Chapter 4 Pushing the Front(2/3)
If there really is a dragon, how could anyone not see it? Let alone the Dragon Palace.
However, seeing Er Pang's solemn expression, I suppressed these words again.
"I know you don't believe it. How could you, a good young man who was born and raised in the sun, believe in such strange things?" Zhang Erpang withdrew his gaze and took out something from his backpack.
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When I saw it, it turned out to be a compass.
Seeing my surprised look, Erpang smiled: "What? Is it strange? Are you the only one who knows Feng Shui? To tell you the truth, I am from a sect just like you. Although not as good as your old man, my family is also pretty good.
There is a connection."
"Do you know Zuo Ci?"
I nodded. Anyone who has watched "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" knows Zuo Ci.
This is a strange man who lived in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that he practiced Taoism in Tianzhu Mountain, Anhui Province and was proficient in alchemy. He could exorcise grains, drive away ghosts and serve gods. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty. Biography of Fang Shu II" records that he "rarely possessed the divine way".
"At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Jiaode taught the Book of Heaven to Ji and founded Taiping Dao. Later, he organized the people to launch the Yellow Turban Uprising, which was eventually wiped out. The three Zhang brothers also died in the uprising."
"However, what is not known is that Zhang Liang, one of the three Zhang brothers, has a descendant named Zhang Lu. His family escaped when the Yellow Turban Army was wiped out. Later, Zhang Lu was accepted as an apprentice by Zuo Ci and spent his whole life
Teach him what you have learned."
"During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Zhang Lu combined half of the "Taiping Qingling Jing" left by his father with Zuo Ci's Taoist teachings to create the Wujiao Tao. And I am the only successor of the Wujiao Tao today."
It’s true that people cannot be judged by their appearance.
I really didn't expect that the fat, greedy, lazy, and foolish person who had been greedy since childhood would hide his secrets.
He stood up, walked back and forth with the compass in hand, and talked to me: "If there is anything else you want to ask, please ask me."
"Where did you go after you escaped from that underground palace?" I asked.
"We moved." Erpang replied, "Those people knew the origin of my family, so we had to leave our hometown. Speaking of which, you haven't visited your grandfather for a long time, right?"
"how do you know?"
"I knew it from the time you asked this stupid question. You must not know that the uncle and aunt have also moved away."
"What?! My grandparents moved away too?! Where did they go?" I was shocked.
"Then I don't know. They left earlier than me." Erpang said, "You know, people like us are aliens. Once exposed, we will always move."
He went on to say: "Later, I joined the army after graduating from high school and was sent to garrison in Xinjiang. Alas, there are quite a few ancient tombs there." From what he meant, it seems that the fat men in the border areas also visited ancient tombs. It's obvious.
Over the years since he came out and joined the army, he has become much more capable. Not only has he gained a lot of weight, but he has also become much more stable as a person.
"Then why did you come here again?" I asked again.
"Of course it's because you're here." He smiled faintly, "I just retired recently and wanted to come back for a visit, but I saw you at the market in the town yesterday."
Yesterday, I did go to the town market with Senior Liu Sa to buy some items.
"Then I saw you pulling a safety rope to climb down. I knew something was going to happen, so I followed. Sure enough," he pointed at the deep scratch on the icefall diagonally above, which should have been left by an ice pick.
"If it weren't for me, you would have died long ago."
I was a little embarrassed and whispered thank you.
He pretended not to hear: "The voice was too low, I didn't hear it clearly."
"I said thank you!" I deliberately prolonged my voice.
We both looked at each other and smiled. Suddenly, he made a silencing gesture: "Shh! There's a reaction!"
"Reaction? What reaction?" I wondered.
"The magnetic field here is special. I tried it many times before the compass responded." He looked at my wrist and said, "Lend me your watch."
I took off my watch.
The watch on my wrist is a bit different. It not only has a time scale, but also a date, celestial stems, earthly branches and five elements. It is equivalent to a small compass.
The compass in Erpang's hand is also different from ordinary compasses.
Ordinary compasses are marked with the Six Diagrams, Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, Beidou, Twenty-eight Constellations, etc., but the compass in his hand has many circles, marked twelve times, the borders of various countries, the heavenly records, the earthly records, the human disk,
There are twenty-four solar terms, Huntian star degrees, etc., leaving a total of eighteen circles.
And unlike ordinary compasses, each circle of the compass in his hand can be moved independently.
