Masterful appearance

Yue Qianling looked down at the bottom of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and suddenly said to Chu Tianci with a wry smile.

"I don't know whether I should congratulate you or feel sad for you. The Big Wild Goose Pagoda is not big, and it is not small. Even if you guessed it right, the clue is related to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. I don't think you should go back to the hotel. Forget about moving to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, you won’t be able to find any clues in a few years.”

"That's not necessarily the case." Chu Tianci said with a faint smile. "In fact, I already know what is the secret hidden in Zhu Yuanzhang's Big Wild Goose Pagoda."

"I don't believe it, you just discovered Baxia's secret." Yue Qianling pouted in disbelief. "The clues are not written on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, how could you know."

"The text we deciphered mentions the location, time, and altitude. Think about the use of these things." Chu Tianci asked calmly.

"The height mentioned is seven..." Gu Anqi thought for a while and blinked. "The Big Wild Goose Pagoda has seven floors, no more, no less. Is this what seven means?"

"Anqi is right, Wulou Baxia is for us to find the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and the seven mentioned in the text means that if we want to know the secrets of the Fourteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty hidden in the Da Ci'en Temple, we must climb to the seventh floor .” Chu Tianci nodded.

"Since the scope has been narrowed down, the seventh floor is not that big. Let's search separately, maybe we will find something." Gu Anqi said excitedly seeing that her guess was correct.

Chu Tianci shook his head with a smile and said calmly.

"The clue should not be on the seventh floor of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda!"

"Why? Brother Tianci, why are you so sure?"

"The reason is very simple. If it is on the seventh floor, there should be a hint in the text, but the text only mentions the location, altitude and time. Now that we know the location and altitude, it is obvious that the hidden secret is related to time."

"The time mentioned in the text is three o'clock in the afternoon on the seventh day of December, but it's only November now, and there's still more than a month left." Gu Anqi said helplessly.

"Actually, how long until the seventh day of December is not important, what is important is what this time is used for." Chu Tianci pointed out with the corner of his mouth curled up.

"The clue was left by Zhu Yuanzhang, which means that the seventh day of December is different every year, but the Big Wild Goose Pagoda has been standing for thousands of years and hasn't changed much."

"The flowers are similar every year, and the people are different every year. If there is any difference, it is that the people who appear on the seventh floor of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda are different every day." Yue Qianling said with a half-smile. "According to what you said, maybe Zhu Yuanzhang will crawl out of the mausoleum on the seventh day of December every year and come here to tell you the secrets of the Ming Tombs, haha."

"Hey, I really don't know how you got your Ph.D., just your IQ..." Chu Tianci said helplessly. "Your thinking is all wrong. Zhu Yuanzhang left clues for future generations. If the clues keep changing, then the clues left are too much to fail."

"Oh, I understand what Brother Tianci means. It's not something that's changing, but something that hasn't changed after thousands of years." Gu Anqi suddenly realized and nodded.

Qiu Nuo was obviously much quieter than the two of them. If anyone among the three of them could learn the secret about the Big Wild Goose Pagoda first, Chu Tianci definitely believed that it would be Qiu Nuo.

Qiu Nuo, who had been holding on to the railing in silence all this time, walked around the seventh floor of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, and finally leaned on the railing and looked into the distance. It covers the entire Da Ci'en Temple, and in the afterglow, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda looks more majestic and solemn.

The shadow of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda moves with the sun setting in the west, like a huge clock hand.

Qiu Nuo gave a little light, raised his hand calmly, pointed to the distance and said.

"This is something that hasn't changed for thousands of years."

Yue Qianling and Gu Anqi raised their heads and followed the direction of Qiu Nuo's finger. The setting sun burned the whole sky red like a torch, creating a peaceful and tranquil mood.

"It's... the sun?!" Gu Anqi asked in surprise.

"To be precise, it's the shadow of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda cast by the sun." Qiu Nuo explained calmly.

"Qiu Nuo is still smart. The real meaning of the words in the white jade tofu is this. At three o'clock in the afternoon on the seventh day of December, the location indicated by the shadow of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda under the sun is the place where the clues to the Fourteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty are hidden!"

Gu Anqi looked down at the shadow of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda that was still moving slowly under her and said happily.

"That's true. This clue is really cleverly hidden. Even after a long time, this clue will not be obliterated."

"But the problem is that it must be three o'clock in the afternoon on the seventh day of December. I still can't figure it out. Since the sun moves in the same trajectory every day, why wait for a specific time." Qiu Nuo said puzzled.

"The seventh day of December happens to be the heavy snow in the 24 solar terms. The 24 solar terms reflect the annual movement of the sun, that is, it is formulated according to the sun's movement. The direct angle of the sun in each solar term is different, so the shadows formed are also different. "Yue Qianling said with her head held high. "The solar term actually refers to the time of day. For example, when the sun's celestial meridian is equal to fifteen degrees, it is the Ching Ming Festival."

