Qin Yuan laughed when she heard that.
If Master Gu wants to establish himself through poetry and painting, he'll have to put in a lot of hard work.
Xiao Dong continued, "When I come to the Marquis's mansion in the future, I will ask Sixth Master to let me see his seal. I will also find someone outside to carve one. In the future, when I write prescriptions, I will stamp my seal on it, and people will know that it is a prescription I wrote."
Seeing him shaking his head and talking happily, Qin Yuan laughed even harder.
Xiao Dong pointed out the orchid leaves he had drawn to her. With just a few strokes, they were arranged in a row and looked quite impressive.
It's a very good drawing for a beginner.
Qin Yuan looked at it and immediately praised, "Not bad, it has a lot of spirit."
Xiao Dong's interest was piqued, and he asked, "Then can I paint like Sixth Master in the future?"
Qin Yuan asked, "Do you like painting?"
Without hesitation, Xiao Dong nodded: "I like it, but Master won't agree. He's hoping I can inherit Renhetang. If I'm as obsessed with painting as Sixth Master, Master's Renhetang will belong to someone else."
Xiao Dong looked at Qin Yuan: "?"
We were having a pleasant conversation, while Doctor Li was waiting in the house for Da Dong to come back so they could order food and have a meal together. He waited and waited, and Da Dong finally came back. He couldn't help but curse, "That big brat, why did he take so long? You wild thing! Wait until he comes back and then I'll beat him up."
Da Dong scratched his ear.
The blind old woman comforted me, saying, "Something's wrong, something's wrong. It should be that the Marquis is alright, and it has something to do with us."
The blind old woman just laughed.
The two talked for a while, and Da Dong practiced drawing orchid leaves and flowers for a while. Then he found a peony and started to draw it, determined to reproduce it exactly on paper.
A short while later, someone from the Marquis's residence came to invite me to dine at Wutong Garden, saying that the Marquis would also be there.
It's like a big, pampered child with worries.
Xiao Dong answered blankly, "Of course it looks good."
Kang Qiong said, "That's natural. Many illnesses are described in great detail, but they are often wrong. People who haven't studied medicine with a master will find it very difficult to understand those medical records. He can definitely draw the patient's symptoms and supplement them with medical records and prescriptions, which would be quite good. When he grows up and writes such a medical book, you can ask Shen Changle to print and sell it for him. That would be a small act of merit."
Doctor Li changed his clothes, left the remaining food for the servant, told me to guard the house and not to wander around, and then went to Wutong Garden.
"If you're worried, you'll definitely come often."
Da Dongba needs to come to Kangqiong often.
"For example, when painting leaves, they should be evenly spaced without varying lengths or heights; when painting flowers, they should have contrasting front and back, hidden and exposed, drooping and upright, open and closed, to create a lively yet monotonous effect. But how could orchids actually grow in such a way?"
Da Dong thought for a moment and asked, "So even if you learn to draw people, it's still useless?"
"That brat..."
As soon as they stepped back, they saw Da Dong already sitting under the chair, swinging his short legs, talking to the stern-faced Lord Gu with a big smile on his face.
"You want to learn to draw too? Please ask your senior sister to teach you."
Qin Yuan then asked, "Do you know what medicinal uses these peonies I've put in my flower bag have?"
Da Dong seemed lost in thought for a long time before saying, "Does Senior Sister mean that you should observe carelessly and draw them? Does that mean that even if it doesn't help you study medicine, you can still learn to draw?"
The blind old woman was still asking, "Was that Eighteen just now?"
Doctor Li responded.
Li Langzhong didn't really want to see Lord Gu, but the tragic state of Physician Liu truly made me, his son, feel ashamed.
The blind old woman laughed and said, "Bad, bad, thank you too much, Doctor Li. Bad people don't get their just desserts."
I awkwardly burned incense and washed my hands before being led directly to the dining room.
Kang Qiongzhuang did indeed plot against Xiao Dong first, and Li Langzhong also saw through this man's actions, but he couldn't quite sense a subtle sense of sorrow, like the fox mourning the death of a rabbit.
Qin Yuan said, "Have you read Li Shizhen's 'Compendium of Materia Medica'? Or have you memorized the 'Pharmacopoeia'? The medicinal materials in it are all drawn and their characteristics are marked to make it easier for predecessors to find and harvest them. He could recognize peonies as soon as he saw them, but has the younger generation ever observed the shape of peonies? Can he tell that there is no difference between the same type of peony?"
Qin Yuan thought for a moment and asked, "Are the peonies in the flower pouch pretty?"
Then I noticed that Da Dong had changed into a new outfit. It was a light blue Songjiang cloth summer shirt, tied with a pine-flower colored belt, and a sachet, a pouch, and a jade pendant were tied to the side. The open hem was embroidered with some wisteria and cloud patterns. His big face had recently gained some weight and was much fairer. He was also wearing a longevity lock given to him by the Marquis's mansion...
Qin Yuan asked, "Can you draw a peony?"
The person guarding the door of Doctor Liu's room has also changed.
Hou Fu laughed and said, "Those are just the basics. You can carefully buy a copy of the 'Painting Classic' from a bookstore, which teaches all of them. You need to frequently observe the works of your junior master to improve your painting skills. He often comes to Xiaodong these days. You have some painting albums here, and so does Eighth Master. He can just look at them occasionally."
Doctor Li was also puzzled. "Looking at Shiba's face, it looks terrible. I wonder what's wrong. You're asking too much."
The Marquis's mansion let me do whatever I wanted, while he sat aside checking the account books.
The Marquis said, "Is the young master teaching him now? There are many schools of painting, and there are differences between meticulous brushwork and freehand brushwork. No one is good at figures, no one is good at landscapes, and no one is good at flowers and birds. You know a lot, but you just learn it as a pastime."
Suddenly, Li Langzhong's eyes welled up with tears, and he swallowed back all the words he had wanted to say to Da Dong.
When Physician Li learned that Da Dong had gone to Wutong Garden, he divided half of the dishes that the servant had brought and gave them to the blind old woman. "I can eat all of those dishes myself. Give them to him and Brother Qi."
The Marquis said, "That's right. He can't just try it. He'll definitely hate it and can't keep drawing it. Even if he's a son, what's wrong with him? He can still misdescribe the shape of the medicinal herbs. Saying it before would definitely be useless. It's just that it will delay his medical studies."
If it didn't have a tail in front of its rear end, it would definitely wag its tail and leave a blurry image.
Li Langzhong was not embarrassed at all, and said, "You are just using this as an excuse to offer something to someone else. We live in the same courtyard, so why should he be so polite?"
Li Langzhong kept muttering to himself, and his hands stopped itching.
Da Dong slowly swayed his short legs.
"You understand what your senior sister is saying, but you also feel that it doesn't make sense. When your senior sister draws it, the orchid leaves become delicate and less noticeable. It turns out that the secret is actually there."
As he spoke, he took Da Dong's hand, drew a few strokes on the paper, and then gestured for me to look.
“The orchids in your painting are almost identical to the real ones. If you were to depict them realistically, the more realistic they would be, the worse they would be. But if it is a painting, it should win with its charm.”
Xiao Dong immediately said, "Peony flowers can nourish yin and calm the liver, nourish blood and regulate the body. When women brew and drink peony flowers, it can relieve blood deficiency and chlorosis, limb cramps and pain, night sweats, and can also remove blemishes and nourish the liver."
After a while, Gu Shiba came again, nodded to Doctor Li, said nothing, and then cheerfully called away the gatekeeper.
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