Chapter 64: The Devil and the Ghost
The book is a little dilapidated and can't see clearly, Lei Luo doesn't care, the handwriting is sloppy and it's hard to distinguish Lei Luo, and Lei Luo doesn't care about it the most, what Lei Luo cares about the most is that the whole book is full of traditional characters, and there is no punctuation mark, it's too hard to read.
If books are to be kept for a long time, they must be dry, so Grandpa Leiluo's study is very sunny. Thunderfall lifted a chair and sat on the balcony where the sun could reach, and began to study the mysterious book. The reading of this kind of ancient book is all vertical and the number of pages is turned upside down. Lei Luo flipped through more than a dozen articles and found that the author of this book was a great poet and politician at all. There are many records of officialdom and gorgeous poems in the book, although one of them has revised several words and painted a few ink scars, but the words are easier to recognize, and it is easier to break sentences.
I have traveled far away to find love, and I feel clear in the secluded place.
The tree of the garden is an old monk, and the stone wall poem is preserved to see the guest name.
Looking into the building, all the paintings, the dream is the sound of autumn.
There is also no joy in the world, and the Acropolis is spread to the outside world.
Reading poetry is like looking at people, this author is actually an elegant person, pinning his affection on the landscape, and comprehending the joy of life from the landscape. This optimism and open-mindedness, gentle and elegant, through casual calligraphy, leaps onto the paper, making people applaud it unconsciously. With such a mind and opinion, it can be seen that the owner of this book must not be a mortal, and he should also be famous in history, but Lei Luo's knowledge is too shallow, although he can feel the author's extraordinary, but he can't call out his name.
Flipping back further, I saw such a paragraph, although I don't recognize every word, but I can guess a rough idea:
"In the sixteenth year of Chenghua, he went to Yingtianfu to preside over the township test, fearing that he would interfere with the ministry, and boarded the boat and made the journey, although he passed through the famous rivers and mountains and had no time to see it. After the ministry is completed, return the boat to the north, watch the strength of Luliang 100 steps, trace the depth of the Lu River in Tianjin, return to the Taihang, thousands of miles lingering, so the shape of the two capitals wins, the spirit flies over, the heart is open-minded, the gathering of smoke and clouds, the gathering and scattering of wind and rain, the opening and falling of birds, fish, grass and trees, the difference between the clothes and people, the customs and customs, the rise and fall of the old traces of the previous dynasty, can not help but form words......"
Lei Luo guessed and estimated that he could not know that the owner of this book should be an official of the Ming Dynasty, who saw many beautiful scenery on the way on a business trip, but did not have time to appreciate it. After finishing his errand, he indulged in the mountains and rivers and enjoyed them. This full reading made the author more open-minded, full of thoughts, and wrote a lot of words. Judging from the careless neat handwriting on the book, this book should be the author's personal notebook, and when there is a "good sentence book is natural", he will take a note of it.
The more I turn back, the more I admire the author's breadth of knowledge and breadth of mind. When the meaning of the landscape article was still unfinished, a paragraph of text suddenly jumped into view:
"Chenghua 20 years, the great drought in Beijing, Xianzong wanted to pray for the common people to get the rain, how to worry about the work into illness, Yu was ordered to pray for the rain and climb the Great Wall, the sky is clear, there is no sign of natural disasters, or for the anger of the dragon, the ancient book cloud 'should be the dragon in the South Pole, kill the Chi You and praise the father, can not be repeated, so the next number of droughts, drought and the shape of the dragon, is to get heavy rain. 'Today, under the order of the Son of Heaven, I sacrifice the dragon and pray for rain, which is for the common people in the world......
When the incense is in full bloom, the sky is transient, the wind and rain are coming, the ink clouds cover the mountain, and then the wind is fierce, the lightning and thunder roar, a thing flutters its wings in the thunder and lightning, the thunder is the car, the electricity is the whip, the breath is breathing, the color of the heaven and the earth changes, and the dragon is ......"
