It seems that I am still too full [travel]

In Rongshan Academy, Song Ziming held a letter of worship in his hand and entered the house where the head of the mountain was.

After three slight knocks on the door, a solemn and dull voice came from inside the room, "Come in."

Song Ziming gently pushed open the door, took small steps forward, and bowed, "Teacher, Dongcang Academy sent an invitation card for the lecture."

"Oh?" Shao Lian raised his head at the desk and raised his eyebrows, obviously quite surprised, "They actually have a lecture at this time?"

Song Ziming handed the letter of greeting to the teacher. Hearing what he said, he asked softly: "Teacher, aren't the lectures held at the turn of spring and summer, summer and autumn?" The number of Taoist gatherings ranges from dozens to hundreds or thousands, so most of them are held in the open air or semi-open air. In this era, there is no air conditioning and heating, so all major academies and literati have agreed No one has to suffer if the lectures are held outside the hot summer season.

Shao Lian shook his head, pointing to his ignorant disciple, "The current Lord of the South Land was born in Dongcang, and he is the former mountain head of Dongcang Academy. Dongcang is at the cusp of the storm, so it should be low-key and quiet. Otherwise, if that one If it is defeated, Dongcang Academy will be doomed." Although the two academies are in competition, Dongcang Academy unexpectedly overwhelmed Rongshan Academy in this year's imperial examination, which made many teachers and students in Rongshan quite depressed, but Shao Lian also didn't want to see Dongcang Academy be imprisoned.

Song Ziming muttered in a low voice, "Don't talk about keeping a low profile in Dongcang Academy, they almost broke the sky. Who among today's scholars doesn't know the 'Gezhi Class' and scientific experiments taught by Mr. Xie Shan? Qin Mr. Sui is not as popular as he is."

Shao Lian glanced at his disciples, "Oh? So, you don't agree with the science of Mr. Xie Shan? But how did you hear, as a teacher, that you studied that handout in private?"

Song Ziming, who was caught by the teacher's braid, blushed immediately, "Student, student just heard that what Xie Shan said is extremely absurd, so I want to see why what he said..."

"That book was given to you by Wu Liao?" Shao Lian's tone was light, as if he didn't mean to be harsh, but Song Ziming, who was standing opposite the teacher, felt like he was sitting on pins and needles. He never expected that the teacher would know that the book was given to him by Senior Brother Wu. .Out of benevolence, morality and fellowship, he absolutely could not confess Wu Liaolai, so he would bow his head and falter in the face of the teacher's questioning.

Shao Lian didn't need him to nod. As the head of the mountain, he naturally knew the students in the academy very well. Seeing this, he pinched his brows and sighed, "Due to the many rebellions in various places this year, the imperial court has suspended the examination. I don't know when Open it again, he is fine, no pressure, now he is reading idle books."

Skipping this matter aside, Shao Lian was looking at the invitation. The invitation was packed in a thick envelope. Shao Lian tore open the envelope and took out the invitation. He wanted to see who the speaker of the lecture was. However, Mr. Song Shou or that Mr. Qianxi from Hangzhou decides whether to take this muddy water or not. Who knows, what they take out is not the thin letter paper in the past!

Shao Lian took out the particularly stiff and straight letter paper, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he said in surprise, "This letter paper is extraordinarily novel and beautiful."

Song Ziming approached curiously, and saw that the invitation letter was blue in color, and in the center was a three-dimensional vertical plaque with the words "Dongcang Academy" engraved in the center of it. It was like a door, and the letter paper could go left and right. Unfold the two sides, and after unfolding, you will find that the front is just an envelope, and the three-fold letterhead embedded in the envelope is the real invitation.

However, there is also a lot of content in this invitation. I can only see that the first page of the three-fold letter paper is hollowed out with majestic mountains and waves. This should describe the terrain of Dongcang Academy with its back against Longfeng Mountain and facing the East China Sea. ; The third fold depicts a party with a flowing glass of water. Both of them are scholars, so they can naturally understand it at a glance. What this wants to express is the famous gathering of scholars in history-the Lanting Gathering.

The fold in the middle shows the specific time, place, speaker and many other matters of the lecture. What is more special is the Dongcang Academy logo jointly designed by Xie Shi and the students in the upper middle.

