Chapter 1: Astrolabe
"Ah Yun, this is a treasure handed down from the ancestors, I will give it to you now, you have to pass it on well...... According to the ancestors, there should be a "Book of Dragons" with this treasure, alas, but unfortunately it has been lost......"
"Ah Yun, grandpa can't be blinded, your father and your mother left the year before last, and now grandpa is also gone, what can you do alone, alas......"
"Ah Yun, study hard when you go to college, and be a useful person in the future...... You go to college alone, but you have to take care of yourself......"
"Grandpa......"
The young man scrubbed the dark silver cake in his hand, looked at the portrait of the head in a sad mood, and his grandfather's dying words seemed to be in his ears.
This is a room that has just finished a funeral, and the mourning hall has not even been removed. On the left side of the room hangs a black-and-white portrait of an old man smiling kindly. In front of the portrait, a few sticks of incense were still smoking, and the two burning candles jumped a few times from time to time, reflecting the eyes of the young man in front of him.
After a while, the young man saw that the incense sticks were about to burn out, so he quickly took out three more sticks and lit them to make up for them. Sitting down again, the boy picked up the "cake" and looked at it carefully.
It was dark silver, about three inches and six inches in diameter, and less than a minute thick, a bit like a large coin and more like a small compass. It's not gold or wood, and I don't know what material it is made of, but it has a lot of weight in my hand.
On the front of the compass is a starry sky pattern, with small bumps that seem to represent stars covering the entire surface. Near the edges, there are twelve slightly larger protrusions evenly distributed, like the twelve hours on a clock.
On the back of the "compass", the strange pattern extends from the middle point to the edge, and it is also covered all over the surface. What is rare is that the pattern seems to be a whole piece, which looks very natural, as if it was born on it, without any sense of carving.
"Well, I'm calling you astrolabe!" The boy scrubbed the cake in his hand and gave it a name.
Anyway, there was nothing to do while sitting with his grandfather, he stretched out his finger and swiped around the astrolabe, drawing a square for a while, a triangle for a while, and I don't know what Lu Dao was thinking.
As he painted, suddenly, a faint white light lit up. The young man's eyes were flowering, his body was light, and he came to a strange place.
Such a strange situation made the teenager count down.
It seems to be outside, and the crescent moon in the sky shines on the earth with a faint light. As far as the eye can see, a large area of dirt bags is scattered in a disorderly manner. By the moonlight, the boy carefully distinguished, and finally found that the dirt bags were graves. This made the boy gasp, and instinctively shouted, "Mom, I'm going back-"
The faint white light lit up again, and the boy was once again in front of him, and his body returned to the original room.
"I'm rubbing—huh—" The familiar environment finally made the boy breathe a sigh of relief. What happened just now? What the hell is going on in that suspected mass grave? Aren't you dazzled? Or hell?
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"Well, wasn't you dazzled just now?" Next to the mass grave, a middle-aged man walking at night also muttered to himself. He stopped and looked around suspiciously.
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"Grandpa, grandpa, you want to bless your grandson......" In the room, the young man hurriedly took out three more sticks of incense and lit them, kowtowed three more times, and calmed down a little.
Carefully recalling the strange situation just now, the young man looked at the astrolabe in his hand and said secretly: "Isn't this thing a ghost?" After carefully recalling the situation when he played with the astrolabe just now, the boy put his hand up again, "It's like the way the screen of the mobile phone is unlocked!" Well, I remember that it seemed to be drawn like this...... Well? Wrong? Then try it again, circle, fork ......"
Sure enough, the faint white light flashed again, and the young man's voice appeared again in the mass grave just now, "That's right! Looking around, I finally understood what was going on just now, "Crossed?" Well? ”
"What the hell—"
At this moment, a piercing scream not far away broke the peace.
The boy was startled and read again: "I'll rub!" Send me back—" A faint white light flashed, and the boy reappeared indoors.
"Whew......" The young man patted his chest and recalled, "It must have been a human voice just now, I have to go and see it again!" The boy went into the back room and looked for a flashlight.
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On the other side of the mass grave, the middle-aged man was really frightened when a figure suddenly appeared, suddenly disappeared, and suddenly appeared and then suddenly disappeared. He shuddered and took a stride and ran forward.
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On this side of the earth, the boy took the flashlight, activated the astrolabe again, and walked through.
"There seems to be a figure!" The boy turned on his flashlight and shone it towards the spot where the figure had been found.
"Ahh
The young man illuminated the road with a flashlight, rushed to the middle-aged man's side, and asked, "Who are you?" What are you doing here? ”
"Ahh
The young man shone the light of the flashlight towards the middle-aged man and looked at it carefully.
This middle-aged man was wearing a coarse cloth robe, and the long hair on his head was tied in a bun, which was clearly an ancient person.
