Chapter 22 Learning from Nature
"Is this for me?" Yanzhi asked in surprise with the gouache in her hand.
Tang Jie smiled and said, "Yes, when I passed Jubaozhai today, I saw that this was a new product coming from Yahai. I remembered that today was Sister Yanzhi's birthday. Since my sister is called Yanzhi, this gouache is perfect for my sister. Just a few days ago, my wife gave me some silver taels. After buying medicine for the two elders, there was still some leftovers, so I used it as a birthday party. I hope my sister will not dislike it."
In fact, she is not older than Tang Jie, but because of her identity, the servants of the Wei Mansion generally call her wife's maid the sister.
Yanzhi gave him a blank look and said with a smile: "You are really meant, but I'm afraid it's not a coincidence, but a purpose."
Tang Jie smiled but refused to answer.
Among the six major sects in Qixia, there are the Qianqing Sect and Tianya Haige women the most, so the powders in Yahai Kingdom have always been famous. Even if this small box of gouache is just ordinary, it cannot be taken down without seven or eight hundred coins. If Tang Jie was on a whim, Yanzhi would definitely not believe it, but because of this, he became more and more fond of Tang Jie.
After collecting the gouache, Yanzhi looked at Tang Jie and said, "You are also a tactful person. Good, do your best."
As he said that, he turned around and left.
She did not promise Tang Jie, but Tang Jie knew that with this gift, at least Yanzhi would not cause any trouble to him in the future.
Of course, Rouge's gifts should be given, and other servants should also get along well.
Fortunately, he has now been ordered by the young master to make various flower statues. Although the flower statues before have been made, children are greedy for freshness, so they usually have to change them once a long time.
To constantly change tricks, you need resources and wire racks. Tang Jie actually already has some power in his hands, but after Wei Tianchong's freshness, he no longer pays attention to the process, but only the results, so the servant sent took it back.
Without supervision, Tang Jie could greedy for some of the items and even have a certain right to purchase. In order to do business in the Weifu, some merchants would flatter him and give him some extra benefits. Therefore, this gray income has already been achieved. Although it is not too much, it is enough to use it to buy those servants and win over relationships.
As for the greed for ink... who is not greedy for ink, who is a servant?
Could it be that all the cadres who want to be promoted all over the world, as well as the long queues of civil servants who have been building up in front of the examination hall, are they all going to make decisions for the people?
After saying goodbye to Yanzhi, Tang Jie returned to his flowerbed to continue working.
Although gardening attracted the young master's attention, it also greatly increased his workload and reduced his time to study the formation.
For Tang Jie, if he cannot complete the improvement of the battle lane as much as possible before entering the academy, he may not have much time to study it in the future.
This also made him a little distressed.
Today, when he looked at the garden of flowers and plants, his heart suddenly moved.
Why not just use this garden to study the formation?
Over the past period of time, in order to avoid being discovered, he has been purely theoretical research, and has memorized the content of the Tao true explanation thoroughly. It can be said that it is just a chance to practice.
Xu Muyang's formation is focused on learning from nature, which is in line with the current situation.
Of course, this is the Wei family, and the murderous formations and other forms cannot be arranged, but some formations of the illusion maze are OK. If necessary, maybe you can also make a maze for the young master to play with, but you need to be careful in your hands and feet and not be able to see them.
There is also a spiritual master in this Wei Mansion. Tang Jie asked himself that if he wanted to hide it, he had to work hard to hide it.
Different needs have different applications.
Formation is mostly used for defense, just like the ancient city wall on Earth, it is a barrier for some major sects to rely on. However, there are also some formations that require the master to lure the enemy into the oak, which requires the formation to be perfectly hidden.
Xu Muyang's concept of mastering nature caters to hidden needs, so he is also very good at laying out hidden arrays. He was able to set up the eight-door locking array quietly under He Chong's pursuit, and this is the reason why he was not discovered by the other party before it was activated.
Since this is the case, you should study the techniques of this hidden array carefully.
