It is said that Jia Meng met a young man at Mrs. Han's birthday party and wanted to learn to draw. Jia Meng thought for a while and said: "I can teach you the basics of ordinary sketching. If you are more professional, you will have to find a professional."
.I said, since you can secretly learn painting from me, you can also secretly learn painting from others!"
The young man frowned and said, "I don't dare. I am Lin Dongyang."
Jia Meng groaned: "Are you Lin Dongyang's son?"
"yes!"
"Why do I remember that Lin Dongyang only has one son?"
The young man patted his chest: "I am Lin Boru."
Jia Meng smiled unconsciously and said: "Your reputation, appearance, temperament, and name are so different that they are so cute."
Lin Boru was familiar with himself and put his hand on Jia Meng's shoulder: "Hey, let me help you."
Jia Meng said: "I am also an amateur, so I can't teach you much. And sketching is really an introduction to Western painting. Western painting is about depicting shapes, and our freehand Chinese painting has much more connotation than them. If you really want to learn painting, you have to find someone who knows how to paint.
What a talented painter! It takes too long to learn from me."
Lin Boru sighed: "It's better than nothing."
"Besides, I came with my elders to congratulate Mrs. Han on her birthday." Jia Meng said, "I don't know when I will have to leave."
Lin Boru hugged Jia Meng's neck: "You can learn as much as you want!"
Jia Meng was half a head shorter than him. She tilted her face and looked at him for a while: "Then... you can come to Jia's horse shop when you have time. If I come to find you, I will know immediately."
Lin Boru slapped Jia Meng on the shoulder: "Brother Jia is so loyal! I will go find you tomorrow."
Jia Meng turned to look at his uncle: "What are you talking about? You know who I am."
"I know."
"My third uncle is a world-famous evildoer." Jia Meng curled his lips and said, "Your country of Jin is in troubled times right now. Ask your father if you want to be more secretive about your friendship with me."
Lin Boru asked curiously: "What is there to cover up! Doesn't Mr. Han also recognize your uncle? Isn't it good to deal with him openly?"
Jia Meng said helplessly: "It's not just my uncle who's here. Do you know who else is here?" Lin Boru's eyes suddenly opened wide with a smile, and he nodded his head twice. "The new member of your Imperial City Department is here.
Lord Rengan, he looks quite handsome, but I am suspicious. If I bring you trouble and make him suspicious - after all, I am not from the Jin country, I will leave in a few days; you, I, hehe."
Lin Boru hummed: "I'm still afraid of him."
"It's not that you're afraid, it's that it's awkward." Jia Meng said, "You hire a cook at home, and you go out to work as an actor. I don't know which one he sent to watch your every move. How annoying is it? A toad falls on your feet.
If you don't bite, you'll bite."
Lin Boru thought it made sense and said: "I know. Go back and tell my dad that I fell in love with Mr. Xiaomeng from Rongguo Mansion at first sight. Can you make friends with him while he is still in Taiyuan? Let my dad say hello to the prince in advance.
Isn’t that enough?”
Jia Meng smiled and said: "My third uncle has a lot of clever ideas and is most in favor of young people taking the path they are interested in. Maybe I can help you with an idea and make your father agree to let you learn painting."
Lin Boru was overjoyed: "Seriously! Oh, then I have to thank Uncle Jia so much!"
"Wrap it around me!"
The two of them each put one arm around each other's shoulders and made gestures with the other. Everyone in the room noticed that they were good brothers. Naturally, Han Fei also saw it and quietly slipped out.
On the other side, the grandmothers and girls from the back house gathered to play in the back garden of Han Mansion. A maid from an unknown family went out to send a message to the men for their grandmother and came back with a smile: "Now, the masters and the men are all talking about it.
His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince came empty-handed and drew a portrait of Mrs. Han in front of the hall! Oh, it really seems alive! People outside have been admiring it for most of the day."
The fourth girl of the Han family was always upright and said with a smile: "It's just that you are a careless little girl. You just believe whatever others say." Then she said to the crowd, "The fourth prince said that he majored in architecture, that is.
Learn how to build a house. To learn this, you must be able to sketch with two strokes, otherwise you will not be able to draw renderings. Sketching is a basic technique of Western painting. Because it is completely different from our Chinese painting method, it is easy for those who don’t know
I think it’s a bit strange. In schools in the south, Chinese and Western painting techniques have already been taught together.”
The maid argued: "All the gentlemen praise him!"
Miss Han Si smiled slightly: "The paintings drawn by His Highness are also used as birthday gifts. Would you like it if it were you?"
The maid became anxious: "They are the master!"
Miss Han Si said: "Everyone is no different. We weigh them all in the same way and put the small dishes in two."
The maid pursed her lips and looked at their grandma. The grandma said: "As the saying goes, seeing is worth hearing a hundred times. Since it is the calligraphy treasure of the Fourth Highness, can we have a look at it?"
