Yang Ning pondered for a moment, then carefully wrapped the long flute in black silk and put it in the drawer of the dressing table. Then she arrived in the room opposite.
He originally thought that there was something in this room, but after entering, he found that the room was empty except for a wooden board in the corner and a pile of hay randomly piled beside it.
He walked over and found that there were actually two brushes and an inkstone placed in the corner of the wall. The ink inside the inkstone had already condensed. He reached out and picked it up. It was just an ordinary inkstone. The ink inside the inkstone was as hard as Stone.
He felt strange in his heart, thinking to himself that a woman lived here back then. Could it be that this inkstone was also left by that woman
Scanning his eyes, he suddenly found a piece of yellowed paper on the ground. He picked it up and took a look. The paper was very torn, but there seemed to be a painting on it. The paper was incomplete, and it was impossible to see clearly what was painted on it. What is it, I was wondering, but I saw that there seemed to be half a piece of paper exposed under the hay pile. I immediately pushed the hay aside, and saw that there were many papers scattered in it.
Yang Ning picked up a relatively complete piece of paper, stood up and moved to the window. Taking a closer look under the moonlight, she found that there was indeed a picture of a little man drawn on it.
In fact, the painter is not that good, but it can be clearly seen that the little man in the painting seems to be holding a long sword in his hand, tilting upward, but his legs are slightly bent, and his movements are quite weird.
Yang Ning was immediately shocked and wondered, could it be that the woman living in this yard also knew how to use a sword
This picture is clearly a rather strange sword move.
He turned sharply, moved over the pile of hay, and then picked up all the papers scattered on the ground. There were forty or fifty sheets in total, a thick stack.
More than ten of them were broken, but most of them were still intact, but they were old and yellow. Yang Ning held the pile of papers and went out, sitting on the threshold in front of the door. He was not worried. People will see it, and everyone in the old house regards this yard as a ghost house. No one dares to approach it, let alone someone who will suddenly climb over the wall and come in.
He looked through them one by one, and sure enough, these papers were all filled with sword moves.
The little figures on the paper are all drawn very casually, with only a rough outline of the hands, feet and body. Even the long sword in the hand is only a long and thin line, but the moves of the long sword are quite vivid.
Except for a few pictures where the movements of the people in the paintings are normal, most of them are strange and weird. Some are lying on the ground, some are lying on the ground, some are squatting on the ground, jumping or jumping, and the changes in sword moves are also Bizarre.
Before Yang Ning traveled through time, in addition to practicing unarmed fighting, he also practiced using weapons. Although he had never touched such a long sword, he had still used a stick. Both were long blades, although the differences in their moves were quite large. But there are similarities in many places.
But many of the moves in the picture are beyond the scope of what I am familiar with.
He even felt that some moves were impossible to perform and completely violated the laws of body movement. For example, one of the moves held a sword in his right hand, but his right hand was raised above his head, while the long sword was wrapped around his back and facing diagonally. Left**, this action looks unusually awkward. It is impossible for normal swordsmanship to produce such a nonsensical move, and in Yang Ning's view, such a move seems to be unable to cause any damage to the enemy.
He suddenly thought that there is a type of swordsmanship that is not used to hurt the enemy, but for performance. Many noble families have many dancing girls in their houses. Although many dances express the softness of women, there are still some Dances are very special, and sword dance is one of them.
This type of dance also expresses the strength and sharpness of women in the softness of women. It uses swords to accompany the dance, which combines strength and softness, and has a unique beauty.
However, the sword dance was created for dance after all. It only emphasizes the uniqueness and beauty of the movements, but has no practical value.
When Yang Ning saw the strange sword moves and the fact that a woman once lived in this house, she immediately thought that these pictures might be a sword dance. Perhaps the woman was lonely and bored here, so she danced in her free time. Draw this sword dance.
He thought for a while, then picked up a wooden stick in the yard, imitated the action just now, also raised his right hand high above his head, and learned to wrap the wooden stick from the top of his head to behind his body, with the end of the stick leaning towards his left hip, and then As soon as you get started, it feels extremely awkward and unnatural. Not to mention that it is easy to perform this action, even if you want to perform this action, it also takes some time.
After assuming this posture, Yang Ning felt like a fool. She shook her head and smiled bitterly, thinking that she was a grown man. If this was a sword dance, it must be danced by a woman. The flexibility of a woman's body might be able to express this posture beautifully. , I am a grown man and I cannot express my sense of beauty no matter what.
He dropped the stick, sat down again, and looked at a few more pictures. Suddenly he frowned and realized a problem.
Looking at the drawings on this picture, they are full of strength, and although it is a very casual sketch, the brush strokes reveal a sense of freedom and uninhibitedness.
Yang Ning couldn't help but frown.
