Listening to his question, I couldn't help but think of a Hong Kong drama I once watched, which itself tells the story of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, but Han Xin, as the most powerful generalissimo under Liu Bang, has a lot of scenes. There is a dialogue between him and Liu Bang in the middle, I can't remember what the specific lines are, but it roughly means that Liu Bang asked Han Xin, with his ability to command, he is enough to look down on the world, why should he be subservient to others? Han Xin's answer was that he was a general, Liu Bang was the king, and no matter how good the general was, it must be led by the king.

Sheng Shiyao suddenly brought up the story of Han Xin, and I immediately understood the truth, this person who knows the art of Qimen Dunjia and can draw is like Han Xin, and this may be a military general or the owner of the royal family is like Liu Bang. So no matter how powerful this person is, his loyalty to the owner of the house remains unchanged, which shows that this owner of the house will win people's hearts like Liu Bang.

"Huh?" Suddenly, I heard Sheng Shiyao let out a strange tone word, and I saw him get closer to the painting, almost pasting his face on the painting, I couldn't help but wonder, is his eyesight so bad? Need to see so close? I looked at him and asked, "What are you looking at with so much effort?" ”

He ignored me, with a sleepy look in his eyes, as if he couldn't figure it out. After a while, he suddenly asked, "Do you have a pen with you?" "I was asked inexplicably, and I tossed and turned all the way, and even if I had a pen, I would have lost it a long time ago. But I saw him look left and right, leaned down directly and wiped the ash on his hand, and then stretched out his fingers to rub the white scroll, I thought it was too late to stop it, the painting appeared black and gray, and the beauty was destroyed.

It's a pity, why are these paintings monuments, but the collectible things were destroyed by Sheng Shiyao. While I was still mourning the painting, Sheng Shiyao's magic hand reached out to the second one, and I hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed his arm, "Don't, even if you don't have the talent to paint, there's no need to destroy these paintings." ”

"Who said I was going to destroy the painting? You go and look at the previous painting. "After saying that, despite my objections, my gray hands were drawing ghost talismans again, and it hurt me very much. Turning his head, out of sight, he looked at the painting that had just been tossed by him, and was stunned, this is ...... I went to look at the one he was working on, and wondered, how could this be? After the second painting was completed, he leaned over and smeared some dust to continue the next one, the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became, on each of these paintings, seven people would be drawn in particular, and then the heads of these seven people were connected with lines, as if they were the Big Dipper, but each one had a different picture of the seven stars.

I stood a little farther away and found that it was not just the Big Dipper map, but the words. By the way, whether it is the ancient building in the green lake or this house, we have not found any textual things. The calligraphy and painting book is a family, only the painting has no book, which is very strange in itself, and it is likely that the original characters were destroyed or hidden for some reason. And this painter is really a master, he can hide the words in the painting, if it weren't for Sheng Shiyao's carefulness, it would be difficult for me to see that there is still something in this painting.

But these characters are obviously not ancient Chinese characters, so I won't bother Sheng Shiyao anymore, and I'll wait for him to connect all the characters with gray lines. Erased it in a circle, and after completing all the paintings, Sheng Shiyao also stood far away and stood in the middle, squinting and looking at the past word by word. When he saw the last one, I whispered, "How's it going?" Do you understand? What kind of text is that? ”

"Khitan." He spat out three words lightly.

I was stunned, it's Khitan again?! Immediately, he was overjoyed, since it was a Khitan script, he had studied it and should be able to understand it, and hurriedly asked him: "Then what do the words on this painting mean?" "It's like a child stealing and stumbling upon a secret and desperately wondering what it means.

But Sheng Shiyao shook his head, "I don't know." Each of these words exists independently, and there is no coherence between the top and bottom, so I don't know what it means. Then he translated those words one by one: prosperity, defeat, escape, nothing, life, mountain, lake, forest, peace, heaven, fate, death, weeping, and a few words because he really couldn't see the general shape, Sheng Shiyao gave up translating.

Well, the thirteen words that can be translated can't be connected in one sentence, and I tried to combine them in an uneasy order, but except for the three words "An Tianfang", which can be regarded as a phrase, the others can't be connected. After pondering for an hour, there was still no result, and I couldn't help but be discouraged, knowing that this must be an important discovery, maybe these paintings hide the way of life in this mountain pass, but I was stumped by these unorganized words.

