Chapter 321: Good as Water, A Gentleman Begins with Doing Things (Seeking Perfection)
Chapter 321 is as good as water, and a gentleman seeks perfection by doing things
Generally speaking, people who can master the craft of making musical instruments in ancient times, if they are not handed down to the nobility, must be a famous craftsman, and the protagonist Yu Boya who records the allusion to the mountain and flowing water in the column is a master luthier and a scholar of the Jin Kingdom at that time.
Although this may be a story made up by ancient families, the meaning behind it also directly binds the status of the guqin to the nobility, and the story of a scholar and a woodcutter's bosom friend is more in line with political correctness.
After all, it was difficult for the ancients to even eat enough, let alone ponder and play the qin, and the first reaction when they saw the guqin should be to use it to burn firewood.
Therefore, after knowing that Gong Yi is the descendant of Gong Luo, Wang Xu is not most concerned about his carpentry, but about his skills in making musical instruments.
However, living up to expectations, the ancestor of the public loser was the master craftsman who made court ceremonial music for the Zhou Dynasty, and it can be said that he inherited the top contemporary craftsmanship of making musical instruments.
The Qin Se drum is not a problem, and even the guitar proposed by Wang Xu can be placed.
So in addition to making paper, Gong Yi Ju also had to make a large number of musical instruments, and it seemed that he was getting farther and farther away from the shipbuilder he wanted to be at the beginning, but he was going to take the position of the royal family's favorite craftsman, which made Gong Yi very distressed.
Finally, after the fifth day, the public lost a little unbearable, so I asked Lu Ai to ask Wang Xu vaguely, do you want these chores in the future?
With his superb medical skills, Lu Ai won the favor of everyone, and even the indifferent Zhai Qiu would take the initiative to greet him when he saw him, because after Lu Ai came, he did solve a lot of injuries and illnesses for Sergeant Guzhu.
"I heard, you gave Zhai Qiu a prescription? Can you beautify your face? Wang Xu was lying on a more comfortable rocking chair modified by the male torque, with an improved hand-cranked fan in front of him, and the original hand-cranked position was modified by him into a large running wheel, which contained a lot of squirrels, as long as they scare them with rattan slightly, they would panic and run along the running wheel to drive the fan, realizing the effect of a power fan.
Lu Ai looked at the little squirrel who was locked in the running wheel with some pity, and shook his head, "The injury on his face is too serious, but if you keep taking it, it should be better." ”
"Actually, he didn't care about it, but you gave him hope." Wang Xu smiled and put down the rattan in his hand, "Also, you don't have to pity these little guys, they are locked in, they eat and drink well, they just need to exercise regularly, and they don't have to worry about natural enemies such as eagles and minks, it's a good thing for them." ”
"I just think they've lost weight these days, and they don't taste good when baked." Lu Ai said with a small face.
Wang Xu was slightly stunned and laughed out loud.
After five days of getting along, Wang Xu's image in Lu Ai's heart has undergone earth-shaking changes, from the initial awe and vigilance to the current speechlessness.
made him a little dazed, Wang Xu did not have a trace of the appearance of a king he had seen and understood before, nor did he have the transcendent spirit of those legendary warlocks and famous scholars, but just like his neighbors when he took refuge in Qi State, his mouth and mouth were all some tasteless hexagram gossip, so Wang Xu was the most special person Lu Ai had ever seen.
In the end, Lu Ai can only classify it as a person in the envy of the family, and the elegance of the game world.
Because Lu Ai knows that even if Wang Xu behaves like the neighbors, the detached alienation temperament on his body is real, and occasionally it gives people an inexplicable sense of oppression, or invisible oppression.