Miss Han thought for a moment: "The sketches are not big, so it must not be difficult to bring them in." Then she ordered her maid to ask Grandma Han.
At that moment, Grandma Han sent a daughter-in-law to reply: "Our grandma said that the girl is too naive. That was a birthday gift given to the old lady by His Highness the Fourth Prince. How can you take it at will? Now she has sent someone to make a frame.
Now. I have taken a slightly larger picture frame and hung it in the Gongyu Pavilion. If the girls and grandmothers want to see it, I will arrange for all the men inside to go out."
Miss Han Si smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble my sister-in-law!" The daughter-in-law then left.
However, within the time of a stick of incense, the daughter-in-law just came in and said that arrangements had been made to attack the Jade Pavilion. The girls and grandmothers chatted about the past. Seeing that there were servants guarding the whole road, they secretly praised Grandma Han for her thoroughness.
Gongyu Pavilion is the place where the Han family specializes in storing Western paintings. Most of them are works by Western painters, there are also some Western paintings learned by people of this dynasty, and there are also various attempts by teachers and students from the Southern Academy of Fine Arts to combine Eastern and Western painting methods in recent years.
When the girls and grandmothers entered the door, they saw a smiling Western woman in white clothes and a Western hat standing in front of the hall. They were surprised to see that there were people hurriedly praying.
Miss Han smiled and said, "This is a painting. Didn't you see the frame?"
Everyone was shocked. "Is it a painting?"
"This is a Western oil painting. It looks like a real person from a distance." Miss Han said, "This is a portrait painted by a court painter in the Netherlands for one of their wives. Later, the palace fell into decline, and this portrait
Then it spread."
Everyone rushed forward to take a look and found that it was indeed a painting, one foot high. They all clicked their tongues and exclaimed: "It really is lifelike."
Miss Han said: "I like our Chinese paintings better. Their Western paintings only draw shadows and shapes, which has the same function as a camera."
Then he led them to look at the paintings one by one. When they arrived at the main hall upstairs, there was only a six-foot-high picture frame hanging on the huge wall. In the frame was a three-foot-long black and white portrait painting. The daughter-in-law who followed him
Zi said: "This is the birthday gift that His Highness the Fourth Prince drew for our old lady just now."
The girls and grandmothers were immediately disappointed and said: "The painting looks just like the real thing..." "No wonder the gentlemen outside also praised it." Miss Han Si looked at them and laughed.
Then he continued to look at the paintings on the second floor. After comparing them, a girl whispered: "That sketch is really for beginners."
Everyone couldn't help but laugh. Miss Han said: "To be fair, His Highness the Fourth Prince's painting is pretty good. He is not a professional after all, so he can't ask for too much."
Back downstairs, I happened to catch up with Grandma Han coming in and met each other. I couldn't help but talk about the painting on the second floor. Grandma Han looked at a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old and said: "Lin mei mei, just now your brother said
He can also sketch."
Miss Lin was stunned: "How could he know it? He really wants to learn painting, but my father doesn't allow it."
Grandma Han said in surprise: "Just now our uncle came to talk to me about something. By the way, General Lin said that he can also draw, and his paintings are better than those of the Fourth Highness. At this moment, he was talking to Xiaomeng from Rongguo Mansion.
Uncle is studying Western painting techniques. Then Uncle Xiaomeng can do this too."
As soon as she finished speaking, Miss Han smiled first: "Jia Meng is a history student, but she can also draw? At most, she is at the level of an after-school interest class."
Grandma Han looked at her and said, "You know how?"
"I can't," Miss Han said, "his girlfriend can."
Grandma Han said: "I have never understood what their boyfriend and girlfriend in the south mean?"
Miss Han Si opened her mouth and smiled again: "Let me think about how to explain it clearly." She thought for a long time before she started to explain.
After hearing this, everyone was surprised: "Is this such a big event for marriage? Does even the young master of Rongguo Mansion find his own girlfriend?"
"Isn't it?" Miss Han said, "Isn't that official eldest grandson of Rongguo Mansion outside?" The girls and grandmothers started talking about it. Miss Han said with a smile, "I heard earlier that the Fourth Highness went to Yuelu Academy. Where is Yuelu Academy?
He majored in architecture. He either went to the south or to the capital. He must have had a girlfriend as well."
The grandma who mentioned looking at the portrait said quickly: "His Royal Highness the Fourth has not yet married a concubine! Han mei mei, please don't chew your tongue."
Grandma Han also said: "The family affairs of the prince's family are not for a little girl like you to discuss." Miss Han made a face.
The maid who just praised the paintings of His Highness the Fourth Highness smiled and said: "Talk about it, the age of Han Sixiao is comparable to that of His Highness the Fourth Highness."
Without waiting for anyone else to say anything, Fourth Miss Han said quickly: "He has a girlfriend, and if the prince marries him a concubine, he will definitely be left a widow. I love me, and I will definitely not let him go."
