Tian Ji took out the tin stick again, looked at it over and over for a long time, scratched his head and said, "We have studied this thing for a long time before, there is nothing special about it, if it is not used to hint at the Sauron pole, then what use can it be?" ”

"Wait!" Gong Jue suddenly walked to the merit monument with a shocked face, and then beckoned us to pass, she pointed to a place in the merit monument. "Look here."

We went up and saw that it was the ornament on the edge of the merit tablet, and in the place of the palace lord's finger was the pattern of the vertical stripe, and everyone was immediately surprised, the vertical stripe was exactly the same as the tin stick in the hand of the field chicken, regardless of size or appearance.

Xue Xinrou happily lowered her voice and said: "That is to say, the tin stick left in the gold box is related to the clues of this inscription, and the key to deciphering the inscription is this tin stick!" ”

The tin stick is hollow in the middle, but it is impossible to put anything into the round hole the size of a bean, and there is nothing on the tin stick, only a triangular notch in the middle.

"I've checked the tin stick, it's ordinary, there's nothing unusual in it." Gong Jue's hands were very anxious. "I really can't think of anything to do with these inscriptions."

The Manchu who knelt on the ground to transcribe the inscription had already left, and we searched around the monument of merit, hoping to find something in the stele.

"It doesn't have much to do with the stele, because it's not the original stele." Turzhan said.

"Where's the original monument?"

"It has long been broken in disrepair, and it was re-carved here later, but the size and style are the same as the original."

"What did you find when you dismantled the original stele?" Ye Jiuqing asked.

"Nope." Turzhan replied in the affirmative. "It's just an ordinary stone inscription, and there's nothing in it."

"In this way, it seems that the tin stick is not used on the merit tablet." The palace lord said with a frown.

"The key is the triangular notch on the tin stick." I touched it with my hand and said. "Something should be here, but what can you put on such a small triangular notch?"

"The key is that the clues are related to the content of the inscription, but these words are all Manchu, and it is impossible to have such a regular triangular shape." Ye Zhiqiu said.

"Give me a tin stick to try." Tian Ji said with some hesitation.

The palace lord handed him back the tin stick, Tian Ji scratched his head and asked for the paper from my hand to copy the inscription, and after a long time, he slowly put the corner of the paper in the middle of the tin stick, and all of us were taken aback in an instant.

No one thought about it, but in fact, the edge of the boxy paper just coincided with the triangular notch, and the eyes of the field chicken lit up, and the tin stick was turned, and the paper was rolled onto the tin stick, and when it was completely wound around the tin stick, only a vertical line of Manchu could be seen.

"What does this line mean?" Tian Ji asked Turzhan with a tin stick.

Turzhan shook his head, saying that the Manchu text on it was very messy and incomplete, and it was not a complete word at all, and the field chicken changed a corner and re-wound it, and Turzhan shook his head three times in a row, and the field chicken was not discouraged, constantly changing the angle and rotation of the positive and negative, and took the trouble to ask Turzhan.

When Turzhan saw the tin stick handed to him by Tian Ji again, suddenly the whole person's eyes widened, and he reached out to move the paper on it, and the corners of his mouth squirmed violently: "This, this time it is a complete Manchu text, and, moreover, a coherent sentence!" ”

……

We were ecstatic when we heard it, but we didn't expect that it was Tian Ji who deciphered the secret here, it turned out that this was the real use of the tin stick left by Qing Taizu in the gold box, no wonder he would ask that when copying the inscription, it must be in a specific limited area.

Most people will think that it is the rigor of the Qing Taizu, but in fact, only the inscriptions copied in this area will be reassembled through the entanglement of tin sticks to reassemble the clues hidden in them.

"What's written on it?" Ye Jiuqing couldn't wait to ask.

Turzhan translated the Manchu text one by one, and every time he said a word, Tian Ji recorded it on a piece of paper, and when Turzhan finished speaking, Tian Ji wrote a line on the paper.

Yin and Yang patrol the dragon trail, and the dragon sand phoenix crown shows the holy palace.

"Qing Taizu really left a clue in the inscription!" Xue Xinrou was overjoyed.

"But what do these two sentences really mean?" Tian Ji asked.

"There are too many things that yin and yang refer to, but there is no clear indication in these two sentences, and there are countless possibilities." Gong Jue said.

"No, there is actually an indication here, the yin and yang patrol is not a sentence taken out of context, the source of the original text is in the Book of Rites." Ye Zhiqiu pointed to the first sentence and said.

"There's this in the Book of Rites?" I asked.

"Uncle Feng used to force us to memorize the classics, and you were perfunctory at that time, I don't have as much courage as you, so I can only memorize it honestly." Ye Zhiqiu said with a wry smile. This is a passage from the sacrificial verse of the Book of Rites, which reads that the sun is born in the east and the moon is born in the west. The length of yin and yang is always patrolling, so that the world is combined. ”

"Uncle Feng asked us to carry these things?" I scratched my head and couldn't laugh or cry. "Oh no, you can still remember."

"Zhiqiu, what does this sentence mean?" Bai Jin asked.

"This sentence is actually very easy to understand, the yin and yang here refer to the sun and the moon, which means that the sun and the moon alternate, and the cycle is always not chaotic, and the world can always be peaceful."

"Nonsense, if the sun and the moon don't alternate, then it's okay." Tian Ji said disapprovingly. "But what is the purpose of Qing Taizu leaving this sentence?"

