The hostess stood aside, holding the painting she had already seen in both hands, and suddenly burst out laughing.

The three of us cast our eyes on the hostess's face, not understanding why she was smiling.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just thought of the content of the painting below, and I thought that Mr. Qi's dream was really ridiculous and grotesque, so I couldn't help laughing and disturbed everyone, I'm really sorry. The hostess confessed in horror.

"Go down. Bai Fenfang's face showed a slight gloom.

"Yes. The hostess nodded in agreement, placed the painting on the table next to her, and walked through the door that led to the kitchen.

Bai Fenfang shook her head helplessly: "This was originally a very serious matter, give her a smile, there is no tension at all." ”

The episode made by the hostess is also a good thing, at least it can distract Bai Fragrance's heart, so that it will not be so tense and depressed.

"There are a lot of fish here, I remember that Mr. Qi emphasized when he narrated at that time, the big fish are handsome, the small fish are the generals, the shrimp and crabs are the soldiers, and the pond is the battlefield. What we saw was a fish, but what he saw was a real fight. Bai Fenfang said.

The ancients divided the world into four layers: heaven, man, water and earth, and fish are the most important aquarium.

When ordinary people see a lot of fish, most of them are surprised, amazed, and happy, but there are also people who have seen the hidden worries of the abundance situation, such as me.

Just like the cat plague and London rat plague in the island country that shocked the world in the past, when a certain animal attacks with a crazy growth trend, it will be the end of local human beings.

"The next one may cause some sensory discomfort to everyone, so please be prepared. Bai Fenfang said.

She had already grabbed a corner of the painting and was about to uncover it to reveal the next one.

Red Sleeves laughed: "Miss Bai, your painting skills are really unique, with both form and spirit, ancient and modern." Although I don't know how to draw, I have come into contact with many old artists in this field. There are really not many people in Jinan City who can draw to the level of Miss Bai. I guess that Miss Bai's ancestors must have been famous, can you take the liberty of asking, which faction of ancient painting skills does she belong to?"

Bai Fenfang let go of her hand, cleared her throat, straightened her waist, turned around respectfully, faced the southwest, and bowed three times in a row with great respect, and then turned to the red sleeves and replied softly: "Our ancestors were not originally surnamed Bai, and an ancestor dozens of generations ago saw the flames and the war was endless, in order to cause less trouble, he hid his surname, and took a 'white' character from his name, and his descendants changed their surname to Bai, and they hid and multiplied. If it weren't for the two of you asking today, I would never mention this family**. ”

The red sleeve suddenly said "ah", pointing at Bai Fenfang, dumbfounded, unable to draw.

"What's wrong?" I stepped along, holding her arm.

"She's ...... She is a descendant of the Gongsun clan of the Divine Pen!It must be, it must be!" Red Sleeves replied in a low voice, gasping again and again.

I was also stunned, because there was no one who studied painting all day and didn't know the family faction of the "magic brush" Gongsun family.

Tracing back from the Gongsun family, the family does have a tradition of avoiding disasters and changing the surname, because the highest generation of ancestors of the "magic brush" family is surnamed Ma, and it is this master surnamed Ma who created the "magic brush" technique that is worshiped and admired by the people of the world, and raises the human painting technique to the realm of "painting birds can fly, painting fish can swim, and painting cats and dogs walking all over the ground".

Originally, the Ma family was changed to the Gongsun family, and the Gongsun family was changed to the Bai family, which was passed down from generation to generation, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages, so that we have the Bai Fenfang and these paintings in front of us today.

As the old saying goes, the big is hidden in the city, and the small is hidden in the mountains.

This sentence is really an unbreakable truth, the descendants of the "magic pen" clan will hide in this narrow and secluded whip alley in Jinan City to open a café, obscurity, no quarrel with the world, will not let those rabble who snatch their heads for the false name of "art masters, calligraphy masters, and art association presidents" sweat?

Redsleeves and I took a step back, then bowed deeply to Bai Fragrance.

These three bows are not for Bai Fenfang, but for all the predecessors of the Ma clan, the Gongsun clan, and the Bai clan. Because without them, there would be no such painting technique that has been handed down to this day.

Bai Fenfang calmly accepted these three bows of the two of us, which shows that although we didn't say anything, she also understood the meaning of these three bows.

