mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 175

Chao Haiguang was particularly satisfied when he heard the name of the painting, but Zena Keith was astonished.

My God, my heart is still there!
No matter how it sounds, there is a taste of irony in it.

All of a sudden lost interest.

But Zhao Chuanxin was in full swing, holding the carbon rod and waving at the two of them: "It's windy, it's a little cold, you go back first. See you at the restaurant tonight, and I'll give you the painting then."

The human heart is actually the most vulnerable to scrutiny, and after scrutiny, you will find it disgusting.

A person who licks the dog's saddle and serves after the horse may be disrespectful, when you take it for granted.

Pulling out the ruthless one like Zhao Chuanxin made Zena Keith full of resentment.

"call!"

Finally clean.

Zhao Chuanxin sighed secretly: I am really a person who has no desires and no desires.

Facing the sea breeze, the afternoon sun is warm, Zhao Chuanxin's leisurely paintings, from time to time passengers pass by and stop curiously, and then praise them.

There was even a white man who said, "Sir, in this painting, the Japanese man behind is a bit superfluous."

Zhao Chuanxin didn't turn his head back: "Yes, I think so too."

The man continued: "Sell it or not?"

"Not for sale, this painting is to be given to the Japanese person you mentioned."

"..."

In many cases, it's not that they are not talented enough, or it may be that they don't know how to pretend like Zhao Chuanxin.

No, there is no need to participate in the art exhibition, and someone came to inquire about the price.

He thought happily: Do you want to take out the paintings he made before and hold an art exhibition or something?

Think about it or forget it, if you enter this industry with your own profound skills, will you give other artists a chance to develop?
In the evening, Zhao Chuanxin delivered the painting to Chao Haiguang as promised.

"It's so well drawn!"

Chao Haiguang gave a thumbs up.

He was really satisfied, and when he was ready to go back, he mounted it and hung it on the wall for future generations to watch.

It's just that this marriage can last until that day is unknown.

"That's right, if it wasn't for the underappreciated talent, maybe today there would be one more famous painter and one less wealthy businessman!"

"..."

Does it make you praise yourself?

It would be interesting to get along with people like Zhao Chuanxin calmly.

But the enemy will only grit his teeth at him, and the hatred is getting deeper and deeper!

Fortunately, now Chao Haiguang thinks that Zhao Chuanxin is his friend.

In 1868, the port of Kobe was opened. In 1899, the self-government of foreigners ended here. With the gradual improvement of aquariums, golf courses, tunnels, etc., in 1905, Hanshin Electric Railway opened the first intercity railway from Kobe to Osaka, and Kobe's economy took off completely. .

Here has become the window of Western civilization.

Zhao Chuanxin and others disembarked from Kobe. At the port, Chao Haiguang made an appointment with him at a time and place to meet again, and said goodbye.

Zena Keith turned her head several times, and Zhao Chuanxin gave her a wink, but she ignored it with a smile.

Evil, charming and wild, women are not good at it.

He wanders around,
I saw someone holding a sign that said: Mr. Zhao.

Strolling over: "Hey, brother."

The man was stunned: "You are Mr. Zhao?"

"I'm Zhao Chuanxin, let's go."

Said, pulled this person.

The person seemed to be choked in his throat by the greetings, and he was dragged to a stagger.

The expression is a little uncomfortable.

"Hello Mr. Zhao, my name is Li Shutong!"

In the end, he still spoke out.

Zhao Chuanxin's footsteps paused: "What?"

"Li Shutong!"

This one, Zhao Chuanxin looked at it carefully.

He has a big dorsal head, a sparse beard on the upper jaw and chin, thick eyebrows and small eyes, and the height of the left and right eyebrows is slightly different. Except for the eyebrows, the facial features are quite correct.

A son in the waves of the world of mortals, an eminent monk on the top of a lonely peak.

To say that during the New Culture Movement, the only person who dared to describe him as "brilliant" was Li Shutong in front of him.

Unexpectedly, the talented Li Shutong was just an inconspicuous person in Zhao Chuanxin's eyes.

He chuckled: "Brother, I heard that when you were young, you liked to wear a quilt and pretend to be an eminent monk?
Me too, I swore to be a hero when I was a child wearing a flowered quilt! "

Before that, Li Shutong was a slutty boy who rolled around in the world of mortals. He came from a wealthy family, liked to listen to operas, and lingered in various places where there were many girls.Then came a major turning point in his life, when his mother died.

So the character changed suddenly.

Taciturn, his temper became introverted.

Li Shutong is like this now.

Li Shutong smiled embarrassingly: "I just laughed. Mr. Zhao is very handsome, I didn't expect such a childlike thing."

"Isn't that right?" Zhao Chuanxin patted him on the shoulder: "I heard that you are full of talent, bro?
This, like me! "

"Forehead……"

The two are two extremes at this time.

Zhao Chuanxin is unrestrained and lazy, while Li Shutong is restrained and serious.

