bestfiction Chapter 299: The Strange Painting
Chapter 299: The Strange Painting
Chapter 299: The Strange Painting
Not long after, Lu Yu returned, bringing Xuan paper and a calligraphy brush, along with a candied hawthorn for her. She took the gifts and smiled, saying, "Thank you, Brother Lu." Then she started eating the candied hawthorn, completely forgetting why she had bought the Xuan paper and brush. Lu Yu watched Ji Meiqing happily eating the candied hawthorn before leaving.
After finishing her meal, Ji Meiqing asked the waiter to bring a table to her room. The waiter looked at Ji Meiqing with suspicion, thinking to himself, "She's not eating, why does she need a table?" He didn't dare say anything aloud and went downstairs.
Ji Meiqing looked at the Xuan paper and brush on the table, and muttered to herself with a distressed expression, "There's no ink. What am I going to do now?" As she spoke, she rummaged through drawers and cabinets looking for ink, but to no avail. She sat on the bed, feeling very depressed.
"Meiqing, I've bought the ink." Lu Yu said as soon as he entered the room. Seeing Ji Meiqing sitting on the bed looking unhappy, he asked, "What's wrong?" Just as he walked to the bedside, Ji Meiqing hooked her arm around Lu Yu's neck and said happily, "How did you know I wanted ink?" Lu Yu looked at how close they were and pushed Ji Meiqing back, pinning her down and saying, "Because you are my wife, we are of one mind."
Seeing Lu Yu so close, Ji Meiqing blushed and tried to push him away. However, Lu Yu was a man, and Ji Meiqing was too weak. Lu Yu grabbed her hand that was trying to push him away, gently pecked Ji Meiqing's cheek, and then let her go.
"You go ahead with your work, I'll go out and see if there's anything I need to buy," Lu Yu said as he got up and left.
"Is there anything else I need to buy? I don't know," Ji Meiqing said, somewhat puzzled.
Standing outside the door, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief. He was really worried that if he had stayed any later, his wife would have been completely taken advantage of by him.
After Lu Yu left, Ji Meiqing sat intently on the bed, with the table placed near the edge. She drew on the rice paper, tearing it up whenever she wasn't satisfied. When she had almost finished tearing up the paper, she stared at the half-finished work, her mind completely blank.
Ji Meiqing rubbed her temples, her eyes heavy with sleep, and simply slumped onto the table and fell asleep. Lu Yu stood at the door the whole time, not going out to buy anything. Looking at Ji Meiqing's sleeping face, he gently brushed the stray hairs from her forehead. Looking at the drawings on the table, he couldn't help but admire Ji Meiqing's talent. Although he couldn't quite understand them, he imagined that the finished product would be quite beautiful.
Lu Yu was worried that Ji Meiqing would catch a cold if she slept on the table, so he picked her up, put her on the bed, and tucked her in.
After he felt it was all right, he looked at the drawing on the paper on the table and became interested. He then happily started drawing on another sheet of rice paper. After he finished, he realized that the drawing he made following his own ideas was very beautiful and looked like a headdress.
Ji Meiqing didn't wake up until evening. Suddenly, she remembered that she hadn't finished her drawing. She woke up abruptly, flipped through the rice paper on the table, and stared in shock at the drawing on it. It was almost identical to her own portrait. Moreover, her drawing was only half-finished, yet someone else was able to continue and even finish it. She really thought that the person who drew this must be a modern person.
Just as she was wondering if anyone else had transmigrated like her, Lu Yu came in. Lu Yu looked at him as he examined the painting on the rice paper and said, "You didn't finish the rest, so I finished it for you. It's not bad, is it?" With that, he sat down next to Ji Meiqing.
"Brother Lu, you said you drew this?" Ji Meiqing looked at Lu Yu with some doubt. No matter how she looked at him, she couldn't see that he could draw. Besides brewing wine and hunting, how could Brother Lu know how to paint? Ji Meiqing thought to herself. Having followed Brother Lu for so long, she hadn't seen any characteristics of a modern person.
