Chapter 34 Gloomy and Threaded
Everyone noticed Lin Jianlan's strange appearance at this time, this expression was something that no one had ever seen, and immediately stopped laughing, and when they saw him calm down for a while, they squeezed out a few words from between their teeth: "I see, I see!"
However, Lu Man came back to his senses first, and said softly: "What did my brother think? Don't be like this, it's weird, let's listen to it together." ”
Lin Jianlan turned around and sat on the chair in a daze, but he didn't make a sound, it turned out that the feeling of getting closer to Baiyun Temple on the road was actually a very accurate premonition?
Sighing, Lin Jianlan only swept the people in front of him one by one, and Fang said very apologetically: "Sister Man, I'm sorry, I'm ...... I'd like to talk to Duanmu Michichi alone for a while. ”
Lu Man's face changed, but Bai Zongping said with extreme disdain: "Who wants to listen? Let's go out." The first to open the door and strode out, Lu Man glanced at Lin Jianlan, still nodded and said, "Okay, in that case, let's wait outside first." ”
Mo Tan saw that although they were all a little suspicious, he still walked out and said, "Seeing that Brother Lin is so solemn, I don't know how long I have to talk about it! Xiaoxia, go out with me, and prepare dinner first!"
Lin Jianlan walked to the door and closed the door, turned around and said, "Brother Mo, Xiaoxia, you don't have to avoid it, this originally had something to do with Baiyun Temple." After saying that, he poured a cup of tea and held it in his hand, but as if he wanted to use the warmth of this small teacup, he said, "Xiaoxia, come here." ”
Nian Xiaoxia came to this Baiyun Temple, Duanmu and Mo Tan are extremely lively people, so he is also used to being neither big nor small, seeing the solemn atmosphere at this moment, he no longer dares to laugh, silently walked to Lin Jianlan's side, saw him put down the teacup, squatted down, took his hand in his hand and said: "Xiaoxia, let me ask you, you don't have to worry about Duanmu Daoist and Brother Mo blaming you, just say it according to your true thoughts." ”
Nian Xiaoxia didn't know what he was going to ask, and felt that his hand was unusually warm, so he nodded, and Lin Jianlan said: "You are bent on avenging your grandfather, if someone agrees to you and avenge you, the condition is just to let you do a little thing, will you agree to him?"
Young Xiaoxia Bingxue is a smart child, who had already mentioned Duanmu and Mo Tan when he heard him ask before, and immediately glanced back at the two of them, and said vigilantly: "Let me harm Grandpa Duanmu and Brother Mo? I won't do it!"
Lin Jianlan shook his head and said: "It's not harming them, for example, it's just that you want to coax them down the mountain, or sprinkle some sleeping medicine in the tea and food, it won't hurt their lives, and it's okay to wake up." As soon as these words came out, it really had some effect, Nian Xiaoxia hesitated, looked at Duanmu again, and turned around and said, "Won't it really cause any damage to them?"
Lin Jianlan nodded and said, "Naturally, even if you look at Grandpa Duanmu on weekdays to see if there are any of the most precious things, as long as you do anything, I can help you take revenge." ”
Duan Mu'er heard that something was getting more and more wrong, and he couldn't help but step forward, dragged Nian Xiaoxia back, and said, "Hey, Brother Lin, don't bring such a temptation!"
Lin Jianlan Fang stood up and said with a wry smile: "Duanmu Daoist, then why do you think that the Kao Mansion would send an ordinary child a hard-to-find Kao post?"
Duan Mu said: "This ......"
Lin Jianlan continued: "If the people under the Baiyun Temple are prosperous, it will be fine, so there will be more people who can be bought, and sooner or later they will be able to find opportunities." Before I took Xiaoxia up the mountain, there were only two people, you and Brother Mo, except for Brother Mo who occasionally went down the mountain, most of the time you were all unable to guard this barren mountain. Sister Man once said that when this Kao event was almost never invited to participate in it several times, but you can get it every time, don't you feel different?"
Mo Dan said: "Maybe we haven't been there before, and the host is unwilling......"
Duanmu shook his hand and said, "Don't say it again, I understand." Xiaoxia's child can be regarded as an extra opportunity out of thin air, even if Mo Dan and I will not go to the meeting, I am not sure that Xiaoxia will go, so maybe there is any opportunity to take advantage of, and how much willpower can a child resist?"
