"No! No! No! No…"

Gao Qiu met a furious "Pan Xiaolang" at the house of Daguan Pan. He was politely invited in by Pan Xiao'an, but he was almost driven out by Pan Qiaolian.

"Eighteen, that's Your Highness Duan..."

Pan Xiao'an was admonishing him, but Pan Qiaolian didn't appreciate it at all. She snorted with a pretty face and said, "What's the matter with King Duan and Nu? I've promised the Zhao family for a long time. Could it be that there is a second time? Besides, I already have Brother Dawu... Where is Brother Dawu? Why haven't he come to look for a slave yet? If anyone doesn't come, there is not even a letter!"

Hearing Pan Qiaolian's words, Gao Qiu thought to himself: It seems that Pan Xiao'an has blocked the contact between Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian... He is determined to be the uncle.

But this is not a delusion. After all, for King Duan, the concubine has to be found from the nobles of the generals. Pan Qiaolian at least looks familiar, and is better than anyone who has never seen anyone else? So as long as King Duan Zhao Ji thinks it's okay, Empress Dowager Xiang will probably not "break up the couple". After all, the Empress Dowager and the Pan family are both famous fellows, and Pan Qiaolian may really have the opportunity to be the queen!

Pan Xiao'an smiled and said, "Eighteen, Wu Dalang is very busy now... His father took him a few days ago for dozens of paintings, and he received 50,000 yuan in deposit alone.

How can you ask him to find you? You are also playful and you will stick to him all day long. When will those paintings be finished?

In addition, there is something to ask him for in the palace, and he can become an official at any time when things are done."

After being told by my brother, Pan Qiaolian felt a little better.

"No, I will go to find Brother Dawu tomorrow!" she said, "Will you talk about it later on, King Duan...."

What does it mean later?

Gao Qiu glanced at Pan Xiao'an with some embarrassment.

"Eighteen, this is not good, right?"

"What's wrong?" Pan Qiaolian said, "It's snowing just now, it's so cold, how can I ride a horse? I'll wait until the weather is warmer the next day before going to Pan's homeland to ride a horse."

This is also a reason.

Actually, Zhao Ji didn't really want to find Pan Qiaolian to ride a horse, he just found a reason to ask her to be a model.

Why do you always look for her?

Because Zhao Ji can only paint Pan Qiaolian, Lu Zhishen and the monk Shaozhuyuan... Where is the human body so easy to draw? Without thousands of sketches to lay the foundation, and without reading the textbook of "Painting the Human Body Structure" in later generations, Zhao Ji could not master complex human body painting skills in such a short time.

He only mastered the basic body characteristics of Pan Qiaolian, Gao Qiu, Lu Zhishen and the monk Shaozhuyuan through repeated copying, and he had to draw in specific movements and postures.

Now Lu Zhishen has gone to Mount Wutai and the monk in the Roasted Pig Courtyard... Zhao Ji didn't know that there was this person, so Zhao Ji was left with only two available models, Gao Qiu and Pan Qiaolian.

Zhao Ji, who was "shoulder-handed," had a bit of annoyance to draw, so he wanted to find Pan Qiaolian, who was more pleasing to the eye, to adjust.

As for the relationship between men and women, I can't say anything, but he still prefers the graceful sister Chunlan. But as Gao Qiu thought, if the Empress Dowager asked him to choose one of the many noble ladies of the generals as his wife, Pan Qiaolian would definitely win the first prize!

"Okay," Gao Qiu smiled, "The weather will be too cold tomorrow. Why not just make an appointment to stay in Panjiayuan the next day."

After hearing what Gao Qiu said, Pan Xiao'an had no choice but to agree.

"No, I don't go alone, I have to call Brother Dawu." Pan Qiaolian immediately got a ruler into the ruler.

Pan Xiao'an's face changed slightly. Now King Duan seems to have a crush on his sister. If he called Wu Haogu at this time, what would His Highness Duan think?

"Uh... OK!"

I felt extremely reluctant, but I still agreed.

He knew the girl's temper, so he couldn't twist her in person. It would be better to agree verbally, as if he was doing something bad at the bottom.

"I'll send someone to find Wu Haogu immediately." Pan Xiao'an said, "Eighteen, how good is this?"

"Let Xiaopinger go with you too." Pan Qiaolian said.

"Okay, that's it!"

When Gao Qiu saw Pan Xiao'an agree, he felt relieved. As long as His Highness Duan knew that Wu Haogu and Pan Qiaolian had gotten together, he would probably put Pan Qiaolian in his heart.

However, what happened next was beyond Gao Qiu's expectations... Wu Haogu was not in Kaifeng Prefecture City, and he would not return to the city tonight.

He is going to spend the night in Mo Niangzi's Lotus Temple!

Because the "Dance Picture of the Mo Niangzi" he painted is a very detailed work or a "eight-foot-to-open" painting.

The so-called "eight-foot-distance" is the larger one of the common sizes of Chinese paintings. It is converted into the metric size of later generations, which is almost 248cmx61cm.

