Chapter 11 second quarter

Nagahori Jingoro held three letters in his hand.Each letter is not a transcript, but an original written by Odajima Kazumasa himself. "Because the old feudal lord writes this kind of letter every day. The letter box in the hermitage can hardly hold it." I chose these three to carry with me because... "Although the contents are equally incomprehensible, these three letters are the best written in terms of words." Judging from the arrangement of the characters, it feels like writing the same characters over and over again. "The key to deciphering the ciphertext may be hidden in the way the characters are written. If so, it cannot be deciphered just by looking at the transcript."

That's why I brought the original copy with me—Jin Goro said, Sheng Zhisuke respectfully accepted it. "Then I'll take it." "I will come to visit from time to time. No, I won't come every day...I don't mean to urge you." After Jin Wulang finished speaking with sweat profusely, he left the Fukan longhouse with a more steady pace than when he came.Sheng Zhisuke tidied up the table after being alone, and spread out three letters.Although neatly folded, each letter is short.It is too much to write on one piece of paper, and the font is quite large. Sheng Zhisuke was fascinated by it for a while-it was so well written.

Sure enough, it is well written.Not only is the font correct, every small place is full of vitality.The place to stop is vigorous, and the place to be picked is picked vigorously.Judging from the writing alone, I don't think there is any problem with the mind of the person who writes.And although the word is weird, it is not a random word.There are rules in it, and those who understand Chinese characters will find out after careful observation.Jin Wulang said that no one in Sanbaye Fan cared so much about the old feudal lord, and when he thought about it, he felt lonely for him. Shengzhisuke knew that the Chinese characters commonly used by people who had learned to write in this country could not be found on the first letter. "Xi" is added to "beside the word", how should this word be pronounced? What is the word "Gan" added to "beside the handle"? Add "every" under the "head", what is this word?But if you try to disassemble these Chinese characters into "left radical" and "right radical", you will understand that this is not a strange character.Each "left radical" and "right radical" has its own character.

That's right.It's just replacing the combination, so it looks like scribbling at first glance.Because it is full of words, it is even more confusing. Well, let's call it fake characters.Sheng Zhisuke was grinding ink while thinking. If this is a letter to someone, what are the words that must appear in the text? ——It should be "waiting". Then let's look for the fake character formed by the "right radical" of "别" and the "left radical" which is not "herringbone".Sheng Zhisuke widened his eyes and carefully examined the three letters.Soon, he frowned and raised his head.

Can't find it.There is no word for the "right radical" of "别". In other words, this counterfeit character is not simply a replacement of the "left radical" of a Chinese character. "Right radical" is also replaced under a certain rule, recombined with "left radical".In this case, let's look for fake words with higher frequency.Since it is a letter, there should be nothing wrong with assuming the word "Hou". As long as you find the word that is used more frequently in the three letters, you can assume that it is the word "waiting".If it can be seen from it that the "left radical" and "right radical" of the fake characters are replaced by "herringbone" and "别", then this will be far more difficult than the situation of only replacing the "left radical", but it will be It's a clue to solve the puzzle.

Sheng Zhisuke was very motivated, and he copied down every fake word in detail.After a while, he put down the brush and crossed his arms.It's just disorganized.These three letters could not find the common forgery that appeared the most times.The most common character in the first letter is "威fu", the most common character in the second letter is "佄", and the most common word in the third letter is "忄木". Even so, what would happen if these words were all replaced with "hou"? Some of the so-called ciphertexts and codes are simple and some are complex.In the simplest case, for example, "change all the Chinese characters in '言字形' to 'Renzi' in Chinese characters", such an interpretation method only needs to be agreed verbally in advance.If this is the case, if someone who does not know the agreement between the two parties changes the "word character side" to "herring character side" after reading it, the puzzle will be solved.

But in this way, the ciphertext will be unusable, and it will be more complicated-if you change "beside the character" to "beside the character", change "beside the character" to "beside the handle", and change "beside the handle" If "side" is changed to "heart word side", then even the person who uses the secret language will not be able to remember it.If not only the "left radical" is changed, but also the "right radical" is replaced according to a certain rule, it is the same situation. In this way, it is necessary to prepare some kind of memorandum or text replacement list, and each party who uses ciphertext communication holds a copy, and the ciphertext and interpretation can be used at any time after obtaining this list.

