"This Huang Hanlin seems to have returned home from Delong's fifth year as an official, and built this villa to live in his old age.
In the past few years, I was devoted to the art of painting, and mostly painted landscapes, flowers and birds. But later, I accidentally got a piece of "Skeleton Fantasy" by Li Song of the Southern Song Dynasty. Suddenly, the style of painting changed drastically. The paper was full of skulls and bones, hell. picture.
But I have to say that this level is getting higher and higher. "
While Li Fan was appreciating the personal paintings of Huang Hanlin in front of him with secret surprise, he recalled the relevant information he had obtained from reading the files, trying to find some useful information.
One thing that is almost certain is that the original "Skeleton Fantasy" in Huang Hanlin's hands has been turned into a rare treasure and possesses some kind of magical power.
Huang Hanlin must have known something about it and was obsessed with it, trying to study and master it.
During this period, there must be a large number of practice works, but those that can be selected and placed in front of guests for comment and appreciation must be representative works that everyone is proud of.
Judging from the dates when these paintings were signed, it is not difficult to see that he has been making progress.
Regardless of the structure, brushwork, and overall artistic conception and charm, they are getting better and better.
If the first two paintings, "Picture of Merchant" and "Picture of Family in Spring Society", only make people feel gloomy and quite weird, then this one, "Picture of Momoyama Market", is actually a bit chilling. The feeling of terror.
In this regard, Li Fan's evaluation is that "the old guy's art is becoming more and more grounded."
But to be honest, he really didn't understand the meaning of these paintings.
Maybe I really don’t have any artistic talent.
Seemingly because of the good response to the previous paintings, Huang Hanlin's confidence greatly increased and he ordered his family to take out new paintings.
On March 15th, the 15th year of Delong's reign, Taoshan layman wrote "Outing Pictures".
It is not difficult to see from this painting that Huang Hanlin's painting skills have obviously improved, and he can be called a famous artist. Even people like Li Fan who do not understand art can clearly feel that some of the technical things in it are gradually becoming more and more sophisticated. Mature, the style has been completely finalized.
It's like a confused person has his own direction and is on the right path.
However, the things described in the picture are even more gloomy and weird, which is really hard to describe in words.
On the surface, it looked like a scene of a noble gentry dragging their families with them for an outing in the countryside. However, in the corner of the picture, a skeleton figure running far away suddenly appeared, struggling to drag the half-broken skeleton to dig a hole with his hands. It seemed that he was digging a hole with his hands. What treasure to dig up.
Li Fan cast his eyes on the skeletal figure with some confusion.
In the whole picture, his behavior is the most bizarre, and even destroys the structure of the whole picture to some extent.
But the person in the painting didn't notice him at all, as if the other person didn't exist.
At this moment, Li Fan suddenly noticed that Huang Ying beside him seemed to be reacting to the painting.
Her eyes were fixed on the paper, as if she was also observing the skeleton digging the hole, but she was still unaware that she was being watched.
But after looking at it for a long time, I finally seemed to notice it, and couldn't help but turn my head and glare at him, with a blush on my face.
"What a painting! It's really a good painting!"
"I am reminded of "Spring Outing" painted by the famous Sui Dynasty artist Zhan Ziqian..."
"The quality of this painting is already outstanding."
"Hahahaha, you guys are so ridiculous. Compared with Zhan Ziqian, I'm still far behind."
All the literati praised it.
Huang Hanlin was quite happy to receive the praise, but he still said modestly.
Li Fan ignored the compliments among these literati and refined scholars, and withdrew his gaze from Huang Ying, focusing on the sixth painting.
The painting style of the underworld is as usual, and it is no surprise that it is full of paper skeletons.
What was presented this time was an even more ghastly and terrifying scene.
I saw a market similar to the previous "Taoshan Market", filled with pedestrians and white bones as far as the eye could see.
If you look closely at the pork stalls on the street, it seems that human bodies and legs are hanging on them. Children on the roadside are not playing with rubber balls, shuttlecocks and marbles, but with human heads, human bones, and eyeballs.
The only exception was a large living person with a frightened face, walking among them with a normal appearance and fearful and afraid to speak loudly.
That person seems to be pretending!
He didn't know why, but the skeletons all over the street didn't notice anything strange about him. Only he knew.
However, once it is noticed, the end will be very miserable due to the strange scene everywhere.
Because in such a terrible place, a living person like him with fresh flesh and blood is a real alien!
This is "Taoshan West Street Map" written by Taoshan layman on April 18th, the 16th year of Delong.
"What kind of Taoshan West Street is this? It's obviously Fengdu Underworld, right?"
Li Fan frowned.
"Sir, look."
At this moment, Xue An's slightly surprised voice alerted Li Fan.
Li Fan followed his secret reminder and looked forward, and couldn't help but be startled.
The seventh painting is displayed there.
This painting is a meticulous painting of a villa. It uses the three-point perspective unique to ancient Chinese paintings to depict a mid-range view of a villa. The houses inside are in order, just like other similar paintings, showing the countryside. The daily life of the gentry.
If you don't look at other things, just the breath of life that appears on the paper can be regarded as brilliant.
However, like the previous games, all the characters in it are skeletons, no matter men, women, old or young, they all have a sense of underworld eerieness.
With the help of Huang Hanlin's increasingly sophisticated techniques, this sinister meaning became even more intense.
On the eighth day of May in the seventeenth year of Delong, Taoshan layman, "Villa Picture".
"Why does this place look familiar?"
Li Fan subconsciously cast his eyes on the dirt slope in front of the main gate of the villa, and his expression moved slightly.
It is the mountain villa of Huang Hanlin's family, which is also the mountain villa where he lives!
"There are two more pictures at the back."
Xue An reminded with a solemn expression.
Li Fan walked over and saw that the eighth picture depicted a close-up view of the villa. The picture showed several living people stepping into a gate that looked like the underworld.
There were several skeletons at the door wearing the clothes of slaves and servants, standing neatly, but inside the courtyard there were a few naughty little skeletons poking their heads. Even though they had no flesh and blood and no faces visible, they were still alive and agile. .
On August 26, the eighteenth year of Delong, Taoshan layman wrote "Enter the Fantasy Picture".
"It really seems."
Li Ao frowned secretly.
Although the actual picture was different from what he and Xue An saw when they came in, this eighth picture still caused slight ripples in his heart, and a strong sense of déjà vu emerged.
The last painting is inscribed on the fifteenth day of July in the 19th year of Delong's reign, "Pictures of Viewing the Fantasy Drama" by Taoshan layman.
An even stronger sense of déjà vu came over me, because what was shown in the picture was a scene of several living people and several skeletons gathered around a table to enjoy the painting together!
