Encounter with the Four Great Talents

Tang Yin is painting, the painting is the bustling streets of the capital.This is Shen'er's request. Parents can't walk around and have a look. If he can draw it, he can let them feel it.At that time, Tang Yin had endless motivation to paint, wandering around every day, and painting as much as possible when he came back.Both Wen Zhengming and Chen Juren came to persuade him several times to read the book and prepare for the test, but Tang Yin just smiled and didn't object, and turned around and continued to draw.

After a long time, the two of them no longer cared about him. When they were tired of reading, they would come over to have a look. When they saw a good painting, they would take it back and make a copy and send it back to their family members.

Tang Yin put down the last stroke, stood up straight and looked carefully, picked up a fine brush and carefully drew some details better, and then wrote a few words on the painting with the pen in satisfaction, "Jingcheng South Street Market scene at the beginning of the month".

"Master! There's a letter from home!" Tong Shou trotted over with the letter in his hand, Tang Yin immediately put down his pen and greeted him with joy in his heart: "Hurry up and show me!"

After receiving the package, when I opened it, I saw a letter box, inside which were three letters placed flat, with a few sheets of paper under the letters.Open the paper first and have a look. One is a simple drawing of two women. Although the drawing is very rough, you can see the familiar shadows, and the appearance of them smiling gently while holding their waists.The other is a middle-aged man and woman, sitting side by side, the man strokes his beard and smiles, and the woman sits beside the man with her hands on her lap and smiles.

These two paintings are very rough, and the characters are not very good-looking, but they have been carefully drawn. The thin charcoal pen can outline the subtle expressions and movements more clearly than the brush, which makes people feel very warm.

This was painted by Tang Shen. After receiving Tang Yin's landscape painting, Tang Shen drew a painting of Ding's and sent it to him "in his free time".Ding was several months pregnant, and Tang Shen was afraid that he would worry, so he specially drew her appearance and sent it along with the letter.After receiving the letter, Tang Yin was very moved, and asked his younger brother to draw more. Although Tang Shen was reluctant, he still sent it every time. Sometimes it was a figure, and sometimes it was the scenery of his hometown. Most of them were these fine charcoal drawings. The painting, the lines are simple and rough.Tang Yin knew that he was not good at it, but he still drew these for his elder brother who was far away, and felt even more moved.

Looking carefully at the painting, the wives and concubines look safe, but their stomachs are already quite big.Parents seem to be safe, mother changed her usual hairstyle, father changed his winter clothes, they are all clearly drawn in the painting.

Tang Yin smiled contentedly, took out the letter to read, and first looked at his parents'.The letter was written by my father, saying that they are all safe, and told him not to worry about them in the capital and take good care of himself.Let me briefly talk about some housework. There is no snow this year, and the winter is not very cold, but Shen'er still spent a lot of money to buy a lot of leather to make clothes for his family. He also made one for him. Remember to wear it when he is cold.Then came some exhortations dictated by the mother, detailing everything.

The second letter was from Ding. Ding sent a pair of self-made boots stuffed with cotton to prevent his feet from frostbite in winter.Then he replied what he wrote in his last letter, and said that he and that concubine are in good health now, and the child is also good, so he doesn't have to worry.The last thing I wrote was that Tang Shen didn't know what was going on, but suddenly forced two pregnant women to start drinking goat milk.But he used almonds to remove the fishy smell, saying it was for the good of the children.She herself was fine, but the concubine couldn't bear the smell and cried several times.

Tang Yin was puzzled, so he opened the last Tang Shen's letter to read.Tang Shen's letters were never long-winded, and he wrote a few things clearly.The first one is a leather jacket and a pair of cotton boots in the cloth bag under the box. My mother sewed the mouth of the cloth bag with needles and thread, so it should be safe.The second one was a 200 tael banknote in the leather jacket, telling him not to be nervous about the money and make arrangements for a comfortable New Year.The third thing is that goat milk is a good thing, especially good for the fetus, you must drink it, and refuse all dissuasion!

Tang Yin couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it, he put down the letter, took the scissors and opened the cloth bag, and sure enough, he took out a leather jacket and a bank note.There is a pair of black boots under it, and a lot of cotton is stuffed into the thick boots, which will definitely not freeze your feet when you wear them.There is also a small package inside, which is some dried vegetables that Tang Yin likes.

