Ink Burns
Chapter 27 Smart Huang Zhi
Chapter 27 Smart Huang Zhi
Qunfang Garden is a two-story embroidery building. Shanyue was assigned to the east wing on the second floor, which was a connecting room with two suites. Wang Erniang and Zhou Liniang sat and slept opposite each other, while Shanyue's desk and bed were placed steadily in the middle of the room facing north and south.
They moved in at dark, quietly, and no one knew about it.
As soon as they moved in, the door of the east wing was closed tightly, isolating it from the outside world.
Shan Yue put all her efforts into the painting, and finally she chose Mi's green and blue landscape painting, with its bright colors and small scenes cut out of paper. Compared with the magnificent landscapes in ink and wash, it is more suitable for showing the girl's gentleness and harmlessness, and it is also easier to complete within five days.
Zhou Liniang didn't quite understand. She wasn't very good at other things, but when it came to painting, she was still willing to say a few words. She asked in confusion: "Why do you have to copy? Even if the painting is realistic, it's still fake and can't be seen in the light of day? Now is the transition between autumn and winter, the ground is covered with yellow leaves, and when you open the window, you can see this beautiful scenery. It's nice to just paint a picture."
Shan Yue's hand paused as he was writing.
Miss Wang Er quickly pulled Zhou Liniang aside and whispered, "March never draws."
Zhou Liniang frowned in slight confusion.
Miss Wang nodded affirmatively: "She only draws copies, but she is very talented. She can reproduce the direction of the lines after just one look at the real painting, so our master copies are basically all drawn by her."
In the past, Master Wu had also forced her to paint her own pictures.
But it didn't work.
The girl was forced so hard that she often disappeared for more than ten days. Later, I learned that Shanyue had rented a small house deep in the alley of Songjiang Prefecture. When she was not in Suzhou, she would stay in the small house to paint.
When Master Wu pressed him again, Shan Yue threw the inkstone on the ground and said, "Please be careful when you write. My heart is filled with nothing but hatred. What can I paint? What can I draw? Paintings should be fair. Paintings filled with hatred should not see the light of day!"
"Crossing the Bridge Bone" does not ask about the past life but the future life, and no one investigates where her hatred comes from.
Zhou Liniang wanted to ask more, but was stopped by Wang Erniang: "You damn Wen Sang, don't ask anymore!"
If the ink basin is overturned later, Miss Wang will definitely not help to clean it up!
After three days of seclusion, Shan Yue handed in a scroll painting called "Snowy Trees and Two Crows" which was about an arm's length and half an arm's width. It was a deformed painting that combined Mi's "Winter Night Scene with Snowy Trees" and "Frost and Snow Crows", with a few small clusters of red wintersweets and two vivid crows. One of them had white cheek feathers and looked a little old, standing calmly on a high place; the other one had not yet fully grown wings, and it hid its beak under its body with its head lowered and its eyes submissively lowered, with an attitude of respect and obedience.
Master Cheng personally reviewed it, frowned, pushed the scroll away, and squinted: "Two birds——"
He turned to Cheng Xing and said, "Do you think it's okay? They all look the same to me. The ink is black, the paper is white, and everything is almost the same. I don't know the difference between a painting that costs ten taels of silver and one that costs a hundred taels of silver."
Duan glanced sideways and pursed her lips slightly.
Cheng Xingyu unfolded the scroll, raised his chin, and deliberately showed Shanyue his clear jawline, with a flash of surprise in his eyes: "The brushstrokes are sophisticated, the jackdaws and sparrows take off in the forest, the winter plums are in vermilion, and the dead trees are covered with snow. The veins are clear, and it has the style of Mi Yaoan's small brush paintings of elegant scenes."
Cheng Xinghe pointed at the two sparrows and said, "The positions of the two jackdaws are also wonderful. The one on top is the old man, and the one below is my Cheng family. The old man is so noble and unparalleled, and the Cheng family is sincerely convinced. The old man will definitely be happy after seeing this."
The old man was happy, but Master Cheng was not. He pointed at the painting and said, "He, change it so that two birds are placed on the same branch."
Shan Yue's eyelashes trembled slightly.
Duan called out in a low voice: "Master!"
