Chapter 16: The Blind Painter

"Selling steamed buns!!" shouted the street stalls. Lonely walked slowly on the road, thinking about whether to buy some steamed buns to take back to the little Taoist priest and the children. But he was hit by something behind him.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I... I can't see. I didn't hurt you. Silence looked back at the man who had hit him, and saw that the man was holding a wooden stick in his hand and carrying a scroll behind his back. A ribbon is over the eye.

"It's okay, you're a scholar?" Lonely didn't blame him, but talked to him with interest.

"I have participated in scientific research before, but I have failed. The blindfolded man said with some regret.

"And what's behind you?" asked Lonely as he looked at the basket behind him.

The man sighed and hurriedly explained, "This is the picture scroll, I painted it." The man was a little shy.

"Can you show me?" said Silence softly. He didn't have much interest in painting, he just wanted to see how people who had lost their light painted.

The blindfolded man was also happy when he heard that someone wanted to see his paintings. Hurriedly took the bamboo basket behind him, put it on the ground, reached in and fumbled for it, took out a few paintings and handed them to Lonely Li. Silence unfolded the scroll, and his brows couldn't help but stretch. I couldn't help but sigh.

"It's a good painting! It's so good! I'm afraid the woman in this painting is the woman you like." ”

"Eh, this... The blind man was a little embarrassed by the sudden words of the silence, scratched his head, his expression was a little cramped, and his face showed a hint of redness. "Hmm. ”

The blind man was even more embarrassed after speaking.

"Is she the one you are drawing?" Silence looked at the blind man in front of him.

"Yes. . . Yes, because she's the only one I'm familiar with. When I couldn't see, all I could think of was her appearance. The man said. There was a hint of embarrassment in his tone.

"You can paint without seeing?" Silence was a little incredulous.

The blind man nodded, and his tone was very affirmative: "Yes, although I haven't painted it for others, but I am confident that as long as I touch his face, I can draw it!" When the blind man said this, his body couldn't help but straighten, and his words were full of confidence.

"Can you draw one for me?"

"Yes!" the blind man nodded.

Seeing that he agreed, he swept around, saw a table, and moved it in front of the blind man.

"Is it okay here?" asked the blind man for his opinion, after all, someone else helped him paint, and he still had to agree.

The blind man touched the table. "No problem, you can draw. After speaking, he slowly took out a blank picture scroll from the bamboo basket. And then a little overwhelmed.

"I might need to touch your face. The blind man didn't know how many times he had been like this, and he was a little embarrassed.

Silence pretended to forget, and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I forgot, touch it!" After speaking, he grabbed the blind painter's hand and put it on his face.

The blind painter touched his lonely face with his hand, and muttered something in his mouth, as if he were remembering something. But Lonely heard it clearly, he was remembering the length of his face and the size of his facial features.

Almost a cup of tea, the blind painter put down his hand, slowly returned to the scroll, Lonely for him early to prepare the brush and ink, the blind painter touched the brush, slightly stunned, nodded to Lonely and said thank you. That's when I started painting.

Silence didn't bother him, just sat on the sidelines, quietly watching, as time went by, the blind painter around the crowd of onlookers became more and more. The blind painter has no time to be distracted. After making the last stroke with the brush, he put the pen down.

"Alright. The full-eyed painter wiped the sweat from his head, and his tone was a little pleasant.

"Yes, I'll take a look!" Silence quickly took the scroll, and when he saw the characters in the painting, he couldn't help but admire. Although the characters in the painting speak with a brush, the lines are clear. The face is very similar to the loneliness, and it can be said that it is very similar. The most powerful thing is that he still painted his face, even his body. The loneliness in the painting, a long robe, graceful, holding a folding fan in his hand, looking at the beautiful scenery in the distance.

"Don't say it, it's really similar to this little brother!"

"yes, yes, that's amazing. ”

"This little brother, also help me draw one. ”

"Draw one for my wife, too. ”

Immediately, everyone put up bids, hoping that the blind painter would paint a picture for them.

