Chapter 79 Fighting between generals and handsome men
This Fan Zhang is recognized as the number one calligrapher in the calligraphy circle of Zhao State. He is not only famous in Zhao State, but also has an extraordinary influence in the surrounding countries. Moreover, he has been dead for more than two hundred years, and all his works are perfect. The last word.
This "Yun Dao Lu" is a collection of poems he wrote after seeing the towering mountains and the white clouds flowing over the mountain roads like cloud roads during a mountaineering trip. Although his literary talent is not very good, his writing rhyme is. It is a masterpiece of its time and is respected as "the first calligraphy of Zhao State" by the calligraphy circle of later generations of Zhao State.
It's just that Fan Zhang was a free and unrestrained person who didn't like Huang Bai and Huang Lao. In his later years, he actually gave this sticker to a Taoist priest in the mountains.
The whereabouts of this "Yun Dao Lu" have been unknown since then. Most of the records left in the world are fakes. However, for some reason, after going around and around, it was actually hidden in the interlayer of a yellow genuine fake copybook, and was finally obtained by Liang Yan. The hidden secret in this Naturally, it's not something the two of them can know right now.
"Senior Brother Ma is indeed a master of calligraphy. He can tell the details at just one glance. Junior Brother, I just guessed that there must be something extraordinary in this, but I don't know the real work of Fan Zhang." Liang Yan said with a slight smile.
At this moment, Ma Yuan's eyes were fixed on the copybook. He had no intention of moving away or talking to Liang Yan. Instead, he leaned in front of the copybook and observed it carefully.
"It is indeed an authentic work, tsk tsk, there is such a person in the world, this rhyme is a masterpiece!" Ma Yuan finished speaking to himself, raised his hand to put away the copybook, and threw it directly into his storage without any hesitation. In the bag.
Liang Yan coughed when he saw this and said, "Since Senior Brother Ma likes it, how about I exchange it for 'Tianbao Copper Coins'?"
Unexpectedly, Ma Yuan rolled his eyes after hearing this and said: "Junior brother, what nonsense are you talking about? The 'Tianbao Copper Coin' was left by the previous emperor, and this 'Yundaolu' is just a common possession of an ordinary scholar." There is no comparison between the two! Junior brother, if you want to use just a copybook in exchange for my antiques, you are thinking too much, right?"
"you!"
When Liang Yan heard what he said, he was so angry that he couldn't speak. If Liang Yan hadn't reminded him just now, Ma Yuan would hardly have remembered the "Tianbao Copper Coin", and when he saw "Yundaolu" At that time, he had a look of shock on his face. Anyone with a discerning eye would know at a glance which one is more serious.
"This person is deliberately making things difficult, and I don't know what he has in mind." Liang Yan thought to himself.
However, before he could speak, Ma Yuan continued: "Well, I think junior brother really likes that 'Tianbao Copper Coin'. Why don't we have a bet? If junior brother wins, I will be a beautiful man; if Senior brother, I won by luck, and this 'Yundaolu' will stay here, what do you think, junior brother?"
"I don't know how senior brother is going to do gambling?" Liang Yan asked with a frown.
Ma Yuan smiled mysteriously and said: "It's simple, you and I can fight for a while."
Douxuwei means fighting crickets. Liang Yan didn't react at first, but after a moment he quickly waved his hands and said: "Junior brother has never been exposed to this method, and he has no crickets to fight with. How can he compete with senior brother?"
"Junior brother, don't worry. I have five generals and one marshal here. You and I will each choose one to start the battle. For the sake of fairness, I will let you choose first."
"But I don't know whether crickets are good or bad, how can I choose?" Liang Yan asked.
"This depends on Junior Brother Liang's own ability, but it has nothing to do with Ma."
Ma Yuan put his hands behind his back and said leisurely. He glanced at Liang Yan and saw that he was still hesitating, so he sighed and said: "Since Junior Brother Liang doesn't sincerely want this 'Tianbao Copper Coin', then please
Go back."
"Okay! Since Senior Brother Ma has made this decision, I will continue it no matter what. If Liang is lucky enough to win, I hope Senior Brother Ma will keep his word and give me the 'Tianbao Copper Coin' as a gift." Liang Yan took a deep breath and said.
