The peasant boy of crossing

Li Xinyi hurriedly said, "Uncle, I live in Wutong Village." She pointed to the other bank of the river, "I keep my cattle on the other bank, but it will rain soon, and I can't go back in time. I want to borrow one from you." A place to shelter from the rain."

The burly man with a square face looked up and saw that the big raindrops had already fallen, so he opened the door and let Li Xinyi and his cow in.

"Thank you uncle, the flowers in front of your door are blooming really well." Li Xinyi and the strong man got close.

The strong man didn't answer, he unlocked the railing door of the barn beside him, and said to Li Xinyi, "Your cattle are tied here."

Li Xinyi took a look inside and saw a big guy with maroon fur and a white spot on his forehead next door.Li Xinyi didn't know if it was a mule or a horse, but she felt embarrassed to dirty someone else's clean barn.

The scalper girl was a little apprehensive, and she didn't want to go in with her hooves, so Li Xinyi had to go in first by herself, and then pulled the cow in.At least there is a cover for the stables, and it is really easy to get sick after such a heavy rain.

After tying the cattle, Li Xinyi took a quick look at the scene inside. Camellia trees were planted on both sides of the small courtyard. come.Li Xinyi looked at the straw sandals under her feet with mud sticking to her feet, and felt that she was fine in the stables, and the scalper girl was insecure.

Li Xinyi was stroking the horns of the scalper when the strong man came back holding an oil-paper umbrella and handed the other oil-paper umbrella to Li Xinyi.Said: "My master is entertaining friends, you just sit in the side hall for a while, and you can leave by yourself when the rain stops."

Li Xinyi thanked him again, but said: "My family's cow is timid, and it's the same with me in the stable."

The strong man didn't talk to her, so Li Xinyi had to shut up in embarrassment and followed behind the strong man.

The side hall is not big, there is no expensive furniture, only a carved wooden table, and a pair of wooden chairs beside it.There is a celadon vase standing on the table, with two roses with leaves inserted.

The strong man brought a bamboo chair over, placed it at the door of the side hall, and motioned for Li Xinyi to sit here.

Li Xinyi sat down, and the strong man took another small ceramic bowl filled with water, and handed it to Li Xinyi.

Li Xinyi quickly stood up to pick it up, and thanked the strong man.Then the strong man left.

The rain fell in a hurry, and it fell on the bluestone slabs in the courtyard, causing waves of water splashes, and then was submerged in more water splashes.

Li Xinyi sipped the water in the bowl, he was not thirsty, but it was embarrassing to sit stupidly.He felt that the strong man who opened the door didn't really want to entertain him as an uninvited guest, but out of some etiquette, he had to deal with him.

Li Xinyi listened intently to the sound of the rain, waiting for the embarrassment to pass.

After sitting for a while and drinking all the water, Li Xinyi still felt very embarrassed, but at this time the rain was a little lighter and the noise stopped.Just have to wait a while to go.

"Mr. Wei is back."

When Li Xinyi heard the words "Old Mr. Wei", her ears couldn't help moving, and she listened to the following words verbatim.

"I bought a new house on the edge of the county seat. The house is large and exquisite, and it can be worth several thousand taels of silver. Because the old man wanted to buy it, the owner let out a few hundred taels of silver to make a good name. When we moved, the county magistrate would come to congratulate us in person, and the owner of the house had a very bright face, and he showed it off every day to brag about it."

Only another voice said: "The county master is a Juren and a student of Mr. Wei, so there is nothing wrong with coming to congratulate you."

The person before said again: "The last time the son-in-law brought his daughter to Ning, he brought a letter from his in-laws who are magistrates in Ganzhou. My in-laws are also Mr. Wei's disciples. Let me tell you, if I bring this I went to pay my respects to Old Mr. Wei, and the old man said that he would not go to the countryside to pay his respects. At that time, my face will be much better than that of the owner of the house."

