Painter

Chapter 220 69: Astrology
As the oil wall carriage traveled westward, the lights on the side of the street gradually darkened, and the girl's cheeks in the carriage window also darkened.The maid lit a palm lamp, and Li Chan and Jiang Ru talked about Danqing techniques and the three trials in the Gongyuan just now, separated by a car curtain.

The oil wall car passed the flying bridge south of the Golden Mother Bridge, and Li Chan looked north over the shaft of the car. In the night, the oil lamps and the hazy sandalwood smoke mixed into clouds of light and mist, lingering ups and downs around the big Buddha statue.

This scene made Li Chan feel familiar, and without much effort, he remembered that he had seen this oil wall car crossing the flying bridge a few months ago when he went to Daxiangguo Temple to look for Immortal Mo.

Inside the car, Jiang Ru followed Li Chan's gaze, turned his head to look at the unopened car curtain on the other side, and turned back again, "The "Ghost Mother Picture" outside Daxiangguo Temple was drawn by Mr. Xu. The most important thing is that the ultramarine blue is mixed with turpentine and ghee, and every night when it is illuminated by the lights, it seems to come alive."

"Ultramarine is more expensive than gold, and I am reluctant to paint on paper. I don't know how much such a mural will be used." Li Chan sighed, shaking her head, and retracted her gaze from a distance. I saw that picture when I was in the temple, the color is darker, and it must have been burned."

"I'll send someone to bring some over some other day." Jiang Ru smiled slightly, not waiting for Li Chan to accept or reject, "Li Lang really has eyesight. I saw the sunset between the buildings at home a few days ago, so I wanted to draw it. , It's a pity that I can't paint that twilight color, does Li Lang have any experience?"

Li Chan asked, "What did you use to paint?"

Jiang Ru said, "Cinnabar."

Li Chan thought for a while, "It might be better to add some coral."

"I happen to have coral from Yingzhou at home. I'll grind it up and try it someday when I'm free." Jiang Ru smiled and changed the subject: "I heard that Immortal Mo gave Li Lang a piece of precious ink. Known as the most red color in the world."

Li Chan was startled, and smiled wryly, "So you're waiting for me here."

Jiang Ru smiled and said, "Don't worry, Li Lang, I just heard the news from the boy next to Immortal Mo, so don't worry about other people knowing. Speaking of which, has Li Lang used that piece of precious ink?"

Li Chan glanced under the Yunqiao calmly, there was a hidden light in his courtyard in Guangzhaifang, "It's been used."

Jiang Ru asked, "Is that the painting in Bishuixuan?"

"No." Li Chan shook her head, "I used it to draw a person."

Jiang Ru asked curiously, "Is that portrait still there?"

"It's still there." Li Chan smiled, "But you can't see it anymore."

Jiang Ru hesitated for a moment, "Treasures should not be easily shown to others."

Li Chan shook his head, "It's not because of that." When the black donkey walked down the cloud bridge, he smiled mysteriously, "It's just that after this person finished the painting, he left the painting."

The maid Ping'er in the carriage couldn't hold back her first step and burst out laughing, while Jiang Ru said sternly: "Xu Gong once said that the ultimate state of painting is to hang on the wall and fly by itself, and he can draw death to life. It turns out that Li Lang has already participated in good fortune." This is the point." At this point, she couldn't help laughing, and changed the subject, "Li Lang refuses to show me paintings, but I have a painting to give to you."

Li Chan's eyebrows twitched, "What painting?"

Jiang Ru smiled and said, "You will naturally know then."

While talking, the Youbi car had passed the Jinmu Bridge and arrived at the entrance of Geng Lane. The Youbi car turned east to the Fengchen General's Mansion, and Li Chan bid farewell to Jiang Ru.

After passing the alley, he raised his eyes and saw the white cat lying on the door.Hong Yao was holding a lantern, and came to greet her from a long distance, looking in the direction of the general's mansion, although worried about Li Chan's spring test results, she asked first, "Why did Ah Lang walk with that little lady?"

"It happened to be on the way, and I said something to my colleagues." Li Chan threw down the rein.Xu Da jumped to pick up the reins and led the black donkey into the yard.

Hong Yao said suspiciously "Oh", and all the monsters gathered around, and asked each other about Li Chanchun's test.Xu Da bit the rein and whimpered: "With A Lang's ability, just a mere spring test, and he will be able to catch it naturally!"

So without waiting for Li Chan's response, the inquiries of the monsters turned into endless cheers, interspersed with a few loud cock crows, which made the neighbors frown.The rooster crowing at night, this vision is a sign of war.

