Chapter 146: Improvisational Lecture! (Part 2)
Ye Lingshuang was puzzled and asked, "Why did Brother Jiang say that?"
"You come from a wealthy family, you don't understand the poor people, so naturally you don't understand what they think! The people of our Northern Tang are simple and honest, whoever can feed them will be regarded as God! Similarly, if they don't have enough food, how can they have the leisure to pay attention to other things?"
"Miss Ye, don't think of them as Fan Zhongyan, who was concerned about his country and his people! For ordinary people, the first thing they care about is survival. National interests and the survival of the nation are too far away!"
The talented men and women present were speechless. They were all second-generation officials and rich people, and had lived in a honeypot since childhood. How could they have experienced the poor life of ordinary people?
They thought that everyone in the world was like them, who could eat enough and then, when they were bored, would start to worry about state affairs. Jiang Chengfeng's words were like an eye-opener to them, making them wake up instantly.
Everyone looked at each other. Even Fang Xinyuan, who loved to criticize Jiang Chengfeng the most, couldn't bear to refute. Instead, he looked at him with admiration and curiosity.
Jiang Chengfeng lamented endlessly, these young masters and rich ladies who had no worries about food and clothing were seriously out of touch with the common people and real life, how sad!
Ye Lingshuang was also in deep thought. When she first finished the painting, she was praised by others and she was very happy. But now she thought that she was wrong from the beginning and was right to say that the painting was not good.
Ye Lingshuang's eyes were red, tears welled up in them. She had always lived in the praise of everyone and in the beautiful dream of being the most talented woman in Huayang. She was modest and cautious on the surface, but proud deep down in her heart. It could be said that today was the strongest blow she had received since she became an adult, but she had a strong personality and was unwilling to let others see her weakness even if she was wronged.
"Only by understanding the common people can we paint them well!" Seeing Ye Lingshuang's pitiful appearance, Jiang Chengfeng couldn't bear it and smiled bitterly, "There is still a way to remedy this!"
Ye Lingshuang turned around, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, curled her lips, and said, "Remedy? What is the solution?"
Jiang Chengfeng took out a pencil from his arms and shook it, looking very proud. Fang Xinyuan had never seen this thing before, and immediately exclaimed : "What is this?"
Jiang Chengfeng looked at Fang Xinyuan with a serious expression and said, "This is a testimony of the love between a red horse and a white horse! After they died, their ashes turned into paintbrushes. I named you Pencil!"
Fang Xinyuan was slightly stunned, but then he realized that this bad guy was teasing him! Some people are really petty!
She spat and turned her head away, but she couldn't help but secretly glance at Jiang Chengfeng out of the corner of her eye.
Jiang Chengfeng smiled, then drew a few strokes on Ye Lingshuang's painting with a pencil, looked at Ye Lingshuang, and said with a smile: "Just trace along the marks on the painting!"
Everyone craned their necks to see, but the pencil marks were very shallow, and they didn't know what Jiang Chengfeng was drawing, so they looked at each other in bewilderment. Ye Lingshuang knew that Jiang Chengfeng was not used to using a brush, so she whispered, picked up the wolf-hair brush beside her, and drew carefully.
At first, Ye Lingshuang herself didn’t quite understand, but the more she traced along the scratches, the happier she became. Finally, her face flushed with excitement, she jumped three feet high, dropped her wolf-hair brush, and exclaimed, “Brother Jiang, I understand! I understand!”
Everyone was surprised and turned to look at the painting again, but saw that the old man in the painting had not changed, but his eyes had changed from worry at the beginning to a mixture of joy and sorrow.
In fact, Jiang Chengfeng's change made sense, and everyone understood it after thinking about it. Although the common people worked hard to build the dam, they could get wages and buy rice for their families, so they were naturally happy. The worry was that after the dam was built, they would not be able to afford three meals a day.
In fact, in Jiang Chengfeng's opinion, the effect of the painting is still not very good after some changes using sketching techniques. He did this just to make Ye Lingshuang feel better, as a small remedy!
Of course, this result is naturally a happy one for everyone, not only Ye Lingshuang is happy, but everyone else is happy too. After all, Ye Lingshuang's painting skills are still very good. If it is scrapped because of a small flaw, it would be a pity!
Fang Xinyuan wanted to "take revenge" and glanced at Jiang Chengfeng unhappily, grumbling, "Jiang Dazhu, you got a bargain! You made a few changes to Sister Ye's painting, so you can be considered to have made a contribution!"
I fuck you, you immortal boss, if you have the ability, come and make a few changes, it's easy for you to talk without any pain!
Zhu Kewei admired Jiang Chengfeng's delicacy and originality, but he despised the black pencil in Jiang Chengfeng's hand. He thought that this guy was just talking nicely. He praised others as masters, but his own drawing was very bad. If he had the chance, he would compete with him and make sure to win back some face!
Of course, only Ye Lingshuang could understand the skill and deep thought behind Jiang Chengfeng's strokes , but she felt very aggrieved. She looked deeply at the transformation in front of her for a few times, suddenly covered her face and cried, then turned and ran away.
Fang Xinyuan shouted from behind, "Sister Ye, are you going?"
Ye Lingshuang paused but did not look back. She whispered, "Sister Xinyuan, you guys continue painting! I want to go relax!"
Fang Xinyuan said "oh" and glared at Jiang Chengfeng, "You made Sister Ye angry and ran away. Are you satisfied?"
Jiang Chengfeng touched his nose. What does this have to do with me? It's just that this girl is too fragile, okay?
However, seeing Miss Xinyuan's angry look, Jiang Chengfeng couldn't help but grin and said to himself: "The world is so big, there are all kinds of strange things! The female white horse doesn't look for a male white horse, but falls in love with a chestnut male horse..."
"go to hell!"
Hearing that Jiang Chengfeng was still bringing up this matter, Fang Xinyuan felt embarrassed and anxious. She gritted her teeth and kicked Jiang Chengfeng. This girl's speed and angle were very tricky, no wonder she could become a constable!
Jiang Chengfeng took a step to the left, just avoiding Fang Xinyuan's attack, and turned away when Fang Xinyuan was about to kick him again. He wanted to find a deserted place to urinate, but he found Ye Lingshuang standing by the river in a daze.
My god, this girl's ability to withstand blows is too weak, isn't she? She actually wants to jump into the river?
"Ms. Ye, don't be upset! Life is actually very beautiful——"
Ye Lingshuang was shocked. She turned to look at Jiang Chengfeng, forced a smile, and said, "Brother Jiang, what did you just say?"
Jiang Chengfeng touched his nose and smiled awkwardly: "Um... Miss Ye, you are not going to jump into the river to commit suicide, are you? Actually, I was just joking before!"
