Chapter Twenty-Three: The Outside World

Early the next morning, Du Shenfei really didn't snooze, got up early, changed into clothes that were patched but very clean, which Xie Youlong couldn't wear for him, and then called out, "Auntie, I'm going to the city to make money!" and jumped over the Tiger Wolf Valley and came to the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Du Shenfei came to the street outside Kaifu Temple again, looking around, looking for an opportunity to make money. On this street, there are people who sell rice and flour, beads, and cloth. Du Shenfei looked at it for a long time, and he didn't know what to do to make a living, so he walked forward again, only to see a small shop on the side of the street, which turned out to be a shop dedicated to portraits, but there was a person in front of the store who was noisy there.

The onlookers were talking.

Du Shenfei also squeezed forward to see, he finally understood, it turned out that there were two brothers, the elder brother was called Zhao Pucheng, and the brother was called Zhao Pushi. Zhao Pucheng opened a shop on this street and made a career out of portraits. Zhao Pushi didn't study well, nor did he do piles to make a living, but he was idle and didn't do his job, and often came to his brother to ask for money. Then Zhao Pucheng is also a small economy, and he eats handicraft rice, where will he raise a brother who is lazy and lazy? That Zhao Pushi hated revenge, and this morning he came into the door with half a piece of money and asked his brother to paint a portrait of himself. Zhao Pucheng knew that he was unreasonable, so where would he paint him a portrait? But Zhao Pushi kept pestering, saying that no matter what kind of brother he was, how could there be any reason for the patron to go out of the door? Zhao Pucheng had no choice but to patiently draw a portrait of him, but the painting did not look like it at all, and he just hoped that he would get out of the house quickly, and the farther he went, the better.

Of course, Zhao Pushi is not a vegetarian, he took the half money, took the portrait, stood at the door, sprinkled scoundrels, and shouted: "Passing by, passing by, everyone come and see, who is this painting?" Zhao Pushi said loudly: "This portrait says that it is me, everyone look at it, is it like me?"

Zhao Pushi wrote a few sentences under the portrait, saying: "I can't fax Mo's portrait, and my brother doesn't look like a brother at all;

I saw that Zhao Pucheng was so anxious that his face was red, and he had nothing to do, if this matter spread and ruined his reputation, who would come to him for a portrait in the future?

When Du Shenfei saw this scene, he thought to himself: "Can portraits also make money? Isn't this my forte?"

Du Shenfei suddenly had an idea, he strode into the crowd, walked to the long table at the door of the store, and said loudly to Zhao Pushi: "Old fellow, don't make any noise, since you want a portrait, come! I'll draw you a picture, and the painting is guaranteed to look like you." ”

Zhao Pushi looked at Du Shenfei, and when he saw that it was a teenager, he said, "Who are you?

Du Shenfei said: "I am a portrait person. ”

Zhao Pu said honestly: "You rabbit cub, dare to speak wildly, if the painting is not like it, what do you say?"

Du Shenfei smiled and said, "There are so many neighbors here to testify, if I don't like it, you can do whatever you want." He stopped, stared at the copper coin in Zhao Pushi's hand with a pair of eyes, and continued: "If the painting is like, the money in your hand will belong to me, how about it?"

Zhao Pushi only hated that someone came to relieve the siege, and after hearing this sentence, he knew that he was a person who was short of money, so he waited for him to not draw well, and then taught him a lesson, so he immediately said: "Okay! If you draw like it, my half-run money will be yours. If not, let your little rabbit cub walk around without eating. ”

Zhao Pushi glanced at the onlookers and said loudly: "Do you think it's good?"

Those people said in unison: "Okay! It's only fair to find a middleman and put the money in the hands of the middleman." ”

At this time, I saw a big man full of fat and fierce eyes squeezed in, and shouted: "I will be this middleman, if anyone dares to cheat, I Zhang Huolong will definitely not spare him." ”

This fire dragon is a famous butcher in the vicinity, who practices kung fu and is said to be invincible.

Zhao Pushi had no choice but to hand over the money to Zhang Huolong and ask him to be the middleman.

Du Shenfei walked into the door, supported the table with his left hand, lifted the pen with his right hand, dipped in the ink, on the white paper, hooked his eyebrows, painted blocks and lines, and in less than a pillar of incense, he had already depicted Zhao Pushi's upper body on the paper.

When everyone took this portrait and looked at it, it was really good: the painting style is careful, the lines are vigorous, the rigidity and softness are combined, and the composition is full, which is really just right. Even the hair is traced with a trembling pen, one by one, broken or interrupted, and the fineness is abnormal.

Zhao Pushi snatched the portrait, looked at it, and said, "Where does this look like me? You see that I have more hair, but this painting is only a few hairs? The beard is not like it, my beard is obviously a little longer." ”

Du Shenfei didn't pay attention to him, but asked everyone: "Dare to ask everyone, do I paint like this person?"

When the onlookers saw it, they were very expressive, and they all said in unison: "It's like!"

Then Zhao Pushi listened, and was about to run away after snatching his half of the money.

But this fire dragon is still a fair person, he also thinks that the painting is very similar, and with a gentle push, Zhao Pushi was pushed to the ground. Zhang Huolong shouted: "Zhao Laoer, a manly man, since you lost the bet, don't be a scoundrel, otherwise none of us will be polite to you." As he spoke, he handed over the half-run money to Du Shenfei.

Zhao Pushi had no choice but to walk down the street in a gloomy manner.

Zhao Pucheng is also a calculating person, and when he saw this, he came to Du Shenfei and said: "Little brother, where are you from? What did you do before? The portrait is painted so well." ”

Du Shenfei said: "I really don't hide it from the old man, just because the family is poor, there is no money and little rice, it is difficult to continue, I came to the city to find something, I don't choose the good or the bad, just support the family!"

Zhao Pucheng was overjoyed and said: "In this case, you might as well come to my store and give people a portrait, and I will give you three yuan a month's salary." But the home is cramped, and there is no room and board, what do you think?"

Du Shenfei thought for a while and said: "Old man, how do you see this, I will come to your store from tomorrow, I will paint mine, you will paint yours, because you still have to bear the rent of the store, I don't want your salary, but I will give you four percent of the income, I have sixty percent, but I come early and return late, and I don't stay here, what do you think?"

That Zhao Pucheng heard such a good thing, how could there be no reason to be unwilling.

At that time, Du Shenfei bought a small bag of rice with half of the money, and when he passed through the vegetable market, he bought some pigs and beef, and went straight back to Freedom Valley.