Chapter 61: Visiting the expert who interpreted the hints of the riddle text
I laughed bitterly and shook my head, “You specialize in people to the benefit of thinking, I see but not necessarily, from Professor Sun this work record can be seen, he secretly investigated the ancient tomb of the village of the Earth fairy time has not been short, the energy and effort devoted to this is not common people, and even said that the devil is not too much, so he will never give up halfway.”
Shirley Yang Qi said: “According to your opinion, Professor Sun will also go to the Hunan Museum of treasures to steal national treasures not? Although I do not know the degree of tightness of China’s treasure vault, but I would expect that it is not weaker than the bank’s vault defense, Professor Sun is almost 60 years old, and not much power and background, how dare to commit this mortal sin?”
I said to Shirley Yang: “He even ate a bear’s heart and leopard’s guts, dare to steal the collection of cultural relics, but there is no means of walking on walls, but after all, in his hands there have been fish and dragons two bronze talisman, and a return to the ruins of the hexagram mirror, I look at him in the notebook in the back of the mirror pattern patterns pattern, all is the ancient hexagrams of the first day of the graphic, in the middle of the sun and moon pattern is divided into the two meters, and with the circumference of the heavens! Three hundred and sixty-five engraved the number of the river map, which has a thousand changes, there are gods and ghosts difficult to understand the opportunity.”
I have been from the South China Sea “Dragon House” ancient Gu Gui mouth, know the number of innate ancient trigrams, now handed down the I Ching eight trigrams, there are yin and yang poles, began in Zhen, finally Burgundy, but the ancient trigrams are not alone to “dry Kankang Burgundy Zhen” as a symbol, and the return of the ruins of the trigrams of the mirror into a set of “Fish, dragons, people, ghosts”, are the sixteen hexagrams of the hexagrams of the week, the hexagrams were installed in the heavenly trigram disk, can give birth to an infinite number of opportunities, the number of opportunities together with the birth of an image.
“Fish, dragons, people, ghosts” may be the ancient trigrams in the “space, life” symbols, is the ancient divination of mountains and rivers and veins of the mysterious hints, all of the hexagrams should be sixteen, at least four number of machines, to generate a specific trigrams, the more the divine machine, the more the The more divine machines, the more accurate the trigrams will be.
Only “fish, dragon” two trigrams, in fact, can also deduce a simple trigrams, but the implication of the trigrams in the more obscure, the innate number of trigrams have an understanding of the people, most people understand this reason, Professor Sun studied the Dragon Bone Book of the Heavens for many years, naturally, know the mystery of it, he put together two of its symbols and a mirror, as long as to find out the use of the ancient symbols of the trigrams mirror deduce the trigrams, the way, it is always possible to find out how to use the ancient symbols of the trigrams. Trigrams on the mirror to deduce the way, may at any time to move into Sichuan to find the “Tomb Museum”.
But to my contact over the years “sixteen words yin and yang feng shui secret art”, as well as acquaintance “Zhang win Chuan, ancient guess” and other understanding of some of the mysteries of the ancient trigrams of the week, know that this matter is not as simple as imagined, sixteen number of old trigrams, “the poor through the universe of the changes, insight into the mystery of creation! “As the Qing Dynasty master Zhang Sanji said, “who understand the secret, the flood or fairy”, is not a mere mortal can understand the mystery, even if the so-called “heavenly” in front of the eyes, look at a lifetime may not be able to I understand that the old Gua of Zhou Tian is not the same as the old Gua of Zhou Tian.
As far as I know, the old hexagrams in the circumference of the heavens contain “trigram map, number of trigrams, trigrams, trigrams,” four, now painted with the trigram map of the ancient mirror, as well as the trigrams have the whereabouts of the South China Sea, I found in the South China Sea to return to the ruins of the remnants of the old Guiqi, but also know that the era of the “number of trigrams,” the ancient know-how, only the most important “trigrams” is missing. The only difference is the most important “trigrams”, no trigrams can not talk about the interpretation of trigrams.
Historically found Zhou Tian “trigrams, trigrams, trigrams, trigrams,” the most complete, when counting the end of the Qing Dynasty, there are groping officers from the Western Zhou Dynasty tomb dug out once, perhaps for fear of leaking the information invites disaster, soon after the destruction of these antiquities.
