"Is there more people in the palace who know about this? For example, the Holy Side? Li Zhi was a little worried.

Feeling the man's concern for herself, Shangguan Wan'er's heart was hot, and she grabbed his arm and said softly, "Isn't there Li Xian?" This future puppet saint monarch also has a longing for Wan'er, and when he gets tired of another talented girl, he will find me, and Sister Mei'er has decided to take it down first! ”

For some reason, Li Zhi's body was cold, Shangguan Wan'er sensed the tightness of the muscles on his body, and immediately knew what he meant, and her tone became more and more docile: "Brother, the palace is far darker and more dangerous than the rivers and lakes, and the environment is very different from the ordinary people you are in!" But Wan'er was born in the palace, and she has long been accustomed to seeing those deceitful people, and people's hearts are in danger, if someone appears in front of me, you can see through it at a glance, you don't have to worry about me anymore. ”

Li Zhi sighed deeply, "It's hard for my sister to stand on the charcoal day and night, and my brother is powerless to save you in the wolf's den, am I useless?" ”

The woman reached out and covered his mouth, "Don't say that, Wan'er's body is destined to be locked by people, how can a mortal body be saved?" But my brother has done enough for me, and my sister and you only want to get more of your love, not worry for me! ”

The two hugged each other tightly, and at the same time, there was a academy in the east inner garden of Chang'an Palace, and a large number of scholars and scholars gathered in the academy.

At this moment, there is a slightly thin young man, who is standing in front of the window, holding a copy of "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period", reading it loudly, when he reads about the affairs of Chuzi merchants, the prince wastes the scroll and sighs: "This matter is unbearable for the courtiers to hear, and the sage has been trained, why is this book?" ”

The rate of reading next to him made him hurriedly come up, "Confucius repaired the "Spring and Autumn Period", righteousness and praise and depreciation, so good and evil must be written, praise good to show the generation, and depreciate evil to admonish, so the evil of merchants and ministers will be shown for thousands of years. ”

Childe shook his head, noncommittal, he threw the "Spring and Autumn Zuo Biography" in his hand on the table next to him, "It's not only a mouth, so I can't bear to hear it, please read another book." ”

The rate was even more shocking, and he hurriedly stretched out his thumb, praised with "tsk" in his mouth, and then bowed to the eulogy: "The famous mother, the great-son does not enter; The Yi number is a song, and Mozi is a car. His Royal Highness is honest and filial, wise, and fierce, and he is dethroned by hearing and hearing. Follow Fengdeyin, which is deep and wide. The minister heard that he was good at etiquette, and he was not polite to the god of heaven and earth, and he was indecent to distinguish the position of the monarch and minister, so the first king was heavy. Confucius said: 'If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand,' please stop the "Spring and Autumn Period" and read the "Book of Rites." ”

"Good! Read the Book of Rites. Childe said happily.

This person is Li Dan, the fourth son born to Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian, who is humble and studious, proficient in calligraphy, and has a very good study of literary exegesis.

Because he believes in Taoism, he is waiting for Sima Chengzhen, a Taoist priest of Tiantai Mountain, here today, so as to ask him for advice on yin and yang techniques.

Sima Chengzhen, the law name Daoyin, self-named Baiyunzi, the twelfth generation master of the Maoshan Sect of the Taoist Shangqing School, has learned the Tao since he was a child, and has no intention of the way of eunuchs, traveled all over the world's famous mountains, and came to Tiantai Mountain Yuxiao Peak a year ago to live.

Because of the reason for others to introduce the reason, it is not often called into the palace academy, once Gaozong happened to come, to ask him about the number of yin and yang and the country, he replied that the number of yin and yang is "heresy", the country should be based on "non-action", quite in line with the emperor's wishes, so it also led to the twenty-year-old Li Dan to his great respect, Sima Chengzhen compared to the education of the Yellow Emperor Guangchengzi.

On the fifth day of the first month of each month, Sima Chengzhen fixed the day required to go down the mountain to purchase, and often came to the academy here on this day to have some brief exchanges with Li Dan.

