I come to see Bai Yujing today

Chapter 68 When is the next day?
Chen Zhian had not slept all night, but he did not feel tired. Instead, his mind was very active and he was full of energy. It seemed as if something was brewing and condensing in his mind.

Early in the morning, the Imperial Household Department sent a lot of paints. Chen Zhian opened the special paint box and took a closer look. He found that the paints prepared by the Imperial Household Department were very fine and there were seven or eight more colors, which surprised him.

The efficiency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is surprisingly high.

So he set up a canvas in the backyard, found four kinds of brushes, and began to paint the rockery and flowing water in the yard.

Now, oil painting seems to have become one of his skills to make a living. Although the identity of a court painter cannot be called noble, it allows Chen Zhian to have a place in Xuantianjing.

Therefore, Chen Zhian was also willing to explore the memories of his past life in his mind and study this skill carefully.

In fact, painting scenery with oil paintings is simpler than painting portraits. The expression, skin color and details of the portrait are all of paramount importance and none of them can be missing.

On the contrary, you can paint the scene in a rougher way without worrying about so many details.

In addition, oil paintings have a large number of pigments and bright colors, so the scenes painted are completely different from those in ink paintings. They are less majestic but more colorful.

In fact, Chen Zhian prefers landscape painting, ink painting, and paintings of ladies, but there are so many talented people in this world that Chen Zhian can never catch up with them in landscape painting and ink painting even if he tries hard. It would be better for him to change to another track, such as oil painting, which is currently the track where he is the only one.

He painted for a long time and finally reflected the rockery and flowing water in the painting. He put down his brush, looked at it carefully, and nodded slightly.

When he reached the realm of Divine Essence, even though he had only built the Niwan Palace and had not yet cultivated Divine Essence, his subtle control over the brush and his sensitivity to details had improved a lot, and he became more and more adept at painting.

"This... painting is so strange."

It was noon, and just when Chen Zhian wanted to put away his canvas and go have lunch.

A voice fell into Chen Zhian's ears. Chen Zhian frowned and turned his head to look.

The young sword master of Old Jianshan was indeed lying on the top of the wall, looking at the painting in front of him from afar, with some confusion and surprise in his eyes.

After a few breaths passed, the young sword master finally seemed to realize that he had been discovered by Chen Zhian again.

He wanted to escape, but suddenly remembered that he had already given Chen Zhian two taels of silver.

That's half of his wealth.

After eleven or twelve years on Laojian Mountain, he had only saved four taels of silver and more than six hundred copper coins.

In order to make amends, he gave out two taels of silver at once... This made him feel justified.

"This... Senior Brother, is this your home?"

The young man was lying on the wall. His eyes were particularly big, his hair was a little messy, and his name was very strange: "I live next door to the next door, but I am the only one living in such a big yard. It's really boring."

"Yesterday, I saw you break through the barrier of cultivation. I was curious for a moment, so I searched two courtyards in a row, wanting to see who could build the Niwan Palace so easily."

Chen Zhian was a little surprised and asked, "You live next door to me, and you can actually sense that I am building the Niwan Palace?"

The young man nodded and pointed to his forehead quite frankly: "I have a sword here. This sword is like my eyes. It can help me see things farther away."

Chen Zhian thought for a while and asked again: "Now, can you sense my cultivation?"

The young man simply jumped onto the top of the wall, formed the two fingers of his right hand into a sword finger, and gently wiped his forehead.

In a moment, a dagger mark appeared faintly on his forehead.

Chen Zhian only felt that there seemed to be sword energy bursting out of the young man's eyes, piercing his skin and causing pain.

"Eh?" The young man suddenly frowned and said, "I really can't see it. Your Yuanguan and Niwan seem to be covered by a cloud of mist. Even the sword in my forehead can't see it. If I want to see it more carefully, I can only use my magical powers."

Chen Zhian was quite satisfied with the perfect state of Changri Anyin Gong. Seeing the young man squatting on the wall, feeling very uneasy, he smiled and said, "Come down for a while. Be careful not to damage the green tiles on the wall."

The young man immediately looked down at the tiles on the wall and quickly jumped into Chen Zhian's backyard.

"These houses are so beautiful, even the walls are covered with tiles. They are much more luxurious than those in Laojian Mountain. It would be bad if they were damaged by stepping on them."

This young man seemed to be inexperienced in the world, and even his speech sounded a little ignorant.

Chen Zhian smiled and said to him, "All the people living in this imperial city are high-ranking officials. You spend the whole day crawling on their walls. It's okay for a lonely person like me, but if there are women in their families who see you peeking at them, I'm afraid there will be trouble."

The young man nodded hurriedly, a little embarrassed: "I don't have any peek problem, it's just... I'm the only one living in that yard which is bigger than all the houses in our Old Sword Mountain combined, it's really boring.

Plus, my senior brother’s speed of cultivation is truly amazing to me, so…”

The young man paused at this point and asked, "I wonder which orthodox sect of the Xuanmen you are studying under? What is your ranking on the Young Tiger Monument?"

Chen Zhian shook his head: "I practiced alone, without a master, and my name is not on the Tiger Cub Monument."

