I pointed to the notebook and said to Shirley Yang: "Now that the facts are there, there is no need to find Professor Chen to confront him face-to-face, as long as you bring this work record to him, forgive him and dare not tell the truth, what else can there be hidden?" ”

Shirley Yang: "Professor Sun has always been unhappy in his career, and he secretly studied the hexagram mirror and hexagrams, mostly out of desperation, I am afraid that he just doesn't want others to interfere with his research results." In addition, the antiquities on display in the museum are all imitations, although you and I did not know about this at the beginning, but Professor Sun should have known about it a long time ago, and it seems that it is not a big deal for him to sneak into the museum to see the fakes while no one is there at night. I think even a scholar of Professor Sun's status will have difficulty accessing those national treasures without formal authorization, and the idea of using four talismans and one mirror to explore Dixian Village will not be realized after all, and sooner or later he will return the bronze mirror and bronze talisman in his hand to Zhao. ”

I smiled wryly and shook my head: "You think about people for good, but I don't think so." It can be seen from Professor Sun's work record that he has been secretly investigating the ancient tomb of Dixian Village for a long time, and the energy and effort he has devoted to it are beyond the reach of ordinary people, and it is not an exaggeration to even talk about demons, so he will never give up halfway. ”

Shirley Yang Qi said: "In your opinion, Professor Sun will go to the treasure house of the Hunan Museum to steal national treasures?" Although I do not know the tightness of the Chinese treasury, it is not expected that it will be weaker than the defense of the bank's vault. Professor Sun is almost 60 years old, and he has no power or background, how dare he commit such a heinous crime? ”

I said to Shirley Young: "Even if he eats the bear's heart and leopard gall and dares to steal the cultural relics in the museum, he has no means to fly off the wall." But after all, he has two bronze ancient talismans in his hands, and there is a hexagram mirror, I see that the pattern on the back of the mirror he painted in the notebook is all innate ancient hexagram graphics, and there is a sun and moon pattern in the middle divided into two instruments, and the number of river maps of three hundred and sixty-five carvings of Zhou Tian is combined, which is ever-changing, and there are unpredictable opportunities for gods and ghosts. ”

I have learned the number of innate ancient hexagrams from the mouth of the South China Sea Longhu Guchai, and now the I Ching gossip that has been handed down also has two poles of yin and yang, starting with the earthquake and ending with the gen, but the ancient hexagram is not only to "dry kan genzhen" as a symbol, and the fish, dragon, people, and ghosts that are combined with the hexagram mirror of the ruins are all the hexagrams of the sixteen hexagrams of Zhou Tian.

Fish, dragon, man, ghost may be the symbol of space and life in the ancient hexagram, it is the mysterious hint of divination and mountain and river veins in ancient times, all the hexagrams should have 16 pieces, at least four machine numbers, in order to generate a specific hexagram, the more divine machines, the more accurate the hexagram presented.

Only the two hexagrams of fish and dragon can actually deduce a simple hexagram, but the hints in the hexagram are more subtle. Most people who have some understanding of the innate hexagram number understand this principle. Professor Sun has studied the Dragon Bone Book for many years, so he naturally knows the secrets, and he has gathered two talismans and one mirror, as long as he finds a way to use ancient talismans to deduce the hexagram on the hexagram mirror, he may leave for Sichuan at any time to find the ancient tomb museum.

But with my years of contact with the "Sixteen Characters Yin Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique", as well as acquaintances with Zhang Yingchuan, Gu Chai and other people who understand some of the mysteries of the ancient hexagram of Zhou Tian, I know that this matter is by no means as simple as imagined. Sixteen old hexagrams are poor through the changes of the universe and insight into the mystery of creation, just as Zhang Sanye, the master of gold touching in the Qing Dynasty, said, "Whoever solves the secret, the flood or there are immortals", is not a mystery that ordinary people can understand, even if the so-called "heavenly machine" is placed in front of you, you may not be able to understand the deep meaning of it in a lifetime. As far as I know, the old hexagram of Zhou Tian contains four items: "hexagram map, hexagram number, hexagram symbol, and hexagram word", and now the ancient mirror with the hexagram and the hexagram have been whereabouts; The ancient guesses of the remnants of the ruins I found in the South China Sea, and I know the ancient recipes of the hexagrams handed down in ancient times, but only the most important hexagrams are missing, and without the hexagrams, I can't talk about interpreting the hexagrams.

