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Chapter 168 The Useless Wang Family

"No one in the Wang family can learn this art of painting. Most of them are arrogant and domineering, with evil intentions and no pure heart. They can't become top painters. They can only make a living by painting flowers, birds, fish and insects. As for painting people, they are not good at it. Painting people is a literati painting, and they are not literati!"

Hu Linglong shook her head. As far as she knew, there was no real literati in the Wang family. If they couldn't learn literati painting and couldn't even cultivate the righteousness in their hearts, how could they become literati?

"Literati? What does that mean?"

Gao Wenfeng didn't understand what the word "literati" meant. If we just look at the literal meaning, a literati is a person who writes articles.

In ancient times, people who could write were indeed called literati, but in modern times, the meaning of literati is different. In modern times, more than 95% of people are literate, and there are really too many people who can write.

“It’s not someone who can write articles, but a true writer, someone who writes articles in the humanities, with creativity and rich ideas.”

“People who are seriously engaged in philosophy, literature, art, and some social sciences with humanistic feelings.”

“In other words, literati are people who pursue independent personality and independent values, and who describe and study society and human nature more.”

"The most important point is that those literati can convey their thoughts and emotions to others through their poems, writings and paintings, and can communicate with others spiritually, that is, those artists."

"This is purely a matter of talent, and the Wang family doesn't have this talent! They are more like simple painters, not painters. It's like an architect. Some can design by themselves, while others can only copy and draw. This is the difference in talent."

"Do you understand?"

Gao Wenfeng nodded, "I understand, of course I understand. Top figures in all walks of life rely on talent, and talent is purely based on looks!"

Gao Wenfeng understands this kind of talent monster who only relies on looks very well, because in the eyes of others, he is this kind of person!

In the chat group, Zhang Sanfeng is such a person. Relying purely on his own talent, he developed a Wudang that is on par with the thousand-year-old Shaolin. This is a real genius!

Such people are rare in the world, but common in the court. The Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song were all people of this level, and the top poets of the Tang Dynasty were also people of this level. Going back further, Wang Xizhi, Wu Daozi, Cai Yong, Jia Yi, Li Si, and Chunyu Yue were all people of this level.

In the Ming Dynasty, every famous minister who could enter the cabinet was such a person. They might not necessarily have any good intentions, nor were they necessarily true gentlemen, but their talents were there, which made them real literati!
In the novel, the old naughty boy Zhou Botong's double-handed fighting is said to be the most difficult to learn in the world. But in reality, Zhang Juzheng has demonstrated the skill of multitasking. At that time, he did three things at the same time: painting, writing, and reciting poems, and they were all different. In his mouth, these were just small tricks. There are many people who can do this!

Such a person could not be called a talented person in the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Zhang Juzheng was not considered the most talented person. There were two contemporaries who were more talented than him!
The literati that Hu Linglong was talking about are of this level. In other words, they are great scholars who have made clear their ambitions.

As long as a person of this level appears, he will be recorded in history books.

Gao Wenfeng could only laugh at such a person. How could the Wang family produce such a person?
"That's right, they are those people with extraordinary talents. The Wang family definitely doesn't have a bad family tradition for such people. Of course, the most important thing is that they are stupid enough. In fact, whether the family tradition is good or not does not affect whether a scholar can be cultivated. But if the family is stupid enough, it will definitely not be able to cultivate one!"

Hu Linglong doesn't see any person she likes in the current world of extraordinary people. Hu Linglong has lived for thousands of years and has seen too many geniuses during this long period of time, so she doesn't like ordinary talents.

Not to mention that the Wang family doesn’t even have ordinary talents.

"Do I need to abandon their family? They are already the best family of painters I can find. If I want to find someone else, I can only go to the Academy of Fine Arts! But if I find someone from the Academy of Fine Arts, I will have to teach them Qi all over again. I won't do that!"

"Qi? What are you talking about? When did scholars need to practice Qi? What they practiced was the spirit, the breath in their hearts, never Qi. They wanted to practice their spirit to the point of being able to see clearly, and then bind it to the fate of the court. This was a method developed by the Confucian masters back then. The stronger the court, the stronger they were. Once the court fell, they could also sever their relationship with the court and go to organize other courts. It's a pity that after the Song Dynasty, this method of cultivation was cut off, because the Dharma Ending Age came too suddenly!"

Hu Linglong's voice was filled with depressed emotions, because what she experienced was a moment when a glorious era suddenly disappeared. Everyone saw hope, but that was the moment of the end. Who knows how many top talents in that era died collectively because they could not withstand the blow brought about by the great changes in the world!
Whenever Hu Linglong thought back to that glorious era and the moment it suddenly disappeared, he would tremble all over. This was really too terrifying for him. That era was as glorious as a sun that never sets, but this sun suddenly exploded!

The entire era perished along with the exploding sun.

What Hu Linglong wants to do most now is to restore that era, so he wants to become the god of Changbai Mountain, because the mountain god combs the veins of the earth, is closest to the earth, and can best feel the changes in spiritual energy.

But Hu Linglong didn't expect that when she sought out the horse fairy to deal with official people in order to become a mountain god, the person who came turned out to be the current Lord of Mount Tai, and not the Lord of Mount Tai elected by humans, but the Lord of Mount Tai appointed by heaven!
What a magical thing it was. In this era when she was almost dead, she sensed the changes in spiritual energy. When she wanted to become the god of Changbai Mountain, she met the god of Mount Tai. Wasn't this telling her that a glorious era was about to begin?
In this situation, Hu Linglong naturally revealed everything she knew without reservation, because opening up a great era can not be done by just one genius, but by a group of geniuses!

