Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 196 Nodding
"So, as long as you find three Jimen, you can break the formation and leave."

Thinking of this, Ye Chen stood up suddenly, his eyes like a deep pool became very bright, as bright as stars, and looked around.

Seeing this, Yu Daoxiang and Zhan Xiongwu couldn't help but cheer up.

"Every day is divided into twelve hours: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, and Hai. The Shijia Qimen has a pattern for each hour." Ye Chen said suddenly.

Yu Daoxiang and Zhan Xiongwu didn't know why, so they just nodded.

"Count the trees closest to us, are there always twelve?" Ye Chen further said.

The three of them counted, and there were indeed twelve trees. After changing several positions, it turned out that there were always twelve trees.

Ye Chen's guess was confirmed, and he couldn't help but increase his confidence. He said: "According to the Qimen calendar, every winter solstice to Shangyuan to the next winter solstice to Shangyuan is a cycle, a total of 360 days."

"It should be exactly 360 steps along these twelve trees. Brother Zhan, please try it." Ye Chen said.

Zhan Xiongwu nodded, walked to the nearest tree, then walked from that tree to the next tree closest to Ye Chen, walked in a circle like this, and returned to the first tree.

"350 eight steps, it's because brother Zhan is taller than ordinary people, and his steps are bigger than the people who set up the formation." Ye Chen's eyes lit up and said.

Saying this, he walked around himself, and the result was 350 nine and a half steps. Ye Chen recalculated and adjusted, and walked around again, exactly 360 steps, and then he firmly memorized the size of his steps.He knew that in the future, when measuring anything in this strange formation, he could only use the size of his step just now as the standard calculation unit.Otherwise, errors are bound to occur.

"Twelve hours a day, one pattern per hour, the number of rounds in a year is twelve multiplied by 360, which is 320 [-] rounds. This is a fixed number."

"But in these 320 rounds, each round is actually repeated four times. Take the Yang Dun round as an example, the winter solstice Shangyuan, the Jingzhe Shangyuan, the Qingming Zhongyuan, and the Lixia Zhongyuan are all exactly the same. They all belong to the Yang Dun game. These four elements have a total of 20 days, but when it comes to the arrangement of the Shijia Qimen, the pattern type is calculated as one pattern per hour, not 240 that is twelve times twenty. Because each The game was repeated four times, so it should be twelve multiplied by twenty, and then divided by four, that is, sixty patterns. This happens to occupy the sixty combinations of the ten heavenly stems and twelve earthly branches from Jiazi to Guihai. This is a variable." Ye Chen stared at the surrounding woods while doing calculations in his mouth.

"Yu'er, Brother Zhan, follow me." Ye Chen said.

After the two agreed, Ye Chen randomly chose one of the twelve trees closest to him, and walked straight forward.

After sixty steps, there was no change. Ye Chen returned to the original place, marked the tree just now with his sword, then chose another tree next to him, and walked straight forward for another sixty steps.

In this way, when Ye Chen took the two of them back and forth to eliminate seven trees, and after walking straight for sixty steps along the eighth tree, the forest that remained unchanged before him finally changed, and a tree appeared. Fork in the road.

This was the first fork in the road that Ye Chen found by himself after the man in black left.

This fork is divided into only two forks.

"This is the two ways of yin and yang." Ye Chen muttered to himself, hesitated for a moment, and led the two of them to the left.

After half a stick of incense, another fork in the road appeared, and it was still divided into two. Ye Chen's expression became ugly when he saw this.

After contemplating, Ye Chen took Yu Daoxiang and Zhan Xiongwu back to the first fork.

"According to Qimen Dunjia's 360 days in a year, there are 320 hours, because in terms of the pattern, it has been repeated four times, and the pattern of the year's hours is 320 divided by four, which is [-] rounds."

"According to the calculation of 24 solar terms, each solar term is fifteen days, and one section is divided into upper, middle, and lower three yuan, and each yuan is five days. One section is three yuan, and the number of 24 solar terms in a whole year is three times. Take 34 as 72 innings."

"There are [-] rounds throughout the year, but not every round needs to be demonstrated with a disk. If a live disk is used for demonstration, each live disk can demonstrate the pattern of sixty hours from Jiazi to Guihai. Divide thousand and eighty by sixty, and you get eighteen rounds, and you can use eighteen live disks to demonstrate the pattern of all hours of the year. There are a total of eighteen rounds, nine rounds of Yang Dun and nine rounds of Yin Dun."

"The left is yin and the right is yang. Is it yin first or yang first? We can only try it out." After Ye Chen muttered to himself, he said loudly: "There should be eighteen forks like this. Go right nine times, and then go left nine times, maybe you can break the formation."

As he spoke, he had already walked to the right.

Sure enough, not long after, there was another fork in the road, and Ye Chen continued to walk to the right without stopping.

In this way, as Ye Chen said, the left and right double roads followed one after another. According to Ye Chen's idea, the three first took the right road nine times, and then took the left road nine times.The scene in front of him really changed.

It's just that this change did not break out as Ye Fa expected.Instead, it fell into a situation of nowhere to go.

"From the winter solstice to the end of the ear seed is Yang escape; from the summer solstice to the heavy snow belt is Yin escape."

