"If you need an assistant, just tell me. Go early and come back early! ”

Su Yu agreed to come down, thanked him and left the palace.

She knew the approximate location of the Concert House, not far from the palace. After arriving, I found a high courtyard in front of the office.

There are many similar courtyards in this area, all of which are Jinjuan courtyards located in Beijing. Along the way, I also saw many people dressed as military men galloping on horseback, hurrying back and forth on the street.

Behind this black-lacquered bronze gate is the Jinyuan of the Xiping County Palace.

She knocked on the door, declared her identity, and asked to see her son. The man looked her up and down, waited for him, and slammed the door shut.

Su Yu waited outside the door, thinking about the scene of her encounter with Yu Wenzhi outside the city on the first day of her arrival, and the accident a few days ago.

If he deliberately provokes, hiding is not a long-term solution.

As for why this son can't get along with her, it's a long story, because of an old incident a few years ago.

At that time, Ah Gong took her to travel in Jiannan Road, Shudi, and after walking to Yizhou, where the Taoist Mansion is located, she was waiting to go east. One day when I went out of the city, I met many women and children supporting each other and weeping in the Tao. Ah Gong inquired and learned that the county princess was repairing the tower for the princess who died at an early age, and when it was about to be completed, the tower tilted unexpectedly and was forced to stop work.

Yu Wenzhi, the youngest son of the palace, was angry and wanted to kill all the craftsmen because of his deep relationship with his deceased mother. Ah Gong rushed to go, after the investigation, promised to straighten the tower body, and then he took the craftsman to repair, sure enough, the tower body was corrected, and also personally painted for the tower wall, the painting was made, solemn and gorgeous, beautiful, the palace supervisor had nothing to say, let go of the craftsmen.

The matter was settled, the craftsmen were grateful, and when Ah Gong was about to leave with Su Yu, he was seen by a cronie next to the county king.

In the old sage dynasty, the king of Xiping County also served as an official in Chang'an, and met Ye Zhongli many times at palace banquets or various occasions. The cronie had also seen Ye Zhongli, and felt that the person in front of him looked a little like him, but he was not sure, so he reported his doubts to the king of the county.

At that time, Ah Gong had taken the rain on the road, the king of the county actually personally rode a horse to chase hundreds of miles, chased people, recognized it, overjoyed, dismounted and earnestly retained, and said that the nearby Guan Lou was being built to prevent thieves, Guan Lou will be completed, and I want to ask Ah Gong to check and make up for the omission.

It was difficult to be gracious, and Ah Gong was inconvenient to save his face too much, so he returned to the palace with Su Yu. Who knew that after the completion of the building, he originally said that he would only be a guest for a few more days, but when it was time to leave, the king of the county would not let him go. While all kinds of excuses have been delayed again and again, while singing, dancing and feasting, and rare treasures are enshrined endlessly. Obviously, the king of the county has the intention of staying with his grandfather for a long time.

Yu Wenqing, the prince of the county prince's mansion, led his troops to Xifan to participate in the war at that time. One of his concubines was lonely, and when she saw that she was a handsome and handsome young man, she secretly teased her on the grounds of her portrait. Su Yu sensed her purpose and sternly refused.

She thought that the matter was in the past, but she didn't know that Yu Wenqing's other concubine noticed it and sued Yu Wenzhi. The concubine was frightened and bit back, saying that it was Suyu who seduced her first.

Yu Wenzhi is one year younger than Su Yu, but at the age of fifteen or sixteen, his temperament is already very cruel, and he doesn't take human life seriously, he killed the concubine with a sword, and then if nothing happened, he didn't publicize the matter.

His father forced Ye Zhongli to stay and did not reveal his identity to the outside world, and Yu Wenzhi did not know about it at that time. He already saw that Su Yu was not pleasing to his eyes, and because of the matter of the concubine, he thought it was a humiliation to his brother, and he also killed her.

Soon after, taking advantage of the opportunity of his father to invite Ye Zhongli to go out, he secretly ordered someone to catch the sleeping Suyu in the middle of the night and send it to the back mountain to be buried alive as a punishment.

Not only that, in order to clear up the suspicion and arrange good things, he followed the king of the county and Ye Zhongli and went out together.

It was also a big fate, and this matter was noticed by a subordinate of the palace. That person was the relative of the craftsman who was rescued before, grateful for Ye Zhongli's kindness, sneaked after dark to inform Su Yu and let her flee for her life, and then feared that Yu Wenzhi would know about the revenge, and he fled with his family overnight.

Ah Gong will not be able to return until the next day. Su Yu had no choice but to go out of the garden to avoid trouble, and was discovered by Yu Wenzhi's people and chased after him.