"Yeah, I don't know what came over me, I just suddenly felt like drawing it, and I didn't expect it to turn out so well," Lu Yu said, rubbing his nose. Ji Meiqing didn't think he was lying, so she didn't say anything and didn't think much of it.
"It's getting late, I'll go out and buy you something to eat." Lu Yu said and went out. Ji Meiqing sat alone on the table, lost in thought. She felt like there was something she couldn't figure out. As she thought about it, she got tired and fell asleep on the table.
When Ji Meiqing woke up, Lu Yu was already back. Seeing that she was awake, Lu Yu pointed to the table and said, "You're awake. I bought some snacks for you. Try them." Ji Meiqing rubbed her eyes and picked up the snacks on the table to eat.
"Brother Lu, I'm sleepy, I'm going to sleep now." Ji Meiqing didn't know why, but she was particularly sleepy today. In her dream, Ji Meiqing returned to the modern world. She was very happy, and even happier was that Lu Yu had also traveled to the modern world. They got married, but on their wedding day, Lu Yu pointed a gun at Ji Meiqing's heart and said, "I want it to stop, to never beat again."
Crimson blood stained the pure white wedding dress. A light rain began to fall. Ji Meiqing saw her own body lying motionless on the ground, blood flowing continuously from her heart. She wanted to return to her body, but as soon as she did, she was bounced back.
"Ouch, my back!" Ji Meiqing, who hadn't slept well, suddenly fell off the bed and cried out in pain. She got up from the floor and found herself sweating. She couldn't help but think how terrifying the dream had been. Lu Yu wasn't in the room either; she didn't know where he was, which only increased Ji Meiqing's fear. She could only pat her face and say, "It's just a dream, nothing serious."
After packing her things, Ji Meiqing took her bundle and the blueprints and left the inn. She went to a nearby silver jewelry shop and handed her blueprints to the owner, saying, "Boss, use ordinary iron to make the shape shown in this blueprint, and then coat it with a layer of silver."
The shopkeeper looked at the blueprints, somewhat surprised by the drawings, and then at Ji Meiqing, he felt they were rather complicated and difficult. Ji Meiqing seemed to sense this from the shopkeeper's expression and immediately said, "I know it's a bit difficult. You can graft it when you're firing it, but don't cut corners. If I'm satisfied with the finished product, the money will naturally be plentiful."
Ji Meiqing explained calmly, and then told him that the more holes the jewelry had, the better. After dealing with the jewelry, Ji Meiqing wandered around the bustling streets. People came and went, and she didn't know what to do, only feeling that she might find something on the street.
As she walked, she saw a large crowd and went over. Squeezing into the crowd, she saw a man and a woman kneeling on the ground, holding a wooden sign that read "Selling oneself to bury father." Next to them was a cart with a person lying on it, covered with a tattered bamboo mat. This scene seemed commonplace, but Ji Meiqing was puzzled as to why so many people were gathering to watch.
Someone in the crowd muttered, "This woman is naturally beautiful, but now that her father has died, she's truly pitiful." Hearing this, Ji Meiqing looked at the woman kneeling on the ground. The woman had skin as white as jade, flowing long hair, deep and bright eyes, and a slender figure, as if she were untouched by worldly affairs. Her eyes were red from crying, seemingly because of the death of a loved one, and Ji Meiqing felt a pang of pity upon seeing her.
"Make way, make way! Our Young Master Murong is here! Make way!" someone shouted from the crowd. The crowd immediately parted to make way for him. The man who called himself Murong walked into the crowd, holding a folding fan, and looked at the woman kneeling on the ground. Murong squatted down, used the fan to lift the woman's chin, and said, "Tsk tsk tsk, what a beauty. I'll bury your father for you, and then you'll be mine." He clapped his hands and cheered, then ordered a servant to take the woman away.
Ji Meiqing overheard some things about Murong in the crowd. Murong's real name was Murong Tianci. His sister entered the palace and became a noble lady. He started to act recklessly because he had someone backing him up. He was a local bully.