Chapter 35 Seeing the Snow Moon (3)
Due to the impact of the house shaking, both ends of the veranda fell, leaving only a section in the middle, like a big snake with its head and tail cut off, lying half-dead on the ground. And the pattern on its body, the Yubin Canal map, was naturally no longer complete.
At this moment, Mu Jianli was drawing the only half of the map. He should have been drawing for many days and it seemed that he was about to finish.
"The Canal Map has been modified for 19th edition, and there are three latest versions. This time the collapse was completely destroyed, leaving only the half of the corridor. The teacher was furious. Senior Brother Mu had to do his homework for a while, and he didn't even dare to delay the heavy snow days..." A disciple explained to Xie Changyan.
Xie Changyan looked at Mu Jianli's painting with concentration, suddenly raised his eyebrows, reached out and pointed at a place, saying, "I've painted wrong."
Mu Jianli raised his head in surprise and then saw her: "Why are you here? And, why are you wrong?"
Xie Changyan skipped the first question, "This place is one inch or two inches shorter. I came to ask Luguan so many times, and passed by the corridor. I have seen the whole picture no less than a hundred times. I am sure I have drawn the wrong one here."
Mu Jianli looked at her in shock. The disciples beside him were also stunned.
Xie Changyan's eyes moved to the left: "There is also here. If you look at the wall carefully, there are thirteen folds in the mountains, but you only draw twelve folds. The slightest mistake is a thousand miles away, Brother Mu."
"You're here?" This sentence suddenly came from behind.
Xie Changyan was not polite, and immediately took Mu Jianli's pen, pushed him away and sat down by himself, and used the pen to change the wrong place.
Although the picture of Mu Jianli is about to be completed, because of the incomplete original object, it is only a half-picked with a missing head and tail. Both the Wei River and the Nanshan end are empty.
Xie Changyan pondered for a while, and slowly put it on.
For a moment, there was silence everywhere. Everyone slowed down their breathing and did not dare to make a sound, for fear of disturbing her. Mu Jianli even brought an umbrella to support her and blocked the falling snowflakes for her.
Xie Changyan drew about half a stick of incense before he finished his pen and rubbed his frozen hands and said, "It's basically the case, but I can't remember the details anymore."
The voice that said "You come" before sounded again: "How long have you learned to draw?"
"Since three years old, but it has been..." Xie Changyan replied while turning his head, his voice immediately stopped a little, "Learn... Horses... Tigers..."
I saw Gongshuf standing less than a foot away from her, carrying her hands on her back, looking focused, and I don’t know how long I have been watching.
The lightning-like scar on his face looked a little crooked because of his frowning, not as stunning as when he first met. His eyes looked at the abundant light during the day, with a little blue color.
"Scarlet?" Gongshu frog sniffed, not knowing whether he was mocking her or mocking the painter who taught her. He took two steps forward and pulled the painting away from Xie Changyan's hand, stretched out his thin fingers with clear joints and drew it a few times on the painting, and his brows became deeper and deeper.
Xie Changyan discovered that this person could not frown. Once he frowned, the scar would be twisted and destroy his beauty. But he had a deep character Sichuan on his eyebrows, which he often frowned.
"Come with me." Gongshu frog took the painting and left.
Mu Jianli wanted to follow, but he kicked him aside: "I didn't ask you to get out!"
The other disciples were silent and looked fearful.
Xie Changyan had no choice but to follow him. When he passed by Mu Jianli, Mu Jianli gave her a look of self-requirement.
Everyone seems to be afraid of Gongshu Frog. But probably because she had too deep absurd memory when she first met Gongshu Frog, she really didn't think there was anything scary about this teacher who would make a big fuss with Feng Xiaoya like a child, but it was quite interesting.
But soon, she no longer found this person interesting.
Because the main house collapsed, a tent was set up in the backyard, and Gongshu Frog took Xie Changyan into the tent.
It was a mess outside, but the tent was clean and well organized.
Just like everyone here is covered in dust, the Gongshu frog is better than snow, and it is not stained with dust from beginning to end.
Gongshu frog walked to the shorter table, first took out a rag to wipe the several sides carefully, and then signaled Xie Changyan to sit down. After Xie Changyan sat down, he was not satisfied and stared at her shoes.
When Xie Changyan saw that the soles of his shoes were stained with snow, he immediately picked up the rag and wiped it off silently.
Gongshu Frog's face looked better.
"You have come to Luguan many times, but I have never seen you, why?"
Xie Changyan thought for a while: "Sir, treat me as an idle person who comes here to visit, and I look down on you from the bottom of my heart."
Gongshu frog dumbfounded, frowned, and asked again: "Why are you asking you to come now?"
Xie Changyan pursed his lips and smiled: "Is it because... that he discovered my talent?"
Gongshu frog glared at her and took out a carved ruler.
"The main trunk of the Wei Canal is 722 miles long. When it is shrunk to this paper, it should be one foot and nine centimeters. This section is accurate." He said that the ruler was placed on the head of the Wei River painted by Xie Changyan, and the fruit of the river was one foot and nine centimeters.
