Ghost Blowing Lantern II

I am very sleepy now and feel a headache just thinking about these complicated I Ching hexagrams. However, the "Zhen" hexagram seems to contain a major secret closely related to "Return to the Ruins". Just as I am thinking hard about it, When I was puzzled, Shirley Yang suddenly asked me: "I don't know much about Yi Dao, but I have read the works of a Chinese scholar in the United States. He is a famous expert in the study of Yi studies. He has very unique views. He once mentioned Yi Dao. The hexagram images in the middle hexagram, any words that contain numbers, do not come out of thin air. They contain ancient encrypted information that many people today cannot decipher. There are words in this hexagram that shock hundreds of miles. Old Hu, do you know why the hexagram It's not ninety-nine miles and one hundred and one miles, or it's thousands of miles, but it's shocking to say hundreds of miles?"

Shirley Yang accidentally mentioned something that I had never thought of before. "Yi" contains all things, and the constant changes of everything in the world are contained in it. However, very few people can understand it thoroughly. One person can never It is impossible to see everything. As long as people have been exposed to the study of Zhouyi, everyone will have their own understanding of the "Book of Changes". In the eyes of philosophers, it contains philosophy, and in the eyes of mystics, it is also a book. It is a heavenly book that predicts changes in the situation. A benevolent person calls it benevolence, and a wise person calls it wisdom. So far, the world's analysis of the "Book of Changes" is only a glimpse of the leopard.

Therefore, Shirley Yang said that all the sentences with "numbers" in "Yi" are not obtained out of thin air. In the "Zhen Gua", it is said that "the shock comes to the world, the laughter is dumb, the shock is hundreds of miles, and the dagger is not lost", It’s a specific reference, but I don’t know why there is the phrase “shocked a hundred miles”. If this is just a description of a phenomenon, why not use “shocked a thousand miles” or “shocked thousands of miles”?

Shirley Yang said that since our salvage team went to sea on Coral Temple Island, we have seen several antiquities related to the "Zhen Gua". These times we have seen antiquities related to the "Zhen Gua" in coffins, tombs, or scaled human turtles. On the bone armor of the divination, it seems that the recurring hexagram "Zhen Gua" is closely related to the underworld things in "Guixu". In other words, it may not be a sign obtained by divination, but a sign of hatred for the sky. It is a mark for people to bury their bones, or a hint hidden in Hentian's tomb. Moreover, among these symbols, the symbol representing "hundred" in the hexagram is particularly prominent. Seeing it many times, it can't help but make people think. doubt.

I scratched my head and couldn't think of how to answer Shirley Yang's doubts. Although she was flexible in thinking and could often see the essence of things directly, did the words "shocked Baili" have any specific meaning? Only the ancients knew that. I heard Zhang Yingchuan say that there was a wizard in his ancestors, Zhang Sanye, a master of the gold school. Master Zhang Sanye dug out the Yin and Yang Ten Chains like a heavenly book in the ancient tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty. After reading the six-character hexagram, he stayed behind closed doors. Someone asked him what secrets there were in it? Mr. Zhang shook his head repeatedly and said only one sentence: "Whoever can decipher the secret may be an immortal in the ancient world." This means that perhaps only the immortals in the ancient world can know the true secret of the sixteen hexagrams of Yin and Yang.

Those sixteen hexagrams can probably only be understood by immortals who can reach heaven. Even if the "gossip" passed down to future generations has been reduced by half, even an expert with extensive knowledge of the past and the present dare not say that he can understand it all. I am a monk halfway, so I don't know. What is the mystery behind the language of numbers in Yi?

However, I refused to admit it and said to Shirley Yang: "The word "hundred" in "Shocking Baili" represents an integer. Ancient Chinese people were accustomed to using integers as adjectives, such as victorious in a hundred battles, piercing the Yang with a hundred steps, etc., but no one said Ninety-nine battles and ninety-nine victories, or one hundred and one steps to defeat Yang, it seems simple and grand to say it. This is called small words and great meaning, and it does not have any specific meaning. If there is thunder in the sky, who knows how far it will shake. ?Actually, this is just an abstract metaphor. Maybe Americans prefer precise descriptions, so you find it strange."

Shirley Yang probably felt that what I just said was very reasonable, so she stopped worrying about the "Zhen Gua" on the tortoise shell in the tomb. She walked over and leaned against the snow-white whale bone fossil with others to breathe.

I also sat on the ground to rest, looked at the surrounding environment, and speculated in my mind about the layout of the ancient tomb. It seemed that all this was consistent with the totem on the back of Guchai, the "Longhu". The ancient corpse of the Hentian clan is frozen. The Dan people hid the secret of the ancient tomb of the Hentian clan in "Longhu". It must not be to let future generations come to this "fight", but the real reason is probably that the egg is still alive. Among the people, no one knows it anymore.