He knew that men's and women's handwriting was actually very different. Women's brushstrokes were mostly delicate and serious, and the writing force was quite soft. However, these sword stroke portraits were full of freehand brushwork and power, and the writing force was very heavy. The writing brushes were different from later generations of pens and the like. , vellus hair is a soft thing. If it is not strong enough and can move freely, the handwriting will be deformed with a little force.
Although these portraits were free and easy and freehand, they were not out of shape. The more Yang Ning looked at them, the more they felt like the handwriting of a man. He felt strange in his heart, thinking that there had been a man living in this yard
Since Gu Qinghan said that a woman once lived there, one thing is certain. The former owner of this courtyard must have been a woman. Even if there were people to serve here, they would only be maids and servants. It is absolutely impossible for a man to serve here. That man What does it have to do with being the mistress of this courtyard
While he was meditating, he turned over the papers. Not long after, an idea flashed through his mind, and he found a pattern among the stacks of drawing papers.
Of these dozens of drawing papers, seven or eight were lying on the ground, and five or six were squatting on the ground. The sword movement with the long sword tilted back that he had seen before turned out to be not just one, but one of them. Zhang is quite similar to that one. He also raised his right hand high above his head, but the sword did not go around his head and back, but tilted to the left and forward. His left hand was raised with a single palm and pressed against his forehead.
He pondered for a moment, and then sorted the dozens of drawing papers into categories. Those lying down were put together, and those with similar sword moves were put together. After sorting for a while, they were sorted into six piles.
His intuition told him that these sword moves were extremely strange. They were definitely not as simple as sword dancing. He was afraid that there was something fishy in them.
Although there were also broken pieces of paper, Yang Ning tried his best to restore them, but it was impossible to restore them and could only make judgments based on some residual images.
After dividing them into six piles, Yang Ning saw that the drawing papers lying on the ground were the most complete and not damaged, and he looked at the eight drawing papers carefully.
When he was sorting it out, he could actually see that the sword moves on these eight drawing papers were obviously divided into front and back and formed one body. However, there were no numbers on the drawings, and it did not indicate which one to start from.
While thinking, he sorted out the order of the eight pieces of paper. The easiest thing to judge among these eight pieces of paper is the first one. He lay on the ground, holding something in his right hand, and raised the tip of the sword slightly. He didn't make much movement, but it was easy. It is judged to be the starting position.
Yang Ning has practiced fighting, and he knows one thing very well. Sometimes the most important thing in a set of kung fu is the first move of the starting move. Only if there are no mistakes in the starting move, can the subsequent moves and routines be used. On the contrary, once the first move is started, If a mistake is made at the beginning, then the next second move will naturally be biased, and mistakes will continue along the way.
After confirming the first move, Yang Ning found it quite difficult to sort out the subsequent moves, just because every subsequent move was very weird, and the number of moves was not what ordinary people could think of. One of the moves was The left leg was slightly raised, and the long sword passed under the leg and went up diagonally. The posture was extremely weird.
He hoped to find a connection between the quality of the painting, such as a very natural transition from one move to the next. However, the only thing the eight moves have in common is that their bodies are all lying down. It is extremely difficult to find any connection between the moves.
Yang Ning ran over and picked up the stick again, and lay down on the steps in front of the door. First, he held the stick in the starting position and lifted it up. He thought about the movements of the other seven pictures in his mind. After thinking about it, there was no one. The move could come out naturally like this. He closed his eyes and meditated. After a long time, he suddenly raised his arm, turned his wrist to the left, and before the stick touched his body, he suddenly lifted it down. The whole movement was like a painting. A Wu hook came out.
He opened his eyes, raised his head slightly to look at his movements, and saw that the long stick in his hand was almost flat with his right leg, only slightly deviated. He hurriedly sat up and looked at the drawing paper, and saw that one of the drawings was exactly What he did just now was that the long sword on the drawing was parallel and straight to his right leg.
Although there was a slight deviation, Yang Ning was still quite excited. She thought to herself that after pondering for a long time, she finally figured out how to switch between the two moves. Although she didn't know if it was right or wrong, at least she still made an attempt. This switch of movements looks good. It seems simple, but if you can't go deep into it and think about how to better fit the hand and the sword, you may not be able to do it.
In fact, Yang Ning didn't know at this time whether the moves on these drawings had any value, or if someone just deliberately drew these weird moves to kill boredom. Even the people who drew these pictures may not be able to perform these moves. However, Yang Ning thought that this yard was strange and mysterious, and it was full of mystery. The pile of drawing papers was yellow and old, and it had been there for a long time. Since it was still in the house, maybe there was some secret in it.
He had previously obtained the Liuhe Magic Technique from the Lord Mu Shen, and obtained the Xiaoyao Xing from the Skull, both of which he had obtained accidentally. Needless to say, the Liuhe Magic Technique, but Xiaoyao Xing was magical and mysterious. Since he had good luck many times before, now If these drawing papers are really a swordsmanship, it would be a great pity if you abandon it and miss it.