Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 240 Rewards
The imperial concubine is always rich and powerful when she makes a move.

The envoy she sent sent three carts full of things!Among them, all kinds of paper and silk occupy a cart.Li Lijun buys paper on weekdays, mainly through Zhao Chenji's channels, mostly Xuan paper and Shu paper. In the past six months, he has added yellow table paper, hard yellow paper and so on.The noble concubine rewarded them all, not to mention all of these, and there are also hemp paper, mulberry paper, bamboo paper, silkworm cocoon paper, etc. Among them, the hemp paper produced in Yizhou also has yellow and white colors, all of which are the best quality tributes.

It seems that the imperial concubine did not choose paper suitable for painting, but packed all the paper in the inner palace and sent it over.The emissary also said that when the three carts of paper were used up, Li Lijun would send someone to tell her, and the inner government would send someone to continue to bring her new paper, and there was no problem with whatever paper she wanted.

As for the silk, it is the most popular hard silk nowadays, which is suitable for painting, and all of them are finished.Even if Li Lijun asked Zhao Chenji's people to collect it, they would not find a product of better quality than this one.

In addition to paper and silk, other utensils are also very rich.The pens are all made by famous masters. The Zhuge pens produced in Xuanzhou are famous all over the world. There are two big boxes here.There are not only palace products, but also tributes. The two famous inks of Shanggu Yimo and "Shangdang Songxin" are in half, and they are both high-quality pine smoke inks.Inkstones are all Duan inkstones.In addition, there are various porcelain paint bowls, water bowls, water pans, pen mounts, pen holders and so on.

As for the pigments, apart from the most common pigments in the world today, real gold powder, real silver powder, lacquered gold, lapis lazuli, turquoise and other valuable materials are all sealed in half-foot-long boxes one by one. Half the car lined up.As for the remaining half of the cart, there are precious spices such as agarwood, sandalwood, rue, and balsamic, which are also very valuable.

The messenger also said: "The imperial concubine said that she has only seen Si Niangzi paint with ink and wash, but she doesn't know whether Si Niangzi likes to paint landscapes, flowers and butterflies on weekdays, and which famous artist she studied under. The emperor she saw in the palace The paintings of famous masters, whether they are paintings of landscapes or flowers and butterflies, mostly use these materials. Some of them have been polished, but most of them have not yet been polished. Si Niangzi will just use them. When you run out, just tell her , she will order someone to send a new one over."

Li Lijun thought to herself that when she started to learn painting formally, she learned ink and wash landscapes, at most adding some color pigments, but she seldom made paintings in the two styles of "green landscape" and "golden landscape".In addition, she occasionally paints flowers, birds, insects and fish, but she is not as particular about "Tengpai Butterfly Paintings", using lacquer, gold and spices.However, the famous painters in Li Tang's clan are all from these schools, and they are not in the same way as her.The concubine sent these paints, she really didn't know how long it would take to use them up, why would she want new ones?

Li Lijun could only solemnly thank the noble concubine for her kindness, and then, with the help of Princess Dou, sent the envoy away respectfully.Looking back at the three carts of painting materials and paints, I was really a little bit blind.

The time she spends on cultivation alone is tight enough, not to mention taking care of the management of her own business and occasional troubles, how can she have the time to paint so many paintings?
Forget it, from now on, she will paint a landscape or market painting every few months and half a year, and send it to the palace to deal with the imperial concubine.Anyway, the imperial concubine didn't really expect her to become a famous painter, but she just wanted to use this name to maintain the relationship between the two parties, so that those rich and powerful would not bully her, a poor little girl.

Li Lijun asked people to move the three carts back to his yard.Li Yanjun had just been grounded, so she could only stand on the side of the courtyard door and stare helplessly, the jealousy on her face could not be concealed at all.Li Chujun saw her passing by, laughed at her a few words loudly, and drove her back into the house.

