Chapter 204 A penny stumps a hero (ask for points to push and receive rewards)

As for the most important thing for the rulers after the change of dynasty, it is to change the name of the place, which is naturally to send a message to everyone, that is, "I am in charge of my territory".

As a result, Dong Yong's hope of returning to his hometown is basically impossible.

Is it just for Dong Yongzhi to ...... In addition to looking at it with wide eyes... The price is as high as 100,000 taels of silver, and there is a lake inside... Covering a vast area...... Outside the manor house with countless buildings...... Dong Yong just knows that Lu Dao keeps his mouth open?

Fortunately, the Seven Fairies had the experience of pinching their fingers in the long sleeves last time, so the Seven Fairies gently shook their sleeves again, and the sleeves covered the hands of the Seven Fairies.

So, the seven fairies looked like each other, and they pinched their fingers and calculated with peace of mind.

Experience matters!

The Seven Fairies looked so big that they pinched their fingers and calculated for a while, but the Seven Fairies laughed.

Why???

It turned out that after the Seven Fairies pinched their fingers and calculated for a while, they understood what Dong Yong was thinking.

"A penny stumps a hero" ["A penny stumps a hero" is a metaphor for a small difficulty that makes a big thing impossible to carry out and complete. It also refers to a person who is very capable and helpless in the face of a small problem. There is such an allusion to "a penny is stumped by a hero". It is said that one day, Zhao Kuangyin was walking on the road alone, the weather was very hot, and when he was hungry and thirsty, he saw a watermelon field, and the person who looked at the melon was an old man. The old man said that his melon was a penny, not sweet and didn't want money, but Zhao Kuangyin was penniless at this time, but he was very thirsty. Then. He came up with a solution. He opened a melon and said it was not sweet when he took a bite, and then opened another one and said it was not sweet until he was full. The old man saw his intention and said to him: Look at your good looks, how can you do such a bad thing? If you have no money, you have no money, just tell me directly, why use this kind of bad tricks. Zhao Kuangyin was very ashamed and promised to repay him well in the future. Later, Zhao Kuangyin won the world and gave this melon farmer 10,000 acres of fertile land in return. ], but is Dong Yong a hero?

Dong Yongke is "useless and a scholar" [Qing Dynasty poems, Huang Jingren's "Miscellaneous Feelings" "Nine out of ten people can be white-eyed. Useless is a scholar". "Useless is a scholar" means that there are thousands of professions in the world. The only thing that is useless is the scholar. Although the scholar is full of knowledge, it is a pity that it is difficult to have ambitions and some pride, but there is nowhere to play at all. This sentence shows the dilemma of the inability to stretch one's ambition in reality. However, some people misinterpret it as saying that there are too many talents in contemporary reading. Only one out of a hundred people may have the opportunity to display their ambitions. It shows that talent was at its peak at that time. Original. The immortals and Buddhas are vast, and the two have not been completed. I only know that the night is uneven. The wind is full of sad songs and weeping. The mud floc attracted Bo Xingming. Nine out of ten people are white-eyed, and none of them are scholars. Mo is sad because of the poems, and the spring birds and autumn insects make their own sounds. Huang Jingren (1749~1783). Qing Dynasty poet. The word Hanyong, the word Zhongze, the number Lu Feizi, Yanghu (now Changzhou City, Jiangsu Province) people. Four-year-old and lonely, the family is poor, when he was a teenager, he was famous for poetry, and in order to make a living, he traveled in all directions. He was poor and destitute in his life, and he was awarded the county prince, and he died in poverty and illness before he could make up for the official, at the age of 35. The poem is famous and is one of the "Seven Sons of Piling". Poetics Li Bai mostly expresses the feelings of poverty, loneliness and sadness, and there are also cynical chapters. The seven-character poem is very distinctive. Also able to speak. He is the author of "The Complete Works of Liangdangxuan". In the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong, Zhu Yun held a literati conference in the quarrying Taibai Building, appreciating the scenery and writing poems, and dozens of celebrities participated in the meeting, among which the youngest was Huang Jingren. Huang Jingren was dressed in a white spring shirt, wandering in the shadow of the sun in front of the Santai Pavilion, aiding the pen to conceive, leaning on the horse to become hundreds of words, this is "Mr. Di Banquet Taibai Lou Drunk Song". At that time, the scholars of the eight provinces of Anhui Province were taking the exam, and they heard that Zhu Xue'an was meeting in this elegant meeting, and they rushed to gather downstairs to compete for this masterpiece, and the price of paper suddenly rose. This poem soon spread throughout the eight provinces on both sides of the Yangtze River, and became a good story in the literary world for a while. People compare it with Tang Wangbo's "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng". The elder Huang Zhongze, a 33-year-old university scholar Yuan Mei, read it and praised it as outstanding and extraordinary. Huang Jingren's poem is full of dialectical philosophy, and he knows that life is short, but his poetry will last forever. 】。

"A penny can stump a hero", and it is naturally easy to stump a "useless scholar" like Dong Yong.

