Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Bronze Talisman
He Xiangshan waved his sleeves and sighed: "You go back first, let Jiang and the fourth brother stay." ”
This is to ask about Cuiwei Peak.
He Qianli's expression moved, but since his brother said so, he had no intention of letting himself stay, so he had to get up and straighten his shirt and retreat.
At this time, there were only three people left in the hall, He Xiangshan frowned, and asked Xiang He Shishi: "Fourth brother, you just said that Xuanyang colluded with the second brother and secretly plotted to kill my He family." I understand the second brother's thoughts, but that Xuanyang, why did he shoot at my He family? ”
He Shiren glanced at He Lingjiang, she had fought with Xuanyang, it was better for her to say this matter, what should be said and what should not be said, she could control it herself, lest he leak his mouth.
He Lingjiang received his eyes and said, "Grandpa, that Xuanyang once said that he helped the second uncle to seize the He family for a bronze talisman. ”
"Bronze Talisman?" He Xiangshan's eyebrows moved, and he suddenly remembered the one that his father had passed to him before he died.
"What bronze talisman?"
He Lingjiang saw his expression and knew that he had a guess in his heart: "It was handed down by the family masters of the past generations." ”
"Sure enough, it's the ......," He Xiangshan's expression froze.
He Shiren was puzzled: "Brother, what is the use of that bronze talisman that attracts outsiders like Xuanyang to covet it?" ”
He Xiangshan shook his head, with a little confusion in his eyes: "To be honest, I don't know ......."
"Brother doesn't even know?"
"That bronze talisman was passed down to me by my father before he died, and it only said that this is a token passed down from generation to generation of our He family, and it should not be easily shown to others."
He poet suddenly, no wonder he had never heard of this bronze talisman,
"It's just that my father didn't say what this bronze talisman was for." Speaking of this, He Xiangshan couldn't help but wrinkle his eyebrows.
He Ling Jiang raised his eyebrows lightly, and he was curious: "Grandpa, can you take out that bronze talisman and show it to your daughter?" ”
She wanted to see it, and He Xiangshan would not refuse: "You wait here for a while, I'll go and get it." ”
He led He Cheng to the study, then pushed open the door and walked in alone.
He Cheng bowed and closed the door for him, and then stood aside with his sword in his hand and waited.
The study is furnished in a simple and elegant manner, because He Xiangshan has been ill for a long time before, he rarely comes, and it seems a little cold.
There is a lyre on the desk, there are several pens of different sizes hanging on the pen stand on the desk, and there are rows of ancient books side by side on the bookshelf.
He looked around for a week, and after he recovered from his illness, he came to this study only two or three times, and he read books in his small study every day.
He Xiancheng came to the small study from time to time to look for him, so that it was the bronze talisman, right?
As for this big study, I'm afraid it has also been turned upside down.
On the wall behind the table hangs a "Ploughing Reading Map". The mountains are steep, the clouds are shrouded in mist, and a few houses are faintly exposed, a farmer is cultivating in the mountains with four nails of palladium, and there is a house nearby, and a person is reading in front of the window.
He Xiangshan stretched out his index finger, and when he put a little on the window in the painting, the wall collapsed slightly, only to hear a click, and the bookshelf slowly moved away, popping out a dark grid behind it.
He took out the box in the dark compartment, and it contained the bronze talisman that had been passed down from generation to generation by the head of the He family.
The bronze talisman had been stored in the dark compartment since he had taken it from his father, and he looked through it in his hand, but he did not see anything unusual.
He Xiangshan pulled out the books on the left side of the second row of the bookshelf, pressed them on the wall, and the bookshelf slowly moved back to its original place.
At this time, it was almost noon, the daylight was the most intense, the door of the flower hall was closed, and the candles on the lamp tree in the hall were gently swaying.
He Lingjiang looked at the bronze talisman handed over by He Xiangshan.