If you replace "Hou" with a fake character, you should be able to use this as a starting point to infer the replacement rule.Shengzhisuke thinks it is possible, maybe it can be done.So he counted the fake characters that might be "Hou", and finally found a few. What does this mean? The rules for replacing "left radical" and "right radical" in order to make counterfeit characters, that is, the list of character replacements, may be more than one.It's not impossible to spend a little more time.However, when multiple replacement rules are used, instructions must be hidden in the ciphertext or coded text to let the other party know "which list should be used for interpretation".

Nagahori Kingoro said that among these letters—the only thing that can be understood is the date, but even the date is completely wrong. This is really weird.The date, year, and stem and branch should not be the instructions of the old feudal lord, right?Inform the other party that when interpreting these letters, "you have to replace the list with such and such words."For example, if you write Gengzi above, you can use this one, and if you write Bingwu, you can use that one. Sheng Zhisuke crossed his arms and groaned in a low voice, the pen in his hand was filled with ink.Well, pick out the most commonly used "left radical" in the three letters respectively, and count how many there are, maybe you can see the regularity.In the end, Shengzhisuke made Sheng Zhisuke groan again. The frequency of use of "left radical" varies, and the three letters cannot find a common point.Sheng Zhisuke did not admit defeat, he tried the same method for the "right radical", but he couldn't find the rule.

It's a bit of a hassle. Really wish there were more references.If all of Kazusho Odajima's letters were here, there would be more materials for interpretation, and perhaps a certain regularity could be seen (even if there is more than one letter, it's okay), but there are only three letters in front of me. Nothing is nothing, no matter how much it is said, it will not help.He shook his head, let go of his arms, then rested his chin instead, and continued to think. It is said that the old feudal lord wrote these three letters repeatedly, and Jin Wulang hid them in his arms and looked around for the unknown Guqiao Shengzhisuke.Is there any meaning in writing these three epistles repeatedly?

