Ghost Blowing Lantern II

There are also some sporadic records, all of which confirm this matter from the side. This "Ancient Tomb Museum" was painstakingly built by tomb robbers and hidden deep in Shu. It contains rare treasures from ancient tombs of past dynasties. Not only In this way, it is very likely that there are ancient hexagram secret vessels from the Western Zhou Dynasty.

So Professor Sun made a report and asked his superiors for permission to organize an expert group to go to Sichuan to search for the "Dixian Village". As a result, many people said that he was just whimsical and that the "Guanshan Taibao" was just a folk legend. At present, human resources We were all nervous. How could we waste manpower and material resources to find an ancient tomb that didn't exist based on some random information? This is not in line with our working principles.

Professor Sun ran into trouble and was said to be a lunatic, so he had to endure his temper and secretly collect information. Every time he went to Sichuan on a business trip, he would always find time to visit villages and villages to inquire and investigate. However, as he gradually deepened his contacts, , he found that the specific location of the "Guanshan Ancient Tomb" could not be traced at all.

It is said that the "Gold-touching Captain" who dominates the traditional Chinese industry is good at "searching for dragons, searching mountains, and dividing gold to fix holes." The "Guanshan Taibao" method of "Guanshan Guanmi" is also derived from the "Faqiu" method of the Later Han Dynasty. The ancient skills passed down by the "gold-touching" people have an unfathomable mastery of Qingwu Kanyu, and the "Guanshan Taibao" are masters in the tomb robbing business. The anti-theft methods of the tomb they built are definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and even make it difficult to imagine. No one can even find the exact location. Maybe even thousands of years later, the mystery of the "Ancient Tomb of Earth Immortals" will still be just a folk legend.

Professor Sun worked hard to find the ancient tomb museum "Dixian City", but in the end he found nothing. He collected and compiled all the information about the tomb robber "Guanshan Taibao" from the Ming Dynasty over the years. It was recorded in this work notebook, and I felt a little disappointed in the end.

However, in the process of studying the "Guanshan Taibao", he learned many secrets about ancient tomb robbing activities from rural conversations and various historical materials and local chronicles. He knew that there were people who died in this world since ancient times, and there were all graves that were found. As long as It is an ancient tomb, and sooner or later it will be dug up by tomb robbers. The skills of tomb robbers are nothing more than "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting".

"Wang" refers to watching the Feng Shui situation, and determining the location and layout of the ancient tomb by "looking at the stars above and examining the earth's veins below". This requires insight into the pulses of mountains, rivers, sun, moon and stars. It is extremely profound and complex and cannot be accomplished by ordinary tomb robbers. In addition, in this method of "looking at the tomb", you can also observe the differences in "surface, soil, and vegetation" to find the tomb, which is also called "looking at mud marks and distinguishing grass color".

The word "smell" can also be divided into two methods. There is a person who is extremely talented and has an extremely keen sense of smell. He can distinguish the special smell in the deep mountains and old forests through his nose; "smell" also refers to the keen ear of tomb robbers, who can practice it to In the realm of "chickens waiting for the morning and dogs watching the night", one can infer the situation underground by listening to the sounds of nature. People with ordinary tinnitus can also use tools, such as the "urn listening method" of burying an urn in the ground to identify acupoints with the ears. .

It is said that the "asking" tactic is to "consult" with the local people to learn about the information and location of the ancient tombs from the side. If you are lucky, there will be unexpected results; and the "asking" tactic has another more mysterious method. , it is said that ancient tomb robbers can determine the structure of ancient tombs and the good or bad luck in the tomb through divination and deduction, but this technique disappeared a long time ago and no one knows it anymore.

Finally, there is the word "Qie", which mainly refers to the various methods used by tomb robbers to dig ancient tombs. How to "avoid the truth and make use of the false" to use various tools to dig the robbery hole. Long hoe and big shovel were used to collapse the mountain to reveal the zenith, and there was even a "cave mausoleum armor" that used magic to drive away beasts.

Professor Sun knows all about it, but the skills of "looking, hearing, asking, and sensing" are mostly the secret skills of fighting that have been passed down for thousands of years. Perhaps you can find out about these things among the people, but if you really want to learn these skills, you must not It is completely impossible to master it through true teaching, not to mention that most of the techniques of tomb robbing have been lost for a long time.

It is said that at this point, it is almost time to give up, but Sun Xuewu has a paranoid personality and is particularly persistent in the things he is looking for. He "will not give up until he reaches the Yellow River, and will not shed tears until he sees the coffin." He still spends all his sleep and food to find " "Earth Immortal", trying to pry into the ancient hexagram secrets hidden in the "Xuanji Tower".

Perhaps it is true that "Huang Tian pays off". During a process of sorting out ancient books and documents, Professor Sun accidentally learned a secret history. During the period of King Mu of Zhou Dynasty, there was an ancient tripod forged with the dragon fire of the South China Sea. On the tripod, there was Hexagram mirror and hexagram talisman, the ancient tripod came from Guixu. Its material is a rare item among bronze vessels. Due to the condensation of sea air in the tripod, its copper properties have not been lost for thousands of years. The longer the time, the darker the green color of the copper.