He is really serious: when he was a son-in-law, he was a proper second-generation rich man.When I started to study art, I concentrated on it.After escaping into Buddhism, he tried his best to study Buddhism.

This person lives out the wonderful lives of other people.

Zhao Chuanxin said as he walked, "I didn't expect that the person Yinghua was looking for was you.

I heard that your family members all believe in Buddhism. Everyone said that you have Buddha nature since childhood?
Let me tell you, brother, if you go to burn incense with me, the Buddha will lose his ass! "

Uncle Li is from all over the world, so he is well-informed.

But he had never seen such a person.

Social bullshit, that's no joke.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw Zhao Chuanxin kick a long-haired dog away: "Get out, someone's dog got lost and looks like this."

Li Shutong shook his head with a wry smile.

Who are these people?

As a result, a white woman screamed: "Ah, why did you kick my baby?"

Zhao Chuanxin looked down at that ugly long-haired dog, that's it?

How is it worse than our home cooking?
"Oh? I didn't mean to."

Zhao Chuanxin opened his eyes and spoke nonsense.

"You did it on purpose." The fat white woman insisted, "Susie is so human, why are you willing to let her go?"

"Hehe, I think you are quite human."

The husbands of the fat women were standing next to him, and seeing Zhao Chuanxin's Asian face felt confident, and reached out to grab Zhao Chuanxin's collar.

Zhao Chuanxin punched without hesitation, bang!

A straight punch passed, and he was knocked down!
The fat lady pulled her skirt and squatted down to check her husband's breath, then raised her head and shouted, "I want to call the police, and I want you to pay the price."

"My white-skinned little pig friend, I didn't mean to treat you like this, it was purely a mistake, haha."

Li Shutong who witnessed everything: "..."

Zhao Chuanxin gave him a hand: "What are you doing in a daze, the wind is blowing!"

The two ran away.

Before the incident broke out, the scene was successfully evacuated.

After gasping for breath, Li Shutong's face turned pale when he calmed down.

He sighed: "Being a stranger in a foreign land alone, everything is difficult."

And Zhao Chuanxin: "No, how cool!

I just like being in a foreign country. I don’t have any psychological burden to kill and set fire to do anything! "

Li Shutong was a little helpless.

In front of this person, it seems that it is difficult to shut yourself up for a while.

"Mr. Zhao, where are we going next? Mr. Miuzhi asked me to act as an interpreter for you and introduce the local situation in Japan. Actually, I am not familiar with Kobe, and I am usually active in Tokyo. I have just been admitted to Tokyo Fine Arts The school's oil painting department is now on leave."

"Ah? Didn't that delay your studies?" Zhao Chuanxin said as if he felt guilty, but his face was laughing: "Come on, take a look at the delicious food and drink around, let's get enough food and clothing first, I'll treat you. "

Li Shutong did not refuse, saying: "Beef hot pot is popular in Japan now."

"They actually popular hot pot? I thought it was sashimi."

"Originally, Japan traditionally didn't eat livestock meat, but after the Meiji Restoration, the westerly wind gradually moved in, and the saying that eating beef can strengthen the body somehow spread, and beef hot pot became popular."

"Then what are you waiting for, find one to try."

into a restaurant.

Do as the Romans do, Uncle Li sits kneeling on the ground like the others.

Look at Zhao Chuanxin again, with his legs crossed, and Da Chichi sitting on the futon: "You translate, let them serve three or four catties of beef first, and the hot pot needs to be spicy."

Looking through the menu, Li Shutong wondered: "Well, they don't have spicy food. We can't finish eating three or four catties."

"What?" Zhao Chuanxin flipped his hands over, and there was a piece of spicy hot pot base wrapped in oil paper in his palm: "Then let them have a mandarin duck pot, one side is clear soup and the other side is spicy.

It's only three or four catties. I have a small appetite, so it should be enough. "

Li Shutong had never seen a man who carried hot pot ingredients with him.Three or four catties of beef is still a small appetite, and this is the first time he has heard of it.

He looked at the menu: "Mandarin duck hotpot? This one, there really isn't any!"

He slammed the table, and Zhao Chuanxin said: "There is no such thing, and there is no such thing, so why open a hot pot restaurant?"

Li Shutong's temperament is weak and stubborn.

Here, Zhao Chuanxin yelled and slapped the table and stared, which made Li Shutong's scalp tingle, and his eyes wandered around unconsciously, without any sense of security in his heart.

I can't say whether I feel ashamed or afraid of getting into trouble.

He faintly regretted that he shouldn't have agreed to Mr. Mizhi.

The waiter standing next to him waiting to order asked timidly, "Excuse me, is there anything you are not satisfied with?"

Li Shutong translated, Zhao Chuanxin looked up at the petite Japanese waitress, and said, "Forget it, let her serve two pots, and I will add them myself."

As a result, the waitress said: "If two people eat, two pots are too wasteful, right?"

Zhao Chuanxin heard it: "Don't care about your business, just go up if you are told, what are you talking about?"

