Chapter 4: The Eye of Heaven
"Meow ......" Pudding lay on the table and looked at Li Zimu who was staring at the computer screen in front of him, squinted his eyes and yawned, buried his head between his two paws and fell asleep quietly.
Li Zimu's eyes have been paying attention to this article on the screen, he picked up the coffee cup next to him and handed it to his mouth, and gently took a sip of espresso with thick oil, yes, it is definitely this thing, the last time it appeared was in the Yongle prosperous period hundreds of years ago, right? I didn't expect that after six hundred years, Li Zimu found its traces again.
On the computer screen was an academic article with a large headline that explained the main content of the article: The archaeological team visits the exquisite ruins and discovers a great secret!
The reason why Li Zimu returned to China a year ahead of schedule was the eye-shaped ancient jade with a large bowl mouth mentioned in this article, which is said to be called the Eye of Heaven, but Li Zimu knew that this thing had another name, called Phoenix Gall.
Jingjue, that is, the country of Jingjue, was first seen in the "Historical Records of the Western Regions": "Jingjue country, Wang ruled Jingjue City, went to Chang'an 8,820 li, 480 households, 3,360 mouths, and 500 victorious soldiers. The elite captain, the left and right generals, and the post commander each have one. It is 2,723 miles to the north of the capital protection office, and to the south to the state of Shulu for four days.
This small settlement in the heart of the Taklamakan Desert, thanks to the blessing of the Silk Road, quickly turned into a bustling and wealthy metropolis of merchants, but finally disappeared inexplicably.
This article is not wrong at all, the Exquisite Ancient Kingdom is indeed a country that admires eyes very much, and eye-shaped totems can be seen on every building in this city, and legend has it that the queen of their country has this very magical pair of eyes, as long as anyone who has seen her eyes, will be instantly petrified.
This is just a ruler mythologizing himself in order to centralize power, of course Li Zimu will not believe it, he has seen a lot of this trick from other emperors, and this article is also a very objective analysis of this matter.
However, Li Zimu's attention is obviously not on the body of the Exquisite Ancient City, but the Eye of Heaven that came out of the ancient city, this thing he has been looking for for hundreds of years, and in the end it is all in vain.
When a person lives for a long time, there will be a question in his heart, what is he living for, Li Zimu has been troubled by this question, and has not yet found his own answer, he has this question a long time ago, how long do he have to live? What do you want to do in life?
Hundreds of years have passed, and he has always been confused, until one day, the Eye of Heaven appears, and he can finally solve the problem that has plagued him for hundreds of years, because it is rumored that this ancient jade with a large bowl mouth has a magical effect, that is, it can point out the direction to a confused person.
Isn't this exactly what Li Zimu wants! It was simply tailor-made for him, and Li Zimu had no doubt about the veracity of this rumor, because he had witnessed a living example.
In 730 A.D., it was the prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, and this ancient jade appeared so inexplicably, and it quickly spread wildly in the capital.
I heard that the once heinous person shaved his head and became a monk on the third day after getting the eye of heaven, and he ate fasting and chanting Buddha in the largest temple in the capital, Li Zimu's target was him, no, it was better to say that it was the ancient jade in his hand.
Unfortunately, in the end, he was a step too slow, and when he arrived at the temple overnight, the man was already dead, and the cut on his neck declared that he was one step too late, and the man, who had been assassinated, had been wiped on his neck in his sleep.
In the end, Li Zimu turned out a notebook on his body, which he still carried with him until now, and he would take it out from time to time to look at it, which roughly recorded the person's experience of getting Gu Yu and the essay after the epiphany.
When he first saw this ancient jade, he was inexplicably attracted by what it invisibly emanated, and then after a fierce fight and snatching, it finally arrived in his hands.
After getting Gu Yu, he didn't solve the secret, and after being disappointed, he was chased and fled, and finally on the night of the third day, he finally couldn't hold on, so he found a wild country and fell asleep like this.
In the dream, he had a very wonderful experience, his body became smaller and smaller, and then directly into the ancient jade in his arms, and then the content did not know why the person did not write, only wrote that after waking up, he understood a lot of truths, and finally decisively chose to take refuge in Buddhism to wash away the sins he had committed in the first half of his life.
This is the general content of this notebook, Li Zimu has gone back and forth no less than a thousand times, he believes that the man is not lying, because he has no reason to lie, but unfortunately, he can almost recognize why he is alive.
The second time the Eye of Heaven appeared, it was already seven hundred years later in the prosperous era of Yongle, and it still set off an uproar, from the temples to the rivers and lakes, there was no one who was not crazy about it, and there were even people who offered a million taels of gold just to get it.
It's a pity that Li Zimu was meditating in the deep mountains and old forests at that time, and it was already a year later after hearing the news, but he was not as crazy as last time.
Just last week, when he was browsing domestic websites over the wall, he saw the news of the Eye of Heaven again, although the article did not mention the specific whereabouts of this bowl-sized ancient jade, but it was obvious that they had found some clues.
As long as there is a clue, Li Zimu will not give up, more than two thousand years, although he is now less entangled in the question of why he is still alive, but there is always something in his heart that guides him, let him find the eye of heaven without the slightest clue.
Li Zimu carefully read the whole article again, and only closed the computer after making sure that he had not missed any important information, and the author of the article was Wang Luohua.
Li Zimu specially checked, this Wang Luohua is a professor of archaeology at Minhai University, he is fifty years old this year, and some time ago he brought his students back from the ruins of the exquisite ancient city and published this article.
I haven't been back to that place for a long time, and now it should be a big change, right? Li Zimu thought to himself, his target for returning to China this time was Wang Luohua of Minhai University......