Ye San sells fruit. This fruit seller is different from other fruit sellers. They don't open stores, set up stalls, or walk the streets with burdens. He specially delivers fruit to the door of the mansion. That is, to 20 or 30 families. He knows these families well, and both the doorman and the dog know him. One day, he came. When I heard him knocking at the door, I knew it was Ye San. He walked into the room with a gold basket on his arm and a small weight on it, and called out to his master. Sometimes the host comes out to greet him, and sometimes he speaks through the door. "Give you a name-?" -"Five catties." You don't need to look at any fruit, because it is certain to send any fruit on any festival. Ye San never talks about price when selling fruit. People who buy fruit will never treat him badly. At that time, some people gave money, and most of them waited until the next festival (Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese New Year). Ye San weighed the fruit, put it on the table of the Eight Immortals, said "offended" and left. He doesn't have to pick his fruit, everything is good. The advantages of his fruit are, first, ahead of the four seasons. This kind of fruit has never been seen in the market, but it is already in his basket. The second is all big, uniform, fragrant, sweet and beautiful. All his fruits pass through his hands. Those with scars, insect eyes, crowded baskets, broken skins, discolored ones and too small ones are picked and sold to other fruit sellers at low prices. All his fruits are original, and some are purchased directly from the place of origin. It's all cooked-not cooked with rice bran. He often goes out and spends much more time buying fruit than selling it. He also likes to run around. He knows that there is a famous fruit tree in the garden of every household in the four townships and eight towns, and he has been dealing with the garden for many years, so he is as familiar as his in-laws. -other fruit sellers can't do this and don't know these roads. Walking around, you can see a lot of good scenery and understand the local customs, which can be helpful and beneficial to your health. He seldom gets sick because he often takes a walk.
Before and after beginning of spring, they sold green radishes. "Stick carrot" will crack when it falls to the ground. When apricots and peaches come down, they sell fragrant white apricots as big as eggs and as white as a mass of snow, only "red" peaches, with a red line under their mouths. Then there are cherries, red like coral and white like agate. Before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, batch loquat. Sell melons in summer. Sell seafood in July and August: fresh water chestnut, chicken head, lotus root and lotus root under flowers. Sell horsetooth dates and grapes. Near Chongyang, pear sellers: Yali pear from Hejianfu, half a catty crisp from Laiyang, and a sweet pear with a small aroma called "Golden Pendant". Chrysanthemums are in bloom, selling kumquat and Fuzhou tangerine with navel on the pedicle. After winter, we sell chestnuts, yams (as thick as children's arms), lilies (as big as fists) and fresh Dalbergia olives.
He also sells bergamot and citron. People buy them, put them on shelves and plates, clean them in the study, smell them and look at them.
Many people who live in seclusion don't remember what festival it is until they see the fruit given by Ye San.
Ye San has been selling fruit for more than 30 years, and his two sons are adults. They all started from cloth shops. The second is three cabinets, and the boss has been promoted to two cabinets. Everyone thinks that the boss will be promoted to the top of the cabinet and hold the power in the future. He was born a good material. He is the first abacus in the shop. Throughout the year, he always sits in the office for a few days. He is indispensable for receiving the guests of manufacturers and studying purchasing (purchasing is a university topic, a one-year plan, which goods should be bought more and which goods should be bought less next year, which must be kept at hand and which can be tried out, which is related to the profit and loss of the whole year). The second child is also very capable. Measure well before tearing the cloth (you don't need scissors to open your mouth, press your hands and fingers, and with a little ingenuity, the cloth will be torn to the end), which is clean and neat. The speed of the clerk is also a sign of a cloth shop. Customers are always willing to buy cloth from flexible shop partners. This is a gift, but also by practice. Some people are stupid and clumsy all their lives and can't change. No matter what you do, you are always better than others. Nothing you can do can stop it. Both brothers are handsome, with fine features, neither tall nor short. The guys in the cloth shop are all well dressed. They wear any latest materials. Their materials are of course cheap and good quality. They buy clothes at the purchase price and have no profit; If it is a fraction, there is a discount. This is the rule of the cloth shop, and it is also the boss's pleasure, because the shop partners are dressed in fashion, and it is also a matter of putting on a facade for the shop. When some customers come to buy cloth, they often point to the sleeve of the shopkeeper's gown or blouse and turn it out: "Give me one like you."
