Chapter 137: The Wooden Plaque of the West
"Li Gongzi, Chen Gongzi, and this little son, the three sons are talented, and they really didn't disappoint my sister." I saw the lobby manager clapping his hands and praising and smiling to greet him.
"Hahaha, my sister is really ridiculous." I saw Xiao Zhengtai holding a beautiful woman in his right hand, holding a wine glass in his left hand, and said very embarrassedly.
"yes, that's ridiculous. But Xiaohao, can it be that your brother Tian and I appreciate you once, you kid will definitely become a big name in the future, oh, that is, a big weapon. Li Tianyu saw that Xiao Zhengtai on the side instantly cast an unkind gaze, so he hurriedly changed his words and affirmed him. It's just that this time it once again caused a flower branch to tremble.
"Alright, girls, you go down first, I have something to say to the three sons."
"Yes, sister." I saw that all the girls stopped laughing and retreated.
"Don't, don't. Isn't there anything to say about it? Xiao Zhengtai saw that the beauty in the crook of his arm was also gone, and he couldn't help but exclaim in disappointment.
Chen Youliang on the side originally wanted to echo, but after seeing Li Tianyu's gaze at the young mother Sang, he swallowed his words.
"The little boy is really temperamental. But there's no need to rush for a while. If the three sons are interested, from today onwards, they will treat this Fengqi Building as their own home, and they will come whenever they want. I don't know what the three sons think? I saw that this sister said seductively.
"That's great—" Xiao Zhengtai replied casually without thinking about it, but before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Brother Tian next to him, and at the same time, he also received a black foot from Brother Tian's boot.
"However, as the so-called merit is not punished, our brothers are all orthodox scholars, and we know the importance of filial piety, loyalty, courtesy, righteousness and shame, so I still ask my sister to explain the words first, and then the three of us brothers will consider it. Come, Youliang, pour a cup for this sister too, and ask her sister to take a sip alone. Li Tianyu said with a righteous face.
"Giggles, a few sons are really funny. Anyway, this cup will be made amends by my sister and me for my abruptness to the three sons. Seeing that Chen Gongzi really picked up a glass of wine and sent it to his eyes, this sister took it and drank it all.
"Okay, massive, my sister deserves to be a heroine among women." Li Tianyu brazenly praised. It's noisy, in later generations, I heard that those lobby managers are not qualified workers if they don't have a pound of alcohol, and a wine cup like this ancient one or two dollars should be able to have a few hundred glasses.
"Three sons, do you know this?" I saw that this sister stretched out her jade hand to her chest, and the next moment she reached into her clothes and teased her breasts.
"Know, know...... Sister, this is not - small - " Xiao Zhengtai said with a look of lust, but before he finished speaking, he saw that the sister in front of him had already felt a piece of wood from his chest.
Li Tianyu had seen this person's power before, and of course he knew that there would be clues, but when he saw the wood chips in the man's hand clearly, he was surprised.
"How is this a bit similar to our playing cards?" Chen Youliang was also at a loss.
"I'm afraid this is a court card or some kind of church card, right?" Li Tianyu looked at her inquiringly and said.
"Giggle...... I don't know. That's why I specially brought it to invite the three sons to taste, the three sons are well-informed, and now Li Gongzi must have figured out the answer. I saw her holding the piece of wood between her index and middle fingers, and looking at the trio with a smile.
"Brother Tian, you are so powerful. Sister, be careful that the wood has thorns and cuts your fingers, so let me take it for you. Cui Hao looked squinting and pitiful for the jade.
I saw that the elder sister really handed the wood chip in her hand to Cui Hao when she heard this, and after Xiao Zhengtai took it, she instantly stared at the wood chip in her hand with a curious gaze, and she looked like she was salivating just now.
"Brother Liang, what is this carving? Why does it look a bit like a drawing on a rune? Xiao Zhengtai asked puzzledly, pointing to the ghost drawing charm engraved on the wooden chip in his hand.
"I don't know, but it looks a bit like a map, do you think it's a treasure map, Tianyu?" After Chen Youliang looked at it carefully, he asked both puzzled and excited.
At this moment, Li Tianyu didn't look at the wood chip again, but his eyes became more and more confused as he looked at the lobby manager of Fengqi Building in front of him, but every word she had said to herself before echoed in her mind. At first glance, it looks like a disconnected mind. And this sister still looked at Li Gongzi in front of her with a smile, giving people the feeling that everything was under her control.
"Brother Tian! What are you looking at! Seeing that Li Tianyu did not respond, Xiao Zhengtai on the side seemed to shout indignantly after seeing Li Tianyu's appearance.
"I'm looking at the sky. If I'm not mistaken, there must be at least eleven more of these cards. Although Li Tianyu was asking, his eyes were full of playfulness.
"This slave family is gone."
