Stomp ......

A caravan of more than a dozen horses marched through the noisy bazaar in two columns, and the city called Calabsa was not even half the size of the valley as a whole, with low houses, few high-rise buildings, narrow streets, uneven adobe bricks, and the filth left by camels and sheep could be seen everywhere, attracting many flies and insects.

Lu Liangsheng sat on the back of the old donkey, slowly walking between the hooves of the donkey, watching the scenes in the city.

The four scholars on the left and right waved their sleeves and swept away the flies and insects that fluttered at them, and the streets they passed were dirty and crowded, except for some novelties, but more disdainful, the low houses were only plastered with a layer of mud, and the flying insects of the shops selling liquor could be seen everywhere with the guests coming in and out, and the stout woman wrapped in linen cloth smashed the old grain in the jar with a wooden stick, staring viciously at this side like a she-wolf.

"A foreign land, the more you look at it, the more desolate it becomes, but it's a pity that it's too far away from my Great Sui, if it's closer, you can't even listen to the words of the sages and get some edification. ”

"How can they understand the words of the sages, but what I can see is the blade of your majesty's wielding. ”

"It makes sense, it makes sense. ”

Lu Liangsheng glanced at the four of them, shook his head with a smile, and followed the cavalry in front of him through the noisy long street, the road became open, the ground was paved with rock bricks, neat and flat, and there were more palms on both sides shaking thick leaves in the wind, and the pool of gushing spring water in front carved female carvings, and the exposed parts were only blindfolded by the four scholars.

High in the official residence, the open door stands a few rock pillars, and on the chaise longue, a figure in a loose white robe lies horizontally, casually taking the preserved fruit held by the maid and putting it in his mouth to chew, and continues to flip through the parchment scroll.

Outside, a guard in half-armor came in and walked to the side and hung his head.

"Your Excellency the Governor, Daer has returned with the Oriental painter. ”

A grape was chewed in the man's mouth, the juice slid to the corners of his mouth and his chin, the maid pinched the silk handkerchief and gently wiped it for him, and then retreated to the side, on the chaise longue, the man put down the parchment scroll and folded it to the guard in front of him, and when he got up, a smile suddenly appeared on his emaciated face, and he walked between the rock pillars and raised his arms to meet him.

"Dael, my loyal chief of the guard, let me see the painters of the East. ”

The chief of the guard, who had stopped his horse in the distance, turned over and dismounted, raised his hand to his chest, and bowed: "Your Excellency the Governor, it is my honor to serve you. ”

Immediately, he stood aside respectfully and introduced the man in front of him to the five people invited behind him.

"Dear Oriental painter, this is the governor of Calabsa, His Excellency Tibes. ”

"Under the Great Sui from the Eastern Soil, Lu Liangsheng has seen the governor of this party. ”

Lu Liangsheng arched his hand and said this, his eyes looked at the official in front of him, the black robe with an open placket, a circle of gold thread sewn on the neckline, and a delicate buckle around the outside, and an embroidered gold pattern on the side of the robe, the latter was also looking at the people from the East, with his hair coiled on the top of his head, a gorgeous and gentle robe, and he couldn't help but look at it twice, and then his thick beard opened, and he smiled with his left hand on his chest and bent slightly.

"Lu Liangsheng, hehe, strange name, but Your Excellency can speak Greek, it's really rare, it's not pure, like the accent of the indigenous Egyptians, painters from the East, come in with me. ”

Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, probably thinking that this was what this person was saying, nodded casually, and walked to the official residence in front of him at the invitation of the other party.

Sitting on the golden upholstered chairs, several women in white robes brought fruit plates and wine, bowed down and slowly pushed them away, Tibes took the wine and saluted Lu Liangsheng, and then smiled at the four scholars who followed.

"This is the wine that is abundant in Egypt, have the Orientals ever drunk it?"

"National teacher, what did the brown-haired and high-nosed barbarian say, how did he feel a complacent expression?"

Among the four scholars, Wang Feng was good at observing words and feelings, and he felt that the other party seemed to be showing off at the first time, Lu Liangsheng didn't answer him, just looked at Tybes opposite, with a smile on his face, and took a sip of sour wine.

