Remembrance of Tianyin's Adventure

"Master Bao!" Xu Qing ran into Bao Zheng's study with strong footsteps, and said, "Who do you think we brought back?" Before he finished speaking, Lu Fang and Han Zhang had already brought in a woman dressed as a village girl. , followed by Jiang Ping.

When Bao Zheng saw this person, he was startled to help the case immediately, and said with great joy: "Princess Taiping!" He hurriedly brought Gongsun Ce to go forward, wanting to perform the ceremony of the monarch and his ministers.

Chun Ni has always respected Bao Zheng very much, how would she accept his big gift, she hurriedly said: "Lord Bao, please forgive me!"

Gongsun Ce looked behind them and asked, "Where are Princess Anning and Guard Zhan? And Hero Bai?"

Chunni sighed, "They're still in the Devil's Den!"

"What?" This was the last thing Bao Zheng wanted to hear.

"Your Majesty Bao, don't worry." Chun Ni said, "With the protection of Senior Brother and Brother Bai, Mei Niang will be fine. Everything is fine with Brother Bai, and Senior Brother's poison has also been cured. According to Senior Brother's plan, they can come back tomorrow. "It was easy to say, but the mood was quite dignified.

Bao Zheng frowned and said: "Although it is so, the witch is treacherous and vicious, so you should not be underestimated." Then he asked: "How did the princess be rescued?"

"It's a long story, you should take a look at this first!" Chunni said, holding up the picture scroll in her hand and handing it to Bao Zheng.

While the scroll was rolling, the entire picture appeared on the table.Everyone gathered around and focused their eyes on the painting.The scroll is about four feet long, and there are four paintings in total from right to left.

Chun Ni said: "The woman in the painting is the witch Tong Yun, the fiancée of the guilty minister Guo Jian'an."

Bao Zheng recalled his speculation a few days ago and said, "It really is her!"

Chun Ni said: "This painting was made by Guo Jian'an's younger brother Guo Zhongqing. It depicts the scenes of Guo Jian'an and Tong Yun from meeting, falling in love to separating."

Gongsun Ce wondered: "Guard Zhan and others are still trapped in the magic cave, how can the princess have the heart to study a painting?" He asked: "Could it be that there is a mystery hidden in the painting?"

"That's right!" Chun Ni said, "If the puzzle in the painting cannot be solved, even if the brother's wisdom and martial arts are better than the witch's, he will still face a great threat!"

Bao Zheng was puzzled and said, "What does this painting have to do with the exhibition guards?"

Chun Ni said sadly: "Because Tong Yun's appearance is very similar to Lian Caiyun."

Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce looked at each other and couldn't help being silent.Deep down in their hearts, none of them wanted that dusty past to be brought up again.

Although Zhan Zhao is not a proud person, he has always been confident.Facing the problems in front of him, he was at a loss. Not only could he not find the direction of his thinking, but the more he looked at it, the more confused he became:

The painting on the wall, no matter its layout, lines or brushwork, has nothing to recommend it, let alone any artistic conception.In the painting, there is a round of red sun above, and a green hill below. In the mountain, there is only a meandering creek, a mess of weeds, and a few wild horses on the hillside. , or roll and have fun.The picture shows neither lofty and grand momentum, nor graceful and elegant taste. The painting method is neither meticulous nor freehand brushwork, so I really don't know where it is.

The chess game on the other wall is even more incredible.On the chessboard, not only the chess moves are out of order, but even the places where the pieces are placed are not in accordance with the rules.There is no piece in the "Tianyuan" and the "star position" in the eight directions. What's more strange is that most of the pieces did not fall on the intersection of the vertical and horizontal lines. How can it be called a game of chess?

Unable to understand the mysteries on two consecutive walls, Zhan Zhao didn't dare to read any more. The more he read, the more confused he became.What puzzled him the most was that there were neither classics of the music world nor a musical score here, so what's the use of placing a precious white jade guqin in the middle of the secret room in a stately manner?

In the mansion of Kaifeng, Chunni told everyone the story in the painting: "Tongyun was originally named Cao and named Yan. She was the leader of dancing prostitutes in Hangzhou. Although she was reduced to prostitution, she did not sell herself. Guo Jianan is a celebrity in Hangzhou. He is not only outstanding in martial arts, but also famous He is a famous musician, and he was born suave, so he is very popular with local women. Cao Yan even secretly promised him and vowed not to marry him. In order to get close to Guo Jianan, Cao Yan tried his best to imitate the ancients, and often played the piano on the street , as long as Guo Jianan passes in front of her, he will deliberately play the piano wrongly."

