"This painting was made by Bada Shanren!" When Zhu Xunuo mentioned Bada Shanren's name, he subconsciously stopped and a beautiful face became awe-inspiring.

"Who is Bada Shanren, the country bumpkins from the mountains?" I wanted to show my sense of humor in front of Zhu Xunuo, but who knew it made a big joke.

Zhu Xunuo looked at me with a serious face and said, "Brother Jianqing, don't talk nonsense. Bada Shanren is our ancestor. His real name is Zhu Da. He is a descendant of Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of Ming Tai/zu. Our Zhu family in Xijiang City is the descendant of Zhu Da!"

After hearing Zhu Xunuo say that Bada Shanren was her ancestor, I quickly apologized to Zhu Xunuo. Zhu Xunuo was not angry. After saying that he didn't know, he searched for many paintings of Bada Shanren on the Internet.

Most of these paintings are small animals, whether they are fish, birds, deer, ducks, cats, or dogs, all of them are rolling their eyes, and the painting style is very unique.

"Why did the ancestors have so many rolls of eyes when they paint?"

Rolling eyes generally shows dissatisfaction with the world and endless prejudice. Only those who are extremely resentful in their hearts will draw so many rolling eyes in every work of their own. This makes me wonder what the Bada Shanren Zhu Da experienced.

Could it be that these rolling eyes in Zhu Da’s paintings are related to the grudge between the Zhu family and the Jin family?

Then Zhu Xunuo began to tell me about the Bada Shanren Zhu Da. Zhu Xunuo told me that Zhu Da was a descendant of the royal family. He had been reading books of sages since he was a child and had a lofty ambition to cultivate oneself, govern the country and pacify the world. However, at that time, the "National Code" of the Ming Dynasty stipulated that no royal family members were allowed to take the imperial examination. The ancestor Zhu Da resolutely gave up his royal status and passed the scholar as a civilian commoner.

Just when Zhu Da was full of ambition in his life, time came in 1644. Li Zicheng invaded the capital, and Emperor Chongzhen was hung on the crooked tree. After the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, the Qing soldiers entered the pass and occupied the Central Plains!

After the Qing soldiers entered the Central Plains, they began to massacre and pursue our Zhu family ancestors. The ancestor Zhu Da's family had more than 90 people. The ancestor's original wife and children died one after another during the escape. The ancestor fled into the mountains and escaped!

Hearing this, I suddenly realized that the Zhu family was descended from the Ming Dynasty royal family, while the Jin family was descended from the Qing Dynasty royal family.

"Do you know what my ancestors experienced in the years they fled?" Zhu Xunuo seemed to have returned to the time when his ancestors were massacred by Qing Dynasty officers and soldiers more than 300 years ago, and his eyes gradually turned red: "The years when my ancestors escaped, they were gone every day by mountains and rivers, and the sadness of fighting people and affairs deeply impacted the hearts of their ancestors!"

Over the years, I have already felt miserable, but after hearing Zhu Xunuo talk about their ancestors, I know that compared to Zhu Da’s experience, my experience is nothing.

"It was from that time that our ancestor Zhu Da made rules that the descendants of the Zhu family must not have any connection with the descendants of the Qing Dynasty royal family." After that, Zhu Xunuo raised his head and looked at me, saying, "Brother Jianqing, if something happens to the Jin family after you get married, you can't help, otherwise my grandfather will be angry."

"This..." I suddenly felt embarrassed when I heard Zhu Xunuo's words. You know, what my grandmother told me before she passed away was that no matter what happened to the family that broke the engagement, I had to help. Now Zhu Xunuo refused to let me help, which made me fall into a dilemma again.

"What's wrong, Brother Jian Qing?" Seeing that I didn't say anything, Zhu Xunuo asked with some concern.
Chapter completed!