Kaifeng Mansion in December, the winter color is pleasant.

The temperature is low, but there is no wind and no humidity, so you can feel a little warm when the sun shines on you.

Today's Great Song Empire is in the best era, not only has the war against Western Xia achieved an unprecedented victory, but the country is also smooth, as the empire's best place Kaifeng Mansion, is immersed in a prosperous and rich place.

Probably influenced by the idea of emphasizing literature and ignoring martial arts since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the most popular topic in the streets and alleys of Kaifeng Mansion and among the restaurants and tea shops is not the great victory on the Western Front, but a good story around Li Shishi, Mo Niangzi, Wu Haogu and Zhao Xiaoyi......

Talented and beautiful, the wind and snow, is the favorite of this gentle and wealthy city.

Zhao Ji and Wang Shu were both on the Tsing Yi Building in Zhen'an Fang, listening to Master Li sing together.

Wang Shu is very low-key during this time, because he is the negative teaching material of the Great Song Dynasty horse world!

Soon, the German princess will marry Pan Yi, the general of the Left Guard. So in order to beat Pan Yi and let him treat the German princess well, the official Zhao Xu also took Wang Xu out of the court last month and criticized him......

Now there are rumors that the official family is going to demote him to the ends of the earth to be with Su Dongpo!

This is really scared to death Wang Gongma, every time he goes to the court, he is trembling, for fear that as soon as the official Chrysostom opens, he will go to "Yalong Bay to see the sea".

And Zhao Ji is still a very good friend, and he did not alienate him because of Wang Xu's bad luck. not only pleaded with him in front of his brother, but also asked Wang Shu to go to Zhen'anfang to listen to Master Li's singing after retiring from the court today.

After singing a song, the master bowed and retreated, and only Zhao Ji and Wang Shu were left in the room.

"Donkey, I pleaded with the official, and I won't demote you too far......"

Listening to Zhao Ji's comforting words, Wang Xu's face collapsed when he was just better-looking.

It's still going to be degraded!

just don't go to Su Dongpo as a companion.

Seeing that the old horse was silent, Zhao Ji took out a picture scroll and unfolded it in front of the old horse.

"What do you think of here?"

The old colt glanced at it, and the clouds and mountains on the picture were covered with fog, and it looked quite tasteful, but how could he be in this mood?

"This is Wu Haogu's "Yuntai Mountain Residence Map"." Zhao Ji said. "I didn't expect his landscape paintings to have the style of everyone...... The landscape of realistic craftsmanship is really rare. ”

"Yuntai Mountain?" As soon as Wang Shu heard about Yuntai Mountain, he remembered Su Dongpo, and said with a sad face, "Alas, Su Dongpo went to Yuntai Mountain in the past, and left a good sentence: The mountains on the lush sea are gloomy, and the abbot of Yingtai is inseparable...... I don't want to be at the ends of the earth today, and I don't know if I can go back to the Central Plains in this life? ”

Zhao Ji smiled: "Donkey, how about demoting you to Yuntai Mountain?" ”

Is it really going to be degraded?

Wang Shu frowned, as if he was about to cry.

Yuntai Mountain is known as a fairyland, and it is definitely better than Yalong Bay, but how can it be compared with Kaifeng Mansion?

I am a lot older, I have no ambition in my life, and now I have to go to Haizhou, which is really unlucky.

After a while, Wang Shu said softly: "Is it in charge of Haizhou?" ”

The demotion of officials in the Song Dynasty is also divided into grades, the best demotion out of Zhizhou, this is not a treatment that everyone can enjoy, it is usually a high-ranking official at the level of Zaizhi who can go out of Beijing to do Zhizhou when he loses power. And ordinary officials are demoted to go to remote states and counties to be general judges, drivers, supervisors, and deputy envoys for regimental training. To be more miserable, it is to cut off all positions and settle somewhere. And the heaviest punishment is to chase down the text since birth, and a certain place has been under management - that is, deprivation of official status, plus a remote residential surveillance.

"If it's not so serious, how can it be a compilation?" Zhao Ji shook his head again and again, "It's the deputy envoy of Haizhou's regimental training, and it's just a resettlement in this state." ”

The deputy envoy of the regimental training may sound quite big, but in fact it is a fictitious title added to the degraded official, and "placement" has the meaning of residential surveillance.

Wang Xuan sighed and said, "This is not light...... It's the same as after Su Dongpo's Wutai poetry case in the past, and if it is degraded, it will go to the ends of the earth. ”

"I won't degrade it anymore," Zhao Ji comforted Wang Xu, "The official family said, when you go to Haizhou, you go there to live with peace of mind, and let you come back in two years." ”

"That's all I have to ......"

Wang Shu can't help it, who made himself unlucky, and after marrying the princess, he met the princess and died early? In fact, the princess's death had nothing to do with him...... Although there are many women around him, the eldest princess of Shu is not too jealous, and she is still very affectionate with him.

And before the princess was seriously ill, Wang Shu had been relegated to other places because he was implicated in Su Dongpo's "Wutai Poetry Case". How could the princess of Shu be sick by an unsightly horse? Because I can't see the horse, it's almost the same! Before she died, she begged the Empress Dowager Gao to let Wang Shu go home, how could she be angry with Wang Xu?

However, Emperor Shenzong was angry with Wang Xu, and it didn't take long for him to demote him to Junzhou, and it was not until the first year of Yuanyou that he was recalled to his post by Empress Dowager Gao, who knew the truth.

