After the subjugation of the country, I became pregnant with the cub of Emperor Qiu

Monk Juyuan and Yu Xiangjie can be said to have come here for Wanbei idlers now in Qindu.

It all started when Cui Xiangwen was dispatched to build the canal.

Cui Xiangwen wrote the article "A Call to the Idlers of Wanbei" which was very popular for a while, and for a while he took advantage of the name of the Idlers of Wanbei to gain the limelight.Everyone thought that Emperor Qin would not notice this trivial matter at all, but Gu Zheng still knew about it, but everyone knew what happened to Cui Xiangwen.

The reason why Cui Xiangwen wrote this essay was to criticize Wanbeixianren as lackeys of the Qin Emperor, and the idea was from the monk Juyuan.

Although monk Juyuan never said it directly, he implied that everyone understood.

It can be said that Cui Xiangwen's misfortune had a lot to do with Monk Juyuan.Not only Cui Xiangwen, but several other people in the painting circle were also arrested for mentioning the new characters.

Although monk Juyuan is the leader of the Northern School of painting, it is inevitable that this incident will be criticized by others.Everyone didn't say anything on the surface, but secretly they had already complained about Monk Juyuan.In addition, the Juyuan monk is old and his reputation is not as good as before, and some people have long wanted to take his place.

In order to deter those who are interested, and to give an account of the new text incident, the old man Juyuan had to go to Qindu himself, intending to teach Wan Beixian a lesson.

Monk Juyuan was cautious in doing things, and did not reveal his tracks at the beginning.

He originally planned to wait until he got the old man Shi Zhong's book and read it carefully, and then challenged Wan Beixian when he had a better chance of winning, but he didn't expect that his and Yu Xiangjie's actions were smashed.Monk Juyuan and Yu Xiangjie planned to escape, but after waiting anxiously for a day, they didn't get the news of the official's visit. Instead, they inquired about the news that the old man Shi Zhong was seriously ill and dying.

I don't know if it's the old man Shi Zhong who misses his old love or has no energy to report to the official. In short, monk Juyuan and Yu Xiangjie both heaved a sigh of relief.

They were worried that old man Shi Zhong's son, Shi Mingzhi, would rush back. Old man Shi Zhong was soft-hearted, but his son was not a soft-hearted person.Therefore, Monk Juyuan resolutely decided to advance his plan to challenge Wan Bei Xianren, hoping to finish his work and leave as soon as possible before Shi Mingzhi came back.

Three days.

They only waited for Wanbeixianren for three days. If Wanbeixianren refused to take up the challenge, they would also leave Qindu.

The former No. [-] master of mountains and rivers wants to challenge the current No. [-] master of mountains and rivers. The news spread like a wave, and quickly spread throughout Qin Capital and even the cities near Qin Capital.

Everyone is talking about it.People in every teahouse and restaurant in the streets and alleys are talking about this news.

The title of Monk Juyuan is more resounding than Wanbeixianren. After decades of fermentation, it has been deeply imprinted in everyone's heart, like an insurmountable mountain.Now, another mountain has risen from the ground.

Monk Juyuan took the initiative to challenge Wanbeixianren. Does it mean that Wanbeixianren has reached a height comparable to Shanshui No.1 in the past?

Wan Bei Xianren is still so young!

In restaurants and teahouses, such discussions can be heard everywhere:

"It's Monk Juyuan! Monk Juyuan who has occupied the No. 1 throne in Shanshui for 40 years! It is impossible for Wanbei idlers to beat him no matter what!"

The speaker originally thought that everyone would agree with him, but there were different voices.

"When Yu Xiangjie insisted on fighting Wan Beixian before, you said the same thing, but what happened?"

"But this is monk Juyuan! Yu Xiangjie is just his apprentice!"

"What about Monk Juyuan? In the past ten years or so, have you ever seen him paint such a sensational painting?"

