03 Painting the soul
I regret that I shouldn't have drunk so much last night, and told Zhang Qian about it.
I had to continue to play dumb and say I didn't know what she was talking about.
She pouted and asked me, "Who told me to see it?" Hehe, man..."
I had a big head for a while, this little girl was eccentric, and I said how I always toasted me last night. Feelings are playing tricks on me.
I made up my mind not to say anything, but Zhang Qian took the initiative to come over and tell me, you can talk to me.
I was almost exhausted, but at this time, someone came into the store and relieved me.
I immediately went over to greet me warmly, deliberately leaving Zhang Qian aside, and the little girl saw that I was greeting guests, and snorted heavily when I left, scolding me for being stingy.
I saw that Zhang Qian was gone, so I could stop for a while.
And the customer in front of me is a very temperamental beauty, with long hair and a shawl, a well-proportioned figure, fair skin and a peach face, and no need to use any cosmetics to decorate.
Her voice was sweet and she told me she wanted to buy some cinnabar.
Cinnabar, also called dansha. In the paint used to paint danqing, dan, refers to dansha.
I have some cinnabar here, but this is an art gallery, so it's a little strange that I don't buy paintings, but buy dansha.
Moreover, the process of making pigments from dansha is complicated, and I think the beauty in front of me really doesn't look like a craftsman in this industry.
I asked her, "Do you want to use beautiful women for painting?" I have a prepared danqing here. ”
She replied, "Cinnabar is not for painting, but for some other purpose." I can buy it at 30% above the market price. I hope the boss can give me some. ”
Opening the door is business, and I have no reason to push the person who sent the money out. Moreover, he is still doing business with a big beautiful woman.
I took out some of my ground dansha, and when she saw it, she was very satisfied and asked me to pay for it.
It is rare for a beautiful woman to come to the store, so I generously waived the inflated price of 30% and sold it to her at the market price.
She was very happy, left contact information for each other, and she also said that she would come to me next time to buy dansha.
After sending her away, I looked through her circle of friends, and in addition to knowing that her name was Liu Siqi, I also knew that she was a primary school teacher.
At this time, Zhang Qian sent me a WeChat message, just two words, "Virtue!" ”
I looked up and just saw Zhang Qian shaking her head and leaving.
I ignored her and went back to the store to finish the rest of the paintings.
This painting is really laborious and laborious, if it hadn't been for the boy who called me again in the morning and asked me to fix it sooner, and the matter of money is easy to discuss, I would not have done so much.
The painting is roughly repaired, just wait for the ink on it to dry.
At this time, I realized that I didn't know when it was raining heavily.
Looking at the time, it was already eleven o'clock in the evening, and I was about to close the business.
As soon as I wanted to get up, someone came in from outside.
I thought he was coming in to take shelter from the rain, but I saw that he was still dripping water in a raincoat. Before he could see his appearance, he reached out and pulled an iron hook from the side of the door and pulled down the roller shutter of my shop!
Bang!
I reacted and asked him what he was going to do?!
The man lifted his raincoat and hat and said to me, brother!
I saw his face clearly, it was actually Zhang Guang!
He's a wanted murderer now!
I don't know why he chose to look for me at this time, and he closed the door of my shop, and now, it was just the two of us, and I had a creepy feeling in my heart.
I felt a kind of anger in Zhang Guang's eyes, and I was hesitating to call the police officer in the morning? I thought to myself, what would he do if Zhang Guang found out?
For the first time in my life, my hand holding my phone in my trouser pocket will tremble.
I decided not to stay quiet and asked Zhang Guang, why haven't I seen him for so long, and where did he get rich?
When Zhang Guang heard this, his eyes softened, and after taking off his raincoat, he sat opposite me, across the counter from me, and he stared at me and said, "I killed someone!" ”
I burst into my heart and smiled at him and said, "If you kill someone, I will be the president of the country!"
I laughed dryly, trying to lighten up the cold atmosphere.
Zhang Guang wiped the rain from his forehead and said thank you to me.
I looked at Zhang Guang's unshaven beard, and I asked tentatively, did something happen to you?
