Chapter 98: The Last Clue

The demise of the state of Yunnan in the Han Dynasty, the middle of the time, the domestic occurrence of a great contradiction, there is a part of the people from the state of Yunnan split out, these people into the lofty mountains and mountains, living in isolation, since then, these people slowly disappeared in history, the later generations of their understanding is only from the with the “歑檛引异考”, the sporadic records.

This group of people separated from the ancient Dian country, naturally formed a tribal group, they have a very strange ritual, they use the kind of hanging off in the water of the strange tank, the living people drowned in it, to the dead to raise fish, every day to eat human flesh of the fish, the strength of the fish than ordinary fish to be several times, and so on the fish after the fish grow up, to be in the evening of that day happens to be the full moon, the tank out of the water, will be inside the human bones burned, used to sacrifice the six Jade Beasts, and then the fish in the tank, boiled soup and eaten, it is said that eating this kind of fish fed with the dead, can prolong life.

Shibi store coffin store of the old boss, I do not know how to get these things, is the ancestors, or their own search, for the time being are not known, it is likely that he mastered this set of evil rituals, and in the coffin store found under the ground of the pre-Qin ruins, which is tantamount to finding a very hidden place, in order to better hide and not exposed, it will be the use of a shot of the coffin on the legend of the dead, so that the villagers in the vicinity of his store to produce A sense of awe, easily afraid to approach, until after his death, these secrets have been able to emerge, but the coffin store of the old boss, whether or not it is a murderer, these also have to wait for the Public Security Bureau to come, and then do a detailed investigation and evidence.

Listened to Professor Sun’s words, just the meal also has a tail of braised fish, I was so disgusted that even the rice can not eat, the more I think of the more nausea, simply do not eat, I said to Professor Sun: “You are simply the Oriental Sherlock Holmes, I studied half a day under the side of the flabbergasted not to see a reason, high ah, you are really high.”

Professor Sun’s attitude this time is much better than the last time to me, at that moment said to me: “In fact, I used to see with my own eyes in Yunnan, someone collected a mouthful of such a strange tank, was bought back from the South China side many years ago, I can’t imagine that this kind of evil magic, in some parts of Southeast Asia circulates to this day, do you still remember what I said last time, Lao Chen saved my life, that is also in Yunnan. ”

This kind of disgusting and ferocious evil art although odd, but after all, with us no direct relationship, we can find Professor Sun has already reached the goal, so just now Professor Sun said those words, we are just casually listen to, Shirley Yang and I was about to have a request for the matter of Professor Chen with him, a moment did not think of how to open the mouth, at this time to listen to Professor Sun mentioning Professor Chen, then asked him to elaborate.

Prof. Sun sighed: “Alas, what can be said, said shame ah, but anyway, past so many years, when I and old Chen we two, was sent to Yunnan to receive rehabilitation, the old Chen than I older than a dozen years old, I take care of me, I was out of a bit of a style problem, and the local widow fell in love with me, I don’t say that you should know, this thing at that time, the impact of how bad! I don’t have to tell you, but you should know how bad this matter was at that time.”

I pretend on the surface of a serious listening, secretly laughing in my heart: “Sun old man looks like a farmer working in the field, not like a professor, I can not imagine that there is such a flirtation in the past, and even this romance are explained, from this point you can see, he is a heart loaded with things that can not be people, want to set his words is not too difficult, the key is to find a good breakthrough. ”

Only to hear Professor Sun continue to say: “At that time I could not resist the pressure, hanging in the barn, kicked the chair under the feet to feel uncomfortable, and do not want to die, especially regret, to life again began to be particularly fond of, but regret is also too late, the tongue is sticking out half of the eye is about to be finished, at this time the old Chen rushed over to save me, if there is no old Chen, where would have now If not for Old Chen, where would I be now?”

I know the opportunity to come, Professor Sun recalled the events of the year, touching the heart, more words, take this opportunity to hurry to Professor Chen’s condition now said ten times worse, and let Shirley Yang took out the topography of the different text keel to Professor Sun to watch, told him why we came to beg him, even if for the sake of Professor Chen’s face, to give us an exception to leak a bit of secrets.

