The Legend of Shushan Xuanjian

Chapter 449
The rain beats the pear blossoms and closes the door deeply, forgetting youth and missing youth.

Dawn looks at the sky at dusk, looks at the clouds, and thinks of you when you walk, and think of you when you sit.

——Excerpt from Tang Yin (Ming Dynasty) "One Cut Plum Blossom Rain Beats the Pear Blossom and Closes the Door Deeply"
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Fang Shuliu took out a thin porcelain bottle from his bosom, poured the Chinese medicine powder in the bottle on a piece of oilcloth paper, and lightly baked it with a candle under the oilcloth paper.Soon, a wisp of blue silk curled up, exuding a mint fragrance.

Fang Shuliu put the oilcloth paper on Zhang Xu's nose, Zhang Xu sneezed twice in his dream, and woke up immediately.

Fang Shuliu said: "Zhang Dian, do you want to watch Aunt Gongsun be executed? Do you have the heart?"

Zhang Xu's complexion changed, and he burst into tears...

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Zhang Xu was also one of Aunt Gongsun's admirers, but when he met Aunt Gongsun, Zhang Xu already had a family, so he could only keep this admiration in his heart.

From Zhang Xu's mouth, Fang Shuliu and Bai Fu learned the secret of Aunt Gongsun:

Aunt Gongsun is actually two people, but twin sisters.The eldest sister is called Gongsun, and the younger sister is called Gongsun Jiao.The two seemed to be carved out of the same mold, and even their biological parents were unclear.In order to distinguish the two sisters, his mother tattooed a red plum at the Hegu point on the back of Gongsun's hand.

The two sisters have been smart since childhood. When they were seven years old, by chance, they ran into a generation of illusion masters.The stranger saw that the two were smart and identical in appearance, so he took the two of them as disciples and passed on their peerless swordsmanship and illusion skills to the Gongsun sisters.

When the two sisters grew up, they combined swordsmanship and dance, and created the world-famous sword dance.In order to facilitate the use of split body illusions, the two have always shown themselves as one person.Therefore, no one in the world knows the true identity of Aunt Gongsun.

Later, the Gongsun sisters accepted the "thirteen beauties in neon clothes" as their apprentices, and they also taught martial arts alternately. They did not tell the apprentices that their masters were two people.

But no matter how good the disguise is, it can't hide the two people's understanding of swordsmanship and dance.

The eldest sister, Gongsun, is unparalleled in swordsmanship, and the sword is dazzling, just like Houyi shooting down the nine suns. When dancing, the sword is thunderous and breathless.

The youngest sister, Gongsun Jiao, has superb lightness kungfu, vigorous and agile, just like a god flying a dragon.When the dance is finished, it is like a wild goose crossing a cold pool, and it is like the waves of rivers and seas condensed.

In order to seek the way of calligraphy, Zhang Xu followed the performances of Aunt Gongsun's dance workshop all the way, performed one, watched one, followed from Luoyang to Chang'an, and finally discovered the secret of the Gongsun sisters, and fell in love with the elder sister Gongsun uncontrollably.

But Gongsun's heart is tied to Li Longji, who is profound in music and talented.

At the premiere in Chang'an, Li Longji came off the stage in person, beat the Jiegu, and accompanied Gongsun Jianwu. The romantic emperor instantly conquered this strange woman with high eyes.

Zhang Xu's family background is not low, but how can ordinary officials compete with the emperor of the Tang Dynasty for a woman?Since then, Zhang Xu has been addicted to alcohol.

Whenever the situation is hard for me, I will get myself drunk, scream and run away, write quickly, and even write with my hair dipped in ink.

Release your repressed feelings and unrestrained life without concealment and vividly.Every stroke is shining with light, and every stroke is so beautiful that it explodes, like flying flames, shooting stars across the sky.

From emotion to love, from love to Taoism, Zhang Xu finally got a glimpse of the way of heaven in calligraphy, and reached the peak of cursive script, unrivaled and alone.

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"Then who is my master?" Princess Qingluan asked eagerly.

Zhang Xu sighed: "The elder sister Gongsun taught singing and dancing in Yichun and Liyuan Erjifang, and the younger sister Gongsun Jiao has long since fled far away and disappeared.

