paradox

This place is probably an academy. Inside the room, there are dozens of small tables arranged in sequence from the middle to the sides. On the tables are bamboo slips, pens, and inkstones. In front of February, there was a young man sitting upright, saying that the beard on the older man's chin had fallen to the ground.

Except that the people are stone statues, the rest are all real materials, and even the characters on the bamboo slips can barely be read.

"Wendi, can you understand these ancient characters?" I carefully picked up a bamboo slip and handed it to Wendi. It is one thing to be able to read the words clearly, but another to be able to understand them.

Wendi took it and studied it for a few minutes before arriving at the result, "This is the same type as the writing on the stone tablet. Except for a few uncommon characters that I can't understand, I can understand the rest [-]% of the time. There should be no problem in understanding the meaning. .”

That's fine. Originally, we didn't come here to do research. We just need to figure out what happened. "I took a look, and the characters on these bamboo slips are almost the same. It seems that these bamboo slips are equivalent to our Confucian classics, which are compulsory subjects for literati."

"I know a few numbers on it," Brother Han said. "Other characters have changed a lot in history, but the changes in numbers are relatively small. The frequency of these numbers is relatively high."

Wen Di stroked his chin and explained: "The records on the bamboo slips are probably chronological records. The numbers mentioned by Brother Han are actually the recorded time. The time on this bamboo slips starts from the sixth year of Jianhe."

We all gathered around to listen, there were rare characters on it, and Wendi stumbled when reading it, but it didn't affect it.

"In the sixth year of Jianhe, Emperor Wenkang died at the age of 95."

"Is that so direct?" I clicked my tongue lightly, signaling Wendi to continue reading.

"The next day, the Empress Dowager Sun Jinyan went down to Daming Temple, and the Regent King Xi Wang took charge of the government temporarily." The ancient language is refined, and it is up to us to guess what should be said or not.

"The emperor's grandson must have been arrested and imprisoned. At this juncture, there is probably only one crime for daring to arrest the emperor's grandson—regicide." I speculated. "Now that the regent is in charge of the government, he should have a lot of roles in the future. Without the emperor's grandson, the regent will control the heir to the throne. If there is no other suitable heir, he may become the next emperor."

"No, Sister Tong Tong, the bamboo slips record that the regent was assassinated within a month of taking charge of the government." Wen Di also pointed out that part to me, "After the emperor passed away, the servants searched everywhere for information about the heir to the throne." legacy."

"And then?" I urged, "There are still many words to follow."

Wendi signaled me not to worry, and started to study again, "Afterwards, at the request of the eldest princess and the support of the officials, the case of grandson Jinyan will be thoroughly investigated. During this period, the eldest princess will take charge of the government temporarily."

"Princess?" Mo Han knocked on the wooden table, "Are there no other members of the royal family?"

"There is also an explanation on this issue, saying that the rest of the princes are stationed in the fief, and the only regent who stayed in Beijing was also killed, so the eldest princess can only be allowed to handle the government affairs. It seems that the eldest princess' prestige was quite high at that time."

"Is there any description of her name?" I asked. According to the stories recorded in the murals outside, this eldest princess is likely to be the owner of the tomb.

Wendi shook his head, "There is no record, and when he succeeds to the throne, he only calls himself a 龑, and even the birthday is changed to the time of enthronement to be celebrated by the whole world."

"Ascended the throne? When?" She had indeed become an empress, but how could she convince people when she was alone and helpless during that time?

"Half a year after the emperor's death, according to the records above, there are very few people who have objections." Wen Di re-rolled the bamboo slips, and it seems that this is all the content.If you want to know more, you have to check the rest.

"There are still three volumes on the table. Wendi, you read them first. Let's go to other square tables to look for bamboo slips. Although there are a few of them with the same content, it's better to read them all just in case." I counted them roughly. For a moment, except for the independent one at the front, there are about 24 tables. "We can only compare with the contents of the bamboo slips on Wendi's table if we don't know Chinese characters. If we find something different, we can just take it over. For convenience. Everyone first takes a photo with their mobile phone, and checks one by one in order to minimize the workload of listening to the flute."

