Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Get up and keep your hands on the wall

The first thing Monk Peter felt was darkness, which is a normal reaction when human vision suddenly loses light.The darkness in the Tibetan Bi Pavilion is different from usual, it does not become thinner because of the sunlight that came in when the cave door was just opened, it is extremely solid and extremely viscous.The moment he turned around and carefully closed the wooden door, the whole person was plunged into the stagnant darkness. Darkness brings unknowns and fears, but it also brings security at certain times—such as now. Monk Peter groped for the uneven wall with his hands, and leaned against it, gasping for breath.Neizhuang is already in chaos now. They searched the village with a tight encirclement, but the speed must not be fast. Maybe the clansmen still don't know that they have escaped into the Tibetan Bi Pavilion and searched in the cottages.Wei's Bib Pavilion is the most secret and hidden place in Wei Zhuang, and the spirit of the pen is hidden inside. Therefore, except for the head of the Wei family, no one else can enter at will without permission. This is the case from generation to generation.

Ironically, although the Cangbi Pavilion is the most important mountain, it has been invaded by outsiders for the second time this year.The first time was Qin Yi, she even took away two pen spirits.It really complied with the Murphy's Law: "The strictness of a rule is directly proportional to the probability of its being broken." Thinking of "outsiders", Monk Peter felt a sudden pain in his heart. He touched his chest, and found that the dying letter was still there, but his chest was already crawling up like ten thousand ants, eating his heart and lungs.Although he has a father-son relationship with Wei Dingbang, but due to some reasons, he has never been recognized. He has even been regarded as an outsider of the Wei family and not naturalized, so he escaped into Buddhism.Now that the cause and effect are still unsolved, Wei Dingbang died in front of him. Monk Peter didn't know whether he should cry loudly or strengthen his Buddha nature.

"The most important thing right now is to try to escape and find the murderer, so as to clear the name." He raised his hand and tapped his bald head, reciting a few Buddhist scriptures secretly, trying to calm down, leaning on the wall to go Go inside the cave. The air in the dark cave exudes a stale smell, and it seems that it has never flowed - after all, it has not been opened for a long time.Monk Peter felt infinitely grateful that it had been ten years since he entered the cave the last time—and the only time.That time, he was blindfolded and taken all the way to the depths of the cave, and because of some twists and turns, he withdrew immediately, and he was still ignorant of the Cangbi Pavilion.

Monk Peter only smoked a few cigarettes occasionally. When he went to the patriarch's house this morning, he didn't bring a lighter with him, so he couldn't light the fire.However, he remembered that the elder who brought him in at that time told him that the spirit of the pen is only for the heart, and Lao Tzu said that "five colors make people blind", so the reason for not holding candles in the pavilion is to block worldly thoughts and thoughts, and to use purely spiritual seek. Although there is no light in the Tibetan Bi Pavilion, it is not stuffy.Monk Peter could even feel a few subtle spiritual surges, just like the fragrance of lilacs secretly sent by the summer wind, although he couldn't see it, he could still feel it deeply.All the brush spirits collected by the Wei family in the past dynasties are hidden in the Zangbi Pavilion. The pavilion has been bathed in spirits for a long time, and it has been deeply immersed, and it has a solemn and elegant bearing.

It is said that the pen spirits are not placed together, but each has its own niche.No one other than the patriarch knows the exact location of these pen niches.Of course, Monk Peter didn't have much interest in these things, he just hoped to find a way out in the Bibi Pavilion and escape from death. Monk Peter guessed that he was probably in a long corridor. The floor was paved with stone slabs, which was relatively flat, but the walls were densely packed with pits.Monk Peter walked for a while holding his hand against the wall, when he suddenly noticed something strange in his fingers.He stopped and touched the stone wall carefully, and realized that it was not the fingers that were different, but the wall.Those long and short pits were originally chisel marks, and the walls were carved with rows of inscribed characters.

Although Monk Peter can't see it, he can feel that the engravings of these characters are straight, firm and vigorous, and the strokes are strong. Every time the vertical pen has a long front, the character marks are even sharp enough to scratch the belly of a finger. Human muscles and bones.This is Wang Youjun's famous "Pen Zhen Tu".If you touch it further, there are also "Bi Jing", "Dongxuan Transcripts", "Mao Ying Biography" and other chanting pen names in the past dynasties. , end to end. He walked forward more than ten steps, and found that the characters on the wall had changed slightly, tending to be straight and well-proportioned, and the frame of the words was rich; walking forward, suddenly, like a gust of wind blowing on the ground, the characters on the wall changed into wild grass and swayed. Jump off, criss-cross walls like Brownian motion.It was difficult to identify these subtle changes by finger touch alone, let alone read the content, so Monk Peter simply stopped bothering and walked straight forward.