"This is the 'magic brush' of our Ma, Gongsun, and Bai clans—" she said, pointing to the paintings, "There are only seven colors in the world, and our clan is unique to six-sevenths, and the lifelong pursuit is the likeness of shape, bones, gods, Tao, aftertaste, and rhyme." If it weren't for the 'magic brush' handed down from my ancestors, how could I have been able to innovate on the shoulders of giants and create this 'dream painting technique'?"

Regarding the "magic brush" Ma family, ordinary people know the folk tale of "magic pen Ma Liang" in ancient times, but the story is just a story after all, and after spreading the falsehood, there are quite a lot of speculations. However, everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that when it comes to painting skills, Bai Fenfang's "six-sevenths of the world's colors" just now is already an absolute exaggeration. When this clan was in the hands of the Ma family, they were able to draw "living paintings", that is, the legendary "painting people to adults and beasts to become beasts", which almost belonged to the category of "divine skills". In the Tang Dynasty, the Ma family changed his surname to Gongsun, that is, the Gongsun family in the "Gongsun Auntie Sword Dancing Weapon Line". Gongsun fused the brush and sword into one furnace to create a unique "artistic conception painting", which evolved from simple figures, flowers and birds to heaven, earth, starry sky, and all things in the universe, bringing Chinese painting into a new realm of philosophy and history, that is, the limit of heaven, earth, yin and yang in Bai Juyi's "Song of Long Hatred".

When I see Bai Fenfang, I naturally think of the precious artistic wealth left by Ma and Gongsun to the Chinese nation.

"Gongsun's painting skills have reached the starry sky of the universe and explored the underworld of Jiuquan low, and the world thinks that it is the end of human painting skills - wrong, in fact, the real painting skills are endless, just like in the painting just now, everything is enterprising, there is no end, even if you stand at the top of a hundred feet, you can still leap into the air and become the world's best sound. Therefore, my Bai clan created the 'Art of Painting Dreams', returning to the essential origin of painting skills, I draw my heart, and draw what my eyes can really see. Bai Fenfang said leisurely.

I couldn't help but frown because there was something in her words.

The red sleeves also seemed to be alert, staring at Bai Fenfang and groaning silently.

"Both, keep reading?" Bai Fenfang asked.

I glanced at each other quickly, and Red Sleeves smiled bitterly: "Miss Bai, don't look at it." ”

"What's the matter?" Bai Fenfang asked again, raising her eyebrows, as if smiling.

In such a situation, I suddenly felt that it was really a very delicate and pleasant thing for many people with fairly high IQs and very similar people to talk together. There are many links that do not need to be explained thoroughly, only a few words or even a few words need to be spoken, and others will know the full meaning.

For example, now, I have an insight into the meaning of Bai Fenfang's words and paintings.

"Miss Bai, what you painted is not what Qi Mei said at all, but what you saw. Red Sleeves said.

Bai Fenfang laughed, the corners of her mouth turned up, slightly sly: "Oh? I haven't been to that kind of place, how can I see the scene in the painting with my own eyes? Miss Hong said this, could it be that she is implying that I deliberately confuse the public and deceive you with the paintings I made up at will?"

The red sleeves were suddenly speechless, it turned out that her thinking was still one layer away, knowing one or two but not three or four.

"Interesting. I whispered.

"How?" Bai Fenfang turned to me.

I didn't rush to answer, but avoided Bai Fenfang's gaze and looked at Qi Mei.

When I first saw him, many people had great admiration for the "first guest in the provincial city", so they would give him face and avoid three points. Under the deliberate recommendation and praise of others, even if Qi Mei is reserved, he will show some arrogance, and his speech, acting, walking, and demeanor are full of the lightness and speed of "spring breeze and horseshoe disease".

Now, his whole person is like a deflated ball, his heart has collapsed, and his appearance has shrunk. Before and after comparison, the difference is huge.

When a person lives, "essence, qi, and spirit" are the most important, and without one of them, the whole person will become extremely decadent. If all three are lost, the person is nullified.

Qi Mei is a "wasted" person - at least for now, it seems that he is dead.

"Someone hollowed him out. "I don't answer Bai Xiangxiang's words, but start another one.

"Mr. Xia's words are getting more and more profound, and I don't understand. Bai Fenfang said.

