Bachelor

Chapter 136 From Bottom Up, Sun Jingyuan's Means
Sun Dan and Sun Yue were talking next to each other, but everyone didn't take it seriously.Although Sun Dan has gained a lot of fame recently, his reputation as a talented scholar is only limited to Shandong.After coming to the capital, Sun Dan was extremely low-key because of his inexplicable relationship with the emperor.Therefore, in the eyes of scholars, Sun Dan is just a talented little scholar.The only thing worth mentioning is that this person has a noble character, and he has been running around for Li Meiting's imprisonment, which is quite loyal and courageous.

After seeing Ping Qiuli's method just now, everyone felt that no matter how Sun Dan behaved, he could not win this round.

Besides, Ping Qiuli used the name of the calligraphy competition to go to the Sun's residence to propose marriage, which is an elegant thing.He was the central figure in today's gathering, and the others were just his foils.

So, everyone gathered around Ping Qiuli, looked at his handwriting and couldn't stop admiring, but forgot about Sun Dan.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether Sun fades out or not.

Seeing this scene, Sun Dan sneered in his heart.In the eyes of everyone present, this competition is like the garbage time of an NBA game. The highlights are over, and it doesn't matter whether you watch the rest or not.It's a pity that you don't know that although Ping Qiuli is already leading, I still haven't shot a three-pointer at the buzzer.Let's see if I blow you up with one move.

"Excuse me." Sun Dan stepped forward.

The desk was already crowded with officials, and it was already hard to get through. Fortunately, Sun Dan has practiced martial arts diligently recently, and his body has become much stronger. The two officials next to him only felt a strong force coming from the crowd, and couldn't help but make way for a passage. .

Seeing Sun Dan approaching, Ping Qiuli's left eye blew again, revealing a smile.Because one eye is vacant, the corner of his left mouth is pulled up slightly, which makes his smile look very strange: "Brother Jingyuan, I heard that you are also a good calligrapher, and I have never had the chance to see your calligraphy, so don't let me down today." .”

As soon as he spoke, the noisy hall just now became quiet.

The table is covered with a layer of wool felt pads, which are neatly placed in the Four Treasures of the Study.The supplies of Huichang Housun's family are naturally extremely exquisite and capable. The paper is the best Sichuan pepper plate paper, the ink is covered with Taishan pine smoke, the pen is the long hair of the fox tail, and the inkstone is the Duan inkstone of Xiaoxiang Gorge.

Just now Sun Yue and Ping Qiuli each wrote a pair of large characters, and the ink in the inkstone has dried up.

Sun Dan refilled the inkstone, rolled up his sleeves, held the ink in his right hand, pressed his left hand on the back of his right hand, and ground the ink in an even and steady rhythm.

For a moment, the whole room was filled with the sound of grinding ink.

Hearing this sound, the hearts of everyone who was dazzled by Ping Qiuli's two-handed pen just now calmed down, as if there was a special magical power in the sound of Sun Dan's grinding ink.

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At this time, in Aunt Jing's yard, Sun Jia was talking to her mother, her face was obviously a little impatient: "Auntie, I'm not talking about you, you are also the master, playing with a group of women and maids all day long. You lose your temper after losing money. It’s nothing to be laughed at. Although you were fined half a year and a month, you got a share during the festivals and festivals, and you still have some savings from previous years. You don’t want to make a fool of yourself, I I still have to save face!"

Aunt Jing's face turned red and white at what her daughter said.It took me a long time before I said dejectedly: "You think I don't want this face. Recently, the master often comes to my yard, and for some reason, he is hated by his wife. When it's Chinese New Year, he even gives me the reward that I deserve at the end of the year. Deduction. A few days ago, your two unsatisfactory uncles brought a letter saying that since we moved to the capital, they have cut off their income and their lives are miserable. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, the whole family needs to eat No food, no clothes to wear, let me send some money to help my mother."

"Those two people only know how to eat and drink for money all day long. Xio said that you only have one or two months a month, Auntie. Even if you have mountains of gold and silver, if you pay for their family's food and drink, you will be emptied."

