Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Strange Girl
What kind of painting is this? Why did it shock them so much?
Some people say that good painters must have some mental illness, and it is precisely because of their thinking that something different, even alternative, that their paintings seem to be so otherworldly and self-contained, such as Van Gogh, such as Picasso.
Mao Jianguo's daughter is called Mao Qingqing, thirteen years old this year, and is a middle school student. Mao Qingqing likes to paint since he was a child, and Mao Jianguo, who was born as a teacher, attaches great importance to the cultivation of his children. When he was in elementary school, Mao Qingqing's paintings have shown extraordinary talent, and often won awards in some student painting competitions, and he also loved this daughter Mao Jianguo, three years ago, he asked someone to spend a lot of money to find a senior professor of the oil painting department of the China Academy of Fine Arts, and worship his closed disciples.
About three months ago, the old professor was going to Italy for cultural exchanges, during which Mao Qingqing did not go home, but agreed to give her a pair of works that showed the recent level after the old professor returned.
Two weeks later, the professor returned to China as promised, and from the first time he met his beloved apprentice, he felt that she was a little different from usual. Although Mao Qingqing likes to paint, his personality is cheerful, lively and sunny, and his paintings are mainly based on the sunshine series that symbolizes beautiful things, but this time when he saw himself, Mao Qingqing's eyes were unusually cold, and the nanny at home told him that this girl was almost abnormal in the half month he went out.
What's not normal? Mao Qingqing's two favorite dishes are West Lake vinegar fish and Longjing shrimp, usually every day when she arrives at the meal, she will make the bowl clean, but in the past two weeks she has almost ignored the food made by the nanny, asking her if she is hungry and just shaking her head, and only drinking a little water at each meal and then going back to the room alone to paint.
One day, because of the power outage at home, the nanny's meal was a little sandwiched, so she poured the rice and remade it, but Mao Qingqing somehow got into the kitchen, she covered her mouth and told the professor: "I squatted on the ground and grabbed the leftovers from the trash can with my hands to eat......"
In addition, the nanny also told the professor that some pickled bacon and unprocessed sauce duck in the refrigerator at home are often inexplicably gone, and Qingqing's house has not been cleaned for two weeks, and every time she knocks on the door, she refuses to open the door on the grounds of not disturbing her, she is very worried about Qingqing's situation, because Qingqing's parents cannot be contacted, and the professor is abroad, so the nanny is also in a hurry.
After listening to the nanny's story, the professor closed the door again, he still admired this girl from the bottom of his heart, and he thought that she would be a very promising female painter in the future. So, he decided to have a good talk with his disciple.
Knocking on the door, the door did not open, the old professor shouted a few times outside and no one answered, considering that it was a teenage girl, the old professor was afraid of accidents and embarrassment, so he took the key and asked the nanny to go to check the material, the door was actually locked, around the back window through the gap in the curtains, vaguely can lie on the bed, it seems that there is a pool of dark red things on the ground that looks like bloodstains.
Feeling that the situation was not good, the professor immediately contacted the locksmith to forcibly break down the door, and after entering the door, he found that the room was stinking, and all kinds of leftover bones were eaten all over the ground......
After being sent to the hospital, Qingqing sent her life back, and not long after, she was sent back with the painting, the work she was about to present to the professor:
It was a portrait, painted like a half-portrait like Mona Lisa, the person in the painting was a man that neither the professor nor Mao Jianguo had ever seen, the appearance of the man in the whole painting was extremely terrifying, all the seven orifices were bleeding, and the painting was also very realistic, people looked as if the person in the painting was still studying abroad, especially the pair of eyes, which were full of resentment and hatred!
The background color of the whole painting is also scarlet, which makes people feel uncomfortable for a moment at a glance, and this is the work that Qingqing completed in two weeks. The old professor said that he had never taught Qingqing to paint this type of oil painting, and that the red part of the painting was not made of oil paint, but from the blood flowing from her body.
"Painting with blood?" This is unheard of, and the fat man said, "Is your daughter evil?" ”
Mao Jianguo nodded and said, "Mr. Cha, although I am not sorry to die, my daughter is innocent." Ever since she came home, she didn't think about eating or drinking, and locked herself in the house all day, and she still ......"
Seeing that he couldn't go on, Cha Wenbin asked, "What else?" ”
"She also eats raw food!"
Mao Qingqing began not to eat after returning home, Mao Jianguo, who was worried about his daughter, tried his best to no avail, one day he remembered what the old professor said, and sent in half a bowl of raw rice with a trial state, but he didn't expect Mao Qingqing to eat up a bowl of rice soon if he was released. In order to allow her daughter to continue her life, Mao Jianguo and his wife could only give her these things every day, and finally one day Li An heard that Mao Qingqing was sick, so he specially bought a few old hens from the countryside and sent them.