"Gu Qu Zhou Lang?" Gongsun Ce frowned slightly.

"Exactly!" Chun Ni continued: "Although Guo Jian'an is aloof and arrogant, like Zhou Lang, he can't hear the wrong sound of the piano. Whenever he hears the wrong sound, he will step forward to point it out. From then on, we met Cao Yan."

Xu Qing interrupted: "Cao Yan is so beautiful, Guo Jian'an fell in love with it at a glance?"

"No!" Chunni said: "Although she is beautiful, Guo Jian'an is not a womanizer, what really makes Guo Jian'an fall in love is her eyes!" She said sadly: "Her eyes are exactly like Lian Caiyun!"

Bao Zheng frowned and said, "Could it be that Lian Caiyun is what Guo Jian'an really admires?"

Chun Ni said: "A chance encounter made him fall in love with Lian Caiyun at first sight, but Lian Caiyun dismissed him." Her tone was very flat, but she couldn't tell the awkwardness in her heart: "What's so good about Lian Caiyun? With Guo Jianan's arrogance Gao Jie and Senior Brother both like her?"

Gongsun Ce saw that the second painting was the scene of Guo Jianan drawing eyebrows for Cao Yan, and said: "So, the reason why Guo Jianan and Cao Yan are together is just to quench their thirst for plum blossoms."

Chun Ni sighed: "In fact, Cao Yan is also very pitiful. In order to win Guo Jian'an's favor, she is willing to follow Guo Jian'an's description and try her best to imitate Lian Caiyun's every word and deed, every frown and smile. Because she likes to wear red dresses, Guo Jian'an then asked her to change her name to 'Tong Yun', saying that there was also a word 'cloud' in her name, so she looked more like Lian Caiyun's stand-in."

Han Zhang clenched his fists and said bitterly: "This Cao Yan is really inexplicable, for a man who doesn't love her at all, he humiliated himself like this!" Although he was cursing, he couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic in his heart.

Lu Fang said angrily: "I never thought Guo Jian'an would be so despicable!"

"Brother, why should you be angry?" Jiang Ping said with a light smile, "It's called 'You love me'! If you want me to tell you, there are so many men in the world, who made Cao Yan insist on marrying Guo Jian'an?"

Chunni said indifferently: "You don't understand her heart!" As a woman, her greatest wish in life is to meet the man she loves.But if they really meet, they don't know whether it is luck or misfortune.

Bao Zheng sighed: "Even if Cao Yan tries to make things better, in Guo Jianan's heart, she is not the real Lian Caiyun after all. No wonder Cao Yan regretted her marriage on the day she got married." The scene of resolutely leaving.

Xu Qing pointed to the fourth painting and asked, "What does this mean? What is she doing standing in front of a coffin?"

Chun Ni said: "I just wanted to ask everyone to help me with the details. According to Guo Zhongqing, Tong Yun was distraught after being repented of her marriage, and vowed to win back Guo Jian'an's heart. A year ago, she accidentally found Guo Jian'an's secret collection. With half a guqin, she discovered the bloodthirsty demon skill in it, so she practiced it secretly, and her skill increased greatly within a few months. Later, she heard that Lian Caiyun was no longer alive, so she used an extremely rare method in the world to transfer her The appearance became exactly the same as Lian Caiyun, and she really became Lian Caiyun's substitute. She rushed to the border immediately, thinking that she could win Guo Jian'an's favor again. Unexpectedly, when she arrived at the barracks, Guo Jian'an had already been executed. In grief, he decided to avenge Guo Jian'an, which led to the current big case."

Xu Qing was puzzled, "But what does this have to do with the coffin?"

Chun Ni shook her head and said, "How did Tong Yun become Lian Caiyun? Guo Zhongqing has always refused to tell me, and even senior brother almost thought that Lian Caiyun came back from the dead!" She said anxiously: "Tomorrow's battle is a matter of life and death. , if Tong Yun resorts to some tricks to deceive Senior Brother, wouldn't he be even more dangerous?" After hearing this, everyone was also full of anxiety, and looked at the picture scroll for a long time, but they were helpless.

In the secret room, Zhan Zhao is still concentrating on enlightenment.

I saw a few lines of seal characters engraved on the wall adjacent to the chess game: "Don't listen to the ear, but listen to the heart; don't listen to the heart, but listen to the breath", which is "Zhuangzi·Human World" sentences in .

Zhan Zhao sympathized with the first two sentences.Just two days ago, he told Tong Yun that he should not listen to him playing the piano with his ears, but with his heart.In this way, the pictures and texts on the stone wall seem to have something in common with Qin music.But the last two sentences are hard to figure out.Whether it is composing music or playing the piano, how can it not be sent from the "heart"? What kind of ethereal thing is "Qi", how can it be related to Qin music?