"Hey!" Aunt Jing sighed, and suddenly shed tears: "You pretend that I don't know this truth. You also know the character of your two uncles. If you leave us, I'm afraid they will really starve to death. I There are only these two men in the Jing family, and it is impossible to just watch my old Jing family die. A while ago, I wondered whether to let them come to the capital, and see if I could ask the master to find them a man who could support the family. However, it is a long way from Shandong to Beijing, and the food and drink expenses of the two big families are not a small sum. But what can I do to share with these two brothers... As soon as I gritted my teeth, I will pay them 30 taels... But now it's the end of the year, and I only have a tael or so of silver left... I lost all my money playing cards yesterday, and owed some foreign debts... Daughter, I am also worried about my mother... ..."

Aunt Jing talked a lot about it, and Sun Jia was annoyed when she heard it: "You, you!" After all, she is his biological mother, no matter how good she is, it is impossible to watch her lose her face.

Sun Jia sighed: "How much do you still owe others, the debt is not more than one year..."

Seeing Sun Jia let go, Aunt Jing was overjoyed, rolled her eyeballs, and looked at her daughter timidly: "Aunt Wang who still owes the housekeeper one or two, the concierge old Su's six money, Tongzhou Zhuangzi's daughter-in-law four liang... "

"Don't say it, don't say it, I'll help you pay it back." Sun Jia felt very distressed, it was really depressing to have such a mother on the table.She took out a bank note from her pocket and handed it over: "I'll give you 100 taels, is it enough?"

"Enough, enough." Aunt Jing hurriedly took the bank note, squeezed it, held it up to the sun for a photo, and then looked at the patterns and imprints on it.

Sun Jia felt unhappy: "Auntie, it's true." Lu's money tickets are widely circulated in the capital, especially the one or two small tickets, which are necessary for people to travel at home.Because the money ticket is just a colorful paper ticket, it is very easy to forge.Therefore, Sun Dan took a lot of anti-counterfeiting measures. Each banknote has a number, pattern and stamp, and a thin silver foil line is sandwiched in it.

The paper used to make banknotes is also very special. In addition to adding anti-moth drugs such as pepper and cork, a lot of rag fibers are also added. The quality of the paper is also top-notch in the world. money.

"That's, that's, my own daughter, how could she give me counterfeit money." Aunt Jing blushed a little, a little embarrassed.

After collecting the money, Aunt Jing was still rambling: "I don't want to use the money. After your two uncles and two families come to the capital, how can you not need money to settle down? I thought about it, your brother Sun Gui is also A student of Scholar Yang, someone from the Yang family, he is the chief assistant of the court, someone like Zhuge Liang. I was wondering if I should tell your younger brother to ask Shoufu Yang, if it doesn’t work, then ask Scholar Yang to see if he can help Your two incompetent uncles are looking for a job in the capital."

"Pull it down, you really regard Sun Gui as a treasure. Although he is Yang Shen's protégé, will the Yang family take him seriously?" Sun Jia sneered, "Don't say it's Sun Gui, even if it's my father. I'm afraid I may not be able to talk to Yang Xiang. Auntie, if you are really kind to uncle, I can find a way for them to survive..."

Just about to continue, she saw Fengxian rushing in, her round face was full of joy: "Congratulations, Auntie, Congratulations Miss, something serious happened..." Because she was running in a hurry, she accidentally knocked over the garden. In the pot of plum blossoms in the pot, tears fell from the pain.

"You little hoof is rushing to reincarnate!" Aunt Jing yelled, "What happened?"

Touching her leg, Feng Xian smiled with tears in her eyes, "Congratulations, Miss, you are getting married."

"what!"

Aunt Jing and Sun Jia cried out at the same time.

Aunt Jing said again and again: "Fengxian, tell me quickly, is there someone who came to propose a marriage, is it the son of a noble family in the capital?"

Fengxian shook her head: "It's not from the capital city. I overheard it just now from the waiter in the lobby. It seems to be someone from Qingzhou, Shandong, called Ping... or something."

"Is it called Ping Qiuli?" Sun Jia's complexion turned pale, and her body couldn't help shaking slightly.

"That's right, that's him." Fengxian nodded repeatedly.

Aunt Jing didn't notice anything strange about her daughter, she was a little disappointed when she heard that she was not from a wealthy family in the capital, "So she is from Shandong, so I don't know how her family is like?"

Sun Jia: "Don't ask, I've heard of it in Pingqiu."

"What, you also know this person. Daughter, tell me, what is this person like?"