"Did this run into the troupe, or did it cross over?" The young man leaned down and pulled the middle-aged man's hair, "It's not like it's fake, this is really ancient?" ”
"I just don't know what year it is?" The young man muttered, thinking a lot, but the information was not enough, and for a while, he couldn't judge clearly, "It's better to find a day to come over quietly and take a look!" ”
Say silently, "Send me back!" The faint white light flashed again, and the boy returned to the house, "Sure enough, it seems that it will be good to meditate when you come back!" ”
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"Grandpa, did you see that? I know how to use the Dao Astrolabe! The young man was so fragrant, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, thinking to himself, "Is that ancient China or another world?" I've got to figure it out first......"
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Four days later, the funeral at home was basically over.
The boy took the flashlight, thought about it, went to the kitchen again, took out a kitchen knife and put it in his arms, activated the astrolabe, and passed it through again.
"Whew, it's daytime, and the flashlight won't be used...... Luckily, no one! The young man muttered a few words, walked out of the mass grave, came to the side of the road, looked for the direction of the middle-aged uncle who fell last time, and walked forward.
After walking along the country road for less than ten minutes, you will find a small village in front of you. There are about a dozen families.
Coming a little closer, looking at this earthen thatched house, it is confirmed that it is ancient, but I don't know where the road is, and what year it is.
"I'm going to ask!" The young man looked for the family with a lot of people at the door and walked straight over.
Before he arrived at the door, the young man's short hair and modern clothes immediately attracted the attention of everyone at the door. They all stopped what they were doing, looked at the young man, and stopped pulling their homework.
The young man approached the crowd, looked around, and suddenly his eyes lit up. It turned out that he found a middle-aged man who passed out on the ground that night passing by a mass grave. He learned from the ancients and bowed his hand to the middle-aged man, and said politely: "This gentleman, excuse me!" ”
As soon as this gentleman said this, the uncle in front of him was stunned, and he looked carefully at the young man in front of him, who seemed to be a little familiar. Suddenly, the middle-aged uncle finally remembered the incident of the mass grave, and the young man in front of him was vaguely exactly like the ghost. At this moment, the middle-aged uncle's face changed, and he almost fell off the bench. He felt a chill in his heart, and he couldn't help but look at the young man's feet.
"Uncle Wang, do you know?" The people around him felt very fresh and asked one after another. Unexpectedly, Uncle Wang was a rural villager, and someone called him Mr.
Although the middle-aged uncle saw the shadow under the young man's feet, his face was still pale, and his head shook like a rattle, "I don't know, I don't know!" How could I possibly know! ”
At this time, an old man in his sixties, whose face was covered with wind and frost, had gray hair, knocked on the dry tobacco stick in his hand, and interjected: "In the future, I don't know where the road came from?" And what do you call it? ”
"In the lower ancient clouds, from the mountains. In the past few days, I have been going down the mountain and passing by here, but my ancestors have been on the mountain for generations, and the situation outside is not very clear. I wonder if you can ask, where is this place? What time is it now? "The boy learns from the ancients, and he seems to be the same. It's just a mouthful of Mandarin, which doesn't seem to be very harmonious.
"It turned out to be Gu Gongzi!" The people around him sighed. Although the young man in front of him was dressed very strangely in the eyes of everyone, his fair skin and authentic official language were nothing to call him a son.
Only the middle-aged uncle seemed to get an affirmative answer, "In the mountains? I saw it coming out of the grave! I don't know the years, isn't that an old ghost who has been around for many years? Hiss - my mother, how can a ghost escape in broad daylight? He wiped his eyes, stared at Gu Yun's feet, and muttered, "It's okay, it's okay, there's a shadow!" Whew-" breathed a sigh of relief, he was still not at ease, "No, no, I can't stay here, I have to go back!" With a saying of farewell, he slipped back home.
The white-haired old man looked at Gu Yun again, it turned out that he had lived in the mountains for some days, no wonder he didn't even know the current years. It is not uncommon to hear that some worldly masters have lived in the mountains for decades. The doubts in his heart were relieved for a moment, and he said: "This is Xiaohe Village, and we are the only village within a radius of ten miles. Gu Gongzi passed by here, but he wanted to enter Beijing? It is now the second year of Chongde, and it has only been more than a year since the Holy One ascended the throne, and it is the time to seek talents. ”
"It turned out to be Xiaohe Village, I don't know where the road belongs to the jurisdiction? Which dynasty and generation is it now, and which family is the world? Gu Yun did not answer the question of entering Beijing, but continued to ask. In ancient times, every emperor had an era name, and he didn't know how many years the Dao was A.D.
A series of questions made the people around them feel weird, and they all looked at Gu Yun again. You see, this question seems to be a change of dynasty is a family, this year's your family and next year's family. I am not afraid that someone will tell him and punish him for a great crime of disrespect.
It's not surprising that only the white-haired old man has been in the mountains for some days, and it's not unusual for the information to be blocked.