Chapter Twenty-Six: First Sight of Jade

"Cluck~Cluck~Cluck......" After a series of dull noises from the rudder and heavy hemp rope, the Blue Boat Workshop finally docked.

In the shipyard, the little attendant who was waiting for the two at the beginning got up to see the two off the ship.

"Is it just us? What about the others?" As soon as he walked to the deck, Li Bing turned around and asked casually.

"If it were any other boat, all the male guests would have cheered into the village. However, very few of the guests on our Blue Boat Shop get off the boat. ”

The little squire did not say why. Li Bing smiled dumbly and said to himself: That's right! Just the two of us, but it's pure!

In front of me, a three-foot-wide boat bridge stretches from Qionghua Island to the lake for more than ten zhang, the piers are logs, and the bridge deck is an arm-thick bamboo tube, slightly hung with some fog, a little slippery. Every ten steps, hang an oilcloth lantern to guide the way.

Eight maids waited on the bridge, each holding a lamp, and watched the two get off the boat, splitting left and right to make their debut. The maid at the head only said, "The two sons, please come with me." And he said no more.

The maid opened the way with the lamp, four in front and four behind, and surrounded the two in the middle. Behind the bridge, the trail on the island is only a foot wide, with lights at intervals.

The road to Zhuangzi is not too close, and after walking for nearly a stick of incense, I saw the shadow of Zhuangzi slightly.

Han Linyuan lightly touched Li Bing's shoulder and said in a low voice, "Have you noticed that the scenery on this island is very special. ”

Although Li Bingzhi was very attentive to the grass and wood sculptures, he didn't see anything unique, and shook his head slightly.

"At first, I thought that everything on this island was arranged according to gossip. The section that just landed on the island is the black sand road, with evening primrose planted on both sides, and the obsidian stone used for the garden lamp sculpture, which is the location of the hexagram;

In the next section, bluestone slabs are used on the road, sea heart grass is planted on both sides, lamps are hung on high places, and the poles are made of metasequoia, which is probably the direction of the Gen hexagram.

Now we have glazed bricks under our feet, apricot blossom forests on both sides, and the lamps are placed in the low places, which are the lampshades of willow rattan braids, which is probably the location of the hexagram.

The location of Zhuangzi is not in the center of the island, but in the center of the array. ”

Li Bing listened to what Han Linyuan said, and asked, "Is there anything wrong here?"

"This is the master's handwriting, in the gossip, the length of each hexagram on the island is not evenly divided, just now the hexagram area is extremely long, and now the hexagram is particularly short, it is definitely not a rigid set of arrays to come out, but according to local conditions, the shape and orientation of the island itself are integrated. That's not all, this gossip array still carries some knowledge of 'Qimen Dunjia'. But I don't understand it very clearly. ”

He paused and said: "I didn't find it at first, but seeing these maids leading the way, sometimes not taking shortcuts but taking a long detour, I deduced that this array should be done by everyone of the 'Taoist Zodiac Sect'." Qian, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun, and the gossip made a array, and each piece was divided into eight gates of 'opening, rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, and surprise', and the first one was connected.

The place we just passed seems to be the 'Zhen Hexagram Open Door', and now it seems to have reached the 'Xun Hexagram Jing Gate Position', I'm not sure about it, but this island can't be walked around. ”

"What will happen if you walk around?" Li Bing asked casually and curiously.

"I don't know! It depends on the character of this formation, if he is kind-hearted, at most he will be lost, if he is ruthless, most likely there is a killing move in it. ”

Li Bing was shocked, he had also seen some powerful formations when he was young, and he couldn't imagine that there was such a powerful thing in the wild village on the outskirts of Liangzhou, and he paid more attention to the scenery on both sides, not only rockeries, ponds, small bridges and flowing water, but also changed almost every other section of grass and trees.

"Can you see what this formation does?"

"I can't see that I only have a slight understanding of Taoist things, not to mention that the realm of this formation is already extremely high. I just felt that on this array plate, there seemed to be some traces of the 'Tianpan Nine Star Palace', 'Tianpeng, Tianren, Tianchong, Tianfu, Tianfowl, Tianying, Tianrui, Tianzhu, Tianxin' Nine Star Palace, and the eight gates formed Xingmen Keying, giving birth to seventy-two combinations in each hexagram area, with the eight trigrams, a total of five hundred and seventy-six changes on this array plate. I can't figure out the combination. ”

Han Linyuan said again: "The Star Palace was originally proposed by the Taoist Zodiac Sect, but in the end, it was Dacheng in the 'Kanyu Stargazing Pulse', and I don't know if this formation has anything to do with the Kanyu Pulse. ”

When it comes to Kanyu, Li Bing remembered Ji Zihuan's "Jade Long Baotian" again, and after thinking about it, he finally came to Yurui Village.