"So, Tianyu, do you recognize this wood chip?" Chen Youliang asked a little incredulously.
"Pretty much, this piece of wood should be carved with a sketch of the twelve stars. I don't know exactly what it was used for, but I guess it's either for fortune-telling or for weather forecasting. It's just that I'm curious, sister, how did you have this astrological prop? Of course, Li Tianyu had already seen that the wooden engraving was a stick figure of a certain constellation, but he was curious about who made such a prop with a very foreign flavor and religious color. Thinking of what this person said to him before, I only felt that the person in front of me was extremely not simple.
"Well, this is my sister, I picked it up by chance. And I also heard that there is a wooden card game in our Yangzhou in recent days, and the first to play this game is the three sons, so I specially used it to ask the three sons for advice. Horoscope? Could it be that Li Gongzi has even perfected the fortune teller's way? My younger brother is really good at astronomy and geography. Giggles...... "Said another flutter of flowers.
"In that case, I wonder if my sister can give this wooden plaque to our family Xiaohao?" Li Tianyu didn't even look at Cui Hao, and said like this.
"Well, it's just a piece of wood, and it doesn't hurt to give it to my brother. It's just that this piece of wood was actually picked up by my sister in our Fengqi Building, in case a guest comes to look for it one day......" Seeing that Xiao Zhengtai hadn't had time to express his opinion, this sister had already replied to Li Tianyu.
"Okay, let's play slowly, and my sister won't bother the three of you anymore." After that, I saw this sister holding a piece of wood, smiled charmingly at the three of them, and turned around and walked away.
After a while, I saw that the original girls had walked in again. Seeing this, Li Tianyu hurriedly got up and stood up, stretched his waist and said:
"Youliang, Xiaohao. Don't say that the brothers don't take care of you, give the two of you half a pillar of incense time to solve it yourself, half a pillar of incense should be enough, if it's not enough, you can renew the bell yourself. I'll go out and wait for you at the door first. After that, Li Tianyu took the wine jug and poured a cup for himself, put down the wine cup as soon as he drank it, turned around and left downstairs.
"Brother Liang, this ......" Xiao Zhengtai hesitated to look at Chen Youliang beside him and asked at a loss.
"Let's go, Xiao Hao, Brother will personally take you over to play alone another day." saw that Chen Youliang first looked at the door where Li Tianyu left, and then looked at the beauties in the house, gritted his teeth fiercely.
So, the two of them also picked up the wine cup and drank it bitterly, then got up and left together. Only the charming voices and coquettishness of a group of beauties in the house remained.
"Huh? Youliang, Xiaohao, how can you two be so fast. The time of the half-pillar incense is good, don't ignore the quality of the project in order to catch up with the construction period. Li Tianyu was still looking at the gate of this Fengqi Building as soon as he arrived at the gatehouse, and after a while, he saw the two of them, and said with a smile.
"Humph!" Xiao Zheng Taiji snorted unhappily.
"Okay, Tianyu, you better tell me why you left in such a hurry." Chen You said with a white of his eyes.
"It's not convenient to talk here, so let's talk as we go." Li Tianyu glanced at the shining door plaque of Fengqi Tower again, and said with a sigh.
So the group of three people turned around and left, but the three of them didn't notice that at a slightly open window on the second floor of the Fengqi Building, there was clearly a gaze following the three of them leaving.
"Brother Tian, are you saying that this Fengqi Tower has something to do with that Lan Sect?" I saw that after Xiao Zhengtai listened to what Li Tianyu said, his whole face was full of incredulity and asked.
"I think it should be like this. The Golden Phoenix Sect that I heard her say before is obviously a kind of religious force outside the country, oh, that is, a gang force that is much more powerful than our gangs, the White Lotus Sect knows, forget it, it seems that you don't know either. In short, I think that Fengqi Tower at this time should be far from being as simple as just a green building, and that woman, I suspect that she is not a simple character, I am afraid that she has an inextricable relationship with the Golden Phoenix Sect. Li Tianyu remembered what the woman had told him before, and couldn't help but ponder.
"However, looking at their appearance, they don't look like those Huyi women. Perhaps, they just want to migrate to our Datang to survive, and in order to make a living, they opened the Fengqi Building. After all, I also heard my eldest brother say that those Hu people lived a very poor life, and there were some border merchants who had been in my Datang before and ended up living in our Datang. Chen Youliang had heard his eldest brother Chen Hailiang talk about the characteristics and lives of those people at home, so he tried to speculate.
What about the astrological card she took out before? It's very religious. At that time, in order to uphold their beliefs, the church did not tie up a great scientist who held the view of "heliocentrism" and burned him alive. Li Tianyu remembered the wooden card engraved with constellations, and remembered the outfits of those big food merchants that the woman said before, and said firmly.
"Brother Tian, what is the 'heliocentric theory'?" saw Cui Hao and Chen Youliang both looking at Li Tianyu with blank faces.