According to the information in Prof. Sun’s notes, “Guanshan Taibao”, a tomb robber in Ming Dynasty, had also opened an ancient mound, and the buried Gua Gua of Zhou Dynasty was hidden in “Dixian Village”, which is why there are the late Ming Dynasty robbers who entered Sichuan to steal ancient tombs, with the intention of searching for “Danding dragon bone, gold book jade Lu” legend.
I based on Professor Sun’s notes in the record, presumed that he does not understand the old hexagrams, but he holds more or less know some ancient grave robbers of the earth, may only be based on the eight trigrams of the day after the machine number of hexagrams, as well as years of experience in the study of the Dragon Bone secret text, with the hands of the copper mirror and copper talisman in his hands to look for the “Earth Immortal Village”, I’m afraid that the more you look for the further away from the goal, or maybe even to take their lives. Shirley Yang listened to me and said, “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to do.
Shirley Yang listened to my analysis and couldn’t help but worry: “If that’s the case, we should find Prof. Sun as soon as possible and persuade him to turn back before it’s too late.” I said: “Prof. Sun is a good person, he’s a good person.
I said: “Professor Sun is very stubborn, extremely persistent, he has been studying the Dragon Bone Book for many years, it looks like the mountain is not obvious, in fact, the ambition is not small, refused to be an expert in obscurity for a lifetime, think about it is also a rationale, and now the world is full of experts as many as the hair of the dog, what is so rare to hang a false name? He is probably determined to make a name for himself this time, to crack the ancient mystery of Zhou Tian Lao Gua, do some sensational effect out, wrestle a far away from the countryside and exotic areas are known to the high reputation, passed on to immortality, not to mention you and I, I think even if Professor Chen appeared also can not persuade him.”
Shirley Yang said, “Listening to you say this, surely already have plans, is not want to take advantage of the opportunity to do something? But when you come up with bad ideas, you can be considered half an expert.”
I said: “I did not have a bad idea, only that the village of the Earth Immortal hidden Dan Ding secret, seems to be exactly the kind of tomb we want to find, Professor Sun research for many years of detailed records, in the end, let’s pick up a ready-made cheap, I mean why don’t we go to Sichuan to walk on the back of a time? Use the gold to determine the point and Guanshan finger fans to compete, do back to the government to seek Xuan’s hook, steal the tomb Dan Ding out, or save the life of Duo Ling.”
Shirley Yang said, “I am afraid that this matter is not easy to do, Guanshan Taibao is a great tomb robber in the Ming Dynasty, and based on Prof. Sun’s notes, he doesn’t know the location of the Earth Immortal Village at all, and from ancient times to the present day, where is the practice of using a village as a tomb? I wonder if the Earth Immortal Village is an isolated and mysterious village like the Peach Blossom Garden discovered by the Wuling fishermen. What about the demonic arts and the silver screen and iron wall organs mentioned in the folklore?”
I raised my eyes to look out the window, I do not realize that the day has dawned, then said to Shirley Yang: “This is all an afterthought, at the moment, regardless of whether the Earth Immortal Village is to live in the living or burying the dead, we must hurry back to Beijing today, to go to Prof. Sun’s home to pull out his, that ancient mirror, even if it is not the Qin King’s Bone Shining Mirror, is a rare treasure, how can you allow it to fall into Prof. Sun’s hands, he If you take the ancient mirror into the mountains to look for ancient tombs, maybe this mirror will have to disappear with him.”
Said I bring the work record book, also can not care about eating breakfast, and Shirley Yang hurriedly catch the early morning long-distance bus back to Beijing, I went into the home, first of all the fat man has not yet got up from the back of the nest pulled out, the fat man is sleeping in a daze, complained: “Old Hu you are too unethical, you do not know the spring sleepy autumn lack of summer snooze, sleep does not wake up in winter in March, the winter months of the winter is not letting a person You don’t know that spring and fall and summer and sleep and winter and March. Too inhumane, when the fascists did not give the Yutai people under this bad trick ……”.
I said you get up quickly, we have work again, I take you to eat a full banquet?
When the fat man heard this, he was immediately energized: “I just dreamed of eating half of it, since this is the case, let’s quickly and quickly go to eat, who is treating ah? Who’s buying?
