Chapter 17: Strange Books
"Oh, oh no, how can the be like this?" Qiu Shan's eyes were fixed on the newspaper, as if he had seen something incredible, and his hands were still trembling slightly.
Hu Tianjian saw a report at the bottom of the front page of the newspaper, with the headline "Liangshan 60-year-old couple died suddenly at home, the problem of empty nesters attracts attention again", accompanied by a news picture, and hurriedly asked: "Is this family ......?"
"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it." Qiu Shan slowly shook his head while staring at the picture, and his mind was confused for a while, as if he was recalling something.
"Uh-uh," Hu Tian grabbed Qiu Shan's arm and shook it violently, and asked loudly, "Old Qiu, is it that farmer?" Liu Qi and Ah Qi, who were walking in front, both turned their heads and looked around when they heard the sound.
Only then did Qiu Shan raise his head from his contemplation, pointed to the cave in the picture and said, "This is the place, where Zhang Laohan, who sells red bricks, lives." ”
"Huh? No way? Hu Tianyi grabbed the newspaper and asked eagerly, "You haven't looked away, have you?" ”
"That's right, look at this corn cob, and this word "Fu", this hole in the plastic window paper, I was sitting right here...... How could Zhang Laohan die suddenly? And it was the sudden death of two people at the same time! It's impossible. When I met him a few days ago, his body looked quite tough......" Qiu Shan recalled the scene in the cave that day, and an ominous premonition gradually rose in his head, and his expression changed from shock to fear.
"Holy, this ...... When was this? Let me see. Hu Tianyi grabbed the newspaper and read it carefully, "It was seven o'clock yesterday morning...... This newspaper was yesterday, at seven o'clock in the morning the day before yesterday. I said Lao Qiu, we have to hurry up, maybe we can find the red bricks. ”
"Gotta go, go right away."
The four of them walked along the side of the street, finally took a taxi, and went straight to Liangshan in Qianxian County.
Qiu Shan was nervous along the way, thinking that he had been being followed in the past few days, and Zhang Laohan and his wife might have been murdered by the people who followed him...... While he was thinking wildly, Hu Tian, who was sitting next to him, suddenly asked, "Lao Qiu, where did I just go?" ”
"What's going on?" Qiu Shan was upset and asked angrily.
Hu Tian didn't care, patted his head and said, "Hmm...... That's right, "Yifeng Feitian Pavilion Manifestation Record". Hehe, I've been memorizing it for the past few days. Hu Tian opened his backpack, took out a tablet and said, "You will know by looking at it, this book records the construction process of the Flying Heaven Pavilion in detail, and it is really a secret through the ages. As he spoke, he turned on his computer and found a bunch of pictures. The pictures were taken to the bottom of the standard, but it can be seen that they are an ancient book, the paper is dull yellow, and in some places it is missing, and the content is written in neat regular script, and the handwriting is still legible.
"What is this?" Qiu Shan glanced at the computer screen and asked absentmindedly.
As soon as Hu Tian heard Qiu Shan's tone, he obviously took what he had just said as the wind in his ears, and couldn't help but be quite annoyed and said: "Yifeng Feitian Pavilion Manifestation Record, a unique book in history, a unique book. There are no more than three people in the world who know this book, and you are the third. ”
"Lonely?" General Qiu Shan looked at the picture suspiciously.
"It's true, it's true. Who am I, how can I bluff my old classmates with all kinds of fake things? Do you know who the author of this book is? Hu Tian looked at Qiu Shan for a long time.
"Who is it?" Qiu Shan flicked the screen a few times as he spoke, and saw that some of the pages were badly damaged, and the traces were extremely old, and in addition to the text, there were also a few pictures in the book, drawing some building masonry and so on.
