Chapter 198: The Mystery
The soil swayed layer by layer, and the boulder under the ground slowly unfolded a corner in Yang Ji's eyes. However, contrary to Yang Ji's expectations, the yellow halo of the local boat pushed away the layers of dirt, and the surface of the rock that appeared in front of Yang Ji was bare, and there was not a word on it.
"No?"
"How could there be no ?!!"
Yang Ji was stunned. The other end of the boulder was bare, with no words. But how is this possible, how can three words become a poem or couplet.
And, for the sake of it? What does that mean?
These three words are linked together, and they don't make sense at all!
Luo Yunzi said that there was a Confucian poem on the boulder. Is it not this boulder at all, but another one? There is such a thing in the world, two different boulders in the same place, and both of them are engraved with words?"
Yang Ji stood there in a daze, only to feel that a thick fog was shrouded in front of him.
"Impossible, there can't be such a coincidence! And if that's the case, why is there something in it that I haven't noticed, but the boulder that Luo Yunzi said is missing? ”
His gaze slowly swept over the boulder, and when he moved to the right side of the boulder covered by mud, Yang Ji's heart suddenly shook, and he suddenly understood something:
"Right, yes, and right. I only noticed the left side, but I didn't notice the right side at all!"
Sou!
Yang Ji's heart moved, and the boat swung violently, moved several zhang horizontally, and floated to the right side. The heavy dirt avoided one after another, and a huge font instantly appeared in front of Yang Ji.
"For the word! There's another word for the word here!"
Yang Ji's heart suddenly became excited.
Sure enough, there are other words on the right side of the boulder.
"It's a no-word!"
"It's a and word!"
"No, just three words?"
......
Yang Ji explored all the way, and when he explored the third text, the same thing happened again. The iron and silver scratches on the surface of the boulder, the strong and majestic words suddenly disappeared.
-- The right side of the boulder. There are only three words in the relatively symmetrical place.
On the left side "do it for the sake of"!
Right "but not for"!
There are only six different fonts on the entire surface of the boulder.
"What does that mean exactly? for the sake of the sake of the sake of the ...... and not for the sake of the "
Quietly in the dark, Yang Ji stood motionless on the two-zhang long earth-walking boat, his eyes becoming more and more confused.
With the advent of the new three fonts. Yang Ji felt that the doubts shrouded in his heart not only did not decrease, but increased.
"For the sake of the sake of the ...... These six words don't make up the meaning of a giant body at all, huh?"
Yang Ji muttered to himself.
I'm afraid this is the boulder that Luo Yunzi said. Looking at these six words, he finally understood a little why, with the ability of the Luo family, as well as the ability of so many people in the know at that time, he couldn't help this boulder at all, and he couldn't solve the puzzle.
Do it for the sake of it, and don't do it for it!
These six words are inexplicable. There is no head and no tail, and it is completely impossible to guess the meaning.
Yang Ji is also a person who bursts out of literature and has won the head of Wen Tongsheng. There is also a slight cultivation in the Wendao, although it is not high, but when this Wendao is declining, it is already very amazing.
Not to mention, Yang Ji also obtained the inheritance of ancient literature and Taoism and obtained the "Book of Great Confucianism"!
But even Yang Ji is still like this. Others are even more confused.
"What does it mean? It is impossible for Wendao to have such a meaningless ......?"
Yang Ji stood there in a daze, silent.
He was completely sure that the boulder in front of him was related to Confucianism. The sense of the literary tone of the Book of Confucianism is the best proof of this.
With Confucianism, it is impossible to solve such an unsolvable problem.
Yang Ji's mind went up and down, and he stood there motionless.
Time passed silently, but Yang Ji's mind was blank as he stood there.
An hour!
Two hours!
Three hours!
......
Yang Ji has completely forgotten time.
"It shouldn't be......"
Yang Ji let out a long sigh. For so long, he couldn't think of any clues. These six words don't seem to mean anything.
Suddenly, Yang Ji's heart moved. A thought arises:
Luo Yunzi said that there was a pair of poems and couplets on it. But these six words do not become poetry at all. Could it be that I was wrong in the first place? These six words are not poetry at all......"
Thinking like this, Yang Ji's troubled thinking suddenly became active. Like a person who has reached a dead end and discovers another path, Yang Ji's mind is alive again.
It is impossible for Confucianism to solve those unsolvable problems. A strong martial artist may be like this when it comes to the inheritance of the Dao system, but Yang Ji knows that Confucianism will definitely not do so.
Confucianism does not chew words in a particular place. It focuses more on a person's morality and character. This is true of the Confucian classics and the examinations of the liberal arts.
If that's the case, maybe the six-character puzzle on the boulder isn't as difficult as you think. Instead, it's likely to be extremely simple.
Yang Ji's pupils shrank, and he once again focused on the six words on the boulder. Slowly, the fog in front of me seemed to thin out a lot.
Something seems to be becoming clearer.
A flash of lightning flashed through his mind, and suddenly Yang Ji seemed to understand what these six words meant. It's just that the truth is so simple, Yang Ji suddenly couldn't believe it.
"For the sake of the sake of the ...... , know what you can't do, know what you can do but don't do it?"
Yang Ji was shocked in his heart:
"Do these six words mean that?"
The boulder mystery that stumped the Luo family and many people in the know at that time was so simple, Yang Ji couldn't believe it for a while.
