Meng Chuan was walking, watching the roadside vendors soliciting business, and some Taoist disciples walking side by side in twos and threes, talking a lot.
"Look, it's Brother Meng."
"Brother Meng."
The disciples of Jinghu Taoist Academy immediately shouted respectfully.
What he saw along the way made Meng Chuan smile. Suddenly he saw a disabled old man on the side of the road. The disabled old man was sitting on the edge of the river leisurely looking at the passers-by. There was a fishing rod beside him.
Meng Chuan is a very good painter, and he observes everything carefully. He can feel the enjoyment and comfort of the disabled elderly. That overflowing 'satisfaction'. But the old man was very disabled and had one leg and one hand broken.
"With such a serious disability, how can he still enjoy himself so comfortably? He looks the worst on the street, but enjoys it the most?" Meng Chuan walked over curiously.
"Old man." Meng Chuan walked over and spoke politely.
"Um?"
The disabled old man held a big cigarette stick in one arm, looked over, and couldn't help but said happily, "Isn't this Mr. Meng Chuan? Mr. Meng Chuan actually talked to an old man like me. I have to tell my wife when I go back."
The smiles of disabled elderly people are contagious.
Meng Chuan said: "Old man, I don't know why you are so happy, but there is a big happy event?"
"Look, the teenagers are practicing martial arts, and the adults are running for their lives." The disabled old man pointed to the street, "Looking at all this, the old man makes me happy."
Meng Chuan was slightly taken aback.
"Back then, at Qinyang Pass, the demon clan assembled a large army, led by a group of demon kings, and wanted to enter." The disabled old man said, "Once they enter, the entire Dongning Mansion and its surroundings will be turned into scorched earth, and no one will be able to survive." Come down. At that time, the old man, I was serving in Qinyang Pass, and I went up to the gods and demons, and down to every soldier... I tried my best to resist."
"The gods and demons are fighting with the demon king."
"We also resist every monster. The corpses are everywhere, and one by one comrades died. We were talking and laughing together last night, but today we fell down. As long as we have a breath, we will drag the monsters to die together." The old man smiled slightly with moist eyes. , "Kill's eyes are red, when you find that there are no monsters around, but there are not many companions who can stand around."
"We got the support of other gods and demons, and finally defended Qinyang Pass." The disabled old man smiled, "We saved the lives of tens of millions of people around Dongning Mansion. That time, the 20,000 soldiers there lived There were only 1,633 of them. Of the five gods and demons guarding Qinyang Pass at that time, only two were left alive."
"Why are we all desperate, and we don't want to escape when we are desperate. It's because we don't want to be slaughtered, and we don't want our family members and children to be slaughtered... I hope they can practice safely, drink in big bowls, and brag. I hope they In the future, I will also be able to ask for a wife and have children..." The disabled old man smiled, "I, I come out every day to see. Looking at the people in my hometown on the street, I thought of the comrades who fell one by one. worth it."
"I'm very lucky. Of the 20,000 brothers and sisters, only 1,633 survived. I survived, can eat meat buns, drink alcohol, fish, and smoke... haha... how happy I am." Disabled old man laughing.
Meng Chuan listened silently.
The original confusion in his heart was gone.
Some so-called miserable families are really ridiculous compared with the elderly.
For example, in Hongyu's family, Hongyu works as a maid in a wealthy family, and can earn money to support the family. Her father is a bad gambler, who can be blamed for the debt? Said to be deceived? Not to mention that this may be coaxing his son, and he can't even read the debt note, who can be blamed
"There are thousands of kinds of people."
"Some people are willing to fall."
"Some people, even in the abyss, still smile brightly."
"And the vast majority of people..." Meng Chuan also looked at the vendors and pedestrians on the street, "They are all full of expectations and running around for their lives."
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Meng Chuan returned home, had lunch, and came to the study.
Unfolding the scroll, Meng Chuan began to draw.
He has so much in his heart that he wants to draw.
He first painted one of the Dongning Mansion...
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From this day on, apart from his normal practice, Meng Chuan was painting at other times of the day.
Drawing day by day.
From summer to autumn, this painting continued for more than four months. When the autumn leaves turned yellow and began to fall, the painting finally came to an end.
This is a huge scroll painting, eight meters three in length.
The left half of the entire scroll is an ancient city - Dongning Fucheng.
The most conspicuous one is one of the luxury mansions 'Meng's Ancestor's House'. In the Meng's Ancestor's House, an old woman with a cane stands there, her whole body is shining brightly, her power is terrifying. On the side are the patriarch, the third elder, Meng Dajiang and many others. Meng Chuan seriously drew dozens of people. The other tribesmen used some phantoms to take them.
Outside the Meng family's ancestral house.
It was Liu Chang, the leader of the Black Wolf Gang who bowed respectfully. Meng Chuan had never seen Liu Chang, but there was a portrait in the file. Meng Chuan exaggerated a bit and painted Liu Chang who was stronger and more aggressive, but in front of the Meng family's ancestral house, Liu Chang was extremely respectful and flattering.
