Tang riddles

Shen Sui took Zhang Ruohan and left Zhang Huatai's Taolin. They still wanted to see Zhang Taiyuan, and they still had a lot to say.

Zhangtaiyuan was not far from Zhanghuatai. They walked down the mountain and headed southwest of the foothills.Not far from the peach forest, you can already see the shimmering light in the distance.

Shen Sui's narration was still going on, and she roughly told the experience of the past 17 years.Even so, he still talked for nearly two hours.Talking so dryly and drinking half a bag of water, it finally came to an end.At that time, they had already descended the mountain and came to the bank of Zhangtaiyuan.

Looking at the sparkling light in his eyes, Zhang Ruohan seemed very silent, and the face hidden under the hood could not be seen clearly, but Shen Sui could feel a little depression in her mood.Although Shen Sui tried his best to narrate in a calm and relaxed tone, it still inevitably made her sad.

"Lotus Maid, those things have passed, and now I am here, I am fine, I can't be better." She said.

"It's not over yet, isn't it?" Zhang Ruohan said, "You still have a lot to do, don't you?" She stopped and looked at Shen Sui.Two consecutive rhetorical questions made Shen Sui silent.

Zhang Ruohan paused, and continued: "In fact, when you just came back, I guessed that you might have come back because of the events of the year. Although I am not sure who you are, I understand that you are trying to open a page of an old book At that time, I thought that you might be Akashi's friend, or a relative of Akashi that I didn't know, but you should have a special relationship with her. From the fact that you have hidden many key details of the Ci'en case, I can see that, This case is related to the events of that year."

Shen Sui smiled, and suddenly recited: "A thousand branches of maple leaves turn into ten thousand branches, and the river bridge covers Mu Fanchi. Yijun's heart is like the water of the West River, which flows eastward day and night without a break."

Zhang Ruohan also smiled, and said, "This is your father's poem."

"Lotus Maid, you are really smart. Do you know that when Shang Yuan stepped on the song, you led the singing of this poem, I almost thought you had seen through my identity." Shen Sui sighed.

"Then, why did you respond to the second half of the sentence? If you don't answer, wouldn't it arouse my suspicion?"

"Because I wanted to respond to you, so I agreed. I just followed my heart." Shen Sui said with a smile, "Besides, Chishi is not the only person who knows this poem. In this world, there are still very few people Those who know this poem. Even if I agree, you still cannot confirm my identity."

"Cunning." Zhang Ruohan glared at her, and secretly pinched Shen Sui with the hand hidden in his sleeve.

Shen Sui just laughed.

Zhang Ruohan stopped slowly, pulled Shen Sui to stand by the lake, looked at the misty Zhangtaiyuan, she sighed softly:

"It's just a pity that Mr. Changheng, such a brilliant and brilliant generation of Wenzong, has almost completely lost his articles and verses."

"Father's death...it still confuses me." Shen Sui's voice dropped, "He is such a gentle and amiable person, as if he never had a temper. People in Chang'an City have always been very popular. I really don't know who would want to take his life so cruelly, or in such an extreme way. Moreover, what puzzles me the most is why they took my father and mother Split up and end their lives in a completely different way."

Yin Yu, courtesy name Changheng, known as "Mr. Changheng" in the world, is Shen Sui's father.Although he is called Mr., he is actually very young and extremely handsome.He came to Chang'an from Taicheng, and he was the top student in high school in one fell swoop. He was only about 23 or [-] years old that year.Mr. Jiu Ling, who was the same age as him, was ranked second, the second in the list.That happened in the second year of Emperor Wu Chang'an.Since then, the No. [-] scholar Yin Yu and No. [-] Zhang Jiuling have embarked on completely different life paths.Mr. Changheng is not only a generation of Wenzong, but also a peerless swordsman with superb sword skills.Many people can't forget his big crimson horizontal knife, the pattern on it is like a phoenix flying in the flames, the name of the knife is "Hongming", it is a precious knife passed down from generation to generation by the Shen family.

The knife was now covered with a layer of snow clothes and tied around Shen Sui's waist.

"The inverted cross and the boat coffin seem to have something to do with Zhu Yuanmao's case this time," Zhang Ruohan said.

Shen Sui nodded:

"I suspect that the boat coffin containing my mother was actually a birthday gift brought to the mansion some time ago. Because my father's birthday is on the eighth day of the first lunar month. On the night of his birthday, someone sent an extremely exquisite wooden horse into the mansion."

"Trojan horse?" Zhang Ruohan was surprised.

