The road to technology

Chapter 224 Zhuang Zhou Mengdie
Zither has fifty strings for no reason, and one string and one column think of Huanian.Zhuang Shengxiao dreamed of butterflies, Wangdi Chunxin entrusted cuckoos.There are tears in the moon and pearl in the sea, and the sun in Lantian is warm and the jade produces smoke.This feeling can be regarded as a memory, but it was already at a loss.This is "Jin Se" by Li Shangyin, a famous envoy in the Tang Dynasty.

Although the poem is written by Li Shangyin, the current protagonist is not Li Shangyin, but Zhuang Zhou, because he feels that he is dreaming of a butterfly again.

Yes, Zhuang Zhou is Zhuang Zi. Now he is an old man, but his body is still strong. His white hair and gray beard are neatly plucked. The old man, he is wearing a dark silk reeling jacket, silk reeling is to draw silkworm silk, so this is a silk jacket, but it is a bit old, you can tell that it has been worn for many years, because He has two patches on the back of this jacket.

He was driving from Xinzheng to Xianyang in an ox cart just now. The purpose of going to Xianyang was to see the Qin State that seemed to have changed a bit recently. However, because the weather was too hot, he felt thirsty, so he planned to stay on the side of the road. Rest under the big tree for a while before leaving.

The reason why he wanted to rest under this tree was because his old and sensitive ears heard the sound of water nearby, and the water in his luggage was almost exhausted, so he just took advantage of the rest time to replenish the water. Coachmen and cattle can also be replenished on the spot.

So he walked looking for the sound of water, and as expected, there was a clear mountain spring in the valley, and his current position was a hundred steps down from the source of the mountain spring.With Zhuang Zhou's character, he usually drinks a few sips to quench his thirst at will, and then fills up the water, but this time he suddenly wanted to drink from the source of the mountain spring. His own original intention, so he followed this idea he called original intention to walk to the source a hundred steps away.

The clear mountain spring, the trickling mountain spring, are surrounded by a few clean rocks, and beside the rocks are a few green vegetation. Seeing this scene, Zhuang Zhou was in a good mood, so he walked down with vigorous steps. In two steps, I want to drink a few mouthfuls of sweet spring, and then add a bag of water.

What he didn't expect was that when he stepped forward and was about to bend down, he suddenly found that his eyes went dark, and then he seemed to see strange light spots moving quickly in his eyes. When he recovered his normal vision, he found that the appearance of Shanquan seemed to have changed. The water is still trickling, and the rocks are still rocks, but the light has dimmed.He originally thought it was a phenomenon like black eyes and starry eyes when he got up from squatting for a long time. He thought it was because he was old that his eyes became black even when he lowered his head, so he didn't care, but when he finished fetching water When I looked up, I realized that was not the case.

It was getting dark, and the moment he bent down to fetch water, it changed from scorching sun to bright moon in the sky.At this moment, Zhuang Zhou looked back and forth at the moonlight and the mountain spring. He wondered if he was dreaming of butterflies again, but this kind of scene didn't seem like a dream. He thought that he had just kissed him quietly, and it hurt a lot. But always wise, he felt that it might be a very real dream.

So he raised his head and looked towards the sky, trying to find some different celestial phenomena.Squinting his eyes and observing the sky for a long time, Zhuang Zhou saw the Big Dipper, the crescent moon, the Big Dipper, and some small stars dotted the night sky. This kind of astrology is very common, but he thought it was very strange, because the previous season The shape of the Big Dipper at night does not seem to be like this, it seems to be flattened, and the moon is also, it should be almost full now, why has it turned into a crescent moon again.

"Weird! There is nothing to change the stars!"

Zhuang Zhou raised his hand to stroke his gray beard, sighed inwardly, and then began to look around curiously, this action touched his cuffs which were slightly wider than modern ones, revealing a dagger stuck at his waist .

At this time, he put down the hand that was stroking his beard, and then quietly pressed it on the dagger at his waist. He opened his eyes wide and looked into the distance along the flowing water. What caught his eyes was rows of faintly shining bright spots.

The night was very dark, but under the light of bright spots in the distance, Zhuang Zhou could still vaguely see some outlines, which seemed to be a bridge, a bridge similar to the palaces of princes and nobles.

He had been to the palace of the State of Wei before, and there was a similar stone bridge inside, but there were many neat highlights on this bridge.

