Chapter 13: A Game Within a Game
After a little while, the two went to the hinterland of the black market to find the lantern riddle.
Unexpectedly, tonight is different from previous years, and the center of the black market did not set up a colorful canopy and suspense quizzes. Looking around again, it turned out that a platform had been erected on the north side of the mountaintop, six feet high and two feet wide, and poked out of the hillside to the north. It looks like a stage, but the longitudinal depth is very deep, about more than ten zhang. The front of the stage is already crowded with people, one after another, so it is not enthusiastic, it must be the place to guess the riddle. The two of them also followed the flow of people, walked and looked, and after a while, they came closer.
To take a closer look, there is an eight-foot incense case in the center of the platform, and there are ladder stools on both sides, and some people go up and down. There are many incense burners lined up on the incense table, each one is only the size of a palm, and there are incense burners burning in the furnace, which are of different lengths, but also interesting. Under each incense burner, there was a sticker of red paper, which seemed to be written with a name, but I don't know what it was for.
Looking at both sides, there is a column of three feet on the east side, about more than ten of them, arranged in order to the north, quite spectacular. There are four treasures of the study room on several cases, and some cases are sitting on visitors, and they are waving.
The south end of the west side is placed with a chime, sitting west and facing east, there are musicians tapping, and the sound of gold and stone is heard. Zichen recognized it carefully, it was the tune of "Magnolia Slow", and then listened to it, it was "Lin Zhong's business tune". At the north end of the chime, there is a longitudinal row of musical instrument racks, with a sheng pipe flute and a pipa and a zheng, all available. There are also tables on the front shelf, opposite to the east side one by one, and most of the cases are also sitting guests, playing and playing with the music of the chime.
As he was watching, someone next to him said, "It's really interesting this year, the quiz competition has become a talent show." ”
"Didn't you change the rules?"
"There should be a notice after changing the rules, why didn't you see it?"
"Yes, there's one underneath that one."
Zichen and King Jing also looked over after hearing this, and sure enough, there was a notice board in front of the stage, and some people were pointing there, so the two of them squeezed closer, only to see that the notice board read:
"Favored by the public, the special bureau to thank you, anyone who comes can be with a certain Yaxu, each person is limited to one time, with a stick of incense. I like to give it to "Flower and Bamboo Spectrum", and the payment is "the old man in the mirror".
This "Flower and Bamboo Spectrum" must be the only book of the Go endgame.
Lin Zichen looked at it, and he already had some clues in his heart. Look up again, see people up and down one after another, there are maids on the stage to lead, hand a red sticker, sign the name, because they are all secret deeds, so they all sign a temporary nickname, the maid is to the furnace town sticker, light sandalwood timing. The people on the stage are left or right, playing or writing, each showing their strengths, in order to "like".
Looking at it from a distance, there are also a few cases at the end of the stage, and there is an old man in white sitting behind the case, holding a feather fan in his hand, and the fairy wind of the bones. Sometimes I close my eyes and listen to the piano, and sometimes I patrol the east side to watch Danqing.
At this moment, King Jing muttered, "Can you get it?" That's to look at fate, there's really no need to guess. ”
When Zichen heard this, he realized something, so he leaned over to look at the back of the stage, and sure enough, there was a mountain stream flowing through, the platform was very long, and the stage was already on the water. With that, he stepped onto the wooden platform with his shirt lifted.
That Zichen came to the stage and signed his name, and he didn't look left and right, he went straight to the old man, and when he got to the old man, he took a deep look, and the old man hit quantum dust, and said: "Later life, what's the taste?" ”
Zichen said in a low voice: "The younger generation is not talented, I only want to watch the fish with the old gentleman in the river." ”
When the old man heard this, he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Good! Good! Good! The children can be taught! After that, he got up, took a few steps north hand in hand with Zichen, turned his back to everyone, and stood on the platform looking at the stream.
The audience on and off the stage were all shocked when they saw this, and the audience immediately stopped talking, and the sons who played also stopped abruptly.
When Zichen came to the stage, the voices were noisy, and no one paid attention to what Zichen said, but at this time, they all wanted to hear what amazing words the old man had as soon as he came on stage, so the venue was silent, and only the sound of the musicians was still melodious.
But the two turned their backs to everyone, and the distance was far away, so they couldn't hear what they were talking about, only to see the old man and the young man pointing at the stream, and talking happily.
After a while, seeing the old man turn around and stand sideways, opposite Zichen, he took out a package from his arms, and the audience couldn't help but "coax---- thinking that this "Flower and Bamboo Spectrum" had found a favorite person. The crowd was noisy for a while, and the voices of discussion were endless.
Seeing that Zichen took the package and thanked him, he whispered to the old man for a while. At this time, there is a boy from the north slope, leading the green ox on the wooden platform, the old man sits on the green ox, the boy follows, slowly goes, just Lao Tzu out of the customs.
Zichen threw the old man's back to the ground, looked at his figure far away, and then turned back, and everyone saw that there was no hope, and they all dispersed. When he stepped down, King Jing was the only one left waiting for him.
King Jing was very happy when he saw that Zichen had won the chess game, but he was even more puzzled: "What kind of witty words did the virtuous brother say, which was exactly what the old fairy wanted?" ”
Zichen said: "There is no witty word, I just guessed the puzzle." ”
"Didn't you say that the battle for talents, don't you guess the riddle?"
"Definitely, this is not a guess! It's just that this time the puzzle is all in plain sight, and the notice is actually a riddle. ”
"Come on."
"Brother, do you know what the lantern riddle is called?"
"Hmm...... Wenhu? Shoot a tiger? Fight the tiger? ”
"Exactly, do you know that during the Song and Yuan dynasties, there was a scholar surnamed Yuan Mingyi, whose name was Tongfu, and he was one of the 'Three Gentlemen of Wuzhong'."
