Chapter 54: The Twelve Earthly Branches

My feelings are not unfounded.

Although I don't see the connection between these two words for the time being, I can clearly perceive that I must have understood the true meaning of these two words, but the so-called dark under the lamp, the more familiar I usually be, the more I can't think about it for a while.

And I can clearly see that Chunting knew the true meaning of these words long before we wrote them, but he didn't intend to tell me and so on.

However, it is not difficult for me to see from his demeanor that he does not mean to hide it from us, but like every previous experience, he does not explain much after discovering the truth, but acts as a guide on the side, quietly guiding us to discover the truth by ourselves.

While I was thinking about it, Xue Nan spoke again, but this time she didn't make her guess.

Although Xue Nan is the most careful person among us, after all, this Qin Seal has been lost for a long time, and after the previous two mistakes, she no longer dares to easily guess about this mysterious Qin Seal.

She looked at the words in front of her carefully, and after pondering for a long time, she couldn't really be sure, so she simply decided to ask directly.

"Chunting, you have written a total of three words, and I have already asked two, do you think you can tell us the last word directly?"

Chun Ting smiled dumbly after hearing this, but he looked at Xue Nan's expectant eyes, and after hesitating for a moment, he actually had a rare refusal.

"Then I'll tell you, the third word is 巳."

Si, this word is not used much now, its original meaning is the fetus, and by extension, it refers to the heir, and at the same time, this word is used to sacrifice the sacrifice, but also refers to a sacrifice for a child.

Shen, Wu, Si.

After knowing the meaning of the third one, the intuition in my mind grew stronger and stronger.

Although these three words don't seem to have any connection, I must have seen them combined in some environment, but I still don't have a clue.

It seems that I have overlooked some key things.

And at this moment, Yi He, who heard Chunting's explanation, slapped his thigh violently, and an excited smile appeared on his face.

"Shen, Wu, Si...... I see, I see! ”

We heard Yi He's excited voice, and hurriedly turned our heads to look at him, and saw that there was no longer any doubt on his face, but an expression that was as it was, and his expression was indescribably relaxed.

He noticed our eyes, but like Chunting, he didn't speak directly, but slowly spoke, pointing out a new direction for us.

"My lord, in fact, the secret here is very simple, if you can't think of the connection between these three words, you might as well try these words in a different order."

In a different order?

Isn't it still these three words in the order of change?

If it's not Shen Wusi, is it Wu Shen Si, Shen Si Wu?

The more I thought about it, the more chaotic it became, and I couldn't think calmly, so I could only silently look at Chunting and Yihe, who were calm and relaxed, with a blank look in my eyes.

And since Yi He had already seen through the secrets, there was no need for Chunting to continue to pretend to be profound, he slowly walked to the words written on the ground, and began to explain them to us one by one.

"This word is Chen."

"That's the word."

"The word is unitary."

"This word is a child."

……

With the pace of the Spring Pavilion's leisurely stroll, the content of these twelve words has been fully known to us.

Shen, Wu, Si, Chen, Hai, You, Zi, Yin, Chou, Mao, Xu, Wei.

This is the true content of the twelve Qin seals engraved on the door.

And at this time, I finally understood what the secret hidden by this Qin Seal was.

Yi He is right, the secret is very simple, in fact, as long as the order is reversed, all the questions have been answered.

As he said, the order in which we look now is not the true order of the twelve words.

Thinking of this, I took out the dragon pen in my arms again, and then squatted on the ground, imitating the handwriting left by everyone and re-writing the twelve words below.

It's just that the order in which I write is very different from the random writing of the people before.

Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai.

What is presented before our eyes now is the true order of these twelve Qin seal characters.

And after I rewrote these twelve words, everyone on the side saw the order that I had rearranged and finally understood the hidden meaning, and their faces showed smiles.

"This Qin seal was originally written with twelve branches."

Hearing the voices of everyone's sudden realization, Chunting, who had already known everything, nodded with satisfaction and opened his mouth to confirm us.

"Actually, I had a guess when I discovered the writing of the three southern doors, and seeing the words you wrote made me even more convinced that there are twelve engraved on this door."

Just as our faces were filled with joy at learning the truth, an unsociable voice came weakly.

"Big brothers, what are the twelve sticks you are talking about?"

And among all the people, there is no second choice other than Shen Lang who can ask such a question.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into a burst of good-natured laughter.

After laughing, Ling Xuan looked at the poor Shen Lang and helplessly began to explain to him, what the so-called twelve branches were.

The so-called twelve branches, that is, the twelve earthly branches of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, are the most important symbols in ancient astronomy, and their source is the specific observation and deduction of celestial phenomena by ancient people, and is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients.

In ancient China, the time and month used were all evolved from the earthly branch, and the earthly branch and the ten-day stem sequence were matched, and together they formed the traditional calendar year of ancient China.

Legend has it that the invention of the Ganzhi was named after the thirteen brothers of the Emperor, and the Emperor took the Ten Brothers as the Ten Heavenly Stems, and the Twelve Earthly Branches were assigned to the Eunuch Mao and the Great Continent, and at the same time, the ten later Emperor Brothers, namely the Sleepy, Chifenruo, Setige, Shan Yan, Zhixu, Dahuangluo, Dunqi, Xieqia, Shutan, and Zuo Ou were combined into the twelve Earthly Branches.

And because this naming method is too complicated, later generations have simplified it, and the simplified twelve earthly branches are now presented in front of our eyes.

Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai.

The characters written in Qin seal on these twelve doors are the simplified twelve earthly branches.

But after a little thought, the joy on everyone's faces gradually faded, and the previous excitement turned into doubts again.

Although we have been able to determine that the Qin seal on this door leaf is written on the twelve earthly branches.

But after knowing this, a new problem was once again in front of us.

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