Chapter Twenty-Seven: Orchid Pavilion Preface
Shirley Yang looked at the cat that was running out, her mouth kept snorting, she said, Lao Hu, that is a purebred Persian cat, when is there a cat in this boat. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info She said all nonsense, but it was this nonsense that relieved the tense atmosphere. The captain of the boat relaxed, and he said that the cat had come really suddenly. Where did it come from? I said, "We were about to ask you where this cat came from, and it didn't come from your family, so I came to the boat with you." The four eyes were surprised, and he said, Lao Hu, isn't this going to Fuxian Lake, the tiger cat that the doctor is holding in his arms. I said, Four Eyes, you don't talk about it, how can it be so coincidental, it will come here, all the way, we haven't seen it, but it suddenly appeared here, you are not talking nonsense. Four-eyed swore an oath, he said, Lao Hu, that's right, I said yes, it's right, it's definitely the tiger cat. Yang looked at me with a strange look, as if I was hiding something from her.
I don't remember exactly, but this cat, when it appeared, was a little strange, adding a touch of weirdness to the quiet cabin. I saw that the topic was a little far away, so I dragged it back again, and I said, the problem of the reef should be solved first. The fat man said strangely, isn't it solved, the ship takes a detour, doesn't it have nothing to do with it? For now, let's solve the problem of the crystal ball first. It pulled the problem back, and I didn't want to dwell on this issue, and now, this problem seemed to be a little difficult to solve, but the fat man had to hold on to this problem, and I had to follow his train of thought. The crystal ball is indeed a big problem, and if the problem of the crystal ball is solved, the problem of the ancient tomb will probably be clear. But then, things didn't work out anyway. No matter what the boat boss thinks, he can't always remember the crystal ball, he is messing around, and he is always at the wrong point with the horse's mouth. It annoyed me, but it didn't solve the problem in the slightest. The crystal ball became a hanging and hanging question, and suddenly it was in front of us. Trying to get around it, but having difficulty getting around it, has become an urgent problem that must be solved.
I gave Yang a look and asked her to use her brain, Yang is an agile person, often has amazing moves, in the process of inverting the fight, she is my indispensable partner, has become my right-hand man with the fat man. Seeing that I winked at her, Yang began to fight in a roundabout way. She said to the captain of the boat, and she said, "You put that skull." Hearing Yang ask him like this, the boat boss cried out for bitterness, and he said, how dare I keep that thing. At first, I wanted to throw it away, but after throwing it out several times, it came back inexplicably. Four Eyes is a lawyer, he is a person who talks about evidence, he said, don't fool us, you want to throw things out of your hand, you can't throw them away, can't it grow legs, it always follows you. The boat boss said aggrievedly, you are right, it is like a leg, no matter how far I throw it, it will always come back to my home. Four Eyes shook his head and said, This is a little strange, it followed you, but you lost it again, how the hell is this explained. The boat boss said, I can't really be blamed for this, the last time, I was ruthless, ready to burn it. I have a friend who died in a car accident, and when he was cremated, I secretly hid it in his clothes, and who knows, the beautician who bespoke with him found out and brought it back to his house like a treasure.
I said, aren't beauticians afraid of skulls? How do you know that the boat boss smiled, he said, the child has no mother, it's a long story. This beautician, I've visited him a few times, and I'm a little skeptical that the skeleton was reverted to crystal when it was cremated. But I visited him several times, but he refused to see me. I was a little suspicious, worried that he had hidden the treasure, and rejected me again and again. But finally one time, I still impressed him with my tenacious perseverance, and the other party decided to see me once, but when I walked into his house, I was completely speechless, this guy is a skull collector, and there are thousands of large and small skulls in his house. I searched for a long time, but I couldn't find the crystal ball from the pile of skulls. Even the beautician himself said that after he put the skull in it, even he couldn't tell which one was the one I was looking for. I said, why does your friend like to collect this? He said that this guy used to be a forensic doctor, and he said that human skeletons are the most delicate works of art. I almost fainted when I heard it, and when even the skeleton became a work of art, I thought this guy must be sick. I said, after you read the ancient book, didn't you think about getting it back?
The captain of the boat said, Mr. Wang and I went to find him, and we were a hundred times more determined to find this crystal ball, but when we went again, the original place changed greatly. When I asked my neighbors, I said that there was a fire here, and the house and people burned it clean. This was another accident, and even Mr. Wang sighed, saying that it was providence. Since we couldn't find the crystal ball, we had to give up, so we studied this ancient book all day long. Speaking of conscience, this writing is so profound that even the most authoritative experts in ancient Chinese and scholars of ancient history today may not be able to read it. In addition to the obscurity of the language, the place names mentioned in it are also very old, and most of them do not match the current place names. I asked, "How do you know it's over the Sea of Japan?" Because, he said, the word appears the most in this ancient book. We deduced that the tomb might be here. Mr. Wang said that he had copied many copies of the ancient books, of course, only partially, and did not tell the other party what they were. Then, he took it and gave it to some authoritative archaeologists for them to decipher. As soon as I heard what he said, I knew that there was going to be trouble. Even if some Chinese language experts look at the ancient texts, they can't let archaeologists read them, with their professional sense of smell, once they read it, they will smell some flavor from it, and they will flock to it.