Seeing this, Thunderfall was not only shocked by the description of thunder and lightning that appeared many times in the book, but also shocked by the author's claim that he had seen a real dragon. The recent series of adventures has made Lei Luo particularly sensitive to thunder and lightning, and all things related to thunder and lightning will cause Lei Luo to pay great attention, so this section of Lei Luo is extremely serious.
And the author said that he saw the real "Ying Long" when praying for rain, but Lei Luo was very puzzled. First of all, as far as the author of this book is concerned, a great official of the Ming Dynasty -- can pray for rain, the official is naturally not small, such a character, there is absolutely no reason to lie, so whether the dragon really exists? According to the book, in the end, the author himself also put a question mark: "Ying Longhu?" I'm afraid only the author can answer. Or maybe the author originally had a dragon in his heart, so he looked at the sudden weather and saw some natural photoelectric phenomena as dragons, but the next paragraph immediately overturned Lei Luo's thoughts, made Lei Luo believe in fate, and let Lei Luo understand how big a circle he had entered. Along this circle, where is Lei Luo going, and what mysterious things are he going to face?
Ying Long's eyes were angry, roaring for nine days, wind, rain, thunder and lightning were instantaneous, and then went straight down, hitting the ground with his body, and the Beijing master trembled. Long Yu Wu: In the past, he went down with Berwyn, helping Taizu to become an ancestor and win the world, and he was so greedy for profit, so that the treacherous schemes were trapped in merit, and the merit was not removed, and the disaster was endless......"
What is "Dumpling", Lei Luo doesn't know, and Lei Luo doesn't even know these two words at all. For the things recorded in the book, Lei Luo only regarded it as a myth and didn't feel much, but the author's two stick figure illustrations in the book made Lei Luo instantly feel like he was struck by lightning, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. One of the pictures is the appearance of a Chinese dragon, but it has a pair of wings, and after chatting a few strokes, it outlines the dragon's angry eyes and fierce appearance, which is extremely expressive.
At the bottom of this picture, there are two small characters: "Ying Long", which should refer to the object in this painting, which is the Ying Long who roared for nine days and attacked the ground with his body mentioned in the text record.
Below the word "Yinglong", there is a line of smaller words that read, "Twenty years of Chenghua, Juyongguan earthquake." "Does this mean that in the 20th year of Chenghua, there was an earthquake in Beijing, and the cause of the earthquake turned out to be this Yinglong?
In the second picture, the strokes are more concise, but the expression is more expressive, this is the head of some kind of monster, the expression is fierce and hideous, but the eyes reveal a trace of sadness. A few claws loom around the skull, struggling but with nowhere to focus, giving the impression that the monster is making a dying resistance. At the bottom of the picture, there are also two small characters: 赑屃.
All of this is not important, what shocked Lei Luo inexplicably, and what made him in a cold sweat was: the second picture is exactly the same as the picture behind "Shock Thunder Scroll".
In the midst of great shock and endless panic, Lei Luo closed the book and wiped a cold sweat, stood on the balcony, looked into the distance, and tried to restore peace of mind, but this inexplicable panic lingered in his heart for a long time, lingering, and avoided.
"Thunderfall, what are you doing standing on the balcony, be careful of falling. Uncle shouted downstairs, "Come down and talk to your grandfather for a while, your grandfather's Longmen Array is too profound, only you are the only one to pick up." ”
Before I knew it, the afternoon slipped away. Lei Luo agreed, gritted his teeth, put the book back in its place, took a deep breath, locked the door, and went downstairs.
There was something in his heart, what did his grandfather say to Lei Luo, Lei Luo didn't know it, his mind was full of the monster's head floating around, as if he was roaring at Lei Luo, and he seemed to be crying to Lei Luo. Confused and ignorant, I saw that my grandfather's lips were chapped, so I picked up a cup of tea and gave it to my grandfather, changed the topic and asked: "Grandpa, you have a lot of knowledge in the study, you don't know a lot of words?" Grandpa asked Lei Luo with a smile: "What kind of words, bring them to me to see." Lei Luo took a pen and paper, wrote out the name of the monster, put it in front of his grandfather's eyes and asked, "Grandpa, what do you read these two words?"