Sima Chengzhen came near noon, at this time he was only thirty-five years old, his literary cultivation was already very deep, and he had long heard that Chang'an City was a place where literati gathered, and he stayed in Tiantai Mountain, so he had the opportunity to make friends with celebrities in the literary world.

As usual, Li Dan took him to eat some vegetarian food in the palace, and during the conversation, he asked someone: "When I came, I met a literary friend on the way, in addition to rice paper, Zhengqing Wenqitang also had a small note developed?" It seems that today's trip is worthwhile, and it can be seen that there is enough honor for the ten-colored note! To tell you the truth, such small colored paper is actually the paper I have always longed for for inscriptions or letters, but I did not expect that Mr. Li to have the same thoughts as mine, but this person is far more practical and courageous than my utopian dreams! ”

Li Dan replied with a smile: "I saw it in the study the day before yesterday, do you think it's this?" ”

This is a page of cyan notes with a ribbed background, and Sima Chengzhen's eyes lit up: "There is actually a water print pattern!" And it is beautiful and clean, and the quality is high, has the prince ever touched the pen? ”

"Moist and dense, the pen is bright but not slippery, it can be as expected, a stroke is completed, the depth and shade, the texture is visible, the ink rhyme is clear, and the layers are clear! It does not lose the original ink wetting of the rice paper, but also moves the pen slowly, more and more freely, and then the corresponding texture is concealed with the texture of flowers and plants, and it is easy to achieve an artistic effect. ”

"This person has studied the rice paper process thoroughly! It is coated with alum, etc., so the paper is harder than raw and has a weak water absorption ability, so that the ink and color will not spread out when used. Therefore, the characteristics make Shu Xuan suitable for painting brush strokes rather than ink freehand paintings. And this person actually perfectly combined the cooked Xuan and the raw Xuan into one, thus forming the current semi-cooked Xuan, which is really amazing to me! Alas, if it appeared earlier, a large number of rare books and famous calligraphy and painting inkblots that should have been handed down to future generations in our country would not have been damaged by paper! ”

Before the appearance of Li Zhixuan paper, the most advanced paper was only hard yellow paper, and the writing effect was aside, easy to age, discoloration, immortal moth, and very short life, which was its biggest shortcoming, which led to serious damage to most of the text, calligraphy and painting, which is also what Sima Chengzhen has always regretted and appealed for.

Li Dan nodded, "How much does Dao Yin Dao Master know about Mr. Li?" ”

"I have only gone down the mountain more than ten times in the past year, and in the past two months, I have even come down the mountain because of the compilation of a book, but this person has appeared in these two months, I remember that two months ago someone sent me a knife of rice paper, but I thought it was something from the sky!"

"I can't buy rice paper outside, if the Dao Yin Dao Master needs it, I'll go get some?"

Sima Chengzhen shook his head, "The matter of writing has finally come to an end, and the other purpose of my visit to the city this time is to come to the door to discuss with Mr. Li. ”

Li Dan laughed, "It just so happens that I also need to go, please Mr. Li and his party in the palace!" There is a life in the study, and a distant guest will arrive tomorrow at noon, and he needs his medical skills to make a diagnosis! ”

"As far as I know, there are rumors that his medical skills are miraculous, is there really an exact example?"

"Li Ling, the third generation of the Xuan Palace, and the old Ming Wang's wife in the Ming Palace, were all diagnosed as incurable by the imperial doctor, and they were indeed rejuvenated by his wonderful hands, and many people saw it with their own eyes!"

"It seems that there is some credibility in the rumors, and I can't wait! Is it directly to the East City Zhengqing Wenqitang? ”

"Under normal circumstances, this is the case, but recently there was some accident, the next person reported that Mr. Li had not yet appeared, asked him how many wives, said that there was something important to go out, and he needed to apply for time before returning! Dao Yin Dao Chang will stay in the academy for the time being to teach some truths, and news will come soon! ”

Li Zhi was already on the way back at this time, and he had intended to leave some jade for Shangguan Wan'er, but he was refused, because those objects were too conspicuous and really difficult to hide.

