Sui Yu Tou Zhu

Ding Hanbai and Ji Shenyu have been painting in the study for a whole day, and the rice paper that has collapsed is all over the carpet. If they want to learn from each other, they have to distinguish each other. If they want to cooperate, they have to discuss it.

Almost at the same time, I put down the pen, put the horizontally opened rice paper together, and two paintings with the same theme came to my eyes.Ji Shenyu bit his lip, like suddenly kicking his legs while sleeping, unconscious behavior, but after biting, he felt flustered.

He had no time to compare, and stared intently at the picture of the other party. The fluttering costumes of the characters and the fluttering magpie were all too realistic, the texture was as fine as hair, and the complicated folds were not messy.He thought of Ding Hanbai's painting of ghost patterns, every stroke was meticulous, which attracted applause from the audience.

Ding Hanbai was lazy and arrogant, but his paintings were meticulous, so Ji Shenyu was surprised.

"What do you want to say?" Ding Hanbai also examined the two paintings, "Let me tell you the truth about yours, it's good to take it out, it's fine with me."

Ji Shenyu already admired the other party's painting skills, so he didn't refute: "How can I make do?"

Ding Hanbai pointed at him casually: "Our painting is not for appreciation, but to lay the foundation for carving, so it must be fine and true. Some painters have said that only very similar can be vivid. Your 'very similar' is not in place. "

Ji Shenyu accepted humbly: "Are there any other questions?"

Ding Hanbai glanced at him, as if he didn't expect him to be so humble, so he pointed out the question with a softer tone: "Painting pays attention to two points, the layout is well-organized, and the color is appropriate. We only need to look at the layout. Is there a problem with the layout?"

Ji Shenyu looked at it for a moment: "The living things are too concentrated and heavy."

He sat down and repainted, and after he was completely fine, he took a picture with Ding Hanbai.Combining pictures is to complete a picture together, facing a piece of paper, and merging their respective paintings into one, without deviation or difference, so that outsiders cannot see the difference.

The posture was crowded, Ji Shenyu's right arm was against Ding Hanbai's left arm, and when he was about to be unable to use it, Ding Hanbai raised his hand to avoid it, put his arm behind him, and half surrounded him.The two held their breath, and maybe looked at each other when they dipped the ink and changed the pen, but had no other communication.

A silent collaboration ended with sunset, and a whole painting was finally completed.

Ding Hanbai commented: "If you can draw it well, why didn't you draw it more carefully before?"

Ji Shenyu also studied painting hard, and he didn't want to be misunderstood for nothing, so he got up and ran to the bedroom, and came back with a booklet.Only Ji Fangxu's stamp was printed on the hard cover, and he said, "This is my master's painting, take a look."

When Ding Hanbai is opened, the landscape and figures inside have their own shapes, the lines are smooth and simple, and the colors are bright, clean and elegant, but it cannot be seen in detail.But every detail has been brought in with a few strokes, the charm is there, but it is not carefully carved, which makes people think that the painter is lazy.

Ding Hanbai shook his head: "No, my family also has Master Ji's picture album, that's not it."

Ding Hanbai rummaged through and found a book of flowers and birds, which was a birthday present given to Ding Yanshou by Ji Fangxu when he was young. When he opened it, he found that the flowers, plants, and grass were extremely lifelike, and the birds and birds were so lifelike that it was difficult to imitate them.

Ji Shenyu immediately understood that Ji Fangxu became obsessed with antiques later, and her focus gradually shifted. Anyway, there are gains and losses.

The night passed, Ding Hanbai didn't go to work again, and early in the morning he took an aluminum water bottle to irrigate the flower garden. Ding Xiang followed his surname, and was muddy by him.After pouring, I went to the study and waited, preparing to complete the drawing in the morning.

Ji Shenyu came late with a candy in his mouth, and leaned over the table: "Brother, I have a question."

Ding Hanbai wiped the stone with a buckskin handkerchief: "What's the problem?"

Ji Shenyu said: "Aren't we going to compare each other? But a joint sculpture must be synchronized, so how can we compete?"

Ding Hanbai raised his eyes, his eyes were like Ji Shenyu's time when he carved the rich bamboo, and his tone was not kind: "It's fine if you can keep up with me, let's compete? The one who is taller than me is only Ding Yanshou. fart."

Ji Shenyu stood up abruptly, he had already experienced Ding Hanbai's arrogance, but he didn't expect that Ding Hanbai still looked down on him so much.

The two were guarding the Furong stone to hook the line. This stone was their favorite that could not be neglected, so the rivalry was put aside for now, and they tried their best to cooperate.Ji Shenyu has already seen the speed of Ding Hanbai's line drawing, and he learned from Ji Fangxu's lazy painting style, which cannot be changed overnight, and gradually falls behind.