The Zhuangzi is surrounded by low walls on all sides, and the funny thing is that even this Zhuangzi wall is made of eight different materials, which fall into the corresponding hexagrams. On the left side of the face is the high-quality blue brick of a large family with a brown tile surface of Shu ground, but on the right side it is a bit like an adobe yellow wall in the countryside, which is nondescript and looks really awkward.

The maids lined up on both sides of the door, pushed the door open, and said softly, "Childe, please!" Obviously, she didn't intend to follow the two into the door.

When I entered it, I saw that Zhuangzi was not big, it was not as good as the courtyard where Li Bing lived by himself, and the flowers and plants inside were taken care of, but it was just about to enter the eyes, and I am afraid that it was not the handiwork of everyone from the same formation.

In the courtyard, the doors of the three huts on the left, middle and right are hidden, Li Bingzheng hesitated to knock on the door, a wisp of piano sound suddenly rose, into the ears, stunned, it didn't take a few sounds, both of them heard it, this tune is "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix".

It seems that the rumors are true, whether the owner of this jade village is the head of all the owners, at least her proficiency in musical instruments is still above the sister flowers of the scarlet boat workshop. This Han Dynasty qin song is not bad at all.

And the timbre of this piano is also very special, like a qin is not a qin, like a zheng is not a zheng, not a pipa, and not a jinse.

The two stood in front of the door, listened attentively, and after a song, the door slowly opened, and the two maids, one on the left and one on the right, bowed, waved their sleeves and invited the two to enter the door, but did not say a word.

A faint smell of fat powder also wafted out of the wind, the light fragrance is not demonic, and it is refreshing.

Han Linyuan took a deep breath, felt that his body and mind were relaxed, and looked at the door:

In the middle of the room, there is a huge silk embroidery screen, embroidered with the "Luo Shen Futu" of "Eastern Jin Dynasty Gu Kaizhi", and the lower left corner is "Yurui Zhuang Zhen'er". There are also goose yellow gauze tents on the left and right sides of the room, which divide the room into two.

There are two small tables at the door, with three vegetarian dishes and one meat dish, and there are four containers next to the side dishes, with different materials and shapes, namely jade pots, porcelain pots, gourds and bluestone urns, which slightly exude some wine.

The furnishings on the owner's side were not clear, and she could vaguely see that she was wearing a red gauze dress today, with a strange musical instrument in front of her.

After waiting for Li Bing and the others to sit down, the two servants also withdrew from the house and re-covered the door.

Two men and one woman, living alone in a closed room, the atmosphere is ambiguous at the moment.

"The girl's "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" played really well, and the Xue Qi Xue Sheng sisters of Chang'an's 'Chuanqu Pavilion' are afraid that they won't be able to play more expressively. In particular, the girl's 'big food harp' can play my old Han Dynasty songs without a single note, which is really rare. Han Linyuan opened his mouth first, originally just curious about the owner, but now he really has some admiration.

"Childe is erudite, and he can tell from the timbre that he is a harp. 'Zhen'er' is showing off in front of everyone in the music and rhythm, please don't blame it. "The voice of the owner behind the screen is soft, with a slight tail note of the Dongwu dialect, and there is a special charm.

The tone, timbre, and tone of her voice were exactly the same as when she spoke to His Holiness before.

"The girl is laughing, but I can't hear it. It was only through the screen that I vaguely saw it and recognized it. Han Linyuan generously admitted: "I have seen this instrument once in the Chuanqu Pavilion before, so I know." ”

"Poof~! Childe is frank. The girl behind the screen smiled lightly: "The little girl has prepared a total of four music scores, four wines, and four dishes. How about we meet for the first time, why don't we play a game and get to know each other?"

"Girl, please speak!" Han Linyuan was much more comfortable with this kind of occasion than Li Bing, so naturally he spoke first.

However, he said that Li Bing also learned from everyone since he was a child, and his family education is profound. However, in front of Han Linyuan, he was like a layman.

"Every time the little woman plays a tune, there is a pot of wine and a dish on the table. Childe had to guess which wine and which dish it was. If you guess correctly, you can ask Zhen'er a question, whether you guess correctly or not, you have to answer Zhen'er a question, how about it?"

"Very good!"

Li Bing looked down at the wine and food on the table, and just wanted to guess the puzzle of "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix", and remembered that in the Blue Boat Workshop before, Han Linyuan said to be careful about the diet of Yurui Village. Turning his head to see that he seemed to have forgotten about it, and was about to remind him, seeing that Han Linyuan had already picked up the jade pot, drank it all, and half-sang:

"There is a beautiful woman who will never forget it.

I don't see it for a day, and I think like crazy.

The phoenix soars, seeking the phoenix from all over the world.

Helpless beauty, not on the east wall.

The piano will be used as a substitute for the language, and the conversation will be heartfelt.

When to see Xu Xi, comfort me hesitating.

I am willing to match virtue and join hands.

I shall not fly away, and I shall be destroyed. ”

Li Bingxin said: "Sure enough." There is a knife on the head of the color word, so don't make any mistakes in this village. ”