The level of [Using the Pen as a Knife] is higher than that of [Wendao Huixin], but Qin Mo still plans to use the former to try first, after all, [Wendao Huixin] is more important, in case there is a mistake in the naming process, the loss will be great.

Gu Meng told him about his experience and what to look out for.

The so-called naming, simply put, is to "write" according to the font imagined in one's mind, control the power generated by the stars, and then appear on the stars.

Writing fails, and so does naming.

If the naming fails, the star becomes an unnamed star, and while it retains its previous function, it is not as effective as it once was.

Therefore, in the mainstream concept, the scribe is named when he obtains a relatively high rank, which can ensure the success rate.

In the Wen Palace of Gu Meng, there are two stars that have failed to be named.

In addition, he is messy in the naming of the stars, half of the seal script font, regular script, line script and official script together account for one-fifth, and the rest is all cursive font.

It is precisely because of the experimentation with various fonts that it is concluded that the ancient style is stronger than the later scripts.

Qin Mo sat down cross-legged, took a deep breath, and then closed his eyes.

In his mind, the word "knife" in the oracle bone inscription slowly appeared.

Next, he used the [pen as a knife] star, so that it generated a large amount of literary power and floated around the star.

He then controls these forces to permutate and combine.

Since it was the first time he tried it, he decided to name it with only one character, according to Gu Meng's experience, a star can use up to four characters, and the more words, the better.

Of course, the more words you have, the more likely you are to fail.

Most of the stars in ancient Meng were named with two characters, and very few were three or four characters.

Wen Li either forward, backward, or left and right, combined according to Qin Mo's heart.

Because the oracle bone inscription is carved on the oracle bone with a knife, it is very different from writing with a brush in terms of shape, even if there are some flaws in the strokes, it does not have much impact on the whole character.

This is also an important reason why he chose Oracle, if he chooses Xia Seal, his confidence will be reduced by at least half.

As time passed, the font composed of Wenli gradually merged with the picture in my mind, and after a few breaths, the handwriting emitted a silver light, which was immediately reflected on the stars.

The spherical star has a silver word "knife" on the surface, and the notch is clear and simple, which is perfectly combined with the star.

Qin Mo opened his eyes, and Gu Meng couldn't wait to ask, "Did you succeed?"

He nodded and said, "It's done, it's oracle." ”

"Give it a try and see if it's any different. Gu Meng handed over a brush, plus a few branches of different thicknesses.

Among the branches, the thinnest was about an inch in diameter, and the thickest was more than two inches, which he had found from the kitchen pyre.

Qin Mo took the brush and ran [Use the Pen as a Knife], and the literary power reached the finger end through the arm, and then attached to the pen through the pen shaft.

The stroke of the pen turned into an arrow ready to be fired, shining with a cold light, and he chose the thickest branch and raised his hand to swipe it.

Click!

The branches were cut in two, most of which remained smooth, with only a few showing a rough feel.

Faced with this result, his eyes widened and he said, "Sure enough, there is progress! I used to be able to cut a plank one inch thick, which is about one and a half inches thick, but now I can directly cut two inches thick branches." ”

Gu Meng smiled and said, "It turns out that my point of view is correct, and you can rest assured that you can boldly name the stars in the future." ”

Qin Mo took a deep breath, sat down cross-legged again, and next was to name [Wendao Huixin], and he planned to use two words, in addition to the word "Hui", he also added the word "heart".

There are more strokes in a single word for "heart" than for "knife", so he has to be more careful.

Gu Meng was in charge of protecting the Dharma on the side, but in fact, he was more nervous than Qin Mo, for fear of making any mistakes.

Qin Mo was not in a hurry, first formed the oracle bone writing method of the word "Huixin" in his mind, and then used his literary power to start arranging and combining.

The process was a little difficult, and it took him a lot of work to complete the arrangement.

The handwriting flashed, reflected on the stars, and became one.

In contrast, these two characters are more complete than the previous "knife" characters, and the strokes are bold and powerful, with a strong sense of gold and stone.

Under his subjective control, [Wen Dao Hui Xin] generates a silky Wen power, which is attached to other stars and cyclones for the purpose of amplification, and if it is in the arena, he will have an advantage.

......

Time flies, and more than ten days have passed in a blink of an eye.

At the end of the month, the children's class will have its second monthly examination.

Like last time, Qin Mo won the first place with a result many ahead of the second place, and the reward he received was a knife of medium-grade Xizi rice paper and a medium-grade Huimo.

In addition, there are two purple bamboo spring and autumn pens personally given by He Chang for practicing calligraphy.

With these things, Qin Mo was enough to make the bluestone slab "retire", but he didn't do so, but continued to practice calligraphy with it.

There are nine more days to be the day of the government exam, and only a few people in the calligraphy children's class have signed up for the exam, including Qin Mo.

