The turmoil in the city still reached Ye Xing's ears. Looking at the two women and the soldiers and guards who looked proud of him, he couldn't help but dampen their interest, so he agreed to leave after a few days.
After many people started to investigate Ye Xing's whereabouts, they found out that Ye Caizi had been living on a big ship recently, but he couldn't board it.
I also learned that Ye Xing and the others had studied at Guizang Academy. Many people came to inquire about it, so Yi Lao had to close the door and refuse to accept students for the time being.
In fact, Ye Xing's tuition fees for three people were enough to cover his expenses for several years. But he was so annoyed that many people kept coming to harass him that he simply closed the door and went out temporarily.
Originally planning to leave soon, Ye Xing also had new ideas. After studying the "Gui Zang Sutra" for the past ten days, he always felt that it was necessary to study this scripture in depth.
Of course, only in this ancient cultural capital can you have a better chance of learning these ancient knowledge, so it is necessary to stay here for a while.
Ye Xing and the others did not get off the boat, but the guards rarely had to guard the boat and all went to the city to enjoy themselves.
Ye Xing took out the book he just bought and read it. It was mainly about the historical stories of Pingyuan County. After browsing through a few books, he found an interesting thing. Most of the legendary stories of Song Dynasty really happened in Pingyuan City. or nearby.
For thousands of years, there have been countless legends here, including many mythical stories and adventures of famous figures.
For example, thousands of years ago, there was a poor scholar and talented man who, under the guidance of an immortal, became the top student in high school and became a famous general. Someone disappeared after going into the mountains, and when he reappeared, decades had passed, but he himself only thought it was a few days; There are many love stories of fox fairies and talented people, as well as countless supernatural events.
Regarding these heroic anecdotes and supernatural events, some people think they are miracles, some think they are nonsense, and most people think they are just conversational items. Folktales are stories that often happen, but no one really takes them seriously.
Ye Xing is different. He has long had this understanding. The reason for the spread of any event is not because it is sensational, but because it has its reasons, and the reasons are often true.
The plain area, which has been the center of culture for tens of thousands of years, is of course a place with dazzling characters, and these amazing characters are of course always the talk of people, and heroes are worshiped in any era.
People have the habit of beautifying heroes, and they even have the need to deify heroes. Thick ancient times is the most distinctive cultural phenomenon of the Song Dynasty.
Of course, there are real reasons behind countless supernatural incidents. Ye Xing analyzed that it is actually because there are people who are different from the world, those cultivators who pursue the longevity of life.
Cultivators are extremely rare, one in a million. Based on the transcendental realm required by cultivation, they are unwilling to get involved in worldly affairs. Moreover, because of some mandatory rules, they rarely get involved in worldly affairs.
Cultivators also need to find a place with excellent spiritual energy to practice for a long time. Naturally, they need to stay away from the busy streets of mortals.
But these cultivators are not indifferent to the grains of the world. They always come to the side of ordinary people, and occasionally do things that go beyond ordinary people's thinking and knowledge. This is the main source of legends about gods and monsters.
Ye Xing took out the map of the Song Dynasty and marked the places where the stories took place one by one. He found that most of the famous anecdotes of the Song Dynasty happened in Pingyuan County and Xiyuan County. There were also many supernatural incidents and they were well documented, while those in other places were not. The words missing and used are all rumors and rumors.
There are many locations for such supernatural events in Pingyuan City, and there are even more in the many mountains outside Pingyuan City.
Ye Xing noted the nearby places one by one and determined a few worth-seeing places to visit.
Ye Xing initially selected three locations: one is an ancient temple in Pingyuan City, which is said to be tens of thousands of years old and existed when Pingyuan City was founded. It enshrines mythical characters from ancient times;
A Confucian temple on the east mountain ridge outside the city of Pingyuan. It is said that the place where the Holy Master and the ancestor of humanities gave lectures is now called Sage Ridge;
The other is a mountain range in the west of Pingyuan County, which is the state religion of the Song Dynasty and the ancestral home of Tiandao Sect, Mount Taihua;
Ye Xing told the two girls about his plan. Of course, the two girls were extremely supportive. In fact, they didn't want to leave Pingyuan City so soon. For them, Pingyuan City was their girls' dream place.
Early the next morning, Ye Xing informed the guards of his whereabouts and went to the ancient temple in the city, and asked them not to follow him.