Lin Jianlan smiled bitterly and said: "Duanmu Daoist finally understands, why this amateur has been posting for several years in a row, and today, what is hidden in Baiyun Temple, is Daoist still unwilling to reveal it?"
Duan Mu was startled, shook his head and said, "I can't say it, I can't say it." ”
Lin Jianlan chuckled, carefully raised his eyes to look at the three hanging portraits facing the door, and said softly: "Dao Chief, I have already guessed the secret of this painting for seven or eight points, with my mind, I can still see through it, if that amateur comes here in person one day, how can I not see through it?"
Duanmu said: "Brother Lin is not suspicious of the old Taoist can't believe you? No, my master once said, 'Only wait for those who are destined, and don't pass it on lightly until death', if I have someone who sees the right eye, how to find it, how to toss it, it's up to him, but if I let it come out of my mouth, I can't." ”
Lin Jianlan stepped forward gently, a little under his feet had already jumped up, a sword light flashed from his waist and disappeared, the black gauze that covered the portrait suddenly floated to the ground, the black gauze was gone, and the bright color of the beauty seemed to fill the Mingtang in an instant, even if it was old, it still did not reduce the charm of the painter. Duanmu and the others were watching quietly, and they didn't stop it, Lin Jianlan knew that Duanmu had already acquiesced to the fact that he was a destined person, and looking for the secret of this view was already the greatest help, so he bowed and smiled at Duanmu Er, and quietly looked at the three hanging images.
Duanmu Er and the others were silent, just watching him gesture back and forth with his hands, and his mouth was also full of words, he shook his head, walked to Duanmu Er and said, "Use it to borrow the Tao to whisk the dust." Got his hand and paced in front of the beautiful picture, as if he was measuring something with the dust handle, looked up at Li Jing's picture, took a few steps back, but it was a stumbling side, almost tripping, looked down, his face suddenly smiled, walked to the front of the hanging statue, looked carefully at the ground below, slowly took a few steps back, Fang stopped, and said: "Dao Chief, is the secret of this painting here?"
When Duan Mu'er saw it, he was very surprised, and hurriedly stood up from his chair and said, "How do you know?"
Mo Dan thought that the secret of why he painted was just a casual joke about Duanmu's old way, but he didn't expect Lin Jianlan to seem to have gained, and when he saw Duanmu'er's face change drastically, he also looked at Lin Jianlan and listened to how he explained. But I saw Lin Jianlan walk up to Duanmu Er and return the dust, and said: "When I first looked at this beauty picture, I felt that there was a place that was very awkward, and then I saw the Taoist chief, and I understood." ”
Duan Mu'er looked down at himself, but there was nothing wrong, his eyes showed a look of indifference, Lin Jianlan continued: "Dao Chief, look at how you hold the dust? If you don't use the dust, you hold the end in your hand, put the dust handle in the crook of your arm, and the dust hangs out of your arm?
When Duanmu heard this, he hurriedly looked up, but saw that this was indeed the case, but because of his high painting skills and gorgeous beauty, he felt that this posture was so graceful that he did not feel that the posture was strange. Mo Dan and Nian Xiaoxia both turned around and pondered over this image, Lin Jianlan said: "Folklore has it that the three of them are righteous, Mrs. Hongfu is the wife of Li Weigong, and she is called the third sister by the bearded guest, when I first came here, I always felt that in addition to this dust, there was something strange in my heart, and I have always had some doubts, but unfortunately I encountered the portrait of the three heroes in another place, and I understood that in any case, her portrait should not be hung in the right place." ”
Duanmu said: "It's a little reasonable, it's just that the ancestor and the grandmother-in-law, as well as this bearded guest, one is not an immortal, the other is not a god, and there are still people hanging their portraits, but it is also strange, and they were met by you by coincidence." ”
Lin Jianlan smiled bitterly, and said secretly: "I don't think that God will make people, in the small courtyard of the Huawang Mansion, it was just because of the illusion that there was something in the house, so I opened the window paper and peeked, but unexpectedly, it aroused my memories of the three portraits, and I had this trip, but I ...... "Thinking of the people I want to see but can't see, my heart can't help but feel a pain."
Seeing that he suddenly stopped talking, Nian Xiaoxia couldn't help but drag him and said, "So there is no other purpose in hanging like this, right?"
