Chapter 12 Chapter Twelve

The color of the sky and the earth changed, and there was thunder, and Zhu Xi was completely absorbed by the sky and the earth.With Zhu Xi at the center, the field of Tianrenbi is gradually expanding. Wherever it reaches, mountains, rivers and rivers collapse suddenly, turning into fine dust and being sucked into the vortex. Lu You could feel that Zhu Xi's power was constantly increasing. I am afraid that if this continues, the entire Taohuayuan will be swallowed by the pen of heaven and man.Seeing that the owner of the pen mound still had a calm expression, he couldn't help but said anxiously: "I say you are a mahogany lump! Even if the deity can't retreat, you should think of a way!"

Dong Zhongshu's "Response between Heaven and Man" only explores the relationship between God's will and the human world; Zhu Xi's "Li Qi Theory" pierces directly to the origin of the way of heaven, which is much deeper and more thorough than the previous one, and his control of the rules is more than one step higher. series.The master of the pen mound is pedantic about heaven and man, and can see the gap between the two at a glance.Even if Dong Zhongshu came back to life, he might not be as powerful as Zhu Xi at this time. Lu You said: "If you can't do it, let me do it. If you borrow more than a dozen of your pen spirits, I don't believe that I can't deal with that rotten scholar!"

The owner of the pen mound held his shoulder and said to him in a strange tone: "Don't be impulsive, I have three things to ask you now." Hearing this, Lu You rolled up his sleeves, with a menacing look: "If you want to fight or kill, the old man is fine, you can just say it." The owner of the pen mound handed the Hanmeiyu bookcase to Lu You: "The first thing is to keep this Ziyang pen safe for me." Lu You quickly picked it up and said casually, "Oh, good." The master of Bizuka carried the little boy in his arms to Lu You again: "The second thing is that this child will be entrusted to you in the future."

Lu You was taken aback for a moment, and stretched out his hand to take the little boy over. He couldn't help looking at it carefully: "Is it your illegitimate child?" The owner of the pen mound lovingly touched the boy's head and said, "This boy is a genuine human being. I found this by accident on the way to the north when I was refining brushes for Huizong. He is an orphan from the war. This boy has a very strong physique. It’s peculiar, even I’ve never seen it before. He can hold pen spirits in his body at will, and can hold as many as seven tubes at most.” "What? Seven tubes!?" Lu You frowned.One pen is one person, this is the iron law of the spirit of the pen, even Zhu Xi, strictly speaking, did not violate this rule - he has two hearts, so he has two pens.But the child in front of him, he installed seven tubes as soon as he installed it, which is really shocking.

"I call this physique Dubiren, extremely rare." The owner of the pen mound said, with a look of pity and love on his face, "From now on, he will be entrusted to you. Don't let others bully you. Let him drink more water and feed him more. He ate sweets and lived his life well.” Lu You heard that his tone was a bit wrong, and quickly cut off: "How does it sound, you seem to be asking Gu." The owner of the pen mound said with a smile, "Exactly." When the two were talking, Zhu Xi's domain had expanded to the entire sky, and black clouds quietly gathered from all directions, covering the sky and the sun.The thick clouds stretched for dozens of miles, like an angry black dragon suspended in the air, staring coldly at the Peach Blossom Spring.In the clouds, the power is quietly accumulating and churning. From time to time, a golden light tears the clouds, revealing a moment of majesty, followed by a series of low-pitched rumbles rolling across the sky, like the huge wheels of a carriage running over the imperial palace. on the road.He knew that the owner of the pen mound in front of him was just an incarnation, and the real deity was still hidden somewhere in the Peach Blossom Spring, so he was not in a hurry to fight him, but simply sealed off the entire Peach Blossom Spring world.As long as the pen tomb is closed, his goal will be achieved.

Zhu Xi's voice suddenly came from a distance: "Brother Lu, leave quickly, this Taohuayuan will be completely closed soon, and there will be no day for it to be opened." Zhu Xi knew that Lu You was not an official of the pen, but a master of pen, His only army has been returned to the owner of the pen mound, and he has no pen spirit, so he might as well let him go. Lu You raised his fist to the sky and shouted: "Old Zhu, you are not righteous, why are you here to sell favors now!" Zhu Xi sighed in the sky, stopped persuading, and focused on manipulating the Tianren Brush to devour the entire Taohuayuan.Lu You hugged the boy in one hand, and punched the ground with the other, bitterly said: "This rotten scholar! I'm so mad!"

At this time, the owner of the pen mound said calmly, "You should listen to Mr. Hui'an and leave early." Lu You suddenly raised his head: "What about you? Where's Bizhong? I hate deserters the most in my life!" The owner of the pen tomb signaled him to be calm, and said slowly, "What happened today is a catastrophe for my pen tomb. There is no escape. Why do you need to be buried with me?" Lu You asked suspiciously: "From what you said, it seems that you already knew about it? Could it be that when you invited Zhu Xi to come, you expected that there would be a collusion between him and Tianrenbi?"

