369. The Blind Painter
After Du Buyi waited for Dai Jing and the others to leave, he quietly asked the two people who came out of the gambling house carrying the box just now:
"Do you know where your young lady Lingqi has gone?"
I heard one of them whisper:
"My young lady is not here, you must be Du Gongzi, right?"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Yes!"
The man then said:
"Our young lady said that if we let us see Du Gongzi you, we will let you go to the dock to find her!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Okay, thank you very much!"
When Du Bu Bu arrived at the dock, after turning around a few monkeys, he was immediately pulled aside by a woman, who quickly asked Du Bu Bu Yi:
"You're Du Gongzi, right?"
Seeing that Du Buyi nodded, the woman immediately pulled Du Buyi onto a cargo ship.
Unexpectedly, at this time, the prefect Liu Chong, Liu Yuanwai and Lingqi were all on this cargo ship at this time, and after seeing Du Bu Bu coming, Liu Chong stepped forward and said to Du Bu Buyi:
"I've already discussed it with my brother and Lingqi, and my brother has already admitted his mistake and decided to cooperate with us to confiscate the big smoke of the Franco!"
Du Bu Bu immediately said happily:
"That's for the best!"
Then he asked:
"Hasn't the Franc Ship Delivered Big Tobacco Cargo Yet?"
Liu Chong replied:
"It's already here, it's our one, and the dozen or so boxes of cigarettes are in the cabin, and we're just discussing what to do next!"
Du did not forget and said:
"Then what is your brother Liu Yuanwai going to do?"
At this time, Liu Yuanwai heard it, so he walked over and replied with a sigh:
"What else, old man, I did something wrong, and I will inevitably be imprisoned, I just want to try not to take my brother and Lingqi now!"
Du did not forget to say:
"You don't need to sigh outside Liu Yuan, I will intercede with Lord Yu Shi Dai for you, you estimate that you will be imprisoned for a year or two, but I will try my best to let Lord Yu Shi not move your family property and implicate anyone!"
Liu Yuanwai and Liu Chong immediately saluted and thanked Du Buyi at this time, but Du Buyi stopped them.
Du Buyi then walked up to Lingqi and said:
"Lingqi, thank you!"
Lingqi smiled and replied:
"It should be that I thank you almost, if you don't persuade me like this, I'm afraid that my father will be consumed by interests in the future, and the consequences may be even more unimaginable in the future!"
So in the end, the court tried the case, Liu Yuanwai was sentenced to two years in prison and repented and did not implicate others, Francifer and others were also deported, all their property was confiscated, and Duan Xian'er and White Lotus were also released.
The next day, as soon as Du Bu woke up, he heard a knock on the door, and Du Bu Bu said outside:
"Ling'er, can you stop disturbing me to sleep?"
I only heard a familiar voice outside:
"Master, I'm not a white girl, I'm Songxi!"
Du Buyi immediately got dressed and came over to open the door and pulled his apprentice Zhang Songxi into the room.
After Zhang Songxi sat down, he said to Du Yiyi:
"I only heard yesterday that you came to Guangzhou, so I rushed over from Panyu County early this morning!"
Du Yi did not forget and asked:
"Is your uncle alright?"
Zhang Songxi sighed and said:
"He is now a blind and deaf man who cannot speak, and his wife and children are dead. ”
Du didn't forget to hurriedly ask:
"Why did your uncle become like this?"
Zhang Songxi replied:
"I don't know, he won't say it, it became like this a year ago, so I talked to the Guangzhou merchant who passed through Luzon all the way that day, and said that I had an uncle in Guangzhou Mansion, and it told me the news, and when I heard the news, I hurriedly dared to take care of it, and I didn't have time to say goodbye to the master!"
Du did not forget to say:
"It's okay, don't you also leave a letter? It just so happens that Ling'er and Xian'er both know some medical skills, do you want us to go together to help your clan uncle see if he can be cured?"
Zhang Songxi replied:
"Of course that's fine, I'll thank you for Uncle Clan!"
Du Buyi went to the room of Feng Niang, Xian'er and White Lotus, and saw that a few people were dressing up in the room, so he told the three of them about it, and the three of them were worried that they didn't know where to relax, after all, Xian'er and White Lotus were locked up in prison for a few days.
In the end, a group of five people walked and chatted and walked to Panyu County.
When I entered Panyu County, it was already ten in the afternoon, and several people were naturally a little hungry, so they ate first in a restaurant in the city.
Du did not forget to take the opportunity to ask his apprentice Zhang Songxi at this time:
"Songxi, I still don't know what your clan uncle is called?"
Zhang Songxi replied:
"Its name is Zhang Anmin!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"I see, I thought he was someone I heard about a few days ago!"
At this time, the white lotus on the side asked:
"Brother Du, what have you done in the past few days, you haven't told us yet, who is the person you just said!"
Zhang Songxi said at this time:
"Master, I'm going to buy some food for my uncle now, and I'll be back later. ”
Du did not forget to reply:
"Okay, then you go, remember to buy more delicious food for your uncle, you don't need to save silver, your master has a lot of silver now!"
After Zhang Songxi was there, Du Yiyi told the White Lotus about Zhang Shi's relationship with Lingqi and the incident of Lingqi helping him a lot.
