Volume 6 Blue and White Porcelain Chapter 3 Charm
"Sister Phoenix, how come the antique store Professor Zhou just mentioned looks like the one we went to last time?" Huo Mingkun said.
"Is the antique shop that Master Professor Zhou mentioned the same one that sold me the Qingyou Sword? That shop is so strange." Jiang Yundao said.
"Yes, that's the one. If it weren't for him, who would be able to sell this masterpiece for a mere penny." Yao Guang looked at the blue and white porcelain vase brought by the guards in front of him: "It's just that this time, this guy Bi Luo has done it again. What are you going to do?"
"Master, tell me, could this porcelain vase be poured out by the boss? I always feel that he is not an ordinary person." Jiang Yundao said.
"It's hard for me to say this. That guy really has this ability. Let's talk about this matter tomorrow. Let's think about how to get through tonight." Yao Guang picked up the blue and white porcelain vase and looked at the picture of the lady on it. This blue and white porcelain vase The pattern is too strange. Why draw a picture of a lady? This is not a popular style during the Xuande year. Yaoguang looked at the blue and white porcelain vase and fell into deep thought.
Unknowingly, night had fallen, and Yao Guang and others sat back on the sofa after having dinner in the living room. Waiting for the night to completely darken.
"Miss Phoenix, is there something wrong with this blue and white porcelain? You've been staring at this all afternoon." Professor Zhou couldn't help asking when he saw her holding the blue and white porcelain and looking at it again.
"Oh, it's nothing. I just think the pattern on this blue and white porcelain is very strange. I don't know much about blue and white porcelain, but I have seen some. Most of the folk kilns have patterns, flowers and plants, etc., and the official kilns all have dragons, phoenixes, etc. Yes, but this is the first time I have seen this painting of a lady. Look at this pattern. The maid is standing under a peach tree. This is the first time I have seen this kind of pattern. This is so strange. This is the Xuande year of yours. The blue and white porcelain belongs to the official kiln, and most of the fired items are supplied to the royal family or dignitaries. This pattern does not meet the aesthetic standards of that time." Yao Guang looked at the blue and white porcelain vase.
After listening to Yao Guang's words, Professor Zhou took the blue and white porcelain bottle and looked at it carefully and said: "It's true, Xuande blue and white porcelain is famous for its decoration. The decoration is very regular and never goes out of the line. The brushes are divided into two types: solid brush and outline rendering. , the actual strokes are mostly fine lines, and the outlines and renderings are mostly thick lines and patterns. The lines are smooth, the texture is clear, and there is a sense of coherence. The main patterns are twining branches and broken branches flowers, including twining peonies, twining lotus, twining chrysanthemums, twining branches Ganoderma lucidum, morning glory, pine and bamboo, Baoxianghua, gardenia, Ganoderma lucidum, lily, lotus, camellia, loquat, daylilies, lotus algae, bamboo and stone plantain. The most common ones are camellia, chrysanthemum, peony, Lotus flowers are depicted together. Several types of flowers are often interlaced and reused. Lotuses with twining branches are also more common in Xuande blue and white porcelain, mostly with bilateral lotus petals. The depiction is very smooth, with rough lines, free and lively, and the layout of the painting is based on the vessel. The pattern pays attention to changes, which is both flexible and regular, showing the superb decorative art and proficiency of painting skills at that time. The melon and fruit patterns include pomegranate, persimmon, lychee, grape, peach, etc. The dragon patterns include cloud dragon, tuan Dragon, Kui dragon, Chi dragon, sea water dragon, Zhuzhu dragon, flying winged dragon, dragon wearing flowers, lotus pond dragon, dragon pattern peony, etc. Phoenix patterns include group phoenix, cloud phoenix, double phoenix, flower phoenix, dragon and phoenix, etc. . Other animal patterns include fish and algae patterns, magpie patterns, flying elephant patterns, unicorn patterns, sea animal wave patterns, lion ball patterns, loquat ribbon bird patterns, etc. Character patterns are limited by the fact that the raw material of sumac is easy to fade. , not many are burned. They mainly include ladies, playing the flute to attract the phoenix, immortals riding the phoenix, pictures of babies playing, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, singers and dancers, etc. Ladies are often depicted in combination with gardens and pavilions, with a quiet style, such as ladies visiting the garden, enjoying the scenery, etc. Moon worship, moon worship, etc." After Professor Zhou popularized the knowledge of blue and white porcelain to everyone, he continued: "The pattern on this porcelain vase, the pattern of a woman standing under a peach blossom tree, is really too abrupt. If you don't tell me, I will still I didn't notice it, I was just looking at the color of this porcelain vase." Professor Zhou took a look at the blue and white porcelain vase.
