Yuan Wei was on the highest Dharma altar, glimpsing Zhu Pingan shaking his head and sighing from afar, he could not help but hook his lips into a mocking smile, humph, boy, running out of ideas!
Thus, surrounded by the odour of burning incense, Yuan Wei began to brew up the green words of Hua Zhang.
Soon after ascending the altar, Zhu Pingan saw the Taoist priests standing under the altar holding magic weapons begin to dance a very strange dance, and inside their mouths they were also loudly chanting some kind of scripture, and from time to time they waved their magic weapons to make various movements such as greeting and repelling.
Jumping Big God ……
Zhu Pingan skimmed his mouth and summed up the behaviour of the Taoist priests under the altar in his mind.
After the Taoist priests under the altar finished dancing, several Taoist priests carried brushes, ink, peach charms, and other items from afar, and one by one sent them up to the various altars for Zhu Ping An and the others to use to write green words and couplets.
Brushes, peach charms, green vine paper, paperweights and other things, however, there was no ink found.
“Dare I ask Elder, where is the ink?”Zhu Pingan asked as he called out to the Taoist priest who had sent it up to the Dharma altar.
The middle-aged Taoist priest smiled at his words and pointed to one of the jars of sticky gold powder and laughed, “My lord, this is the ink.”
“This is ink?”The corners of Zhu Pingan’s mouth twitched.
“Exactly, this is milled powder of thousand foot gold, mixed with the Divine Immortal Liquid dispensed by the master, Zhaiqiao’s green words and couplets are all written with this ink.”The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded, a slight pride in his eyes, seemingly satisfied with Zhu Pingan’s reaction.
Upon hearing this, the corners of Zhu Pingan’s mouth twitched even more, as if he had been possessed.
“Your Excellency is fine, right?”The middle-aged Taoist priest asked in a strange manner.
“Nothing.”Zhu Pingan looked at the jar of gold powder that must have weighed several pounds, and the voice from his mouth almost came out through clenched teeth.
What a f*cking waste!
This is ah, this is clearly ah, this is burning money! The ink was actually made from gold that was ground into powder! Taoist priests in the mouth of the Immortal Liquid, is presumably ordinary water, or some kind of oil, this blend of ink is also too f*cking extravagant. This a fast woodcutting down, just this gold powder shall not use hundreds of jin of ah!
This a fast woodcutting ceremony has too much to let Zhu Ping An drop a place of eyeballs!
It looks like these gold powder in the use of this fast woodcutting after the Taoist priests to the name of covetousness! Just look at the gold threads on their robes!
This middle-aged Taoist priest, after delivering the pen and ink for writing the green words and couplets, went down to the altar, presumably there are other things to do down there. Only Zhu Pingan and the other middle-aged Taoist priest who was arranging the spells and other things on the Dharma altar were left on the Dharma altar.
Just now, before that Daoist priest left, he had already said that Zhu Pingan would write five couplets and a Qing lyric. It was used to set up the Dharma altar.
Looking at the other Hanlin on the Dharma altar who had already put pen to paper, Zhu Pingan also gathered his thoughts and prepared to put pen to paper to write the couplets and the green lyrics. This is not difficult for Zhu Pingan, Qing lyrics couplets are not difficult to write. It is a kind of couplet, but it is only the style of green words. Just now the Taoist priest sent eight brushes, probably to make up for the lucky number “eight”, or maybe it is more expensive to use gold powder as ink.
Looking at the brushes on the table, Zhu Pingan pondered.
Zhu Ping An laid the table. He took a brush, dipped it in the gold powder, dropped it onto the green rattan paper, and wrote the word “皇”.
This word proves Zhu Pingan’s guess just now, the pen is obviously not as smooth as ordinary ink, with a kind of sandy feeling of undulation, the brush also has a little fork, just now the Taoist priest sent so many brushes is about because of this kind of gold powder fee pen it!
After confirming what he thought in his heart, Zhu Pingan smiled faintly, then dipped the brush in his hand once again into the gold powder with great force. Completely submerged in it, the brush was then raised from the gold powder, and with a slight force of the wrist, it once again landed on the green vine paper.
