Anecdote of the Yellow River

Chapter 37 Secret Organization (1)
A few days later, we returned to Xi'an.The most important thing now is to decipher the Xixia script on the stele, but there are no more than ten people in the world who can understand the Xixia script. It is not easy to find a god who is proficient in Xixia script.Professor Ye used all his connections in the archaeological world to find such a divine man, but five or six days passed and there was still no news.

This afternoon, I was playing chess with my grandfather in the apartment, Gu Meidi was reading beauty magazines beside me, and Professor Ye was staring at the Xixia book on his laptop in a daze.Suddenly, Professor Ye's phone rang. He picked up the phone and muttered a few words, then hung up the phone and said to us excitedly: "Great! Lao Zhang just called to tell me that maybe there is someone Can help us decipher the Xixia book!"

"Really?!" This news surprised and delighted us, and things finally made some progress.

Professor Ye nodded, "Lao Zhang told me that this person is called Wan Juncheng, an expert in ancient writing in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, who has studied Xixia writing for decades, and is one of the few experts who can understand Xixia writing." !"

"Where is this Professor Wan Juncheng?" Gu Meidi asked impatiently.

Professor Ye said: "In Yinchuan, it seems that we have to go back."

I stood up excitedly, "Then what are you waiting for, let's go now, I can't wait for a quarter of an hour!"

When dusk fell, we took the train from Xi'an to Yinchuan, and we expected to arrive at Yinchuan Railway Station by dawn.

The rumbling of the train was like our excited heartbeat.

At around eight o'clock in the morning, we got off at Yinchuan Railway Station.According to the clues provided by Lao Zhang, Professor Wan Juncheng lives in the suburbs of Yinchuan.On the way to Professor Wan's house by car, Lao Zhang told us on the phone, "I heard that Wan Juncheng is a bit weird, so don't talk casually, so as not to offend him."

Wan Juncheng lives in a well-known wealthy area in the western suburbs of Yinchuan City, surrounded by villas one after another, standing quietly under the tranquil sky.

We got out of the car and came to the outside of Professor Wan's courtyard, only to find that the gate was closed, so we had to ring the doorbell.

After a while, a middle-aged woman with the appearance of a servant came out, "Who are you looking for?"

Professor Ye said: "Hello, I am Ye Sheng, a professor of archeology, and these two are my assistants. We made a special trip from Xi'an to visit Professor Wan, and we want to ask him for help with important matters. Here, here is my business card." With that said, Professor Ye handed the business card to the servant.

The servant took the business card and looked at it, "Wait a moment, I will go in and inform Professor Wan."

After waiting outside the iron gate for about a quarter of an hour, the servant came out, "Sorry, Professor Wan asked you to come back at night."

As soon as I heard it, I became anxious, "What? It's still early, but he wants us to come back at night?"

The servant said: "This is the meaning of Professor Wan. I can't help it. Please go back!"

"you……"

I wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Professor Ye.Professor Ye said to the servant: "Sorry to bother you. Since Professor Wan said so, let's come back at night."

When I left the villa area, I said angrily, "This Professor Wan is so arrogant!"

Professor Ye said: "There's no way, that's what it's like to ask others for help. Didn't Lao Zhang say it before, this Professor Wan has a weird temper, we try not to offend him, he said to meet in the evening, let's do it at night, at least we haven't directly Deny us."

Gu Meidi yawned and said, "I'm tired from the train ride all night. Seeing that your eyes are red like rabbits, let's find a place to rest first!"

As night fell, we drove to the villa area again.

After ringing the doorbell, the servant came out, and she opened the iron door, "Come in!"

The moonlight is like water, flowing down from the floating clouds, creating a cold and desolate scene.There is a garden in front of the villa, and the night breeze is blowing. The palm trees in the garden are swaying with the wind, like graceful dancing girls, welcoming us.But at the moment, to me, the swaying palm tree looked less like a dancer than a cannibal.

