Chapter 42: The Theory of Hard-Pen Threats

It was indeed a 'hairy' pen, but he was a quill pen, and the roots were laughed into a pointed shape, and if it weren't for the traces of ink, everyone would never have thought that this was the brush of the Mo family.

"Yes, you can call him a quill or a hard pen!" Merton unfolded the quill pen in his hand.

The eyes widened in the crowd, and they couldn't believe that a small goose feather could write such a beautiful font.

"Hard pen!"

Liu Yinian thought for a moment, if that was the case, then he would really be able to explain why he wrote such a small font.

Under the gaze of everyone, Merton opened the cork of the inkwell, dipped it in ink, and wrote softly on the rice paper:

"Goose goose goose, song to the sky.

The white hair floats in the green water, and the red anthurium plucks the clear waves. ”

"Song of the Goose" is Merton's favorite poem in his previous life, it is the poem of Luo Bingwang, a genius in the early Tang Dynasty, Luo Bingwang has not been born at the moment, and Merton is not guilty of using it!

There are not many words in the whole poem, and Morton wrote it in one go.

"I can really write!"

"It's exactly the same font as the schoolwork, it seems that this is really written by Mo Jiazi."

"It's so fast!" Qin Huaiyu's eyes lit up, and he was more concerned about the speed of writing, so that he could have a lot of time to play.

"It's so small, and it's so clear! And more paper is saved, and goose feathers are cheaper. "There are some students who have invested all their money to gamble on Murton to lose, and now they have long been bankrupt, and the brush and rice paper are expensive, and how to save money is the king.

"No, it's not a brush, not at all!" Xiong Maolin shouted loudly.

"Why can't it work, didn't the master say yesterday that no matter what method or pen is used, you must write a neat font on the paper, isn't this font neat?" Merton retorted.

"Uh-uh!" Xiong Maocai suddenly became dumbfounded, and Liu Yinian also looked embarrassed, yes, the most important thing in their calligraphy is to write well, as for what pen to write, it doesn't seem to be the point!

The other Guozi prisoners were also depressed for a while, and it seemed that there was no way to embarrass Merton on this.

"The words are good, but the content is not satisfactory! How is it the ...... of Gebo Tianqing, what are these! It's bullshit! Wang Ling rolled his eyes and said with a look of disgust.

As soon as he finished speaking, he found that the people around him were looking at him strangely, Xiong Maocai touched him lightly and said, "It should be read from left to right!" ”

"Goose goose goose, song...... ...... to the sky Song, "Wang Ling's difficult reader couldn't help but change his face greatly, and Mo Jiazi actually wrote a good poem again.

"Good poetry!" A cheer came from outside the door, and I saw Kong Yingda, the priest of the country, walking in with a look of admiration.

"Sake-sama!" Liu Yinian hurriedly saluted.

"Sake-sama!"

The prisoners also saluted, and Merton bowed in return.

As soon as Kong Yingda came in, he picked up Moton's quill pen and was amazed, and looked at Mo Jiazi's handwriting again, and couldn't help but exclaim: "I didn't expect to be able to write such a beautiful font with such a simple feather." Kong Yingda exclaimed.

"Lord Samurai, I'm about to report to you! This kind of character has never been seen in Xiaguan, and Xiaguan suspects that it is a new font. Liu Yinian is well-informed, and he is also amazed when he sees this font.

Kong Yingda nodded, as a calligrapher, he has also studied a lot of fonts, and he has indeed never seen this font!

"Impossible!" The prisoners were shocked that a person with extremely ugly handwriting could create a new font overnight, which was simply a fantasy thing, and it happened in front of their eyes.

Xiong Maocai was simply ashamed, he kept boasting that he was better than Mo Jiazi, and in a blink of an eye, Mo Jiazi became a generation of masters who pioneered a kind of calligraphy, and he was the clown who jumped off the beam.

"Horizontal and vertical, with a hook at the end of the pen, it should be transformed according to the lettering!" Kong Yingda judged.

"Lord Sacrificial Wine is wise! When the students were young, their families were poor and they couldn't afford to buy pen and paper, so they often practiced in the sand table, and finally achieved a little success. "Merton wrote in Song style, and its real source is engraving printing.

"It's a whimsical idea to make a pen out of goose feathers!" Kong Yingda exclaimed.

"With crow feathers, peacock feathers are better, and the main goose feathers are cheaper!" Merton said.

When the goose feathers are usually slaughtered, they are discarded everywhere, and the cost is extremely low, of course, it is not as good as the wolf and rabbit that are often hundreds of dollars.

Kong Yingda picked up the quill pen and wrote a few words, although it was very green and unaccustomed to using it, but after all, he was a person who had practiced calligraphy for decades, and he could write a good font with a little practice.

"Fast and small! Save paper! Kong Yingda looked at his writing with satisfaction, raised the tip of the pen and looked at the slightly yellowed pen, compared with Liu Yinian's wolf pen, picked up the wolf pen and wrote the same words, even if he tried his best to control it, it was still much bigger than the quill pen, and it was much slower.

"If this thing can be popularized, it should be a blessing for students all over the world." Kong Yingda said.

"Don't sacrifice wine! If this thing is popular, it will cause a big mess! Liu Yinian said in panic.

"What a quill can do! Dr. Liu, don't be alarmist! Kong Yingda shouted angrily.

"How dare the lower officials talk nonsense, Lord Sacrificial Wine, please read Merton's verses!" Liu Yinian pointed to Morton's newly written Yong Goose and said.

"Goose goose goose, the song ...... to the sky" Kong Yingda's face became more gloomy the more he read, and the words written by Morton turned out to be horizontal, and they were all read from left to right. The writing of the brush characters is vertical, reading from right to left, which is simply a different way of writing that is completely opposite to the brush characters.

If the quill pen becomes popular, there will not be two different ways of writing on the market, and it will indeed cause a lot of turmoil.

"Why did Merton write that!" Kong Yingda looked at Merton solemnly.

"If you write with a quill pen, hold it down with your left hand and write with your right hand, and write from left to right to avoid the ink from drying on your clothes, and you can look at your sleeves!" Merton waved his sleeve clean.

Kong Yingda raised his sleeve and looked at the dots of ink on it, feeling a little relieved, at least Mo Jiazi's explanation reassured him, at this time, the characteristics of the quill pen were caused, and it was not for brush calligraphy.

"See, Lord Sake, if the two methods of writing are mixed in society, it will be very chaotic." Liu Yinian exclaimed bitterly.

"What the Master said is indeed the truth!" Merton nodded in agreement with Liu Yinian's point of view, which made Kong Yingda a little surprised.

"But have you ever thought why you are writing from top to bottom, from right to left?" Merton suddenly asked a question that caught everyone off guard.