Chapter 15 Advice
The young man lifted his coarse cloth robe and sat down again. It was not surprising that he had this style if he was an ordinary official. But this young man was obviously from a poor family. These people were all first-class ministers in the court. He had the power of the official, and there were dozens of fully armed guards behind him. He had just made the young man a huge fortune.
But the young man seemed to have forgotten about this matter, and seemed to have completely forgotten their high position and power. He lifted his coarse robe with a free and easy expression and sat down on the ground. Then his eyes were slightly favored, just like Di Renjie came to play the flute for him to appreciate.
At this time, the sun gradually turned west, and the surrounding environment was very quiet. There were many trees by the river, and there were several mountain sparrows chirping and constantly. In the distance, several farmers were watching here curiously because they saw dozens of powerful guards, and they didn't dare to approach them, so they just stood in the distance and pointed at them. Nearby, the small river in front of them was like a jade belt, flowing windingly into the distance.
Several officials in the purple-pink official uniforms stood there and looked at the young man sitting cross-legged on the ground. The oldest official was playing the flute. If they didn't look at the young man wearing vulgar clothes, they would make people mistakenly think that he was a prince. This was originally a strange and warm picture.
Only Di Renjie's housekeeper was so angry that he rolled his eyes. This matter was so bad that our Lang actually played the flute for a cattle-herding boy who came out of nowhere!
While playing the flute, Di Renjie was also thinking, what is the identity of this young man? From his clothes and the brush and ink he used, he was just a cowherd from an ordinary poor person's home. But he actually recognized the origin of the four treasures at a glance. Not to mention, he knew these brushes, ink, paper and inkstones, except for the meringues in Yizhou, and he had never paid attention to the other three treasures. Anyway, they were all given by the court. The most important thing is the temperament of this young man, Di Renjie didn't know what kind of poor family background he was able to cultivate this young man so freely.
In addition to being honest and bold, Di Renjie is the best at solving cases. But now he doesn’t understand this young man.
It's really a mystery, Di Renjie thought to himself.
Just as Di Renjie blew for a while, the three adults thought the boy was asleep. The boy opened his eyes and a trace of light appeared in his eyes, and even more of a ray of wisdom was shining.
Although everyone knows the extraordinaryness of this young man now, when they see the sharp look in the boy's eyes, everyone still shouts in their hearts. They even compare this young man with Zhang Yizhi in their hearts. But how can they compare? The Zhang brothers seem to be worse than this young man. Maybe the Zhang brothers are more beautiful than this young man, but have the temperament of this young man? Is the inner look in the young man's belly?
The boy put the paper on the drawing board and took out something from his arms. The four adults looked carefully, like a stone carbon, and the front end was sharpened with a knife. The boy began to use this stone carbon to draw shallow sketches on the paper.
Nowadays, people don’t need to draw a draft, but think about drawing a little bit in their minds. Sometimes one painting takes many days. Therefore, the boy’s actions once again made the four adults confused. After a while, the boy outlined the drawings and hit a fat official. When the boy painted his face, he deliberately expanded his face and added a few horizontal lines to his cheeks, especially two beards, which stretched out his face straight. These two beards looked a bit like the three beards in Pei Kai’s appearance. After this rendering, this official made people feel even more domineering.
The background behind is a few wisps of light dead grass that stretches out weakly to the distance. In the distant sky, there are several houses, but now there are only broken walls left in the house. This background, compared with the expression of the official and the gorgeous official uniforms he wore, makes people feel an indescribable irony.
Di Renjie didn't understand even more. The young man said that he was painting, so he didn't have to praise him for his virtues, but he couldn't use the image of this official to mock him. However, according to the young man's character, he probably couldn't do anything about chanting and praise him, but he wouldn't be at least at all. Let's see what he will do next?
After the boy drew the draft, he began to use his pen.
During this process, he seemed to be standing by his side, staring at the white paper on the drawing board with all his attention. Then he began to use his brush to fly. This time, several adults saw his entire painting process. This time it seemed much smoother than the painting on him. The boy never paused since he picked up the pen. Every time the brush was covered with ink, he blew up, lifted, bent or straight, and the tip of the pen gathered and dispersed, sometimes in the shape of a fan, but a picture was vividly displayed in front of the four adults between his outlines. Moreover, the entire process of the boy's painting was like walking water, with extremely beautiful movements, and even the guards behind him were fascinated.
Perhaps because of the relationship between paper and pen, or because of other reasons, the lines of this painting are not as complicated as the above painting, but are much more flexible than the above painting. Just now Di Renjie thought in his heart that a young man could enter the category of a grade painter, so this painting really allowed the young man to enter the grade.
The boy was also satisfied. He stared at the picture and looked at it for a long time. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth before he started writing. Before he started writing, he asked Di Renjie: "Is this old envoy's surname?"
Di Renjie said: "Someone's surname is Di."
The boy then wrote: The boy Wang's paintings are loved by Di's envoys, and the paintings are a painting to strengthen Hebei.
Love the people picture? The officials in this portrait can never love the people no matter how they look at it, right? Several people were even more puzzled. However, the boy continued to write another line:
In the 13th year of Jian'an, Liu Cong surrendered to Cao, and Bei was not hesitant. Cao's army came to Wan and Bei went to Jiangling. When he passed Xiangyang, he called Cong to respond. Bei was crying and left at the tomb. Most people from Cong and Jingzhou returned to Bei. Compared to Dangyang, there were 100,000 people. Some people were advised to Bei: "It is better to go to Jiangling quickly. Although he is now in the crowd, there are few people under armor. If Cao Gong's troops arrive, how can he refuse it?" Bei said: "We must take people as the basis for major issues. Now that people return to me, how can I bear to abandon it!"
Hey! Everyone in the world says that they are a hero. Even if they are in trouble, their faith and righteousness will become clearer. If they are in danger, they will not lose their mistakes. They will pursue the three armies and love the righteous people, and will be willing to defeat them together. Isn’t it appropriate to end up helping great things!
Therefore, Emperor Taizong said that the king is a boat, and the people are water. Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn the boat.
As the boy wrote this, Di Renjie already knew his intentions vaguely and sighed: "I just released a silver ingot, and with this statement, why not pay for a gold ingot? What a people-oriented one!"
Di Renjie's voice was very soft, and the boy did not hear it. He continued to write:
Now the two enemy soldiers are coming south, with great momentum, and the court army is also defeated. What about the people? The people are innocent and are killed and looted in front and then plundered in the back. Thousands of miles of Hebei, all of them turn into bloody storms, thousands of miles of fertile soil, and in an instant, they turn into wilderness gardens. This is the tragic situation on earth.
After being appointed by the imperial court, Di envoy went to Hebei to defend against the enemy as a sign of his opinion, and to ensure that he should be pacified by the people. All the plunders of the enemy were returned to the headquarters and scattered food to help the poor, which would be a great merit for eternity!
After writing the preface, I started writing poems again:
The envoy from the clouds came to ask the soldiers in Youzhou.
The hardships of a hundred battles will never return, and the bright moon will be blamed on the knife.
The clouds fall with the formation, and the city stops and disappears in the cold sun.
There is a lonely cold under the city, and the dry bones are crying.
Looking at this painting and looking at the preface and poems in the postscript, all four adults fell into deep thought.
The young man then stood up and asked Di Renjie: "May I ask Old Envoy Di, is the prime minister in the court? "
Di Renjie was still thinking, and he replied casually: "That's right."
The boy smiled heartily and said, "Good official."
Chapter completed!