Chapter 2: Rubbings and Prophecies

Zhao Yi walked out of the manager's room and touched a pack of rubbings in his jacket pocket, which was the real reason for his resignation. This pack of rubbing www.biquge.info s was bought by the chef elder Chen when he went to a scenic spot in Suzhou Province to travel, and he was thinking of buying some souvenirs to come back, but he was fooled by a roadside vendor, and somehow he spent 300 yuan to buy such a pack of rubbings, and he regretted it after coming back.

Zhao Yi is usually a little interested in Jin Shixue, and when he saw this, he used the cost price to collect the rubbing from Lao Chen. Most of the rubbings in this package are the most common stele rubbings, and occasionally there are a few Qin and Han tiles and Tang and Song brick rubbings, and the span of the times is so large that Zhao Yi can't help but be interested.

Wadang rubbings have always been rare, because Wadang is an ancient building component, which is muddy, and cannot be extended, unlike photos that can be copied indefinitely, thus increasing the weight of the collection, and being able to find Wadang rubbings for 300 yuan, Zhao Yi can be said to have earned.

The rubbings in the rubbings are written from dozens of stone tablets of different sizes, including different fonts such as line script, regular script, cursive script, etc., which once made Zhao Yi think that these rubbings were modern imitations. Because many tourist attractions now have special people selling fake antiques and fake rubbings, Zhao Yi went to find someone to identify it once, and was told that it was undoubtedly genuine.

Since it is genuine, it is indispensable to understand the content above, and through Zhao Yi's painstaking identification, the content of the inscription was finally sorted out. This content surprised Zhao Yi, what was recorded in the inscription turned out to be a prophecy that rarely appeared in Chinese inscriptions, a prophecy about the destruction of the world!

You must know that the ancient Chinese rulers were extremely taboo about prophecies and proverbs, which can be seen from the ban on pushing back pictures and baking cake songs. The owners of these inscriptions actually engraved the prophecy on the tablet in a grand manner, isn't he afraid of the literary prison of the past dynasties?

Dozens of inscriptions contain a lot of information, and there are many natural disasters since the Ming Dynasty, especially in recent years. Once the content of the prophecy was compared, it made Zhao Yi sweat coldly, whether it was an earthquake or tsunami or volcanic eruption in recent years, as long as it was a natural disaster of a higher scale, it was predicted accurately, and even the days were not bad, seventeen times!

The most important thing is that the prophecy mentions that in two years, there will be a catastrophe in the world, when the world will be in chaos, the gloom will be everywhere, and the people will not survive, and the world will be almost destroyed!

Is this prophecy true or false? If it's fake, it's easy to do, anyway, the prophecy of the destruction of the world that has been handed down since ancient times is gone, and it's not too much, so it should be relieved. But the previous prophecy is accurate, will this prophecy be false in the end?

If the prophecy is true, then there will only be two years of peace, and we must prepare for these two years in order to deal with the catastrophe in the future. The premise of all this is to determine the accuracy of the prophecy and find the more detailed prophecy!

Zhao Yi's resignation was mostly for this, and after knowing the content of the inscription, Zhao Yi had no intention of working. This time, I just took the opportunity to report Zheng Ming to resign and come out, and personally went to the attractions where Lao Chen had been to find out where the inscription of the rubbing was, so as to get the most detailed first-hand information. When the time comes, Jin can warn the federal government about the end times, and he can design his own shelter to avoid the disasters of the end times.

When packing up things in the dormitory, Zhao Yi was full of emotion, he has been working in the back kitchen of this hotel since he graduated from college last year, among all the people in the back kitchen, he is the most educated, and he is also the most hard-working, he has always been diligent in his eyes and hands, and all the masters like him. Although he started cooking at the age of 22 a little late, he has the talent to work hard, and everyone says that he will become a chef in the future. When he graduated, his dream was to learn cooking skills and go back to open his own hotel, a hotel that can be a national chain like Huihai Group. But all of this collapsed with his worldview when he understood those rubbings.

Objectively speaking, he didn't want the prophecy on the rubbing to be true. There was once a saying: "The only reason you love war is that you haven't experienced it." For Zhao Yi, who likes to read history, he can understand the cruelty of war, not to mention that the end times will be a hundred times more cruel than war, a thousand times.

When everyone in the kitchen was invited to eat, Zhao Yi was drunk and cried bitterly. Everyone thought that Zhao Yi was reluctant to Huihai Hotel, and they persuaded him to be a good man, and some people came up with ideas to find Ye Xiwen to see if he could stay.

Only Zhao Yi himself knows that he is not crying for himself, and only he knows how heavy the news is that he bears alone, he is crying about the world.

At the junction of Liangchang City and Jingkou City in Jiangsu Province, in the Maoshan Scenic Area, a 23-4-year-old chubby man wearing a tourist hat and carrying a mountaineering bag was following the tour group to explain and listen. This person is Zhao Yi, since he resigned, he bought a train ticket to the south, and came to Maoshan, the birthplace of the Taoist Shangqing faction, which is known as the "first blessed land, the eighth cave heaven", and has been in this scenic spot for two days.

According to Lao Chen, his rubbings were bought from a vendor selling souvenirs at the gate of the scenic spot, and Zhao Yi searched all the vendors at the gate in the past two days, but there was no gain. Following the tour group into the scenic spot, you can only listen to some roadside explanations, and there are no useful clues.

