seek immortality

Chapter 910
Then, Shang Liujia remembered Tang Chengnian's question just now.

She said paint the lines?

Of course this Shang Liujia has studied it. He has read a lot of classics for painting, and he has also admired and studied a lot of pictures.

It's a pity that those amazing works are all mortals. It seems that the facts are proving that it is best not to dabble in such... unimportant things.

"Do you want to see them painted?" Shang Liujia asked tentatively.

Although Tang Chengnian could occasionally see people's winks, he couldn't tell anything from Shang Liujia's nonchalant appearance.

If she was wary of him, of course she would study all his micro-expressions, but she didn't think Shang Liujia was an object that she needed to be wary of.She doesn't need to have any doubts about him, she can trust him, and now they can say something that has nothing to do with cultivation.Just like what she thought before, get to know each other!Now they can talk about what they like. Although Tang Chengnian doesn't know much about this kind of stuff, it doesn't affect her liking it.

"It's not bad to try. Anyway, as long as it looks good, it doesn't matter what style... Actually, I don't know much. It seems that you may know more than I do. Do you think you should paint these lines? Or... What else?" Tang Chengnian dug out color blocks like cinnabar, and took out other inkstones, water, and new white paper.

Shang Liujia glanced at it and said, "Why don't you draw a new one."

For coloring, he still prefers more bold strokes.

Tang Chengnian nodded: "You can draw however you want, and I'll just watch from the side."

Shang Liujia's painting skills can be called a master. Tang Chengnian couldn't get rid of his thoughts from the beginning to the end. Although he couldn't understand what these movements meant, he always felt that he should be very powerful.Like grinding the color block, adjusting the water, the depth, the writing is no longer the monotonous thin hair line just now, and the pen is pressed to leave a wide handwriting on the paper, and when it is retracted sideways, the handwriting becomes from thick to thick again. Fine.Shang Liujia can even control the tail marks of handwriting, scattered, sharp, wide, and even the kind with sharp sides and tucked in the middle.

Tang Chengnian looked at it for a while, then suddenly raised his head and looked around.

Huh?
No wonder she felt familiar. Couldn't this piece of paper be the scene in the garden now?
Shang Liujia fully grasped the key point, which is the scene of camellias placed in front of the wall opposite her.Of course, for the painter Shang Liujia, the scenery is from the side. He only looked up, and then remembered, lowered his head, and took everything he saw into the painting.Those gradient colors of the petals were completely rubbed on the paper by him, and the colors were exactly the same without the slightest deviation. Tang Chengnian took a look and saw that the painting looked like it was taken with a camera. Of course, it also went through the computer software "Ink painting" treatment.

Tang Chengnian looked at it, and the more he looked, the more he felt that he couldn't see through it.

Perhaps, at the beginning, I really made a too correct decision.

It turns out that Shang Liujia still has so many unknowns that she doesn't know.Tea ceremony, painting, what else will there be in the future?

In fact, this piece of paper is not very big, so Shang Liujia finished the painting very quickly.It's just that when he was finishing the painting, he hesitated in his movements. He was not as focused as when he was concentrating on painting just now. He seemed to be thinking of something else, so the last few strokes were slightly hesitant and sloppy.However, even though these few strokes seem hesitant and sloppy, they are still above the level of many people, not to mention that the whole picture is already extremely delicate, and they did not cause any undue regret to the integrity of this picture.

Although Tang Chengnian didn't know much about painting, she had a keen mind. She looked up at Shang Liujia, guessing that he was struggling with something.

Shang Liujia spoke up quickly, and it seemed that he didn't want to hide it from her.

"Actually, if you use jade slips, you can also print out what you think in your heart. It's exactly the same. Compared with painting, it's more...more real?" Shang Liujia put the pen on the inkstone beside him. I was so entangled in this doubt that I even forgot the paint on the brush.As he asked, he put down his pen, put his hands on the edge of the stone table, and grasped them slightly with his heart.He didn't exert himself so hard that the veins on the back of his hand became obvious, but his expression also showed tension unabashedly.

"Yeah, I don't know how to draw, but at least I can use the jade slips to show people what I want him to know." Although Tang Chengnian was keen, he obviously didn't have enough talent for picking up other people's digressions. A bit of a patch in the middle.

She was talking about the last time she used a jade slip to recall Ming Yueqian's face and show Sheng Fei what it looked like.

After all, her apprentice is Ming Yueqian's little fan.

Shang Liujia's hands trembled unconsciously.

"Really? Then... if there are jade slips, isn't it a little... superfluous to draw?" Shang Liujia asked in a low voice.

He really wanted to get a hint from Tang Chengnian.

Sometimes, outsiders can always see clearly than those in the game, and many people think so.

