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Chapter 5

When Ji Wanghuai's last piano sound fell, Si He happened to point the eyes of a pair of white cranes in the picture scroll.

Next to the crystal-clear green lake nearby is a pair of cranes spreading their wings and ready to fly. Behind the cranes are green pines and cypresses. In the distance, clouds and smoke curl up, and the red sun is just rising.

"May your Majesty be as constant as the moon and as rising as the sun. Like the longevity of Nanshan Mountain, it will neither grow nor collapse. Like the luxuriance of pines and cypresses, you will inherit everything." Si He respectfully saluted Emperor Jing.

Emperor Jing was obviously in a good mood, his eyes were red and he said: "The youngest of the Si family has extraordinary painting skills, won my heart, I appreciate—"

Si He returned another salute respectfully, and slowly stepped aside.

Ji Wanghuai just took a deep look at him, without saying anything, he went straight to Prince Qiguo.

How can we know that what happened today is not a blessing.

Everyone was whispering, Si He saw his father frowned, his eyes full of doubts.

"Si He, why did you hurt your hand?" Si Yan was the closest to him, and soon saw his left hand was dripping with blood, "Did you cut it to pieces just now?"

"It's okay." As soon as Si Yan reminded him, Si He realized that his hand had been cut, and blood was pouring out of the wound. It might be the jug fragments that were thrown on the ground because of too much fun in the painting just now. To cut one.

A court lady hurriedly handed cotton gauze beside him, and Si He simply bandaged it, but there were still a few drops of blood dripping on the scroll, but if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see it.

"Mr. Si, give the scroll to the old slave." Eunuch Fu in front of Emperor Jing stretched out his hand to him with a smile.

"Thank you, Father-in-law." The moment Si Yan was about to hand over the scroll, for some reason, he felt that his hand was bumped violently, and the scroll fell away in the distance.

Si He smiled apologetically at Eunuch Fu, walked over quickly, bent down and picked up the scroll.

……

All of this was seen by Ji Wanghuai from afar.

He really saw that when Si He handed the scroll to the father-in-law, the scroll seemed to have life and broke free.

And the moment Si He picked it up, there was clearly something about to come out of the scroll, but Si He firmly pressed it back.

What would that be?

At the same time, what Ji Wanghuai saw at the same time was Guangbai.

He squinted his eyes, and his previous guess had been confirmed in his heart.

……

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It has been a year since the last state banquet, Si He has nothing to do in his free time, and he always likes to go to the Chenxiang Square next to Moon Lake.

Chenxiangfang is built next to the lake, and behind it leads to Guanyue Mountain in Mocheng.

Guanyue Mountain is densely forested and has many forked roads.Ordinary hunters only dare to wander outside at most, and never dare to go deep, one is afraid of encountering wild beasts and poisonous snakes, and the other is that if they get lost in Guanyue Mountain, they may not be able to come out tomorrow morning.

"Master Si is here again." The owner of Chenxiangfang is a woman, known as "Yueshan Xiangniang".Exquisite and greasy, extremely gorgeous, it was once the famous top brand in Mocheng.

"That's right." Si He smiled at her, waved out his folding fan and walked into the Chenxiangfang, "It's still the original one—"

"Understood." Xiangniang covered her mouth and smiled, Shi Shiran saluted and gave way, "A Yuan was waiting in the room early."

……

Only through the gorgeous corridor can you enter the No. [-] Tianzi room at the innermost end.

Xiangniang introduced running water from Moon Lake, then set up prisms a few inches above the bottom of the water to build the floor, and fed some fish fry. Through the gaps in the floor, you can see the agile figure.

Si He rented out this house all year round, and came to visit it from time to time, anyway, being at home is boring, so it's not as fun as coming outside.

As soon as he stepped into the room, the door was closed quietly.

In the very center of the room, a boy in his teens was sitting, cleaning his sword.Seeing Si He walk in, he got up quickly.

"Brother Crane—"

"A Yuan, are you still used to living here?" Si He rubbed his head, "Don't worry, I will send someone to send you back to Linyuan in a few days."

He picked up A Yuan in Guanyue Mountain, and he couldn't explain why he was in the woods.

On weekdays, A Yuan talked in a nonsensical manner, and Si He only thought that he was out of his mind, so he left it to Xiangniang to take care of him for a few days.

It wasn't until A Yuan saw a girl in a workshop dancing in Linyuan's costume, and he called grandma while dancing, that Si He realized that A Yuan should be from Linyuan.

"Brother He draws today!" A Yuan was obviously very interested.

"Let's go." Si He put away the scroll, patted A Yuan's head, "What do you want to play today?"

Xiangniang made him a belt, which could be inserted into a scroll and a few pens, and he put the belt on his back, and then walked to the back door with A Yuan.

The back door of the Tianzifang leads to Guanyue Mountain, and there are very few people going in and out on weekdays, so he happened to be at ease.

Walking along the dense jungle, the sky is gradually covered by the luxuriant woods, and the traces of the sky can only be found through the mottled tree shadows.

Every time Si He walks in this kind of hidden grove, he always feels an indescribable sense of security.