In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there was a touching gold captain who dug out the ancient tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty once, perhaps for fear of leaking the heavenly machine to cause trouble, and soon destroyed these antiquities.

According to the information in Professor Sun's notes, the tomb robber Guanshan Taibao in the Ming Dynasty also opened an ancient mound and hid the ancient hexagram of Zhou Tian in Dixian Village, so there will be the legend of the late Ming Dynasty after the Liukou entered Sichuan and stole the ancient tomb, intending to find the legend of Danding dragon bones and golden books and Yulu.

Based on the records in Professor Sun's notes, I speculate that he doesn't know Zhou Tian's old hexagram at all, but he thinks he knows some of the ancient tomb robbers' earthworks, and he may only use the bronze mirror and bronze talisman in his hand to find Dixian Village based on the hexagram of the acquired gossip and the experience of studying the dragon bone secret text for many years.

After hearing my analysis, Shirley Yang couldn't help but worry: "If that's the case, we should try our best to find Professor Sun and persuade him to turn back as soon as possible." ”

I said: "Professor Sun is very stubborn and extremely persistent, he has studied the Dragon Bone Book for many years, and it seems that he is not obvious, but in fact, his ambition is really not small, and he is not willing to be an expert for a lifetime in obscurity." Thinking about it, there are so many experts all over the world now, what's so rare about having a false name? This time, he is probably determined to become famous, and he wants to solve the eternal mystery of Zhou Tian's old hexagram through guò, make a sensational effect, and fight for a well-known reputation in a distant country and a foreign land, and pass it on to be immortal. Don't say it's you and me, I don't think even Professor Chen can persuade him. ”

Shirley Yang said: "Hearing you say this, you must have already made a plan, do you want to take the opportunity to do something?" If you have a bad idea, you can be considered half an expert. ”

I said, "I didn't use my brain, it's just that there is a secret weapon of Danding hidden in the Immortal Village, which seems to be the kind of ancient tomb we are looking for." Professor Sun's detailed records of years of research have finally allowed us to pick up a ready-made bargain. I mean, why don't we go to Sichuan? Use the gold to set the acupoint and compete with the fans of Guanshan, do the trick of going back to the house to seek mystery, steal the tomb Danding out, and save Duoling's life. ”

Shirley Yang said: "I am afraid that this matter is not easy to do, Guanshan Taibao is a tomb robber in the Ming Dynasty, and based on Professor Sun's notes, I don't know the location of Dixian Village at all." From ancient times to the present, how can there be a practice of using a village as a tomb? I wonder if Dixian Village will be the same as the Peach Blossom Source discovered by the fishermen in Wuling, a mysterious village isolated from the world? What are the witchcraft and silver screen mechanisms mentioned in folklore? ”

I raised my eyes and looked out the window, and before I knew it, it was already dawn, so I said to Shirley Yang: "This is all an afterthought, for the time being, regardless of whether Dixian Village is inhabited by the living or the dead, we must hurry back to Beijing today and go to Professor Sun's house to pick him up." That ancient mirror, even if it is not the bone mirror of King Qin, is also a rare treasure, how can it be allowed to fall into the hands of Professor Sun, if he takes the ancient mirror into the mountains to find the ancient tomb, maybe this mirror will disappear with him. ”

After saying that, I took my work notebook with me, and I didn't bother to eat breakfast, so I hurried back to Beijing with Shirley Yang on the morning long-distance bus.

When I entered the house, I first pulled the fat man out of his back socket who had not yet gotten up. The fat man was sleeping in a daze, and complained: "Lao Hu, you are too lacking in morality, don't you know that the winter and March when you can't wake up in spring and autumn and summer naps, and these ten winters and months still don't let people sleep peacefully?" It's so inhumane that the fascists didn't give this trick to the Jews back then......"

