The bear child of the Red Chamber, Jia Cong

It is said that Jia Meng met a young man at the old lady Han's birthday banquet and wanted to learn to draw.Jia Meng thought for a while and said, "I can teach you the basics of ordinary sketching. If you are more professional, you have to find a professional. I said, if you can learn drawing from me secretly, you can also learn drawing from others secretly." !"

The young man frowned and said: "I dare not, my father is Lin Dongyang."

Jia Meng groaned, "Are you Lin Dongyang's son?"

"Yes!"

"How do I remember that Lin Dongyang only has one son?"

The boy patted his chest: "I am Lin Boru."

Jia Meng smiled unconsciously: "Your reputation, appearance, temperament, and name are so different that you are so cute."

Lin Boru was familiar with him, and put on Jia Meng's shoulder: "Hey, let me help you."

Jia Meng said: "I'm also an amateur, so I can't teach you much. Besides, sketching is really an introduction to Western painting. Western painting is about shape, and our Chinese painting is freehand, which has more connotations than theirs. If you really want to learn painting, you have to find someone A capable painter! It’s too late to learn from me.”

Lin Boru sighed, "It's better than nothing."

"Besides, I followed my elders to celebrate Mrs. Han's birthday." Jia Meng said, "I don't know when I have to leave."

Lin Boru put his arms around Jia Meng's neck: "How much you learn counts!"

Jia Meng was half a head shorter than him, and looked up at him for a while: "Then...you can come to Jia's horse when you have time. If I go to you, I will know right away."

Lin Boru slapped Jia Meng on the shoulder: "Brother Jia is so loyal! I will look for you tomorrow."

Jia Meng turned her head and looked at her uncle: "What's inside, you know who I am."

"I know."

"My third uncle is a world-renowned evildoer." Jia Meng pouted, "Your Jin country is in troubled times. Ask your father if you want to cover up your friendship with me."

Lin Boru wondered: "There's nothing to hide! Master Han also recognizes your uncle? Isn't it good to have an aboveboard relationship?"

Jia Meng said helplessly, "It's not just my uncle who is here, do you know who else is here?" Lin Boru's eyes widened and he smiled, and he nodded vigorously twice. "Master Gan, the newly appointed member of your Imperial City Division, looks handsome and suspicious. If he troubles your old man, he will become suspicious--I'm not from the Jin country anyway, so I'll leave in a few days; your old man haha."

Lin Boru snorted, "I'm afraid he won't succeed."

"It's not that you're afraid, it's that you're awkward." Jia Meng said, "You hire a cook at home, and you go out to hold an actor. I don't know which one is sent by him to monitor your every move. Are you annoying! Toad fell on your feet. Come on, don't bite people, respond to people."

It made sense for Lin Boru to think about it, and said: "I see. Go back and tell my father, if you meet Uncle Xiaomeng of Rongguo Mansion, can you make friends with him while he is still in Taiyuan? Let my father say hello to the prince in advance Isn't that all right?"

Jia Meng smiled and said, "My third uncle has a lot of ideas, and he is most in favor of young people taking the path they are interested in. Maybe he can give you an idea and make your father agree to learn painting for you."

Lin Boru was overjoyed: "Really! Oh, my thanks to Third Uncle Jia!"

"I will handle it!"

The two each stretched out one arm to hook their shoulders and rest their backs, and gestured with the other arm, and the whole room could tell that they were good brothers.Han Fei naturally saw it too, and slipped out quietly.

On the other side, the grandmothers and girls from the back house gathered to play in the back garden of the Han Mansion.There was a maid who didn't know which family went out to pass the message to the men for their grandmother, and said with a smile: "Now the master and the uncles are talking about it, saying that the Fourth Highness came empty-handed, and painted a portrait of the old lady Han in the hall! Ouch, it’s so alive! It’s been a long time to admire it outside.”

The fourth girl of the Han family has always been upright, and said with a smile: "It's just that you have no heart, you just believe what people say." Then she said to everyone, "The Fourth Highness said that he studied architecture, that is Learn how to build a house. To learn this, you must know how to sketch with two brushes, otherwise you will not be able to draw renderings. Sketching is a basic skill of Western painting. Because it is completely different from our Chinese painting method, it is easy to know if you don’t know it. I feel a little strange. The schools in the south have already taught Chinese and Western painting together."

The servant girl argued: "Masters all praise him!"

Miss Han Si smiled slightly: "The painting drawn by His Highness is also used as a birthday gift. Would you like it if it were you?"

The servant girl was anxious: "They are masters!"

Miss Han Si said: "There is no difference between people, they are all different, and they are divided into two small dishes."

The maid pursed her lips and looked at their grandma.The grandma said: "As the saying goes, it is better to see once than to hear a hundred times. Since it is the calligraphy of His Royal Highness, can you let us have a look?"