Professor Sun’s face immediately changed, bit his lip, hesitated for half a day, finally said to us: “This piece of topography I can take back to help you look at, analyze what exactly is written on it, but this matter you must not confide in anyone, it is inconvenient to say more here, and so on we return to Gutian County guesthouse tomorrow, you come back to me. ”

I was worried that he would change his mind again after the turn of the day, so I asked for the topography of the heterogeneous text keel back, and agreed with Prof. Sun that I would show it to him after we returned to the county guest house.

After dinner that day, I and Shirley Yang to take the road back to Gutian County first, not yet wait out of the village, was that full of fortune-telling blind man stopped, blind man asked me if I still want to buy him that “dlt mi eye map”, the goods seller, as for the price, good to discuss.

If I didn’t see the blind man, I would have forgotten about this to the clouds, I know that his book “dltzi Mi Earth eye map”, in fact, it is a feng shui map, not much use, the real material is more special, so it is worth a lot of money, the content of the map itself, and the Classic of the Mountains and Seas is almost the same, and not much significance, in addition to the blind man, this is an egg of the Xibei goods, is not the real thing.

I said to the blind man: “old man, you this figure still want to sell to the knowledge of the goods?”

Blind man said: “that is natural, know the goods at will open a price, I will be willing to love, do not know the goods, even if the promise of a thousand gold is in vain, this God can not fall into the hands of the ordinary generation, the old man that day for you to touch the bone break the face, found that you snake lock seven orifices, born of a powerful image of the gods, look at the world, can be matched with this ‘dltziMiDltEyeDrawing, give up you! who else.”

I said to the blind man: “words to say, then you are afraid that this atlas is not sold, because this is simply a copy of the goods, know the goods are not willing to buy, do not know the goods and you do not sell, you still keep it, and do not take the Zhuhou say things, okay, our family may have been out of the pig, may have been out of the monkey, but there is no pig or monkey, if I am a pig or monkey I should be in the zoo. If I were a pig or a monkey, I’d be in the zoo.”

The blind man saw that I recognized the fake map, then begged me to read in the case of peers, to bring him to Beijing to go, in the capital to give a fortune teller touch a bone, selling some eggs of the Ming what, or to respond to the court’s call to run a small fortune.

I look at the blind man is really a few points of pity, moved the side of the hidden heart, and Shirley Yang discussed, agreed to the blind man’s request, promised to go back to Beijing to give him a place to live near Panjiayuan, so that the big gold teeth to take care of care of him, and the blind man’s mouth can run away from the aircraft carrier, you can do business in the future for us as a good trust.

But I told the blind man, the capital is not compared to other places, if you again to who fortune-telling, are picking up the big, said the other side will be able to do what the king’s head, it will not work, or maybe then give you deducted an incitement to the masses of insurrection of the hat to do it.

Blind nodded: “These reasons, do not need you to say, I also naturally pay attention to, that charge is ten thousand can not afford to bear, once the court on the investigation down, at least also asked the old man a beheading Supervisor waiting, to the capital, the old man to pick up that meet the words of wealth is just.”

So I took the blind man back to the guotian guest house, there are words will be long, nothing that is short, and say the next day afternoon, hard to expect Professor Sun back, immediately let the blind man waiting in the guest house, and Shirley Yang about Professor Sun to the county town of a restaurant to meet.

In the restaurant, Prof. Sun said to us, “Regarding the matter of the dragon bone foreign text, the reason why I didn’t tell you last time was because I had more concerns at that time, but yesterday I thought about it all night, even for the sake of Old Chen, I can’t help but say it, but I hope that you guys must act cautiously, and don’t make too much of a mess.”

I asked Professor Sun, “I don’t quite understand, what exactly do you have to be concerned about? Why can’t these things that are thousands of years old be publicized even today?”

Prof. Sun shook his head and said, “It’s not that I can’t say it, it’s just that it’s not the right time to say it, the information I have is very limited, these foreign language keel are all ancient confidential documents, which record some little-known, not even recorded in the history books, the method of deciphering the heavenly book has been mastered, but due to the age of separation is too far away, how to understand and how to prove the contents of these deciphered out, how to Understand, how to test, are very difficult and complex, and these keel foreign language has a lot of mutilations, it is difficult to see well-preserved, once the content of the crack and the original text produced ambiguity, even if only one word is not allowed, that error can be big to go ……”

I said to Prof. Sun: “These business things, you told us, we do not understand, we came a long way to find you, just want to know the matter of the dust beads, as well as Shirley Yang with the dragon bones of the foreign language topography, I hope that you help us to decipher out, to see if there is the dust beads where the clues have landed in the concrete.”