The owner of the pen mound showed a smile: "I once practiced a tube of pen, which was called the finishing touch, do you know?" Lu You nodded, he knew the function of this pen, and he could make some vague predictions about the future. The owner of the pen mound continued: "During the time of Jingkang, I saw that the Central Plains were being tortured and Luoyang fell. I was depressed, so I took out my eyes and asked whether my Chinese culture would be destroyed under the iron hooves of mutton." "What's the result?" Lu You asked hastily. At this time, Zhu Xi's territory had expanded to them, and the wind was gusting, and the hillside and the beautiful peach forest were all involved in the whirlpool.The master of the pen mound waved his robe sleeves casually, and the three of them were immediately wrapped in an air shield, which blocked the pressure from outside and suspended in the endless darkness.When Zhu Xi saw them, he didn't force them, and continued to concentrate on sweeping the remnants of Taohuayuan.

Then the owner of the pen mound said to Lu You: "Dianyan gave me a prediction that the pen mound will be destroyed by the hands of the old enemy. I guessed at that time that it must have a great relationship with the celestial brush. So I started from Since the time of Jingkang, I have been unable to retreat, and I have devoted myself to preparations. Today, everything is finally in place, and I just need to wait for the writing of heaven and man to come here." After hearing this, Lu You was both happy and sad.The joy is that the master of the pen mound is unfathomable. He said that he has made all preparations, so he can rest assured; the sad thing is that between his words, he seems to reveal that the closure of the pen mound is inevitable.

The owner of the pen tomb looked at Zhu Xi in the distance, and said in admiration: "Mr. Hui'an is stunningly beautiful, has a resolute temperament, and is a person who does great things. I originally wanted to invite him to the pen tomb to avoid being invaded by the heavenly pen. Unexpectedly, people are not as good as heaven, but in the end it led to the combination of him and Tianrenbi." He sighed and shook his head, and said again: "Now that Zhu Xi is backed by Tianrenbi and Confucianism all over the world, we are no longer able to restrain him. With him here, the prosperity of Confucianism can last for at least another thousand years. What I can do The last thing is to try our best to preserve these talents. When Confucianism declines, it will not be too late to make it popular in the world.”

