The next day, after Jiang Shuo had eaten early in the morning, he pestered Xun Ni to teach him how to use his internal energy to light fire. , and taught him some convenient methods of breath control and breathing. Of course, these exercises are common breathing skills widely circulated in the world. According to this practice, it is acceptable to practice the "Fire Sun Palm" that can strengthen the body and ignite fire from a distance. This kind of unique mental method is definitely not taught to him.
After taking care of him day and night for several months, even a cat and a dog started to develop feelings. Xun Ni was very fond of Jiang Shuo. Seeing that he was recovering from a serious illness and growing in weight, he often complained that he didn't have enough to eat, so he took the leftovers from his master's lunch every day. The snacks I ordered were for him to eat, mostly steamed cakes, glutinous rice balls and the like. Not long after Jiang Shuo finished his snack, Xiang'er came. She practiced martial arts in the morning and studied literature in the afternoon. Martial arts training must be taught by word of mouth and example to prevent her from going astray, so the owner of the village taught her martial arts skills personally. There is no need to do this when studying literature. The owner of the village teaches Xiang'er a lesson every day and lets Xiang'er practice calligraphy alone.
Xiang'er took Jiang Shuo to the place where he practiced calligraphy. It turned out to be a large study room on the north side of the third courtyard. The room was very simple, with no decoration, except for several bookshelves placed densely on top of each other. Most of the bookshelves were filled with scrolls. There are many cloth bags, which apparently contain ancient slips and slips. Jiang Shuo was secretly surprised, thinking that the owner of the villa was a scholar, but he was also a scholar? The walls are covered with rubbings of inscriptions, ranging from regular script stone carvings in recent years, to Wei stele, Qin seal script, and even the inscriptions of the three dynasties of the pre-Qin Dynasty. It seems that the host is not only good at writing, but also has a lot of knowledge in epigraphy.
There are several large sandboxes in the center of the room. Paper and ink were precious in the Tang Dynasty. Even wealthy families were reluctant to use paper for children to practice calligraphy. Therefore, they spread fine sand in the boxes, wrote with bamboo pens, and then let the children copy. You can write again and practice again and again. The same is true for Li Bai's family, and Jiang Shuo is naturally familiar with it. When he saw the four plates, it was written: "Don't talk about each other's shortcomings, rely on your own strengths. A messenger can be restored, but a weapon's desire is difficult to measure." It turned out to be the first sentence of the Thousand-Character Essay. For the second paragraph, I thought it was too simple. I picked up the bamboo pen and asked Xiang'er: "How many times should I copy it?"
Xiang'er wrinkled his nose and said that he had written it ten times. Jiang Shuo looked carefully and saw that the copper bars embedded in the sand table were hidden under the sand. The sand table was indeed divided into ten vertical grids. Except for the line of paradigm written by Xiang'er's father, in fact, he only needed to write nine Just go through it once, so he immediately started to brush and copy "彔talk about the short" nine times. Xiang'er's father wrote in the Li Yong style. Jiang Shuo was no stranger to this kind of font, because Li Yong was from Jiangxia, Ezhou. He was proficient in calligraphy and calligraphy, and was highly praised by Shannan literati. Local literati and Li Bai exchanged comments and learned Li Yong's calligraphy style. Therefore, they realized that Li Yong's calligraphy was most suitable for engraving tablets. He practiced it on the sand table with bamboos. The words are naturally appropriate. Jiang Shuo wrote bits and pieces of letters by hand. When copying, he also deliberately imitated several strokes of Xiang'er's father. After writing nine times, he took two steps back and looked at himself and felt satisfied. Just when he was about to write the first piece of sand, Xiang'er... He shook his head and said: "It doesn't work like this..."
Jiang Shuo was shocked and said, "I feel that I am half or seventy percent similar, isn't that okay?"
Xiang'er said, "It's not that it doesn't look like it, it's that it's written so well that you can tell it wasn't written by me."
