Chapter XVII

Let's look back at my hometown of Jinan, let's change our thinking and play with something more elegant, such as antique calligraphy and painting. Speaking of antique calligraphy and painting, the most famous place in Jinan can be described as the Hero Mountain Cultural Market. There are all kinds of flowers, exotic pets, calligraphy and paintings, ancient coins or jade, and next to it is the Hero Mountain Book Market. There are more stalls to open stores, and more leaks are shipped, what is leakage, it is nothing more than buying a lot of valuable or very popular things at a lower price on the stall or in the store, which can become a leak. Shipment, this is easy to understand, that is, to buy good things to sell on both sides of the merchants, as for the origin of good things, merchants never ask only to negotiate the price. If there are ten major cultural relics markets in the country, Jinan's Hero Mountain can definitely be among them.

I especially like this place, one of the things I like is that I like to read books and go to the book market to buy books. Second, I like to smoke pipes, and there is a good pipe shop here. Thirdly, I like to play with wrenches, and I can buy wrenches in various materials here. Fourth, I like to raise flowers, since a buddy said that I opened my father-in-law's face, I am relieved to raise flowers boldly.

To get back to the point, when I was picking a pipe in the shop with a pot of cyclamen and a pot of cuckoos with me, a friend called me: "What are you doing, old ghost?" I replied, "Come to me, I'm at the Heroes' Hill Market, come and find me." "It just so happened that my friend Keiko was picking shoes at a Nike near the left. Fifteen minutes later he appeared in front of me, and we went to pick up the leak after we had selected the pipe, and to be honest, I was the type of person who was confused about the leak, so I only looked at it and didn't buy it, unless I had something I particularly liked. In fact, nothing is worthless, because someone believes or someone likes it, it has value, including money.

I've regretted it countless times that I asked Keiko to go shopping with me that day, because what has happened since that day is something you can't imagine weird.

As we were about to leave, he suddenly shouted, "Look, old ghost, what is that?" I looked at him and said, "You have a squeeze at the north gate, it's a painting, what's there to make a fuss about." He walked up slowly, and gently picked up the painting, which was a portrait, a portrait of a Qing Dynasty official. I don't know how to write and paint, I don't know whether it's true or false. But I know that he is wearing the clothes of a Qing official, and he is a civil official. I have seen the costumes of the Qing Dynasty in an article, the most awesome is that the main colors used by the emperor are relatively bright yellow, Ming gold yellow is mainly embroidered on the nine dragons, eight on the outside and one inside. Nine is the largest number in China, so it's not hard to understand what the Nine Fives are. The second is the prince, the county king, the bailer, the duke, the lord and other positions, basically except for the prince and the county king, the five dragons and the two dragons, the rest are python robes. Let's talk about the costumes of several ministers and sesame officials that we often see on TV, and the patterns on the chests of civil officials and military attaches are different. Civil officials are all birds, and military attaches are animals. The military attache is like their character, which is more convenient to understand, except for Jiupin is a seahorse, I still ignore it, the rest are fierce beasts to show martial bravery. The pattern on the chest of the civil official is more interesting, and the officials listened to me slowly, one to three products, respectively, cranes, golden pheasants, peacocks, and noble birds. The fourth to sixth grades are the cloud goose, the white pheasant, and the heron, which are good-looking ornamental birds. Seven to nine products are beneficial birds, can not be extravagant and magical, can not be good-looking and moving, then can only catch pests or roast for the emperor to eat, Hongshu, quail, and Lian Bird are these three kinds of birds.

To sum up, the official in the picture should be a civil official of the Qing Dynasty, and the small Hongshu on his chest indicates that he is a seven-rank official. I got so much information about the painting and nothing else, but Keiko was so obsessed with the painting that she had to buy it. I was good at bargaining, and after a lot of bombardment, we bought the painting. I happily held my pipe, and he happily held his paintings, and no one thought that life would no longer be peaceful from that day on.

Keiko works in the court, in fact, sometimes life is unfair, the reason why he can go to the court is not because of his own hard work and struggle, but because he has a father who is an official, and it is not a shame to rely on his father in China. Keiko bought the painting back and hung it in her bedroom, and it wasn't strange at first. Later, every night he could hear the sound of a man reading, Keiko felt a little strange, he asked his parents under the same roof, and the answer of his parents was that they heard it too, and the voice was faintly inaudible. Since then, every night Keiko and his parents would hear the sound of reading, which became louder and louder, but it was always difficult to hear what he was reading, but it was clearly the sound of reading.

