Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 59 A Serendipitous Purchase of Ma Tai's Painting Treasure
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The two agreed to meet again when Li Feng was resting.

Li Feng usually rests on Sundays.

Li Feng didn't care how Ding Qiunan managed to squeeze out the time.

Ding Qiunan said that the next time they met, she would give her the textbooks for the second and third years of high school.

Now Li Feng has also taken care of the textbook issue.

Li Feng was in a pretty good mood.

And most importantly, I received a mission.

Although Li Feng didn't know what skills he would gain, he was still very happy.

Time flew by and it was almost midnight.

Ding Qiunan said goodbye to Li Feng.

Li Feng told her to go and attend to her own business.

My own problems haven't been resolved yet.

Li Feng's purpose in coming to the library this time was still to find the Mustard Seed Garden.

So Li Feng started searching in the art section again.

After Li Feng had been searching for almost half an hour...

Li Feng finally found a few copies of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting in a corner, and immediately began to read them.

It turned out that these several copies of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting were not the same version.

These books are respectively the Kangxi edition, the Chao Xun copy, and the Youzheng Bookstore edition.

Li Feng flipped through several versions of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, and found that each version had been abridged.

Moreover, regardless of the version, it only contains the structure of the objects, without ink color or brushwork.

If you want to learn it, you have to look at the annotations in the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting; otherwise, just looking at the diagrams will only give you an idea of ​​the structure.

For example, the rice-dot texture strokes and axe-cut texture strokes above are not drawn; the picture above only shows the structure of the rocks.

Even so, Li Feng was still able to learn about the structure of objects from it.

When Li Feng was learning traditional Chinese painting before he traveled through time, he used clear copies or prints as his learning materials.

For example, the "Seventy-Two Immortals Scroll" has a clear original manuscript and a copy of the original.

That condition doesn't exist now.

Therefore, Li Feng thought that the reason why everyone is studying the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting is probably because there is no clear original image.

Because the original painting has varying shades of ink, as well as brushwork and color application.

Such things are definitely not found in places like the Mustard Seed Garden.

However, just learning some drawing methods is still very useful.

When Li Feng thought of this...

He believes that if you are learning how to draw a part of the objects, any version is useful.

So I'll wait until I have time to go to the bookstore to buy books.

You can buy any version of Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Materia Medica.

After figuring all this out, Li Feng left the library.

Next, he will spend some time going to the bookstore to buy books.

There is a bookstore not far from the library.

After Li Feng entered the bookstore, he asked the owner if they sold Mustard Seed Garden.

However, the boss shook his head at Li Feng and said...

"No.".

Li Feng asked the boss with some surprise.

"No way?"

"Is Mustard Seed Garden so sought after?"

The boss just shook his head and said...

"No one has bought this kind of book for a long time, so I didn't stock it."

At this moment, the boss seemed to suddenly remember something, so he asked Li Feng.

"I don't have the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting here, but I do have a set of Ma Tai's Painting Treasures."

"Do you want it?"

"If you want it, I'll sell it to you cheap."

Li Feng was quite surprised when he heard what his boss said.

"Ma Tai's painting treasure?"

"Can I take a look?"

After hearing Li Feng's words, the shop owner nodded, then went to the back of the bookstore, searched around, and finally found a set of Ma Tai paintings covered in dust.

At this moment, the shopkeeper blew the dust off the Ma Tai painting.

"Cough cough cough".

Perhaps it's because the dust is too thick.

After blowing away the ash, the boss coughed for a while.

When Li Feng saw the boss preparing to blow the dust off the horse-shaped painting, Li Feng immediately dodged away.

So the boss's boasting didn't affect Li Feng.

After the boss finished coughing, he casually grabbed a rag from the shelf and started wiping the books.

Although I wiped it a few times, there was still a lot of dust on the book.

Looking at the gray color, Li Feng felt that the book must have been lying in the warehouse for a long time. Then Li Feng opened one of the volumes, "Ma Tai's Painting Treasures".