But deep down, Yang Ji deeply knew that the style of the ancestors of the ancient literature and Taoism, the words on this boulder may probably mean this.
Not the hardest, but the easiest!
-- The two lines of text on the boulder do not refer to some profound poems or couplets, but to the simplest Confucian sentences.
"Do what you know you can't do, and do what you know you can't do", this is the famous Confucian norm of self-cultivation, prudence, positive shadow, and action.
It's about a person who has the courage to face difficulties. Do the right thing. At the same time, you must be able to resist the temptation to not do the wrong thing.
The answer is so simple, and it is possible that countless people at that time thought about the most difficult and profound aspects. I was influenced by Luo Yunzi, I was preconceived, and I also stepped into a misunderstanding of thinking.
"Yes or no, you'll find out if you give it a try. ”
This thought flashed through Yang Ji's heart. Immediately steer the boat and rise up along the surface of the boulder. In the blank part of the boulder, Yang Ji stretched out a finger.
"Buzz!"
The mutation was sudden, and the surface of the hard boulder, where Yang Ji's fingers touched, suddenly opened up with ripples, and there was a pale yellow halo bursting out of his fingers.
Yang Ji felt as if his fingers were touching the surface of the water.
"It seems so!"
Yang Ji was determined, using his fingers as a pen to draw iron and silver on the surface of the boulder. The dragon flies and the phoenix dances, and the writing starts.
"Know!"
After the first word was written, it was like magic, and the place where Yang Ji's fingers swiped suddenly turned from yellow to black, turning into a huge ink character.
Looking at the new characters on this boulder, Yang Ji's confidence soared.
"Try the second word again!"
The boat sank down the ground. Yang Jitie hooked the silver, and in the blink of an eye, the ripples spread. The second word "no" jumped on the stone again.
The third word "may" was written, and the six smooth ink characters of "knowing what to do and not doing" immediately jumped on the stone.
The boulders are fluctuating more and more. Yang Ji was overjoyed in his heart, and simply filled in the remaining three words on the right side together.
"It's done!"
Yang Ji controlled the earth boat to retreat a few steps, looking at the two lines of words on the boulder, and his heart burst with joy. Originally, there was a thick layer of earth around the boulder, but at this time, ripples spread out and pushed away the dirt. Two lines of twelve words are all revealed.
"I wonder what secrets are in this boulder?"
Yang Ji looked at the boulder in front of him, and there was a strong expectation in his heart.
After the era was shattered, there were too few Confucian treasures that have been passed down to the present. It's almost as easy as finding a needle in the sea. Now, I finally got a piece of news, and Yang Ji must not miss it.
"The historian said that it was used to suppress the yin qi, evil qi and corpse qi of the Ten Thousand Cemeteries. I just don't know why it's a stone. And I don't feel much of a gentleman?"
While waiting, Yang Ji said secretly in his heart.
Bursts of yellow light appeared inside the boulder, and Yang Ji waited eagerly. However, just as Yang Ji was waiting for the results, something unexpected happened, the yellow light and ripples on the boulder suddenly turned from thick to faint, and those fluctuations gradually weakened.
"Buzz!"
Just in Yang Ji's stunned gaze, the surface of the boulder was left and right, and the three big characters written by Yang Ji suddenly disappeared. The surrounding earth covered me, and the boulder in front of me was once again normal, silent.
“!!!”
"What's going on?"
Yang Ji was stunned. The expected mystery did not happen, nor did the legendary Confucian treasures appear, and all the qiē were as if nothing had happened.
"Buzz!"
The earth boat rushed over like an arrow from the string, and Yang Ji stretched out his finger to write again on the surface of the boulder. However, the yellow light, the ripples, what happened last time did not happen again.
Yang Ji felt that the place where his fingers touched was as hard as iron, and there was no change at all.
It's like a test where there is only one chance to take the exam, and Yang Ji lost that opportunity of his own.
- He was rejected by the boulder.
"Impossible?"
Yang Ji seemed to have been punched head-on, and his face was full of disbelief. There is yellow light, ripples, and the surface of the boulder softens, which proves that his thinking should be correct.
But what happened?
Why didn't the boulder change as expected?
Yang Ji was stunned and fully accepted this fact.
"Do what you can't do, know what you can do but don't do it", this should be the answer to the rock puzzle. But why is this happening?
Yang Ji felt that it was difficult to accept it in his heart.
Swish!
Suddenly, he stretched out his finger and rushed to the surface of the boulder to write again. Once, twice, three times...... , a boulder is a boulder, no matter how many times Yang Ji writes, there is no change in the slightest.
Even the yellow light from inside the boulder that Yang Ji had felt before was much dimmer, as if there was nothing.
After trying more than ten times in a row, the skin of his fingers was about to grind a layer, and Yang Ji finally had to accept this fact.
-- This huge stone, which stumped the Luo family and countless insiders at the time, also seemed to close the door to himself, the most likely Confucian successor to be recognized.
"The answer can't be wrong, but why is it so, why is it so......"
Yang Ji's thinking was in a mess.
This result may be acceptable to others, but he alone is unacceptable. Inheriting the "Book of Great Confucianism", he is the hope for the prosperity of Confucianism and Taoism in this era, and it is also the most likely to recreate the mighty river.
But these ambitions have not yet begun, but they have fallen where they have been. (To be continued......)