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It was completely dark, the kitchen was full of smoke, and the food had been reheated several times.The monsters served food and drink to celebrate. During the dinner, the old bookworm asked about the spring exam questions. When Li Chan was asked about his masters, he said Pea and Shida Shanren. How dare I compare myself with Mr. Bi, but I was so happy that I wrote three words of wine in a row, drank a lot, and dipped my fingers in the wine to write Li Chan's last noodle on the table, and pulled Qing Chi Yasha, he insisted on explaining the controversy of this verse in detail.Eryasha was dizzy, but who would admit that he didn't understand?Stuck neck deadlocked.

Li Chan looked amused, put down his chopsticks, and suddenly remembered the Danqing technique discussed with Jiang Ru at dusk, turned his head to speak, but there was no sign of Master Bi, so he turned to the left and asked, "Qing Niang, where is Master Bi?"

Sao Qingniang glanced in the direction of the chess pavilion, and said softly, "Over there."

Li Chan followed Sao Qingniang's gaze, and happened to see Mr. Bi looking over from a distance, and nodded.With a heartbeat, Li Chan pushed away the bowl and chopsticks.

Leaving the table, the noise gradually faded away, Li Chan came to the chess pavilion, and saw Mr. Bi standing under the new leaves of the wisteria and looking up at the sky.He also followed Mr. Bi and looked up. It was really a beautiful day with sparse moons and bright stars.The two of them just looked at it for a while, and Mr. Bi suddenly asked, "According to what you see, what are the stars in the sky?"

Li Chan was a bit puzzled by the sudden question, and said casually: "People in Dayong country say that the stars in the sky are gods."

"Immortal." Mr. Bi nodded, then shook his head again, "It's not a mistake." He looked at Li Chan, "Don't say what others think, what do you think?"

Li Chan frowned slightly, looked up for a while, thought for a while, and shook her head.

Mr. Bi didn't ask any more questions, and looked up at the sky again, and said leisurely: "In the past, the ancestors of the ancestors were so powerful that they separated the human world from the gods and Buddhas. The stars in the sky should be three thousand worlds."

"Three thousand worlds..." Li Chan murmured and repeated, noticing the word "should" in Mr. Bi's words.Before he had time to ask, Mr. Bi flicked his long sleeves, and there were extra pen, ink and rice paper on the chess table.

"You might as well try to draw it down." Mr. Pen smiled.

Li Chan didn't know Mr. Bi's intention, so he hesitated for a moment, then picked up the pen.Although he didn't have a deep study of alchemy, he had read some books and knew that there are three walls and four images and 28 mansions, so he used this as a basis to draw stars one by one on paper.There are a total of 460 stars in the sky this day, some of which are hard to see with the naked eye, but they are no match for Li Chan's magical eyes.

These thousands of stars are constantly moving, and after drawing the previous one, the position of the next one has changed a little. It is not easy to draw it well.Li Chan only dabbled in the astrology a little, and spent more than half an hour, and finally put these 460 stars on the paper.He looked up at the sky, and although he couldn't see clearly, he could feel that the stars were moving in their own order, and although they were scattered everywhere, they were integrated as one.

After drawing the thousand 460 five stars, his eyes fell to the west of the sky, looking at the dim demon star.

It is strange to say that the stars in the sky are naturally integrated, as if they are tightly fitted together like the brackets in a great hall, but with the addition of this demon star, it seems that there is an extra piece of wood from the predetermined number, and only this one piece is added, and then pieced together, The bucket arch is crumbling.

"This demon star..." Li Chan murmured, "Why is it here?" He just felt very strange, somehow familiar, the position of this demon star, "It's like..."

"It looks like this chess game." Mr. Bi pointed to the chess table in the pavilion, the chess board was covered with white pieces, and the black chess pieces were lifeless, but they were firmly nailed to Tianyuan.

"This..." Li Chan opened his mouth, but felt a little confused. He didn't know where this demon star came from or what it meant.Suddenly, he remembered what Mr. Bi said just now, and asked: "You said that the stars in the sky should be three thousand worlds, isn't it now?"

Mr. Bi shook his head, "Although the human world is cut off from the heavens, it is still possible to use the astrology to deduce the secrets of the heavens, and now the secrets have been deceived..." He paused, "There are only a few people who can deduce the secrets of the heavens. Yuan Shuo, It's one of them."

"Being deceived?" Li Chan was puzzled, and looked to the west, "Because of this... demon star?" Halfway through speaking, he couldn't help hesitating, and saw Bi Junding looking over, and there seemed to be a look of sadness in his eyes, Sigh.

"The Spring Examination of the Qianyuan Academy has not yet been decided, so don't be too troublesome." Mr. Bi put his hands behind his back and turned around, "Let's stop here tonight. After tomorrow... I will write." He looked at the west, "Let you see Take a look at this astrology."

(End of this chapter)