Ma Liang? Lu Jing was also startled when he heard the name.
The magic pen Ma Liang is basically a well-known story in Lu Jing's previous life.
Roughly speaking, a young man named Ma Liang received a pen from the gods. When he painted with that magic pen, the things he wrote came to life. So he used that magic pen to draw pictures for the poor in the village every day, and gave them to the family. Draw a fence, and that one a waterwheel.
But later the county magistrate found out about this, and he got greedy, so he led his people to seize the magic pen, but failed. Instead, he was shot to death by Ma Liang's bow. Then the emperor also wanted Ma Liang to give it to him. Drawing a money tree, Ma Liang ended up drawing a lot of money.
Ma Liang told the emperor that the money tree was on a small island in the sea, so the emperor took a boat with his ministers and concubines to look for it. Unexpectedly, Ma Liang made a big mistake at this time and brought the court to a boil.
After that, Ma Liang also disappeared.
The story is almost like this. Although many parts of it do not stand up to scrutiny, Lu Jing was still very impressed after reading it at the time.
After all, who doesn’t want a magic pen that can draw all things, and coincidentally, if the strange thing he is looking for this time is really a magic pen, then these four bizarre little cases in the file will also be A reasonable explanation can be obtained.
It can't be such a coincidence, right?
Lu Jing thought to himself that although they were not the same age, they were both called Ma Liang and they were painters, so it would be hard not to associate them with that story.
So Lu Jing asked Han Erlang some more questions, some of which he wanted to ask originally, but the rest were all about Ma Liang.
Although Han Erlang didn't know why Lu Jing kept asking Ma Liang about helping him find a wife, he still answered truthfully.
Lu Jing then went to find the remaining three people.
As expected, Li Er also knew Ma Liang. After Ma Liang was kicked out of the capital by the Academy of Painting, he settled in Lijia Village, which was very close to Li Er's home.
However, Xin Papi and Miao Yuanwai did not have much impression of Ma Liang. Xin Papi had never heard of this name at all, while Miao Yuanwai knew that there was such a person in Lijia Village because he had a young son born from a concubine who was following Ma Liang. Learn to draw.
But Miao Yuanwai himself had never met Ma Liang.
However, he and Xin Papi were both well-known for being lustful and money-grubbing. If Ma Liang helped Li Er and Han Erlang, he was promoting good, then teaching Miao Yuanwai and Xin Papi a lesson was punishing evil.
You don't really need to know anything about punishing evil. You can know it by just asking the people nearby. Besides, Ma Liang lives in this area, so he should be quite familiar with the local customs.
After completing a circle and the investigation was almost done, Lu Jing knew that he should go see the real owner next.
So he came to Ma Liang's residence.
Ma Liang was teaching at this time. After offending the Hanlin, he was expelled from the capital by the Academy of Art, and all his paintings could not be sold in the capital.
The suburbs of the city were mainly farmers, and there were very few people willing to pay for paintings. In order to make a living, Ma Liang had to start teaching people to paint, mostly young boys, the oldest only twelve or thirteen years old.
Of course, ordinary tenant farmers rarely send their children to learn painting. Mainly some landlords and powerful people want their descendants to receive some quality education. They don’t ask for how good they can draw, but at least they can get some artistic influence. In the future, Maybe you can become a scholar.
Relying on the tuition fees earned from running interest classes, plus helping people write calligraphy during holidays and festivals, Ma Liang could barely maintain his daily expenses, and finally settled in Lijia Village.
People in the village generally have a good impression of this tall but gentle painter.
When Lu Jing came outside the thatched hut where Ma Liang lived, he saw a man in his thirties, walking among a group of children with his hands behind his back. From time to time he lowered his head to look at the paintings on their desks, and pointed out where the brushwork was wrong. How much ink.
Lu Jing also glanced at the paintings and found that except for some who were very young or who had obviously just started, there were quite a few people whose paintings were quite similar, and some children who had been under Ma Liang's sect for a long time. , even painted quite vividly.
This also shows that this Ma Liang is indeed a person with real skills.
At this time, Ma Liang also noticed the sudden appearance of Lu Jing, and the expression on his face could not help but change slightly. However, before he could say anything, he saw another woman wearing a gauze veil walking towards her face and carrying a sword.
The woman's eyes first swept over him, but then fell on the uninvited guest before, seeming a little surprised.
Although Yan Yun said she was looking forward to seeing Lu Jing again, she obviously didn't expect to see Lu Jing here again.
She asked herself that she had investigated these four cases very quickly, and after putting all the clues together, she discovered Ma Liang hiding behind them.
But she didn't expect that Lu Jing would take the lead, and you should know that she solved the last question a cup of tea earlier than Lu Jing.
Don’t underestimate the time spent on this cup of tea. The first investigation is completely different from the difficulty faced by subsequent investigations. After all, people are usually the least wary when they are questioned for the first time, and if they are questioned repeatedly Even if you are not wary at first about the same thing, you will be asked about the same thing and you will be wary.
It was even more difficult to collect clues at this time. However, under such circumstances, Lu Jing actually overtook her at the last moment. You can imagine the shock in Yan Yun's heart.
She even regretted coming over like this, because she felt that Lu Jing might just be doing a routine investigation and hadn't realized the importance of Ma Liang in it, and her appearance was a reminder to Lu Jing to pay attention to Ma Liang.
But soon Yan Yun knew that he was at a loss.
The moment she started to guess Lu Jing's intentions, she had already lost half the trick, because according to her past practice, she never cared about what other competitors were thinking or doing, as long as she did her own thing well, in the end The winner will definitely be her.
This is something that has been proven repeatedly.
However, perhaps because of the previous battle in the maple forest, she felt a sense of frustration for the first time in her life. After facing Lu Jing again, her strong and flawless faith in the past was rarely shaken.
Is it possible that we will lose to him again this time?
Little did the girl know that Lu Jing opposite him was also very surprised.
The reason why Lu Jing targeted Ma Liang from the very beginning was simply because he had heard that fairy tale in his previous life. The subsequent investigation was more about verifying the answer than finding the answer.
But Yan Yun was different. From the looks of it, she had definitely found Ma Liang's head. Although she came a little earlier than him, it was really amazing that she had figured it out so quickly.