The hexagram symbols and hexagram mirrors inlaid on the ancient tripod are the essence of performing hexagrams by candlelight during the Western Zhou Dynasty. The sea air contained in the bronze can be used to deduce the signs of funerals. The ancients were superstitious about the "regulatory situation" in Feng Shui, among which the most important thing was It is "qi", which is the so-called "life" in the dragon's veins. The "mirage" phenomenon on the sea is mostly caused by the changes in the sea air. The sea air in Guixu is the "dragon's veins and dragon's air". This statue Any fragment on the ancient tripod of Guixu can turn an ordinary tomb into a "feng shui treasure land where vitality condenses", and the hexagram mirror on the tripod can be used to peer into and deduce the location of the ancient tomb.

At first, Professor Sun did not believe that there really was a "Gui Xu Ancient Cauldron", but after a little research, he realized that this matter was definitely not groundless. However, this cauldron was buried with King Zhou Mu as a funerary object. Later, the tomb of King Zhou Mu was dug up. At that time, it was discovered that the bronze tripod had been shattered by lightning, and the hexagram mirror and four ancient talismans had been taken away and scattered in all directions.

In history, the legend of tomb robbers "asking the sky for divination" to find the treasures in ancient tombs is likely to come from the "Guixu Ancient Tripod". It is said that the Guixu hexagram mirror can be used to refute complicated mysteries. Through the guidance of the hexagram talismans, one can follow the surroundings according to the guidance of the hexagrams. The changes in the gathering and dispersion of vital energy present different hexagrams. Professor Sun knows that there are sixteen hexagrams in total on the Zhoutian hexagrams. There are only four "dragon, ghost, human, and fish" on the ancient tripod. They are specially used to observe the yin and yang qi points. Think about it. Although it is not practical to decipher the dragon bone hexagram of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it is an important breakthrough. Based on his decades of painstaking study of ancient cipher symbols, he asks himself how confident he is that he can decipher the four hexagram symbols. According to the hexagram, as long as you have this mysterious bronze mirror, you may have a chance to find the "Earthly Immortal City".

But up to this point, these ideas were just a "castle in the air" in Professor Sun's mind. After the Guixu ancient tripod was broken, the copper tripod was melted and recast into an alchemy furnace, and the whereabouts of the hexagram mirror and the hexagram mirror were unknown. It is a "secret weapon of Feng Shui" in the eyes of the ancients. God knows whether it was taken to the ground by some wise tomb owner. Professor Sun has no money and power, and it is not easy to collect them again with his own efforts.

However, Youdao said that "God's will is unpredictable, and God's secret is the most clever." It was also a coincidence that he really got the opportunity. Two years ago, Professor Sun went to Inner Mongolia on a business trip. When he stayed overnight, a herdsman told him something very special. The strange thing is that the grasslands of Inner Mongolia had been severely desertified at that time, but the grass on one sandy meadow was extremely lush. From a distance, it looked like a green meadow. The area was not very large, about tens of meters in scope.

There are many weasels hidden in this meadow. They come in and out in groups and look extremely sneaky. In the past, local herdsmen rarely saw weasels. They thought it was an ominous sign, so they brought a large number of shepherd dogs and shotguns to kill them. The grassland The shepherd dogs on the mountain are best at catching gophers, and they are no less good at catching weasels. In less than a day, they killed hundreds of weasels, large and small, and their corpses were littered all over the ground.

After the cleanup, the herdsmen began to skin the weasels, and some people set fire to the grass. One of them saw a bronze dragon-shaped object in the earthen nest inside. I hung it on my horse as a decoration, and I thought about taking it to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for some cigarettes when I go to Qili for the market in a few days.

Professor Sun was a thoughtful person. When he heard the news, he went to the supply and marketing cooperative that night and bought a pack of cigarettes without saying a word. He asked the herdsman who had picked up the Eyeless Dragon Talisman, exchanged it without any effort, and kept it secretly. When he got up, he got the first hexagram talisman like a blind cat bumping into a dead mouse.

Since then, Professor Sun has become more interested in the ancient talisman of the Gua Mirror, but there has been no whereabouts of the other secret weapons. It was not until recently that we got some clues. It turns out that the "Gua Mirror" had already flowed out of the country in the late Qing Dynasty and was smuggled out of China. On the way, the ship sank into the sea. Sun Xuewu knew that his old friend Professor Chen had overseas connections, so he made up a lie and told Professor Chen that what sank into the sea was the "Qin King Bone Mirror", one of the eight mirrors of the King of Qin. The priceless national treasure asked Professor Chen to find someone to salvage it.

