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"Are you really Senior Han Xizi?"

Su Shiqing asked in disbelief.

Han Xizi put the wine gourd in his sleeve, and he was in a particularly good mood. He smiled and said, "What? I don't look like it?"

"This one……"

Su Shiqing scratched the back of her head in embarrassment.

Han Xizi looked at the two of them and asked, "Are you an artist from the Private Painting Department?"

"No, we are..." Su Shiqing glanced at Jie Ao with a gloomy face, and then continued, "Painting apprentices from the Painting Academy."

Han Xizi suddenly realized: "I should have guessed it a long time ago. With such a high talent, he is indeed like a painter selected by the painting academy. Not bad."

Su Shiqing was a little embarrassed by the praise, and then she was puzzled: "But senior, don't you live in seclusion in the mountains? Why are you in Jincheng?"

"This..."

Just as Han Xizi was about to explain, they heard the sound of horseshoes and shouts in the distance.

"Teacher!"

Su Shiqing looked up and found that Shao Erxue was coming with a team.

After Shao Erxue stopped in front of them on her steed, she immediately got off her horse and saluted Han Xizi respectfully.

"Men, Erxue is late."

As he spoke, he glanced at Su Shiqing and Jie Ao who were leaning against each other, his brows were slightly frowned, but he immediately returned to his gentle demeanor.

"Erxue...?"

Han Xizi looked carefully at the handsome young man in front of him, and then, as if recalling it, he said excitedly, "You are Shao Erxue!"

Shao Erxue: "Exactly. I didn't know that my mentor had already arrived in Jincheng, but I couldn't meet him in time, so I asked my mentor to punish me."

Han Xizi hastily stepped forward and took Shao Erxue's arm and looked from head to toe, tears almost filled his eyes: "Oh! It's really Erxue! Let me see it! It's grown so big!"

After exchanging pleasantries, Shao Erxue looked at Su Shiqing and Jie Ao, and asked, "Teacher, why are the two of them together with you?"

Han Xizi said with a smile: "It's a long story, I'll tell you later, but I really didn't expect that there are such excellent painters in the painting academy. This trip is really worthless." Come."

"yes."

For some reason, hearing these words, not only was Shao Erxue not happy, but jealousy emerged.

Su Shiqing hurriedly stepped forward to bow to Han Xizi: "Junior Gu Meisheng, I pay my respects to Master."

"Master?" Han Xizi raised his eyebrows suspiciously, and looked at Shao Erxue, "Is he...?"

Shao Erxue said respectfully: "My accompanying painter is a student."

"He is your apprentice!" Han Xizi nodded appreciatively, patted Su Shiqing on the shoulder and said, "This little one is indeed quite talented, I like it very much."

Su Shiqing scratched her head embarrassingly. On the one hand, she was very happy to be praised, but on the other hand, she was a little dissatisfied. The title "little one"...doesn't seem appropriate?

Shao Erxue said with a smile: "Men teacher has been exhausted all the way, it's been hard work, Erxue prepared a small banquet at the residence, and asked the teacher to move to the residence with Erxue."

"Okay! You and I haven't seen each other for a long time, so we must have a good catch up today."

With that said, Han Xizi got into the carriage that Shao Erxue had prepared in advance.

Shao Erxue turned her head and said to Su Shiqing and Jie Ao: "You guys should go back early too."

"Yes."

Before leaving, Shao Erxue took a deep look at Su Shiqing. There seemed to be many unspeakable complex thoughts hidden in those eyes, and even pain.

But Su Shiqing didn't understand why Shao Erxue showed such eyes.

"Hey."

Jie Ao's voice rang in his ears, startling Su Shiqing.

"Everyone is gone, what else are you looking at?"

Su Shiqing rolled his eyes at him angrily, then walked straight past him and walked forward.

"Hello, the surname is Gu."

Su Shiqing said impatiently, "What are you doing?"

"Do you want to go somewhere with me?"

Su Shiqing stopped, turned her head and looked at Jie Ao with vigilant eyes: "Where is it?"

Jie Ao smiled mysteriously: "I asked someone to buy back some rare pigments from merchants in the Western Regions. You will definitely be interested."

