Volume 1 Chapter 10 (1/2)
Ysabel, Paona, Jaya, you are welcoBin, a monk has an admirer? Xiaohu, I a series is quite longIf you read the 'preface', there are eight books, each one has more than 20 chapters
Chapter 10 - Where is the spouse?
Sun Xuepu said, ”What I know is just that much”
Chu Liuxiang swept his gaze around; suddenly he said, ”Did you say that you made four portraits for her?”
”That's right,” Sun Xuepu replied, ”Four portraits”
”Do you knohy she wanted four portraits?” Chu Liuxiang asked
”At that ti,” Sun Xuepu said, ”Ordinarily, people only wanted one portrait; why did she want four? By the time I painted the third portrait for her, finally I could not help but ask”
”Did she tell you?” Chu Liuxiang asked urgently
Sun Xuepu sighed and said, ”She did … she said she wanted to give these four portraits to fourtoward her, but at the moment she wanted to break off any relation with them”
S said, ”She looked for you, such a famous artist to do her portrait, the purpose was to preserve her beauty as iven to the four et her She wanted that each time they saw this beautiful portrait, they would suffer because of her”
Gnashi+ng her teeth, Shen Shangu said, ”What a cruel wo looked at her portrait, he would suffer pain as if being cut by a knife”
”The question now is,” Chu Liuxiang said, ”Why did she want to break off any relation with them?”
Shen Shangu said, ”When a woman does not hesitate to break off relation with four men who loved her, usually she has only one reason”
”What reason?” Chu Liuxiang asked
Shen Shangu replied, ”That she is going to marry another man; a man who is a lot better than the four of them”
Chu Liuxiang sht, a woman's heart, indeed only other women can understand”
Shen Shangu said, ”Thepower, or has a very high hwealth”
She looked at Chu Liuxiang, suddenly she laughed and went on, ”Naturally it is quite possible that it is because the man is just like you: able to move the woman's heart”
Chu Liuxiang laughed and said, ”Is Miss's heart ht now?”
Shen Shangu blushed deep red, but her eyes were still fixed at hily, she said, ”Fortunately on earth ht not necessarily see it in her eyes; therefore, the man she married must be Wulin master with illustrious reputation! If we can find out who this man is, then ill also be able to find her”
Surprisingly, she spoke the word 'we', two characters [orig zanboth the speaker and the person(s) spoken to)] with conviction, yet she actually did not knoho Chu Liuxiang was
Chu Liuxiang laughed and said, ”Although the scope is somewhat narrowed, but the nuhu is still not a few In my opinion, it would be better if Miss hand this portrait to o home and wait As soon as I have information, I will definitely let Miss know”
Shen Shangu's eyes carried an enchanting smile, she leaned over, stared at him, and said, ”Why should I hand this over to you? Why would I want to trust you?”
Rolling his eyes, Chu Liuxiang whispered a feords in her ear
Shen Shangu's countenance ied; she retreated two steps back, and spoke with tre around, she bolted out of the room like crazy
Chu Liuxiang sighed gently, rolled up the painting, and then, standing in front of the table, he fixed his gaze on Sun Xuepu without blinking
His eyes seely sharp that even Sun Xuepu, who had no eyes, could feel it He shi+fted uneasily in his chair, until finally he could not take it anymore, ”Why haven't you left?” he asked
”I a replied
”Waiting for what?” Sun Xuepu asked
Chu Liuxiang ss that you concealed from her”
Sun Xuepu stayed expressionless for half a day Finally he heaved a long sigh and said, ”Nothing can be concealed from you?”
Chu Liuxiang said, ”I know that even though you hate her, you still don't want other people to har, I am afraid someone will really hurt her”
Sure enough, Sun Xuepu was emotionally moved, ”Why is that?” he asked
Chu Liuxiang replied, ”Because the four men who received your four portraits are all dead now”
”Dead?” Sun Xuepu blurted out, ”How could they be dead?”
Chu Liuxiang said, ”Although currently I still don't know the actual fact of why they died, but I do know that after receiving Qiu Lingsu's letter, they went out on a journey and that's when they were killed”
Sun Xuepu said, ”You … are you saying that Qiu Lingsu killed them?”
