Treasure well

Chapter 263 Folktale Weibo Private Interview
For "Purple Jade Light", there is another legendary story.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Wu Haitu, the prefect of Huizhou, was corrupt and perverted the law. He took advantage of the common people. In just a few years after taking office, he made a beautiful and prosperous ancient Huizhou full of complaints, and the people were in dire straits.

Moreover, he not only plundered the people's wealth and anointing, but also sent his men to collect rare and rare treasures as tributes to the court, hoping to win the favor of Emperor Kangxi and one day become a high-ranking official.

In the winter of this year, news came from Wu Haitu's palace informant who paid a lot of money, saying that Emperor Kangxi had recently become obsessed with "calligraphy".

Wu Haitu was overjoyed, and immediately ordered someone to bring Cao Sugong, the master ink maker at that time.I don't know if it was due to Wu Haitu's despotic power, but once Wu Haitu came to Cao Sugong Mofang to explain his intentions, Cao Xiucai, who has always been upright, agreed to Wu Haitu's request very readily, and promised to hand over the special calligraphy to him within half a month hands.

Cao Sugong didn't understand these things.I personally took people to Huangshan Mountain, and it took four or five days to cut down a few hundred-year-old pines facing the sun from Tiandu Peak.After being transported to the ink workshop of their family, people saw it open again, and only took the sunny side with dense annual rings, split it into small pieces with a length of one foot, and dried them with a slow fire.Then it was burned under a special copper pot, and precious spices were put into the mountain spring water in the copper pot.

When a pot of water was boiled dry, the guys were asked to remove the copper pot to let it cool down. Finally, they were asked to turn the bottom of the pot over and scrape off the pine smoke on it with sandalwood strips.It took two full days to complete the process of collecting pine smoke.

Next, Cao Xiucai prepared gelatin, lotus root powder and other materials in person, added mountain spring water and simmered slowly. When the heat was up, he immediately added pine smoke and stirred evenly, and finally added musk.After cooling, pour it into a special rosewood ink mold, and then slowly increase the pressure to form a mold.

The last process was carving. Cao Sugong locked himself in the carving room, worked hard for two days and two nights, and finally finished the calligraphy that Wu Haitu wanted.When Wu Haitu saw this oval-shaped calligraphy with patterns of the ancient city of Huizhou and Huangshan peak carved on it, exuding a faint musk fragrance, he couldn't help laughing and said, "Mr. Cao really deserves his reputation, no wonder you dare to engrave it The words 'No. [-] ink in the world'! If the emperor reads it and agrees, I will definitely reward you heavily!"

Half a month later, this calligraphy treasure appeared on the copy of Emperor Kangxi's imperial study.When Emperor Kangxi saw the five powerful characters of "No. [-] Ink in the World" and Cao Sugong's inscription, he couldn't help being moved: "This ink maker surnamed Cao is very proud! I would like to see how this calligraphy is. What's so weird about it?"

After finishing speaking, he asked the little eunuch beside him to pour some water into the inkstone, and then held the oval-shaped inkstone with both hands to grind it.After about a cup of tea, the ink in the inkstone became thick.Emperor Kangxi handed the calligraphy to the little eunuch to keep it away, then dipped the brush into the ink, and wrote the five characters "No. [-] ink in the world" on a piece of rice paper.After the handwriting was dry, the little eunuch hung it on the wall and began to watch it carefully.

The characters on the rice paper are black and shiny, which seems not surprising.Emperor Kangxi felt a little disappointed, but when he walked a few steps and looked back, he saw that the five big characters were emitting a lavender light.This time, Emperor Kangxi was overjoyed, clapped his palms and laughed loudly: "It really deserves to be the number one calligraphy in the world!"

After finishing speaking, he asked the little eunuch to take out the calligraphy and began to watch it carefully.After looking at it for a while, he suddenly said "噫": "The place where the upper and lower parts of the word 'ink' combine is too wide, and it is not organized at all, and the sun on the top of Huangshan is not painted with gold powder. I will meet this master ink maker surnamed Cao, and ask him face to face."

When he went to the morning court the next day, Emperor Kangxi asked the little eunuch to show the "No. [-] ink in the world" to the ministers, and showed the ministers the painting he wrote yesterday.

Wu Haitu was so happy, ink merchants from all over the country also felt Huizhou, and ordered calligraphy from Cao Sugong.

One day, a businessman speaking a Beijing accent suddenly came to Cao's Mofang.Compared to him, that servant was too inconspicuous. Not only was he thin and thin, he didn't even have a beard on his face, and he spoke like a drake.

When this ink dealer in Beijing, who called himself "Huang San", saw Cao Sugong, he took out a 2 tael banknote and a rubbing of "The Best Ink in the World", saying that he spent a lot of money to hire a palace eunuch. After getting it out, he wanted to ask Cao Sugong to make a piece of calligraphy for him that was exactly the same as the one he paid tribute to the emperor.

Cao Sugong immediately rejected him, and said with a sigh: "I thought that the emperor is a person who knows ink, so I painstakingly made him a piece of 'the best ink in the world', but now it seems that the emperor is also a mortal with naked eyes, and can't see ink." The mystery in it!"

Huang San couldn't help asking: "Why?"

Cao Gongsu didn't speak, but took Huang San to look at the suffering in the city, and the fact that Wu Haitu's corruption and perverting the law, covering the sky with one hand.

Seeing all this, Huang San was silent, he finally understood the meaning of the pattern on the ink ingot.

The word "Ink" on the ink ingot is written up and down, which clearly means that Huizhou City in the picture has the best "black soil" in the world, and the sun on the top of Huangshan Mountain is also black, indicating that there is no sky here.

In the morning of the next day, a large group of officers and soldiers suddenly appeared in the city of Huizhou, and as soon as they arrived, they surrounded the magistrate's yamen.It didn't take long for an exciting news to spread throughout Huizhou City: It turned out that Governor Yu Wenlong of Liangjiang suddenly received a secret order from the emperor, and came here with troops from Hangzhou to investigate the dog official Wu Haitu.

At [-]:[-] p.m., Wu Haitu was about to be escorted to Caishikou for questioning and beheading!

After getting the news, everyone was so happy and ran out of the house one after another, just like it was Chinese New Year.

And Huang Sanye's identity was also revealed, he was Emperor Kangxi, and Cao Sugong seemed to know it a long time ago, so he was not surprised at all.

It turned out that there was a painter surnamed Zhou in the court, who was a classmate of Cao Sugong when he was young. The year before last, when painter Zhou returned to his hometown to visit relatives, he showed him the portrait of the emperor, so Cao Sugong recognized him when Emperor Kangxi entered the Mofang. , so there is the next story.

Afterwards, Cao Sugong turned around and rushed into the Mofang. When he came out, he was holding an oval-shaped ink treasure. The sun on the top was also painted with gold powder, and it was shining with golden light.

Emperor Kangxi was overjoyed, and instead of accepting it, he kept the treasure of calligraphy - Ziyuguang.

And the origin of the purple jade light is like this.

After sending Emperor Kangxi away, Cao Sugong engraved the three characters "Purple Yuguang" and "Kangxi Yubi" on the oval ink treasure, and regarded it as the treasure of their Caojia Mofang.

For a time, the name of "Purple Jade Light" calligraphy was well-known all over the world.

Unfortunately, during the war of aggression against China, this rare treasure was lost somewhere.

By mistake, it was obtained by Liu Aimin's ancestors and kept in a treasure, and by mistake, it fell into the hands of Chu Yunqiu.

I have to say it was a miracle.

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