Master Cheng was sitting on the top. When he heard Duan's words, his triangular green eyes turned around instantly: "Why? Don't dare? Or don't want to?"
Duan's face turned pale and she walked away in anger.
Master Cheng snorted coldly. Cheng Xinghe lowered his head and remained silent, which was rare.
Shan Yue's voice shrank behind him, trembling as it sounded: "It's fine if you want to change it, but it's a bit too late now. If the master thinks that the two birds are an eyesore, why not cut off the lower one?"
Master Cheng glanced over and was about to get angry, but Cheng Xinghe interrupted him: "Dad, the painting is done. The Jiang family and the Feng family have handed in their paintings. If we delay any further, we may lose the opportunity. What is painted in the painting may not last forever. Wait until Yue Niang marries to the capital, and then we can go."
He glossed over the words and said, "If we have the right connections, it is not impossible for our family to avoid the old man and donate money to become an official."
Master Cheng waved his hand and said "get out" in a cold voice, which summed up everything.
Cheng Xingyu remained motionless. Shanyue left the study in the outer courtyard and turned to look for Huang Zhi from Zhimu Hall. He grabbed the skirt of the two maids and said softly, "Don't show your face in front of the mistress these two days. The master and the mistress just had a few words."
Huang Zhi handed Shan Yue a bunch of dried salted plum meat from his sleeve pocket: "Thank you, my dear sister - I knew it early this morning. My wife went to the Liu Mansion in the north of the city this morning. Oh, it's the residence of the former prefect."
There was no one in the corridor. Huang Zhi lowered her voice and shared with Shan Yue, who was gradually getting close to her: "Every time the Madam went to the Liu Mansion as a guest, the Master and the Madam would have a quarrel when she came back at night - no one else noticed, only I knew about it."
Well, Huang Zhi is short-sighted and loves money, but he is indeed very smart, otherwise he would not have entered the inner courtyard after only one and a half years in the Cheng family.
Shan Yue was puzzled: "I thought the master was very respectful and intimate to the prefect?"
Huang Zhi shrugged: "It's very respectful and intimate. When the old man comes to our house, our eldest master wants to be his spittoon and collect his spittoons himself. Who knows? Maybe the eldest master doesn't like his wife to be in the spotlight?"
There was no one around, and Huang Zhi was in the mood to talk about sex. She had never shared these things with anyone: the women in the yard were all black-eyed, nice on the outside but bad behind the scenes, and she didn't say a word about them.
This Miss Shanyue was different. She kept her mouth shut, which was evident from the way she took the silver. She had taken four or five small silver ornaments from this girl, but no one in the yard heard a word.
This Miss He can be dealt with.
Huang Zhi whispered, "Look, the favored concubines Xiao and Pang in the backyard never leave the house all year round. They don't even go back to their parents' home during the New Year. The farthest place they have been in their lives is our Chuihua Gate. Concubine Chen is not favored. I think it's because she likes to go out on the streets. She goes out once every ten days or half a month, either to buy rouge and powder, or to buy cakes and tea. Anyway, she just wants to go out for a stroll. The master can't go to her as many times a year."
Shanyue paused for a while and asked, "How is the master treating his wife?"
Huang Zhi immediately said, "It's OK. We can go once on the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month. But if the mistress is out, the master will definitely not come for a month. Even if he comes, he won't order water—"
Huang Zhi paused: "Do you know what it means to call it water?"
Shan Yue blushed at the right moment, a little shyly: "I've heard of it, but I don't quite understand it."
Huang Zhi laughed: "It's a dirty thing, only those who don't understand it are lucky! I felt that you must be lucky when I first saw you. Look, it's only been a few days and you've already moved into Qunfang Garden! If you get promoted in the future, don't forget me, your little sister!"
Shanyue glanced at Huang Zhi.
This little girl looks silly, but she is very smart.
No one told her, but she could guess what the Cheng family had brought Qunfangyuan to do, and what it meant for her to enter Qunfangyuan.
Shan Yue pursed her lips and smiled: "Don't let these words slip in front of Madam, we sisters can just talk nonsense for fun."
Huang Zhi's lips stiffened, and then he chuckled twice: "Don't say it, don't say it, it's just a joke, it won't enter the ears of the boss!"
(End of this chapter)
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