Seeing that the time was right, Xiao Yi finally showed the "brick" in his hand. One day, the two of them were chatting back and forth about calligraphy. Xiao Yi said that he had several miscellaneous paintings of Wang Xizhi handed down from his ancestors. He didn't know whether they were true or false, and he hoped Biancai could identify them. Biancai looked at it and told him proudly that the original work was authentic, but unfortunately it was not Lao Wang's best work. I have "Lanting Preface", do you have it? Seeing the fish take the bait, Xiao Yi deliberately pretended not to believe it, saying that this post was two hundred years old and might be a fake. Benzai became popular and asked him to come and see it tomorrow.
The next day, Xiao Yi went to the appointment on time. The stupid old man took the iron box from the beam in front of him and took out the "Lanting Preface" to Xiao Yi. Xiao Yi wrote down the location of the hidden post, and took advantage of the opportunity when Bencai left one day to lie to the young monk at the door that Bencai had forgotten to bring his cleansing towel and asked him to pick it up. Then he sneaked into the bedroom and stole the old monk's clothes with ease The monk's lifeblood was delivered to Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty as quickly as possible. The emperor, Long Yan, promoted Xiao Yi to the position of Yuanwailang. For the monk Biancai who had lost his treasure, he pretended to be generous, pardoned the crime of deceiving the emperor, and rewarded the monk with an additional three thousand pieces of silk and three thousand stones of rice. What's the use of having a bunch of money if you don't have a lifeline? After more than a year, the old monk was so angry that he died.
Although the method was unkind, after all, he got his beloved thing, and the joy in Tang Taizong's heart had already drowned out his guilt. For the rest of his life, he kept possession of "Lanting Preface", and after his death, he ordered it to be taken into his coffin. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, warlord Wen Tao excavated the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. Since then, the whereabouts of "Lanting Preface" have been unknown.