Zhang Guang smiled and said, what can happen? I just went to Thailand and met a few ladyboy sisters.
Zhang Guang's words made me laugh.
At this moment, Zhang Guang is still Zhang Guang, still the same Shengdou Xiaomin in his thirties, still cynical, and bragging all day long.
The atmosphere was not as cold as before, and he happily asked me, "Is there any wine?" The two of them had a drink together.
I said the kitchen had it, so I told him to wait. I ran to the kitchen to open the refrigerator, and when I squatted down to get a beer, I felt that Zhang Guang also followed.
I suddenly felt that something was wrong, but my neck hurt, my eyes became dark, and I didn't know anything......
I don't know how long it took, but in a daze, I heard Zhang Guang's voice, and vaguely heard him saying: "Boss, I'm ...... the gallery now" I didn't hear what he said, and continued to pass out.
......
I was woken up by Zhang Qian, and when I got up, I found myself lying in front of the counter, my neck still tingling.
After seeing that I woke up, Zhang Qian asked me, "Brother Shi, is your family robbed?" ”
I looked at the storefront, and it was all in a mess, as if it had been looted by robbers.
I immediately opened the drawer at the counter, and the check for 100,000 was still there.
OK!
Zhang Guang's kid actually knocked me unconscious and turned my gallery into a mess, what is he looking for? Why on earth did he do this?
Not for money, but for what?
Thinking of this, I immediately ran into the bedroom, got under the bed, and took out a small cloth bag.
Spread out the cloth bag, in his hand is a golden pen, no bristles only a small hook at the end.
After this thing was discovered by Zhang Qian yesterday, I found another place to hide it.
And Zhang Qian, who came with her, asked me what was wrong?
I didn't speak, but in my heart I felt that things were getting weird.
Zhang Qian asked me if I should call the police?
I said, I didn't lose my money, I didn't lose anything, what can I do if I call the police?
I didn't tell Zhang Qian about Zhang Guang, and I didn't want her to get involved in this matter. Moreover, although Zhang Guang stunned me, it did not bring me any substantial damage.
Calling the police to arrest him is morally unacceptable.
At this time, Zhang Qian came over and sat on the edge of my bed and asked me, is this your family heirloom soul brush?
My heart was very confused, and when Zhang Qian asked, I nodded.
She said again, "Brother Shi, because of this strange pen, it caused the big case of the year? ”
When I heard Zhang Qian's words, I really wanted to slap myself in the mouth, I was really drunk and made a mistake, I was afraid that I didn't tell her the bank card password.
However, since I even talked about my grandfather's dusty old case back then, the matter should be similar to what she said, so I simply talked about it.
Painting the soul is a forbidden technique that grandpa has always been reluctant to mention.
As for the soul brush, my grandfather only said that he would stay for the teacher, and he never taught me how to use it.
And back then, because of his kindness, his grandfather used his painting soul to kill several people.
Throughout the ages, vegetative people have been almost incurable, and can only be defeated by the will of the sick. And grandpa's soul painting technique can gather the living souls and live the dead.
However, there are many taboos in casting soul painting techniques, and if you don't get it right, you will eat yourself. Those who learn to draw souls will suffer the "three hardships" in their lives, namely 'lonely', 'unmature', and 'poor'.
Lonely life, offspring died young, poor for three generations.
At that time, my father had just been born, in order to leave a bloodline for the Wu family. Grandpa no longer uses the painting spirit, hoping to save one of my dad's lives. Grandpa also said that the matter of saving people would be handed over to the doctor, and he still worked as a country painter in a down-to-earth manner.
But that year, an old man knelt at the door of our house, just to beg my grandfather to help save his son who had become a vegetative person.
Grandpa is also an old man, and he understands that the old man is no different from a white-haired person sending black hair at this time, so he helps him.
Grandpa spent one night, and at noon the next day, the man woke up, and the old man's family was very grateful.
When I heard my grandfather talk about this past, I also said that my grandfather was not a living immortal?
Grandpa patted me on the head and said, "There are some gods there, and this thing has caused a big disaster."