Shengzhisuke's heart skipped a beat. If there is more than one replacement rule, then Odajima Kazumasa should also have something like a list or a memorandum in his hand, and write it completely according to the above rules.It is impossible for him to memorize all the complicated rules.If this is the case, some of the retainers serving in the hermitage should have witnessed it once or twice when the old feudal lord wrote these weird letters.It's easy to spot. Did the old feudal lord memorize all the rules in his head? Could it be that what he remembered was not the replacement rules, but the contents of the letter? Could it be that I just remembered the letters I wrote when I was young and copied them exactly?So the reason why the words of these three letters appear again and again is that the content impressed him deeply, or he has always planted it in his mind.If this is the case, I am afraid that even Odajima Kazumasa himself has forgotten the arrangement and interpretation of these fake characters. Even if he finds out that mysterious (now causing headaches for everyone around him) Furuhashi Shengnosuke, even he may have forgotten about it.After you mentioned it, I realized that I invented such a ciphertext before.Text replacement list?I don't have that stuff anymore.Even the content is completely forgotten, hahaha! Sheng Zhisuke was thinking about something that was useless, and his stomach suddenly sang empty city tricks, but all the dinner specially prepared by Riezhi went into Nagahori Jingoro's stomach. After the sun went down, Shengzhisuke lit the oil lamp and copied the three letters.Just once was not enough, he copied it again and again. Copying and copying, I admire the beautiful handwriting even more.With the power of Sheng Zhisuke, it is impossible to make the words contain such power. ——This is the difference in character and bearing. It's not the difference in brush skill.The difference in life experience of the writers is all shown in the text.No matter how incompetent the feudal lord Kazusho Odajima is, he is the ruler of a feudal clan after all, and he is still the former feudal lord, and his background is completely different.Unlike Sheng Zhisuke, a young man whose whole body is covered with city dust, and the dust on his body will be blown away when the wind blows, Odajima Kazumasa's fingers hide a power that Sheng Zhisuke does not have. Shengzhisuke is quite confident in his calligraphy.At least he thinks that the skill of brush calligraphy is far superior to that of swordsmanship.However, when he copied Odajima Kazusho's forged characters, although he could imitate the beautiful handwriting, he could not be exactly the same, and there would always be subtle differences.Although he kept muttering to himself and thinking hard for a long time, he still fell asleep that night.He got up the next day and began to mutter again, went to the latrine, washed his face by the well, and then thought hard all the way, returned to the house and sat at the desk. While thinking about how to imitate Kazumasa Odajima's handwriting, while copying the letter, he wondered where the key to unlocking the ciphertext was hidden.Although there is no connection between imitating handwriting and deciphering the ciphertext, the mind is clear and the thoughts are calm when copying.He vaguely felt that as long as he fully transformed himself into Odajima Kazumasa, he would be able to understand the thoughts in Odajima Kazumasa's mind. After copying the full text, he copied the false characters one by one.This time the focus is not on glyphs, but on the classification of radicals with homophones, and we do not forget to count the number of occurrences of each sound.Sheng Zhisuke devoted himself to it. "excuse me." Fukan was still the same, wearing a short coat with long clotheslines swaying in the wind. When he came, Shengzhisuke was concentrating on writing with a brush. "Excuse me, Mr. Guqiao." Shengzhisuke didn't even lift his head. "Mr. Guqiao!" Hearing Fukan's loud call, the brush in Shengzhisuke's hand fell off, and he came back to his senses. "Mr. Fu, Mr. Fu Kan." Taking a closer look, Fu Kan leaned forward, their foreheads almost bumping into each other.A Jin, Tai Yi, A Lu, and A Xiu also gathered at the door, peeping inside. "Mr. Sheng, are you alright?" Axiu called. "Whoever greeted you this morning, you just kept mumbling to yourself like you didn't hear them. Do you remember? Then you stayed locked in your room." "Let me just say, Mr. Sheng must be doing some important work." A Jin stopped everyone present, pouted his lips, as if explaining for Sheng Zhisuke. "The samurai should have asked Mr. Sheng for help yesterday. Is that why he is so busy?" Speaking of which, it's my sister, you guys are making a lot of fuss—Tai Yi's face is displeased. "Mr. Sheng is long and Mr. Sheng is short." "Stop interrupting." "Mr. Sheng, you didn't do your laundry today, did you?" Ah Lu said slowly, worrying about him. Axiu smiled wryly. "Did you not cook in the morning? Did you have lunch?" "Hey, it's already noon?" "What are you talking about?" Fu Kan was surprised. "It's already past two o'clock in the afternoon." It's so late already?No wonder I'm hungry again. "Sorry. I seem to be getting too involved." "Let's just say it. Hey, let's go! Let's go!" Fu Kan waved his hand roughly, and drove the woman and Taiyi away. "Even Mr. Guqiao wouldn't be able to sit at his desk and starve himself like this. He's not so unworldly." "The manager's words are the most poisonous." Axiu smiled and pushed Alu forward, and then left. As for Ajin, who tiptoed to look at the things in Shengzhisuke's hand, Taiyi dragged him away. "It's really a blessing." Fu Kan sat down on the entrance steps, his tone of words didn't look like teasing, but rather jealous. "Even if I was sick in bed with a high fever, no woman would treat me with such a caring expression." Unexpectedly, the manager, who has always been very masculine, would also say such sarcastic words. "That's because Mr. Fukan, you have someone who will worry about you." "The owner of Murata House, who is supposed to worry about you, gave you some troublesome work?" Fu Kan looked at the stack of paper written by Sheng Zhisuke on the desk, and frowned.Although he didn't expect the manager to say such sarcastic words, his personality of caring for others and worrying about others has not changed. "This is not an errand given by the boss of Murata House." Sheng Zhisuke couldn't help frowning.At