As time passed, Yao Guang looked at his watch and said, "Professor Zhou, please go back to your room. No matter what you hear, don't come out."
"Okay, this is the key to the collection room upstairs. I'm leaving first. Old Zheng, why don't you leave." Professor Zhou looked at Zheng Ting who was enjoying tea.
"Hey, I can't even go home because of you, old guy. Let's go play chess." Zheng Ting stood up and the two of them went upstairs. Seeing the two people disappearing around the corner of the stairs on the second floor, Yao Guang withdrew his gaze and pinched his fingers at the blue and white porcelain bottle. A talisman covered the blue and white porcelain.
"Miss." The next day came in from outside, "Everyone in this room has been asked to come back inside. What should we do now."
"Set up the formation." Yaoguang stood up.
"Okay." After nodding her head the next day, four immortals appeared behind her. The four immortals jumped up to the ceiling and used their spiritual power to draw talismans in the air, setting up a trapping array. The next day, the red rope was pulled in the living room. After the decoration was completed, everyone sat on the sofa and waited, while the blue and white porcelain vase was placed on the shelf in the hall as a centerpiece. Also to attract ghosts.
Yao Guang turned off the chandelier in the living room, leaving only a few spotlights, and the light in this space became dim.
Time is slowly approaching midnight.
"Here we come." Yao Guang said softly, looking at the slightly swinging curtains.
Everyone followed his gaze. I found that the curtains in the living room were moving without any wind. No one moved, waiting quietly.
"Ah. Phoenix, Phoenix..." Suddenly Zheng Hall's heartbreaking shout came from the second floor.
"Not good." Yaoguang reacted and rushed to the second floor. After finding the source of the sound, Yao Guang pushed open the door of the room and saw Professor Zhou pinching his own neck and lying on the ground kicking his legs. His face was purple from holding back. The chessboard had been knocked over and the pieces were scattered all over the floor.
"Broken." Yaoguang shot a golden light at Professor Zhou, and saw a shadow pop out from Professor Zhou's body and flew out of the window. He reacted quickly the next day and jumped out of the window after him.
"Old Zhou." Zheng Ting responded and helped Professor Zhou up. Xuan Chen slapped Professor Zhou on the back hard, and Professor Zhou took a breath and started coughing violently. His expression also began to soften.
"What's going on?" Yao Guang asked.
"I don't know, I was playing chess well. Suddenly something went wrong with Lao Zhou. He knocked over the chessboard and glared at me fiercely. Before I could react, he pinched his own neck, and then you guys came in. It's gone." Director Zheng was also very frightened.
"Miss, I lost you. That thing was too fast." He came in through the door the next day.
"He is possessed. Why is this ghost so angry and insisting on killing Professor Zhou?" Huo Mingkun said.
"We'll talk about this later. There's another one in this room." As he spoke, Yao Guang pinched his fingers at the room and saw a pink shadow swishing away from the door.
"Chase." Yaoguang took the lead and chased out. But when we got to the living room, there was nothing. Everyone looked surprised. Yao Guang looked around.