The last person said: "Mr. Wei is indeed a rare scholar. I heard that the Wu family wants to put his son in front of Mr. Wei's door to honor him?"

The former person laughed, with an indescribably wretched voice.

"The Wu family wanted to climb up to Mr. Wei, and they didn't look at who they were. How could they become disciples so easily. I heard that my in-laws climbed up to Mr. Wei, but it took a long time. A lot of effort."

Li Xinyi felt weird and wanted to listen again, but the voice dropped several degrees, and he couldn't hear it clearly.

"Who is old Mr. Wei? Let me tell you. When Mr. Ren left Beijing, the emperor personally sent him outside the city. That is the emperor, the real dragon emperor. Mr. Wei has such face."

The two continued to talk, but the rain had stopped at this time, and Li Xinyi had to get up.

Li Xinyi led the cow out of the barn, the strong man came over and opened the door, Li Xinyi bowed his head in thanks, and then took the cow away.

Along the way, Li Xinyi was thinking about what that weird and obscene laughter meant.Thinking of Wu Su's face that is no longer round and more beautiful, and the magic of anticipation that he had never had before, many bad thoughts appeared in his mind for a while.

More than three years is enough for Li Xinyi to adapt to this world, and it was the little fat man who helped him step by step out of the isolation from the world.

But Li Xinyi not only has no wealth, but also no talent, and only learned a lot of words under Wu Su's guidance.So what can he help Wu Su?

One person wants to help another person, one depends on money, and the other depends on fame.The owner who sold the house to that old man Wei would rather give up a few hundred taels of silver, just for a name.

How can I earn my name?

Li Xinyi thought so hard that her head was going bald, and he even took the scalper back to his house without realizing it, which shocked Li's mother.

Under Li's mother's worried eyes, Li Xinyi took the scalper back to Agong Wu's house, but instead of going home, she just walked out.Before he crossed over, he lived for 28 years in a world rich in material resources, and was forced to learn piano and sketching since he was a child.Later, I studied for more than 20 years in elementary school, middle school, and university. After studying for so long and learning so many things, why is he still so useless?

Counting the days, he should be 32 years old this year.He is not really a 14-year-old boy, standing at thirty, he wants to stand up, not only to survive himself, but also to make Li's mother and A Su well.

From then on, he no longer used the copper coins that Grandpa Wu gave him to buy old books. Instead, he asked Grandpa Wu to help him bring some rouge powder and opera scripts from the town.

Grandpa Wu heard about Li Xinyi's request and gave him an indescribable look.Li Xinyi immediately had a bad feeling.

I only heard Grandpa Wu inquiring curiously in a "very random" tone: "Do you have a girlfriend? Only these two things are not enough, old man, let me tell you, you are smarter, you have to send silk flowers, how much is this thing?" You can buy a lot of money, but rouge and scripts are not cheap, boy, don't empty out your family, and the girl ends up with someone else."

Li Xinyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Grandpa, I'm not going to send a girl off." But he couldn't explain what he was going to do to Grandpa Wu, it was really hard to explain.

Grandpa Wu laughed and said: "Boy, what's so embarrassing, old man, I will teach you: when it comes to chasing girls, you can't be too fast. If you get close, she will be far away. You have to stay far away. She can be close. But you can't stay far away, maybe people will ignore you. So you have to be far and close, so that people think you are interesting. If you are interesting, tsk~ things will be done .”

Li Xinyi felt her head swell when she heard Grandpa Wu's "far and near theory".But he couldn't directly say that he was bad for girls, so he said: "Grandpa, there are really no girls."

Grandpa Wu is still not finished, and wants to analyze the specific cases of his practice of "far and near theory" back then. Fortunately, Grandpa Wu's old wife came out to see what his old man was muttering outside.Grandpa Wu was not good at exposing his old background in front of his old wife, so Li Xinyi was able to take the opportunity to escape.