The bronze talisman was about the size of an adult man's palm, in the shape of a fish, with a figure of eight at the tail of the fish, purple and gold, and dense fish scales carved on it.
She rubbed the bronze talisman on her hand, and the slightly convex carved fish scales were arranged vertically, and there was a slight undulation to the touch.
It is indeed an ordinary fish talisman.
She took the bronze talisman to her eyes and looked at it carefully.
The purple and gold body of the fish does not look unusual, but the color of the fish eyes is a little brighter than the place next to it.
He Lingjiang pressed down on the fish's eyes, and He Xiangshan and He Shiren also hurriedly looked, but after waiting for a few breaths, the bronze talisman did not move.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, her thumb rubbed lightly against the fish's eyes, and then she raised her hand to remove the hosta from her hair.
The hosta is no different from an ordinary hair ornament, but the end is very sharp.
He Lingjiang held the fish talisman in his palm, held the hairpin in his right hand, faced the light of the candlestick in the hall, looked intently, and then used the tip of the end of the hosta to gently touch in the middle of the fish's eye, and the hosta fell into it slightly.
Her eyes narrowed slightly, and she used a force in her hand, only to hear a "snap", and the fish talisman actually split in half from the middle along her back, revealing the contents inside.
He Shishi's eyes lit up: "There is something!" ”
He Lingjiang reinserted the hosta back into the hair, picked up the small note in his palm and unfolded it.
After the note was fully unfolded, it was only two inches long and one inch wide, and there were a few words written on it: "Mountains and rivers are Meng, Gen is a mountain, Kan is a spring, and a spring comes out of the mountain."
He Shiren frowned: "What does this mean?" ”
He Lingjiang's eyes were slightly deep: "It's a hexagram, and it's a middle and lower hexagram." ”
He Xiangshan and He Shishi both couldn't help but gasp: "The middle and lower hexagrams? What is the meaning of this hexagram? ”
"The upper hexagram of the hexagram is the mountain, the lower hexagram is the water, and the water under the mountain transpires to form a mist, forming a natural scenery of mountains and rivers, which is the hexagram of the hexagram."
The hexagram formed by the hexagram painting is combined with the meaning of the word "Meng", which is a drizzle of rain and fog between the mountains and rivers, a pastoral landscape painting. This hazy scenery is caused by the beginning of the opening of the heavens and the earth, and the clouds and rain. ”
"If the Tun hexagram in the 64 hexagrams of Xuanmen represents the embryonic period of things, then the hexagram represents the further growth of things, which has the meaning of the beginning of ignorance, that is, it is about to get out of the state of ignorance."
He Shiren doubted: "In this way, the meaning of this hexagram is not bad? ”
He Lingjiang nodded, and then shook his head slightly: "Although this hexagram has the meaning of getting out of obscurantism, but the hexagram is in danger under the mountain. Finding that ray of vitality in the fog is not a desperate situation, but it is also difficult. Therefore, this is the middle and lower hexagram. ”
He Shishi sighed and said, "This hexagram is also consistent with the current situation of my He family. The He family has attracted Xuanyang and other thieves to worry about, but you and I can't even figure out the reason behind it, aren't we in the midst of ignorance and confusion? ”
He turned his head to look at He Xiangshan: "Brother, the ancestor hid this hexagram paper in the bronze talisman, do you know what it means?" ”
"I only thought it was a token passed down from generation to generation by the head of the family, but I didn't know that there was something hidden in this fish talisman, how could I know the deep meaning?" He Xiangshan sighed when he heard this.
He Lingjiang turned his head sideways: "Didn't grandfather mention it when he handed it over to grandpa?" ”
He Xiangshan looked melancholy: "Your grandfather had a heart attack at that time, and he went suddenly, and he only had time to pass this fish talisman to me as a token of the head of the family, and the others have not yet had time to explain." ”
In this way, although the hexagram paper in the bronze talisman was found, the mystery was unsolved, and the road ahead was still bleak......