Seeing Lu Qing's solemn expression, Cheng Yiyi's face also turned grim.
"Qingqing, what's wrong? What's inside?"
Lu Qing said in a deep voice, "Anyway, it's not an ordinary little ornament. I'll take it back and study it first, and then I'll tell you after I've confirmed it."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Yiyi didn't ask any further questions, but simply asked Lu Qing if there was anything else she could do.
After thinking for a moment, Lu Qing said, "Ask your mother which live stream she bought this item from, and tell her that you want it too. Don't tell her there's something wrong with it."
“Okay!” Cheng Yiyi immediately agreed.
Lu Qing put the package into her bag and then left the courier station.
After waiting for a while at the school gate, Gu's car arrived.
Gu Fei opened the door and waved for Lu Qing to get in the car.
"Where do you want to go?" Lu Qing asked.
Gu Fei: "Let's go to the art exhibition first. I accidentally dirtied a painting in Mom's room a few days ago. I'll go pick out another one for her."
"Okay!" Lu Qing nodded in response.
Her mind was completely focused on the things in her bag; she didn't care where she went shopping.
The art exhibition was not crowded and was very quiet. Lu Qing was not interested in the paintings, so she just followed Gu Fei and wandered around.
Suddenly, her gaze fell on one of the mermaid paintings.
The male mermaid in the painting has a human body and a fish tail, with hair like seaweed. He is so beautiful that it is hard to tell whether he is male or female, but he looks sadly into the distance. Blood-red tears fall from the corners of his eyes and turn into red pearls.
Lu Qing frowned slightly, gazing intently at the painting.
She wasn't empathizing with the mermaid in the painting, but rather with the blood-red pearl formed from the mermaid's tears and blood, which was exactly the same as the contents of the package in her bag.
Mermaids have tears that can turn into pearls, but if a mermaid weeps blood, the resulting blood pearls will contain endless malevolence.
This stuff is a great tonic for the Li race.
That's why Lu Qing's expression changed drastically when she saw the mermaid blood beads in the delivery box.
Just as Lu Qing was lost in thought, a voice entered his ears:
"You...like this painting?"
Lu Qing snapped out of her daze and turned to look at the person who had come in.
He was a slender man dressed in an artsy style. He wasn't very old, but he had a baby face and looked quite cute.
Lu Qing shook his head slightly and said:
"The mermaid's weeping blood is too violent; I don't like it."
The man paused for a moment, then asked, somewhat puzzled:
"This is clearly sorrow, where did you see any hostility?"
Lu Qing pointed to the blood and tears falling from the mermaid's eyes and said:
"If it is a white pearl, then there is only sorrow; if it is blood-red, then it means that the mermaid has hatred in her heart, and hatred breeds violence."
“Moreover…” Lu Qing paused.
The man hurriedly asked, "And what?"
Lu Qing narrowed his eyes, staring at the mermaid in the painting, and said:
"Something is missing from this painting."
"What's missing?" the man asked.
After thinking for a while, Lu Qing blurted out two words: "Killing intent".
"Killing intent?" The man looked puzzled.
“That’s right! The murderous intent in the mermaid’s eyes!” Lu Qing said in a deep voice, looking into the mermaid’s eyes.
The man was slightly startled: "You mean, this mermaid wants to kill this girl?"
"Impossible! He clearly loves her, how could he want to kill her?"
Lu Qing: "Love that cannot be obtained will breed hatred, and hatred will lead to murderous intent."
"Look what the mermaid's hands are!"
The man quickly looked at the painting and saw that the mermaid had a bracelet with blue spots wrapped around one of her hands.
"It's just an ornament; that doesn't mean the mermaid wanted to kill her!"
Lu Qing curled the corners of his lips and sneered:
"A bracelet? Those are the tentacles of a blue-ringed octopus."
"The blue-ringed octopus is extremely poisonous; a human would die instantly upon contact with it, yet it is the best friend of the mermaids of the sea."
The man's eyes widened suddenly. After a moment, he hurriedly rummaged through his bag for paints and brushes, muttering to himself:
"That's it! That's it! The mermaid wanted to kill her!"
The man mixed the paint and lightly dabbed a few strokes in the mermaid's eyes with his brush.
Although not much was changed, the whole painting seemed to come alive.
"It's done! It's finally done!"
The man burst into maniacal laughter, drawing the attention of everyone around him.
Many art connoisseurs offered to buy the painting after seeing it, but the man refused them all.
"No! I won't sell this painting!"
Lu Qing understood; this man was Ji Chuan, the artist behind the mermaid painting.
Ji Chuan took the painting down and gave it to Lu Qing:
"Thank you. Without your guidance, I would never have been able to complete this painting. I'm giving it to you; please accept it!"
Lu Qing smiled slightly: "I don't know much about painting, it would be a waste for you to give it to me."
Ji Chuan: "You don't understand painting, but you understand this mermaid!"
After thinking about it, Lu Qing accepted it anyway. She didn't like it, but Nan Qian would probably like it.
More than the painting, she wanted to know the story of the mermaid.
"Mr. Ji Chuan, do you have some free time? I'd like to invite you to dinner!" Lu Qing asked with a smile.
Ji Chuan: "No, I should be the one treating you to dinner."
Lu Qing glanced at the time; it was already past five.
Gu Fei had already chosen the painting to give to Nan Qian, so Lu Qing asked the shop assistant to wrap up the mermaid painting and send it to the Gu family.
Upon arriving at the restaurant, while waiting for the food, Lu Qing inquired about the mermaid painting.
"Mr. Ji Chuan, if I'm not mistaken, you must have seen the scene in the mermaid painting with your own eyes!"
Ji Chuan nodded after a moment of silence:
"Yes! I saw it with my own eyes."
Lu Qing: "Could you tell me about the situation in detail? I'm quite interested in this mermaid."
Ji Chuan nodded and began to recount the incident in detail.
Just two months ago, Ji Chuan went out to collect inspiration and came to the coast. He wanted to wait to paint the beautiful scenery of the sunrise over the coast, but instead he saw a mermaid.
The mermaid was truly beautiful, with a male upper body and an ice-blue fish tail lower body.
Each fish scale shimmered with a deep blue light, as dazzling as a luminous pearl.
He lay on the shore, pleading with a woman in a white dress not to leave him.
But no matter how much he pleaded, the woman did not soften her heart.
Ji Chuan was so impressed by this scene that he picked up his brush and drew it down, which resulted in the mermaid painting.
But when he finished the painting, Ji Chuan always felt that something was not quite right. He picked up his pen several times to make changes, but hesitated for a long time, not knowing where to start.
It wasn't until he met Lu Qing and heard her words that he finally finished the painting.
"Where do you see the mermaid?" Lu Qing asked.
Ji Chuan opened his phone and showed Lu Qing a few photos:
"Mermaid Bay isn't far from here; it's a pretty famous scenic spot."
“Mermaid Bay…” Lu Qing murmured.
"Qingqing, you're not thinking of going to find a mermaid, are you?" Gu Fei blinked, clearly also curious.
"I've never seen a mermaid before. I really need to see one someday," Lu Qing said with a smile.
Before we knew it, all the dishes had been served.
After dinner, Lu Qing and Gu Fei went home separately.
When Gu Xicheng came home from get off work, he immediately noticed the ornaments on the table.
It was a crystal ball with a blood-red pearl floating inside, exuding a terrifying aura of malevolence.
"Qingqing, what is this? Why does it have such a strong malevolent aura?" Gu Xicheng asked hurriedly.
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