Stretching out his fingers to trace the curve of the woman in red on the drawing paper little by little, Zhou Manyun's eyes were full of confusion.

Father Zhou Zhe was originally a master of the painting world, in order to let the widowed mother get some comfort from the female inheritance of his father's business, Man Yun also studied painting with the fourth uncle Zhou Tan and several female teachers. Zhou Tan is good at gardens and landscapes, and Man Yun is ordinary and focuses most of his energy on poisoning, which belongs to the typical type of eye master and low master, which is much worse than several brothers and sisters who are good at this.

Although it has been reprinted and printed, it looks like the color pen is following the brushwork of Xiao Pan, who is good at painting ladies. Because of its realistic portrayal, this painting method is highly respected by the daughter of the Jiangnan boudoir, but it is difficult to find a famous teacher. Xibei Zhou Futong's wife Pan is the second daughter of the Pan family, but she once instructed the Zhou family sisters, among which the leader is the fourth sister Manyan.

"Familiar with my appearance and using such brushwork, it can't be that the idle work in the sister's boudoir has been leaked out?" , Man Yun, who really didn't want to doubt his sisters, only dared to read softly in his mouth. I just put down the scroll, but I picked up a newly bought album.

The album titled "Red Lady Yunjin Twelve" was opened, and a pair of red-faced spring/palace pictures appeared in front of me. As if to highlight the theme, the clothes that are either on the edge of the bed or half-faded on the woman's body are like the red clothes in the notice, and in some pictures there are also small triangular cloud brocade flags used to cover the body or tie the limbs.

The painting is fragrant and the curves are smooth, and it is more bold and unrestrained than the single painting version, not only the content but also the brushwork, although it should be the same Southern painting technique, but it is obviously only borrowed from the image and clothing of the woman in red in the notice portrait, but it is obviously not from the hand of one person.

"I didn't let you burn them all!" , The angry shouts sounded behind Man Yun, and before she could react, Xiao Hong reached out and grabbed the album and tore it up like crazy.

Sifted through the fake work of many others to follow the trend and cheat money, and found the initial genuine! Zhou Manyun looked at the white shredded paper floating towards the brazier. There was a hint of distress on his face.

Through a pot of smoke, the man's dark red eyes glared at her angrily, as if he was about to throw her into the brazier.

Man Yun immediately smiled awkwardly and explained, "I just want to keep it and see if I can find out more clues." ”

"What is there to look up! It must have been done by that beast of the Gao family! Xiao Hong hummed and pulled the bellows, and filed a categorical answer from between his teeth. At the invitation of Man Yun, he bought these albums from the market and came back to the limit. Man Yun watched carefully, he was not the slightest interested, but he still couldn't avoid catching a glimpse of those pictures that he never wanted to see.

"He didn't paint it! Gao Wei studied painting with my father when he was a child, but like you, he put aside the brush and stopped learning it as early as the fifteenth year of Yongde. ”

"I'm not like him!" , The young man listened to Man Yun's natural and familiar tone, and immediately exploded, like a cockfight that had just been thrown into the field by teasing.

"Okay, it's different!" , Man Yun took out the eldest sister's style. Consciously considerate and retreated, and stepped forward to brush his hair.

More seriously, being jealous and losing his temper directly regardless of it is what the young Xiao Hong did, but what about waiting for him to be older?

Unknowingly, Man Yun, who coaxed Xiao Hong to rest with his eyes closed on his lap, reached out and touched the young man's smooth cheek. It's embarrassing.

The question of the previous life is still in my ears, "Zhou Manyun." The surname of the high one wants to count the hatred of taking his wife to me, but I feel that I have to calculate the humiliation of the wife first. As long as you think about it, this kind of drinking and questioning will make people's hearts hurt. Regardless of whether he loved or did not love in his previous life, it is always true that he wants to be exclusive out of men.

Zhou Manyun sighed quietly, lowered his head and whispered, "Xiao Hong." Actually, I never thought of the person in the album as me. But you are so angry now, and as time goes by, maybe that day you will feel that the woman in the painting is me. When you think of flies not biting eggs one day, I will be guilty of more crimes, and I will not be guilty of death. ”

"I won't!". A pair of shining eyes suddenly opened, and glared again, full of anger.

"Then look! Maybe I'm good at thinking of the worst possible outcome of things? Man Yun stretched out his hand and brushed the man's forehead and smiled indifferently. In her previous life, she was entangled in Qingyuan and let go, in this life, she really felt that she was lucky in love, and she was not killed, if the person in front of her was empathetic and cold, she would naturally let go of her hand.

"Zhou Manyun! You are really full of wolf heart and ...... lungs sometimes", Xiao Hong cursed in a choked voice, and Xiangshang's outstretched hand passed through Man Yun's black hair, and forcefully slammed his delicate head into Xiangxia's area.

Maybe it's really unfair that love is like this between two people. He couldn't really understand her pain, and the girl who could be with him without hindrance and boldly said love never existed.

Zhou Manyun chuckled and hooked his lips, and leaned down in cooperation......

Even if he didn't agree very much, Man Yun still followed Xiao Hong to the road to Qingyuan.

The road gradually overlapped with the old road to Yuxi Qingyuan, but it was only separated by less than two months, but it gave people a different feeling.

Perhaps, it was not Manyin's business to let Grandpa reschedule at the beginning, but he was very selfish in his heart and wanted to give himself more time! galloping on the wide official road, Zhou Manyun, who was dressed in plain men's clothes, barely said anything superfluous to Xiao Hong beside him, and just blindly rushed forward.