The corridor is about 30 meters long, and the writing style on the wall has changed several times.Monk Peter walked forward slowly with his eyes closed, and suddenly found that the walls on both sides began to extend outwards. He knew that the passage had come to an end, so he touched the stone wall on the right side, and finally returned to the entrance of the passage, so he judged that he was in a In an oval-shaped empty hall of more than fifty square meters. In the center of the empty hall is a wooden table, on which there is a pen hanger with a few writing brushes hanging on it, except for the other three of the Four Treasures of the Study.In addition to the entrance corridor, there are at least a dozen passages around the empty hall. The openings are all the size of a person, and the inside is very deep. It seems to lead to other places.Out of caution, Monk Peter did not rush in for the time being.

He has gradually adapted to the dark atmosphere, and his breathing is much more regular, and he no longer feels like drowning like he did at the beginning.The elder was right. After being deprived of vision, it is easier for people to calm down and meditate. In addition to storing pen spirits, the Tibetan Bi Pavilion is also used to test the abilities of the members of the Wei clan, so it must not be as simple as a maze, there must be some hint mechanism hidden, and only those who crack it can continue to go deeper.Since Qin Yi was able to break into the Cangbi Pavilion and steal two pen spirits, it is obvious that he has successfully cracked the secret.

"Since she can, of course I have a chance too." Monk Peter was filled with a desire to win, and he had violated the precept of self-attachment in Buddhism, but he didn't care.He "looked" around, and found that the walls of the empty hall were still engraved with overwhelming characters. These characters were the same as those in the corridor, including seal script, cursive script, regular script and official script, and so on. No sentence to read.Some words were palpable to Peter, but others were difficult to decipher. "Is the hint in these articles?" Monk Peter thought to himself, he happened to come across a few lines that looked like poems, and after careful identification, they were "all the pen masters of the capital, who claimed to be narrated on the plaques, are so numerous that they look like Guodong, like lice in clothes; or soft and empty." sharp, or unyielding."These are a few sentences from Ouyang Xiu's "Sage Yu Hui Xuanzhou Pen Opera Book", which happened to be inscribed along the edge of one of the caves.

Monk Peter could recite the full text, and he clearly remembered that the first four lines of this poem were "Shengyu Xuancheng people can make Zihao pens. The Xuanren Zhuge Gao, the world career will not be lost." It is the Zhuge family who clearly praised Zhuge's family, but they actually appeared in the Inside the Weijia Bi Pavilion, there is no choice but to make people think deeply.The characters on the wall deliberately hide "Zhuge Gao" and only start with "Jingshi". Could it be an allusion?He suddenly thought, "Sometimes it's soft, but it's not sharp, or it's hard and unyielding" is all about the method of making a brush, but it may not be unresolved to identify the direction of the hidden brush. "Virtual tip" means that there seems to be a road in the hole, but it is not open; and "hard and unyielding" seems to be understood as a straight road to the end, or ignore other fork roads and just go straight.

