Great Master of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 41 Chapter 41

After returning to the palace, as soon as he entered the Ganlu Hall, Li Shimin praised Zuo Ming again, and then happily called Empress Changsun.

Looking at herself in the two photos, Empress Changsun covered her red lips in shock.

Although she had tried her best to overestimate Zuo Ming, she never thought that Zuo Ming could achieve such an extreme.

"Hahaha! Empress! You're still satisfied! Although this kid is usually a bit out of tune, I really haven't let me down in this painting journey!"

Seeing the shocked look of Changsun Wugou, Li Shimin smiled heartily, and glanced at Zuo Ming approvingly as he spoke.

"Your Majesty! This painting is indeed beyond my expectations! I originally thought that the 'Hu Ke' was already a rare masterpiece, but I didn't expect Mr. Zuo to be able to improve on that foundation. Lou! It's really amazing!"

Staring unblinkingly at himself and Li Shimin in the photo of husband and wife, Empress Changsun said, feeling a little crazy.

If she just painted like it, she wouldn't lose her composure. The key is that the emotion in the painting actually feels overflowing!
Li Shimin's deep love for him, his tenderness and shyness, and his sense of raising eyebrows are all carried in this whole picture!

It turned out that Zuo Ming kept instructing her and Li Shimin that day not just to play tricks, but to compose pictures. What he wanted to paint was not only portraits, but also the emotions between people!

She finally understood why Zuo Ming wanted to smile sweeter.yes!At that time, I should have smiled sweeter!

With a trace of remorse, Changsun Wugou turned to the family portrait again!

There, Li Shimin and she were still sitting side by side on the dragon chair, but there were five more children under their knees.

Li Tai sat leaning against her lap with a look of attachment, Li Lizhi held the arm of her elder brother Li Chengqian prettyly, smiling very sweetly, and Li Chengqian, with a refined smile, quietly hugged her. Cheng Yang with an innocent face; at the end is Li Zhi, this four-year-old boy is still drooling, standing in front of everyone in a daze, seems to be outside the large number of curious pictures of the people.

Looking at Li Zhi's cute appearance, even Empress Changsun knew that it was just a painting, so she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Li Shimin and the others were also looking at the family portrait, and when they heard Empress Changsun's laughter, everyone also laughed softly.

And Li Shimin said jokingly, "When the pheasant slave grows up, I must let him take a good look at how stupid he was back then!"

However, after finishing speaking, Li Shimin felt a little regretful again, "It's a pity that you were born more than ten years late, Zuo Ming! If you had come out of the mountain a few years earlier, maybe you could have kept Cheng Qian and Qing Que's childhood appearances. !"

This sigh made Zuo Ming a little surprised. He really didn't expect that Li Shimin still had such a fatherly side.

"Your Majesty! As the saying goes, if there are fifty in the Great Evolution, one of them escapes! The way of heaven is not perfect, how can life be completely satisfactory?"

At this time, an old man in a soap robe with gray beard and hair spoke.

Glancing at the old man, Li Shimin's expression flickered, and he nodded slowly, "What Xiao Aiqing said makes sense! It's my figure!"

That's right!This old man is none other than Xiao Yu, the prime minister who has been dismissed and appointed several times in history, the former royal doctor, and today's prince Shaofu!

For Xiao Yu, Li Shimin's feelings are complicated. This person is indeed a rare talent, but he is too upright and strict.Even Emperor Sui Yang, who grew up with him, hated this person more than he loved him, which is enough to show how much he hates him.

However, sometimes rigidity also has its advantages. Although this person is annoying, he is very pragmatic in his actions. He is not greedy for money or lustful. A special presence in any industry!

Speaking of which, Xiao Yu and Zuo Ming have some things in common. It is not the first time that Li Shimin dismissed Xiao Yu's position, but this guy, like Zuo Ming, seems to be very indifferent and doesn't care much about the so-called powerful.

However, it is precisely because of this that no one in the entire Chang'an city dares to underestimate this old man, because you really can't guess when he will take the position of prime minister again.

After all, the current position of doctor censor is still vacant.

Speaking of the doctor censor, he is actually the highest official of the Tang Dynasty's supervisory agency, who is responsible for supervising all officials!

This duty has a lot in common with Wei Zheng's advising doctor, but it is the emperor's fault that the advising doctor got the supervision, and the censor doctor is the supervisor!

Because of his special function, Doctor Yushi naturally became the most hated and feared existence by all officials of the Tang Dynasty, so even if Xiao Yu's title of Song Guogong was aside, few people in the whole Tang Dynasty dared to offend him.

Hearing Li Shimin call the old man "Xiao Aiqing", Zuo Ming naturally knew that this person was the legendary Xiao Yu.For Xiao Yu, Zuo Ming still has a lot of admiration.Not to mention the official positions he has held for the time being, just relying on being one of the 24 heroes of Lingyan Pavilion is enough to explain his historical contribution.

Of course, the most important thing is that this person is a stunned young man who is daring to act and speak up for justice. He is an outlier among several politicians.But this kind of temper is quite in line with Zuo Ming's appetite.

"Master Xiao is right! People have sorrows and joys, and the moon has cloudy and sunny waxing and waning. This matter is difficult to complete in ancient times. It is precisely because of the shortcomings in this world that people will cherish the hard-won things even more. Happiness.

Caomin once heard such a story.It is said that there is a man and a woman, the man is a cake seller, and the woman is a lady from a rich family.One day, the young lady took her maid to go shopping in the street, but she was intercepted by lecherous gangsters, but just happened to be met by the cake seller and rescued her.

