The South China Sea Returns to the Ruins Chapter 16 The Bilge

The ancients believed that everything will present an "image". "Elephant" is an all-encompassing elephant, this is the so-called "things are born with images, and images are born with numbers", the ancient hexagrams on the coffin cover are very complicated and difficult, but in general, they are basically the same as the hexagrams we are studying today, but the details are more deduced. I was speechless for a long time, and it wasn't until Shirley Yang and others asked me that I came back to my senses and told everyone that the content engraved in this coffin was: "The earthquake is up and down, and it is shocking for a hundred miles." ”

On the inside of the stone coffin, with an ancient symbol similar to an insect fish, engraved with the pattern of the "shock" hexagram, or long or short fish bone marks represent the shock hexagram respectively, "Yi" cloud: "Heng, the shock comes to the detriment, the smile is dumb, the shock is a hundred miles, and the dagger is not lost." This is a hexagram that "shocked a hundred miles", and there is a judgment of deducing the shock hexagram under it, which is too different from the acquired gossip I know, so I can't understand it.

After we experienced a hurricane, we accidentally found this stone coffin locked on the turtle bone, which may be a miraculous coincidence, but I don't think it may be like that. From this point of view, there are too many such antiquities buried in this seabed, so many of them can be seen everywhere, but most of them have been corroded and cannot be identified in their original form, so they have never been taken seriously.

Shirley Yang and others asked me what is the meaning of this "shock" hexagram? I explained that in the gossip, there is a sense of smooth access and awakening and self-cultivation, and it is difficult to say whether it is evil or auspicious. The earthquake is thunder, the earthquake is up and down, there is the meaning of thunder overlapping continuously, the thunder between heaven and earth trembles, frightens people to tremble all over the body, after a while, they talk and laugh freely, the huge thunder roars, shocks a hundred miles, but the important sacrificial activities must be carried out as usual. The arrival of the thunderstorm does not know whether it is a blessing or a curse, and while people are afraid, they should be cautious and careful to avoid the occurrence of disasters.

When Uncle Ming, Fat Man and others heard this, they all said that this was a coincidence, they had just experienced a big storm caused by the dragon on the water, and the thunder and lightning in the sky were not amazing, isn't this exactly the response to the "shock of a hundred miles"?

I shook my head and said: "Although the earthquake hexagram has the image of thunder, it does not refer to any real wind, rain, thunder and lightning, nor does it refer to the earthquake and the sky collapse, only the charlatan fortune teller will explain it like this, and this hexagram is ancient and complex, probably related to the congenital sixteen hexagrams of King Wen of Zhou. "After speaking, I asked Shirley Yang to take a picture of the coffin cover for preservation, this thing and the seabed "return to the ruins" I am afraid that there is a lot of connection, if there is a chance to see Zhang Yingchuan again in the future, maybe he can explain the mystery.

Having said that, I have a faint hunch that this voyage, if I don't solve the mystery of "shocking a hundred miles", I'm afraid I will encounter a lot of trouble, but this is a lot of brains, I don't have much confidence in this, but I don't care too much, anyway, the ship will naturally go straight to the bridge, no matter what happens in the future, just speculate that the heavens will see the opportunity to act.

We put the lid of the coffin in order and lifted it to the side to clear a place for the coffin to be opened. I heard Professor Chen say that the bronze civilization that hates the heavens is very developed, because it has the dragon fire in its hands, it can cast Tianding, and when I see it today, although it is worthy of its name. The coffin cover is chiseled with a nose ring, with a fine copper chain on the human arm, after so many years, although the copper is washed away by the seawater, and is generally wrapped in dead coral, but the exposed place is clear to the bone, still tough and strong, very different from ordinary bronze, it is a good green head, I did not hesitate to let the fat man accept it, claiming to take it back to "study and study".

Everyone curiously gathered around the inner coffin, all wanting to see what was in the coffin, Shirley Yang probably knew that it was useless to persuade us, and her curiosity was no less than mine, but she said that the sea was windy, and the things inside the coffin were not easy to preserve, if these things did come from the "ruins" at the bottom of the sea, there might be the bones of people who hated the heavens.

I said to Shirley Young, "That's from the bottom of the sea?" Isn't it similar to a visitor from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, I don't know if I wear toad glasses or not. ”

The fat man said, "It doesn't have to come out of the eye of the sea, don't you see that it is tied to the lid of Wang Ba?" It must have been this king and eight spirits crawling everywhere at the bottom of the sea and dying in the trough near here, so that a black tide was brought up, and the result was that we caught up, this is nothing else, this is fate. ”

After the fat man finished speaking, he took out a box of cool oil, and each of us picked the ointment with our fingertips and wiped it a little under our noses, only the boat boss Ruan Hei and the three didn't know what they meant, what was this for?

The fat man said: "You are egg people at sea, naturally you don't know the rules of raising the coffin to make a fortune, we are all professional in this area, we all know that if you don't wear a mask, you must wipe this thing to prevent odor, so as not to let the corpse gas choke you." ”

Ruan Hei, the boss of the boat, didn't know what the fat man meant by his profession, but since he had this rule, he learned to do it. Gu Chai and Duo Ling were even more curious and scared, wanting to see but not daring to look, hiding behind Ruan Hei and constantly looking at the sarcophagus.

