Ghost Blowing Lantern II

I smiled bitterly and shook my head: "You only think good things about people, but I don't think so. It can be seen from Professor Sun's work record that he has been secretly investigating the ancient tombs in Dixian Village for a long time, and he has devoted himself to it. His energy and hard work are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is possessed by a demon, so he will never give up halfway."

Shirley Yang Qi said: "In your opinion, Professor Sun will go to the treasure house of Hunan Museum to steal national treasures? Although I don't know how tight the treasure house in China is, but it is expected that the defense will not be weaker than the bank's vault. Professor Sun How can a man who is almost sixty years old and has no power or background dare to commit such a heinous crime?"

I said to Shirley Yang: "Even if he dares to steal cultural relics from the museum, he doesn't have the means to fly over the wall. But after all, he already has two ancient bronze talismans of fish and dragon in his hand, as well as a Guixu hexagram. Mirror, I saw that the patterns and textures on the back of the mirror he drew in his notebook are all innate ancient hexagram patterns. There are sun and moon patterns in the middle divided into two rites, which together correspond to the number of the 365 river diagrams of the Zhou Dynasty. They are ever-changing. , there are unpredictable opportunities."

I once learned about the number of innate ancient hexagrams from the Gucai mouth of "Longhu" in the South China Sea. The I-Ching hexagrams handed down now also have the two poles of yin and yang, starting from Zhen and ending with Gen. However, the ancient hexagrams are not just "Qiankan Genzhen". " is a talisman, and the "fish, dragon, human, and ghost" that are combined with the Guixu hexagram mirror are all hexagram talismans of the sixteen hexagrams of the Zhoutian. If the hexagrams are installed on the Zhoutian hexagram plate, they can give birth to Infinite opportunities, the combination of opportunities creates phenomena.

"Fish, dragon, human, ghost" may be the symbols representing "space and life" in the ancient hexagrams, which are mysterious hints for divining mountains and rivers in ancient times. There should be sixteen hexagrams in all, with at least four lucky numbers. , can a specific hexagram be generated. The more divine machines there are, the more accurate the hexagram will be.

With only two hexagram symbols "fish and dragon", a simple hexagram can actually be deduced, but the hints in the hexagram are more obscure. Most people who know something about the innate hexagram numbers understand this principle. Professor Sun studied He had been reading the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book for many years, so he naturally knew its secrets. He scraped together two talismans and a mirror. As long as he found a way to use the ancient talismans to deduce the hexagrams on the hexagram mirror, he could set off to Sichuan at any time to look for the "ancient tomb museum".

However, based on my exposure to the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" over the years, as well as my acquaintance with "Zhang Yingchuan, Gu Cai" and other people who understand some of the mysteries of the ancient Zhou Tian Gua, I know that this matter is by no means as simple as imagined. The Six Numbers Old Hexagram "can understand the changes in the universe and gain insight into the mysteries of creation." Just as Zhang Sanye, a gold-touching master in the Qing Dynasty, said, "Whoever unravels the secrets may be immortals in ancient times." It is not a mystery that ordinary people can understand, even if If you put the so-called "secret" in front of your eyes, you may not be able to understand its profound meaning even after looking at it for a lifetime.

As far as I know, Zhou Tianlao's hexagram contains four items: "hexagram diagram, hexagram number, hexagram symbol, and hexagram word". Now the ancient mirror with the hexagram diagram and the hexagram symbol have been found. I found it in the South China Sea. The survivors of Guixu made ancient guesses and knew the ancient formula of "hexagram numbers" passed down from time to time, but only the most important "hexagram words" were missing. Without the hexagram words, it would be impossible to interpret the hexagram images.

Historically, the most complete discovery of "hexagram diagrams, hexagram numbers, hexagram symbols, and hexagram words" of Zhou Dynasty was at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when Captain Mo Jin dug it out of an ancient tomb in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Perhaps he was afraid of revealing the secrets and causing disaster. Soon after, These ancient relics were later destroyed.

According to the information in Professor Sun's notes, the tomb robber "Guanshan Taibao" in the Ming Dynasty also dug into an ancient tomb and hid the Zhoutian ancient hexagram buried in it in the "Dixian Village", so there were rogue bandits in the late Ming Dynasty. After entering Sichuan, they robbed ancient tombs with the intention of finding the legend of "Dragon Bones, Golden Book and Jade Lu".