I took advantage of Fatty’s time to get dressed and asked him how his business with Mr. Qiao was going. The second master Qiao is a prestigious senior in the Liuli factory, in fact, most of them are incited up the floating name, not a few real skills, when he was young, dug a Yuan dynasty tomb suspected mounds, even thought he found a piece of land to move the body of the feng shui treasure hole, but as long as he is willing to pay, I am still willing to do business with him.
The fat man said: “The second master is good ah, quite to the fat master face, the key to us in Panjiayuan is also a personage ……” said the words haphazardly put on the clothes, draped in a coat, and I went out the door.
At this time Shirley Yang has called to Professor Chen asked to the address, I said to her: “Yesterday night did not sleep, you hurry back to rest, find Professor Sun talk about the matter, there are me and Fatty is enough, we must be persuasive and educational mainly to him to the reasoning, let him be sure to recognize the situation, and honestly return the national treasure.”
But Shirley Yang do not rest assured, insisted on going to visit Professor Sun together, she at most not say a word is just, but to stare at us do not make things.
I had no choice but to agree, the road and the matter of the fat man briefly said once, so that he can not be rash and reckless, do not go in with the Red Guards as if they were smashing, all look at me to act on the color of my eyes.
Fatty gritted his teeth: “Old Hu you see my temper, fat master in the South China Sea, almost fed the fish, busy so half a day, and the mirror finally fell into the hands of this old fox, must not be cheap, if he is willing to confess, and take the initiative to invite us to go to the square sun residence to rub a meal of the whole Manchu feast is also just, otherwise, you two really have to stop me, can’t stop, waiting for the last name of the Sun Sun, and I’m not sure how much I’m going to do, but I’m not going to do it. If you can’t stop me, you’ll have to wait for the old man surnamed Sun to collect his body.”
Professor Sun Xuewu live in a silo on campus, the so-called “silo”, that is, each floor has a number of units, toilets and kitchens, as well as water and sewage, are at the end of each floor of the building, is a shared public facilities, the building is blackened by soot, piled up with the family’s debris, the environment and the compound is almost the same, living conditions are not too good.
After the end of the Cultural Revolution to implement the policy, many intellectuals and old cadres are rejoining the work, but also reissued wages, but Sun Xuewu, although squatting in a cowshed under the labor farm, but some of his problems have not been explained clearly, it is said that he was in order to protect himself, selling to frame some people, he bites did not do that kind of thing, and now temporarily restored to the work of the treatment has not yet been delayed in the implementation of some of the seniority is not yet divided into housing, but the faculty and staff mixed living in the silo. Faculty and staff living in the silo.
We went to his door, the door is locked, may be he has not come back from Tianjin, I made up my mind to wait for the rabbit, let the fat man to go outside to buy a few sets of pancakes back, sitting in the hallway while eating, etc., to the time of noon, heard a Sichuan accent in the hallway, said: “Prof. Sun you come back, you come to see my noon to buy the scallop, this is what well? Not as wide as the waistband of my pants in the house, thanks to your Beijing so big Yo, even a decent fish can not buy.”
I heard another familiar voice answering: “Oh, Song ah, improve your life, eat braised scallops at night? Let’s see, it’s not narrow, don’t complain if you have something to eat.”
The three of us heard clearly, know that Professor Sun came back, and indeed from the darkened hallway do over an old man, hair toppling more serious, only a handful of hair left, combed on the top of the forehead on one side, it is the professional research of the ancient enigmatic text Tianshu expert Sun Xuewu, he obviously did not know that the person encountered in the Tianjin Museum is me, see us in front of the door and so on, he was just a little surprised, and asked: “Panjiayuan’s Hu Bayi, how do you know my address? It must be no good for you boys to look for me.” He seemed unwilling to let the neighbors see him talking to us, and without waiting for me to reply, he took out his key and opened the door of his room, letting us into the house.
I didn’t talk to him politely, I took Shirley Yang and Fatty and swaggered in, looking around, the room was full of nothing but books, nothing too much for living, and there weren’t even a few places to sit, so I had to sit on the pile of books.
Professor Sun closed the door to the room, turned to tell us: “no hot water, drink tap water to pour their own, the house has a lot of ancient books and books, no smoking, have something to say quickly, finished quickly go.”