"This is natural!"
Ma Yuan chuckled, his face full of excitement, as if he had met a close friend he hadn't seen for many years, and urged Liang Yan to walk to the backyard.
The two came to the backyard. Ma Yuan used his spiritual power to draw a circle on the ground, which was obviously the place for the competition. Then he took out six exquisite small cages from the storage bag, each containing a cricket.
"Junior brother, please go ahead!" Ma Yuan waved his hand generously and said.
Liang Yan looked at the six crickets and saw that some had round heads, strong legs and yellow flesh, some had golden teeth and long smooth wings, and some were ordinary and covered in gray. But he didn't understand this at all, so how could he tell them apart?
Out of good and bad.
Liang Yan squatted on the ground and glanced secretly at Ma Yuan, only to see him with his hands behind his back and a look of leisurely contentment.
"He said before that there are five generals and one commander. If he chooses the commander, he is sure to win. If he chooses the wrong one, he will definitely recognize the commander, and I will have no chance."
Liang Yan pondered for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "So that's it, this is the marshal in the process of organizing."
"What? You actually know it!" Ma Yuan looked up at the ground with a shocked face, only to see that Liang Yan did not choose, but looked at him with a half-smile.
"Good boy, you want to deceive me!" Ma Yuan said angrily.
"Hehe, Senior Brother Ma accepted the offer." Liang Yan said with a smile. He just said it deliberately to scare him just to see Ma Yuan's reaction. When Ma Yuan was frightened, the direction he immediately turned his eyes was to the left.
First and second cricket.
Liang Yan followed his gaze and saw that the cricket had smooth wings, golden teeth, a square face, and long beard. He couldn't help but secretly said with joy: "He really looks like a handsome man!"
Without any hesitation, he walked up to take the cricket and said to Ma Yuan: "Junior Brother has chosen, please ask Senior Brother Ma to pick one and let's compete."
Ma Yuan shook his head, with a gloomy look on his face, walked to the remaining crickets, and took one seemingly at random.
Liang Yan turned around and looked around, only to see that the cricket was all gray and black, and was ordinary from top to bottom. In terms of pure color, bulging eyes, and sufficient aura, any one present was better than the one in his hand.
It was only several times stronger. But for some reason, Liang Yan suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
I saw Ma Yuan put the small cage on the ground and opened the iron door. The cricket crawled out slowly and turned around on the ground several times, looking listless.
"Junior Brother Liang, please."
Liang Yan nodded and opened the iron door. His golden-toothed cricket jumped out without any urging, and went straight to Ma Yuan's gray-black cricket.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in front of him, the listless gray-black cricket suddenly jumped forward, bit the golden-toothed cricket, and then pushed his legs down, knocking the golden-toothed cricket almost over.
"hiss!"
Liang Yan took a breath of cold air. This gray-black cricket looked like it had no power, but he didn't expect it to be so brave. It chased the golden-toothed cricket all the way, biting and kicking it, and almost beat the golden-toothed cricket until it was unable to fight back.
"Haha, boy, you've been fooled!" Only then did Ma Yuan laugh happily.
It should be said that before Ma Yuan cultivated immortality, he was a gangster. Later, a foundation-building deacon of Yixing Pavilion happened to be out on business and saw that his spiritual root could barely penetrate his eyes, so he was brought back to the sect and taught the immortal method.
When it comes to the intrigues and deceit among the merchants, Liang Yan is still a little behind him. He had seen through Liang Yan's plan just now and deliberately pretended to be fooled. In fact, he was tricking Liang Yan into choosing the golden-toothed cricket.
At this point, Liang Yan still didn't know that he had set a trap for himself.
Ma Yuan was in a good mood and laughed and said:
"You are still too young, don't you know that there are five things you should not choose from a cricket: short and slender beards should not be chosen; wings should be oily and slippery; hollow back, thin ribs and hard waist should not be chosen; flat, thin and slippery should not be chosen; color should not be pure.
Choose. You gold-toothed cricket is good at everything, but you are guilty of red slickness, and you are destined to be a general in front of the battle, not a commander. Hahaha."
