Tang riddles

The process of becoming a "man" from a girl is not easy, especially for a girl who is hurting all over her body. At the age of 11, Akashi began to prepare for men's clothing in the future, and this preparation lasted for five years.

First of all, she wanted to restrict the growth of her breasts. The bandages that she finally took off were wrapped up again. This time, the purpose was not to bandage the wound, but to restrain her breasts that were about to start growing.She no longer combs her daughter's hair in a bun, and the overly long hair is cut off, leaving only the length of the shawl. Instead, she braids her hair every day to prepare for the bundle.

Then, she began groping for exercises to control her voice.This is not an easy task, because although there are muscles in the throat, it is uncontrollable. She can only continue to explore the way of breathing air to control her voice.She will pay attention to the difference between male voices and female voices, ponder where the critical line lies, and keep moving closer to it.For a period of time, she would sit in the busiest tea shop in Jinling City every day for a whole day, just for this reason.

When Akashi was 13 years old, she met a master who was good at ventriloquism at a tea shop, and asked him for advice on imitating human voice.When the ventriloquist heard Chishi's voice, she felt that she was really a blessing in disguise. Many actors who learn ventriloquism have the throat hyoid bone they dream of, which is her throat cavity hyoid bone.He and Akashi hit it off right away, and he taught him all he had learned in his life without taking any money, and Akashi benefited a lot from it.After that, she could use her smoked voice to imitate at least seven or eight kinds of male and female voices.Among them was the voice she had prepared for the identity of "Shen Sui".As her entire body matured, so did her voice.

Akashi's entire 11-year-old was spent recuperating from injuries.The arduous rehabilitation continued until the next year before she was able to move independently.From the age of 12, she started a life with detailed planning.

Every day she smells chickens and dances, and does morning exercises for two hours.Mainly practice breathing, opening the voice, and basic physical fitness. After that, take a bath and change clothes, eat breakfast, and start reading.She reads a lot of miscellaneous books, as long as they are in the Shen family's collection, she will read them all.For Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Mohism, Zongheng, Bing, and Shang, if there are no books, she will personally visit the local academies and big families in Jinling City to borrow books.From Sishichu to Shenshichu, it was her study time.Sometimes she would stay in the study all the time, and sometimes she would go out to discuss with the teachers and students of the academy, or visit the great Confucianism for advice.

After Shen Shi, until before dinner, it was her time to practice the knife.At first she used a wooden knife, and practiced carefully bit by bit according to the knife skills taught to her by her father and Master Lu.Over time, she started using real knives.The red sword that belonged to her father, Hong Ming, which she snatched out of the sea of ​​flames, became the only medium for her to talk to her father.How her father used this knife, she imagined, imitated, and practiced bit by bit.Until one day, she brought Hongming into the workshop, and the sound of forging could be heard all night. A few days later, Hongming put on white clothes and turned into a snow knife.Only the sharp and stern blade, and the phoenix pattern carved on the root near the handle, silently tell the origin of the blade.Just like its owner, it took off its red clothes and has been alone since then.

After dinner, there was an hour she would use to relax.The way to relax is to make some gadgets.There is a large workshop in the Shen residence in Jinling, which has all kinds of materials and tools.And in the treasure house, there are many strange materials that she has never even seen before.There are also many blueprints stored in the workshop, ranging from a small mechanism the size of a palm to a self-propelled chariot that can carry dozens of people. Unheard of mechanisms like mountains and seas are waiting for her to explore.Sometimes, these things make Akashi obsessed.But she will always use strong willpower to prevent herself from delving further, because she knows what is the mission waiting for her, and she needs to have better abilities to complete it.

After relaxing, she will spend the time before going to bed practicing calligraphy.She learned to forget her previous writing habits, and began to change her font stroke by stroke like a young child who just learned to write.This is also a painful and long process.

After a day of hard work and hard work, she will fall asleep exhausted.Even if she is really short of time, she will still leave enough time for sleep. She knows that she needs to be taller than a man and have a strong physique, which needs sleep to make up for it.