"Sister Qianling, how much is the heavy snow?"

"It's exactly 250 five degrees!"

"Hey, if you say it like this, you have to wait until the seventh day of December anyway, otherwise the shadow indicated will be biased." Gu Anqi said disappointedly after hearing this.

"That's not necessarily the case. Zhu Yuanzhang left clues based on the direct angle of the solar terms and the sun. It was indeed very subtle at the time, but now it can be deduced based on the position of the sun on the ecliptic and combined with the current scale of the sun." Yue Qian Ling looks very relaxed.

"Sister Qianling, what you said is simple. This involves the knowledge of astronomy. The few of us don't know anything about it. We should wait. Anyway, the method has been found. It doesn't matter if we wait a few more days, even if it takes a long time." Gu Anqi After listening to helpless say.

Yue Qianling belongs to the kind of girl who is completely careless, so her mood is almost written on her face. To put it bluntly, she is innocent, but to put it bluntly, she is heartless. Chu Tianci looked at Yue Qianling's high face now, which is beyond words. Satisfied, he asked with a smile.

"Miss, look at your vigor, don't you know how to count?"

"What's Desert? That's what I'm capable of. Didn't you just say how I got my Ph.D.?" Yue Qianling smiled triumphantly. "My childhood ideal was to be an astronomer, not an archaeologist, but because of my dad, I finally chose archeology, but astronomy is my hobby, and I didn't lose any of it when I was in college."

Chu Tianci quickly took out a pen and paper and handed it over with a wry smile.

"Hehe, then you are always tired. I know you are a person with extraordinary talent. Quickly calculate and see where the shadow of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda points at three o'clock in the afternoon on the seventh day of December."

Could it be that Yue Qianling was majestic in front of Chu Tianci once, and she had never felt so comfortable before. She proudly took the pen and paper, calculated carefully for a long time, and pointed to a building in Da Ci'en Temple with certainty.

"That's the place where the shadows end at three o'clock in the afternoon on the seventh day of December."

Chu Tianci quickly took out the travel guide and looked for it on the map according to the place indicated by Yue Qianling.

Xuanzang Sanzangyuan!

Chu Tianci and others got off the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and hurried into Xuanzang Sanzangyuan,

The Sanzang Temple of Xuanzang is on the north side of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. The parietal bone relics and bronze seated statues of Master Xuanzang are enshrined in the hall. The largest Xuanzang Memorial Hall is for tourists to pay their respects.

Xuanzang personally designed and supervised the construction of the Buddha statues, relics and Sanskrit classics retrieved from India. It took about two years to build the famous Buddhist building Big Wild Goose Pagoda.

After Chu Tianci walked around the Xuanzang Sanzangyuan, he frowned and whispered in surprise.

"That's not right, Qianling, did you make a mistake in your calculations? This place is just built at first glance, and there is no way there are any clues."

"Hey, you, Chu Tianci, have always been omnipotent. Why, there are things you don't know." Yue Qianling was still complacent, and did not forget to sarcasm.

"Is there anything else I don't know?" Chu Tianci asked blankly.

"Brother Tianci, the reason why Da Ci'en Temple is really popular is because there are two Buddhist treasures here." Qiu Nuo smiled lightly and helped him out. "One of them is the Bayeux Sutra, which is regarded as a sacred object by Buddhists."

"I know this. Bay leaves are the leaves of the Indian petora tree. After retting with water, they can replace paper. Indians often use them to write Buddhist scriptures, so Buddhist scriptures are also called Bei Ye Jing." Chu Tianci nodded and said.

"The early manuscripts of the Beiye Sutra have almost been lost. Xuanzang brought back 650 volumes of the "Beiye Sutra" from India, which were regarded as treasures by Buddhists and kept in the Daci'en Temple." Qiu Nuo explained calmly. "What I want to tell you is the second sacred object, the bone relic on the head of Master Xuanzang!"

"This...does this have something to do with the clue we're looking for?" Chu Tianci didn't understand Qiu Nuo's sudden intention of saying this.

"Hehe, brother Tianci, if you knew where the bone relic on Master Xuanzang's head is, you wouldn't ask this question." Qiu Nuo said with a smile.

"where?"

"At your feet!"

"Underfoot?!"

Chu Tianci was taken aback, looked down at his feet, was about to speak in surprise, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he pointed to his feet and asked in a low voice.

"There's a secret room down here?!"

Qiu Nuo nodded and said to Chu Tianci calmly.

"Brother Tianci, below where you are standing is the most sacred and also the most secret holy place of Da Ci'en Temple, the underground palace of Da Ci'en Temple!"

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