Chapter 47: The Five Elements of Yin and Yang
Zuo Dengfeng stood in the distance and watched Liu Tian and the villagers go away, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, he didn't expect this to be the result, Liu Tian answered his questions truthfully in order to survive, so that Zuo Dengfeng was a little unwilling, but let go and was unwilling, so he wanted to kill him by the hands of the villagers, who knew that the villagers actually let him go, no, to be exact, he was sent away.
"What do you think these people think?" Zuo Dengfeng looked at Thirteen with a smile and a smile.
"Meow~" Thirteen looked up at Zuo Dengfeng.
"The poor man will have something to hate, so go." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and shook his head, and turned to the mountains in the southwest, at this time there must have been a commotion in the city, so Zuo Dengfeng decided to find a place to hide for a few days to avoid the limelight.
According to the situation explained by Yanagida, Fujisaki is likely to be in the Northeast, but this is only possible, because Fujisaki does not belong to their War Department, that is to say, Fujisaki can go wherever he wants, if he works hard to run to the Northeast, it happens that Fujisaki went to Nanjing or came to Jinan, it would be bad, but if he blindly stayed in Jinan, it would not work, because Fujisaki may not come here at any time.
Zuo Dengfeng felt that his current situation was like a hunter chasing a rabbit, he didn't know where the rabbit was going, he couldn't wait for the rabbit, and he couldn't look for it everywhere, it was a dilemma at all. In addition, Fujisaki is not an ordinary officer, at that time in Shimizuguan, Thirteen jumped up to attack him, every time he could accurately kick Thirteen, at that time Zuo Dengfeng thought he was well-trained, but after learning Taoism, he found that ordinary people could not accurately kick the fast Thirteen, so Zuo Dengfeng judged that Fujisaki was likely to practice martial arts or spells, which was very likely.
What Zuo Dengfeng can't be sure now is whether Fujisaki is using all the abilities in Shimizu Temple, if so, then it is easy to say, with his current strength, he can completely subdue him. If Fujisaki hides his strength, then Zuo Dengfeng is not sure, in case he catches up with Fujisaki with all his hard work, but in the end he finds out that he is not a rabbit but a tiger, it will be sad.
"Probably not, otherwise I would have taken Thirteen away." Zuo Dengfeng shook his head and said to himself, when he said that Fujisaki went to Qingshuiguan to catch Thirteen, and in the end, the instep was drenched in blood by Thirteen, which means that even if Fujisaki knows spells or martial arts, he will not be very powerful, at least not more powerful than himself.
"Meow~" Thirteen heard Zuo Dengfeng shouting his name, and turned his head to shout at Zuo Dengfeng.
"Did you hear what the devil said, you cat who is not yin and yang is useless." Zuo Dengfeng looked at Thirteen and shook his head and smiled bitterly. According to Yanagida's confession, Fujisaki came to China not simply to arrest people for experiments, his main task was to find those animals corresponding to the twelve earthly branches in ancient times, the twelve earthly branches first appeared in the Shang Dynasty 2,800 years ago, and the words engraved on the collar on the thirteen necks happened to be the words used in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, that is to say, the era of the thirteen lives is the era when the twelve earthly branches have just been proposed. It is impossible to verify who came up with the theory of the 12 earthly branches, but the only thing that is certain is that the person who proposed the theory of the 12 earthly branches must have taken the 12 animals as the original prototype, and what Fujisaki was looking for was these 12 animals that lived 2,800 years ago.
If there was no Thirteen, Zuo Dengfeng thought Fujisaki's actions were ridiculous, but Thirteen clearly survived for nearly three thousand years, which indicates that the other twelve animals may have survived, and the yellow monkey on the shoulder of the Jade Whisk should be one of them, because it also has a golden collar similar to Thirteen around its neck, and the most important thing is that Thirteen still knows it.
Fujisaki had previously said to Yanagida that 'six yin are immortal, six yang are immortal', his sentence is not a fool's dream, because thirteen and the little yellow monkey have indeed survived for more than 2,800 years, and it can already be described as immortal, although Zuo Dengfeng does not understand the reason for their immortality at the moment, but guessed that Fujisaki wants to find them to prolong the life of the devil emperor, and the culture of this book originated in China, and it is reasonable for the devil to believe in immortality.