She pushes herself to the limit, hardly resting for a moment.Like a spinning top that never ends, every day is busy.Her busyness drove Qin Nu to work hard to recover and study hard, which also made her seem to forget those fatal injuries.But both Yi Yan and Qin Nu understand that all her efforts are aimed at uncovering the truth of the tragedy one day.In order that one day, she could re-enter Chang'an City openly, stand in front of the burnt mansion again, and offer a stick of incense to the dead.They are tacit.Even if Yiyan doesn't want Shen Sui to enter Chang'an City again, the heartache is intricate and hard to guard against, going back will undoubtedly be a huge torture and challenge.But she will not stop Akashi from what she wants to do, which has become her motivation to live.

In those few years, her stature began to increase steadily, and her temperament changed drastically. She grew from a smart and innocent girl who was always dressed in red to a girl in blue and white clothes, with deep thoughts like the sea, Always a smiling young man.The smile on her face is her mask, a mask that can hardly be dismantled, a mask that she spent years training.

At the age of 14, she decided to start rectifying the scattered Qianyumen.In fact, she had been thinking about this matter since she was twelve or thirteen years old, and now she finally thought about Zhou Xiang and started to implement it.She took the lead in subduing and rectifying the Jinling Changfeng Hall, and began to spread out around it as the center.

At that time, several important leaders of Qianyumen came to her side.

When rectifying Qianyumen in Yangzhou, she met Huyan Zhuoma, a Turkic reconnaissance veteran who lost his wife and children, betrayed the tribe, and fled all the way south. In order to subdue this great grassland eagle, she spent great efforts. Even at the age of 14, he fought for three days and three nights with Huyan Zhuoma, who was in his mid-twenties at the time.It was an all-round contest, Huyan Zhuoma hid all the way, she pursued all the way, the two lingered in Yangzhou city for three days and three nights without sleep, whenever they met, they would fight.He has been forcing Huyan Zhuoma to be convinced, and has followed her loyally ever since.She vomited three liters of blood and was seriously injured.

Soon, she took the piano slave south to Maoshan, Runzhou, and visited Sima Chengzhen, the number one Taoist in the world.Sima Chengzhen has the wisdom of heaven and man, and is also an outsider. The real life experience of the two sisters was not hidden from him.In fact, at that time, Chi Shi took Qin Nu to apprentice, and they also successfully joined Sima Chengzhen's sect and became disciples of Taoist laymen.Sima Chengzhen was sympathetic to them at first, then amazed, and finally loved them.They are Sima Chengzhen's only lay disciples, and they are also the most talented disciples.Chishi's sword technique was also sublimated after he became a disciple of Sima Chengzhen and learned the essence of Taoist martial arts.

They practiced on Maoshan Mountain for almost a year, and then went down the mountain.Sima Chengzhen ordered his disciple Xuanweizi to go down the mountain to assist Chishi and Qinnu. Xuanweizi brought Chishi a pair of dragon and phoenix twins who had practiced martial arts since childhood in Maoshan. They named them Congyun Congyu and joined Qianyumen.Akashi was 15 years old that year.

While Chishi and Qin Nu were working hard to rectify the Qianyumen forces in the southeast, Sima Chengzhen entered Chang'an and sent a letter back to Chishi soon after.

It was the first time Chishi had received information about Chang'an after four years. There was not much in the information, but Sima Chengzhen deliberately wrote down what he had found out about Zhang Ruohan and Li Jinyue.

Princess Jin went to Anxi Duhu Mansion three years ago, and now she is married to Xiao Balang and is leading troops at the border.

Zhang Ruohan suffered from a serious heart disease after the fire in Princess Taiping's mansion, and now she is practicing with a Buddhist nun. In the past few years, except for two visits to Fufeng Famen Temple, she has never left her home. Chang'an.

After receiving the news, Chishi didn't do anything for a rare half a day that day. She went up to the Zhanxing Tower, the highest in Shen's residence, and looked west from the top of the pavilion, sitting for a long time.It wasn't until she went downstairs that Yi Yan and Qin Nu saw her eyes were red and swollen for the first time, and they seemed to cry a lot.She seldom cried, even if her family died tragically in the fire, her younger sister was half paralyzed, and she was burned all over her body, she never shed a single tear.But today, it was just a letter from Chang'an that made her cry.

They knew that if she didn't cry, it wasn't because she wasn't sad, but because her sadness went deep into her bones and she couldn't vent it.And that day's letter finally opened the scar that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time, and made her so painful that she wept blood with grief.

