Down-and-out scholar sells paintings, leading to stories of treachery

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During Tang Yuanzhen's reign, there was a place called Causeway Bay. On this day, just in time for the opening of the market, Li Yunxiang, the shopkeeper of Causeway Bay, passed by Kaitan Temple and saw a down-and-out scholar hanging a few paintings and calligraphy for sale in the corner of the temple. Li Yunxiang stopped, came to the painting, and looked at the painting. I saw the painting on the wall named "Bright Moon Pine Photos." This picture should be the scenery of Jiulong Village: A few cloud pines outside the "Farewell Pavilion" looked peaceful and quiet under the moonlight like water. One of them was a short pine with a curved neck, thick skin and thin leaves. There was a stubborn stone under the pad of the short pine. Li Yunxiang couldn't help but sigh. Seeing Li Yunxiang's attentive look, the scholar saluted and said, "Could it be that the members were here?" Li Yunxiang nodded and said, "The cloud pine in Jiulong Village is the same and straight, only this one is a curved-necked dwarf pine."

Li Yunxiang bought the picture, returned home, got into the study, and hung the "Bright Moon Pine Photograph" on a wall.

It turned out that Li Yunxiang used to live in the Kowloon Village area when he was young. At that time, Li Yunxiang and Fu Meiduo, the daughter of the rich county magistrate, fell in love at first sight, and they were both interested in pleasing. They often shuttled between pine streams in Kowloon Village, especially in the "Farewell Pavilion", leaving a poem that Li Yunxiang read to Fu Meiduo. The so-called "Golden Wind and Jade Dew meet, and they are better than countless people in the world." Especially on the stubborn stone of the pad pine, the sentences "Sea withered and stone does not change its heart, Yunmei swears" are engraved. Unfortunately, the heavens did not pity the lovers. Later, the rich county magistrate was involved in a case, and the whole family was exiled to the east of Sichuan. Li Yunxiang betrayed Fumeiduo in court, saying that he did not know Fumeiduo at all, and drew a clear line with Fumeiduo. From then on, Li Yunxiang left Jiulongzhai guiltily and came to Causeway Bay to marry Jiang Xue, the daughter of a local cloth merchant. Over the past 20 years, the business has become bigger and bigger, and the family business has become a success.

"Father, there are guests outside the house." Daughter Li Liuxu said outside the study door.

There was a strange young man in the hall.

"Your Excellency?" "Uncle Li, I am Li Yang'er, son of Li Jiaxi."

Li Jiaxi is Li Yunxiang's brother. It was with Li Jiaxi's help, Li Yunxiang was able to get out of Kowloon Village.

"I haven't seen you for many years, I wonder if Brother Jiaxi is okay?" After Li Yunxiang sat down, he ordered him to bring out the tea.

Li Yang'er took the teacup and saw the green tea warming in the white porcelain teacup. She blurted out, "My father passed away last month. My father had a letter and asked me to transfer it to Uncle Li."

Li Yunxiang opened the letter.

I don't know if you always dream of returning to Jiulong Village. I want to tell you one thing. Fu Meiduo has returned to Jiulong Village since the second year after you left. Once I cut firewood and passed by the pavilion, I saw Fu Meiduo holding a little life, standing on the edge of the short pine with a curved neck, saying that the sea would never change his mind. In the final analysis, it was just a lie. She was extremely resentful at the time. After I hid under the pavilion and listened to her scolding, I realized that the person in her arms was the son of you and Jiang Xue. You should remember that Jiang Xue gave birth to twins 18 years ago. I saw that she seemed to want to kill the little life, and immediately jumped out and took the child. She tried to persuade him to give up his resentment. She finally agreed to let me take the child, but she wanted me to keep this secret and not let your father and son recognize each other, otherwise Yang'er would be in danger. Now I will go back with the crane, and I don't want to take this secret into the coffin. I will now return Li Yang'er to you in its entirety. Jiaxi sobbing!

The letter fell from his hand, "Li Yang'er is my son?" Li Yunxiang's head hurt very much. Eighteen years ago, Madam Jiang Xue gave birth to twins, but ten days later, the baby boy disappeared and could not be found everywhere.

Li Yunxiang calmed down and looked intently at Li Yanger. Li Yanger blushed and said, "Why is Uncle Li looking at me like that?"

Li Yunxiang handed the letter to Li Yang'er. Li Yang'er opened the letter and froze there.

"Is this all true?" Li Yang'er said with tears in her eyes.

"Child, I can only stubbornly believe that this is true. The pain of losing a child for 18 years is endless." Li Yunxiang hugged Li Yanger.

The Li family is finally reunited.

On this day, the clerk in charge of warehouse of the Li family rushed to the hall on Wednesday.

Li Yunxiang is flipping through the ledger: "What's the matter?"

Panting heavily on Wednesday, he said: "The owner's new Yunzhou Qianli Brocade, 100 Dark Green Brocade, and 100 Red Sun Brocade from Zhejiang and Hangzhou have had an accident."

It turned out that he went to the warehouse early Wednesday morning to get the goods. When he opened the top sandalwood cabinet, he found that the sandalwood cabinet had been drilled by ants and insects. He opened the cabinet board and stayed there on Wednesday. The silk cloth in the cabinet was bitten by something, and almost every one of them was defective.

Li Yun rushed to the warehouse immediately. As he said on Wednesday, it was exactly the same. This is three hundred horses of cloth. Who is doing evil?

After inspecting the sandalwood box board, he saw a piercing hole as thick as a thumb. He searched the warehouse with his staff, but couldn't find half the ants that could harm the sandalwood box.

Li Yunxiang waved his hands, "From now on, you can sleep in the warehouse every night, and get up immediately when there is any movement." Wednesday nodded submissively.