He thought about it for a while, and felt that each of them was specious and difficult to understand, so he had to touch the other end of the cave to see if there were other clues.On the other end is written "Boying is not true, dots and strokes are messy" written in Wei Beikai, but the next paragraph is engraved with cursive "Yuanchang is not grassy, ​​so it turns vertically and horizontally". These four sentences are all quoted from Sun Guoting's "Book Book" . Although Monk Peter understood the meaning of these few words, he still had more doubts in his heart.Boying refers to Zhang Zhi, a famous calligrapher of the Three Kingdoms, and Yuan Chang refers to Zhong Yao, a contemporary. These few sentences say that Zhang Zhi is good at cursive script but not good at regular script, and Zhong Yao is good at regular script but not good at cursive script.But the person who carved the characters seemed to be against them on purpose, writing Zhang Zhi's two sentences in regular script and Zhong Yao's two sentences in cursive, which is too obvious to be disobedient, and I don't know what the intention is. There are so many wall characters in just one hole, there are dozens of holes in the empty hall.What's more, there are a large number of words in the corridor, so I don't know if there is a mystery hidden in it.If you want to find out all of them one by one, I am afraid it will take several years of work-not to mention that you can't see with your eyes now, you can only touch them with your hands. Monk Peter knew that it would be impossible to follow this line of thinking, so he touched his bald head helplessly. He was used to touching the sharp edges and corners of the rough rock surface. As soon as his palm touched the smooth top of his flesh, he felt a soft and comfortable feeling in his palm. came.I am obviously in a predicament in the dark, but for no reason, I suddenly think of Xu Zhu who is in the Xixia ice cellar. "It's just that I don't know where my dream girl is." Monk Peter couldn't help smiling wryly as he recalled the past. At this moment, there was a sound in the darkness.The sound is not loud, but it is very clear in this environment. "Is there anyone else in the cave?" Monk Peter looked back in shock, his eyes widened, and then he realized that what he did was pointless.He hurriedly held his breath and listened carefully, but in the darkness, he couldn't see the figure of the person coming, only two pairs of footsteps stepped on the stone ground and made a rattling sound.Strangely, Monk Peter didn't hear any breathing from the other party. As long as there is a human being, there must be breathing.Although holding one's breath can be tolerated for a while, since the footsteps of visitors are not hidden, why bother to hide one's breath? In other words, it was not human beings who came.Monk Peter quickly made a judgment in his heart: "It's a pen boy." In order to prove his judgment, Monk Peter used a subtext formula, bent his body flat and swam towards the center of the empty hall.The pen boy is made from a brush. It is long and straight, and it is not easy to bend over. Trying to lower your body as much as possible is a way for ordinary people to deal with the pen boy. Two footsteps gradually approached from two directions, and Monk Peter did not panic at all, swimming to the center of the empty hall like a dexterous fish in one breath.The sound of footsteps followed, and Monk Peter came to the wooden table and reached out to touch it. The pen holder was empty. as expected. The most terrifying thing in the dark is the unknown. Now that the identity of the other party has been confirmed, there is nothing to be afraid of.Although Monk Peter is not a member of the Wei family, his understanding of the various anecdotes and secrets of the Wei family pen spirit is second to none.Different from the Zhuge family who specialized in refining Hubi, the Wei family specialized in refining Anhui Xuanbi, which is another series besides Hubi, created by Wei Dan, the founder of the Wei family.The Wei family has always looked down on the Zhuge family's Hubi, thinking that the Hubi was just made by Huzhou craftsmen at the end of the Yuan Dynasty after picking up their leftovers, and it was not comparable to the Xuanbi from the Han Dynasty. Xuan Bi Bi Tong is more rigid and straightforward than Hu Bi Bi Tong, and it will not suffer from a frontal fight, but the problem it brings is that it is not flexible enough to be flexible.Many ancient pens are like this.It's just that the Wei family never condescended to use the Hu brush because of their face and self-esteem, and they couldn't mix the strengths of the two. Monk Peter is very familiar with this section. The two pen boys in the darkness in front of them walked forward in a stupid way, and they didn't know how to speed up the pursuit, let alone stealth and sneak attack.So he displayed light footwork, jumping back and forth, and suddenly there were sounds in the empty hall, as if footsteps were coming from all directions, making the pen boy who was already dumbfounded at a loss what to do. His footwork did not originate from Middle Earth, but was learned from Ali's "flying like a butterfly" when he watched the video of the American boxing champion Ali's match. For this reason, Monk Peter specially named it, Borrowing the allusion of Tianlong and EVA, it is called "Lingboli Weibu". The main point of "Lingboli Micro-step" is: step counting, make the sound moving, let the opponent focus on the sound, so as to ignore the attacking direction of the attacker's real step.Cover your steps with your voice. Children's eyes can't see the Xuan brush pen, but rely on sound to distinguish the position.In normal times, even if an ant is eating food on the ground, the pen boy can listen to the same thing. It is impossible for Monk Peter to hide his body and confuse him.Unexpectedly, Monk Peter did the opposite, deliberately making noise everywhere, and the pen boy's super hearing became a disadvantage. I only heard the frequent noises in the empty hall, the two pen boys were looking forward, suddenly behind, looking left, suddenly right, being dragged by Monk Peter idling, but they couldn't hit it.One person and two pens whirled around the hall dozens of times, and the two pen boys were gradually separated, with a long distance between them. Seeing that the time had come, Monk Peter took a light step to attract a pen boy to run