So much so that Dong Bao, who deliberately pulled away from the two of them, also vaguely sensed that the pair in front of him was wrapped in clouds that were not rainy and often cloudy, and he didn't dare to approach easily.

Like all the places you passed through, the towering city walls of Qingyuan County also hung portraits of women in red, and the city gates were full of officers and soldiers checking them.

The two people who were disguised and modified, except for Man Yun who stuffed a string of money into his body for the defense officer, passed the barrier smoothly.

Dong Baochang, who was guarding the tail, breathed a sigh of relief and followed him into the city honestly, but as soon as he entered the city, he was suddenly grabbed by the wrist.

"Brother Bao! You're finally here! A fat man dressed as a businessman warmly hugged Dong Bao's shoulder, and his eyes were full of words that did not match the voice, "Why are you here?". The ordinary faces that will naturally be submerged if they are thrown into the pile of people are actually very easy to recognize for the old buddies who have been friends for more than ten or twenty years.

"Little Liu, the third uncle is waiting for us here!" , Dong Bao hurriedly stood on his toes and shouted at the two horsemen who were moving forward with their heads in front of them.

The fat man who had been waiting for his own people at the city gate was covered with clouds and mountains and fog, but he also cleverly showed a surprised smile to the two strange teenagers who came over.

"A few days ago. The Shengping in Qingyuan City said that it was a water bandit, and it was copied by the soldiers of the shipping station. At this time, it was difficult to do even our business, and I wanted to entrust the goods in my hands to the ship to send it to the north, but several shipping companies were checked. Qingyuan is the place where the Xilan River and the Tuojiang River are connected, and now, three iron cables lock the mouth of the river all day long. Only one hour a day to let the ship pass the inspection go north, my uncle has no money and silver to give gifts, so he can only wait for you at the gate of the city every day to send ......"

The fat man surnamed Hu chattered as he walked, although he hesitated a little when he saw the token shown by Xiao Hong, but he still led everyone forward steadily.

"The Shengping has been copied?" , Man Yun reminded Xiao Hong softly, and his right hand clasped the latent mist held upside down in his palm. Even if Dong Bao confirmed that it was correct, she didn't dare to believe this so-called fat man lurking in the dark line of Qingyuan wholeheartedly.

Xiao Hong nodded knowingly.

was taken into the corner gate of a house, and the door of the small courtyard was closed. It has a bit of the appearance of an urn city. Hu Fatzi smiled and said to the three of them: "Everyone, please rest here for a while, the villain will let the maid come and wait for the clean face to be dressed." ”

"Just help me get it!" , Xiao Hong took a step back and held Man Yun's hand tightly.

"Hu Fatty, I'm a sloppy person who won't freshen up, I'll walk around with you first, I've never been here before!" , Dong Bao shouted loudly and hugged Hu Fatzi's shoulder. The brothers walked away from the house in good condition.

"Manyun! I know you have doubts, so you help me clean up first. That's what you are. Play it by ear. Seeing that there was no one in the room, Xiao Hong hurriedly whispered in Man Yun's ear.

As he was talking, two maidservants in green clothes and yellow skirts walked in with basins and handkerchiefs.

Manyun only told someone to put things down, and closed the door tightly.

With a bit of vigilance. Man Yun's movements for Xiao Hong's makeup removal were extremely slow and slow, and Xiao Hong's tight limbs provoked Xiao Hong to whisper and mock, "I was originally a person who was not afraid of anything, but when I met you, who was afraid of everything, I was about to become a coward." ”

"A coward is better than a real dead!". Man Yun was angry, and with a hiss, he ripped off Xiao Hong's left false eyebrow. Then, immediately, in a series of approaching footsteps, he froze his arm......

"Little Liu! Little Liu! There was a knock outside the door, and the voice of the man who shouted was calm and powerful, and it was dark with joy.

"Brother! It's Big Brother! Xiao Hong, who raised his voice in response, immediately got up excitedly, squeezed Man Yun's wrist, and rushed to the door in the blink of an eye.

The doorway was wide open, and in the oblique sunlight, a young man of great figure screamed and folded his arms, his face full of comfortable smiles.

He was so unabashedly childish in front of Xiao Ze?

Man Yun stood in a daze for a long time before moving to the door and saluting Xiao Ze who was zaijian again after Xiao Hong raised his hand to greet him.

"Zhou Manyun?" , The yellow-faced young man in men's clothes in front of him had flat eyebrows and a slightly bitter look, which was completely different from the gorgeous girl he saw in Huo City.

Xiao Ze was only slightly surprised, and then put on an arrogant and old-fashioned posture and said: "Zhou, you can come with you to send Xiao Liu, this is very good!" ”

Zhou's? Man Yun's heart shone, and he looked at Xiao Ze calmly and replied: "Xiao Shizi, I think it's not good that you haven't crossed the river to the north yet!" ”

Don't help Xiao Hong come to Qingyuan to take an adventure, Zhou Manyun is still a little annoyed. She didn't have Xiao Hong's admiration for her brother when she saw her brother at first sight, and after seeing Xiao Ze's surprise, she immediately thought that Xiao Hong's already difficult river crossing operation would become even more troublesome if Xiao Ze was still in Qingyuan.

Xiao Ze's two thick eyebrows instantly met together, and the eyes staring at Man Yun flashed with anger.

"Can the prince cross the river Jihua? Can't you let Xiao Hong be a suspicious soldier again, right? Manyun didn't care about Xiao Hong's hand tugging at her sleeve, and continued to boldly raise his eyebrows and ask. The Xiao family's family and country have nothing to do with her, she is a little woman who doesn't know the general situation. (To be continued......)