Grandpa narrowed his eyes and looked at it for a while, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Lei Luo: "These two words are pronounced 'avoid details', there are not many people who can recognize these things now, where did you see them?" Lei Luo definitely couldn't tell him about the "Shock Thunder Scroll", so he replied: "I was reading in your study in the afternoon, and there are these two words on the book in the line, I don't know it." Grandpa, what kind of monster is this scumber?"
Grandpa thought for a while, and then began to speak at length again, he said a lot of things, and Lei Luo only chose what was useful to him: this man is infinitely powerful, one of the ancient divine beasts, and the son of a dragon. Lei Luo heard it in a fog, and he couldn't agree with his grandfather's statement, because no matter how Lei Luo looked, this pattern didn't look like a dragon, but like a thousand-year-old turtle. How can a dragon be so ugly?
Seeing that Lei Luo seemed to have a look of disbelief on his face, his grandfather laughed and said to Lei Luo: "The dragon gives birth to nine sons, each with its own good." The appearance of these nine sons is also very different, and now we can still see the figures of these nine sons from many places, such as on the tombstone, on the gate, and on the handle of the sword. By the way, I can't remember the specifics, you go find a copy of "Huailu Tang Collection" and take a look, there are detailed records in it. Lei Luo thought that this "Huailu Tang Collection" should be the one he had just read, so he asked his grandfather: "Who wrote this "Huailu Tang Collection", do you have it?" Grandfather said: "The author of this "Huailu Tang Collection" is amazing, his name is Li Dongyang, and he is the first auxiliary minister of the Ming Dynasty. The official is big, the article is well written, and the words are well written. As for the book, there used to be a copy, but it was borrowed by a friend, and the friend died young, so I didn't ask for it. ”
Grandpa said this Li Dongyang, Lei Luo didn't know at all, thinking of the book just now and the word "Xiya" written on the cover, Lei Luo was unwilling, and tried to ask again: "Does this Li Dongyang have any other name?" Grandpa said: "Yes, his word 'Binzhi' and his number 'Xiya'." After his death, he was nicknamed 'Wenzheng'. ”
This confirms Lei Luo's inner thoughts, it turns out that the book that Lei Luo read just now is really this Li Dongyang's. But this book is definitely not "Huailu Tang Collection", but more like Li Dongyang's diary.
Why are the pictures in this diary exactly the same as those on the "Earthquake and Thunder Scroll"? Could it be that the "Earthquake and Thunder Scroll" was written by Li Dongyang? Or is it that the author of "The Earthquake and Thunder Scroll" has read this notebook, or that he and Li Dongyang knew each other? Now that Lei Luo has learned the word "Zhen Tuo", will two of the five characters under the last painting of "Zhen Thunder Scroll" be "Zhen Tuo"? Lei Luo carefully recalled the trend of the characters, and sure enough. I couldn't guess it before, because Lei Luo didn't know that there were these two words in the world, and now when I connect the five words, there is another word I don't know: Yu Yu Tui X. What is it? Ask for it, worship it?
Thinking about the word Xiya on the cover of the note, Lei Luo continued to ask: "Grandpa, you have a book in the study upstairs, and the word 'Xiya' is written on the cover, shouldn't it be "Huailu Tang Collection"?"
When Lei Luo asked, his grandfather seemed to be touched, his body trembled obviously, and he told Lei Luo to hurry up and take down the book. Lei took three steps and made two steps, opened the study, took out the broken book, and went downstairs to hand it to his grandfather.
Grandpa took the book, kept rubbing the cover with his hand, and stopped talking several times, his mouth opened and closed, but he still couldn't spit out a word. Lei Luo knew that this situation could not be urged, so he waited patiently on the side. My grandfather sometimes looked up at the sky, sometimes sighed, sometimes stood up and paced, about ten minutes, before he solemnly asked Lei Luo: "Lei Luo, you have also read a lot of books, do you believe that there are ghosts in the world?"