Volume 1: Looking Northwest, Shooting the Sirius Chapter 38: The Pen Is Like a Blade
After saying that, Wei Xuancheng left. Chai Tiannuo crossed his hands and saluted, feeling inexplicably shocked.
This was the first time that someone had such high expectations for him. Chaitino was both grateful and frightened. Is he as good as Mr. Wei said?
However, it feels natural to be taken seriously by others, and Chaitino's mouth never closed during the journey.
Turning the corner of the alley, Chai Tiannuo couldn't help but be startled. There was a small table propped up in front of the door of Mo Xiangju, and Man'er was frowning and playing chess with someone. The player was none other than the old Taoist priest from yesterday.
"This boy, who is in Tianyuan, coincides with the supreme principle of the Great Dao. How will you treat him?"
Yuan Tiance gently stroked his long beard under his chin and gave a very elegant smile.
The old Taoist who looked slovenly yesterday was now dressed neatly and his originally messy beard and hair were neatly styled. At first glance, he looked like a different person, with a Taoist and immortal air.
Chai Tiannuo looked at it and nodded repeatedly. He was very experienced. From his posture alone, it was obvious that he was definitely a master in the chess world!
Walking lightly, Chaitino walked towards the two of them carefully, for fear of disturbing their game.
When he came closer and took a look at the chessboard, Chai Tiannuo couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and gasped, he was playing backgammon!
"beat!"
Man'er frowned, and Yuan Tiance followed him calmly:
"There is no top, no bottom, no left or right, your move is too random."
"you are dead."
The little girl said expressionlessly, and the fairy-like old miscellaneous man's brows trembled slightly. He threw down the two hundred sons and continued to speak in a fairy-like manner:
"Come again."
"Master Tao, even if I have money, I don't want to play with you. You are not a bad chess player, but you have no chess players. The two girls next door can play better than you."
"According to my young master, you are just a brainless idiot. Playing chess with you is just an insult to my IQ!"
Chaitino slapped himself on the forehead. It seemed that Man'er had eaten so well during this period that he had forgotten about being hungry. How could he talk to his sponsor like this?
"Master, are you back?"
When Chai Man'er saw Chai Tiannuo coming back, she immediately stood up and hugged his arm, with a smile on her pink face.
Living conditions have improved greatly these days, and Chai Man'er is no longer as skinny as before. Sister Xi, who often visits the store, once said that the little girl is a real beauty, and Chai Man'er has made a lot of money.
After rubbing Man'er's head vigorously, Chai Tiannuo wiped the sesame seeds from the corners of her mouth casually, and then looked around. He really couldn't see anything beautiful about it, but he only found that she was greedy.
"Master, Master Dao has something to do with you. He has been waiting here all afternoon."
Looking for himself, Chai Tiannuo raised his eyebrows, asked Man'er to prepare tea, and then asked curiously:
"Master Tao, what do you want to see me for?"
"Without him, I see that your handwriting is good, so I would like to ask you to write a couplet and hang it in the Taoist temple to attract business."
"...Isn't your Taoist temple about to collapse? Is it still worth hanging up?"
Chai Tiannuo grinned. Thinking about the big holes on the top of his Taoist temple, Yuan Tiance couldn't help but grin:
"Well, I'm preparing to repair the Taoist temple. You're right. I'll find a carpenter to finish it. It will take about the same amount of time."
Chaitino nodded, stretched out his right hand, rubbed three fingers together, and said with a smile:
"There are ordinary pairs and fine ones, and the prices vary. Do you want one pair or two?"
"For twenty taels, when I write something with deep artistic conception, I must write carefully!"
Yuan Tiance waved his hand to interrupt Chai Tiannuo's words, and directly threw down two large spindles worth ten taels, with an expression on his face that he was not short of money.
"Hey, this, this is the legendary twelve ingots?"
Chai Tiannuo's eyes widened, and Chai Man'er and Chai Man'er, who had the same expression, each grabbed one and couldn't speak smoothly.
Now, although Moxiangju also has seventy or eighty taels of silver, they are all scattered items. I have never seen an official ingot of ten taels.
"Do you want to accept this deal?"
"Take it, I must take it. Don't worry, Mr. Dao, I will definitely give you the whole picture to your liking!"
"Man'er brings out those snacks of yours for the Taoist master to taste. The distinguished guests come to your door. There is no discernible price at all."
Chai Tiannuo laughed so hard that he almost lost his eyesight. He respectfully led Yuan Tiance into the store. With twenty taels of business, he was a proper big customer and must be served like an ancestor.
There are many bookstores near the Imperial College, which have a lot of good books. Chai Tiannuo has been coveting the Mengxi Notes in one edition a few days ago, but the price of twenty taels was too high, so he stopped thinking about it.
I got twenty taels at once today, which is just enough to get the Mengxi Notes!
Taking a piece of paper cut out by Hao Shuxuan, choosing a piece of Hao Langhao large regular script, and flattening the paper with a paperweight, Chai Tiannuo said with a smile on his face:
"Master Dao, what are your requirements for the content?"
"There are no requirements, as long as the artistic conception is enough."
"Also, don't laugh, your smiling face is like a lone wolf seeing a little lamb, it makes people's skin crawl!"
"Ahem~!"
Chai Tiannuo rubbed his face hard, suppressing his smile at least, and started writing with a pen and ink.
The moment his pen touched the paper, he raised his regular script again:
"Master Dao, do you want to use it in a rigid way when you pick up a pair?"
"Yes, is there a problem?"
Yuan Tiance asked a little confused, Chai Tiannuo grinned:
"No, no, but it's so rigid that it's not worth using good paper. It's too wasteful."
After finishing speaking, Chaitino changed the paper to a pair. The paper was mottled and looked like it was of the lowest quality.
"...This thing is too harsh to wipe buttocks, are you sure it's for writing?"
Yuan Tiance felt a dull pain in his head. This was the first time in so many years that he saw Chai Tiannuo being such a naughty master!
"It's not in the way, it's not in the way. I'll do the work, so just be at ease!"
Chaitino grinned, then put away his smile and solemnly wrote.
Don't worry, looking at your attitude, I'm not at all worried!
Yuan Tiance was speechless and lowered his head to look at the couplets written by Chai Tiannuo.
"A spoonful of water has the taste of all the seas in the world. There is no need to taste all the laws of the world."
"The moon over a thousand rivers is always a moonlight, and the new pearl should be unique."
Picking up the pen, Chai Tiannuo nodded with satisfaction. He wrote these two lines of large characters very well today. He must have been blessed by money. Yes, quite good!
Looking at the black and white characters in front of him, Yuan Tiance couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. Compared with the small characters he saw in Luan Niang's place, these half-length large characters were more elegant. It's not an exaggeration to use the phrase "immortal bone and divine skin".
This Chai Tiannuo is really an excellent person for practicing Talismans!
The same goes for the artistic conception of this couple. How can a person with no heart at all write such vast words?!
"Good, very good!"
Yuan Tiance turned around and was about to leave, but Chai Tiannuo said:
"Master Dao, if you make the right cards, you won't be using fine mahogany, right?"
"It won't be exposed to the sun or rain, just ordinary wood will do."
Yuan Tiance stayed, blinked and said, he didn't understand what Chai Tiannuo meant.
"But the gold-painted characters?"
"My Taoist temple is too small to support gold characters. Ordinary black characters on a white background will be fine."
"You can't get a few taels of silver from a carpenter, right?"
"No, we can't fight with five taels."
"One thing is worth nothing, just give me three taels of silver and I will do it for you!"