Based on the records in Professor Sun's notes, I speculate that he doesn't understand Zhou Tian Lao Gua at all, but he believes that he knows some of the ancient tomb robbers' earthworks. He may only count the hexagrams based on the acquired Bagua and his long-term study of dragon bone secret texts. Based on his experience, he used the bronze mirror and bronze talisman in his hand to find the "Dixian Village", but he was afraid that the further he searched, the farther away he would be from the target, and he might have to risk his life and fortune.

Shirley Yang couldn't help but worry after hearing my analysis: "If this is really the case, we should find Professor Sun as soon as possible and persuade him to turn back as soon as possible."

I said: "Professor Sun has a very stubborn temper and is extremely persistent in his work. He has studied the Dragon Bone Book for many years. He seems to be inconspicuous, but in fact his ambition is not small. He is unwilling to remain an unknown expert for his whole life. This makes sense when you think about it. , now that there are so many experts all over the world, what's the point of using a false name? He is probably determined to make a name for himself this time, and wants to create a sensation by cracking the eternal mystery of Zhou Tianlao Gua, and try to win the world. He is a famous person who is well-known in distant lands and foreign lands, and his reputation is immortal. Let alone you and me, I don’t think even Professor Chen can persuade him."

Shirley Yang said: "Listening to what you said, I must have already made a plan. Do you want to take advantage of the opportunity to do something? But you can be considered a semi-expert when it comes to bad ideas."

I said: "I didn't use my brain. It's just that the secret weapon of the Alchemy Cauldron is hidden in the Dixian Village. It seems to be the kind of ancient tomb we are looking for. Professor Sun has studied the detailed records for many years and finally let us pick up one." Ready-made bargains, I mean why don't we go to Sichuan? Use the money to fix the acupoints to compete with Guanshan Zhimin, go back to the house to seek mysteries, steal the alchemy cauldron from the tomb, and save it. Doling’s life.”

Shirley Yang said: "I'm afraid this will not be easy to do. Guanshan Taibao was a major tomb robber in the Ming Dynasty, and based on Professor Sun's notes, we don't know the location of Dixian Village at all. From ancient times to the present, how can there be a practice of using villages as tombs?" I wonder if Dixian Village is like the Peach Blossom Spring discovered by Wuling fishermen, a mysterious village isolated from the world? What are the witchcraft and silver screen iron wall mechanisms mentioned in folklore? "

I raised my eyes and looked out the window, and before I knew it, it was already dawn, so I said to Shirley Yang: "This is all for later. For the moment, we don't care whether Dixian Village is a place where living people live or dead people are buried. We must go back quickly today. In Beijing, go to Professor Sun's house to find him. That ancient mirror, even if it is not the bone mirror of King Qin, is still a rare treasure. How could it be allowed to fall into the hands of Professor Sun? If he takes the ancient mirror into the mountains to look for the ancient tomb, he said Maybe this mirror will disappear with him."

After saying that, I took my work notebook and didn't even bother to have breakfast, so I hurriedly caught the morning long-distance bus back to Beijing with Shirley Yang. After I got home, I first pulled the fat man out of his back who had not yet gotten up. He fell into a drowsy sleep and complained: "Old Hu, you are so wicked. You don't know that spring is sleepy, autumn is sleepy, and summer takes a nap, and winter and March are sleepless. How can you not let people sleep peacefully in the twelfth lunar month of winter? Too much. It’s inhumane. The fascists didn’t even inflict such damaging moves on the Yutai people back then..."

I said you should get up quickly. We have work again. I'll take you to a Manchu banquet?

When the fat man heard this, he immediately became energetic: "I just had a dream and I was eating half of it. Since this is the case, let's continue eating quickly. Who is treating me? Mr. Qiao?"

While the fat man was getting dressed, I asked him how his business with Mr. Qiao was going. Mr. Qiao is a well-respected and senior person in Liulichang. In fact, it is mostly a false reputation and he does not have much real ability. When he was young, he dug a false tomb from the Yuan Dynasty and thought he had found a place to move the body. Feng Shui treasure cave, but as long as he is willing to pay, I am still willing to do business with him.

