The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 307
My hut is small, outside the shadow of dragons and snakes, amidst the sound of wind and rain.

——Excerpt from "Qinyuanchun·Lingshan Qi'an Fu Shijian Lake Unfinished" Xin Qiji
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Holding Li Tengkong's close-fitting dagger, Bai Fu's head was terrified.

Not yet, not yet.

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"Low-key, show weakness, hide front, keep clumsy!"

This is what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince warned himself when presenting the award.Bai Fu let out a long sigh, brushed off his clothes and left, and hid again in the Zangshu Pavilion of Hongwen Museum.

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Bai Fu looked at the rubbing in his hand, helpless.

There are still some oracle bone inscriptions in the remnant stele of Prince Yin's mansion that have not been deciphered, making the corresponding cuneiform inscriptions impossible to decipher.

The main reason is that these characters did not appear in Xu Taifu's corresponding list of oracle bone characters and Chinese characters.

The clues for deciphering are broken here.

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One day, Yun Baoquan, the head of the Cangshu Pavilion, came back from his travels, and Bai Fu hurried to the door to ask for advice.Yun Baoquan has served as the head of Zangshu Pavilion for decades, and his knowledge is extensive and profound, but he may not know him well.

Taking the rubbings and examining them carefully, Yun Baoquan thought for a long time, and said, "I really don't know these cuneiform characters. But these oracle bone characters seem to be familiar to me, where do I seem to have seen them?"

Bai Fu was overjoyed.

Yun Baoquan brought Bai Fu to the forest of steles, walked into the restoration of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, and said to several busy craftsmen: "Master Wang, do you recognize these characters?"

Master Wang put down the chisel in his hand, took the rubbing, squinted his eyes for a while, and said, "I don't know it, but I must have seen it."

Master Wang called his apprentices, and three or five people got together and chatted for a while.Afterwards, Master Wang and his disciples dragged out half of the broken stone tablet from the pile of stones piled up in the backyard.

Master Wang pointed to half of the stone tablet and said, "Young Master Bai, do you think it is this kind of writing?"

Bai Fu was overjoyed, danced and said, "Yes, that's it! This stone tablet should have been huge, but why is there only a small half of it left?"

Master Wang sighed: "Although the writing on this stele is unknown, the stone is a top-notch stele material. In the past, a craftsman used to break pieces from it and use its stone to repair other broken and precious steles. Over time, only This small half of the monument is ruined."

Master Wang took Bai Fu around the forest of steles, and found several precious stone steles restored with inscriptions on oracle bone inscriptions.

It was only then that Bai Fu discovered that many of the inscriptions he had copied, including "Yashan Carved Stones", Wei steles, "The Preface Stele of the Tripitaka of the Tang Dynasty", etc., had been restored with this remnant stele.It's just that I didn't have this awareness at the time, so I didn't pay attention at all.

Bai Fu recalled the words of Xu Taifu: "In the journey of learning, many things can only be known by seeing them. Only by investigating ancient relics can one see them only by knowing!"

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After the crowd dispersed, Bai Fu stayed alone in the forest of steles, sitting cross-legged on the ground, stroking the small half of the stele.This remnant stele was placed in the corner, exposed to the sun and rain, and the edges and corners were knocked off to make up for the damage of other precious stone steles.

At this moment, Bai Fu burst into tears.Why is he not this remnant monument, just used to fill up other people's time...

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After calming down, Bai Fu decided to remove the oracle bone inscriptions on all the steles in the forest of steles.Although the order in which these characters appeared has become unclear, it is also difficult to decipher these characters.But as long as you dig them down yourself, it proves that they have also appeared upright.

As soon as this thought came out, Bai Fu acted immediately, not letting go of every stone tablet, searching for each word.With goals, there is motivation.Anxiety then diminished, and curiosity gradually arose.

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Bai Fu found the stele with oracle bone inscriptions, cleaned the surface of the stele with water, washed off the moss marks and dirt on the stele, and waited for the stele to dry.

Then evenly brush a layer of bletilla striata water on the stele, so that the rubbing paper sticks firmly to the stele.After loading the paper, smooth it with a soft brush.Then tap with a bristle brush to make the text concave.Then use the rubbing bag to ink, and beat back and forth gradually and intensively.Finally, remove the rubbings and let them dry naturally.

Three days later, Bai Fu created thousands of oracle bone inscriptions, far more than Xu Taifu asked Bai Fu to memorize.Therefore, more than half of the characters can not be recognized in vain.