The blind painter shook his head and said, "Everyone, it's not that I don't paint, it's just that I'm blind after all, my energy is limited, and I can't continue to paint, please forgive me." ”

When everyone saw him speak, they all nodded with some regret, and then dispersed, and some were still unwilling, still asking when they were free. Silence also laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" the full-eyed painter wondered.

"I'm laughing at making people laugh and make people like this, and it's good that you're strong enough. Silence rolled up the picture and gave it back to him.

Unexpectedly, the blind painter waved his hand and said, "No, this painting is given to you, it can be regarded as making a friend, thank you very much for what you said." Can I know your name?"

"My name is Silence. What about you?" asked the blind painter, taking the drawing.

"My name is Si Wuyan. The blind painter gave his name.

"What a name!" said Lonely Nian, and couldn't help but praise.

"Thank you!"

"And where are you going next?"

"I've come to find her, and I'm going to stay here first. After thinking about it for a while, he had a plan.

"It's getting dark, so don't leave it at that. Looking forward to our next meeting, I wish you an early encounter with the woman in the painting. Silence smiled and turned away.

Si Wuya put the pen and ink into the bamboo basket, and suddenly, with a pause in his hand, he took out a money bag from the bamboo basket. After some fumbling around, there are probably a few hundred gold coins. The corners of Si Wuya's mouth curled slightly, revealing a smile. "What a strange person. After saying that, he put on the bamboo basket on his back again, took the stick and walked slowly forward.

Lonely returned to the inn with the painting, originally immersed in the sadness of the death of the deceased, but now he couldn't help but fade a little. When he returned to the room, he saw that several children were awake, Yan Yan was feeding them porridge, and the little Taoist priest was sitting on the side to check Xiaoyu's pulse.

"What's wrong?" said Lonely Seeing this, he couldn't help but wonder.

Hearing the lonely voice, the little Taoist priest said without looking back: "Xiaoyu said that she was not feeling well, and you were not there at the time, so I will investigate." ”

"Is there any problem?" Hearing this, Lonely Li's heart tightened. I can't help but have some doubts in my heart, it shouldn't be, I checked it myself, there shouldn't be anything.

The little Taoist priest shook his head, his face was a little unpleasant: "I don't know, I can't find out." ”

Lonely frowned, urging his spiritual sense to look at Xiao Yu, only to see that there was a faint black qi in Xiao Yu's body, but why didn't the little Taoist send it. Don't.. Silence was taken aback, and his face was full of excitement. said to Xiaoyu: "Xiaoyu, I will pass on you an exercise next, and you will learn according to this exercise." After speaking, he pointed his finger to Xiaoyu's forehead, and a golden light flashed.

Xiaoyu had an extra oxygen exercise in his mind, which was the one he used in the cellar. Xiaoyu sat cross-legged on the bed according to the exercises, inhaling and exhaling, inhaling and exhaling. The whole person fell silent, and her breathing became extremely slow in the eyes of outsiders, which startled Yan Yan, who didn't know right from wrong, but fortunately, the little Taoist priest made a silent gesture for her, so she didn't call out.

Xiaoyu was sweating profusely at this time, only feeling that her body was hot for a while, and she felt that the blood in her whole body was boiling. After a while, when Silence probed again, the black qi in his body melted into his blood.

"Sure enough!" said silently, a little excited, but he didn't expect that the ethereal body that was rare in a thousand years was encountered by him.

Born inseparable from the five elements, some people are born with only one attribute, and all the exercises they practice are also the exercises of this attribute, but some talented people have multiple attributes and can practice the exercises of multiple attributes. There are also very few special existences, which are beyond the five elements, such as the current loneliness, and Xiaoyu, loneliness belongs to the acquired nature, and Xiaoyu belongs to the congenital nature. Congenital ones can easily be buried if they are not properly guided. And it is extremely easy to be entangled by black qi such as resentment and death.