The maid hurriedly said: "What if I don't have a girlfriend?"
Miss Han Si casually said: "Is he ugly, poor in his family, or stupid by nature? All his classmates are looking for girlfriends, why shouldn't he find one? Or else he has a girl he likes and she doesn't like him. That would be even more troublesome.
.White moonlight cinnabar mole, the woman behind will never be able to compare with that one..."
Grandma Han interrupted: "Si mei mei, stop talking!" Miss Han immediately covered her mouth and smiled coquettishly. Grandma Han then led everyone back to the garden.
The Jade Pavilion is in the southeast corner of the front yard of the Han Mansion. The girls and grandmothers have to go around a long way to get to the back. They pass through a hallway with a hanging flower door in front. Two women hurriedly ran out from inside to stop them.
"Girls and grandmothers, please wait for a moment!" Grandma Han asked what was going on. A woman said, "Two men from outside got lost when they went to relieve themselves. By chance, they wandered here. Sister Wang, who is in our class,
We are leading them away, and they haven't left the yard yet. Sister Xin is looking around to see if there is anything they left behind."
Grandma Han said hurriedly: "Then let's wait for a while."
One grandma praised: "Grandma is so considerate."
Grandma Han said with a smile: "This is the duty of being the master of the house. I don't deserve the praise of Third Grandma."
After a while, another woman came out and said with a smile: "Grandma, I want to ask for credit. A man just dropped a fan, but I noticed it and picked it up and gave it back to him."
Grandma Han nodded: "I understand, I will mark your merits and come back to me to receive the reward."
"Thank you grandma!"
Then everything was fine.
Lin Boru and Jia Meng were talking together outside. Jia Cong went over to ask Jia Meng for a while and heard them discussing Western paintings, so he mentioned that the Han family had a Gongyu Pavilion that hung Western paintings. Lin Boru said he wanted to take a look.
The Han family sent someone to show them around. Lin Boru really liked painting, and he didn't want to come out after entering the Jade Pavilion. Jia Meng was not a polite host. After walking around, Lin Boru started to look at Lin Boru carefully for a second time.
, he asked the Han family to move a long deck chair to the wing of Gongyu Pavilion, where he lay down and took a nap.
Lin Boru was looking at the painting when he suddenly heard footsteps and someone called him. Looking back, it was Han Fei, the eldest son of the Han family. Han Fei clasped his fists and said seriously: "Brother Lin Xian, there is something I want to ask you about." Lin Boru
I'm busy asking what's going on.
Han Fei pulled him downstairs and led him to a secluded side room. He took out a piece of paper from his sleeve and handed it to him and asked, "Have you ever seen a fan like this?"
Lin Boru took a look and saw that a fan was drawn on the paper with a black fine brush. On the fan was a cluster of blooming peonies, and there were a bee and a butterfly beside it. He lost his voice and asked: "Who drew this fan?"
Han Fei's eyes moved: "Do you recognize him in person?"
Lin Boru said seriously: "This matter is important, please let me know, brother."
Han Fei shook his head: "We are looking for those two people, but we haven't found them yet. Zhuo Jing thought that among the girls, the most worthy of calculation is probably your sister, so let me ask Brother Lin Xian first. I'm afraid she is not wrong.
." Then she told the girls and grandmothers that they almost bumped into the man. "Zhuo Jing said, most of the group of people were unmarried Xiao Jie. She was afraid of making mistakes, so she walked three steps to one post and five steps to one post on the way back to the backyard from the attack on the jade pavilion.
The whistle is like a spider web. Anyone who gets lost will definitely meet someone in our house early and just ask for directions. Unless they sincerely avoid it." Han Fei stretched out two fingers and whispered in a low voice, "Our house, originally
It's this guy's mansion. Someone is more familiar with it than us."
Lin Boru took a deep breath and said slowly: "Is this peony flower on the fan?"
Han Fei said: "That's right. The woman who picked up the fan is very good at embroidery, and traced the fan according to the pattern of flowers."
Lin Boru's eyes instantly burst with murderous intent: "Brother Han, what do those two people look like? Do you have portraits?"
"I've sent someone to paint it."
"Thank you very much. If you find it, please ask Brother Han to let me interrogate you together; if you don't find it, please give me a copy of the portrait." Lin Boru said solemnly, "I'm afraid this painting is based on a painting of bees, butterflies and peonies that my mother made before she was alive.
of."
Han Fei looked greatly moved before he was about to speak. Jia Meng walked in from the outside with sleepy eyes: "What are you two talking about?" Nai held Han Fei's shoulders and lowered his head to see the painting in Lin Boru's hand, "Huh?
This painting is good. Look, our Chinese paintings still have charm." Han Fei and Lin Boru looked at each other, and both kept silent about the fan and talked about other things.