Miss Han Si thought for a while: "The sketches are not big, so it must not be difficult to bring them in." So she ordered her maid to ask Grandma Han.

For a while Grandma Han sent a daughter-in-law over and said: "Our grandma said that the girl is too stupid. That is a birthday gift from the Fourth Highness to the old lady, how can she take it casually? Now she has sent someone to make a frame for it Right now. For the time being, I took a slightly larger picture frame and hung it in the Gongyu Pavilion. If the girls and grandma want to see it, grandma will arrange for all the men in it to go out."

The Fourth Miss Han said with a smile: "Then please trouble my sister-in-law!" The daughter-in-law left.

But the effort for a stick of incense was just now when the daughter-in-law came in and said that the attack on the Jade Pavilion had been arranged.The girls and grandmas chattered about the past, seeing servants guarding the road, they secretly praised Grandma Han for her thoroughness.

Gongyu Pavilion is where the Han family specially stores Western paintings.Most of them are works of Western painters, and there are also some Western paintings learned by people in this dynasty. There are also various attempts by teachers and students of the Southern Academy of Fine Arts to combine Eastern and Western painting methods in recent years.When the girls and grandmothers entered the door, they saw a smiling Western woman in white clothes and a Western flower hat standing in front of the hall. They were surprised, and there were people rushing to say hello.

Miss Han Si smiled and said, "This is a painting, haven't you seen the frame?"

Everyone was shocked. "Is it a painting?"

"This is a Western oil painting. It looks like a real person from a distance." Miss Han said, "This is a portrait painted by a court painter in the Western Netherlands for one of their wives. Later, when the Hou Mansion fell, this portrait And it will spread."

Everyone rushed forward to have a look, and it was really a painting, a full foot high, and they all sighed: "It's really real."

Miss Han Si said: "I like our Chinese paintings more. Their Western paintings are only drawing shadows and shapes, and they have the same function as cameras."

So he led them to look at the paintings one by one.Upstairs in the main hall, there is only a six-foot-high picture frame hanging on the huge wall, and inside the frame is a three-foot-long black and white portrait.The daughter-in-law who followed said: "This is the birthday gift His Highness the Fourth Highness drew for our old lady just now."

The girls and grandmothers were immediately disappointed, and they said in their mouths: "The painting is just like the real thing..." "No wonder the gentlemen outside also praised it." Miss Han Si looked at them and laughed.

Then I continued to look at the paintings on the second floor.Comparing back and forth, a girl murmured softly: "What kind of sketch is that? It really is an entry."

Everyone couldn't help laughing.The second girl Han said: "In all fairness, His Highness Fourth Highness draws well. After all, he is not a professional, so we can't ask too much."

Back downstairs, it happened that Grandma Han came in and met each other.I can't help but talk about the painting on the second floor.Grandma Han looked at a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl and said, "Sister Lin, just now your brother said that he can also sketch."

Miss Lin was stunned: "Why would he? He wants to learn painting, but my father won't allow it."

Grandma Han said in amazement: "Just now our uncle came to ask me to talk about something, and by the way, Little General Lin said that he can do it himself, and his paintings are better than His Royal Highness. Right now, he is talking to Xiaomeng from Rongguo Mansion. Uncle is studying Western painting techniques. Then Uncle Xiaomeng will also do this."

As soon as the words were finished, Miss Han smiled first: "Jia Meng is a history student, but also can draw? At most, he is only at the level of after-school interest classes."

Grandma Han looked at her and said, "You know how?"

"I won't." Miss Han Si said, "His girlfriend will."

Grandma Han said, "I've never figured it out, what exactly do they mean by the boyfriend and girlfriend in the south?"

Miss Han Si opened her mouth and smiled again: "I'll think about how I can explain it clearly." After thinking for a long time, she began to explain.

Everyone was surprised after hearing this: "The marriage is so important? Even the young master of Rongguo Mansion is looking for a girlfriend by himself?"

"Isn't it?" Miss Han Si said, "Isn't that a serious grandson of the Rongguo Mansion outside?" The girls and grandmas talked a lot.Miss Han Si smiled again, "I heard that the Fourth Highness went to Yuelu Academy earlier. There is no architecture department in Yuelu Academy. Either he went to the south or the capital. He must have made a girlfriend."

The grandmother who mentioned looking at the portrait hurriedly said: "Your Highness the Fourth Highness hasn't married a concubine yet! Sister Han, don't chew your tongue."

Grandma Han also said: "The family affairs of the prince's family are not for you, a little girl, to talk about." Miss Han Si made a grimace.

Just now the maid who praised the paintings of His Highness the Fourth Highness smiled and said: "Speaking of it, Miss Han Fourth should be about the same age as the Fourth Highness."

