northernbook Chapter 255 Aunt Xiang Appears
Chapter 255 Aunt Xiang Appears
The meeting ended successfully.
Su He slept alone again that night. After Miaomiao had Jiaojiao, she grew up a lot and she was not as clingy to Su He as before.
Su He was suffering from insomnia again, so she simply went into the space to draw portraits. When she drew the 30th one, she finally felt sleepy.
After a good night's sleep, I get up early to work as an art teacher.
Su He was very surprised when he saw the person coming over. "Yanzhi, do you want to learn too?"
Yanzhi felt shy when she saw everyone looking at her, but she mustered up the courage to say, "Hehua, I want to try."
Su He nodded happily. If Yanzhi could learn it, she would be happier than anyone else.
"Okay, cousin, you're right next to me."
Wang Lanlan and her sister were also there. They were very envious of Yanzhi being taught by Su He, but they did not feel psychologically unbalanced. If they were in her place, they would also give priority to taking care of their own sisters.
Xinghua and Wang Qingqing followed quietly.
All the people who came were women. Su He greeted them one by one and then started directly.
"When we draw a portrait, the eyes are the most important. For the next month, we will draw one eye. After we finish the eye, we can learn other things."
"First, let's take out our charcoal pencils and draw two arcs to outline the eyes, then..."
Su He taught while drawing, and let everyone go after drawing twice.
Yanzhi and the other five were stunned. "Lotus, how do we practice then?"
"Practice on your own. Find someone to draw her eyes. When you feel you have done a good job, bring your drawing to me. I will be going into the city soon. If you have any questions in a couple of days, come to me in the city. Drawing requires more practice. It is useless to just listen to others."
After Su He finished speaking, she distributed rice paper to several people and let them go home to practice on their own. Of course, Yan Zhi didn't have to leave, as she would stay here.
"Lotus, can I draw you?"
Su He didn't mind, "Sure, but I won't be here soon. You can find someone you can see every day who is more suitable for you to observe, such as Liu Fuzi, who lives next door to you, or Tiantian."
Yanzhi rejected all of Su He's suggestions, so she just wanted to draw Su He.
"Lotus, I'll come find you when I finish painting."
Su He could only rub his nose and set off with Liu Bai.
On the way to the city, Su He went straight into the space to paint. Practice makes perfect, and he painted 15 more paintings in more than five hours.
After washing his hands and leaving the space, Su He felt as if his whole body was hollowed out.
I ate two pieces of chocolate before getting off the bus because it took too much brain energy.
In order to save time, the two of them went to the pier for lunch. After lunch, Su He started painting again. After another afternoon of hard work, they finally went to the government office to hand in 50 portraits before sunset.
In fact, she still had 30 cards in her hand, but she habitually left some room for herself.
I'll finish it tomorrow afternoon after painting.
It was time for dinner when the painting was finished. Su He could feel the bustling atmosphere around him through the door.
In the alley, there were stall owners hurriedly carrying their loads back home, and women sticking their heads out and shouting for their children to come back for dinner. Smoke was coming out of the chimneys of every household.
Su He and Liu Bai had dinner together again. Guan Xiao was not there, so Wang Jingui and Wang Liang hurried back to the village after finishing their business.
"Braised fish, stir-fried pork with peppers, and winter melon soup. Try them."
Liu Bai brought two bowls of white rice. Su He took them and picked up a piece of fried pork with peppers. It was just the right spicy level and chewy, just what she had imagined fried pork with peppers to be.
"It's delicious. I can eat two bowls of rice just with this dish."
Su He picked up a piece of meat and ate a mouthful of rice. All the fatigue of the day was washed away by the spicy stir-fried pork with peppers.
Liu Bai watched Su He quietly finish half a bowl of rice before he started eating.
Delicious meals, crowd pleasers.
After dinner, Su He wanted to go to the market again.
It was not yet dark and the pier was still very busy. Two people were walking slowly with a lantern in hand.