Because the length of the scroll exceeds 2 meters in later generations, it is enough to draw a life-sized black lady on it.

The reason why I wanted to draw such a big Mo Niang was mainly because the painting was hung in the middle of Fengle Building for people to visit and review. If it was too small, people who looked at it from afar would be invisible.

However, it takes a lot of time to draw it too much. Wu Haogu wasted a lot of time for Madam Mo to put on various shapes, so this painting will not be completed tonight no matter what.

...

It was already dark, and the paintings in the Lotus Temple came to an end.

Madam Mo asked her envoy to prepare a casual banquet and welcomed Wu Haogu and Mi Youren in the nunnery.

At the dinner table, Wu Haogu suddenly asked what Persian song Mo Niang sang during the daytime dance today? The song sounded very sad at the beginning, as if talking about a heartbreaking past.

"That's the Book of the King," said Mo Niangzi, "It is a poem about Persia, the hometown of Nunu's ancestors. The beginning of the passage is like this..."

As she spoke, she began to sing again: "We are closely related to Persia, and we are willing to fight to the death for Persia. In order to defend the king and descendants, and to protect his wife and children, everyone is willing to sacrifice their lives and will never give up their country. Warrior, if you give your life gloriously, you are as strong as enduring humiliation and serving others..."

"This is..." Wu Haogu didn't know Iran's history and didn't know what background the poem in "The Book of Kings" was born.

"This poem first appeared before the demise of Persia, around the early Tang Dynasty in Middle-earth, and it sang the deeds of Persian warriors resisting the enemy of the Great Food. Later, this poem was included in the "Book of the King" by the once revived poet of Samman Persia."

So that's it. This is a poem that opposes the Arabs and perhaps the Tianfang religion...

Wu Haogu looked at Mo Niangzi, whose ancestors escaped from Persia, and sighed in his heart. Her ancestors could escape from Persia to Middle-earth, and probably had some status and value, and were unwilling to be slaves to the country. He also passed on the poems in "The Book of the King" to future generations, probably hoping that they could liberate the Persian motherland one day?

Unfortunately, the sky is always unsatisfactory. Persia has not really recovered until the 21st century... The ancient Persia no longer exists!

Compared with the Persians, China, which has both perished the world, is still relatively lucky.

Thinking of the common destiny and different endings of Persia and the Chinese people, Wu Haogu felt a little depressed again.

Although China finally came out of the shadow of two destruction, there were too many losses because of these two games.

If these two games of Tianqing, especially the first game of Song Tianqing, did not happen, it is really hard to comment on how China will develop and progress!

"Miss Mo," Mi Youren suddenly asked, "When did your ancestors come to China?"

"My ancestors first came to China in the middle of the Tang Dynasty and settled in Guangzhou." Mo said with a frown, "By the end of the Tang Dynasty, I heard that Persia was revived and returned to my hometown again. Unfortunately... Times have changed, and this Persia is no longer the same Persia. Therefore, during the Five Dynasties, my family moved to China and the country."

The Persian revival referred to by Mo Niang refers to the rise of the Samanic dynasty. The Samanic dynasty has a blood relationship with the Sassanian dynasty, but this dynasty only restored the Persian territory and did not restore the Persian beliefs and ideas... So the Mohist (Manichaeus) who lived in China for more than a hundred years and retained the traditional Persian culture and religion could not find a sense of belonging there, so they went into exile again and returned to China.

"China and Persia are thousands of miles apart, so it's very convenient for you to come and go." Mi Youren asked again.

"My ancestors were maritime merchants," said Mo Niangzi, "How is it inconvenient?"

"Maritime merchant?" Wu Haogu looked at Madam Mo, "Then why... why did you become a Ji family? Did the family suffer a shipwreck?"

Madam Mo smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying, "The sea strait is not afraid of... The sea commerce is not just a ship, but my family is a real Persian, and the religion I believe is different from them, so I am rejected by them and gradually I can't continue."

Maritime merchants have great risks and high returns. When a few boats go out, one boat will make a profit, so the maritime merchants have the ability to resist risks.

But the problem is that the Mo Niangzi family was an authentic Persian and a "voted family" of Manichaeism. When traveling on maritime business under the control of the Tianfang scholars, it was often more difficult than the Han Chinese maritime businessman of the Ji family.

Therefore, the Mo family businessmen gradually declined and were financially dependent on the Ji family. However, it was not at the point where their daughter wanted to make family tricks for others. Mo's identity as a family trick was actually a cover.

"The religion you believe in?" Wu Haogu suddenly thought of the "Persian Ming Cult" and asked, "What kind of religion do you believe in?"

"It's Zoroastrianism." Mo Madam pronounced a Persian word, which means Zoroastrianism. She wouldn't be so stupid that she told people that she was a Manichaeist. Manichaeism is a little out of control now, and she doesn't know when the accident will cause trouble.

Wu Haogu couldn't understand Persian dialect, but he certainly did not say "Mani", so he did not think about the "Persian Ming Cult". After all, "Persian Ming Cult" is just a novel by Mr. Jin Yong.
Chapter completed!