After a short while, the iron plate was brought up.

It is about the size of a palm, fifteen or sixteen centimeters in diameter, with a disc heart, a scale, a layer, and a symbol.

That's right, it's also a compass.

But it is still rusty, and I don't know if there is a plate pool in the middle, whether there is a pointer in the pool, and what direction it points to.

Including the handwriting on it is also a little blurry, and it is impossible to infer the specific content.

"Xiao Shu, compass!"

Shu Jinghao hurriedly opened the bag and took out the copper compass sent by Zuo Peng.

Li Ding'an directly buckled the two pieces together: the size was exactly the same.

Separate and compare: most of the engraved lines are not wrong, the same is nine layers, and the plate is also divided into twelve equal parts.

There is only one thing: one is copper, one is iron.

Whether there is a difference or not can only be known after removing the rust on it and translating the symbol information.

But it can be judged that there must be a connection between these two compasses.

As for the relationship with a few other things?

It is easy to guess that the great lama or the big man gave it to the lama here, and the lama kept it as a holy relic.

The origin of this big coin is not difficult to deduce: the main role of Yuan Zhen after the three coins were cast was that Yuan Chengzong was used to reward ministers, and it did not flow through the middle and lower classes, so it was less and so expensive.

And it just so happens that the ancestor of the seller of the compass is Tabu Bag (referring to those who marry the descendants of Genghis Khan, all of whom are nobles), and the ancestral money and compass are both ancestral.

Let's develop the brain hole again: these two compasses, these copper coins, all belonged to the same person before. Either it belongs to which lama temple it belongs to, or it belongs to the ancestor of the herdsman who sold the copper compass.

Then they were separated for some reason: for example, the lama gave the copper compass and part of the copper coins to the tabuncang, or the tabusang was given to the lama's temple.

This temple is not far from here, and nine times out of ten it is overhead: Lao Dao Mountain.

I just don't know where the two Taoist eight-treasure pattern tiles came from.

It can't be built on top of a lama's temple, right?

After thinking about it, Li Ding'an handed the iron compass to Shu Jinghao: "Xiao Shu will take it to the hotel to clean it first, and then contact Mr. Gao and ask him to help translate...... Note that it is a cleaning, not a repair, but try not to have any damage! ”

"Teacher Li, I understand!"

Li Dingan pointed to the mountain again: "Left Bureau, go up and have a look!" ”

"Good!"

Zuo Peng was extremely excited, "Teacher Li, I'll help you get the bag!" ”

"No!"

Li Dingan shook his head and walked up the mountain quickly.

Zuo Peng followed closely behind......

……

The weather was nice and the scenery was great.

The sky is blue, the white clouds are far away, and the grassland is endless.

The mountains are vast, high and low, but they are undulating, like a huge city.

The river meanders, continuously, and surrounds endlessly, like a moat outside the city.

From a distance, whether it is a mountain or a river, it is like a ring one by one.

From the perspective of Feng Shui, this terrain is special.

"Shaking the Dragon Sutra": The hook clamp is a sand snail is a hole, the water marks the hall to gather more gas, the four sides are around the household such as the city, and the water surrounds the mountain and gathers a nest.

The hook refers to the river surrounding, and the snail refers to the ring of a circle, and the last two sentences are better understood...... In short, this terrain is full of dragon's dens.

There is also a sentence from the "Doubtful Dragon Sutra": Where the mountains and rivers turn around, there must be a king waiting to live here.

To put it simply: there are many dragon's dens here, as long as you find the right place to bury, the descendants will definitely be able to produce princes.

Both books are by the same author: Yang Yi, a Tang Dynasty national teacher and public opinion scholar, and the feng shui compass was also invented by him.

It is also the earliest treatise on "Kanyuxue", and no matter what genre it is, whether it focuses on theory or practice, all the techniques of Feng Shui after the Tang Dynasty are all born from these two core ideas.

The difference is only in the different perceptions, to be specific: each faction takes the "Shaking the Dragon Sutra" and the "Suspicious Dragon Sutra" as the key link, and summarizes their own techniques for watching mountains and waters, the method of dividing gold from acupoints, the mantra of stargazing and the mountain, and the complex and cumbersome algorithm for measuring good fortune and evil.

Why is it so complicated?

Of course, it is for the purpose of preventing tomb robbery.

In particular, the "Suspicious Dragon Sutra" almost makes it clear what identity sits on what mountain, what gold is divided, and what hole is buried, which is equivalent to the tomb robber's tomb finding cheats.

Just this sentence: Where the mountains and rivers turn around, there will be a king waiting to live here...... But anyone who is literate understands what this means.

So what to do?

You can only make it more complicated and try to make it as difficult as possible for the thieves to find it...... It's the same as the more complex the Vault password, the more secure it is......

After looking at it for a while, Li Dingan sighed: "I don't know if there are ruins, but it's not good to say, there is a big tomb under the mountain!" ”

"The Great Tomb?"

