A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 58
The pedestrian avenue is named Taoist.

Huaiyu wanted to paint a picture of a talisman, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin immediately arranged for someone to get it.

In addition to pine ink, cinnabar, yellow paper, mica, mercury, sulfur, alumite, realgar, saltpeter, sealwort...

Most of the materials Huaiyu gave were alchemy materials, but Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong didn't have the slightest doubt, and even nodded frequently, thinking that this is the real way of drawing talismans.

"The talisman is the agreement of the heavens, and the group of truths descends with the call of the talisman." Huaiyu actually knows dot-painting talisman, of course it is not an old Taoist one, but he has spent five years in the mountains, learning various Taoist classics, and taught himself I came here, and when I transcribed the books he compiled for the old Taoist, I also helped him draw illustrations. There are many Taoist talismans and seals.

Qinrenfang, Yiguo Duke's Mansion, soon gathered many people to see how Huaiyu painted talismans, and Cheng Yaojin even called Yu Chigong, since he wanted to draw, he should just draw two.

Yuchi Gong's long face was like charcoal, his body was almost thicker than Cheng Yaojin's, he had a hulking back, he walked with the wind, and his voice was like a bell.

Compared with the sick and thin Qin Qiong, this guy is really very different, but when he came in and saw Qin Qiong, he still stepped forward to salute very respectfully.

I think that the ancestor of Yuchi Gong's family was actually a family of generals, but when he arrived, his family was in decline, and he was reduced to making a living by blacksmithing. Later, he was called to fight Liao and made great achievements. Afterwards, he returned to his hometown and participated in the siege against bandits and bandits. Crusade, and later attached to Liu Wuzhou, the school lieutenant of Yingyang Mansion in Mayi, became the number one fierce general under his command, and swept the east of the Li family.

Li Yuanji was beaten and fled to Chang'an alone. Many civil and military officers of Li Tanghe Dongdong were captured by him, and Wu Shiyi was also captured by him. , Redemption.

Yu Chigong's ferociousness back then, Li Shimin didn't dare to challenge him head-on, but he was strong enough to consume the opponent for more than half a year, which was rare in Li Shimin's battles.

Later, when the opponent ran out of food, he used the strategy of ambush, and even sent Qin Shubao, the number one fierce general under his command, to defeat Yuchi Gong. He defeated Yu Chi Gong twice, and finally persuaded Yu Chi Gong, who had run out of food alone, to surrender.

For Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong has always admired him very much. After all, he can still be unconvinced after being defeated once, but there is nothing to be stubborn about being defeated twice.

"Shubao, Yizhen,"

Yuchi bowed his hands, "Is this the disciple of the Zhongnan Mountain Immortal who can draw talismans to drive away evil spirits?" He looked at Huaiyu suspiciously, with his leopard head and eyes, not angry but majestic.

Huaiyu felt a strong murderous aura.

This guy can scare a child to tears.

"Hello General Yuchi!"

Ever since he surrendered to Tang Dynasty, Yu Chigong had been rejected by the original team of Prince Qin's Palace. Even Qu Tutong once said that this person was not trustworthy, so he simply killed him.Li Yuan didn't really like this guy who beat his youngest son to the point of death, even after Li Shimin surrendered, Li Yuan only agreed with Li Shimin to give him the position of Commander of Qin Palace, which was much lower than Qin Qiong's position of guard.

Before the Xuanwumen Incident, Yu Chigong followed Li Shimin as a super bodyguard and made a lot of great achievements, but he was only promoted to the second deputy guard from the left, and he didn't even get a baron, let alone Shangzhu Guoxun.

However, this big black man has been very loyal since he voted for Li Shimin. Jianjian Yuanji sent people to pull a few carts of gold and silver to buy them, but he ignored them. He shot and killed Qi Wang Yuanji, and rushed into the palace, and hijacked him to the Haichi dragon boat with Hou Junji. Afterwards, he drove the prime ministers to the dragon boat together, and asked Li Yuan to issue an edict to Li Shimin for restraint. This kind of unscrupulous performance of fighting for Li Erwan's death naturally made him the number one evaluation of Li Shimin's meritorious service. Afterwards, he directly gave him all of Li Yuanji's property in the Qi Kingdom, and returned it to him. Granting Yuanji's Chang'an mansion to him made Yu Chigong almost jump into the Chang'an wealth list.