The young man's eyes widened immediately, he looked him up and down, shook his head and said, "I saw that Senior Brother's true energy was like jade, flowing brilliantly, with a hint of light gold in it, which was quite extraordinary. I thought it must be a very good method. I thought Senior Brother had a master to teach him, but I never thought that Senior Brother, who was alone, could actually cultivate so well?"

Chen Zhian became curious and asked, "Is the speed at which I built the Niwan Palace...fast?"

The young man nodded and said, "I saw you swallowed a pill made from acquired energy, but even with such a precious pill, the three disciples on Old Sword Mountain, the fastest of whom built the Niwan Palace, took more than ten days.

But you..."

"More than ten days?" Chen Zhian's brows moved slightly.

Old Sword Mountain, which was able to employ General Rongtian Si Yuanyan to personally invite people, must not be a simple place. It took the disciples of Old Sword Mountain more than ten days to build the Niwan Palace. This made Chen Zhian clearly understand the speed of his own cultivation for the first time.

"Although red ginger can cleanse the bones, I only drank red ginger tea for three or four months. Red-level medicinal herbs can't completely transform me...

So my talent and physique are innate?"

When Chen Zhian thought of this, he suddenly remembered Chen Shuijun.

Ever since Chen Zhian revealed the Heavenly Jade Capital Map, he saw Chen Shuijun repeatedly bringing him meat with special spiritual energy. Perhaps it was to nourish him, making his physique and talent even more extraordinary?
“But if eating meat with spiritual energy can improve one’s bones, then all the young men and women from the noble families in Xuantianjing will be able to build the Niwan Palace in a few days.” Chen Zhian thought silently in his heart.

He became even more curious about his father who left without saying goodbye.

At this moment, someone knocked on the door outside the yard.

Chen Zhian thought for a moment and said with a smile, "I am also alone in this courtyard. It is noon now. Someone has prepared food for me. Let's eat together."

"How can I feel embarrassed?" The young man seemed to really dislike being alone. Although he said this, his eyes were brighter.

"No problem." Chen Zhian said, "Just add a pair of chopsticks."

Chen Zhian went to open the door and brought back several layers of lunch boxes. The young man had also brought back many lunch boxes at some point and placed them in the octagonal pavilion in the backyard.

"Someone brought me food, too." The young man said, "I just came here last night, and I was already given food this morning... It was quite rich. I've never eaten such good food in the mountains, but it was a little too much, so a lot more was brought to me just now..."

As he spoke, he opened the lunch box.

The meal that the Si family prepared for the young sword master was extremely sumptuous, and many of the ingredients used were ones that Chen Zhian had never even seen before.

Let’s look at Chen Zhian’s… The supplies from the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be considered very abundant, but compared to those of the young sword master, there is a big gap.

"Am I taking advantage again?" Chen Zhian smiled in his heart, but was not polite.

The two of them put out seven or eight lunch boxes and ate them all.

"By the way, Senior Brother, I've talked to you a lot and even had a meal with you, but I don't know your name?"

Chen Zhian introduced himself, and the young man also said: "My name is Li Xushi, and I learned from Lao Jianshan."

"What is the ranking of Laojian Mountain on the Xuanmen Stele?" Chen Zhian asked casually and took another sip of tea.

"It seems to be the fourth." Li Xushi touched his round belly and answered casually.

Chen Zhian immediately spat out the tea in his mouth.

"Ranked fourth on the Xuanmen Monument, doesn't that mean he is first on Dayu?" Chen Zhian cleaned up the water stains on his clothes.

"Laojian Mountain is not in Dayu." Li Xushi said, "It is in the southwest of Dayu."

Chen Zhian looked Li Xushi up and down, feeling quite moved.

It seems that this young man is very well protected by Old Jianshan. He is ignorant of worldly affairs and only focuses on cultivation.

While the two were talking, the eunuch butler came to the door again.

Chen Zhian went to open the door again and took back a pile of letters.

Princess Shang Qiu actually passed the letter that she wrote to her asking for a painting to Chen Zhian.

Chen Zhian brought a stack of letters. Li Xushi was a little curious and asked, "These letters..."

"They all asked me to paint." Chen Zhian casually placed the letters on the table in the octagonal pavilion.

Li Xushi was somewhat envious and said, "Senior Brother Chen is not only extremely talented, but also paints so well. There are so many people asking you to paint for them."

When Chen Zhian heard what Li Xushi said, he became curious again: "Brother Li, what is your cultivation level?"

"I have just achieved divine status. My master always complains that I practice too slowly. It took me thirteen days to build the Niwan Palace." Li Xu Shi replied.

“To achieve divine appearance, wouldn’t that be the Jade Que realm?” Chen Zhian’s mouth twitched. He always felt that Li Xushi was trying to make fun of him, but the eyes of this young sword master were very pure.

He bored himself and simply flipped through the pile of letters on the table.

Then, among these many letters, Chen Zhian saw a letter, and his eyes instantly became serious.

The envelope read...

"Presented by Madam Li Shu."

The third-rank imperial lady, whose surname is Li, is actually rare in the capital.

"A letter from the Li family."

Chen Zhian recalled the letter he had written to Li Mansion when he was in Sunan Prefecture.

"Mother, I am writing to you as if I had seen you. Please eat on time and take care of yourself. We will see each other someday."

When is tomorrow?
How about today?
(End of this chapter)