Sun Jia gritted her teeth and said word by word: "Ping Qiuli, a native of Qingzhou, Shandong, 22 years old, unmarried, a man of fame, a disciple of Mao Ji, the second assistant to the cabinet of the current dynasty, and the chief think tank under the throne of Jianghua in Qingzhou. Shanxi merchants have close contacts. If I guess correctly, he has at least 50 taels of cash on hand."

"Amitabha, Amitabha!" Aunt Jing smiled when she heard the words, clasped her hands together, and said with a smile: "I just said, my family Jiajia will marry into a wealthy family in the future to be his wife. This Pingqiu is so amazing, and there are masters and masters. With such a noble teacher, he will definitely enjoy the glory and wealth in the future. Daughter, with your luck, if you meet such a wishful man, just wait to wear gold and silver!"

Sun Jia lost all color on his face, ignored his mother, and asked Fengxian, "Has he... come to propose marriage? Who is the matchmaker?"

"I haven't proposed a marriage yet, I'm writing with Brother Yue and Brother Dan in the lobby!" Feng Xian was articulate, and explained everything that happened just now clearly in a few words.

After Sun Jia listened, she murmured: "Sun Dan is here too, it's okay, it's okay, it really didn't disappoint me. Let's go and have a look." After speaking, she took Fengxian and ran towards the lobby.

Aunt Jing shouted from behind: "Hey, what's the matter with you as a girl running over to peek at the future son-in-law, you're not afraid of being laughed at, hey..."

Sun Jia didn't look back, and ran very fast, suddenly a strange thought came to her mind: Sun Dan, Sun Dan, if I really married someone, what would you think?
By the time Sun Jia ran to the lobby and peeked behind the screen, Sun Dan had already worn out his ink.

He picked up a long-hair brush, dipped it into the inkstone, but it wasn't very full, so he just held it in the air, and didn't write for a long time.

No one spoke in the lobby, and Sun Jia was so quiet that she could hear her own heartbeat.She felt anxious for a while: "Sun Dan, Sun Dan, why haven't you written yet? What are you waiting for?"

Taking another look at Ping Qiuli next to Sun Dan, he had to admit that this Ping Qiuli was a very handsome young man.Fair-skinned, tall and thin, with thick eyebrows and starry eyes, she has a strong aura of relaxation.Although Sun Dan is also a well-known young talent, but he is not good looking, wearing a gray robe and standing next to Ping Qiuli, just like a chicken standing next to Fenghuang.

But for some reason, the more Sun Jia looked at Sun Dan's gradually darkened face, the more pleasing it was to her eyes, but Ping Qiuli's somewhat pale face and the rolling Adam's apple under her chin made her feel sick for a while.

Thinking that she might live with this person in the future, Sun Jia felt a cold poisonous snake crawling on her vest, which gave her goosebumps from the cold.

When it comes to money tickets, Sun Dan can act as a hands-off shopkeeper, but Sun Jia knows everything about it.She has also heard about the recent actions of several major Shanxi merchants stationed in Beijing.She knew exactly who this Ping Qiuli was, and she also knew what he was planning when he came to Sun's house today.Thinking about who Ping Qiuli is, he would actually fall in love with such a concubine woman like himself, the matter is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

Just as he was thinking, Sun Dan's hand that had stopped in mid-air suddenly dropped, and everyone heard a low cry.Sun Jia hurriedly glanced at it quietly, and at first sight, she was taken aback: Is this writing? What exactly is it writing?
It turned out that Sun Dan should have written the "I" of "I come from Huangzhou" in this stroke. According to the normal writing method, the first stroke should have written that stroke.But Sun Dan's stroke was a long stroke.

There wasn't much ink on Sun Dan's brush, and he pressed it down quickly and hurriedly, like a machete piercing through the air, with sharp force, and it was about to come out through the paper.

Did you make a typo?
Before everyone came to their senses, Sun Dan added a swipe to Na, followed by a dot, and a horizontal stroke.

A word "Ge" jumped on the paper.

Now, everyone understood that Sun Dan was writing in reverse order.

Writing in reverse order requires a lot of skill. First of all, you have to have a clear concept of the structure of the characters you write and have a strong spatial thinking ability.Most people write like this, because they can't control the structure well, and the written characters are crooked and unsightly.

When Sun Dan finished writing this word, everyone couldn't help but nodded: the frame structure was very accurate, and the handwriting was not bad.However, the word "I" is too dry, not round enough, and tends to use too much force.

The aesthetic taste of the literati in the Ming Dynasty paid attention to hiding but not revealing, clean and harmonious, but the word written by Sun Dan is too sharp, and some people don't like it.

