Chapter 17
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The noon sun was just right. It was warm but not hot. A light breeze caressed his face. It was very comfortable. It was the most suitable place to take a small stool and take a nap at the door.
Li Yi sat on the small stool and leaned against the wall with his eyes half closed. The sunlight shone on his body and warmed him up. He was extremely comfortable.
With his current body, his skin was so white that even women would be jealous of him. He was completely a gigolo. Li Yi planned to tan a little. He might not be tanned to a bronze color, but he would at least look a little manly.
The only fly in the ointment was that the stool under his buttocks was too hard. It was uncomfortable to sit on. He wondered when he could make a recliner. He could lie on it every noon and bask in the sun. His life would become better.
Xiao Huan cleaned the yard and spread a clean coarse cloth. She took out the books from Li Yi's room and placed them on the cloth.
Scholars had the habit of drying books on the seventh day of the seventh month to show off their talent. The more books one had, the more knowledgeable the owner was.
Li Yi did not care about this custom. It was just a few lousy books at home. What was there to show off?
He had an entire library in his head. There were millions of books, covering all kinds of books. He was ahead of this world by hundreds or thousands of years. When had he ever shown off?
Opening his eyes, he saw a delicate figure busy in the yard. He pointed to a corner in the room and said, "Xiao Huan, there are a few books there. Don't forget to take them out to dry …"
"I know, son-in-law!"
The servant girl raised her head and smiled, revealing two shallow dimples. She trotted into the room.
When Xiao Huan ran over, a fragrant wind blew past him. Li Yi took a deep breath. He felt that the world had become beautiful.
Life seemed to have slowed down countless times. Thinking of the busy days in the past, it was really like his previous life.
There was no nightlife. After dark, it truly represented the end of the day. Sleeping early and waking up early. The previous Li Yi would never have thought that one day he would actually live such a healthy and regular life.
Just as he was sighing in his heart, he suddenly heard a rustling sound by his ear. Opening his eyes, he turned his head to look and saw that the servant girl was squatting on the ground, holding a branch in her hand and drawing something on the ground.
This strange action made Li Yi somewhat puzzled, he opened his mouth and said: "Xiao Huan, what are you doing?"
The servant girl stopped what she was doing and raised her head, saying, "I'm drawing."
"Painting?" Li Yi looked over and vaguely recognized two fat ducks on the ground in front of Xiao Huan. He couldn't help but feel even more confused. "Why are you drawing ducks out of nowhere …"
"Son-in-law, this is, this is a mandarin duck!" Li Yi's words caused the little servant girl's pretty face to turn red. She quickly stood up and wiped away the traces on the ground. Her pretty face was so red that it reached her ears.
If it wasn't Xiao Huan but any other girl who was mistaken for a mandarin duck, they might have fought with Li Yi to the death.
Thinking that the two fat ducks were actually mandarin ducks drawn by Xiao Huan, Li Yi almost laughed out loud. But seeing that the little servant girl was so embarrassed that she was about to cry, he finally held back his laughter and asked: "Tell me, why are you drawing mandarin ducks?"
The little servant girl's pretty face was completely red. Her two hands rubbed the corners of her clothes and she said in a small voice: "It's to draw on the sky prayer lantern. At night, the sky prayer lantern will be released. Everyone will draw on the sky prayer lantern so that their wishes will come true."
Li Yi thought for a moment and waved his hand at her. He said: "Go and bring your sky prayer lantern over."
The little servant girl had always been obedient to Li Yi's words. She nodded and entered the room. Not long after, she came out with something in her hands.
"This is the sky prayer lantern?"
Li Yi looked at the square frame made of bamboo in Xiao Huan's hands. It was pasted with a layer of white paper. Wasn't this the Kongming lantern?
Of course, the Kongming lantern in Xiao Huan's hands was much cruder than the ones in the future.
"Go grind the ink in the room." Taking the Kongming lantern from Xiao Huan's hands, Li Yi thought for a moment and spoke again.
Through those few strokes just now, Li Yi had a good understanding of Xiao Huan's drawing standard. Drawing two fat ducks on the lamp would definitely be a joke if he took it out, so he might as well draw it for her.
The little servant girl had already understood what Li Yi wanted to do. A happy expression appeared on her little face and she ran back to the room to get a brush and ink.
Son-in-law was a scholar. Reciting poems and drawing was definitely not a problem. It was just that as a servant girl, some words were not suitable to say. Li Yi's actions were exactly what Xiao Huan wanted.
At the same time, Li Yi's thoughts had already floated to the library in his mind. It was located in a corner on the second floor, the painting area.
"China painting, oil painting, drawing, watercolor painting, three-dimensional painting, simple painting …"
There were several rows of bookshelves in the painting area, and there were at least a thousand books there. Li Yi was dazzled by the number of books, and after some sifting, he finally set his eyes on the bookshelf related to simple strokes.
He did not have much of a foundation in painting. Even if he had this heaven-defying cheat, it was impossible for him to immediately learn to draw difficult paintings like oil painting. Moreover, there were no materials for oil painting here.
Traditional China painting placed more emphasis on artistic conception. It was not something that could be grasped in a short period of time. Simple painting was instead the most suitable.
Li Yi's mind moved. Books related to simple painting immediately flew out from the bookshelf. They turned into pieces of information and entered his mind.
Inside the room, Xiao Huan stood beside the table grinding ink. Li Yi fixed the Kongming lantern on the table. A picture had already formed in his mind.
Li Yi's pen was in Xiaokai, so his handwriting was thin and suitable for drawing simple strokes.
Xiao Huan ground the ink while standing on her tiptoes to watch the fine lines form under the pen of the son-in-law. In a short while, a woman dressed in a palace dress appeared. Behind her, colorful ribbons fluttered. It was as if she was in the clouds. Very quickly, a man dressed in coarse cloth appeared in front of the woman.
With just a few strokes, it formed an endless galaxy that separated the two.
Countless birds flew from afar and gathered at the feet of the two. They formed an arch bridge that spanned across the two sides and connected the two together.
"Meeting on the Magpie Bridge …"
Xiao Huan stopped grinding the ink. Her crystal-like eyes widened. She could not imagine that without using any colors, the son-in-law only used these simple lines to form such a vivid and lifelike scene of the cowherd and weaver girl meeting on the magpie bridge.
It was the first time the little servant girl saw a simple painting. Her little heart clearly suffered a great shock.
Originally, she only wanted to draw two 'mandarin ducks'. But what Li Yi drew really shocked the little girl …
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