Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 242 Is this the legendary enlightenment?
Throughout the afternoon, Li Feng copied several more sheets of Xuan paper. Around 5 p.m., he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He had gained a lot of calligraphy experience that afternoon, as he knew that this was his most important task during this period, and he was extremely serious about it.

Every stroke of the pen is copied with thought in mind.

Ten days passed peacefully afterward. Li Feng's calligraphy level had been raised to level four. He had genuinely practiced calligraphy for those ten days. Meanwhile, Master Wang thoroughly enjoyed the dishes Li Feng prepared.

Now, he can basically just wait at home for his three meals a day, and the food will never disappoint Master Wang.

At noon today, after finishing his meal, Master Wang put down his chopsticks and then spoke to Li Feng.

"You've been practicing calligraphy for ten days now, and your brushstrokes are getting better!"

"That's good enough, but when you return to the capital, you must practice diligently, understand?"

Upon hearing Master Wang's words, Li Feng was momentarily stunned, then nodded in response.

"I see!".

"Master Wang, what do you think I need to learn next?"

At this moment, Master Wang thought for a moment, and then he asked Li Feng.

"How much have you learned about landscape painting?"

Li Feng then replied to Master Wang.

"I didn't learn much about the theory of landscape painting, but I basically memorized the painting methods in Ma Tai's Painting Treasures."

Master Wang nodded, and then he began to speak to Li Feng.

"Ma Tai's Painting Treasures is a good book, but it focuses on figures and is somewhat lacking in the section on landscapes."

"There are still twenty days left. I'll go to your room later and then I'll give you my Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Potion for you to practice."

"From now on, you can use rice paper to draw the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting."

At this moment, Li Feng couldn't help but ask Master Wang some questions.

"Master Wang, do I not need to paint porcelain?"

Master Wang nodded.

"We don't need it for now."

"Our Wang-style landscape painting basically all started with practicing on paper."

"If you use a material like Zhuming to paint landscapes, it's too easy."

"The most important thing is ink. You can master the basics of brush and ink after practicing for a long time, but ink is not easy to control."

"Once you master the use of ink, it will be easy for you to paint porcelain with pearl pigments or water pigments."

"Sometimes the method is actually very simple, but you have to keep drawing."

"It's only useful to keep drawing and thinking. As for other ideas?"

"Don't think too much about anything other than drawing."

"If you have too many thoughts, it's a bit difficult to learn to draw."

When Master Wang got to this point, he couldn't help but sigh. After all, he had seen many people give up after learning their craft for a while.

Among them are many talented individuals.

Therefore, in Master Wang's view, when it comes to taking on apprentices, he usually takes on children who are twelve or thirteen years old, with the oldest being seventeen.

Li Feng is considered Master Wang's oldest disciple.

Master Wang's first three disciples were all taken in when they were fourteen or fifteen years old.

Moreover, they are all quite talented; he wouldn't accept ordinary people.

Therefore, the master also looks after the apprentice.

At this moment, Li Feng suddenly asked Master Wang a question.

"Shall I return this calligraphy copybook by Yan Zhenqing to you now?"

However, Master Wang waved his hand at Li Feng at this moment.

"This calligraphy copybook is for you."

"Anyway, I have no use for this calligraphy copybook."

"Besides, I have no children, so you can take it."

Master Wang's words puzzled Li Feng. He hadn't expected that Master Wang would have no children. After all, in Li Feng's opinion, Master Wang didn't seem like someone who couldn't afford to get married. How could he be childless?

However, Li Feng didn't ask too many questions at this time. After all, this was Master Wang's private matter. Since Master Wang wanted to give him Yan Zhenqing's letter, Li Feng had no reason to refuse.

This is an authentic work by Yan Zhenqing. It's better to keep this calligraphy for yourself than to let others benefit from it. After finishing his meal, Li Feng quickly tidied up the table. Master Wang then tossed Li Feng a few copies of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting before leaving home.

Li Feng looked at the Mustard Seed Garden in his hand with some surprise.

This Mustard Seed Garden actually dates back to the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, it is a version from the Qianlong period, which is not far removed from the Kangxi era.