"Really?" Su Shiqing was a little suspicious, "What kind of paint?"

"Advanced azurite, azurite, and ochre."

Su Shiqing's eyes widened in an instant, and he rushed to Jie Ao, his eyes were shining brightly: "Those are the paints that are hard to buy!"

These pure mineral pigments can last thousands of years without fading, and the color is always bright as new. Not only are they rare, but also the production process is complicated, so they are very expensive and are called "pigment gold".

Although there are those paints in the painting academy and the imperial palace, they are still only apprentice painters, and they are not qualified to use those treasured paints.

Jie Ao gestured to the front with his eyes: "What's the matter? Don't want to see it?"

Su Shiqing wanted to nod, but hesitated: "But..."

"Come on, let's go."

Jie Ao couldn't help but take his hand and walked towards another street.

"Hey……"

When passing by a bookstall at the corner of the alley, Su Shiqing saw that the stall owner was secretly conducting a business transaction with a customer who bought books.

Looking left and right, the stall owner took out a book from his sleeve and handed it to the customer. After seeing the title of the book, Su Shiqing hurriedly pulled Jie Ao to stop.

"and many more!"

He broke away from Jie Ao's hand and ran towards the bookstall excitedly.

Seeing that there was no one around, he whispered to the stall owner: "Hey, boss, that book just now...give me a copy too."

Jie Ao followed curiously.

"This guest is really discerning. This book... just arrived yesterday. It's hot!"

The thin stall owner showed his big white teeth, then took Su Shiqing's hand and covered it with his sleeve, and then gestured with his fingers for the price: ten taels of silver.

"What? So expensive? Could it be less?"

The stall owner shook his head: "This is the last copy, and our price is not the only one in the black market."

Jie Ao looked at them both curiously, and asked Su Shiqing, "How much did he say?"

Su Shiqing whispered: "Ten taels of silver."

"what!?"

Jie Ao was obviously more surprised than Su Shiqing.

Su Shiqing: "You also like "Lan Gong Zhuan"?"

This legendary "Lan Gong Biography" tells the story of Lan Gongqing, who is a royal minister, recruiting heroes from all over the world and conquering the country step by step.

But because some of the concepts are contrary to the current rule and law, (for example, Lan Gongqing advocates that no matter the princes, nobles, officials, businessmen and dignitaries should pay taxes, and those who have more money will pay more taxes, and those whose land is less than two acres do not need to pay grain etc.), so this book was listed as a banned book once it became popular, and it was forbidden to circulate.

Jie Ao looked at Su Shiqing: "I've seen some."

Reluctantly, Su Shiqing took out a large ingot of silver from his bosom, and handed it to the stall owner hesitantly, who secretly stuffed the book into his bosom.

"Hurry up and hide, if you are caught, you will be beheaded."

Su Shiqing hid it in her bosom like a treasure, and continued to walk forward happily with Jie Ao.

Jie Ao put his hands in his sleeves, coughed twice and asked: "Do you really like this book?"

"of course!"

"Why?"

Su Shiqing squeezed her chin, looked at the blue sky and row upon row of high-rise buildings, her thoughts seemed to have leaped thousands of miles, and then said with admiration: "When the country is in crisis, everyone is responsible. The stories in this book are described so soul-stirringly that everyone Heroes have flesh and blood, especially Lan Gongqing, who wouldn’t want to be like him, a man of lofty ideals who loves the country and the people.”

Su Shiqing continued: "And every illustration in the book is wonderful, with superb drawing skills and bold and uninhibited style, which is beyond the reach of you and me."

"Really?" Jie Ao squinted his eyes and looked at him: "Then... what kind of person do you think the author of this legend is?"

"It should be a senior who is old enough to know what is wrong, loves the country and the people, and is very ambitious."

Jie Ao didn't speak, but looked into the distance together with him, and his thoughts entered the new world in the book where the old order collapsed and heroes from all walks of life vie for hegemony.

There was no talking all the way, led by Jie Ao, they came to a workshop for making cosmetics and pigments.