Shu is mountainous, the environment is complicated, she is not familiar with the surroundings, plus it is dark, and the night is raining like a note, although she finally got rid of people, but she was completely lost in the mountains.

The next day, Ah Gong came back and found that the rain was gone. That Yu Wenzhi followed behind the king of the county and the grandfather, as if nothing happened. When Ah Gong was anxious, he found the note that Su Yu left for him before leaving. The king of the county was furious and forced his son to ask where the rain was. Seeing that the matter was revealed, Yu Wenzhi was still tough and abnormal, insisting that he didn't know, and arguing that it was Su Yu who seduced his eldest brother's relatives first, and he was innocent.

The county king was skeptical. Ah Gong had no choice but to withdraw from the miscellaneous people and said that she was his daughter.

Since she is a daughter, how can she hook up with the royal lady.

Yu Wenzhi was stunned on the spot, and then he said the direction of chasing people and went into the mountain to look for it.

Su Yu had been in the mountains for a few days at that time, and during the day he was hungry for wild fruits, and spent the night in the cave he found, listening to the roar of wild beasts in the distance, waking up and waiting for dawn. In the end, she finally stayed up until the sky was clear, and at night she relied on the astrological signs that Ah Gong had taught her before, she could identify the approximate direction, feel the mountain, and meet Yu Wenzhi and his party who were searching for her halfway, so that she could survive.

Afterwards, the king of the county was furious, ordered his son to kowtow to Ah Gong to make amends, and drew a knife to kill his son.

Regardless of whether the county king was really an impulsive act under anger, or it was for Ye Zhongli to see, how could the son of the county king really die because of this kind of thing. The people around him persuaded hard, and the king of the county finally put away the knife, but he also ordered someone to whip his son forty times, which made the little beast's back bloody, and the person also fainted, which was regarded as giving Ah Gong an explanation.

After such a change, the king of the county lost face and could not continue to keep people, so Ah Gong was finally able to leave Jiannan Road with Su Yu.

Many years have passed since this incident, and Su Yu had forgotten it for a long time, but she didn't expect to meet the other party again on this trip to Beijing. Now he is a son, but he is still domineering.

At this time, there was a movement behind the door, and it opened again, Yu Wenzhi appeared, standing in the door, his usual appearance, dressed in brocade, and the only side of his lips and cheeks could still see the scars left by the fight with Hu Er Chengping a few days ago.

His expression was indifferent, he looked at the rain under the steps outside the door, and did not make a sound.

Su Yu climbed the steps and called out to the son, "I heard that your hospital asked me to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to paint a merit painting for a memorial room?" ”

Yu Wenzhi responded lightly.

"This is what I used for my mother's blessing. You are only allowed to paint alone, and you are not allowed to fake a single hand! ”

"I heard that when Ye Zhongli was at the height of his fame, he painted for the Chang'an Temple, and the price of a painting was three million, and the discount was three thousand taels of silver. I'll pay you the same price. He added.

"Meng Shizi thinks highly of me, but because it is used for the princess of the county to chase blessings, I have shallow qualifications and I am afraid that it will be difficult to take responsibility. There's a-"

Yu Wenzhi suddenly stepped out, slowly paced around the rain, and finally stopped at her side, leaned over a little, snorted coldly in her ear, and said in a suppressed voice: "You say I want to meet you?" Aren't you Ye Zhongli's granddaughter? My mother's chasing blessing painting was only worthy of him to paint when the world was born. You really don't qualify. But compared to others, you can only be asked to make up the numbers. ”

Su Yu turned his face and saw him staring at him, with a strange light shining in his eyes.

"If you don't go......"

His gaze dropped slightly, skimming over her neck and chest.

"You know it yourself."

He straightened up and took a step back.

"That's it, there you go! There are people waiting for you in the Temple of Mercy and Grace, what you need, you tell them. ”

With his hands behind his back, he turned and walked in with brisk steps, and his figure disappeared behind the door.

Chapter 31

Su Yu finally decided to go to the Temple of Mercy and Grace to paint the painting of the blessing.

Looking at Yu Wenzhi's appearance, this time it should indeed be just to paint, not something else insidious.

This person is not a good person, but he does seem to have a lot of remembrance of his deceased mother, which she had heard of during the time when she lived in the county king's mansion. And in the eyes of the people of the time, chasing blessings is an extremely important thing for his parents and dependents, and it is expected that he will not disrespect his mother for revenge.

In the past, he traveled with Ah Gong, and whenever he saw nothing, Ah Gong would stop to find some work to exchange for money, mostly painting for local temples or wealthy families. For example, she has also painted a lot of merit paintings of chasing blessings. In her experience, if she has an assistant, she can do it in three or two days. If she is assigned to paint alone, four or five days should be enough.

