Bingwu Ding Mao, upside down. Xin Si Gengshen, you can see the god of decline.

What does this phrase mean?

In addition to these sixteen big characters, there is also a row of small characters: 'Anyone who sees this reminder is a lazy person, and since you refuse to kowtow to three thousand, the entrance to the cave will naturally not appear. It is not easy to read you, so I will send a hint here, and you can also find the entrance to the cave after cracking. 'This classical Chinese is not like classical Chinese, and the vernacular is not like the vernacular, what is it?' I looked at the fat man, and the fat man looked at me, and both of them had big question marks in their eyes.

After half a sound, I coughed dryly: "What he means is that if we kowtow three thousand heads, the so-called cave portal will automatically appear, and if I don't kowtow, he also gave us a hint, as long as we follow this prompt to seek the answer, we can find the entrance." Tsk, the entrance design is still more user-friendly. Fatty, I'll take the school exam, do you know what this Bingwu Ding Mao and Xin Si Gengshen say? ”

The fat man laughed when he heard this, and recited in general: "This is not simple, Bingwu, Ding Mao These are the names of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, in our ancient times, from the beginning of the Yin Shang period, the heavenly stems were recorded as years, the heavenly stems were Jia, B, C, Ding, Wuji, Xin, and Ren, and the earthly branches were Zichou Yin Mao Chenwu did not apply for Youyouhai, a heavenly stem corresponds to an earthly branch is a year, such as Jiazi year, Jiachou year, Yizi year, Yichou year, Bingwu year, Ding Mao year, etc., in order, from the year of Jiazi to the year of Guihai, Sixty years as a cycle......"

I scolded disdainfully: "I don't know how to be afraid if I don't have culture, I don't know shame if I don't know how to be ashamed!" According to your arrangement, if the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches are arranged, how can it be that there are only 120 years to be counted as a cycle, and how can it be only 60 years to be a cycle? Let me ask you again, where did you see the year of the ugly year of A and the year of the second child? ”

"Huh? Isn't it Jiazi, Jiachou, Jiayin, and Jiamao arranged like this? The fat man said stunned.

I pointed at the fat man with a smile and a smile: "You don't know anything at all." The heavenly stems and earthly branches are staggered, Jiazi, Yichou, Bingyin, Ding Mao, and they are arranged in this way, because there are ten heavenly stems, and twelve earthly branches are even numbers, if you want to pair them, it is equivalent to every turn of the earthly branches, and the heavenly stems have to turn one or two rounds, that is, two wrong backs. That is to say, after the twelfth year of Jiazi, it will be the year of C, and then the year of Wuzi, and there will be no year of B and Ding at all. ”

The fat man scratched his head: "There is still this statement?" ”

I smiled and said, "Like Zi, Yin, Chen, Wu, Shen, and Xu, they are only matched with A, C, E, G, and Ren." And ugly, mao, si, wei, unitary, and hai are only matched with b, d, ji, xin, and dec. So, this is exactly 60 years of reincarnation...... Well, let's not talk about this, what I want to know is, what do these words mean when written on the back of this slate? ”

The fat man snorted and scratched his scalp: "Bingwu Ding Mao or something, in addition to representing the year, I don't know what it can represent." ”

"Year?" I frowned and thought, "If it's a year, what year is it in Bingwu and Dingmao?" ”

The fat man suddenly slapped his forehead: "Brother Ghost, you say, will it be this number, you wait, I'll take a look." ”

took out his mobile phone, and the fat man inquired one by one: "The most recent year of Bingwu is 1966, the year of Ding Mao is 1987, and the year of Gengshen is 1980. ”

I was angry and funny: "You don't need to check this, this slate is so old, but the year of the Common Era was only used after the Republic of China, and the sexagenary branch on this one must not be linked to the year number." ”

"And what do you mean?" The fat man smiled and put away his phone: "It's also you who asks what year Bingwu year is, and it's you who says that it's not linked to the year number, Brother Ghost, you change your order like this, which makes me very confused." ”

"Well, let's think differently." I shook my head and said, "Let's start with the origin of the heavenly stems and earthly branches, for example, the heavenly stems are a kind of order, and A, B, C, D, pente, hexagen, xin, and non decay are numbers that represent one to ten. ”

"Well, and then the earthly branch means one to twelve numbers?" The fat man looked at me with slanted eyes.

"No, the word of the earthly branch indicates the genus. Zi Chou Yin Mao, Tatsumi Wuwei, and Shen You Xuhai respectively represent rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs. I said slowly.

"According to what you mean, Bingwu is three horses? Ding Mao is four rabbits? The fat man paused for a while, and then he reacted: "Xin Si Gengshen is eight snakes and seven monkeys?" ”

"Well, it doesn't seem to make sense. Damn, what kind of messy prompts? I scratched my scalp, lit a cigarette, and turned to look out the door. Outside the gate is an overgrown yard, and beyond the fence is lush trees.

After thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure it out, and casually popped the cigarette butt in his hand out of the door.

"Damn, it's going to cause a wildfire." The fat man rushed out and stepped on that cigarette butt.

