After the divorce, I became a mountain god

The paintings that surprised Yan Xiaojiu were the patterns painted on the newly built doors and windows of the mountain temple.

Two of the pictures showed what he remembered as his own backyard.

Just now he came to see the mountain god, and his whole mind was in a tense state, so he didn't really pay attention to these details.

When Yan Xiaojiu saw this scene just now, he was immediately excited and hurriedly stood up and went over to observe it carefully.

What a picture that is!

The overall picture shows a large courtyard with three entrances and three exits, which is fully displayed by occupying a large window.

The courtyard is exquisitely laid out and well-proportioned. It is paved with what appear to be large stone slabs, and what appear to be pine and cypress trees are planted on both sides, adding a sense of solemnity and vitality to the entire courtyard.

Exquisite hanging flower gates separate the three courtyards, with rockery and ponds dotted in between. Lotus flowers stand gracefully in the ponds, and fish swim freely in the water, creating a lively scene.

Beside the pool, there is a small pavilion built along the water, which provides a place for people to rest and enjoy the scenery, which is very elegant.

The entire courtyard, even with its simple carvings, is filled with an elegant and dignified atmosphere of life.

This... this is exactly what my own house looked like during my childhood!
Or in other words, it is exactly the same as my old residence!
It has been more than seventeen or eighteen years since Yan Xiaojiu left his hometown in Cangnan Road. He still remembers how his old home disappeared in the sea of ​​fire.

But today, the old residence in my memory suddenly appeared in the painting again and appeared in front of me.

What a coincidence?
Yan Xiaojiu was touching the carvings on the window with tears in her eyes, when suddenly, a cry of surprise came from outside the door: "What are you doing, thief!"

As the words fell, the door was opened instantly, and then a group of people jumped in. Everyone who came in was carrying torches. After rushing in, the temple that was originally illuminated by candlelight suddenly became brighter.

When Yan Xiaojiu saw that the person leading the team was Jin Dajian, he asked curiously with a smile on his face: "Master Jin, why are you here? What's going on?"

Jin Dajian said with a serious face: "Haha, I should be the one asking you this question. This is originally our place. What's so strange about me coming here? But you should tell me, what are you doing here?"

Yan Xiaojiu waved his hand and explained: "Don't get me wrong, Master Jin, I'm here to pay my respects to Grandpa Mountain God."

Jin Dajian snorted coldly and asked in a questioning tone: "Humph, you want to pay homage to the Mountain God? Haha, this is really strange! If you want to pay homage to the Mountain God, you can just come here openly and honorably during the day. Why do you come secretly in the middle of the night?"

Yan Xiaojiu hurriedly explained: "You really misunderstood Master Jin. I really came to pay my respects to my predecessor. I am a person with an impatient temper. When I heard that the mountain god appeared here, I couldn't wait to come here to pay my respects."

At this moment, Jin Dajian had been looking at Yan Xiaojiu. Suddenly, Jin Dajian raised his hand and brought the torch closer to Yan Xiaojiu. Then his face changed and he said in astonishment: "No, there's something wrong with you!"

Yan Xiaojiu smiled and said, "Look at the Master Jin you mentioned, something is wrong with me! We went up the mountain together today, have you forgotten?"

Jin Dajian shook his head and said, "No, no, no, there's something wrong with you. I used to know someone who was very good at disguise! When it was dark and I was anxious, I didn't notice you, but now I realize that there's something wrong with your appearance."

Okay, it turns out that Jin Dajian had seen through his poor disguise.

Yan Xiaojiu forced a smile and said awkwardly, "It's really a misunderstanding! Master Jin, I disguised myself to facilitate my activities here. It's really unsafe if I don't disguise myself in this chaotic situation. To be honest, I have an old relationship with the Mountain God, and I came to visit him today to reminisce about the past. He asked me to wait for him here."

Jin Dajian sneered, "You are such a shameless liar. Are you old friends with the Mountain God? If that was the case, why did you take my car to come up when you were downstairs? Why did you pretend to be like this to come and see the Mountain God? You can just come up and chat with the Mountain God yourself. You are obviously lying."

Yan Xiaojiu said helplessly: "This is really a misunderstanding. Grandpa Shancheng is not here now, and I don't know how to explain it. Otherwise, you can stay with me and wait. Grandpa Shanshen will come and help me explain it clearly."

Jin Dajian said coldly: "What kind of place is this? How can it be there just because you say it is there? Be honest and follow me out obediently. When the mountain god appears, I will naturally ask for his instructions. If there is no problem then, I will let you out!"