In the true interpretation of the formation, Xu Muyang has a special discussion on the hidden formation, mainly talking about how to hide.
To hide the existence of a formation, it is necessary to naturally integrate the formation into the environment at that time, so that every grass and tree naturally build the formation. Everything has spirits, and spiritual energy flows in it, and plays a corresponding role due to different combinations.
There are some natural Jedi in the world, which often become natural formations because they accidentally conform to the principle of spiritual energy.
What Tang Jie wanted to do was to understand what kind of spiritual energy of each of these flowers and plants were and how it operated, and then make it naturally combined through special placement.
However, it is not so easy to make the formation into the desired pattern and still have the effect. Even Xu Muyang's formation realization is not recorded. After all, he never had the need to take advantage of gardening, so Tang Jie could only study it himself.
This research has been more than half a year.
During this period, he focused on the combination of gardening and formation, but nothing happened. The servants took his benefits and would not cause trouble for him anymore. It was because Shimo Shimeng was sent by him last time. Although he had not suffered revenge, he was still unhappy and wanted to teach him a lesson, but for a moment he didn't know what to do. In addition, the young master also liked Tang Jie recently and had concerns about his behavior, so it was still calm during this period.
Today, Tang Jie is still busy in the flower garden, and he is making a garden maze.
Plant mazes are the least likely formation to be discovered. Even if viewers get lost in it, they often think that this is a natural and wonderful use, and they will not think that it is the function of the formation.
However, it is not easy to combine the two. The natural maze takes complex paths as the basis of confusion, while the formation works through the effects generated by the operation of spiritual energy. The effects of the two are the same, but the principles of existence are completely opposite. Therefore, if you stand outside and look at the formation itself, it is actually completely unrelated to the maze.
Tang Jie also tried his best to do this, but he never found a solution.
Today he was continuing to study and explore, and suddenly he heard a girl's voice: "Huh? What is this?"
Tang Jie looked back and saw a graceful little girl walking from afar, wearing a moon-white flower jacket, gold-painted embroidered shoes, and a jade hairpin on her head. She shook her step by step, shining her gracefully, and she looked very beautiful, with two maids following her.
When Tang Jie saw the girl, he quickly gave a gift: "Miss Four."
These four ladies are Wei Die, the daughter of Wei Qingsong. They are cousins and brothers with Wei Tianchong. They are a few days older than Wei Tianchong. They are ranked fourth among the seven children of Wei Dan, Wei Qingsong, so they are known as the fourth ladies. Tang Jie has seen them twice before, but they all glanced from afar and had no chance to speak.
Seeing her coming, Tang Jie naturally wanted to greet him.
Wei Die looked at the garden of plants and said, "You are Tang Jie, right? I have heard your name many times these days. I have also seen your craftsmanship a few days ago and did it well. But what did you do this time? Why can't you tell me?"
Tang Jie hurriedly replied: "It's a maze."
"Maze..." Hearing this, Wei Die's eyes showed a hint of helplessness: "Isn't this Wei family a maze itself? Why bother to build it with so much effort?"
There was infinite resentment in his tone.
The two maids next to him coughed lightly together, but Wei Die seemed to be unaware of it.
This little girl, who is about the same age as Tang Jie, looks full of worries.
Tang Jie just pretended that he didn't hear it and said, "The Wei family has a great business, so it's not an exaggeration to say it's a maze. My maze is a big deal, and it's different. If the fourth lady is interested, you might as well give it a try."
"Forget it." Wei Die shook his head: "The roads are all connected here. I'm dizzy when I look outside. I'm really going in. I don't know what. It's hard for you to spend all my time. I hope my brother will like it."
She looked at Tang Jie: "You have such a lot of effort, I think you have ambitions for the Xiyue Academy, right?"
Tang Jie bowed and said, "If you can go, it will naturally be the best."