Both brothers have become families, and the boss has a child-Ye San has a grandson.
This year is Ye's birthday in his thirties and fifties, and the family is discussing how to celebrate his birthday. Both Big Brother and Second Brother advised Dad not to sell fruit at home, because they could afford him.
Leaf three a little angry:
"Think I don't give you a shame? Gentlemen of two big cloth shops have an old man selling fruit. Isn't it very good? "
Son hurriedly explained:
"No, your old man is old, and he is always running outside, in the wind and rain, on land and water, and his son is not at ease."
"I am used to running. I am used to sending fruits to these families. I have to sell fruit for grandpa Keith alone. "
Grandpa Ji is Ji. He ranks fourth, and people in the city call him fourth master.
"You don't have to do anything for me. If you have filial piety, take out the painting my grandpa four gave me and frame it, and give me a mouthful of longevity material. " There is a custom here that materials for longevity are prepared early, so as to be auspicious: to increase happiness and longevity. So they all obey him.
Ye San still sells fruit.
He really sells fruit for Ji alone. He sends fruit to other people's homes to make money, and he sends fruit to Ji Ai's paintings.
Ji has a temper, painting and drinking. Drinking is not only food, but also fruit. Draw two strokes, take a swig of wine from the spout, hold a piece of fruit in your left hand and draw with your right hand. To draw a picture, you need to drink two catties of carved flowers and eat half a catty of fruit.
Ye San always gives the best fruit to Ji first.
Ji goes into his little study every day at the party. Ye San doesn't need to be told. He entered through a hexagonal door and walked through a winding path of ice flowers paved with gravel. When he saw Ji through the window, he went in with his fresh fruit.
"grandpa four, loquat, Baisha!"
"Four great grandfather, east pier watermelon, three white! -This kind of three-white melon is a little pear-scented, not elsewhere! "
He sent fruit to Ji for a long time. He grinds ink for Ji, polishes bamboo sticks, grinds stones, bluestones and bluestones, and rolls paper. When Ji painted, he stood by and stared at him, cooing, and did not even catch his breath. Sometimes when I see the highlights, I can't help but take a deep breath and even exclaim in a low voice. This is a proud place, and it is also a proud place for Ji. Ji never paints in public. He sometimes locks the door of his study when he paints. Ye San is an exception. He is very willing to have such a person watching. He thinks Ye San really understands that Ye San's appreciation is from the heart, not pretending to be an expert or flattering.
Ji Taomin hates listening to people talk about painting. He seldom goes to his relatives' house for entertainment. I really have to go. He also drank half a cup of tea as soon as he arrived and said goodbye. Because there must be pseudonyms at the dinner, and because Ji is a great painter, these celebrities especially like to comment on books and paintings in front of him and show off their elegance and erudition. This statement is all hearsay, which seems to make no sense. Ji Taomin was really uncomfortable. He also knows that if he answers the phone and answers a few words, a famous person will re-sell his lofty remarks in other social occasions and say, "Brother, Ji Taomin also agrees deeply."
But he has special respect for Ye San.
I admire it the most. He thinks that Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics have the deepest ability to resume classes, and they are good at sketching, splashing ink with a pen, bold and rigorous, vigorous and graceful, not pretentious, and without Jianghu spirit. One day, I gave him a quarto album, which surprised Ji: these quartos are true! Ji Taomin asked him how much he spent on it, but Ye San said he didn't spend a penny. He went to Sanduo to sell fruit and saw four paintings embedded in the glass of a cupboard. -He has seen many paintings by Li Futang in Grandpa Four, and he can recognize them. He traded four Suzhou films for that one. The "Suzhou Film" is colorful and brand-new, and the family is still very happy.
Ye San just likes painting from his heart. He never comments blindly. JiTaoMin finished painting, nailed to the wall, his negative hand away, sometimes ask Ye San:
"okay?"
"good!"
"Where is the good news?"
Ye San can tell what is good in one sentence.
Ji drew a wisteria and asked.
Ye San said, "There is wind in wisteria."
"well! How do you know? "
"The flowers are messy."
"Exactly!"
Ji Taomin wrote two words:
"There is no one in the deep courtyard, and the wind blows wisteria."
Ji drew a sketch and the mouse went to the lampstand. Ye San said, "This is a little mouse."
"How can I see it?"
