Eighty-four, drizzle on a spring night, shakuhachi flute
Chen Caozhi sat in front of the painting desk. Two brothers, Zhu Yingtai and Zhu Yingting, sat at the two ends of the painting desk, one on the left and the other on the right. They smelled agarwood. Chen Caozhi picked up the brush and put it down again. He shook his head and said with a smile: "Xian Kunzhong is like this."
Staring, I really can’t write anything.”
Zhu Yingtai chuckled and said: "The galloping horse is facing you, the strong wind is destroying the trees, but your expression remains unchanged. This is called the demeanor of a celebrity. My brother is just watching you paint from the side, but you are restless and unable to write. This kind of cultivation of mind and character
You still need to sharpen your skills."
Chen Caozhi asked with a smile: "Suppose you were walking on the road one day and were accidentally hit by a Luxi cow driving into the stream. You struggled to get up from the stream, dripping with mud and water. Would you still have the demeanor of a celebrity at that time?
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Zhu Yingtai stared at Chen Caozhi with her slender and clear eyes, and asked slowly: "Brother Zizhong wants to drive a cow to hit me?"
Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "How dare you, let's assume."
Zhu Yingtai said: "If we use assumptions to discuss things, it will be unbearable. I heard that An Shigong of the Xie family in Kuaiji, Sun Chuo, Sun Xinggong and others were crossing the sea. The wind and waves were rising, and everyone was afraid. Only An Shigong screamed.
When Zhouzi saw that Duke An Shi had not ordered him to return to the boat, he did not dare to return. The ship continued to sail, and the wind and waves became more serious. Duke An Shi slowly asked, "How could such a situation be so bad?" Zhouzi accepted his words and returned immediately, and everyone obeyed Duke An Shi.
Being magnanimous - If we follow Brother Zizhong's hypothesis, if the wind destroys the boat and sinks the boat, and there is no life left, how can we talk about being magnanimous! Does Brother Zizhong always talk about things like this?"
Zhu Yingtai's words were too sharp, and he wanted to argue endlessly. Chen Caozhi said calmly: "What is spread is magnanimity, what is not spread is disaster, that's all."
Zhu Yingtai raised his eyebrows and wanted to argue again, but Chen Cao said: "It's difficult to argue, let's wait for another day." He picked up his pen again, and Zhu Yingtai stopped talking.
Zhu Yingting didn't want to see Chen Caozhi painting, so he got up angrily and left the thatched cottage. He saw Chen Caozhi's two servants, one sitting under the eaves doing carpentry work, and the other holding a six-foot eyebrow-level stick "huohuo" not far away.
When I was dancing, I suddenly hit the trunk of a peach tree by the stream with a stick. With a "crack" sound, the stick broke. Fortunately, the peach tree was old and had strong branches, so it was not broken by the waist.
But all the peach blossoms in full bloom on that tree suddenly fell away. Half of them fell on the bank, and the other half fell into the stream and drifted down the river——
The stick-dancing boy stuck out his tongue, threw the broken eyebrow stick into the stream, and walked back.
Zhu Yingting thought to himself: "This young man is so strong." He stood under the eaves for a while, then went in to watch Chen Caozhi's paintings.
Chen Caozhi had calmed down and concentrated on painting as if no one else was around. He painted the peach forest first, using the small freehand dotting method that was not available in this era. The strokes took shape and could not be changed. Through the dry, wet and thick ink,
, light changes, the hardness and softness of the brushwork, weight, and frustration, express the shape and texture of the peach blossom. This kind of point dyeing method has high requirements on the painter's painting skills. It is difficult for those who are not confident to start writing. It requires the intention to be drawn first and the momentum to be coherent.
In his previous life, Chen Caozhi used this dotting method when he was studying Wu Guanzhong's Western landscape paintings that contained classical Chinese aesthetics. In the past few days, he got up early to climb the mountain to view the panoramic view of the peach forest. When he closed his eyes, the whole area was pink, so now the painting is really
The writing is as fast as flying, if there is divine help——
Zhu Yingtai looked a little dazed. He had never heard of this painting method. It seemed quite suitable to use this painting method to paint the peach blossom forest in the distance. In just over half an hour, a peach forest growing by the stream appeared in bright colors.
