Given that everyone was really unfamiliar, Qin Mo finally decided to face it calmly.

In fact, the main reason is that there is no opportunity to use urine, because ...... The thatched hut is right next to it.

Gu Meng stood three meters away from him and said with a smile: "Qin Shuangjia really deserves to be a Shuangjia child, and he has comprehended the different fonts of [Single Character for Soldiers] so quickly. ”

Since he couldn't escape, and he couldn't fight, Qin Mo hugged his fist in a decent manner: "The student has seen Dr. Gu, did you come to me on a special trip?"

Gu Meng didn't answer directly, but looked around, focused on the grass house, and said, "After so many years, there is no change here, do you live in Guan?"

A hint of cunning flashed in Qin Mo's eyes, and he said, "If the student wants to say that he is not used to it, will you beat Yan Ming and Yan Ming?"

"Don't make trouble, am I familiar with you very well?" Gu Meng rolled his eyes and snorted: "For the matter of you borrowing to escape class, Dr. Ben didn't pursue it, he can already be regarded as a virtuous streamer, and he even wants me to help you come forward to teach Brother Yan Ming a lesson, are you sure you woke up?"

Qin Mo shrugged, and said in his heart that the master who can visit the kiln without spending money is really not a fuel-efficient lamp, and his IQ and EQ are quite high, and he is about to catch up with me.

Gu Meng glanced at the bluestone slab in his hand, and said in the direction of the grass house: "Don't you invite me in to sit?"

"It's no problem to sit, but there is no tea, no water, no food. Qin Mo didn't have the slightest embarrassment on his face, and said: "It's not that I'm stingy, but the conditions are limited, I have to boil water by myself when I drink water, and I have to cook my own food." ”

"So Dr. Ben was prepared. He picked up the paper bag in his right hand and said with a smile: "A roast goose and a jar of old wine." ”

With that, he turned and walked towards the cottage.

Qin Mo's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly chased after him and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, bring something, Dr. Gu is really polite." ”

"Let go, did you tell you, if you don't let go of your claws, I'll beat you!"

"Can't I get it for you?"

A moment later, the two sat in the main hall of the hut and feasted on a roast goose.

Although there was bacon jerky among the ingredients Qin Mo brought, the taste was really not flattering, except that it was hard or salty, even if he was proficient in cooking in his previous life, there was nothing he could do about it.

Half a roast goose into his stomach, not to mention how comfortable it was, he wiped the oil from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, and said, "Dr. Gu, are you here to invite me to drink?"

Gu Meng was stunned for a moment, then remembered that there was still wine, and said sadly and indignantly: "I forgot, just remember to grab meat from you to eat...... Anyway, are you a starving ghost reincarnated?"

"That's not it, the main thing is that you are poor and don't have anything to eat. He involuntarily put the guard into his pocket, held two ingots of silver, and made the decision to sacrifice his life and wealth.

Gu Meng nodded: "Also, if it weren't for the fact that he couldn't pay the accommodation fee, his grandson would choose to live here." ”

Qin Mo's face darkened, although he often used this word, but when it came out of other people's mouths, he always felt that it was not a taste.

Gu Meng was very reluctant to take his eyes off the wine jar, mainly because his stomach was full, and he had no desire and need to drink, so he changed the subject: "Do you know why Dr. Ben has such a high status in Wendao Academy?"

Qin Mo said that he couldn't bear it anymore, stood up and said, "Isn't it just that it doesn't cost money to visit the kiln, look at you." ”

Gu Meng raised his eyebrows, and said: "There is one thing I have to correct you, not that you don't spend money, but that you are looking for money...... Understand, look for money!"

What he meant was very clear, not spending money and finding money are two different concepts that cannot be confused.

Of course Qin Mo is not convinced, even if this is a transcendent ability, just find a place where no one is there and have fun by yourself, as for being so high-profile, it makes sense to go to the kiln, your three views were eaten by dogs?

He felt that he had to make the handsome old man realize his mistake, and blinked his eyes and said seriously, "Does your family know?"

Syllable!

He covered his head, he had just received a shock, and his eyes were like gold stars.

The handsome old man withdrew his right hand and said with a face as usual: "You are envious, jealous, and hated that you don't have this kind of ability!

Qin Mo rubbed his head and muttered: "I thought there was something wrong with everyone's values, so I said, who would pursue a prostitute." ”

The handsome old man glanced at him, and then said: "Let me tell you the truth, the reason why I am loved by everyone, in addition to my doctor's title, I have devoted myself to studying Xia Seal for many years, made great achievements, and firmly occupied the top spot in this field. ”

Xia Seal, worthy of being the script of the Great Xia Dynasty, is hundreds of years earlier than the oracle bone inscription, which is known as the prototype of Chinese characters.

Qin Mo looked at Gu Meng with a suspicious gaze and said, "It's not bragging, are you, are you really proficient in Xia Seal?"

The reason for this suspicion is that in the modern society in which he lives, the oracle bone inscription has always been defined as the earliest Chinese character, although some people have proposed the concept of Xia seal, but because there is no physical evidence, it has never been recognized by the academic community.

