Chapter 207: The Secret of Earthworm Wen
Treasure of the Wind and Moon?
I took a closer look at the black jade plate, which was shaped like a bronze mirror, and was carved with strange runes, similar to the stone wall. Updates are fast and ad-free. I suffered so much that I learned my lesson and did not dare to test it with my divine sense.
A few little eunuchs chatted not far away, discussing which palace maid had big breasts and buttocks, and the content was unbearable. An elderly eunuch came over and reprimanded, you guys chewed your tongue indiscriminately, believe it or not, our family sent you to the Qing Law Division and pulled out your tongue!
The little eunuch was silent, knelt down and said, Father-in-law Liu, we don't dare.
Gonggong Liu said, you few beware, today the saint is angry in the morning, be careful to touch the mold, and no one will be able to protect you at that time.
The little eunuch said, the father-in-law taught him a lot.
A little clever little eunuch asked, I don't know why the saint is angry? Gonggong Liu, you have been by the emperor's side for the longest time, and you are also the most comfortable to serve the emperor.
Father-in-law Liu was very comfortable being slapped by the little eunuch's sycophant, and reprimanded in his mouth, just do your duty, why do you ask about this?
However, he immediately preached, in fact, he does not blame the saint, do you know that not long ago, the envoy of the Northern Zhou Dynasty came to pay tribute, and as a result, there was a master of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the mission, and his martial arts were abolished when he was playing black boxing?
I thought to myself, could it be that I was talking about the beautiful cabbage that I had abolished and cultivated in Neizhuang? Hearing this, I quickly pricked up my ears.
The little eunuch said, of course I have heard that it has been very popular in the capital during this time, and the envoys of the Northern Zhou Dynasty are rampant and domineering in the capital.
Liu Gonggong is fair, having said that, but this is an extremely serious diplomatic accident. The Ministry of Rites received a letter from the Northern Zhou Dynasty delegation today, expressing a strong protest against what happened to the people of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in the capital, and asking the imperial court to strictly investigate the matter, otherwise the Northern Zhou Dynasty will start a war against our Ming Dynasty.
The little eunuch said disdainfully, his skills are not as good as others, who is to blame?
Gonggong Liu said that you have no eggs, what do you know? This injured master is the invincible disciple of Huyan, the god of war of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Huyan Incompetence, the leader of the Northern Zhou Mission, is Huyan's invincible brother, and if something happens in the capital, will they care?
How?
Gonggong Liu said, how do I know, now that the national letter has been submitted, but in the entire Ming Dynasty, there are not many people who are proficient in the Northern Zhou language, and they don't know what is written on the national letter, so the emperor will be angry. If it weren't for the timely relief of the siege by Nanali's advisor from Dongyi, it is estimated that someone in the Ministry of Rites would have suffered again today.
The little eunuch said, so it turned out, I heard that Nanali's adviser was very knowledgeable, proficient in Jiaodong, Henan, Kanto, Fulan and other four Chinese, and was deeply appreciated by the emperor, if it were not for her status as a Western Liangren, it is said that the emperor would still want to accept her as an imperial concubine.
Mouthy again!
The little eunuch even pretended to pat himself on the face and said that I have a stinky mouth.
Gonggong Liu said okay, while the court meeting is not over, let's find a place to gamble.
The footsteps faded away, and it was estimated that they were looking for a place to be lazy.
There are 3,000 palace maids and 3,000 eunuchs in the palace, these little eunuchs have nothing to do on weekdays, and most of them can't go out, and their activities are limited to this palace, and there is nothing else to do every day except gossip and gambling money.
It was about noon, and today's pilgrimage meeting was still not over, but my stomach began to growl. Only then did I remember that I had eaten two donkey meat at noon yesterday, and now I have not eaten any grains of rice, and I really regret that I didn't eat a bowl of dog meat last night.
The last court meeting in the twenty-second year of Jingyuan finally ended, and the civil and military officials walked out of the palace while discussing.
Hungry in his stomach, thinking that the Demon Sect Leader Po Changfeng had been trapped here for two hundred years, what did he rely on to sustain his life? However, it seemed that he was just a demonic thought of Lu Chunyang, and it was not necessary to eat or not.
Drums beat on the bell tower, night fell, and silence fell in the palace.
After the Thief came down the mountain, I rarely worried about food, and my hunger tolerance had already deteriorated so badly that I couldn't compare it to when I was in the Door.
In the middle of the night, there was a squirming sound, the space in front of me was distorted, and the sword Wushuang appeared in front of me again. She has a chicken in her left hand, a duck in her right hand, and no fat doll in her arms, and she looks at me with a smile.
I said I figured out one thing.
What's up?
I figured it out, braised spicy chicken, the question of whether to put spicy seeds first, or put chicken first.
Jian Wushuang said that you are poor and poor, I don't have time to talk to you.
I smiled bitterly and said, the emperor is not a hungry soldier, you don't eat for a day and a night?
Jian Wushuang said coldly, In Momoyama, I haven't eaten a grain of rice in thirty years. I said in my heart that the devil knew whether you were a human or a ghost at that time, and he was here to talk to me about the wind and cold. She seemed to see through my mind and said, since this is the case, then you can continue to realize here.