He knew that Ding Hanbai was slowing down to wait for him, but if it was just right to slow down by four minutes, Ding Hanbai would only slow down by less than two minutes.

Ji Shenyu's palms were sweating: "Brother, wait for me."

With a smooth stroke of the pen tip, Ding Hanbai didn't slow down at all: "What are you waiting for? You may be rejected, ridiculed, or looked down upon. Why don't you catch up with your teeth, catch up and surpass him, then you can embarrass him, run on him, and overtake him." with him."

Ji Shenyu clenched his teeth and sped up, keeping his eyes on his nose, his nose and his heart, and he was not left behind.After finishing hooking the thread with difficulty, he asked with sweat dripping down his face, "When one day I feel ashamed of you, run on you, and press you down, what will you do?"

Ding Hanbai replied: "Nothing to do, it's my fault that I didn't work hard." He rinsed the brush clean, knocked the brush holder to shake off the water droplets, and the beads were thrown out, but there was a faint smile on his face, "Never hate your opponent for being strong!" , the scenery is still down and out, the posture must be good-looking."

Ji Shenyu nodded, since he came here, Ding Hanbai said a lot to him, hot and cold, good and bad, some of which he agreed with, and some of which he forgot.He remembered the sentence just now, including Ding Hanbai's expression and tone.

After the painting is finished, the embryo will be born. From the conception to the painting technique, the two of them each won a round. Now it is the most fundamental and critical step to cut, and within 10 minutes there is another disagreement.

Ding Hanbai sneaked a few glances at the other party like a thief: "Pearl?"

Opening his mouth and pretending to be intimacy, he said: "The embryo is carved out of the rough, what are you carving with a knife?"

Ji Shenyu held a long-handled knife: "Traditional fine craftsmanship is indeed rough carving, but my master is not like that. He focuses on a few key points to fix the whole, and the center is discretely carved."

Ding Hanbai thought of the small portrait of Nanhong. He gave it a high evaluation because of the light perception, but he couldn't turn back when he cut the knife, and he had to make a decision in advance for each knife. "Does this determine the brightness?" He asked, "Actually, you are sure of the point of light?"

The point of the knife stopped instantly, and Ji Shenyu was a little anxious: "You, you can't..."

Ding Hanbai was very interested: "What can't be done?"

Ji Shenyu rarely spoke harshly: "You can't steal it! This is what my master figured out, don't pass it on!"

This technique is contrary to the traditional carving method. It seems that it is just a few knives added in advance, but without a lot of research and practice, the effect cannot be achieved at all, and it is naturally not easy for outsiders to learn.

Ding Hanbai deliberately said: "Don't lose it in your hands."

"If you don't keep it in your mind." Ji Shenyu said vigorously, "In the future, it will be passed on to my children, and then to my grandchildren, and it will be passed down endlessly from generation to generation... maybe even apply for a patent."

Ding Han smiled in vain, hiding a trace of regret behind the smile.He said it too early, Ji Shenyu might really be able to compete with him, he put aside his inspiration and unique skills, he only observed the other person's eyes.

Ji Shenyu was obsessed with the work at this time, his face was sinking like water, only his eyeballs were alive.The emotion in the eyes is very simple, apart from being serious, there is also a deep liking.

Ding Hanbai thought about it, Ji Shenyu never looked at his father like this, never looked at Jiang Caiwei like this, let alone himself, only looked at this hibiscus stone like this.But he understood that Ji Shenyu's eyes would not change if he replaced it with chicken blood stone, agate ice float and Tian jade.

He said that once you hold a knife, you only have this piece of material in your eyes and mind.

He can do it, and Ji Shenyu can do it too, but there is a big difference.

It was noon when the embryo was finished, and Ji Shenyu went back to the room. Ding Hanbai covered the hibiscus stone with a buckskin handkerchief, sat quietly for a while and thought about some miscellaneous things, and then got up to face the sunshine all over his body.

The sky is so good, why not go out for a stroll.

Ding Hanbai put on a pair of white sneakers, stepped on the railing and jumped two meters before going down the corridor, and reached the arch in a few steps.The bedroom door creaked open, and Ji Shenyu stood in the middle: "Are you going to Yupinji?"

Ding Hanbai picked up his trouser pocket: "I'm going to play, you can change your clothes if you want to follow."

Ji Shenyu was very vigilant: "Go to the bathroom?"

He had lingering fears, and the feeling of taking a bath and going to the sauna was haunting him for three days.After changing his clothes, he went out with Ding Hanbai. Ding Hanbai carried him on his bicycle, swaying around, making him almost forget the "bastard bastard" on the beam.

"Brother," Ji Shenyu apologized, "I'm sorry."

Ding Hanbai didn't care: "It's okay, I'm to blame for forgetting to pick you up that time."