I said, even if the Sea of Japan is mentioned in the book, it may not be here, Japan was not called Japan in the past, we called it Wa, and the Japanese archipelago did not appear until after the 4th century, and before that there were only tribes, and the Japanese archipelago was not originally called Japan. In ancient Japanese mythology, the Japanese called it "Eight Continents", "Eight Island Nations", etc. According to the records of the Book of Han and the Book of the Later Han, China in ancient times called Japan "Wa" or "Wa State". In the 5th century, after the unification of Japan, the name of the country was set to Yamato. Because the ancient Japanese revered the sun god, they regarded the sun as the totem of their country. Legend has it that at the beginning of the 7th century, Prince Shotoku of Japan wrote in his letter to Emperor Yang of Sui: "Prince at sunrise to prince at sunset", which is the prototype of the name of Japan. It was not until the second half of the seventh century that the name of the country was changed to Japan, which means "the place where the sun rises", and it has since been used as the official name of Japan. It is recorded in the "New Tang Dynasty Book: Japanese Biography" that in the first year of Xianheng (670), the Wa State sent an envoy to the Tang Dynasty. The messenger said to himself, because he was out in the near future, and he took it as a name. In addition, in Chinese, "Fuso" and "Dongying" are also other names for Japanese country names. Literally, it means "the place of the sun", that is, the place where the sun rises. For this reason, Japan is sometimes referred to as the Land of the Sun. The captain of the boat said, I don't know much about this, I'm just a boater, and I don't know the specific place name. All I had to do was look at the charts and walk. Listening to him say that, I didn't bother to talk to him anymore. Now that this crystal ball is gone, this ancient book may be a little troublesome. In my opinion, this ancient book can be passed down for so many years, if he was written at that time in the Qin Dynasty, it has been placed for thousands of years, and it can be preserved for such a long time, without a certain environment, suitable for storing it, it is absolutely impossible. Looking at it now, it can be stored for thousands of years, and it is definitely inseparable from the crystal ball, but the worst thing is that this crystal ball is lost. The more important point, and the most questionable, is that when this crystal ball appeared in the auction house, there were many appraisers there, most of them experts in this area, and they didn't see it. This is the biggest suspicion, and in my analysis, it is unlikely. If this is the case, then this ancient book is quite ordinary, and it is not an antique that is more than a few thousand years old.
Shirley Yang sighed, she said, "Old Hu, I feel that this matter is getting more and more complicated." From an ancient book, there is actually a crystal ball, as far as I know, the crystal ball, that is, the world, there are not a few. The boss of this ship happened to get such one, which is not a miracle or something. Moreover, this crystal ball will also transform into a skull. I said, maybe, it was originally a skull. As soon as Yang Lingqi moved, he said to me with some surprise, put the book in a skeleton, then, this book is very precious. In my opinion, it represents either the soul or the brain. I said, is it possible? Yang said unswervingly, it is very likely, this meaning is very rich, you have to analyze and analyze it well, where to put it is not good, you have to put it in a skull. I said, don't make a big fuss, that complicates the problem. It's that complicated, you simplify it a little bit. Yang smiled and said, the problem is, it can't be simple now, where can it be simple. Think about it, can you make this question simple. As soon as she said this, I was immediately speechless. Yes, how can it be simple, even if I try my best to make it simple and rack my brains to make it happen, it is difficult to achieve it.
We were talking about it, and we listened to the four eyes shouting, old Hu, old Hu, look. I saw the bright spot flickering, at this time there is a cloud of light diffuse, look closely, it is a four-meter-long scroll of calligraphy works, I carefully identify, it is the orchid pavilion preface, Wang Xizhi wrote. I couldn't turn a corner for a while, and later generations said that this work was brought to the mausoleum by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, but it would appear here, which is incredible. But look at it again, the inscription is Jinyang Wu Xiaoyan, this calligrapher, I don't know, with my knowledge in the antique world, I don't know this person. Yang was also confused, she said, Lao Hu, this calligrapher, I haven't heard of it. I said, slowly you will understand, the works that can be collected by Qin Shi Huang must be good works.
Burning books and destroying a lot of things, but here. Seeing my confused look, the four eyes opened his mouth on the side, and he said, perhaps, this is the people of later generations, maybe this is a calligrapher who is famous for writing Lanting. I suddenly had an epiphany that the golden goose has been wandering in the world for thousands of years, perhaps it has always been invisible, and once it encounters a good work, it will be copied with that incomprehensible network of light. But why would it just reproduce such a work? In later generations, there were many people who wrote Lanting, and most of them copied it vividly, which could reach the point of being fake, but it only chose a work by Wu Xiaoyan in Jinyang. This is a bit strange, what kind of legend does this person have, and Jin Yan will quietly copy the work. A mystery, a mystery. Faced with this bizarre situation, I had no choice but to remain silent and not express my opinion, and sometimes, silence is also a kind of wisdom.