Escape From the Library

【Poetry Maze-06】

Meng Haoran was a famous poet in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Many of his poems were selected into Chinese textbooks, the most famous of which is "Spring Dawn", which elementary school students can memorize.Of course, the library would not take such a simple "submission question". Everyone followed Meng Haoran for a while, and the test question appeared soon. It was called "Leave Farewell to Wang Shiyuwei".

Most of the students did not remember this poem, Yue Xingwen quickly filled in the answer——

How can Jiji wait, and return to the sky.If you want to find fragrant grass, it is a pity that you go against your old friend.Whoever is on the road is a friend, and bosom friends are rare in the world.You should only guard your loneliness and cover your hometown.

Lan Yarong looked at the poem in the floating frame and said, "This is the poem Meng Haoran wrote to Wang Wei!"

Yue Xingwen nodded: "Well, Meng Haoran went to Chang'an to rush for the exam when he was 40 years old, but he failed to pass the exam. At that time, Wang Wei was already a guest of the nobles in the capital. Meng Haoran was disheartened and didn't want to stay in the capital. After parting, I wrote this poem to Wang Wei."

Ke Shaobin said with emotion: "Is this the 'Great God's circle of friends'? Many poets are actually inextricably linked! It's actually quite interesting to study carefully."

Liu Zhaoqing looked at Yue Xingwen suspiciously: "We took the road of idyllic scenery, first met Wang Wei, then met Xie Lingyun, Xie Tiao, Tao Yuanming, and finally met Meng Haoran. As a result, Meng Haoran took another exam here. The first poem related to Wang Wei feels like... going around in a circle and finally ending?"

Jiang Pingce said calmly: "Brother is right, we have indeed made a full circle." He spread out the drawn map in front of everyone, and Yue Xingwen immediately leaned over to check it carefully.

On the way, they passed through woods, rivers, mountains, and fields, and enjoyed the fresh and beautiful scenery. The journey was farther than the frontier fortress, and it took more than half an hour. After meeting Meng Hao, the exploration speed increased to 50%. .

When walking, I just feel that the path in the mountains is winding and quiet.Yue Xingwen was responsible for solving the problem, and Jiang Pingce was calculating angles and distances along the way. With Zhang Xiaonian's laser ranging, the map he drew was very accurate.Looking at the map now, everyone was surprised to find that the road of pastoral scenery is actually a circle.

This result made everyone look at each other in blank dismay.

Lan Yarong couldn't help but said: "Could it be that if we go further, we will meet Wang Wei again?"

Yue Xingwen frowned slightly: "Let's go and have a look."

Everyone followed Meng Haoran's footsteps and continued to walk forward.

Along the way, I encountered two more topics, one was Meng Haoran's representative work "Passing the Old Man's Village" and the other was "On the Cold River in the Morning", and Yue Xingwen successfully filled in the vacant words and sentences.

Going forward, they really saw Wang Wei!

The familiar scenery around, as well as the traces left by Yue Xingwen after filling in the answer box, all told them clearly: "You have been here just now."

Jiang Pingce looked at Yue Xingwen and said, "The road of pastoral scenery seems to be a complete closed loop. From Wang Wei, to Xie Lingyun, Xie Tiao, Tao Yuanming, and finally to Meng Haoran, the five NPCs formed a circle. "

Ke Shaobin said: "If the exit of the maze is not here, then we have only one road left! It seems that we have to go back to Li Bai, the road to the Yellow Crane Tower."

Yue Xingwen nodded, and looked at Qin Lu: "Continue to change the plate, from the intersection of the pastoral style and the frontier scenery, go back the same way."

Wang Wei was near the intersection, and everyone walked back according to the map. With the help of Qin Lu's "transposition of plates", it didn't take long before they returned to the wall where Li Bai wrote "Xia Ke Xing" with a swipe of his pen forward.

There are two roads in front of the wall. On the right road, "Dune City" meets Du Fu. Follow Du Fu and go forward. There are two branches, the frontier fortress and the pastoral. It is now confirmed that all the roads on the right are dead ends.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other and walked to the left tacitly.