The word "qi" has quite different meanings in different fields such as various schools of thought, martial arts, feng shui, and medicine.And the "Qi" here comes from "Zhuangzi" and Taoism, and it should be the natural gas.

Thinking of "nature", Zhan Zhao vaguely realized something, and looked back at the painting just now - the overgrown weeds were not artificially planted; the happy wild horses have never been tamed.Under the warm sun, on the banks of the clear stream, all living beings have their own nature, isn't it just in line with nature?

The same must be true of the chess game on the wall: maybe it wasn't a chess game at all, but a random scattering of pieces on the board.The chessboard is comparable to heaven and earth, and the chess pieces are comparable to human nature.Just as chess pieces don't have to stick to the chessboard, people in the world should not stick to the world and be obsessed with fame and fortune.

Thinking up to this point, Zhan Zhao couldn't think anymore. He already understood the principle of "Tao follows nature" when he read "Zhuangzi" when he was young. Even if he understands it more deeply today, it will not help the study of Qin music at all.With the wisdom of the above official uncle, how could he not understand Zhuangzi?How can you not understand the philosophy in the paintings on the wall and the chess game?I'm afraid Uncle Shangguan, like himself, can only comprehend this far!

At the door of the stone prison, Cheng Yin poked out half of his head and kept looking out.

"Don't look!" Bai Yutang held his sword in his chest, leaning against the stone wall and said, "If Zhan Zhao comes back, I'll hear it from a hundred paces away!"

"Can you hear me? My brother doesn't make any sound when he walks!" Cheng Yin turned around, with a droopy face, and muttered, "Where did he go, he hasn't come back for so long!"

Bai Yutang chuckled lightly and said, "Since when did he become your elder brother? He's so affectionate!"

Mei Niang had been waiting impatiently for a long time, and asked Bai Yutang, "Brother Zhan, nothing will happen, right?"

Bai Yutang brushed the dust off his body and said, "Don't worry, he'll be fine, I'll go out and find him right now."

In order to comprehend the mystery of the forbidden area, Zhan Zhao has racked his brains until his head hurts, and everything in front of him is a bit blurred.He wanted to fulfill Uncle Shangguan's wish before he died, but he forgot that not only had he lost more than ten years of skill in recent days, he hadn't had a rest yet, and now he was exhausted, how could he hold on?

He really wanted to have a good sleep, but he was reluctant, afraid that the last moment of his life would be wasted like this.So he sat cross-legged on the ground, concentrated his breath, and quietly adjusted his breath.

Inadvertently, I looked up and saw a stone wall opposite, on which was engraved a man in coarse linen, sitting cross-legged just like him, holding a bronze mirror in front of him with his left hand, smiling knowingly.

Zhan Zhao was fascinated by the sight, couldn't help but stop practicing, and held his breath to think: "It's a woman's business to adjust red makeup in the mirror. What is this man doing with the bronze mirror? Could it be that he thinks he looks better than Pan An?" Zhan Zhao couldn't help laughing , I didn't expect that I was in the moment of life and death, and I was still in the mood to joke.

But if what you see in the mirror is not your face, what is it?So Zhan Zhao imitated the man's appearance, raised his left hand, palm facing himself, using the palm instead of the mirror, for reference.

After all, the palm is not a bronze mirror, so naturally Zhan Zhao's face cannot be seen.However, the moment his gaze met his palm, he saw the word "Love" appearing in his palm!It was given to him by a fortune teller in the street market that day.

Zhan Zhao's heart was suddenly in a state of confusion, and scenes of the past surged like huge waves, as if they were going to swallow him up.He is fearless in the face of death, but how many emotions can he let go of in this life?He once vowed to protect the people of the world with the three-foot green sharp edge; he once determined to follow Master Bao and help him punish evil and eliminate traitors; he once promised Bai Yutang to compete with him in martial arts; he once promised his master to take good care of Chunni; He once promised Chengyin to take him to Caiyun's grave together...

Through the word "love" on the palm, Zhan Zhao seems to see his restless heart.Looking up at the man on the wall again, I couldn't help but suddenly realized: "It turns out that what you see in the mirror is not my face, but my own mind!" Listening with the ears, but listening with the heart' has the same effect.From this, it can be deduced that "not listening with the heart, but listening with the breath" is to teach people to "abandon the heart and follow the breath".But how easy is it to do this? "

Inside the secret room, Zhan Zhao's thin and tall figure was surrounded by the enchanting illusion of the four walls, blending into the misty.