Wang Xu laughed with a little stomachache, drank a sip of water to press, looked at Lu Ai and said with a smile, "The Liuyi you usually catch, and you want to eat it when you run out?" ”
"Fireflies are summer insects, even if I don't catch them, they will die, and I don't eat insects." Lu Ai shook his head, squatted on the ground, opened the wooden box he was carrying behind him, and took out the newly made paper from it, "The male moment has been mixed with something, and the texture of the paper is much better, take a look?" ”
Wang Xu took it and touched it, nodded and said, "Well, it's indeed a little more flexible." ”
He said that until new materials were found, this should be the limit at the moment. Lu Ai said, "And the production process has also been brought together, as long as it is handed over to the skilled craftsmen, if there is experience in cocoon silk, it is better." ”
"How's your eldest brother recovering?" Wang Xu tore two pieces of paper and asked.
Lu Ai raised his eyebrows slightly, "The eldest brother has no obstacles, and today I followed Jin Idiot to help in the army, General Yuchun said that the dock has been short of people recently." ”
"Well, the waterway met a fork in the road, and two platoons of brothers were lost." Wang Xu touched his chin and muttered.
"How can you get lost?" Lu Ai was stunned.
"The river course is complex, especially the cross-basin of the two rivers, it is easy to form bifurcation, convection, backflow and other phenomena, and it is impossible to confirm the waterway, so you can only try one by one." Wang Xu shook his head.
"The rivers and seas are ruthless, why does the emperor cling to the waterway?" Lu Ai frowned.
"The terrain is good, the gentleman carries things with virtue, is as good as water, and the gentleman starts with doing things." Wang Xu smiled slightly: "Do you understand?" ”
"Easy?" Lu Ai asked with a frown.
"You Lu clan don't study easy to learn?" Wang Xu asked sideways.
Lu Ai pursed her lips and lowered her eyelids, "I can't learn the family heirloom yet." ”
Wang Xu smiled, "Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li, Dui, Yi Xuegua can correspond to the three emperors and five emperors, the water should be Emperor Yao, Yao's virtue is born in the water, this Eastern Wilderness is full of water, if you don't go with the water, you have to go against the water." ”
Lu Ai was stunned, glanced at Wang Xu, and whispered, "Guzhu, it should be a descendant of Yin Shang." ”
"The Three Emperors and Five Emperors came out in one vein, is there any problem?" Wang Xu chuckled.
Lu Ai shrugged: "A public loser can build a ship against the current." ”
"Boats are easy to build, but water is untamable." Wang Xu shook his head, "Just like you heal people, do you only treat external injuries and ignore internal diseases?" ”
"Got it." Lu Ai nodded, his eyes were on Wang Xu's shoulders that were a little collapsed today, and pursed his lips, "The emperor is not wearing armor today?" ”
"Well, I'm going to take a bath later." Wang Xu stretched his waist, raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's go together?" ”
Lu Ai was inexplicably startled, took a step back, shook his head, and stumbled, "No, no, I just want to ask, do you want me to take a look at my shoulder injury." ”
"It seems that I do have a little muscle stiffness, and I have had some cramps at night recently, so you can just take a look." Wang Xu glanced at Lu Ai, smiled, and pulled down his robe.
Wang Xu himself has a sturdy figure, after crossing over, it seems that he did not see any heavy work of digging pits and carrying coffins, but in order to save his life, he still insists on exercising, plus he has to wear an inner armor with a weight of more than 20 pounds every day, no bicycles, cars and other means of transportation, although he travels most of the time by carriage, but the amount of exercise is far more than that of later generations, and his body naturally becomes stronger.
And more importantly, what we eat now is wild animals, and most of them are steamed in white water without seasonings, and charcoal-grilled meat, which is also much higher in terms of protein intake quality, so the muscle-building effect is remarkable.
Wang Xu's current figure, although not as exaggerated as that of professional bodybuilders, is comparable to the level of Captain America Batman in the European and American film and television circles in the future.
Although the aesthetics of Western sculpture have not yet influenced the aesthetics of the human body in China, strong muscles are an aesthetic instinct of human beings as animals.
In short, a strange spark flashed in Lu Ai's eyes subconsciously.
Jin Idiot is tall and strong, but he still maintains the traditional muscular state of a huge waist and round waist.
White and fat, two physical traits, symbolize wealth and nobility in traditional Chinese aesthetics.