After walking the left road for only a few minutes, a familiar building appeared in front of everyone - beside the Wanli Yangtze River, there stood a five-story attic with exquisite shape. There are flying yellow cranes, and there is a plaque hanging under the eaves of the attic, with the three characters "Yellow Crane Tower" written on it in golden light.

The Yellow Crane Tower appeared here, and everyone was not surprised at all. After all, there was a sign of "Yellow Crane Tower" at the fork just now. Of course, the students expected the next exam questions.

"Yellow Crane Tower Sends Meng Haoran to Guangling" by Li Bai

The old man said the Yellow Crane Tower and fireworks went to Yangzhou in March.

Lonely sails far and wide, and only the Yangtze River flows.

Everyone can memorize this poem, and everyone looks up a word and quickly fills in the answer.

I thought that after Meng Haoran appeared, he would ride a horse and take everyone on a journey, unlock more areas of the maze, and meet more poets.However, just as they finished writing their answers, the scene in front of them suddenly flickered, and everyone came to the place where they saw Meng Haoran just now.

On the contrary, the "maze exploration rate" in the floating frame has increased to 55%, because they unlocked the area of ​​the Yellow Crane Tower, which increased the exploration rate by 5%.

Liu Zhaoqing asked puzzledly: "What's the situation? Back to Meng Haoran, haven't we just been on this road? Going forward is Wang Wei! Then there is the intersection of Tianyuan and Frontier Fortress?"

Qin Lu was also puzzled: "Isn't it a hallucination? I remember that when I saw Meng Haoran just now, there were these trees behind him. Do you want to go forward and try?"

In order to confirm whether they had returned to the original point, the people continued to walk forward, and the surrounding scenery became more and more familiar. After turning the corner, there was indeed an acquaintance in front of them looking at them with a smile—it was Wang Wei.

Jiang Pingce frowned and said, "Going forward, there is a fork in the frontier fortress and the countryside. Then you meet Du Fu, then you meet Li Bai, and you will be teleported to Meng Haoran again when you go to the Yellow Crane Tower."

Ke Shaobin adjusted his glasses, looked carefully at the map, and said, "That is to say, the maze in the 55% area we are currently exploring has formed a complete closed loop. Li Bai is the starting point. After Li Bai wrote "Xia Ke Xing", he divided two The frontier fortress on the right, and Tianyuan are all dead ends; the Yellow Crane Tower on the left is a teleportation station, which sent us directly to see Meng Haoran, and in the end, Meng Haoran was on the road in Tianyuan again, and it was still a dead end!"

Liu Zhaoqing couldn't help complaining: "Isn't this a dead end? No matter how we go, we are going back and forth on a path that forms a closed loop?"

Everyone thought about it, but they couldn't figure out where the exit of the maze was.

Yue Xingwen had no choice but to look at Jiang Pingce for help: "Pingce, what do you think?"

Jiang Pingce was frowning and looking at the map at this time. He was silent for a few seconds when he heard Xingwen's words, and then said: "A circular path does not necessarily have no exit. This maze of poetry is not a flat maze, but a three-dimensional maze."

Yue Xingwen's eyes lit up: "It's just like the prime number maze that I encountered in the School of Mathematics. There seems to be no exit on the same floor, but can you reach other floors by taking the elevator?"

Jiang Pingce nodded and said, "The reason why I'm sure this is a three-dimensional maze is because the teleportation point at the Yellow Crane Tower is not in the same space as the rural scenery road."

On his map, the road between the Yellow Crane Tower and the pastoral scenery cannot be connected no matter what mathematical algorithm is used, and can only be directly transmitted across time and space.Since such a teleportation point has appeared, it means that there are other teleportation points inside the maze, and the corresponding space has not been unlocked by them.

Ke Shaobin was thoughtful: "Where will the teleportation point be?"

Qin Lu suddenly said: "I remember Wang Zhihuan, who I met last at the frontier scenery, walked into a fog, where there seemed to be a transparent wall of air blocking us."

