50. Beauty in the painting (5)
The maids and servants in the room and Su Xiaozhou widened their eyes one by one, watching the beauties written by Princess Yiyang gradually take shape.
Under the colorful begonia trees, the beauties with cloud sideburns and hairpins stand facing west, and the cyan dresses are raised in the wind. She closed her eyes slightly, held her hands in front of her eyes, and held a cluster of blue flames in her palms, in the form of a moving spirit snake.
"The color of this fire is strange......
Princess Yiyang frowned while painting.
If it weren't for the personal maid swearing to the sky that she couldn't see anyone in the painting, she would never believe it, and no one else present could see this beauty.
Su Xiaozhou held his chin, tilted his head, and muttered: "The charcoal fire is indeed a blue flame sometimes, but there is absolutely no way to exist in the air, let alone be held in the palm of your hand." β
"Huh...... This knife is special. β
Princess Yiyang muttered, and with a few strokes, she drew a pair of short knives on the beauty's waist, "There are also words written on the scabbard." I'm not good at small print, so I won't write it. One 'devouring light' and one 'breaking flame' are all seal scripts. This pair of short knives, with its ancient ornamentation, should be very old. β
In a trance, Su Xiaozhou felt very familiar.
"'Devouring Light'...... Breaking Flame'...... 'Devouring Light'...... Ahββ, devouring light! She suddenly realized that "devouring light" was not what Li Yu said when he coaxed Lan Yan, the extremely sinister "divine soldier"!
According to Li Yu, the last legend about it is: more than 50 years ago, Emperor Yang of the former dynasty was hanged to death by rebels in Jiangdu, and the noble concubine Yuwen killed herself with this sword. This beauty's dress is indeed a nobleman of the previous dynasty, could she be the mother of Gaozu Concubine Yang-Yuwen Guifei.
Gaozu ...... Concubine Yang...... Former Chaoyu noble concubine......
The portrait brought into the mausoleum by His Majesty Gaozu, which depicts the concubine's mother, seems to make some sense.
Although he was born in the Yuwen clan of the Northern Zhou Dynasty royal family and was one of the three concubines of Emperor Yang, he belonged to the side branches, and had no other heirs except for his daughter, so which noble concubine Niangniang was not well-known. If you want to find out her life history, you can only go to Shiqu Pavilion to check the family tree of the former harem roster.
"This man...... This fire ...... The villain seems to know......" Mo'er said in a low voice.
"What is it?" Everyone looked at her in unison.
Mo'er took a deep breath, "Liangzhou, the villain's hometown, is not far from the border between Datang and Tuyuhun. There, to the west, there used to be a large Southern Qin tribe who believed in a 'goddess' who could resist fire. Legend has it that the goddess of Nanqin is immortal and immortal, and has been incarnated as mortals for generations to protect Nanqin. β
"Nan Qin......" Princess Yiyang nodded, "I know this." At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, although Nanqin was a frontier land, it was once prosperous because of its abundance of copper mines. Later, I don't know what happened, and it quickly declined. By the beginning of the establishment of this dynasty, the various departments of the Southern Qin Dynasty simply disappeared completely. Pity...... Such a large area of land has belonged to Tuyuhun, and now it has fallen into the hands of Tubo. β
Hearing the regret in her words, Su Xiaozhou couldn't help but move. Sure enough, she is a royal princess, although she has married a wife, she still has family and country feelings in her heart.
Sighing, Princess Yiyang continued: "When I was a child, I read a book that recorded some of the customs and customs of Southern Qin. There are no gods and goddesses there, they are all myths woven by their predecessors. The people of Southern Qin know a kind of Gu technique, which is very different from the Western Shu Gu technique, where the Gu masters will cultivate Gu fire, which is used to refine Gu, and after refining and forming, it will take on different forms. When I was very young, there was a wizard mother-in-law in the palace who knew the art of cats and ghosts, and she said that Gu fire was turquoise. The fire in the palm of the beauty is blue, either the author drew it wrong, or it has nothing to do with Gu Huo. β
By now, she finally knew that this painting was not painted by Lan Yan. But who is the author? There are not many people in the world who can imitate the teacher's brushwork to such an extent.
At this time, Su Xiaozhou slowly frowned.
It's Nanqin again!
Yuan Yin said that Nanqin had an immortal "Chitose Mu", and Wen Chongxuan said that Nanqin had an "immortal medicine...... Yan Sikong's paintings, the objects he took from Wu Fenglin's hands...... Everything seems to be secretly related, but this connection is too vague and I can't catch a clue.
"Wow, blahhβ"
A rush of footsteps came from far and near, and then a shadow "flew" in.
Holding on to the door, he stood firmly, and saw a room of people "studying" the painting, Su Lanyan's eyes almost blackened.
After looking around in a daze, she found her sister who was squeezing her eyebrows, so she settled down and said breathlessly: "Gong...... Princess...... Little girl, it's too late to come back. Outside, out ...... Something went wrong......"
Before she could finish speaking, Princess Yiyang had already dragged her to the front of the case, pointed to the painting on the case, and said, "Lan Yan, who painted this painting?" Where did you get that again?! β
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"Sisterβ"
She turned her head and said in a loud voice, "Momo is gone!" β
"What?" Su Xiaozhou was shocked, "Didn't he go out with you?" β
Su Lanyan hurriedly took a few breaths, "It's going out with me in the morning." But when I saw Brother Wei in the Xishi Teahouse, after saying a few words, the others disappeared! We searched most of the market, but we couldn't find him! β
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As soon as she heard that the child adopted by the Su family was lost, Princess Yiyang didn't care about pursuing the painting, and she had to leave without even having lunch, and urged the Su sisters to find someone quickly.