Woman in the Painting

Chapter 844 The Woman in the Painting

Qi Xia Yu glared at Qin Mu fiercely. Qin Mu smiled helplessly. The girl next to him put the peach to his mouth again, and Qin Mu had to continue eating.

Qi Xiayu saw his embarrassment and didn't know whether to be angry or laugh. He said with a straight face: "Don't eat! They are bluebirds, given to my teacher by the Southern Emperor. They like to serve people the most on weekdays, and serving people is also the most annoying thing. On weekdays, they hold food in their mouths to feed the birds. They treat you as a baby bird. Moreover, they have no self-control, be careful not to eat you to death!"

Qin Mu suddenly realized, no wonder these girls always like to feed him.

"Sister Qi, did they feed her mouth to mouth?" Qin Mu had a strange look on his face. He couldn't help but imagine the scene of these girls feeding Qi Xia Yu, and couldn't help asking.

Qi Xiayu blushed slightly: "I fed you when I was a child... Bah! You're still eating? Why don't you get up quickly?"

The girl named Yan'er giggled and said, "Master Qin, we can also feed you peaches while we bite them, and we can also give you tea."

Qin Mu's heart was moved. The scene was too erotic. Just thinking about it made him feel hot.

He was no longer the innocent boy he had been. He had read "Capital Romance" from the imperial teacher and knew some love affairs. This kind of scene made him unable to control himself.

The young man stood up in a hurry and said, "I don't want to drink anymore! I don't want to eat anymore! Thank you sisters for your care! Sister Qi..."

"Don't call me sister, we are not familiar with each other!"

Qi Xia Yu's face darkened, and she turned around with her sleeves swung. Her colorful clothes blocked Qin Mu's sight like phoenix feathers, and she walked towards the front hall, sneering, "Master, why did you bring this scoundrel here? Your peach forest is so complicated, and it would be difficult for me to get in without Master's music to lead the way. It was obviously you who let him in!"

Qin Mu wiped his mouth and followed her to the front hall.

The woman behind the screen shook her head and said, "How could I let him in? It was God who was meddling in things and hung a star in the sky to guide him, thus breaking my Peach Forest spell. I just extinguished the star to prevent him from looking around."

Qi Xia Yu said: "God himself can't protect himself, but he still remains restless."

Yan'er and the girls brought a jade table and a futon and asked Qin Mu to sit down.

Qin Mu sat upright, ignoring the peaches peeled by these lovely girls and the tea placed at his lips.

Yan'er took a sip of tea, put her lips to his cheek, and looked at him expectantly.

"Master Mingxin once gave me a copy of the Heart Sutra, which can help me remain calm even when a woman's lap is waking up. How did I memorize it?"

The young man was a little distracted. He felt that his religious faith had been seriously challenged. All he could think about was the red lips. Where was the Buddhist scriptures?

Qin Mu hurriedly distracted himself: "Qi Xiayu just said that Yan'er and the others were given to the woman behind the screen by Qingque, the Southern Emperor Suzaku. So Sister Suzaku and the woman behind the screen have a deep friendship. The one who can be friends with Sister Suzaku must be no less talented than her. So the identity of the woman behind the screen is obvious..."

The woman behind the screen asked Yan'er and the other girls to leave, and said apologetically: "Yan'er and the others have troubled Master Qin. I see that you are so nervous that sweat is coming out on your forehead."

Qin Mu's forehead was indeed sweating, but when Yan'er and the other girls left, he recovered as usual, no longer feeling uneasy, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that Chidi would be my sister's disciple. Chidi once hunted me down, and I am relieved to be able to resolve the conflict with her this time."

Qi Xia Yu, who was sitting not far away, had a vein popping out on his forehead. He said, "Master, I am not hunting him, but the heartless man. Moreover, this man is as unreliable as the heartless man. He is a playboy. Master, don't believe him! He and the heartless man caused a big disturbance in the twenty heavens of the Buddhist world. The Great Brahma King Buddha used them to kill the forces planted by the Heavenly Court in the Buddhist world. The Heavenly Court has long wanted to get rid of them. Now, the Heavenly Court has sent other strong men to capture the heartless man."

The woman behind the screen said, "Master Qin, Xia Yu actually has no ill intentions, so don't blame her. She has had a rough life. She was not valued by the Phoenix Clan and was controlled by the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother's son became the Emperor of the Northern Emperor's Heavenly Court and specifically asked her to enter the palace to sleep with him. She had no choice but to defect to the Southern Emperor's Heavenly Court."

