Chapter 284: Heavenly Will Map
The Blue and White Society has supported Yingfei's idea, but only from the perspective of finding the best, or not finding it.
A contained object that has not been seen in the world for thousands of years has never caused harm to society. If it continues to be buried, there will be almost no harm.
If there are any negative effects, digging it out is asking for trouble.
Therefore, the attitude from above is to let nature take its course.
However, Yingfei himself refused to give up and persisted in searching for the art of wood armor for several more years.
In terms of time, Infinite is a senior peripheral, but in terms of his duties and responsibilities, he is still an ordinary peripheral.
Just because all his time was spent studying this ancient mystery.
After Yingfei's long speech, he really convinced Mo Qiong that Mo Qiong really believed in the existence of such a containment object.
However, his last move to ask for money suddenly made Mo Qiong realize: This is a bottomless pit.
Finding the tomb was very troublesome at the beginning. He asked around in the fighting business and bought some clues, which cost money.
Moreover, the cultural relics excavated will be purchased by the Blue and White Society and then returned to the country. The reason why he asked the Blue and White Society to purchase it once was to protect his identity as a tomb robber.
Therefore, there is not much reward for this kind of digging. The only reward is that once the contained object is discovered, Mo Qiong can know it immediately, and then he can take over the task.
But I don’t know how long it will take today. Maybe I can’t find any clues even if I search 10,000 ancient tombs. Maybe the next one… will be there.
"How much do you want?" Mo Qiong asked.
Yingfei smiled and said, "Just give it as you see fit. I can't guarantee anything. I'll accept whatever you give me."
Mo Qiong doesn't have much money. Last time, in order to buy food for Gun Gun, he sold a pill in advance, and now he still has more than three million left.
But usually he doesn't need much money. He has already given it to his family. This time he went home mainly for a visit, so he didn't need to leave money or anything.
"Do you know what you are looking for?" Mo Qiong asked.
"Wooden man! Just like what my ancestors have seen before, there must be the kind of soul-soothing wooden armor left in ancient tombs." Yingfei said firmly, while taking out a cardboard card from the book in his hand.
I saw an image of a wooden figure made with pencil printed on the cardboard.
The painting style is very realistic. It is a lifelike wooden figure with a mouth but no eyes. It is armored and has sharp blades on its feet and on the sides of its elbows and knees.
But it is a plain painting after all. Although the painting style is realistic, it is also very simple, like a rough draft. Many details are not shown, and even the colors are not known.
Mo Qiong tried to figure it out, but found that it didn't work. The piece of paper he gently threw out of his hand disappeared out of thin air.
"This was painted by my great-grandfather. He saw this thing guarding an ancient tomb in the Han Dynasty with his own eyes. Unfortunately, the fighting was so brutal at that time that my great-grandfather could only draw it like this based on his memory. "Yingfei said.
"What is this pattern?" Mo Qiong pointed to the pattern on the wooden man's face.
The armored wooden figure has a mouth but no eyes, and a complex and beautiful pattern is outlined above the mouth.
The pattern is round on the outside and square on the inside, with star-like dots guarding the edges. Inside, there are two blue dragon patterns intertwined and winding up, forming an '8' shaped loop approximately at the nose of the wooden face.
At about the position of the eyes, two blue dragon patterns stagger and extend to the left and right, one side bifurcating into a '>' shape, and the other side bifurcating into a right-angled '' shape.
Coupled with the artistic filling of the blue dragon pattern, it looks like an emoticon with the right eye smiling and the left eye crying.
Finally, there is a round thing on the upper forehead, with nine tadpole lines around it, like a radiating sun, but inside there are pupil lines similar to eyes. So it can also be said that one eye shines at the top like the sun.
Yingfei said: "I have studied this pattern for a long time and found that it is very similar to the paintings of Fuxi and Nuwa unearthed in several tombs, but it is more abstract. Although the stars in the outer circle are drawn irregularly, that is because I am too Grandpa couldn't remember clearly, but it was supposed to be regular. As expected, it should be a proportional diagram of the Sanyuan constellations, which symbolizes the universe. The two black dragon patterns below have no legs and are interlaced and winding. Seen as two snake tails entangled, it represents the union of yin and yang.”
"Finally, these two branches, the right eye...that is, the '>' on the left we see is a rule, and the '' on the right is a rule. There is no doubt that rules symbolize the universal order."
Mo Qiong murmured: "The stars in the universe, the transformation of yin and yang, the rules and order..."