Just these two sentences, without saying a word after finishing speaking, I arrived at the destination quietly all the way.Entering the gate, there is a long shadow wall, the voices behind are noisy, and there is an endless stream of people coming and going.

Ji Shenyu followed Ding Hanbai, bypassing the screen wall and stepping into a vast world—the tortoiseshell antique market.

The eyes are full of treasures, and the ground is full of treasures. First of all, it doesn't matter if they are true or false.People are like utensils, numerous and miscellaneous, Ding Hanbai walked on the tight and narrow road and began to wander, he was fascinated by one and the other, forgetting about Ji Shenyu.

Ji Shenyu didn't care about other things, he looked at every booth carefully, and was kicked by someone after squatting for a long time, got up and searched around, and saw Ding Hanbai picking skewers not far away.He went to watch and felt that the wooden skewers were ugly, so he turned his face and saw that many stalls were selling wooden skewers.

The boss tried hard to praise his wooden bracelets, red sandalwood, oily, and gold stars are beautiful... Ding Hanbai played with it and said: "Ten red sandalwood and seven fake ones, I think your beads are not good in texture, and they will collapse in two years. "

The boss assured: "Impossible, I will never collapse!"

Ding Hanbai said again: "Not collapsing means that the density is low, and high-quality wood has a high density, so your raw material is not good."

The boss was trapped by him, and he was both right and left, and he was about to quarrel.Ji Shenyu hid behind Ding Hanbai, grabbed the corner of Ding Hanbai's clothes and tugged, not wanting to cause trouble.

Unexpectedly, Ding Hanbai paid out obediently after picking the thorns, and bought all those strings.

They wandered around for a long time, without any mistakes from beginning to end, and finally drank soda outside the canteen, with those bracelets spread out on the table.Ji Shenyu picked up one and frowned at the smell: "Fake red sandalwood."

Ding Hanbai agreed: "Indeed."

Then what did you buy it for?Ji Shenyu wanted to ask.Before he could ask, Ding Hanbai asked him first: "Wooden, walnut, top-quality twelve-petal diamond bracelets, what do you think of these bracelets?"

Ji Shenyu didn't even think about it: "It's ugly, I won't wear it if I pay for it."

Ding Hanbai drank the orange juice: "I also think it's ugly, but many stalls sell it, which is more popular than jade skewers. This is the market, and it is the trend that will soon become hot."

This antique market is a microcosm, flooded with fakes, ignorant buyers, more and more people in the circle, but the real and good ones can't find the market.To be flexible is to downgrade, and when it comes to Yupinji, downgrade is fatal.

"Then what should we do?" Ji Shenyu asked this time.

Ding Hanbai replied: "Nothing to do, it's good like this, high-end or high-end, tacky changes don't matter."

They continued to stroll, but Ji Shenyu was not as excited as before, he faintly felt that Ding Han hadn't finished speaking in vernacular, in other words, Ding Hanbai couldn't talk to him.

He also vaguely felt that Ding Hanbai was hiding something in his heart, something higher than Yupin Ji.

After wandering around for a while, Ding Hanbai saw that Ji Shenyu was empty-handed, and wanted to show his friendship as a landlord: "Is there anything you like, I'll buy it for you."

Ji Shenyu said consciously, "I'll just take a look, there's nothing I want."

Ding Hanbai misunderstood his meaning: "Are you afraid of choosing fakes?"

At that moment, Ji Shenyu read his complacency through Ding Hanbai's eyes, and when he looked again, Ding Hanbai exuded the aura of being a wealthy man with ease. whispered something to him.

"I can distinguish between true and false, and there is absolutely no mistake or omission."

Ji Shenyu was led around and stopped in front of a booth, still dazed. He was a little dazzled when he saw all kinds of orphaned gadgets.Ding Hanbai asked him to pick one, and he picked out an enamel brooch.

Ding Hanbai frowned: "You wear it?"

"I'll give it to my aunt to wear." He said.

Ding Hanbai snatched it back and put it back: "I'll give it to you, you give it to my aunt, borrow flowers and present Buddha and tell me clearly, do I need to thank you again?"

After he finished speaking, he waved Ji Shenyu's hand, personally selected, screened out defective and fake products, and after confirming at a glance, he lifted an amber pendant. "That's all." He threw the pendant to the other party, paid the money and left.

On the way back, it was going to be sunset, and Ji Shenyu was looking at the pendant in the back seat, holding the rope, raising and lowering his hand to find the best light source.Facing the sunset in the distance, the amber is spinning, fully revealing the beauty formed over thousands of years.

He said, "Thank you, brother."

Ding Hanbai pedaled the bike without saying that you're welcome.

Ji Shenyu asked again: "Why did you choose this for me?"

"The color is beautiful." Ding Hanbai answered this time, but did not say the other part - like your eyes.