In other words, the Mustard Seed Garden that Master Wang just gave him can be considered a kind of cultural relic to some extent, but it is not a cultural relic in the true sense. After all, in Master Wang's eyes, the Mustard Seed Garden is at most just a book for learning.

Even so, this is the closest version to the first edition. The versions that Li Feng wanted to buy at the bookstore before were mostly recently printed versions, which were bound to have some missing parts compared to the most recent versions.

so.

At this point, the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting that Li Feng was going to copy was closer to the original.

At this moment, Li Feng couldn't help but get excited, after all, this was a great opportunity for him.

If I ever want to paint blue-and-white landscapes in the future, I'll definitely find the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting useful.

So Li Feng spent the entire afternoon here copying this version of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.

However, the effect was quite good. In just one afternoon, he gained a lot of drawing experience, but all of this experience was in the form of drawing skills. So Li Feng opened his panel and started to look at it.

Host: Li Feng

Age: 19 years old

Occupation: Full-time ceramic worker (specializing in ceramic painting)

Status: Level 4 Painter

职业技能：拉胚4级（1600/285）陶瓷绘画5级（3200/253）格斗技巧1级（200/15）古董鉴定1级（200/10）英语精通4级（1600/517俄语精通1级（200/192）机械精通4级（1600/0）书法精通4级（1600/11）歌曲制作2级（400/127）编程精通1级（200/0）化学精通1级（200/0）摄影精通1级（200/1）

Life Skills: Cooking Level 1 (200/43).

Potential: Painting, mechanics.

特殊技能：十钧之力、马骀画宝全部绘画技能1级（200/15）、随身空间（1立方米（备注能够随时放入取出无生命物体））浅绛彩技法精通1级（200/57）汪派山水技法（初级）。

Mastering the technology: Complete lithography machine technology.

Unfinished task

1:

"To tutor Ding Qiunan in English and improve her English proficiency."

"Completing the task will reward you with a random level 1 skill."

2:

"Activate the task of painting the Western Frontier Songs and Dances on porcelain plaques!"

"Completing tasks can randomly grant you random skills."

After Li Feng finished looking at his panel, he was completely stunned. What the heck?

I spent the whole afternoon drawing, but I didn't gain any drawing experience?
Not only did my experience in ceramic painting not increase, but my experience in painting treasures by Ma Tai, or in Wang-style landscape painting and mastery of light-colored enamels also did not increase.

This puzzled Li Feng.

Did I mishear the system message?
When Li Feng thought of this, he began to copy the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting again.

"Drawing experience +1". "Drawing experience +1".

When Li Feng heard the system notification, he couldn't help but feel strange.

That's right, it does add +1 to painting experience, but it doesn't add any experience to ceramic painting at all, and the same goes for other skills.

Is there a bug in the system? It looks like the porcelain painting of the girl from Xinjiang from before?
At this point, Li Feng couldn't help but wonder if there was a problem with the system, otherwise this would definitely not be happening.

So when Li Feng tried to copy it again, a notification sound rang in his mind.

"bite!".

"Congratulations, host, for activating the talent skill 'Mastery of Traditional Chinese Painting'."

"bite!".

"Host's talent for traditional Chinese painting has been detected. Level 5 proficiency in traditional Chinese painting."

When Li Feng heard the notification sound from his system, he was completely stunned.

What the hell?

It turns out that the painting experience I gained was in traditional Chinese painting.

In other words, my Chinese painting experience level is now at level five?
In the future, I won't have any problems painting traditional Chinese paintings.

This made Li Feng very happy.

After all, he had gained another skill. However, the only thing that puzzled Li Feng was why he hadn't broken through to a higher level earlier.
Then Li Feng thought of something else: it seemed that he had only painted ceramic paintings before, so it was normal that he hadn't gained any experience in traditional Chinese painting.

When Li Feng thought of this, he felt relieved.

Li Feng then began to copy the works.

As a result, Li Feng found that he could now copy the designs very easily.

This level five mastery of traditional Chinese painting is truly impressive; Li Feng never expected it to be so amazing.

夜晚
starry
Master Wang returned from outside and saw Li Feng sitting at the table in a daze. On Li Feng's table were many of his copies of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.

