Shi Zimiao saw this phenomenon where the two people were gradually going to extremes, but did not take action to stop it. As for the reason, Shi Zimiao probably had some guesses in his mind.
There are a total of forty-nine characters in the text left by Zhang Daoling. During the day, you will find that each character seems to be an independent individual. As mentioned before, it is like mountains. Any one of them is enough to make people laugh. Traveling for countless days, this is why, at that time, Sun Quan only saw an incoherent fragment, which made him obsessed with it for several hours and could not extricate himself. Because what he stared at was always a certain word, not a coherent sentence as a whole.
In contrast, the words at night are a little more hazy, and the unclearness between the handwriting makes them more like a whole. At this time, people's hearts will be calmer, and it is less easy to completely fall into the Taoist meaning.
To use an analogy, this is like a student listening to a lecture. In the morning, the teacher's lecture was very lively and interesting. You didn't need to do anything at all, you just followed the teacher's rhythm naturally. But in the evening, you are asked to study on your own and given boring exercises to do by yourself. In this way, you must have enough perseverance, enough self-consciousness, a certain amount of interest and independent thinking. Think about it, then you can really learn something from it.
Shangguan Di is young and curious. She prefers the teacher's lectures during the day. That's too normal. But in contrast, the teacher's lectures during the day were too vivid and did not give you any chance to think alone. Therefore, Zhang Jiao, a senior at that time, wanted to find a path of growth that suited him. Naturally, he could only avoid the day and choose self-study time in the evening to think about it. In the end, Zhang Jiao figured out a set of learning ideas, specifically for this night's exercises.
Now, this set of learning ideas has been passed on to Sun Quan. Sun Quan has learned the essence of it and found that the exercises at night can be done with ease. This has brought Sun Quan a very satisfying sense of accomplishment. In contrast, the lectures during the day were attractive, but they were not targeted and did not improve the results much. For a person who pays more attention to results, Sun Quan naturally chose to continue to answer questions.
Therefore, whether it is Sun Quan or Shangguan Di's situation, in Shi Zimiao's eyes, it is a very normal development. For now, these two paths can bring the greatest improvement to both of them, so there is no need for Shi Zimiao to interrupt them. But over time, Shi Zimiao believed that both of them would hit a wall.
The little girl Guanti will find that her interest alone cannot help her grow quickly. She must use problem solving to consolidate the knowledge she has learned. And Sun Quan will also find that according to Zhang Jue's learning ideas and constantly doing questions, he can only reach Zhang Jue's level at most. If he wants to break through, he must surpass Zhang Jue, and the best way to surpass Zhang Jue is Continue your studies, go back to school, and listen to the classes taught by the teacher during the day. Of course, this time, you don’t need to listen to the knowledge from elementary and middle schools. You only need to listen to the courses of university graduate students.
Of course, all of the above are predicated on normal development.
But on this day, Shi Zimiao suddenly blocked the two of them from practicing.
"New Year's Eve is coming soon. There is a letter here. I want you to take it back to Emperor Ta Peak." Shi Zimiao told Shangguan Di.
The little girl was stunned for a moment. Like Sun Quan, she was obsessed with practicing every day and completely forgot about time. She solemnly accepted the letter. Although it was hard to disobey the orders of her elders, the little girl still seemed very reluctant to give up. After all, this was not a trip to the nearby area to replenish some food and return to the Emperor's Peak. It would take a long time to go back and forth.
"Master, how about I spend the New Year's Eve with you before leaving?" the little girl asked with a look on her face.
"No, I just need your Uncle Sun to accompany me." Shi Zimiao decisively refused, "In addition, you have learned a lot during this period, and it is time to find a place to meditate and consolidate. After returning to the mountain, you are not allowed to come out again for at least a year!" Shi Zimiao ordered.
"Ah?" The little girl was dumbfounded. She never expected such a result.
"What? You don't even listen to what I say?" Shi Zimiao said with a straight face.
The little girl trembled with fright and quickly knelt down and saluted.
"Disciple, obey!"
After saying that, no longer reluctant to leave, the little girl had to say goodbye to the two people here. When she turned to Sun Quan, the little girl found that Sun Quan's face was a little bad at this time, and she was a little confused for a moment: the master didn't drive Master Sun away, so Master Sun shouldn't be angry because his practice was interrupted, right?
Her intuition told her that Sun Quan and Shi Zimiao seemed to be hiding something from her, but the little girl did not dare to ask Shi Zimiao in person, and she could not find a chance to ask Sun Quan alone.
Helpless, the little girl could only put her doubts in her heart for the time being, pack up and leave directly.
After Shangguan Di left, only Sun Quan and Shi Zimiao were left in the entire central area. Although there seems to be no difference between two people and three people, without such a cheerful and lively character, the atmosphere between the remaining two people suddenly seemed to be a little cold.
"How long is it until Mao Yue?" Sun Quan suddenly asked. If it is really thirty years, then according to the clues left by Zuo Ci, it is most likely that the War Temple will be opened on Mao Yue and Mao Sun.