She went downstairs and whispered to them in a hoarse voice:

"I will return to Chang'an as quickly as possible."

"How fast is the fastest?" Yiyan asked.

"Immediately, I will set off westward in a few days. I am going to participate in the Spring Festival next year and officially enter the officialdom."

"You..." Yizheng was frightened.

"Don't worry, no one will know that I've gone back." She said slowly.

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The westward journey to Chang'an began in the summer when Chishi was 15 years old. Starting from Jinling City, they first crossed the river to Yangzhou, and then set off from the wharf of Yangzhou to Luoyang along the canal.

On the slave ship beside the Luoyang pier, Akashi met a special person.He has the face of a person from the Western Regions, silent, tall and handsome, but his whole body is dirty.Yalang boasted that he was the most expensive servant in Luoyang City. He was a warrior in Gaochang, a good machete player and archer. He traveled all over the Western Regions and was a living map of the Western Regions. The Latin of the Fushi Empire.With him, you can travel freely in the Western Regions without the slightest inconvenience.

Sometimes, you have to believe in the magic of fate.Akashi paid a lot of money to buy this silent man almost without saying a word.He is actually very young, only one year older than Akashi.It's just the vicissitudes of life between his eyebrows, as if describing all the hardships he experienced at a young age.The illegitimate son of a great merchant in Gaochang, he was free to be seen by his mistress, and traveled with his uncle to do business at a very young age.Later, he encountered a horse thief, his uncle was killed, and his goods were robbed. He escaped by chance and fled all the way into Tang Dynasty.Until he became a slave, he thought his life was hopeless, but he met a romantic young man in green shirt and sword who came across the river.This is the noble person in his life, the most important person in this life, but he didn't know it at the time.

The man said that his name was Kuta.Chishi said: "I'm going to Chang'an to rush for the exam. From now on, you can follow me."

While speaking, she handed back Hutuo's deed of prostitution to him, and added, "If you wish."

Kuta, who had nowhere to go, did not know why he refused.What's more, he was so curious about this young man.

This journey to Chang'an is extremely long with stops and stops.The young master of Hutuo would stay at least five days every time she passed through a slightly larger town. She would go to the market and look for Changfengtang, and she would discuss something with the masters of each Changfengtang.It's just that Kuta was not trusted at first, so he didn't know why.It wasn't until half a year later that he knew that his master was rebuilding the Qianyu Gate together.Together with her, there is also the owner's "brother" in a wheelchair, but Hutuo always seems to feel that Mr. Erlang is not a man, but a woman disguised as a man.

And his master, could it be the same?

It was not until they arrived in Chang'an that Hutuo got the answer.

In the early spring when Akashi was 16 years old, she returned to Chang'an after five years of absence.She didn't go to see the scorched earth of Changle House, but lived in a Taoist temple in Liquanfang - Qingyun Temple.Hu Tuo discovered that Lord Dalang likes to go to the highest tower of the Taoist temple for reading every day, and sit on the verandah, blowing the cold wind in early spring, and looking eastward.Just to the east of the Taoist temple is a house.There was a courtyard among them, and she always looked into it.

One day, Hutuo was surprised to find that Dalang had been looking at a woman in white, who would appear in the courtyard at a fixed time every day.She would sit cross-legged somewhere in the courtyard at random, holding Buddhist beads, and sit for half a day.Da Lang was here with her until she left, Da Lang couldn't recover for a long time.As long as she appears, the book in Da Lang's hand is just a decoration, and he can't read a word, she just looks at her stupidly.

Kuta was very curious, but he dared not ask.

However, on the evening before Chishi went to the exam, she suddenly softly said to Hu Tuo who was by her side:

"Would you like to hear a story?"

So Hutuo heard a story that made him unbelievable, speechless, and even palpitating.At the end of the story, the storyteller suddenly asked him in confusion:

"Khuta, do you have a lover? Do you know... what is love?"

Hutuo was stunned.

After a while, his young master smiled wryly: "Khutuo, Hutuo, I only understand today... what it means to have been in the sea..."

The love was planted early and deeply, and the vastness was unknown.

The author has something to say: I plan to write three chapters each for Chi, Lian, and Yue, so there should be nine chapters for Huang Nirvana.Hope I don't get slapped in the face by myself.