"This rock canal is 85 miles long, which should be one minute, two centimeters and seven millimeters. This section is slightly different." When the ruler measures it and shows one minute, three cents and three cents, it is indeed a little bit worse.
Xie Changyan raised his eyebrows.
It is thought that because she has been practicing painting on the wall for many years and is good at carving, she is particularly sensitive to distance and size. However, she has been rated as Bingbing and Bing since she was a child, and she does not think that this is her strength. However, this person can see the slightest difference by just one glance, and her eyesight is obviously far above her.
Gongshu frog put down the ruler and looked at her straight.
Xie Changyan spread his hands: "Wouldn't it be a pity if the class gate doesn't show off? The little girl has been taught."
Gongshu frog snorted coldly: "It's good to know. Your tricks are not enough to see at all." He paused and said, "I didn't see you before because I didn't want to call the old swallow's heart. He sent you to me with a good idea..."
Old Swallow... Xie Changyan was silent and suddenly felt like he was talking: "Then why did you change your mind now?"
She had a premonition that she could use Gongshu as her mouth today to verify the suspicion that had been buried deep in her heart.
"You were assassinated last night, weren't you?"
Xie Changyan raised his eyes and the news spread so quickly?
"For you and me, Yu Kyoto is already a place of right and wrong, and it is too unsafe!"
Xie Changyan didn't understand, but she did not reveal it, but glanced at Gongshu Frog with a smile.
Gongshu frog was indeed deceived. He coughed twice, restrained his expression, which made the scars on his face shine. "Informed in advance, I don't like female disciples. Women are in great trouble. After finally teaching, they got married and had children. After that, my heart was completely on the child. So, when Lao Yanzi said that you have the talent for digital eyesight, I don't care."
Xie Changyan's heart skipped a beat. She silently counted one.
"And I didn't lack manpower before this. Until..." Gongshu frog gritted his teeth, and the scar became a little crooked. "If I knew which guy was so humble in my back, I would have carried a ladder to burn his whole family!"
Xie Changyan immediately caught the point: "The door of the workshop was opened intentionally, not unintentionally?" Last time he heard a conversation with Feng Xiaoya, he learned that the workshop originally built underground was very safe and could not collapse the house above, but someone secretly opened the door, which led to the leak of the force of flint and it was out of control.
"Not only, even the seven disciples I sent to the river to report the situation and update the map were all destroyed." Gongshu Frog was furious when he said this, "Some people don't want to open the canal, nor do they want you to be the queen!"
"who?"
"Who else can it be? Yang Zhu's disciples and grandchildren of the old poisonous creature."
Xie Changyan was stunned for a moment before he realized who Yang Zhu was. Although he was a Taoist, Xie respected me and still disagreed with Yang Zhu's saying "respecting himself".
Yang Zhu’s most famous saying is “A little benefit to the world is not to be with me.” This emphasis on personal interests and the theory of no monarch will naturally be despised by emperors of all dynasties.
But it is very ironic that the behavior of most aristocratic families is a true portrayal of Yang Zhu's thoughts, such as Feng Xiaoya's sentence "The country has no accumulation for three years, but the scholars have a rich life."
The country is so poor, but most of the aristocratic families are so rich. No matter how smelly the wine and meat are, they will not be willing to give out any to help the people.
When the King of Yan wanted to open the canal, it benefited the country and the people, but it harmed the interests of the scholars. It would be fine if the land in the river that originally belonged to the aristocratic families was forcibly expropriated, but they also had to cooperate in paying for the people. Moreover, after the opening of the Yubin Canal, the royal power's control over the southern border will be greatly strengthened, and at that time, the forces of the aristocratic families in the south will be further restrained.
"The Yubin Canal is 2,366 miles long, and 160,000 yuan is requisitioned for civilians. It consumes 3,000 stones of grain every month. It is expected to require 100,000 gold. Where does the grain come from? Where does the gold come from?" Gongshu frog was so angry that his scars were tilted and his beauty disappeared. "The old swallows emptied their nests, but those aristocratic families refused to pull out their hair. It would be fine if they didn't help, but they would make trouble! If I hadn't met you for my life, I would have breathed a hole and gave them breath, today would be my 100-day sacrifice."
Xie Changyan's eyelashes trembled and he silently counted "two".
"So you see, I have a great life, and you have a great life. Two people with great life are suitable for doing something together."
"What's the matter?"
Gongshu frog turned around and took off three scrolls from the bookshelf. Xie Changyan also noticed that the neat scrolls on the shelf were even discharged from light to dark according to the color of the axle wood.
"These three pictures are all canal maps, how is the difference?" He spread all three pictures in front of Xie Changyan.
Xie Changyan calmed down and began to take a closer look.
The first painting is the simplest, with white drawings throughout the body, only mountains and rivers, and the size is basically the same; the second painting is painted, with light yellow mountains and rivers, light green rivers, green tops, and large and small rivers, highlighting the main prefectures and counties; the third painting is very similar to the Yubin Canal Picture on the Corridor Wall, distinguishing the stem, tributary and upstream and downstream with lines of different thicknesses.
Chapter completed!