The fat man said: "Second Master is a nice person. I give him a lot of face. The key is that we are also the number one person in Panjiayuan..." As he said this, he put on his clothes casually, put on a coat, and followed me out the door.

At this time, Shirley Yang had already called Professor Chen and asked for the address. I said to her: "I didn't sleep last night. You should go back and have a rest and talk to Professor Sun about it. Fatty and I are enough. We will definitely convince him." Education should be our priority, and we should show him our righteousness, so that he must understand the situation clearly and return the national treasure honestly."

But Shirley Yang was worried and insisted on visiting Professor Sun together. She could say nothing at most, but she had to keep an eye on us and not do anything inappropriate.

I had no choice but to agree, and briefly told the fat man what had happened on the way, telling him not to be rash and reckless, and not to smash things in like the Red Guards did when they ransacked the house, and that everything would be done based on my look.

The fat man gritted his teeth: "Old Hu, look at how bad-tempered I am. The fat man sank in the South China Sea and almost fed the fish. After working for so long, the bronze mirror finally fell into the hands of this old fox. We must not take advantage of him. If he is willing to confess later and take the initiative to invite us to Zhengyangju for a Manchu-Han banquet, it will be fine. Otherwise, you two really have to stop me. If you can't stop me, just wait for the old boy named Sun. Collect the bodies."

Professor Sun Xuewu lives in a tube building on the campus. The so-called "tube building" means that each floor has several units. The toilets, kitchens, and water supply and drainage are all at the end of each floor. They are shared public facilities. The corridors are all covered with coal. It was blackened by smoke and filled with debris from various households. The environment was similar to that of a large courtyard, and the living conditions were not very good.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, policies were implemented and many intellectuals and veteran cadres rejoined the workforce and received back wages. However, although Sun Xuewu had squatted under a cowshed and served in a labor camp, he had yet to explain some issues clearly. It is said that in order to protect himself, he betrayed He had blamed some people, but he insisted that he had never done anything like that. Now that he has temporarily resumed his work, his salary has not yet been implemented, and he still lives in the Tongzi Building with some junior faculty and staff who have not yet been allocated rooms.

When we arrived at the door of his house, the door was locked. Maybe he hadn't come back from Tianjin yet. I made up my mind to wait and see. I asked the fat man to go out and buy a few sets of pancakes and come back. I sat in the corridor and ate while waiting. At noon, I heard a man with a Sichuan accent in the corridor say: "Professor Sun, you are back. Come and see the hairtail I bought for lunch. What is this? It's not as wide as the waistband in my house. Thanks to you." Beijing is so big, you can’t even buy a decent hairtail.”

Then I heard another somewhat familiar voice reply: "Oh, Lao Song, your life has improved. Do you want to eat braised hairtail at night? Let me see, it's not too narrow. Don't complain if you can eat some."

The three of us heard clearly and knew that Professor Sun was back. Sure enough, an old man came out of the dark corridor. His hair was severely bald. The remaining hair was combed sideways on the top of his forehead. He was a professional researcher. Sun Xuewu, an expert in ancient enigmatic heavenly books, obviously didn’t know that the person he met at the Tianjin Museum was me. Seeing us waiting for him in front of the door, he was a little surprised and asked: "Hu Bayi from Panjiayuan, how do you know me?" What's your address? You must be up to no good looking for me." He seemed unwilling to let the neighbors see him talking to us. Without waiting for my answer, he took out the key, opened the door, and let us into the house.

I didn't want to be polite to him, so I walked in with Shirley Yang and Fatty in a big way. I looked around and saw that the room was full of books except books. There weren't too many daily necessities. There weren't even many places to sit. I had to sit down and read. Pile on.

Professor Sun closed the door, turned around and told us: "There is no hot water. Drink the tap water and pour it yourself. There are many ancient books in the room. No smoking. If you have something to say, hurry up and leave quickly."

When the fat man heard such neglect, he couldn't help but get angry. I held him down and said to Professor Sun: "We have no other intention. We just stopped by to see you. I was once given some advice by you in Gutian County, Shaanxi Province." , I came in a hurry, I didn’t bring any gifts, so I bought you a set of pancakes with two eggs, which shows little care and is disrespectful."

