Chapter 50 The forty-ninth search for the painting in memory

Everyone has hobbies more or less, even monks are no exception, and of course the monks at Tenmyouji Temple are the same.Jiechen, the younger brother in the monastery, likes painting the most, but the level of painting is very average. Jie Chen likes to pull Jie Ao to be his model, so Jie Ao is often forced to sit in front of him for a long time, and he has to cooperate with the movements.After finishing each painting, Jie Ao would secretly complain to me, why does it seem that I have not fully evolved every time in Junior Brother Jie Chen's pen? However, Jiechen painted a lot later, and with the guidance of several benefactors in Miao Town who had a foundation in painting, his painting level gradually improved.For recent works, if Jiechen told us the content of his paintings in advance, and then we added a little imagination, we can basically see what the contents of Jiechen's paintings are.

I remember one day when Jiechen was painting trees on the mountain at the gate of the monastery, Master Zhiheng happened to pass by.Master Zhiheng stood behind Jiechen and looked at it for a long time with great interest, and suddenly said, my master also loved painting back then, and he painted very well. Even in the very turbulent era at that time, people often came Secretly asked the master for paintings. The old mage Master Zhiheng mentioned should be regarded as our ancestor, but he passed away long ago, and Jie Ao and I have never seen him, and it is rare for Master to mention him, but this time he was mentioned suddenly. Jiechen was very interested and was about to listen carefully, but Master Zhiheng had already turned around and entered the temple gate.

Jie Ao chased after him and said, "Master Zhiheng, if you don't take us with you, you will whet our appetite like this every time." Master Zhiheng smiled and said, there is nothing in fact. My master is good at painting landscapes and traditional Chinese paintings. His paintings at that time were somewhat famous, but most of them were not preserved due to the turbulent years. Only one painting was left in the temple. This work is also one of my master's best works——A Samuume.I remember that many years ago, a pilgrim from Hong Kong and Taiwan offered a very high price to buy it. Of course, we couldn't sell it.

We hurriedly asked about the whereabouts of the picture of winter plums, but Master Zhiheng couldn't remember it. He said that it might be in the box on top of the cabinet in their room, or it might be in the old books in the utility room. After Master Zhiheng left, Jiechen said, why don't we find that painting and have a look, I guess I can draw better than me.We were taken aback by Jie Chen's words, because Jie Chen thought that there should be no comparison between Master's traditional Chinese painting and Jie Chen's abstract painting.But we were still curious, so Jie Ao and I searched all the places Master Zhiheng said, but found nothing.

Some things, no matter how hard we try, if we don’t have enough fate, we may not be able to succeed. In those few days, everyone's interest in that painting remained undiminished, and they often unknowingly brought the topic to that very expensive painting.After a few more days, I was about to forget about the painting. One day, Jie Ao and I were looking for something in the utility room. We accidentally dropped a scroll from a wooden box in the utility room. When we opened it, it turned out to be It's a painting, look at the inscription and the content of the painting, it's actually the exquisite painting of Samuume, and when you pull it down, there are actually many insect prints on the paper, and when you shake it off gently, the paper becomes bumpy. It was very incomplete, and the joy of finding the painting was replaced by a kind of regret at that moment.

A lot of beauty is hidden in memories and thoughts. If we persist in finding this beauty, the result may be to find our distress.