The road of the farmer's fortune and the imperial examination

Chapter 275 Three years later

High willows and new cicadas, fragrant wind and light rain, pond lotus and pomegranate flowers, Qiongzhu Qingquan, intertwined into a beautiful picture of early summer.

It was already early summer at this time, and the weather in June was not like midsummer, it was so hot that people couldn't breathe, and there was still a slight coolness in the early morning.

Gu Chengyu looked at the lotus pond in the yard, and filled in the coloring of the lotus picture on the desk. His daily morning routine is to write and draw.

"My lord! It's already [-]:[-], when are we going to leave?" Ming Mo stood in a corner of the study and asked Gu Chengyu softly.

Three years of time have lengthened Ming Mo's figure a lot, and he is now a handsome 14-year-old boy.However, at this moment, he was looking helplessly at his young master. The young master really became more and more calm, everything was done in a leisurely manner, but they servants were in a hurry!

Ming Mo set his sights on Gu Chengyu, because he hadn't reached the age of weak crown, so he had to tie his hair with a purple headband.

A purple satin gown with round neck and narrow sleeves, with dark lines showing on it, the white collar of the inner shirt is exposed at the neck, and a circle of silver flowing moiré piping is added to the neckline and cuffs. The morning light from the window turns the satin Shines brilliantly.There is also a belt with a moon-white auspicious cloud pattern around her waist, and a shiny suet jade pendant hangs from the belt.

This outfit made Gu Chengyu very luxurious. Although he was only 11 years old, he was not short in stature.Ming Mo is only half a head shorter than himself, he is not short among people of the same age!

Gu Chengyu dipped the paint with the little wolf pen in his hand, and carefully outlined the lotus in the picture.The lotus can have more than one color, and the coloring must be from top to bottom, from dark to light, so as not to be rigid.

Ming Mo knew that when the young master was concentrating on painting, he couldn't disturb him, so he didn't dare to urge him anymore, and could only stand aside and watch him paint.

After about half a stick of incense, Gu Chengyu stopped writing, looked at the lotus painting, and felt that there was still a bit of aura missing.

Ancient Chinese paintings paid attention to artistic conception and abstract beauty. Once Gu Chengyu had a whim and incorporated some characteristics of previous Western paintings into Chinese paintings, such as texture. He tried to integrate the two, of course, only added a little Western elements, which made it appear His paintings are somewhat different.

There is a reason for doing so.Three years ago when Gu Chengyu first arrived at the government school, he heard the students talking about his former chief assistant Liang Zhirui.As long as they are students studying in the government school, they all want to become Liang Zhirui's disciple, and Gu Chengyu's heart became even more excited when he heard it.

After inquiring from many sources, Gu Chengyu felt that Liang Zhirui was a person with a capricious personality. He didn't have a favorite thing, and he didn't seem to have any special preferences, which made it difficult for the students to start.

Gu Chengyu immediately thought that this is a casual person.Liang Zhirui has dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and has deep attainments in these areas.Gu Chengyu felt that instead of inquiring about his preferences, it would be better to come up with some unique things to arouse his interest.

Gu Chengyu thought hard for more than half a month, but he couldn't come up with any good idea.After all, he is only good at calligraphy, but his handwriting is good, and other people's handwriting is not bad, not to mention there is a sky beyond the sky, and it is not uncommon for the government to write better than him.

He only learned a little about piano, chess and painting in general in space, and finally he set his sights on chess. What was the most famous in his previous life?Of course it is a steamer chess game!But he didn't know anything about chess, so he rummaged through space and finally found relevant information.But throwing this chess game rashly is not enough.

He had studied at home for a few days before, and he only had a superficial understanding of chess, even if he could find someone to learn from, he would definitely not be able to attract Liang Zhirui's attention, so he couldn't throw this chess game out as soon as he came up, right?In this way, even if people are interested, they will definitely look down on him.

After thinking about it, he decided to use the chessboard as the last trump card, leaving only painting and piano. His piano skills have not been practiced for a long time, and it is difficult to even get started.

After the final exclusion, only painting is left. Fortunately, he still has some talent in painting.After studying traditional Chinese painting for more than a month, I suddenly realized that this was not enough. Although the government school has a teacher who specializes in painting, Gu Chengyu has never studied it before. He only copied it at home. In such a short time, he wanted to draw Astonishing works come, it is a bit reluctant.

Therefore, Gu Chengyu thought about it for a long time before he finally managed to integrate the elements of the western painting from his previous life into it.Slowly, after more than two months, Liang Zhirui's interest was successfully aroused. Of course, this was not enough.

While painting, Gu Chengyu practiced chess hard. Although he was still not popular, he was considered good at it. He went around looking for others to learn from, and then threw out the chess game.For this layout, Gu Chengyu patiently arranged it for three months.After three months, he finally became Liang Zhirui's closed disciple.

"Young master! When are we leaving?" Ming Mo saw that Gu Chengyu had finished painting, but was staring at the painting in his hand in a daze, so he had to interrupt Gu Chengyu. If he didn't leave, he would be late for lunch when he went back. The old man and the old lady must wait at home Anxious.

Gu Chengyu came back to his senses when he heard Ming Mo's voice, and he told Ming Mo: "Let's set off now! Take the painting and burn it!"

It is early summer, and there is no brazier in the room, so Gu Chengyu can only tell Ming Mo, after all, lighters can't appear right now, can they?

"Ah? My lord, it's a pity that this painting is so good that it needs to be burned!" It was Ming Yan who entered the main room from the outside and cried out regretfully when he saw the painting on the table.

In Ming Yan's opinion, Gu Chengyu's paintings are already good enough.It's a pity that the son is always dissatisfied, and I don't know how many paintings have been destroyed.

Gu Chengyu frowned slightly, then shook his head with a smile.He remembered what the teacher said, that his paintings are indeed unique, at first glance, the colors are bright and the characters are vivid, even quite lifelike.However, he has not learned the essence of Danqing, those souls who can outline characters or things with only simple lines, he can't do it, that is to say, he still lacks a little spirituality.

Ming Mo at the side glanced at Gu Chengyu, then looked at Ming Yan who was speaking, but did not speak.

Gu Chengyu didn't respond, and went into the inner room to wash up.He was about to go to the rural examination, and the rural examination was in August this year. He went back and was about to leave for the capital.This time, he will be able to stay for half a month when he goes back. The teacher asked him to calm down at home because his calligraphy has stagnated.

It is true that it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.Working behind closed doors, without vision, how can progress be made?
I haven't seen my parents for a month, and Gu Chengyu misses them a little.Especially this year, Wang Qikai and the others have passed the county and government examinations, and they will also take the hospital examination in August this year, so he has to go back and encourage them.It's a pity that when they came to Fucheng, he had already gone to the capital.

Gu Chengyu listened to Ming Mo's indistinct reprimand in the courtyard, and smiled.Ming Yan is indeed too out of touch, it seems that he has to bring Mama Liang here to teach the servants of the family the rules.Although there is a well-behaved woman in the family, she is not as well-behaved as Mama Liang's. After all, she is from the official family.

And Ming Mo finally had some thoughts, was he afraid that he might be dissatisfied with Ming Yan?Otherwise, how could he reprimand where he heard?
(End of this chapter)