Chapter 51: Rites

In the early morning, the city of Luoyang was foggy.

The faint morning light will fill the entire Luoyang City, if you look at it from outside the city, the entire Luoyang City looms, like a fairyland on earth.

"Winter will be in a few days, and the concubine has prepared a few winter clothes for her husband, and she will enter the camp today and bring them." In the warm tent, Yun Si, who was awakened by Chen Mo's action of getting up, began to serve Chen Mo and dress, chattering while chattering.

What's the warmth in my heart?

Chen Mo tried his best not to keep his eyes from looking, and coughed lightly when he heard the words: "You put on your clothes first." ”

Looking at his husband's face, but glancing at him from time to time, Yun Si wanted to laugh but didn't dare, nodded hard, put a light veil on his body, and continued to help Chen Mo tidy up his clothes.

It's even more uncomfortable, but Chen Mo can't accept this kind of thing in the daytime, so he can only stiffly let Yun Si help him get dressed, and let her get dressed quickly.

"Childe, breakfast is ready." Juan'er came to the door, knocked on the door, and called softly.

"Hmm." Chen Mo opened the door and came to the hall with the neatly dressed Yun Si and Juan'er.

"Why is the husband so worried?" In the hall, Yun Si and Juan'er did not eat together, Da Lang sat in the position where Chen Mo was under his hand and ate together, seeing Chen Mo's brows frowning from time to time, Yun Si said gently.

"I took a two-day leave from the barracks, and I was going to visit Lu Gong tomorrow, but this gift ......" Chen Mo had a headache, the last time he visited Lu Zhi, he mentioned a bunch of ornaments, and he always felt that something was wrong, but if it was a valuable gift, he didn't have it, and second, Lu Zhi wouldn't accept it.

The military marquis's salary is not high, so it is barely enough for him to live in Luoyang, and if you add those generals who brought it, this is not enough at all.

"I was worried about this." Yun Si Wenyan chuckled and said: "Lu Gong is a master in the sea, he is an upright official, if the prince gives a valuable gift, I am afraid that he will not accept it, but if it is an ordinary gift, I feel that it is not easy to make a move." ”

"Yun Si has a magic method?" Chen Mo looked at Yun Si and asked.

"Like a character like Lu Gong, how about the husband try to treat people with sincerity?" Yun Si smiled.

"How do you count sincerity?" Chen Mo looked at Yun Si.

"For example, the husband made a bamboo slip by himself and gave it to Lu Gong, the blank bamboo slip is not expensive, the husband can transcribe some knowledge on it, this book is written by the husband himself, it is not valuable, but if it is used as a gift, ordinary people are afraid that it is difficult to find a thousand gold, and the husband can use this to get close to Lu Gong in the name of asking questions." Yun Si smiled.

"Not bad." When Chen Mo heard this, his eyes lit up, and he nodded immediately: "Juan'er, go and help me prepare a bamboo slip and a carving knife." ”

Since it is a gift, it naturally cannot be written with pen and ink, so that after a long time, the handwriting will be blurry and difficult to read, and it is inconvenient to store, so it can only be engraved with a carving knife.

Chen Mo has thousands of books in his chest, but it is impossible to say that he understands all of them and understands them all, remembering and understanding are two different things, but Chen Mo also has a lot of incomprehension, and he chooses a part of it to copy it down, one can be used as a gift, and the other can also take the opportunity to ask for advice or two.

"Whoa." Juan'er said yes and trotted away.

"Dalang." Solving the problem that plagued his heart, Chen Mo was happy in his heart, looked at Da Lang and smiled: "How have you practiced martial arts recently?" ”

"Okay." Da Lang shook his head, his martial arts had already passed the stage of courage and refinement, and now he relied on perseverance and hard training to produce results.

"Would you like to go to the army for some training?" Chen Mo looked at Da Lang and asked, Now that the Western Army has been established, it is not too difficult for him to enter alone.

Da Lang's sword skills are not good, and his strength is not small, if he can be cultivated well, he will not be a general, compared to others, Chen Mo naturally hopes that Da Lang can become a talent, rather than just practicing martial arts all day long, martial arts are important, but I want to rely on martial arts alone to get my ...... Wang Yue is the best example, it's really difficult.

"Okay." When Da Lang heard this, his eyes lit up, and if he had the opportunity, he naturally wanted to be able to get ahead and shine on the lintel.

"Let's talk about it first, I'm just a military marquis at the moment, and I can bring you into the camp, but I need to start as an ordinary soldier, and then be promoted after performing well or having military merits in the future." Chen Mo said with a smile, he has limited rights and can bring Da Lang in, but whether he can be promoted or not depends on Da Lang himself.

Da Lang naturally agreed, just like Chen Mo at the beginning, Da Lang also needed a chance and a noble person to help him, for Da Lang, Chen Mo was obviously that nobleman.

Chen Mo took a closer look at Da Lang's life, just by his own hard work, now Da Lang's life number has thirty-three, if one day the official position is added, it will definitely be able to rise again, now that he has basically established his heels, it is time to pull this fellow countryman along.

