In the house in Lixi Lane, Xuandu, the waiter opened the red lacquer food box and put on the table the cooked lamb with milk, three crisps mixed with vinegar, crispy bone fish, bream cake and quail, jade glutinous rice soup and kumquat. .

The clerk is from Jingshui Tower, which is near the old imperial city. When the emperor still lived in the Yuanqing Palace in the old imperial city, he often asked the eunuchs to buy various delicacies from Xuandu into the imperial city. , the crispy bone fish at Jingshui Restaurant is a must-order dish and is known as a delicacy.

There was a warm plate in the food box. The waiter had traveled half of Xuandu, but the food in the lacquer box was still steaming hot. As soon as he closed the lacquer box, he smiled at the lady sweeping Qing and said, "Please use it with caution, guest," and then left.

Before I left, I couldn't help but take a look at this shabby house. I could afford two or two tables of food and drinks, so why did I live in a place like this?

Li Chan looked at the food and wine on the table, "How come Qingniang has tricked people?"

"Young Master has been wronged. It was the Master himself who insisted on buying the painting without even paying back the price." Sao Qingniang said, "I can't say that I sold a fake in front of others, right?"

Li Chan clicked his tongue, weighed the purse embroidered with the Lucky Cat, and raised his chin toward the threshold, "Xu Da, did you use magic?"

"How can Alang accuse someone of his innocence out of thin air?"

Xu Da's eyes widened.

Seeing that it didn't look fake, Li Chan opened his purse and threw a broken piece of silver over, "Take it."

Xu Da stretched out his claws to fish it out and made a noise. He was overjoyed and asked a little uneasily: "What did Alang give me the money for?"

"The painting is of you, and you have a share in it."

Li Chan took out three more fifty-tael silver notes and said to Hong Yao: "Go with Qingniang, cash these banknotes, and send them to your biological mother and those who died in Qinghefang. "

Hongyao lowered his head, feeling a little guilty. Saoqing Niang didn't say anything, put away the banknote, and held her hand.

"You guys eat, I'll go deliver food to Mr. Bi first."

Li Chan carried the Shan San Crisp and Jade Grit Soup into the north room.

Hongyao watched Li Chan go in and asked Lady Saoqing in a low voice: "Ms. Saoqing, how do you eat, Lord Bi?"

"Go over and see, Young Master won't blame you." Sao Qingniang smiled and pushed Hong Yao's arm, "Go ahead."

Li Chan walked into the room and put two vegetarian dishes on the table, took out a piece of Shuzhou hemp paper, pressed it with a paperweight, and polished the ink.

He took out the pen made of something like teeth and jade, and wrote on the paper: "Mr. Pen, I'm in a good mood today. I have three crisps mixed with vinegar and honey-pickled plums."

Bi Jun wrote: "Who did it?"

Li Chan wrote: "From Jingshui Tower."

"quick."

Mr. Bi only wrote one word.

Li Chan smiled, looked at the two plates of vegetarian dishes on the table, and drew on the paper with a pen in his hand.

Mr. Bi is a vegetarian, and it is much more difficult to prepare vegetarian dishes than meat dishes.

This three-crispy dish with vinegar uses the best young spring bamboo shoots, wolfberry vegetables and fresh mushrooms. After blanching, it is served with white vinegar, the first soy sauce and sesame oil and salt that are opened in early autumn.

The jade glutinous rice soup is made from Lingnan rice broken into pulp and boiled with white radish.

Li Chan didn't look at the drawing paper, but stared at the two vegetarian dishes with extremely focused eyes.

A moment later, the two vegetarian dishes were vividly displayed on the paper. No other paint was used, only thick and light inks were used to contrast, but they looked fragrant and fragrant.

Li Chan lowered his head and sniffed the three crisps mixed with vinegar and jade grits soup. These two dishes had lost all their fragrance. The smell of white vinegar, autumn oil and sesame oil seemed to disappear out of thin air. The rice fragrance of jade grits soup and the sweetness of radish The taste is also missing.

