The peasant boy of crossing

Li Xinyi spends her days at home either painting or reading opera scripts, which makes Li's mother a little worried.Although she is illiterate, she also knows that such casual books are not to be read. What kind of flowers, temples and Taoist temples can lead people away.

Li Xinyi heard Li Mu's words, so she had to explain: "Mother, I don't like to look at such things, but I only make a living by painting. One day, if no one buys my paintings, we will go hungry again. Yes Let’s read some drama scripts and try to write two words.”

Mother Li didn't think so, and said: "You can't read or write books that don't make it to the stage. The daughter of a rich family abandons her parents to elope with a scholar, and the number one scholar marries a daughter as his wife. Which one is true in the drama. "

After speaking, Mother Li lowered her voice again, and said, "You paint all day long. I didn't hear that there was a girl in the west of the village who read a storybook and went crazy. She wanted to elope with a wild man. Fortunately, her parents stopped her in time. , but how can such things be covered up? That girl will not be able to marry a good man in the future."

After finishing speaking, Mother Li was still worried: "I can't stop you from writing if you really want to, but don't write anything that will harm other people's families."

Li Xinyi had no choice but to repeatedly promise that she would not write any stories about "elopement", so Li's mother gave up.

In fact, Li Xinyi read the drama scripts for several days, but did not decide what to write.He thought of the martial arts stories of Mr. Jin Yong that he had read in his previous life. If some plots were put into the script, would Mr. Jin be so angry that he would travel over and scold him?

Li Xinyi was just thinking about it, and he would not really plagiarize other people's achievements, but this gave him an idea.He can't write opera, singing and playing, this set of rules has already taken shape, from the tunes to the singing, not a layman like him can be fooled.

Then you can only write scripts.Li Xinyi thought of the upgraded fantasy novels in her previous life. It didn't make sense that the topics that were so popular in her previous life couldn't be popular now.He had a plan in mind, and then he started to plan the outline and create a su and cool character design, which will not be mentioned for the time being.

Ever since Ah Su went to the county seat and only replied a letter declaring his safety, there has been no news.This made Li Xinyi a little worried.I am worried that Ah Su will not care about old friends when he has new friends, and also worried that Ah Su has encountered some difficulties.He has money now, although it is not much, but it is enough to elope.

Elope, elope?

Li Xinyi was frightened by her own thoughts, as expected, reading too many scripts is not a good thing, and the old man's words are indeed golden and good words.

Li Xinyi no longer reads the story books, but reads books on astronomy, geography, classics and history. He has long been accustomed to the narratives of the ancients, and he has more than 20 years of learning experience in his previous life. Even without the guidance of a famous teacher, he can get started. Also very fast.

Mother Li looked at Li Xinyi's earnestness in studying, and although she didn't ask him to take any exams, she was very pleased: this child is a persuasion, so she asked someone to ask someone to see which village has a good girl of the same age.

Li Xinyi has no friends except Ah Su.When he is not painting or reading, he will go to Grandpa Wu’s house to sit for a while. Grandpa Wu is getting old, and his son will take care of the town’s business, and he will take care of flowers and plants at home.

On this day, Li Xinyi was talking with Grandfather Wu, when she saw a person walking outside, wearing a turban, with a long and thin face, thin and bright eyes, wearing gray cloth clothes.He is the son of Grandpa Wu.

Grandpa Wu has two sons. The eldest son has not come back from running a shop outside, but his youngest son Wu Shen is here.Li Xinyi vaguely knew that he was following a comprador in the county, doing errands to spread the word.

Seeing that his youngest son came home at such an unembarrassing time, Grandpa Wu thought that he had made a mistake outside and caused some trouble.Grandpa Wu has always been dissatisfied with this son, and instead of doing serious things, he just went to do nonsense things, so he didn't look good when he saw him.

Wu Shen didn't say hello to his father when he got home, he went to pour tea and drink water, not caring about his father's expression at all.

Li Xinyi was a little embarrassed, so she was about to resign.

Unexpectedly, after Wu Shen drank the water, he dragged a bamboo chair and sat across from Li Xinyi.