Someone said: "It's the Juyuan monk who has led the Northern School of Painting for more than 20 years. The Northern School of Painting is full of old faces, and the whole painting circle is stagnant like a pool of dirty stagnant water!"

A few more people stood up to speak, and these people were all people who had been excluded by the Northern School of painting.

Gradually, the voice of the person who firmly believed that the Juyuan monk would win was drowned out.

However, there are still many people who doubt that Wan Bei Xian will choose to fight this time?Or did you delay for a long time before responding like last time?

Everyone was ready to wait, but to everyone's surprise, Wan Bei Xianren quickly complied.

Almost the second day after Monk Juyuan issued the invitation to discuss, Yi Ci responded.

He accepted this literary battle.

Not only for the old man Shi Zhong, but also for himself, and even for the entire painting circle.

He agreed to old man Shi Zhong, and took over the burden of rectifying the painting circle from old man Shi Zhong.If it were Yici from the beginning, maybe he would just choose to avoid it.Yi Ci could sense that a part of himself had changed.

He no longer hides his talent in painting and literature as an unspeakable thing.He began to accept everyone's evaluations calmly, and wanted to create better works.He is gradually regaining his lost original intention.

Because of this original intention, he wants to make the painting world better, so that more people like him can have a broader world.

The time for the two people's literary battle was scheduled to be three days later, and the location was arranged at the Yangxue Pavilion of the old man Songyun.

During these three days, Monk Juyuan borrowed from Qinzhou the ink and wash landscape paintings of Wanbei idlers and stopped to stare day and night.For the past three days, Yu Xiangjie only delivered meals to Monk Juyuan on time, and did not dare to disturb him at other times, for fear of interrupting Monk Juyuan's train of thought.

Yu Xiangjie had never seen Monk Juyuan so serious.

And in these three days, Yi Ci opened the book written by the old man Shi Zhong's life's painstaking efforts.

Although the old man Shi Zhong was famous for his figure paintings and was a teacher of the emperor, he learned landscape painting from Tian Qichang at the beginning.In his middle and later years, Shi Zhong once again immersed himself in landscape painting, studying and studying without sleep and food, and gained many valuable insights.He recorded all his insights on painting in a book, including some calligraphy and painting techniques and ideas that have not yet been explored.

This book has given Yici a lot of inspiration.

He studied the book for three days, and then he closed his eyes and meditated quietly.

Finally, on the day before the competition, Yi Ci waited until the old man Shi Zhong sued Monk Juyuan and Yu Xiangjie's autographed letter, as well as key witnesses.

Recently, Gu Zheng has become very busy, and he hasn't been here for a few days. It seems that it is because of the turmoil of foreigners in the frontier and a plague in Qin.

In this case, Gu Zheng would hardly notice Yi Ci's sneaking out of the palace.To be on the safe side, Yici planned to rush back as soon as possible after the competition.

On the day of the competition, Yi Ci changed his clothes, let Luo An take him out of the palace, and took a carriage to Yangxue Pavilion.

Yi Ci stepped out of the carriage, covered his face with a cloth, and still wore a gauze cap on his face, only revealing a pair of clear and cold eyes.He was dressed in white, and his thin and tall figure looked like someone who had stepped out of a painting.

Just a figure is amazing.

The little boy took a deep breath, and finally saw the rumored Wan Bei idler, but instead had an unreal feeling floating in the clouds.If he hadn't known that Wanbeixianren was a young man, Xiao Tong would never have regarded the person in front of him as Wanbeixianren anyway.

Yi Ci followed the boy around the corridor and came to a quiet attic, isolated from the crowd who were eagerly following the competition in Yangxue Pavilion.

He stepped up the steps step by step, the wind under his feet rippled, making his clothes sway like water waves.The veil was also flipped slightly, and a pair of deserted phoenix eyes looked out through the veil, and saw the two people waiting on the second floor.

Monk Juyuan wore monk robes and had a kind face. When he saw Yi Ci, who was younger than him, he took the initiative to greet him: "Little friend is here."