"Yes, it's a lacquer wooden horse." Shen Sui nodded, "The wooden horse is as big as a real hard-earned BMW. The horse rides on auspicious clouds, and the workmanship is very exquisite. But now I suspect that the wooden horse is a mechanical wooden horse, and it can actually be transformed. In terms of shape, after the mechanism was activated, the wooden horse was dismantled and reassembled, and what was transformed was the boat coffin containing my mother. This kind of craftsmanship can only be done by the top carpenters at that time. But I am sure it is not the Mohists and the public losers. One, I've spent six full years proving it."

"Can't you find out who sent the wooden horse?" Zhang Ruohan asked.

Shen Sui shook her head: "If it was then, I might still be able to find out. But now... I can't find out, it's been too long, and I was too young at the time, so I didn't care about it at all." When she said this, there was a faint hint in her tone remorse.

Zhang Ruohan pondered for a moment, and said, "Do you suspect that the wooden horse was built by Zhou Family Village?"

Shen Sui nodded, but did not speak.

Zhang Ruohan sighed deeply, feeling as if a big stone had sunk in his chest.

"Why would a small village of carpenters, who have nothing to do with the world, be chosen to participate in this kind of thing? I really don't understand."

Hearing Zhang Ruohan's question, Shen Sui suddenly said:

"After the sage ascended the throne, the surname of Ji in the world was changed to Zhou to avoid name taboo."

Zhang Ruohan was taken aback: "Zhoujiacun... whose surname is Ji? Bo Zhao, I don't quite understand what you mean. Are you trying to say that they have something to do with ancient legends?"

Shen Sui happily praised: "Lotus Maid, you are so smart, I'm just being casual, and you will understand what I mean."

Then she sighed, and said: "The case 17 years ago was full of weirdness everywhere. The perpetrator committed the crime in an extremely unreasonable way, deliberately choosing some troublesome things with strong witchcraft and religious significance. Zhoujia Village’s original surname is Ji, which may be related to some ancient legends of exorcising evil rituals. The boat coffins made by the descendants of the Ji family are engraved with dragon patterns, which should have a certain The symbolic meaning of witchcraft. There is also my father's inverted cross, which is related to Nestorianism. According to Nestorian legends, the inverted cross is a symbol of the devil Satan. And their Lord, Jesus Christ, was crucified on the cross .They chose to crucify my father on an inverted cross, cut his throat and bled him to death, perhaps it was a religious ritual to ward off evil spirits."

Zhang Ruohan's complexion under the veil was a little pale, and there was a hint of fear in his voice:

"Bo Zhao, do you understand that if you speculate like this, it means that someone killed your whole family so cruelly just because they thought your parents were ominous and to avoid evil spirits."

Shen Sui didn't speak, but just stretched out his arms to wrap her shoulders, giving her warmth and support.

"No wonder, no wonder the two Nestorians we met on the way, you didn't look good." Zhang Ruohan said.

"I still can't forgive this religion. It has caused me too much harm. Even a little bit about Nestorianism will affect my wounds and reopen my scars." Shen Sui's words were very painful, Then she apologized:

"Lotus maid, I didn't want to make you unhappy, but since you already know who I am, I have to tell you what I have experienced these years. You should also understand what I will face next, so ..."

"Stop talking, I've been waiting for you for 17 years, you don't want to leave me anymore." Zhang Ruohan interrupted her.

Shen Sui smiled wryly, but wrapped his arms around her tightly.

The sun is starting to set towards the west, and the return journey will take quite a while.Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan planned to return to Jiangling City to end this short but significant spring outing.

From Zhangtaiyuan, bypassing the west foot of Zhanghuatai, they will soon be able to return to the station where they parked before.After picking up the chariots and horses and paying the money, the group of five people embarked on the official road back.

Just passing Wuliting in the south of the city, Shen Sui saw a carriage in front of him, two horses were parked there, and two people were pulling by the side of the road, but it didn't seem like they were arguing, because one of them was limp, as if he was drunk The other person has been supporting him hard to prevent him from falling.

As he got closer, Shen Sui could see clearly that the drunk person was a young scholar in a gray robe, he was only in his twenties, very young, with a soft mustache on his lips, and a pair of willow-leaf eyes. His appearance is somewhat handsome, but the drunkenness on his face makes him feel a bit fairy-like inexplicably.He wears a hood with hanging feet on his head, is of medium build, and has a long sword tied to his belt around his waist.The one supporting him was his attendant, Shen Sui had seen this attendant before, in the Guantao Pavilion above Zhanghua Terrace.