"Li Jueran. Let me tell you, this Li Jueran is not an ordinary person, he calls himself Li Chunfeng's grandson, Li Chunfeng is a very powerful Tang Dynasty scientist, and his grandson is naturally trustworthy. All in all, through repeated verification, I feel that what Li Jueran said is true. ”
Qiu Shan heard Hu Tian mention Li Chunfeng, his heart moved, he looked at those words carefully, and asked, "What is this book about?" ”
"According to the records in the book, in the third year of Yifeng, that is, in 678 AD, Wu Zetian ordered people to cast 9981 giant tripods to form a furnace forest, melt more than 500,000 catties of copper, bind Tongtian spirit stone, and hide the essence of the stone in the red mud, and the fire destroyed it into bricks and tiles, creating an attic, named Feitian Pavilion." Hu Tian said and scratched on the screen for a while, and found a building line drawing.
Qiu Shan saw that the attic masonry structure, only two floors, built on a high platform, said: "Listen to what you say, there is something hidden in that red brick." How can a peasant have such red bricks? ”
"You said that this Flying Heaven Pavilion was built when it was built? Wu Zetian recruited 5,000 migrant workers, and it took 17 years to complete the repair. Fortunately, the old lady picked the yang and supplemented the yin and lived to be more than eighty years old. Those migrant workers were not so lucky, and they all clicked. But it is inevitable that one or two fish will slip through the net and sneak home with a red brick. Zhang Laohan's ancestor may be one of them. ”
Qiu Shan couldn't help but smile when he heard this: "With five thousand people, it has been cultivated for seventeen years!" This is a big project that does not lose to Afang Palace and the Great Wall of Qin. This loft is only two floors......"
"This building is not the other building, and it must not be treated with common sense. This is the Flying Pavilion. Hu Tian said solemnly: "According to the records in the book, the buoyancy of the Tongtian Spirit Stone wrapped in bricks and stones is amazing, coming and going like the wind, and it needs to be choked with heavy copper. Hu Tian said and called up an ancient map, which was a red brick marked with some holes, curves and brackets. Hu Tian pointed to the picture and said: "I saw a few small holes on the surface of the red brick, this is called mercury injection." By injecting mercury into a small hole and flowing through a special tunnel, the mechanism can be activated, and the stone lock will be opened, and the brick will fly. ”
Hearing Hu Tian say this, Qiu Shan called up the picture of his mobile phone, zoomed in and took a closer look, and really saw a few small holes, so he asked, "What is this Tongtian Spirit Stone?" ”
"This, ahem...... Although there is no detailed explanation in this book, Li Jueran called this stone 'spiritual', that is, it seems to have life, and it should have grown from somewhere, just like a Monkey King popping out of a crack in the stone. ”
Qiu Shan listened to Hu Tian start talking nonsense, knowing that he didn't know what the Tongtian Spirit Stone was referring to, and the buoyancy was amazing, and the clouds and clouds might have come out of the author's intention, so he continued to ask: "To tell the truth, where did you get this "Yifeng Feitian Pavilion Manifestation Record"?" ”
"This so-called heavenly secret must not be revealed." Hu Tian's eyes turned around, and he smiled: "But then again, a well-educated person like me has always loved books like his life, and he is full of rare secret records, and such books are everywhere in me, so it can be regarded as a safe place." ”
Qiu Shan thought that Hu Tian's book might not come from so legitimately, so he didn't ask any more questions, picked up the computer, and skimmed through it from beginning to end. Since they are all in classical Chinese and there are no broken sentences, Qiu Shan only understands a rough idea. The book says that the Feitian Pavilion was built in the third year of Yifeng, and it was not completed until the first year of Zhengsheng, and nearly 5,000 people were mobilized to build a two-storey eight-sided attic. The description of the technical details in the book is very detailed, such as the structural arrangement of the Flying Sky Pavilion and the brick and stone materials used to build the Flying Sky Pavilion, etc., which are illustrated with pictures and texts, making people feel that the building does indeed exist, but it is not clear where the Flying Sky Pavilion is located. The so-called Tongtian Spirit Stone has no ink, and when it comes to the completion of the Feitian Pavilion, there are words such as "the holy spring is hanging upside down, connected to the glow, within the five seas, the sun and the moon are discolored", and the degree of exaggeration is no less than that of "Luo Shen Fu".
