Kicked out of Rhodes Island, a small quilt was covered in the hole of the Longmen Bridge

"Please help me draw a picture of my hometown, Xi. I'm about to die, but this village... I don't want to just disappear completely. If it were you... it must be beautiful, right? Put me in the painting, let me think about it... well, just be an inconspicuous little shopkeeper of a pawn shop."

Li reached out his hand to get the yellowed scroll on the cabinet, but in the end he couldn't touch the memory he had engraved.

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"And that's why I drew "Poshan Town Scenery". This is an agreement. It belongs to me and Li, the agreement."

Xi turned his eyes away from Huoshaoyun in the distance, and refocused on the gray wolf who had been stunned for a long time. He wondered if he had turned on the pig brain overload mode to listen to a sentence and miss a sentence.

"This is really..."

Bai Hua blinked her eyes. Although Xi didn't have ups and downs like a storyteller when she narrated, and she didn't know how to whet people's appetite, but the short story she told in a straightforward way still made Bai Hua wonder how to respond. .

"What are you talking about here, Mr. Bai Hua, Xi?"

"Wow!? Miss Li, you are here."

Before Bai Hua could calm down, Miss Li's voice came from behind, startling Bai Hua.

"Me, me, and Xi are just discussing whether to adjust the color of the sunset a few more times, and use this method to increase the freshness...Right Xi?"

Facing Li's inquiry, Bai Hua hurriedly made up a reason to try to avoid the topic of the two people's previous chat.

The reason for Bai Hua's reaction is also very simple. He doesn't want Li to realize that he is not a "person outside the painting" like himself, but a "person in the painting" in another sense.

If the story Xi told herself is correct, the girl named "Li" in reality has already reached the end of her lifespan. If it 'wakes up' in the middle, I'm afraid there will be no container that can hold it down.

"Actually, you don't need to hide it. I already know my identity. It's better to say that since you have already explained the ins and outs to Mr. Bai Hua, then there is no need for me to explain it again. It's just that it looks like I am Bai Hua. It’s as if you’ve been entrusted by Mr. Bai Hua, hehe.”

Li smiled as usual, but the words that came out of her mouth made Bai Hua and Xi stunned at the same time.

"Wait a minute, what did you just say, Li...you already knew this!?"

Xi looked at Li in disbelief, her eyes were really full of confusion and surprise.

"Of course, I'm not an idiot. Xi, you really are. Even though you don't have a good head, you always like to put on a superior posture and treat everyone else as idiots."

"I'm not stupid... No, why, when did you know?"

Xi immediately retorted, but she quickly shook her head after she finished speaking. At this time, it was obvious that there was a problem that bothered her more.

"When... I don't remember the exact time, after all, I've been here for too long. It's just because of something that I realized it. I remember it very clearly."

Li Wang Xiangxi is also his own "creator".

"I obviously like painting very much, and I like it very much, but during the breaks in work, I want to try to create a painting, but I can't do it anyway. This contrast is very strange, isn't it? I have been thinking about the reason, and finally I finally understand—I am actually not an 'outsider' who strayed into this picture scroll world, but a created 'insider'."

"Obviously, creation cannot paint the art of the unknown. I can only paint what I know, but I can't 'create' anything."

"..."

Xi moved her lips, she seemed to want to refute, but she didn't know how to refute Li's theory.

Originally, they were only products that existed as the background of the picture scroll. Do they have the ability to think for themselves?If so... then is this picture scroll world really just 'a painting'?

"Mr. Bai Hua, Mr. Bai Hua, can you come here?"

When Xi couldn't refute Li's theory and fell into deep thought, Li waved at Bai Hua and called Gray Wolf easily, and then shrank Bai Hua into a small room mysteriously, as if wanting to avoid it. Kai Xi heard the conversation between the two.

"What's the matter, Miss Li?"

Bai Hua sighed, although the story Xi told before made Bai Hua unable to fully sort out her emotions, but in the face of Li's question, Bai Hua could only continue listening.

"I hope you can leave this picture scroll world, Mr. Baihua."

"……leave?"

Birch blinked her blue-gold eyes.

"Because if Mr. Bai Hua is here, neither I nor Xi may be able to be completely serious."

"Ah, I'm really sorry..."

There is nothing wrong with Li's words, and Bai Hua can only be honest and crafty.

"Of course, this is just one aspect. In fact——I hope I can stop restraining Xi. When we were running around and messing around, I noticed that Xi had an expression of surprise and curiosity that I had never seen before—— —She is a painter, and she should have traveled to witness the movement of the world and new things, but she put herself here and lived in seclusion for a long, long time."

Li looked at Bai Hua, although there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth, but there was helplessness in this smile.