I said you get up quickly, we have work again, I'll take you to eat the full Han banquet. As soon as the fat man heard this, he immediately became energetic: "I just dreamed that I was eating half of it, since this is the case, let's hurry up and eat it next, who is in for a treat?" Second Master Qiao? ”

While the fat man was getting dressed, I asked him how his business with Second Master Qiao was doing. That Qiao Erye is a prestigious veteran in Liulichang, in fact, most of them are fanned up by fame, and he has no real skills, he dug up a virtual tomb of the Yuan Dynasty when he was young, and he thought that he had found a feng shui treasure cave in the place where the corpse was moved, but as long as he is willing to pay, I am still willing to do business with him.

The fat man said: "The second master is good, it gives the fat man face, the key is that we are also the number one person in Panjiayuan......" As he spoke, he put on his clothes and put on a coat, and went out with me.

At this time, Shirley Yang had already called Professor Chen and asked for the address, and I said to her: "I didn't sleep all night last night, you should go back and rest quickly, and talk to Professor Sun about the matter, it is enough to have me and the fat man." We must focus on persuasion and education, and show him the righteousness, so that he must recognize the form and honestly return the national treasure. ”

But Shirley Yang was not at ease, and insisted on visiting Professor Sun together, and she didn't say a word at most, but she wanted to stare at us and not do anything out of line.

I had no choice but to agree, and on the way, I briefly told the fat man what happened to him, so that he should not be reckless, and not smash it as if he had raided the house.

The fat man gritted his teeth: "Old Hu, look at my temper, the fat man broke the halberd and sank in the sand in the South China Sea, and almost fed the fish, and he was busy for so long a day, and finally fell into the hands of this old fox with the bronze mirror." He must not be cheap, if he is willing to confess for a while, take the initiative to invite us to Zhengyang Ju to have a full banquet of the Han Dynasty, otherwise the two of you really have to stop me, and if you can't stop it, just wait to collect the body of the old boy surnamed Sun. ”

Professor Sun Xuewu lives in a tube building on the campus, the so-called "tube building", that is, there are several units on each floor, toilets, kitchens, and water supply and water, all at the end of each floor corridor, which is a shared public facility. The corridor is blackened by soot, full of miscellaneous items of various families, the environment is similar to the miscellaneous courtyard, and the living conditions are not too good.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution, many intellectuals and veteran cadres returned to work and were paid back wages, but although Sun Xuewu had squatted under the cowshed and had a labor camp, he had not yet explained some of his problems. Now that the job has resumed temporarily, the treatment has not yet been implemented, and I still live in the building with some teachers and staff who have less seniority and have not yet been assigned a room.

When we arrived at his door, the door was locked, probably because he hadn't returned from Tianjin. I made up my mind to wait for the rabbit, so I asked the fat man to go outside and buy a few sets of pancakes and come back, and sit in the hallway to eat while waiting. At noon, I heard a person with a Sichuan accent in the corridor say, "Professor Sun, come back, come and see the hairtail fish I bought at noon, what is this?" I haven't gotten the waistband of my pants in the house yet. It's so big that you can't even buy a decent hairtail fish. ”

I heard another somewhat familiar voice reply: "Oh, old Song, improve your life, eat braised hairtail fish at night?" I'll see, it's not too narrow, don't complain if you have to eat. ”

The three of us heard clearly and knew that it was Professor Sun who had returned. Sure enough, an old man walked over from the dark corridor, his hair was relatively strict, and the only remaining handful of hair, combed on the top of his forehead on one side, was Sun Xuewu, an expert who specializes in the study of ancient riddles and heavenly books. He obviously didn't know that the person he met at the Tianjin Museum was me, and when he saw us waiting for him in front of the door, he was just a little surprised and asked, "Hu Bayi from Panjiayuan, how do you know my address?" It's definitely not good for you kid to look for me. "He didn't seem to want the neighbors to see him talking to us, and without waiting for me to answer, he took out the key and opened the door and let us in.

I was not polite to him, and swaggered in with Shirley Yang and the fat man, and when I looked around, the room was full of books and books, and there were not many daily necessities, and there were not even many places to sit, so I had to sit on the pile of books.