Fatty heard so slow, can not help but to be angry, I pressed him to Professor Sun said: “We have no other intention, is on the way to see you, before in Shaanxi Gutian County, also be grateful to you to point out a, to come in too much of a hurry, did not bring any gift, you bought a set of pancakes, the two eggs, a little bit to show that the inch, no honor.”
Professor Sun puzzled: “Pancakes?” Then he waved his hand and said, “Don’t get close to me, I won’t instruct your group to rob tombs, if you have something to say, just say it quickly, I’m very busy at work, I don’t have time to entertain your group of cultural relics dealers.”
I was bewildered, “Professor, are you misunderstanding me? I have not been in contact with you for a few times, how come every time you see me, you say that I’m the one who sells cultural relics? Which eye did you take to see that I have cultural relics? Saying this again and again, it’s too hurtful to our feelings as business archaeology enthusiasts.”
Professor Sun face as frost, said to me: “I also occasionally go to Panjiayuan antique market shopping, now full of ears are full of Master Hu your name, who does not know that Master Hu hands are all Ming ware in the hard goods? I think we know each other a, I do not hide you, your thing I have long been mastered, the reason why you do not give you point broken, is to want you a chance to confess to leniency, you have to let me say it for you, back to the masses even if you want to leniency you can not find an excuse, had to be dealt with harshly.”
I said disdainfully: “you old can really worry about the people, all your own home as a Yamen mouth? Don’t be lenient with me, lenient I easily find the north, I’m a person from childhood, everywhere on their own strict requirements, can be from the strict we will never from the lenient, I am in Panjiayuan do some small business, but this is wrong? It is not because of my spare time hobby of archaeology, and the sale of fair not to take fake goods to cheat people, only to let the peers said a few words of praise? Is this also not good?”
Hearing this, Fatty also lost his temper, “Old Hu, you don’t need to talk nonsense with him, what’s the point of dumping a few trinkets? Low-class interest is not guilty, you just tell him about our dumping things, say it out to scare him to death.”
Professor Sun sniffed and said, “Look, your accomplices have already admitted it, and you’re still being tough?”
I want to escape, laughed: “Fatty to not say I really forgot, not just fighting it, not worth mentioning, you really want to hear, I will give you to read about, when I personally dug out a large coffin in Fangshan County, that tomb can have years, either the Jin Dynasty or the Liao Dynasty, I didn’t hesitate at that time, three times on the smashed it open, look at the inside of the thing is really quite a lot, then the coffin in the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin, the coffin. Really quite a lot, the body in the coffin first take the twine pulled to the outside, found that the dead body underneath, there are two and only a fist of the general size of the golden toad, are pure gold.”
Prof. Sun did not expect me to say so, obviously surprised: “You kid the guts are too big, in Beijing also dare to rob tombs? Hurry up and give an honest account, then how is it? Where did the artifacts in the tomb get smuggled to?”
I shrugged my shoulders, sighed: “Then open your eyes and see, the original is a dream, the dream woke up on no later, this dream do really a little bit of unfulfilled ……”
Professor Sun was angry with me more ugly face, stood up to send the guest, I said: “wait, you first allow me to finish my sentence, because I did a grave robbing dream, and feel that it is not enough, so I went to Tianjin to visit the exhibition of cultural relics over the dry addiction, and could not imagine that in the Museum of Nature encountered an acquaintance, this time it is not a dream. ”
Professor Sun was my words at once poked in the soft underbelly, already vaguely feel bad, the overbearing attitude is gone more than half, disheveled sitting back in the chair, tentatively asked: “You …… what you said? What …… what acquaintance?”
I put away the smile, said with a straight face: “I was in the middle of the night by the staff to take, take the back door into the museum, I did not expect to bump into the museum in the thief, but also at the scene to pick up a record of the work, the cover is the red plastic skin of the Tian’anmen Square city building, the contents of which, I read word for word the whole night, the more you look at it, the more familiar, the original of which mentioned that bronze mirror, it is us the three People, and a group of Nanyang picking green head of the egg people, sacrificing their lives from the eye of the sea to retrieve, this not only took a life, there is a companion straight now is still hard to predict, now this mirror was on the gua mirror was swallowed, this person even if he cracked the secrets of the trigrams of the week, the academic halo of his head, but also to take the South China Sea eggs of the people of the blood red, I catch up with the ten years of turmoil, did not seriously went to school for several years, know the matter is not as good as the blood, you as a professor more, I’m a professor. You are a professor of more, I came here is to ask you, this account we should how to calculate?”
