Chapter 68: Competitiveness
The Snow Maiden stands in the snow, manipulating her "toys" with spells.
The "toys" jumped up and down.
She was like a beautiful ice sculpture, expressionless and motionless.
I don't know how long it took, but she seemed to be tired of playing, and her mind moved again, and these animals made of ice and snow melted into water and disappeared.
Then she raised her head, looked at the snowflakes flying all over the sky, and said softly: "Tianxian Jasper Qiongyao, a little poplar flower, a piece of goose feathers." ”
Her voice was soft and pleasant. fell in Gu Xu's ears, not like he was reciting poetry, but more like chanting and singing.
Maybe it's because the Snow Maiden is too famous.
Recently, when I stayed with her, Gu Xu almost forgot that she was once a poet, famous in the Great Qi Dynasty for her poetry and painting talents, and was recognized by the "Amazing Pen".
Looking at the crystal snowflakes falling on her black hair, placket, and cuffs, decorating her whole person like a dazzling jewel, Gu Xu also said on a whim:
"It should be the heavenly immortals who are drunk and crush the white clouds."
Hearing his voice, the Snow Maiden immediately turned her head and stared at him for a long time.
Her eyes were still as deep as a cold pool, making Gu Xu unable to fathom her thoughts.
He didn't know if she was amazed at his "poetic talent" as she had done in Lu's murderous mansion, or if she was annoyed that he had disturbed her interest.
"A fierce god is like a tiger," Gu Xu silently complained in his heart, "It's not easy to serve a bodyguard with the strength of a saint." ”
After a short silence, as if inspired by the poem recited by Gu Xu, the Snow Girl raised her right hand and swiped lightly in the air.
Those snowflakes that fell from the sky suddenly hovered in mid-air, and then coalesced together into a line of glittering words—
"I only saw sprinkling jade dust, rolling silver sand, full of cranes, and the green mountains were old in an instant."
Gu Xu silently recited this poem, and couldn't help but admire the talent of the Snow Girl again in his mind.
She has already mastered the rhetoric in the poem, especially the sentence "The green mountains are easy to grow old", which depicts the picture of the mountains and fields covered in silver at this moment.
At this time, the Snow Girl looked at Gu Xu again.
Although she still looked indifferent, Gu Xu sensed from the decreasing temperature around her that she wanted to compete with him.
It was as if a lonely warrior who was invincible in the world suddenly met an opponent of equal strength and said to him:
"Can you catch this trick?"
Gu Xu smiled faintly.
He lifted the "Shocking Pen" and splashed ink in the air, and the pen walked away from the dragon and snake.
The poem written by the Snow Maiden disappeared in an instant, and became another line of upright, majestic, clean handwriting—
"Mountain Dance Silver Snake, original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly princess."
At the moment when he finished writing, a strong wind suddenly howled in the mountains and fields, and the pines and cypresses around him shook violently, as if they might be uprooted by the strong wind at any time.
It was getting dark, too. Black clouds are layered on top of each other, covering the sky, and there is not a single gap in sight.
Snow Maiden's black hair flutters wildly in the air.
Like a burning black flame, it is like the cursive writing of Luan Xiang Feng on white rice paper.
Gu Xu saw her eyebrows frown slightly, and her gaze moved back and forth between Gu Xu and the poem.
If Gu Xu is not mistaken, this should be the first change in the expression on the face of the Snow Girl since she woke up.
After a few moments, Snow Maiden flicked her sleeves again.
The snow on the ground rose and hung in the air, like a silver-white cloth.
The Snow Maiden's calligraphy is transformed into invisible scissors, cutting new words on the cloth, like a girl in a boudoir cutting a New Year's window flower.
"Where are the ten thousand scissors in the chemical industry, cut out the jade butterfly dancing in the air. Falling to the ground silently and greasy like smoke, waiting for the gap is good and cunning in the rain. ”
This is another trick of hers.
Gu Xu calmly accepted.
The "Thrilling Pen" danced in the air, once again using frost and snow as ink, outlining a line of strong, chic and heroic words -
"Five Ding fought with swords to break the clouds, and directly took the Milky Way under the emperor. 300,000 jade dragons were killed in battle, and the scales of defeat were flying all over the sky. ”
The blizzard on Yishan came even more violently.
The heavenly vault was a pitch-black abyss, and the dark clouds were like the flames of hell, and the blue and purple electric light flickered in them, like fiery snakes dancing wildly.
The poem copied by Gu Xu is "Snow" by the Song Dynasty poet Zhang Yuan. Among the poems depicting snow scenes in previous generations, it can be called unique.
The snow written by other poets is either fluttering, or fluttering, or crystal clear, or pink and jade.
But this poem is written that five strong men held swords and fought against the Emperor of Heaven in the clouds, and finally captured Tianhe and took the imperial capital. The white snow in the sky was compared to the broken armor pieces of the heavenly soldiers and generals when they were defeated and the scales of the 300,000 jade dragons fell.
When he put pen to paper, Gu Xu couldn't help but think that if the people of the Great Qi court saw this poem, they would definitely put the hat of "anti-thief" on his head and arrest him back and execute him at any cost.
But more than that, he still felt that the poem was very commensurate with his situation at this time-
I don't know if he will be able to "take the Milky Way under the Emperor" like in the poem when he faces Emperor Tianxing and Taishang Haotian in the future.
The Snow Maiden stopped responding.
She stared at Gu Xu for a while, then turned around and returned to the cave.
Gu Xu was left alone, standing alone on the cliff, bathed in the overwhelming snow.
"Is she throwing in the towel?"
Gu Xu shook his head with a smile as he thought about it.
It stands to reason that it is a matter of great pride to defeat the most famous talented woman of the Great Qi Dynasty in poetry in recent years.
But Gu Xu only felt a little embarrassed.
After all, he was bullying people by copying poems - no, he was bullying ghosts.
However, maybe it's because the Snow Maiden clearly shows the ice and snow road in front of him today, or maybe it's because the "Amazing Brush" has become a lot more active after meeting the previous owner.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gu Xu had an epiphany of two new spells-
One is called "Heavenly Immortal Drunk".
The second is called "the wind of defeat".
As for the sentence "Mountain Dancing Silver Snake", Gu Xu felt that his comprehension of it was still a little meaningless, and maybe he still needed to go through some more things and ponder a little more to grasp the true meaning of it.
But his instincts told him that once this new spell took shape in the future, it would be incredibly powerful.
…………
Snow Maiden returns to the cave and walks into the shadows behind the stone pillars.
In her mind, she was still silently recalling the poem Gu Xu had just written.
She thought that after living alone on the top of Yishan Mountain for nearly 20 years, she had gradually forgotten human emotions and the life experience in the Lu house.
But just now, the scene of the Lu House Poetry Club in the past suddenly appeared in her mind, as if it was yesterday.
At that time, she stood out from the crowd.
So much so that I feel very bored.
But after seeing Gu Xu's poem today, she was surprised to find that she also had the boring emotion of "competitiveness".