Although it hasn't been knighted yet, it's not that it won't be conferred, it's just that it's not time for rewards for meritorious deeds, and a duke has already made an appointment.

"You really know how to draw symbols?"

Huaiyu smiled, Yuchi Jingde was a little swollen since he came from the Xuanwu Gate, he is loyal at best, but he is a stick at worst, far worse than Qin Qiong, so later he caused a lot of trouble by being domineering If the master I met was not Li Shimin, but Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, I don’t know how many times I have died.

The function of Taoist talisman seals is to summon ghosts and gods, and use the power of gods to achieve the purpose of curing diseases and eliminating disasters, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters. A small talisman contains a lot of information such as the names, appearances, and spells of gods. As a carrier, it is an information channel that communicates the relationship between man and God.

Huaiyu is very professional in drawing talismans. He had completely mastered the way of drawing talismans before, but he didn't believe in this set of things before, but since he came to Datang, his concept has changed a little.

Maybe the method of talisman seals is indeed useful, but it was the Dharma-ending era before, and the aura was exhausted?
The people of the Tang Dynasty must believe this more. After all, Louguan Dao is the third-rank doctor Jinzi Guanglu who was conferred by the emperor himself, and was invited by the emperor to Chang'an to practice it several times.

"What's the use of cinnabar?" Yu Chigong still asked very bluntly.

"Cinnabar is one of the most important materials for painting symbols and alchemy. Cinnabar nourishes the spirit and calms the soul, nourishes qi and improves eyesight, kills sperm and evil ghosts, and long-term use can pass through the gods and not grow old. It can make people live in peace and prolong their lives. Up and down, use all spirits..."

Huaiyu pretended to be profound, and said to Yuchi's old underworld.

"Cinnabar can not only nourish the mind and calm the soul, but also kill spirits and evil ghosts. Therefore, it can not only be taken internally, but also used on talismans to exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters."

"Cinnabar is also called cinnabar, and it has the meaning of killing, and it is more deterrent to goblins and monsters!"

The cinnabar is written on the yellow paper, which adds more power.

While talking, Huaiyu began to refine various materials. It is said that refining is actually the same as doing chemical experiments. In fact, this kind of experiment is also quite dangerous. The first gunpowder developed in the world was actually the Tang Dynasty. The product of Taoist priests' failure in alchemy.

All kinds of cinnabar, mercury, sulfur, saltpeter, etc. are mixed and smelted. Sometimes no one knows what will be smelted. It may explode or be poisonous.

Fortunately, Huaiyu only needs superficial techniques such as talisman burning pills to add some mystery and sophistication to his behavior. After all, he is too young to convince the public if he does not use this set of Taoism.

Huaiyu also knows how to refine alchemy in a furnace. Although he is not experienced in alchemy, he has studied and studied for five years. In addition, he did not take chemistry classes in vain when he was studying. He combined various materials, refined and processed them. It was boiled again, and the onlookers watched with bated breath.

Even Yu Chigong's expression became more and more focused the more he watched, even when he saw various stones, powders and other things, they would turn into liquids and solids in the end, and even have various dazzling colors, which were smoky and slow. A look of admiration, even respect, slowly rose.

Huaiyu finally concocted several mixed liquids, which not only contained cinnabar, mercury, sulfur, saltpeter and realgar, but also rooster blood, black dog color, cow's tears and other messy, mysterious and profound things in various colors.

I also adjusted some cinnabar juice, which is a little dark red, very thick, and even a little pungent.

Huaiyu arranged the peach wood board prepared by the Qin family, and directly painted on it with a brush dipped in ink. He had studied calligraphy for many years, and also studied art for many years. After all, calligraphy and painting are not separated from each other. He just failed the exam. He only learned management later on. His painting is still good. In fact, during the exam, there was a huge area. Everyone has studied very professionally for more than ten years.

In fact, it is also possible to draw realistic portraits with brushes, even super-realistic like photos, but this kind of painting method is not on the table in the circle. Meticulous brushwork and others do not pay attention to realism, and are even limited to the size of traditional scrolls, and the proportions are seriously out of balance.

Of course, the ancients did not pay attention to imagery.