Without waiting for others to speak, Miss Han Si quickly said: "He has a girlfriend, and if the prince marry him a concubine, he will definitely be a widow. My father loves me, so he will definitely not give up."

The servant girl hurriedly said, "What if you don't have a girlfriend?"

Miss Han Si said casually: "Is he ugly, or is he poor, or is he born stupid? All his classmates are looking for girlfriends, why doesn't he look for them? Or he has a girl he likes, and they don't like him. That's even more troublesome." The white moonlight cinnabar mole, the woman behind will never be able to compare with that one..."

Grandma Han interrupted: "Fourth sister, stop talking!" Fourth girl Han immediately covered her mouth and smiled coquettishly.Grandma Han asked everyone to go back to the garden.

This Gongyu Pavilion is in the southeast corner of the front yard of the Han Mansion, and the girls and grandmothers have to go around a long way to get to the back.Passing through a hall, there is a hanging flower door in front.Two women hurriedly ran out from inside to stop them: "Girls and grandmas, wait a moment!" Grandma Han asked what was the matter.A woman said, "Two men from outside came out and lost their way. By chance, they wandered here. Sister Wang from our class is leading them away. They haven't left the yard yet. Sister Xin is here. Check around for anything they dropped."

Grandma Han hurriedly said, "Then let's wait for a while."

A grandma praised: "Grandma is really considerate."

Grandma Han said with a smile: "This is the duty of being the host, and it should not be praised by the third grandma."

After a while, another woman came out and said with a smile: "Grandma, this slave is going to ask for credit. Just now a man dropped a fan, and this slave found out, picked it up and returned it to him."

Grandma Han nodded: "Understood, I will credit you and come back to me to receive the reward."

"Thank you grandma!"

After that, nothing happened.

Outside, Lin Boru and Jia Meng were talking together.For a while, Jia Cong went to ask Jia Meng for something to do, and heard them talking about Western paintings, so he mentioned that the Han family had a Gongyu Pavilion dedicated to hanging Western paintings.Lin Boru said he wanted to take a look, so the Han family sent someone to show them.Lin Boru really liked painting, and he didn't want to come out after entering Gongyu Pavilion.Jia Meng is not a polite host.After strolling around, Lin Boru began to read it carefully for the second time, so he asked the Han family to move a long recliner in Gongyu Pavilion's ear room, and he lay down to take a nap.

Lin Boru was looking at the painting when he heard footsteps and someone called him.Looking back, it was Han Fei, the uncle of the Han family.Han Fei clasped his fists and said solemnly, "Brother Lin Xian, there is something I want to ask you about." Lin Boru hurriedly asked what was the matter.

Han Fei pulled him downstairs and led him to a secluded side room, took out a piece of paper from his sleeve, handed it to him and asked, "Have you seen such a fan before?"

Lin Boru took a look, and there was a fan drawn on the paper with a black fine brush. On the fan was a clump of peonies in full bloom, with a bee and a butterfly beside it.He lost his voice: "Who painted this fan?"

Han Fei's eyes moved: "You recognize it in front of me?"

Lin Boru said seriously: "This matter is urgent, please let me know."

Han Fei shook his head: "We are looking for those two people, but we haven't found them yet. Zhuo Jing thought that Lingmei is probably the most worthy of calculation among that group of girls, so let me ask Lin Xiandi first. I'm afraid she guessed right. .” Then he told the girls and grandmas who almost bumped into the man just now. "Zhuo Jing said, most of the people in this group are unmarried ladies. She is afraid of making mistakes. The three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry on the way back from Gongyu Pavilion to the backyard are like spider webs. Those who get lost will definitely encounter our house early. People in the house, just ask for directions. Unless they are sincerely avoiding them." Han Fei stretched out two fingers and said in a low voice, "Our house was originally this mansion. Someone is more familiar with us than us."

Lin Boru took a deep breath and said slowly, "Is this peony flower from the fan?"

Han Fei said: "That's right. The woman who picked up the fan is very good at embroidery, and she traced the fan according to the method of drawing flowers."

Lin Boru's eyes burst out with murderous intent: "Brother Han, what do those two people look like? Do you have a portrait?"

"I have sent someone to paint it."

"Thank you. If you find it, I beg Brother Han to ask you to interrogate me; if you don't find it, please give me a copy of the portrait." Lin Boru said thoughtfully, "I'm afraid this painting is based on a picture of bees, butterflies and peonies that my mother made before her death. of."

Han Fei looked agitated before he wanted to speak, when Jia Meng walked in from the outside with sleepy eyes: "What are you talking about, you two?" Nai supported Han Fei's shoulder and looked down at the painting in Lin Boru's hand, "Huh? This painting is good. Let's see, our traditional Chinese painting still has the charm." Han Fei and Lin Boru exchanged glances, they both kept silent about the fan and talked about other things.