Siheyuan: Traveling through Sizhu, the scumbag father ran away at the beginning

As expected of a master of Chinese painting, “Six Shrimps” was completed in a short time. The six shrimps were painted lively and vividly.

Qi Qianshi used the changes in the thickness of the ink to depict the six shrimps playing in the water in different and vivid postures.

Use thick ink to draw the shrimp's eyes vertically, and use thick ink to draw the shrimp's brain horizontally; when the light ink on the shrimp's head has not dried yet, use a little thick ink to make a natural smudge around the shrimp, with the ink colors alternating between thick and light; then use light ink to draw the shrimp's body to highlight the crystal clear feeling of the shrimp's body.

Qi Qianshi arranged the six shrimps in an "S" shape to show the six shrimps chasing, jumping and playing with each other in the water; the length, extension and bending of the shrimps' legs can be changed freely, and the shrimps' whiskers can be drawn with a fine brush to swing back and forth, left and right, making the whiskers look elastic.

He Yuzhu, with a look of joy on his face, quickly put away this priceless work of Qi Qianshi, and then tacitly replaced it with a new piece of blank drawing paper and placed it in front of Qi Qianshi who had just finished painting "Six Shrimps".

Seeing He Yuzhu's anxious look, Qi Qianshi muttered a few words in his heart. Then, he started his second painting "Impatiens Butterfly".

The painting "Phoenix Butterfly" actually took less time to complete than the "Six Shrimps". After all, painting shrimps is the subject that Qi Qianshi is best at.

The painting "Impatiens Butterfly" is also lifelike, with the phoenix peony buds about to bloom, and the petals about to unfold but not yet; a butterfly comes slowly, as if attracted by the fragrance of the flowers and falls into a dream. The flowers are rich in color, and the new leaves and old branches are scattered in an orderly manner.

However, when He Yuzhu saw that there was only one butterfly in the painting, he immediately said unsatisfactorily: "Mr. Qi, there are too few butterflies in the painting. Please draw a few more!"

Just as Mr. Qi was about to make an explanation, he accidentally touched a book in his arms. He took a quick glance and found that it was the "The Art of Bedroom" that He Yuzhu promised to give him.

Seeing that He Yuzhu had already stuffed the book into his arms without him noticing, Qi Qianshi gritted his teeth and continued to add to the number of butterflies.

He Yuzhu kept praising Qi Qianshi, which made him gradually immersed in artistic creation. When he woke up, he had filled the paper with thirty butterflies. At this time, he was exhausted and sweating.

Seeing that Qi Qianshi had almost finished the painting, He Yuzhu put the painting into his pocket with satisfaction, thinking that the painting must be framed with the best materials and preserved in his precious consciousness space.

These three works of Qi Qianshi will definitely sell for an astonishing price in the future.

Qi Qianshi held He Yuzhu's sketch of "Beauty Emerging from the Bath" in one hand and the "Art of Sex" in his arms. He couldn't hide the smile on his face and everyone could see at a glance how proud he was.

Qi Qianshi decided to show He Yuzhu's painting "Beauty Emerging from the Bath" to his friends in the painting world so that they could take a good look at this exquisite work of art.

Suddenly He Yuzhu remembered that there was a batch of calligraphy and paintings placed in his consciousness space, but he had no idea how much these works were worth.

He Yuzhu looked at the antique appraiser Niu Ye, the Chinese painting master Qi Qianshi and the literary master Lao Yu in front of him, and said with a smile: "Niu Ye, Qi Lao, Yu Lao, I accidentally collected some calligraphy and paintings before, and I would like to trouble you two to help me to judge them. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad. Anyway, I plan to use the useless ones as kindling!"

Niu Ye said jokingly: "Then I guess you won't be short of kindling matches. There are quite a lot of fake ones in the antique market nowadays."

Qi Qianshi nodded in agreement: "Master Niu is right, especially the calligraphy of ancient celebrities. The real ones are hard to find, and most of them are imitations. Nowadays, people only care about profit!"

He Yuzhu had already anticipated this. If there were any treasures, he would keep them, and if there were any worthless ones, he would let them turn into dust.

He found an excuse and entered the wing room, took out the box of calligraphy and paintings from his consciousness space, and walked towards the crowd holding these calligraphy and paintings.

He Yuzhu first took out a painting and asked Qi Qianshi to identify it: "Mr. Qi, do you think this painting is worth collecting?"

As he said this, he took out the painting. Qi Qianshi took the painting and slowly opened it. The scroll slowly unfolded, and the painting slowly appeared in front of him. His originally relaxed expression suddenly became solemn: the painting has simple lines, with a dead tree, its branches dry and twisted, like a swimming dragon; surrounded by rocks, dotted with bamboos; the stone surface has no axe marks, and the light ink depicts it with a rich and moist feeling; the bamboos spread out, undulating along the stone, and the wild interest is strong. More importantly, the painting has no signature.

Lao Yu and others on the side were stunned.

He Yuzhu, who knew nothing about calligraphy and painting, saw Qi Qianshi praising the painting so much, and couldn't help asking: "Is this painting amazing?"

Qi Qianshi then said excitedly: "It's more than amazing, it's simply a stroke of genius! If my guess is correct, this is the masterpiece "Dry Trees and Strange Rocks" by the Song Dynasty literary giant Su Shi, also known as "Wood and Rocks"! This is a traditional Chinese painting created by Su Shi in the Shengquan Temple in Xiao County during his tenure as the governor of Xuzhou in the Northern Song Dynasty. This painting is of great collection value!"

After hearing these words, Lao Yu and the others couldn't help feeling bitter and envious. Today, they couldn't stop feeling envious!

Xu Huizhen, who had been hiding in the side room shyly, came over again at some point, probably because everyone was finally talking about business.

Xu Huizhen couldn't help but join in the fun. When she heard that the painting He Yuzhu brought out was from Su Shi, she quickly expressed her opinion: "Su Shi's career was quite bumpy. He was suppressed many times during the struggle between the new and old parties at that time."

"In his early years, he disagreed with Wang Anshi's ideas and believed that the pace of reform of the New Deal was too fast and might lead to many problems in the country."

"As a result, he was ostracized by the new government and even nearly lost his life in the 'Wu Tai Poetry Case'. He was later exiled to Huangzhou."

After Wang Anshi stepped down, Sima Guang began to recruit old school figures including Su Shi, but Su Shi opposed Sima Guang's view of completely negating Wang Anshi's new policies, which made him suspicious of the old party again.

"In the days that followed, Su Shi suffered repeated exiles, and his official position was demoted three times in a short period of time, and he finally ended up in Huizhou, Guangdong, and Danzhou, Hainan."

In his self-portrait, he wrote: "What are your achievements in life? Just a trip to Huangzhou, Huizhou and Danzhou. This shows his open-minded and free-spirited personality!"

"Su Shi loved to depict dead branches and strange rocks. He said that this was to 'express the unrestrained emotions in his heart with strange and bizarre images, and to deal with the world with a cynical attitude'."

These words surprised everyone. Everyone looked at Xu Huizhen with new eyes and consciously regarded her as a "talented woman".