Chapter 73: A Strange Puzzle
I grabbed two mouthfuls of rice and turned back to the basement, and the swallow called me behind me: "You can take a rest, will you hang up so desperately?"
I didn't hear it, and walked back to the basement without squinting.
In my previous life, I never seemed to have done anything seriously with all my might. After listening to the story of the master and the master, I felt that I had really lived in vain.
"Always do something hard for what you love, forget yourself!" I thought to myself.
Back at my desk in the basement, I picked up the notebook and continued to flip through it.
The old man must have read a lot of information, and then excerpted important parts, and one of them is really peculiar.
He wrote: "The trigram is the forty-fifth hexagram of the sixty-four hexagrams of the I Ching. Zedi Cui (Gathering Gathering, is the middle and upper hexagram.
Xiang said: Swimming fish playing in the water was frightened by the net, jumping over the dragon gate and turning into a dragon, the three-foot willow drooping money, and ten thousand peach blossoms showed you. ”
I checked the information overnight, and I was able to briefly interpret it from Master's previous notes: "This hexagram is a superposition of different hexagrams (Xia Kun Shang Dui). Kun is the earth, for the shun, for the ze, for the water. The flood floods the earth, the people fight each other, the crisis will be everywhere, we must be good with the sky, take precautions, be supple and happy, complement each other, live and work in peace and contentment. Cui means gathering and uniting. ”
Then at the end of this passage, Master wrote in red handwriting: "The important way to open this box is in this sentence." ”
In this sentence, I read it again in confusion, and I felt that I could understand the general meaning, but I couldn't understand anything else.
What does Master mean by "unity?"
So, I'm going to find Swallow or Senior Brother to open this box together? No, the old man only gave me the key to this basement, and he didn't tell me to work with Senior Brother......
I racked my brains and thought of a lot of solutions, but it still didn't work.
I didn't sleep all night last night, and today I pondered it again and again until the afternoon, and now my eyelids are extremely heavy, as if they have been filled with lead, and I can't open them at all.
I took the notes and forced myself to read them, but the words in front of me were like aliens entangled back and forth in front of me, and slowly my hands were lowered and lowered, and the whole person lay on the table, falling into a deep sleep.
I am no different from me in my sleep. I felt this sense of detachment, but I wasn't sure if I was wandering in a dream.
I saw my every move, sat up, opened the note, and read aloud the passage in the old man's note: "Xiang said: Swimming fish playing in the water was frightened by the net, jumping over the dragon gate and turning into a dragon, three-foot willows hanging money, ten thousand peach blossoms show you." ”
I read it very vigorously, and the voice of the dantian was loud, and then the "self" closed the note, got up and walked to the dresser.
The dresser doesn't look like a modern thing, the mirror has been yellowed, the wood and paint around it have peeled off, it should be a bit of a historical guy.
I dipped my hand in some water, drew a yin and yang diagram of Zhou Yi gossip on the dresser, and then repeated the sentence loudly: "Xiang said: Swimming fish playing in the water was frightened by the net, jumping over the dragon gate and turning into a dragon, the three-foot willow drooping money, and ten thousand peach blossoms show you." ”
As soon as the voice fell, I saw that the mirror surface of the ancient vanity mirror had changed!
Is this a dream? I tried to struggle to get up, but my whole body seemed to be pinned down by a tremendous force, and I couldn't move!
I stared at the mirror with wide eyes, and the gossip map that I drew with my hand first actually moved!
"Damn. An exclamation came from my body, a muffled voice, as if it were beneath the surface of the water.
I saw that it was too late and that it was fast, and the water-shaped gossip on the mirror was like a boiling raindrop, trembling one by one, and gradually, the entire gossip map came alive!
I was so frightened that I jerked back, slamming into the corner of my desk, grinning in pain. At this time, the two grains in the mirror, which represent the origin of yin and yang, bounced directly and jumped out of the mirror, dancing on the mirror like dragonflies......
Mom, I guess something evil is happening, right? I felt numb in my scalp and my feet were weak, and I wanted to run away, and my feet felt as heavy as lead.
Seeing those "things" getting more and more jubilant on the mirror, I was so frightened that I couldn't speak, and my eyes were staring at them.
"Bang!" one of the origins became a copper coin! followed by another origin also became a copper coin, and the two copper coins crossed and jumped in the air, crossed the fish-shaped line, and landed firmly in each other's positions!
At this point, it was as if a beam of light was coming from the mirror, and I couldn't believe my eyes at all.
It's a basement with no natural light at all, where does this light come from?
Before I could come back to my senses, the light became brighter, and the two copper coins spun rapidly at the two points of yin and yang, so fast that they almost rubbed the mirror into sparks......
"It's not going to explode, swallow, save me!" I shouted desperately, but my voice couldn't penetrate at all, so I could only let the mirror in front of me light up like a fire, and the sky that was opened by the clouds and mist gradually became dazzling, and I couldn't look at it directly!
I'm not going to explain it here...... When I was extremely nervous, I saw that two copper coins were missing, and what appeared in front of me were two dragons with golden bodies and teeth and claws!
The whole mirror shook wildly, as if something was about to erupt......
"Huh?" Suddenly, the mirror stopped trembling, and the two dragons were not as excited as before, leisurely, and even with peaceful faces, they were wrapped back and forth in the mirror, and in an instant, the mirror was like the sky and sprinkled with pink petals, accompanied by tender green willow leaves, like a picture of spring dawn in the heavenly palace.
I looked at it, and although I didn't understand what it was all about, I had never seen such a beautiful scenery before.
I saw peace and kindness in the eyes of the two dragons, and slowly walked over with courage, wanting to feel them with my hands.
The moment my hand touched the mirror, a tingling sensation like an electric shock spread from my palm.
"Ah...... "I screamed in pain, trying to retract my hand, but it seemed that the mirror had a vortex of power, sucking me in!
"No...... No, no, my hand!" I tried my best to pull my right hand with my left hand, but I couldn't stop the whole person from sinking into the mirror, and in a few seconds, most of my arm was gone! Damn, what the hell is this?
I stretched out my right foot, pressed against the top of the dresser, and pulled my arm out with all my milking might.
"Ahh
"Oh!" I screamed and woke up to find myself lying on the old man's notebook, the basement pipes were a little leaking, and a few drops of cold water were dripping on my face.
"It turned out to be a dream......," I let out a long breath and quickly turned to look at the dresser, which was still standing there, my panicked face faintly reflected in the faint yellowed mirror.
There are no dragons, no water gossip diagrams, no peach blossoms, and no whirlpools......
My heart was pounding violently, what does that mean? This dream is so weird!
I flipped through the old man's notebook, and the words on it were still the old saying from "Zhou Yi", and I forced myself to be calm.
If this is some kind of hint, then the dream just now has the most to do with this old saying!
That's right, all the elements match, so what's the point?
I closed my eyes and recounted the dream in my mind.
"Ahh
Yes, I stood up and paced back and forth in the basement quickly.
First there is water, then there is the gossip map, then there are copper coins, then there are dragons, and then there are peach blossoms and willow leaves!
I excitedly ran to the box, squatted down and sniffed the strange fragrance it emitted carefully, and rubbed the gossip map engraved on the cover of the heavenly spirit with my hand.
If that's a hint, then I'll give it a try!
Copper coins, where do you seem to have seen these two words? I frowned and searched quickly in my head,
"Yes, old man's letter!"
I took out the old man's letter from my bag, and on the contact page, there was a line of words: "Caishikou Antique Street, Fourth Brother Jin." ”
I grabbed my bag and ran out of the villa.