Chapter 39 Thirty-nine, love to practice calligraphy since childhood

Zang Boyong couldn't help being overjoyed, and got the "Zhizulu" to hand over a job to his father-in-law. Huang Chujiu was even more happy, and said to everyone later: "Mr. Taiyan actually called me a public, I really dare not be that." Who knew that Huang Chujiu himself was playing tricks A gimmick. Later, Zhang Taiyan also wrote a picture for Zang Boyong, and signed it as "Brother Boyong".As if he had found a treasure, Zang Boyong specially equipped a mahogany frame and hung it on the wall of the clinic, and it was not taken down until the 1960s. After the house was ransacked during the "Cultural Revolution", I don't know where this calligraphy got.

Among Huang Chujiu's collections of calligraphy and painting, folding fans are the most numerous. Among them, there are more than one hundred calligraphy and paintings on fans, all of which were made by famous calligraphers and painters in the Ming and Qing dynasties.The bone materials and carvings of each fan are all the same, which is extremely precious.The original owner of these more than one hundred fans was an old country gentry from Huzhou, Zhejiang. Due to his family's financial difficulties, he brought the fans to Shanghai for sale.Find Ding Fubao first, and the asking price is 200 oceans each.Ding Fubao pondered for a while, and said to him: "Do you have a way to find Huang Chujiu? He may offer more."

The old squire inquired east and west, and he saw Huang Chujiu. He held out his fan and let him choose.Huang Chujiu only looked at two of them, one with Weng Tongxi's writing and the other with Shi Tao's painting, and immediately made a decision, "Okay, I want them all." Then he withdrew a sum of money from "Day and Night Bank" to the bank. Old squire, I don't know the exact amount, but it's definitely more than two hundred yuan each.The old squire was overjoyed, and would praise Huang Chujiu not only for his generosity, but also for his connoisseurship. Some people can't help but wonder, does Huang Chujiu really have any knowledge?It should be said that although he has no knowledge, he is also proficient in writing and ink, and he especially likes to practice calligraphy, which is a habit he has developed since he was a child.When his father was in the countryside of Yuyao and prescribed prescriptions for people, he always stood by and watched, sometimes helping to write prescriptions.His father told him: a doctor's handwriting is very important. If you can't write well, you will be looked down upon by the clerk when you go to the pharmacy to dispense the prescription.The descendants of the Huang family still treasure a booklet of "Prescriptions for Overcoming Seventy-two Diseases", which is Huang Chujiu's own handwriting. The handwriting is not very good, but it is quite neat.

In the study of "Zhizulu", there is a bluestone slab as big as half of the Eight Immortals Table, which is supported by a mahogany shelf.Huang Chujiu dipped a brush in clean water and wrote on the slate several times a day.Huang Chujiu also opened a "Huang Longtai Tea House", the signboard is his own handwriting. Let's say Huang Chujiu bought more than one hundred fans.In the future, every time there is a banquet, the fan in the hand will be changed.And because there are always literati present among the guests at every banquet, Huang Chujiu also has someone who can show her elegance.These literati almost often write articles in various newspapers in Shanghai, and some even have columns.In their writings, some of Huang Chujiu's "anecdotes" can also spark discussions, and the articles written by more than a hundred fans are even more interesting.