Behind Liu Chang was 'Zhou He' who bowed even more. Zhou He even showed Liu Chang a flattering smile, which was carefully drawn.
Behind Zhou He, Hong Yu and Tie Sheng were extremely cautious and timid.
Then there are group portraits all over the city of Dongning.
There are several poor women who were forced to sell themselves by their families, crying and walking towards Xianshiyuan;
There are also dozens of hard-working people, some of them even have broken arms and are working with one hand;
There are also restaurants, teahouses, noodle shops and other customers of all kinds, roadside vendors, pedestrians, bad gamblers, hooligans... Of course, there is also the disabled old man with broken arms and legs by the river. With a stick, smoking a dry cigarette, smiling and looking at the street next to him, and also looking at the far right of the whole picture scroll.
Meng Chuan drew hundreds of ordinary people in Dongning City.
The focus is on the monastery.
In a Taoist monastery painted by Meng Chuan, there are children, teenagers, and young people who are working hard to cultivate, and there is also the dean Ge Yu drinking and giving advice. The monastery is at the far left of Dongning City, with the sun rising beside it. This group of Taoist disciples is the sunrise of the entire Dongning City, the hope of Dongning City.
However, it is on the far right side of Dongning City, outside the city.
Outside the city, a group of youths in Taoist clothes... watched by a group of parents and family members, left Dongning City and went to another place.
The far right of the entire portrait.
It was a border gate stained red with blood.
There are gods and demons fighting with the demon king, the god and demon is "Meng Xiangu", and the demon king is also a snake demon king flying high in the sky.
On the border, countless soldiers were fighting monsters.
Most of these soldiers are drawn simply, but some have detailed faces.
For example, among the soldiers, there are father Meng Dajiang, dean Ge Yu, patriarch, three elders, Yun Fuan, Liu Chang, Zhou He... Although these people have different identities in Dongning Fucheng, they all once had a common identity—and Human soldiers fighting monsters!
"Okay." Meng Chuan drew the last character, the soldier who broke his arm and still inserted his sword into the head of the monster. The soldier was the disabled old man. He was staring at the monster, as if looking at the whole world On the far left of the scroll, look at the peaceful city of Dongning.
The whole picture scroll shows a lot of what Meng Chuan wants to express.
Like 'Liu Chang', the leader of the Black Wolf Gang, he is afraid of the family of gods and demons, but he also scares some wealthy businessmen.
Zhou He is arrogant and instigated, and has many servants under his command, but he also has many things to fear.
Meng Dajiang and the others have a high status, but they also fought bloody battles at the border for ten years.
The gods and demons are high above, and they are the backbone of the human race.
They need to shelter the entire human race.
And in the whole picture scroll, there are many kinds of ordinary people, and those Xianshiyuan women are just a handful of ordinary people. Although these ordinary people are weak, they are the most numerous on the picture scroll. They are protected by gods and demons, but they are the foundation of the human race. Countless ordinary people can breed gods and demons from generation to generation. In this way, the human race is endless.
The whole picture shows the three religions and nine manifolds.
It draws the tip of the iceberg of the human race, but it also reveals the reason why the human race has survived to this day.
Meng Chuan wrote three words in the upper right corner of the entire picture scroll - "Phase of All Beings".
sentient beings.
There are many people here, Meng Xiangu, Meng Dajiang, the third elder, Liu Chang, Zhou He, the disabled old man, Ge Yu, etc... These characters are them, but they are not them.
"The painting is finished." Sitting on the chair, Meng Chuan felt extremely satisfied.
He liked to draw and paint since he was a child.
It is because he likes to observe the world, and likes to record what he observes with a pen. In the early days, he painted the exterior, and the paintings were lifelike. Later, in the "Horse Picture", he gradually painted the charm, and the horses seemed to be alive. So people who don't know how to paint feel shocked when they see these paintings, and are willing to pay a high price to buy them. At that time, he was the first person in Dongning Mansion to paint.
And today...he's on another level.
What you draw is your own 'heart'!
Draw all the strong emotions in your heart and integrate them into the painting. At the moment of painting, a great sense of accomplishment and satisfaction filled my heart.
"All living beings." Meng Chuan closed his eyes and smiled.
The great satisfaction in his heart made him dizzy for a while.
he does not know.
In the sea of consciousness between his brows.
A fuzzy human-shaped soul is gradually condensing. During the four months of painting the painting "Phase of All Beings", this human-shaped soul is gradually blooming with spiritual light. This makes the soul of this human figure continuously condensed, and when it is drawn, the soul has a great sense of perfection. This humanoid soul has finally accumulated to the extreme, and it's completely solidified with a 'thud', showing its true appearance.
At this moment, Meng Chuan also felt dizzy.
Follow him and you will 'see' it, as if you are practicing true qi inner vision. His consciousness 'saw' a vast and empty space between his eyebrows, and a figure was standing in this space, exactly like himself.