Tang Yin asked Tongshou to pack up these things, and immediately went to the desk to write a reply. While writing, he heard the rustling sound, and when he looked up, he saw snowflakes falling on the window, printing snow shadows one after another.

"It's snowing, and I don't know if it's snowing at Wu County's house too?"

The Tang family in Wuxian County is not snowing at this time, but is building a lot.

The corner of Tang Guangde's mouth twitched as he stood in front of a big pit, and finally couldn't help asking: "Shen'er, our family already has this underground kiln, so we don't need to dig such a big one?"

Holding a drawing, Tang Shen pointed to the craftsman beside him and said, "The size Xiaodu just measured here is wrong. It is different from what I asked for. There can be no mistakes in this size!" The craftsman hurriedly responded and went to work , Tang Shen said: "Father, as I said, the population of our family will only increase in the future, and only one underground kiln is not enough." He shouted again: "Xiaodu, measure the length and width of the exit. Give me."

Xiao Du nodded, and took a ruler to measure the exit.

Tang Guangde looked at this underground kiln, which was almost as big as a house, and thought to himself, it is so big that it can accommodate people.There are so few people in their family, how can they use such a big underground kiln?How much is he going to charge?Fortunately, Mr. Feng Shui said that digging here would not damage Feng Shui, otherwise Tang Guangde would not dare to let this child dig a big hole here.Seeing that he had nothing to do here, Tang Guangde decided to go out for a walk and see if the carpenter had completed the cradle he had made.

Xingniang came over with tea, Xiaodu saw her, ran over and shouted: "Sister-in-law."

Xingniang, who was married to Fang Xingzhou not long ago, flushed pretty face, touched his head lovingly, poured him a cup of tea, and Xiaodu obediently held it while drinking it.Xingniang poured another glass for Tang Shen.

Tang Shen took the tea and sighed pretendingly: "Xingniang, why are you so overwhelmed? You don't want to choose which one in our family, but you choose Fang Xingzhou, the idiot who has a brother-in-law complex. He just sees how you treat his brother well." Marry you! How could you be fooled by him when you are so smart!"

Xingniang gave him a blank look, and poured tea for Fang Xingzhou who had been standing behind Tang Shen and never left.Fang Xingzhou took the tea with a warm smile, took her hand to be intimate, and didn't care about Tang Shen's words at all.He was the matchmaker for the two at that time, and he was the least qualified person to say such things.

Seeing that the husband and wife ignored him, Tang Shen reached out and touched Xiaodu's head: "Xiaodu, am I right?"

Xiaodu didn't notice what he said at all, or he heard it but didn't understand it, but since Tang Shen asked, he naturally nodded obediently.Satisfied, Tang Shen said triumphantly, "Look, am I right?" Just as he was complacent, Tang Shen's face turned pale and distorted due to the sudden cramping of his legs, and he immediately lost his standing and fell backwards.Fang Xingzhou realized something was wrong, immediately threw the cup and rushed over, hugging him before he landed.

Xingniang was so frightened that she almost screamed, she quickly moved a chair over, Fang Xingzhou hugged him and sat down, and began to massage his legs.

Tang Shen bit his lip and moaned, and when the pain in his legs passed, he was sweating profusely from the pain.Panting and leaning on the chair, he complained weakly: "Why is it okay for others to grow tall, but it hurts so much when I grow tall!"

Xiaodu brought tea, tilted his head when he heard this, thought for a long time and hesitantly said two words: "Retribution?"

Everyone is silent.

Then, Fang Xingzhou lowered his head and laughed, trembling all over, and Xingniang turned around, shrugging her shoulders suspiciously.Tang Shen smiled but did not smile, and his voice was softer and softer: "Be good, Xiaodu, tell me, who taught you these two words?"

Xiaodu is very obedient: "Brother Yonglu."

Tang Shen snorted a few times, gritted his teeth, and roared in his heart: Yonglu, you are doomed!

Yonglu, who was doing New Year's shopping outside, sneezed a lot. He felt the chill on his back and shrank his neck. It's getting colder?

When Tang Shen's pain subsided, he was already too tired to lean on the chair and didn't want to move.

Tang Shen had never been tall before, at least compared to other people, and because of his slender bones, he looked very thin.But after all, he was only sixteen or seventeen years old, so he didn't care. He would continue to develop after thinking about it. The Tang family was not short, so he would not be an exception.As a result, he started to develop suddenly during this period, and he had frequent cramps, often in the middle of the night, the pain was so painful that he couldn't fall asleep.Standing longer and walking more during the day may cause cramps and fall over.This is why Fang Xingzhou still stands behind him to guard at home.