Qin Mu's eyes flickered, and he said, "Then when the Southern Emperor Heavenly Court was defeated, she defected to the Outer Heavenly Court."

Qi Xia Yu raised his eyebrows but said nothing.

The woman behind the screen smiled and said, "When Xia Yu was young, it was the Southern Emperor who recommended her to become my disciple. In fact, she is a common disciple of the Southern Emperor and I. I thought she was indifferent to worldly affairs, but the Southern Emperor and I have a very good relationship. She came forward to ask me to be my disciple, so I couldn't refuse, so I accepted her as my disciple. Mr. Qin, there is no need to doubt Xia Yu. In fact, most of what she did was at my instruction."

Qin Mu said: "My sister lives in seclusion here, but she is not in seclusion in her heart. She still has some ideas and wants to change the outside world through the Red Emperor. However, the Red Emperor has rebelled repeatedly, from the Earth Mother to the Northern Emperor, and from the Northern Emperor to the Southern Emperor, and then to the Outer Heaven Court. In the Kaihuang era, he betrayed the Emperor Shi Tianwang Buddha. Although it is difficult to say anything in front of the Red Emperor, I am also quite disgusted in my heart."

Qi Xia Yu said calmly, "I don't care what you think of me or what people think of me. But Li Youran is a heartless and unfaithful man. You said I betrayed him, that's a distortion of the truth! Not only did he betray me, he also betrayed Kaihuang and became a monk!"

Qin Mu frowned slightly.

It is really difficult for him to say much about Indra, the King of Heaven Buddha.

The woman behind the screen smiled and said, "Xia Yu is indeed a little suspicious, but there are reasons for it. From both her and Li Youran's perspectives, they did nothing wrong. Master Qin, there is no need to be too harsh on them."

Qin Mu sighed and said sadly, "I just feel sorry for the members of the Tiangong Clan. They were trapped in the Ark of the Other Shore by the Heavenly Court, and only one child escaped. I feel sorry for the only survivor who ended up becoming an old blacksmith, and who dared not reveal his life experience, so he had to cut off his tongue and was willing to be a mute."

He looked gloomy, and his eyes felt a little sore when he thought of the bad old man in the village who called himself "Aba Aba".

The mute is the most miserable person in the village, with the most miserable life experience. However, the mute has never cried, at least he has never cried in front of the villagers.

He always smiles with half of his tongue sticking out of his mouth.

Although he was very bad and always played tricks on Qin Mu, that was just the childishness beneath his old appearance, and he was just playing around with Qin Mu.

His eyes were always pure and clear, as if he was still the helpless child who walked out of the seal on the corpses of countless tribesmen, facing the dark ruins alone, stumbling and groping in the dark forest, moving forward helplessly.

Qin Mu didn't think Qi Xia Yu and Emperor Shi Tianwang Buddha did anything wrong, but from a mute's perspective, he felt that these two people had made too many mistakes, so many that countless corpses of the Tiangong people were buried under their feet!

Qin Mu calmed down and said, "Since my sister is unwilling to show up, there is no benefit for me to stay here, so I will not disturb you and your disciples to reminisce about the past. One of my elders has mistakenly entered the peach forest. He is a god with a black dragon spear on his waist. Please tell me where he is and I will take him away."

"That god with divine eyes has extraordinary abilities."

The woman behind the screen smiled and said, "He actually broke through the barrier outside the peach forest and walked into the inside of the peach forest. I had to mobilize some of my magic power to trap him. However, he was very smart. Just now, while I was using the music of the zither to guide Xia Yu, he traveled through the music of the zither and has already arrived in this world. If you go to look for him alone, I'm afraid you won't be able to find him. I'll let Yan'er go with you."

Qin Mu thanked me, stood up and said, "Sister, you are living in seclusion here, but the outside world is in dire straits. You may have a thousand reasons to stay away from the world, but I only have one reason to take the initiative to go through fire and water."

The woman behind the screen tilted her head, the beads on her earrings swaying slightly.

Qin Mu smiled and said, "I can't bear to see my people being treated like fish or fools. I can't bear to see them die in ignorance. I despise the Buddhist doctrine of emptiness and the Taoist doctrine of inaction. I have to do something to live up to my conscience, even if it means sacrificing my body or my life. I will do it at all costs and I have no choice but to do it!"