On the scroll, the colors are bold and unrestrained, and a peach-colored mist seems to rise from the scroll.
Chen Caozhi placed the pen on the small pen holder he asked Laide to cut, rubbed his hands, glanced sideways at Zhu Yingtai, and said: "That's it for today. You Xian Kunzhong is watching from the side.
, I dare not slack off at all, it feels so hard.”
The Zhu brothers didn't say anything. They stared at the unfinished painting "Peach Blossoms on the Bixi River", which only had scorching peach blossoms. After a long while, Zhu Yingtai said: "I have seen Gu Kaizhi's paintings from Wei Xie, and they don't seem to have this kind of technique."
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Chen Caozhi smiled and said nothing.
Zhu Yingtai said: "Brother Zizhong's painting of the peach forest is really difficult for me. Today is really an eye-opener. It turns out that there is such a painting method in the world!"
Chen Cao said: "Just try."
There was a commotion outside Taolin Xiaozhu. Liu Shangzhi and Ding Chunqiu came back from the city.
The Zhu brothers stood up to leave, and Zhu Yingtai said: "I want to have a chat with brother Zizhong tonight. Can you please give me the honor?"
Chen Cao said: "I'm afraid of walking alone at night."
Zhu Yingtai smiled and said, "Is Brother Zizhong such an impudent person?" He walked up to Liu Shangzhi and Ding Chunqiu and solemnly invited them to play chess, and then left with his younger brother Zhu Yingtai.
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Chen Caozhi saw that the "Panasonic Game Picture" was still on the case, and ordered Ran Sheng to catch up and return it.
Ran Sheng came back soon, still holding the scroll in his hand, and said: "The Zhu Langjun said that this scroll was painted and given to the young gentleman, and there is no need to return it."
Just now, Zhu Yingtai politely invited Liu Shangzhui and Ding Chunqiu to play chess at night, which made Liu Shangzhui and Ding Chunqiu look at each other. Only now did they come to their senses. Ding Chunqiu said curiously: "This Zhu Yingtai
How do you change your gender and become polite?”
Liu Shangzhi said: "Zizhong must have convinced him, and his arrogance has completely disappeared."
Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "How can I convince him? If you look at Zhu Yingtai's paintings, you are far ahead of me."
Liu Shangzhi and Ding Chunqiu saw "Panasonic Game Pictures" and were filled with admiration. This Zhu Yingtai is really enviable and admirable at the same time.
Ding Chunqiu said: "Xuan Tan, calligraphy, and painting, this Zhu Yingtai can be regarded as top-notch. Now only in Go, the Zhu brothers have the upper hand in terms of Zi Zhong. Zhu Yingtai invites the three of me to play chess again tonight. Naturally,
He wants to win back, and then laugh at us to his heart's content. In my opinion, Zizhong will never play chess with the two of them again. If the Zhu brothers fail to win back, they will be bitter and regretful for the rest of their lives, haha."
Liu Shangzhi laughed and said, "Zhu Yingtai is so arrogant that if he is not allowed to win back, he will really have trouble sleeping and eating. But it is best for Zizhong to defeat him once, and then not fight with him. The Zhu brothers will die in a hurry."
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Chen Caozhi smiled and said: "If I lose to Zhu Yingtai and Zhu Yingtai doesn't give me a chance to revenge, then I will die of anxiety."
Ding Chunqiu said: "So I won't go tonight. I'll send someone to inform the Zhu brothers later. It won't be rude."
Chen Cao said: "Doesn't this show that I am afraid of him? Let's go together. The Zhu brothers are very different from Lu Qin and He Zhu, and we can still get along with each other."
While I was talking, spring thunder shook and dark clouds gathered around, as if twilight had arrived early, the sky was dark, lightning flashed and thunder followed, and heavy rain poured down immediately.
Chen Caozhi, Liu Shangzhi and Ding Chunqiu stood under the eaves to watch the rain. Liu Shangzhi said: "It's been sunny for so many days, it's time to rain. It didn't rain all the way to Wujun this time."
, it was really smooth.”
Ding Chunqiu said: "The rain won't stop for a while, so let's not play chess at night."
After dinner, Chen Caozhi practiced calligraphy for half an hour, both on his left and right hands. Liu Shangzhi and Ding Chunqiu were influenced by Chen Caozhi and practiced calligraphy every night.