Yu Xiangjie stood beside Monk Juyuan, his eyes had been on him since Yi Ci appeared, and there was an undercurrent in his eyes.The shame of last time is still engraved in my heart.

The posture of the two seemed to have been waiting here for a long time, but Yi Ci seemed to be putting on airs and coming so late on purpose.

However, Yi Ci arrived at the appointed time, neither early nor late, and never late.

Yici sees everything in his eyes.

He was dressed in white, wearing a gauze hat, and a pair of indifferent and beautiful eyes swept over him and the Juyuan monk, like statues without emotion, not paying attention to them.Yu Xiangjie was furious when he saw it.

Monk Juyuan restrained the dark light in his eyes, and praised: "Sure enough, a hero is born in a young age. My young friend has such accomplishments in painting at such a young age. I really admire this old man. Can you take off the gauze hat and let me see the real face?" "

Juyuan is old and cunning, knowing that Wan Bei idlers wear veils wherever they go, there must be secrets in them, and they try to make Yi Ci take off the mask after some hypocrisy.

How can I not know Yici?

He has been a monarch for so many years, and those people in the officialdom are ten times more treacherous and cunning than Juyuan. He has seen a lot, so he naturally knows how to deal with this situation.

But Yi Ci just raised his eyes and looked at Monk Juyuan indifferently, his words were a little alienated and indifferent, and he didn't show mercy to Monk Juyuan at all: "No, it's not very convenient."

The corner of Monk Juyuan's mouth twitched fiercely, never expecting Yi Ci to be so rude.

Yu Xiangjie is arrogant, but he didn't expect Yici to be even more arrogant than himself.He was annoyed for a while, but then he thought of what Yi Ci's evaluation would look like if this matter was spread through other people's mouths, and he couldn't help but feel happy.

Make you crazy!You'll find out later!

Old Man Songshi, the owner of Yangxue Pavilion, looked at Wan Bei Xianren in surprise, frowning slightly.Wan Bei Xianren is indeed capable, but it is too immodest and rude to treat Monk Juyuan, a senior in the painting circle, with this attitude.The old man Songshi felt unhappy, but he didn't say anything, and got to the point after conciliating a few sentences.

Since both Wanbeixianren and Juyuan monk are good at landscape painting, the topic of today's competition is naturally landscape painting.But there are certain restrictions. The two need to paint within a limited size and within a limited time.If the time is up and the painting is not completed, it will be regarded as a loss.

The limited size requirement was put forward by monk Juyuan.In view of the experience of Yu Xiangjie and Wan Beixianren painting last time, Monk Juyuan was worried that Yi Ci would choose a larger space to paint again.In Juyuan monk's view, the reason why Yi Ci's ink painting can win is the choice of a larger format is the key.

The large format is obviously more imposing than the small format, and Yici's ink landscape can only be effective in a larger format.

Yi Ci put forward the requirement of a limited time, requiring that the painting must be completed within three hours.Yi Ci left the palace in private, worried about an accident, so he planned to return to the palace as soon as possible.

Today, he has always had a bad premonition in his heart. I don't know if it's because he doesn't feel safe because he doesn't have Wei Yushu to help him out, or it's a warning from his intuition.

As soon as Gu Zheng's calm and majestic face appeared in his mind, his heart felt like it was hanging in the air, being shaken by the wind.

He and the Juyuan monk each walked into a room.

Someone had already checked the room, and there was nothing in it except pens, ink, paper and inkstones, etc. necessary for painting.

When the specified time is up, someone will immediately enter the room to take out the painting and present it to the jury.

In addition to the original fairy Li Heqing in the painting, Yang Shengming, the general of the painting circle, Cui Daowen, who has both form and spirit, Su Tianqian, Su Changfeng, and Songshi, the father and son of the big and small Su, several other people who are famous in the painting circle have been added. characters, as well as three hundred students from the Academy of Painting.