He did not hide his desire, but Wei Die's eyes showed a hint of unwillingness and said hatefully: "Why... why can you servants fight for the fate of immortality, but we women don't even have the chance to fight for it. What a fourth lady, I am not as good as a maid!"
As he said that, he stomped his feet and turned around and left.
Tang Jie looked at her leaving back and shook his head in his heart.
It turned out to be for this.
The lady was not even as good as the servant, so it was no wonder she was angry and dissatisfied.
However, Tang Jie felt that this was good for her. After entering the Wei Mansion for so much time, Tang Jie understood a lot.
The guardian's mansion appears to be grand, but there are so many dirty things hidden behind it. If this fourth lady doesn't want to trek into this mixed water, it's better to stay away from it.
Maybe the old man of the Wei family has this kind of mind, too?
Just as he was thinking, Tang Jie suddenly felt shocked and murmured: "The surface is grand, but the background is dirty..."
Wei Die said before, "The roads here are all connected, and I feel dizzy when I look outside..."
"It's so damn, why didn't I expect this? I'm so stupid!" Tang Jie slapped his head and cursed himself inwardly.
He suddenly realized that he had no need to find a way to merge the natural maze with the formation.
The fusion of nature and formation is like the fusion of domestic ink painting and oil painting. No matter how hard you try, it is actually a quasi-like appearance.
But think about it the other way around, what if we set up another formation in the natural maze?
Since we cannot blend together, we can add them simply.
There is a natural maze outside, and the maze formation inside. The outside is used to fool the bystanders and block the real array. The two are interdependent and natural and seamless, so why do you have to blend together?
This is like a little oil painting content hidden in a corner of a large ink painting scroll, and it is impossible to see if you don’t pay attention. If the ink painting itself has a depiction of thick ink and heavy colors, it will be easier to hide.
hide!
Hiding is the truth, not the true integration.
Sometimes, what you think about is not complicated enough, but not simple enough!
At this moment, Tang Jie suddenly woke up and secretly scolded himself for wasting time and modifying it again. This time he no longer forced the integration, but used this natural maze to hide the real formation.
Since this formation is not large in size and its function is only in limited places, if you do not observe it by the method of measuring spirits, even a spirit master may not be able to detect it.
Two days later, Tang Jie was done and took the young master to take him on a trip.
Wei Tianchong was dizzy and couldn't get out of the maze. He was very interesting and even called it fun, but he didn't realize that there was a spiritual array in the dark.
This was the first time that Tang Jie had used a formation to trap a person in a true sense. He was also happy in his heart. He felt that this formation was quite interesting and he fell in love with it a little bit.
I couldn't help but think of Xu Muyang's words and wondered secretly, did I really have love for the battle but didn't know it?
In the days that followed, Tang Jie kept changing the formations, and various strange mazes made Wei Tianchong enjoy it.
Of course, in order to satisfy the young master's mood, Tang Jie would occasionally let Wei Tian Chong secretly walk out of the maze. Wei Tian Chong didn't know that it was Tang Jie's release of water, but he thought he was powerful, so he shouted excitedly, not knowing that his mood had been controlled by Tang Jie. He would be happy if he wanted him to be happy, and would be frustrated if he wanted him to be frustrated.
When a person's mood is controlled by another person, it often means that the person is already under his control. The young master has become more and more disgusted with Tang Jie and is getting closer and closer to Tang Jie. This makes Shimo Shimeng more and more dislike about Tang Jie, and the hostility that had disappeared has gradually recurred.
Tian Wei Tianchong had nothing to do when he was idle, and suddenly had a whim and decided to go to Yinglongshan barbecue.
The term barbecue was taught by Tang Jie. Sometimes Wei Tianchong talks to Tang Jie, and Tang Jie will tell Wei Tianchong some stories and some interesting things.
Modern young people often use their own barbecue, so Tang Jie casually told them.
Wei Tianchong didn't care at first about sipping a stove in the mountains and rivers and fields, but this time he didn't know what to think, so he wanted to try it out.
He decided to call Tang Jie too.
Chapter completed!