It's better to spend a few days of work, and the painting will be done sooner in the past, and the matter will be over.

She went straight to the Temple of Mercy and Grace.

This temple is located in the southeast of Chang'an, the surrounding residents are sparse, mostly temples and Taoist temples, the temple occupies a huge area, according to the highest terrain of this side of the hill and built, the temple is surrounded by forests, accumulating green drops. When the rain arrives, it is noon, the sun is in the sky, the yellow dust on the road is flying, but the Sanskrit sound and bird language are thick and cloudy, the incense is even more vigorous, the incense cart and horse from the north of the city are parked outside the door, good men and women, and the exchanges are endless.

The people of the county king's mansion are indeed waiting in the temple as Yu Wenzhi said. It was the steward who met in front of the Lingao Station that day, and his attitude was different from that of Yu Wenzhi, and he was quite polite, and led her to the merit cave behind the temple.

The so-called merit cave is actually a row of stone chambers dug under the foothills of the back mountain. The merit room of the late princess of the county is in the middle, ten steps longitudinally, about half a step wide, more than a zhang high, but it should have been owned by another family in the past, and the palace of the county was transferred to the palace, and the mountain walls and vaults on three sides have been flattened and painted white, erasing the imprint of the old painting before.

Nowadays, many monasteries in Chang'an have a way to make money, and they have opened up this kind of merit cave for the donors who donate the most incense money. For example, the Temple of Mercy and Grace is a famous temple built in this kind of place, and the believers flock to it, compete for worship, and boast more, so it is common for the cave to change hands.

This steward Su Yu had also seen it in the palace before, with the surname of the head of the family. That day, there was a chance encounter outside the city, and there were many people on the roadside, so he shouldn't have seen her. Fang recognized that it was Su Yu, and looked a little surprised, but soon returned to normal, and did not mention half of the old things.

Su Yu asked what to paint, and the steward said that the prince did not designate, and asked the painter to look at the painting by himself.

Su Yu looked around, and quickly had an idea in his heart, making a list of things to prepare for painting, in addition to all kinds of brushes and paints, as well as lighting and ladders needed to climb high. The steward wrote them down with pen and paper one by one, and finally asked what else he needed.

The foundation of the stone chamber has been completed, so she can save a lot of trouble. A stone chamber of this size, according to the popular painting method of the time, is painted on three sides with a dome, and one person works day and night, which is about the same as the four or five days she initially estimated. Considering that it is inconvenient to travel back and forth here, and that you have to do things at night, I said that I want to live in a place.

The steward said: "Xiao Langjun rest assured. You don't need to say this, I have asked the monk to prepare. ”

The residence is nearby, and it is a meditation room for the benefactor to practice meditation with a pure heart, and it is fully furnished and cleaned.

Su Yu returned to the house, simply packed up his things, was about to leave, hesitated, and finally wrote a note to Shecheng, saying that if anyone is looking for it, please hand it over on his behalf, and then hurried back to the Temple of Mercy and Grace, and began to devote himself to painting that day. And, it went even more smoothly than she expected.

The bottom of this stone chamber is made of a mixture of fine gauze clay and lime, which is not only firm and sticky when it is put on the wall, but also conducive to painting and coloring, and should be the work of top skilled craftsmen.

Not only that, but the pigment is also of the highest quality. Blue, red, yellow, soap, purple, these five colors are the base colors for painting, and under each base color, they are divided into a number of fine colors.

If it is green, there are snails, malachite blue, gold clay green, Kunlun green, etc., which are all ground into particles of different sizes, which can show different shades of color. The rest of the pigments, such as cinnabar, white lead, mica, etc., are also pure and delicate, far better than the relatively coarse ordinary pigments she used before.

I have to say that although the beginning of this painting was not pleasant, as she devoted herself to it, she soon had no distractions and time flew by.

On the fourth day, she had drawn all the lines and began to fill in the color. Early in the morning, the steward came again, and when she heard her say that it should be over in another day or two, she was surprised, looked at the murals, said that she was tired, and then left.

Su Yu's temper in painting was also completely transmitted to Ah Gong, and he forgot to sleep and sleep endlessly. During the day, except for a short period of eating and resting, she kept painting, and after dark, she lit a fire stick and painted again until about three watches. At this time, the top of the stone chamber and the main picture had been colored, and she was so hungry and tired that she couldn't draw anymore, so Fang shook the pen and rubbed her uncomfortable neck and arms.

Painting the wall is fine, but painting the top is a very physically demanding thing. When a person steps on a climbing frame and stands in mid-air, he needs to hold his arms held high, and his neck will become extremely sore after a long time.

