Su Hui, also known as Ruolan, learned calligraphy at the age of three, poetry at the age of five, painting at the age of seven, embroidery at the age of nine, and brocade weaving at the age of twelve. By the age of 12, she was already a beautiful scholarly lady and a candidate for marriage. There was an endless stream of people, but all they said were mediocre people, and none of them could move her heart.
At the age of seventeen, Su Hui married Dou Tao, a handsome young man with both civil and military skills. The two parties were in free love, and their relationship was naturally extraordinary. Dou Tao lived up to his wife's expectations. After Fu Jian came to power, he became an official in the former Qin Dynasty and achieved great political achievements. Obviously, he made many military exploits and became the governor of Qinzhou. However, because of his ambition as a young man and his disorderly conduct, he was convicted and exiled to the quicksand. The quicksand is the Xinjiang Gobi. Most of the prisoners who were exiled there would not survive.
At the time of separation, Dou Tao was desperate and wanted to dissolve his marriage with his wife. However, Su Hui vowed to be loyal to Dou Tao and promised him that he would serve his parents-in-law wholeheartedly and not remarry until he came back to reunite. With his wife's encouragement, Dou Tao Dou Tao survived the most difficult period in his life. Two years after he was exiled, Fu Jian planned to destroy the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was the right time to hire someone. Thinking of Dou Tao's civil and military talents, he re-appointed him as General Annan, along with his son Shangshu Ling. Fu Pi captured Dongpu Xiangyang.
Dou Tao was reborn, his status became more prominent, and he was naturally surrounded by countless beauties. Soon, he was seduced by a kabuki actor named Zhao Yangtang, and Zhao Yangtang became his wife in Xiangyang. Su Hui, who was left in her hometown, learned of the incident. She stayed in the house under an empty tent on a moonlit night, but her husband changed his mind. How should Su Hui deal with it?
She didn't cry or make trouble, nor was she stupid enough to want a divorce. Instead, she spent several months turning the sorrow, anger and pity in her heart into silky love, and embroidered it into a beautiful palindrome with 840 crosses, called "Xuanji Picture" , sent to her heartless husband. When Dou Tao read these sincere and tragic poems, he was immediately ashamed and hated his misbehavior. He sent Zhao Yangtang back to Guanzhong, and had a carriage and courtesy invitation to welcome Su Hui to Xiangyang. The couple reconciled. As before.
Su Hui's Xuanji Pictures not only helped her win back love, but also made her talent famous throughout the ages. As soon as it came out, everyone rushed to copy it, try to read it in sentences, and analyze the poem style. However, only few people could understand it. It spread like a morning star. In later generations, I don’t know how many literati and scholars were troubled. The empress Wu Zetian of the first generation devoted herself to the "Xuanji Picture" and got more than 200 poems, and she was very proud of it. Of course, there are more powerful masters than her, such as Liu Ji , together with colleagues, we solved thousands of poems based on the previous work.
But this has reached its limit. If it continues to be solved forcefully, it will either go crazy or vomit blood and die.
However, what no one knew was that seven hundred years later, in Meizhou in the middle of Sichuan, another young girl with extraordinary talent appeared. She used her intermittent leisure time within a few years to solve the eternal mystery of the Xuanji Diagram. She discovered , the handwriting in the original picture was actually divided into five colors to distinguish the three-, five-, and seven-character poetry styles. Later transcribers all used ink writing, making it impossible to distinguish the styles, which caused difficulties in interpretation.
This woman is Chen Ke's fiancée Su Xiaomei. With the help of her brother, she repainted "Xuanji Picture" with five colors and found one hundred and eight key words. Just grab any word and use it to summarize There are twelve interpretation methods such as forward reading, backward reading, beginning reading, four-corner reading, and opposite reading, so that the poems and texts hidden in the Xuanji Picture can be unearthed one by one.
Because the main energy was spent on Chen Ke's dictionary, the younger sister did not enumerate all the poems after finding the method. But according to her speculation, using this method, she should be able to get more than 9,000 poems.
, excluding those that are out of tune, mediocre, or meaningless, there should be four to five thousand poems.
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With the little sister's method, in Chen Ke's eyes, the "Xuanji Picture" is like a hundred and eight nails, with dozens of poems hanging on each nail. Whatever poems he needs, the quantity is not limited, and he can get it at his fingertips
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But Liu Ji over there was not struggling either. With Qian Shi in mind, he was even faster than Chen Ke.
The two of them played one song for you and one for me. Within half an hour, they had already played three hundred songs, which had exceeded ordinary people's cognition. But they still had no intention of stopping, and each song was full of sadness and resentment.
Or poems with deep love like the sea, uttered one after another from the two of them, turned into the most splendid music, making the listeners intoxicated and forgetting everything.
People desperately want to memorize more poems. ("") However, the speed of the two of them is too fast. They often only memorize half of the previous poem, and the next one comes suddenly, making people overwhelmed and unable to remember.
Fortunately, there were already ten scholars working hard on the sidelines to record the events, so that this pinnacle duel, which was destined to become a legend, would not lose its essence and only remain a legend.
The news of this competition quickly spread throughout the capital, and people flocked to the Zhuangyuan Building from all directions. The building was packed, and they stood on the street, waiting for the latest poems to be released.
