Green Shirt Poetry Knife

Introduction to the work "Green Shirt Poetry Knife" Xu Beiwang is a scholar of ancient books. A warehouse with constant temperature and humidity, a pile of moldy old books, a bamboo stick and a small brush, day after day. When I was editing the "Collection of Du Gongbu" written by Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, a copper bookmark fell out of the page - engraved with four words: "The way of poetry is the sword." The edge of the bookmark cut his fingertip, blood fell on it, and his vision went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he was lying under the crooked jujube tree at the east end of Xujia Town. He was twelve years old, extremely poor, and had thousands of sentences in his mind that he had never seen but remembered clearly. This world is different. Poems are not articles - poems are swords. When a true poet recites verses, his "talent" will condense into substance, turning into a sword to kill people, a shield to protect the body, and causing visions in the heaven and earth. Three hundred years ago, a poet named Zhuang Mengdie wrote a poem "Ode to a Dream". After writing it, the descendants disappeared, but the world in the poem survived. Mountains, rivers, vegetation, human fireworks, and the court's rivers and lakes are all written sentences. Zhuang Mengdie himself was sealed underground in the imperial city, waiting for someone who could "continue to write new poems" to replace him. Each of the poems in Xu Beiwang's mind is a knife that can cut open the old world. But the price was real - "He traveled three thousand miles with his body, and once served as a millionaire with one sword." He killed five horse thieves and lost half a year of his life. The better the poem, the greater the price. He must repeatedly choose between "reciting poems to kill" and "surviving". Everything that follows is written in this book. From Xujia Town to Qingzhou to the capital, from taking the imperial examination to becoming an official to fighting in the underground palace.