"There is no such thing as painting dreams in the world, dreams are extremely self-conscious things, and even the most knowledgeable people in the world who know the art of language cannot depict one ten-thousandth of their dreams. For example, dreams are rivers and seas, and all he can say in words is small ditches and small rivers. Then, even if you are the number one painter in the world, even if the first painter in the court Mao Yanshou is resurrected, it is impossible to restore the small ditch and small river to the previous big river and sea. This process of paraphrasing can only turn the small ditch and small river into a trickle or even a raindrop in front of the eaves. Miss Bai, let's be honest, the only answer is that you fell into Qi Mei's dream and hollowed out his dream, which made him decadent. I said.

There is a huge difference between seeing and painting with one's own eyes and painting after hearing someone relay it, the former can draw a flying dragon in the clouds and a tiger in the mountains, while the latter can only draw a sparrow in front of the eaves and a sick cat in a cage.

"Hahahaha. Bai Fenfang laughed.

After I reminded him, the red sleeve trick also suddenly realized: "That's right, that's right, there are also evil kung fu such as 'soul transference**' in the legendary technique of the beggar gang, and after the accused wakes up, he is also mentally exhausted, and he must be seriously ill." Miss Bai, your so-called 'Dream Painting Technique' should be renamed 'Dream Stealing Technique'. The paintings we just saw were all stolen from your eyebrow-raising dreams. ”

Bai Fenfang stared at me sideways for a minute, and then nodded with a smile: "Okay, good, really good eyesight, good intelligence, any twists and turns can't hide from you." However, there is no difference between painting dreams and stealing dreams, different paths and the same ending. You just have to look at the painting, so why bother where the painting came from? With this painting, it doesn't matter who Qi Mei is, does it?"

Her words are right, Qi Mei's dreaming, her dreaming is just a process, and what everyone wants is the final result. As long as the result is correct, the process is negligible.

I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Miss Bai, you have a point, but it's not fair to align your eyebrows." ”

Bai Fenfang shook her head: "It's fair or not, you have to finish reading all the paintings." There is no absolute fairness or injustice in this world, and being fair to the wicked is equivalent to being unfair to the good. ”

Of course, this is the truth, and if you do everything to eradicate evil, cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and if you are soft-hearted, you will suffer. But now, Qi Mei is not a villain, but a wall-riding faction, and has not officially stated which faction to help or which faction to fight.

"Look at the painting first, after reading the painting, and the people who know him, you won't think that my methods are bad. Bai Fenfang said with a smile.

Then, she raised her hand to peel off the painting, revealing the one underneath.

To put it simply, this painting is an enlarged version of the previous one.

The fish is still a fish, the pond is still a pond, but after the picture is enlarged, the image of the fish becomes clear and plump, and its movements can be seen clearly. I'm not wrong, they are doing a continuous action of "swinging their tails, twisting their waists, twisting their heads, and peeping", so I can clearly see that what they have is not a "fish head", but a "human head".

"Ahh......h How do these fish grow human heads...... Vomit...... ...... vomit"

Her description was correct, as we saw before our eyes, a large group of monsters with human heads, human bodies, human waists, and fish tails swimming in the huge pond.

They are not piranhas, but "mermaids", a group of monstrous and evil creepy species.

Qi Mei saw them in his dream, was it because he was thinking about them day and dreaming at night? Could it be that he really knew that there was such a strange creature somewhere?

The mermaid in the East China Sea legend is a combination of "beauty" and "fish", exactly the same as the kind-hearted mermaid princess in Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Daughter of the Sea", but what appears in this painting is a monster with a hideous face and an evil expression, which makes people shudder and tremble at a glance.

"Is this what he dreamed of?" I asked.

Bai Fenfang's expression gradually became solemn: "That's right, that's it." ”

The red sleeves never turned his head again, unwilling to look at these hideous and ugly things.

"Where are these things? Where are his dreams?" I asked again.

Bai Fenfang raised her hand and pointed to the west.

I was a little stunned, but then I understood.

Looking west from the Whip Finger Lane Cafe, go straight through the premises, and then cross the road to the newly renovated east gate of Wulongtan Park.

Among the many springs in Jinan, Wulong Pond is recognized by the public as the most spiritual water, and other Baotu Spring and Black Tiger Spring are far inferior.

It is roughly estimated that the straight-line distance between Wulongtan and this place is not even one kilometer, and if these weird things come from there, it really makes people fidget.

"There is another one, which is the most telling of the situation. Bai Fenfang said.

"Flip through and look at the next one. Red Sleeves beckoned and said without replying.

(Tianjin)