this time, I am still obsessed with things that are not my profession, and even waste so much paper and ink.The delivery date of the work commissioned by Murata House is clearly imminent. "If the two of us keep wrinkling our faces like a toothache, it will be endless." Fu Kan said. "What happened? I heard that a strange warrior came yesterday." Is it someone from your feudal kingdom - Fu Kan asked in a low voice, his eyes were extremely serious. Sheng Zhisuke was quite surprised.Fukan, who has a close relationship with Donggu, really knows something about Shengzhisuke's life experience. "It has nothing to do with my vassal state, it's just another job." After Shengzhisuke answered, he suddenly changed his mind and took out all the letters he had transcribed. "That's it, what do you think of it?" Fukan is the administrator.Although he can't be called the master of the longhouse, he is at least equivalent to the status of the elder of the family.Nagahori Jingoro shouldn't blame him for showing it to others casually. The corners of Fu Kan's raised eyes suddenly trembled. "What is this?" "What do you think it is?" After examining the transcript of the Fukan Dynasty for a long time, he looked at Shengzhisuke. "There's been such a thing before." "Huh?" Did he think of something? "It seems to have happened in Aioi-cho, Honjo. There is a rice shop, and it seems that the family gave birth to a boy. To celebrate, they prepared quiz words like this and made leaflets to send around." This is the guessing text—Fukan confirmed to Shengnosuke. "If you can solve the puzzle, you can get a bag of white rice. Very generous, right?" "Is it a hard-to-decipher ciphertext?" "No, as long as you know Chinese characters, anyone can solve it. It's very simple. Just connect the pronunciation together. It's actually an auspicious sentence. For example, 'しちふくじん (Seven Lucky Gods)' or 'たからぶね (宝船)'some type of." At that time, many bags of rice were given out as prizes. "That white rice seems delicious." Fukan returned the letter to Shengzhisuke. "Although there are inexplicable Chinese characters written on it, I think it looks like a duel letter." "Duel letter?" "This handwriting is very domineering." Sure enough, Shengzhisuke is not the only one who can literally feel the intention and thoughts of the writer. "But having said that, you are really devoted. At least you can have a meal with boiling water." Shengzhisuke didn't bother to spend time making rice with boiling water, so he ate cold rice directly. After a while, Liusuke from Shengbundang came.After Liusuke said good afternoon, a smile appeared on his face when he saw the scene around the desk. "I have a good nose. It's just in time. You're almost out of paper and ink, aren't you?" Sheng Zhisuke smiled embarrassingly, told him what happened, and let him read the letters.Let's talk to Takebu-sensei next. "Brother Sheng, boil some water." "Sixth University, wouldn't you say that this is a design where words will emerge after reaching the heat?" "That's not it. Let's say it together, it doesn't look like it needs to be roasted by fire." Liusuke chuckled. "Brother Sheng, I can see from your expression that you seem to be choking on cold food. I just happen to be a little thirsty too." When Shengzhisuke went to boil the water according to the words, Liusuke squinted his eyes and looked at the letters carefully, sometimes holding them upside down, sometimes turning them to the back to read carefully. "Well, this is the ciphertext, right?" "I knew that from the beginning." After the two drank the boiled water, they became a little calmer.Shengzhisuke expressed his current thoughts, and Liusuke nodded slowly. "It's a good thing you thought of it. However, if there are several ways to decrypt it, Brother Sheng, it's impossible for you to solve it based on your imagination alone. Do you have any other clues?" "Maybe I can ask something from Nagahori-san. If I can get some more letters..." "That means there are only these clues at present." Liusuke's naturally slender eyes were arched, and he couldn't tell whether he was laughing or sighing. "The Chinese character that appears most frequently in letters is 'Hou'. Is this premise correct?" "Is there anything else?" "For example like 'of'." Liusuke blinked his crooked eyes. "Or 'to'." "That depends on the content of the letter." Both were silent. "You said that the old feudal lord probably didn't write these letters carefully, but he just wrote down the words he remembered. I agree with you. And..." Liusuke rubbed his slender fingers on the bridge of his nose. "I say that as if I'm throwing cold water on you, please don't be surprised. Speaking of which, did the old feudal lord ever write a letter with such complicated words instead of a list when he was young?" Because it's just a game, right? "It's not a secret letter from a secret agent or a secret agent. No one will die if you go through the gang, or your attempt to rebel will be overthrown. It's just a letter specially written by a young master in order to associate with a tramp whom he admires, and he doesn't want to be hindered by his retainers." .” Sheng Zhijie was rather disappointed. "What the hell do you mean?" "So, if it's just a letter of this level, it should be written in a simpler way." The method of making and interpreting this kind of counterfeit characters should be directly memorized in the mind—Rokusuke. "Is this old feudal lord a person who likes Chinese classics?" "Well... Nagabori-san didn't mention anything in particular." "That's more likely. Because Mr. Sheng, you only have a half-knowledge, so you think too much?" It is indeed like pouring cold water on it, but it hits the nail on the head.After Liusuke gave advice, and filled up the paper and ink for Sheng Zhisuke (inscribed on Murata's account) and left.Sheng Zhisuke leaned against the desk in frustration. - You have to work to make money. Thought so, but he did not give up on the ciphertext, and then dozed off. Legend has it that the handwriting of heroes has spiritual power since ancient times.If you utter evil words casually under the plaques of temples and shrines, you will be cursed, and the mild ones will get sick, and the severe ones will die.Kazumasa Odajima is still alive, and he can't be called a hero, so Shengzhisuke didn't sleep well because of it.But he had a dream, in which there were many "left radicals" and "right radicals" dancing around his head.

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