"Well, you'd better not look up." Yao Guang said, touching his nose. The more he refused to raise his head, the more he raised his head. Everyone looked up and gasped. They saw a female ghost in pink clothes lying on the railing of the stairs on the second floor. This female ghost had long hair, but half of her face was It was a clean appearance, with half of the skin peeling off, as if it had been splashed with sulfuric acid, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the eyeballs fell out. Yao Guang and the others were lucky. Zheng Ting and Professor Zhou were so frightened that their faces turned pale. They were also mentally strong and didn't faint.
"Why would you harm people?" Yao Guang asked looking at the ghost.
"Hee hee." The ghost smiled like everyone rushing towards him. Yao Guang raised his hand and waved, and a sharp sword energy flew like a female ghost and hit the female ghost directly. The female ghost was in pain, turned around and fell down. Everyone felt something fell on their faces, and they reached out and wiped it, and it was ink.
"What's going on? This female ghost is an octopus. If she can't beat her, she'll spray ink." Jiang Yun wiped the ink from his face.
"Sister Phoenix, it's not a ghost, it's the charm." Huo Mingkun opened his eyes, pointed at the figure and shouted.
Yao Guang nodded to activate the magic circle, and an invisible large net shone down on Mei.
"No." Mei screamed and fell to the ground. "No, don't hurt me, I didn't harm anyone." Mei said tremblingly.
"Don't you want to kill me?" Professor Zhou came over. He looked at Mei in front of him in horror.
"No, I didn't mean to harm you. It was the other person who harmed you, not me." Mei said tremblingly; "You created me, how could I harm you." Mei said with a smile.
"I created you?" Professor Zhou wondered.
"Don't you remember me?" Mei looked at Professor Zhou.
"I see why you look so familiar, as if I've seen you before somewhere." Professor Zhou said doubtfully.
Mei got up from the ground, and her terrifying face began to change. The ghostly face on the right began to slowly recover, turning into the face of a delicate girl.
"Sister Fenghuang, don't you think she looks like the woman in the painting in the professor's study?" Huo Mingkun said.
"Painting?" Professor Zhou was stunned, and immediately ran upstairs and came down with the painting scroll. As the scroll unfolded, everyone was shocked. The charm in front of them was exactly the same as the woman in the painting.
"The fairy in the painting?" Xuan Chen was shocked.
"What's going on? Tell me yourself." Yaoguang took back the magic circle and released it after seeing that Mei had no intention of harming anyone.
"I am not a ghost, and it is far-fetched to say that I am a charm. I am just a ray of soul in Mr. Zhou's paintings. I was born from the paintings, because Mr. Zhou always talks to me, smiles at me, and looks at me. Crying, I just looked at him quietly opposite. I wanted to comfort him, but I couldn't. I was very helpless, very helpless. But, suddenly one day, I found that I could move. I could I walked out of the painting and looked at him, but Mr. Zhou still couldn't see me or hear me, but it doesn't matter, I just stay with him quietly." Mei Mei looked at Professor Zhou in a daze.
"There really is a fairy in the painting. How did you come to be?" Jiang Yun asked.
"Actually, I was transformed into a ray of blood from Mr. Zhou. He used blood to paint, so I was conceived." Mei said.
"I remembered that this painting was made by me many years ago. I remember that when I was doing this painting, I cut my hand on the packaging of the new paint. At that time, I thought it was a waste, so I mixed the paint with blood and painted this painting. Unexpectedly, Actually..." Professor Zhou looked at Mei in front of him with hesitation.
"Phoenix, don't you think this painting is somewhat similar to the pattern of this blue and white porcelain vase." Xuan Chen took the blue and white porcelain vase.
When everyone looked at it, they were astonished. It was really similar. The picture scroll showed a woman in pink clothes standing under a peach tree. The petals fell, reflecting the woman's delicate face. Under a peach tree.
"Is there any connection between the two? Professor Zhou, can you still remember why you made this painting?" Yao Guang asked.
"Ah, let me think about it. I remember I had a dream in my early years. I dreamed of a woman standing under a tree and smiling at me. I made this painting when I woke up." Professor Zhou looked at the painting again and again. Kanmei: "Yes, that's right, the woman under the tree looks like this. I remembered it."