However, as soon as Empress Dowager Gao died, Emperor Zhezong looked at him unpleasantly again......

"Master Ma, Brother Xiaoyi, Wu Dalang and Mi Xiaoyi are here."

Master Li's voice came in from outside the door.

"Wu Dalang?" Zhao Ji was stunned, "You came to me, right?" He should know that I've been in Zhen'an Fang all these days. He smiled at Wang Yuma, "Don Ma, that Wu Dalang doesn't know that Zhao Xiaoyi is Duan Wang Zhao Ji, so he can only come to Zhen'anfang to find me." ”

Will you not know? Wang Xue pondered: Half of Kaifeng Mansion is about to know, how clever is Wu Haogu? Will you not know? He's just playing with you...... This thought is also quite deep, and it may be able to make a career in the future.

It's a pity that this person doesn't have much skill in Confucianism, and it will be difficult to become a great tool after all!

However, he didn't wear it, just stood up and arched his hand: "The old man wants to go back to pack his luggage and prepare to live in Haizhou, so he will leave first." ”

Zhao Ji smiled and nodded, "Don't worry, there won't be anything sad." ”

Then he said to Master Li outside the door: "Senior sister, send the horse to leave through the back door." ”

"Got it." Master Li answered, then opened the door, took the horse Wang Shu to the back door, asked him to leave quietly, and then personally went to invite Wu Haogu and Mi Youren upstairs.

"Brother Xiaoyi, you're here too."

As soon as Wu Haogu entered the door, he saw Zhao Ji, who was wearing a moon-white robe and a plum blossom in his ears, smiled at him, and hurriedly stepped forward and arched his hand, "I just mentioned you to Mi Xiaoyi." ”

"Really?" Zhao Ji smiled and groaned, "What do you want me to do?" ”

"Brother Xiaoyi, you take a look at this first." Mi Youren handed the drawing board he was carrying to Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji took a look at it, and there was a piece of rice paper on it, and a lifelike beauty was drawn with black and gray lines on the rice paper, which was the ink lady.

"It's ...... Carbon strip painting? Zhao Ji reached out and touched it gently, and then looked at his finger again, "Not carbon bars?" ”

"It's a pencil." Wuhao Ancient Road.

"Pencil?"

"It's the lead of the lead." Mi Youren took out a simple pencil from his pencil case and handed it over, "My master asked the penman to make such a pencil, this is the treasure of learning to draw!" ”

"This is the treasure of painting?"

Zhao Ji took the pencil and looked at it again, it didn't look like a baby.

Mi Youren explains: "This object, combined with the sketching method created by the teacher, can speed up the practice of drawing by a hundred times!" It only takes half an hour to draw a portrait, and it doesn't take much time to take dozens of photos a day. ”

Painting is also about practice makes perfect, ancient Chinese painters learned to paint nearly "3,000 pieces of paper", that is, to paint 3,000 sheets, and the technique was naturally good. Wu Haogu's current painting skills are based on high-intensity training of tens of thousands or maybe 100,000 (he can't remember the exact number).

And this kind of high-intensity painting training cannot be oil painting and Chinese painting, but only pencil and carbon strip sketching. Pencils are easier to use and carry than carbon strips, so you can draw wherever you go.

With Zhao Ji's financial resources, he naturally would not be unable to afford paper, and with pencils and sketches, his efficiency in practicing painting would be greatly improved.

After listening to Mi Youren's words, Zhao Ji finally understood why Wu Haogu's painting skills were so clever!

It must have been the painter who passed on his "pencil" and "quick what to write". Now Wu Haogu has passed on this housekeeping skill to himself, what a friend......

"I see!"

Zhao Xiaoyi finally understood Wu Dalang's "kindness", and bowed his hand to Wu Haogu, and said with a smile, "Dalang, thank you...... With this pencil and sketching method, my drawing skills have improved by leaps and bounds.

From now on, we will be friends! ”

Mi Youren's face suddenly changed when he heard this.

What is the ...... Duanwang didn't talk to anyone! He is a king, and the king is a lonely man with no friends! As far as Mi Youren knows, Zhao Ji also regards Wang Shu as a friend.

Now, Wu Haogu is also a friend of Zhao Ji.

"Good! We're friends now. Wu Haogu smiled, "Today, I'll draw a few sketches for Li Niangzi first, and then how about we go to the roast pig courtyard to eat and drink?" ”

"Roast pig house?" Zhao Ji laughed, "Is it the roast pig courtyard opened by the monk of Daxiangguo Temple?" ”

"Yes," Wu Hao said, "Linzheng, the apprentice of the monk Huiming of the Roast Pig Academy, is my friend, so I often go there to eat and drink." ”

"Linzheng monk?" Zhao Ji asked, "Will he also roast pigs?" ”

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "He has now gone to Japan to be a foreign monk." ”

"Being a foreign monk in Japan?" Zhao Ji thought it was funny when he heard it, "What's the matter?" ”

Wu Haogu smiled, "Let's wait until I write a letter to Mrs. Li on the way to the pig roast courtyard...... Soon, just a quarter of an hour. ”

"A quarter of an hour?" Zhao Ji suddenly remembered something, "By the way, Da Lang, I heard that you also painted silent writing in the palace?" Is there such a thing? ”

"Yes," Wu Hao Gu Dao, "practice makes perfect." ”

"Practice makes perfect?" Zhao Ji nodded and beckoned to Senior Master Li, "Senior Sister, let Da Lang draw a few pictures, and let me open my eyes." ”

Master Li smiled sweetly, "Okay." ”