Bai symbolizes the inheritance of the scholars of the aristocratic class, because they only need to be in the house, and later they also became special births of people, from which the white-faced scholars came.
But fat, in addition to symbolizing wealth, in fact, there are many practical meanings, from the ancient Chinese painting style can be seen, from the portraits of the kings of the past dynasties, to the portraits of the fierce generals and handsomes, there has not been any portrait of a uniform figure like the West, with abdominal muscles, but the image of a big waist and a big belly.
This is because this muscular image is an inferior person who has no culture and a reckless man in the market, so in the mainstream aesthetics, he doesn't like muscular men.
In the more famous Wu Daozi's Zhong Kui ghost hunting picture, Zhong Kui's image is a pot-bellied poop, and the little ghost behind him who resists the flag is indeed full of muscles.
This kind of aesthetic expression through art is not only artistic processing, but is inherited according to reality.
Because in terms of actual combat significance, muscles protected by no trace of fat and fat are far less than strong men with a layer of fat on their abdomen in terms of anti-beating ability.
Including wrestlers, there will also be a lot of fat on their bodies, so the military generals of ancient China are pursuing such a big waist and round body, rather than a purely muscular body that is somewhat paranoid in the West.
Therefore, Wang Xu's fleshy figure, although it looks in line with human aesthetics, is still a little thin in Lu Ai's eyes.
"The emperor already has a dark disease in his shoulder." Lu Ai rolled up his sleeves, patted the robe on his body, indicating that he didn't have any weapons on him, and then walked behind Wang Xu, touched his shoulder and neck, and spoke.
Lu Ai's hands may have a thick layer of calluses because of the perennial pinching of stone needles or medicine pestles, but the hands are unusually soft and powerful.
"Just wait for the calluses and fat piles to be pressed out of your shoulders." Feeling the force from his shoulder, Wang Xu subconsciously reflexed his muscles to tense and said with a smile.
"If you are burdened with weight armor all year round, without professional posture and pressing, it will affect the bones of the shoulder and neck when you are old, and in severe cases, you may even dislocate frequently, and the symptoms of the emperor are not obvious, and it is not difficult to adjust." Lu Ai's hand ran down his spine again.
Wang Xu subconsciously straightened his waist and coughed lightly, "How to recuperate?" ”
"There may be a problem with the way the emperor wears his armor, or there is a problem with the inner armor, it should be mainly caused by uneven force, and there is no big problem with the spine at present." Lu Ai touched Wang Xu's back, "Press it and relax appropriately." ”
"Is it a massage with your hands?" Wang Xu pulled on his clothes and asked with a smile.
"Massage?" Lu Ai blinked, "The ancestors of the family have a legend, and the ancient doctors have Yu tarsus, and the treatment of diseases is not based on decoction and liquor, and the case is poisoned and ironed, and it should be treated at first sight." ”
It means that in ancient times, there was a doctor named Yu Tarsus, who could cure serious diseases without taking medicine, just using acupuncture and massage, which is a medical concept that Bian Que highly respects.
"The Yellow Emperor's Three Doctors, Lei Gong, Qi Bo and Yu Tarsus, how much have you Lu Clan Ancestor learned?" Wang Xu asked with a smile.
"Don't dare to talk about the ancestors and sages." Lu Ai shook his head: "The emperor will know as soon as he tries it." ”
Wang Xu looked at Lu Ai with a strange smile and chuckled, "That's a bit disrespectful." ”
"There is no dignity in sickness." Lu Ai's face did not change.
Wang Xu squinted, stared at Lu Ai for a while, and shouted to Yu Chun, who was running bare-chested in the sun like a big black and shiny pearl, "Go, cut ten catties of flowers for me." ”
Yu Chun, who had just run to the wooden palace, was stunned, looked at Wang Xu suspiciously, and then turned his head and ran to the kitchen again.
Lu Ai also looked at Wang Xu suspiciously, "The emperor wants to eat?" ”
"When I come back from the shower, you can press out all the fat of these ten catties of pork belly, and I'll let you try it again." Wang Xu raised the corners of his mouth and said with a smile. 11