Sheng Shiyao didn't bother me so much, but continued to study those paintings to see what else could be excavated. I had no choice but to look for it, and when I looked at the second one, something suddenly flashed through my mind, and the thought was too fast to grasp, but I had an intuition that it must be very important information. I turned my gaze back to the first painting, looking over a little bit, not letting go of any corner, and suddenly I noticed a strange sign.

This discovery suddenly made me feel enlightened, and I suddenly came to my senses, and excitedly went to Sheng Shiyao, "Come on, I know the meaning of those words." "I pulled him over to the first painting and raised my hand to the people in the background in the corner, their images were blurry, and it was easy to ignore them and look at the seven people in the middle." Look at their expressions, are they different from those seven people? If you look at the second picture, the expressions of the people in these backgrounds have changed again. ”

I saw the last one all the time, and sure enough, it was as I thought, which confirmed my guess even more.

It turns out that these words are not used to connect them into a sentence to imply anything, but each word has its own meaning, which is a record of the past. Take the word "xing" as an example, it may represent prosperity, so the faces of the villagers are filled with proud smiles; "Defeat" can be seen from the literal meaning of what should be failure, and the villagers are desperate in their eyes; "Escape" represents their escape, "none" represents no way out, "life" represents a desperate place to live, "mountain" and "lake" are easy to explain, meaning the mountains and green lakes around this week, "forest" should refer to the lost forest, "an" is comfort, "heaven" and "life" may indeed be connected together, as if lamenting God's injustice, destiny is so, as for "death" and "crying", I guess it is what happened in this village, many people died, and then this painting is very sad.

Other words that have not been translated roughly represent this meaning. It can be seen that the hidden meaning of this painting is to say that their group of people may have been a very prosperous tribe, and then declined, experienced a crushing defeat in the war, they began to live a life of fugitive, and found this paradise in a desperate situation where they thought there was no way out, so they settled down to live a comfortable life, but the sky was not beautiful, or there was an accident that led to the death of the villagers, and finally they may have fled here again, leaving only this painter, he was sad, and painted these experiences in the painting, Use this to express your sadness.

Inferred from the fact that these texts are Khitan, it is likely that this group of people is the descendants of the Khitan, and the original Great Liao was indeed prosperous and majestic, but everything was mutually controlled, and the Jurchen people appeared, and the Jurchens destroyed the Liao country. The owner of this house was probably the Khitan royal family at that time, and he fled all the way here with the people. The Great Liao Qi has been exhausted, and it is simply impossible for the remaining thousands of people to restore the country.

Sheng Shiyao shook his head after listening to my judgment, "It's not the common people, it's the soldiers." If you look at all these pictures, there are no men, women only occupy an inch in the corner, and there are even no women in some pictures. With such an unequal distribution of men and women, it is only possible that this team at that time was a fugitive army, who fled here, felt that it was in a remote and secluded place, and wanted to settle down.

Before living a stable life, it is necessary to ensure safety facilities, so a huge forest has been created outside the green lake. Such a large forest can only be built by the manpower of nearly a thousand men. But they ignore a matter of principle. ”

"What's the problem?" I was surprised to ask, isn't afforestation and defense a correct way of thinking?

Sheng Shiyao squinted slightly, and spit out two words: "Reproduction." ”

Multiply...... I immediately understood what he meant, and I couldn't help but blush slightly, but this was indeed the last problem that this Khitan army would face. They thought that they could live a stable life by finding a safe and hidden paradise, but they didn't know that the real problem came from themselves, because it was the army, and there might only be a dozen or twenty women among the nearly 1,000 people. This means that even if the nation escapes from the battlefield, the final outcome will still be extinction, because they will not have time to reproduce.

I believe that they must have thought of this question later, and sighed with embarrassment: "This may be the meaning of the destiny expressed by this painter, they will not think of other ways, even if they go out of this mountain col and disguise themselves as Han Chinese, won't they be able to reproduce their offspring?" ”

I didn't think that Sheng Shiyao vetoed my words: "Destiny doesn't refer to this!" This painter is likely to be the leader's military advisor, and when he painted the last painting of 'weeping', there was infinite sorrow, and there must have been an extremely bad thing that caused that 'death', otherwise if it was just not able to reproduce, there would be no need to be so sad. ”

Indeed, there is "death" first, and then there is "weeping", the word death must mean death, could it be that the owner of the house, that is, their king, died, so he was very sad?