The back of the hexagram mirror is densely packed with symbols and patterns, which are very delicate and complicated. The collector is worried about being worn. In addition, in order to condense the sea air in the bronze mirror for a long time, it is covered with fire paint and stored. Sun Xuewu has been informed of this in advance. But he concealed it and told Professor Chen: "That's because the bone mirror has been used to guard corpses for thousands of years. The mirror is extremely obscure and cannot reflect people's faces."

Sun Xuewu knew that it was difficult to salvage the sunken ship in the vast sea. He used Professor Chen's relationship to salvage the Guixu Mirror. He also had the idea that "people decide what to do and what to do depends on God". He did not have high hopes, but unexpectedly, It was an unexpected surprise to actually retrieve the ancient mirror intact from the South China Sea. After getting it, I did not hand it over. Instead, I secretly hid it at home and secretly analyzed the hexagrams on the back of the mirror. Professor Chen was delayed during his medical treatment in the United States. He has done a lot of work, and has been busy since returning to China. He also believed deeply in his old friend and willingly gave the credit for finding the national treasure to Sun Xuewu. He never asked whether he had donated the national treasure, let alone knew That ancient Nanhai mirror is not the "Bone Mirror of King Qin" at all.

The copper fish in the four ancient talismans have been embedded in the ancient mirror for thousands of years and have never been separated. Sun Xuewu never even dreamed that the two talismans and the mirror were in his hands. , a blockbuster. Now there are only one person, one ghost and two bronze talismans. With all these things together, you can go to Sichuan and open the Guanshan Ancient Tomb. The secret of the Zhoutian hexagram seems to be close at hand.

Professor Sun recently learned that before liberation, someone bought a batch of cultural relics from Hunan tomb robbers. They have been among the people for many years, but fortunately they were not lost. They were donated by patriotic overseas Chinese not long ago and are currently on display across the country. Among them are the cultural relics. Including the alchemy furnace recast from the ancient tripod of Guixu and two other bronze hexagram symbols. When casting the alchemy furnace, the ancient tripod unearthed from the tomb of King Mu of Zhou Dynasty was also included, as well as the original shape of the tripod body. A graphic record was cast on the alchemy furnace.

Professor Sun happened to return to Beijing at that time. When he saw these antiquities on display in Tianjin, he couldn't bear it anymore. He was already withdrawn, and he didn't even ask for leave, so he rushed directly to the museum to see what was going on. However, in How can you enjoy viewing in a museum exhibition room from a distance? And he didn’t want anyone to know that he had been studying the Guixu Ancient Cauldron for many years, so he couldn’t contact him through formal channels, so he simply did nothing, sneaked into the museum late at night, and copied all the inscriptions and graphics on the alchemy furnace. Come down, I want to get a glimpse of how to use the "Gua Talisman and Gua Mirror".

The last few pages of the notebook are all about the inscriptions and patterns on the alchemy furnace, but only half of it ends. There is no further content in this notebook that records Professor Sun's secrets.

I happened to bump into me at that time. Professor Sun was afraid that his identity would be exposed, so he hurriedly fled the museum. He kept everything in mind, but left his most important notebook at the scene.

After reading it, I closed my work record book, snorted coldly, and cursed: "This old boy usually pretends to be serious, but in fact, he is completely hidden behind the scenes, hiding deeper than the Taibao Guanshan. He is so damn old." You are so treacherous that you actually used Mr. Hu as a weapon. I have never been fooled like this in my life. I walked back and forth with my head in the stormy waves and almost lost my life in the South China Sea. If I hadn't seen it now He still has to keep this Heaven-Changing Account in the dark - like a fool, he thinks he has made a contribution to the country, but he can hide the sound of his fart, but he can't hide the conspiracy of smelly and covering the sky with one hand. When the conspiracy is finally exposed, now that I know the truth, I must make sure that he can’t bear the consequences.”

Shirley Yang shook her head and said: "Don't get angry in a hurry. I don't think this matter may be that simple. I'm afraid there is something hidden that I don't know yet."

I pointed to the notebook and said to Shirley Yang: "Now that the facts are all there, there is no need to call Professor Chen to confront him face to face. As long as I bring this work record in front of him, he will not dare not tell the truth, and he will still be able to do it." What’s the secret?”

Shirley Yang said: "Professor Sun has never been successful in his career. He secretly studied the hexagram mirror and hexagram talisman. It was mostly a helpless move. I'm afraid he just didn't want others to interfere with his research results. In addition, the antiquities on display in the museum are all anti-prevention products. , although you and I didn’t know about this at the beginning, Professor Sun should have known about it for a long time. He sneaked into the museum late at night to look at the fakes. It didn’t seem to be a big deal. The Bronze Man and the Bronze Ghost were two real ancient talismans. , have been stored in the warehouse by the cultural relics department. I think even a scholar of Professor Sun's status would have difficulty accessing those national treasures without formal authorization. He wants to use four talismans and one mirror to explore the idea of ​​Dixian Village. After all, it cannot be realized, and sooner or later he will return the bronze mirror and bronze talisman in his hand to Zhao intact."

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