As soon as you step through the threshold, the bitter herb smell of plants mixed with the pungent smell of various boils hits your face immediately.In the spacious courtyard are several cauldrons for boiling paint and tools for grinding.The sieves on the drying table are full of flowers with green leaves that have not yet withered.The hemp ropes hanging on the beams are also tied with unknown dried flowers that need to be dried in the shade, which looks very heavy.

"Big brother!"

At this time, a dark-skinned little boy holding a sieve walked out of the house. After seeing them, he ran towards Jie Ao excitedly, and shouted loudly while running: "It's Big Brother! Big Brother is here!"

An innocent smile like the sun bloomed on the face of the little boy. He put down the sieve in his hand, and then threw himself into Jie Ao's arms and asked, "Big brother, you haven't come for a long time! Where did you go?"

Jie Ao squatted down with a smile, hugged him with one hand and said dotingly: "Heidan, have you obediently listened to Grandpa Ku lately?"

"Yes! Heidan is the best!"

In a short while, there were bursts of silver bell-like laughter and earth-shattering running sounds, and then four or five children rushed out of the room, each of them scrambling to get to the door. Pounce on him proudly.

"Big brother!"

"Big brother, we miss you so much!"

……

They surrounded Jie Ao, they all seemed to like him very much, clamoring for him to hug him.

Jie Ao stretched out his hand and hugged the youngest girl in his arms, and then led them into the house together.

Su Shiqing followed behind them, showing a shocked and bewildered expression, she couldn't tell that Jie Ao still had such a popular side, but how did he know this group of kids?Why do they all like him so much?

"Cough cough!"

An old man with thinning hair was lying on the bamboo chair, with a cigarette in his mouth, he squinted his eyes slightly after puffing out the smoke, and said in a broken voice: "I just said why these kids suddenly look crazy, so it turns out It's you."

Jie Ao put down the children, took out a bunch of copper coins from his bosom, handed them to Heidan and said, "Heidan, I have something to talk to grandpa, you can take them to buy candy."

"it is good!"

"Thank you big brother!"

Heidan happily took the copper plate, then led the group of children and ran out jumping and jumping.

"Old man Gu, what I asked someone to bring."

Jieao straight to the point.

"Tsk tsk, uneducated guy, still so rude!"

The old man stood up, and although he reprimanded loudly, he was not angry.

"By the way, bring me two more packs of pearl powder."

"Wait."

After the old man finished speaking, he walked towards another room.

Su Shiqing looked around, and became more and more curious about Jie Ao: "Jie Ao, how did you meet these children?"

"They were all disaster victims who fled to Jincheng last year. Their parents died and they were helpless, so I placed them here."

Su Shiqing's eyes widened when he heard the words, and suddenly felt a little ashamed when he saw Jie Ao. He had always thought that he was a playboy who would only cause trouble, but after getting along with him for the past few days, he found that Jie Ao seemed to have more than one side.

Not long after, old man Gu came out with a brocade box, and after handing it to Jie Ao, he sized up Su Shiqing.

"Who is this boy with a blue nose and a swollen face?"

Su Shiqing: "..."

Jie Ao seemed to be smirking, and then said solemnly: "My follower."

Old man Gu sarcastically said in disbelief: "Hehe, which fool would follow you."

Su Shiqing nudged Jie Ao dissatisfiedly: "I like to talk nonsense!"

Jie Ao looked wronged: "I'm not wrong, you admire me very much."

"Am I crazy to worship you?"

Su Shi gave him a pale look, then bowed to the old man and said: "Uncle Ju, this junior is a painter from the painting academy, and his name is Gu Meisheng."

Pointing at Su Shiqing, the old man said with disgust towards Jie Ao: "Look, look, this is what the younger generation should look like! Looking at you again, it's really outrageous!"

Jie Ao ignored old man Gu's disgust, took out two bank notes from his pocket and threw them to him.

"Stop talking nonsense, here is 500 taels, you put it away, we still have something to do, let's go first."

After speaking, he dragged Su Shiqing to the outside of the workshop.

Su Shiqing: "Hey, you...?"

"Arrogant guy!" shouted the old man, "Aren't you going to stay for dinner?"

Jie Ao waved his hand: "Next time, tell the children for me."