It seems that this gray-robed scholar was the master behind the screen at that time.It's just that the master may have fallen from the horse just now, and his gray robe was stained with a lot of loess, making him look a little embarrassed.She looked a few more times out of curiosity, but she didn't stop the carriage, and quickly passed them with her carriage.When passing by, I heard a short conversation between the master and the servant:

"Young master, you really drank too much, you'd better get in the car and rest, don't force yourself to ride the horse." The attendant said.

"I didn't drink too much!" The gray-robed scholar waved his arms and said drunkenly, "There is a woman in the car, how can I get in, you...you are confused, you are drunk, hahaha..."

The servant was extremely helpless.

After Shen Sui's chariot and horse went forward for a short distance, she heard the sound of horses' hooves behind her, and she couldn't help but look back, and saw the scholar in gray robe and sword stepping on the horse again, and together with the attendant, led the horse behind him. Carriage, follow behind them.The scholar staggered on his horse, and was about to fall off his horse. The attendants behind him were ashen-faced and fearful.

Shen Sui found it interesting, so he couldn't help but keep his attention behind.

After walking for a while, the gray-robed scholar became drunk and began to sing long songs while riding on his horse.They sang broken poems, although they were not finely crafted and condensed into a masterpiece, but every word and every sentence was wonderful. Shen Sui listened to it in front of him, savoring it carefully, and felt more and more exquisite.And these intermittent poems gave her a very familiar feeling, as if she had heard this style before.

After another short period of time, the gray-robed scholar no longer read these broken poems, and suddenly began to have large and continuous poems, recited from his mouth as if telling a story, which is wonderful:

"Reminiscing about the petite posture in the past, the spring heart is also self-sufficient.

In order to marry your husband and son-in-law, you will be free from long-term lovesickness.

Unexpectedly, marrying a merchant makes people miserable.

Ever since we were husband and wife, have we ever been in the countryside?

Last year, I went to Yangzhou to see off the Yellow Crane Tower.

Seeing the sails go far away, my heart is chasing the river,

Just talk about a period of one year, who is called three autumns.

Makes the concubine heartbroken and hates the king for a long time.

The east house and the west house sent out at the same time, and it took less than a month to go from north to south.

I don't know where the luggage is going, and I can cut it off by making a sound book.

When traveling to and from Nanpu, I would like to ask the Xijiang boat.

Zhengjian was a loaf girl, with red makeup for twenty-eight years.

One is a wife, how sad alone.

Weep when facing the mirror, and just want to cry when meeting people.

It's better to be frivolous and to follow each other.

Regret to be a businessman's wife, parting from youth.

Now it happens to be happy together, who knows when you go to Ronghua? "

Shen Sui knew that this was a Yuefu poem, but it was completely different from the traditional Yuefu poem. She had never heard of it. It seemed to be a brand new style created by the poet.

Shen Sui suddenly had a flash in his mind, and immediately turned his horse back, reined in a few steps away, bowed to the gray-robed scholar, and said:

"Dare to ask, this is Mr. Taibai!"

The author has something to say: The amount of information in this chapter is huge, so I will briefly extract a few points.

1. When answering Shangyuan Tage, Zhang Ruohan tested the poem Shen Sui used.

2. Shen Sui's father officially began to appear as a clear identity in the text.He is not any real historical figure that everyone has guessed before.

3. Hongming Dao→Xue Dao.

4. Mechanism Trojan horse, spent six years investigating Mohists and public losers, and initially explained why Shen Sui was good at making and repairing some mechanical things.

5. The original surname of Zhoujia Village is Ji, and the Ji family is associated with ancient witchcraft.

6. Inverted Cross, Satan and Nestorianism.

7. The debut of Big Brother Taibai and some secrets about him.

You really don’t need a high IQ to read this article, because the author’s IQ is mediocre, and many people are much smarter than me.The gap between us is just unequal information.The reason why I especially like to highlight some points for everyone is because I hope that everyone can keep a clear mind while reading the text, and pay attention to some strange and unreasonable places, so when you guess in advance before I reveal the answer When you win everything, the sense of accomplishment is extraordinary.

PS: Finally, let me say that the Yuefu poems that appear in this chapter are Li Bai's new Yuefu poems - "Journey to Jiangxia".There is also a more famous poem than this one, which is "Send Meng Haoran to Guangling": The old man left the Yellow Crane Tower in the west, and the fireworks went down to Yangzhou in March.The lonely sail is far away, the blue sky is gone, only the sky of the Yangtze River can be seen.