Chapter 118: At the top of the mountain of books, look at the world
"He, Jiang Yu'er, enters the painting with the four realms!"
The voice was lingering, echoing in the mountains.
Fang Xiaojing, Gu Miaobi, and Lin Quping were all silent.
The eyes of the three great Confucians all looked at the white-clothed young man standing in the midst of the hundred flowers on the book mountain.
"What a four realms into the painting road!"
"Yes, what a peerless seedling."
"For a hundred years, only the master climbed the book mountain with the avenue, and now he only has the last layer left...... Will a miracle happen? ”
"We'll see!"
The three great Confucians returned to the observation deck and stopped with their hands.
And on the top of the mountain where the students and the viewers are located.
At this point, it's already boiling.
Liu Hongyi, Li Zeguang and others were all excited.
"Brother Jiang did it!"
"yes, we can be on the same page with someone like him...... What are the regrets in this life? ”
Liang Wan'er's body couldn't stop trembling, and her face turned red: "Jiang Gongzi...... He's amazing! He's really amazing! ”
She subconsciously pinched the bamboo flute in her hand, because it was given by Jiang Yu'er.
Cai Wenji's face also bloomed with a smile like a flower, and she did not hide her admiration for Jiang Yu'er at all: "Yes, after today, I am afraid that no one will be able to hide Jiang Gongzi's demeanor!" ”
……
"What a Jiang Jieyuan, what a Four Realms into the Painting Dao!"
Hua Qingshui's lips licked unconsciously, if she was ten years younger, she would not hesitate to tell the young man in front of her what she admired.
But now, she had one more thing to do.
With her reputation as a hundred flower fairies, help the young people in front of her and stabilize the four realms of painting!
"Flower fairy, I'm really coming this time!" Jiang Chaoge's hand moved slightly.
In mid-air, hundreds of ink people raised their spears in unison.
The solemn atmosphere of the battlefield is shrouded in a hundred flowers.
"Come on, but I still have to remind you that even if you enter the painting path, you are not necessarily my opponent of the Hundred Flower Fairy." Hua Qingshui replied with a smile.
"Always break through!" Jiang Chaoge pounced.
Hua Qingshui immediately began to fly again, but this time, between her and the flower pots, there were countless ink figures with spears in their hands, and it was extremely difficult for her to disrupt the flower pots one by one like before.
The ink spear keeps stabbing towards the flower and clear water!
Thorn in the head, prick in the chest, prick in the foot!
Every time Hua Qingshui scurried, she would be besieged from all directions, and her advantage in the Hundred Flowers Array would completely disappear.
Not only that, but she is even more like being in a "military formation".
"You still know the formation?"
"I understand a little."
"That's amazing!" Hua Qingshui let out a sigh.
Finally, she could no longer stop Jiang Chaoge from approaching.
She didn't resist anymore, just silently closed her eyes.
She was waiting for her fate to be defeated, but after waiting for a long time, she found ...... I didn't suffer the 'storm' I imagined.
So, she opened her eyes again.
With a gaze as gentle as water, he looked at the white-clothed young man in front of him: "Why did you stop?" ”
"I've passed, haven't I?" Jiang Chaoge replied.
"If you can beat me in one fell swoop, the reputation will be higher, and this is a good opportunity." Hua Shimizu reminded.
"I appreciate the kindness of the fairy in the flower, but I don't want to step on the fame of a person who really helps me to improve myself." Jiang Chaoge smiled: "After all, you have helped me a lot. ”
"Okay, congratulations to Jiang Jieyuan, pass the seventh layer." Hua Qingshui looked at the young man and said seriously.
"Thank you!"
Jiang Chaoge nodded and looked at the top of the mountain, which was getting closer and closer.
Above him, there is the last layer.
As long as he passes the eighth floor, he can climb to the top of the book mountain and meet the master in the "White River".
……
The sun is about to set.
In the sky, only a faint glow remained.
The young man in white stepped straight on the rocks and headed towards the top of the book mountain.
Below him, across from him......
Countless pairs of expectant eyes are watching his figure.
The glow of the sun stained his body with a touch of red, and there seemed to be a faint color of blood on his white clothes.
