Chapter 255: Help

Feng Zi's expression changed with Ye Tao's words, and finally it was frozen in a thoughtful look. He felt that Ye Tao's statement was still a little reasonable. Feng Zi thought about it carefully and said, "Sir, you can leave this matter to me. It's not reasonable to use this reason directly on the official side. It's the face of both parties at the same time. I'll just do it, and I'll hint that a person of a high enough level or a key subordinate of a high enough level will naturally pass the message. Sir, you're still casual these days, and don't have to take all kinds of things too much. Although you know that you have never been popular with adults, at least some of them have to give you some face. Moreover, some banquets are still interesting. Chunnan is attentive to entertain, at least some are delicious and some are delicious. You are used to being simple in your daily life. People are willing to spend extravagance, at least enjoy it?"

If the officials in Chunnan and members of the aristocratic families heard Feng Zi talk to Ye Tao like this, they would probably be so surprised that their chins fell off. Feng Zi's smile was very disrespectful to Ye Tao. In the Jingli Mansion, everyone is actually very familiar with this casual joke method.

"Okay." Ye Tao replied with a smile: "I'll be relieved if you do this. Anyway, I won't agree to send troops. But we might as well agree to other conditions. It's indeed not convenient for us to send troops to cooperate with Chunnan, but if Chunnan can launch troops to attack Xiling, it would be a good thing if Chunnan can kill Xiling's military strength in large quantities. Chunnan's side has some understanding of my Dongping's technical system. When we talked with Chen Xujing and the others last time, they discovered that those ideas have their own reasons for how to make those bifurcations, catapults, and oil bombs play a role. Although Chunnan's infantry is relatively outdated in equipment and training methods, its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. Chen Xujing and some other Chunnan officers, and the generals have good standards. The group of people from the Intelligence Bureau seem a little unobjective... In general, once the war starts, Chunnan and Xiling become both sides of the defeat."

"So adult." Feng Zi curled his lips and said, "Actually, there is another situation that can be considered. Chunnan's deception is very good. We, Dongping, sold so many weapons, large-scale weapons, so many lubricants and other things to Dongping, and sent many officers to assist Chunnan. The cooperation is very close, and we have learned a lot of knowledge about the military dynamics in Chunnan, but we only got some rumors about Chunnan's efforts to attack Xiling. The efforts made by Chunnan this time can be imagined... What if we reveal a little bit on the eve of Chunnan's attack?"

Ye Tao shrugged indecision and said, "Let's talk about it then. No matter how fast it is, it will be next year."

After discussing with Feng Zi for a little discussion, Ye Tao was relieved. Although Feng Zi has always been lazy, he handled everything when he really agreed. Now, what Ye Tao could do was wait for Feng Zi to convey his meaning. The other party's reaction and the Qihai Trading Company meeting a few days later. That night, when Dai Qiuyan mentioned that there was a party of a painting club held in a villa by the sea the next day, Song Xiangjun and others would go there. After several times of getting along, Dai Qiuyan and Song Xiangjun and others got along very well. Song Xiangjun, known as the world's number one beauty, did not have any arrogance. The peaceful and gentle attitude, but with a curious attitude towards many things, made it easy for people to talk to her. Dai Qiuyan easily became friends with her. Dai Qiuyan had another problem, that was that she felt that she could not draw Song Xiangjun well.

Indeed, in terms of pure painting skills, Dai Qiuyan, who has been thinking about this all day long, has surpassed Ye Tao now, but when encountering such creative problems, she still naturally turned to Ye Tao for help. Not only because of her inner affection for Ye Tao, but also because she can always get the answer. Ye Tao may not have surpassed her brush, but Ye Tao has artistic creation ideas that surpass her for many years. When he saw that Ye Tao's tone was a little loose, Dai Qiuyan immediately begged Ye Tao to attend tomorrow's painting club event and go and see how to make that portrait for Song Xiangjun. Ye Tao shrugged and agreed. Isn't it just to look at the beauty, what a good thing.