Professor Sun was confused: "Pancakes?" Then he waved his hand and said: "Don't be too close, I won't instruct you guys to rob tombs. If you have anything to say, just tell me. I'm very busy at work and don't have time to entertain you cultural relic dealers." .”

I was confused: "Professor, do you have a misunderstanding about me? I haven't been in contact with you a few times, but why do you say that I am a collector of cultural relics every time you meet me? Which eye did you use to see that I had cultural relics?" ? Saying this again and again would hurt the feelings of our professional archeology enthusiasts."

Professor Sun, with a frosty face, said to me: "I also occasionally go to Panjiayuan Antique Market, and now my ears are full of your name, Mr. Hu. Who doesn't know that Mr. Hu has all the hard goods in his hands? Even if we meet, I won't hide it from you. I have already mastered your matter. The reason why I won't reveal it to you is because I want to give you a chance to be frank and lenient. You have to ask me to tell you for you. Looking back, even if the broad masses of the people want to be lenient to you, they will have no excuses and will have no choice but to deal with it strictly."

I said disdainfully: "You are so worried about the country and the people that you treat your own home as the gate of the government office? But please don't be lenient to me. If you are lenient, I will easily lose my way. I have always treated myself since I was a child. Strict requirements, and those who can be strict will never be lenient. I am doing a small business in Panjiayuan, but is this wrong? Isn’t it because I like archeology in my spare time, and my business is fair and I don’t deceive people with fakes, so I am allowed to do so. Would your colleagues like to give you a few words of praise? Isn’t this also the case?”

The fat man got angry when he heard this: "Old Hu, don't talk nonsense to him. What's the point of throwing away a few gadgets? There's no blame for vulgar taste. Just tell him about our fight. You won't scare him to death if you tell him. .”

Professor Sun heard this and said hurriedly: "Look, your accomplices have already admitted it, right? Are you still stubborn?"

I played hard to get and said with a smile: "If Fatty didn't say that I really forgot, wouldn't it be just a fight? It's not worth mentioning at all. If you really want to hear it, I will tell you about it. I dug it out with my own hands in Fangshan County back then. It was a big coffin. The ancient tomb was old. It was either from the Jin Dynasty or the Liao Dynasty. I didn’t hesitate at all. I smashed it open with three strokes, five divided by two, and saw that there were quite a lot of things inside. So I took the corpse out of the coffin with a hemp rope and found that under the corpse, there were two golden toads as big as a fist, all made of pure gold."

Professor Sun didn't expect me to say this, and was obviously very surprised: "You are so brave, you dare to rob tombs in Beijing? Please tell me honestly, what happened next? Where were the cultural relics in the tombs smuggled to?"

I shrugged my shoulders and sighed: "Later I opened my eyes and saw that it was Nankeyi's dream. When I woke up from the dream, there was no more to come. This dream was really a bit unfinished..."

Professor Sun's face became even more ugly because of my anger. He stood up and was about to see the guests away. I quickly said: "Wait a minute, please let me finish my sentence first. It's just because I had a dream about tomb robbing and felt that I still didn't finish it, so I I went all the way to Tianjin to visit the cultural relics exhibition to satisfy my cravings, and I didn’t expect to meet an acquaintance in the Natural History Museum. This time it was no longer a dream.”

Professor Sun was suddenly hit by my words and felt something bad. His arrogant attitude was more than half gone. He slumped back in his chair and asked tentatively: "You...what did you say? What...an acquaintance?" "

I put away my smile and said seriously: "I was led by the staff and entered the museum through the back door in the middle of the night. Unexpectedly, I ran into a thief in the museum. I also picked up a work record on the spot. The cover was a red plastic from the Tiananmen Gate Tower. Pi, I read the contents word for word all night long. The more I read, the more familiar it seemed. It turned out that the bronze mirror mentioned in it was the three of us and a group of Nanyang egg pickers. , who risked his life to retrieve it from the eye of the sea. Not only did he lose a life, but also a companion whose life or death is still uncertain to this day. Now that the hexagram mirror has been stolen by someone, this person has cracked it. The secrets of Zhou Tian's hexagram and the academic halo above his head are also dyed red with the blood of the Nanhai Dan people. I caught up with the ten years of turmoil and did not go to school seriously for a few years. I don't know as much as you, a professor. , I came here just to ask you, how should we settle this account?"