Jiang Chaoge came to the eighth floor.
To his surprise, there were no older examiners here, only a boy in a plain shirt and a yawn.
The other squinted, tilted his head, and was drowsy.
"A boy?" Jiang Chaoge stopped in front of the other party and sat down slowly.
In front of the boy, a set of exquisite tea sets was placed, but there was no hot water and no tea leaves......
"What's going on? Is the examiner on the eighth floor this boy? ”
Jiang Chaoge's heart was extremely puzzled, he looked at the boy in front of him carefully, and did not feel any powerful aura on the other party's body.
Ordinary boy!
Other than that, there are no other people or things on these eight floors.
Empty.
Jiang Chaoge hesitated for a moment, but still spoke: "Student Jiang Yu'er, please ask Mr. to ask the question." ”
"Who?" The sleeping boy opened his eyes, tilted his round head, and looked at Jiang Chaoge: "Oh, you're here...... How did you get up? ”
"Naturally, it came up." Jiang Chaoge replied.
"Really? How did you get up to this mountain, so high and so steep? The boy asked again.
"Walking up on your legs?"
"What about your legs...... It's amazing. The boy was stunned.
"Please also ask the gentleman to ask the question." Jiang Chaoge pulled the topic back again.
"What's the problem?" The boy was stunned for a moment: "I don't have a question here, just this set of tea sets, the master asked me to come, I don't know anything." ”
No questions? Only one set of tea sets? The Master asked him to come?
Jiang Chaoge grasped three key points in Tongzi's words...... However, he did not understand what these three points meant.
Thinking about it......
The boy asked again, "My name is Ah Sheng, and I am the master's scholar, what is your name?" ”
"My name is Jiang Yu'er." Jiang Chaoge replied.
"Oh, you are the river fish, I know you, the master has also read your "Treatise on the Governance of the River", just because of that time, I was punished by the master and asked me to get up in the morning to take dew, you know...... Waking up early is hard. ”
The boy chattered and said: "I heard that you have been on the list of national scholars, and you are Xie Yuan who was ordered by Yubi himself, which is really amazing, by the way, you are here to enter the Jixia School Palace, right?" Unfortunately, I don't know how to get you up......
The Master just told me to sit here and wait, and then, if anyone wants to go up, let me stop me, and I just don't know about the rest. ”
"Well, the master only gave you a set of tea sets, not tea leaves?" Jiang Chaoge thought for a moment and pointed to the tea set placed in front of him.
"No, that's all the Master gave." The boy shook his head.
Is that all given to this?
Jiang Chaoge was thoughtful.
Tong Asheng really doesn't seem to know the exam questions, but the exam questions in this level are obviously 'tea'.
According to common sense, tea tasting, tea appreciation, tea boiling, tea discussion...... can be a topic.
But now, without tea, how can we taste tea and talk about tea?
"This eighth level of question...... Is it a pantomime? The master has a 'problem', the boy and the tea set...... It should be the content of this question, but what does the master mean? ”
Child, no tea......
Jiang Chaoge felt that if he wanted to pass the eighth floor, he still had to start from the 'tea'.
The tea ceremony is the way to appreciate the beauty of tea.
By making tea, appreciating tea, smelling tea, and drinking tea, we can achieve meditation, calm the mind, cultivate sentiment and remove distracting thoughts in our hearts.
"The first six floors are books, paintings, piano, chess, poetry, and incense...... These six levels should be tested for 'skill', or Confucianism and Taoism. ”
"And when I got to the seventh layer, the Hundred Flowers Array ...... The test should be understanding! ”
"I've been tested for talent and understanding, so what is going to be tested in this eighth layer?"
"Heart!"
Jiang Chaoge had a guess in his heart.
A boy blocked his way?
If you want to pass, you actually ...... It doesn't seem to be that hard.
He now had many options in front of him, and the most direct way was to force his way to the top of the mountain, despite the boy's obstruction.
Or, be gentle, and use some kind of advantage to lure the boy and let the boy let him go.
"It's easy to want to live a child, but the difficult thing is to use what method to pass, the top of the mountain is in front of you, there is not much time left, and at this time, people's hearts are most likely to be impatient."