In desperation, he asked people to find a few sheep to drink goat milk to supplement calcium. After all, cows cannot be found, and farm cattle cannot specialize in milk production.Tang Shen, who never liked to drink this stuff, forced Xiaodu to drink it with the two pregnant women in the selfless spirit of being happy alone.But it didn't fail, Xiaodu also grew taller, and the complexions of the two pregnant women also improved a lot.

And in just a few months, Tang Shen has already grown more than an inch taller, and it seems that there is still a tendency to continue to grow taller, and his skeleton has also changed a bit. According to Tang Shen himself, it feels like he has completed it once. Evolution is the same.

Therefore, Zhang Jingyu, who came to give New Year's gifts in the new year, was taken aback when he saw Tang Shen, "You... are you really Shen'er?"

Tang Shen rolled his eyes at him, lifted his robe and sat on the chair, frowned at the gift list he sent, and pushed it back with his fingertips: "Our family can't afford such a generous gift."

"Just give it back to me." Zhang Jingyu was looking at him, and when he heard this, he couldn't stop saying it in his head.

Tang Shen didn't seem to hear it, so he just asked him indifferently: "I heard that Mr. Zhang's term of office will expire next year? It is said that he will be promoted and transferred to the capital? Congratulations."

Zhang Jingyu frowned upon hearing this, and nodded helplessly: "Yes, how did you know?"

"It's said in Brother Zhu's letter." Tang Shen didn't mean anything else, and congratulated him normally.Being transferred to the foot of the emperor is a high promotion no matter how you look at it.Although he didn't feel at ease as a local official, he went to the emperor's side and was reused, and prosperity and wealth were immediately in front of him.But looking at Zhang Jingyu's expression, he didn't seem very happy.

Zhang Jingyu hated Zhu Yunming so much, he must have done it on purpose!Looking at Tang Shen's face, he said hesitantly, "I'm going to the capital too, and my father will arrange another job for me in the capital."

"Congratulations." Tang Shen nodded sincerely.

Zhang Jingyu's expression suddenly fell to the extreme, and there was even some grievance in his voice: "Don't you feel sad?"

Tang Shen raised his eyebrows and turned to look at him.The boy who has grown up has more bright and heroic lines on his face, and the proportion of the whole person has become more slender and well-proportioned after being raised, and the feeling of femininity and charm has been unconsciously reduced, and he has become more refined and handsome, and he has matured a lot.

It may be due to nature, Tang Shen always gives people a sense of indifference to anyone now, not indifference, but indifference that seems to be indifferent to everything.

Therefore, it is completely delusional to want to see any reluctance or sadness from his face.

But in Zhang Jingyu's eyes, even so, he is still charmingly good-looking.

Zhang Jingyu became more and more sad. Although he had been busy for a while, and the distance between the two places was not close after all, there were not many opportunities to see him, but he never lost contact with him.After several months of hard work, Tang Shen didn't feel anything, Zhang Jingyu only felt that he was too pitiful!

A smile flashed in Tang Shen's eyes. He was indeed not in love with Zhang Jingyu, but this did not prevent him from thinking that Zhang Jingyu was a good person, and it did not prevent him from considering Zhang Jingyu as a friend. It was actually meant to tease him just now.Tang Shen didn't have many friends, he only counted a few, and even fewer had frequent contacts, Zhang Jingyu barely counted as one.Now that my friend is going away, it is impossible to say that he has no regrets, but it is not good to misunderstand him too clearly.

So Tang Shen said softly: "I just went to the capital, why be so sad? The capital is prosperous and prosperous, if I have the chance, I will definitely go and see it."

Zhang Jingyu smiled brightly and said, "That's settled!"

Tang Shen frowned indiscriminately, what did he agree with him?

As he was talking, there was a commotion behind him suddenly, and some people ran around without touching the ground.In front of the guests, Tang Shen frowned unhappily and stood up, walked to the door and said coldly, "Don't we have rules in our house?"

A few servants who were running over were froze all over with cold, bowed their heads and confessed their mistake and explained: Tang Yin's pregnant concubine, a woman called Aunt Liu, is about to give birth.

The author has something to say: Shen Shen has grown up a lot in this chapter, one is that he is old, the other is that the plot requires it, and the third is my own habits. I don't like petite and soft protagonists, even Shou.