Chapter 11 Funeral 11 Three locust trees

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date="2020-10-01"

title="Chapter 11 Funeral 11 Three locust trees"

weight="95724"

series = ["Paintings of Terror"]

mode = "manual"

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"But it needs to be confirmed one last time," Mu Yiran said. "Before it is thoroughly confirmed, I will not say it for the time being, so as not to deviate from your thinking-if you have such a thing as thinking."

Ke Xun: "Although you ridiculed me again, I am still not angry. The last confirmation you said depends on the death state of the next person who died?"

"Yes. Although it is cruel, but there is no other way." Mu Yiran expressionless.

"Maybe I will be the next one." Wei Dong sighed.

"Don't be nonsense, Tong Yan Wuji." Ke Xun kicked him and turned to Mu Yiran, "But I don't think we can wait like this, we have to do something."

"Look for the seal!" Wei Dong cheered up.

"You can't look around like a fly without your head," Ke Xun looked at Mu Yiran, "Brother Xiaomu, give me a direction."

"Call me Mu Yiran." Mu Yiran glanced at him coldly. "To find the seal, you need to combine the content of the painting."

Ke Xun: "Last night you said that this painting was a scene of funeral affairs in the village. We have searched the mourning hall this morning and did not find anything that might be a signature or seal."

Mu Yiran: "This shows that the mourning hall is not the subject of this painting."

Ke Xun: "Except for the mourning hall, the more suspicious place is the graveyard just now."

Mu Yiran: "I have seen it, there is nothing suspicious."

Ke Xun: "Will it be in that old man's house?"

Mu Yiran: "It's unlikely. After all, if there were no dead people the night before, everyone would often gather in that room. The chances of the seal being found would be very high. This is almost equivalent to putting an answer sheet. Just underneath your test paper."

Ke Xun: "This kind of good thing never falls on me, PASS. It's not a mourning hall, a graveyard, or an old man's house. Where else can it be? There are wilderness everywhere, and there is nothing that looks more prominent. ."

Mu Yiran: "The prominent place on the picture is not necessarily the place with far-reaching pictures."

Ke Xun raised his hand and pointed to the front: "Could it be those three locust trees?"

Outside the Li's courtyard, in the direction of the north, there are three old locust trees planted.

Mu Yiran's eyes flickered: "In some areas, the locust tree belongs to the yin wood, called the ghost of the wood, and should not be planted near the sun house. In fact, the ancients favored the locust tree more, such as the word'Huai Ding'. It refers to the position of the three males, and'Huaichen' refers to the emperor's palace. In some places, the locust tree is a symbol of auspiciousness."

Ke Xun scratched his head: "So this family planted three locust trees for promotion and wealth? It can be explained."

Wei Dong: "Let me intervene, I think, there is a misunderstanding in the thinking of both of you. Although the world in this painting is also a world, it is first a'painting' and then a'world'. Even if it is painted It is a real-world scene. You must also know that an art work requires artistic processing. Unless the painting is a hyper-realistic painting, in order to pursue artistic effects, some artistic modification will inevitably be carried out on the picture."

Seeing Mu Yiran's eyes looking at Wei Dong a little strange, Ke Xun explained: "Dong Zi is an art artist, and it can be considered a touch with art."

"So in your opinion, what are the decorations added for artistic effects?" Mu Yiran asked Wei Dong.

"Trees." Wei Dong pointed to the three old locust trees, "Like you just said, some places think locust trees are unlucky, and some places think locust trees are auspicious. This is the reality, but if you use it in When it comes to painting, I don’t think the painter needs to consider the different customs of each region. He only needs to match the details according to the content of the painting.

"Look at these three locust trees, why don't they be planted elsewhere, but they are planted next to the Li's house with a mourning hall? If the locust tree here means promotion and fortune, wouldn't it be against Li's house?

"Look at this tree again, even if it is really auspicious in this place, it will not be highlighted in the whole picture, otherwise it will conflict with the theme of the funeral. If it is realistic, it must be drawn. , One tree is enough, why do you want to paint three?

"Obviously, the purpose of drawing three trees is to stand out, to exaggerate, and even to be a metaphor.

"You continue to look at the shapes of these three trees, with their teeth and claws, strange and strange, like normal trees? Of course, it is not impossible for wild trees to grow into such an ugly appearance, but why didn't the painter paint according to the normal state of the tree? , Do you want to paint it in an abnormal state?

"Obviously ×2, this painting is for artistic rendering or metaphor. Since it is artistic rendering, it is impossible to render the auspicious meaning of it. It can only be another meaning."

"...The dark wood, the ghost in the wood." Ke Xun said.

Mu Yiran thoughtfully raised his eyes to look at the three old locust trees.

"No matter what it means, I have to search anyway." Ke Xun said, striding over the three locust trees.