Su He is now considering whether to sell roasted sweet potatoes in the city. The ones in the fields have not been planted yet, but she has a lot of them in her space, and she can take them out after the autumn harvest.
"Delicious maltose, 3 cents a stick, maltose, sweet maltose."
Su He looked in the direction of the shouting and saw an old woman sitting on a small stool holding a can of maltose and selling it.
Su He loved to eat this when she was a child. Malt sugar can prevent tooth decay, so her grandmother would buy it for her when she saw someone selling it.
For Suho, these are happy childhood memories.
"Old woman, I want all the silver in this jar."
Su He's words made the old woman both surprised and at a loss. She looked at the maltose in the jar and estimated the quantity.
"Girl, I can probably sell another two hundred of these, I can't tell you exactly how much, if you want to buy them, I'll give you six hundred coins and give you this earthenware jar."
Su He took out six cents of silver from his pocket and added another 20 cents to the earthenware jar.
"Old woman, give me your little stick too."
Su He put the silver in the old man's palm. The old man's hands were very rough, and she didn't want to take advantage of the old man from the lower class.
The old man counted the silver carefully, and refused to take the extra 20 cents.
"Girl, you gave too much."
"I didn't give you much, so take the money and go home quickly."
Su He turned around holding the clay pot and wanted to call Liu Bai to get it, but ended up knocking him down.
She subconsciously apologized, "I'm sorry, I didn't notice there was someone behind me."
The other person was knocked to the ground, and perhaps because his elbow was hurt, he immediately groaned in pain.
Su He was about to help him, but unexpectedly the other person got up and walked forward with his face covered.
Su He looked at the man walking away in confusion. Why did this person seem a little familiar?
"what happened?"
Liu Bai came over and asked, and Su He handed the earthen jar to Liu Bai.
"This person is a little strange. Do you think he looks familiar to her?"
Liu Bai shook his head, "I can't recognize her. She looks like a woman."
Su He rolled her eyes. Anyone could tell that she was a woman.
Forget it if you can't remember it.
"Let's go, walk along the road to digest the food and go home."
She was thinking about going home to eat malt sugar, and couldn't wait to know what malt sugar tasted like in this era.
The two of them hurried back home and made their own maltose lollipops with small wooden sticks in the kitchen. They each had one and stared at the moonlight in a daze.
After Su He finished eating and was thinking about whether to paint two more pictures, she suddenly remembered that the familiar figure seemed a bit like Aunt Xiang.
No way, are they still in the city?
Aunt Xiang here turned left and right and entered a small alley. She stopped at one of the doors, looked left and right, and then knocked on the door gently. After a while, the door opened and she quickly squeezed in.
"Master, our portraits are posted everywhere in the city. They look exactly like us. It's hard for us to leave the city now."
Aunt Xiang took out the portrait she had torn off and handed it to Zhou Tianfu. Zhou Tianfu's face changed drastically when he saw it. The portrait looked exactly like him.
Aunt Xiang was a little anxious. If she had known this would happen, she should have taken a boat and left overnight.
Zhou Tianfu was now dressed like an ordinary citizen. He looked much more haggard after a few days.
He felt something was wrong when Guan Xiao ran away. It was not until the day of the Hundred Flowers Banquet when he saw everyone heading towards the main house that he realized that he had been targeted for a long time and he did not have to leave now.
So he took the 40 taels of silver notes he had prepared and ran away through the tunnel with Concubine Xiang.
The exit of the secret passage was his other house. The two of them did not dare to stay there and ran to the slum he had prepared in advance.
Originally, he wanted to wait until the storm had died down before leaving. There were still many treasures in his tunnel, and he really couldn't bear to leave just like that. As a result, he was in an awkward situation now. Where did this County Magistrate Ge recruit such a talent? Damn, he was shocked when he saw the portrait.
These people won't let him live.
"Let's go now before the portrait is seen by everyone."
Zhou Tianfu asked Aunt Xiang to get the bag. All his own property was packed close to him so he could leave at any time.
The two were about to go out when they heard a gentle knock on the door.