Time continued to pass, and the competition started at noon and ended at the beginning of the lanterns. It lasted for two hours and covered 1,200 poems! Both of them had already hoarse throats and used their pens instead of words, but they still had no intention of stopping.
The atmosphere has also reached a fever pitch. People not only want to see the outcome of this super showdown, but also want these two geniuses to decipher more poems from "Xuanji Pictures". In this contradictory mood,
They were so intoxicated that they even forgot to be hungry and applauded every poem.
At this moment, victory and defeat have transcended, and the duel itself has become an eternal classic.
Tonight, all the eyes in Bianjing City were focused on the Zhuangyuan Building. Helpers and errand runners from all over the place flocked in, paying a lot of money for the latest copy, and then rushed around to deliver it to various restaurants, brothels, and palaces of princes in the capital.
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The guests in the Fan Tower were absent-mindedly watching the singing and dancing. Every time someone came upstairs, they would get up and look up to see if a new copy had been delivered.
The owner of Ren's shop was better at running the business, so he had people rush to make a huge Xuanji picture, which was hung in the most conspicuous place in the restaurant. Whenever a newly interpreted poem was delivered, the guests could refer to this picture and appreciate it.
The mystery of it.
In the Tianyin Waterside Pavilion, the Du family's singing also stopped. She looked at the manuscript that was delivered to her hand and sighed quietly... After that night of dreamlike lingering, Chen Ke never appeared again. Although it was her
She tried her best to insist not to see each other again before retiring, but Chen Kezhen did so, but she suddenly felt sad in her heart. Just like now...
In the Prince's Mansion of Beihai County, the Zhao Zongji brothers had already gone to the Zhuangyuan Building to watch the excitement. The young princess could not go out casually and could only read the thick stack of papers copied by the guard. However, the guard's handwriting was crooked, which made her very dissatisfied.
Then he asked his maid to grind the ink, write it herself, and copy it carefully on Xue Tao's paper.
However, she only copied the poems that Chen Ke had interpreted. As for the poems that Liu Ji had interpreted, the little princess didn't care and let them twist and turn.
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In the study of Zhao Zongshi in the Prince's Mansion of Runan County, there are also poems copied from Zhuangyuan Tower.
Several of his brothers are also there, the eldest Zhao Zongyi, the third brother Zhao Zonghui, the fourth brother Zhao Zongfu... these three brothers are also his most trustworthy helpers.
"How much has this been solved?" Zhao Zongyi asked.
"More than 1,700 poems." Zhao Zonghui likes literature and is particularly passionate about it.
Zhao Zongshi, who usually looks like a scholar, has no interest in the 'Xuanji Picture'. He is interested in these two people: "It seems that no matter they win or lose, these two people will become famous."
"The two of them are already capable." Zhao Zongfu said: "Liu Ji has long been considered to be the best candidate for the number one scholar in this subject. Chen Ke is a student of Ouyang Xiu, who once edited the "Dictionary", but he lacks the sensation**
pieces, so the fame didn’t spread.”
"This is quite a sensation." Zhao Zongyi said: "The two Jie Yuans jointly destroyed the Xuanji Picture. It is a story that will last forever!"
"Well, these two people should be recruited in advance. Don't wait until after the Spring Festival. It will be too conspicuous to become the emperor's disciples at that time." Zhao Zongshi looked at the third child and said: "I heard that Liu Ji has a good relationship with you?"
"Yes." Zhao Zonghui said: "I have held several cultural gatherings, and this person was always invited. But I think he is quite arrogant, so I didn't rush to recruit him for you."
"We still have to recruit the number one scholar in the next subject." Zhao Zongshi said slowly: "As for the other one..."
"Don't think about it. It is said that Wuyou Cave was destroyed and he was the culprit." Zhao Zongyi said: "And father guessed that our money also fell into his hands."
"Yes, Lao Ba and Shiliu are deliberately trying to kill him."
"With the royal guards protecting him, who can do anything to him?" Zhao Zongshi shook his head and said: "Besides, such a talent is really capable, and ten people tied together will not be as effective as him." He lowered his voice and said: "He
I always feel uneasy around Zhao Zongji."
"By the way, three." Zhao Zongfu looked at Zhao Zonghui and said, "Father asked you to contact him. How is your progress?"
"I'm angry when I say this..." Zhao Zonghui said depressedly: "I sent him invitations to several cultural gatherings, but he didn't come."
"When there are so many people invited to a literary conference, of course he doesn't have to come." Zhao Zongfu said: "Can't you invite him alone?"
"What's the reason?" Zhao Zonghui asked: "Besides, at that time, was he so proud?"
"What now?" Zhao Zongshi said with a grim look.
"Of course it's enough now." Zhao Zonghui shrank his head and said, "I'll just ask for you in a few days!"
"I'll be there too." Zhao Zongshi paused and said, "I'll pretend to be your follower."
"As for attaching so much importance to him?" Zhao Zongyi said incomprehensibly: "Besides, what about the previous festivals?"
"If you can't take revenge immediately, just bury the unpleasantness deep in your heart." Zhao Zongshi said slowly: "Let Ba Ge and Shiliu stop too. The ministers will soon make a final decision, and nothing can go wrong at this time."