When I walked closer, I realized that these three locust trees were taller and horribly taller than when I stood in the distance. They were supposed to be gray-brown bark. I don’t know if they were ash all the year round or were smoked by Li’s house. But the color is black and gray, and the black is heavy on the top of the head.

"This tree is also tall, it is more than 20 meters visually?" Wei Dong looked up, "How can I find this?"

Mu Yiran also raised his head and looked around, seeming to think of a way, but when he saw Ke Xun say nothing, he rolled up his sleeves, walked to the side of the tree, jumped up, grabbing the trunk with both hands, and he was choking like a monkey. Has reached half of the tree.

"Take a look at the top students in the sports tree climbing project." Wei Dong gave Mu Yiran an infant child.

Mu Yiran glanced at him lightly, and stepped under the tree. Suddenly he stretched out his arm, his movements were light and dexterous, and he climbed up the tree in an instant.

"..." Wei Dong was dumbfounded and looked up at Ke Xun who was about to climb to the top: Brother, I can only help you get here.

Ke Xun was not surprised that Mu Yiran would also climb a tree, so he rushed to the two of his knees last night, knowing that this is a practicer.

"You won't be blessed when you see it," Ke Xun sat on a tree branch and waited for Mu Yiran to climb up. "There is a brother who asks you to do something by yourself."

Mu Yiran stood up with the trunk of the tree and looked at him condescendingly: "Who would put his life in the hands of a little brother."

"...You are handsome, you are reasonable." Ke Xun also stood up, "Then I will work hard to get promoted from a little brother to a confidant."

Mu Yiran didn't bother to pay attention to him, and began to shuttle between the branches to search.

Ke Xun lowered his head and shouted at the tree, "Tongzi, look for it below, don't let the bark and the roots go."

"Don't worry," Wei Dong's voice came from below, "our art artists are best at dealing with details, so I will not let go of a single pixel."

A locust tree has hundreds of branches. Ke Xun followed Mu Yiran to find the roots. After a few hours passed, his eyes were dim.

"This is too abnormal," Ke Xun leaned against the tree trunk and gasped. "If the seal or signature is the size of a pin nose, in which life should I find it?"

"There won't be such a situation," Mu Yiran also stopped to rest, "I have said before, the world in the painting does not need to set us impossible tasks, otherwise it is meaningless, just kill us directly."

"Then how to find it now, there must be an important point." Ke Xun looked around, "This tree is really ugly, look at the tree gall, like that..."

"Ghost face?" Mu Yiran said.

Ke Xun touched his upside-down arm.

Mu Yiran said: "In ancient times, it was said that the locust tree was very dark, and over time, a grimace would form on the tree. As the tree ages, the tree will have more grimace, and the more grimace The more Yin Qi is heavier."

Ke Xun looked around again when he heard the words, and suddenly got goose bumps again-the bodies and branches of these three trees were indeed covered with dense grimace!

Looking closely at the shapes of these grimace faces, they look like real human faces. They have all the facial features and realistic expressions. There are adults, children, old people, doubts, howling, panic, and reasons. Painful and distorted, malicious and smirking...

The texture of the bark made these grimaces even more weird and hideous. Suddenly a bit of wind rushed through the tips, and the mouths of these thousands of grimace faces, formed by large and small tree holes, burst into tears and laughs. His voice fluctuates high and low, and it is far and near.

Ke Xun heard his scalp numb, and he hesitated to ask Mu Yiran: "You said... that signature or seal, no... just in the mouth of these grimacing faces..."

"It's not impossible." Mu Yiran was expressionless.

"I'm going... what if I reach in and get bitten off by this mouth?" Ke Xun asked.

"I know the attending physician in a good hospital, and I can introduce it to you." Mu Yiran replied lightly.

"..." Ke Xun sighed, "Even if there is no problem with this grimace, the faces on these three trees add up to a few hundred big, but when can I get them one by one?"

Mu Yiran looked down: "Call the others to look for."

"Can you?" Ke Xun asked, "No one will find it silent, and then leave quietly by himself?"

"If someone finds the seal elsewhere alone, he might have gone by himself," Mu Yiran said. "But if he disappears in full view here, others will naturally know where the seal is located. ."

"Sure, let's call other people at that moment." Ke Xun shook his tired arm from climbing the tree and raised his eyes inadvertently. "Have you noticed that the sky seems darker than before? It's noon. The sky is already like evening."

"It's going to rain." Mu Yiran also looked at the clouded sky in the distance, and suddenly his voice tightened, "That pure cypress coffin!"

Ke Xun froze for a moment, and then reacted: "Pure Cypress, will be struck by lightning!"

Seeing Mu Yiran's face sinking, Ke Xun tentatively asked him: "What will happen if the coffin is struck by lightning?"

Mu Yiran glanced at him gloomily: "Scam."