"The mouse wagged its tail on the lamppost. Too naughty. "
"Yes!"
Ji likes painting lotus flowers. All his paintings are Moho noodles. He admires Li Futang, but his painting style is different from that of Tang Fu. Li's paintings are dignified, while Ji's are elegant. Li Duo paints with a medium pen, while Ji Lue uses a side pen. -He wrote Cao Zhang. Li Futang is sometimes covered in ink and ink, and he dresses carelessly. Ji is not so fierce. His paintings are freehand, but he always touches everything, arranges them neatly, and makes good use of them. His Mo Lian is Zhang Daqian, but it is more stretched. The lotus leaves he painted are not hooked, the lotus stems are not tied, and he likes to make them long. The lotus stems are very long.
One day, Ye San sent a handful of lotus flowers. When Ji was happy, he drew a picture of Mo Lian and many lotus flowers. After painting, I asked Ye San, "How?"
Ye San said, "Grandpa Four, you drew it wrong."
"no?"
"'red lotus seeds and white lotus roots'. You painted Bai Lianhua, but the lotus is so big, and the lotus seeds are full and black. This is the lotus seed of Honglian. "
"Are you? I heard it for the first time! "
Ji then launched an eight-foot health bulletin, drew a red lotus and wrote a poem:
"Red lotus seeds and white lotus roots,
Ye San, who sells fruit, is my teacher.
Ashamed that painters have little knowledge,
Make an exception for you. "
Ji gave many paintings. Sometimes Ji painted a picture, but he was not satisfied, so the picture fell off. After a few days, I picked it up and gave it to Ji. Ji Taomin thought it was not bad, so he changed it slightly, added a question and handed it to Ye San. All the paintings Ji gave were engraved with the previous paragraph. Ye San also has a scientific name. The five elements are short of water, hence the name Runsheng. Ji Taomin gave him a word called Zezhi. This painting for Ye San is often called "Yazheng, the third brother of Zezhi". Sometimes the theme is "Painting and Ye San". Ji also explained to him that it was an ancient custom to call him by rank instead of looking down on him.
Sometimes, Ji draws a picture and says, "This man is not qualified to win the top prize. You can sell it-it's hard to sell it with the payment. "
Ye San said: "It doesn't matter whether this topic is mentioned in the previous paragraph. But I won't sell your paintings. "
"Not for sale?"
"Don't sell any?"
He put all the paintings Ji gave him in the coffin.
More than ten years have passed.
Ji is dead. Although he no longer sells fruits, he still looks around for fresh fruits and sacrifices them to his grave.
After Ji died, the price of his paintings rose sharply. Someone in Japan specializes in collecting his paintings. As we all know, there are many beautiful paintings, all of which are very good. Many people want to buy Ye San's Tibetan paintings. Ye San said:
"Not for sale."
One day, a foreigner came to visit Ye San, and Ye San read his business card. This man's surname is very strange. His surname is "Di Tingtao". Ask, it's Japanese. Qi Tingtao said that he had come to see his collection of Ji's paintings.
Ye San had to take out this painting because he came from far away. Tuntingtao is very religious. He asked for clean water to wash his hands, lit a wick, and made three obeisances to the painting axis before unfolding. While watching, he kept admiring:
"oh! Oh! Very good! It's a miracle! "
Ji Tingtao can buy these paintings at any price.
Ye San said:
"Not for sale."
After listening to Tao, he had to leave in despair.
Ye San died. According to his father's wishes, his son buried Ji's paintings in the coffin with his father.
1February 28, 982
(1) Li Futang, a shark, the word CheungYueng, Tang Fu is his name, he is also a Taoist. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi, he was the magistrate of tengxian. Because I offended my superiors, my reputation and official position were removed, and I only worked as a painter all the year round. Sometimes he has to borrow paper from Zheng Banqiao to draw pictures, which may be quite pitiful. His meticulous brushwork is the high foot of the court painter Jiang Tingxi. Later, in Yangzhou, he changed his painting to freehand brushwork, and learned from Gao. Under the influence of Xu Qingteng, Ba Da and Shi Tao, his demeanor changed greatly and he became a family of his own.
(2) Imitation of old paintings, mostly meticulous flowers and birds with delicate colors, were made by Suzhou painters in the old days and sold all over the country, so they were called "Suzhou films". Suzhou films are also copied well, not tacky.