"Poor people boast of painting people, and there are old neighbors in front of their homes." This sentence in "Painting the Mountain" is more appropriate to describe Mr. Qi Baishi himself. For Mr. Qi Baishi, what we have the most contact with is the shrimp he painted and all kinds of high-priced figures auctioned, which is admirable.
At the thought of this, everyone will think that Qi Baishi must be very rich and generous. He never cares about the slightest profit. In fact, Qi Baishi is not only not rich, but also a little stingy. Because of his poor family, Qi Baishi has always had the habit of being stingy, which has caused many interesting things. Once, Qi Baishi, a stingy man, said, can I exchange my painted cabbage for a car full of cabbage? The peddler said: You should be beautiful. What the hell is going on here?
1. On a painted shrimp, send a dead shrimp if you want.
At first, Mr. Qi Baishi was famous for painting shrimps. After becoming famous, he began to sell paintings for a living. However, Mr. Qi Baishi sells paintings in a very different way. Others sell money according to the number of paintings, and he sells it according to the number of shrimps in the paintings. There is nothing wrong with Mr. Qi Baishi's calculation of money in this way, but it is difficult to meet people who like to break the rules on their own initiative.
Once, a businessman came to Mr. Qi Baishi to buy a painting. According to the rules, if the merchant paid the price of several shrimps, Qi Baishi drew several shrimps. But after the painting, the businessman suddenly wanted to take advantage of it, so he used bargaining in the market to ask Mr. Qi Baishi to give him an extra shrimp.
This initiative to break the routine made Qi Baishi very unhappy, but the businessman was introduced by a friend, and it was obviously not good to flatly refuse, so Mr. Qi Baishi raised his brush and added a unique shrimp. The businessman was very happy to see that Mr. Qi Baishi was willing to send more pens, but after Mr. Qi Baishi finished painting, the businessman couldn't laugh.
It turned out that the shrimp sent by Mr. Qi Baishi not only looked listless and lifeless, but also was not clever at all, which made the businessman very confused. Then he asked Mr. Qi Baishi why this shrimp is so different. Qi Baishi did not beat around the bush and said, "The shrimp you asked me to send is not money, so I will draw a dead shrimp and give it to you for free." When the businessman heard this, he could only leave silently with the painting. It is not difficult to see Mr. Qi Baishi's "meanness" from here.
2. The unique hospitality of Mr. Qi Baishi
More than that, Mr. Qi Baishi was a little stingy all his life. It stands to reason that guests and hosts at home usually have delicious hospitality, but Mr. Qi Baishi has never been like this. It is mentioned in Huang Yongyu's memoirs that once he was a guest at Mr. Qi Baishi's house, Qi Baishi served two dishes of snacks, one was a half-eaten moon cake, and the other was a handful of peanuts.
Mr. Qi Baishi's hospitality is not only rare, but also serious. There are many spider silk hanging beside peanuts, and there seem to be crawling bugs in moon cakes. If a friend hadn't reminded Huang Yongyu that "these are bad, don't eat them" and made Huang Yongyu fully prepared, he would have been really shocked by Mr. Qi Baishi's move.
It is said that after Premier Zhou met Qi Baishi, he wanted to make Mr. Qi Baishi live more comfortably, so he gave him a big house. But who would have thought that Mr. Qi Baishi had just lived for a few days and was clamoring to move back to his old house and didn't want to live here. It turns out that Mr. Qi Baishi likes to hide his baby around him, but when the house is big, he feels unsafe.
At that time, Mr. Qi Baishi always hid the money for selling paintings under the bed and locked it with 7 or 8 locks. The key never left his body. This is why he doesn't want to move into a big house, for fear that his wealth will be targeted by outsiders.
I want to exchange the painted cabbages for a car full of cabbages. Did you win?
In addition to painting shrimps, Mr. Qi Baishi painted Chinese cabbage vividly. Although not as famous as painting shrimp, painting cabbage has become one of his unique skills, because Mr. Qi Baishi likes to eat cabbage. One day, Mr. Qi Baishi was painting at home, and he overheard a vegetable vendor outside the door, selling exactly the cabbage that Mr. Qi Baishi likes to eat.
As soon as he heard the vendor shout, the greedy bug in Qi Baishi's stomach cried, but he didn't want to spend money, so he thought, wouldn't it be a happy story if I traded my painted cabbage for a car full of cabbage? After the idea was finalized, Mr. Qi Baishi quickly drew a Chinese cabbage painting and took it out and replaced it with a vendor.
When the stall owner saw Mr. Qi Baishi coming out, he thought that business was coming, so he warmly entertained him. Qi Baishi walked up to the stall owner and said, "I'll give you a car full of cabbages with my paintings. Do you like them? " The vendor doesn't know Mr. Qi Baishi. As soon as he heard this, he was unhappy and immediately replied, "Miss! You are making fun of me, aren't you? If it weren't for your old man's age, I would kick you! "
After listening to the peddler's words, Mr. Qi Baishi felt that his face was hard, so he put away the cabbage painting and went back the same way. Mr. Qi Baishi sighed as he ran: "What is this?" ! What an insult! "
"When the immortal saw my hands shaking, he blamed me for the dust." This sentence in Painting Hua Yue is a perfect description of Mr. Qi Baishi.
For Mr. Qi Baishi, "stingy" is the characteristic of his genius. Although Mr. Qi Baishi made a lot of interesting things because he was stingy, all these things are very reasonable now. After all, there was a large population at that time, so it would be good to save a little more for future generations. At this point, the story is over. So, Qi Baishi, who is probably "stingy", said, I'll give you a car full of Chinese cabbage. Vendor: What do you want to say about this? Welcome to leave a message for discussion!