"The Lingguan Hall at the entrance is inlaid with a stone inscription of the 'Nine Heavens Ten Thousand Blessings Palace' written by the Divine Sect. Climb up the ladder and enter the Lingguan Palace. is ** serving the Taoist protector god Wang Lingguan, he is wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, stepping on hot wheels, holding a nine-section whip, glaring angrily, guarding the palace gate. On both sides, the gods of the green dragon and white tiger and the vermilion bird Xuanwu are enshrined, representing the four directions of the east, west, north and south respectively. "After listening to the tour guide's introduction, some devout tourists have already bowed down. Zhao Yixin was not here, squinting his eyes and looking at the surrounding decorations, wanting to see if he could find some traces on the rubbing.

At this moment, the voice of the tour guide of another tour group next to him floated to his ears, "Just now a child asked if the back is the god of thunder, in fact, no, behind this Lingguan Hall is the Tibetan scripture building, which is a brick and wood structure, three rooms wide and two deep." There are two floors up and down, the upper floor is the Tibetan scripture office, the Tibetan Taoist collection is 5840 volumes, and the lower floor is the patriarch's hall, which enshrines several highly respected Taoist masters in the history of the development of Taoism in Maoshan. Speaking of the thunder god, there is a Tianzun view in the back mountain, which is dedicated to the Nine Heavens Yingyuan Thunder God Puhua Tianzun, but the traffic is inconvenient there and has long been abandoned, otherwise I can take you to that side to take a look, the stele forest behind the Tianzun view is still a little interesting. ”

Zhao Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, he really had nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get them. I didn't find it for two days like I was looking for a needle in a haystack, and I actually ran into it here. The Forest of Steles, is it the origin of the rubbing?

Looking for an opportunity for a tour group of tourists to go to incense, Zhao Yixu asked the tour guide to take him to the Tianzun Monument Forest for 2,000 yuan. The tour guide wants to make this money, but he really can't spare the time. I had no choice but to mark the location on a map, and drew a simple topographic map for Zhao Yi, charging him 200 yuan. The tour guide also specially told Zhao Yi that the location of Tianzunguan was too close to the deep mountain, and there was not even a mobile phone signal inside, so he should be careful. He also said that if it rains, don't go into the mountains, in case of flash floods, it's not a joke.

Zhao Yi got the map and found a treasure, so he hurriedly went back and packed his things and entered the mountain. Zhao Yi used to like hiking, and he brought a complete set of hiking equipment with him, including fleece sleeping bags, hammocks, single tents, hydration bags, etc., even if he slept in Tianzun Temple at night.

Sure enough, it was Wangshan running a dead horse, looking at a short distance on the map, Zhao Yi walked for six hours to arrive, and the road into the mountain was completely deserted, and there were no traces of human activities if you didn't look carefully. Zhao Yi basically climbed along the way, especially after crossing several dry and gravel riverbeds, the riverbed washed by the rainstorm was three meters deep, and Zhao Yi even climbed and jumped up, tired and half dead.

Looking at the Tianzun Temple in front of him, Zhao Yi breathed a long sigh of relief. Not to mention, the 200 yuan given to the tour guide was not spent in vain, the location marked on the map was extremely accurate, and it was not in vain that he carried a mountaineering bag weighing dozens of pounds for six hours.

The Tianzun Temple has long been dilapidated, and even the plaque is gone. Inside, I saw a clay statue in the middle, I thought it was the Nine Heavens Ying Yuan Thunder God Puhua Tianzun, but the age was old, and the painting on the statue had long been mottled and incomplete, leaking out the mud tire inside. On the walls on all four sides, there are colorful pictures of the Thunder Heavenly Palace and the gods, including the god Lei Yu Mansion, the 36 Inner Courtyards of the Middle Division, the East and West Huatai, the Xuanguan Miaoge, the Four Mansions and the Six Courtyards, as well as the Nine Heavens Lei Gong General, the Eight Directions Cloud Thunder General, the Five Directions Barbarian Thunder Messenger, the Thunder Ministry General Envoy and so on. But these color pictures are as dilapidated as the statues of the Heavenly Venerable. The incense burner in front of the statue fell to the ground on its side, and several cases were covered with a thick layer of ash.

"It seems that you are worse than me, look at the Sanmao Patriarch and the four generalissimos in front of you, you are really more god than god and angry god." Zhao Yi muttered and straightened the incense burner, and after looking for it, he didn't find the incense candle, so he took out the cigarette case from his pocket, took out three cigarettes and lit them and inserted them, "Come on, the poor worship the poor god, or I'll send you some incense, don't think it's wrong, I can't even smoke a pack of 70 soft China." ”

After bowing a few times to the statue of Tianzun, Zhao Yi turned to the back of the view, and sure enough, he saw a forest of steles. I'm afraid that there are hundreds of tablets, but the strange thing is that there is not a single word on all the tablets! It's really strange, Wu Zetian set up a wordless monument, it is to "make a thousand merits, leave it to future generations to comment", you are a group of Taoists, which martial arts to learn.

The stele seems to be a little messy, a stone stele in the middle has been broken into two, the lower half is still standing on the base, the upper half seems to be smashed by a great force, and falls next to the stele. Seeing this kind of remnant monument, Zhao Yi almost thought that he was in the Qufu Kong Forest.

In the past, when I watched others write articles, I always saw what they said about the vicissitudes of history, and Zhao Yi laughed at them and moaned without illness. This time, he touched the stele with his own fingers, and really felt the weight of history and the impermanence of the world. I think that this Tianzun Temple was also beautiful back then, but thousands of years of time passed, and all that was left was this broken wall and hundreds of wordless tablets.

Zhao Yi returned to Tianzun Temple, took out the rubbing, compared the tile and brick carvings of Tianzun Temple, and found that the source of the rubbing was indeed here. The strange thing is that there is inscription on the rubbing, why do you see a wordless tablet. Did someone scrape the inscription off it?