Chu Liuxiang said, ”Since Qiu Lingsu wanted them to pine for her for a lifetime, she could not possibly want to kill them She wrote to them, perhaps because she had some difficulties, and wanted them to rush over to help her”
Sun Xuepu sighed and said, ”That's right When a wo that came to her mind will be those people who treated her best, and only these people would vow loyalty and devotion to her to the death”
Chu Liuxiang said, ”And now these four men are dead The people who killed them also killed several other people in succession, and they don't want me to know the connection between them and her, they don't want me to meddle into this secret From this, it can be seen that her difficulty will never be resolved Perhaps at this er”
Emotionally erous, why do you insist on getting involved? Could it be that you want to save her?”
Chu Liuxiang sighed and said, ”If I don't knohere she is, how could I save her?”
Sun Xuepu was silent for half a day Finally he spoke slowly, ”Just now the two of you forgot to ask ”
”What is it?” Chu Liuxiang asked
”You forgot to ask me,” Sun Xuepu replied, ”Where did I do her portraits?”
”That's right,” Chu Liuxiang blurted out, ”This point must be very relevant”
Sun Xuepu said, ”About five li outside the city, there is one Wuyi An [lit black dress convent/nunnery] It was there that I did her portraits The Zhuchi [administrator of a monastery, Buddhist or Daoist] of the Convent, Su Xin Dashi+, was her best friend; in all likelihood, she would knohere she is”
”Anything else?” Chu Liuxiang asked
Sun Xuepu no longer spoke
Chu Liuxiang collected the portrait, turned around and walked out Suddenly he looked back and said, ”Although the eyes are blind, the heart is not blind Use the heart in place of the eyes, could it be that you can no longer paint …? Sun Xiong, think about it carefully, and cherish it”
Sun Xuepu stared blankly His face e for the advice; may I ask your honorable surname?”
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But outside the , a dark shadow spoke coldly, ”His surna”
Chu Liuxiang hurried down the hill He saw a big carriage with black canopy parked in front of the hillside This kind of black-canopied carriage was thethe dayti walked over and asked, ”Are you waiting for someone?”
The coachhed and said, ”Waiting for you to come!”
Chu Liuxiang asked, ”Do you know if there is any Wuyi Convent outside the city?”
The coachhed and said, ”You found An [I (northern dialects)], you found the right person The day before yesterday An brought An's wife to light the incense Get into the carriage, guaranteed it can't be wrong”
The carriage started to ht hard back and forth, running over this h he has had the ured out, the key was still whether he would be able to find Qiu Lingsu or not This jiu Zi, and Zha Muge, four su
But why did Qiu Lingsu look for them? Did she really want them to help her? A woman like her, what could possibly her problem that she needed other people's help?
The carriage was not slow at all, but that Wuyi Convent was really not near Fortunately Chu Liuxiang's brains kept , so he did not feel the anxiety to be too intolerable
Finally the coache, ”Wuyi Convent is ahead in the woods, you e!”
Ahead was a peach grove, and there was a tiny temple by the brook This moment it was nearly dusk Fro of sutras; it appears that the nuns in the Te session
The tiny terove, the extreant Buddhist nun; otherwise, how could she forsu?
The convent gate was open, Chu Liuxiang entered in The lanterns inside the convent had not been lighted yet, the sound of chanting was droning on and on A nun, wearing black Buddhist robe and white socks, was standing quietly in the shadow of a Chinese parasol tree, as ifthe sorrow of the world of 's footsteps unconsciously becohter
He walked over on tiptoe, and tried to probe, ”I wonder if Su Xin Dashi+ is in the Convent?”
The nun in black cast hiether and said, ”Pinni [impoverished nun] is Su Xin I wonder where did shi+zhu [benefactor (term used by Buddhist monk/nun to address a layperson)] come from? What is the purpose of your visit?”
Chu Liuxiang said, ”Dashi+ has avoided the red dust [the world oftime, I wonder if you remember in the year past you had a close friend frosu?”
Su Xin Dashi+ replied, ”Re is re shi+zhu, why should you ask? Why should Pinni tell you?”
Chu Liuxiang sme?”
He was able to discuss Zen with Wuhua, naturally he was able to deflect a quick-witted exchange
A thin smile appeared on the corner of Su Xin Dashi+'s mouth; she said, ”shi+zhu also understand Buddhism subtleties”
”I have a slight knowledge of it,” Chu Liuxiang replied
Su Xin Dashi+ sighed and said, ”Since shi+zhu is an understanding man, there is no need for Pinni not to understand shi+zhu casu asked hi”
”And then what happened?” Chu Liuxiang asked