Qiu Shan looked at it for a while, felt bored, and returned the computer to Hu Tian, suddenly remembered Li Tailai's secret words, and asked, "Have you read the email I sent you last night?" Do you know what it means? ”
"What mail...... Oh, isn't it like a queen or something? Do you write limerick poems? Not bad. Hu Tianyan said perfunctorily insincerely.
"Those were Lee Tae-lai's last words to his daughter, and there seemed to be some hidden messages in them."
"Oh? Lee Tae-rae's last words? Hu Tian hurriedly took out the email from the computer and read it, thought for a moment and said, "Isn't this telling his daughter that there are scriptures in a well, this old man is quite particular." ”
Hearing this, Qiu Shan's heart moved, and he asked, "What scriptures?" ”
"Tao Te Ching, you look at this 'old well in the past, purple gas from the east', which means that in the previous well, there was a copy of Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching".
"The purple qi from the east refers to the Tao Te Ching?"
"I said Lao Qiu, you have to learn from me. To solve this riddle, you must refer to the context. Do you think this 'purple gas from the east' doesn't refer to Lao Tzu's exit? But a well has nothing to do with Lao Tzu's exit. You have to look for clues before and after, and notice that there is no such thing, who does this 'Jun' refer to? Lao Tzu, isn't Lao Tzu called Taishang Laojun? The so-called step in the footsteps of the monarch, doesn't it mean that you want to learn from Lao Tzu? How to learn? Lao Tzu can't teach it personally, so he can only learn the "Tao Te Ching" he left behind. ”
Qiu Shan saw that Hu Tian was talking about the truth, so he continued to ask: "If the emperor is like a queen, Jiuquan is smiling, her husband is in the world, and what does it mean to be high and widowed?" ”
These sentences are literally correct. If the emperor is like a queen, like an emperor and a queen, doesn't that mean that he is like a man and a woman? Li Tailai's meaning is very clear, he is bisexual, both men and women have been there, and he is quite satisfied in this life, so he can smile at Jiuquan. ”
Qiu Shan listened to him rambling nonsensically, and was about to refute, Hu Tian then said: "The husband is a world, and he is a widow, of course, he is talking about feelings and ideals, which means that he is an old man with a seven-foot bearded eyebrow, and he has been engaged in academic research all his life. Ahem, I didn't expect this old man to be a little sour before he died. However, the thing written is too far from Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci". ”
Qiu Shan secretly thought that if Hu Tian knew that Li Tailai still left a quatrain, he would definitely have another conclusion, not bisexual, sour nonsense, but it was inconvenient to say more at this time, so he asked: "You must be like that?" ”
Hu Tian shook his head and said, "Of course, the meaning is that eight or nine are not far from ten." From the perspective of the structure of the whole poem, the first four sentences can be regarded as Li Tailai's summary of his life, and the last four sentences can probably be regarded as entrusting the future. But why did Li Tailai want his daughter to find a copy of the Tao Te Ching? It's weird to go around like this...... Could it be that he has some treasures in the Tao Te Ching? ”
Qiu Shan looked at Ah Qi and Liu Qi, Ah Qi looked out the window, as if thinking about something, Liu Qi was dozing off, so he said, "We'll talk about this later." I diverted the topic and talked about the situation after graduation.
According to Hu Tian, his father originally entrusted him with a relationship to get him into a certain university as a counselor, to inherit his father's business, and after decades, the title of professor was in hand. Unexpectedly, Hu Tian had to engage in archaeology, and was scolded by his father, and the relationship between father and son was very stiff, but in the end, he couldn't resist Hu Tian, so he had to fulfill his wish and find the back door to enter the archaeological team in the province. It is said that Hu Tian studied astrophysics, and he can't play with archaeology, but fortunately, he usually has some accumulation, plus his interests, and he can be regarded as finding a suitable career.