Many children have not yet mastered all the [single words for soldiers], so naturally they do not have the confidence to participate in the government examination, and most of the candidates have the idea of seeing the world.

Only Qin Mo is full of confidence, he not only wants to take the exam, but also aspires to pass the exam.

Gu Meng was very supportive of this, and would appear at Tingquan Caolu every afternoon to teach Qin Mo more knowledge, focusing on [Ligature].

That afternoon, he came to the cottage as usual, carrying a small cloth bag in his hand.

Qin Mo was practicing calligraphy, and Gu Meng walked in and said, "Take a break, the combination of work and rest is the king, just show you a rare thing." ”

With that, he poured the contents of the cloth bag onto the table.

It was an ebony chess piece, one inch square and three minutes thick, and the chessboard was made of white hard birch, seven inches long and wide, and the checkerboard was a square of one inch and two minutes.

The chess pieces scattered on the table are engraved on one side and smooth on the other, and the handwriting is divided into two types: red and white.

Qin Mo put away the brush, was taken aback when he saw the contents on the chess pieces, and said with wide eyes, "Tiger, elephant?"

Gu Meng smiled and said: "This is a simple beast chess, the name is very stylish, called Xi Beast Chess. This chess game is played by two people, and there are a total of sixteen chess pieces, which are ......"

"Elephants, lions, tigers, leopards, wolves, dogs, cats, and rats, right?" Qin Mo said first.

"That's right, it seems that you already know that the Creek Beast Chess appeared more than ten days ago, and it has swept the entire Nanjing Mansion in a moment, and I heard that it has spread to Bianliang, Tokyo. Gu Meng smiled and said: "Although this chess is simple, it is very popular with children, and even adults can't help but play a few games." ”

Qin Mo smiled, he didn't expect that the beast chess he made casually would be so popular, wait...... No, it's understandable to call it beast chess, but what is the name of brook beast chess?

When he first taught the chess pieces and moves to the two brothers Qin Han and Qin Zhuang, he said that he was walking beast chess, and it stands to reason that this name should be used.

Gu Meng put the chess pieces on the chessboard, and said: "This kind of chess has a little relationship with you, it was created by a Xiucai named Song Xi, he is a scholar of books and chess, and he used to be the scholar of our Xiayi County, and he was the guy who falsely accused you during the county exam." ”

Qin Mo's brows furrowed, the beast chess was obviously created by himself, how could it become Song Xi?

Gu Meng didn't notice the change in his expression, and continued to look at himself: "That guy was dismissed for falsely accusing you, I thought he would be depressed, but I didn't expect to be able to create a new chess skill, which is impressive." It can be seen that he is not useless, anyway, he has earned money for our Wendao Academy, and He Xue is planning to reward him. ”

Qin Mo said in a deep voice: "This chess was not created by Song Xi. ”

Gu Meng raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who is he?"

Qin Mo stretched out his right hand, pointed at himself with his thumb, and said, "I." ”

Gu Meng glared and asked rhetorically, "You're not joking?"

Qin Mo recounted the situation at that time in detail.

Although it is difficult to get into the hall of elegance in animal chess, the reason why it is respected by the world is only because of its freshness, and when this fresh momentum is in a country, it will be quickly forgotten.

However, this credit cannot be snatched away by others, especially Song Xi, who has a holiday with him.

Obviously, Song Xi has earned a lot of literary fame for himself through this chess, and he can get a glimpse of the leopard just from the name of "Creek Beast Chess".

After listening to his narration, Gu Meng's brows furrowed into the word "Chuan", and analyzed: "There is a possibility that Song Xi inadvertently saw children playing animal chess, and he had evil thoughts to keep it for himself. ”

Qin Mo nodded and said, "Very likely, when I went back last time, I heard that the Song family often went to Muyang Town to find trouble with the Qin Guang family, and during this time, at least a few hundred taels of silver were swindled from the Qin family, and Song Xi was the first to bear the brunt, and it was very likely that Qin Zhuang and Qin Han brothers would play animal chess." ”

Gu Meng said angrily: "This hateful Song Xi, I embarrassed you during the county exam before, and now I have the cheekiness to grab your literary name, so I'll go to him to theorize and let him apologize to you in person!"

"It's useless. Qin Mo shook his head and said, "Since Song Xi dares to do this, he must be prepared, he will not admit his stealing behavior, and the beast chess has been named by him from the beginning of the Xi beast chess, obviously he doesn't know the relationship between this thing and me." ”

Gu Meng said angrily: "Is it difficult to make him steal for himself? I don't know, forget it, since I already know about this, it is impossible to act as if nothing happened." ”

Qin Mo smiled and said, "If I didn't guess wrong, Song Xi is taking the opportunity to build a tall building and feast guests, we only need to make a little arrangement, and his building will definitely collapse." ”