The night and the distance couldn't stop Zhuang Zhou's imagination. He felt that the bridge in the distance should be the bridge of some extravagant and extravagant palace. So many candles were lit on an unmanned stone bridge in the night, it was too luxurious.This may be a place for the royal family or some big country to exploit the rich and rich people to build pleasure. Thinking about it this way, he felt that this place was a dirty place, but he felt wrong, because he was still in the wilderness just now, how could he suddenly Arrived at a certain palace?Maybe this kind of thing only happens in dreams. As for how it happened, he doesn't think about it now. After all, it's hard to know how it happened.

Zhuang Zhou, who felt that he was still in a dream, simply ignored other things, and explored the dream first.

So Zhuang Zhou stepped on his straw sandals that didn't match the deep silk clothes he was wearing, carefully pressed the dagger at his waist, walked across the soft lawn to a bridge, then narrowed his eyes and quietly approached the bridge. This odd highlight.

He is very curious about what it is now. At first he thought it was a stone lamp with candles burning inside, but after getting closer, he realized that it was not.

Zhuang Zhou looked at it for a while, then stretched out his left hand to touch it, and then slightly released his right hand from the sword hilt at his waist.

"Round and round like a chicken, bright and clean like a bright moon, warm and moist like warm jade, and bright like candlelight! What is this? Is it a night pearl?" Zhuang Zhou seemed to understand what it was like a ray of light flashed through his heart. , he looked away and looked into the distance.

If this is the night pearl, so many bright spots on the bridgehead and the roadside are all moon pearls, which is too luxurious. Is this the palace in the sky?

Zhuang Zhou didn't think that this was the residence of immortals, because he didn't think that there were immortals in the world. After all, he believed that all people have no self, gods and men have no merit, and saints have no name.

It is estimated that he does not even have the concept of immortals. After all, Qu Yuan, the author of Chuci, did not even know whether he had written the first sentence describing immortals, "The noble man's virtue is beautiful, and the beauty of the past is the immortal".

After Zhuang Zhou observed the night and the surrounding environment for a while, he discovered something that conformed to common sense. For example, there should be a road between the two rows of luminous pearls, a road illuminated by luminous pearls. The road would lead there, but he decided to follow it and see.

After making a decision, Zhuang Zhou flicked his cuff openly, then lifted his sandals and stepped on the road paved with bluestone.

Soon he crossed the stone bridge and strode forward generously along the road illuminated by the night pearl. After a while, he saw a huge palace sitting on the left side of the road reflecting silver light. Under the brighter luminous pearl, Zhuang Zhou saw clearly that this palace was not a palace with cornices and horns, but a palace with a strange flat roof. He had never seen such a palace with a flat roof. He estimated that this palace The span is about ninety to one hundred steps, and there is a row of glowing things on the top of the palace.

He looked carefully at the row of luminous objects, and felt that it looked like a kind of character, but he couldn't recognize the characters of that country, Qi Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin. There was no character like this, which was similar to his hometown Song The writing is also different, so he doesn't recognize it.

As smart as he was, he immediately thought that if there were words on it, it might be the name of this unknown palace. He had seen the name of the palace hanging on the palace before, but this kind of name seemed to be made of luminous night pearls. He has never seen it before. This dream is so strange!

Zhuang Zhou didn't feel strange about such unfamiliar characters, and he didn't feel that his knowledge was shallow, because there are so many characters in the world, it is estimated that no one can recognize them all.

Of course, he felt that Lao Tzu, who was the librarian of the royal family of Zhou, might recognize him.

Unable to understand, he simply continued to move forward, so he quickly saw several strange palaces and the same unknown characters, this time he ignored them and continued walking.

Finally, half a minute later, Zhuang Zhou came to the end of the road he thought was illuminated by the night pearl, and now in front of him was a gate about ten paces wide. He looked up, and the gate was as high as his entire life not seen.

The middle of the gate is not a door, but a blue unknown object like water waves, and the door frames on both sides are also unknown objects, shining with luster.When he walked forward, he realized that the blue water-like thing was gone.

Zhuang Zhou didn't think so much, he stepped in, who was always open-minded, and the light flashed in front of his eyes in an instant, as if it was daytime again. At this time, his straw sandals had already stepped on a red carpet, and he felt the soft Zhuang Zhou under his feet looked down at the red carpet. Then slowly raised his head and looked forward along the red carpet. At the end of the red carpet, he saw a man sitting on a high platform seat.

(End of this chapter)