"It's not it. It has no reason to hurt Professor Zhou." Yao Guang walked to the sofa and sat down.
"How do you explain the strange thing that happened to Professor Zhou?" Xuan Chen looked at Yao Guang and asked.
"Ask it." Yao Guang pointed to the mournful Mei beside him.
"I can't tell you exactly. Probably the day after my husband brought back the bottle, I found two more spirits in the room, one male and one female. It was the man who wanted to kill Mr. The woman kept trying to stop him, but she seemed unable to defeat the man. Later, the woman discovered that I was in the painting. Every time the man wanted to hurt my husband, the woman came to me and asked me to help. Stop him. But the woman never said the reason. I was afraid that my husband would be hurt, so I kept following him. That’s all I know.” Mei said. "But there is one thing I do, which is to move things in my husband's house. That's just for fun. I have never hurt anyone."
"Hey, is this a chaotic dance of demons?" Chu Tianyou asked depressedly, how come so many ghosts came out of a blue and white porcelain vase.
"In that case, why do you look like a ghost and scary?" Yao Guang asked.
"I didn't mean it. I just wanted to confuse the male ghost. I couldn't beat him, so I could only turn into a scary look to scare him, making him think I was stronger than him. It was just to prevent him from hurting my husband," Mei said.
"Let me ask you again, what happened when someone in Professor Zhou's family fell down the stairs and into the pool?" Chu Tianyou asked.
"It's the man. He wants to hurt the husband's family, but the woman is blocking him. The woman can't beat the man, so she can only push him away." Mei explained.
"So this is ah."
"Since you have never done evil, I will not embarrass you. Before this matter is settled, I'll leave it to you to protect Professor Zhou. Although you are a charm, you also have a certain spirituality. When the matter is settled, I will give you The painting you live in is sealed, so that you can continue to practice with the help of this painting. In the future, you can choose the famous mountain caves, which is better than the immortal in the painting. If you have the chance in the future, you can become the guardian immortal of the Zhou family. A perfect strategy. Look at it." Yao Guang raised his hand and waved at Mei, and Mei's body was filled with light: "This is a reward for your protection of Professor Zhou and your loyalty to the Lord. If the evil ghost comes again, you can stop it. Up next gear.”
"Thank you." Mei bowed to Yao Guang, then looked at Professor Zhou and turned back to the painting.
"Professor Zhou, please bear with this painting. I will set up a magic circle at your house to protect you temporarily. Your matter is a bit complicated. I need to investigate and understand it before I can find a way to deal with it. Don't leave until you understand the matter. Guildhall.
"Okay, okay. I'll listen to you. Thank you Miss Phoenix." Professor Zhou took the scroll and nodded seriously.
"You should call me Phoenix. You don't need to be so polite. Let's do this for today. Let's go first. Zheng Ting, what are your arrangements?" Yao Guang asked, looking at Zheng Ting who had already lost consciousness.
"Ah? Oh. I'll stay with Lao Zhou. I'm on annual leave recently. I originally came here for vacation. Now that this happened, I can't leave. Phoenix, I'll leave this matter to you." Director Zheng Return to Shinto.
"Don't worry, Mr. Zheng, I'm here. I'll keep you here the next day to protect you. Professor Zhou, I'll take this vase away. The matter has to be investigated from this bottle. I'll send it back to you when the matter is over. Also, ah , don’t tell anyone about what happened here, otherwise you’ll be taken away as mentally ill. Don’t blame me for not reminding you. Let’s go, don’t send him off.” Yao Guang waved his hand and walked out.
"The next day, you will stay here with the four immortals and police the world at any time. This male ghost has some skills, you know." Yao Guang whispered a few words to the next day. The next day nodded. Yaoguang patted him on the shoulder and led the people away.
"Hey, this girl." Zheng Ding looked at their backs and was speechless.
"Master, what should we do next?" Jiang Yun asked while sitting in the car.
"Stay at my place tonight, and we'll go to an antique store tomorrow." Yaoguang stepped on the accelerator and the car sped away.