Xiaoyu stays in the alley with great resentment all the year round, and is locked up in a cellar with demons. Resentment and death are inhaled into the body, the two collide with each other and combine, there is no specific exercise, can only linger in the body, if I have the blessing of the exercise, I can use the resentment and death qi as nourishment for cultivation, so as to improve my cultivation.

"It's... The little Taoist priest on the side looked at Lonely Li suspiciously, wanting to ask what the pattern was.

Lonely didn't hide it from him, and told the little Taoist that Xiaoyu was an ethereal system, not to mention that it was okay, but the little Taoist was stunned. "It's actually an ethereal system! This is a rare sight in a thousand years, in the past, the major sects had to fight for the light rain, and it was possible to start a sect war. ”

Silence nodded and agreed with what the little Taoist priest said. Then he was a little entangled: "Do we still want to send her to Lingxiao Pavilion?" If it is recognized, it will be a kind-hearted person, but if there is a person with malicious intentions, wouldn't it be very dangerous for Xiaoyu?"

The little Taoist priest also felt that it made sense, but after thinking about it, he felt that this kind of thing was unlikely, because he could see it alone, and he didn't even notice it. After all, Ling Xiao Pavilion is just a local force, and there must be very few people who know about the ethereal body, and it is more likely that they don't know it at all.

Lonely actually thought the same way, but he was afraid of an accident, if he wasn't there at that time, wouldn't Xiaoyu be slaughtered.

"Isn't there still a period of time before Ling Xiao Pavilion enrolls students? We can teach them to practice and let them break through the foundation building first. In this way, entering the sect is also guaranteed. The little Taoist priest proposed.

Lonely Li also felt that it was okay, so he said to Xiaoyu and the two: "Starting tomorrow, I will ask you to practice, as well as refine the pill." Only if your fists are hard enough can you have the right to speak. ”

The two listeners were a little dizzy, what an ethereal body, it sounds like a cow, I'm going to start practicing tomorrow, so will I be able to become an immortal soon?

"Don't be too ambitious, it's hard to practice. Silence looked at the two, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, revealing a weird smile. The two couldn't help but shudder when they saw this. It feels like I'm being targeted by something. Hurriedly looked at the little Taoist priest as if asking for help.

The little Taoist shrugged his shoulders, indicating that there was nothing he could do. "I don't know if it's a blessing or a disaster for you. A little joy actually rose in his heart. He couldn't help but want to see the two children wailing tomorrow when they were left alone.

"Okay, I'll go buy some medicinal materials to use, little Taoist, you take them out for a walk, it's uncomfortable to hold back these days." With that, he walked out.

The two children jumped out of bed happily when they saw that they could go out to play, they had been in the inn for so many days, they were about to suffocate, and they could finally go out to play. Hurriedly pulled the little Taoist priest and said, "Brother Taoist, let's go, let's go out and have a look." After speaking, he took the little Taoist priest downstairs, stopping and stopping along the way, and stopped to see something new. In a short time, the little Taoist priest had already taken a lot of things in his hands. Of course, most of them are the little Taoist priest's own. What kind of roast chicken, sugar gourd, sugar and oil baba or something, as long as the little Taoist priest sees it, he has to buy one. When the two children saw it, they also called the Taoist brother a pig.

The little Taoist priest said righteously: "Pigs are very precious. The whole body of the pig is a treasure, and if you call me a pig, then you really lift me up. The little Taoist priest was not ashamed, but proud. Passers-by on the side couldn't help but feel that this young little Taoist priest was a little thick-skinned. The little Taoist priest didn't care about this, holding a chicken leg sugar gourd in his hand, and followed the two children slowly.

"Come and see, come and see!" At this time, Xiaoyu waved his hand at the lower Taoist priest. The little Taoist priest stepped forward to take a look, and it turned out that he was teasing the crickets. I can't help but feel a little novel. When asking people on the side how to play. A middle-aged man sitting inside stood up with a smile, banged on the gong and shouted: "Come and take a look, Ao, fighting crickets, if anyone can beat me, eh, see it, this gold coin is his, if you lose, just give 100 silver coins." Of course, there is also an entry fee of 100 silver coins. First come, first served!"