In fact, I only heard the above knowledge roughly from my grandfather. If I had to say it myself, I couldn’t explain why.
To put it simply, this is a compass specially used for looking for wind and water, analyzing gold and acupuncture points.
"Hiss." He fiddled with the compass for a while, making babbling sounds from time to time, and said plausibly, "Weird, so weird."
He turned to look at me: "Siyu, have you ever heard of the saying that 'the tortoise's shell is empty when it is lonely and weak'."
"I think I heard my grandfather talk about it. Is it the method of determining good and bad luck among the twelve dragons that travel through the mountain?"
The so-called lonely and prosperous phase, the tortoise shell is empty, simply means that it is good or bad to be buried in the tomb, which needs to be judged according to the heavenly stems, earthly branches and innate eight trigrams. The so-called lonely and empty means that both the upper and lower lines are pure
Yang or pure yin, this is a huge taboo in Feng Shui, and the same is true for tortoise shells.
But as I said before, where we are standing is a serious dragon vein. The terrain is intertwined with sand and water, so there shouldn't be any danger.
"Yes! Yes!" Erpang nodded, "I surveyed the terrain outside before. Logically speaking, this should be a good Feng Shui treasure land. But, look."
He pointed to the compass and watch and showed it to me: "Xu Chenlong, the five elements of Nayin belong to gold, the Huntian star belongs to water, and gold generates water. This is a dragon venting, which is very unlucky. I don't understand, in this case, I would choose
How could the people in the tomb make such a mistake?"
"The Twelve Dragons Crossing the Mountain is a theory created by people in the Tang Dynasty. This is a Han tomb. It's not very normal." I said.
"Look at the top of your head." Erpang pointed at the dome above us.
At this time, the two of us were sitting on the ice downstream, and we could see directly above us when we raised our heads.
Looking up, I realized why it was so bright here.
The tops of our heads are densely covered with crystal-like minerals.
This kind of crystal absorbs sunlight hitting the ground during the day, and then reflects it with dazzling light.
The most interesting thing is that I found that some of these crystals are occasionally brighter than others.
I suddenly realized that these crystals were arranged in order.
Although I couldn't get a full picture of it, I could still identify it as the Xuanwu Constellation!
Among them, several of the brightest crystals represent the earth bat, Wei Yue Yan, room fire pig...
These are all water signs.
Thinking of the frozen underground river beneath us, there seems to be some connection between them.
Could it be?!
Erpang and I looked at each other at the same time, our eyes matched, and I was sure.
This tomb can be said to be a Bagua array contained inside the mountain!
"In this way, maybe we can find a way to get out." Erpang put away the compass and returned the watch to me. "Although in the celestial horoscope, the combination of Venus and water is an unlucky position, but for us intruders
, maybe it’s life.”
He pinched it between his fingers. This method was called Xiao Liuren, also called Zhuge Ma Qian Ke.
That is the "calculation with fingers" that we often see in TV dramas. Without any equipment, Xiao Liuren is the simplest and fastest method.
"Western Geng Xin Jin, if 360 is divided into 3 degrees and one minute, and we go to the Geng position, then it is - there!" The two of us looked at the left and rear position at the same time.
We walked with difficulty on the ice, moving bit by bit to the rear left position.
We are in a box-like space, with ice walls on the left and right sides, and the ice wall on the right is connected to the cave I just fell into.
We groped back and forth on the ice wall on the left, waiting for an opportunity to look for any traps or secret passages.
Suddenly I felt a few tiny holes in the ice wall, just big enough for my five fingers to clasp. I clasped the five holes hard and pulled outwards.
I didn't use much strength, but I felt that the whole cave was shaking, and ore kept falling on the ice behind us.
The second fat man was shocked and shouted to me: "What are you doing?! Let go!"
But at this time I could no longer control my hand. My five fingers seemed to be sucked into the five small holes. The more I pulled them out, the harder they were to pull them out.
I wanted to push the ice in to stop the cave from collapsing, but I couldn't.
When I wanted to stop, I suddenly felt someone hugging me from behind. It took control of my body and my arms, forcing me to pull out the ice cube.
Then I heard a low, incomprehensible whisper coming from my ears.
When I completely pulled out the ice cubes from the wall, the collapse of the cave suddenly stopped.
The whole cave became quiet.
There was a brief moment of silence, and I heard a sound similar to breaking glass under my feet and around me.
hack
Snap!
To be continued...