The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Fang Yun continued to eat, and Yang Yuhuan said: "Dudu Zhang sent someone to deliver a demon turtle egg. It has been pickled when it was delivered. It can be cooked for you in seven days. The man gave instructions when he delivered it, saying that Eat it in five days, don’t eat too much every day.”

"Well. Tell me what's going on at home these days." Fang Yun said.

Yang Yuhuan talked happily about trivial matters at home.

After a while, Nunu became drowsy after listening to it, and looked at Fang Yun with a blank expression, wondering how he could keep listening. It couldn't figure it out, so it jumped on Fang Yun's lap and took a nap.

Mrs. Jiang on the side secretly thought that Yang Yuhuan was lucky. Fang Yun had such a high status now, but he was willing to spend time listening to Yang Yuhuan. He was really considerate and considerate. In the future, the couple would definitely be in harmony with each other and be extremely affectionate.

After eating, Fang Yun said: "Come, I will teach you how to read."

"Yeah." Yang Yuhuan was even more happy.

After teaching Yang Yuhuan how to read, Fang Yun went back to the study to practice calligraphy.

Fang Yun once again copied Liu Gongquan's "Shen Ce Jun Stele" and found that he had already started, and since he had achieved the first level of writing with sound, he could learn from the strengths of other writers, and then draw parallels to take his calligraphy to a higher level.

"The four major styles of regular script are dignified, masculine, and vigorous. If there is Yan Zhenqing in Shengyuan Continent, it would be better to learn his regular script. But there is no such person in Shengyuan Continent. It would be inappropriate for me to be thought of as creating my own style. Poems can There is genius, but the spirit in calligraphy cannot be born with Zhao Ti. It's beautiful but too close to running script. Since I started with Liu style, and Liu style takes advantage of European style, the next step is to learn Ouyang Xun's European style, and then I can learn Yan style or Zhao style. Once I've mastered regular script, I can do that. When writing cursive script, even if you write hard and fast, the writing speed of cursive script is still faster than that of regular script.”

Fang Yun did not copy Ouyang Xun's calligraphy immediately, but first read and memorized Ouyang Xun's calligraphy theory, including "Teaching Jue", "Eight Jue", "On Using the Brush", etc. When it comes to calligraphy education, Ouyang Xun ranks among the four masters of regular script. For first.

After studying Ouyang Xun's calligraphy theory, Fang Yun found that it seemed to be able to be used to teach students, so he memorized it silently again and began to copy Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace" or "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming".

After a while, the concierge came in and said outside the door: "Master, there are several people coming to visit outside the door. They are all from famous families."

Fang Yun stopped writing and thought in his mind.

"To set foot on the holy path, I should race against time. If I spend my time socializing with these people, my progress will be slower. However, no matter how obsessed I am with the holy path, I cannot completely ignore the world. Just like those high-level demon clans, although The IQ is not bad, but the character and emotional intelligence are terrible, and he is often hot-blooded and desperate.”

Fang Yun thought for a moment and asked: "Which literary society in June is the most famous?"

The concierge was a native of Yuhai Prefecture and a Tongsheng veteran specially arranged by the military. He immediately said: "There is no big festival in June, so there is no big poetry gathering. Instead, there is the Beginning of Autumn Literary Festival on the first day of July and the Liqiu Literary Festival on the seventh day of July. The Chinese Valentine’s Day cultural gathering is more important, and the annual Chinese Valentine’s Day cultural gathering is the grandest, comparable to the Dragon Boat Festival.”

Fang Yun wanted to push it as long as possible, so he said: "Just say that I am not feeling well and it is inconvenient to see guests or go out in the near future. However, I will participate in the Chinese Valentine's Day literary gathering and talk about the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl with the literati of Yuhai Mansion."

"Yes, sir." The concierge turned and left.

Fang Yun was distracted for a moment and continued to practice calligraphy with his head down. After writing part of "Jiucheng Palace", he began to read the classics of all saints again, studying hard all the time.

At night, Fang Yun felt tired and took a short rest, slowly recalling the process of climbing Shushan in his mind.

"Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are the four friends of the literati. I originally didn't want to learn more about it, but the test in the fantasy world made me realize that although these are not holy ways, they have their own merits just like poetry. In the past, humans did not pay attention to poetry, but now they have to pay attention to qin and chess. The same is true for painting. Besides, I received guidance from "Wen Xiang" in the fantasy world, and I already know the meaning and policy of the book. What I need now is to keep writing and accumulate experience, so that I can find time to learn painting. "

"Chess requires playing, which is the most time-consuming. Both piano and painting can be learned. In the near future, I will try painting first. If my talent is good, I will paint some, if not, forget it. Painting can be divided into freehand brushwork and fine brushwork, and in Shengyuan Continent , Gongbi is more capable of stimulating the vitality of heaven and earth, so it is natural to learn Gongbi. However, if you become a great Confucian and return to your original nature, you can also incorporate it into freehand painting."

Thinking of "small words and great righteousness", Fang Yun couldn't help but think of the "flying pages and empty boat".

"As long as the great scholar writes the word 'zhou', he can turn a page into a boat that can fly in the air. It is really miraculous. However, although micro-statement and great meaning are powerful, they have shortcomings. First, they need to be extracted from the true text of the great scholar, and writing alone is It requires a powerful force, because it is not just a word, but contains the thoughts of a great scholar. I don’t know when I can use my words to kill people and destroy cities with one word.”

Fang Yun remembered what others had said about the scene of Li Wenying charging into the Yangtze River holding the great Confucian's true writings, and his words were flying into the sky, which was extremely terrifying. With a thought in his mind, he remembered that there was a great Confucian text "The Peach Blossom Spring" in the world of strange books. Although it was a fragment, it must have some subtle meaning.