Lin Jianlan bowed slightly, and said secretly: "He is young, how do you know that sometimes the more you know the truth, the more disappointed and sad people become, and even angry?" He only smiled and said: "Later, when I was looking at Li Jing's portrait, I had some ideas, and I borrowed the dust from the Taoist chief to measure it, and as I expected, the direction of the end of the scabbard and the direction of the dust whisk both pointed to the ground." If the portraits were hung in other arrangements, wouldn't they be impossible to gather at one point?"
Duanmu nodded, but Mo Dan didn't know the reason, and took a few steps back, before he understood, Lin Jianlan said again: "Back then, Hongfu was Yang Su's attendant, with a discerning eye, and when Li Jing spoke to Yang Su, he secretly waved his hand to mean that Yang Su was not credible, and finally ran away at night, achieving a good story through the ages. However, if you wave your hand, you have never seen such a painting with your fingers open, although it is slender like a green onion, but it is too ostentatious, if it was this gesture back then, I am afraid it would have been discovered by Yang Su a long time ago. ”
Duanmu said: "Oh, don't sell it, look at my stupid apprentice and Xiaoxia are in a hurry, say it quickly." ”
Lin Jianlan sighed and said: "Actually, you are all extremely smart people, but you are not like me as a teenager, I like to look around, you can see by looking at the ground, from the intersection of that point to the place where I am standing, it is exactly five square bricks, which corresponds to the number of five fingers." ”
Duanmur suddenly realized: "That's true, my master warned me that nothing in this transcendent pavilion can be messed around, I'm afraid that's why, he put it under this brick in front of me, but he never told me why this is so, and today I only understood after listening to my brother's explanation." It's just, how do you know if it's five steps outside, but not inside?"
Lin Jianlan shook his head and said, "I'm not sure, I can only bet on luck, but I didn't expect to guess correctly." ”
Duanmu laughed and said: "Say that you are a person who is destined, sure enough!" After saying that, he squatted down and removed the square brick, but there was still a layer of square bricks inside, so five pieces were removed, and a square hole appeared at the bottom, in which an extremely delicate small box was placed, Lin Jianlan said in his heart: "It seems that this thing is very important, and there are five square bricks on it, but I am afraid that someone will feel that the bottom is hollowed out from the sound of the foot." ”
Duan Muer took out the small box, put it in Lin Jianlan's hand and said, "Little brother, do you dare to bet with Poor Dao once?"
Lin Jianlan showed a look of surprise on his face, and Duanmu said again: "Do you dare to try whether you can open this box? If you open it, the things in it will be given to you by the old way; if you make a mistake, the mechanism on this box will be activated, and your life will not be guaranteed at that time!"
Mo Dan looked at Lin Jianlan very nervously and said, "Brother Lin, are you sure?" Seeing that he thought for a while, he nodded slightly and said: "Dao Chief, Brother Mo, I want to try, if I am not very sure, I will not open this box, I will never speculate rashly and take risks, I don't want the things here, I just want to confirm my thoughts." ”
Thinking about the mystery should be happy, Duan Muer didn't know why he had been depressed since he guessed the purpose of the invitation, even if he solved the mystery of the portrait one after another, he was not happy, but became more and more dull and melancholy, so he had to say: "In this case, the little brother will try, if it can't be opened, bury it again, the old Tao just said that the bet or something is a joke, you must not be rash." ”
Lin Jianlan smiled lightly and said, "Don't worry, Dao Chief, you have cured me, I am reluctant to go to your master so soon." With that, he picked up the box and studied it carefully. But I saw that there was an extremely fine gilt turntable on the top of the box, which was engraved with ten numbers from zero to nine, and below the turntable was a small horseback riding man dressed as a barbarian, with a thin waist and a beard, and it was actually a woman, with a feather pinned to her head as an ornament, and a longbow in her hand looking up to the sky, and a small arrow on the bow. Lin Jianlan knew that this was the key to opening this box, and the turntable needed to be turned to the correct number to be feasible, but he didn't know how many times he needed to turn the turntable, and he didn't know which number was needed, and there was really no clue at all, looking at the four sides of the box, it was also smooth as a mirror, and there were no flaws, but he was not discouraged, carefully picked up the box, his hand did not touch the turntable, and slowly looked at the bottom of the box, but he was happy, and saw that the box was tattooed with thin two lines of words:
"Pick up the level and abandon the fight, and lie idle on the top of the clouds. ”