Just comparing the glyphs, it shouldn't be too difficult, I touched the sweat on my forehead, I hope so!

We did what we said, and we split up to compare the rest of the bamboo slips with the photos. If there are too many people, the workload will not be too big. One person can only check three. It will be more convenient for us if we are more diligent.But since she entered here, she has been sleeping in Jingyan's pocket all the time. Xichi said that this is the reason for those inscriptions, and we can only be considerate.

"Tong Tong, lend me a marker pen." Xiao Mo walked over from the table next to him with a bamboo slip.

I put down my phone and took one out of my bag and handed it to her, "Did you find anything different?"

"The general content is the same, only a few words are different, and I am more concerned." After getting the pen, Xiaomo started working directly on my side to find out and mark the words that were different from the photos.

I haven't found anything different so far, so I can only help her first, "The characters on these bamboo slips are like the textbooks we print now, even the handwriting is very similar. Ordinary history books have direct Is it used as a teaching material?"

"History books are always written by the victors. What we see may be the appearance of things. Her behavior is probably to let the literati accept this fact." Mo Han ticked off a few words and returned the pen to me.

"I have something different here too." Shang Yang raised his hand, and I hurriedly handed her a pen when I heard it. After a short silence, Xi Chi and Big Brother Han also discovered the difference. Even if it was a coincidence, it couldn't be justified. up.

"My place is completely different." Jing Yan took the bamboo slips and ran to Wendi and handed them to her, and Wen Yu, who was closest to Wendi, also went over to check.

"Eh..." Wendi showed embarrassment.

Jing Yan asked in confusion: "Is there anything written on it?"

Wen Yu snatched the bamboo slips and reprimanded: "Children, don't look at these messy things!"

"What a mess?" We in the distance were also dumbfounded.

"It's a description similar to eroticism, and Xiao Huangwen is not unique to modern times." Wen Di smiled awkwardly.

Jing Yan also smiled to ease the atmosphere, "It's really restored..."

Although there are some differences in individual characters on several scrolls of bamboo slips, when Wendi read it, there are only a few simple characters.

"Wait a minute," I rummaged for a while before finding the graph paper, comparing the position of the words on each roll, and making a new copy.In this way, it is much clearer. After overlapping, the words are concentrated and distributed on the graph paper.

"This is the words from the Book of Changes. If you have watched TV dramas, you should know." Wendi bought a tube on purpose, and only spoke under our urging, "Don't use Qianlong, see the dragon in the field, work all day long, or Jump in the deep, fly in the sky, and the dragon has regrets."

In the Qian hexagram in the Book of Changes, Qian represents the dragon and is the upper hexagram. These hexagrams were also very popular in the past.

A few people gather around a table, although few know how to do it, the most important thing is to participate.

"You see, this teacher is bald!" While bored, Shang Yang started looking for fun again, and this time he took off the hat of the old man of the academy.

Wen Yu originally wanted her to be quiet, but the bald head attracted her attention. She pressed both hands on the neck of the stone statue, and with a force from left to right, the head of the stone statue turned at an angle, and the altar behind it also turned inside out.

When we walked over, a hexagram appeared on the table, gotta!Started playing charades for us again.

"The short lines around seem to be able to rotate," Xiao Mo tried to move.

Wen Yu was already sensitive to such things, and was aroused after seeing it, "Here, the positions of the hexagrams and the words of the hexagrams are correct, but the positions of the hexagrams represented by each hexagram are messed up, which is the part that was able to move just now. .”

"Can it be restored?" Han Lin asked.

"Fortunately, we are not asked to move one by one, only six laps should be enough." Wen Yu had his own business to do, so we started to ask Wendi about the situation.

For the convenience of memory, Wen Di wrote down the important time points on paper, and when we came over, he began to sort out the timeline, "The remaining few volumes are about what happened after she ascended the throne, and I won't talk about the severe drought and flood. "

This is also to save time.