Professor Sun closed the door, turned around and told us, "There is no hot water, drink tap water and pour it yourself." There are a lot of ancient books in the house, no smoking, if you have something to say, leave quickly. ”

When the fat man heard such slackness, he couldn't help but get mad. I held him down and said to Professor Sun, "We don't mean anything else, we just stop by to see you." In Gulan County, Shaanxi Province before, I also received your guidance. I came in a hurry, and I didn't bring any gifts, so I bought you a set of pancakes, two eggs, a little bit of heart, not a tribute. ”

Professor Sun was inexplicable: "Pancakes? Then he waved his hand and said, "Don't be close, I won't tell you guys to rob tombs." If you have anything to say, I'm too busy to entertain you antiquities dealers. ”

I was puzzled: "Professor, do you have a misunderstanding about me?" I haven't been in contact with you a few times, why every time I see me, they say that I am an upside-down cultural relic? Which eye did you use to see that I had an artifact? Saying this over and over again hurts the feelings of our amateur archaeologists too much. ”

Professor Sun's face was frosty, and he said to me: "I also occasionally go to the Panjiayuan antique market to visit, and now my ears are full of Hu Ye's name, who doesn't know that Hu Ye's hands are full of hard goods in the Ming Ware?" Thinking of our acquaintance, I won't hide it from you, I have already mastered your affairs, the reason why I don't break it for you is to give you a chance to confess and be lenient, you have to let me say it for you, even if the broad masses of people want to be lenient with you, they can't find an excuse, so they have to deal with it strictly. ”

I said disdainfully: "You are really worried about the country and the people, and you have used your own house as the door of the yamen?" But don't be lenient to me, if I'm lenient, I'm easy to find the north. I have been strict with myself since I was a child, and we will never be lenient if we can be strict. I'm doing a small business in Panjiayuan, but is there anything wrong with that? Isn't it because I love archaeology in my spare time, and I trade fairly and don't deceive people with fakes, that I let my peers praise me? Isn't that okay? ”

The fat man lost his temper when he heard this: "Old Hu, you don't talk nonsense with him, what's the point of throwing a few gadgets upside down?" Low-grade fun is not guilty. Tell him about our fight, and you won't scare him to death if you say it. ”

Hearing this, Professor Sun hurriedly said: "Look, your accomplices have already admitted it, are you still stubborn?" I wanted to get away with it, and said with a smile: "If the fat man doesn't say that I really forgot, isn't it just an inverted fight?" It's not worth mentioning at all, if you really want to hear it, I'll read it to you. When I dug out a big coffin in Fangshan County with my own hands, the ancient tomb has been for many years, not the Jin Dynasty or the Liao Dynasty, I didn't hesitate at all, three times five divided by two smashed it open, a look at the inside of the things is really a lot, so the body in the coffin first took the hemp rope to the outside, and found that under the dead body, there were two fist-sized golden toads, both of which were pure gold. ”

Professor Sun didn't expect me to say this, obviously surprised: "You kid is too bold, and you dare to rob a tomb in Beijing?" Hurry up and tell me honestly, what happened later? Where did the artifacts in the tomb go? ”

I shrugged my shoulders and sighed: "Later, when I opened my eyes, it turned out to be a dream of Nanke, and when I woke up from the dream, there was no follow-up, and this dream was really a bit unfinished......

Professor Sun's face became even more ugly because of my anger, and he stood up to see off the guest, but I hurriedly said, "Wait, you let me finish my words first." Just because I had a dream of robbing a tomb, and I felt that I was still unsatisfied, so I went to Tianjin to visit the cultural relics exhibition and had a good time, but I didn't expect to meet an acquaintance in the Natural History Museum, this time it was not a dream. ”

Professor Sun was poked in the soft underbelly by my words, and he already felt faintly uncomfortable, and his domineering attitude was gone, so he sat back in his chair and asked tentatively, "Are you ...... What did you say? What the...... What acquaintances? ”

I put away my smile and said, "I was led by the staff in the middle of the night and entered the museum through the back door, but I bumped into a thief in the museum, and I also picked up a work record at the scene. The cover is the red plastic skin of the **city tower, the content inside, I looked at it word for word all night, the more I looked, the more familiar I felt, it turned out that the bronze mirror mentioned in it was the three of us, as well as a group of people who picked green heads in Nanyang, sacrificed their lives to get back from the eyes of the sea, for which not only took a human life, but also a companion is still unpredictable. Now that this hexagram mirror has been swallowed privately, even if this person cracks the secret of Zhou Tian's hexagram, the academic halo on his head is also dyed red with the blood of the egg people in the South China Sea. I've been in turmoil for ten years, I haven't been to school for a few years, and I don't know as much as you know as a professor, so I'm here to ask you, how should we settle this account? ”