I turned my attention to the ancient tree passage we came down. It seems that this huge "Japanese barbarum tree" has grown here hundreds of millions of years ago. Later, the sea changed and the forest turned into a vast ocean, and the "Japanese barbarum tree" stayed here. The seabed has almost penetrated three layers of the earth's crust. No wonder in ancient legends, it was regarded as connecting to the Guanghan Palace on the moon. The Hentian clan hollowed out this undersea sacred tree and used the coral cave at the bottom as a tomb.

There is no formal tomb passage or chamber structure in the tomb. It is surrounded by water seeping from the seabed. In the water cave below, the vortexes of water flow are one after another. It is not known how deep it is. The sound of water rumbling in the distance can be heard. From time to time, I feel the billowing hot white air coming from me. It must be the hot spring under the "Guixu" water. This water is a hundred times hotter than human hot springs. Once any living thing is wrapped in the boiling water, it will immediately be boiled to the bone by the high temperature. Not much left.

On the other side, there were waves of cold chill, sucking the seawater above into the void center of the earth. The location of the ancient tomb was built in the cold and hot Yin and Yang world, and was tightly blocked by the remains of coral reefs. , neither hot nor cold water can invade it. It is a place that Feng Shui experts regard as "a cave that connects the heaven and the earth, transforming ancient and modern times." .

While I was watching the terrain, the fat man rested his strength, leaned half of his body into the whale bones, and looked at the ancient corpses. Uncle Ming also dragged Guchai to the front and asked Guchai to kowtow to his ancestors. Uncle Ming said : "This is the ancestor of you Dan people. If our ancestors have spirits, they might be able to help us get back safely."

Guchai didn't know what his ancestors did thousands of years ago, but he was still in awe when he saw the ancient corpse. He then lay on the ground and kowtowed a few times, clasped his hands together, and following Uncle Ming's actions, the two of them looked at the whale bones. I prayed a few random times before.

The fat man asked Uncle Ming: "Uncle Ming, how many ancient corpses have you dug up and sold in your life? Why are you kowtowing and bowing here? I thought you had to transport these underwater zombies back to sit on the ground. The starting price is a bargain, but look at your current performance, it really disappoints me, step aside, you old loser..."

Uncle Ming said with a sad face: "Don't compare yesterday to today. Today is already a difficult time. Now we are stuck at the bottom of the sea. The chance of getting out alive is too slim. At this time, there is no mood to consider the price of the ancient corpse. Of course it is now If you worship some god, you may not know which stick of incense will be burned correctly, and we can go back with our lives, otherwise, fat boy, what else can you do?"

The fat man stuck the fish candle on the ground and said: "In my opinion... To be honest, in this situation, I don't know what to do. I can only be forced to act according to the guidance of my own reason... "After saying that, he used the method of touching Captain Jin to lift up a zombie body, put his knee on the back of the zombie's head, pushed the Tianling cover with one hand, and pinched the zombie's cheek with the other hand, hoping to make the corpse spit out the "Zhu Yan Pearl" stuffed in its mouth. ".

I quickly grabbed the fat man. I have caught enough "green heads" this time. The ancient tombs in Guixu are filled with the corpses of Guchai's ancestors. They have held pearls for thousands of years and have not decayed even after death. If it is out of respect, they are generally not weighed. Zombies or zongzi, but to describe them as "zombified people". It is better not to disturb them at this time. Otherwise, although the tomb is full of life, once the "Zhuyan Pearl" condensed with Yin essence is taken out, these will be preserved for thousands of years. The "Zombie" will be turned into powder soon. We are here to fish for green heads and collect eggs this time, not to rob tombs in "Guixu", so don't do anything impossible and don't forget the rules of the ancestors. , Greed is the root cause of disaster in the world. We still have to find a way to go back to the United States to enjoy it for a few years. There have been so many storms and waves in recent years. It is not worthwhile to lose money here.

After my persuasion, the fat man reluctantly emerged from the whale bone. Although I didn't want to touch these South China Sea zombies, I wanted to see what was in the whale bones. If I wanted to evacuate this place, I had to hope to find something. Clues are good.

The fossilized jaw of the giant whale skull is half-closed. The whale skull is not very large, but it is more than enough to wrap the dead body. It is said that the whale bone coffin seems to be a bit larger. There seem to be some funerary objects inside, and it looks more like it is set in the whale skeleton. The tomb is like a whale's mouth, and five well-preserved corpses lie peacefully in it.

