Chapter 42

It was indeed a "hairy" pen, but it was a feather pen. The root was laughed into a sharp shape, and if there were no traces of ink, people would never have thought that this was the Mohist brush.

"Yes, you can call him a quill pen, or you can call him a hard pen!" Merton said, unfolding the quill pen in his hand.

People opened their eyes and couldn't believe that a small goose feather could write such a beautiful font.

"Hard pen!"

Liu Yinian was thoughtful. If so, he could really explain why he wrote such a small font.

Under the gaze of the crowd, Merton opened the cork of the ink bottle, dipped the ink gently, and wrote gently on the rice paper:

"Geese, song Xiang sings to heaven.

White hair floats in the green water, and red palm stirs clear waves. "

"Chanting the goose" is Merton's favorite poem in his previous life. It is the poem of King Luo Bing, a talented man in the early Tang Dynasty. At this moment, King Luo Bing has not been born. Merton is not ashamed to use it!

There are not many words in the whole poem. Merton finished it at one go,.

"Really can write!"

"It's as like as two peas in the schoolwork. It seems that it was written by Mohist."

"How fast!" Qin Huaiyu's eyes lit up. He was more concerned about the speed of writing, so he could have a lot of time to play.

"The characters are so small and clear! And more paper is saved, and goose feather is cheaper." some students have invested all their money to bet that Merton lost. Now they have gone bankrupt. Brush and rice paper are old and expensive. How to save money is the king.

"No, this is not a brush, not at all!" Xiong Maolin shouted loudly.

"Why not? Yesterday, the master didn't say that no matter what method or pen you use, you must write neat fonts on the paper. Isn't this font neat?" Merton retorted.

"Er, ER!" Xiong maocai suddenly lost his temper, and Liu Yinian also looked embarrassed. Yes, the most important thing in their calligraphy is to write well. As for what pen to write, it doesn't seem to be the point!

The other national supervisors were also depressed. It seems that there is no way to embarrass Merton on this.

"The words are good, but the content is not satisfactory! How is Gebo Tianqing... What are these? It's nonsense!" Wang Ling turned her eyes and said with a look of disgust.

Just after that, he found that the people around him looked at him differently. Xiong maocai gently touched him and said, "it should be read from left to right!"

"Geese, Qu Xiang... Xiang Tian... Song," Wang Ling's difficult readers couldn't help but change their faces. Mo Jiazi wrote another good poem.

"Good poem!" a cheer came from outside the door. Kong Yingda, the Imperial College's toast, came in with a look of admiration.

"Wine worship Lord!" Liu Yinian quickly saluted.

"Lord sacrifice!"

All the prison students saluted one after another, and Merton bowed himself.

As soon as Kong Yingda came in, he picked up Merton's goose feather pen and was surprised. He looked at the words of Mohism. He couldn't help exclaiming: "I didn't expect that such a beautiful font could be written with such a simple feather." Kong Yingda praised.

"I'm just going to report it to you, sacrificial wine Lord! I've never seen this kind of character before, and I doubt it's a new font." Liu Yinian was well-informed and surprised when he saw this font.

Kong Yingda nodded. As a calligrapher, he has studied a lot of fonts. He has never seen such fonts!

"Impossible!" all the supervisors were shocked. A man with extremely ugly writing could create a new font overnight. It was a fantastic thing that happened in front of them.

Xiong maocai was ashamed. He always boasted that he was better than mojiazi. In a twinkling of an eye, mojiazi became a master of calligraphy, and he was the clown.

"Thin horizontally and thick vertically, with hook shaped pen end, it should be transformed from lettering!" Kong Yingda judged.

"Wine worship is wise! When students were young, they were poor at home and couldn't afford paper and pen. They often practiced in the sand table, and finally achieved a little success." Merton wrote in Song typeface, and its real source was engraving printing.

"It's a wonderful idea to use goose feather as a pen!" Kong Yingda exclaimed.

"With crow feathers, peacock feathers are better, and goose feathers are cheaper!" said Merton.

Goose feathers are discarded everywhere when they are slaughtered at ordinary times. The cost is extremely low. Of course, it can't compare with the wolf hair and rabbit hair.

Kong Yingda picked up the goose feather pen and wrote a few words. Although he was very green and not used to it, he was a man who had practiced calligraphy for decades. He could write good fonts with a little practice.

"Fast and small! Save paper!" Kong Yingda looked at his writing with satisfaction, raised the nib, looked at the slightly yellow pen, compared Liu Yinian's Langhao nib, picked up Langhao pen and wrote the same words. Even if he had tried his best to control it, he still wrote much larger and slower than the goose feather pen.

"If it can be popularized, it will be the gospel of students all over the world," Kong Yingda said.

"Don't sacrifice wine, sir! If it is popular, it will cause great trouble!" Liu Yinian said in fear.

"What trouble can a quill pen cause! Dr. Liu, don't alarmist!" Kong Yingda shouted angrily.

"How dare you talk nonsense? Please look at Merton's poems, sacrificial Lord!" Liu Yinian said, pointing to Merton's new chanting goose.

"Geese, song Xiang Tiange..." Kong Yingda's face became more gloomy as she read. The words Merton wrote were horizontal and read from left to right. The brush characters are written vertically, reading from right to left, which is completely opposite to the brush characters.

If the quill pen is popularized, there will be two different writing methods on the market, which will indeed cause a lot of turbulence.

"Why did Merton write like this!" Kong Yingda looked at Merton solemnly.

"Please look, wine worship adult. If you write with a goose feather pen, gently press and hold your left hand and write with your right hand. Writing from left to right can avoid wet ink on your clothes. Wine worship adult can look at his sleeves!" Merton waved his sleeves clean.

Kong Yingda raised his sleeve and looked at the little ink on it. He was a little relieved. At least the Mohist explanation reassured him. At this time, the characteristics of the goose feather pen were caused, which could not be aimed at brush calligraphy.

"You see, Mr. sacrifice, if the two writing methods are mixed in society, what a mess it will be." Liu Yinian cried bitterly.

"What the master said is indeed true!" Merton nodded in agreement with Liu Yinian, which made Kong Yingda a little strange.

"But why do you want to write from top to bottom and from right to left?" Merton suddenly asked a question that caught everyone off guard.