Everyone sighed in their hearts, and said in their hearts, although Sun Dan's reverse strokes are dazzling, but calligraphy is not a juggling, if you want to win this round, you have to rely on your real skills to speak.

Sun Dan could see everyone's reaction, but he was not in a hurry. He also had strong confidence in winning this round.

In today's competition, everyone had agreed in advance to write in block letters, which was exactly to Sun Dan's liking.He already wrote beautifully in Song Huizong's thin gold style. He had worked hard for more than ten years before he traveled to the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention the samadhi in Zhao Ji's calligraphy, he also got the ambiguity in it.

Calligraphy in the Song Dynasty paid attention to rhyme and charm. Looking at it alone, there is nothing outstanding, and sometimes it even looks thin.But if they are combined into one article, they have a unique charm.The so-called: "Heavenly bones are beautiful, and leisurely and interesting." The personal color is strong.

Although many people in later generations learned this kind of calligraphy, it is rare to find the brushwork in it.

Moreover, writing this kind of characters requires a high level of cultural accomplishment and a calm state of mind in order to bring its characteristics into full play.Therefore, Sun Dan spent a long time grinding ink just now to suppress the restlessness in his heart.When my mind calmed down, I wrote down stroke by stroke, like a leisurely cloud.

"I came from Huangzhou, and I have passed the three cold meals..."

However, the cross has already brought into full play the artistic conception of being skinny and thin, with a side edge like orchid and bamboo.

At the beginning, everyone was amazed by Sun Dan's technique of reverse strokes, and sighed that these words are not surprising when viewed separately.But when the cross was written, the thin and thin words were connected together, and the coldness that rushed to the face shocked people's hearts.

In a daze, the old man wearing a bamboo hat, wearing a coir raincoat, and holding a bamboo stick seemed to jump out of the paper.Next to it is a big river flowing eastward, with the sound of rumbling water and the emptying of the turbid waves.In the dense drizzle, the gray-haired Su University scholar looked up to the sky and smiled: "I have come to Huangzhou, and I have passed three cold meals. I want to cherish spring every year, and I don't regret the spring. This year, it rains again..."

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"Okay!" The official of the Ministry of Rites who was the judge sighed softly: "For so many years, there have been many people who have learned the thin golden body, but no one has understood the true meaning. After reading this word today, I realized that What does it mean to be thin without losing its flesh, you can see the Tibetan front at the turning point."

"Yes, with calligraphy, it's not just about being able to write the characters well. A character, an article, is a whole. The characters must also pay attention to the echo between the characters, and pay attention to the uniform charm. The character of Sun Dan, Let’s not talk about the good or the bad, and let’s not talk about this unique writing method. In terms of the fun of the pen and ink and the rhythm between the characters, it is already better than Ping Qiuli. This round, he obviously won.”

"Hey, what are you judging Sun Danying for so early, I want to finish reading this cold food post." Another judge kept stamping his feet.

"Ah, I forgot. Sun Dan, write it down, write it down!"

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There were only three judges discussing in the room, and the rest of the people were so shocked by this beautiful thin gold body that they could not speak.

Sun Jia heard it clearly, let out a long breath, and was about to jump up for joy.

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At this time, Sun Dan lightly put the pen in his hand on the pen stand, and said quietly: "I finished writing, please judge."

No one spoke, and everyone was still immersed in the artistic conception of calligraphy, unable to get out for a long time.

After a long time, the official from the Ministry of Rites said: "Is it still necessary for us to say more? Whether it is technique, technique or word-based analysis, your calligraphy is exquisite."

"Then, I won." Sun Dan glanced at Ping Qiuli: "You lost, do you still want to marry Sun Jia?"

Ping Qiuli's left eye was blank again, and the right eye erupted with a bright light.He leaned into Sun Dan's ear and whispered: "So you also admire Miss Sun Jia! Your surname is Sun, and Miss Sun Jia is also surnamed Sun. Hehe, within five servings... By the way, everyone is next to the word Burning Fire I just don’t know whether the fire from the east or the fire from the west will dominate in the future. You win this round. I’m a free and easy person in Pingqiu, so I won’t get entangled with you on this matter. Let’s have a long life. !"

After finishing speaking, he threw the volume of Su Shi's authentic handwriting on the table, clasped his hands in all directions, and drifted away.

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