It was at this time that Liu Qingyan really noticed Song Jingchen for the first time. She suddenly felt that the man in front of her was inexplicably familiar, and some pictures related to this man flashed out from time to time in her mind.

Since Liu Qingyan was reborn, her soul has penetrated into Lu Huaixiang's body. She has always remembered the memories that originally belonged to Liu Qingyan very clearly, but the memories of Lu Huaixiang are not continuous.

It was only when she saw certain specific scenes that she recalled some memories in Lu Huaixiang's mind.

As for Song Jingchen, Liu Qingyan only felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. When she tried to think about it with Lu Huaixiang's ideas, her heart felt very painful again.

After the emperor announced the arrangement, he stepped down. Liu Qingyan walked at the end, and Song Jingchen's back became clearer and clearer in her mind.

...

Song Jingchen was originally a teacher in the Du family, so he knew knowledge, so he was naturally useless.

When Lord Du first met Song Jingchen, Song Jingchen was dressed in rags and shivering alone in the cold wind, buying a few calligraphy and paintings on the ground.

On this day, Lord Du was in a good mood because he was releasing again. He liked to collect calligraphy and paintings, so he looked at Song Jingchen's calligraphy and paintings in a little interest.

When Lord Du opened a painting, he was deeply attracted by the scene in the painting. He saw the painting for nearly half an hour.

Then he slowly put down the painting in his hand and carefully looked at Song Jingchen who looked like a beggar in front of him, "Is this what you painted?"

Lord Du couldn't believe his eyes because although he collected a lot of calligraphy and paintings, there were not many works like Tang Bohu, but after seeing Song Jingchen's paintings, he felt a different flavor.

"A villain is not talented. This is what I wrote in the dilapidated temple the day before yesterday, and the painting is the scenery outside the city." Song Jingchen whispered.

At this time, Song Jingchen had no food all day, and had been selling paintings in the street stalls in this downtown city for a whole day, and no one was interested in his calligraphy and paintings.

Hearing Song Jingchen say this, Lord Du opened the calligraphy and paintings in his hand again, looked carefully, and found that the scene in the painting was the scenery outside the city in early winter.

After reading it, I was even more happy, "Very good, very good."

Song Jingchen was extremely happy when he saw someone appreciating his calligraphy and paintings. Could this scholar want the most to be a fellow scholar?

So Song Jingchen first spoke, "Since the officials like these calligraphy and paintings, I, Song, will add to you, and it is hard to buy a confidant for a thousand gold."

Who is Lord Du? The famous family in the capital, looking at Song Jingchen who was in vain, of course, he would not ask for his calligraphy and paintings for nothing, so he asked his servants to take out some silver and give it to Song Jingchen.

A total of fifty taels of silver was the first time that Song Jingchen had sold so much silver. Looking at the silver in his hand and looking at Lord Du's back as he left, Song Jingchen knelt on his knees and watched Lord Du leave with tears in his eyes.

In the past, Song Jingchen was bullied by gangsters when selling calligraphy and paintings. At most, he could only sell a few copper coins a day. Sometimes he couldn't even afford a bun.

Song Jingchen has experienced such a situation for more than half a year.

Song Jingchen's fate was not born so miserable, it started from the previous year.

Song Jingchen's father was a juren from the Celestial Empire. He was only a middle-aged man. Besides, there was no one in the court, so he was idle at home. Later, he bought a way to become a teacher to support his family.

He has been well-read with his father since childhood, and Song Jingchen was already talented and learned very quickly.

This year, my father thought that Song Jingchen had finished his studies, so he prepared some money to let him go to Beijing to take the exam. However, he never thought that a bully from his hometown fell in love with the fertile land of Song Jingchen's family.

At the beginning, the bully negotiated with Song Jingchen's father and forced his father to sell the fertile land to the bully at a low price.

Song Jingchen's father naturally refused, so the bully set fire to Song Jingchen's thatched house at night.

The three of them were sleeping soundly at home that night. Song Jingchen was the first to discover the flames outside the window. When he rushed out of the door and was about to go to his parents' room to save people, the fire had swallowed up the entire thatched hut.

Song Jingchen watched his parents be burned to death.

He wrote the lawsuit and wanted to go to the yamen to sue the bully, but unexpectedly, the bully had already bribed the county magistrate. Song Jingchen was sentenced to false accusation and was detained in the prison cell for half a month before he was released.

After Song Jingchen was released from prison, the bully punched and kicked him because of Song Jingchen's complaint. The bully would threaten him every day.

In the end, he couldn't stand it, so he fled from his hometown and came to the capital.

The house was in a fire, and Song Jingchen finally found a few brushes from the ruins, the ones he used to paint now.

Song Jingchen has been reading books of sages since childhood and is kind-hearted, but his parents' experiences make him suffer a lot. He thought that his parents were asking for appointment in the name of his official position, but he did not expect that the officials would be in the family.

