Painter

Chapter 22: Chapter 22

Nie Er is the husband of the Xuandu City Shipping Department.

Hu Lang is a person who works as a business intermediary and collects commissions, and his business is not fixed.Cars and horses, porcelain, silk and fur, rental and sales of houses, as long as they can get oil and water, they are there.Of course, the premise of doing this is that the information is well-informed.

Nie Er is the most well-informed person in the area of ​​Liufang near the West Market. Before the capital was moved, he worked in the Jinzuoyuan of the Wangfu. In the middle of the duty of news and secrets, Nie Er accumulated contacts at that time, and practiced the means of inquiring about news.

After Jinzhaoyuan was withdrawn, Nie Er hid for two years, and then went to the Shibo Department to ask for a job as a husband, which was regarded as a return to his old career.He glanced at the sign of Yequan Dongqu, and walked into Changlefang. In the green alley of Changlefang is the red sleeve move. The original court teaching workshop is now a gold-selling cave for dignitaries to relieve their souls.

Nie Er didn't stop, and walked through Qingyin Lane where comedians and singing and dancing prostitutes lived, and came to the west side of Changle Square, when a voice suddenly came from the side of the road.

"Nie Sanlang, I knew you were here." Li Chan walked from under the archway at the west entrance of Changle Fang, smiled and waved to Nie Er.

Nie Er was surprised, and said happily, "Why are you here?" He strode forward, patted Li Chan's arm vigorously twice, looked up and down, was about to say something, but swallowed it into his throat, and pulled Li Chan up. He walked towards Gantang Lane with his hands in his hands, "Come on, brother, let's talk this way."

The two walked towards a two-story wooden building in the middle of Gantang Lane.

A woman on the second floor is drying clothes. The woman is no longer youthful, but her figure is slim, and there is still some charm in her eyebrows and eyes. She saw Nie Er from a distance, and continued to flatten the air-dried clothes with just a glance. Seeing Li Chan, she put down the hanging clothes in surprise and went downstairs.

Nie Er smiled and shouted, "Jiu Niang, look who's here?"

"Li Lang is here, I'm going to prepare tea." Gu Jiuniang's voice was hoarse, and after saluting to Li Chan, she entered the back room.

Li Chan glanced at Gu Jiuniang's throat, and said in a low voice, "Jiuniang's voice is still the same."

When Gu Jiuniang was young, she was a well-known Qingyuan in Xuandu in the Jiaofang. Her voice was broken due to illness, and she fell into the fireworks and willow alley. It was Nier who redeemed her.

"It's better, but it can't be cured." Nie Er shook his head and led Li Chan into the room.

The room is decorated in a simple and elegant way, with several cushions surrounding the table, a pipa hanging on the wall, a plain white porcelain vase in the closet, and a screen made of bamboo strips standing beside the lattice window. Faint light smoke.

"It smells so good." Li Chan walked towards the screen as soon as she entered the door, "What kind of incense did Jiuniang light?"

There were red lacquered shrines and melons and fruits on the small table behind the screen. When Li Chan saw the scene behind the screen, Gu Jiuniang just put down the curtain of the shrine and whispered, "Shendu is fragrant."

Li Chan smiled and didn't ask any more questions, but Danyan saw a colorful shadow with a human head and a bird's body in the shrine.

Miaoyinniao is not a monster that harms people.

Li Chan was relieved, and went back to sit by the table.

Nie Er said with a smile: "Brother asked the immortals in Qingque Palace, why are you willing to come down to earth?"

"I only went to see a door, it's not considered to be an immortal, no, I was kicked out."

Nie Er was taken aback, just as he saw Gu Jiuniang taking out the charcoal from behind the screen, he got up and said, "I'll do it." Then he got up and took the charcoal basin, and while filling the clay oven with charcoal, he smiled and said, "That's fine, that's fine, Taoism talks about cutting off emotion and nature, if you want to become a god, how can you remember me as an ordinary person."

"How come you have become severance?" Li Chan smiled, "Even if you are too sensual, it is not the orthodoxy of Qingque Palace."

Nie Er said: "It's almost enough to say that you have lost your love and sex. Qingniang has been waiting for you in Jinyifang for more than two years, and you have lost contact in the past six months. If I hadn't sent some food over from time to time, how could she have survived? Although she is your sister-in-law, dare you say that you don't mean that to her?"

Nie Er smiled meaningfully as he heard the sound of clogs stepping on the floor behind him. He looked back and saw Gu Jiuniang coming in with a water ladle and gave him a supercilious look.The man immediately put away his smile, but still lowered his voice and said to Li Chan: "I think she is interested in you, otherwise, why would a woman of this age not marry?"

"It's none of your business." Li Chan ignored Nie Er's words, and couldn't explain the matter, "I need money urgently, find me something to do."

"Are you asking for money?" Nie Er pondered for a while, "Sell paintings like before, or write essays for others?"

"all good."

"Wait." Nie Er took off his waist bag and handed it to Li Chan, "Take it first."

Li Chan weighed some copper plates and about two taels of scattered silver inside, and hung the pouch on his belt, "Thank you."

Nie Er thought for a while, and said: "Selling paintings depends on fate, and there are many people who ask for essays, but some of them have committed serious crimes. Even if I help you, you will not do it. Yesterday, I heard that there is a The old blacksmith..."

The water in the copper pot began to boil, and there were footsteps outside the door, and a girl's voice started to yell before entering the door: "Wu Gui, that old dog and tortoise, dared to take advantage of me, and I rewarded him three times." Da Erbazi, A Niang, did I take advantage of him?"

Halfway through the conversation, a girl came in.It looks like it's been twenty-eight years, but her hair hasn't got a knot, it's only tied with a green ribbon.She saw Nie Er and was about to greet her when she saw Li Chan again. She opened her eyes wide and said in surprise, "Uncle?"

Li Chan smiled and said, "Kong Konger."

Nie Kong rushed over, looked Li Chan up and down, and said courteously, "Uncle, why are you here? Didn't you go to the Qingque Palace to become a fairy, but you have learned the art of flying sword? Where is the flying sword? I heard , The sword fairy hid the flying sword in his mouth, and he killed hundreds of people with his mouth. He also said that the sword fairy's golden energy entered his body, and even the blood was made of silver. Uncle, tell me, are these true?"

"Go help your mother." Neil waved his hand, "We have something to talk about."

"Father!" Nie Kongkong was reluctant.

"What are you shouting for?" Gu Jiuniang gave Nie Kongkong a sideways look.

"Uncle Nie is Dad, Dad, don't you think so?" Nie Kongkong deliberately took Nie Er's hand and smiled at Gu Jiuniang.

Gu Jiuniang said lightly: "I don't know whose bastard it is."

Nie Kongkong's face darkened, and he muttered softly, "Son and daughters of the Jianghu, don't argue with women."

Li Chan interjected, "Kong Konger, have you improved your martial arts in the past two years?"

"Naturally." Nie Kongkong grinned again, "Ordinary strong men can't get close."

"I'll test you another day." Li Chan turned to Nie Er and said, "Sanlang just talked about Zhenwumen."

"The old blacksmith next to Zhenwumen is called Cheng Lian." Nie Er said, "I heard that he was suffering from a serious illness, and he refused to let his apprentice seek medical treatment, and he refused to invite a medical officer. There should be some inside information. You might as well go and see it." Look."

(End of this chapter)