"Hehe, you kid" The old man was a little uncomfortable with my directness, and sighed after being slightly stunned: "Okay, since that's the case, then I'll say it directly, these stories you said are indeed there, and there are quite a lot of discussions in some classics that record fairy recipes." But after all, that period of history is too far away from the period we are in, so most of the classics are made up by later generations based on previous legends and personal imagination. If you want to say that the specific era basically appeared after the Qin and Han dynasties, but what is the difference between the people of the Qin and Han dynasties writing a history thousands of years ago and people like you and me writing the history of the Qin and Han dynasties? In the final analysis, the credibility is still not enough, so those things may not be groundless, but there is no need to force them upward. ”

The old man said, rummaging through the briefcase he brought for a long time, and then turned out a notebook, and took out a copy paper in the middle of the notebook that was folded into eight petals and gave it to me.

"What is this?" Seeing that the things on it were mottled and extremely shabby, I couldn't help frowning, and the old man heard the words and said to me with a smile: "Don't underestimate this thing, this, it is a set of Warring States silk books excavated by my teacher from an ancient tomb in Henan in the early sixties, you look at the text on it, can you see any clues?" ”

"Warring States period?" As soon as I heard this, I took a closer look, and yes, the rotten silk book like a rag did have a lot of seal characters written on it, but the silk book had survived for too long, and the silk weaving technology at that time was not complete, and there were not many complete handwriting on the whole picture. What's even more painful is that those seal characters are handwritten, which is more difficult to identify than the neat big and small seals, I have read it several times, and I can only see that this thing should be similar to the "folding" thing in the past.

Looking at the beginning and the inscription, nine times out of ten it is a confidential document written by a minister to the monarch, but it is not clear what is written in it. Because the way people in ancient times spoke may be different from today's people, they always want to confuse people, sometimes, a dozen words can record a piece of history, word by word is not nothing, aside from these, the biggest problem is punctuation.

Nowadays, no matter how difficult it is to write something, it will add punctuation marks to you to break a sentence or something, but the ancient people didn't have that habit, and a bunch of words were put together densely, and no one told you how to read this thing.

Because of this bad habit, there are differences among those well-known scholars in the interpretation of many historical materials. I was deeply aware of how troublesome this question was, shook my head and returned the copy of the silk book directly: "This thing looks too tired, you should tell us about it." ”

"Oh, I don't understand, do you?" When the old man heard this, he was very proud, and took the copy in his hand and pointed at us, and said, "I told you just now, this is what my teacher found from an ancient tomb, and at that time, this thing was put together with many burial goods, and it took a lot of effort to keep it in its entirety. ”

"You look at the text on this and the material of this silk to know, this must be a noble thing, in this regard, our views are very consistent, everyone thinks that this is an emperor around the Fang Shi to the then monarch to write a recital, that is, the Ming and Qing dynasties of the kind of recital. It's nothing, but I wonder if you've noticed what is written on this note? In this memora, there is a story about a mysterious elixir that can make people immortal. ”

"The silk book says that in the Northern Wilderness, there is a mysterious clan called 'Nine Heads', who claim to be the descendants of the ancient evil god 'Xiangliu', who live in seclusion in the mountains, rarely interact with outsiders, and never appear during the day, but once it is night, these people will suddenly emerge and loot everywhere."

"They only kill people, not rob money, and often pull the corpses back in horse-drawn carts, and sometimes dig graves in groups to find the corpses, which makes everyone in the neighborhood panic, everyone says that they are monsters, but when the man who wrote the silk book waded through mountains and rivers to get in, he found that these people have a mysterious spell that can give people eternal life. He also said that the nine-headed tribe in the mountains, do not eat the fireworks of the world, day and night, every night will be in groups to worship a huge Danding with green smoke, and use the steam coming out of the Danding to maintain life, and the raging flames under the Danding are extracted from the countless corpses, the fire is pure green, not like something that can exist in the world. ”

"He said that he once paid off the miscellaneous servants of a tribe with a lot of money, and wanted to find out the situation inside, but the other party's level was too low, and he didn't know what kind of secret was hidden here, but one thing can be determined, that is, the old patriarch of this mysterious clan has lived for more than a thousand years, has six palms, and has great magical powers, and any random tribe in this tribe can have a longevity of more than five hundred years."

"According to his speculation, there must be an elixir hidden in the Dan furnace, as long as you can get one, you can get more than five hundred years of yang longevity, but he also knows the situation of this tribe, and knows that there is no way to snatch those things with his own ability, so he wrote to the monarch and hoped that the other party would send a messenger to make friends, even if he got one elixir, it would be enough for the other party to enjoy all the glory and wealth."

"And then? Is this monarch really immortal? Looking at the piece of paper with interest, Da Niu asked.

"Where is there any immortal monarch, naturally there is no explanation in this silk book, but we all know that the monarch died a miserable death. According to the history books, this monarch encountered a mutiny during a trip, and his younger brother and one of his concubines came together to seize the power of the country, not only did not let him enter the city, but also shut him out of the door and ridiculed him. ”

The old man said, shrugged his shoulders, and then said: "Before, everyone didn't understand why he ran outside the gate, but now that I think about it, eighty percent has something to do with the content of this silk book. ”