Only as soon as the brush was dropped, the brush appeared to be severely forked before it was lifted by Zhu Pingan.
“I would appreciate it if Taoist Master would prepare a few more brushes to come, the brush is heavy and the brushes can’t be used much.”Zhu Pingan shook the obviously forked brush in his hand and spoke to the Taoist priest who was arranging the spells on one side.
“Your Excellency wait a moment.”The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded, then turned around and descended from the Dharma altar.
While the middle-aged Daoist priest was descending from the Dharma altar. Zhu Pingan put the brush in his hand that was saturated with gold dust into a sleeve pocket within his sleeve without a trace.
If you dare to do it, then do it!
Instead of being coveted by these Taoist priests, it would be better for him to keep some for the time being and give it to someone who needs it more when the time comes!
In addition, this is also an unwritten convention, right? In ancient times, there was a fee for the touch of the brush, which means a fee for the wear and tear of the brushes. I remember hearing a certain Hanlin say during the last meal that when writing in the Western Garden, you can take the brushes home, which is also considered a reward from His Majesty. But at that time that Hanlin was a little disdainful, I want so many brushes to do what ……
But. Cough cough cough, aigoo, so strange oh, I just like these brushes it.
How to do which, can only thank the Lord Longan.
Very naturally, Zhu Pingan took another brush and dipped it into the gold powder and quickly wrote the first couplet: “The Emperor’s Dome blesses us by wiping out the nine evils and cutting down the three calamities; the Purple Pole protects us by gathering a thousand auspiciousnesses and attaining a hundred blessings”.
After writing the first couplet, Zhu Ping An dipped the second brush into the gold powder and put it into his sleeve once again. At this time, Zhu Pingan felt that the ancient people’s sleeve bag is really a good thing, big and good, how many brushes can be put down …….
After Zhu Pingan finished writing this first pair of couplets, the Taoist priest who went down to the Dharma altar to fetch the brushes came up again, and this time, he brought a full ten brushes with him.
“Thank you, Taoist Master.”Zhu Pingan arched his hand and thanked him.
Afterwards, Zhu Pingan wrote the couplets, Zhu Pingan was dipped in thick gold dust before writing each time, and then put down the pen to write, almost after writing a few words, Zhu Pingan was dipped in even thicker gold dust again, and then just as soon as he put down the pen, he shook his head gently, and the brushes were split and could not be used, and then put it into his sleeve silently to change a brush again.
In order to change a few more brushes, Zhu Pingan’s four couplets were all very long, for example, the fourth one was an adaptation of the one written by Yuan Wei a few years before:
Sorting out the yarrow grass to form a text, the number of heaven is five, the number of earth is five, five and twenty-five, the number is born in the Tao, the Tao is in harmony with the First Heavenly Father, the Honour of the Supreme Being; the bamboo tube in the valley is cut off to harmonise the text.
Cutting off the bamboo tube in the valley to harmonise the rhythm, Yang sound six, Yin sound six, sixty-six thirty-six sounds, the sound is heard in the sky, born Emperor Jiajing, the emperor reigns for ten thousand years.
Besides, this couplet is still quite different from Yuan Wei’s original couplet.
Of course, in order to prevent accusations, Zhu Pingan’s other couplets were all original, such as the fifth couplet, which was an original long couplet:
The dragon flies for forty and five years, celebrating a time when the five numbers coincide with heaven, the five numbers coincide with earth, the five things are repaired, the five blessings are prepared, the five generations are in the same family, and the five colours are spotted with bright coloured clothes;
Crane counting thirty days eight days, wishing all life eight thousand for the spring, eight thousand for the autumn, eight yuan into the eight Kaiden, eight sounds from the law, eight winds play ethereal Dan Edward.
Dragon fly forty five years, corresponding to Jiajing Emperor forty-five years old this year; Crane counts three days meets eight days, said today, that is, the eighth day of the month of three days. As for the back of the couplets, they were all words of praise and flattering to Emperor Jiajing.
After writing five couplets, Zhu Ping An already had ten brushes in his sleeves! These brushes Zhu Ping An has no intention of keeping them for himself, waiting for the future to give to those who are more in need, used in more needy places! I believe that any use is more valuable than today!
