It is recorded in the history books that Zhuge Liang had a biological son named Zhuge Zhan, who later died in battle. There is also a son, who is not biological, who is inherited from Zhuge Zhan's child, called Zhuge Qiao.

Therefore, Zhuge Qiao is not a direct descendant of Zhuge Liang.

After Zhuge Zhan died, he also had a son named Zhuge Jing. However, there is no record that Zhuge Jing has an heir.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang's direct descendants can be regarded as broken here.

There is also a folklore, which I think is extremely unreliable. said that Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying gave birth to a daughter named Zhuge Guo. Later, this Zhuge Guo went to cultivate immortals, and finally became immortals.

As for Zhuge Liang and a child, Zhuge Huai, it is also a folklore.

My uncle also said that most historians agree with the statement that Zhuge Liang has no direct descendants.

Even if what Zhuge Qingzhan said is true, there is still one biggest question in the middle.

The statement of eighteen generations of descendants is untenable, Zhuge Liang is a person from the Three Kingdoms period, and it is now the year of the Ming Dynasty.

The middle spans more than 1,500 years, and even if each generation of their children and grandchildren can live to be 50 years old, there will be at least 30 generations.

In the past, people generally lived a short life, and it is very remarkable to live to be 50 years old.

Unless Zhuge Liang's descendants have lived for hundreds of years, it is impossible for them to have only eighteen generations of descendants by now.

Zhuge Qingzhan probably saw that I had some doubts, and asked, "The Ninth Prince doesn't seem to believe it?" ”

I shook my head slightly, "No, just a little surprised." ”

Zhuge Qingzhan smiled, "Things in the world are reasonable as long as they exist, I think the Ninth Prince should have seen even more surprising things, right?" ”

I was silent for a while and asked him, "Mr. Zhuge , since it comes to this, I will also speak up." Mr. Zhuge suddenly came to me, it wasn't just as simple as drinking, right? ”

Zhuge Qingzhan nodded, "Actually, my master wants to see the Ninth Prince, but whether the Ninth Prince's ability depends on the Ninth Prince's ability." ”

"Oh? What about that? I asked him.

He replied, "I'll know when the Ninth Prince arrives at the Star Picking Tower." ”

I didn't ask any more questions, and followed Zhuge Qingzhan along the way.

He led me out of the East Gate and towards Mount Shenlie. After braving the wind and snow for half an hour, I finally saw the star-picking building he said.

The Star Picking Tower is built on a small mountain, quite far from Shenlie Mountain.

Mount Shenlie is where the royal mausoleum is located, and it is not allowed to build houses around it to prevent the destruction of feng shui.

The location chosen by the Star Picking Tower happened to avoid the area covered by the feng shui of Shenlie Mountain. And it doesn't hide the wind or the water, which is very strange. The most important thing is that it is obviously a restaurant, but it is going to be built outside the city, will there be customers?

There are a total of eight floors in the Star Picking Building, but each floor is not high, and the overall appearance looks like a gossip. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build such a restaurant in two months.

The steps leading to the Drunken Immortal Tower are also very peculiar, there are many lines, twists and turns, and the whole forms a gossip pattern.

The snow on the steps had been cleared, and I noticed that the newly fallen snow had turned into water when it came into contact with the steps, and no snow had formed.

The eight-story Star-Picking Building, each floor is lit up.

Zhuge Qingzhan bowed to me, "I am only responsible for sending the Ninth Prince here, and the rest is up to the Ninth Prince." My master is waiting for the ninth son on the eighth floor, hoping that the ninth son can meet my master smoothly. By the way, I would like to remind the ninth prince that this step is Qimen gossip, and taking a wrong step will trigger the mechanism, so I hope the ninth prince is careful.

Of course, Jiu Gongzi can also choose to go back, and we will not be reluctant. I have brought what I have to say, and I will take my leave. ”

When he had finished speaking, he turned and walked away.

Soon, the figure disappeared into the night.

The surroundings were so quiet that you couldn't even hear the wind. In the distance, Shenlie Mountain was white, and I seemed to see countless lonely souls and wild ghosts wandering around Shenlie Mountain, and with the blink of an eye, these lonely souls and wild ghosts disappeared.

The Star Picking Tower stands in the wind and snow, which looks very weird.

I'm wondering who Zhuge Qingzhan's master will be? Is it worth the risk of me going into the Star-Picking Tower to meet him? What is the purpose of him bringing me here?

After thinking about it for a while, I decided to go into the Star Picking Tower to take a look, maybe Zhuge Qingzhan's master knew something about the murder of Cheng Fu.

The steps in front of me looked like ordinary stone steps, and although the whole formed a pattern similar to Bagua, the connections of the steps were intricate and unorganized.

I couldn't find the location corresponding to the gossip, and I couldn't see the distribution of the eight gates that Du Jingsheng was shocked to open.

