The genius pyrographer of the reborn daughter

Chapter 15

Ning Wanzhu spent several days of hard work, and finally "painted" a work that looks like it.

This is a "line drawing" of Du Ruo.

The reason why she drew this Du Ruo was firstly because the branding pen she got had the seven characters "Fang Du Ruo, a man from the mountains" written on it, and secondly, it was because she had learned to draw this kind of fragrant flower when she was studying painting in her previous life.However, she originally thought that it was easy to do, but she tried more than ten times before she could not succeed.There is always a mistake here or there, and another time, at the end of the last stroke, Ning Wanzhu made a mistake in one stroke, and the whole picture was destroyed.

Until later, when Ning Wanzhu saw Momei Molan helping Nanny Ye draw flowers with charcoal, she thought of a "opportunistic" method-use a charcoal pencil to carefully outline the shape to be drawn on the wood chip .Then use the branding pen to follow the shape drawn by the charcoal pencil and then burn out the depth.In this way, her first pyrography "work" was released.

She found Mo Mei and asked her to accompany her to meet the "strange old man" in the mountains.Mo Mei's face was full of displeasure, but in the end she couldn't hold back Ning Wanzhu, so she could only say: "How about it, miss, let's ask Ning Dayong to go with him. He is familiar with people in Du's village and knows the way."

When the three of them went out, Ning Xiaoya insisted on going with her, Ning Dayong looked at Ning Wanzhu in embarrassment, and Ning Wanzhu had to agree.As a result, she originally wanted to sneak out of Ning's village quietly and secretly, but in the end it was as if she was traveling with the four children.

By this time the weather was already cold.Ning Wanzhu still only had the jackets she wore on Zhuangzi just now.The proprietor's wife, Du Shi, dug out the cotton jacket that she had prepared for Ning Xiaoya earlier from the box, and Ning Wanzhu was wearing it just right.Mo Mei laughed at Ning Wanzhu, "Second Miss, look at you, you play with us every day, no, now you're among us, I'm afraid no one will recognize you!"

Ning Wanzhu walked side by side with Ning Xiaoya, while smiling at Mo Mei: "What's wrong with hanging out with you?"

She was used to joking with Mo Mei.However, Ning Dayong and Ning Xiaoya looked at each other, looking at Ning Wanzhu with some surprise.This brother and sister grew up in the Ning family's Zhuangzi, and they always felt that the masters of the Ning family were high-ranking figures.Ning Xiaoya is fine, and Ning Dayong was taught by his parents since he was a child, saying that he should respect the Ning family, so that the position of the head of the Ning family can be passed down from generation to generation in the future.Therefore, the two brothers and sisters were surprised to hear Ning Wanzhu joking with the maid in such an easy-going way.

Ning Wanzhu didn't take it seriously, she took a deep breath of the clear mountain air, and thought: It's rare to be free in this mountain, it's much better than the prisoner years in that temple back then.So she was not in a hurry to go back to Nanyang City from Zhuangzi.And once she returns to Nanyang, she will face the extremely ugly rift with Ning Luozi...

"Here, it's just ahead." Ning Dayong was still reticent, and now he stretched out his hand and pointed to the mountain hut that Ning Wanzhu and Mo Mei passed by in the Cao family's carriage that day.

Just like that day, there was still no one around the hut.

Ning Wanzhu behaved herself this time, and didn't dare to make mistakes. She stood at the door and called out respectfully a few times: "Grandpa Du——"

Finally she said: "Grandpa Du, I am Ning Wanzhu who passed by your place last time to avoid the rain. You have a branding pen here, so I branded a painting. I would like to ask for your advice."

When she said this, she suddenly heard a "huola", and the door of the hut opened. It was that strange old man who came out of the back room, came to Ning Wanzhu and the group of children, and asked in a deep voice, "What painting?"

Ning Wanzhu stepped forward and handed the Du Ruohuaer she had drawn in advance to the old man with both hands.

The old man surnamed Du picked it up, first he gave Ning Wanzhu a few vicious glances, and saw that she was standing with her head down, cute and cute, and couldn't help but look at her deeply again, and then slowly turned her gaze to The painting of Ning Wanzhu branded on a piece of wood.

"What is this?" The old man Du suddenly threw the pyrography on the ground heavily.

Ning Wanzhu raised her head in astonishment.She never thought that the painting she had put so much effort into drawing would be so unappealing to the eyes of the old man in front of her.

Ning Xiaoya said angrily behind her: "What! Our lady drew a picture and asked you to point it out for your face. Why... you took someone else's picture and threw it on the ground!"

The old man Du was still angry, and said loudly: "Is there anyone who draws pyrography like this! You even used charcoal to draw the shape. Were you a woman who embroidered flowers at that time? Pyrography pays attention to 'the intention is first to the pen', and the draft is drawn in the chest. Whatever you paint, you will be like that? You—you can still see the traces of charcoal pencils one by one, which makes the pyrographers in Nanyang City laugh their teeth out after seeing them!"

So it is!Ning Wanzhu's heart moved. After she traced the shape with a charcoal pencil, she branded it carefully with a branding pen, and then cleaned the traces of the charcoal pencil carefully. Unexpectedly, the old man Du could still see it.

