"The specific time is no longer verified. The general time was between the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods. A court official walked past Yushan in a sedan chair with eight-carrying sedan. There was also a famous Shandong Confucian scholar. Shandong was the hometown of Confucius and the birthplace of Confucianism. Therefore, Shandong Confucian scholars have always looked down on Confucian scholars from other provinces. It is precisely for this reason that the Shandong Confucian scholars who traveled with them did not look down on civil officials in the court. At that time, it was about the time of the dog days of the day, and it was the sun. No one could stand it so rushing. It happened to pass Linggui Peak. There were many trees on the mountain, with shade and strong winds, two
Everyone suggested resting on this mountain. The great scholars of Shandong do not look down on the court civil officials very much. Taking this opportunity, they wanted the imperial court officials to make a fool of themselves. The two of them looked at the mountains and the trees were the themes, and they each fought poems and wits. The civil officials of the court were from the juren, so they naturally had some talents. The great scholars of Shandong were born in Confucius' hometown and were not bad. After fighting poetry and songs all the way, they were even more comparable. They fought all the way to Linggui Temple, but the great scholars of Shandong did not stop and did not distinguish between poems and poems, so they proposed to fight couplets. After doing this, the imperial court officials were also a little angry."
"The imperial court officials agreed, but he said something, and he said, 'It's okay to fight couplets, but I only send out the first couplet. If you send out the second couplet, then I will be willing to lose the upper hand. From now on, as long as you Shandong Confucian scholars are, I will retreat. If you don't know, I don't need you to retreat. I just want to tell you what you are today after you return to Shandong, so that they can know that the scholars in the world are not only in Shandong."
"The two of them were angry, and as soon as they said it, the matter would be very important. Shandong Confucians were quite talented in the court. As soon as they said this, they represented all the Confucian scholars in Shandong. Once the court lost, they would be unable to hold on to their face in the future and would be difficult to gain a foothold in the court. Both of them dared not speak easily, and were thinking about how to avoid losing this battle."
"The great scholars of Shandong are also talented people, and ordinary couplets will definitely not be difficult for him. The imperial court officials were also impulsive and began to feel troubled when they spoke. What kind of couplets should be released? There was only one chance. He paced in the temple, thinking while walking. As he walked, he walked to the railing of the cliff. Well, that place. Under the cliff was a vast river, and a strong wind blew up from the river, hitting the imperial court officials. When the imperial court officials were blown by the wind, they suddenly had an idea in their hearts."
"'I've come out of the couplet, listen well,' the imperial officials said, 'The wind is on the top, the wind is on the top, the wind is on the top, the peak is on the top, the peak is on the top, the peak is on the top, the peak is on the top, the peak is on the top, the peak is on the top
’This is my first couplet. If you get the second couplet, I will be willing to lose my best.’” The old monk pointed to the plaque on the left side of the temple gate and said, “Hey, it’s this couplet. This couplet is very clever. One peak and one wind, and the two pronunciations are the same. One movement and one motion. If the lower couplet is to come out, it must be two different things, and it cannot be irrelevant, but it must be related to such things as the peak and the upper wind."
As soon as the first couplet came out, the Shandong Daru's face became very ugly on the spot. He thought about several second couplets in his stomach. In addition to being neat, none of them had to meet these conditions at the same time. The Shandong Daru's face was shady and sunny. Finally, he sighed and bowed and bowed: 'I admit defeat. After returning to Shandong, I will fulfill my promise.'"
"The court officials also won this literary dispute and relaxed their minds a lot. After the Shandong Confucians surrendered, he also apologized to the Shandong Confucians, saying that he had done so much and asked for his forgiveness. The Shandong Confucians also repeatedly claimed guilt. It was not what the two of them hoped for this kind of trouble, and the two took advantage of the situation to step down and settled their past grudges, and became good friends in the court. I heard that after the court officials returned to the capital, they told the couple that the other officials in the court, and the literati in the court were also stumped, and no one came out of the second couplet. A month after the court officials left, someone in the capital sent a souvenir to our Yushan County Magistrate, saying that since the couplet was out of Yushan, they had to be interpreted by the Yushan people. As long as someone could get his souvenir, they could get his souvenir and enter the capital to become his disciples."
"In order to please the imperial court official, the county magistrate simply ordered people to carve the upper couplet on the cliff outside Linggui Peak, so that the scholars of the entire Yushan could be compared. All the scholars of the Yushan were called to the front of Linggui Peak by the county magistrate. There were many lower couplets, but none of them could meet the requirements. It was a big deal at that time, but after a long time, it was left unresolved. After several emperors, the stone carvings on the cliff had long been blurred, but the upper couplet was later passed down. There were many scholars who matched couplets, but no one could match them."
"Then what's going on with this second couplet?" a pilgrim asked, pointing to the plaque on the right.
"Did you see this vermilion? This plaque has been hung for more than ten years, and it has been about ten years since the second couplet came out."
"ah!"
"Ten years ago, a female pilgrim from the city, with a child surnamed Li, brought a child of seven or eight years old to Linggui Temple to burn incense and fulfill her wishes. The female pilgrim from the surname Li was originally from our Yushan. I heard that she is now running a big business in the city. That time she went home to visit her relatives and brought a smart child. The child wandered around, and saw the handwriting on the cliff for no reason, so she asked his mother what it was. I have seen so many such things and were asked a lot of questions. So
I went up to tell them this story. When I talked to his mother, the child asked me what couplets are and what should I pay attention to? Why is this couplet difficult? I saw that the child looked very likable, so I told him. After that, the child didn't speak, but squatted near the railing I was talking about, looking at the river outside. After squatting for a long time, his mother couldn't scream. I had other things, so I didn't care about him."