But the Wang family does not have such a genius. To be honest, their family does not even have a decent talent, only a bunch of mediocre people!
Otherwise, he wouldn't have mastered the art of painting and pursued the art of summoning spirits and sending generals.

The Daojun Emperor back then relied on his own skills in painting to conquer the whole world. With just one painting scroll, no one dared to rebel. If it had not been for the sudden end of the Dharma Age, which made all magic methods in the world ineffective and all spiritual energy in the world disappeared in an instant, the Song Dynasty might not have perished!

So after seeing what the top painters can do, let’s take a look at the current Wang family.

Hu Linglong even felt like killing them.

It's like when the ancestor saw his descendants who had never been there became famous. It felt like shit-flavored chocolate and chocolate-flavored shit mixed together. No matter which one it was, he couldn't eat it!

"That is to say, I can't find those people in this era, right?" Gao Wenfeng also heard what Hu Linglong meant, but he didn't believe that he couldn't find the right person.

"Of course there are suitable people. You have to know that there are geniuses in every era, and the kind of genius you want definitely exists in this era. It's just that have those geniuses been cultivated?"

Hu Linglong knew very well that there were geniuses in every era, but not every genius received proper training. Many geniuses did not receive proper training and simply became mediocre among the crowd.

It is the same in this era. Even many people have their talents wiped out when they show them, because the times have changed.

"You're right. Those people really didn't get the proper training. But as long as we want to find these talents, we can still find them. There are more than one billion people in this era. It's impossible that we can't train talents. There are so many people who like to paint. There will always be people who can show off their talents!"

Gao Wenfeng gritted his teeth when he spoke, because he knew that talent of that level was really hard to find.

"Just take your time to look for it. By the way, I almost forgot about my request to ask you to come back to the Northeast Region with me. We should go and see our new friends. They have come from afar, so we must give them a good reception."

Hu Linglong then remembered that she seemed to have not said something, and then she remembered that it was what she had told Gao Wenfeng when she was in Longhu Mountain before that there was something going on in the Northeast region and she wanted him to arrange it.

Gao Wenfeng also remembered this matter, but he didn't know what to arrange.

"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten. What do you want me to arrange here? It seems that this is the problem of the elves. You should handle it!"

Gao Wenfeng could also think that it was probably something about the elves, but these things were not his business, they were all the responsibility of Hu Linglong.

"I am a group of elves who have traveled thousands of miles to come here. I need you to come and see how to arrange for them. After all, those guys trust you humans more than me, the God of Changbai Mountain. They are not on the same page with me!"

Hu Linglong now feels a little regretful. Why didn’t she apply to become the mountain god of Daxinganling?
If he were the mountain god of Greater Khingan Range, he would be able to control both the Inner and Outer Greater Khingan Range and would be even more famous.

"We have to go to the zoo again. Why do animals like our zoo so much?"

When Gao Wenfeng heard that it meant trusting humans, he immediately understood what it meant. It was another monster that came from nowhere and wanted to join the zoo and eat public food.

"Where are those guys? Let's go over and see what they have!"

Gao Wenfeng asked Hu Linglong to lead the way and prepared to go directly to see what kind of monster it was.

"Okay, we can just take a helicopter over there from the boundary river. It will only take a few hours, so it's not too late."

Hu Linglong brought Gao Wenfeng to the company's helicopter pad, then got on the helicopter and flew Gao Wenfeng towards the border river.

"When did you learn to fly a plane? Do you have a license? Just fly!"

After seeing Hu Linglong flying the plane, Gao Wenfeng immediately unbuckled his seat belt, because he felt that wearing the seat belt while Hu Linglong was flying the plane would be unsafe and might even kill him, so he just unbuckled his seat belt!
"I can fly a plane. I not only have a helicopter pilot certificate, but also a fixed-wing aircraft pilot certificate. I can fly some fixed-wing aircraft, such as propeller planes and small jets. In addition, I also have a motorcycle license and a car license. Anyway, I have all the certificates that are needed or may be needed in this era!"

Hu Linglong reached into her chest and pulled out a bunch of certificates from her Bagua mirror, including an accounting certificate, a teacher's license, a driver's license, and even a special personnel certificate, mainly in the medical field.

After seeing these things, Gao Wenfeng was dumbfounded, he didn't expect that Hu Linglong had passed so many certificates during this period of time. He even didn't understand how he passed them, he clearly didn't arrange these.

"When did you take the exam? Some of these certificates seem to be impossible to pass at this time, so how did you pass it?"

"It's not difficult to get a driver's license. As long as you follow the time requirements, you can get it in a little over a month at most."

"And those medical certificates are all in traditional Chinese medicine. I am better at traditional Chinese medicine than the masters here, so I got these certificates directly."

"As for the accountant certificate, it's because I want to calculate how much salary I get every month, how much tax I need to pay, and how much social insurance and housing fund I can get!"

"By the way, I have passed the bar exam and can now handle some civil cases. Is there anything you need? I can help you!
"In fact, it is very convenient for you to have these certificates in your era. After all, these certificates prove your abilities. If I were not too old, I would like to go to college to get some experience. It only takes a few years to get some experience, and these few years are just enough for me to rest and learn some new knowledge."

Hu Linglong thought that these certificates were easy to obtain and were very useful, so he passed all of them without missing a single one, and he even planned to go to university to study.

"University? I can help you arrange it. You can enter without taking an exam, but you can only be a sponsored student. You choose a school first, and I'll help you with the process once you've chosen one!"

(End of this chapter)