The villa is just above the mountain behind Liudi. Because of its high location, it can see the entire harbor and harbor. It is indeed a very good viewing place. No one expected that Ye Tao would come here without any notice. He comfortably set up tables and chairs on the terrace near the sea, brewed a pot of good tea and sat there. He didn't expect that Ye Tao would actually notify him in advance, and there seemed to be no destination. At the same time, the people attending the meeting came up to say hello, and Ye Tao responded so lightly and politely. However, he didn't say much to unfamiliar people. Ye Tao came here just to accompany Dai Qiuyan. By the way, he came to see the beauty and the beautiful scenery. He was not going to add luster to such calligraphy and painting exchange activities, but Ye Tao would not put on airs or do anything to be unstoppable.

"Brother Ye..." Just as Ye Tao and Liu Yong were chatting about different types of merchant ships and warships in the port and commenting on the advantages and disadvantages of various warships, Dai Qiuyan suddenly ran over and asked, "Brother Ye, are they asking me to draw a picture of the sea view, can you help me?"

There were many people quietly adorning Dai Qiuyan. When they heard Dai Qiuyan’s request, many people were sweating. Although many people knew that Dai Qiuyan’s earliest artistic enlightenment was carried out by Ye Tao, Ye Tao never seemed to have any works circulated, which was very different from Dai Qiuyan. Ye Tao’s current identity is to help Dai Qiuyan? Chunnan people also knew that in Dongping, the status of women was much higher than in Chunnan. This time, in the mission sent to Chunnan, there were people like Tan Weishi who could make decisions, and even in Dongping, especially in Yunzhou, female officials began to appear one after another. However, the status of women is one thing, but it was obvious that this was beyond everyone’s expectations that a young and powerful official would take action when painting his wife.

Ye Tao just shrugged easily and took Dai Qiuyan's hand to the terrace on the other side. It turned out that at the calligraphy and painting meeting where they were good at today, many wonderful works were taken out. Dai Qiuyan, who was mixed into this kind of confrontation between students from both countries for the first time, was unknowingly driven by the atmosphere. She simply and directly pointed out the shortcomings of several seascape works based on her own judgment. In this way, the students of Dongping have certainly gained face, but they also put themselves in the position of being attacked.

Dai Qiuyan was indeed very simple. When someone suggested that she draw a work on the spot, she said without thinking: "Okay." Then she asked generously: "What type of painting is it?"

What type? Dai Qiuyan has already produced several oil paintings, pencil light color, gouache, watercolor, sketch, and ink paintings. In such activities that are mostly literati, facing the ground, a cute young woman like Dai Qiuyan, or Ye Tao's wife, naturally no one dares to choose the type that Dai Qiuyan is the worst at, but everyone really doesn't know what Dai Qiuyan is good at. Dai Qiuyan's simple question actually caused an instant cold scene.

Dai Qiuyan looked at the scene by herself and understood that the realistic painting method was too time-consuming. If they were painting ink but could not fully display the scenery she wanted to draw, they would say to make a colorful ink. However, Dai Qiuyan still felt that... this kind of painting was directly drawn on site, according to her extremely picky pair of colors, it would probably take more than two hours to make a painting, and at least half of it was spent on color adjustment. This time they came to Yuhang, but they really didn't bring the maid who was used to cooperating with Dai Qiuyan... the one who was competent for color adjustment was Ye Tao.

In the burning eyes around, Ye Tao was very calm. After talking to Dai Qiuyan for a moment, he started to work proficiently. Suddenly, Ye Tao replaced Dai Qiuyan and became the focus of everyone. Ye Tao not only did not feel embarrassed to do such a job as a book boy and a maid. Instead, he was full of professionalism in every move.