But Huaiyu plans to be a personal printer today, and paint the portraits of Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong like photos. It is not difficult to draw a portrait. The high level of painting is to express thoughts.

Brush brush.

Huaiyu's technique is still good, with solid basic skills, even if the pen and paint are not very handy, but the impact is not great, a good person can draw lifelike with a stick of charcoal, and can paint with the body.

Everyone was watching Huaiyu's on-site painting. He even set up two peach wood easels in a showy manner, allowing Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong to sit in front of him as models. He opened his left and right sides and drew two portraits at the same time.

"ah!"

"hiss!"

"Ho!"

"Hey!"

"What!"

Time passed slowly, and Huaiyu's superb painting skills were gradually revealed. All the onlookers became more and more amazed. Even the female family members in the backyard of Duke Yi's mansion, after hearing the maidservant's report, couldn't help but come to the front yard to watch.

Everyone was shocked, because many of them also knew how to paint, and some of them were even familiar with Danqing, but no one had ever seen this kind of painting.

"picture."

"so similar."

Huaiyu is like a personal body printer, from head to toe, the head has been painted, the face in the painting is as if it is alive, even the wrinkles and pores on the face can be clearly seen, especially very three-dimensional like a sculpture.

But the lower body has not been drawn yet.

This all the more shows the superb painting technique.

There were too many of Huaiyu's level in an art training class back then, and the teacher would only be more harsh in his eyes, and would not appreciate it at all.

But for Tang people, it is a bit beyond cognition, especially Huaiyu still has the aura of Taoist talisman now.

After the two portraits were completely painted, Huaiyu started to pick up the yellow paper and used cinnabar to draw talisman seals on it. All kinds of mysterious talisman seals were both mysterious and profound. In the end, he even temporarily picked up a seal stone and a carving knife Shuashuashua is now engraved with a seal.

Dip it in cinnabar and cover it with a vermilion seal.

In the end, I still didn’t forget to take out the dragon-cutting sword passed down by the old Taoist and danced a set of Taoist seals on the spot, cutting off chicken heads, burning yellow paper, spraying blood wine and dog blood.

That's it.

"Okay, now these two peach wood general statues have been drawn by me to the gods, and I have borrowed the supernatural power of the gods, gods, gods, and Yu Lei under the big peach tree in Shuoshan in the sea, and injected them into General Qin. He is in the mahogany portrait of General Yuchi, and affixed on the mahogany statue with yellow paper and cinnabar talisman seal, please town the gate of the palace,

Then put the armor and weapons of the two generals under the portraits,

Then any evil spirits and foreign spirits will not be able to get close to it! "

Everyone stared at the portrait that had already been painted and borrowed divine power to inject it. They saw the portrait of Qin Shubao on the left, wearing a golden helmet and shining, wearing armor and dragon scales. Embroidered with Caixia pro.

The portrait of Yuchi Gong over there is similar.

This one phoenix eye is afraid of the stars in the sky, and the other ring eye reflects the moonlight,

He was originally a hero and hero, and now he is temporarily asking the palace to be the door god.

Both Qin Shubao and Qin Shubao sat there in casual clothes for Huaiyu to draw, but in the end they drew their majestic appearance in armor and straddling horses, especially Qin Qiong, who looked sick and weak in the painting, there was only one kind of majesty that dominated the world .

"Okay, okay, okay" Qin Qiong looked at the portrait, trembling all over, saying yes repeatedly.

Yu Chigong even cried when he saw it, and turned his head to bow to Huaiyu, "Thank you Wu Erlang, for allowing me to use the power of the gods to protect His Highness as the door god for a few days."

Cheng Yaojin shouted again and again, "Please enter the palace quickly," he turned his head and hugged Huaiyu again, "Good Erlang, it would be nice to draw a portrait of Uncle Cheng later, I don't need to borrow the power of the gods, just Help me draw a picture that looks like a real person, and leave it to my Cheng family to pass on to future generations, okay?"

Seeing his enthusiastic gaze, Huaiyu said in his heart that he was too good at showing off his skills. If everyone asks him for portraits in the future, he will be so tired by then. He doesn't want to become a painter for the court nobles.

"You give me a picture like this, my old Cheng's daughter lets you choose one, or both!" Old Cheng spent all his money.

(End of this chapter)