Closing the door, Yi Ci's heart seemed to be isolated from the outside world as the door gradually closed.

He and Monk Juyuan knew the rules and topics of the competition a day earlier, and Yi Ci had already engraved a picture scroll in his heart, and now he only needed to use his pen and ink to present the landscape in his heart.

The pure white cooked silk was firmly pressed on the table by the paperweight. This is a three-foot-large painting silk, three feet long and two feet wide, about half the length of a person's body and the width of an arm.Using such long and wide silk to paint landscape paintings is very particular about the layout and structure of the paintings.

How to condense a majestic, barren, ancient, or misty world into this small painting without losing its charm is something that must be considered at the beginning of painting.

Just when Yi Ci was about to write, his snow-white sleeve robe accidentally swept across the inkstone, wet his sleeves, and left a long trace on the clean and flawless painting silk.

Yi Ci frowned.

He has been painting for many years, and such a careless thing has never happened before, but it is a coincidence that this happened just like this.

A long line of thick and light ink swaggers horizontally across the lower right side of the painting silk, highlighting its own existence against the backdrop of the snow-white painting silk, just like a painter's open and closed strokes, swaying on the painting silk with full momentum Above, set the tone for the whole picture scroll.

Yi Ci originally planned to start over with another piece of cooked silk, but when he looked at the ink marks on the silk, he suddenly connected it with Gu Zheng's handwriting.

Gu Zheng, who was not proficient in mastering the brush at that time, was like this when he wrote the pen. He did not know how to restrain his pen and had no scruples.

Yi Ci later tried to emulate Gu Zheng's courage, but it was always unsuccessful.It seems that only people like Gu Zheng can write those words.

But at this time, Yi Ci vaguely understood something from this unintentional stroke.

In the past three days, Yi Ci has read the books written by the old man Shi Zhong several times, and almost memorized the contents of the entire book in his heart.At this time, the contents of the book seemed to come alive, gushing out of Yi Ci's mind like spring water.

There is a passage in the book, which is the division of the realm of painting by the old man Shi Zhong.

The first level of realm is the perfect form.

Painters in this realm can accurately outline the appearance of objects and creatures with fine and delicate brushstrokes through long-term and profound observation of the surrounding environment and affairs, reaching a lifelike level.Let people see the painted things, as if the things really appear in front of them.

A higher state than the physical preparation is the physical and spiritual combination.

In this realm, it is enough to be called everyone.A painter who has reached this level can not only accurately and vividly describe the forms of things and creatures at every moment through solid and concise skills, but also endow the forms with spirit.The thoughts and emotions that the painter wants to express are vividly conveyed to everyone who appreciates the painting through the pen, and at the same time, give new life to the things in the painting.As the saying goes, if there is spirit but no similarity in form, the quality is better than writing; if there is similarity in form but no charm, it will be flashy and unreal①, and the combination of form and spirit transcends the two and becomes the second state of painting.

And this third level is the old man Songshi's conjecture, he named it "Back to Basics".

The old man Songshi deduced the existence of this third realm. In his description, this realm far surpassed the previous two realms and became an existence similar to Tao.Everything in the world seems to have its own natural nature and its own unique atmosphere, like a touch of "God" floating in the world.What the painter has to do is to discover these "gods" and let them express freely on the canvas.Only such paintings can be regarded as the true unity of man and nature.

Such a mysterious and mysterious state is the ideal painting state of old man Shi Zhong.

But now, Yi Ci feels in a daze that he has touched the existence of that touch of "God".

There are spirits in the towering and mighty mountains, in the steep and sharp peaks, in the gentle and continuous mountains, in the turbulent rivers, in the winding rivers, in the birds and beasts, in the flowers and plants... The soul of Yici is floating around Get up, and everything in the world is in his eyes.

His eyes penetrated the appearance of all things in the world and touched their "God".

The author has something to say: Remark ①, from Ouyang Jiong's "The Strange Story of Mural Paintings".