Sun Xuewu's face turned pale when he heard the last part. He knew that he could no longer hide the matter and might even ruin his reputation. He was speechless for a long time. Finally, he couldn't resist anymore and softened his words. He didn't dare to Going around in circles again, he begged: "Please... return the notes... to me. What do you want me to... do? As long as I can do it, I will agree."

My expression softened slightly and I said to Professor Sun: "No one is a sage. He has no faults. He knows his mistakes and can correct them. He is still a good comrade. Do you realize the seriousness of your mistakes now? I will give you a chance to make mistakes." , I want you to take us to Sichuan to find the ancient tomb of Dixian Village, and then return the ancient mirror hexagram to Professor Chen intact."

The fat man added: "In order to stop you from the precipice and come back, Fatty, I have broken my heart and tried my best. I have lost at least ten pounds in these days, so you still want to invite us to Zhengyangju to have a Manchu-Han banquet and dig into it." Find out the root of the wrong thinking, compare it with the current good situation, write a written review, and read it in public to express your determination to correct the mistake. Do you know how many brain cells I have made this old boy like you fat?"

Professor Sun was now a strong man but a weakling, and he was a guilty thief. After his background was exposed, he no longer had the serious expression on his face and the stern official tone. He lowered his head and found a few shoe boxes from under the bed, a bronze mirror and two He took out the bronze talisman and handed it to me.

I took the bronze dragon talisman in my hand, and I couldn't help the thoughts in my heart. I didn't expect that after more than ten years, I would see this thing again by mistake. The dragon talisman is still the same, but the world is unpredictable. Ding Si, my revolutionary comrade who was with me in the great series, Tian, ​​now we are in different ways. When I think that she and Lao Yangpi have gone to see Marx, my heart feels like I have knocked over the five-flavor bottle. Looking at the fat man next to me, I have already seen the dragon charm. The moment he burst into tears.

At this time, I heard Professor Sun say: "Writing an inspection, Zhengyangju... No problem, but I can't find it in Dixian Village... No one can find it. The four ancient ancient coins with no eyes, fish, dragon, human and ghost." There are mysterious hints hidden in the talisman. I have racked my brains but cannot understand it. If I cannot decipher the hint of the eyeless bronze talisman, the hexagram mirror hexagram talisman has no practical use."

I wiped my eyes with my sleeve, calmed down a little, and asked Professor Sun: "The hollow eyes of the bronze talisman should be used to deduce hexagrams. Since ancient times, the way of divining hexagrams by candlelight is often called a turtle." Divination, the ancient art of divination is actually divided into two types: turtle and mirror. The candlelight passes through the copper hole and the light leaks into the hexagram on the back of the mirror. This is the so-called method of using the candle to perform the mirror. This is also described in your notes. Do you think I can’t understand?”

Professor Sun quickly explained: "The method is this. To measure dragon veins and feng shui, you need to use human oil candles. Only two copper talismans can also perform hexagrams. But it's just that simple. On the hexagrams on the back of the mirror are There are three hundred and sixty-five bronze talismans in the sky. Each talisman is divided into yin and yang to form two rituals, and four directions are set up to form four images. They all have specific hidden meanings. If you can't think of why the bronze talisman of fish, dragon, human and ghost has no eyes. , how can we use it to deduce hexagrams? I thought there would be clues on the alchemy furnace unearthed in Hunan, but after seeing it with my own eyes last night, I still found nothing. Faced with this eternal mystery, I I have given up completely. Because the relationship between the hexagram mirror and the Earth Immortal Tomb is like a cycle of cause and effect - without the hexagram mirror, you cannot find the hidden and hard-to-find Earth Immortal Tomb. The hidden Zhoutian hexagrams represent hexagram words, and the hexagram mirror cannot be used. So don’t expect to find the ancient tomb of Dixian Village. In fact, Dixian Village itself is even more confusing, like a legend that exists in Arabian Nights. And the most important thing is... you don’t have time anymore.”

Ghost Blowing Lamp II Volume 3 End

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