After the meal, Chen Mo asked Yun Si to go to dinner, and he came to the study, Juan'er had already prepared the pen and ink, bamboo slips, and carving knives, Chen Mo knelt behind the table, and after thinking carefully for a while, he decided to write a paragraph from Mencius.

Mencius was the first book that Chen Mo came into contact with, and at that time Li Zheng Ah Weng gave him a volume, but Mencius himself had more than 35,000 words, and that volume of Mencius was only the opening volume.

Later, Chen Mo read all Mencius at the home of his teacher Zang Hong, but many things were not connected.

Yun Si's words, Chen Mo later pondered clearly, people, regardless of high and low, have some good habits of being a teacher, for example, you find a farmer in the field, praise two sentences of good planting, and then ask for advice on how to farm.

Coming to the study at this moment, calm down, Chen Mo looked back on the past, and the characters he had encountered would show more or less in this regard, including himself, Chen Mo also liked to tell people great truths in the barracks, which ...... Is it inferior or not?

It seems that I sometimes dislike others preaching to me, including teachers, just because of politeness, and it is not easy to interrupt.

Shaking his head, Chen Mo spread out the bamboo slips, no longer thought about it, and began to write directly, Mencius's book, it is naturally not difficult to write it silently, the whole book is more than 35,000 words, where it is smooth, where it is obscure, he knows it well, it is not effortless to write at this moment, it is the carving that is laborious.

Hundreds of words, one by one according to the handwriting carved down, at first Chen Mo thought it was not difficult, but when he really started, he found that it was not easy to carve out completely according to his own handwriting, carving, it seems that it is not useless, Chen Mo only carved two words, it took half an hour, according to the do, I am afraid that today is not enough to carve out these hundreds of words in one day.

Luck ......

Looking at his luck, Chen Mo hesitated, lay on the side of the table, and chose to enter the dream training camp, where he seemed to have seen basic carving skills.

Lettering is not very difficult in carving, but since he has entered the dream training camp, it is naturally impossible to learn as simple as just one lettering, here, Chen Mo learned the entire wood carving.

The molding of a wood carving, for the treatment of image and space, the carver has the general appearance of the carving in his mind before carving, how big it should be, accurate to the size of Haowei.

Of course, only harmony is not enough, in order to present the finished product in the heart to reality, in addition to the training of the sense of space, the requirements for the knife are also quite strict, and the knife method here is not the kind of knife method used to fight, three inches of short toughness, in the subtleties of the high, in the subtlety of the details of the processing, than the knife method of opening and closing is much more difficult.

In the hands of a real woodcarver, it is not to carve, but to shell the wood carving that already has the finished product in their hearts, and remove the excess debris little by little, and finally form the finished product.

Chen Mo spent a year in the training camp this time to learn wood carving to level nine, the reason why it was shorter than those skills before was not because wood carving was easy, but because Chen Mo was more than a little stronger than when he first entered the dream training camp.

Not to mention the physical strength, just the strong memory, the influence of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, the fit of the weapon and the flexibility of the movements brought by the proficiency of various weapons, these external conditions make it not as difficult for Chen Mo to learn a new martial art now.

"Juan'er, bring a roll of bamboo slips again." After waking up from the dream training camp, the long-term sense of alienation gradually disappeared, and at this moment, looking at the bamboo slips on the table, Chen Mo suddenly felt a little unable to take it, and after being silent for a long time, he shouted directly to Juan'er outside the door.

"Childe, is it okay at this moment?" After a while, Juan'er came in with a new roll of blank bamboo slips, looked at the bamboo slips on the table, and felt that the words were not bad.

"It's uneven, it's broken the original charm of the word, how can it be good?" Chen Mo rolled up the old bamboo slip, knocked on its head and said, "Take it out." ”

"Oh~" Juan'er took the bamboo slip and exited the room a little helplessly.

Chen Mo spread out the new bamboo slips, and the moment he picked up the carving knife, a sense of familiarity arose, looking at the blank bamboo slips in front of him, although there were no words on them, but in Chen Mo's eyes at the moment, it had already become a finished product, and what he had to do now was to clean up the impurities that stuck to the words.

The carving knife slid slowly, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and the debris kept flying from the bamboo slips, Chen Mo moved extremely fast, in less than a quarter of an hour, there were already more than fifty words, which was ten times faster than the speed of two words in the previous half an hour.

In an hour, the bamboo has been carved.

Looking at the bamboo slip in his hand, Chen Mo suddenly felt that the shape of the bamboo slip was a little too rough, and carefully polished the edges of the bamboo slip neatly and smoothly, and carved a few patterns.

After repairing and modifying like this, he was busy until the evening, and this bamboo slip satisfied Chen Mo, and after asking Yun Si to help him wrap the bamboo slip with something, Chen Mo returned to the bedroom, and sat in the study on his knees on this day, his legs were numb, and his spirit was quite tired, now that the matter has been done, Chen Mo almost fell asleep after worshipping the system immortals, and even Yun Si came over to help him untie his clothes, all of which were done in half a sleep.