Looking at the time of Xu, Chen Caozhi stood up and said, "Let's go to the appointment together."
Ding Chunqiu said: "We have to go on this rainy night, just ask Lai De or Xiao Sheng to report it."
Chen Caozhi listened to the patter of rain and said, "I have had this experience. I feel so sad when I can't come to an appointment."
Liu Shangzhi stood up and said, "Zizhong, I'll go with you."
Chen Caozhi took Ran Sheng, Liu Shangzhi took A Lin, and the four of them put on rain hats. A Lin picked a lantern and was about to go out, when he saw two red lanterns coming slowly on the peach forest path in the misty spring rain.
, the reddish lantern light was soaked by the rain and could not shine far, like two rainy peach blossoms painted with point dye——
Chen Caozhi raised his voice and said, "Is it Brother Yingtai?"
Zhu Yingtai responded: "Yes, brother Zizhong is going out. If you don't come, I will send it to your door." Zhu Yingtai's voice sounded like a transverse flute on this cold and rainy night in spring.
The Zhu brothers took their two servants and two maids to the eaves of the thatched cottage, took off their wooden clogs, removed their wet socks, put on clean cloth socks, and stepped onto the reed mat. They also brought the cypress wooden chessboard and the jade chess pieces.
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Zhu Yingtai said: "Brother Zizhong, I will ask you for advice this time."
Chen Cao said: "I would like to ask Brother Yingtai what level your chess skills are?"
Eight years ago, Fan Wang, a regular servant of Sanqi, wrote "Qi Pin", which not only explained the theory of chess, but also listed the world's famous players who were proficient in chess, and classified them into different grades. Influenced by the law of nine-rank officials, people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Dynasties loved to classify grades.
For art categories such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting that all have to be evaluated, "chess products", "painting products", "poetry products", "music products" - Fan Wang honestly and unceremoniously ranked himself as the first in chess products.
Zhu Yingtai said: "I have never played chess with Fan Changshi, but an elder in the family often plays chess with Fan Changshi. Fan Changshi has the upper hand. Yingtai thinks that his chess ability is not weak, and he should have a fourth-level Tongyou
The above chess skills."
Chen Caozhi said in his heart: "If we follow the tier system of later generations, this fourth-level Tongyou is equivalent to the sixth dan. It is considered a high dan and is very powerful. However, the sixth dan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty may not be able to beat me, an amateur strong three."
Duan." He asked, "Do you want to set up a seat?"
Zhu Yingtai said: "Brother Zizhong is good at changing the corners of the chess pieces. He must not want to place seats, so he doesn't follow the seat rules. There were no seats in Go in the early Han Dynasty. Let's go back to the ancient times.
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Guess first, Chen Caozhi took black and then moved, with both sides occupying four corners. When Zhu Yingtai's white chess came to play black's upper left corner, Chen Caozhi came up with a complicated "Muramasa Demon Sword" change. Zhu Yingtai
Taiwan responded incorrectly and lost two chess ribs. At this time, only forty-one moves were played on the board.
Zhu Yingtai stared at the chess game without making a move for a long time. The sound of wind and rain outside Taolin Xiaozhu became louder and slower.
After a long time, Zhu Yingtai put the chess piece in his hand on the corner of the chessboard and sighed: "I lost this game."
Chen Cao said: "The chessboard is huge, so why admit defeat so early?"
Zhu Yingtai said: "After suffering such a setback at the beginning, it will be boring to continue playing this chess. I don't like to play chess at a disadvantage and in adverse circumstances. That is nonsense."
Chen Caozhi thought to himself: "You didn't forget to taunt me when you lost chess. You are a child of a noble family and have never experienced the hardships of a poor family." He said: "The purpose of chess is to fight. How can you win without fighting?"
Zhu Yingtai said: "You can win chess without fighting, but it's a pity that I'm not at that level. I'm exhausted today and will play again another day." He stood up to say goodbye, put on his wooden clogs and an exquisite bamboo hat under the eaves, looked back and said, "Dare you
Brother Zizhong, please send me a song on the recorder."
Chen Caozhi took the Keting flute and stood under the eaves to play it, watching the two lanterns drifting further and further away in the rain on the spring night until they disappeared.
The sound of the flute disappears and the sound of rain falls.