Chapter 131: Frightened
Buying a house, moving, decorating and renovating, and finishing the vegetable garden and planting vegetables, things happened one after another. Originally, Gu Xuelan thought that she could finally calm down and buy the "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" in the shopping cart to embroider it, but Liu Wangxue's uncle had a car accident again, and this delay lasted for a long time.
Finally, she had nothing to do recently, so Gu Xuelan got her wish and placed an order, and also bought an adjustable vertical stand.
According to the size of the sofa in the living room, she chose a two-meter-long painting, but it was still a partial view of the original painting. She chose a silk thread model, which has a good glossiness but is easy to snag, so Gu Xuelan embroidered every stitch very carefully.
She really loves the painter Wang Ximeng. When she was talking about Zhao Ji in class, she specifically mentioned this person and spent a lot of time talking about this painting with her students.
However, there are almost no historical records about Wang Ximeng, and there are only two pieces of information about his life. One is the inscription by Cai Jing on the yellow silk at the back of the scroll, which shows his name as "Ximeng"; the other is the surname "Wang" from Song Lu's "On Painting Quatrains". There is no more information.
Some people say that Wang Ximeng seemed to have jumped out of a stone, as if his short-lived fame was a destiny predetermined by God, just to allow him to complete this masterpiece.
The thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in the painting are magnificent, the vast waters are boundless, the distant smoke is vast, and the near is meticulous. The mountains, rivers, plants, buildings, and people are outlined with delicate brushwork. Any frame you take is pleasing to the eye and full of praise.
Gu Xuelan felt that every stitch she embroidered was like painting with a pen. She was copying, as if she was communicating with the ancients in another way.
She sat in front of the embroidery frame for more than an hour, but only managed to embroider a small piece. When she stood up to move around, a text message popped up on her phone, a reminder for a bank transfer.
Her pension for last month had already been deposited into her account. Who transferred the money to her? Gu Xuelan opened the account and saw that it was the bank that notified her that her savings account had received a large remittance.
She took a look at the amount and said, "Wow, what era is this? This scammer's tricks haven't improved at all. He's still pretending to be a bank transfer..."
Wait, that's not right, why does this amount sound familiar? Gu Xuelan searched her memory and remembered that it was the copyright fee her daughter mentioned to him last time!
"Oh my God!" Gu Xuelan took a screenshot of the text message, then enlarged it, counted the string of zeros carefully, and then stared at the number in the million place for a long time.
Afterwards, she opened the mobile banking app, checked the balance, and repeated the previous steps, only then was she sure that the money had actually been transferred into her account.
That day, Liu Wangxue came back from the city and told her about the copyright fee, but she didn't take it seriously at all, thinking that her daughter must be joking with her to make her laugh.
Liu Wangxue did not hide the copyrights he sold over the years from her and Liu Nanshan, and he knew the prices, ranging from tens of thousands of yuan at the least to more than a hundred thousand yuan at the most.
Therefore, she thought that the copyright fee would be in this range, and the highest would be 200,000 like before, but she didn't expect that it could actually be sold for such a high price.
Gu Xuelan's hands shook and she almost dropped the phone. She patted her chest and said thankfully that she didn't have a heart disease, otherwise she would have to call an ambulance straight away.
She sat on the sofa, holding her cell phone, looking a little dazed. She waited until her intense heartbeat subsided before she knocked on Liu Wangxue's door.
The three little cuties playing nearby saw her heading towards Liu Wangxue's bedroom and immediately followed. Gu Xuelan turned the doorknob and opened the door a crack, and the three squeezed in one after another.
Liu Wangxue was wearing a pair of blue light blocking glasses, staring at the computer screen and typing away at the keyboard. The little cuties didn't bother her, but sat obediently by the half-moon door, looking up at her.
"Xuxu, are you done with your work?" Gu Xuelan spoke with a slight tremor in her voice.
Liu Wangxue then noticed someone coming in and raised her head from the clacking sound of the keyboard: "What's wrong, Mom?"
She heard something was wrong with Gu Xuelan's voice, so she hurried over and helped her sit down on the edge of the bed.
Gu Xuelan asked her to look at the text message from the bank, and her tone was still full of disbelief: "The copyright fee you mentioned last time has arrived..."
Liu Wangxue's heart suddenly fell. She knew that Ms. Gu Xuelan definitely didn't take this matter to heart. Is she scared now?
"Congratulations, my dear mother, you are now a real millionaire!" Liu Wangxue stretched out his arms, hugged Gu Xuelan tightly, and said in an exaggerated tone, "From today on, my father and I will hold your thighs tightly and never let go!"
"You're acting again, aren't you?" Gu Xuelan felt as if the truth in her heart had finally returned after hearing her joke. She hugged Liu Wangxue back and smiled happily, "I'm not a rich woman. The rich woman is our Xuxu!"
The mother and daughter were being very affectionate with each other, and the three cats immediately joined in when they saw them. They got hugs and kisses, and then they lay on Liu Wangxue's lap, with Xiaoci and Guagua nestling in her arms together.
After that, Gu Xuelan opened her mobile banking account again and said she wanted to transfer the money to Liu Wangxue. After all, it was earned by her daughter's hard work. She and Liu Nanshan had enough money to spend now, so she would leave this huge sum of money to her daughter to arrange.
Liu Wangxue turned off her phone: "Hey, you're my mother, why are you being so polite to me? Don't transfer it. It's quite troublesome to transfer a large amount of money. I'll just leave it with you. If you need anything in the future, please donate generously~"
As she spoke, she blinked at Gu Xuelan, looking playful and naive.
"Okay, I'll save it for you." Gu Xuelan put her arm around her shoulders and had a little mischievous idea, "When your dad comes back, let's give him a big scare."
Liu Wangxue was not worried about his father at all: "My father has a strong heart, he will definitely not be scared."
Gu Xuelan thought about it and realized that it was true.
I remember when Liu Wangxue was in high school, she followed the fashion and celebrated Halloween with her friends, dressing herself up as a ghost bride. She went out to play until late at night and came home quietly. She was so scared that her heart stopped when she went to the bathroom, and she couldn't even scream.
After Gu Xuelan recovered, she conspired with Liu Wangxue to scare Liu Nanshan. She found an excuse to call him out of the bedroom, and Liu Wangxue hid by the door and then suddenly appeared.
But Liu Nanshan acted as if he didn't see it. He walked towards Gu Xuelan very calmly and helped her solve the problem that was not a problem.
When she returned to the bedroom, she glanced at Liu Wangxue and said, "Why don't you take off your makeup? It's already late. Go take a shower and go to bed."
In the dim light, the mother and daughter looked at each other, but they saw regret and confusion in each other's eyes. How could Liu Nanshan not be afraid?
However, what they didn't know was how much self-control this grown man had to use to look so calm and composed the moment he came out of the bedroom.
His first reaction was that he must not show it, what if he scared Gu Xuelan? After calming down a little, he realized that the ghost at the door was his daughter, and then he realized that this was a prank by the mother and daughter.
Liu Nanshan returned to the bedroom and lay on the bed, only to find that his back was wet with sweat.
(End of this chapter)
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