"Also, the pen force of this pyrography is not even. It's just a line drawing from beginning to end. How can it be so boring..." Old man Du wanted to criticize more than 01:30 points, and he went on talking at once.Brothers and sisters Ning Dayong and Mo Mei stood aside, listening to the old man criticizing Ning Wanzhu's paintings as worthless, they were very upset.Ning Wanzhu couldn't hold back anymore, she walked to the side, gently picked up the pyrography that old man Du had thrown away, went back to face old man Du, and forced herself to calm down: "Grandpa Du, what you pointed out, Wan Zhu remembered it all." She simply said her real name, anyway, Mo Mei and Ning Dayong brothers and sisters were in a daze, and didn't dare to ask what the name of her lady's boudoir was.

Old man Du was startled, and said, "Your name is Wanzhu?" He turned his eyes back to Ning Wanzhu's face, stared at it for a while, and repeated it again, but changed his tone as if he wanted to convince himself, He just said, "So your name is Wanzhu!"

Ning Wanzhu nodded in agreement, saluted the old man Du again, and was about to leave.The old man Du suddenly said, "Did that branding pen fall into your hands last time?"

Ning Wanzhu nodded and said: "Yes, Grandpa Du. But this time I didn't bring this pen with me. It's not easy for me to come out. If you need that branding pen urgently, please go to Ning's house in Du's Village. Zhuangzi, come and get it!" When she said this, she actually took a deep breath in her chest, and the old man Du repeatedly belittled her hard work to nothing, which made her unable to accept it all for a while.

Speaking of this, Ning Wanzhu turned around and said to Ning Dayong and the others lightly: "Let's go!" She was very disappointed, so her steps were a bit heavy.

"Wait, you leave that painting behind." The old man behind said suddenly.

Ning Wanzhu turned around and said coldly: "Why, Grandpa Du, isn't this painting not in your eyes at all?"

Old man Du was staring at Ning Wanzhu in a daze at this moment, and said softly, "Like...really like..."

He was stunned for a while, then waved his hand and said, "No need, anyway, I remember your embroidered pattern." After all, he still belittled Ning Wanzhu's embroidered pattern.

Ning Wanzhu was so angry that his eyes were blurry, at this time he walked up to the old man Du, put the pyrography on the ground in front of him, and said, "Grandpa Du, this is originally for you. I don’t care if it’s a painting, whether you like it or not, it’s up to you—”

After finishing speaking, she pulled Ning Xiaoya and Mo Mei, and Ning Dayong followed the three girls, and left together for Du's Village.Before leaving, the old man Du seemed to say something in a low voice, with a sad tone, and he could faintly hear him calling someone's name, which seemed to be "A Ruo".

Ning Xiaoya looked back from time to time, and said to Ning Wanzhu one after another: "Miss, that strange old man picked up your painting."

However, Ning Wanzhu hardened her heart and did not look back, and went back to the Ning family's Zhuangzi very angrily.

As soon as she got back to the Ning family's Zhuangzi, Ning Wanzhu took the tools and materials she used when trying to make pyrographs in a fit of anger, found a box and packed them all together, locked the outside, and didn't plan to touch them again for the time being. .She held her head and thought about it all afternoon, and her head hurt from thinking about it all the time, and she didn't think clearly whether she had any talent on the way of pyrography.

In her previous life, she specialized in meticulous painting of flowers and birds. After marrying Chang Chunning, the marquis of Changchun, the value of her paintings rose even higher. At one time, everyone praised that Mrs. Changchun Marquis was the number one boudoir painter in Beijing.Now that I think about it, I'm afraid there are many praiseworthy words in it.But Ning Wanzhu still has confidence in her painting skills, so she really felt aggrieved by this old man in the mountain who took such a big and thoughtless pass today.

But she couldn't refute a single word that old man Du criticized her.It was because of this that Ning Wanzhu was extremely depressed.Therefore, at lunch, facing the simple and unadorned farm food served in Ning's village, she hardly ate a single bite.

On this day, it happened that Zhuangtou Ning Yongqiang went back to Nanyang City. The main thing was to reimburse the owners of the Ning family for this year's production in the Ning family's Zhuangzi. case, I have to go to Nanyang Mansion to answer some questions.After such a delay, Ning Yongqiang didn't return to Zhuangzi until it was dark.

However, the Zhuangtou was shocked when he heard his two sons and daughters talking at the dinner table about how he accompanied Miss Ning to meet a "strange old man" who lived outside the village today.Therefore, although it was getting late, Ning Yongqiang still insisted on meeting Ning Wanzhu.

In the end, Mrs. Du accompanied him to meet Ning Wanzhu in Mother Ye's room.When Ning Yongqiang saw Ning Wanzhu, he breathed a sigh of relief, and respectfully said to Ning Wanzhu: "Second Miss, please forgive the villain's negligence, Dayong and Xiaoya are lawless..." He said To wipe the sweat that came out of his forehead.

"Uncle Zhuangtou, what do you want to say?" Ning Wanzhu was sitting in front of Nanny Ye, helping to thread needles on the silk threads of different colors on Nanny Ye's embroidery frame.

"You...you must never see that old carpenter surnamed Du again. Everyone in the older generation of Du's Village knows that that man, that man is suspected of murder." Ning Yongqiang said with fear.

(End of this chapter)