Shirley Yang also wanted to see clearly, so she turned on the flashlight, followed me and bent down into the whale bone tomb. Uncle Ming and others also wanted to come in to see what was going on, but the tomb was too narrow to allow so many living people to come and go. To move around, I had to ask them to hold a mackerel candlestick in front of the whale's mouth for lighting, and be on guard against any unexpected noises. Who knows what kind of monsters might be hidden in this dark and dark underground, but don't worry about being taken out of the way.

Shirley Yang and I walked one behind the other, carefully stepping over the five "South China Sea Zombies" and entering the depths of the tomb. The two of them squatted down and looked back at the corpses. When they shined a flashlight, they found that the five corpses were three women. Two men, one old and one young. Their clothes had probably turned into dust. They were both covered with a thick layer of dry "dragon skin". "Dragon skin" is the common name for eggs, taken from a kind of scale. The fish in the sea with bright armor and horns on its head has become extinct in modern times and will never be seen again.

Except for the heads, the five corpses were all covered tightly by a piece of dragon skin. The old man next to them only exposed half of his arms. The skin of the corpse was slightly dark, and the face was slightly sunken, but all the water in the corpse was " The "Zhuyan Pearl" calmed the body and did not rot or rot. Only the moonlight pearls soaked in the sea air in the coral spiral can have this magical effect. I pulled out the diving knife and stabbed the arm of the old man's corpse a few times.

Unexpectedly, the tip of the knife touched the zombie's skin and flesh as hard as iron. I have never seen such an ancient corpse. It may be a unique embalming treatment at sea in ancient times. It is similar to the legendary zombies encountered by Qin Shihuang at the seaside during his southern tour. Likewise, Shirley Yang asked me in a low voice: "Are you messing around again? Why are you stabbing an ancient corpse with a knife?"

I said, "I'll test it out to see if there will be corpses. Now it seems that the worry is unnecessary. Guixu is the cave of Nanlong. It is so angry that I have never seen it in my life. These zombies are about to turn to stone." No more corpse transformation."

Shirley Yang nodded and scanned the whale bones with a flashlight. She found that there were quite a lot of burial objects in the tomb. Burying artifacts with them has been around since the Stone Age, not only in China but also in various places around the world. In ancient civilization circles, most people had the custom of burying objects with them. The whale bone fossils contained the remains of various aquatic animals, which were stacked with countless burial objects and distributed in a rectangular shape in the tomb. In addition to some altars, jars, jade plates and tortoise shells, there were also There is a strange-shaped bronze tripod. According to the "Zhou" ritual system, the tripod has three legs. When the emperor is buried, he can enjoy the specifications of nine tripods in the tomb. Bronze is an important weapon of the country. Only the emperor can use the nine tripods. Below the emperor, there are five levels: duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. Even if you are a grand duke, you cannot place nine tripods in your tomb, otherwise you will have the ambition to rebel.

The bronze vessel in the Guixu tomb is shaped like a tripod, but it is actually unusual. Its huge belly is divided into eight sides, with nine legs underneath. It is half a meter tall. Although it is low, it should not be a "bronze gui", but a rare one. The nine-legged bronze tripod can be distinguished from the color of the ancient bronzes as "wax tea, cinnabar spotted, true green, and green wellhead". Only these four are real bronzes. Look at the nine-legged bronze tripod. Although it has been close to the water for thousands of years, the ancient and serene color between the "true green" and the "green wellhead" in the copper is still there, just like covering a layer of green moss growing in the cracks of the well platform, but it has not yet " The "pure green paved with emeralds"-like brightness of "Zhen Qing" bronze wares, its serene meaning remains undiminished to this day.

The edge of the tripod mouth looks like a pillow horn, with patterns of ears and sea animals, and is decorated with stars on all sides. Genuine ancient bronzes are not very popular in the Panjiayuan Antiquities Market, but counterfeit ones are everywhere, and some vendors even call them "Xia Shangzhong, Shang Shangzhi" ", Zhou Shangwen" to fool people, so I know a little bit about it. This nine-legged tripod has the characteristics of Xia and Zhou Dynasties. I thought that compared to the "Qin King Bone Mirror", maybe this dragon fire casting The value of the bronze tripod is higher.

Shirley Yang and I both know that tripods have always been used to record events, and when we saw the bronze tripod buried in the tomb, it was truly a treasure in the world. We were both amazed and stunned for a moment, then we went over to take a closer look. , she looked at the appearance of the cauldron belly, and I looked at the abyss of the cauldron belly. I saw that the cauldron abyss was filled with water, and there was a thick layer of dark green floating objects on the water. It looked like a cauldron of black sewage, stagnant water without waves, I couldn't see clearly if there was anything in the water.

(To be continued. If you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters. Support the author and genuine reading!)