If this staircase was really built using the principles of Qimen Bagua, then this should be the most complicated gossip I have ever seen in my life.

Tai Chi two rituals give birth to four elephants, four elephants give birth to gossip, and gossip gives birth to all things.

My grandfather once said that as long as people are smart enough and fully grasp the laws of gossip, they can arrange all kinds of complex gossip arrays.

As long as the essence remains the same, the formation can be changed at will.

Therefore, this seemingly chaotic Bagua Array can be seen as long as it is carefully studied.

As I said before, I'm a curious person, and now that I've come across this kind of thing that tests my intelligence, I naturally want to find out. And I think that Zhuge Qingzhan's master is waiting for me on the eighth floor of the Star Picking Tower, so the first seven floors must also be full of tests.

After making up my mind, I found a stone and threw it into the Bagua Staircase Array.

Then, the unthinkable happened.

The steps in the array suddenly changed, and the steps that were originally connected together suddenly disconnected, and after spinning, they were connected to another step.

The steps inside the Bagua Array formed a new pattern, and at the same time, spikes suddenly appeared on some of the steps, and if you stood on them, at least your feet would be pierced by these spikes.

This makes me feel quite interesting, opening a restaurant but arranging this mechanism outside the restaurant, obviously not for the purpose of opening a restaurant.

Traps like this are usually placed inside the tombs, but they give me a chance to take advantage of them.

Because you can determine which steps you can walk and which you can't walk by throwing rocks, it's opportunistic, right?

Anyway, Zhuge Qingzhan didn't tell me that he couldn't use this method, as long as he could pass.

So I threw a lot of stones, carefully observed the changes in the Bagua Array of Steps, and memorized the pattern after each change.

After my observation, there are several steps that are always the same, and I used these unchanging steps to determine the direction of the eight trigrams.

Follow the order of the eight gates to find out how to walk through the steps and bagua array.

In the end, he cautiously walked through the steps of the Bagua Array, and did not trigger the mechanism in the array.

After coming over, I breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, with my current light skills, I can force this gossip array, even if the trigger mechanism can be dodged immediately.

However, since this gossip array was arranged by the master of the Zhuge family, it is better to respect him.

When I came to the door of the Star Picking Tower, the door was closed, and it was a vermilion gate with a large square lattice on the door.

The square lattice is divided into ninety-nine-eighty-one small lattices.

Twenty-one of these eighty-one cells have square blocks of wood with numbers written on them. Numbers are from one to nine, with repetitions.

There is a wooden box at the door, and inside the wooden box is also a square wooden block with numbers.

It's a large nine-square grid, and if I'm not mistaken, just fill the eighty-one squares with square blocks according to the correct number and the door will open.

The nine-square grid evolved from the Hetu Luoshu, and Fuxi also evolved the gossip according to the river map.

The small nine-square grid has only nine squares, three horizontally and vertically. Fill in the numbers from one to ninety-nine, whether horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, and the sum of the three numbers in each row should be the same.

This kind of small nine-square grid is not large, and anyone who is slightly proficient in arithmetic can easily calculate it.

The large nine-square grid is different, eighty-one numbers, which require the addition of horizontal and vertical obliques, and the sum is still the same. It is equivalent to nine small nine-square grids put together. Each row adds up to forty-five. And the numbers in each row and column cannot be repeated, otherwise it will be much simpler.

To be honest, this big nine-square grid is not difficult for me. Although I have never been exposed to this kind of large nine-square grid before, I can always solve it as long as I take the time to think about it.

No one has told me how long it will take to solve it.

I can say that I took advantage of it a little bit.

So I calmly began to solve this big nine-square grid.

In general, it is still difficult, although there is no time limit, but it also requires a lot of thinking and calculation, sometimes a number is misplaced, you have to overturn all the numbers that have been filled in, and start the calculation again.

I don't know how long it took me, and it's hard to notice the passage of time when you think.

It's been almost two hours, and you haven't paid much attention? The door is open anyway.

Or maybe it's been an hour or so, and it's still not dawn, and if it takes two hours, it should be dawn by now.

To my surprise, I thought that there would be no one in this Star Picking Tower, and that the first to seventh floors would be different mechanisms.

But the scene behind the door is no different from that of an ordinary restaurant.

There are tables, chairs and benches, there is a shopkeeper who is dialing the abacus standing at the counter, Xiao Er is busy serving, nine tables have filled eight tables, and there are girls who accompany the wine.

The customers don't look special, and it can be seen from their clothing that there are people of all religions, but there are more scholars.

The only difference is that you can't see the second floor from the first floor. The stairs to the second floor are at the very edge of the room, and there is a closed door at the end.

There is a backyard on the first floor, but it should be a kitchen and toilet.

This makes me wonder, did these customers all come in after going through the steps of the Bagua Array and unlocking the big nine-square grid?