Chapter 196: The River Monk and the Painter
In an unknown path somewhere in the south of the Tang Dynasty, there are two monks slowly traveling north on the road, two monks, one old and one young, the old monk is kind and kind-eyed, and every step must see if he has not stepped on any flowers and plants.
The little monk had bright eyes and bright teeth, and there was cleverness in his eyes, he followed behind the old monk, deliberately slowing down, and the two walked for half an hour before they could walk out of two miles.
"Jiangliu monk, if you keep walking so slowly, I'm afraid we won't be able to rush to Chang'an after the Stele Forest test is over. β
"The thief kept his mouth shut, how many times has Ye Ye told you, Ye Ye is called Xu Xu, not Jiang Liu Monk. β
"No, you are not Xu Xu, your real name is Jiang Liu'er, and you entered my Buddhism at the age of three......"
The old monk stopped, turned his head and looked at Xu Xu with a compassionate face, if Lin Chen was here, he would definitely recognize it, the monk in front of him who was holding his head with both hands and a painful look on his face was the missing Xu Xu.
"River Monk ......"
Xu Xu squatted on the ground blankly, he tapped his temples vigorously with two hands, the old monk looked at Xu Xu calmly, stretched out his hands and kept caressing Xu Xu's back.
"You are full of sins, causing thousands of Buddhas in the world to end up, you are not a river monk, so who is?"
The old monk spoke softly, the manic mood on Xu Xu's body slowly calmed down, Xu Xu opened his eyes, this time his gaze was no longer half angry, but the same as the old monk.
"Master, what is the so-called matter of our trip to Chang'an?"
"The Tang Dynasty was robbed, the living beings are ignorant, and only the Sanzang True Scripture of the Thousand Times World can save the living beings of the Tang Dynasty from fire and water......"
The old monk looked at Xu Xu lovingly, as if looking at a rare treasure, Xu Xu's face showed a smile, and he said puzzledly: "Where is the Sanzang Sutra, how can I obtain the Sanzang Sutra to save the Tang Dynasty?"
"You'll know when you go to Chang'an......"
The old monk spoke patiently, and when Xu Xu had no more problems, he stretched out his dry left hand and led Xu Xu to the north, and in just a few steps, the figures of the two monks disappeared from the sky in an instant.
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In an inconspicuous place on the street, a young man was sitting on a stool painting, and in front of him, a young woman stood looking at the young man with a smile.
There was no glimmer of light in the young man's eyes, but it did not affect his hands in the slightest, and after half an hour, the vivid portrait of the young woman jumped on the paper.
The young man put down the paintbrush in his hand, picked up the portrait and handed it to the young woman.
"The girl is sincere and has a tael of silver!"
The young woman took the portrait and only glanced at it, and her face was suddenly overjoyed.
"If it weren't for this handsome brother's painting, I wouldn't have known that I was so beautiful. β
The young woman stared at the portrait one after another, the smile on her face rising higher and higher, her gaze seemed to be fixed on the portrait, and she never moved away.
"Ahem, the girl is sincere and has a tael of silver. β
The young blind painter coughed and reminded again, and the young woman put away the scroll and carefully looked at the painter in front of her.
She stretched out her arm and shook it in front of the young artist's eyes, but the young artist did not react, and a trace of regret flashed on the young woman's face.
"The voice is good, and the appearance is handsome, but it's a pity that he is just a blind man. β
The young woman's eyes rolled slightly, and she secretly thought in her heart: "The blind man doesn't know what I look like, how can he draw such vivid words, this person must be a complete liar, if I debunk him in person, I will definitely not dare to ask me for this tael of silver." β
In just a few breaths, the young woman had already made up her mind, and she took the picture scroll in her hand and shouted loudly on the street: "Look, everyone, there is a bully bullying the little woman......"
The woman roared, and the crowd of people on the street suddenly surrounded her and the blind painter, and the unevenness of the road was deeply rooted in the blood of every Tang person, and someone bullied the woman in broad daylight, how could they bear it?
"I said that I have seen this brother Xuan on this street for a long time, and he is a blind man, how did he bully you?"
A well-wisher hurriedly asked, and the young woman couldn't help but feel relieved when she saw more and more people around.
"You don't know, this man stole my portrait, and I asked him for it back, but he wanted to blackmail me for a tael of silver, and the slave family would not let the slave family leave unless he obeyed him. β
"That's too much!"
One person in the crowd shouted loudly, and the other onlookers saw that the young woman didn't seem to be lying, and then saw her mother's pitiful and crying appearance, and they all believed it in their hearts, and they all looked at the blind young man in front of them with righteous indignation.
"I said, "Descendants, why do you have hands and feet to do this thing of abduction and deception?"
"Yes, I see that this kid is very naΓ―ve, and he claims to paint a portrait of a saint, how can he paint a portrait of a blind man? β
"I saw that this kid looked handsome, but I didn't expect his mind to be so vicious, fortunately, this girl found out early, otherwise we don't know how many people have been deceived here......"
The surrounding Tang people have basically convicted the young painter of the crime with every word you say to me, the young man shook his head, and hugged his fist slightly at the people next to him.
"This girl is mistaken, I didn't take her painting, and I didn't ask the girl for a tael of silver, I just wanted to ask the girl for a way, so there was a misunderstanding, girl, don't you say?"
After the young painter finished speaking, he winked at the young woman, and when the young woman heard it, she immediately understood, "This blind man really has eyesight, since he gave me this painting, then I won't embarrass him......
The woman thought for a moment, and deliberately showed a look of sudden realization on her face, "So that's the case, why didn't Childe say it earlier if he wanted to ask for directions, I thought Childe was going to rob the portrait of the slave family......"
"It's a misunderstanding for a long time, it's really a fuss. The onlookers pouted, and most of the interest on their faces suddenly dissipated, "That little blind man, where do you want to ask the way, let the old man tell you......"
The young man raised his head, his eyes were gray, he raised his finger, pointed to the extremely thin milky white pillar of light in the north and said, "Can you tell me which direction to go down to Chang'an?"
"Chang'an, ......"
The old man was amazed, he pointed in the direction to the young man, and the young man took his leave, and the old man took his pipe and told his story to the Tang people who were around......
The young man walked out of the small city, stepped on the soft soil, and after a while, when he had left the small city and there was no one around, he picked up a paintbrush and sketched a few strokes in the air, and then a carriage appeared out of thin air and drove the young man all the way in the direction of Chang'an......
When the young woman returned home, she stared at the scroll in her hand as if she had been found a treasure, and she unfolded the scroll, and a vivid and lively portrait slowly appeared.
The woman stared at the portrait for a long time, and suddenly showed a trace of melancholy on her face, "How ......good it would be if the person in the painting was real."
"Then you can go to the painting......"
As soon as the woman's voice fell, a crisp voice suddenly came from the portrait on the table, the woman screamed in fright, she looked at the scroll, the woman in the scroll showed a smile, and kept blinking at herself, and after a while, a milky white light suddenly came from the scroll......