So he closed his eyes and entered the world of strange books with his mind. He immediately saw a golden page of fragments of "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" appearing in front of him, with a total of ninety-one words.

Fang Yun looked at Tao Yuanming's handwriting and recited it repeatedly, and finally his eyes fell on the word "boat" in "Bianshechuan, enter from the mouth".

Ships are bigger than boats. A great scholar can carry people flying by writing the character "boat", and it is even more impressive if he writes the character "boat".

Fang Yun stared at the word "ship" and tried to communicate with his mind to extract the word. Time passed slowly. After two quarters of an hour, the "ship" on the text of the Confucian scholar suddenly moved slightly and seemed to fly. Out of paper.

However, Fang Yun's talents were like a river bursting its banks, rushing into the boat like crazy. In the blink of an eye, the two talents in his body were exhausted.

Fang Yun was shocked and hurriedly stopped extracting the true text. The boat character immediately returned to the fragment, but it seemed to be brighter than the other characters. He hurriedly left Qishu World and entered Wen Palace, where he saw that his two talents had been exhausted and were slowly recovering under the influence of Wen Xin.

"It's just that my talents are exhausted and I'm not injured. It seems that my strength is too low. It's better not to try any more clever methods such as making small talk or using more clever methods."

Fang Yun wanted to continue studying, but his talent and energy were exhausted, so he had to sleep.

Early the next morning, Zhao Hongzhuang, dressed as a scholar, hurried to Fang Mansion.

Fang Yun and Yang Yuhuan were eating, looking at this handsome "gongzi brother" in surprise, but Nunu ignored him. He grabbed the duck neck with his two little paws and ate it with relish, making slight chirping sounds from time to time. Even the youngest All the meat is not spared, leaving clean bones, which is reminiscent of the chef Ding's magical skill of undressing the cow.

Zhao Hongzhuang said as she walked: "Don't go out these days."

"What's going on?" Fang Yun asked.

"Three days later, the literati from Qing Kingdom came across the river to fight against our literati in Yuhai City. I originally wanted to go to Qing Kingdom, but I can't go now."

Fang Yun's face darkened when he heard Wen Dou. If the competition between the two countries at the Dragon Boat Festival is a literary competition, then the literary fight is different.

Wen Dou, like Wen Bi, is an upright method used by literati from all over the world, and it is also a rule recognized by the Holy Academy. Many literati who have grudges use Wen Dou to resolve them.

Literary competitions are just for discussion and will not hurt anyone at all, but literary competitions are different. They are either poetry competitions, talent competitions, or literary boldness competitions. They are very dangerous, and people often die.

"Did they come because of Shushan?" Fang Yun asked.

Zhao Hongzhuang sighed softly and said: "Think about it, the Qing Kingdom has been victorious for seventeen consecutive years in order to suppress my Jingguo literary reputation. This year's Dragon Boat Festival suddenly failed, and seventeen years of hard work were in vain. How could it give up?" ? As far as I know, Qingguo After the failure of the Dragon Boat Festival, we had to send people to fight at the Jingguo Cultural Festival. However, we had to wait until the Chinese Valentine's Day Cultural Festival to come again. We would first defeat our Yuhai Mansion scholars at the Chinese Valentine's Day Cultural Festival, and then fight again to defeat our country in the Dragon Boat Festival. The literary title obtained was completely suppressed.”

"The thousand-year non-war agreement has ended. The demons and barbarians are watching with eager eyes. Are they so impatient to kill each other?" Fang Yun felt angry in his heart.

Zhao Hongzhuang said helplessly: "The grievances between the two countries are too deep. More than a hundred people from the royal families of the two countries died at the hands of each other, not to mention those famous families. Since Wenbi, Wendou and Wenzhan are the rules of the Holy Academy, they If you want to use it, there is nothing we can do to stop it.”

Fang Yun couldn't help but think of that world. Even though technology was highly developed and welfare, education, culture, and living standards were much higher than this era, there were still wars. Even if there is no real war between many big countries, they still provoke conflicts in other countries and use armaments, public opinion, commerce, finance, etc. to fight without smoke. It is very similar to Wenbiwen fighting.

"It's true, this kind of thing can never be avoided." Fang Yun said.

Zhao Hongzhuang said with gratitude and pride: "However, the direct reason is that you won the first place in Shushan, and the people from Qingguo Wuguo behaved extremely badly when going to Shushan this time, so Dongsheng decided to give the original to Qingguo The Holy Court’s items from the Hewu Kingdom were halved, and the reduced items were given to Jingguo, which makes the Holy Court’s items that I, Jingguo, get this year are ten times as much as last year!”

"Jingguo got so little before?" Fang Yun asked.

"Yes, our Jingguo is one of the weakest countries, and we have failed repeatedly. Naturally, we cannot compete with powerful countries such as Wuguo and Qingguo."

Fang Yun said again: "Since the incident started because of me, then Qingguo's main target this time is me?"

"Yes. You have just become a scholar, you don't know how to write poems, and your talent is unstable. They will definitely use literary competition to attack you!"

Fang Yun knew in his heart that he had been given a hush-hush order about his ability to compete in poetry. As for the extent of his talent, even the semi-sage might not know about it, so Zhao Hongzhuang was naturally worried.

"Thank you for reminding me." Fang Yun looked into Zhao Hongzhuang's clear eyes with a smile.

Zhao Hongzhuang said seriously: "This is what I should do. If I don't remind you, I will be ashamed of Jingguo and the human race."