Chapter 76: A post is already shocking, why add to the legend
"Speaking of this "Funeral Post" silk book, the origin is really a bit tortuous. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info This "Funeral Post" was bequeathed to me by a person from the Li family! Uncle Wu cleared his throat and said.
Uncle Wu's statement caused a sensation on the field, this peerless treasure, on weekdays, there is no chance to even show it to others, let alone give it to others, no one will believe this statement!
Seeing this, Uncle Wu did not defend himself and continued to speak.
According to the person surnamed Li and me, their ancestors were the administrators of Chang'an City in the late Tang Dynasty, and their ancestors had stolen and excavated many imperial tombs, so they got a lot of treasures from the imperial tombs.
And this "Funeral Post" is a treasure obtained from an accidental tomb robbery.
After their ancestors got this thing, they carefully studied and observed, knowing that this thing was valuable, in order not to let outsiders know, causing the disaster of killing and affecting their descendants, his ancestors secretly handed over this thing to a little son born to himself and the maid, and since then, the illegitimate son of the person surnamed Li has disappeared with the post and has never appeared in the world again.
Maybe the ups and downs of the year have already become a touch of loess, but this treasure has been passed down from generation to generation by the heirs of the person surnamed Li, I once asked about the name of their ancestors, the person surnamed Li was hesitant and vague and never wanted to say it, and finally I had no choice but to give up!
After Uncle Wu said this, everyone shook their heads suspiciously, feeling very uncredible, there are so many people surnamed Li in the world, and they have experienced the change of several dynasties, has not been discovered? Plans to be sold by him, do you have to wait until your Wu shopkeeper arrives to give it to you? A series of questions caused the audience to discuss.
I'm the same, and I don't think it's convincing.
Seeing this situation, Uncle Wu seemed to be expected, and said to the people present: "Don't panic, everyone, and listen to me continue the story!" Before I tell the story, I first want to ask you a question, whose work is this "Funeral Post"? What dynasty last appeared in history? ”
"What's so hard about that? "Funeral Post" came from the hand of Wang Xizhi, a master of calligraphy in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the last time it appeared was in the hands of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty! A slightly knowledgeable man shouted.
When everyone heard this person say this, they all nodded in agreement!
"What this brother said is very true, so everyone has naturally heard rumors that it is the legend that the paper copy of "Funeral Post" was sent to Fusang by Tang envoys during the period of Tang Taizong, right?" Uncle Wu said with a smile.
"Yes, there is such a legend!"
"Legends, how much credibility can there be?"
Aren't you talking nonsense? What kind of evidence is this? ”
"It seems that your shopkeeper Wu also has big words, and this kind of statement may not be convincing to everyone!"
For a while, countless spittle stars pointed directly at Uncle Wu, I really sweated for Uncle Wu, if he didn't explain that he was ugly, how could he step down!
"It's fair for everyone to think so! But if you think about it carefully, Tang Taizong Li Shimin admired Wang Xizhi's calligraphy very much, and loved it even more, how could he easily give up this priceless treasure "Funeral Post" paper to Fusang Kingdom? Uncle Wu said helplessly.
As soon as Uncle Wu's words came out, everyone present was stunned, this question is indeed an indisputable matter, and it seems that only the people of Taizong can tell the beginning and the end!
Uncle Wu continued: "According to the oral tradition of the ancestor surnamed Li, Taizong was dumb and ate Coptis chinensis at that time, and he couldn't tell if he was bitter!" In fact, they were all deceived by the rhetoric of those treacherous envoys of Fuso, and this was an impulsive decision! ”
As the superior kingdom of the Celestial Empire, since he has promised to give this calligraphy treasure to the barbarian foreign nations, he cannot be untrustworthy.
In desperation, I had to give it to the envoys of Fuso! But this "Funeral Post" is Taizong's heart, how can he give it up? In the end, when he was in a dilemma, the minister Yu Suiliang offered a plan: why didn't Taizong copy a paper copy and send it to Fusang Kingdom, so that the authentic work could be kept in his hands forever.
Taizong was overjoyed, anxious for a while, and even forgot about this method, the envoy of Fusang could not have lived such a true calligraphy, so they copied it to him, and they may not be able to see it.
So Taizong found the best calligraphy master of the court at that time to copy, after several months of careful study and copying, the paper and the silk book is almost identical, after the completion of the work, Taizong generously gave the paper to Fusang.
Everyone may have heard that Wang Xizhi's other masterpiece "Lanting Collection Preface" also appeared for the last time in the era of Tang Taizong, and Tang Taizong Li Shimin's love for the book saint Wang Xizhi can be said to be extremely crazy.
According to rumors, after Tang Taizong deceived the "Lanting Collection Preface" from the discerning monk, he ordered people to copy more than ten copies and distribute them to the princes, nobles and civil and military ministers, and made an edict to put the true copy of the "Lanting Collection Preface" under his pillow after his death.
But people are not as good as the sky, a hundred years after Taizong, the bones were not cold, and they were hidden by Tang Gaozong's son Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, Tang Gaozong is also very fond of calligraphy, and finally rebelled against the emperor, and privately seized the "Lanting Collection Preface", so that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Wen Tao did not find the "Lanting Collection Preface" when he excavated the Zhaoling of Tang Taizong.
Among the mausoleums of the Tang Dynasty, only the Qianling Tomb where Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were buried has not been stolen and excavated so far, and the "Lanting Collection Preface" has never appeared in the world with the death of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, which is enough to show that the "Lanting Collection Preface" is likely to be buried in the Qianling.
