Painter

Chapter 53: Chapter 53: Retouching ([-])

The people of Xunning Palace came and went quickly, except for the doubts in the hearts of the neighbors, they did not leave the slightest trace in the night.

In the backyard of Ximoju, Tu Shanxi put down the kitchen knife.Li Chan watched the people from Xunning Palace go away and returned to the backyard.

Song Wuji's fire was like a torch, illuminating the stone table under the loquat tree.There is a chess board engraved on the stone table. After a false alarm, the monsters continued their entertainment at night.In the area with a radius of several feet, apart from bickering and teasing, the favorite game of all the monsters is poker.Xu Da held a pawn with his claws and pushed it forward. The two yaksha ghosts who were playing chess with it blushed arguing over whether it was a pawn or a horse.

The two generals, Fuhuo and Zhenshui, had just condensed their two-foot monster bodies, and they called their friends to place bets for both sides, making a lot of noise.

A yaksha ghost yelled: "Then please ask Mrs. Saoqing to comment. If you see the bottom line, it is better to retreat!"

Another Yasha ghost said angrily: "I'm afraid you will die, so it must be a good excuse!"

As he spoke, he flew to the window of the main house, but was thrown to the ground by Xu Da. Xu Da pawed Yaksha's head and cursed: "At least he got the name of the six murderers. Why is it so unbearable? It's just a gambling show. I also need to ask Lady Saoqing to help! You are a real gentleman when you watch chess and don’t say anything, we all know the truth, how could Lady Saoqing not know?” As he said this, he quickly glanced at the window, seeing that Lady Saoqing didn’t intend to show up, she cocked her head high Pressing his paws tighter.

Tu Shanxi came to Eryasha's position from Paowu, picked up a chess piece, Hong Yao asked in surprise, "Sister Tu Shan also plays this?"

"Make money to buy knives." Tu Shanxi smiled at Hong Yao, and pressed the chess pieces, "Fire five draws six, draw checkers."

"Yeah, it's really an honor for Empress Fox Fairy to play games with my brothers." Xu Da jumped onto the stone table and praised: "This move is really wonderful, wonderful. If the other party doesn't abandon the car to protect the handsome man, he can only act like Five retreats and three retreats, but even so, you are still dying, and within three steps you will fall into a dead end..."

This fellow chattered endlessly about solving the chess, and suddenly realized that it was his own red chess that got into a dead end.I was stunned for a moment, and shouted: "This, this, how dare you act like this, I have never seen someone who can change people halfway! Not counting, not counting!"

The noise spread to the main house and became faint.Li Chan stroked Dai Zhu's wings, spread paper and rubbed ink, and wrote: "The head of the Xunning Palace came to the door, and invited me to enter the palace to restore "Wan Ling Chao Yuan Tu."

He let go of the pen, and the pen moved on the paper, and replied: "Why not?"

"I agreed," Li Chan wrote, "but I'm not sure."

Mr. Bi said: "Regardless of success or failure, copying "Wan Ling Chao Yuan Tu" will always be beneficial to you. You are not a temperament that looks forward and backward. Since you agree, you have already thought about it."

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Just at dawn, the neighbors opened their doors one after another, and there was a knock on the back door of Ximoju, and Mrs. Wu from the clothing store next door brought a bowl of steaming Fuyuanzi to celebrate the opening of Li Chan's new store.After exchanging a few pleasantries, they asked about what happened last night, and they were quite worried in their words - if something happened to the neighboring shop, their business would inevitably be damaged.

Hearing that Li Chan said that someone from Xunning Palace had been begging for a painting overnight, Wu was both admiring and skeptical.To put it bluntly, she thought it was some bad guy who came to the door, and she assured her that if any bad guy came to her husband in the future, that would be it.

Li Chan responded to the inquiries from the neighbors, packed the paints and paintings into a mahogany suitcase, and left Ximoju.

As soon as he arrived across the street, someone arranged by Cao Yun came up to him and put him into the carriage.

In the shop opposite Ximoju, the mirror grinder Mr. Lu repeatedly rinsed the bronze mirror with a hole in it in the bronze mirror filled with water.Then he cleaned the copper mirror, and slowly rubbed the surface of the mirror with fine grains of calfskin.The hazy yellow mirror surface is already shining.

Suddenly the wheels rolled over the stone bricks of the lane, and he looked up to see the carriage of Sunning Palace passing by.Watching the carriage go away, he looked back at the picture of peach blossoms on the wall, and said to himself: "The painting skills have reached the peak... It's a pity that I haven't yet entered the Tao."

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The carriage drove into the imperial city, passed the left and right Wuwei and the former site of Taipu Temple along Hanguangmen Street, and when it approached Miyagi, they put Li Chan down.

The palace city is in the north of the imperial city, and the terrain is higher. Li Chan was led up the 330 three stone steps, and then entered the Yanshen gate on the south wall of the palace city.

The center of the palace city is the place where saints worship their ancestors, which belongs to the forbidden area. Cao Yun, as the chief steward of the palace, lives in the Yeting Palace in the west. Painter, went to the damaged mural in the East Palace.

There is a distance of six miles from east to west of Xunning Palace, and there are many taboos. It took half an hour for Li Chan to get near the east wall.In the distance, the palace chief was pointing at the murals on the wall together with six painters.That's where the mural was damaged. The original picture of blue and white has become a vague blue shadow, like an ugly spring blown away by rain and wind.

Among the six color painters, the old painter with the most superb skills is called Liu Jianpan.The Liu family has studied academy painting for generations, and Liu Jianpan is especially good at painting birds and animals.

There is also an old man in a green robe, Li Sijian, who belongs to the Dayong clan, the grandson of Gaozu's cousin Changshan Wang, and the uncle of the prime minister of the previous dynasty. Although his painting skills are not mediocre, he is the most respected in the painting world.

Liu Jianyan has already copied the general appearance of Cang Bi Tu, he looked down at the painting, then looked up at the mural, shook his head and said: "No, really not, it's not that Director Cao doesn't know how to do it. The masterpieces left by the saints of painting, although painters like us have been steeped in this way for a long time, but to make up this painting by force is just a waste of time!"

Li Sijian said: "Jian Jian is right, Mr. Cao, if ordinary murals are damaged, it's fine, but this is an old work of a painter. If it is repaired bluntly, it will inevitably be incompatible with the painting on the side, and it will be self-defeating. According to the old man Well, there is such a small flaw in this picture of Wanling Chaoyuan, which corresponds to the lack of heaven, and it is not a bad thing."

Cao Yun scolded from the bottom of his heart that it would not hurt to stand and talk, he laughed and said, "Think frugally, there is something missing in the way of heaven, it's something a sage thinks about, I just do the things at hand well, and when I'm done, my heart will be safe."

Li Sijian shook his head, "That's what I said, but Director Cao knows that Jian Pan's painting skills have reached the peak. Since he said that he can't mend it, unless the painting master descends to earth, otherwise, no one will be able to restore this painting."

Of course Cao Yun knew that what Li Sijian said was not lying. He was silent for a moment, glanced at Liu Jianyan, then at Li Sixun, and said, "I have found a painter, and there may be a chance to restore this mural."

(End of this chapter)