Chapter 57 about opening

"Uncle Lu, maybe we misunderstood from the beginning, maybe the sentences of these short poems are not like this." I say.

"Yin Yin, just say it, I'm semi-illiterate, I can't understand any broken sentences or anything like that, when I was in school, I hated learning what bullshit ancient Chinese the most, I couldn't understand it at all, and I didn't understand what the ancients thought, so I couldn't speak well?" Dazhe complained.

I waved my hand to stop Dazhe's continued nagging, "We used to break sentences like this: ugly, to, xin; Noon, to, self. In this case, we take it for granted that this is a combination, that is, translated, it can be understood that ugly corresponds to Xin, and Wu corresponds to self. But what if you change the way of sentence breaking? For example: ugly, Yu Xin; Noon, to yourself. This may seem grammatically unreasonable, but can we understand it as: ugly, xin, noon, self, mao, d, wei, b. If so, then these should be a cipher, not some so-called short poems, and the person who wrote these grammatical sentences just wanted to write down the words and confuse the people who lived here. What do we get by deciphering these words according to the combination of the sexagenary branches? I asked.

Uncle Lu and Yun Ximing both pinched their fingers and began to count the numbers, Dazhe's face was dazed, obviously he didn't know what I was talking about. It didn't take long for me to get my answer.

"It should be: 28764482." Yun Ximing said.

"Yin Yin, this shouldn't be your ancestor's office phone, right? No matter how you look at it, it looks like a landline number. Dazhe asked.

"Maybe that's not what she meant to be, but now it's just a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and maybe it's hard to say what other special meaning these numbers have."

"I agree with the girl, we should try whatever weird solution it is now." Uncle Lu agreed.

"In ancient times, people generally said that the southeast and the northwest, just now Dazhe put the seven and six on the balance due south, so let's try to put the two and eight on the east organ now." I analyzed.

We immediately ran to the east side of the machine, I put the night pearl in my hand, this is a situation that can never be balanced in the eyes of normal people, there are only two night pearls on one side, and even the bottom of the copper jar is not covered, and there are eight night pearls on the other side, all of which are placed at the mouth of the copper jar, and they are about to fall. The moment I let go, I felt a little stupid, or rather a little stupid, that it was such an unreliable idea, but no one questioned it, and we all seemed to believe that something miraculous would happen, and we all stared at the mechanism without blinking. The familiar rumble sounded again, but this time I felt a little different, because this time it was a bit more muffled than the previous sound, not the sound of mechanical operation, but the sound of something rubbing against something, such as a conveyor belt.

The scales in front of me had been oscillating until there was a "click" and the scales stopped, and as in the case of Dazhe, the scales remained strangely balanced, although the items on both sides were very different.

"I said Yin Yin, your ancestors are really chicken thieves, you got such a combination lock, you said that if you can't read Chinese characters, how many times can you try it."

I didn't answer, but I was muttering to myself. It is really impossible to try out this set of passwords by coincidence, and no one would have thought that such an imbalance could unravel the mechanism. With these two experiences, we all gained confidence, and the scales on the north side were immediately lifted, and now all three scales were parked motionless, waiting for the last one to be in a balanced position as well. But this last one, something went wrong.

The number of balances on the west side that should be placed is four and four, which is originally a balanced number, and we also think it is the safest, so we left this one on the west side to the end, but who would have thought that after the night pearl was put on, although the balances on both sides were balanced, but the kind of lock-like "click" never appeared, and the balance was not locked, and it could still be shaken.

Just in case, we checked the other three balance mechanisms and found that there was indeed no problem, but now there is no way to put this one in order anyway.

"Yin Yin, I think it's better to forget it, it seems that we are unlucky, the one I made is not broken, but there is one here that is broken. Accept your fate, maybe this feng shui treasure is our final destination. Dazhe chattered endlessly, Yun Ximing really couldn't listen to it anymore.

"Fatty, close your crow's mouth, Uncle Lu, what are you doing?" Yun Ximing asked.

I've also noticed that since we checked the balances just now, Uncle Lu has been moving back and forth between several balances, and I don't know if I found anything. was asked by Yun Ximing, and the uncle stopped.

"Yin girl, I really want to find a little problem, this balance seems to be a little different from the other three." Uncle Lu said.

"Lao Lu, what you said, of course it will be different, these three are good, this one is bad, isn't it different." Dazhe shouted.

I'm not a careless person like Dazhe, I walked over and looked, and sure enough, I found that there was a gap at the bottom of the balance on the west side, although it was a gap, but it didn't look like it was damaged, but it looked like it was made on purpose when it was done on purpose, this gap was a bit like a small funnel made by man, and there was a pile of dirt scattered around it.

"Yin girl, do you think it's a problem with this thing, what is this for?"

I thought about it, but I didn't have a clue for a while, could it be that this device is really broken. I began to integrate the information in my mind, and the most useful thing for us at the moment was the short poem, the first four sentences of the secret code, the sentence of fate to the sky, maybe I want to tell us that the password here is arranged according to the direction of the south, east, west, and northwest, so what does the last sentence, towards the dust, mean.

I'm almost going crazy with these grammatical and paraphrased sentences. I really want to scold like Dazhe, bullshit.

To the dust, to the dust, to the west, to the west, the ancients, the west, to the west, the west generally refers to Elysium. Dust, return to dust, and turn into dust after death, is also the view of the ancients. Dust, dirt!

"Uncle, let's put this soil in and try it!" Maybe it's my whims, but my subconscious tells me that this is how it should be put in, and Uncle Lu's words to me have always been carried out immediately, and all the dust on the ground will be collected into that funnel-shaped gap after three times and five divided by two.

Time stood still for a second, and then I heard the "click", the lock, opened.