After Li Feng examined the painting by Ma Tai, his eyes lit up.

This painting by Ma Tai is much better than the one in the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting in terms of its depiction of figures; the faces are rarely distorted.

Most of them are correct lines.

Moreover, the folds of the clothing on the body are also powerful and have a calligraphic style.

When Li Feng turned to the chapters on mountains and rocks, plum blossoms, orchids, bamboo and chrysanthemums, and trees.

Li Feng discovered that the printing on it was actually much clearer than that of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.

Li Feng didn't know if it was because of the version or because Ma Tai's Painting Treasure was simply more detailed than the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.

Regardless of the reason, Li Feng decided to buy the Ma Tai Painting Treasure.

After flipping through a few pages, Li Feng asked the boss.

"boss!".

"How much do you want for these three volumes of Ma Tai's Painting Treasures?"

When the shopkeeper saw that Li Feng wanted to buy it, he immediately quoted Li Feng a price of three yuan.

Li Feng frowned upon hearing this.

"boss!".

"Just give me a fair price."

"This set of Ma Tai paintings must have been sitting in your warehouse for quite some time, right?"

"Today, I also found something I was willing to buy."

"Otherwise, you don't know when it will be released."

Upon hearing this, the boss couldn't help but sigh.

"This is a truly honest price for you, the same as before!"

"I definitely won't sell a book for less than 1.2 yuan."

After hearing what the boss said, Li Feng immediately put down the painting he was holding.

Then he said to his boss.

"This is too expensive."

"I won't haggle much, I'll take it for two dollars and fifty cents."

"Otherwise, you can just keep it in the warehouse collecting dust."

After saying this, Li Feng made a move to leave.

As soon as the boss saw Li Feng about to leave, he immediately grabbed Li Feng and then smiled at him.

"Don't leave so quickly."

"The price is negotiable."

Seeing that Li Feng was willing to buy, how could the shop owner let Li Feng get away?
This set of Ma Tai paintings has been sitting in the warehouse for who knows how long. Now that someone is willing to buy it, how could I possibly refuse to sell it?

The boss just wants to make more money.

Li Feng is now offering 2.5 yuan, so he can still make a profit.

He just said that when he sold it for 1.2 yuan, he hoped Li Feng would contribute more.

Now that Li Feng is sticking to the price of 2.5 yuan, I'll just earn a little less.

So the shop owner sold the book to Li Feng for two and a half yuan.

After paying, Li Feng left the bookstore with three volumes of Ma Tai's Painting Treasures.

Now that Li Fengshu has bought the books, all that's left is to buy the wine.

So Li Feng went directly to the nearby supply and marketing cooperative.

When Li Feng came out, he was already carrying two bottles of Fenjiu liquor.

After buying the books and wine, Li Feng had nothing else to buy, so he carried his purchases back to the courtyard house.

When Li Feng returned to the courtyard house, it was almost four o'clock.

When Li Feng returned to the courtyard house, he found Sha Zhu cooking at the window of his own kitchen.

Sha Zhu greeted Li Feng.

"Li Feng, you're back!"

"Come and eat something later."

Li Feng nodded, and then handed the two bottles of Fenjiu to Sha Zhu, who was cooking.

"Just bought it."

"Let's drink later."

When Sha Zhu saw Fenjiu, his eyes lit up.

"This wine! It's quite good!"

"It must have cost quite a bit, right?"

Li Feng smiled and said.

"It's alright! I just got paid."

Sha Zhu nodded, then told He Yushui to take the wine back to the living room, while Li Feng went home to put his things away.

After all, Li Feng still had a few books on him.

Bringing a book to a meal is not really appropriate.

Moreover, Sha Zhu hadn't even cooked the dishes yet, and he wasn't quite used to just sitting there doing nothing.

Li Feng simply stayed home and waited for Sha Zhu to cook the meal before going out to eat; it was the same thing.

(End of this chapter)