"I think it's very strange," Fu Qin sat at the front of the table, drawing with an eyebrow pencil in one hand, staining a rouge box in the other, and her mouth kept talking, "Did she go to such great lengths to find Mei Yu just to ask a few questions about spiritual power cultivation?"

"I'm afraid not. Mo Ling shook her head, "Those questions are at most testing whether you are a charm feather. ”

"Then what did she do on this trip today?" Fu Qin was even more puzzled, "Is it just to test me?"

"Didn't I show you a painting? "There's nothing nice about that painting. ”

"It's so stupid—" Mo Ling tapped Fu Qin's forehead, "Think about it, after she showed you the exercise book, she left it on the table and left it alone, but after she showed you the painting, she deliberately took it back." Do you say that the exercise book is important, or is the painting important?"

"yes, that's true. Fu Qin suddenly.

"So, you have to draw that picture quickly, and let's understand the mystery together. ”

Hearing this, Fu Qin's motivation suddenly increased a little, and he was no longer distracted to talk to Mo Ling, but just buried his head in the drawing paper and scribbled.

Fu Qin's painting was busy from day to evening, and finally caught up with the last stroke before the sun set. Sitting on the edge of the bed and drowsy, Mo Ling, when he heard Fu Qin say that the painting was finished, he jumped up, completely sleepy, and rushed to the table to sweep the painting scroll first.

"What is this, what is this, this, this, what are they?" Mo Ling saw at a glance that there were more than ten blanks on the scroll, like white holes left after being torn out by life.

"It's all ducks. Fuqin counted the blanks, "One, two...... There were twelve ducks in total, and I didn't draw them to save time. ”

Mo Ling nodded, took the scroll to the distance, squinted for a moment, and then moved closer and stared at it for a while. stared back and forth for a long time, but didn't see anything famous.

There are mountains, seas, bamboo forests, and deserts in the painting, they are entrenched in various places in the painting, do not disturb each other, twelve white holes are scattered among them, carefully count, exactly three in each place, I don't know if it is a coincidence. Magic Feather imagined these holes as ducks one after another, and it always felt awkward.

"Why are they ducks......

Fu Qin saw that Mo Ling's brows were tightly knit and he didn't seem to have a clue, so he asked, "Do you want me to make up for the duck, and you can take a look at it again?"

"There's no rush. Moling shook her head, "Let's figure out the meaning of the four landscapes on this painting first. The mountains, the sea, the bamboo forests, the desert, we assume that it alludes to four places, and the duck represents a certain meaning. Fuqin, let me ask you, do these twelve ducks move and form the same?"

"It's all different. Fu Qin replied immediately.

"That's right. Different ducks mean different things. "Then I'll draw the duck on it." ”

"No, quite the opposite," Mo Ling stopped Fu Qin, "let's not draw the duck first." ”

"Why?" Fu Qin was puzzled.

"Don't worry. Mo Ling asked Fu Qin to sit on a chair and placed the scroll in front of him, "Just looking at these four landscapes, what can you think of?"

"Hmm...... Four places?" "Same as I thought. So if you add ducks, what can you think of?" "There are a lot of ducks in these four places?"

"......" Mo Ling's lips opened slightly, and she didn't say anything for a long time, "It's not unreasonable for you to say this......

"Otherwise, how do you understand it? "Have you ever wondered why ducks and not other animals?" "Why?"

"That's what you want...... "Mo Ling sighed, "Listen, except for wild ducks in the low mountains, and domestic ducks in captivity in the bamboo forest, the desert and the sea are not suitable for ducks." So this painting is not trying to tell us that there are a lot of ducks in these four places. ”

"Then you just said that it makes sense. Fu Qin pursed his lips, but became reasonable.

"You, you......" Mo Ling shook her head with a wry smile, "Okay, I'll just tell you what I think." If there were no ducks, I would think it was just an ordinary landscape painting, but it was a landscape of all over the place. And once you draw more ducks, especially in the sea and in the desert, it makes people feel that these four places contain mysteries, and ducks are the code words to solve the mysteries. ”

"I see. Fu Qin nodded repeatedly.

"No hurry, it's not over yet. Mo Ling continued, "Qing Kite likes two things, one is the secret book of the exercises, and the other is the treasure magic weapon, she invites you to come to understand the mystery in the painting, which is nothing more than two meanings." First, the painting itself is very precious, but she can't get hold of it, so she wants you to identify it for her, and second, the mystery is hidden in the painting, and she doesn't know where these four places are, or she can't understand the secret words that the duck represents. ”

"Makes sense, makes sense. ”

"But that's just speculation about the idea of the kite, and we don't know anything about the painting. Mo Ling shrugged helplessly, "Speaking of which, do you know Mr. Gu from the Nan Family Academy?"