Zuo Peng was stunned for a moment, "Teacher Li, you don't know?" ”

"Oh, you said the Qinglong Mountain Warring States Tomb...... I know this: a bronze sword was unearthed, and it is now in the collection of the National Museum! ”

"It's not the Warring States Tomb, I'm talking about the tomb of Princess Chen and the concubine of the Liao Dynasty?"

Zuo Peng pointed to the east, "It's next to the Qinglongshan Reservoir, not far from here, and it's only five kilometers away......"

Li Ding'an was stunned for a moment: I am a professional pick-up, and I take a little research on antiques, how do I need to know about irrelevant tombs?

Don't think that just because I'm leading an archaeological team out of the field, I think I'm a professional archaeologist, to be honest, it's the first time.

So don't talk about it here, he didn't even count how many tombs he had excavated in the capital, let alone the Liao Dynasty?

But what he was surprised was not this, but the tomb of Princess Chen Guo and Fuma...... Just said the royal cemetery, what is this not the royal cemetery?

The key is that the topography of the reservoir is exactly the same as that in the "Dragon Shaking Sutra":

An inch of high water is a mountain, and an inch of low water is a loop.

The water is wrapped like a mountain, and the real dragon is like a palm.

……

Look at the specific terrain: he doesn't know where the tomb is, but it is difficult for him to see such a large reservoir: several rivers, winding around, employ into the lake.

Looking further on both sides, there are several small hills at both ends of the reservoir, not surprisingly, before the reservoir was built, that one was a strip of hills, and the water flowed around the hills, around many "S" shapes...... Isn't every bend like a curled palm?

It's also equivalent to a dragon's den......

No...... It's not right.

I basically hadn't been exposed to feng shui and kanyu before, but in order to study that compass, I studied a little bit by the way, and at most I learned a little about it.

Can't you just rely on such a little fur to find the tomb?

Thinking about it carefully, Li Dingan couldn't help laughing: How can it be so easy?

The reservoir is two kilometers long from north to south, and there are hills from north to south, with an overall length of nearly four or five kilometers.

Moreover, the Liao and the Northern Song Dynasty stood side by side, and Feng Shui at that time was in its infancy, and there were not so many encryption methods.

Try the tombs of the Ming and Qing dynasties?

The hills are five kilometers long from north to south, and according to Feng Shui, the dragon veins and veins can be ten miles away, adding up to ten kilometers.

There are many genres, and the algorithms are mixed, if you summarize them, it feels like there is a dragon's lair everywhere within a radius of ten kilometers. But there are no secret formulas and algorithms, do you know which is fierce and which is auspicious?

If you are not careful, you will bury the wrong ......

Forget it, get down to business.

Li Dingan shook his head and looked around again: "Left Bureau, where is the wall base?" ”

Zuo Peng came to the edge of the cliff and pointed down: "Here!" ”

Li Ding'an took a look at the probe, and the good family was empty: Hanging Temple?

There is a ramp on the hanging side, zigzag downward, and it was estimated that there were stone steps before, but it is very old, and only a chaotic stone road remains.

Not only is it steep, but it is also extremely narrow, less than a meter wide, and it is enough for two people to choke side by side.

Further down, about ten meters, there is a protruding rock, eleven or twelve meters long, but still very narrow, only about three meters.

Take a closer look at the remnants of the stone foundation on the rock platform, and some bricks and tiles.

But from such a distance, you can't see anything, and it's at a level level, and you can't even see what words are carved on the rock platform.

"Left inning, what's carved on the cliff?"

"It's only been four years since the emperor's reign, and the others are too vague to be identified!"

"Have you found any relics?"

"Nothing has been found except for the wall foundation and brick fragments!"

"Be specific!"

"The base of the wall is a stone foundation, only a little higher than the rock platform, and the bricks and tiles are all yellow mud firing......

"No red tiles?"

"Nope!"

"Is there a tile?"

"Neither!"

Zuo Peng thought for a while, "At that time, I thought about it, maybe the rock platform was broken, and the temple collapsed with the rock platform and was buried under the mountain, but first, I felt that it was worthless, and second, there were too many rocks on the mountain, and the danger factor was too high, so there was no ......excavation."

It's just a lonely temple in the mountains, and it's not a religious holy place, and there is no big city nearby, so naturally there is no research value.

However, it can be associated: when Jin Xizong was built, it should have been a Taoist temple at that time, so it was engraved with "the fourth year of the emperor" (the year name of Jin Xizong). In the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian herdsmen migrated here and changed it into a lama temple, so they would worship Zhugu money.

In the Ming Dynasty, it may have been changed to a Taoist temple, so there are eight treasure patterns of tile, and then in the Qing Dynasty, it was changed to a lama temple...... The compass and copper coins of the herdsmen's ancestors on the Tabu bag should be the lama's offering...... After that, the rock platform broke and the temple was buried......"

"Yes, that's the most reasonable inference!"

"It's just speculation, it's better to go down and take a look!"

Li Dingan took a look, "The stone road is too steep, and the cliff is too deep...... Wait two days, wait for the old horse to free up the manpower, and make a safety post on the top of the mountain, and I'll go down and have a look! ”

"Trouble Mr. Li!"