"Your Excellency the Governor, a small country on the western border, will pay tribute to this kind of wine every year, and in my Great Sui, but the taste of the new things when entertaining guests cannot be put on the table. ”

Lu Liangsheng couldn't see the suspicion of this person showing off, since this was the case, how could he still humiliate his family and country with the other party, "The Great Sui in the East, the land is vast, the ocean is in the east, the grassland is ice and snow in the north, there is the hot jungle in the south, and the vast desert in the west, the land is vast and the things produced are countless. ”

After describing it, Tibes was stunned for a moment, and his eyes couldn't help falling on the scholar's robe: "Your Excellency's clothes are also ......."

"Naturally, too. Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Lu Liangsheng waved his hand to interrupt and put the golden cup containing wine on the table, "Your Excellency the Governor, please invite the five of me over, but there is anything else? ”

The scholar's tone was calm, and the four of Wang Feng and Ma Liu, who had been with him for a long time, couldn't hear the anger, and hurriedly followed the wine glasses in their hands and put them on the table, slightly baring their teeth and eyebrows, revealing fierceness.

"Hehe......"

Tibes leaned on the swan cushion and elegantly put down the wine glass, no matter how powerful the five people were, they traveled a long way to Egypt, and there were only five people, and they were not in a hurry, their fingertips knocked on the table, and they smiled and leaned forward slightly.

"Your Excellency sold me a painting yesterday to my chief of guard, and I myself admire art, art from the East is rare here. I like your painting, I like it very much, if it is not a landscape, but a portrait of me, it would be even better, respect the artist, are you right?"

Lu Liangsheng just sat opposite him and looked at him for a long time, with a smile on his face.

"Your Excellency the Governor wants one, then I will paint one for you, but in exchange, can you tell me how to go to the East?"

"That's all the Respectable Painter needs to know?"

Seeing that he spoke sincerely, and that he had nothing to lose, Tibes stepped on his feet happily, beckoned to Lu Liangsheng, asked him to follow, got up and walked to the study of this official residence, where the red carpet was paved, and several bookshelves listed many books piled up in parchment, Tibes walked behind the desk, picked up a reed pen, dipped it in fine charcoal and ink made of lamp black, and drew a line on a piece of sheepskin, and at the end of the mark, there was a huge trench.

"When you get to Constantine, then east, but when you get there, you ask the others. ”

handed the parchment scroll to Lu Liangsheng, then went out of the study, raised his finger and shook it a few times, reminding: "Oriental painter, I have already paid, and it is time to get your return." ”

Lu Liangsheng glanced at the extremely simple map of this chapter, took off his sleeves, went out of the study, and motioned to Wang Feng and the four people over there to move the bookshelf, and didn't say much, polished the ink, took out the brush and put a heavy stroke on a blank picture scroll, and looked at Thebes sitting on the chair with his legs crossed, while carefully sketching.

Unconsciously, two hours passed, and the portrait sketched out by Qingmo also reached the last stroke, Lu Liangsheng put down the brush, blew the ink that had not dried on it, stretched out his hand and asked the guards waiting next to him to come and take it away, and then packed up the pen and ink and got up to say goodbye.

"If you don't owe anything to the governor, then you will take your leave. ”

He arched his hand, went straight out of the official residence, put the bookshelf on the back of the old donkey, took the reins, and walked to the gate of the official residence.

"Liangsheng, this kind of person should be killed, anyway, he is also a barbarian. ”

"Huh. ”

Lu Liangsheng looked ahead, just smiled, pulled the old donkey to bathe in the brilliant skylight, and continued to move north amid the chattering words of the four scholars.

The wind whipped up the sand, and between the swaying palm roads, in the middle of the official residence, Tibes, who was sipping wine, leaned against his back, looking comfortably at the oriental painting set up by two guards.

The figure above is none other than himself, and in addition to the color of the blue ink, it is simply lifelike.

Soon, he raised his hand and beckoned the chief of the guard.

"Daer, look how beautiful this painting is, there are many beautiful things in the bookshelf of the Orientals, but these are not mine...... It's a pity, if it were mine, how nice it would be, do you say?"

The man standing next to the governor lowered his face silently, took a few steps back in understanding, walked out of the official residence, waved his subordinates to turn over and get on his horse, and chased after the few easterners who had just left.