"Mr. Gu? I seem to be a little impressed. ”

"At the beginning, I wanted to send Yao'er to study in the Nanjia Academy, but he suggested that I send Yao'er to the Mojia Academy. ”

"Ahh Mr. Gu, what's wrong with him?"

"I heard Nan Ruoli say that he likes to collect calligraphy and paintings, and has unique insights into the appreciation of calligraphy and painting. I'd like to show him the picture, and maybe he'll be able to see a little frown. ”

"But I'm not done yet. ”

"It's simple, just leave these twelve holes, and I'll teach you how to draw them. Mo Ling smiled slightly, and handed the eyebrow pencil and rouge box to Fu Qin's hand, "You compare the scenery around the hole, fill the hole completely, surrounded by sea water, you draw sea water, surrounded by bamboo forests, you make up bamboo forests, it's simple." ”

"What about the duck?" You think there are no ducks on this painting. ”

The clouds cover the moon, the dark leaves hide the wind, and the earth is peaceful at night. With the picture scroll in his arms, Mo Ling rushed all the way towards Mirror Mountain, until the white belly of the fish rose in the east, and he could be regarded as rushing to the foot of Mirror Mountain.

Mo Ling wiped the sweat from her forehead, spread her long wet hair, felt the refreshing mountain breeze, suddenly felt her eyes and ears bright, and the fatigue of the night also dissipated.

"Mirror Mountain is really a good place...... "Mo Ling stretched out her arms and closed her eyes quietly, "The two places with the most abundant spiritual energy in Qinglong County, one Mirror Mountain and the other Yao Mountain, are really worthy of their reputations. ”

Just as Mo Ling was silently thinking, there was a sudden harsh noise in the wind, Mo Ling opened his eyes sharply, dodged sideways, and heard a crisp sound of "click", and the branch next to Mo Ling's ear was cut off.

"Who!" Demon Ling looked around vigilantly, and found a black shadow among the dense leaves of the jungle, and immediately took out two silver needles from his sleeve and threw them at the shadow.

With a "dang" sound, the silver needle hit the metal artifact and was bounced away, and the black shadow between the leaves "swished" out and landed in front of Mo Ling. Through the hazy sky, Mo Ling could only see that the man was wearing a night suit with a long sword pinned to his waist.

The man in black didn't say a word, stared at the Demon Feather for a moment, and moved his hand to the long sword at his waist. The Feather also reached into her sleeve and grasped a turquoise dagger.

The mountain breeze was interesting, and he smelled the sense of oppression between the two, and gradually subsided. Then he heard the sound of "poof", the man in black pulled out his long sword, flew to Mo Ling in an instant, said that it was too late, that it was too fast, Mo Ling took out the dagger from his sleeve, and caught the sword move of the man in black "dang".

"So fast!" Mo Ling was shocked in his heart, but he didn't have time to think about it, he took advance as retreat, and stopped the man in black for more than ten moves, but he didn't find a flaw in the other party's shot. It seems that this man in black is a master with a sword.

The enemy is in the dark, I am in the light, Mo Ling has no intention of fighting, and when the man in black took out the sword, he suddenly made a false shake, deceived the other party to collect the sword and parry, and he suddenly turned around and ran towards the mirror mountain.

The man in black hesitated for a moment, put away his long sword, and chased after him from behind.

Demon Ling didn't know when the man in black had followed him, and he didn't know why he had to wait until this time to make a move. But no matter what, Mo Ling planned to use Mirror Mountain to deal with it first, and then wait until the right time to turn around and fight back.

Mo Ling deliberately picked a jungle path that he had not usually walked, and kept shuttling back and forth in the forest, while the man in black followed closely behind, jumping around with Mo Ling, as if he had no intention of stopping.

"Still chasing?" the Demon Ling carried the man in black from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, from the jungle to the mountain stream, and never threw him off. After a little further along, Demon Ling suddenly leaped to the side, through a dense thorn bush, and came to a towering green bamboo forest.

This bamboo forest has been seen once, because further forward is the backyard of the Hua family, which belongs to the forbidden land that outsiders are not allowed to enter. Mo Ling turned around and saw the man in black who was chasing after him, and his heart sank, "I think you dare to chase forward!"

With that, Demon Ling jumped and rushed towards the depths of the bamboo forest without looking back. The man in black did not stop, and followed the demon feather into the bamboo forest.