Sun Xuewu heard the last face as gray, know that the matter as it is now can not be hidden, and may even get to the point of losing his reputation, he was speechless for a long time, and finally really can not resist, the mouth is also soft, do not dare to go around the circle, begged: “Please put the …… notes back to me. …… back to me, what do you want me …… to do? As long as it is within my power, I promise.”
I look slightly eased, said to Professor Sun, “People are not sages, who can not fault, know the error can change, or good comrades, now recognize the seriousness of the error, right? Just give you a chance to make up for your mistakes, I want you to take us, go to Sichuan to find the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village, and then also return the ancient mirror trigrams as is to Prof. Chen.”
The fat man added: “In order to let you hang on to the horse to know the way back, the fat master I worry about broken heart, make all the force, these days at least ten pounds thin, so you also want to invite us to go to Zheng Yang residence to eat a full banquet, and dig out the root cause of the wrong thinking, against the current situation, written into a written check, read out in public, expressed the determination to rectify the error, do you know that the fat master me to let you this old kid You know how many brain cells I’ve let you, old boy, kill me?”
Professor Sun at this moment is already strong and weak, and is a thief, after being revealed the old bottom, and then no longer have that face of serious expression and righteous official voice, lowered his head from under the bed to find out a few shoe boxes, the bronze mirror and two bronze talisman took out, handed to my face.
I took the bronze dragon talisman in my hands, the heart can not stop the tidal wave of thoughts, I can not think of more than ten years, but once again see this thing by mistake, the dragon talisman is still the same, the world is impermanent, the revolutionary comrades together with the ding Si sweet, at this time has been and we are ghosts and ghosts of different paths, the thought of her and the old sheepskin went to see Marx, my heart will be as if overturned the bottle of five flavors, and then look at the body of the fat man, and also early on in the sight of that dragon talisman The moment he saw the dragon talisman, he burst into tears.
At this time, I heard Prof. Sun said: “Write a check, Zheng Yangju …… no problem, but the ground fairy village can not find …… no matter who can not find, fish, dragons, people, ghosts of these four ancient symbols without eyes hidden in the mystery of the general implication, I racked my brains also can’t penetrate, can’t solve the hints of the eyeless bronze talisman, the trigram mirror trigrams will not have any practical use.”
I used my sleeve in the eyes wiped a hand, slightly fixed the spirit, asked Professor Sun said: “the copper talisman eye hollow, should be used to deduce the trigrams used, since the ancient way of divination by candlelight, more known as the tortoise divination, divination ancient art is actually divided into two kinds of tortoise, the mirror, the candlelight through the copper hole, the light leakage to the back of the mirror trigrams in the picture, is the so-called candlelight mirror method, which is described in your notes, you think I can not read it? Do you think I can’t read it?”
Professor Sun hurriedly explained: “The method is such a method, to measure the dragon vein feng shui, need to use human oil candles, only two copper symbols can also perform trigrams, but really so simple is also good, the back of the mirror trigrams on the map of the heavenly three hundred and sixty-five copper small boxes, each small box are divided into yin and yang to set up the two instruments, set up four sides to present the four elephants, which have a specific hidden meanings, if you can’t think of a fish, dragons, people and ghosts of the copper symbols If we can’t figure out why the bronze talisman of the fish, dragon and ghost doesn’t have eyes, how can we use it to deduce the trigrams? I thought that Hunan unearthed on the furnace will have clues, but in yesterday night after seeing with their own eyes, is still nothing, in the face of this ancient mystery, I am completely dead. Because the relationship between the trigram mirror and the ancient tomb of the earth immortal, like a cycle of cause and effect circle – no trigram mirror can not find the hidden and difficult to find the ancient tomb of the earth immortal, without the ancient tomb of the hidden trigrams of the heavenly trigrams and words, and can not use the trigram mirror. So you don’t expect to be able to find the ancient tomb of the Earth Immortal Village, in fact, the Earth Immortal Village itself is even more confusing, as if it is a legend that exists in the sky, and the most crucial thing is …… that you no longer have time.”