Li Yunxiang had no choice but to go to Zhejiang and Hangzhou to buy a batch of new goods, and he didn't find anything strange the night before, but when he woke up the next day, he saw Wednesday running to Li Yunxiang non-stop: "Master, I should die, that guy came to eat the goods again last night, and I didn't notice it at all." Wednesday lowered his head and waited to be criticized. Strangely, Li Yunxiang didn't blame Wednesday anymore, just sighed, it seems that my Li family is going to be out of luck.

Li Yunxiang hid in the study to find a way, sat quietly, looked up and saw the "Bright Moon Pine Room Photo", but the soft memory in his heart was lured out again, and he couldn't help but walk to the picture. This time, Li Yunxiang scored clearly. On the stubborn stone in this picture, there are also a few small characters written: "The sea is dead and the stone will not change its heart, Yunmei swears", how is this possible?

Just as he was thinking about it, the shopkeeper Ma of Deli Silk Village pushed open the door of the study and walked in. Shopkeeper Ma and Li Yunxiang were familiar friends. Shopkeeper Ma always discussed with Li Yunxiang in the study every time he came.

This time, shopkeeper Ma brought Li Yunxiang a piece of news: Ping An Inn had a mutiny last night. If the news is reliable, it will be bad for Causeway Bay.

Daughter Li Liuxu brought two cups of tea as usual, one was placed on the left side of Shopkeeper Ma, and the other was given to Li Yunxiang. Li Liuxu heard the words and asked, "Dad, what mutiny are you talking about?" Li Yunxiang waved his hand, "Mo Wen, who the girl's family should not know."

There were people burning fireworks and firecrackers in the courtyard door. There were no festivals, so they set off firecrackers. The two got up and pushed open the window to take a look.

At this time, the picture of "Bright Moon Matsushima Photo" hanging on the wall of the study gently shook a few times, and a red centipede as thick as a thumb climbed out of the corner of the stone, just fell into the cup of tea below the picture, overflowing the tea. Although the red centipede was thick and long, it was extremely fast, and climbed out of the teacup with one turn, slipped off the edge of the table and escaped.

Shopkeeper Ma didn't notice and just said, "Who has touched this cup of tea?" Thinking about it, it seemed that no one came in, so he picked it up and drank the tea.

Li Yunxiang is looking for a book in a pile of books. Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he saw Shopkeeper Ma lying on the table, motionless, and said, "Brother Ma!" Shopkeeper Ma has no reaction at all.

Li Yunxiang carrying the name of poisoning Shopkeeper Ma, suffered a lawsuit, and Li Jiaquan was thrown into prison.

Li Yunxiang cried out, why did he want to poison Shopkeeper Ma, he really couldn't find a reason. Lu County magistrate also felt that this matter was strange, and heard Li Yunxiang say that the silk was all gnawed by a thing, and it was preliminarily determined that it was some kind of poison, so he gave Li Yunxiang a chance.

Lu County Magistrate followed Li Yunxiang to the warehouse and checked the gnawed silk. He then came to the location where Shopkeeper Ma was poisoned, and while everyone was looking for clues on the ground, Lu County Magistrate became very interested in the picture of "Bright Moon Pine." Lu County Magistrate has quite a bit of research on Qimen Hidden Armor and Five Elements Gossip, and at the moment, Lu County Magistrate pressed the table.

When the trail was gone, Lu County Magistrate changed into a night suit, brought a catcher, and quietly guarded outside the study. His four eyes paid close attention to the wall chart through the pierced window paper.

Seeing the centipede slowly climb onto the table from the picture, Lu County Magistrate had already prepared a set of pliers for the centipede and handed it over to the predator. The predator immediately broke into the door, and the pliers went to the red centipede.

Lu County Magistrate shook his head and sighed. It seemed that it would be difficult to lure him out again.

Li Yunxiang's family was acquitted, and Li Yunxiang couldn't imagine that Lu County Magistrate had ambushed the centipede in the picture.

County Magistrate Lu asked, "There should be a place in the world that matches the scene depicted in this picture, but I don't know if Shopkeeper Li has seen this place before?" Li Yunxiang quickly replied, "The scenery on the picture is from the Kowloon Village." County Magistrate Lu was enlightened.

The next day, he brought the catcher and followed Li Yunxiang to the "Bieshiting Pavilion" in Kowloon Village. The scenery from the "Bieshiding Pavilion" was indeed exactly the same as the picture.

Lu County Magistrate was concerned about the stubborn stone with a curved neck and a short pine neck. After a quick pry, the stubborn stone weighing more than 500 catties was moved. Immediately, a cave appeared in front of him, and the red centipede as thick as a thumb lay quietly.

The case was solved, and Shopkeeper Ma died from the poison of the red centipede.

It's just that although Lu County Magistrate is able to escape the armor of Qimen, he can't figure out why this red centipede should be blamed on Li Yunxiang. It turned out that the scholar who sold "Bright Moon Pine" was the son of Fumeido. Fumeido went crazy later, and the most talked about in his mouth was the "other time pavilion." The scholar wanted to integrate the scenery around the pavilion into his colorful brushes, and even the words on the stone were traced. He just wanted to give his mother comfort. There was a centipede cave under the stone, and there was a centipede spirit that had been cultivated for hundreds of years. Because of the true feelings of Fumeido's son, he also saw Li Yun's promise to be dead and rotten compared to Fumeido back then, so he hated Li Yunxiang's betrayal, and wanted to take revenge for Fumeido. Under the guise of the scholar's vivid and vivid picture, he used the remote doppelganger to commit crimes. Unfortunately, it eventually caused it to be killed.