newbobooks Chapter 123 Ink Shrimp Picture
Chapter 123 Ink Shrimp Picture
"I am the housekeeper of the Zheng Mansion. I am honored to meet Miss Su. Miss Zheng came to disturb Miss Su without telling her parents. Miss Su, please do not bother with her. The Prime Minister and his wife will go back and discipline her strictly. Here is 5,000 taels of silver as compensation for Miss Su."
"When Lady Su goes to Fengdu, the Zheng family will give you face and guarantee that Lady Zheng will not cause any trouble for you and the master in the future." The Zheng family's housekeeper said respectfully.
"I roughly understand what the housekeeper means, but if you want me to forgive Lady Zheng, I have a condition. That is, Lady Zheng should issue an apology letter to my master. My master's reputation was ruined in Fengdu and the engagement was broken off by the Xie family because of Lady Zheng. I hope my master will not bear these anymore." Su Yueyao said.
"If Lady Su tells this, Lady Zheng's reputation will be ruined." The housekeeper frowned.
"When Lady Zheng did such a thing, did she care about the reputation of my master? If I don't want to pursue this matter, Lady Zheng must issue an apology, otherwise I will sue her to the end. The county magistrate of Yi County and Lady Lu heard Lady Zheng's words clearly, and she belittled the literati and scholars as worthless. I wonder if this is what the Zheng family meant? Prime Minister Zheng is your majesty's teacher. Does he think the same way?"
"Miss Su, your words are too serious. This is just a result of jealousy between the two of you two women. How can you point it to the head of the Zheng family?"
"Butler, please don't change the subject. You said that the conflict between me and Lady Zheng was because my master was jealous, but Lady Zheng brought more than 40 guards to my Su Mansion and her words were even more offensive to my master. Let me ask, once a man marries a woman, his household registration is automatically transferred to the woman's household. My master is already mine, so why should I be jealous of Lady Zheng?"
"The Zheng family has already sent Lady Zheng back to Fengdu, but have you asked me what I think? I have a painter's badge issued by the court and I am treated with courtesy by the court. Even if they want to search my residence, they need a search warrant from the county government. Lady Zheng came to my house without any notice. Do you take the law seriously?"
"I am an orphan and don't want to be an enemy of the Zheng family. But if the Zheng family oppresses me like this, I will fight to the death. After all, I don't have so many concerns. What do you think, Butler Zheng?" Su Yueyao said sharply.
Yang Qianxun, who was standing behind Su Yueyao, looked at her deeply. He knew that A Yao would never let him suffer any injustice at any time. She could ensure that no one could bully them in her backyard.
Butler Zheng was obviously flustered for a moment. He wiped the sweat off his head nervously and said, "I know about Lady Su's request, but I can't make the decision on matters concerning the masters of the Zheng family. I will express Lady Su's request to the master of the family and get back to you as soon as possible."
"Then please go back, butler!" Su Yueyao didn't want to say more.
After Butler Zheng left, County Magistrate Wen said with some concern: "Yueyao, I'm afraid the Zheng family won't easily agree to your request."
"No, didn't Magistrate Li just say that His Majesty will reward me for my contribution to the method of falling into water? When the imperial edict comes down, if the Zheng family does not give an explanation, I will personally ask His Majesty for an explanation. The Zheng family has a deep foundation in Fengdu and will expect that I will do this. In order not to give His Majesty the opportunity to punish Lady Zheng, the Zheng family will let Lady Zheng come out to apologize." Su Yueyao said.
"It seems that Miss Su is not only an excellent painter, but also has an excellent ability in guessing people's minds! I am a direct descendant of the Fengdu Li family's branch family. I will explain the situation to my family and help Miss Su if necessary." Magistrate Li said.
"Thank you very much, Magistrate Li. This time, I would like to thank you for reporting this treatment method to the emperor, so that the Lu family and I could receive the reward." Su Yueyao thought about it and roughly understood the face that Magistrate Li gave her.
Now that her foundation is shallow, His Majesty already knows her. I think it won’t be long before she will go to Fengdu.