He put down his pen, stirred the spoon, and took a sip.

It tastes like chewing wax.

Bi Jun did not move for a while. After a while, he wrote on the paper:

"Yes, after one year of studying painting, you have reached a lifelike state. After four years, you have learned how to 'shift the mind and fix the quality'. Now, you have mastered the ability to move the mind and fix the quality."

Li Chan called Qingyaksha to pour the discarded vegetables into the swill bucket, and then read the words on the paper.

Li Chan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Mr. Bi saying that he had achieved great success in moving the mind and fixing the essence.

Ever since he was born at the foot of Taodu Mountain, he has been surrounded by demons.

He practiced martial arts and painting with Mr. Bi. Mr. Bi didn't seem to teach him any special skills, but he naturally learned the art of painting monsters.

In what Bi Jun calls the realm of painting, the first thing is to be lifelike, that is, to be able to accurately outline the things you are painting in the painting.

And moving the spirit to determine the quality has moved from technique to Tao, and can take the charm of the painted object and seal it into the painting.

Li Chan studied painting for twelve years and finally achieved great success in the state of moving the mind and fixing the essence.

Li Chan wrote and talked with Mr. Bi again.

"How does it taste?"

"It's not satisfactory, but your painting skills have improved, and these dishes have not lost their original taste."

Li Chan wrote: "This is Jingshui Restaurant's dish. It's hard to buy better food in Xuandu even if you have money."

Before he could answer, Bi Jun wrote again: "Now that I have achieved great success, what is the next state?"

Bi Jun wrote: "Hang on the wall and fly."

Hang on the wall and fly?

Li Chan raised his eyebrows.

"If you can draw living creatures, wouldn't that reverse the realm of life and death?"

Bi Jun wrote: "The pinnacle of the way of painting may not be able to reverse life and death."

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One night passed, and Li Chan was still thinking about Mr. Bi's words.

In the past twelve years, he traveled all the way from Taodu Mountain to Dayong Kingdom, and met many people who were dedicated to painting on the way.

The murals of the Fansheng Kingdom are the best, and there is splendor in the silence, which fits its nickname "Peacock Kingdom".

There are many esoteric cultivators in the Kingdom of Treasure Lion, and believers often use Buddhist pictures to decorate mandala for prayer. Many domestic painters are very good at painting Buddhist pictures.

However, among the painters from various Western countries, the most powerful ones have only achieved a lifelike state.

After coming to Dayong, Li Chan had seen some paintings that paid attention to artistic conception, and he was able to distinguish the form but retain the spirit. However, no one could be like him, who could transfer the spirit and fix the essence of the painting, and seal the charm of the painting into the painting.

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As for the realm of hanging on the wall and flying by yourself, I have never seen it before.

I heard that there are ten famous paintings in Dayong Kingdom, and most of them are paintings by literati. Only two are murals, one in the old imperial city and the other on Mount Xiyi.

It is said that the painting "Five Saints and Thousand Palaces" on Mount Xiyi depicts all the gods in the nine heavens and has great auspicious images. Every time at dawn and sunrise, clouds will appear from the painting.

The other mural was "The Picture of Ten Thousand Spirits Chaoyuan" in the old imperial city. Li Chan did not find out what was special about this painting, nor did he try to sneak into the imperial city. After all, although the old imperial city had become a palace, it was still a palace.

There are also practitioners guarding it.

Have any of these ten famous paintings reached the stage of hanging on the wall and flying on their own?

When Li Chan passed by Huaiyuanfang, he looked far to the north and could vaguely see the top of the golden verandah prostrate under the blue sky in the distance.

He looked at it for a while, then withdrew his gaze and walked towards Huaiyuanfang.

With the money earned from selling paintings, scriptures, and writing essays, I spent fifteen taels for red medicine and the money I spent on buying banquets, leaving about six taels left. When I find Nie Er, I can sell Lixi Lane.
Chapter completed!