Jiang Shuo thought to himself: But I was negligent. This sentence "Don't talk about the shortcomings" is the 45th sentence of "The Thousand Character Essay". This shows that Xiang'er has just started to learn calligraphy, so how can he write well. I have been practicing calligraphy with Mr. Taibai for more than two years. I have already learned the Thousand-Character Classic, and I have also copied many poems every day. Naturally, my calligraphy is better than that of Xiang'er, so I said: "Then you can write it for me." Look, let me write like you."
Xiang'er said with rare coyness: "I don't write well, so don't laugh at me." Yubiti started writing with a bamboo pen on the second sand tray of "Relying on One's Own Strength". She took her time to write. It was extremely slow and it took a lot of effort to finish writing. Jiang Shuo took a closer look and saw that the words were written crookedly. If it weren't for the template written by her father beside him, he would never have been able to connect with the words "relying on one's own strength".
Jiang Shuo stared at her with wide eyes, pretending to be surprised and said, "Xiang'er, you are so good at this."
Xiang'er said strangely: "Aye said I didn't write well, why can't you say it?"
Jiang Shuo said: "The insect-bird seal script you wrote was lost when Qin Shihuang became emperor, right?"
Xiang'er still didn't know what Jiang Shuo meant, so he asked curiously: "What is the large seal script of insects and birds?"
Jiang Shuo pointed to a rubbing on the wall and said, "Here, it's like this one."
I don’t know which generation of bronze this rubbing is from, but I’m afraid it’s earlier than the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It’s better to say it’s a calligraphy than a painting, some of which look like insects, some of which look like birds, and some of which look like beasts, but none of which have any resemblance to the calligraphy. Only then did Xiang'er realize that Jiang Shuo was laughing at her, and said angrily: "Little monkey, how dare you make fun of me." She stretched out her hand to catch him.
Jiang Shuo finally couldn't help laughing, and said as he ran: "Good Xiang'er, I will make a rubbing for you later and hang it on the wall to see if you recognize it..."
But in terms of physical skills, he was no match for Xiang'er. He couldn't run a few steps before he was caught by Xiang'er. Xiang'er also laughed and scolded: "The little monkey has a tricky mouth. He slaps his mouth, slaps his mouth."
Jiang Shuo was hit twice by her and quickly apologized: "Xiang'er, I was wrong. I don't dare to do it anymore. Don't hit me again. I accept the punishment. I accept the punishment."
Xiang'er said: "Just accept the punishment, then I will punish you and write it like me."
Now Jiang Shuo was in trouble. It wasn't difficult to write uglier, but it was not easy to write something completely different. He tried several times, but Xiang'er shook his head and said, "It's so good. Worse, worse." Jiang Shuo was so anxious that he scratched his head and finally wrote a three-dimensional image. Although the font was loose and the strokes were skewed, he could still tell what the character was.
When Xiang'er was about to say no, Jiang Shuo stopped her and said, "Xiang'er, you've been practicing for so long, it's normal for you to make some progress, right? I think I'll just write it like this, so that your grandpa will be happy when he sees it. .”
Xiang'er saw that he kept begging for mercy with a frown on his face, and was not ashamed of his ugly handwriting. He put his hands on his hips and said, "Okay, I guess you can't learn this girl's magical writing style, so just write like this."
Hearing this, Jiang Shuo felt as if he had been granted amnesty and quickly flattened what he had written before. He wrote all four characters according to Xiang'er's crooked handwriting. During this period, because some strokes were too good, he had to revise them several times before he was finished. The next day, the owner of the village greatly appreciated Xiang'er's improvement in writing and praised her very much, but I won't mention it later.
The two of them finished writing the four words in a row, laughing and joking, and then went outside to practice Qinggong. Jiang Shuo got a glimpse of the superior Qinggong method for the first time, but he found it extremely novel and was much more active in practicing Qinggong than Xiang'er. He was much faster and more accurate than the day before. Xiang'er no longer called him stupid, but instead praised him as "a teachable boy".