There is also an old saying, "The authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear."

However, the premise is that the bystander is really responsible and aware of the confusion and persistence of the authorities, and the bystander must also have some understanding of the causes and consequences.Otherwise, it will be as tragic as "Bigan" in the myth and legend "The List of Gods".

In the ancient myths and legends "Feng Shen Bang", Bigan was the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty, one of the three loyal ministers of King Zhou, and his uncle.Bigan has a "Seven Skills Heart", a very rare heart with seven holes in it.Of course, this is a myth, so there is no need to worry about whether the seven-hole heart will have any sequelae.Soon after, Daji learned of this and asked Bigan to cut out the heart and present it to King Zhou for viewing.

Jiang Ziya gave Bigan a magical protection, making him take the talisman, which can protect Bigan's internal organs, so that he will not die after cutting out his heart.However, after dissecting his heart, if he encounters someone selling Chinese cabbage on the road, Bigan must ask him "what would happen if a person has no heart".If the vegetable seller answers "People can live without heart", Bigan will not die; if the vegetable seller answers "People can die without heart", Bigan will die immediately.

Later, Bigan cut his heart, and soon met a vegetable seller.After questioning, the woman replied, "People die if they don't have a heart." Bigan immediately bled profusely, and died with a loud cry.

This is the result of the authorities looking for an outsider who does not know the situation.

If the vegetable seller knew the situation, he would naturally understand how she should answer in order to save the loyal minister's life.

It's a pity that she doesn't know the situation, so she can only speak according to what she knows. If a person loses his heart, isn't the only way to die?
Even in fairy tales, mortals still have only mortal thoughts.

However, Tang Chengnian was not the kind of person who didn't know the situation. Although she didn't know much, she could tell that Shang Liujia was seriously asking her for an answer.She didn't speak immediately. She looked at Shang Liujia's appearance first, and then she saw the entanglement and confusion on his face. If she answered casually, he might also obey, after all, he is entangled and wavering now.Unless he was really firm, even if she said the answer he didn't want, he would still choose his own idea, but if he was really firm, how could he ask her?

Therefore, she naturally has to think carefully, and can't prevaricate him casually.

Tang Chengnian thought about it seriously, and replied, "I don't think it's superfluous."

"However, cultivators generally don't do these things, only mortals, they can't cultivate immortals, so they can only use this... to kill time." Shang Liujia was a little emotional, and he asked, "Am I wasting time? "

Tang Chengnian shook his head and asked him: "Do you like painting?"

Shang Liujia hesitated for a while, then nodded.

He didn't know if this answer was correct, but he really liked it, it was a sincere answer.

Tang Chengnian smiled and said: "Since you like it, keep doing it. Painting is to paint the mood at that time, and it is also the appearance that the painter wants to express. It is not about imagination, just like there is a saying among mortals, 'God is similar', You know? I think your painting is very good. Many people can't compare to you. If you like it, you can paint so beautifully, cultivate your mood, cultivate your sentiment|fuck it and put it down first, even if it's just for yourself If you like it, you should continue.”

When Shang Liujia painted, he never had any reluctance.

Shang Liujia hesitated for a moment and asked, "Then isn't this a waste of time?"

"Practice is not just for the sake of practice."

"For the sake of immortality." Shang Liujia said.

Practice can prolong life, just like learning spells. Many practitioners just want to protect themselves from being assassinated by other monks.The bottom line is that we still want to live for a long time. No one wants to die unexpectedly, let alone die of old age.

Tang Chengnian smiled and said, "Then what is longevity for?"

She pointed at the sky and the wall and said: "Look, the sky has no emotions, the clouds have no emotions, the mountains, water, flowers, and trees can all live for a long time without doing anything. However, in the birth of spiritual wisdom In the past, they were no different from a stone. They couldn't move and didn't matter. They lived just to live and had no meaning. But we are different. We have feelings and pursuits. To live forever is not to want to die, but to live. Naturally, living is for happiness. ."

"You like to paint, but if you are not allowed to paint, are you still happy? If you are not happy, wouldn't it be an unpleasant thing to live?" Tang Chengnian shook his head, "It doesn't mean that life is meaningless and you should die. It's just that if you live in this world and can't find something that you like and can make you happy, how boring and sad it would be."

These words fell on Shang Liujia's heart, like an enlightenment, causing him to wake up immediately.

The pursuit of longevity is because one does not want to die, so what is the purpose of living?

　I've been doing all sorts of things I've wanted to do before but always find reasons not to do them.Buy materials to study and paint oil paintings, cook steaks, pasta, and buy cloth to sew clothes.It may not be as good as those professional ones, but it is something I have always wanted to do, and it is really satisfying to be able to do it myself.

　　
　
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