"If possible, Mr. Bai Hua, please take Xi away. It's not just the world in the painting, it's also to bring her out of the cracks where she chooses to close herself. She shouldn't imprison herself here."

"..."

Listening to Li's request, Bai Hua didn't know how to respond.

"Speaking of which, Mr. Bai Hua, you have made a lot of interesting trinkets. Among them, this should be my favorite."

Li fumbled into his pocket, and took out a small square box, and inside the box was a small machine that was constantly oscillating.

"This is the one from Snow Pheasant... Why does Ms. Li like this little thing more?"

Bai Hua recognized this thing as a small collection given to him by Snow Pheasant, which was placed on the desk in his Office of the Guards Bureau.

"Because it looks like it can swing forever, but in fact, no matter what it is, there is no such thing as 'forever', right?"

"Uh, because this is in the painting, and it was made by a card bug, so I actually used a little 'power of thinking' when I rubbed it. It lacks the friction of the complex internal gear structure, and it may really move forever... ..."

Bai Hua rubbed her hair in embarrassment and said, while Li laughed again.

"Hehe, as expected of Mr. Baihua. In short, I am really happy here. Although Poshan Town itself is constantly repeating itself, there are subtle differences every day. You can always hear new stories occasionally in Mr. Storyteller's jokes. After Saga came, I even got along with her as a friend for a while, and finally I was able to do those imaginative things with you, Mr. Bai Hua, with Xi, which is actually... very satisfying."

"However, after all, I'm just a person in a painting. Although a good painting can make people stop and appreciate it, if you tie that person in front of you and force him to stay there, it would be incomprehensible, right?"

"..."

"In short, if possible, please tell Xi that you want to leave the world in the painting. This is my last request."

"Let's not talk about anything else, even if I ask Miss Xi, it's probably useless, right? Xi always thinks about killing me, I feel like she won't let me out..."

Bai Hua complained softly, Gray Wolf didn't think Xi would let her out so easily.

But when Li heard Bai Hua's words, his eyes widened, and then he blinked in disbelief.

"I thought Xi was stupid enough, but I didn't expect that Mr. Bai Hua was also a brother. But in other words, is this also a good match...?"

"what?"

Bai Hua rubbed her ears, completely ignoring the meaning of Li's words.

"Hehe, it's nothing, nothing, anyway, please ask Mr. Baihua, please let Xi wake up from this picture scroll, from this dream, and face everything new."

Li said so, and then left the room again.

After the conversation with Li ended, Bai Hua still hadn't had time to digest the conversation just now, and was immediately dragged over by Xi angrily.

"What did Li just tell you?"

"This... I can't say. After all, it's an entrustment, and it must abide by the confidentiality contract."

Bai Hua laughed in embarrassment. After all, Li deliberately found a private room to talk about these topics with him, so he couldn't just tell Xi directly.

"What kind of contract are you talking about at a time like this? Obviously, if it wasn't for you, everything wouldn't be what it is now...!"

"Wooooow!? Forgive, forgive, sister Xi!"

Bai Hua was picked up by Xi as a grip meter, and the painter's arm strength made Bai Hua wonder if Xi's real occupation is really a painter?Could it be a boxer...

"Forget it, actually, I also know that all this has nothing to do with you. This day will come, but the problem is... I'm not ready yet."

Ximoto wanted to get angry at Bai Hua, but when he saw Bai Hua frantically wagging his tail begging for mercy, he finally let him go with a sigh.

In the final analysis, this incident has nothing to do with the gray wolf in front of him. When I tried to "resurrect" the world in Li Cong's painting, it was destined to become the current scene.

"Wait... that's right—! Since you did it all, you have an obligation to do me a favor now, Gray Wolf!"

Xi seemed to think of something suddenly, she looked at Bai Hua again, the way she stared at Bai Hua was like staring at cheap drawing paper that was thrown away once it was used up.

"No, eh? What?"

Bai Hua was completely stunned. A few seconds ago, Xie said with an epiphany expression, "It has nothing to do with you", but after a few seconds, Xi began to put on a look of "Since you poked the basket, then you come here." Handle it with me" posture.Such an obvious contrast made Bai Hua stunned again.

"Are you really an idiot... Forget it, anyway, listen to Gray Wolf. I need you to help me stabilize Li during this time, so that she doesn't have any unnecessary or strange actions. I will try my best to think about it." Take a look at the countermeasures, do you understand?"

Xi sighed, and then asked Bai Hua if there was anything she didn't understand about the task she just released.

"Stop Miss Li... is this really okay?"

"...I don't know, but, I have to do this."

Xi did not directly respond to Bai Hua's question, she left in a hurry after arranging tasks for Bai Hua.