The three of them simply changed their costumes. The three of them knew Ye Xing's appearance. Now many people in the city recognized him, so it was less troublesome to make up.
Ye Xing disguised himself as a servant of the two women and walked behind the two eldest ladies.
The two young ladies were not dressed up so outstandingly, and even wore headscarves. They just looked like the daughters of the nouveau riche, with a bit more red and green colors, and too much makeup on their faces.
The ancient temple is in the center of Pingyuan City. The three of them have been in Pingyuan City for more than ten days, but this is the first time they have come here.
I thought that the ancient temple should be well protected as an ancient building. When I went there to take a look, I realized that this was not the case at all. It was actually very new. After asking around, I found out that it had been rebuilt many times. In fact, it had been rebuilt several times. It has to be rebuilt every hundred years, and the latest reconstruction was just a few decades ago.
Nothing can withstand the ravages of time. This so-called ancient temple is just a renovated fake antique.
Ye Xing bought some sacrifices and followed the two eldest ladies into this famous ancestral temple in the Song Dynasty.
Enshrined inside are statues of legendary figures from the Song Dynasty who created the world, as well as gods who are said to have created humans, gods in charge of the changes in the four seasons, and the ancestors of agriculture, industry and commerce.
The two women were just walking past the sculptures, but Ye Xing carefully observed each sculpture and found that each sculpture had a delicate and expressive appearance. It was indeed a work of exquisite craftsmanship, but these sculptures had been beautified by craftsmen. , almost the same as today’s people.
This world only has the custom of offering offerings but not burning incense, so it is peaceful.
When he came to the back hall, there were many old things placed inside. Ye Xing noticed that many of the old things had words engraved on them. After asking the guardian of the ancestral temple, he found out that these were words from the previous dynasty thousands of years ago.
Ye Xing found that the structure of these characters was very different from the characters of the Song Dynasty today, and was much similar to the desert island characters, although they were still different characters.
Ye Xing gave him a small ingot of silver and found out that some old scholars in the city might still know some ancient characters from the previous dynasty. However, the Song Dynasty had been established for three thousand years and had tried its best to erase the events of the previous dynasty, so no one can really know it now. Got it.
Only some people who are fond of archaeological research can still find relevant knowledge from old books. It is not very systematic and completely fragmented, and not many people know it anymore.
Ye Xing discussed it with the two girls, and then came to a well-known and ancient academy in the city to meet an old man. He was also one of the people in charge of rebuilding the ancestral temple. Mr. Mu is now the only remaining old scholar.
This old Mr. Mu has an elegant appearance, but he is in poor health and his hands and feet are a bit shaky, but he can still speak clearly.
Seeing that Ye Xing and the others were sincerely asking for advice, they did not want their knowledge to decline, so they brought out their decades of research results, a comparison of the ancient characters of the past dynasties and the current characters, for Ye Xing to review. There were thousands of words in them. .
But many words do not correspond one to one, so Mr. Mu also explained what he knew.
Ye Xing quickly transcribed it with pen and paper in person for a whole afternoon. Although he didn't know the pronunciation, with this comparison, he could indeed understand some ancient books from the previous dynasty.
Mr. Mu told Ye Xing that there are very few ancient books from the previous dynasty among the people now, but there should be many in the royal inner treasury collection in the capital, because they were all taken away by force after thousands of years of searching.
There are several elderly people in the city who have the same hobby and have their own experiences. You can also visit them.
Ye Xing gave the old man a bottle of strengthening elixir as a reward, and returned to the ship with dozens of pieces of paper and a handwritten dictionary.
Ye Xing returned to the ship and copied the dictionary again, making it look like a real dictionary, and annotated the explanations of many old gentlemen in small characters.
The three of them spent ten days on this job, during which time they went to many old gentlemen to learn ancient writing, and they all relied on Mr. Mu's recommendation letters.
When the three of them looked at this newly compiled dictionary, they felt a sense of accomplishment. With the dictionary, they can study ancient books in the future.
There is now a dictionary of nearly 6,000 words in the new and old texts. Ye Xing feels that he will be able to slowly decipher the Guizang scriptures in the future, even though the texts of the scriptures are older.
But there is no rush to do this, and there is no rush to know the functions of the Guizang Sutra besides regulating the breath, because there is no definite proof, and I don't dare to practice it randomly.
Ye Xing is different from others in that he has a strong ability of deduction. As long as he gets started, he can slowly understand the whole picture in the scriptures.