"That's right, this together is the will of heaven and earth, and this picture is the Mohist diagram of heaven's will!" Yingfei said.
"You haven't explained this sun yet." Mo Qiong asked.
"Well... the sun is like an eye that peeks into everything and shines on everything. It should be the idealistic variable in the Mohist materialist worldview. The will that shines in all directions and monitors all living beings is an existence that is idealistic and only the human heart. Mozi called it... heaven Ghost." Yingfei said.
After Mo Qiong heard this, he was filled with emotions and at the same time, he thought deeply about it.
If you think about it carefully, Mozi wanted to express the will of monitoring all living beings, why not just say the will of heaven and earth, even if it is better to call it God or Emperor of Heaven.
But...it's called Heavenly Ghost.
To others, it sounds so inconsistent... How do you use the word ghost to describe a supreme will?
Heaven represents all things in the universe, while ghosts are the transformations of human beings after death. They are the evil spirits of human hearts. How can the two be juxtaposed? Humans are so insignificant, let alone ghosts, don’t you think they are out of character?
Look at what the Taoists say, that's called Heavenly Dao. Look at what the Yin-Yang School says, that's called Taiyi. Why is it called Heavenly Ghost in the Mohist School?
In fact, this is exactly his deep meaning, and the amount of information is astonishing. How could Mozi not know Heavenly Dao? He was referring to something else.
It means that in the will of heaven and earth, which should be heartless and heartless, there is actually human heart! It can be said to be mysterious and evil! The door to all wonders, no... the evil door to all wonders!
Heavenly Dao is natural, but Heavenly Ghost is unnatural. Using ghost to describe it is really Mozi who lived more than 2,000 years ago. There is no better word to refer to it. It can only be said that the mysterious existence is like a ghost transformed after a person dies, wandering in the natural and perfect rules of heaven and earth. When the universe encounters the containment, it is like a person seeing a ghost.
There is no more appropriate name than this. Something with human heart but above the rules can only be called Heavenly Ghost.
Mo Qiong really doesn't know how much and how far Mozi thought back then.
However, he could feel the mood of an ancient scientist when studying the containment from the words of the sages: It's so fucking fucked up!
Tiandao, you must have seen a ghost!
Mo Qiong shook his head and thought. Although this was all Yingfei's guess, Mo Qiong felt that this might be the truth.
Mozi was probably the person who understood the containment the most two thousand years ago.
Tiangui, should refer to the source of all containments, the thing that seemed to make the laws of nature see ghosts.
"Three million, I only have three million to sponsor you." Mo Qiong said.
"What? How much?" Yingfei was shocked.
"I'm short of money recently, and three million is all my savings." Mo Qiong said.
"You actually have so much money!" Yingfei said excitedly.
"Huh? A lot?" Mo Qiong was stunned. He didn't expect Yingfei to think it was too much.
Ying Fei nodded and said, "Enough! This time I'm doing it myself, it won't cost much."
He thought Mo Qiong wouldn't give him anything. Even if he did, he would give him a few thousand yuan for the sake of their colleagues.
Who knew Mo Qiong would ask for three million yuan, which was enough for him to find more than ten or twenty tombs.
"Aren't you a farmer? You're so rich..." Ying Fei asked.
"It's earned from farming." Mo Qiong laughed.
Ying Fei was shocked. Farmers are so rich. They must run a big farm.
Although he is a tomb robber, he is actually poorer than anyone else, because the cultural relics he excavated are all handed over. It can be said that he lives purely on the salary from the Blue and White Society.
As soon as he has money, he travels all over the country to find the lost art of wooden armor.
The happiest time is when the Blue and White Society reimburses all his expenses and contacts the national archaeological team to support him. He has excavated some tombs of Han Dynasty kings and princes.
But the archaeological team will not keep digging like this. They have to slowly excavate and clean up the site slowly. The follow-up work will continue for several years.
So when there were more and more tombs, he was not allowed to continue looking for tombs. He couldn't manage them and would cause damage to cultural relics.
Even now, although he can still act privately, he can't dig the tombs of kings and princes, but only some nameless small tombs.
Now he is a pauper, and he is naturally very happy about Mo Qiong's sponsorship.
Of course, Mo Qiong didn't give it for nothing. After remembering the "Heavenly Will Map", he removed the untrue parts and only imagined the pattern of the blue dragon pattern on a wooden background. He immediately found that the thrown paper was slowly floating.
So far, it is confirmed... There is really such a pattern on the wood.
And the direction is... Mount Tai.
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P.S: Sorry, I am a heavenly ghost.
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