When Tang Gaozong Li Zhi disobeyed his father's last words and got his father's favorite "Lanting Collection Preface" and "Funeral Post", he always felt ashamed of the emperor and ashamed of being a son of man, so after a difficult ideological struggle, he left a more outstanding "Lanting Collection Preface", and finally endured to bury the silk copy of "Funeral Post" and Tang Taizong in Zhaoling.
Everyone should be very clear by now, whose hand should this "Funeral Post" silk copy be, right?
"According to Shopkeeper Wu, the silk copy of this "Funeral Post" should be in Wen Tao's hands?" Brother Du thought for a while and said.
"Master Du is really talented!" Uncle Wu arched his hand and said.
That's right, the silk copy of this "Funeral Post" was stolen by this Wen Tao.
And everyone knows that Wen Tao's family name is Li Yantao, who is a native of Liang in the fifth generation, and Wen Tao was crazy about stealing and digging the imperial tomb in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, and was scolded by the people of the world pointing to the backbone, Wen Tao also knew that he was guilty, in order not to implicate future generations, his descendants have always taken the surname Li as his surname, first, for fear of revenge from the Tang clan, and secondly, more or less atonement.
So the reason why the person surnamed Li I am talking about does not say the name of his ancestor is that he feels that his ancestor has done something that makes the world sneer, and he has no shame to mention it again.
"If so, does that make sense? But why did the person surnamed Li suddenly want to give you this priceless treasure? Brother Du said thoughtfully after hearing this.
"Lord Du, do you know that this family surnamed Li has lived in seclusion in the depths of the mountains for generations, and has almost no contact with outsiders, and knows very little about things outside!" Uncle Wu said.
According to the person surnamed Li, since their ancestors in the Li family came to his time, every adult man did not live to be thirty years old, even if he was a strong person, when he reached the age of thirty, he got a strange disease, his whole body ulcerated, and within a few months, he was only left with skin and bones, which was miserable.
This strange thing has been going on for dozens of generations, and they all think that it is a curse of the Imperial Tomb, and they have hidden something in the Imperial Tomb in their hands.
In his age, in order not to let this terrible curse continue, he wanted to destroy this thing. But if this priceless treasure is destroyed, it will be simply disrespectful to the sage of the book, disrespectful to all the literati and writers in the world, and in the end, he is in a dilemma, and he still has no intention to destroy it.
Coincidentally, in the early years, I often walked through villages and alleys, and often went to some remote and desolate mountains to collect treasures. Because the treasures in the mountains are relatively well preserved, and the villagers are simple and kind, even if you want to buy his things, they also need very little silver taels, unlike the current flowery capital, as long as it is a little valuable thing, you want to sell it for a sky-high price, and then fantasize about getting rich overnight, and the psychology of getting rich for nothing is simply too common.
Let's continue to talk about the Li family in the depths of the mountain!
One day more than ten years ago, I hiked through the Qinling Mountains alone, but for some reason, it rained heavily, and the fog of the mountains made me lose my way in the mountains, I don't know how long I walked in such fog, and finally because of the gradual exhaustion of physical strength, I accidentally slipped to, but I never wanted to fall into a strange valley, and when I woke up, I was already lying in the home of the person surnamed Li.
They who haven't seen outsiders for a long time, are both curious and afraid of my appearance, I am almost regarded by them as a god in the outside world, and treat me with delicious food every day, after a few days of observation, I found that their thoughts are still in the period of the Song Dynasty, I was very shocked at that time!
Later, I slowly talked with this person surnamed Li, and it turned out to be a harmony of love and righteousness, and I hated to see each other late!
During the chat, the person surnamed Li told me a lot of stories about their family, and I also told them a lot of things about the outside world, and the person surnamed Li was both envious and afraid! But he never thought that the person surnamed Li was like an omen's curse, his body slowly festered, and within a few days, he was as thin as firewood!
I was so shocked that I asked him the cause of his illness!
When the person surnamed Li was dying, he told me everything 1510, and also took out this "Funeral Post", and asked me to take it out of the deep mountains, I must keep it well, and let the ink treasure of the ancestors continue to circulate, and finally he sent their people to send me out of that valley!
After Uncle Wu finished speaking, everyone quieted down, this statement is reasonable, there is no flaw at all, it seems that this should be the true work of "Funeral Post".
I don't care about this, I can put it on display here, I believe that Uncle Wu has done countless careful observations, and it will definitely not be fake.
I'm very concerned about the consequences of that person surnamed Li.
"What happened to the person surnamed Li?" I asked.
"I'm ashamed! More than a decade has passed since I was sent away, and I haven't been back. A few years ago, I occasionally passed by the Qinling Mountains and remembered them, and I walked in the way they sent me out before.
But the scene that appeared in front of my eyes made me still dare not recall: that small village has long been without any living breath, the graves all over the mountain have been dug to the ground, and the human bones are everywhere by wild wolves, I was in a panic, so I left in a hurry, presumably the man surnamed Li still failed to escape the curse in the end! Uncle Wu said.
After listening to Uncle Wu's words, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my back, this story really responded to the cycle of "heavenly retribution", thinking that Wen Tao dug up other people's ancestral graves, and finally caused his children and grandchildren to have a short life, and finally ended up in a miserable situation with no bones left, it is really not miserable, it can not be said endlessly!