Yan Xiaojiu sighed helplessly and said, "Since you guys don't believe me, well, I'll use my real identity to meet you all. Actually, I'm Yan Xiaojiu, the chief constable of the Qingmu Prefecture. I've been ordered to come here to carry out a mission. I hope you can give me some convenience."

As he spoke, Yan Xiaojiu took out his badge from his arms, held it high, and turned it over front and back to show everyone.

This waist badge is about the size of a palm and is made entirely of fine iron. After years of baptism, its surface has developed a faint black sheen, revealing a sense of historical vicissitudes.

The waist badge is engraved with intricate and delicate patterns. In the middle is an eagle with its wings spread out, ready to fly. Its eyes are as sharp as torches, as if it can see through all the evil in the world. Its clenched claws symbolize the captain's perseverance and determination in hunting down criminals.

The eagle is surrounded by cloud and water patterns and lotus petals. The cloud and water patterns are smooth and natural, implying that the captain is as flexible and changeable as water, while the lotus petals symbolize integrity and nobleness, reminding the captain to always uphold justice and not be tempted.

The edge of the badge is carefully polished to be round and smooth without any burrs, showing the craftsman's superb skills and ultimate pursuit of details.

On the front of the badge, there are eight large characters engraved in seal script: "Catching shadows and catching wind, being iron-faced and impartial". The handwriting is vigorous and powerful, as if every stroke contains endless majesty and power, which makes people afraid.

On the back, some information such as Yan Xiaojiu and Qingmu Prefecture Yamen were engraved. Although the handwriting was small, it was clearly visible, allowing people to recognize the true identity of the person in front of them at a glance!

Jin Dajian and others were stunned when they saw this.

The guy they thought was a bad guy turned out to be a constable from the Qingmu government office!
You have to know that the biggest leader everyone has ever seen is just a village chief.

That’s right, it’s Li Kanshan, the old village chief of Kaoshan Village!

Even though Li Qingshi in the village is doing well now, he is just a jailer in the county government.

But now, the chief constable from the provincial government suddenly appeared in front of him, which was a bit scary.

A high-ranking official can crush people to death, let alone an official who is several levels higher. What should we do?

Xu Boan clearly saw that the people following Jin Dajian had already started to tremble after seeing Yan Xiaojiu's badge. If this continued, they would probably kneel down and greet Yan Xiaojiu in a while.

In Xu Boan's eyes, these little guys in Kaoshan Village are his own family. Xu Boan doesn't want his little people to kneel down to others, not to mention that Yan Xiaojiu's pretentious attitude really makes Xu Boan feel uncomfortable.

It felt like the way the protagonist in a movie suddenly said after inheriting an inheritance and becoming rich: "Okay, I'll stop pretending. I'm going to be honest. I wanted to get along with you as an ordinary person..."

He wielded a huge axe in front of Lu Ban's door and showed off his power in the mountain god temple, but Xu Bo'an was too lazy to indulge him.

So Xu Bo'an immediately said in a mocking tone: "Okay, Jin Dajian, you guys go down first. This guy and I do have a little bit of friendship, so let him stay here for now."

When everyone heard what Grandpa on the mountain said, they didn't say anything else. They said goodbye and left.

What Xu Boan said was very strange. If he said that he and Yan Xiaojiu were old friends, he was afraid that Jin Dajian and others would think that Yan Xiaojiu's relationship with the Mountain God was closer than theirs, thus affecting their normal attitude towards Yan Xiaojiu.

But if he only mentioned this little bit of old friendship and also asked him to stay here temporarily, it would be a kind of Yin-Yang talk. It sounded a bit mocking and distant. Although there was old friendship, it was definitely not deep. Jin Dajian and the others would also understand how to control the relationship between themselves and Yan Xiaojiu.

Although you, Yan Xiaojiu, are an official, the Mountain God is a real god! Since your relationship with the Mountain God is just like that, we don't have to consider the other side's expression when we stand on one side.

Yan Xiaojiu was not a fool, so he naturally understood the hidden meaning of the Mountain God's words. However, he had to bow his head under the eaves, so Yan Xiaojiu had no choice but to kneel down and thank him, "Thank you, Mountain God, for saving me."

Xu Bo'an waved his hand and said, "This is a small matter, but I am very curious. Jin Dajian is a very honest person. What did you do to make him misunderstand you?"