According to the formal historical materials, Zuo Dengfeng has been in contact with a lot in the cultural institute, but he does not know which of the twelve animals involved in the twelve earthly branches belong to yin and which belong to yang, because this already belongs to the content of metaphysics, and the cultural institute will naturally not include books on this subject.
In addition, Zuo Dengfeng has a doubt in his heart, that is, if you understand it literally, Fujisaki's sentence is "If you find six animals with the surname Yin, you can not die, and if you find six animals with the surname Yang, you can live forever", immortality and immortality seem to mean the same thing, why should Fujisaki say it separately?
"Forget it, find a fortune teller and ask." Zuo Dengfeng frowned and thought hard for a long time, but because he didn't understand the theory of yin and yang, he was never able to understand the hidden mysteries in it.
With this in mind, Zuo Dengfeng immediately changed his direction and walked in the direction of due south, he wanted to go to the towns around Jinan City to find a fortune teller who understood yin and yang and asked the yin and yang surnames of the twelve earth branches, these are the most basic metaphysical content, they must understand.
Thirteen twisted his ass and ran in front, looking back at Zuo Dengfeng from time to time, every time Thirteen turned around, the doubts in Zuo Dengfeng's heart were aggravated, since Thirteen appeared with the other twelve animals, then it must have its use, but the six yin immortals, the six yang immortals, the immortality and immortality are all occupied by the family, what is the use of this cat that is not yin and yang?
After thinking about it, Zuo Dengfeng had a ridiculous idea in his heart, he suspected that Thirteen was likely to be selected as a candidate for the twelve earthly branches along with the other twelve animals that year, but in the end it failed to qualify, was eliminated, and became the emperor's funeral object. As soon as this idea emerged, it was denied by Zuo Dengfeng himself, the twelve animals corresponding to the twelve earthly branches all have specific roles, and it is impossible to recruit a large group and then select a few like a beauty pageant. So Thirteen is definitely still useful, as for what the use is, Zuo Dengfeng can't think of it.
In troubled times, panic people's hearts, people have no spiritual support in troubled times, most of the temples are deserted, and most of the Taoist temples are closed. fortune telling; Looking; Set the house, grind the skin of the mouth, give the other party a peace of mind, and exchange yourself for a full meal.
Zuo Dengfeng doesn't believe in fortune telling, the reason why he wants to find a fortune teller is just to learn the basic metaphysical theory, although he is learning the Tao, but he is a standard halfway monk, the basic knowledge is not understood at all, and he urgently needs to make up for it.
In fact, he didn't believe in metaphysics at all, the appearance of thirteen changed his previous understanding, so that he understood that there were many things around him that he couldn't see or couldn't understand, and the silver crown Taoist also judged that he would enter the Dao after seeing his appearance, which shows that there is a certain truth in looking at the appearance, but the silver crown said at the time that 'entering the Tao is only in today', and in fact, Zuo Dengfeng obtained the yin and yang life and death formula and practiced it on the next day, which shows that the appearance is not necessarily very accurate. Yinguan is one of the five great masters of Xuanmen, and even his appearance is not 100% accurate, and these colored monks and fake Taoists who walk the streets and alleys, climb the wall and steal pants are naturally even more unremarkable.
After Zuo Dengfeng entered the town, he found several fortune tellers, after thinking, he sat down in front of a hexagram stall set up by a young man in his thirties, he didn't believe the old man, because the old man may use his age to rely on the old to sell the old fool people, the young man dares to do this, more or less a little real ability.
"Little brother, what do you want to count?" The young fortune teller wore ordinary clothes and did not deliberately wear robes like others.
"Let's have a future." Zuo Dengfeng said casually. Before asking the other party a question, you have to ask someone to calculate a hexagram is a courtesy.
"Word measurement, looking, or lottery?" On the fortune-telling table are the four treasures of the study room and the lottery holder.
"Let's take a word test." Zuo Dengfeng raised his hand, picked up the brush, shook his wrist, and wrote the word "life and death".
"You can only take one of them." The young fortune teller shook his head and spoke.
Zuo Dengfeng frowned when he heard this, and after pondering for a long time, he couldn't decide whether to live or die. As soon as Wu Xinyu left, he didn't want to live anymore, and he was reluctant to give up his heart. But the revenge was not avenged, and it was unlucky to choose death.