Li Chujun ran to Li Lijun's yard, took a few glances at the painting materials, and then entered the room and said to her: "I didn't expect you to be quite capable. I only saw the imperial concubine and got her favor. Now the Yang family I'm afraid that no one dares to talk about you anymore, even if they want to spread gossip, they don't dare to be as blatant as before."

Li Lijun said: "The noble concubine just saw that those Yang family members were not pleasing to the eye, so she took the opportunity to warn them. There are so many clan girls in Chang'an City, many of them lost their mothers when they were young, and there are also some who are not favored by their fathers. Why is she alone? Am I treating it differently? Didn’t I just show it to some people? The eldest sister must have heard about what happened in the first month of this year. The imperial concubine brought wealth and glory to the Yang family, but when she encountered difficulties, everyone didn’t care. She thought about supporting her, but just tried to persuade her to be patient, she was wronged in her heart. This grievance can't be told to the sage, it can only be discouraged by the Yang family. But she is reluctant to part with her close relatives. Just use it to make a fuss. Who told the Yang family to offend Mrs. Guo Guo?"

Li Chujun didn't take Li Lijun's half-truth and half-fake words to heart, and just said: "It's fine if she supports you. Although I also lost my mother when I was young, if she really treats me so kindly, I will only feel that Angry. If it wasn't for her and her sisters, my mother wouldn't have died so unjustly back then!"

Li Lijun felt that although Dayang's death was a bit wronged, there were not only the reasons why she pretended to die, but she didn't have the courage to bear the consequences, and there were also factors of accident and dystocia, so it was unnecessary to blame the imperial concubine.Of course, Li Lijun didn't want to defend the noble concubine, she had never cared about politics and indulged her family, so she would have to bear the bad consequences in the future.

Li Lijun changed the subject: "There are too many painting materials that the imperial concubine rewarded. I am afraid I can't use them all by myself. Do you want to share some of them?"

Li Chujun is not interested in painting at all: "I don't want it! But my brother occasionally draws something to relieve boredom, you can ask him." Then he leaned in front of Li Lijun and asked in a low voice, "I heard that the third child is today. You went out dressed in red and willow green, why did you change when you came back? Are those clothes you wore a few days ago?"

Li Lijun narrated today's experience in detail, explaining that she borrowed clothes for Li Yanjun because she stained her skirt.

Li Chujun cursed secretly: "Stupid thing! During the filial piety period, she dressed like a butterfly and went to see the noble concubine. Everyone can see that she did it on purpose. Even if the noble concubine feels it for a while, she will not really treat her as a poor little girl." Why didn't she do this kind of thing after she became a filial piety? Aye actually allowed her to act recklessly! Now that she has offended Mrs. Qin and Mrs. Guo, let's see how she ends up!"

Li Lijun smiled.Such a simple truth, even Li Chujun can easily think of it, but Li Dai seems to have lost his mind, and made a fool of himself with his daughter, and now it’s okay to fail, if it is true that their plan succeeds, maybe even the emperor will lose his mind. To be alarmed.At that time, it will be difficult to end!The holy family that King Sui managed to restore was probably about to be lost again.

Li Chujun glanced at Li Lijun, and snorted softly: "You little brat, don't tell me that the third child stained his skirt today, it really has nothing to do with you! You still couldn’t stop her from going out, how could you be willing?! Afterwards, you kept calm and let her think that things would be done. You didn’t stop her when she went out, and you talked when she was eating stuffed snacks , she was so surprised that she dropped her snacks and stained her skirt, and then the servant came to summon her, one after another, and she didn't even give her time to change clothes, did you do it on purpose?! Waited until the last moment. If you do it, she won't be able to do anything anymore!"

Li Lijun looked at the elder sister with innocent eyes: "What are you talking about, elder sister? It's all a coincidence. Aye saw it with his own eyes. Third sister's carelessness has nothing to do with me!"

Li Chujun sneered, turned his head and left.

(End of this chapter)