After learning this for ten days, Jiang Shuo became proficient in the Nine Palace Steps. Xiang'er also taught him the method of double stars and moving palaces. Jiang Shuo was able to master it in just a few days. He also practiced spitting every morning. Na, my strength and endurance are also improving day by day. I am no longer out of breath like at the beginning after a short period of practice.
On this day, Jiang Shuo was practicing vigorously, and Xiang'er suddenly said: "Okay, let's learn to cross the stars."
Jiang Shuo was stunned and said: "Passing the Star?"
Xiang'er said: "The Nine Palaces are just a method. Do you think that if you learn these Nine Palaces Steps, you will be able to dominate the world?"
Jiang Shuo said: "How can I be the only one in the world? Xiang'er, please stop laughing at me and teach me the method of 'piercing the stars'."
Xiang'er said: "Do you know the star map?"
Jiang Shuo shook his head, Xiang'er pointed to the ground and said, "This is the star map."
Jiang Shuo was surprised and said, "Where are the stars?"
Xiang'er was standing in the middle of the yard at the moment, squatting down and pointing at a white round stone and said: "These are all under my feet."
Jiang Shuo knelt down and took a closer look. It turned out that there were two lines of small characters carved on the white stone, "Tianshu - Ji Wu". Next, he looked at a thin line carved beside the dot. After walking a few steps along the thin line, he saw the ground again. There is a round stone inlaid with "Ji Si" engraved on it. Both ends of this round stone are engraved with thin lines. One end is "Tianshu", and the other end is connected to another round stone with "Ji San" engraved on it. , there are lines connecting the round stones further down and the words "ji two" and "ji one" are engraved on them. After that, the thin line is cut off. The thin line carved on the ground is not a straight line, but a multi-section broken line, connecting the five round stones together. .
Xiang'er said: "These are the five stars of the North Pole, come here to see them again."
Jiang Shuo looked north from "Ji Er" and saw another round stone not far away, engraved with "Gou Chen Yi", and a thin line went to the upper right, connecting "Gou Chen Er" and "Hou Chen Yi" in turn. "Chen San" to "Gou Chen Liu", Xiang'er said: "This is Gou Chen Liu star." The arrangement of Gou Chen six stars is more complicated than the North Pole five stars, and the twists and turns are really like curved hooks.
Jiang Shuo asked: "What does this Arctic and Gouchen mean?"
Xiang'er said: "Bobei and Gouchen are star officials who are in charge of the stars below. Each star official has a different number of stars and a different range. Look, there are also 'Si Fu', 'Tian Yi', 'Tai' B'...thirty-seven star officials, with a total jurisdiction of one hundred and sixty three stars."
Xiang'er said as he walked, Jiang Shuo saw that these thirty-seven star officials only occupied a small area in the center of the courtyard, and there were countless white round stones dotted in other places, so he asked, "What about the others?"
Xiang'er said: "Don't worry, these thirty-seven star officials are collectively called 'Ziwei Yuan'. There are twenty star officials of 'Taiwei Yuan' above it, and there are nineteen star officials of 'Tianshi Yuan' below it. Totally Seventy-six star officials and three hundred and twenty-eight stars.”
Jiang Shuo said: "With so many stars, they only occupy the central area."
Xiang'er walked back to the center, pointed to the four directions and said: "There are also seven constellations and forty-six stars in the east, one hundred and eighty-six stars, Xuanwu seven constellations and sixty-five stars in the north, four hundred and eight stars, and White Tiger in the west, seven constellations and fifty-four stars. There are two hundred and ninety-seven official stars, the Southern Suzaku has seven constellations and forty-two constellations, and the official has two hundred and forty-five constellations. The four directions have a total of twenty-eight constellations, two hundred and seven constellations, and one thousand one hundred and thirty-six constellations."
Jiang Shuo looked around and saw that the blue floor tiles were covered with white stars. It was like being in a vast sea of stars. He stuck out his tongue and said: "There are so many stars. It's not easy for you to remember them, Xiang'er. But this is different from practicing kung fu." what is the relationship?"