Although the twelve earthly branches of the ancients were arranged in the order of Zi, Chou, Yin and Mao, it makes people feel that Mao is the fourth month of the year. In fact, Sun Quan made this common sense mistake when he first came to this era. mistake. In ancient times, the month of Zi was counted from November of the previous year. In this way, Mao month is February of the new year. Shi Zimiao said that New Year's Eve was approaching, which proved that there was not much time left for Sun Quan!
"Less than fifty days." Shi Zimiao replied, "And there are only two Mao and Mao days in this year. Counting from today, they are on the fifty-fifth and sixty-seventh days respectively."
After listening to Shi Zimiao's words, Sun Quan fell silent. Then, without saying anything, he turned to face the central stone statue and began to practice.
Shi Zimiao sighed secretly and murmured to himself,
"Although you have made rapid progress in the past six months, if you want to cultivate your Taoist heart, it will not be achieved overnight. Haste makes waste."
Shi Zimiao knew that it was useless for her to say anything now and she could only let Sun Quan fight for the last time.
In this way, Sun Quan continued to practice, and Shi Zimiao seemed to be busy. Because Sun Quan always stayed in the central square, he didn't know what Shi Zimiao was busy with, but he probably was preparing for the opening of the War Temple.
The two of them had almost no communication for a long time. Even when it was time for dinner, Shi Zimiao did not deliberately wake up Sun Quan. However, when Sun Quan woke up every day, he found that food had already been prepared next to him. Until one day, the food around him was extra abundant than usual, and Sun Quan knew that the New Year had finally arrived.
In 193 AD, the Guiyou year of the lunar calendar, the fourth year of Chuping in the Eastern Han Dynasty,
In the north, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan fought for Qingzhou, and the two sides were unable to attack each other. In the end, the Han court sent envoy Zhao Qi to Guandong to negotiate peace between Yuan and Gongsun, so the two armies temporarily stopped fighting. Unexpectedly, Yuan Shao's base camp, Wei County, suddenly rebelled, and together with Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army, they captured Yecheng, and the prefect of Wei County was beheaded. If Tao Sheng, a traitor in the Black Mountain Army, hadn't protected Yuan Shao and the families of officials in the state, Yuan Shao's camp would have almost reached the point of collapse.
Since then, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army has come out of the darkness and joined the struggle among the princes as a force. He was hostile to Yuan Shao, so he naturally chose to form an alliance with another group opposite him.
Zhang Yan was very creative. Not only in the north, he joined forces with Gongsun Zan to capture Yuan Shao's base camp; in the south, the Black Mountain Army also joined forces with Yuan Shu, who had just suffered a loss, to jointly attack Cao Cao. They want to attack Yuan Shao's camp from south to north. Unexpectedly, Liu Biao advanced to Nanyang and cut off Yuan Shu's food route. Yuan Shu, a pig comrade, ignored the covenant and hurriedly returned his troops, but was severely defeated by Cao Cao, who took advantage of the momentum to attack. Yuan Shu himself was defeated, but he also cheated his teammates. The Southern Xiongnu Chanyu Yufuluo who sent troops with him finally had to choose to submit to Cao Cao.
In this battle, Yuan Shu lost his base in Nanyang County and had no choice but to retreat to the Huaihe River Basin. The Sun family, which had been completely integrated with Yuan Shu, could not just sit back and watch Yuan Shu decline. Sun Quan and Sun Ce's cousin Sun Ben personally led the troops, expelled Yangzhou governor Chen Yu, and helped Yuan Shu completely control Huainan. From then on, Yuan Shu claimed to be the governor of Yangzhou and also the pastor of Xuzhou.
For a time, the situation in the world, which had been stabilized, became turbulent again with the addition of Zhang Yan from Black Mountain. The two Yuan brothers, who were originally the most powerful, suffered setbacks respectively, but Cao Cao and other princes quietly grew stronger.
Before you know it, February has arrived. But this extremely ordinary month was of extraordinary significance in the eyes of Sun Quan and Shi Zimiao.
Mao day, Zi hour,
For the first time, Shi Zimiao and Sun Quan neither slept nor practiced.
Shi Zimiao closed his eyes and silently felt all the changes in the world. Sun Quan also rolled his eyes and glanced here and there, trying to find some clues.
Nothing found!
Of course, on a day like today, how could Sun Quan not try out his skills from yesterday before midnight? However, no discovery just means that there is no discovery at this hour, but it does not mean that there will be no discovery throughout the whole day. When the Temple of War is truly opened, who knows what time it will be?
In this way, Sun Quan resisted and refused to use his skills easily. The two of them waited until sunrise, but still found nothing.
"Go and see where Zuo Ci left a message." Shi Zimiao suddenly stood up.
Sun Quan tilted his head.
"Do I need to go together? Or should I continue to stay here and observe? If anything is discovered, let's call it a whistle?"
Shi Zimiao thought for a while,
"You come with me."
Sun Quan shrugged, knowing that Shi Zimiao still had concerns about him.
"Okay. But I personally still believe that the opening of the War Temple will inevitably cause violent vibrations. We should be able to easily detect it anywhere nearby." Sun Quan said, "The lack of any movement means that it may not be today at all."
"It's too early to draw conclusions now." Shi Zimiao replied lightly, "If my guess is correct, the entrance to the War Temple may need to be opened manually."
Sun Quan was stunned. He had never heard Shi Zimiao mention this before.
"What is the basis for your guess?"