"Look at it." Zuo Dengfeng put down the brush in desperation.
"Can you go wash your face?" The fortune teller shook his head and smiled bitterly.
Zuo Dengfeng suddenly realized when he heard this, he forgot when he washed his face last time, his face was full of dirt, and the other party couldn't see his appearance clearly.
"Forget it, let's shake the lot." Zuo Dengfeng reached out and took the stick holder and began to shake, and after a while, a bamboo stick fell out, Zuo Dengfeng was stunned after picking it up, and there was no word on the bamboo stick.
"What does that mean?" Zuo Dengfeng handed the bamboo stick in his hand to the fortune teller.
"Shake again." The fortune teller put the bamboo stick back in the holder.
Zuo Dengfeng then shook it again, and what came out was the bamboo stick without handwriting, three times in a row, it was this one, Zuo Dengfeng wanted to shake it again, but the fortune teller stopped him.
"What's wrong?" Zuo Dengfeng asked suspiciously.
"There are sixty-five bamboo sticks in the lottery, of which sixty-four are sixty-four hexagrams derived from the eight trigrams, and one is an empty hexagram, which represents no hexagram. Your fate is weird, and it doesn't count. The fortune teller frowned and shook his head.
"Okay, that's not all, I have a few questions for sir." Zuo Dengfeng took out a large ocean and handed it to the fortune teller.
The fortune teller looked puzzled when he saw this, but after a moment of silence, he accepted the ocean, and his clothes showed that he lived a very hard life.
"The twelve earthly branches are not divided into yin and yang." Zuo Dengfeng went straight to the point.
Although the fortune teller had accepted the money before, he had been very nervous, and he was afraid that he would not be able to answer Zuo Dengfeng's question, and after hearing Zuo Dengfeng's question, the nervous look on his face finally disappeared.
"Yes, it is not only divided into yin and yang, but also divided into five elements." The fortune teller nodded and spoke.
"Be more detailed." Zuo Dengfeng took out the notebook from his arms.
"Of the twelve earthly branches, yang comes first, and yin comes last." The fortune teller spoke.
"The first six are yang?" Zuo Dengfeng asked.
"No, Zi Mouse, Yin Hu, Chen Long, Wu Ma, Shen Monkey, Shu Dog, these six are yang. The ugly cow, the rabbit, the snake, the sheep, the rooster, and the pig, these six are yin. "The fortune teller said very slowly in order to facilitate Zuo Dengfeng's record.
"How do you divide it according to the five elements?" Zuo Dengfeng raised his head after remembering.
"Among the six yangs, the monkey is gold, the tiger is wood, the rat is water, the horse is fire, the dragon is the main soil, and the dog is the secondary soil."
"Among the six yin, the rooster is gold, the rabbit is wood, the pig is water, the snake is fire, the ugly cow is the main soil, and the sheep is the secondary soil."
"Why are there two soils?" Zuo Dengfeng frowned and asked.
"The five elements are all derived from the soil, so there are main and secondary soils." The fortune teller replied casually, and it was clear that these were basic common sense.
"Thank you for your advice, and I also want to ask, have you ever heard the phrase "Six Yin Immortality, Six Yang Immortality?" Zuo Dengfeng put away the pen and paper and stood up.
"You remember wrong, this sentence doesn't say so, it should be: six yin and yin are immortal, and six yang and yang are immortal." When the fortune teller saw that Zuo Dengfeng was leaving, he finally smiled, which meant that the ocean was really in hand.
"What do you mean?" Zuo Dengfeng sat down again when he heard this, and there was ambiguity in the conversion of language to Chinese, and it was very likely that Liu Tian had misheard.
"This is a sentence in the upper part of the I Ching, everyone who does our business knows it, but this sentence doesn't seem to be interesting." The fortune teller shook his head and spoke.
"Oh, thank you." Zuo Dengfeng stood up, it was impossible for the fortune teller to know everything, it was not easy to know this.
After thanking the fortune teller, Zuo Dengfeng turned around and left, but he came back after a few steps, "Sir, why do you say there are no cats in the twelve earthly branches?" ”
"This, this, this I really don't know......"
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