"yes, this is headless, who knows what he means?" I'm at a loss.

"Zhiqiu, did you just say this sentence out of sacrifice?" Ye Jiuqing asked.

"Yes."

"What? Do you even know that? I smiled helplessly.

"The sacrificial article is used to record the rules and rituals of the sacrifice, and you don't know what I do, since the sacrifice is of course a sacrifice to the ancestors, and the ancestors are buried in the ground, I learn something about this, and it is convenient to visit the tomb." Ye Jiuqing said in a low voice.

"The one who recorded the sacrificial ritual?!" I frowned and looked around. "Qing Taizu left this sentence in Yongling, could it be related to Yongling?"

"I also think so, the phrase Yin and Yang patrol hanging dragon traces, the previous Yin and Yang patrol should refer to Yongling, and the yin and yang here refer to the sun and the moon, that is, to find a place related to the sun and moon in Yongling." Ye Jiuqing nodded and said.

"You know this place best, what kind of place can you have in the Sun Palace or the Moon Palace in Yongling?" Tian Ji asked Turzhan with a smile.

"What are the Sun Palace and the Moon Palace?" Xue Xinrou looked dazed.

"This is the imperial mausoleum, any place is not such a palace or that palace, since it is related to the sun and the moon, maybe it refers to the building?" Tian Ji said with a smile.

Turzhan pondered for a long time, frowned and shook his head, and said: "Among all the buildings in Yongling, none of them are related to the words sun and moon. ”

"Impossible, since Qing Taizu left a clue, yin and yang refer to the sun and the moon, it means that there must be a place related to the sun and moon in Yongling, how can it ......"

Tian Ji suddenly stopped in the middle of speaking, and we saw the man who was kneeling here before patting Tian Ji on the shoulder behind him, and then said something.

"He, what did he say?" Tian Ji asked Turzhan blankly.

"He asked if you still need to see the inscription copied in your hand, and if you don't need it, he will take it and burn it to your ancestors, which is a way of repentance." Turzhan translated.

Tian Ji hurriedly returned the paper to Manren, politely said thank you, Manren smiled very humbly, turned around and walked a few steps and turned back again, still saying something to Tian Ji.

Tian Ji looked at Turzhan at a loss, and I found that Turzhan looked a little surprised: "He told you that I heard you say that Yongling is related to the sun and the moon before, he is a nearby villager and often comes to Yongling to worship, so he is very familiar with Yongling, and he knows that a place is related to the sun and the moon." ”

We immediately came to the spirit, asked Turzhan to help ask what the place was, the Manchu people beckoned to us, it seemed to be a signal to take us there, and after following the Manchu people out of the Crescent Moon City, we stopped at the main hall of Yongling where we came in before, that is, the Qiyun Hall built on top of the square tower, which is the resting place of the four ancestor gods.

In the spacious square, the Manchu raised his hand to the top of the Xiangdian and said something to us, Turzhan was shocked after hearing this, and after the Manchu left, he told us: "At both ends of the large ridge of the Xiangdian of the Qing Emperor's Tombs are the kisses of the owls, and the two ends of the large ridges of the Yongling Tomb are the kisses of the dragons. ”

"What do you mean by an owl kiss?" Tian Ji asked.

Xue Xinrou explained next to him that the kiss is a design on the backbone of ancient buildings, the source of which can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, usually placed on the roof of large ancient buildings to ward off evil spirits, legend has it that it can expel the evil ghosts that come to the house, protect the safety of the house, and can hope for abundant food and clothing, and prosperity.

For this reason, whether it is a high or low building level, the owner of the house is decorated with an owl's kiss at the end of the ridge and the corner ridge to ward off evil spirits, but the number of animals decorated is a symbol of the owner's authority and status, and only the emperor can use the dragon's kiss.

"Since it is to decorate the ridge of the roof, why is it related to the sun and the moon?" Gong Jue asked.

"On the sword handle on the side of the dragon's kiss on both sides, the words of the day and the moon are carved respectively, the word day is on the left, the word of the month is on the right, the word of the day and the word of the month are combined for the word Ming, and the word Ming is placed at both ends of the ridge to break the meaning of the Ming." Turzhan explained, pointing to both sides of the ridge.

"It turns out that Yin and Yang are talking about this place, but what does it mean for us to look at the roof?" Bai Jin said with a frown. "And there is a sentence behind the word "Hanging Dragon Trail", how to explain it?"

I gazed up at the roof of the Hall of Enjoyment for a long time, and Turzhan said that the problem should not be with the Hall of Enjoyment, because this is not the original site, it has been repaired later.

"That's strange, since the words left by Qing Taizu point here, but there is nothing, what should we see?" The palace lords were a little upset.

"Hanging Dragon's Trail......" I repeated the three words in my mouth. Hanging Dragon? Hanging dragons? Didn't you see a hanging dragon here? ”

"Hanging Dragon?!" Ye Jiuqing was suddenly stunned, and hurriedly took a few steps back, his mouth slowly opening. "Qing Taizu has guided here, so that the person who inherits the secret of the dragon vein treasure will not see the roof."

"What's that?" I hurriedly asked.

"It's the Qiyun Mountain in the back!" Ye Jiuqing's hand slowly lifted up, and a happy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Qiyun Mountain is blessed, the mountain is undulating and uneven, like a hanging dragon lying on the river!"