Chapter Ninety-Nine: Hundred Family Names
A stone chamber with three walls filled with stone bars that can be pressed is dizzy. Looking at the dense stone carvings on the three walls, everyone had no clue at all. The text on the wall is very scattered, not poetry, nor ancient sayings, it looks like it was disrupted by movable type printing, and it looks a bit like a thousand-character text.
However, there is obviously more disorganized text on the walls than there are 1,000 words.
After staring at the text on the wall for a few moments, the fat man said that his head was big and his eyes were dizzy, so he sat down near the stone wall of the doorway to rest.
The monkey said to me, "Senior brother, I don't understand it either." Then he also walked to the front of the stone wall of the doorway and sat down to rest.
The jumble of countless stone inscriptions makes people dizzy and upset. Although I have the ability to memorize, but the trick of my record is to arrange the words in an orderly manner, and after understanding a certain meaning, I can quickly memorize them, but on the stone wall in front of me, all the words are out of order, and people can't find the slightest way.
I looked at it for a while, felt dazzled, and closed my eyes to recuperate.
Suddenly, the words in the first row on the stone wall came to my mind. I always felt that something was wrong, so I closed my eyes and sorted out the first row of words in my mind, from the first word to the last word, in order, and suddenly I was surprised to find that in the first row of disorganized words, there were two identical Chinese characters that were "Wu".
I thought it might not be a single coincidence, so I hurriedly opened my eyes and headed towards the wall. Look at the text on the second horizontal row and find the text on it. There are three "money" words, next. I see two "horse" characters and four "cloud" characters in the third and fourth lines, respectively.
I wrote down the repetitive text that appeared on each line on the wall to the floor in order. Wu, Qian, Ma, Yun, Dou, Tang, Pi. Yin, there are a hundred words in total. I looked at the hundred words on the ground and asked the seventh master who was bowing his head to the side, "Seventh master, what do you look like?" ”
Zha Qiye unfurled the iron bone fan and said three words, "Hundred family names." ”
"Hundred Family Names" is an ancient book about Chinese surnames, which records more than just a hundred surnames. According to historical documents, this book was written at the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the original collection of surnames was only 411, and later added to 504. Among them, there are 444 single surnames and 60 compound surnames. The compound surname is known to everyone as Zhuge . Xiahou, Sima, Murong, Ouyang. Dongfang, Gongsun, Xuanyuan and other two-character surnames.
The order in which the surnames are arranged. It is not arranged according to the number of people at the time, but in the order of recitation. At that time, the Song Dynasty was the world of the Zhao family. Therefore, in this book, the surname Zhao is ranked first. At that time, "Hundred Family Names" was an excellent textbook for children's enlightenment at that time.
This is a stone chamber with countless inscriptions. Only the surnames of the top 100 are engraved, that is, from Zhao to Yin, exactly one hundred surnames. However, what surprised me is that "Hundred Family Names" flourished in the Song Dynasty, more than a thousand years ago, and the Mengzhuang "Tomb Keeper" who met with the sleeping fairy and lived in the Mengzhuang stone house is a relatively ancient simple Han Dynasty style, and according to the suspected sleeping dream immortal The hanged Taoist priest was wearing at that time, it should be the dress of the Ming and Qing dynasties, although it can only be slightly inferred from the clothing residues on the weathered body, although it is not necessarily accurate, but the span of this period is too long. So, how long have the sleeping immortals and the tomb keepers lived?
My mind is a mess now, my thoughts are wandering and wandering, and I don't know what to do.
Seeing that I froze, the seventh master asked me worriedly what was wrong, and I relieved myself and said that it was okay, afraid that he would be worried, so I explained to him that he felt a headache coldly. Seventh Master Zha obviously showed a worried expression, and looked at me thoughtfully, I knew that he was worried that the mysterious power in my body had emerged again.
I smiled and waved my hand to say that it was okay, and then told him about my major discovery, which must have something to do with the mechanism that opened the tomb.
Zha Qiye asked if I should try to press the first surname "Zhao" first?
I said that there are two Zhao characters on the wall, I don't know if I want to press them at the same time, if I need to press them at the same time, then I have to have two people go together and press the word "Zhao" engraved on the stone bar. If there is truth and falsehood in these two words, if the false one is pressed, then the person standing in front of the agency will be in danger.
Thinking that the stone carving is true or false, I first walked to the stone wall to observe, and then decisively pressed the first "Zhao" word in a horizontal row above the stone wall.
The fat man asked me in horror: "Lao Zheng, what are you doing, aren't you crazy?" ”
I said I'm just going to try it first and see if the lock bars of these stone inscriptions need to be pressed all together? Now that you understand, you have to press it together, so I and the cigarette boy will stay, and you will all go outside and stand and come in when it is safe to do so.
The fat man immediately shook his head in disagreement, and I had no choice but to say to him, "You go outside, and if there is a mechanism to close the stone room, you can also find a way to open it outside." If everyone is trapped here, they may never get out. ”
The fat man had no choice but to walk out with the seventh master and the monkey. I saw them standing quietly at the door watching, and immediately nodded at the smoker, so we both reached out together and pressed the first word "Zhao" on the wall.
Click, the stone bar engraved with the word Zhao on the stone wall was as deep as half a finger in the wall, and then it was stuck in it and did not bounce out. There was nothing abnormal in the stone room, and there was no heavy stone door in the empty doorway, so I quickly walked to the other side of the wall with the smoker, looking at the three words "money" above. When I saw that two of them were very close, I stretched out my hands and put them on top, and gave the cigarette man a look, and we both worked together, and the three words were pressed down at the same time, and there was also a click.
At this time, the fat man standing outside the door was curious to come in, but was stopped by the seventh master, he said to the fat man to be patient and wait until the end, the fat man had to stand outside the door, a pair of eyes stared at me and the smoke man, and the eyes were synchronized with our movements. (To be continued......)