"After ascending the throne, the year name was changed to Yongkang. In the first year of Yongkang, at the end of the year, the empress ordered the world to celebrate with amnesty, so as to comfort the spirit of the late emperor. The Qinhuai River had not been extinguished for ten days. During this period, several officials were assassinated. The guards went to investigate with the imperial decree." Wen Di paused and began to focus, "There was a major general who was with him, the son of the former general of the Zhu Kingdom, but he was punished by the nine clans for the crime of rebellion. This major general was also the chief at that time. Princess Li Baocai took her life and was exiled to the frontier, never to return to Beijing."

"He finally came back, who called him back to Beijing?"

"The regent. Let him return to Beijing to receive punishment for violating military orders."

"Has the emperor acquiesced?"

"I didn't write..."

Eh!trouble.

With a click, the entire wall behind us suddenly turned in one direction, and the obscura full of bamboo slips on the back was switched to our side.The arrangement of the hidden box is designed to imitate the hexagrams, and it is divided into 64 compartments, each representing the 64 hexagrams, and the six we are looking for are among them.

Shang Yang took a step forward, "Ah Chi, tell me where each hexagram corresponds, and I'll get it."

"Ninth Day: Don't use Qianlong, it's at the bottom."

"okay!"

The position of the obscura was at the top, and Shang Yang didn't have a ladder to use, but it seemed to be no problem for her. She used the gap between the compartments to climb up directly, and the next compartment was used as a foothold to easily stabilize her figure. .

"There are words on the surface of these bamboo slips, do you want to take them all down?" Shang Yang shouted from above, she didn't dare to move, so she had to take a picture with her mobile phone and send it to Wen Di for her to make a decision.

"Sister, just take down the bamboo slips that say Youyuan, Xiang, Li, and Zhen. Your current position is in the ninth day, and the upper compartments are ninety-two, ninety-three, ninety-four, ninety-five, and upper nine .As long as the bamboo slips in these six compartments are fine, it is best not to touch the others."

Climbing up and down was too troublesome, Shang Yang found the bamboo slips and threw them down, Xichi followed below, the two cooperated tacitly, and quickly found them all.

There are too many bamboo slips to carry, and translation requires a lot of energy. Our time is limited, so we can only temporarily store them in the form of photos in the mobile phone, and leave them here for now.

When we were ready, we put the bamboo slips in a backpack so that they would be easy to find when we came back.When we were about to leave, the wall behind us began to tremble violently, and the bamboo slips fell down like a rain of swords.

The few of us were far away, and there were not many people who were hit on the body, but if it was rolled a little bit, it would be bruised and purple.Everyone was knocked aside by the violent impact, Shang Yang, who was at the closest distance, was instantly swallowed up, and Xi Chi ran to her side to protect her at some point.

In less than a minute, the vibration stopped. Shang Yang was well protected and was not injured, but Xichi was covered in dust, and even her hair was stained with dust. She patted the dirt on her body in disgust, but it didn't help. .

"Are you okay?" I asked worriedly, it hurts to be hit.

"It's all right." Xi Chi was still arranging her makeup, and Shang Yang couldn't stand it anymore and helped her.Suddenly Xichi seemed to have realized something, clutching his shoulder, "The right shoulder seems to be injured, I didn't feel it when I came here too fast, now it hurts even more when I stop."

"Eh..." Missy, that's not what you said on your expression, I don't even have the heart to expose this clumsy acting. "Shang Yang, help her with the medicine. There should be emergency supplies in the bag. And Xichi, do you want to take a bath? I don't know if there is water in the places we have been to before."

"I know where there is water, I've seen it before!" Shang Yang raised his hands excitedly, "Go ahead, I'll help Ah Chi take care of it, and then I'll go find you."

With a simple and clear division of labor, Monk Xichi returned the same way, and we continued to move forward. The granary was within easy reach.