Three ornately decorated oxcarts were parked outside the peach grove. The young man in white robe jumped out of the oxcart, took the pale-faced and white-haired old man from the other car, and said: "Master Wei, this is the peach grove small building, it is quiet and pleasant.
It's not far from the county town, and it's convenient for shopping and medical treatment. The health practitioner can rest and recuperate here."
The old man surnamed Wei has sparse features and an elegant air, but his face is yellow and thin, and he is a little sleepy. After riding in the bullock cart for half a day, he suddenly felt that his legs were weak and numb. He held on to the wall of the cart and stamped his feet lightly while watching.
The peach grove on both sides of the stream smiled and said: "It is indeed a good place. It will be even more beautiful when the peach blossoms bloom next spring - the old man will guard this cold forest and wait for the peach blossoms in the stream to bloom."
The young man in white robe nodded and said: "Yes, the peach blossoms here are extremely beautiful. Every year when the flowers bloom, I come here to stay for two months. From the time the flowers bloom to when they fade, I enjoy them as much as I can. Living here, the health master will definitely be able to cure his illness."
Get well.”
As the young man in white robe spoke, he supported the guard and walked slowly along the north bank of the stream to the depths of the peach forest, with the three ox carts slowly following behind.
The young man in white robe is about fourteen or five years old. His face looks a bit strange at first glance. His eyebrows and eyes are far apart. He raised his eyebrows and widened his eyes in surprise as if he saw something new. Moreover, his eyes have black pupils.
It is slightly gathered toward the root of the nose, which is commonly known as cross-eyes. However, the boy's cross-eyes are not serious and do not make people feel ridiculous. Instead, they have an innocent and simple temperament.
The tenant who was leading the way tried every possible means to delay the time, and said with a smile: "My dear sir, there are white storks recently roosting in the peach forest, do you want to go and take a look first?"
The young man in white robe glared and said, "I'm confused. I didn't see that the guard was tired from the journey. Do you need a rest? Why don't you see the white stork? It's not a rare thing."
The tenant who led the way was very anxious, fearing that the young man would find out that his father had secretly rented out the Taolin Xiaozhu. He remembered the young man's hobbies, and he wisely said: "Young man, the tenant farmer has a very beautiful girl who is washing her clothes by the stream.
, Xiaolangjun, do you want to take a look?"
The young man in white robe blushed, his eyebrows moved further and further away from his eyes, and he said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about!" He glanced at the guard beside him. The guard smiled at the corner of his mouth, and the young man's face became redder and redder, staring at that
The tenant said: "You are so strange today. One moment you asked me to see the white stork, and the next moment - what do you want to do? Could it be that you have settled in Taolin Xiaozhu to live there?"
The tenant who led the way secretly complained. They all said that the young man was crazy, but now he is not crazy at all. Now the old man's secret about renting a house without authorization will definitely be exposed. What should we do?
The sparse peach grove is divided into five thatched cottages. There is an ox cart parked in front of the house, and several people are walking out of the thatched cottage.
The young man in white robe shouted: "As expected, you, a naughty slave, really live in my Taolin Xiaozhu. I -" At this time, I saw clearly that the few people walking out of the thatched cottage did not look like tenant farmers.
Among them, two young scholars were still very elegant, so they stopped talking and asked: "Old Mangtou, what's going on?"
Lao Mangtou was the old farmer who rented a house to Liu Shangzhi. At this moment, he wished he could shrink into a ball so that the young man in white robe could not see him. His wrinkled old face looked like he was crying when he smiled, and he even said sophistry: "These are Xu Xu from the other side of the mountain."
The students of Gu’s school, I heard that Gu’s Taolin Xiaozhu has a beautiful scenery and they come here to play. I shouldn’t let them enter the house——”
The young man in white robe let out a "hum", strode into the thatched cottage, looked around, strode out again, and said loudly: "Old Mangtou, don't try to hide it from me, are you renting my Taolin Xiaozhu to this person?"
How many people are there?”
Old Mangtou's eyes flashed and he looked at Liu Shangzhi, hoping that Liu Shangzhi would help him cover up. Unexpectedly, Liu Shangzhi said: "You're right, I have rented these five thatched cottages and paid one month's rent in advance.
Prepare to stay until the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month."
The young man in white robe said angrily: "This is unreasonable. Without my consent, who would dare to live in this Taolin Xiaozhu? Old Mangtou, drive them away quickly - Master Wei, please go in and have a rest. I didn't expect that Diao Nu would bully his master like this and betray his master."
Let me rent this place out and make the health teacher laugh."
The old man surnamed Wei gently rubbed his heart and said with a forced smile: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. Kaizhi doesn't want to force them, just ask them to move away with good words."
Chen Caozhi on the side heard the word "Kaizhi" and his heart moved. He signaled Liu Shangzhi not to argue. He stepped forward and saluted the old man surnamed Wei: "I'd like to thank Chen Caozhi of the Tang Dynasty to pay my respects to my father-in-law. I don't know."
What’s your father-in-law’s last name?”
The old man surnamed Wei returned the courtesy and said: "I dare to ask you, the old Wei Xie came here to recuperate. These gentlemen can't live here anymore. It's the fault of the old people."
