Chapter Three Hundred and Fifty Nine: Do Not Talk About Wu Virtue
The second day
Above the main hall
Xu Qing looked at Kuang Zhou sitting opposite him and said, "Brother Kuang's health is much better?"
Kuang Zhou looked at Xu Qing and said, "I will definitely not lose today's battle!"
Xu Qing said: "Today's shorthand competition, Brother Kuang, please come up with the questions."
After Kuang Zhou and Xu Qing handed back the manuscript, they both looked at the book in their hands and were startled: "It's also a scripture!"
However, what Kuang Zhou handed over to Xu Qing today was a few pages from a Buddhist scripture.
This Buddhist scripture has a long history. When this scripture was first transmitted from the land of Tianzhu, there were very few people in the Central Plains who were proficient in Sanskrit.
Therefore, the translation here is a literal translation plus transliteration. Some scriptures that cannot be translated have to be transliterated. In order to make the scriptures more sophisticated, complex characters with many strokes are also used.
Many of the words are quite remote, and I even made up some of them myself. They are extremely obscure and difficult to understand, and even reading them through is difficult, not to mention memorizing them silently.
The State of Zhao is rich, and Buddhism is relatively prosperous in the State of Zhao.
When Kuang Zhou chose this passage, he was attracted by its obscurity and the large number of uncommon words.
The reason why I did not choose those classics of sages was because Kuang Zhou was really unsure whether Qing had read them, and even if he had not read them, the contents were not difficult to remember. This would have been extremely risky!
Therefore, he set his sights on this Tibetan scripture. Not even a Buddhist monk could read this Tibetan scripture. He did not believe that Xu Qing could read it. Even if he had read it, he would not be able to remember it. Even if he did, he would not be able to remember it.
, just writing these words with many strokes can invisibly consume the opponent's time.
What Xu Qing handed over to Kuang Zhou was also an excerpt of the same number of words from the scriptures. It was just a volume of Tibetan scriptures from the Taoist sect that he had requested from Taoist Master Chunyang.
The words inside also have many strokes, and the content inside is also obscure and difficult to understand, with many uncommon words mixed in. However, since Taoism is a local sect and the scriptures were composed by people from the Central Plains, the content is still transliterated.
The scriptures are easier to remember.
At least there won’t be the feeling that words may not match each other at all.
Xu Qing had the same idea as Kuang Zhou. The more difficult the characters were to write, the better. He had not read anything better, so he chose this Buddhist scripture.
This time, the two of them thought they had won at the starting line.
Long Bing'er, who was sitting on the deputy envoy's seat, glanced disdainfully at the two people sitting opposite each other in the palace.
They were all literary talents who came from reading the books of sages and sages. When it came time to compete, they all chose books like classics that had nothing to do with scholars' imperial examinations or anything like that.
The competition between military commanders is about martial arts, but the competition between civil servants is so far-fetched!
Chu people who don’t talk about martial ethics and Zhao people who don’t talk about martial ethics!
Xiao Ruxue, who was sitting nearby, was extremely nervous after seeing the question: "I have never seen many words in it. Can Xu Qing win?"
Su Qian looked very confident and said, "My husband will definitely win this battle."
Xiao Ruxue looked at Su Qian who was sitting next to her with a confident look on her face and said, "Why is Sister Su so sure?"
Su Qian smiled and said, "Because my husband has a photographic memory."
Not only photographic memory, but a very exaggerated photographic memory.
Before the wedding, to be precise, when Su Qian taught Xu Qing martial arts for the first time and Xu Qing said that he had a photographic memory, Su Qian was curious about how far Xu Qing could achieve his photographic memory.
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Su Qian didn't ask about it until they arrived at Uncle Anding's house and the two fell in love with each other and became a real couple.
At that time, Xu Qing told her that everything in the world, no matter what it was, was as if it were drawn in her mind at just one glance. At first, Su Qian didn't believe such an exaggeration. It was not until after many complicated verifications that Su Qian finally understood what Xu Qing said.
No exaggeration at all!
Therefore, when Xu Qing raised this question that day, Su Qian knew that there was no way her husband would lose in this competition!
At this moment, a stick of incense had begun to light, and Dang Kuangzhou was secretly happy.
Because compared to the scroll in his hand at this time, it is much more difficult to hold in the opponent's hand!
It is not easy to memorize a stick of incense silently for only a few times, so how can you remember it all?
The envoy from the State of Zhao on the side was also full of confidence. He and Kuang Zhou selected this book together in order to put their opponents at a natural disadvantage within the rules of the competition, so that their chances of winning would be greatly increased.
increased.
I really don’t know what the Anding County uncle is feeling at this moment.
Just when the two of them looked at Xu Qing's place with smug expressions, they couldn't help but feel startled.
He...what is he doing?!
Why has he already written it?!
Has he memorized it all?
After you put down the manuscript in your hand and start dictating it, you can no longer pick it up and read it again!
Yes, before Kuang Zhou even finished reading the manuscript, Xu Qing on the side had already dipped his brush in ink and started writing on the paper.
Who says you have to know how to read to copy?
Wouldn't it be enough to just write down the glyphs?
With his photographic memory, Xu Qing could imprint every word in the book into his mind just by flipping through it quickly.
The efficiency is second only to the "Quantum Wave Reading Method."
The envoy of the State of Zhao looked at the Emperor of Chu who was on a high position and said: "Your Majesty, the foreign ministers protested that the actions of the Anding County Count of your country violated the regulations of the competition."
Emperor Chu looked at Zhao Guozheng and said, "Oh? I wonder which rule Anding County uncle violated?"
Zhao Guozheng said: "Reporting to His Majesty the Emperor, the rules say that there is only one stick of incense to write down the contents of the manuscript. This moment should be the time to memorize, but Anding County Bo started writing at this time. Doesn't it violate the rules?
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Prime Minister Qin stood up and said: "Just now Lu Zhengshi also said that the rule is that one stick of incense has time to write down the contents of the manuscript, which means that after one stick of incense, one must start writing silently, and it does not mean that one can only write down the contents within one stick of incense.
As for the content of the manuscript, if your country had the shorthand ability of our uncle Anding County of Da Chu, you could start writing it right now, and we won’t say anything more."
"This..." Only then did Zhao Guozheng remember that the paper with the competition rules was indeed written down for the time it took for the first stick of incense to be burned, and he had to stop writing when the second stick of incense burned out.
Indeed, it does not say that you are not allowed to write silently at this time, as long as you stop writing before the second stick of incense burns out.
But, how could there be someone so good at shorthand in the world? Did the Anding county uncle just skim the manuscript quickly and write down all the contents?
In this way, wouldn't Anding County Bo be one stick of incense ahead of Kuang Zhou from the beginning?
According to the rules of the competition, the person who copies the completed manuscript first and makes the fewest mistakes will win.
So, isn’t Zhao State going to lose this game?!
Thinking of this, Zhao Guozheng couldn't help but clenched his fists. No wonder Xu Qing was so confident that he wanted to compete with Zhao in shorthand that day. It turned out that he actually had such a special ability!