"I did hear it, but I didn't know the details."
"Then Yuan Tongfu has a word cloud: 'You don't need to shoot tigers in Nanshan, watch fish from the Hao's top.'" ”
"What can I do?"
"Look at this, there is a mountain stream in the south, so the mountain is in the south of the water, which can be described as 'South Mountain'."
"Exactly."
"The so-called 'don't shoot tigers in Nanshan', which means that there is no need to guess riddles on this Nanshan Mountain, as everyone can see, there is no riddle on the top of the mountain. So I invited him to watch the fish to the north on the platform, the platform is above the stream, which can be described as 'Haoshang', and inviting him to be together can be described as 'Xiangcong', which is 'watching the fish from Hao'. Of course, the "meaning" of his puzzle is "---- the "game" called in the notice is precisely this puzzle, not the elegant game that everyone sees; The so-called 'zhongyi' does not refer to the old man's will, but to the meaning of the puzzle.
"Oh----" King Jing suddenly realized: "No wonder you said to me when you came to power, the word 'no need to guess', which means 'no need to shoot tigers'." ”
"Exactly!"
"I saw that after the old man gave away the chess game, there was a conversation, but what do you have to explain?"
"There is indeed an entrustment, but I am only taught not to be humane, and my brother cannot be told me."
"Oh, it's the foolish brother who took the liberty of it." How open-minded King Najing was, he immediately stopped the topic, and said: "Brother Fool still has something unknown...."
"But it doesn't hurt to say it."
"If someone sees that it is a game, but he is not as clever as a virtuous brother, he makes up far-fetched words and sentences, and he can barely solve them, then won't the old man suffer a dumb loss?"
Zichen said with a smile: "What my brother said is extremely true, didn't the old man expect it?" There is a solid arrangement. ”
King Jing was even more surprised: "It's really winding and quiet, and there are many mechanisms." ”
"But so. Mechanism 1: When I came, I heard that the chime played was the tune of "Magnolia Slow", which was the word card made by Yuan Tongfu, so I still need to be in the meaning of this tune. Second, Yuan Tongfu also has the sentence "flowers are faint, and the bamboo is sparse", which means that it is in harmony with "Flower and Bamboo Spectrum". If you make up your own words and sentences, although you can hit one of them, it is difficult to hit all three, so it is foolproof. ”
King Jing clapped his hands and laughed: "Wonderful! Wonderful! It's just that the organs in this bureau are meticulous and hidden here, how can the virtuous brother spy on the heavens? ”
Zichen said: "Brother is serious, although guessing the riddle is a matter of chance by the spirit rhino, but because this riddle is indeed too difficult, the old man left room for it, and it can be regarded as the sincerity of the gift." ”
"Good, there is still a mystery?"
"Well, look at the place where the payment is made, it is written as 'Old Man in the Mirror'."
"So what?"
"Brother, do you know Yuan Tongfu's hall name?"
King Jing smiled: "The foolish brother didn't understand much when he read the book, and he didn't remember it at all." ”
"That Yuan Tongfu Hall is called 'Jingchun', so the name of his poetry collection is "Jingchun Hall Poems", and 'Jingchu' is the homonym of 'Jingchun', which should be used as a reminder. The so-called 'Old Man in the Mirror' must have been specially created for this mystery, just to give a hint, not his real name. ”
King Jing couldn't help but sigh and admire: "Sure enough, it doesn't leak!" The virtuous brother is really a young man, unparalleled in the world! ”
"Brother Tai praise! However, this mystery is indeed unique and unparalleled. Zichen was complacent, and said: "If you say that this "Magnolia Flower Slow" word card is also very popular, since Liu Yong, there are many things to do, and there are two songs handed down from Jiaxuan to the world. ”
King Jing was also open-minded, and immediately said: "Foolish brother is not talented, he only knows the song 'Hanzhong opens Hanye', but he doesn't know the second. ”
"It doesn't matter, there are many ancient and modern articles, and no one can know everything. Just because today I am fighting for this chess game for the little sister in the family, and our brothers and sisters are more and less together, and it is suitable to take chestnuts from "Magnolia Slow", but I think that Liang Gong's father in the Yuan Dynasty also made this song, which is quite interesting. ”
"Come and enjoy it."
"Then let my brother Taijian laugh," Zichen sang:
"Ask Huahua silently, for whom to fall, for whom to bloom.
Count the spring color for three points, half with the flowing water, half into the dust.
Life can laugh a little, but when you meet, you can't urge each other.
The eternal curtain is on the ground, and a spring green surrounds the beads. ”
After only singing the first half of the que, King Jing sighed: "What a 'half with the flowing water, half into the dust'!" What a 'life can be a few laughs'! Let's see that the people who took the stage are all there, you sang and I appeared on the stage, didn't they all come in high spirits and go away sadly, only brother, you fulfilled your wish. ”
"Yes, my generation is all a lot, it's nothing more than a big stage of life, a little life on the stage."
After that, the two of them had already counteracted each other's intentions and laughed away.
Attached: [Yuan] Yuan Yi "Magnolia Slow. Ki Tamada Zhi
Miao Xian is tired, and it is vast.
The sea is wide and the sky is long, the moon beam has dreams, and the geese have no books.
Ling Ran resists the wind for thousands of miles, likes red robes, and also has a purple glow.
Since the Yellow Building, there should be no joy in a hundred years.
Xiao Xianwu loves my house, the flowers are faint, and the bamboo is sparse.
More years and late career, two acres of thin fields, thousands of sweet oranges.
You must live for a while, what is better than Sangma and Duqu?
You don't need to shoot tigers in Nanshan, and watch the fish from the Hao.