Song Jingchen, who was powerless, could only rely on selling paintings to fill his stomach first. As for his parents' deep hatred of blood, he did not forget.

He never did this to outsiders with these experiences. He knew that only by becoming stronger can he get what he wanted.

...

After Lord Du returned to Du's mansion with Song Jingchen's calligraphy and paintings, he went straight back to the study room and locked himself in the study room for three hours. He didn't even go to the housekeeper's house for dinner.

Looking at Song Jingchen’s paintings, Lord Du liked them more and more, and he didn’t fall asleep that night.

After the morning court the next day, Lord Du ordered the housekeeper to drive to the place where Song Jingchen sold paintings yesterday. He waited in place for an hour but had not waited for Song Jingchen.

Lord Du was a little disappointed and asked the housekeeper to drive the carriage back home. Just as he was depressed in the carriage, a gust of wind blew open the curtain, and through the gap, he saw Song Jingchen in a small shop.

So he quickly asked the butler to stop the car, and Lord Du got out of the car and came to the store.

This time, Song Jingchen recognized Lord Du at a glance. When he saw him coming, he quickly walked to the door, "Prince, please come in, please come in."

Song Jingchen seemed very polite. Why didn’t he set up a street stall in yesterday’s place? Because he had bought this store with the fifty taels of yesterday and decided to sell it in this store.

"Yes, it's you, I'm not wrong." Lord Du said with a smile.

After saying that, he turned around and looked at the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls around, "These are all good things, good things."

"You shouldn't be from the capital, right?" Lord Du continued.

"The villain came to the capital half a year ago, not a local from the capital." Song Jingchen replied.

Lord Du looked at Song Jingchen and said, "Look, you are only in your twenties, who else is there in your family?"

"There is no one at home... there is only a villain left. The parents have gone first, and the villain is not married." Song Jingchen replied with a puzzled look. Although he didn't know what the person in front of him was going to do, he felt that this person should not be here to make things difficult for him because of the purchase of all his calligraphy and paintings yesterday.

"How about following in the future?" Lord Du said without going around the corner.

When Song Jingchen saw Lord Du’s courage, he knew that he was not an ordinary master, but he did not expect that the person in front of him was the current prime minister.

Such a thing is undoubtedly a timely help for Song Jingchen in this matter and cannot be sought.

He quickly replied, "I don't know what the master wants Xiaomin to do. I, a scholar, have no power to tie a chicken, and I can't do anything else when I paint."

"What I want is your handwriting and calligraphy. When you go to my house in the future, you will just paint all day long." Lord Du said sternly.

"Then Xiaomin thanked the master here." After saying that, Song Jingchen felt a little reluctant to leave the store he had just bought.

Why didn’t Song Jingchen know that the unknown master in front of him was his only chance now. He has read the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and he would not stay in this small shop for the rest of his life.

"In this way, if you are about to be fifteen years old, you will be a teacher to be a teacher for you and teach you all your skills in calligraphy and painting." Lord Du continued.

"The master bought a lot of money yesterday and gave the villain a chance to survive. The master told him to obey his orders." Song Jingchen said with a smile.

At this time, Song Jingchen didn't know that his destiny would change due to these few short conversations today.

After saying that, Lord Du left and went to the carriage first. Song Jingchen was still slowly packing up the things that had just been prepared in the store.

The butler looked at Song Jingchen coldly, and said with a smile, "Don't bring these worthless things to my house. Pack up the calligraphy and paintings and get them into the carriage."

Song Jingchen did not dare to slack off, so he quickly finished packing and went to the carriage where Lord Du was sitting.

When we arrived at Du Mansion, Song Jingchen realized what a truly famous family and a great family and a great career.

This happened five years ago, when Song Jingchen first met his later teacher, Lord Du, in the capital.

After entering Du's mansion, Song Jingchen went out to teach the Du family's son to write and paint every day, but also to exchange painting experiences with Lord Du. At the beginning, the two did not communicate any official affairs.

Gradually, Lord Du liked Song Jingchen more and more. Not only did he paint well, he was also very rigorous and always did very seriously.

Lord Du saw all this. At that time, Song Jingchen could not be compared with Lu Guozheng.

At that time, Lu Guozheng was already a fourth-rank official in the court and married Lord Du's sister. His career was at its peak.

When Song Jingchen first entered the Du Mansion, he often treated some servants very well for the reasons for his own experience.

Lu Huaixiang, who was still a maid in Du's house at that time, gradually fell in love with Song Jingchen because of his talent and rest.

Song Jingchen started out with Lu Huaixiang, and Du Yuyan and the servants in Du Mansion liked to bully Lu Huaixiang, and they vented their anger on everything.

Lu Huaixiang was taken from his hometown by Lu Guozheng and secretly sent to Du's house to sit down. No one else except Lu Huaixiang and Lu Guozheng knew about it.
Chapter completed!