Chapter 25: A Thousand Miles of Dreams (16)
With white walls and black tiles, green willows and red flowers, an exceptionally elegant house is located here.
"Auntie, hurry up and sit down and rest, don't be busy, we are not thirsty!" There was a hint of worry in Lan Xi's voice.
"How can that work, if it weren't for the two sons to send us back, our mother and daughter might have died on the street!" The old woman looked sad and looked back at her son, who was already asleep in bed, and almost tears fell into her eyes.
Lan Xi also felt sour.
"Auntie, can you tell me what the hell is going on? I wasn't embarrassed to ask you on the street just now! Lan Xi sat down again with the old woman in his arms and asked softly.
When the old woman heard this, she sighed heavily and began to speak.
The old woman's husband was a descendant of Wu Daozi in the Tang Dynasty. Back then, Wu Daozi was very good at painting, and many magical things often happened.
Once Wu Daozi was a guest in a temple and painted a "Horse Map", but when he painted the tail, he suddenly felt unwell, so he went to the meditation room to rest. Later, he forgot about the painting and left the monastery a few days later. The abbot of the monastery saw that the painting was so good, so he burned incense every day and offered it, and every time he saw the horse, he felt like he was about to neigh and jump down.
One day, a group of peasants rushed into the monastery and angrily approached the abbot to theorize that the bald-tailed horses raised in the monastery ate their crops every day. When the old host heard this, he quickly explained that there were no horses in the temple. The peasants were not convinced, and still clamored for the monastery to compensate for the damage.
The abbot suddenly sounded a picture of Wu Daozi's "Immediately Map" enshrined in his house, so he took the peasants to watch, and when the peasants saw it, they immediately shouted: "It's this horse, it's this horse!" ”
The abbot was also very angry, pointed to the horse and said, "I left you behind to make me think that Mr. Wu's ink treasure is precious, but I didn't expect it to be left as a scourge, beast, it is better to throw you into the fire pit!" As he spoke, he went to pick up the painting on the wall.
Who knew that the horse in the painting immediately knelt down with a cry of grief and confessed his guilt in tears. When they saw it, they felt pity on it and forgave it, saying, "If only it had changed with sincerity!" ”
In fact, it didn't take long for Wu Daozi to think of this painting again, for fear that something would happen, so he came to this temple again and asked for the "Immediately Map" back.
This "Immediately Map" has not been lost by the Wu family after several wars and has been preserved to this day. Who would have thought that three months ago, a big official named Tong Guan suddenly came, saying that he was ordered by His Majesty the Emperor to collect famous paintings among the people, and he fell in love with our painting, and wanted to buy it for fifty taels of silver.
"Fifty taels?" Lan Xi didn't understand what the concept of ten taels was in the Song Dynasty, so he glanced back at Zhao Ji.
Zhao Ji didn't look at Lan Xi, but said lightly to the old woman: "Ten taels is indeed a little less!" If it's really "Immediately Map", it will cost thousands of taels to say the least. ”
"Who's to say it isn't? But this is the ancestral treasure of our Wu family, and we refuse to exchange it for any amount of silver, let alone ten taels, not a thousand taels! People can't sell their ancestors! Saying that, the old woman left tears of excitement, "My son just didn't agree to sell the paintings, and he didn't commit any crimes, and after the big official named Tong Guan came a few times and found that it didn't work, he actually sent someone to grab the paintings this morning and beat my son so badly!" ”
The old woman's tears swelled even more, and Lan Xi gently patted the old woman's back and comforted her.
"Childe, tell me, my wife has lived for such a long time, and I have never heard of an emperor who makes people force people to buy and sell the things of the common people, and if they don't sell them, they will be beaten to death, what is good about such an emperor!"
Speaking of this, the old woman was already a little sad and angry, it seemed that she would really be beaten badly, and she dared to say such a big rebellious thing.
The old woman's words were said to Zhao Ji, Zhao Ji was embarrassed for a while, his face was flushed, and he didn't hold back a word for a long time, and he finally said after a long time: "Maybe the emperor doesn't know about this evil thing that Tong Guan did!" ”
"Why does Tong Guan dare to bully others, it's not that he has the support of the emperor Lao'er behind him!" The old woman did not follow Zhao Ji's words.
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