Two days after the man woke up, the old man came to his grandfather again, and said that his son had become very strange, and that he had to eat meat all day long, and that the family was almost exhausted. At that time, it was an era of material abundance, and you could only see some flesh during the New Year's holidays, and the old man's family was not rich, so where could it withstand such a build?
When the grandfather came to the door with him, he saw the old man's son, eating a live chicken in the corner of the room, and he looked like a demon from hell. Looking at the room again, it was gloomy.
When Grandpa saw this scene, he knew that this person was no longer human.
Grandpa pulled the old man out the door and asked him if he was hiding something.
Under the pressure of his grandfather, the old man told the truth.
It turned out that his son was not a vegetative person, but paralyzed in bed, and when he asked my grandfather to help him with soul painting, his son committed suicide by taking poison and had been out of breath for a day.
He had heard that his grandfather could thaumaturgy and bring his son back from the dead. Just use a warm bag to keep the body warm like ordinary people. Let grandpa come at night and hide from the sky and the sea by dimming the lights.
Grandpa told him at the time that he had already caused a big disaster, and that the person in the house was no longer his son, but a demon, and that he must be arrested immediately, otherwise something would happen!
The old man refused to do anything, but said that my grandfather was lying to confuse the people, and called the villagers to beat my grandfather out of the village.
Grandpa was beaten and hurt his vitality, and he didn't have the strength to take care of the old man's affairs.
It didn't take long for the news to come that something had happened to the family.
The old man's entire family died under his son's knife, and it is said that only some stumps remained, and when people found the old man's son, he was still gnawing on his own arm, and he was the evil ghost Shura who climbed up from hell alive! He was caught by the villagers and finally shot.
At that time, this matter was very troublesome, and the matter was also rumored, and the grandfather was arrested and criticized, and his life and death hung by a thread.
Fortunately, one of my grandfather's former students, who had some background in the township, sent a telegram to the village secretary, and my grandfather was spared.
However, the grandfather who was released always believed that it was because of him that he buried those lives.
Later, because of guilt, my grandfather no longer performed the forbidden art of painting souls. Only the soul pen was kept, and I was warned not to enter this line.
After listening to what I said about the past, Zhang Qian felt that she couldn't blame her grandfather for this, it was all the old man's delusion to go against the sky.
However, can these things really be measured by right and wrong? Grandpa is kind-hearted, the old man loves his son, it seems that everyone is right in this matter, but the result is embarrassing.
Back to the current question, why did Zhang Guang, who was wanted last night, suddenly appear? What was his purpose in knocking me out? Also, what exactly is he looking for?
The source may all be from that "boss......
There are too many things to figure out, and only Zhang Guang can answer these questions, but there seems to be no answer.
Zhang Qian saw that I had been silent, and instead of twittering me as usual, she took the initiative to help me clean up the store.
We cleaned up together until eight or nine o'clock in the evening. In the evening, to thank her, I invited her to dinner.
During the meal, my WeChat kept ringing, and it was the beautiful teacher Liu Siqi who sent me a message.
Maybe it's because of the customer, or because it's a beauty, Liu Siqi and I had a hot chat, which provoked Zhang Qian to give me a few rolls.
Zhang Qian warned me: "Be careful of a knife on the head of the color word!" ”
I smiled and said what does her little girl's family know?
Liu Siqi had a meeting and ran out of cinnabar last time, so she asked me if I could send her some in the evening.
In addition to sending me money on WeChat, she also sent me the address of her community. I have money to collect, and I can go to the boudoir of a beautiful woman, I am excited to think about it, how can I refuse?
I immediately paid for it first, because I left early, Zhang Qian was so angry that she stomped her feet.
At this time, I didn't have the heart to care about this little girl, so I rushed back to the art gallery, took cinnabar and rushed to Liu Siqi's house.
Her home is not far away, within walking distance, and it should be around ten o'clock when she gets there.
When I could get to Liu Siqi's community at just one intersection, I saw someone burning paper money at this intersection.
It's a woman, and her appearance is somewhat familiar.
I took a closer look, and it was actually a female nurse who took care of Mr. Chen......