After hearing this, White Lotus asked directly:
"Brother Du, you must have a lot to do with that Lingqi girl, otherwise Lingqi girl wouldn't help you like this!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"It's not for you to save you, I smoked a big cigarette once, and I promised to sleep with Lingqi for one night!"
When the White Lotus heard this, she said directly to Du Yi:
"I knew you were such a person, you really can't change eating, don't talk to me in the future, dirty!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Okay, whatever you want, you can talk to me first every time!"
Seeing that the White Lotus was about to jump up, the fairy on the side immediately grabbed the White Lotus and said:
"Sister Ling'er, don't be angry, after all, Brother Du is also here to save us, I have saved you Brother Du for you several times, haven't you also committed to others?"
White Lotus said angrily:
"But, I feel disgusted by his fadity!"
Xian'er said:
"Sister Ling'er, you can dissipate your anger!"
Feng Niang also persuaded the White Lotus at this time, and the White Lotus held back the anger in her heart.
After a while, Zhang Songxi came over with a lot of things, and then said to Du Buzhi and a few people:
"Master and a few girls, let's go see my uncle now!"
A few people settled the bill and followed Zhang Songxi out of the restaurant.
After walking a short distance, he arrived at a gate called Zhang's Mansion, and after Zhang Songxi knocked on the door a few times, a white-haired old man came out to open the door, and then pointed to everyone and said to Zhang Songxi:
"Zhang Gongzi, is this your friend?"
Zhang Songxi replied:
"Yes, Uncle Xu, what is my uncle doing now?"
Uncle Xu replied:
"You say master, he's painting now, and I'm going to sell it when I'm done!"
Then he hurriedly invited a few people in.
At this time, Du did not forget to take the opportunity to ask Zhang Songxi:
"Songxi, isn't your uncle blind, why can you still make paintings to sell?"
Zhang Songxi then replied:
"Master, you may not know, my uncle is a great talent, he is good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he is good at painting before his eyes are blind, but he didn't expect that after being blind, his painting skills are higher than before, and the things he draws are even more lifelike, like the real thing!"
Du did not forget to ask:
"What do your uncles like to paint?"
Zhang Songxi replied:
"He likes to paint ghosts and gods, but many of the characters are imagined in his head, so many people in the neighborhood are very curious about these portraits, and some people buy these portraits and go back to worship, so they will be sold out quickly as soon as they are sold!"
Du Cheng said:
"In this way, then your uncle Zhang Anmin is really a genius!"
After a while, a few people passed through a courtyard gate and came to an elegant house surrounded by bamboo and wood.
Zhang Songxi pointed to the middle-aged man on the table who was depicting a white cloth with his eyes wrapped around the table at this time, a piece of white paper in one hand, and a pen in the other hand, and said:
"That's my uncle, I'll help you inform it!"
Du did not forget to pull Zhang Songxi and said:
"No need, don't bother your uncle to paint, I'll just take a look at it quietly!"
So he motioned for a few people to wait for him here, and one person walked into the house, and then came to Zhang Anmin's side and looked at a painting that Zhang Anmin was making.
I saw that most of the outlines of the portrait in Zhang Anmin's painting had appeared, but it was a Taoist priest with a round black face, a long beard but an official hat, and a belly-baring robe.
Until the end, after reading this painting by Anmin, Zhang Anmin added four big characters to the painting: 'Heavenly Master Zhong Kui'.
Du did not forget to smile, it turned out to be Zhong Kui, but although it is nondescript, it is indeed realistic, especially the serious face and angry expression, which is daunting to look at.
After this An Min finished painting, he touched the table and walked to the other side and drew on another blank piece of paper.
At this time, Zhang Anmin drew a person with clear eyebrows, long black beard, 18 crowns, and a five-clawed dragon robe, sitting on the dragon chair.
Seeing Zhang Anmin, he continued to paint on the other side, and Du did not forget to walk back and ask Zhang Songxi:
"Don't you need anyone's help with your uncle's paintings?"
Zhang Songxi said:
"No, once I saw him painting alone, I was afraid that it would be inconvenient for him, so I came to help him, but he scolded me directly, 'Don't bother me, you will only make me lose inspiration' and then I never bothered it again!"
Du did not forget and said:
"Then you're going to wait for it to finish the drawing, and clean up the papers for him?"
张松溪 says:
"Yes, Uncle Xu and I are only responsible for helping him lay out the paper and clean up the paintings!"
Du did not forget to ask curiously:
"Then did your uncle make a mistake in painting?"
张松溪 says:
"It seems like I missed it once, but it was a fairy painting made more than a month ago, and there were two more black spots on the fairy's face, and that painting is still in my collection!"
Then he asked:
"Master, do you want to see it?"
Du did not forget to reply with a smile:
"It doesn't hurt to take a look!"
On the side, Bai Lianhua came over at this time and pinched Du Buyi's shoulder, and said:
"I look at you, you just like to look at beautiful women!"
Du did not forget to reply:
"I'm just curious, I want to like to see beautiful women, I look at you every day, Feng'er, Xian'er, isn't it enough for the three of you?"
The White Lotus's eyes glared at Du and he didn't forget to say:
"Are you telling the truth?"
Du did not forget to reply:
"Of course, what did I lie to you!"
At this time, the White Lotus began to run and whisper to Feng Niang and Xian'er.
After a while, Zhang Songxi came with a picture scroll in his arms.
After Du did not forget to take this picture scroll and open it, he was instantly stunned when he saw the fairy inside.