"Brother He, here—" A Yuan stood on a large rock and jumped up and down, "Come here—to paint——"

"Look at the position you chose, such a small stone, you can't even open the picture scroll." Although Si He said this, he still walked to the stone that A Yuan had chosen.

After gently brushing off the dust and leaves on the stone platform with his sleeve, Si He sat down with his legs bent.

"A Yuan, what do you want to see?" Si He lowered his eyes and unfolded the scroll, and opened the black ink he had prepared in advance in the porcelain bottle.

He was wearing green crane arrow sleeves and a beaded belt around his waist, which made him look quite neat.

"I want to fly—" A Yuan thought for a while, and then added, "I can ride—to be so big—"

"You can ride it?" Si He shook his head and said with a smile, "You little fool, if I drew you such a big one for you to play with, I would have died long ago."

After all, it was only a stick of incense, and a kestrel jumped on the paper.

"Wow—" Ah Yuan was about to snatch it away, but Si He stopped him after taking a closer look.

"Wait." Si He raised the picture scroll, looked at it for a while, then suddenly put the thumb of his left hand to his mouth, and bit it down. Suddenly, an inch-long slit overflowed with blood. At this moment, Si He hastily dripped Two or three drops on the scroll, and slowly stretched out his palm to cover the scroll, he could feel the palm of his hand getting warmer.

As the picture scroll shook suddenly, a pair of claws slowly floated up from the picture scroll. With Ah Yuan's exclamation, in an instant, a pair of sharp wings slowly spread out from the picture scroll.

……

Qiguo, Prince's Mansion.

Ji Wanghuai and the crown prince were playing chess in the courtyard, when the voice of the little eunuch came from a distance, "The monarch is here—"

Then there was the mighty sound of guards of honor, Ji Wanghuai suddenly flicked his sleeves, the chess pieces on the table were scattered on the ground, and the chess table was in a mess.

"Oh, I almost won just now!" Ji Qingyan was annoyed, "If I knew it, I would have played the game earlier!"

"Brother, clean up by yourself, I'll go first—" Ji Wanghuai threw down these words, then jumped up, tapped the stone bench with his toes, and used his strength to turn over from the back wall.

"Yes, yes—" Ji Qingyan rolled his eyes, and without caring about clearing up the chess table, he hurried out of the small courtyard to meet King Wen, "I will see my father!"

"Okay, okay——" King Wen smiled, stroked his beard, and asked, "What is the prince doing?"

"Uh..." Ji Qingyan scratched his head, "I'm... recovering the chess record..."

"Alone?" There was a hint of cunning in King Wen's eyes, "Yesterday, Wang Huai was locked up for three days. He didn't come to see you today, did he?"

"Of course not. The second brother should still be copying books in the room at this time." Ji Qingyan coughed pretendingly and slowed down.

"I hope so, he—" King Wen shook his head, obviously seeing through Ji Qingyan's lies.With a wave of his hand, the servant retreated knowingly, and he sighed when the maidservant's footsteps were far away, his eyes lost the brilliance just now, "Qingyan, your illness can't be delayed any longer."

Ji Qingyan shook his hand, and the tea almost splashed all over him, he smiled wryly, "Of course I know about it, but there are very few master practitioners, and such masters who are proficient in medical skills are even more unattainable. Taking advantage of the fact that I still have a few more days to live, I will teach my whole body to Wang Huai early on."

"Where does he need..." King Wen knew that he had made a mistake, and hurriedly said, "Didn't Master Guan Xing in Linyuan say that Chengguo still has four or five magicians? If you search slowly, you will always find them. Besides , even if Chengguo doesn't have it, Qiguo and Linyuan will meet each other, even if there is no sorcerer, the world is vast, and there will always be a magic formula..."

The conversation between the two gradually became quieter, and no one noticed. Behind the door, a pair of eyes dimmed.

……

"Brother Crane—" Ah Yuan was so excited that he didn't know what to say, so he could only clap his hands indiscriminately, applauding repeatedly.

"Isn't that amazing?" Si He shook his hands, and passed the kestrel over, "This bird is fierce, but it only takes two cups of tea, and the bird will be gone. Play carefully and don't get hurt. , I am too lazy to find a doctor for you."

A Yuan happily carried the bird and ran away. Si He stood there for a while, and then slowly packed up the painting tools.

He discovered his unusual skills in his previous life.

At that time, he was drawing crickets in the backyard, dripping a few drops of blood to make red cinnabar, but saw the crickets running out of the drawing paper, he was still in a daze, but Lu Yu who accidentally bumped into him took a good look.

So there will be things in the future...

It’s scary to say that, if it wasn’t for the day of the state banquet, when he pushed back the crane in the picture scroll, the consequences——

He couldn't imagine it at all.

So it's better to avoid these people in the future...

He didn't want to be some kind of master magician, living in the palace all his life, it would be so boring.

People, of course, still want to live happily.

My painting skills will not be used by you to proclaim yourself emperor!

After two cups of tea, A Yuan's mournful cry sounded in the woods:

"Brother Crane—the bird is gone! You pay me for the bird! I want your bird!"

“………………………… Which bird do you want??!”