The Fengdu Li family can be considered one of the most powerful aristocratic families. The head of the Li family is the prime minister of the dynasty and the head of the civil officials. It is not bad to have some friendship with County Magistrate Li.
"That's what I should do. If Miss Su really wants to thank me, how about giving me a painting? I'm not picky. I heard that Qilu Bookstore is going to auction flower paintings and landscape paintings recently? Can you give me one of your paintings? I can't afford as much as those wealthy businessmen, and I have only one thousand taels of silver in my pocket." Magistrate Li said with a smile.
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"County Magistrate Li is so caring for the people and likes Yueyao's paintings. I should give you one. I will ask the servants to go to the study to get a few paintings so that you can choose one you like." Su Yueyao said with a smile.
"Okay... okay... thank you very much, Miss Su. I will accept it." County Magistrate Li happily took the one thousand taels of silver into his arms.
This was the money he had saved with great difficulty. He could use it to buy some clothes and jewelry for his wife so that she wouldn't always say that he didn't contribute anything. County Magistrate Li thought it was great to come to the Su Mansion this time, and he could get another painting.
When he got back, he wrote a letter asking Fengdu's parents to help Su Yueyao if they met her in the future.
Su Yueyao walked to the door and asked Chunri to randomly pick out three paintings from the pile of paintings on the desk on her left.
Yang Qianxun, Lu Yuanyi and Lu Yuanjin, who were following along, twitched their lips when they heard this. Didn't A Yao say that those were the paintings she had done when she ran out of inspiration halfway through?
Lu Yuanyi and Lu Yuanjin were especially curious about what the wife would say when she saw the painting. The last time she went back home, the painting the wife gave to her mother was also the same, but in the end, their mother was very happy because of the wife's comfort.
My father sent someone to say two days ago that Wu Cejun had completely disliked his mother, and as a result, his son had married a woman who was ten years older than him.
When Chunri and the others took out the paintings and displayed them, Su Yueyao's face looked a little unnatural.
One of the paintings was when she was learning to paint. She had been imitating the ink shrimps of painter Qi Baishi. She always felt that her paintings lacked some charm. The reason why she wanted to paint shrimps was that one day she was lying on a lounge chair by the stream and was bored. She happened to see a group of shrimps swimming happily, so she went back to her study and painted them.
I wonder if anyone here paints in this style.
"I didn't expect Miss Su to paint such a lively and vibrant scene. The shrimp is painted so well." County Magistrate Li said as he walked to the picture of the black shrimp.
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I didn't expect that Magistrate Li would like this painting of black shrimp! It's a pity that he has never seen the real painting of Master Qi Baishi, which is a masterpiece. She has never been able to paint the crystal clear feeling of the shrimp.
"Yueyao, I always thought you were good at painting landscapes and flowers! I didn't expect that you could paint this kind of painting with the interest of life so well." County Magistrate Wen said in surprise.
Su Yueyao smiled awkwardly. She didn't know what to say. How could this painting be bad? Although she was copying it, it was also a painting by Master Qi Baishi!
It was also the first time that Yang Qianxun and Lu Yuanyi saw Su Yueyao painting like this. They looked at Su Yueyao's painting with some surprise.
Su Yueyao felt a little uncomfortable with their gazes and said, "I drew this picture when I saw shrimps in a stream one day. County Magistrate Li can take a look at the other two landscape paintings."
"No need for that, Miss Su. I think this shrimp painting is very good. I like it very much. I wonder if Miss Su would be willing to give it up? Otherwise, I'll return the one thousand taels to you?" County Magistrate Li said as he tried to take out the silver note with great reluctance.
"As long as Magistrate Li likes it, you can keep the banknote!" Su Yueyao said helplessly.
Afterwards, Su Yueyao sent Magistrate Li and Magistrate Wen away. Magistrate Wen took one of the other two paintings. Su Yueyao felt numb to it. She thought to herself, those were the paintings that she felt were not finished, so she might as well give them away!
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