in the opposite direction, then jumped up sideways, and quickly knocked on the ceiling of the hall with his hand.The other pen boy just followed the sound and jumped up at once.One falls and another rises, just as Monk Peter falls, and the man and the pen boy are on the same plane for a moment in mid-air. Monk Peter stretched out his right hand, raised his thumb, hooked his index finger, extended his middle finger, and used all three fingers together to instantly cover the whole body of the pen boy.Hearing a crisp "Kaba", by the time Monk Peter landed, he already had an extra tube of xuan pen in his hand. This method is called "single hook" in calligraphy. It is a method of holding the brush. The index finger is used to hook the barrel of the brush, and the thumb pressing on the side forms two fulcrums to hold the brush. When writing, the index finger is used to lift and press the brush, which is more flexible. Change.The pen boy is refined from the brush, and the method of holding the pen with a single hook can be said to be in the middle of their seven inches. Get rid of a pen boy, and the pressure drops suddenly.Monk Peter had a good time, and then used his voice to confuse the enemy.In less than a minute, he caught the flaw of the second pen boy, used the single hook method again, and knocked it back to its original shape. Holding the pens in both hands, he carefully put them back into the pen holder on the table, and took off the nibs to prevent the pen boys from coming back to life.Monk Peter was somewhat proud of himself. Although Xuanbi Bitong was not a formidable enemy, it was not easy to kill two of them in a short time.He can reverse his thinking and think of the method of "covering his steps with his voice". Even if Wei Zhuang's elders were present, they might not be able to do better than him. "Hide your steps with your voice..." Monk Peter suddenly changed his mind, and couldn't help repeating these four words over and over again. Sounds can hide steps, but can't words hide shapes? He let out an "uh", patted his bald head annoyedly, and quickly ran back to the corridor, turning back to the entrance along the same path.A vague thought appeared in Monk Peter's mind. He seemed to have thought of something, so he had to confirm it. Even in the dark, it only took two or three minutes for Monk Peter to return to the cave of the Bibi Pavilion.He didn't open the cave door, but turned around, stretched out his hand to cling to the stone wall again, and felt the words. Only this time, he didn't read the word carefully, but stroked it to the end, muttering something in a low voice.Just groping and walking like this, Monk Peter once again groped into the central hall along the corridor.Standing in the dark hall, he couldn't help laughing loudly, and said repeatedly: "So that's how it is! That's how it is!" It turns out that these famous works carved on the walls have no special meaning, and the characters in them are not Da Vinci codes.If you are obsessed with the content of the text itself, you will be like those masters on the island of chivalrous men, and you will not be able to find a good book. The real thing to pay attention to is the font of the article. Monk Peter has noticed for a long time: from the entrance, the font style of the stone wall has changed dramatically.Often the first paragraph is cursive, and the second paragraph suddenly changes into Xiaozhuan; the previous paragraph is still following the Jin style, and the next paragraph becomes the Northern Song Shoujin.The short passageway of more than 30 meters impressively accommodates several calligraphy styles of seal script, regular script, cursive script, official script, and xing script, and the writing styles of more than ten famous masters from Qin to Song for thousands of years. The content of the text is just a cover, the real key lies in these changes in the style of writing.The seemingly chaotic wall writing is run through by this hidden line into an unmistakable clue.For example, the writing on one of the stone walls is Zhong Yao's small script, and then it changes to Yan style when it is turned to the right. "Wen", just before the road was tenoned.Calligraphy has its own inherent laws. These hints are hidden deep in the strokes of the brush, and those who are not proficient in calligraphy cannot perceive it. Monk Peter closed his eyes and thought deeply, slowly twisting his touch and feeling into a thread, discarding the false and keeping the truth, peeling away the cocoon, and a clear path gradually formed in his mind.These rules are attached to the intricate stone wall corridors and become hidden road signs.As long as you understand the mystery of the writing on the wall, it will be very clear.People who have entered the Cangbi Cave in the past to participate in the return of the spirit of the pen, if their cultivation and insight are not enough, they will not be able to break through this dilemma, and they will have to return without success, or they will plunge into the textual scrutiny and cannot get out. Monk Peter groped around the cave around the empty hall again, frowning. "Is my thinking wrong?" He lowered his head and thought for a while, adjusted his glasses habitually, walked to the central wooden table, put his hands on the table, smiled, and stepped down hard with his feet.There was a loud bang, a rock was moved away, and a gust of cold wind rushed in, obviously a new passage was opened under the table. It turned out that just now he discovered that the calligraphy engraved in front of the dozen or so openings in the hall did not conform to the main points of the law, that is to say, these paths were all wrong. If you want to change, you have to go out of the old and bring out the new. The four walls are covered with wall characters, only the stone slab in the middle of the empty hall is as flat as new, and there is no character on it, which represents the extreme meaning of calligraphy that "books are endless".Only here is the correct way out.At the beginning, the designer of the Cangbi Pavilion wanted to use this method so that the younger generation could understand this truth. It's a pity that although Monk Peter broke the mystery of the plate, he didn't pay attention to these mysterious and mysterious things. Where there is wind, there is a place of ventilation, and there is a mouth of escape. Monk Peter was overjoyed and jumped down without hesitation.