At this time, Song Ziming had completely forgotten the guilty conscience and restlessness just now, and kept sticking his head towards the teacher. If he didn't respect the teacher, he would have wished to snatch the invitation from the teacher at this time, and have a good time watching it. No wonder He didn't know much about it, but Xie Shi's ingenious design of the invitation was in the hands of these scholars!

Although the so-called three-dimensional greeting cards and hollow paper carvings are commonplace in modern times, the ancients have never seen this one!What's more, Xie Shi also encouraged the engraving and printing craftsmen with high rewards, and under his "layman" guidance, he figured out the method of color printing. The mountains, seas and parties depicted are all like paintings, not like ordinary black and white, but color prints!

The beautiful dyeing, unique and exquisite book cover, and interesting paper carvings captured the hearts of these literati at once.Why were the embroidered portraits of market novels so popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties? Of course, it is because books with engraved portraits and pictures and exquisite bindings are more popular among scholars.No matter when, things with high value are always more popular.

Song Ziming saw that the teacher had been looking through the invitation repeatedly, but he didn't want him to glance at it at all, so he had to divert his attention, picked up the thick envelope, weighed it, and said abruptly: "Teacher, there is something inside! "

Song Ziming didn't wait for the teacher to do it this time, but took it out on his own initiative, "What a unique bookmark!" I saw that there were four bookmarks in total, namely Ruan Ji, Ji Kang, Shan Tao and Xiang Xiu among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. The hollow portraits of the four people are decorated with flowers and grasses, and their respective poems are attached. This is also a color bookmark that has not been seen today.

Shao Lian frowned, took the bookmark and looked at it carefully, then put the bookmark with Ji Kang and Ruan Ji together, and said in a deep voice: "This bookmark should be a set, and it should be a picture when put together. The complete painting is."

"Why did this Dongcang Academy miss three copies..." Song Ziming frowned when he heard this, "If it doesn't match, teacher, wouldn't it be beautiful to use this bookmark?"

I have to say that Shao Lian and Song Ziming, a pair of teachers and students with completely different personalities, can get together because they have some similar temperaments, such as this heart-wrenching obsessive-compulsive disorder!

If Xie Shi knew about the doubts of the teachers and students, he would have smiled like a little fox. Of course, the other three character bookmarks were not missed, Xie Shi did it on purpose!This idea originated from an interesting incident between Han Ji and Xie Shi. At that time, when the bookstore sent the first version of the sample to Xie Shi for review, Xie Shi was very satisfied after reading it, so he excitedly sent it to him. I went to give it to Han Ji to share with him. That time was different from this time, but it happened to be missing one by accident, and it was caught in Xie Shi's book page.

A day later, Xie Shi received a reply from Han Ji. In the letter, the usually stable and calm protagonist showed a rare youthful look. He was surprised that there were only six bookmarks for the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. I was quite concerned about it, and insisted that there should be seven bookmarks, but I laughed when I received the letter, and quickly sent him a complete set of bookmarks, so that this person with obsessive-compulsive disorder can't even get the other six bookmarks. used.

However, this incident sparked Xie Shi's inspiration. He deliberately messed up the bookmarks. Like the blind box, the bookmarks attached to each invitation are incomplete, and some are even repeated, just waiting for these Confucian scholars to take the initiative Come to ask for it!At that time, I will print a series of bookmarks such as "Lanting Gathering", "24 Friends of the Golden Valley", "Tang Eighteen Scholars" or "Four Great Talents in the South of the Yangtze River", and it will be no problem for everyone to give them a set!After all, the bookstore is run by its own academy, the technology is in its own hands, and the printing cost is only a drop in the bucket!

Not to mention, ever since Xie Shi tossed so many things in the bookstore in order to attract people to the lecture, the steward of the bookstore seemed to smell a fishy cat, so he hurriedly came to ask if he could sell the bookmarks and cards in the bookshop, the steward of the bookstore But the business of the "Bazhen Pavilion" next door is booming, and finally this stone-like official Xie has the idea of ​​developing "entertainment", so of course he can't miss the thigh-hugging event!

This is an elegant and profitable business, Xie Shi naturally would not disagree, but he just told the manager to sell it in the bookstore after the lecture, so as not to steal the limelight of the lecture.But in the final analysis, the paper-carved lecture invitation and the exquisite hollowed-out bookmark are just an appetizer prepared by Xie Shi, and the real highlight is yet to come!