Chapter 34 (1/2)
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The first night living in the house at Forty Seventh street, Ning Que felt he was infinitely close to his dreah the brush, ink, ink stone, and paper were cheap Even though the night vieas shallow and not broad Even though he only had water not tea and there was only bread on the table, not incenses Even though a h the h he has yet to achieve his goal to xiuxing…
Although there were so hs, when he placed his brush on top of the white paper and started to write wildly, he still felt happy He even thought Sang Sang’s idea of selling calligraphy was genius
Wei City wasn’t exactly poor, but it wasn’t rich either The supply and aid fros like paper, brush, ink, and ink stones, therefore writing a few scrolls of calligraphy costed a fortune But now, Ning Que could use these raphy work forwouldn’t complain either What happier event could happen to awhile fast under pleasure When Ning Que finally raised his head, drank half bowl of water, ed his sore shoulders, and decided to take a break, the sunlight already broke the dawn Faintly he could hear ht of writing, there were two stacks of scroll piled up on the table Besides the first two scrolls which ritten in wild style to release his emotions, the other scrolls that he wrote were extreh they seemed to be out of order, there were vertical scrolls, horizontal scrolls, long scrolls, and a great scroll Except they weren’t framed as of yet, therefore they seemed to be simply a pile of papers in different shape and sizes
After years of practicing calligraphy, Ning Que was confident in his work But he couldn’t write the work that he was uests asked hi He? Which mountain was Moutain Hui Ji? As a result he could only copy some modern poems, articles, and so these scrolls on the wall, there would be countless officials and intellectuals fighting to buy his work
“Well, the door is going to be crushed by the people co Que thought confidentlyHis right hand reached out for the old scrolls that the former residents left over and pulled theo to a fra the in the corner of the roo you to buy tls of the fa An sour and spicy noodle”
He looked at the young girl as sound asleep and shook his head He took a short sleeved shi+rt and covered her before exiting the house Following the delicious s of the noodle maker, he arrived at his destination
“Hey uncle, how much for a bowl of noodle?”
“This expensive?”
“You see, ive iven it a na to order the signboard You ask ould be the name?”
“The Old Brush House“
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Just to buy two cheaper bowls of noodle, Ning Que settled on the name of the shop No matter how you looked at it, it wasn’t really a proper and for didn’t care about the name of the shop, she still talked about it years after this event occurred
All in all, this calligraphy shop, with a weird name has an oho’s also the writer and a maid who’s also the worker, had finally opened on the Forty Seventh Street