What's more, the price of Master Lu Youcai's house is only the cheapest, and it also requires fifty taels of silver, and fifty taels of silver is converted into copper coins, which is fifty thousand yuan.

In this way, Dong Yong looked at it with his eyes wide open... The price is as high as 100,000 taels of silver, and there is a lake inside... Covering a vast area...... Outside the manor house with countless buildings...... Dong Yong only knew that Lu Dao opened his mouth wide, which was indeed excusable and understandable.

However, for Dong Yong, even if it is a simple house with a construction price of fifty taels of silver, Dong Yong feels a lot of pressure, and there is a lake in it with a price of up to 100,000 taels of silver... Covering a vast area...... With countless buildings, Dong Yong looked at it with wide eyes...... You can only open your mouth wide.

But for immortals like the Seven Fairies, there is not the slightest pressure.

Even if there is a lake in it with a height of 100,000 taels of silver... Covering a vast area...... With countless buildings, the Seven Fairies can also be easily bought.

For what?

Could it be that the Seven Fairies intend to use "alchemy"?

In our country there is a legend about "alchemy".

Qing Dynasty writer Pu Songling's long ghost novel "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" in the "Cheng Xian" article also has a bit of a story of alchemy: Zhou Sheng's brother, one day, early to Zhai, saw that there was a letter on the desk, sealed very solidly, signed the title "Zhong's Qi", and tried it as a brother's trace. When you open your eyes, you will have nothing, only one piece of armor and two fingers long. The heart is strange, put the inkstone with the armor, and ask the family from the source, and the ignorant person. Looking back, the inkstone turns into gold. Surprised, to test copper and iron, all the same.

A typical case of "alchemy" is "turning stones into gold".

Turning stones into gold is the same as "turning iron into gold". In the fairy tale, it is said that the immortal used a little finger to turn iron into gold, which is a metaphor for changing the bad words. From Song Huzai's "Tiaoxi Yuyin Cong Words Later Collection?Meng Haoran": "The poems are based on one word, and they are naturally extraordinary, such as a grain of elixir, and a stone into gold. The fourth and fourth chapter of "Journey to the West": "My master, calling for wind and rain, can only turn his palm; Guo Moruo's "On the Large-scale Collection of Folk Songs": "Those of us who have a little experience know that poetry can be turned into gold! Change a word, and poetry will live." ”

Turning stones into gold used to be said to be immortal and iron stones into gold, but now the metaphor modifies the article and turns decay into magic. It is also a metaphor for revising an article by slightly changing the original text to make it outstanding. It also refers to a little guidance to a person, which can make him wake up.

There are also allusions to "turning stones into gold".

One person is very poor, and he devoutly worships Lu Zu in his life. Lu Zu is Lu Dongbin, the ancestor of Taoism. Lu Zu felt his sincerity, and suddenly fell to his house one day, and saw that his house was surrounded by four walls, and he was very sorry for him, because he stretched out a finger and pointed to the rock in his court. Oh, turned into gold, and said: "What do you want?" and the other person bowed and said: "I don't want it." Lu Zu was overjoyed and said: "Zicheng can be like this, and he is selfless, and he can be given the avenue." He said, "Otherwise, I want your finger." "Lu Zuqian is gone. (Rewritten from "Guang Tan Zhu"). [The translation is as follows.] A person who was particularly poor devoted his life to LĂź Zu, who was LĂź Dongbin, and was said to be the ancestor of Taoism. Lu Dongbin was touched by his sincerity, and one day suddenly came down from heaven to his house, and when he saw that his family was very poor, he could not help but pity him, so he stretched out a finger and pointed to a heavy stone in his courtyard. In a moment, the stone turned into glittering gold, and Lu Dongbin said, "Do you want it?" and the man bowed twice and replied, "No." Lu Dongbin was very happy and said, "If you can do this, you have no selfish intentions, and you can teach you the true way of becoming an immortal." The man said, "No, I want that finger of yours." Lu Dongbin suddenly disappeared. (To be continued......)