With that, I turned around and left, and I hurriedly jumped in front of her, with only chickens and ducks in my eyes, and my saliva flowed.
Jian Wushuang smiled, want to eat?
I nodded.
She vomited violently, the chickens and ducks in her hands turned into dust, clapped her hands gently, and said casually: When you understand the mystery here, I will give you food. As he spoke, he turned around and was about to leave. I even stopped and said, you let me understand the secret of this amazing array, you have to give me a pen.
Jian Wushuang asked what he wanted a pen for?
I said helplessly, painting bread to satisfy my hunger.
Jian Wushuang snorted coldly, it seemed that he was still hungry. She arced with her hand, and another passage appeared in the space, and I said in my heart that I would not go at this time, but when, a lost step, grabbed her and rushed over.
Bang.
I was bounced back.
Jian Wushuang said with a smile, when you jump out of the three realms, you will be able to break through the spatial limit, so you can do it yourself.
Jian Wushuang walked in.
I sat on the ground, looked at her with my eyes in my eyes, and asked, after parting tonight, when will you come again?
Jian Wushuang said, it depends on your performance.
After she disappeared, two round objects rolled in front of me, and they turned out to be two steamed buns. I was so moved that I was about to suffer, so I quickly picked it up, bit it down, and almost knocked out half of my teeth, your sister, this steamed bun is harder than a stone, I scolded, but she couldn't hear it.
I took out my iron sword, scraped off the steamed bun crumbs with one sword, dipped it in the water droplets oozing from the rock crevices, and ate it with difficulty.
I walked around a few times and began to study the cave. If this is really the pivot of the Amazing Array, then the key lies in the runes on the stone wall. With the lessons of the past, I emptied my consciousness and began to study these runes, all of which were like earthworms, meandering, but there was nothing unusual about them.
I combed through the symbols, and the seemingly cumbersome earthworm script was actually composed of eighteen characters arranged and combined in various strange ways. Moreover, the runes on the entire wall can actually be seen as various variations of these eighteen roots.
Saussure once mentioned that a symbol can only gain the universality of meaning if it is fused in a system.
It has been said that our language determines the way we think.
To try to understand this set of symbols, then let go of our language, our way of thinking.
I carved eighteen characters on the ground with an iron sword, and compared them with the various variations on the stone wall, I began to try to give them tenses, cases, arbitrary permutations and combinations, and compared with the words on the wall, my brain was spinning rapidly, even ignoring the passage of time.
Slowly, I began to fall into a wonderful meditative state, and began to feel the wonder of this set of symbols. This set of two-dimensional characters that seem to be carved on the stone wall is actually not so simple, and it is very likely that it is not a human text.
Even, it can't be a text, it's just a symbol, a set of ideographic symbols.
A thought came to my mind, I tried to look at these earthworms from different angles, the more I looked at them, the more excited I became, I felt my breathing start to rapid, my heart began to beat violently, and I even began to believe my crazy thoughts.
Such as Columbus's discovery of the New World.
As Higgs predicted the Boson.
Through the observation of these characters, I began to have a bold conjecture.
These eighteen characters are actually just the same symbol!
That's right, the same symbol, projected one by one on the two-dimensional stone wall from different angles! That is to say, the runes on the stone wall are just a three-dimensional word! When I turned my attention to the stone wall again, I felt as if a strange and new world was presenting in my mind.
Since the runes were the same word, I began to restructure the word in my mind, or rather, this language, this set of symbols. When I fully saw through the eighteen characters on the wall, a three-dimensional symbol appeared in my imagination.
As I reconstructed this symbol in my mind, I began to marvel at the wonder of the Creator, a symbol in the shape of a hollowed-out sphere, and the eighteen symbols were images of the openwork sphere projected on a two-dimensional plane.
However, it was just a ball and was not given any meaning. This is clearly not the result I wanted.
I opened my eyes, and the moonlight flowed down from the twenty-eight holes in the dome. These 28 holes correspond to the 28 constellations in the vast starry sky.
I waited quietly, the minutes ticking by, and I never felt that time was so long.
When the Seven Nights of the Southern Heaven Suzaku appeared, the well, the ghost, the willow, the star, the Zhang, the wing, and the Zhen appeared in the hole, and the other twenty-one nights also appeared in the hole correspondingly.
At this time, the dome becomes a picture of the twenty-eight nakshatras.
I felt as if time had stood still.
The hollowed-out ball in his mind began to spin, and under the projection of the starlight, it took on earthworm-like words, like the runes on the stone wall. When I went to decipher the runes on the stone wall again, I felt them move.
At first, I thought it was a hallucination.
The entire stone wall began to become distorted, and these runes jumped out one by one as if they had come to life, and under the starlight, they gradually fused and fused, turning into the hollowed-out sphere.
Immediately afterwards, I was struck by the images presented in front of me, these earthworm texts, when deconstructed to meaning, are not linear descriptions like our language, but dynamic pictures.
PS: I'm very satisfied with this chapter, if you don't understand it, I'll recommend Saussure's to you, but after you finish reading it, I guess you will continue to be unable to understand it.