Li Xinyi raised her eyebrows, a little surprised.

"Are you that Li Xinyi who knows how to paint peonies but never puts his signature on the paintings?" Wu Shen asked.

Li Xinyi is not the only one who can paint peonies, but he never puts his signature on the paintings, so he looked at Wu Shen and nodded hesitantly.

"I know how to draw peonies, what's wrong?" Li Xinyi asked.

"That's it." Wu Shen said, "The magistrate of the county wants a picture album with 24 flowers, and I will give it to my teacher, Mr. Wei. My master heard that there is a peony painter in Wutong Village, so he sent me to ask." , do you paint or not?"

Wu Shen speaks clearly and directly.

Li Xinyi hesitated, he didn't really want to paint for Mr. Wei.

Wu Shen thought that Li Xinyi was a little moved, and said: "You have to think about it quickly, the county magistrate will get the picture book in half a month, there are many people who can paint flowers outside, and the money will not be yours if it is too late , which is more money than you can earn by selling paintings yourself."

Li Xinyi then smiled and said: "It's a pity. I draw slowly. There are 24 flowers, and one flower takes 24 days a day, but I missed it. Thank you Angkor for your kindness. I have something to do at home, so I will go back first." .”

Li Xinyi said that she was about to leave, but Grandpa Wu hurriedly held him back.

Grandpa Wu has been in business for most of his life, even if he has trouble with his son, he will not have trouble with money.

He said to Li Xinyi earnestly: "When you were young, you herded cattle for me. I only gave you five coppers a day as an old man, and you have been doing it for more than three years. Now that you are promising, you can paint peonies." , have you forgotten that Zuntang raised your eyes and broke your eyes? How much money can you make for painting, which is not as much as the old man I earn in a day's work. "

Grandpa Wu is also thinking about Li Xinyi: "This time I am painting for the county master. There must be a lot of money. If you earn more money, you can buy some meat to honor Zuntang. Zuntang raises you to grow up alone. Eat A lot of suffering."

Speaking of Li's mother, Li Xinyi has no excuses to shirk.

Wu Shen also said: "It's half a month, but it doesn't mean that there is no grace. There are 24 flowers, and I have to work hard to draw half more flowers every day. Give it 20 days, and there can be no more."

Li Xinyi could only agree.

When Li Xinyi got home, she spread out the paper and prepared to paint. He had been painting flowers for half a year, and he was already familiar with the painting.I can only paint one flower a day.For a flower as complicated as peony, it only takes two hours.For a lotus with few petals, one hour is more than enough.

Li Xinyi was drawing a picture when a messenger from the village walked in.

Li Xinyi looked at the messenger in brown shorts, and her heart skipped a beat for a while.With trembling hands, he carefully placed the paintbrush on the pen stand, and hurriedly beckoned the messenger to sit down.He took off his apron himself, wiped his hands vigorously, and poured a cup of hot tea for the messenger.

"I don't have any good tea at home, so just drink it." Li Xinyi said, "But do you have a letter for me?"

The messenger didn't sit down, he took out a letter from his bag, handed it to Li Xinyi, and said, "I won't sit down anymore, I have to hurry to deliver the letter elsewhere." He was about to leave.

Li Xinyi couldn't hold her back, so she wrapped the tea leaves she had just brewed in paper and gave them to the messenger.But the messenger didn't pick up, so Li Xinyi had to give up.

Li Xinyi was sitting on a bamboo chair, and on the front of the envelope was written the words "Li Xinyi Dearly Invited", in A Su's handwriting.The back of the envelope was stamped with bright red wax paint.He carefully tore open the envelope and saw a thin piece of letter paper inside.

Li Xinyi didn't take out the letter paper, but put the letter and envelope in a book he was reading.He is a little angry now, it took so long for Ah Su to reply this letter to him, and he wants to let him hang out first.

Li Xinyi put on her apron again and continued her painting career slowly. 24 flowers correspond to 24 solar terms, so the types of these 24 flowers are also particular.