We walked through the garden and came to the main entrance of the villa.This is a small European-style western-style building with a solemn style.The gate of the Xiaoyanglou is a heavy red-painted black wooden door. This kind of black wood is very rare and cold to the touch. The moonlight falling on the door seems to be sucked into the door.

I stepped forward and pushed open the slightly heavy black wooden door, and a gust of wind blew out untimely, causing me to shiver.

Seeing the darkness inside the room, I couldn't help being deeply surprised, turned around and asked the servant, "Where is Professor Wan?"

The servant said: "Professor Wan is at home, you can look for it yourself. You have half an hour, if you can't find Professor Wan within half an hour, please leave on your own!" Then, the servant closed the villa. The gate locked us in a dark room.

Gu Meidi complained in a low voice: "This Professor Wan is really weird as hell, and he even plays peek-a-boo at his house."

I said, "We don't fall into the trap of the bad guys, do we?"

Professor Ye scolded softly: "Don't talk nonsense! Since the host has such a weird request to meet guests, let's do it according to his request!"

Gu Meidi found the light switch at the door, and the light drove away the darkness, illuminating the living room brightly.The living room is very large, covering more than 100 square meters. In the center of the living room is a set of expensive purple wood sofa and a low table. On the floor is a cashmere blanket, which is noble and gorgeous.Opposite the sofa is a large TV, which is like a private movie theater.On the roof of the living room, a crystal chandelier hangs upside down. At this moment, the crystal chandelier is rotating slowly and continuously, refracting blurred light, which is really beautiful.

To the left of the living room is a spiral staircase leading to the second floor.After we wandered around the ground floor and found nothing, we decided to check out the second floor.

We walked up the wooden stairs to the second floor. There are two bedrooms, a study, a bathroom and a utility room on the second floor. There is also a roof garden outside. The garden seems to be planted with evening primrose, and the night breeze blows , There is a faint charming fragrance of flowers floating in the corridor.

Professor Ye said: "Let's go to the study. I think people like Professor Wan usually stay in the study."

Gu Meidi said: "Since he wants us to find him, it must not be so simple!"

"Whatever, let's go in and have a look first." I stretched out my hand and pushed open the wooden door of the study, and walked in first.

The study room was pitch black, and just as I walked into the study room, I suddenly saw a pair of eyes appearing in the darkness, those eyes were long and narrow, shining with a faint green light, staring at me, an uninvited guest, motionless.I felt a chill rise from the soles of my feet, and cold sweat immediately oozes from my back.

Those eyes quickly floated towards me, I clenched my fists tightly, not even daring to take a breath.

"Meow!"

A sharp cat meow suddenly sounded, and a black shadow jumped in front of me.

At the same time, the floor lamp in the study was turned on, and Gu Meidi stood beside the floor lamp, looking at me with a half-smile, "What's the matter, Comrade Tuobagu? It's just a black cat, you were scared out of my wits just now Bar?"

"Huh!" I hissed for a long time, this nasty black cat almost didn't scare me to death.When Gu Meidi said this, I couldn't help but blush and didn't make a sound.

The study room is not big, but it is neatly arranged.On the south wall is a quaint bookcase, in which many books are neatly stacked.In front of the bookcase is a desk.On the wall opposite the desk is a wall cabinet with a unique shape, and there are some antique decorations in the wall cabinet.Other than that, there wasn't even a half-figure at all.

There is no one in the study!
Gu Meidi and I were very puzzled, and hurried out of the study, searched all over the bedroom and the garden, then walked back to the study angrily, and said to Professor Ye: "Professor Ye, is that Wan Wan fooling us? I have searched upstairs and downstairs, but there is no sign of Wan Juncheng at all, I am afraid he is not in this villa at all!"

Gu Meidi said: "Wan Juncheng is really not a good person, he doesn't want to see us, so tell us, is there any need to fool us?"

