It would be good to bring An'an here.
Su Luo and Yi Huan spent the morning at the Prince Yu's residence, each doing their own thing.
Yi Huan played with an eagle and other toys, while Su Luo studied how to change the strings on Yi Huan's zither.
Nangong Chiyu sat opposite them and continued to carve words for her.
A pot of tea was boiling in the middle of the table, the water bubbling and gurgling.
Wisps of white smoke rise, and the aroma of tea wafts through the air.
The atmosphere was unusually harmonious.
...
Outside the peach grove in the west of the city, Xie Wanwan took the painting and asked many people for information, but she couldn't find any information about Zhang Tian.
However, Ah Xu took the painting to an old hunter, who told Ah Xu that he didn't know anyone named Zhang Tian, but he knew where the peach tree in the painting was.
"Miss Xie, did your father bury the Daughter's Red wine outside the city just so he could be with this friend?"
Daughter Red is wine buried by the father when his daughter is born, and then dug up and drunk when she gets married.
The two of them were happy when they buried these two jars of wine together, planning to drink them together with a touch of melancholy more than ten years later.
"Yes! Because Zhang Tian also has a daughter, my father made a pact with him that no matter whose daughter gets married first, he would drink with the other party until they were completely drunk."
According to the hunter, the location is in the middle of a valley in the peach orchard.
The two searched for a long time and finally found the location depicted in the painting in a mountain valley, where the early spring peach blossoms had painted the entire mountain forest pink.
The stone table and benches under the peach tree are dotted with fallen peach blossoms, creating a scene like a fairyland.
The only difference is that the area in the painting that was dug out is actually flat and has not been dug up yet.
And this peach tree, it's been surrounded by people, and a thatched hut has been built in front of it.
Seeing that there was everything in the yard, Ah Xu walked to the door and knocked on the gate.
Is anyone home?
Is anyone there?
After calling for a while without anyone opening the door, Ah Xu and Xie Wanwan exchanged a glance and returned to her side.
“Miss Xie, under that peach tree inside, there’s a piece of Daughter’s Red wine that your father buried. It’s the only thing that’s connected you to him. Should we dig it up and take it with us?”
Based on the scene in the painting, there should be two jars of wine under the peach tree. If Miss Zhang got married, then only her jar would remain.
"I want to go inside and take a look!"
Ah Xu pushed open the courtyard gate, and the two went in together. Xie Wanwan's jade-like hand touched the stone table where the two people in the painting were drinking.
This is a picture of drinking in a peach grove that her father and his friend imagined. Now the peach grove still exists, and peach blossoms bloom all over the mountains and fields, but the people drinking are nowhere to be seen.
"Miss Xie, she is gone now, please don't grieve."
Yes, now is not the time for her to be sad or upset. Finding evidence is what she should be doing now.
The two squatted at the place where the wine was buried, as indicated in the painting. The soil on it was old and thick, and it seemed that no one had dug it up yet.
Is the Zhang family's daughter not married yet?
“I’ve heard my father say before that he buried Daughter’s Red wine in the peach grove west of the city with his friends. I never imagined that one day I would dig it up. It’s ridiculous…”
As Xie Wanwan spoke, she gripped the fallen flowers and soil tightly with her hands, tears streaming uncontrollably from her eyes.
"Wanwan, I...I will stay with you."
The first time Ah Xu tried calling Xie Wanwan that, Xie Wanwan didn't object. Does this mean she doesn't mind him calling her that?
Before the two could recover from their emotions, there was a banging sound behind them, followed by a shout.
"Get out of here! Don't stand there! Get out of here..."
The two turned around and saw an old man with a full head of white hair, dressed in dirty and tattered clothes, holding a carrying pole from the doorway, who was about to hit Xie Wanwan and A Xu.
Ah Xu shielded Xie Wanwan behind him. With Xie Wanwan there, he couldn't easily dodge the old man's attack, so he had to use the scabbard in his hand to block the old man's carrying pole.
"Old man, you've misunderstood. We're not criminals; we're just here to find someone."
The old man had disheveled hair and seemed to be in poor spirits. No matter what Ah Xu said, he wouldn't listen.
"Get out, get out of my yard..."
He was in a hurry and just wanted to drive the two of them out of the courtyard. He swung the carrying pole faster and faster. In order to protect Xie Wanwan, Ah Xu had no choice but to leave the courtyard.
"Uncle, it was wrong of us to trespass into your yard, but we meant no harm. Please listen to me first."
Xie Wanwan just wanted to keep the old man's relationship stable. If he continued to be so hostile towards them, how could she possibly dig up the wine left by her father?
"Get out...get out..."
The old man was agitated and looked at the two men like tigers.
Seeing that he couldn't hit the two men, he simply picked up two stones and threw them at them.
Seeing that the stone was about to hit Xie Wanwan, Ah Xu panicked and could only use his own body to block it for her.
Forget about the painting in his hand, he turned around, hugged Xie Wanwan, and went out of the courtyard gate.
He was okay after being hit on the back, but he was also hit on the back of the head, which made him squint in pain.
"Ah Xu, Ah Xu, are you alright?"
After they came out, the old man didn't follow them out to beat them up.
Xie Wanwan stood on tiptoe and saw that Ah Xu's hair was still covered in mud and was obviously swollen.
Ah Xu was momentarily dazed by the pain; the stone had hit his pressure point, and it hurt a lot.
"I'm fine, I'm just a stone."
Separated by a fence, the two men glared angrily at the old man in the yard.
The old man seemed to want to beat them to death, so he slammed his carrying pole on the ground and pointed at the two of them, shouting.
"Get out of here! I hate rich people like you who are hypocrites the most. Get as far away from me as possible."
Xie Wanwan's first reaction was that the old woman must be resentful of the rich; she herself was a clothing maker, so her clothes were naturally of high quality.
Ah Xu has amassed a fortune of tens of millions, and the clothes he wears are normal for them, but compared to the elderly, the difference is striking.
"Ah Xu, let's go first."
No one would know if a jar of wine was buried there. Xie Wanwan should go find Zhang Tian first and see if he had any clues about why her father was murdered.
"good!"
Seeing that they had left obediently, the old man slammed the door shut with a carrying pole.
He was also muttering some incomprehensible curses.
He stepped on a painting, which wasn't in his yard, but when he opened the scroll to look at it...
His lips trembled, a lump formed in his throat, he couldn't speak, and his breathing slowed down.
This painting is a picture of drinking wine in a peach grove. It was just copied and has no signature, but the old man knew at a glance that it was his work from his youth.
"Stop right there..."
Zhang Tian ran towards Xie Wanwan and A Xu with the painting in his hand. A Xu thought he was going to hit them again, so he raised his sword sheath in a defensive stance.
His emotions were running high, and it took Zhang Tian a long time to finally speak: "This painting, is it yours? Tell me, who are you? Where did you steal it from? Where is the original painting?"
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