"It's okay, this grass grows in the cracks of the stone slabs, it looks very tall but it's not dense at all, and there is a fence to block it, even if it burns up, it can't burn outside." I replied disapprenanently.

"Anyway, it's right to be careful of the wildfire, but luckily the cigarette butt landed right on the stone slab." The fat man extinguished the cigarette butt and shrugged his shoulders with a smile, ready to come back.

I looked at the slate under the fat man's feet, and an electric light flashed in my head, and I shouted loudly: "Fat man, look at the bluestone slab under your feet, is it square?" ”

The fat man paused for a moment, looked at his feet, looked at a few bluestone slabs next to him, raised his head and said, "That's right, they are all boxy." ”

"Isn't it neatly arranged?" I walked out the door as I spoke.

"Well, it's really neat, like a ruler has been measured."

"Okay, you can help me count vertically and see how many bluestone slabs there are in a row." I pushed aside the weeds and began to count the rows of bluestone slabs under my feet, and the fat man seemed to understand a little, so he walked to the other end and counted the columns of bluestone slabs from the beginning.

After a while, I walked to the other end of the courtyard, there were ten rows in all, and I cried out, "Fatty, how many slabs are there in your row?" ”

"There are twelve stone slabs in a row!" The fat man shouted.

"I've got ten rows here!" I was overjoyed.

I finally know what this Bingwu Gengshen means, he does not represent the year, but the direction. The number of rows of bluestone slabs under my feet is ten rows, corresponding to the heavenly stems - A, B, C, D, 戊hex庚, xin, non 癸, and the number of columns of bluestone slabs is twelve columns, corresponding to the earthly branch - Zi Chou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen Youxu Hai.

If you take the horizontal row as the row and the vertical column as the column, Bingwu is the seventh bluestone slab in the third row, and Ding Mao is the fourth bluestone slab in the fourth row.

"Burn! Burn him! The fat man was so excited that he picked up the lighter and lit the grass beside him, as if the caution just now was not what he said about the wildfire.

I rushed out of the gate, broke a few branches outside, and threw a bunch at the fat man, and used the branches to extinguish the fire if it spread to the periphery. However, as I said earlier, the fire in this grass is not big at all.

After burning for a while, the bluestone slabs in the courtyard were completely exposed, and I marked the four bluestone slabs of Bingwu, Ding Mao, Xin Si, and Gengshen, and from a distance, these four bluestone slabs were in the shape of a parallelogram.

The two of us first took an iron rod to pry the stone slab in Bingwu, his grandfather's coconut durian jackfruit, this stone slab looks only one meter square, it doesn't seem to be very heavy, but its thickness is as high as fifty centimeters, and the whole weight is afraid to weigh three or four hundred catties. This can't be called a bluestone slab, this can only be called a bluestone bar.

The two of them finally pried open a stone, and when they saw it, there was a spring-like thing in the middle of the ground, which looked like a mechanism, and the fat man didn't care about the three-seven-twenty-one, and poked the spring with an iron rod.

I hurriedly grabbed him, frowned, and said, "Don't move, there's no mechanism!" ”

The fat man pouted disapprenously: "This is obviously a spring, what mechanism can it have." ”

After all, he still withdrew the iron rod, and I squatted down to look left and right at the spring, and looked up and down, but I didn't see anything famous, and then looked at the bluestone brick, and found that the bottom of the bluestone brick was a circular groove, and carefully looked at the position of the spring and the round groove, and found that it was just the same, that is, if you put this bluestone brick on it, the stone could not touch the spring.

The phrase immediately came to mind, 'Bingwu Ding Mao, upside down', could it be that the stone is turned upside down, so that the stone touches the spring and triggers the mechanism?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly beckoned to the fat man: "Fat man, let's turn the stone over and get it back in place." ”

"Are you sure you want to toss like this?" The fat man complained dissatisfiedly.

"If you talk too much, I'll beat you to death!" I laughed and said, "You have to understand two things, first, I am your boss, I will beat you if I want to, and secondly, I am a grandmaster-level master, I will beat you if I want to beat you, damn, I almost forgot that Lao Tzu is a master." ”

The two of them smiled and pushed the stone back, stepped on the stone, felt a vague sense of undulation, thought that it should be like this, and pry out the stone slab with the fat man, and there was indeed a spring or something like a mechanism underneath, after flipping the stone back into place, I smiled: "Bingwu Ding Mao, upside down." I think the meaning of this sentence should be that we are both standing on these two stone slabs, come on, let's try first. ”

The fat man stood on the Bingwu slate according to his words, and I stood on the Ding Mao slate next to me, half loud, no reaction, I frowned and said, "Fat man, can you jump and try?" ”

The fat man jumped high when he heard this, and then fell heavily to the ground.

"Click!" The sound of a mechanism could be heard from underground.

Hey, there's a door, and I've jumped here a few times, and the click of the mechanism is getting clearer and clearer, as if something is going up underground.

However, no matter how much we jumped, the click of the mechanism stayed in a certain position and did not go up again.

"Brother ghost, there are two more stone slabs!" The fat man pointed to the two stone slabs of Xin Si and Geng Shen and shouted.