Ke Shaobin said: "The transparent air wall can be understood as an enchantment of different spaces. We tried it at the time, and the fog can't get in, so it shouldn't be the answer?" He looked at Jiang Pingce and asked, "What does Pingce think? "

Jiang Pingce said: "I personally prefer that the teleportation point is still on the road of rural scenery."

Ke Shaobin carefully thought about the experience along the way——

First, I met Wang Wei, and tested two poems "Mountain Dwelling in Autumn" and "Painting", which increased my exploration by 5%.

Immediately after increasing the difficulty, Xie Lingyun's "Shibi Jingshe Returns to the Lake" and Xie Tiao's "Late Climbing Three Mountains and Looking at Beijing City" add up to 5% exploration;

Then there was Tao Yuanming's "Chrysanthemum picking under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing Nanshan", which did not increase the degree of exploration; then met Meng Haoran, who increased the degree of exploration by 5% after answering the questions.

With so many poets adding up to 15% exploration, I always feel that it is not reasonable.

Ke Shaobin scratched his hair and asked, "Is there something missing?"

At this moment, Yue Xingwen suddenly said, "It's Tao Yuanming!"

Everyone turned their heads to look at Xingwen, but Yue Xingwen's eyes were on Jiang Pingce, and he said seriously: "Tao Yuanming, as the founder of the School of Landscape and Pastoral Poetry, took the test question 'Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely'. The poems that middle school students can memorize are too simple, and only this one is tested, maybe there is a hidden mystery."

Jiang Pingce pondered the artistic conception of this poem carefully, and then recalled the scene at that time, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind: "We only saw chrysanthemums everywhere at that time, but did not see the 'Nanshan' he described!"

Thinking about it carefully, everyone really only saw a large number of chrysanthemums, which fit the description of "picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence". In addition, there was a road ahead, and they subconsciously followed the road.

But what about "seeing Nanshan leisurely"?

Yue Xingwen said: "There must be a fog near Tao Yuanming that hasn't been unlocked."

Everyone quickly returned to where Tao Yuanming was.

Tao Yuanming picked chrysanthemums very leisurely, occasionally stopped to rest, wiped off his sweat, and squinted his eyes comfortably to look in one direction.Yue Xingwen followed his gaze, and saw a cloud of white mist floating in the distance, and a mountain was looming under the cover of the white mist.

Jiang Pingce and Yue Xingwen looked at each other, and walked towards the mountain tacitly.

Surprisingly, there was no road here, but as they walked forward, a curved path appeared automatically under their feet.Ke Shaobin excitedly said: "It's a hidden path!"

The road is very long. Jiang Pingce calculated the distance while walking. When he came to the end of the road, a beautiful mountain range appeared in front of everyone. Jiang Pingce said: "The distance we have just traveled is exactly the radius of a circle. That is to say, this mountain is right in the center of the circular area of ​​pastoral scenery."

This sentence made everyone feel excited-they must have found the right answer!

However, there is no way to go any further.

They couldn't go up this mountain, and layers of white mist blocked them at the bottom of the mountain. The moment they touched the white mist, a floating frame popped up in front of them, as if they had encountered a "combined lock" and needed a poem to unlock it.

Mouth Mouth Mouth Mouth

Mouth Mouth Mouth Mouth

Fourteen characters of spaces, without any hints.

Xu Yishen shrugged helplessly: "Does this mean that we don't give the questions and just let us fill in the answers?"

Everyone looked at each other.

The previous exam questions all have hints, either the scene corresponds to the poem, or the previous sentence is directly given and the candidate is required to fill in the next sentence.But this time, the scene corresponds to Tao Yuanming's poem "Seeing Nanshan Leisurely", but it is not seven words at all!There is no prompt for the upper and lower sentences, so how should I fill it in?

Ke Shaobin said: "Didn't we get the writing brush props before? Or, let's use props directly?"

Yue Xingwen smiled slightly and said, "No need, I know how to fill it out, I'll try it out."

After he finished speaking, he took a step forward, picked up the pen next to the answer box, and quickly wrote a line of verse.

--Mountain darkly, vista.