Although Chen Cao studied Western landscape painting in his previous life, he also had some knowledge of the history of ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting. He knew that Wei Xie was a famous painter during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, specializing in Buddhist and Taoist figure paintings. A hundred years later, Xie He of the Southern Dynasty painted among them
In the painting theory book "Painting", Wei Xie was praised: "The outline of ancient paintings is as good as Xie Shi's essence. Among the 'six methods', he is good at both. Although the shape is not exquisite, it is quite powerful." Later Wei Xie said.
The painting has been lost, and Wei Xie's reputation mainly relies on his disciple Gu Kaizhi. This place belongs to the Gu family manor. So who is the white-robed young man in front of him besides Gu Kaizhi, who is known as "unparalleled in talent, painting, and infatuation"?
Gu Kaizhi supported the Wei Xie and said to Chen Caozhi and others: "The Wei Xie is not in good health. Please don't disturb me here."
Chen Caozhi said, "Mr. Wei, does he suffer from heartache? I have a good prescription that you might want to try."
Seeing that Chen Caozhi was about the same age as him, Gu Kaizhi didn't quite believe that he had any cure. He said "oh" with hesitation and asked Wei Xie: "Master Wei, what do you think?"
Wei Xie said: "Please come in and sit down together." As he walked, he said: "I have been suffering from heartache for more than ten years. I have been seeking medical treatment and taking medicine, but all of it is ineffective -"
Xu Miao, who was following behind, asked Liu Shangzhi in a low voice: "Brother Shangzhi, when will Zizhong be cured again?"
Liu Shangzhi woke up at this time and said with a smile: "Mr. Wei doesn't know something. This Chen Cao, Chen Zizhong, is a disciple of Baopuzi Ge Xianweng. His good prescription should be worth a try."
Gu Kaizhi said with surprise and joy: "That's great. I'm about to accompany the health master to Mingsheng Lake to seek medical treatment from Ge Xianweng."
The Wei Association was also overjoyed. Ge Hong and Ge Zhichuan's medical skills were as famous as Confucianism and Taoism. He never expected to meet Ge Zhichuan's disciples here!
Everyone sat down at separate tables, Wei Xie, Gu Kaizhi heard Chen Caozhi say that Ge Hong had returned to Luofu Mountain last month, and was very sad. Gu Kaizhi was impatient, so he asked Chen Caozhi to give him a good prescription.
Chen Caozhi asked about Wei Xie's condition, and then said: "I have only been with Master Ge for a short period of time. I mainly learned Confucian classics from Master Ge, and I only learned about medicine from a personal perspective. I know very little about it. Only Master Ge taught it personally."
Mr. Wei's disease was also discussed in Volume 8 of "Emergency Prescriptions" by Master Ge. I wrote down a prescription and Mr. Wei tried it after taking it for half a month. There are no expensive and hard-to-find medicines in this prescription.
It’s a common thing.” He took a piece of paper and pen and wrote:
"Two liang of dried lacquer in the tube, mash it, stir-fry until the smoke comes out, grind it carefully, mix it with vinegar and cook it, make the batter into pills, as big as sycamore seeds, take five to seven pills a day, you can also drink it with hot wine or vinegar soup."
Gu Kaizhi looked at Fang Zi with his eyes widened and said, "So simple?"
Chen Cao said: "Master Ge has studied pharmacology carefully and is accustomed to using ordinary medicines to treat serious illnesses and chronic diseases, and does not use those strange and dangerous medicines. Therefore, even if he fails to test them, it will not be harmful."
The Wei Association nodded repeatedly, and Gu Kaizhi immediately ordered his servant to prepare the medicine according to the prescription.
When Chen Caozhi stood up to leave, the Wei Association asked, "Is it Mr. Chen who wants to rent this place?"
Chen Cao said: "My friend is studying in Xu's Thatched Cottage and wants to rent a house for two months. However, since Mr. Wei wants to recuperate here, I won't bother him. I will come to visit Mr. Wei again when I have time."
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The Wei Association said to Gu Kaizhi: "Kaizhi, I only have one servant, but this thatched cottage has five rooms and nine rooms, which is very spacious. How about allocating two rooms to Chen Langjun's friends for a temporary stay?"
Gu Kaizhi naturally refused to accept anything, and ordered Lao Mangtou to return the 1,600 yuan to Liu Shangzhi. Chen Caozhi also interceded on Lao Mangtou's behalf, asking Gu Kaizhi not to be deeply blamed.
Gu Kaizhi said: "Not only do I not blame him, I also want to reward him. If it weren't for him, my master would not have met Chen Zizhong, a disciple of Ge Xianweng. Wouldn't Lao Mangtou have meritorious service?"
Everyone laughed, and Lao Mangtou and his son finally let go of their worries and stepped forward to thank Chen Caozhi.
It was almost noon, Liu Shangzhi stayed here, Chen Caozhi and Xu Miao took their leave.
Gu Kaizhi sent Chen off on behalf of his teacher, and the two of them Xu left Taolin. When Yin Yin had time, he came to Taolin Xiaozhu to meet him. Chen and Xu had gone far away, and then they walked back with Liu Shangzhi. Suddenly they remembered something.
He quietly asked the son of the old mangtou: "Is the daughter of Mao's tenant farmer really beautiful? Don't try to coax me. If it is true, then I will paint her. But why is this girl named Mao? How can she be named Mao? How can she be named Jiao?
Paintings?”
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