Sun Xuewu's face turned gray when he heard this, and he knew that he couldn't hide it now, and he might even get to the point of ruining his reputation. He was speechless for a long time, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore, his mouth softened, and he didn't dare to go around in circles anymore, so he begged: "Please put ...... Return the notes ...... Give me back, you want me...... Do what? As long as I can, I will say yes. ”

My expression softened slightly, and I said to Professor Sun: "People are not sages, who can be innocent, who can change mistakes, and they are still good comrades." Now that you recognize the wrong severity of your sex, right? I will give you a chance to atone for your crimes, I want you to take us to Sichuan to find the ancient tomb of Dixian Village, and then return the ancient mirror hexagram to Professor Chen as it is. ”

The fat man added: "In order to let you stop the precipice and know your way back, the fat man I cāo broke my heart and tried my best, at least ten pounds have lost weight these days, so you still have to invite us to Zhengyangju to eat the full banquet of the Manchu and Han Dynasty, and dig out the root of the wrong thoughts, compare the current good shape shì, write a written examination, read it out in public, and express the determination to correct the mistake." Do you know how many brain cells I made you angry with this old boy? ”

After being exposed, Professor Sun no longer had the stern expression on his face and the official tone of righteousness and righteousness, lowered his head and took out a few shoe boxes from under the bed, took out the bronze mirror and two copper talismans, and handed them to me.

I took the bronze dragon talisman in my hand, and I couldn't stop the surge of thoughts in my heart, and I couldn't imagine that after more than ten years, I would see this thing again. The dragon talisman is still the same, but the world is impermanent, the revolutionary comrade-in-arms Ding Sitian, who was in tandem with us back then, has gone to a different path with us at this time, when I think of her and the old sheepskin have gone to see Marx, my heart is like knocking over the five-flavor bottle, and then look at the fat man next to me, and I burst into tears as early as the moment I saw the dragon talisman.

At this time, I heard Professor Sun say: "Write the inspection, Zhengyang residence...... No problem, but Dixian Village can't find it...... No one can find it. The four eyeless talismans, fish, dragon, human, and ghost, contain enigmatic hints, and I can't understand them even after racking my brains. If you can't unravel the hint of the eyeless bronze talisman, the hexagram mirror hexagram will have no practical use. ”

I wiped my sleeve on my eyes, calmed down slightly, and asked Professor Sun, "The eyes of the bronze talisman are hollow, which should be used to deduce hexagrams." Since ancient times, the way of divination by candle is mostly called turtle divination, and the ancient art is actually divided into two kinds of turtle and mirror, the candlelight passes through the copper hole, and the light leaks into the hexagram on the back of the mirror, which is the so-called method of candle acting in the mirror. This is also described in your notes, don't you understand it when I can? ”

Professor Sun hurriedly explained: "The method is such a method, to measure the dragon vein feng shui, you need to use human oil candles, only two bronze talismans can also perform hexagrams, but it is really so simple." There are three hundred and sixty-five copper hexagrams on the back of the mirror, each of which is divided into yin and yang to set up two instruments, and set up four squares to present four images, which have specific hidden meanings, if you can't think of why the bronze talisman of the fish, dragon, man and ghost has no eyes, how can we use it to deduce the hexagram? I thought there would be clues on the Dan furnace unearthed in Hunan, but after seeing it with my own eyes last night, I still found nothing, and in the face of this eternal mystery, I was completely dead. Because the relationship between the hexagram mirror and the ancient tomb of the earth immortal is like a cycle of cause and effect - without the hexagram mirror, you can't find the hidden and difficult to find the ancient tomb of the earth immortal, and without the Zhou Tian hexagram hidden in this ancient tomb, you can't use the hexagram mirror. So don't expect to find the ancient tomb of Dixian Village. In fact, the village itself is even more confusing, like a legend stored in the Arabian Nights, and the most important thing is that you have no time. ”

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