More than ten days later, when Keiko went to the bathroom after brushing the copy, there was a man standing in front of the background wall of the living room of the money. He couldn't see clearly, thinking it was his father, but after taking two steps to get used to the darkness of the living room, he could see clearly. It's not a man with a feather on his head. Although his back is to Keiko, Keiko knows the person in the painting. Keiko was a little scared, and he mustered up his strength and shouted, "Who?!" The man's voice paused, and he turned slowly. He was dressed in court clothes, with a pearl, and the crown on his head was golden. His face was very pale, with some blue-black, and his beard fluttered down three times, and his face was dull with majesty, yes, he was the person in the painting. He watched Keiko stretch out his index finger and point at him: "Zezi, you are so self-conscious." Then he walked away and into the wall. Keiko was stunned, he didn't feel terrified, just a little afraid of being reprimanded by the old gentleman. He scratched his head and dialed me. When I received it, I told him that he would throw the painting away the next morning, and he said yes and hung up.

The next day I forgot about it, but in the evening I received a call from my buddy again, and this time even his parents were alarmed, and I immediately took a taxi to his house. At eleven o'clock in the evening, his parents were waiting for me in the living room, instead of resting as usual. After I explained the origin of the painting and my understanding, I saw Keiko take out a painting from his room. I exclaimed, "Didn't you throw it?" Keiko said with a bitter face: "I threw it away, I drove for half an hour and threw it away, but when I got home, I found that he was still hanging on the wall." Then he dragged me into their bathroom, and I saw the big glass mirror covered with two red words, "Giant Rat." I knew that I was entangled by the person in the painting, so I called a few knowledgeable buddies, and they said that they would either burn it, and then do things to overtake the person in the painting, but this method is not safe, and the consequences of not being able to suppress and anger the person in the painting are unimaginable. Another way to get the best of both worlds is to untie the bell and tie the bell, find what the person in the painting can't let go, or why he did it, fulfill his wish, maybe he will leave on his own.

Where do we understand what the person in the painting needs, so we put the painting in the mercury and hope to suppress it. But the next day the family came home from work and the floor was covered with mercury, and the painting was not contaminated at all, and quietly returned to the wall. The fire caused a terrible smoke, and the powder still returned to its original position the next morning. The mage monks and even my friends came out one after another, but it still had no effect, and the reading became louder and louder, and when I woke up, even the gods in the room were standing facing the wall. Finally, the biggest thing happened, when he went downstairs, when Keiko's father of the deputy bureau fell down the stairs, and since then he has been unable to move all over his body, and soon the unit announced his father's decision to retire. When his father came to his senses, he said clearly that he felt someone push him the stairs, and the last thing he saw was a Qing Dynasty civil official wearing a flower feather.

Keiko was so angry that he locked himself and the picture scroll in the house, and kept yelling at the picture scroll, asking what the picture scroll was going to do, why he wanted to hurt his father, and how their family was ashamed of the picture scroll, we were guarding the door, and Keiko didn't let us in. None of our brothers left, and we were afraid that Keiko would be in danger, and even if the person in the painting was a fierce ghost, we would be blessed and share hardships. We heard Keiko crying, crying very sadly, and we also heard bursts of whispers, it was another man's voice, and we were worried and frantically slammed the door, but Keiko didn't answer. When we decided to bang on the door, the door suddenly clicked open, and Keiko let us into the room, and we saw tears on Keiko's face and a look of sudden realization in his eyes.

Keiko said, "I know why? Almost in unison, we asked, "Why?" Keiko slowly raised her right hand and pointed to the screen. On the picture scroll is still the serious and old-fashioned Qing Dynasty seven-grade civil official. But on the right side of the page, there are six words written in blood: incorruptible, benevolent, and righteous.

We don't really understand what these six words mean, but we know that it is inevitable to be unclear. Maybe we understand something, but it's not good to add fuel to the fire. I once asked Keiko afterwards if he hated me for asking him to go shopping with Hero Mountain, and I had been deeply remorseful for a long time, but Keiko shook her head and said, "No, this may be fate, on the contrary, I may have to thank you, this is destined to take the road for the rest of my life, this is a difficult road, but I am willing to give my life for it." ”

I don't understand the meaning of what Keiko said. In the middle of this year, a friend went to the Municipal People's Court because of a business lawsuit. I called Keiko, who had become the president of the court, and after listening to my account of the case, Keiko said to me, "It's not that I don't help you, but as a judge, I clearly know the right path in my heart." I scolded a few words with disdain, and then said: "Keiko, let me tell you what the right way is, the right way is worthy of yourself, your family, your buddies, your friends, and your righteousness." The rest of the people are concerned about our, what does it have to do with us, you just say it, you can help with this favor. Keiko was silent on the other end of the phone for a while, then said to me, "Do you remember that blood book?" Those six words are a ruler in my heart, even if my wife, my family is broken, and my relatives are betrayed, I will not change my ruler, the name of this ruler is six words: incorruptible! Benevolence! Correct path! In front of this ruler, the others are written by some outer doors, because this is the right way. After saying that, he hung up the phone, leaving me on the other end of the phone with a sudden realization.