Seeing that I was ready to stop, I looked up at the sky, although the sky was daytime, but dense clouds and no rain, the sun was covered by dark clouds, the wind and waves on the sea were calm, the black tide gradually receded, that is, it was daytime, I didn't think I needed to prepare any black donkey hooves, and the fat man who opened the coffin went out immediately. Touching the gold secret technique in the coffin to make a fortune, although there is no taboo, but there is also "the west opens the north does not open, the left does not open the right" said, this "southeast and northwest up and down left and right", all refer to the coffin as a reference, because in ancient times the coffin was in the feng shui level, the noble people took the north and south longitudinally placed, the north is the head, the south is the bottom, there are also faces to the side, the Buddha must be facing the west, there is the meaning of the West Heaven Bliss, the Taoist is facing the east, and the purple gas comes from the east.

In addition, the "Captain Touching Gold" opened the west instead of the north, also to avoid the establishment of organs in the coffin to harm people's lives, and has the meaning of "taking the door of life and letting the door of death". The stone coffin in the sea is simple and vigorous, similar to the style of the stone coffin of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the fat man is mixed to the present, and it is also half a coffin expert, at the moment, the top of the stone coffin is pushed to the upwind outlet, if there is evil gas inside, the coffin will be blown away by the sea breeze after opening.

The coffin in the stone coffin is also stone rather than wood, the whole body is jet black, translucent, it is a kind of ancient pine fossil born on the bottom of the sea, called "earth mirror", the color is black and moist, the pattern is like a wave, its pattern is born for thousands of years by the sea, the more the pattern, the longer the age, the higher the value. Look at the sarcophagus water lines layer by layer, the value must be expensive, and the coffin is tightly sealed around it, the fat man is afraid of ruining this valuable sarcophagus, but he is patient, the action is cautious, and it took a lot of effort to pull out the lifebolt that plays a fixed role with the probe claw.

I assisted the rest of the people a few steps back, and the fat man and the two of them held their breath and lifted the lid of the coffin, and suddenly a gust of white gas rushed out of the coffin, and as these corpses appeared, a dead man sat up from the coffin with a "bang", and put the stone cover aside. The dead body seems to be a woman, with very long hair, and her cloak is scattered by the sea breeze, moving with the wind, just like a living person, maybe the coffin is too tightly sealed, and the corpse is rotten and swollen after being loaded, and the corpse qi is accumulated in it and is difficult to dissipate, with this constant gas, the body of the deceased also preserves this state after the corpse qi is dissipated, and the coffin lid is together, under the action of the outside air, the coffin has a violent change, and the body of the body is contracted, and it is also like a corpse, and it sits up after a while.

The white smell in the coffin was extremely stinky, although we were in the limelight, and we smeared some peppermint ointment on the tip of our noses, but we still felt that the smell was unbearable, and the corpse that suddenly sat up was startled, and everyone hurriedly retreated and covered their noses. The fat man and Uncle Ming were also surprised: "My God, why is this eldest sister so stinky?" Maybe this pretty girl...... was dense before death, did you let the suffocate to death? ”

In the scolding of Uncle Ming and the fat man, the stench quickly dissipated, and I saw that the corpse sitting up in the coffin was blue all over the body, and the body and face were full of flesh scales, green fangs, like a demon, and my heart tightened: "Is this a human?" But before I could take a closer look, a gust of sea breeze blew, the skin of the corpse quickly collapsed and shrank, the color of the corpse turned from blue to black, and it turned into ashes in an instant, and immediately from the outside to the inside, layer by layer was broken into black ash, which was blown away by the sea breeze, and the remaining scattered bones were scattered in the coffin, and the shape of the skeleton no longer existed.

Uncle Ming has been dealing with zongzi for half his life, and he has almost seen any kind of ancient corpse, but the female corpse with flesh scales on his body is still unheard of and unseen, is it a shark in the South China Sea? Then it was not a human but a fish, and it wouldn't be worth much if it died, and he approached to see if there were any bones and slag left in the coffin, and whether there were fish tails.

But when we looked closer, the rest of the skeleton was black and broken, except for a few teeth, the rest could no longer be recognized, the fat man was not interested in the dead, the corpse was removed by the sea to save trouble, holding the probe claw to stir the rest of the coffin, rummaging for the beads in the mouth of the dead body, that thing would certainly not be wiped out as soon as the wind passed.

But there are not too many things in the sarcoscope coffin, there is only a Hong Qingshui at the bottom of the coffin, and there are a few almost translucent small shrimp fluttering in it, and it looks like it is not alive, Shirley Yang thinks it is very strange, the sarcophagus is impermeable, and it has been sunk at the bottom of the sea for thousands of years, why are there still living shrimp in it?

I said that this is still difficult to explain scientifically for the time being, but the theory of feng shui and green black has long been mentioned, the coffin is too angry, the essence is condensed, and alienated things may be produced in the corpse fluid, that is, some tissues on the dead body have become small shrimp and fish, etc., and it is more likely that they are self-generated in this rare stone mirror coffin.