He found that what he said was quite imposing, but Li Shutong's translation was gentle and kind, which made him quite dissatisfied.

When the waiter left, Zhao Chuanxin poured a glass of sake for Li Shutong: "Brother, you are good at everything, but you are too soft-tempered.

Little Japan is just a bunch of pretentious and prudish dogs, if you give them face, they will match face!

Listen to my advice, swear more in the future, fight more if you have nothing to do, and do more things like killing Japanese people, there will be nothing wrong. "

Uncle Li spat out a mouthful of sake.

Thank goodness it hasn't been put on the pot yet, otherwise it would have been ruined.

Wiping his mouth, he hesitated for a moment: "Mr. Zhao, I feel that I have little talent and learning, and I am not qualified for this translation job..."

His character is like this, easy to fear difficult.

If you are not satisfied with your life in Tianjin, you will go to Shanghai to make a living.After her mother died, she went to Japan for further studies to escape her grief, and later chose to become a monk.

Now he wanted to avoid Zhao Chuanxin, who was causing trouble again.

As long as he goes abroad, Zhao Chuanxin will be a demon king in the world, and even if there is no wind, he will set off three feet of waves.

In the United States, he is crazy!

Is it okay to come to Japan?

Japan invaded China, no Japanese is innocent!

He chuckled: "Why, want to run? You can only think about it."

No matter what those Wen Qing said, Zhao Chuanxin still thinks that it is not romantic for Li Shutong to become a monk.

He doesn't like the Buddha who hides from the world.

It's better to influence him by yourself, maybe you will extinguish your heart in the future.

Li Shutong came up with a stubborn temper, and said in a muffled voice, "Could Mr. Zhao still force me to stay?"

"Yeah, I want to force you to stay." Zhao Chuanxin admitted generously. "Have you heard of me?"

"I heard it a little bit." Li Shutong felt breathless, as if Zhao Chuanxin's force value could really hold him back. "Mr. Zhao was born outside the customs, resisted the Russians and Japanese, and went to the United States to protect overseas Chinese.

With the continuous natural disasters in China, I am also preparing for charity performances to raise money for disaster relief.And Mr. Zhao has already achieved the front.

All great things.

So I don't think Mr. Zhao will be that kind of unreasonable person. "

Play aggressive method?

Zhao Chuanxin smiled dismissively.

"Ham, that's right, I did all these good deeds that I didn't want to be named.

You can boast about it.

Then you should know that after I beat all the invincible players in the world, I embarked on the road of convincing people with reason.

I'm trying to convince you now. "

"..." Hooligans are not scary, but they are cultured.Li Shutong was about to choke: "Mr. Zhao, well, I promise to translate for you these days.

However, I suggest that you..."

Before he could finish speaking, Zhao Chuanxin picked up the chopsticks and said, "Your suggestion is very good, don't suggest it next time.

eat, eat. "

I don't know whether to spray a mouthful of old blood or not!
Even Li Shutong himself didn't realize that when he was with Zhao Chuanxin, all the sadness in his heart disappeared.

Put the spicy base ingredients into a pot, and when the water boiled, Zhao Chuanxin directly picked up the plate, pulled it with chopsticks, and put the whole plate of beef into the pot.

"If you eat like this..."

Hot pot is to eat slices and eat tender.

What's the fun in a plate like this?What's the taste?
Seeing that Zhao Chuanxin wanted to ruin the bottom of the clear soup pot, Li Shutong hurriedly stopped him: "Pour this slowly, slowly."

As he said, he put three slices of beef into the pot.

Of course, the water in the pot with less meat boils first.

Li Shutong just stretched out his chopsticks, but saw an afterimage of the chopsticks flying by. The chopsticks stirred nimbly, and the three slices of beef just dropped disappeared.

Zhao Chuanxin dipped in the sauce, and the mustard pungent: "Oh, I choked to death!"

Li Shutong put three more slices into the pot, and when they were almost cooked, the afterimage of the chopsticks appeared again, and the beef was naturally gone.

wipe!
Li Shutong slapped his chopsticks on the table: "You can eat it yourself!"

With a laugh, Zhao Chuanxin filled Li Shutong with wine: "No, the spicy pot is also good, eat this and eat this.

Just get used to it slowly, in our Lugang town, everyone grabs hot pot.

Slow down, you won't even be able to catch the meat scum! "

Li Shutong realized that he couldn't believe that he said that just now.

He is gentle and gentle, and has a soft temper. He usually communicates with people in a friendly manner.

Unexpectedly, this Mr. Zhao easily let him break the defense.

At the same time, I also became a little curious about Lugang Town.

It's really interesting to think about the scene where a table of people use chopsticks as weapons, swords and swords, you come and go, but their faces are laughing and joking.

Just thinking about it makes me laugh.

In such a moment of stunned laughter, Zhao Chuanxin scooped up half of the spicy pot with a few chopsticks.

(End of this chapter)