"It should be......" Li Dingan nodded, "What else?" ”

"That's pretty much it...... Oh yes......"

Zuo Peng slapped his forehead, "And the altar!" ”

"Check it out!"

……

It is quite far away, the temple site is in the south of the top of the mountain, and the altar is in the middle of the mountaintop, which is more than 200 meters apart.

The top of the mountain is very large and flat, like flat ground, with bare rock formations, but no rocks, and in some places it is even very flat, which is obviously man-made.

The quilt was luxuriant, with weeds, shrubs, mushrooms, and a few withered oat seedlings and barley.

"Someone planted on the top of a mountain?"

"I have planted it, and it is estimated that it is the seed left at that time, but the age is no longer ......"

Li Dingan nodded: "But the harvest is definitely not very good!" ”

"Indeed."

Because of the lack of water......

As they spoke, the two of them walked to the top of the stage.

Zuo Peng rubbed his foot and revealed a stone base: "Teacher Li, this is it!" ”

You call this an altar?

A rectangular stone platform, about two meters long, more than one meter wide, propped up to the first three squares, not to mention the altar, it is said that the altar is enough to choke, at most it is a sacrificial table.

It was covered with cemented soil, overgrown with weeds, and a holly, indicating that there were holes in the stone base.

Li Ding'an squatted down, picked up a stone chip and scraped the soil on it.

The stone surface is relatively flat, with no words or lines, but there are many thumb-sized stone pits that are not arranged.

And it's very deep, five or six centimeters.

Li Ding'an looked at it for a while and stood up again. After walking around the stone platform a few times, I looked at the sky again.

"It's kind of like ...... Observatory? ”

"For stargazing!"

"Yes!"

Li Ding'an scratched a few times with a stone chip, "These three pits are connected together, which is the dangerous house, these two stars are virtual houses, and these four stars are female houses......"

Zuo Peng was a little confused: "Twenty-eight constellations? ”

"Right...... But the star map doesn't seem to be complete, but this stargazing platform is really a bit small, and I feel like I can't see anything! ”

"Not small!" Zuo Peng kicked next to him again, "Teacher Li, there is still here!" ”

There's another piece, and it's exactly the same size.

Zuo Peng kicked down again: "There is also a ...... next to it There are twenty-eight blocks in total, and a circle is built around the center of the mountaintop! ”

Li Dingan was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Just said that this stargazing platform is small?

If you calculate this distance, the radius is more than 30 meters, and the area is nearly 3,000 square meters?

How big is the ancient observatory in the capital?

Secretly surprised, Li Dingan squatted down.

That's right, it's exactly the same, the dense pit holes, casually connected, it's a star.

If you don't run, it's the stargazing platform, and if you add twenty-eight pieces together, there will definitely be no shortage of constellations, only more.

I just don't know why the pit is so deep?

It felt like something had been planted, like a pole, like a flag.

After looking at it for a long time, he felt that he had no clue, Li Dingan straightened his waist: "Left game, this is the gossip you are talking about?" ”

"Not this one...... Gossip here! ”

Zuo Peng walked in, only five or six steps, and pointed to his feet: "Teacher Li, look! ”

It is a round stone base, slightly smaller, about one meter in diameter.

There is no pit on it, but there are words in the center, carefully identify, it seems to be "Gen"?

One of the gossip, mountain trigrams?

The characters are in the middle of the stone plate, there are no hexagrams, not even traces of lines.

It can be determined that it has either disappeared by weathering or wearing, or it has not been engraved.

"Again?"

"There's another piece directly across the street!"

Zuo Peng walked forward again, this time a little far, walking more than fifty meters.

It's still a round stone base, about the same size as the previous one, and there are also handwriting on it, as if it's a field?

There is no such hexagram in the gossip, whether it is a congenital or acquired hexagram.

If you look carefully, the stone foundation is more worn, and there should be lines up and down.

It is estimated that it is a "Shen" character.

There is still no such hexagram in the gossip, only "Kun".

But inferring from the direction, the Gen hexagram is adjacent to the Kun hexagram, and it is impossible to run directly opposite?

It's weird anyway......

Li Dingan glanced left and right: "Is there anything else?" ”

"There was another piece, the words were very clear, but it was broken into many pieces, and it was cleaned up at that time."

"What word?"

"Shen!"

Well, another kun hexagram?

Shouldn't it?

"Where's the location?"

"Here!" Zuo Peng's feet took an extra step, "Next to this 'field'?" ”

"Are you sure it's Shin?"

"Sure!"

That's weird.

It doesn't look like gossip, but it's a bit like twenty-four mountains?

That is, the twenty-four methods in Kanyu are represented by four hexagrams, eight stems, and twelve branches, among which there are "Gen", "Kun", and "Shen".

It just so happens that "Gen" is opposite Kun, and "Shen" is next to "Kun", and there are only words, and there are no hexagrams......

Well...... Wrong?

Twenty-four mountain ......

Li Dingan was stunned suddenly, and almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood: What kind of gossip is this?

It's not an observatory at all......

This is a compass...... Such a big compass at the top of the mountain!

(End of chapter)