So Master Wang walked over to Li Feng and started looking at the painting.

When Master Wang put down the painting in his hand, he glanced at the painting placed on the far side. At that moment, Master Wang realized that the painting on the far side was much better than the one in his hand.

His brushwork was comparable to that of a master of traditional Chinese painting.

This greatly surprised Master Wang.

Master Wang then looked at several of Li Feng's imitations below, and found that their skill level was about the same as his own.

The difference is too great, isn't it? This puzzled Master Wang greatly.

After about half a minute, Master Wang thought of a possibility, and at this moment he couldn't help but mutter to himself.

"Is this what they call enlightenment?"

Otherwise, Master Wang simply cannot explain these things.

Just then, Li Feng suddenly came to his senses. He saw Master Wang standing beside him, so he quickly stood up and apologized to Master Wang.

"I'll go make dinner now."

However, at this moment, Master Wang stopped Li Feng's actions and then asked Li Feng in surprise.

"Did you draw all of these?"

Li Feng looked at the painting he had copied in Master Wang's hand, and nodded in response.

"That's right!"

"What's wrong?".

At this moment, Master Wang held up two paintings with obvious differences and asked Li Feng a question.

"Why are these two paintings so different?"

After Master Wang finished speaking, Li Feng realized that the difference between the two paintings was indeed significant. The painting that Master Wang had initially shown was not bad, but it was definitely different from the Mustard Seed Garden Landscape Painting that Li Feng had copied after activating his Level 5 Chinese Painting skill.

That's a huge difference.

So it's normal that Master Wang found it strange.

At this moment, Li Feng couldn't help but wonder how he should explain this to Master Wang.

After all, this seems a bit too absurd.

So Li Feng thought for a moment, and then he came up with a somewhat unrealistic reason. At this point, Li Feng couldn't help but start explaining to Master Wang.

"Master Wang, this afternoon at some point, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration and drew it like that."

"Actually, I don't know why it was drawn that way."

To Li Feng's surprise, Master Wang agreed with his explanation and nodded to him.

"Um!".

"This must be enlightenment."

"In a certain moment, it suddenly felt like I had mastered it."

After listening to Master Wang's words, Li Feng was surprised that Master Wang would actually agree with his reasoning and even help him fill in the gaps in his mind with the explanation of enlightenment.

This was something Li Feng hadn't expected.

At this moment, Li Feng scratched the back of his head and then gave Master Wang an awkward smile.

"I don't know either".

"That's probably how it is."

At this moment, Master Wang nodded, then put Li Feng's copy of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting aside, and then gave Li Feng some instructions.

"Go and cook."

"I'm quite hungry today."

After hearing Master Wang's instructions, Li Feng immediately went to cook.

A few days later, after that, it was probably a few days later.

Master Wang, tell Li Feng that he no longer needs to copy the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.

Over the past few days, Master Wang observed Li Feng and found that Li Feng's level of copying had basically remained at the level of that night. Even if he continued to copy, it was unlikely that he would improve much further.

So Master Wang immediately told Li Feng to stop copying.

At this point, the two pieces of raw Xuan paper had been used up almost completely.

Next, Master Wang instructed Li Feng to proceed directly to the painting of ceramic famille rose enamels.

In Master Wang's view, Li Feng's performance over this period has shown that the knife is sharpened and ready to be used.

So today, Master Wang directly asked Li Feng to start painting on the porcelain plate.

However, Master Wang did not ask Li Feng to use pearl-like materials for painting; instead, he instructed Li Feng to use water-based materials.

Since it uses water-based materials, there should be almost no problem.

After all, Li Feng had copied so many landscape paintings from the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting during this period, so it was no problem for him to paint a landscape painting with water and pigments.

Li Feng then began to paint with water-based pigments on a 40*40 cm square ceramic tile.

At this point, Li Feng could almost no longer use light ink for sketching; he directly began painting on the porcelain plate with a brush dipped in water.

This time!
Li Feng plans to paint a landscape painting to show Master Wang.

After all, Li Feng also wanted to have Master Wang appraise the results of his work over this period.

(End of this chapter)