Painter

Chapter 85: Chapter 85
The hosta was stained with rain, and shone with water, becoming more moist and clear.Li Chan felt a little cold, and only then realized that half of her body was standing outside the patio. She had been standing in the drizzle for an unknown amount of time, and her right shoulder was soaked.

The courtyard is narrow, only one zhang square, and the old man grinding the mirror is opposite, sitting on a low stool with his back against the woodshed.He was still wiping the mirror in his hand, but at this moment, Li Chan could only see the pattern of the sun and the moon behind the mirror.The hallucination just now is still vivid in my memory, but when I think about it, it flies away like rain and wind, leaving only a vague impression.

The coolness of Li Chan's right arm spread to his back, he took half a step back, only to find that the old man opposite didn't seem to mind his unannounced entry.

Lu Zijing got up and put the bronze mirror on the chair, and wiped his hands with a flannel cloth, "Although Li Lang's hairpin is broken, it still has a whole beard and tail, why don't you show it to me?"

Li Chan calmed down and passed the jade hairpin to Lu Zijing through the courtyard, "I was worried that I couldn't find someone who could repair the jewelry, and Mr. Lu really helped me a lot."

"It's nothing." Lu Zijing took the jade hairpin and smiled, "Please trouble Li Lang, help me tidy up."

Li Chan picked up the silk cloth at the threshold of the woodshed, wrapped more than twenty bronze mirrors together, and walked into the room on the left side of the woodshed with Lu Zijing.

The walls of the house are all made of earth, and there is a furnace in the northwest corner, and beside it are pottery molds for casting mirrors, which have obviously been used.On the west side of the house, there is another small door. Lu Zijing opened the curtain and entered, and sat down at a square beech table.On the square table are leather drills, carving knives and other tools for grinding and carving.

Li Chan put down the package containing the bronze mirror.

Lu Zijing put the jade hairpin in the palm of his hand, looked at the broken part, and said: "When I was young, I went to Shenpeng and learned a skill of goldsmithing, but I never used it. Li Lang has found the right person."

"It's such a coincidence, on behalf of the owner of the hairpin, I would like to thank Mr. Lu first."

"You don't need to thank me, I still want to ask Li Lang to make a painting in the future."

"What's so difficult about this, if Mr. Lu has pen and ink here..."

"No rush." ​​Lu Zijing shook her head, "The painting I want to ask Li Lang to do is not so easy to draw well, and it won't be too late to paint when Li Lang has nothing else to do."

Li Chan was taken aback slightly by Lu Zijing's words of "no other distractions". At this time, Lu Zijing added: "Li Lang has become famous recently, and there are many people who come to ask for paintings. If I also ask Li Lang for paintings, I'm afraid Li Lang will be unbearable."

Li Chan breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile, "Then wait for Mr. Lu to make up his mind, and come to me anytime."

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Kintsugi is delicate work, so it needs to be done slowly. According to the old mirror grinder, if the craftsman does not use magic techniques, it will take half a month to repair a piece of jewelry and porcelain.Li Chan left the jade hairpin in the bronze mirror shop and went back home.

The rain that lasted for a day did not stop, and there were signs that it was getting bigger and bigger. As the time got late, it was pitch black outside.Occasionally, a ray of light flashed, and was swallowed up by the black cloud in an instant, without leaking the slightest sound of thunder.

After entering the study, Li Chan closed the door.I pondered for a while before the desk, and wrote: "That person went to the Western Capital Mansion, and he should have passed the test. He should be a member of the Xiyi Clan without a doubt. But the Xiyi Clan, why do you want to exorcise demons and kill gods?"

Li Chan let go of the pen, and Mr. Bi wrote: "What will happen if you kill all the gods in Xuandu?"

Li Chan said: "Xuandu sits in the western region of Dayong. In the west there are dragon warriors to guard against demons, and there are gods inside to see the evil spirits. If all the gods die, Xuandu will not be safe. The current emperor chased away the demons 20 years ago. Now that he is going to the west of the country, Zentaodu Mountain is definitely not tolerated by western monsters. It is only natural for monsters to obstruct Sheng Jia, but the person who colludes with the monsters is actually from Xiyi Mountain..."

Mr. Bi said: "It's not Xiyi Mountain who colludes with demons! The current situation in Xuandu is complicated, how many forces do you think there are?"

Li Chan thought for a while, and replied: "There is Qingque Palace in Taoism, and there are Cui and Zhao families in the family of the princes of the past generations. There are also King Zhenxi, Xidu Mansion, and Shenzhasi... Now that the holy car is coming, There are also foreign demons sneaking in, as far as I can see, there are Qingqiu Fox Clan, Xiangxiong Demon God, and there are many demons hiding in the dark."

Mr. Bi wrote: "After all, it is nothing more than the two religions, demons, local clans, courts, kings of Zhenxi, and six forces. There is a lot to write about the relationship here, but don't think too complicated. Let's talk about the Xiyi Mountain people first. Xiyi Mountain is a sacred place of Taoism. Among the three holy places of Taoism, Qingque Palace has not interfered with the imperial court since a hundred years ago. The current abbot of Xuankong Temple is the prince of the former dynasty, and Xiyi Mountain is only in charge of the Dao of Dayong, which is above the way of humanity. "

There was a muffled sound of billowing thunder in the sky, and the wind that blew up at an unknown time blew the wooden windows crackling.Although the candle flame above Dai Zhu's head was not flickering, the paper under the Porcelain Tiger Paperweight was curled up.Li Chan was about to get up, when a piece of red paper-cut female doll fluttered to the window lattice, stopping the wind from entering through the window.

Li Chan wrote again and wrote: "The two worlds of man and god coexist, like a country with two masters, they must exclude each other. This is the root cause. I just have a question, how can Xiyi Mountain be associated with demons?"

There was an uproar of rain outside the window, and I don't know when it was raining heavily.A few rays of thunder passed through the window paper, and in the light and darkness, the bone-like jade penholder paused slightly.

"Although Mount Xiyi is a sacred place of Taoism, the way its disciples did in Xuandu must have something to do with the Cui family of Beixiang. And the Cui family of Beixiang has always been entangled with demons. The reason is that Cui A matter of the ancestors."

Li Chan wrote: "The Cui family moved from Beixiang to Yingling County, but for more than [-] years, its foundation is still in Beixiang. It seems that it has been passed down in Beixiang for hundreds of years."

Mr. Bi said: "It is far more than hundreds of years, but also dates back to the ancient times. People today know that the human race was enslaved by demons in ancient times, but they don't know that the demons selected the genus of intelligence from the human race to enslave them. The demon law made it monitor the same clan. These people who inherited the demon law, in order to distinguish themselves from the same clan, called themselves "Familiars", and their tyranny was even worse than demons! Until the birth of the ancestors, these people saw the decline of demons , and turned to Renzu."

With a thud, thunder tore through the clouds.The thunder was shining, the candle flame was dimmed, the small room was as bright as day, and a line of writing was reflected on the paper in black and white.

"Your family is intelligent by nature. Since Ren Zu's death, he has washed away his bad reputation and become today's family leader!"

(End of this chapter)