Li Xinyi bought rouge and gouache for painting.Therefore, he repeatedly emphasized to old man Wu that it was a big piece of rouge for twenty Wen.But Grandpa Wu felt that Li Xinyi was shy, and that the lowest kind of rouge was not good for the girl's skin.

Grandpa Wu also watched Li Xinyi grow up, thinking that it would not be easy for this kid to marry a wife, so he posted some money and brought back a box of eighty Wen for Li Xinyi, a small and exquisite rouge in white porcelain.

"Girls in the city use this kind." Grandpa Wu said, "Twenty Wen's is too rough, and the ones for girls should be fine."

Li Xinyi looked at the palm-sized rouge box with complicated emotions.

However, more complicated things are yet to come.

Grandpa Wu did a good deed, so naturally he couldn't hide it, so he told his old wife.The old wife had to chat with the neighbors every day, and the topics were naturally not enough, so she described Grandpa Wu's kind deeds.

So the next day Li Xinyi led the cattle on the ridge of the field, and everyone in the field said to him when they saw him: "I heard that you bought a box of rouge, which girl is this for?"

Li Xinyi didn't want to explain, so they unanimously looked at Li Xinyi lovingly with a kind of "unspoken" eyes.

Li Xinyi: ...he hasn't developed yet, so it's a ghost knowing what he knows.

As for the tradition that boys in Wutong Village would give rouge to girls when they courted, Li Xinyi said that even without him, rouge should still be given.

Li Xinyi has the foundation of sketching, but she has little contact with the freehand brushwork of Chinese painting.To make a name for yourself, you still need to come up with new ideas on the basis of people's aesthetics.

When Li Xinyi was grazing cattle, she began to frantically draw all kinds of blooming, half-blooming, and just bones.At the craziest moment, when Li Xinyi looked at the scalper girl, she felt that there was a flower growing on her body.

The scalper was frightened by Li Xinyi, and went to the farthest place to graze.

The effect of Li Xinyi's efforts is obvious.

Two months later, among the flowers he painted, he finally sold the first one.The painting is a peony, with layers of bright red petals, blooming to meet the morning sun with moisture.

Li Xinyi has a good grasp of light. The successful combination of light and shadow expresses the vigorous vitality of the peony when it blooms, making the viewer seem to hear the subtle sound of the flower when it blooms.

Of course, the above are just Li Xinyi's appreciation of her paintings.In fact, the person who bought the painting was a farmer in the countryside, and his daughter was worrying about the difficulty of embroidering peonies.The father of this loving daughter didn't understand what a bottleneck period was, and thought it was because there was no reference for not being able to embroider, which made Li Xinyi's first work successfully sold.

Everything is difficult at the beginning. After the first work was sold, besides peonies, Li Xinyi sold two camellias, three lotus flowers and a bunch of roses one after another.

Li Xinyi's paintings are very distinctive, one is mainly red flowers, and pays attention to the transmission effect of light and shadow.The perspective painting technique makes these portraits look like blooming flowers alive, and some paintings are even more beautiful than real flowers.

Some people went to buy Li Xinyi's paintings specifically, wanting to know what's so special about his paintings.However, Li Xinyi learned sketching for two years as a bonus item for the high school entrance examination. He still remembers the skills, but the theoretical part, to be honest, Li Xinyi herself can't explain it clearly.

Gradually, more and more people asked Li Xinyi for paintings, and Li Xinyi's paintings became more and more expensive.As long as he doesn't stop painting, he won't starve to death.

Li Xinyi no longer herded cattle for Grandpa Wu, and Grandpa Wu understood very well.When you grow up, you can't catch up with girls when herding cattle.Li Xinyi's head was full of black lines, and she forgot to say goodbye to the scalper girl.

After Li Xinyi stopped herding cattle, she only paints at home every day, and reads the opera scripts that Grandpa Wu bought for him and is said to be given to girls.