The two guards were commanded to put together two tables, and according to the habit that everyone in Ye's workshop began to get persistent, they checked the stability; they pulled out the largest thin felt from the painting box and brushed it open and spread it flat; a series of painting tools were placed on the table, and the most precious of them was naturally the color ink tool box. When the color palette and color discs placed on the upper floor of the tool box were taken out, it caused a sound of air conditioning among experts around them. Dai Qiuyan's color utensils were all pure white new cloud kiln products, and each terrain was carefully designed, and these color utensils themselves are works of art. At present, Ye's workshop has not solved the technical problem of using tin tubes to hold paste-like objects. Moreover, considering that they often have to travel long distances, and considering the convenience of using and color utensils, the color inks are all powder-like soluble substances. Remove the

In addition to the dozens of standard colors that are often used, other colors must be mastered by the painter themselves. They can be adjusted in advance, or they can be achieved directly on the scroll by rendering and overlapping. Color is only one of the problems, and in the painting of color ink paintings that require coherence, various problems in the color adjustment may affect the quality of the painting. For example, if there is a piece of pigment that is not fully dissolved and is brought to the paper by a brush. A painting is likely to be ruined. Even if the paint is too dry, too thin or too moist, it may affect the coherence and mentality of the painter's creation... The more serious problem is the colors that must be used all the time. Due to the size of the color adjustment disc, when encountering the same color that needs to be repeatedly modulated, how to ensure that the things that are tuned are the same color and moisturized at the same time? This is a very difficult technical task.

Ye Tao's performance has far exceeded the level of being proficient. His movements are accurate, coherent, and powerful, but he rarely lets these precious dishes and other things hit each other and make any crisp sounds to affect Dai Qiuyan. As Dai Qiuyan began to paint, everyone continued to present them as the entire work continued to be complete, and they found that Ye Tao seemed to have an accurate judgment on the layout and tone of Dai Qiuyan's entire work from the beginning. He always prepared the right color at the right time and put it at Dai Qiuyan's hand. Even the amount of paint handed over was just right every time, so Dai Qiuyan would never leave too much in the drawing. He needed to add water and adjust it next time he used this color... After all, it was summer, and the steaming was too fast.

It is easy for the people around to see from Dai Qiuyan's face. Her emotions are also rising due to this extremely tacit cooperation and extremely smooth painting process. This is indeed the most comfortable impromptu creation in Dai Qiuyan's history. How can the maid who needs her constant guidance and training to keep up with her creative ideas be compared with Ye Tao, who introduced her to the painting art hall? When painting, when the color appears in her mind, the color at hand is there. This feeling is really enjoyable...

The scene that surprised everyone the most appeared at the end. When Dai Qiuyan completed the painting of all the details with unprecedented high emotions and unprecedented speed, she was about to spread the color of the water surface in the bay with large ink colors, and frowned slightly, as if she was about to make some requests. A plate of extremely moist water color was handed to her hand. At that moment, she kept writing fine and elegantly, as if she was occupied by another soul. Her figure seemed to rise and expand at that moment. She used a pen to scatter large pieces of paint on the paper, then spread it out with a pen, and finally even took the plate of paint directly while pouring it... In the short time when she was so focused that she almost forgot to breathe, the painting was finally completed in her burst out.

When Dai Qiuyan finally breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the entire scroll with satisfaction, and then turned to look at Ye Tao, she found that Ye Tao was ready to take the palette and pen from her, and prepared to wash the pen and palette thoroughly, wipe it dry, and put it back on the box. The entire tool box was closed again. Ye Tao actually calculated Dai Qiuyan's entire creation time just right, turning this accidental impromptu creation into a show.

The people around him have not just forgotten the things like applause. Colorful ink paintings are originally a very unfamiliar but attractive area for Chunnan. Even if you ignore the color and only consider the layout, lines, brushstrokes, etc., it is still considered a rare masterpiece. Not to mention this impromptu creation, the way the two cooperate and the tacit understanding between them are almost a wonderful performance. Most of the people present are very clear that this situation is not something that Ye Tao and Dai Qiuyan can design and practice in advance. The topics discussed today and what will happen today are completely accidental. It is precisely this accident that greatly amplifies the effect of such a performance.

Everyone looked at each other in a quiet state. It was not a cold incident, but a shock.

"What do you think?" Ye Tao asked kindly.
Chapter completed!