"Confucianism cultivates personal fame, so in a sense, it is the easiest to go on the wrong path, in order to gain fame by unscrupulous means, and even deceive."
"Understood, on this eighth layer, the master probably wants me to stop, settle my thoughts at the position closest to the top of the mountain, and wait quietly!"
That's it.
Jiang Chaoge looked at the tea set in front of the boy again.
And the boy was still muttering to himself, complaining about the experience and suffering of following the master.
"Ah Sheng, why don't I make you a pot of tea?"
"Make tea?" Ah Sheng was stunned for a moment, and his face was uncertain: "But, there is no tea, how can I make tea?" ”
"Is there any water?" Jiang Chaoge asked again.
"The water is there, it's just not hot." Ah Sheng replied.
"It doesn't matter, we can slowly heat the water, and as long as there is water, we can make tea." Jiang Chaoge explained to Ah Sheng.
"Can you make tea if you have water? Jiang Gongzi ...... Isn't Mo a fool? Ah Sheng tilted his head.
Despised by a boy...... Jiang Chaoge was a little speechless, but after hearing the boy's words, he was even more convinced that his guess was not wrong.
The closer you are to the end, the more distractions!
The contempt of the boy represents the eyes of the world.
When your approach is not recognized by the world, the world will question, discuss, and even abuse, can you maintain your state of mind at this time?
Jiang Chaoge didn't refute the boy's words, but continued: "Then I'll start making tea." ”
"If you want to soak it, you can soak it, anyway, there is no tea here!"
The boy didn't understand, but he still put the kettle in front of Jiang Chaoge, and then began to talk to himself, chattering endlessly.
"It seems that the master also wants to temper his own heart through this boy, right? Otherwise, it would be impossible for such a boy to become a scholar of the Master. ”
Jiang Chaoge became more and more enlightened.
Before stepping into the finish line, hone your state of mind, this is the exam question of the eighth layer!
So, he began to make tea in earnest.
Every step is done very seriously, starting from boiling water, to cleaning tea sets, from teacups, to teacups, to teapots to teapots......
He carefully washed it so that it didn't get a little dirt on it.
And in this way, a lot of time is wasted.
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Distance.
The people who were waiting at the top of the mountain gradually began to talk about it.
"It's just a boy, why hasn't Jiang Jieyuan gone up yet?"
"Yes, Jiang Xie Yuan passed the first few levels easily, even the seventh level didn't take so much time, what was he waiting for?"
"Looks like it's making tea?"
"Tea? At this time, tea is also made...... It's good to go up directly, is it possible that a boy can still block the painters of the four realms? ”
"What do you always think is strange?"
They couldn't understand it, because, from their point of sight, the boy was not embarrassed by Jiang Chaoge, and seemed to be complaining to himself.
But Jiang Chaoge was making tea for the boy, and he was brewing it quite seriously.
Weird!
Liang Wan'er was also very strange in her heart: "Why hasn't Jiang Gongzi reached the top of the mountain yet?" Time is running out, and the sun has completely set. ”
"It's weird not to go up again...... I'm afraid I'm going to miss the time. Liu Hongyi, Li Zeguang and others were also unclear and showed doubts.
Cai Wenji didn't speak, as if she was thinking about something.
……
on the observation deck.
Fang Xiaojing, Gu Miaobi, and Lin Quping were also looking at the young man in white.
Even if they are great Confucians, in fact, they have some doubts about Jiang Chaoge's behavior at this time, after all, this eighth layer ...... It was the Master's own question.
"Do you know what the Master means?"
"I can't guess, but I've read the record of the master's climb to the Book Mountain, which says that when the master was climbing the book mountain, he encountered the eighth level and stopped moving!"
"Stopped?"
"Old man Fang, look at that table!"
"See what?"
"There doesn't seem to be tea on that table!"
"No tea?" Fang Xiaojing looked at it, and sure enough, he also saw it.
There are tea sets, but no tea leaves!
“……”
Gu Miaobi's gaze suddenly turned to the figure of a green-robed Taoist priest on the book mountain: "Huh? That Jiang Chenshui has already passed the sixth level and is walking towards the seventh level! ”
"Well, the first day of the younger generation of Daomen, it is normal that the first six levels cannot be stopped."