The middle-aged man struck the gong with great effort, and the crowd watching the play on the side was discussing.

"If you win, you will be given one gold coin, and if you lose, you will be accompanied by two hundred coins. It's a good deal. ”

"Indeed, but I don't have that much money, and I don't have crickets, I can't compare. ”

The middle-aged man also smiled when he heard this, and said to this kind of person: "It's okay, I have prepared a lot of crickets for everyone here, all of which are provided to everyone for free, as long as you sign up, you can get a cricket." ”

"Okay, I'll come!" Someone in the crowd couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately stood up, took out a money bag of a hundred silver coins, and threw it into the middle-aged man's hand.

"Okay!, take a good look and choose well. The middle-aged man turned the silver coin and said to the man with a smile on his face.

The man wandered back and forth among the many crickets, and finally chose a cricket with a turquoise body.

The two of them took their crickets to the middle and put them in a bowl. As soon as the middle-aged man's cricket fell into the bowl, he launched a fierce attack on the green cricket, pressing on the opponent's body at once, and biting the green cricket to death in three or two strokes.

"Alas!" the man was very unconvinced when he saw that his cricket had been bitten to death, but he did not cheat, and with a painful face, he took out a hundred silver coins and threw them at the right place, so that he could turn around and leave this sad place.

"Wait, you haven't paid yet?" the middle-aged man hurriedly stopped the man.

"What money, didn't I give it all to you?" said the man who was stopped with a look of anger and displeasure.

"You haven't given the money yet. The middle-aged man said with a sly expression.

"What! Isn't that for free?" the man was fooled.

"It's free for you, but it's dead, can't you be compensated?" The middle-aged man looked like he should have it, stretched out his hand and said, "A gold coin!

"What! a gold coin, why don't you grab it?" This time it was not only that person, but everyone present angrily scolded this person for being a liar.

The middle-aged man plucked out his ears and looked at everyone with disdain: "If you can't afford to play, don't play, did I force you to play?" Hurry up, don't talk nonsense, give money quickly, otherwise, I will report to the official to arrest you!"

The man's face turned pale, and he sat on the ground with a miserable face. "I don't have that much money!"

The middle-aged man was a little unhappy. "What are you going to do if you don't have money! Don't ink, take out anything valuable, it's slippery. "Don't give a look to the few big men next to you. In an instant, several big men surrounded the man and blocked the way.

"Don't think about leaving if you don't take out anything valuable today!" the middle-aged man snorted coldly.

"How can this be!"

"There is no royal law anymore!"

Seeing this scene, the crowd scolded angrily and reprimanded. The middle-aged man turned a deaf ear and ignored them in the slightest. Continue to look at Erlang's legs and clasp his ears, blowing twice from time to time.

"Brother Taoist, this person is really excessive, he doesn't pay attention to hygiene, it's really dirty, let's go!" Xiaoyu couldn't stand it anymore, seeing that he looked sloppy and didn't care, he felt that something was tumbling in his stomach, and he couldn't stand it.

The little Taoist priest nodded, he couldn't stand it anymore. This man is not only dirty in his heart and eyes, but also in his whole body. pulled Xiaoyu and the two to leave.

"Wait, didn't you just scold me? The middle-aged man frowned, he heard the conversation between Xiaoyu and the little Taoist, and after looking at it, it was a little girl and a weak scholar, and he thought about it.

"We're not scolding you, we're just telling the truth, you're dirty. It is recommended that you go to the river to wash, of course, remember to go downstream to wash, if you wash upstream, it is estimated that people downstream will not be able to survive. The little Taoist priest's words were sincere, but they made the onlookers laugh. The middle-aged man's face turned blue with anger.

"Good boy, you dare to scold me, don't think about leaving today! The middle-aged man let out a cold voice and ordered to the crowd who were picking off the man's clothes on the side.

"Yes!" When the big men heard this, they got up and came to the little Taoist, who was already looking thin and weak, and the little Taoist looked even weaker in front of them.