Liang Yan glanced at the field and said with a puzzled expression: "According to what you say, then how can your cricket become the commander-in-chief if it can be said that he is completely ruined?"
"You don't understand this. This insect's name is 'Eight Defeats'!"
I saw Ma Yuan looking proud, shaking his head and saying: "This insect is completely defeated, and not one of them is really ridiculous. The pearl of wisdom is not dusty, and all eight are defeated, it is the King of Insects!"
Liang Yan was stunned by what he said, and said with a wry smile: "So, this is an insect king?"
"That's right, kid, your defeat has been determined. I will accept Senior Brother 'Yundaolu', hahaha!"
"That's not necessarily the case!"
As Liang Yan spoke, he suddenly stretched out his hand, and a blue light emitted from his fingertips and shot into the body of his gold-toothed cricket. The gold-toothed cricket suddenly seemed to have been injected with chicken blood. It pressed its legs against the gray-black cricket and retorted.
Bite it.
"Boy, you're cheating!" Ma Yuan shouted angrily upon seeing this.
Unexpectedly, Liang Yan rolled his eyes and said, "I don't! Although I don't play cricket fighting very much, I also know that the only rule is that people outside the field cannot kill the opponent's crickets. It doesn't say that you can't help your own crickets, right?"
"You!" Ma Yuan was choked by what he said.
It is true that the common law only stipulates that you cannot kill the enemy's crickets, but it does not say that you cannot secretly help your own crickets, but that is because it is simply impossible to do this with mortal means.
Seeing Liang Yan's crickets beating his own insect king back steadily, Ma Yuan finally couldn't help but stretched out his hand to seal the secret, and shot a blue light towards his own crickets.
I saw two crickets with their four forelimbs flying up and down, and from time to time there was a light blue stream of light passing by, leaving several traces of different shades on the ground.
At this point, it seemed that it was not a cricket fight, but a battle of wits between Liang Yan and Ma Yuan.
It's just that the matter of pouring spiritual power into the cricket's body and competing with each other is not about whose spiritual power is abundant, but about the skill. It should be noted that the cricket is just an ordinary thing and cannot accommodate too much spiritual power at all. It can transport a little spiritual power.
If you go too far, you risk explosion and death.
The two crickets were going back and forth, fighting fiercely. But the two people standing outside the circle were also staring at each other with big eyes and small eyes, and they were at war with each other.
Suddenly, the golden-toothed cricket lowered its head to avoid the slash from the gray-black cricket, then turned around and kicked, and a ray of blue light hit the gray-black cricket's lower abdomen. The gray-black cricket screamed and rolled backwards.
"Stop, stop, stop!"
Ma Yuan exclaimed, waving his hands repeatedly, looking distressed.
He quickly rushed into the circle, picked up the gray and black crickets and put it in his hand. He observed it for a long time and then put it into the small cage with lingering fear.
"Accept!" Liang Yan said with a smile on his face and cupped his hands.
"Oh, it's really unlucky to meet such a stupid boy like you! Unlucky!" Ma Yuan said as he wiped the storage bag on his waist, then raised his hand, and saw a flash of light flying towards Liang Yan.
Liang Yan reached out and took it, only to see it was a simple copper coin with the four words "Tianbao Eleven" engraved on it. It was Tianbao copper coin!
"I didn't expect that although Senior Brother Ma is weird, he is still a man of his word." Liang Yan thought to himself.
He wanted to say some more words of thanks, but Ma Yuan didn't even look at him, waved his hand and said: "Go, you also took the things, hurry up and tell me where they came from, and go back to where they came from!"
Liang Yan smiled awkwardly, cupped his hands and said, "That's it, I'll thank you, Senior Brother Ma, and Liang will say goodbye!".
That night, in the Zhenmai handyman dormitory.
Liang Yan sat cross-legged and quietly placed three items in his storage bag, namely "Monkey Wine", "Intoxicating Fragrance" and "Tianbao Copper Coins".
"In this way, all three items are complete. Next, we just wait for the day when the 'Miao Calligraphy Ceremony' will be held."
Thinking like this, Liang Yan began to meditate with his eyes closed, slowly adjusting his condition to the best.