"It's up to him to pass the seventh level, how do you get through?"
The three of them looked at each other.
Silence again.
……
Location of the 8th floor.
Jiang Chaoge's tea has come to an end.
He carefully poured the boiling hot water into the teapot, but because there was no tea on the table, he did not wash the tea from beginning to end.
This also made the people on the top of the mountain, watching all this, discover the anomaly.
"Look at that table, there doesn't seem to be any tea?"
"No tea? Impossible, right? ”
"Really, didn't you find out? Take a serious look! ”
Everyone looked into the distance.
Sure enough, there was really no tea on that table.
But at this moment......
Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and a drizzle fell from the sky.
"It's raining!"
"Why didn't there be thunder? When it rains, doesn't it thunder? ”
"Wait, do you feel that this rain is a little hot, and it seems to smell of tea!"
"Tea fragrance?!"
Everyone unconsciously took the raindrop with their hands, put it in front of their noses and sniffed it.
There are bold ones, and even take a sip directly.
"It's tea!"
"It's not rain, it's tea...... It's hot tea just brewed! ”
The rich aroma of tea wafts around people, as if coming from the sky.
The fragrance is wafting for hundreds of miles!
It makes people unconsciously intoxicated.
"Could it be the tea made by Jiang Jieyuan? However, there is no tea on Jiang Jieyuan's table, so where does this tea rain come from? ”
"Could it be...... On top of the book mountain! ”
"It's the tea made by the master!"
Everyone finally noticed the problem.
The tea rain drifted from the top of the Book Mountain, and the fragrance of tea was naturally the same.
……
Jiang Chaoge raised his head.
The boy Ah Sheng also raised his head.
"It's the master making tea!" The boy was delighted: "What a fragrant tea." ”
"Well, the tea made by the master is really fragrant." Jiang Chaoge stood up: "It's just right, my tea is also brewed, do you want to taste it?" ”
"Where's your tea?"
"In the cup."
Jiang Chaoge raised the teacup in his hand, which was already full of a cup of tea.
Ah Sheng's eyes widened: "There is really tea, you don't have tea...... I actually made tea, right...... This is not the tea you made, this is the tea made by the Master! ”
"What does it matter?" Jiang Chaoge smiled and said, "Although you didn't say it, in fact, the master should have told you that as long as I can make tea, you can't stop me, right?" ”
"You...... How do you know? Ah Sheng was surprised: "I didn't tell you, and when the master told me, no one else knew." ”
"Alright, I'm going up to see the Master." Jiang Chaoge stood up.
Ah Sheng also stood up.
He waved his little arm, as if he wanted to stop Jiang Chaoge from going up, but after seeing the tea rain falling from the sky, he finally gave up.
So, he gave way behind him.
Jiang Chaoge went directly from the road behind Ah Sheng towards the top of the mountain.
Step by step, he walked to the top of the mountain.
The surrounding clouds and mist gradually reached his body, making him feel like he was in the "White River", as if he was on a path to ascend to the immortals.
He breathed in the white mist around him, and the fog was filled with the rich aroma of tea.
"With the white river on the book mountain as a 'medium', it rains tea...... The Master's methods are really extraordinary, is this the first person under the immortals? ”
Jiang Chaoge stepped on the rocks and walked through the white mist on the mountain of books.
Soon, the white mist was trampled on his feet, and there was no more white mist in front of him, and he seemed to have climbed to the top of the cloud and mist, and really came to the top of the book mountain.
He subconsciously looked towards his feet.
Then, he seemed to be able to see the shadow of the entire Xianyang.
He saw the imperial city of Nuoda, the ancient city walls, the soldiers guarding the walls, the bustling streets, and the vendors selling along the streets.
Apparently he is now at the top of the mountain.
Obviously there was a white mist fluttering under his feet.
However, he can clearly see the world.
Jiang Chaoge took a deep breath of the tea-scented air on the top of the mountain, and made a Confucian salute towards the void: "Student Jiang Yu'er, please see the master!" ”
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