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In the courtyard, there were mountains of calligraphy and painting books. Lin Bai picked them up one by one and read them carefully.
Fortunately, after his cultivation broke through to the realm of Pin Taiyi Daoguo, Lin Bai's energy was pretty good and he was not too tired to read these books.
Thanks to his "Asura Dharma Eye", Lin Bai could never forget the books he read and recorded them clearly in his mind.
The crow also stood on Lin Bai's shoulder. Whenever Lin Bai picked up a book and read it seriously, he would also look at it seriously.
Although he...can't understand it at all.
But he pretended to be very serious, and nodded thoughtfully from time to time, seeming to agree with the views in the book.
Lin Bai turned over the books one after another, and read each calligraphy and painting carefully.
In about two days, Lin Bai read almost all the calligraphy and painting books that Crow brought out from the yamen of the Twenty-first Prince's Mansion.
The books are all poems and songs written by the twenty-first prince himself, which is considered very talented.
The calligraphy and painting are all the work of the twenty-first prince, and they are quite famous.
"After reading it all, Lin Bai, did you find anything?" Crow asked curiously.
"You also watched it with me. Did you find anything?" Lin Bai asked.
"Yes. I have found something." Crow said seriously: "The calligraphy of the twenty-first prince is indeed very beautiful!"
Lin Bai shook his head with a wry smile, picked up one of the calligraphy and paintings, and unfolded it to see a picture of a snow scene.
This calligraphy and painting depicts the outline of a snow-capped mountain. Based on the ink and wash style, a few simple sketches were made.
"What's weird about this painting?" Crow came over and took a serious look at it, but didn't see anything strange.
"This painting... is very ordinary." Crow Crow said seriously: "Compared with the other paintings of the Twenty-first Prince, it is a little less interesting, but the artistic conception is still there."
"It's just that he is very bad, that's why he is special." Lin Bai said with a smile.
"What do you mean?" Crow asked Lin Bai not knowing what he meant.
Lin Bai smiled mysteriously. When Lin Bai picked up the painting just now, he had a strange feeling.
Just like the crow said... Although this painting has the artistic conception, it is very poorly drawn.
It's not even close to the level of the Twenty-First Prince.
Lin Bai casually took out one of the paintings on the ground, unfolded it, and asked: "Do you think there is any difference between these two paintings?"
Crow said: "It goes without saying that although these two paintings are by the same person, they have completely different degrees of care."
"Although this snow scene was also painted by the twenty-first prince, it is not up to standard!"
Lin Bai smiled, "Not only is it substandard, but it also looks like it was drawn in a mess due to time constraints."
"Also, do you smell the unique aroma of wine on this painting?"
The crow sniffed it carefully and asked, "What does the wine smell like?"
"Dragon blood wine." Lin Bai replied, he could smell the aroma of dragon blood wine from this painting.
Crow curled his lips and said, "Is there anything strange about this? The twenty-first prince is a romantic person, he likes drinking, having fun, reciting poems and painting. Is there anything strange about this?"
Lin Bai nodded, "This is indeed not surprising, and I can smell the smell of alcohol in other transformations."
"But only the smell of alcohol on this painting is different from other paintings."
"This painting is dragon's blood wine."
The crow asked curiously: "What then?"
Lin Bai took a deep breath, "Dragon blood wine is considered a luxury product in the imperial capital. Although a lot of it is supplied to the royal family, there must not be much distributed to the twenty-first princes."
"And this time, Emperor Chu's birthday, the workshops for brewing dragon blood wine in the imperial capital started working day and night, so there was more dragon blood wine."
"The more dragon blood wine you have, the more you can give to the twenty-first prince!"
"That is to say...this painting was recently painted by the Twenty-first Prince!"
Lin Bai then looked at the transformation with only a solitary snow mountain, and said: "And this transformation is in the style of ink and wash, and it was drawn with only a few simple strokes."
"Most of the paintings are left blank."
"There is no inscription, and no signature!"
"As you said... this painting is so rough that it seems as if it was not made by the twenty-first prince!"
"But he was indeed created by the twenty-first prince!"
"Then this is very strange... How could the twenty-first prince, who is a famous calligrapher and painter in the imperial capital, draw such a crude and poor painting?"
"Since it is a crude and poor painting, why did the Twenty-first Prince put it away?"
When the crow heard Lin Bai's words, he was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand what Lin Bai was saying at all?
Lin Bai gave a wry smile, this crow is very smart when it gets smart, and also very stupid when it gets stupid.
The time when crows are smartest is probably when they are dividing the spoils.
Lin Bai explained: "Maybe it was because the twenty-first prince had realized that things had gone beyond his expectation, so he deliberately left this painting as a primer."
"If a careless person saw this painting, they would simply ignore it."
"But this plays into the Twenty-One Prince's plan!"
Crow came back to his senses at this moment and said in surprise: "You mean... the twenty-first prince hid the key to the treasure of the Nine Nether Demon Palace in this snow mountain?"
Lin Bai asked curiously: "Where in the imperial capital are there snow mountains?"
Crow curled his lips and said: "The Imperial Capital of the Chu Kingdom is a land where tigers and dragons sit. The entire Imperial Capital is built on the dragon veins of the earth in the eastern region of the Demon Realm. Not to mention the snow-capped mountains, there is no bad weather here."
Crow is right. The location of the Chu Kingdom's imperial capital was extremely carefully selected. It was the place where the dragon veins of the Eastern Region converged.
Not to mention the snow-capped mountains, the Imperial Capital is peaceful all year round, and there is never any bad weather.
Lin Bai thought about it seriously, "I just remembered that there are snow-capped mountains somewhere!"
The crow asked in surprise: "Where?"
A smile appeared on Lin Bai's lips, he stared at the crow and said, "Mingyuefang, Fengxue Palace!"
Lin Bai came to the imperial capital not long ago and had never seen snow-capped mountains elsewhere, but he had seen snow-capped mountains in Mingyuefang.
That is the Fengxue Palace in Mingyuefang.
The Fengxue Palace is a world of ice and snow enclosed by a magic circle in Mingyuefang.
When Lin Bai first arrived at Fengxue Palace, Lin Bai was particularly surprised.
The former owner of Fengxue Palace was Miss Yunke.
This woman is the daughter of the leader of the Qinglian Sect, just because a long time ago, the Qinglian Sect plotted to invade the territory of the Chu State, and was discovered by the Chu State, almost destroying the sect.
In the end, the leader of the Qinglian Sect reluctantly gave up his love and asked his eldest daughter to go to Chu State as a hostage and fall into the Moon Palace under the pseudonym "Miss Yunke".
Later, the saint girl of the Qinglian Sect died in the Wind and Snow Palace. The Qinglian Sect asked Emperor Chu to give an explanation. In the end, Emperor Chu agreed to let Miss Yunke leave the Moon Palace and return to the Qinglian Sect.
"Let's go to the Snow Wind Palace." Lin Bai took the transformation and walked towards the Snow Wind Palace. The crow stood on Lin Bai's shoulder and followed Lin Bai away.