Intertwined Destinies of Bonds

Chapter 14. The Strange Door

"Hello." Su Chen shook hands with Nangong Yu politely. Several people sat at a dining table. The waiter brought tea, poured it for them, and then stood aside silently.

"That's right," Peng Ji explained, "This restaurant is opened by an old friend of mine. He wants to paint a mural behind the stage. Let me introduce someone. I think your painting style is very suitable. I contacted you, what do you think?"

"What do you want to draw?" Nangong Yu asked.

"The key to a landscape painting is to blend in with the atmosphere of this restaurant." Su Chen replied.

After hearing this, Nangong Yu stood up and walked around the restaurant.The restaurant is very large, with artificial hills and green trees separating the pure wooden dining tables, small bridges and flowing water on the ground, blue sky and white clouds above the head, standing in it, as if you have escaped from the turmoil of the world and entered a rural mountain village that is uncontested.Nangongyu went to the stage to look again. There was no decoration on the stage, only a bare platform and a wide and tall wall.

He sat back on his seat and said to Su Chen: "The layout of the restaurant is very mountainous, but if there are landscapes painted on the wall, it will make people feel closed. It is better to paint the sea, so that the vision will be wider."

Su Chen listened, looked at the stage and pondered for a while, and then said: "Indeed, but I have to ask the boss's opinion first."

Nangong Yu nodded, and Su Chen called the boss.The owner of the restaurant appreciated Nangong Yu's proposal very much, and the matter was settled quickly.

"When can we start work?" Su Chen finally asked.

"One month at the earliest." Nangong Yu said.

"Mr. Nangong has other work on hand? If it's not too important, can you advance our project? We can add money."

"It's not a matter of money. Since you are in such a hurry, I can stop the work at hand now, but I have never stayed at the beach, and I rarely paint the sea, so it takes about a month to go to the beach to sketch and draw materials. .”

"Then how long will it take to finish this painting?" Su Chen asked after a moment of pondering.

"At least two months." Nangong Yu replied.

When Su Chen heard this, he was a little displeased. If it takes so long, when will the restaurant open.

"Can you hurry up?"

"No." Nangong Yu said firmly, "If you only care about speed, I suggest you find someone else."

"Xiao Su, Nangong Yu's speed is already very fast. The painting I showed you took him two years to complete, but among the paintings you have seen, which one can be compared with that painting?" Peng Ji interjected, "People nowadays are pursuing speed, and there are probably not many people like Nangong Yu who can calm down and complete a painting. Although it is slow, the result will definitely not disappoint you."

"I'll talk to the boss again." Su Chen thought for a while and said.He called the boss again, and the boss listened and asked Peng Ji to answer the phone. The two talked for a long time before finalizing the matter.

"Okay, that's it. The construction will start today in a month's time. You can come directly when the time comes. If you need any materials, let us know in advance. We will arrange them for you. After three months, we hope that this mural can be completed smoothly." .” Su Chen said to Nangong Yu.

Nangong Yu nodded, the two exchanged phone numbers, and Peng Ji followed Nangong Yu out.

"I have a new batch of paintings, do you want to take a look?" Peng Ji asked.

"I'm not going today, I have something else to do." Nangong Yu opened the door and said, "Another day, thank you."

Peng Ji nodded, saw Nangong Yu get into the car, then waved to him, and went back to the restaurant.

When night began to fall, Nan Gongyu returned home.He made a cup of tea and came to the balcony on the second floor. There was a round glass coffee table and two rattan chairs on the balcony. Several pots of flowers were placed in random order on the black hollow flower stand by the window. Although the flowering period had passed, they were lush. The leaves are also quite pleasing to the eye.Nangong Yu sat down, looked at the faintly visible Qixin Pavilion in the distance, and fell into deep thought.

When Yu Chigong was found drowning in the afternoon, he had a hallucination inexplicably, as if he had fallen into the boundless darkness all of a sudden, and he could only see a child with injuries all over his body struggling helplessly in the water. All were stained red with his blood.He instinctively thought that this child was his own younger brother, his only relative, and losing him meant losing everything, so even if he gave up everything, he had to save him.But, looking back now, the child I saw at that time was not my younger brother Nangong Jin, nor did he look like Yu Chigong who fell into the water, but a person I had never seen before. Think about the rumors of Xiuxinyuan , maybe, someone really died here, could it be, what did that person want to tell him?

As the dusk deepened, everything around me began to blur.Nangongyu pondered for a while, then put down her teacup and went to the third floor.Almost all the lights on the third floor were out of order, and the few lights that could be turned on were also flickering, as if in a dying struggle.Taking advantage of the gloomy light, Nangong Yu saw these legendary guest rooms for the first time while stepping on the thick dust.The doors of the guest rooms are all painted in a uniform red color. When you knock lightly, you can hear that they are high-quality solid wood, but for some reason, these doors are very rough in workmanship, as if they were installed in a hurry because of the rush of time. There are two doors The pattern on it is not even finished.

Nangongyu walked to a door and pulled the doorknob. With a rustling sound, the round wooden handle was pulled down. Nangongyu held it up to her eyes and saw that the iron nails on the handle were rusted and broken. Touch it with your hand, and a layer of rust will fall off.He pushed the door, but didn't push it. After a closer look, the keyhole of the door was also corroded. Even if there was a key, it probably wouldn't be able to open it. These rooms have not been used since the first generation of owners. , there must be some secret hidden. Although other people's secrets have nothing to do with me, there are some truths that must be clarified.

When Nangong Yu was thinking about how to open these doors, there was a loud bang from downstairs, followed by a scream, and then something shattered.

"Little Lieutenant!" Someone downstairs shouted eagerly.

Yuchi Gong and Lin Qingyuan?Nangong Yu was startled, and hurried downstairs.When he rushed downstairs, he saw the "unremovable" painting hanging in the hall smashed on the coffee table, and the glass was shattered all over the floor. At the door of the hall, Lin Qingyuan was comforting the weeping Yu Chigong.

"What's going on?" Nangong Yu hurriedly walked a few steps to come to the two of them, when Yu Chigong saw Nangong Yu, he cried even more fiercely.

"Okay, okay, Xiaowei, don't cry, Nangongyu is here." Lin Qingyuan explained to Nangongyu with a sigh while wiping Yuchigong's tears, "After you left in the afternoon, Xiaowei will start to do it. Nightmare, I couldn't wake up at first, but when I finally woke up, I had to come to you, crying and saying..."

Lin Qingyuan paused for a moment, then looked at Nangongyu in embarrassment: "Say you're dead..."