Chapter 40: Portraits
The fat man turned to the fox statue, looked left and right, touched his chin and said seriously: "Great immortal? ”
I quipped: "I've seen too much chatting, fox fairies are generally beauties, why don't you stay with her as a son-in-law?" ”
"I'll leave such a good thing to you, let's count you as good-looking, how about it, think about it, you have money and looks, you can't find this good thing with a lantern." The fat man struck my arm again, and said with a wicked smile: "You said that Cha Ye hid here, did you let that fox fairy give **?" He's quite like a white-faced scholar, a perfect match. ”
"Yes, Wen Bin, how did you get here, we've been looking for you outside for a few days, do you know if something happened in the tunzi?"
Cha Wenbin pointed to it with his finger and said, "I fell down, there was an altar after I climbed to the top that day, and there was a chair on it." ”
"Huh? I've seen that chair too, and it's kind of weird. ”
"I don't know what's going on, so I sat on it and fell off for some reason. Fortunately, there is bubbling spring water over there, and I have been making do with that little water and the little dry food in my pocket for the past few days. Speaking of this, his stomach made an untimely "gurgling" sound, and he smiled a little embarrassedly: "I haven't eaten for more than two days, and I have eaten up all the moss on those stones, and it is estimated that I will not be able to withstand it for three days if no one comes." ”
"So this is West Mountain? My mother, fat man, how many roads have we climbed! By the way, isn't there an exit over there, why don't you go out, it's a tunzi. ”
"There is an exit? I haven't seen it in all these days. ”
"There it is." I showed Cha Wenbin with my finger, and Cha Wenbin said with a look of disbelief: "I didn't lie to you, it's been seven or eight days here, this place is so big, I can figure out which stone looks like and what it looks like, but the hole you said obviously didn't exist before!" ”
"But I and the fat man both got drilled from here, don't you believe you pinch yourself to see if it hurts?"
Cha Wenbin looked at the fox statue thoughtfully and said to us, "What happened in the tunzi? ”
"A meteorite fell from the sky...... the fat man told Cha Wenbin everything that had happened in the past few days and our current situation, and said how many pits the old branch secretary said.
"Being made like this by the two of you, we can't go back to Tunzi, let's run!"
"How do you run? It's death to go back the same way, that old thing will make An good? We can't go up and have a line of militiamen waiting for us with guns. ”
"By the way, who else has a gold coin?" Cha Wenbin asked.
"At that old thing, I was going to go yesterday. yes, this thing can't be handled, so will he be okay? ”
Cha Wenbin shook his head and said: "I'm not sure, Uncle Qiu also took it before, but he just met a female ghost, as soon as we took it, even the soul was gone, it seems to be the same thing, and it doesn't seem to be the same thing, maybe the people in this tun can use it, but outsiders can't." ”
"Damn, it's okay to be bullied by that old thing, you guys are also bullying outsiders!" The fat man picked up a golden bowl on the ground and smashed it. This is still not angry, the center has been clubbing a cane, the fat man walked over and grabbed it and was about to pull it out, tried twice, the cane did not move at all.
The fat man said to himself, "Hey, it's weird, my strength is okay." ”
I saw that he looked like he was about to go berserk at any moment, so I advised, "Don't be angry. ”
"I don't believe in this evil today!" The fat man belongs to the category of people who you persuade him to get harder and harder, this is not to shake the stick back and forth with both hands, just when he is tossing, the fat man feels that the stick is twisted to the left by himself, and suddenly a loud "click" comes from nearby.
I turned my head to see that the fox was slowly turning to the left like a clock, and the sound of machinery kept coming from beneath the ground, and even the ground trembled under my feet.
"Fatty, what the fuck are you doing!"
The fat man was dumbfounded at this moment, and he estimated that it was the staff in his hand and hurriedly let go, because by this time it was already raining stones above our heads. The size of the stone fell like a raindrop, and the three people fled in a hurry with their heads in their hands, and it happened that the side of the rotating fox statue was concave inward, and the three of them ran towards it in unison.