Yan Xiaojiu smiled bitterly and explained, "Master Jin saw me coming here in the middle of the night and thought something was wrong. Later he said he knew a master of disguise, so he saw through my disguise and thought there was something wrong with me. That's how he misunderstood me."

Xu Boan naturally knew that the master of disguise that Jin Dajian mentioned was none other than Jin Dajian's former co-worker as a miner, Niu Junfeng's father, Niu Laosan!

Although Jin Dajian didn't learn other people's skills, he also honed his own vision. This is probably the importance of environment. If it were an ordinary person, he would really be able to see through other people's disguises.

Xu Bo'an laughed and said, "I see, that's right. He does know an expert in disguise, and your disguise is really not good enough in his eyes."

Yan Xiaojiu thought that the mountain god was talking about him, and immediately said with a smile: "Yes, yes, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you!"

Xu Bo'an said with a smile: "Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. Where were we just talking about?"

Unexpectedly, Yan Xiaojiu did not mention the matter of Yun Que, but asked instead: "Grandpa Mountain God, I dare to ask, who painted the paintings on these doors and windows!"

As he spoke, Yan Xiaojiu pointed to the window that haunted him.

Those were some paintings that the courtesan Chen Shishi had drawn on doors and windows. They were then hollowed out and carved into solid wood paintings, and then covered with paper. These were the ordinary windows of Dajingchao.

However, Xu Boan did not directly tell Yan Xiaojiu that the painting was drawn by Chen Shishi, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to Chen Shishi.

After all, Chen Shishi had said before that if they escaped from Juxiangfang, the punishment would be severe. Who knows whether Yan Xiaojiu would be in cahoots with the people behind Juxiangfang and collude with them to do bad things.

Maybe he saw through this painting that this was a training method from Juxiangfang? That's why he asked this question! That would be too dangerous.

Xu Bo'an did not answer Yan Xiaojiu's question, but asked like practicing Tai Chi: "Oh? What's the problem with this window painting?"

Yan Xiaojiu answered honestly: "No, it's just that this painting looks very familiar to me. It looks like the house where I lived when I was a child."

"Former residence? Your home!" Xu Bo'an was quite surprised when he heard that.

Yan Xiaojiu nodded and said, "Yes, I am from Cangyun Dao. About ten years ago, my father was murdered by a villain. In desperation, I spent all my family wealth to save his life. Who would have thought that the villain would still not give up and secretly murdered more than 30 members of my family and even set fire to my old house.
That day, I happened to be playing hide-and-seek with my friends outside, so I escaped the disaster. After that, I was homeless and wandered around to survive. Fortunately, I was helped by a noble man and learned a lot of skills. I became a constable and was promoted all the way to this position. "

When Xu Bo'an heard this, he was stunned. He remembered that Chen Shishi also said that her family was from Cang Yun Dao.

Listening to the implicit meaning of Yan Xiaojiu's words, the painting drawn by Chen Shishi is the appearance of Yan Xiaojiu's family's house.

Could it be that Yan Xiaojiu and Chen Shishi are a family, brother and sister? Sister and brother?

But this is not right, the two people have different surnames. However, it is also possible that one of them is hiding his or her real name, or Chen Shishi's surname was given after she entered Juxiangfang.

Xu Boan asked again: "So you suspect that the person who painted this is your family member? But didn't you just say that everyone in your family was killed?"

Yan Xiaojiu smiled bitterly and said, "In fact, I also know that it is wishful thinking, because after the disaster, the government searched for people, and no one was spared except me. I just fell in love with it after seeing this painting for a moment."

Upon hearing this, Xu Bo'an thought that it seemed that he had misunderstood. It seemed that many houses on Cangyun Road looked like this, and it was just a coincidence.

Moreover, many of the craftsmen who built the houses were actually the same group of people. In order to save time, they naturally built many identical houses!
Just like the decoration of the same house type in many families nowadays, many of them cannot be said to be exactly the same, they are exactly the same!
In this case, there is no need to let Yan Xiaojiu know about Chen Shishi's existence. After all, Chen Shishi is an oiran who ran away from Xiangfang, and the fewer people who know about it, the better.

So as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Although Xu Boan is not afraid of these troubles, it is impossible for him to take care of Chen Shishi here day and night after all.

"All living beings suffer!" Xu Bo'an couldn't help but sigh.

As soon as the words fell, a long and rhythmic piano sound suddenly sounded outside the house! In the cool night, it was quite refreshing! (End of this chapter)