"A pilgrimage from another place asked me what the name of the river below was. I told him that the river was called 'Baimaozhou'. Because the upstream was rice fields, there were a lot of thatch and no one harvested it. It turned white in autumn and was washed into the river by the water, hence the name. As soon as I said this, I heard the child screaming. He squatted by the railing for most of the day. Then he suddenly jumped up and rushed towards me, saying, 'I found it, I found the second couplet."
"I asked him what he found, and he told me the second half of the couplet."
The pilgrims around all looked at the plaque on the right side of the temple gate, which read "The boat in the continent, the boat down the continent, the boat cannot travel to the continent"!
"It's really a coincidence that the couplets on the boat on the mountain are so beautiful that people can't get the top of the mountain after hundreds of years. It's really incredible. Unfortunately, he was born now. If he had been born a few hundred years ago, he might have been accepted as a disciple by the court official and become another court official. However, such a child is so spiritual at the age of seven or eight, and his future will definitely be limitless." The old monk sighed: "At that time, the temple decided to make this couplet and the top of the couplet into a red lacquer plaque and hang it on both sides of the gate."
The pilgrims around were all amazed and said they were incredible.
"Old monk, do you know which child is from Yushan?" asked a man among the pilgrims.
"I don't know this monk," the old monk trembled: "But I wrote down the child's name. The child's surname is Lin, and his name is Lin Junxuan!"
"Ah! Isn't that the same name as you?" A woman's scream suddenly came out from the crowd. The pilgrims turned their heads to look. A beautiful girl dressed in pink clothes behind the crowd widened her eyes and looked at a calm boy beside her with a look of calmness.
Before the pilgrims could say anything, the old monk's eyes fell on the boy, his heart moved, and suddenly strode forward, folded his hands together, and said, "This donor looks so familiar..."
"The master must have recognized the wrong person! It's getting late, let's go back." Before the old monk could finish speaking, Lin Junxuan pulled Du Ruoyao to the bottom of the mountain.
"Old monk, what's wrong?" asked one of the pilgrims who guessed something.
The old monk just looked at the direction where the boy and girl left, muttering to himself: "Strange, strange!... It's really like it!" The old monk thought about the mother and son back then, and saw the shadow of the child back then, especially the eyes, which looked like the child back then. - The young man hadn't said anything, he was eager to deny it, could it be...
Thinking of this, the old monk hurriedly chased out: "Donor, please stay!" After turning out of the mountain gate, the young boy and girl had long disappeared, leaving only the old monk standing at the mountain gate in a daze. By the side of the stone road, the old Taoist priest was stunned when he heard about the matter in the temple and murmured for a while: "No wonder I think he looks familiar!"
On the tree-lined avenue, Lin Junxuan pulled Du Ruoyao all the way out. Du Ruoyao ran for a while before and after running around Lin Junxuan, her little face turned red with excitement: "He is also called Lin Junxuan, you are also called Lin Junxuan, are you? Ah, why did you walk so fast? You must be guilty and I've called you, right? - Oh my God, how did you grow up? It's so amazing!"
Lin Junxuan didn't explain, seeing Du Ruoyao's questioning anxiously, he just said, "It's time to eat. If you don't want to eat, just go to Linggui Peak alone to have a look."
Du Ruoyao immediately closed her mouth: "Okay, I won't say it anymore. Is it OK? Don't leave someone alone in such a place."
The old monk and the fortune teller read it right. Lin Junxuan was the child of that year...
After coming out of Linggui Peak, the two drove to find a restaurant and had a simple lunch. For Miss Du, who had delicious food, this lunch was really hard to swallow. Lin Junxuan was thinking about it while lunching.
"I'll use your phone number." Lin Junxuan put down the bowls and chopsticks and said to Miss Du, who was sitting opposite him.
"Phone? What are you going to do? You won't have it?" Du Ruoyao said this, and one hand reached out and handed over his mini cartoon phone.
Lin Junxuan naturally would not explain to her that she likes quietness and did not bring her cell phone because she did not want to be found. After taking the cell phone, Lin Junxuan dialed a number. Soon after, Li Yufan's voice rang on the phone.
"Hey, I'm Li Yufan, who are you?"
"Uncle, it's me!" Lin Junxuan said.
"Jun Xuan? You actually use your cell phone, it's really rare!" Li Yufan's laughter came from the phone: "Well, you should have arrived in Yushan now, what's wrong? Why did you think of calling me?"
"I want to ask you, do you know about Taigong?" Lin Junxuan asked.
"Grandpa?" Li Yufan was stunned for a moment before he realized that this gentpa was naturally relative to Lin Junxuan. To him, he was grandpa. After a moment of silence, Li Yufan asked, "Why did you think of asking about this?"
"Uncle, how much do you know about the grandfather?"
"I don't know this. I haven't seen your grandfather when I was born. Not only me, but your mother shouldn't have seen him." Li Yufan said: "It must have passed away very early."
"Uncle, do you know if my grandfather has any living relatives?" Lin Junxuan asked again. His grandfather and grandmother have passed away, so it is natural that it is impossible to ask them.
"Relative?..." The other end of the phone was silent for a moment, and then said, "I remember that your grandfather and a sister, you should call her aunt. She married to Caoshui Village and had a pair of children. When your mother and I went back, we saw her and gave his children some money to make a house in the city. I heard not long ago that her two daughters wanted to take her to the city to live, but the old man was in his eighties and nineties. After living in the mountains for a long time, he got used to it and didn't want to live in the city. I don't know if he was still there, so I looked for the number and told their house, and said you were here and asked them to help entertain him."
"What's the name of my aunt?"
"Li Herong! If you go, remember to bring some things for us. I will ask your mother to go back next week. After so long, I should go and see her."
Chapter completed!