Professor Ye ignored us, but stood in front of a wall in thought without saying a word.

Gu Meidi and I looked at each other, and walked quickly behind Professor Ye, "What are you looking at?"

Professor Ye pointed to an ancient painting hanging on the wall, "Have you noticed anything is wrong?"

It was an ordinary landscape painting, the content of the painting was very simple, a waterfall flew down from a steep mountain.A poem is inscribed on the left side of the painting: "The moon shines on the censer to produce purple smoke, and you can see the waterfall hanging on the Qianchuan River in the distance. The flying stream goes down three thousand feet, and it is suspected that the Milky Way falls nine days."

We learned this poem when we were in elementary school. It is "Looking at the Waterfall on Lushan Mountain" by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty.I read this poem roughly, and I always felt that something was wrong, but I couldn't tell what was wrong. For a while, I stared at the landscape painting in a daze.

It was Gu Meidi who was the first to react, "No! No! This poem is wrong! Li Bai's original poem should be "Sunshine on the censer to produce purple smoke, and look at the waterfall hanging from the front of the river. Flying down three thousand feet, it is suspected that the Milky Way is falling." Nine days.' The last three sentences of the two poems are the same, the only difference is the first word of the first sentence. Why is the original poem written as 'the sun shines on the censer to raise the purple smoke', but this landscape painting is written as 'the moon What about 'purple smoke according to the censer'? Could it be that the painter made a mistake when he wrote the poem?"

Professor Ye nodded and said, "I've been thinking about this question all the time. What's the mystery behind it? Could it be..."

Professor Ye paused, and suddenly said to me, "Tuobagu, go and turn off the floor lamp!"

I went over to turn off the floor lamp, and murmured in my heart: "The most important thing is to find someone now, nothing is more true than a poem!"

The study was plunged into darkness again, Professor Ye walked up to the window and pushed it open.

The night wind was blowing, and a beam of pale moonlight slanted in from the window.At this time, we can clearly see the incoming moonlight falling on an inconspicuous corner of the closet.By the dim moonlight, we were surprised to find that there was an inconspicuous brass incense burner in that small corner.The incense burner was only the size of a palm, and the paint on it was almost gone, making it look very simple.

We were shocked at the same time, "Censer?!"

Immediately afterwards, something even more unbelievable happened. Wisps of purple smoke came out of the incense burner. The scene at this moment corresponds to the first sentence of an ancient poem: "The moon shines on the incense burner to produce purple smoke."

We now understand that the Tang poetry in this ancient painting is a set of mechanism codes.

The second sentence of the Tang poem is "Looking at the waterfall from afar and hanging on the Qianchuan River". This poem is asking us to look at the waterfall, so we turned our heads suddenly, only to see that the picture on the landscape painting has changed, and the original landscape painting has disappeared. , There are fine grains of sand continuously flowing down from the top of the waterfall, turning the landscape painting into a square sand table in a blink of an eye. Doesn't this correspond to the third sentence "flying down three thousand feet"?

So, what about the fourth sentence?
What is going on with "It is suspected that the Milky Way falls for nine days"?
In our amazed eyes, nine square wooden blocks gradually emerged on the square sand table, and each block was marked with a number, which was nine numbers from one to nine.

I stared blankly at this strange sand table, puzzled and said: "This... what is this thing?"

Professor Ye exclaimed: "This is Jiugongge! Jiugongge originated from Hetu Luoshu. Hetu and Luoshu are two mysterious patterns handed down from ancient China. It has always been considered as the origin of Heluo culture and the source of Chinese civilization. Known as the cosmic Rubik's Cube. Hetu Luoshu is a third-order magic square in mathematics, which was called a vertical and horizontal diagram in ancient China, and this nine-square grid was developed on the basis of the vertical and horizontal diagram."

Professor Ye was talking excitedly, it was a third-order magic square for a while, and a cross-section diagram for a while. I was confused, "Then how do we solve this nine-square grid?"