It was late at that time, and the young lady would definitely not be able to go home by herself, so she had to stay at the baker's house.She was so hungry that although the young lady felt that the biscuit was a rough food, she reluctantly took a piece and ate it.After eating it, she realized that the biscuits were so delicious, like the most delicious food in the world, she was full of praise immediately.

Being praised so highly by such a beautiful woman, the baker was naturally overjoyed, so he immediately made some for her to eat.Naturally, the young lady would not refuse this kindness, she ate a few immediately, and then kept a few, and brought them home the next day.

In the following time, feeling grateful for Cooking Cake Lang's life-saving grace, the lady would go to Cook Cake Lang's stall every now and then to buy cooking cakes.This time and again, it will be in love for a long time.Although the young lady's father felt that Cooking Cake Man was not good enough for his daughter, but because he was honest, he did not beat the mandarin duck with a stick, but made this good deed come true.Since then, the baker has married into the young lady's house.

After entering the young lady's house, the baker naturally brought his skills to the extreme and tried every means to make all kinds of cakes for his wife to eat.At first, the young lady felt very happy and comfortable.But gradually, after eating too much, she became a little bored.

Knowing that his daughter-in-law was tired of his cooking cakes, the cooking cake man stopped making cooking cakes.And once he stopped making pancakes, the young lady disliked him even more.I just feel that he is ugly, not to mention, and he can't know a single word, so there is no romance at all.

Gradually, the young lady began to envy those romantic husbands-in-law of her boudoir sisters.However, she is a woman-obedient person, and she didn't make any outrageous actions.

Another day, some sisters in the boudoir asked her to go for a cruise on the river. Many of them brought their husbands and asked her to bring the baker with them.She didn't want to at first, but when she thought about how couples would go together and what she would be like alone, she reluctantly took him with her.

This time, Cooking Cake Lang naturally suffered all kinds of ridicule and contempt, Cooking Cake Lang naturally smiled innocently and didn't care, but the young lady felt extremely bitter in her heart.

But at this time, the calm lake surface suddenly became stormy for some reason. Their cruise ships were not reliable, and after a while, many cruise ships were smashed into pieces in the waves.

Everyone fell into the water one after another.However, a man is a man after all, and they, who are strong and strong, grabbed the pieces of wood in the river one after another. It was just pitiful for those women, struggling in the waves, but they still couldn't catch even a piece of wood.

Cooking Cake Lang is also a man, so naturally he caught a piece of wood, but his piece of wood is not big, and it has already submerged about half a foot in the water to support him alone, let alone carry two people!

However, Cooking Cake Lang still rowed desperately to come to the young lady's side, and pulled her close to the wooden board in his arms.

As I said before, that piece of wood can only carry one person, and now that two people leaned over it, they naturally began to sink.

Seeing this situation, the lady was very anxious, and at this moment, Cooking Cake Man made a move that she never expected!

He let go of that plank!And pushed the lady away from him!He was afraid that when he was dying, he would subconsciously grab that piece of wood!He was afraid that he would bring that lady into trouble!So he pushed her very far away!

The young lady was stunned, she never knew that she was so important in the eyes of the baker!He actually loved her more than his own life!
But she knew it too late!It didn't take long for Cooking Cake Lang to sink and sink in the big waves before disappearing from her sight.

Later, the weather calmed down, and that young lady was the only woman who survived among all the people!None of those talented scholars who she thought were extremely romantic would save their wives like Cooking Cake Lang!Even if the wooden board in their arms can carry two people, none of them can do that!
Looking at those people, the young lady felt a little lost. After returning home, she never went out for half a step.She really wants to eat cooking cakes from Cooking Cake Lang again, but she can never eat those things that made her sick several times.”

Having said that, Zuo Ming paused for a moment, and then sighed deeply, "Actually, the cakes made by Cooking Cake Lang are not as delicious as imagined! The reason why the young lady thought they were delicious in the world when she ate them for the first time was because It was just because I was grateful for the life-saving grace of Cooking Cake Lang. But I thought it was delicious later because of their concubine love. After all, it is a word of love! Everything in this world, as long as it is stained with this word, no matter how ordinary it is, it will be delicious. It will become the most precious treasure in the world! However, everyone has many such treasures, but very few people can really discover them!"

"It's just like your painting. If it appeared more than ten years ago, I should have hundreds of them now, and I wouldn't feel the friendship in this painting quietly like now. I understand. This The most valuable thing about the two paintings is not the painters, but the original intention of me to get them.”

Gently took Zuo Ming's words, Li Shimin silently walked in front of the family portrait, and gently touched the children in the painting.
Looking at Li Shimin's gentle movements, Zuo Ming felt a slight sadness in his heart.

In the previous life, almost everyone had a mobile phone and could take pictures, but how many people took photos with their parents and family with their mobile phones in a serious manner?
There are more than 100 selfies and more than 100 pictures of people and landscapes in Zuo Ming's mobile phone, but he doesn't have even half a picture of his parents!

If you haven't lost it, you really can't understand Zuo Ming's pain at this moment!
That young lady must never be able to eat pancakes again, but isn't it the same for his life?

He really wanted to shout to his compatriots in later generations, "Cameras are not used that way!", but he knew that his voice could only echo in the time and space of more than 1000 years ago.

In later generations who have forgotten the original purpose of the invention of the camera, people will continue to squander those hard-won resources
(End of this chapter)