"Winter solstice, Jingzhe [-], Minor Cold [-], Great Cold, Vernal Equinox [-], Rain [-],

Tomb-sweeping Day, Lixia April [-], Lichun [-], Grain Rain, Xiaoman [-], Grain Grain [-].This is Yang Dun. "

"Summer solstice, white dew nine three six, small heat eight two five, great heat, autumnal equinox seven one four, beginning autumn two five eight, cold dew, beginning winter six nine three, summer one four seven, frost fall, light snow five eight two, heavy snow four seven one. Here For Yin escape."

While calculating, Ye Chen began to determine the direction according to the result of the calculation, counted the big trees, and looked for a way out.

As soon as the sky turned pale, and as soon as the gate of the imperial city opened, Zhang Zhan, the envoy of Wu De, immediately came to Chongzheng Hall to meet Zhao Kuangyin.

Although today is not morning time, Zhao Kuangyin has always been diligent and insisted on getting up early every day, taking a walk in the imperial garden, eating breakfast, and then coming to the Chongzheng Hall to review memorials and deal with state affairs.

But today, Zhang Zhan anxiously waited until the quarter past nine ([-]:[-]) before he saw Zhao Kuangyin yawning and coming to the Chongzheng Hall surrounded by the guards and servants with a tired face.

Zhao Kuangyin's face was full of satisfaction, but deep in his eyes was a trace of regret.Last night Mrs. Huarui said that she had a new trick to serve him, but it turned out to be absurd for most of the night. This is not the first time this happened. So much so that it affects the handling of state affairs, not to mention, it also obviously hurts the body.But every night, when Zhao Kuangyin saw Mrs. Huarui, under the latter's various means, he couldn't help himself.He has been deeply obsessed with having sex with Mrs. Huarui, he has become deeply addicted.It can be said that he cannot do without Mrs. Huarui now.

This kind of thing should not happen to a talented and determined founding emperor.But such a thing happened.The so-called "abnormality is a demon", Mrs. Huarui is indeed a "monster" to a certain extent.

"Let's talk! What's the matter?" Zhao Kuangyin said lightly after receiving Zhang Zhan's respectful visit.Looks very lethargic.

"Your Majesty! A major event happened in Kaifeng City last night." Zhang Zhan said.

Zhao Kuangyin's eyes flashed, and he said, "What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, Xiangfu Hou Yechen and Ren Zhiliang took the nine famous arresters of Kaifeng Mansion to investigate the case of Luo Yaoshun's disappearance at the Red Bat Building where Luo Yaoshun disappeared. As a result, the nine famous arresters killed seven of them, and the remaining two became lunatics and one was seriously injured. Crippled, and Ren Zhiliang was also poisoned by madness and was being treated in the Jin Palace. Later, the Red Bat Building suddenly flooded and caught fire. The most important thing is that after Xiangfu Hou Yechen entered the Red Bat Building, he never came out again." Zhang Zhan said in one breath.

"What? Ye Chen hasn't come out again, what does that mean?" Zhao Kuangyin shouted with a sullen face.

Zhang Zhan fell to his knees in fright and said, "Your Majesty! No corpse of Marquis Xiangfu was found in the Red Bat Tower. He should have been taken away by thieves just like General Luo. Afterwards, the city gate guard went out A strict search was carried out on the people and vehicles, but neither Xiangfu Hou nor General Luo was found."

"What a thief, what a brave man, he bullied me Da Song so many times, and yet he dared to come to the capital to act wildly." Zhao Kuangyin's face was livid, and he shouted coldly.

"Come on, tell the king of Jin and Cao Bin to come to Chongzheng Palace to see me." Zhao Kuangyin shouted.

The two little Huangmen on the left and right agreed, and ran out quickly.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at Zhang Zhan who was kneeling on the ground, picked up a jade ax at hand and threw it out, smashing it on Zhang Zhan's head, cursing: "You Wu Desi are all useless, the thief is already under my nose Saye, you don’t even know about it, and you can’t find anyone. What’s the use of supporting you?”

Zhang Zhanguan's hat fell to the ground, and his forehead was bruised, but he didn't dare to make any sound, his head touched the bottom, and said: "Your servant should die, you are incompetent."

After a while, Zhao Kuangyin took a deep breath and said, "Okay, hurry up and go to work, if it's still so useless, I think you, the envoy of Wude, will come to an end."

Zhang Zhan respectfully said yes, not daring to take a breath, picked up his official hat, bowed his head and backed out with a pale face.

Two days later.

Ye Mansion, the lobby in the front yard.

Bai Canghai, Ma Gangzi, Li Junhao, Yu Qingyan, ghost doctor, and Li Siyan gathered together.Everyone's face is ugly, or livid, or worried, or gloomy, or looking murderous.

"Sure enough, there is a secret passage leading to other places under the Red Bat Building, but now the secret passage has been sealed, and the people of Kaifeng Mansion have dug forward more than ten steps deep, but they have not yet dug through. What is certain now is that, Lord Hou should go to a certain place in the west through the secret road." Li Junhao said.

Ma Gangzi then said in a deep voice: "Master Ren of the Kaifeng Mansion has just sent someone to send news that the arrests of the Kaifeng Mansion and the Imperial Army sent by the Privy Council have searched the ordinary people on the west side of the Red Bat Tower, including 21 imperial court officials and The residence of Xungui was also searched, but neither Lord Hou nor Luo Yanei was found."

(End of this chapter)