Now she has true qi in her body, and it is quite condensed, even more than the few threads in Pang Qi's body, but there is a big gap in quality.

When Li Zhijiao absorbed a few pieces of white jade from her, he also took the opportunity to recover his true qi, and for a moment, he suddenly felt that the natural breath in the place where he was was was spiritual existed, but it was quite indescribable, and in an instant, there was an incomparably mysterious energy fluctuation, which was overflowing with mottled traces of time.

The same breath fluctuated in his mind, and as his mind immersed himself, he melted into the natural aura after a moment.

There was even a moment when he could clearly feel that a trace of the mystery of the Five Elements Law was constantly lingering in his heart, and a sense of transparency with the natural mind of heaven and earth filled his mind, and a sense of transparency like resonance with heaven and earth faintly struck.

At first, Li Zhi thought that it was from the help of the wild fox in Shangguan Wan'er's body, or the jade in the ground and the outer courtyard, but after both were denied, Shangguan Wan'er suddenly pointed to a place outside the courtyard: "Could it be it?" ”

As he spoke, he pulled Li Zhi up outside the house, bypassed the clumps of broken flowers and shrubs, and pointed under the ground: "There is a piece of rotten wood buried deep for me here, which originated from the firewood room two years ago, which is the place where you and I took a bath, and that room has been transformed into a bath room by me." At that time, the rotten wood was piled up at the bottom of the firewood, because no one had touched it for more than ten years, and the original branches had rotted. But when I cleaned up, I only felt a strange smell, so I picked out some parts of the roots that had not yet rotted, and threw the rest here, and then renovated the bathhouse, and the soil dug up covered up the rotten wood! ”

Li Zhi squatted down and felt it carefully, and sure enough, he felt a trace of aura overflowing, "What will you find in those few pieces of broken wood in the future?" ”

"The palace maid crushed it into a sachet and used it for nearly a year, and the strong aroma was completely eliminated. Originally, I was going to take some rotten wood and try to make a few sachets, but soon after I found out about the existence of Pang Ti, I forgot about it! ”

Li Zhi nodded, and tried to penetrate into the ground through his mind, but he suddenly felt that there was a layer of mist-like things blocking his mind from entering, and under great curiosity, he found tools to dig deep under the ground.

However, after shoveling more than a foot, I saw that the reddish-brown soil appeared, and then as the aroma overflowed, it became stronger and stronger, and finally a strange fragrance appeared in the soil layer a few feet below, and Li Zhi instantly understood.

He exclaimed, "Ambergris! This rotten wood is actually an extremely precious medicinal material, an extremely precious medicinal material, ambergris! ”

"What is ambergris?"

"Somewhat similar to sandalwood, but only the same reddish-brown soil! It is said that it gathers the aura of heaven and earth, gathers the essence of the sun and the moon, and the accumulation of years, and is eroded by animal bites, artificial cuts, snakes, insects, ants, etc., or by natural injuries such as lightning strikes, wind breaks, insect moths, etc., or after being damaged by man-made, in the process of self-repair, secreting oil is infected by fungi and condensed into secretions. It seems to have a spiritual nature, and it likes to cling to the trees in the reddish-brown soil, and over time, ambergris has become the only place where such secretions reside! It is rumored that the ambergris wood itself is fragrant, as well as all the secretions, but in fact there is not much difference! ”

"What about the results? This wood has decayed, and it has little use value! And it's said that you, the great miracle doctor, have also heard of it! Shangguan Wan'er pursed her lips and teased him.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhi laughed instead, "Wan'er, you don't know this!" In the process of mellowing, the wood part of the surface of ambergris wood will be oxidized or carbonized, but the remaining part is condensed into secretions, and the fragrance it exudes is to feed another new wood, and the pan-born aura can be fed back to life, so as to form a cycle of aura and condense the living state and environment of secretions. ”