Chapter 3 Mona Lisa (Added for the operator + Silver Meng @Adverse Wind's Blue Tears)

Aurora's Intention.

Rooftop of the fifth floor.

A movie screen billowing in the wind.

An old but not outdated movie was being played.

Surrealist architectures on water matched with an ultra-retro outdoor movie screen.

In a starless night, the loneliness that stole away the moon.

The movie's name was "The Da Vinci Code".

Starring Tom Hanks.

Released in 2006.

The film told the story of a series of decryptions triggered by a murder at the Louvre Museum.

All the codes were hidden in Da Vinci's paintings.

Dan Brown, the original author of the film, made subversive interpretations of "Mona Lisa," "Da Vinci's Self-Portrait," and "The Last Supper."

He thought that "Mona Lisa" was actually a self-portrait of Da Vinci.

And the painting "Da Vinci's Self-Portrait" was actually hermaphroditic.

Even more far-fetched, he believed that among the thirteen men at "The Last Supper," there was actually a woman.

This woman sat at the right hand of Jesus during that supper.

Her name was Mary Magdalene.

Saved by Jesus, she became his wife and left descendants.

All of this formed the foundation of the decryption.

Dan Brown's interpretation of Da Vinci's paintings was subversive and shocking.

Yet oddly enough, he spoke with certainty.

And, in a way, he achieved logical consistency.

Those who do not know enough about Renaissance history, who do not understand Da Vinci's paintings well enough.

If they start to learn about Da Vinci from this film, they could easily be drawn into the bizarre worldview created by Dan Brown.

Right now, on the rooftop of the fifth floor, there sat such a little girl.

Her name was Zong Yi, just starting fifth grade.

A girl thirsty for knowledge, lively and active, she was gradually beginning to take an interest in the history of the Renaissance.

Of course, what piqued her interest was not just the European Renaissance.

She was just as endlessly fascinated by the culture of Zhonghua spanning five thousand years.

Possibly even more than five thousand, as the Neolithic Majiayao culture was also within her scope of interest.

Being just a primary school student, she hadn't yet managed to find a path to swim through the long river of history.

Fortunately, she had an older sister who majored in cultural relics and museum studies.

Thus, Zong Yi had a catchphrase, "Sis, sis, sis, I have a question."

Not a single word was in the same tone, making her speech sound like a song.

And she even used the classical pentatonic scale of Gong, Shang, Jue, Zhi, and Yu from the Spring and Autumn period to "compose" it.

From Gong to Yu, then back from Yu to Gong.

Translated into numbered musical notation, it is 12356 (Sis, sis, sis)—65321 (I have a question).

A bit annoying, yet somewhat pleasant to hear.

"What's the question?" Meng Xin Zhi, called sister five times, responded good-naturedly.

"Is everything in the movie true? Could the Mona Lisa really be Da Vinci?"

Zong Yi's question carried a hint of lingering childlike naivety.

Not quite fitting the persona of a primary schooler who constantly talks about being a "lonely hero."

"Of course it's not true. 'Mona' in Italian means madam, so 'Mona Lisa' directly translates to Madam Lisa. How could it possibly be Da Vinci?" Meng Xin Zhi emphatically denied.

"But isn't 'Da Vinci's Self-Portrait' also androgynous? If you compare them seriously, it seems to make sense. I think this movie is shot very realistically."

On the subject of the self-portrait, Zong Yi had been somewhat brainwashed by the movie.

"Da Vinci's Self-Portrait" was not as famous as "Mona Lisa."

It was a painting Zong Yi had not seen before, making it easier to be swayed.

"The setups in this movie are definitely fictional, you're in fifth grade now, if you're still this naïve, I won't watch such movies with you anymore."

Meng Xin Zhi was slightly regretting agreeing to watch this movie with Zong Yi tonight.

"Oh, my sister. I'm in fifth grade now, of course, I can tell which scenes in the movie are fictional and which are real. However, I think that the possibility mentioned in this movie probably does exist in reality."

The little girl paused, "You know what I mean, sister. This is the 'Mona Lisa' we're talking about. It's different from other paintings."

"What's different about it?"

"Didn't you tell me before that 'Mona Lisa' is a very small painting, 77 centimeters long and 53 centimeters wide? I remember correctly, right?"