He bowed deeply to the ground, stood up, and said in a deep voice: "I was unable to see my sister in person today. I don't know if I will be able to meet her again in the future. Perhaps by the time my sister remembers me, I will have died in battle a long time ago. Goodbye."

He turned and walked out of the hall.

The woman behind the screen suddenly said, "Wait a minute!"

Qin Mu stopped and the woman called Qi Xia Yu. Qi Xia Yu came behind the screen and the woman whispered something to him. Qi Xia Yu then walked out from behind the screen and came in front of Qin Mu, holding a scroll in both hands.

The woman behind the screen said, "Mr. Qin, please accept this. Don't open it yet. Open it after you leave the peach forest."

Qin Mu was puzzled. He put away the scroll and walked out of the palace.

Outside the palace, the girl named Yan'er was waiting for him with a red lantern, giggling, "Sir, please follow me."

Qin Mu smiled back. Yan'er took out a grape from somewhere and tried to feed it to him. Qin Mu shook his head quickly: "Sister Yan'er, I'm full, really full!"

Yan'er looked gloomy and walked outside dejectedly, holding the lantern.

Qin Mu couldn't bear it and opened his mouth. Yan'er became happy again and quickly put the grapes into his mouth.

The grapes are sweet, yet a little astringent.

However, the next moment, another peach appeared in Yan'er's hand. Qin Mu frowned and silently took a bite of the peach that was brought to his mouth.

Inside the hall, the night pearl was still bright, but the master and disciple remained silent for a long time.

Suddenly, Qi Xiayu asked, "Why doesn't Master see him?"

The woman behind the screen was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly and said, "Now that I am disabled, why should I see him? He took my painting away, and he will understand why he suffered today. This meeting in the peach forest was just a chance encounter, nothing more. He never thought about what the Tianmeng he founded would become. The Tianmeng of the past is no longer the same..."

Qin Mu followed Yan'er, shut his mouth tightly, and refused to accept any more food. No matter how annoyed the girl looked, he would not accept it. Even if she pretended to feed him mouth-to-mouth, he would not accept the temptation. His expression was very firm.

Yan'er was helpless and angrily ignored him.

Finally, Qin Mu found the blind man wandering around in the depths of the peach forest. The blind man was confused by his arrival and asked questions repeatedly. Qin Mu told him about his experience in the palace and said, "Blind Grandpa, you have been trapped here for almost a month. The owner of the peach forest will not see you. Let's leave."

The blind man said, "I can't find a way out."

"It's okay, Elder, I know the way."

Yan'er looked at him with a smile, her eyes bright, and took out a bright red peach, saying, "Elder, do you want a peach?"

The blind man thanked her, but then he saw the girl put the peach to his mouth. The blind man couldn't help wondering, "Why is this girl so attentive?"

Qin Mu breathed a sigh of relief and thought to himself, "I have Blind Grandpa to bear with me along the way. Fortunately, Blind Grandpa is by my side, so I don't have to worry too much."

When Yan'er led them out of the peach forest, it was already dawn outside. The blind man's stomach was bloated from the food the girl fed him, and he couldn't eat any more. However, Yan'er was too attentive and even pretended to feed him with her mouth, so he couldn't bear it. He had to snatch the food and eat it in big mouthfuls, which made the veins on his forehead throb.

Qin Mu walked out of the peach forest, immediately opened the scroll and unfolded the painting.

A ray of sunlight shines from the east, onto the painting. In the painting is a woman standing in the moonlight, quiet and sad.

This painting was done by Qin Mu himself.

Qin Mu rolled up the scroll, silently put it into his Taotie bag, and turned to look at the peach forest.

"Yue Tianzun, see you in the future."

Yan'er was running around in the peach forest, and suddenly she turned into a green bird and flew away. After a while, the green bird flew back to Qin Mu and the blind man, landed on the ground and turned into Yan'er, crying and saying, "I can't go back, the queen doesn't want me anymore!"

Qin Mu laughed and said, "In that case, Sister Yan'er, please follow us to the human world."

Yan'er's eyes lit up and she took out a peach.

The blind man fled in panic and went far away, shouting, "Mu'er, I can't afford it. Please enjoy it slowly!"

————More than 3,600 words, really not short!