Sometimes, things come so coincidentally, the fox statue happens to be folded when it turns, and a slit is exposed on each side, Cha Wenbin shouts to us with sharp eyes: "There is a road!" ”
Sure enough, when I looked up, there was a staircase flashing behind the fox statue, and my body was narrow, and I flashed over, and Cha Wenbin followed in. But the fat man's body shape once again plunged him into a tragedy, when a person's body was crushed from a stone like a mechanical grinding plate, the taste can be imagined, when the fat man's belly to chest were scraped off a layer of skin.
/ > When we lifted the fat man, who was out of breath in pain, from the ground, I saw that there was a box on the back of the fox statue.
"Hey, what's that?" I reached out and touched it, and the box popped open, which really scared me a lot, and I dared to take a step forward and take a look, and there was a long strip of something inside, wrapped in a layer of linen cloth, and I couldn't see why.
Cha Wenbin saw me over there and urged: "Xiaoyi, hurry up, the fat man's injury is not light, you have to bandage it quickly." ”
"Bandage!" It occurred to me that there was a piece of cloth in my mind, so I reached into the box and took it out. I shook it in my hand, and the thing fell to the ground for a while, and I handed the cloth to Cha Wenbin and looked down again, hey, the thing on the ground is not gold, it seems to be paper!
I picked it up and held it in my hand, it was a little heavy, and there was a smell of it, and I felt that this thing was very much like a painting scroll.
"Wen Bin, can I take a look at this?" I asked.
"Where did it come from?" He was bandaging the fat man, and the fat man was grinning in pain at this moment, but fortunately he had thick skin, and it was estimated that a few ribs would have to be broken if he were crushed like this by ordinary people.
I pointed to the back of the fox statue and said, "There's a box there, it's not gold, it's like a painting." ”
"Painting? It's so rare, I can't fucking see that I put a piece of broken paper in such a secret place, and I have to let the fat man see what he painted. It's not blowing with you, the fat man learned painting with my old man when he was a child, and the seven-point portrait of Wu Changshuo's brush and ink that I can imitate! ”
I looked at Cha Wenbin, and to be honest, I didn't dare to move anything here.
Cha Wenbin nodded to me and said, "Look, I think I also know where this is, and there may be some information on the painting." ”
I took a deep breath and slowly opened the scroll, and the first thing that caught my eye was long black hair, followed by a pair of clear eyes.
"It seems to be a person, looking at the headdress or a woman."
"Don't you ink, can you spread it out? Forget it, let me do it! After saying that, he snatched it up, and shook it off with a "bang......
When he completely opened the scroll, the fat man no longer spoke, his eyes were looking at me, and then at Cha Wenbin, I saw that his mouth kept moving, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't, his head leaned back, but his eyes were staring at the painting.
The fat man barely squeezed out a few words from his mouth and stammered: "This ...... This, this ......"
"What is this, aren't you a master of calligraphy and painting, can you see who it came from?"
The fat man's hands were already trembling at this time, and he kept pointing to the painting and trying to tell us what he saw, and when I finally couldn't stand his virtue and was ready to take it myself, the words that the kid had been holding back for a long time were finally shouted: "This ...... This isn't Yuan Xiaobai! ”
"What?" "Who are you talking about!" Cha Wenbin and I jumped over almost at the same time.
After a second, we finally understood why the fat man was like that.
This is a picture of a lady about three feet long, and the portrait is very well preserved, with no signature and no seal. There is a woman in a white dress, the woman is graceful and graceful, but there is a hint of melancholy in her eyes, she is holding a black cat in her arms, her left hand is on the cat's back in a caressing shape, as if she is sighing.
What's more, we all thought of that person at the first sight: Yuan Xiaobai!
Because, like! It's too similar, the person in this painting is carved from the same mold as Yuan Xiaobai!
Cha Wenbin looked at us both with stunned expressions, he adjusted slightly and said, "Coincidentally, there are more people in this world who look alike." ”
"Wen Bin." "Hmm."
"I'll tell you something." "What?"
I glanced at each other with the fat man, and he said the same thing, and I said to Cha Wenbin: "Yuan Xiaobai just took in a black cat a few days ago, and it's the ......same as the one in this painting."