiao.

Compared to the other young talents who were afraid of offending Ju Jingyue and offending the queen in the palace, Pi Yuzhou decided to take a gamble.

Of course, he didn't do it blindly.

Today's crown prince is not born to the current queen, that is, Ju Jingyue's aunt, on the contrary, the crown prince and the second prince represented by the current queen are both representatives of the forces competing for that seat, and they are hostile relations.

Ju Jingyue smiled: "You don't want to say that this horse's sideburns are blown by the wind, right?"

Pi Yuzhou nodded and said, "That's exactly what it means!"

Ju Jingyue smiled and asked, "Since you said that there is a strong wind, then why do you say that the sideburns are attached to the horse's neck?"

Pi Yuzhou looked serious and explained: "Don't you think this horse is relatively short? A relatively short horse, in the middle of a compact herd of horses, do you think the wind can blow? And you said that the horse's tail hair is flat, I think it is strange, probably because you have been in the palace all year round and have never heard of the scissors four-legged snake." This snake likes to gnaw on its hair, and the hair that has been gnawed by this snake is as smooth as if it had been cut by scissors. If Princess Jingyue doesn't believe it, you can check it out. ”

"And you said that the legs of the horses in the painting, there are big and small, long and short, to be honest, I don't know what you think, the two-legged man still has a cripple, let alone a four-legged horse?"

"I don't know why a group of horses that are crippled and strong, still braving the wind, are not recognized! Is it because they are not in good health, and not in the eyes of the world what good horses should be?"

Du Qingjiao applauded and laughed: "Well said!"

The reader's mouth is just talking.

Even Du Qingjiao has to admit this.

Du Qingjiao stared at Ju Jingyue and sneered: "Princess Jingyue, you can't be used to seeing good horses, so you look down on horses with crippled bodies, right?"

Ju Jingyue's embroidered eyebrows frowned slightly, and Pi Yuzhou said well, which really blocked her.

Pi Yuzhou took the opportunity to continue: "And Princess Jingyue, you just said that General Du can't compare to the sage, I can't agree. Let's compare General Du with Gongshujing! May I ask General Du how many people can take the enemy's head from the ten thousand armies, so that the border of our country can change the declining situation, and the Gongshu Path can be done? Not to mention the Gongshu Path that can only read dead books, how many people in ancient and modern times can take the enemy's head from the ten thousand armies? How many people can be as good at writing and martial arts as General Du?

Ju Jingyue was unconvinced and said: "What you said, combined, can be compared with the bookworm's merit of unifying the Kyushu script?"

Pi Yuzhou said: "The unification of the language and writing of Kyushu is not the work of one person, but the efforts of the seven sages of Zhuhai. Moreover, is it correct to unify the spoken and written languages of Kyushu? It is precisely because they have unified the spoken and written languages of Kyushu that those outstanding local cultures will disappear from the stage of history. It was precisely because of the wave of unification of the written and written languages caused by them that there were incidents of book burning in various parts of Kyushu, causing many older sage books to disappear in the sea of fire and become ashes. ”

Speaking of which, the fame that the Seven Sages of Zhuhai now have is a legend written by annihilating the exploits of their ancestors. The merits and demerits are not worthy of praise and praise. ”

"And General Du, in addition to what he just said, also has the merit of leading his troops to exterminate more than a dozen mountain bandit nests for the country and the people, why can't he compare with the seven sages of Zhuhai? Just because they are ancients? If people today can't compare with the ancients, then how can they become sages? Is there no ancestor who is older than him?"

Ju Jingyue was red-faced by Pi Yuzhou, and she didn't know how to refute it for a while.

"You ......"

After holding it for a long time, Ju Jingyue spoke: "Anyway, he Du Qingjiao can't compare to the ancient sages and heroes." ”

Du Qingjiao laughed loudly: "The merits are all here, why can't I, Du Qingjiao, compare with the ancient sages and heroes?"

Du Qingjiao smiled at Ju Jingyue and said, "You woman's opinion, don't listen to it, you have no intention of fighting!"

"What a woman's opinion!"

Wu Ling stood up, laughed loudly, and said, "Do you know why you Du Qingjiao can't compare to the ancient sages and heroes?"

Du Qingjiao's Chinese face instantly darkened.

I just convinced one, and here comes another.

Du Qingjiao stared at Wuling coldly, with obvious killing intent in his eyes. However, in order to maintain the image of a person who can be compared with the sages and heroes, Du Qingjiao still asked: "Why!"

Wu Ling said with a smile: "Because the ancient sages and heroes disdain to compare with you Du Qingjiao, see you Du Qingjiao, how far and how far you go." ”

"You ......"

Du Qingjiao was furious, his face became hideous, and his clenched fists creaked.

He took a few steps forward and stared at Wuling like a beast.

Wuling was condescending and fearless.

The four eyes are facing each other, one is angry, and the other is not shocked.

Seeing that Du Qingjiao didn't mean to make a move, Wu Ling grinned, ignored the people on the floor, threw up his sleeves and walked upstairs, climbed the stairs, and sang to himself:

Small things can be accomplished in three or five days, and it takes a hundred years to seek for the people.

The merits and demerits are determined by their descendants, and the heroes do not ask about the present day.

It's ridiculous that people today laugh at the ancients, and don't look at the future to see the present world.