The first flower is plum blossom.The beauty of plum blossoms lies in their strength of character, "Ling Han blooms alone".Li Xinyi chose Hongmei to paint because the red plum is beautiful enough.The ancients paid much attention to the overall charm of plums when they painted plums, but Li Xinyi did not.

He doesn't care about some moral and ethical characters that people give to flowers, but simply shows the most beautiful side of Mei.Just like a photographer, in the process of looking for light and angles, he captures the most beautiful moment of the subject, and then perfects the unbeautiful parts later.

Someone asked him to draw plum blossoms before, so he is fairly proficient in painting.Two hours later, he placed the painting in a ventilated place to dry in the shade.

The second flower is camellia.The camellia is even simpler. Li Xinyi dipped a fine brush in water and simply drew an outline.When I first started painting with a brush, it was very difficult.It doesn't have the hardness of charcoal, and it can't be erased and modified at any time with an eraser. It can only be colored with carmine. It was difficult for a while to give up the idea of ​​painting.

But when he thought that Wu Su might be in a dragon's pool and a tiger's lair, but he was unable to do anything, he was hit with grief and indignation, so he was able to calm down and do this thing with no future in sight.

Speaking of which, what exactly did Wu Su write in the letter, could it be a letter for help?

Li Xinyi immediately regretted it. If it was a distress letter, then he had left the letter for two or four hours in vain. Wouldn't it be that the day lily was cold?He quickly put down his pen and went to take out the envelope that was stuck in the book.

Since Li Xinyi hid from the rain that day and heard two people talking vaguely about Mr. Wei, and the sneer with unknown meaning, she has been worried all the time. In her dream, it was Wu Su calling for help.It's not that he hasn't been to Wu's house, and he wants to ask that little fat man how he is doing in the city.

The Wu family is the main surname in Wutong Village, and half of the villagers have the surname Wu.How can people say that their son is not good, but when someone passed by, they heard Li Xinyi ask Wu Su, and they would praise this son for his high knowledge and good luck.The Wu family is full of red faces.Li Xinyi naturally couldn't ask anything.

So now we can't blame Li Xinyi for having a brain twitch, for forgetting the communication speed in ancient times. Even though the county seat is not very far from Wutong Village, it is not the era of instant messaging. Two hours and four hours are nothing.

Li Xinyi took out the letter paper and quickly went through it from top to bottom, but found no worrying information, and felt a little more relaxed.I felt that I read it too briefly, so I read it carefully from right to left, and there really are no negative emotional words.

Li Xinyi then thought, the ancients always wrote letters implicitly and cryptically, so there might be some hidden acrostics.So he read it from left to right according to the modern way of reading, and confirmed that the coherent sentences were not smooth, and the hanging heart was finally let go.

In the letter, Wu Su narrated some trivial matters after he arrived in the county, and also said that Mr. Wei taught him a lot in terms of knowledge, and praised him for his profound knowledge and appearance.Li Xinyi didn't like to read this passage, so she quickly skipped it.At the end of the letter, the little fat man said that he was living well in the county town by himself. Many people visited Mr. Wei, and he also met some new friends.But he still missed Li Xinyi, and said that he bought some gifts and sent them to Wutong Village, one of which was for him.He also left an address, and Li Xinyi would send it to this place if she wanted to write a letter.He looks forward to his reply.

Li Xinyi's heart that had just let go quietly thumped again, and he seemed to be able to hear the recollection of the heartbeat.He felt that the little fat man was talking nonsense, and really wondered why it took him four months to deliver the letter.He felt that the tradition of the ancients to report good news but not bad news was really bad.

But Li Xinyi still couldn't help blushing on the left side of her face, and he wanted to read what Wu Su said about him again.But at this time, Mother Li called Li Xinyi's name in the kitchen and told him to come out for dinner.Li Xinyi reluctantly put down the letter paper and went out.

Mother Li looked at her son who was eating absent-mindedly in front of her, and wondered if her eye disease had happened again, so she turned salt into sugar.She picked up a little dish carefully, chewed it, it was delicious, and confirmed that she did not misplace the salt.

But what's with the expression on his son's face that wants to smile or not?

And why is that half of the face red?