It is indeed your master, Gongsun, who is in prison now, but I have no way of knowing who among the two sisters assassinated His Majesty. "

"In Chang'an City, who else knows the whereabouts of Gongsun Jiao?" Fang Shuliu asked.

Zhang Xu said: "Go and try Wu Daozi, you can see that Aunt Gongsun belongs to two sisters, and he is the only one in the whole world besides me."

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After the Anshi Rebellion, Wu Daozi's whereabouts were uncertain.But as long as one is in Chang'an, on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, Wu Daozi will definitely appear at Zhao Jinggong Temple in Changlefang, bathe and fast, and worship Buddha devoutly.

Zhao Jinggong Temple was built by Dugu Jialuo, the empress of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, in memory of her father, Dugu Xin, a general of the Western Wei Dynasty.

The big Buddha statue of Lushena in the Huayan courtyard in the temple is carved out of gold and stone, six feet high, with a simple style, and is the treasure of the town temple.It is said that there are three buckets and four liters of the real body relic of Lushena Buddha below.In addition, there are more than hundreds of gold and silver Buddha statues in the temple, as well as scriptures made of gold and orbs.

However, it is not these Buddha statues that make Zhaojinggong Temple so popular, but a line drawing mural on the east wall of the third gate in the south of the temple.This painting is Wu Daozi's most outstanding mural in his life - "Hell Change".

According to legend, the day before the Yulan Basin Festival, Wu Daozi completed this magnificent painting in just one night.

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Bai Fu and the others came to the east wall of the third gate in the south of Zhao Jinggong Temple, and stood in front of the mural "Hell Change". Even Bai Fu, who had walked out of the dead on the battlefield, shuddered.

In the murals, Wu Daozi did not intentionally depict the horror and ferocity of ghosts and monsters, nor torture such as mountains of knives and sea of ​​fire, oil pans and woks. Instead, he conveyed the horror of hell with the terrified eyes and distorted faces of dying people. The terror and suffering of the tortured was horrific.

It is said that after the painting "Hell Change" was completed, people all admired it, fearing crimes and cultivating good deeds, and the two cities slaughtered it, but the fish and meat were not sold.

Wu Daozi's brushstrokes are as powerful as the hair of ghosts and gods.Sometimes there is a dark wind blowing, and the images are vivid, and ghosts and gods of the underworld suddenly appear, as if they are off the wall.

Bai and Fang looked at it, suddenly felt the hairs on their armpits, and shuddered.Princess Qingluan was even more frightened and hid outside the door.

Fang Shuliu replied to Bai: "People often say: Taoist painting figures is like using a lamp to capture shadows, going backwards and forwards, seeing sideways and sideways, and it is not bad. The so-called ease of use and skill, is just like a person in ancient and modern times.

Brother Bai, what do you think of this painting? "

Bai Fu pondered for a long time before finally saying: "Only those who have been to hell can draw!"

As soon as the words fell, an old voice said: "This is the most fascinating painting review I have ever heard. Are you here for Aunt Gongsun?"

Under the steps, an old man with white beard and hair, leaning on crutches, looked haggard.He said to the three people: "Old Wu Daozi is the one who should go to hell."

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"That year, we fell in love with each other hopelessly." Wu Daozi sat on the bluestone steps, looking up at the stars in the sky, and said faintly.

　1. The rain beats the pear blossoms and closes the door deeply, disappointing youth and youth.Who is to say about pleasure?The soul is ecstasy under the flowers, and the soul is ecstasy under the moon. (A work of disappointment: I forgot; a work of emptiness: I made a mistake)
　　Sorrow gathers the eyebrow peak every day to frown, a thousand points of crowing marks, ten thousand points of crowing marks.Dawn looks at the sky at dusk, looks at the clouds, thinks about the king when he walks, and thinks about the king when sitting.

　　——"One Cut Plum Blossom Rain Beats the Pear Blossom Closed Closed" by Tang Yin (Ming Dynasty)
　　2. Su Shi: Daozi painted figures, seen from the side.Horizontal, oblique and straight, multiply and divide each other to get a natural number, which is not bad.Bringing out new ideas in the testimonials, putting ingenious principles in the bold and unrestrained, the so-called cover the past and the present is just one person.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)