In the past few days, the subordinates from the county king's mansion who came with her also stayed outside the stone for her to send. Around the second watch tonight, Su Yu saw that he was sleepy, yawning for a long time, and asked someone to go to sleep first. At this moment, she sat down on a narrow bed next to the cave wall to rest, picked up a leftover cooking cake from the day, and drank cold tea, wanting to eat it before going back to sleep. I didn't want to be too tired, so as soon as I sat down, I relaxed, leaned against the wall, and took a nap.

I don't know how long, hazy, suddenly felt as if someone was moving her, immediately woke up, opened a pair of sleepy eyes, and saw that it was Yu Wenzhi's face.

His face was colored with wine, as if he had come from somewhere, and he was standing in front of her, bent over, and his hand reaching out to her, holding something.

When I looked closely, it was half a cake that she hadn't finished.

"What are you doing!"

Suyu was not spared some fright, and jumped up.

Yuwen Zhi immediately threw the cooking cake to the ground like a hot potato, straightened up and said disdainfully: "What can you do?" I saw you fall asleep and still pinch it like a baby, it's so funny, just take it off for you! ”

Su Yu slowly exhaled, rubbed his forehead, turned around and began to pack up the painting tools on the work case, and at this time he heard Yu Wenzhi behind him say: "Isn't there someone here who is waiting to be sent?" What about people? Three watches in the middle of the night, why are you alone here? ”

Su Yu heard the unhappiness in his voice, thinking that this person has always been extremely vicious in his careless regard for human life, and the next person has been there from morning to night for the past few days, and he went to sleep earlier tonight, afraid that he would go crazy again, so he turned around and said: "I sent him away first, just left for a while." I'm going to sleep too. What are you doing here at such a late hour? ”

Yu Wenzhi returned from the banquet tonight, remembering that the steward said that the painting here was almost finished, his mind turned, relying on a little wine, and he turned his horse to come, because he had a road certificate, although he had encountered a few groups of Jin Wuwei who patrolled the night, he was not hindered, and went straight to here.

After Su Yu asked, he shouldn't, pulled out a fire stick, held it in his hand, and leaned in front of the wall of the room to start looking at the painting.

Su Yu stopped urging, let him finish a circle, and saw him finally point to the main painting that had just been colored tonight and ask, "This is my mother?" ”

Suyu uses the image of Youpoyi to express the princess of the county.

In the Buddhist scriptures, Upa Yi refers to the believers who practice at home, who do good deeds and accumulate virtues, have good fortune during their lifetime, and after their death, they are free from the suffering of the six realms of reincarnation and continue to enjoy the earthly fireworks offerings.

In the picture, the princess of the county is such a good woman who enjoys good fortune. Wearing a flower crown on her head, she was dressed in a magnificent garment, dressed in a jewel, and wearing a flying embroidered ribbon, sitting in a fairy chariot pulled by a heavenly horse, and was flying to Elysium. Around her, many flying animals of different postures greeted her, and Rui beasts rode auspicious clouds around, they were peacocks, phoenixes, and sacred deer. And on the dome of the stone chamber, she painted a honeysuckle curtain and a thousand Buddhas to refer to the other world that Youpoyi is heading to.

The whole stone chamber presents a picture exquisite, magnificent, warm, and full of sacred solemnity.

Su Yu explained the contents of the painting to him. After listening to this, he was silent at first, but fixed on the beautiful painting in front of him, and after a while, he suddenly woke up from the painting and snorted: "If you do good, you can get good fortune?" That's a nice thing you say! ”

Su Yu looked at it puzzled.

He turned to look at her: "My mother was indeed as good as you say, but what did she get?" Snubbed by my father! He spoiled countless concubines, and my mother returned to her hometown to live alone, and he didn't care! That's it, do you know how she died? ”

Su Yu only knew that the princess died early, and she didn't know how she died.

She has no intention of indulging in this kind of privacy involving other people's family affairs. But before she could respond, he had already gritted his teeth and said: "That year, my father went to greet the ...... who fled west," he paused, "It should be said that it is Xixing!" ”

He uttered the words in a tone full of contempt.

He went to greet the old emperor and took all the men and horses away, and his enemies colluded with the Xifan people to fight him. Originally, my mother would be fine, but with my mother's family guarding the pass, the city would not be able to be broken for a while. It is those untouchables outside the city who are inferior to pigs and dogs, in order to save their lives, they led the enemies of my Yuwen family to come from the mountain down the road and kill into the city! ”

It was about the drunkenness that came up, and Su Yu saw that his eyes were red, and under the light of the fire staff, the light of resentment shimmered.

"She has never harmed anyone in her life! Not even a single moth has ever been burned! ”