——I always feel that the situation has become very delicate again... I always feel that I have only encountered this kind of conflicting request in Victoria not long ago?

Sandwiched by Li and Xi, Bai Hua, who was really just a passer-by, sighed, lamenting that she always seems to be accidentally involved in such troublesome incidents.

The person in the painting wants to wake up the person outside the painting, but the person outside the painting wants to keep the existence of the person in the painting—who is trapped in the painting?

275. Mannequin Birch

In the world of Poshan town in the painting, Bai Hua is paralyzed in the tavern at this time, throwing peanuts into his mouth while leaning against the edge of the window, looking at the sun and the moon not far away.

"It feels so quiet, and there is no Ah Yao on the street. Xi must have transferred all the troops away."

Bai Hua lamented that peace and happiness are hard-won, while allowing herself to become a waste and indulge in rottenness.

A few days have passed since the showdown between Xie Xi and Li. To Bai Hua's surprise, this 'showdown' did not directly turn the tables on the two of them.On the contrary, after that day, in a sense, the 'interaction' between the two became more frequent.

It's just that this kind of 'interaction' is not a direct interaction between the two, but a method that makes Bai Hua complain endlessly—

"Grey Wolf, you're wasting your life again, aren't you?"

"Wow!?"

Bai Hua, who was slumped by the window watching the scenery just a second ago, suddenly appeared in his field of vision a face with delicate features but an unhappy expression.

"Don't come out of the window suddenly, Miss Xi..."

Bai Hua was taken aback. He first shrank back from the window in fright, only to be relieved when he found out that the weird guy who came out suddenly was actually Xi.

Putting his head out along the window, Bai Hua found that Xi was sitting on an ink-style cloud at this time. At first glance, it looked a bit like an ancient fairy, or someone's mount that could turn a full moon into a gorilla.

"Come out with me."

"Eh... Got it."

"So reluctant? I poke"

"Ouch!"

Without saying a word, Xi stretched her head forward and poked Bai Hua with the horns on her head.

She is like a domineering president, rather than "inviting" it is more like "ordering" Bai Hua to go out with her, and Bai Hua is not surprised, she has already been used to it, and after putting on her shoes, she never He jumped out of the window and set off with Xi.

As I said before, the number of "interactions" between Xi and Li has increased, but this interaction is not a direct connection between the two, but a "pure passerby" called Bai Hua as a transfer point.

For example, if Xi thought of a way to help Li, she would not choose to go directly to Li Zhanzhi, but would force Bai Hua out of the bed for an experiment, and if there was any progress, she would record it. If not, then complain to Bai Hua.

The same is true for Li on the other side. If she thinks of a way to make Xi Hui change her mind to leave the world in the painting and stop living in seclusion, she will first find Bai Hua to discuss and make a decision.

In this way, Bai Hua, who was supposed to have 'mistakenly entered' the world in the painting, had no way to leave Poshan Town by her own 'epiphany', so instead, she was dragged around by the two of them every morning and afternoon.

Thinking about the current situation where Xi suddenly came to the door and dragged her away without saying a word, Bai Hua had already accepted the strangeness and gradually got used to it.

Bai Hua moved with Xi, and it didn't take long for the two of them to arrive at the forest at the edge of the village. There was a lake here, and there were mountains and forests not far away.

"Take off your clothes."

"Eh!?"

Originally, Bai Hua was still guessing why Xi called her out today, but before the great painter pulled her out, she tossed a lot of things, such as "trying to break through the barriers in the world in the painting", or "making A medium that can store consciousness', and of course most of these experiments ended in failure.

But most of the time, when Xi shouted at Bai Hua, she just wanted to chat with this gray wolf.Although Xi herself would never admit it, she has lived in seclusion for a hundred years. Although she is used to this loneliness, it does not mean that loneliness has no effect on her.

Especially after she had gradually adapted to Bai Hua's existence, she gradually lost her initial wariness and hostility towards him.

However, following Xi's words, Bai Hua guessed that Xixi called her out today for more than just chatting...

"Miss Xi, I don't think this is appropriate? Even though this is a world in a painting, it doesn't mean you can act randomly?"

Bai Hua, who was ordered to take off her clothes, quickly persuaded the year-old beast to think twice before acting, but because this is the other party's territory, Bai Hua didn't dare to speak too harshly. Not to mention, I will draw another Wuzhi Mountain and take pictures of myself...

"What are you talking about? Take off your clothes and stand over there. I want you to be a temporary model."

Xi frowned, and she conjured up a paintbrush and a white cloth shelf as if she was going to paint, and at the same time ordered Bai Hua to go to the stone beside the stream and not to move around.

"Oh... oh, that's it. But why do you want to take off your clothes?"