Bai Fu felt dizzy and had a dull pain.The Chinese characters corresponding to these oracle bone inscriptions seem to be breaking through the ground and jumping out of my mind.

But even this layer of window paper cannot be pierced.

Bai Fu was not discouraged, and continued to rub the words on the stone tablet.

When rubbing the "Tang Ji Wang Xizhi Sacred Religious Preface Stele", there was a constant strong wind, and the rubbing paper could not stick to the stele.Bai Fu had no choice but to fold the rubbing paper in half and fix it on the front and back of the stele.Then apply a layer of bletilla striata water to the rubbing paper on the back and side of the stele to better fix the rubbing paper.

After rubbing, Bai Fu laid the rubbings flat to dry.The half-folded rubbings were also slowly unfolded.

At this time, the setting sun was slanting, and a ray of sunlight sprinkled on the rubbing paper.An oracle bone inscription appeared on the rubbing paper, and a Chinese character appeared on the other side of the rubbing paper folded in half.

Coincidentally, this oracle bone inscription, which Bai Fu knew, has the same meaning as this Chinese character!
Bai Fu was startled, as if struck by lightning.In the blink of an eye, I am completely enlightened!

The oracle bone stele is used to repair the precious stone stele.The inscription is on the front of the stele, and the oracle bone stele is on the back or side.

Paradoxically, the stele was repaired by an unknown craftsman, and the oracle bone inscriptions on the back or side of the stele corresponded one by one with the Chinese characters on the front of the stele!
If it was not a mistake, the craftsman who repaired the stele could recognize the oracle bone inscriptions!

This discovery drove Bai Fu completely into madness.

He hurriedly found a few rubbings of oracle bone inscriptions that he recognized to check.Sure enough, almost all the oracle bone inscriptions corresponded one-to-one with the Chinese characters on the front of the stele!

Bai Fu hurriedly rushed into the stele repairing place, and shouted to Master Wang: "Master Wang, who restored these precious steles?"

Master Wang bowed his waist and recalled it for a long time, Fang said: "It should be decades ago? At that time, I was still a young apprentice, learning art from Master.

A poor scholar who came to Beijing for the exam came to the Hongwen library, and he was studying in the library for the exam.In my spare time, I help the museum to repair some calligraphy and paintings to make up for daily expenses.

When copying the inscriptions, he saw that these precious steles were damaged, so he volunteered to repair the steles.He is very skilled. If he hadn't won the No. [-] prize later, my master would have accepted him as a closed disciple long ago. Many unique skills of my master would not have been lost.Ugh……"

Bai Fu was shocked: "What, this person won the number one prize?!"

That should not be the nameless person.Bai Fu hurriedly asked: "Master Wang, who is this person's name, do you always remember?"

Master Wang smiled and said: "I can't remember, how many years has it been! If you win the first prize, you will be a high-ranking official. We are craftsmen, how can we climb high!"

When Bai Fu heard it, his heart sank to the bottom of the water.

Seeing this, Master Wang said cheerfully, "Young Master Bai, I haven't finished. Although I can't remember clearly, according to the rules, there are records for repairing steles. I'll check it for you, maybe you can find it. Hehe"

Bai Fu was both angry and happy, and said: "Master Wang, you always like to tell me the truth. You always talk halfway." After finishing speaking, Pidianpidian followed Master Wang into the warehouse to look up the repair records of the year.

An hour later, Master Wang finally found this repair record from the file that had been dusty for many years.In small letters, a person's name was neatly written on it: "Repair Craftsman: Deng Bi"

Bai Fu was struck by lightning again and froze on the spot.

This Deng Bi is not someone else, but the name of Daoist Qingxuan when he was not a monk!
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　Overlapping peaks gallop west, thousands of horses circle around, and all the mountains want to go east.The turbulence is going straight down, and the jumping beads are splashing backwards; the small bridge is cut across, missing the bow of the moon.The old co-op is idle, the heavenly religion is troublesome, and the principal is punished.My hut is small, outside the shadow of dragons and snakes, amidst the sound of wind and rain.

　　Fighting to be the first to meet each other, to see the three peaks of refreshment.Like the children of the Xie family, they are dressed upright; they are like court households, and they ride gracefully.I feel that during the period, it is majestic, deep and elegant, just like the Tai Shigong of the article.On Xindi Road, I asked when Yanhu Lake will be full of smoke and water?
　　——"Qinyuanchun·Lingshan Qi'an Fu Fu Shiyan Lake Unfinished" Xin Qiji
　　
　
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