Mao Qingqing didn't eat the chicken soup that night, and after nightfall, Mao Jianguo heard movement in the kitchen, he tiptoed up, and saw a person squatting on the ground in the kitchen. Mao Jianguo stood behind the man and shouted softly, as soon as the man turned his face, Mao Jianguo was suddenly frightened, it turned out that Qingqing's hand was holding a hen at this time, and after a cold look at the mouth full of chicken feathers and blood, he continued to go back to gnaw......
After knowing that his daughter must have fallen into some evil, Mao Jianguo has been looking for a way to save Mao Qingqing, because he has a special identity, so his own horse boy Li An is running for him outside. Li An successively found seven or eight masters in other people's mouths, some were Taoist priests, some were monks, and some were witches, but some people were bitten and their flesh was opened after approaching Qingqing, some people spit blood when they cast spells, and a few liars who pretended to be gods and ghosts. In order to hide people's eyes, Li Andu even coaxed and frightened these people, anyway, one is to give money, and the other is to threaten not to say it, so now Mao Jianguo is extremely careful about the people he finds, if these things are known by his political enemies, they will definitely be used as a handle.
Until Cha Wenbin's reputation in Anxian County recently, Li An asked several people who had contact with Cha Wenbin in a row, and after investigation, he thought that Cha Wenbin should be reliable. At this time, Cha Wenbin vaguely felt that this matter was not so simple, because Li An said that several of the people he invited were still a little Taoist, and one of the monks was from the thousand-year-old ancient temple Linfeng Temple in northwest Zhejiang.
"And where is your daughter now? You've got to take me to her, the sooner the better. ”
Eighteen kilometers west of Lanxi City in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, there is a quiet small village, the terrain is like the bottom of a pot, low and flat in the middle, and gradually higher all around. Water comes from all directions, gathers at the bottom of the pot, and forms a pond. Half of this pond has water, half of it is land, and it is shaped like Tai Chi in the Nine Palaces Bagua diagram, which is wonderful.
With the bell pond as the center, there are eight alleys that extend in all directions, leading to eight high earthen hills outside the village, and their planes resemble the Bagua map. The alleys also derive a lot of narrow alleys that are horizontally linked, and there are thousands of houses between the alleys, and there are many ancient vertical and horizontal dwellings dotted around. When outsiders enter the alleys, it is often difficult to get in and out, and even lose their way. Interestingly, for hundreds of years, the residents of the village did not realize the wonder of the layout of the village. It was not until the relevant records were found in an old book that this mystery was revealed to the world, it turned out that this village was built by Zhuge Liang's 27th grandson Zhuge Master in the middle and late Yuan Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 600 years, and the name is "Zhuge Bagua Village".
Mao Jianguo has a friend who is a native of the original village in this village, surnamed Zhuge and a celebrity. According to legend, as long as someone is evil, as long as they are sent to this Zhuge Bagua Village, it will be fine, so Mao Jianguo, who is worried about the safety of his family, has sent the family to Zhuge Liuyun's house, and it was already afternoon when they drove to Lanxi, and Cha Wenbin suddenly felt a gentle breath coming to his face when he just walked into this hundred-year-old village.
At that time, the Bagua Village was not the scene full of tourists now, there were women washing clothes and vegetables by the bell pool, Zhuge Liuyun was waiting at the entrance of the village early, if there were no acquaintances to pick up this place, it really couldn't be touched.
Cha Wenbin saw that the doors of the two families opposite each other in the narrow alley were not opposite, but staggered, without exception, he asked curiously: "Why is this door staggered here?" ”
Zhuge Liuyun said with a smile: "Sir, I don't know, our ancestors called this design the wrong door in order to prevent neighborhood conflicts. If the "door is right", the two families go in and out every day, and too many interactions will inevitably lead to conflicts. Contradictions still have to be faced every day, and the accumulated grievances are deeper and difficult to resolve. If "the door is not the right door", the problem will be solved. ”
Most of the buildings here are from the Ming and Qing dynasties, with tall horse-head walls similar to Hui style buildings, and there are many wells and large water tanks in the courtyard. Because of the high density of houses, even if a household catches fire, the horse-head wall can isolate the fire, and the sufficient water source can extinguish the fire in time.
Zhuge Liuyun introduced, in addition to the existence of almost all the surnames Zhuge who married in from outside, their ancestors according to the design of the Nine Palaces Bagua, in the village with the pool as the center, divided into eight alleys, and the timely reconstruction of the house is also in accordance with the trend of the alley, so no matter how it is expanded, this gossip map will not change. And not far away, there are eight hills to form the outer Bagua, and the inner Bagua, with the Bell Pond as the center, forms the Inner Bagua.
Such a unique shape made Cha Wenbin sigh at the ingenuity of Zhuge descendants, and at the same time understand why that statement is valid. This is like putting a person who is evil in a person on a huge gossip map all day long, even if there are evil things, they don't dare to attack easily, let alone the dirty things outside, and it will not be an exaggeration to say that it is the most "clean" village in China!