The reason why the Zhou seal was recognized was because a large number of Western Zhou bronzes were unearthed, and the inscriptions on them are the best evidence, plus the later Qin seal and the Zhou seal had an evolutionary relationship, so no one doubted its authenticity.

Gu Meng Zhengse said: "Of course, up to now, I have translated more than a thousand Xia seal characters. ”

Qin Mo was shocked, the oracle bone inscription had been studied for many years, and in the end it only recognized less than 2,000 words, you must know that this was the result of several years of research by several experts.

Gu Meng, an old drunkard, actually completed the identification of more than a thousand Xia seals by himself, no wonder even Xuezheng He Chang revered him.

Qin Mo immediately took out the bluestone slab and brush and asked him to write a few words.

Gu Meng wrote down a character with complex strokes, and said proudly: "Do you know what this character is?"

Qin Mo stepped forward to observe, frowned and said: "It is very similar to the word cultivation in Zhou Seal, on the left is a small man holding a farm tool, and on the right is a field...... No, it's a bird word!"

Gu Meng's eyes widened: "How do you know?"

This shows that Qin Mo guessed correctly, he smiled and said: "You deliberately wrote the left and right sides of this character separately in order to confuse me, in fact, this is a pictograph, and when it is connected together, it is a bird with wings spreading, but what you wrote is too ugly, it doesn't look like a bird at all, can you fly so fat?"

"Have you studied Xia Seal?" Gu Meng immediately asked.

Qin Mo shook his head: "I've just heard of it, but I've never seen it." ”

Gu Meng frowned: "That's weird, why can you guess it at once?" I think it took me a few months to determine that it was a bird character. ”

Qin Mo smiled and said, "I'll also write a word for you to guess." ”

He wrote an oracle bone inscription on the bluestone slab, and from the time he wrote the second stroke, Gu Meng was already astonished, a font he had never seen before.

"This ......," Gu Meng said while thinking, "this seems to be a font engraved on something, and the turning point is a little stiff, and it is definitely not written with a pen." ”

As an expert in paleographies, you can see the clues at a glance.

Qin Mo nodded: "That's right, this is an ancient script, engraved on tortoise shells and cow bones. ”

Gu Meng looked at it carefully for a long time, shook his head and said, "I can't guess, but I can be sure that this font does not belong to the Chinese nation, it should be from a certain nomadic people, right?"

"That's right, but it's not right either!" Qin Mo said.

The oracle bone inscription is the Shang Dynasty script, and the ancestors of the merchants lived a nomadic life, but they are indeed the ancestors of the Chinese nation.

After listening to his explanation, Gu Meng immediately denied it: "No! The Xia seal is already so beautiful, why is the Shang Dynasty script that replaced Great Xia so ugly, this is unreasonable." ”

Xia Seal is a mature font, very standardized, in comparison to the oracle bone inscription seems very primitive, on the surface it seems to make no sense, but such a result is not surprising, because the text is the same as people, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

Although the Shang Dynasty was founded for more than 600 years, in the first 300 years, it has been in a state of conquest in the east and west and often moving the capital.

After the Pangeng moved to Yin in history, due to the prosperity of divination, this made the folk characters that circulated in the country come in handy, and the divination process and results were engraved on the tortoise shell and animal bones, which gave rise to the oracle bone inscription.

In order to make it easier for Gu Meng to understand, he gave an example: "A royal lady from three hundred years ago, or a woman from a mountain village in this dynasty, who is better in terms of temperament?"

Gu Meng didn't think about it and said: "Of course she is a royal lady, even if she is wearing clothes from three hundred years ago, she is more graceful and luxurious than a village woman." ”

Qin Mo spread his hands: "Yes, so it is reasonable to say that Xia Seal is more exquisite than the oracle bone inscription." ”

Gu Meng frowned again, and then looked at him with burning eyes: "How did you know Shang Dynasty writing?"

Qin Mo chuckled in his heart, just now he was only concerned about fighting with the old handsome guy, and he didn't think much about it, you must know that the oracle bone inscription was only discovered in modern times, and he made this matter a full eight hundred years earlier.

A perfect explanation must be given, and he had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and said: "When I was a child, because of my poor health, I ate a medicinal herb called dragon bone, which is a petrified turtle shell, and there are some symbols similar to words engraved on it, and I thought it was very interesting, so I copied the words on it and studied it. ”

"Where's the keel?"

"Eaten. ”

"Which pharmacy is the dragon bone from?" asked Gu Meng Zhengse.

"I didn't buy it from a drugstore, but I brought it from out of town when my father was a merchant in his early years, and it was said to cure diseases. Qin Mo said.

"Brought from where?"

"Hebei West Road, it seems to be Xiangzhou. ”

Xiangzhou was called Yin Ruins in ancient times, and it was the capital of the Shang King Pangeng who moved to Yin, and the oracle bone inscriptions of later generations were found here.

When he was young, he was frail and sickly, and his father did go to Hebei West Road to do business, and the most important thing is that he has been dead for many years, and there is no proof of death.

This explanation is so plausible that even he finds it impeccable.

Gu Meng's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, and he lowered his voice and said: "Don't tell anyone about this matter, until you become famous, you must keep it absolutely confidential, so as not to be stolen by despicable people and end up miserable like me." ”

Qin Mo's eyes lit up, uncle, this is a story!