"That will be a thousand years later! Now that someone is calling, what do you think?" The owner of the pen mound narrowed his smile: "This is the third thing I want you to do." He pointed to the fish book tube and the boy: "Actually, there is nothing in this peach blossom garden except me, who is distracted. I have already moved the pen tomb to another place, and I handed over most of the pen spirits to the heads of the Zhuge and Wei families, and kept them in secret." Lu You couldn't help but said: "Why do you want to run away? Could it be that there are thousands of brush spirits in the brush mound, but they can't match that mere celestial brush?" The owner of the pen mound looked at him meaningfully: "It's not as simple as one attack and one defense. You don't need to know the deep meaning of this for the time being. Maybe it will take less than a hundred years, maybe thousands of years... In short, the time has come." When the seven princes gather together, they will be able to open the pen mound when they are mature, and then they will naturally know what is going on. I have left my original soul and all the truth there." "Seven lords?" Lu You exclaimed, "Have you finally decided on the order of the seven lords of Guancheng?" He knew that the owner of the pen mound had been looking for the spirit of the seven pens, so he was called "Seven Marquis of Guancheng".Only five have been selected so far, and two are still pending. "That's right, it's all ready now." The owner of the pen mound nodded slightly, and handed him a bamboo slip: "The third thing is, please follow the instructions of this bamboo slip, and seal the seven princes of Guancheng here one by one. Wait for the right time. I have already set up those sealed places, you just need to follow my instructions to place them." Lu You was a little puzzled.Among the five pen spirits that have been determined, one belongs to Li Taibai's Qinglian pen. Not to mention him, even the owner of the pen mound has only met once, and there is no news about it so far; the other is Wang Xizhi's Tiantai Baiyun The pen was sealed by the owner of the pen mound as early as the Tang Dynasty.What are the other three, the other two? The owner of the pen mound saw his doubts, and pointed to the little boy in his arms: "Apart from Li Taibai and Wang Youjun, this child still has three pen spirits in his body, a total of five. And the sixth pen spirit is Hanmeiyushu Is it the Ziyang brush in the tube?" The owner of the pen mound turned his head to look up at the sky, and smiled slightly: "And this last one is the Heavenly Man brush." Lu You's expression froze, he didn't ask any more questions, he carefully put the book case away, and hugged the boy tightly.This child is extremely honorable now, with three pipes in his body to control the seven princes of the city, there must be no mistakes. Lu You suddenly thought that the Qihou of Guancheng is a seven-branch, and the Dubi boy can also carry a seven-branch. Is there any connection between this.The owner of the pen mound saw through his thoughts: "You guessed right. This child is the key to unlock the pen mound. But I don't want this child to bear such a heavy fate. Anyway, what will happen after a thousand years, whether you, me or This child can no longer be seen. Just let him live his life like an ordinary person, and it will be a kind of happiness." After he finished speaking, he stretched out his arms and gently hugged the boy.The boy seemed to know what the master of the pen was thinking, and he huddled in Lu You's arms obediently, tears streaming down his face.After a while, the owner of the pen mound finally let go of the boy, and with a flick of his right hand, Lu You found that there were several more spiritual objects on his body, including a pen holder, a brush wash, and a pen sea, all of which were used to collect the brushes. "Here are Lingyun, Qijiao, Congrong, Changshi, and those few Confucian brushes. It's useless to stay with me, you take them out too, and give them to the Zhuge family and the Wei family." The owner of the tomb is like a dying great king entrusting the country to his most loyal courtiers. He is strict and meticulous, hoping that behind him, this great country will not be handed over to others. In fact, this tomb is not a different kind of country? "That's it." The tone of the master of the pen mound finally showed a trace of loneliness and exhaustion.Togo is over.His original soul has already been sealed in the pen mound, and the avatar here has also completed his work. "Thank you, please protect these pen spirits well." Lu You let out a "hmm" with a serious face, and he felt that his shoulders were extremely heavy.What he is carrying now is not only the talents accumulated for thousands of years, but also the hope for the next thousand years.For two thousand years, the past and the future have all converged on this person who has no pen skills, and Lu You suddenly felt a strange feeling beyond the absurd. "One day, you will need to come back here." The master of the pen mound said, showing a mysterious smile. "We're leaving, what do you do?" Lu You suddenly thought of the most important question.The core of the pen mound is not the pen spirit, but the patron saint of the pen mound owner. "I'm just distracted, and I've already realized it. Besides, it's my destiny to protect these things." The owner of the pen mound stood with his hands behind his back, his body rose slowly, and flew towards Zhu Xi, laughing loudly in mid-air: "Although the number of days cannot be violated, how can the talents of the world be covered by his mere Confucianism!" In an instant, the spirit of the owner of the pen mound, looking down on the world and looking at the millennium, was unreservedly displayed, and even Zhu Xi's righteousness was suppressed all of a sudden.A few touches of blue appeared in the dark red sky.Zhu Xi opened his eyes, his breathing was a little short, and his Taoist heart was a little disordered for a while.The celestial pen on top of his head also chirped endlessly. With the memory of Tianrenbi, the scene of that year clearly emerged in Zhu Xi's mind: the owner of the tomb of the pen stood alone in front of hundreds of families, standing against the wind, with the same words and expressions.Show your sharpness, and the Confucianists are at a loss. Even if it is just a clone of the owner of the pen mound, it has extremely strong strength, and Zhu Xi dare not take any chances. Lu You held the little boy in his arms, and looked at the back of the owner of the pen mound, and suddenly felt his eyes were moist.He didn't know whether it was because of Zhu Xi's betrayal, or because he suddenly realized that this was a farewell to the owner of the pen mound. "Brother Weng, the continuation of the pen mound is entrusted to you." The last voice of the owner of the pen mound rang in his ears, extremely gentle.Immediately, the bodies of Lu You and Xiaotong gradually faded away. He glanced at the distance for the last time. Under the dark red and blue sky, the two figures were facing each other in mid-air. ... When Lu You opened his eyes again, he found himself lying in a peach grove with the little boy. A black-covered boat was tied to the small river next to it. Three broken pen boys were leaning against the side of the boat, like loyal The boatman is waiting for the owner to return. "Let's go." Lu You hugged the little boy, kindly and kindly, his signature sharpness and vigor seemed to remain in the peach blossom garden.The one who appeared in Wuling now was just an ordinary and kind old man. The little boy rolled his big eyes: "Where are we going?" "Go home." Lu You replied, without looking back. ※※※ In the fourth year of Chunxi, Zhu Xi, a master of Neo-Confucianism who had been missing for nearly a year, came back and established Bailudong College in Lushan. The law of Confucianism for thousands of generations; in the fourth year of Shaoxi, Zhu Xi rebuilt Yuelu Academy and taught Neo Confucianism, which was very popular for a while.No one knows why this master, who had been silent for a long time, broke out suddenly, showing astonishing talents and dedication to the promotion of Neo Confucianism. In the sixth year of Qingyuan, Zhu Xi died in Jianyang. He was still revising "Great Learning" before his death at the age of seventy-one. Eight years later, in Shanyin City, an old man also passed away suddenly.Before he died, he slowly chanted "When you die, you know everything is empty, but you don't see Kyushu in sorrow. Wang Shibei set the Central Plains Day, and the family sacrifice will never be forgotten." Then he stretched out his hand and held a strange man tightly. The boy didn't let go of his hand until the vitality was completely drained from him.The surrounding family members were surprised because the teenager was not part of their family.The young man didn't tell his story, he kowtowed seven times to the old man's body, cried seven times, then turned and left. No one has seen him since. After the two of them died, Neo-Confucianism finally became the mainstream of the world, and it was regarded as the standard and official school in all subsequent dynasties.Stereotype selection of scholars is based on the Four Books and Five Classics and "Zhu Zi Yu Lei" as the criterion, and dare not go beyond half a step.The prosperity of Confucianism was far greater than that of previous generations, and it was not until 1919 AD that it began to decline.In the next Jiazi, Confucianism gradually declined, the stars scattered, and almost disappeared, and half a Jiazi passed before there was a sign of resurgence. Calculating with one's fingers, more than 800 springs and autumns have passed, nearly a thousand years...