Rebirth 1982 Be the stubborn master

Chapter 78 Mummy Brown
After dinner, the two continued to chat, chatting and chatting from literature to painting.

This Du Kang was also fearless, chatting with her while drawing with a brush, he drew a portrait of her in a short while.

After handing over the painting to her, Natalia saw the portrait and asked in surprise, "Can you still paint?"

"It's okay, people, you have to learn more skills."

"Then what kind of painting do you like best?"

"I like it a lot, and the one that impresses me the most is "Liberty Leading the People."

"Liberty Leading the People is indeed very good. It is a representative work of Delacroix's romantic style, an epoch-making romantic masterpiece, a powerful clarion call for the "July Revolution" and an epic work commemorating the French bourgeois revolution.

The Statue of Liberty in the painting is an idealized figure with half-human, half-god temperament..."

Natalia undoubtedly has an excellent appreciation ability. When he mentioned the painting, she opened her mouth immediately, and her comments were extremely accurate, which showed that she knew the painting very well.

However, Du Kang directly retorted, "No, what I want to talk about is the mummy brown."

"It's just a paint, what's the problem?"

Du Kang smiled evilly. It seems that people nowadays have not noticed this problem. It is true that mummy brown is just a color name, but there is no wife in wife cake, but mummy brown really has a mummy.

"Don't you know that mummy brown is made of mummy, which is made by directly grinding mummy into powder and mixing pitch and spices. The better the quality of the meat, the more plump and shiny the mummy brown."

When he said this, Du Kang sighed unceasingly. Mummies have a history of thousands of years in ancient Egypt. They were originally for the pursuit of immortality, hoping to live forever after death.result……

Who would have thought that it would be turned into paint in the end, and the afterlife world pursued would be on canvas.

"Doesn't that mean that there is such a material in the paint I paint?"

Natalia's complexion changed drastically. She never thought that the pigments she usually used for painting had such a history. When she thought of this, she couldn't help turning pale and feeling extremely disgusted.

"Don't worry, this pigment is long gone and replaced by other pigments."

"you sure?"

"Of course, they are all artificially synthesized now. Who still uses such disgusting things, they have been abandoned as early as six years ago."

Natalia was relieved now, but what Du Kang didn't tell her was that the reason why the mummy palm disappeared from people's sight was not because of the emergence of artificial synthesis, but because of the disappearance of raw materials.

That's right, not because of the advent of synthetics, nor because of people's conscience, but out of stock.

In the words of the paint dealer, there are only a few stumps and broken arms left, which are no longer enough to make paint.

Natalia sighed, "I really didn't expect the mummy brown to have such a history."

"There are many such things. There is not only one kind of mummy brown, but also many kinds of pigments, which are also made of materials that are difficult for people to accept, such as elephant white."

"Elephant White?"

"Knowing the white robes on Egyptian tomb paintings, why do they look so holy? Knowing how the wool in Renaissance Christian icon paintings can be so white and otherworldly?"

Natalia shook her head. She looked at the paintings and they were indeed very white, but she really didn't know why.

She paints just as a hobby, who will ask what is wrong with the paint used.

"The secret here is elephant dung.

Dung, lead ingots, and vinegar were added to clay pots, then sealed with layers of tanning bark or cow dung, and the resulting carbonic acid produced this white pigment. "

It was the first time she knew about using feces to make paint, and she couldn't help sighing, "You have too much knowledge, how did you know it?"

"Read more books to enrich your knowledge, and you can learn a lot from books."

Can you know Elephant White by reading?she does not know.

But what Du Kang talked to her today still made her feel curious about the young man in front of her, with outstanding abilities and extensive knowledge, it is not an exaggeration to say that she knows astronomy and geography.

I really didn't expect such a young man to exist in such a place.

Seeing that it was getting late, Natalia bid farewell and was about to leave.

Du Kang asked her to keep her for dinner, but Natalia didn't agree. Du Kang thought about it for a while and didn't keep her anymore, but said:
"Otherwise, let's go to Mujinxuan to have a look tomorrow, and I'll take you on a field trip and let you see how my skills are.

There are a lot of engraved pictures I have collected, which can give you a clearer understanding of Chinese furniture culture? "

"Okay, let's go together tomorrow morning, I live in..."

Du Kang put his index finger to his lips, made a hissing gesture, and said, "You don't need to tell the time and place, I will go to find you tomorrow morning."

Natalia glanced at him, are you showing off your contacts in Forty-Nine City?

"Okay, let's see how you can find me."

After leaving the courtyard, Natalia didn't go back directly, but wandered around Sijiu City until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and then found a hotel to eat and sleep.

After such a long walk, even she herself was a little dizzy, and she didn't go back to the hotel where she lived, but found a place at random. She wanted to see how Du Kang could find it.

Unexpectedly, before he woke up the next morning, he heard the sound of knocking on the glass from the window.

Natalia looked up and saw a bird knocking on the glass outside. She didn't intend to pay attention to it, but the bird kept knocking.

Reluctantly got up and stretched, ready to drive the bird away.

Unexpectedly, when she got to the window, she was surprised to find that there was a note tied to the bird's leg.

This is……

An unbelievable thought came to her mind, and she tentatively tried to catch the bird, but the bird didn't resist and let her hold it in her hand.

I opened the note and found that it said "I will wait for you in the lobby at nine o'clock".

Being able to play like this, Natalia was very surprised for a moment, and looked around the window curiously, wanting to see Du Kang's figure.

After looking at it for a long time, she didn't find it, so she had to write "Yes" on the note, tied it to the bird's leg, and let it fly.

I want to see where Du Kang is hiding.

In her mind, Du Kang should be not far away, directing the little bird to deliver a letter to her.

After all, no matter what, it was just a bird, and it was a very rare ability to let it send messages. How could it be possible to command it remotely.

However, when Natalia let the bird fly, she found that the bird flew farther and farther until it was nowhere to be seen, and Du Kang did not appear.

Could it be that they flew out from home?She doesn't believe it.

Being able to pass a letter with a bird is already very powerful, how it is possible to be so far away from the courtyard, this is beyond her cognition.

(End of this chapter)