Professor Sun took the topography and looked at it for a long time before he said to me, “According to the regulations these are not allowed to be said to the public, the last time I scared you is also for this reason, because this information is still immature, to publish it is irresponsible to the history, but this time for the sake of Lao Chen, I can’t care about what the regulations are, and I’m going out on a limb today, you guys want to ask about the Dust Bead, for the Dust Bead’s things I know Very little, I think it may be some kind of symbolic ritual, the shape is like an eyeball, the earliest appeared in the Shangzhou period, in the excavation of the Western Zhou period of the keel in the secret text, as for the dust beads is what period, by what people to produce, and from where to get the material, there is no clear information, such as the piece of topography that you brought, but also and I have seen much the same, I’m not sure that the symbols on the keel is dust beads, but I can tell you for sure that the symbols on the keel is the dust beads, but I can tell you for sure that it’s a very important thing. But I can tell you for sure that this symbol, which also resembles an eyeball and a vortex, represents the meaning of phoenix in the secret texts of the Zhou Dynasty, and the information recorded on this topos is the Western Zhou people’s description of Fengmingqi Mountain.”

I was full of questions, so I spoke up and asked Professor Sun, “Phoenix? Isn’t that a fictionalized animal of the ancients? Has it ever really existed in this world?”

Professor Sun replied, “This is not too good to say, due to this kind of Dragon Bone Heavenly Book records are the ancient ruling class is very important information archives, ordinary people simply can’t know the content, so I personally very much believe in the content of the Dragon Bone Secret Records, but then again, I don’t think the world exists in the phoenix, maybe this is a kind of secret text in the secret text, hint in the hints.”

I pursued Professor Sun, “Are you saying that this content appears to depict a phoenix, but is actually a replacement for an event or item, just like in some of the war movies we watch, some of the National Army privately call the Chairman of the Commissioners an old man, and the moment they mention an old man, everyone knows it’s Chiang Kai-shek.”

Professor Sun said, “your analogy is very inappropriate, but the meaning of a few points close, the ancient phoenix song Qishan, heralding the Taoist attack on the Taoist, the rise of the Zhou Dynasty, only to replace the decline of the Shang Zhou, the phoenix this fictional beast, can be said to be a symbol of good luck and wealth, which is in a variety of historical periods, in different religious contexts, have a specific significance, but as for the book of the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book, represents what meaning, can be on the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book, can be on the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book, the Dragon Bone Heavenly Book. What implications it represents, it’s hard to say, I deduced that this eyeball shaped symbol represents the phoenix, also based on the rest of the text in the same chapter on the Dragon Bone, this point shouldn’t be mistaken.”

I nodded my head and said, “That’s right, because the dust bead itself has another alias, called the Phoenix Gallbladder, and this name has been passed down from somewhere, so it seems that there is some kind of connection between this eyeball shaped ancient jade, and that fictional creature, the phoenix. Professor, in the secret text of this fast topiary, is there any mention of any clues about the ancient tomb, or location, or anything like that?”

Professor Sun said: “Not I refuse to tell you, is indeed half no, I help you to write the translation on paper, a look will know, this is just an ancient description of the Phoenix Qishan sacrifice to heaven, this kind of thing has always been the emperor is very valued, you can pray to get the phoenix foretells, can be entrusted to the sky, achieve great things, just like we are now the restaurant opened, set off firecrackers, hang the red banners to To get a good luck.”

Shirley Yang and I fell into a five-mile fog, full of thought that this piece of precious topography, there will be the whereabouts of the dust beads, in the end, but only this kind of content, I let Prof. Sun wrote down the translation of the topography, read it over and over again, and indeed did not mention any location, it seems that the clues that have been shelved for decades, as of today, and then broken.

If we look for new clues again, it is no less than looking for a needle in a haystack, I can’t help but gnash my teeth when I think of the exasperated place, the veins in my brain have jumped up, Shirley Yang on the side also bit her lips, her whole body trembled gently, and the tears in her eyes were spinning in the eye sockets.

Professor Sun saw the two of us hanging our heads, so he took out a photo and put it on the table, “Don’t be so depressed first, come and take a look at this photo I took yesterday, maybe if you go to the deep forests of Yunnan, you’ll have some gains there.”