"Well, you still don't have to know. Because even if I say it, you won't necessarily believe it. Li Tianyu immediately realized that he had just accidentally slipped out of his mouth, and said something a little embarrassed.
"Alright, Tianyu, we've been surprised for a long time. I know that you are well-read, know astronomy, know geography, and know the past and the present. Tell me, what is this heliocentric theory? They can cause people to be burned alive. Chen Youliang asked.
"This, in a word, is to say that the sunrise and sunset that we see every day does not mean that the sun is going around the earth, oh, around the earth. Rather, the earth beneath our feet rotates from west to east around the sun. Li Tianyu pointed to the ground under his feet and said.
"What? The earth revolves around the sun? Aha, Brother Tian, you're too funny, can you tell me how the earth revolves around the sun? Could it be that if we stand in the west of the city this morning, we will go directly to the east of the city in the evening? Hahaha......" After Xiao Zhengtai heard Li Tianyu's words, he laughed out loud regardless of his image.
"Tianyu, I'm afraid it's hard to believe what you said. It's not just me, even if it's the old man Han, I'm afraid I won't believe you. Chen Youliang on the side also looked at Li Tianyu with a look of disbelief, as if he was looking at aliens.
"Yes, I guess you won't believe it. The sky is round, heheda, do you really think that the earth under our feet is square? Forget it, let's not talk about this, when we have a chance to go back, let's talk about these with that Yuan Dashen stick. After Li Tianyu saw the reaction of the two people in front of him, he couldn't help sighing, and remembered the unpredictable old man Yuan, if anyone in the entire Tang Dynasty could understand, I am afraid that he is the only one.
"Huh? Brother Tian, why do you say that the earth is not square? I heard my sister say that the earth we live on should not be square. Xiao Zhengtai asked suspiciously.
"Oh? Your sister? How did she know? Li Tianyu listened to Xiao Zhengtai's words, and couldn't help but be a little curious about his cousin, but he didn't expect that there were still all-round scholars in this era, and these astronomical knowledge theories were not obtained after hundreds or even tens of millions of observations and practices. What's more, there was no such thing as an astronomical telescope in this era.
"My sister read a book called Muddy Notes. Later, she said that the 'Chaotian Theory' was right and the 'Gaitian Theory' was wrong. The earth should not be square, but round. By the way, I was curious and went to read the book, but I didn't understand anything, I only remember that the book was written by a person named 'Zhang Heng'. Cui Hao remembered the scene when he used to read that sister's book at Jinling's house but couldn't understand anything, and couldn't help but look back.
"I see, it seems that your sister's name of 'Jinling's No. 1 Talented Girl' is really not in vain. However, there is still a bit of a gap between me and you, Brother Tian, and me, the 'No. 1 scholar in Datang'. Li Tianyu said shamelessly.
"Whew! Brother Tian, you are still the first in Datang. It's really shameful to go home. Xiao Zhengtai looked at the smug appearance of Brother Tian in front of him, and said extremely unhappily.
"Okay, Tianyu, I don't know what 'Hun Tian said' and 'Gai Tian said', but I heard you say before that there are eleven of that kind of wood?" Chen Youliang saw that these contents were completely unrelated to him, so he didn't pay attention to them anymore, and instead asked about the wood chip before.
"Well, it's easy to say, you all know that there are twelve months in a year. The symbols drawn on those cards represent the months, so there should be at least 12 cards, which are called the signs of the zodiac. Actually, it's similar to the zodiac we are talking about. It's just that they're used to represent the months. So those things can be used to deduce the stars and calculate fortunes. Li Tianyu said.
"So, Brother Tian, how did you know this?" After hearing this, Xiao Zhengtai was skeptical, and asked unconvinced.
"Xiao Hao, don't you know that Brother Tian is a genius now?" Li Tianyu said with a hippie smile.
"That's why Tianyu, you concluded that there is still that Fengqi Tower, and what kind of Golden Phoenix Sect has something to do with the Huyi forces outside Fanwai." Chen Youliang said.
"Yes, that kind of thing is imported at first glance, even if she picked it up in Fengqi Building, it means that there are foreigners in Fengqi Building, how can it have nothing to do with them? Besides, I don't believe she picked it up. Li Tianyu said disdainfully.
"Well, it's simple, let's go to the Phoenix Temple in Hangzhou to see how it is. It's just that what are those Hu Yi people doing on this trip? Since they have all taken root in Datang, why do you need to engage in another Golden Phoenix Sect? Could it be that he is afraid of being oppressed by the people of the Tang Dynasty? Chen Youliang said thoughtfully.
"I don't know. But I always felt as if there was a strong smell of conspiracy coming to my face. Li Tianyu only felt that since this matter was mixed with Western sects, it would not be as simple as immigration.