Professor Ye said: "Replace these nine numbers in this square sand table so that the sum of the three numbers on the three lines is equal to fifteen no matter whether it is vertical, horizontal or oblique."

As soon as I heard this, I got angry, what?Do math!

Professor Ye said: "There is a secret to this. Wear nine shoes, one on the right, three on the right and seven on the left, two and four on the shoulders, six and eight on the feet."

Professor Ye moved the nine wooden blocks quickly while muttering, suddenly, Professor Ye stopped, "It's done!"

I went up to take a closer look, and saw that the nine-square grid was arranged into three groups of numbers from top to bottom: two, nine, four, seven, five, three, six, one, and eight. I calculated it silently in my heart, Sure enough, no matter vertically, horizontally or obliquely, the sum of the three numbers on the three lines is equal to fifteen.

I couldn't help admiring: "Professor Ye, you are amazing!"

Professor Ye smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pressed hard on the nine grids, only to see that the square sand table was sunken, and then there was a dull rumbling sound from the wall.Behind the landscape painting, a stone door rises slowly, revealing a gap that can allow one person to enter and exit.

We looked at each other in blank dismay, no one thought that Wan Juncheng's home would have such an exquisite mechanism. It seems that Professor Wan Juncheng is really a big weirdo!

Professor Ye raised his chin: "Go! Let's go in and have a look!"

Behind the stone gate is a narrow secret passage, the secret passage is dark and dead silent, only the sound of our own heartbeat and footsteps can be heard.I think that if you were an ordinary person, you might really have no way to find Wan Juncheng. It seems that it is really not easy to meet Wan Juncheng.

After walking not far, Professor Ye stopped suddenly, and I bumped into Professor Ye unexpectedly, "What's wrong?"

Professor Ye pointed to the front and said, "There are organs in the secret passage."

organ?My heart trembled, I looked around and said, "Where is the mechanism? Why didn't I see it!"

Before I could finish speaking, Professor Ye pulled me back two steps, pointed at the ground two meters away and said, "Look!"

I focused my eyes and looked in the direction of Professor Ye's finger, only to see a red ray appearing at a height of about half a meter from the ground, horizontally in the middle of the road.After a while, that ray disappeared, and another ray appeared about one meter above the ground.After a while, the second ray disappeared, and another ray appeared at a height of about [-] meters from the ground.After a while, the third ray disappears and the first ray reappears.The three rays appear alternately and repeatedly in this way.I looked carefully, and in this short dark passage, there were actually three groups of such rays, that is, nine such rays, and all nine rays appeared alternately in this way.

I was dumbfounded and asked Professor Ye in great surprise, "Professor Ye, what kind of institution is this?"

Professor Ye said: "Look at the walls on both sides in front!"

I looked up and saw three rows of grooves on the walls on both sides of the front. The positions of the three rows of grooves were the same as the positions of the rays, and they were half a meter, one meter, and [-] meters high.

Professor Ye said: "In those grooves, there are hidden mechanisms like crossbow arrows or steel thorns, and these three rays are the device to manipulate this mechanism. Once someone touches any of these three rays, the mechanism will activate. If When you touch the ray at the bottom, a crossbow arrow or a steel thorn will be ejected from the groove at the bottom. This kind of mechanism is more common in ancient tombs, but they are all pulled by silver wires or ropes, like this It's the first time I've seen a high-tech mechanism for traction."

Gu Meidi nodded and said: "This kind of ray is probably the induction ray in the security system. As long as the ray senses something, it will send an alarm!"

I said: "These three rays keep rolling, isn't it impossible for us to pass?"

Professor Ye said: "Otherwise, haven't you noticed that although the three groups of rays appear alternately, there will be a short pause in the middle of each alternation? We only need to carefully observe how long they pause each time, and we can catch them." This time difference rushed over."

(End of this chapter)