Arriving at Lijia Village at the foot of the mountain, Ye Xing asked a villager who was working in the fields by the roadside to find the home of an old man named Li Yishi.
The villager pointed and saw that it was an extremely ordinary small enclosed house with several bungalows and a hall. It looked very old.
Ye Xing knocked on the copper ring on the wooden door, and there was a clanging sound. Soon, a middle-aged man opened the door and came out, looking at the person with confusion.
Ye Xing hurriedly stepped forward, explained his intention and presented a gift.
The middle-aged man said that the old man Li Yishi was his grandfather and he was already very old. He had to ask Ye Xing before he could go in.
During a cup of tea, the middle-aged man said, "The old man is still on his lunch break. Let's meet him again when he wakes up."
The man let Ye Xing into the house and treated him to lunch. Ye Xing did not eat, but only drank tea.
The middle-aged man accompanied Ye Xing and asked him in detail. Ye Xing simply answered, saying that he was a student from Donghai County. This time he found out that the old man understood ancient writing and came to ask for advice.
An hour later, Ye Xing saw the old man. Although the old man had difficulty moving, he was still very energetic and asked Ye Xing to sit down.
Ye Xing had drawn the words he had written down in advance, and took them out one by one for the old man to see.
The old man only glanced at it briefly, then nodded and said, "This is ancient writing. It should be written one hundred thousand years ago."
The old man pointed to the first word and said, "Holy". Ye Xing wrote directly below, and then recognized the dozen or so words.
Ye Xing said, "Old man, how do you recognize these ancient characters? These should be older than the characters of the previous dynasty."
Mr. Li said, "Actually, my ancestor was once a disciple of the Holy Cult. He learned it while practicing in the Holy Land. He copied and compared the ancient characters with the characters of the previous dynasty in the dictionary. It has been circulated for thousands of years. But now there are not many characters from the previous dynasty that can You see, so those extremely ancient texts can no longer be read.”
Ye Xing said with great joy, "My father-in-law, can I borrow your ancestor's dictionary to take a look at it?"
Old Man Li shook his head and said, "The original dictionary was damaged a long time ago. When I was young, only about half of the dictionary was left. Later, I copied it again by hand, but I don't know where it is now."
Ye Xing was extremely disappointed. After a while, he still asked, "Old man, how much more can you remember? Can you teach me?"
Old Man Li shook his head and said, "I'm over ninety now, and I haven't had any contact with you in the next few decades. It's impossible for me to teach you."
Looking at Ye Xing's disappointed face, the old man thought for a while and said, "It can probably be found among the old things. The west wing used to be my study room when I was young, but now it is full of clutter."
Ye Xing turned to look at the middle-aged man and asked, "Can I look in that wing?"
The middle-aged man was not very happy, and looked a little impatient, saying, "That's a pile of old farm tools. It's very troublesome to move them out and look for them."
A large ingot of silver appeared in Ye Xing's hand. He blocked the old man's sight with his body and handed it into the middle-aged man's hand. He said, "Please look for it, uncle. It is also the old man's hard work when he was young. Don't waste it."
The middle-aged man pinched the silver ingot with his fingernails, put it in his arms, and said, "Grandpa, let me go look for it. I haven't sorted it out for many years."
The old man also said, "That should be useful. It would be a pity to turn it into waste paper. You should go look for it. It should be in the cabinet inside. I'm afraid it will be damaged by insects."
The middle-aged man led Ye Xing into the west wing. As expected, there was a lot of debris inside. The two of them started moving the things out to the patio, and finally found a pile of old papers in the innermost ancient cabinets.
Ye Xing and the middle-aged man took out the pile of old papers one by one and looked at them. Many of them were damaged and rotted when touched by their hands.
No matter what is written on it, Ye Xing has sorted and stacked it one by one, and now he has no time to look at it one by one.
Half an hour later, the two finally found a thick yellowed book, which should be the ancient dictionary handwritten by the old man. Ye Xing saw that the front page said "Explanation of Ancient Characters", which was written in the Song Dynasty. , with multiple bug eyes on the cover.
The middle-aged man gave the book to the old man. The old man only glanced at it and said happily, "This is it. It's okay. It's okay. Well, it seems to be well preserved."
The old man took it, touched the cover, and opened the pages. There should be hundreds of pages of yellowed paper inside, with small and neat characters. He said, "The front is ancient characters, not many words, and there are annotations! The back! The writings of the previous dynasty were understood by many people, so I didn’t copy them all at the time, because there were too many.”
The old man played with it for a while, and then handed it to Ye Xing, "It's a good thing for young people to be eager to learn. If you leave it to me, it will be lost sooner or later. Just take it and learn from it."
Ye Xing took it seriously and said, "Thank you, father-in-law! I will definitely treasure this book and prevent it from being damaged!"
The old man said, "It is true if it can play its role. If you hadn't come to ask, this book would have become garbage in a few years. You can take it."
Ye Xing expressed his sincere thanks again and again, and gave the old man a bottle of Qi-Building Pill, telling him that it could improve his health. The old man and his family did not know that it was worth thousands of gold, but they still accepted it.
Ye Xing returned to the big ship outside Taihua City. There were only five special forces members on the ship, and the two women and others were still playing in the city.
After another night's rest, the big ship set off for the capital early the next morning, sailing upstream with the wind and the current.
Ye Xing hid in his cabin and asked everyone not to disturb him, including when he was eating. He wanted to practice. This was his regular action. No one was surprised or worried. With Ye Xing's cultivation level, ten If I don't eat or drink for half a month, I'll be fine.
Turning over the yellowed pages of the book, Ye Xing carefully copied them page by page. Sure enough, the first few thousand characters were ancient characters, and the following ones were the characters of previous dynasties. They were not only tables for comparison, but also simple ones. annotation.
Ye Xing memorized it while copying it, and also deduced its original meaning. With his powerful spiritual sense, although it was not easy, he still remembered everything.
Of course, the most important thing is that Ye Xing used the characters of the Song Dynasty and made annotations. Now there are three kinds of characters for comparison.
It took three days for Ye Xing to copy four thousand ancient characters, previous dynasty characters, and modern characters twice, bind them into two dictionaries, and verify the one-to-one correspondence with the desert island murals in his memory, and found that he could indeed read them through. Most of it.
It turns out that the desert island murals are really about the process of sacrifice and some operational details. It can be imagined that among the Five Elements Mountains on the island, someone should have gone to sacrifice a long time ago, but then stopped for unknown reasons.
It took Ye Xing five days to completely translate the text in the desert island mural in his memory.
From the sacrifices on the desert island murals, it is shown that the five spiritual mountains on the desert island are a large magic circle specially arranged. When the Five Elements Spiritual Array is sacrificed at the same time, it means that the sacrifice can communicate with the upper world. As for what the upper world is, there is no illustrate.
By interpreting the desert island murals and adding Ye Xing's own reasoning, he is now an expert in ancient Chinese. I believe that not many people in the world can have his knowledge.
As Ye Xing knows more and more, his reasoning will become more and more accurate. This is the inherent ability of his quantum intelligence, but he has not been able to recover now, but his brain seems to be much easier to use.
And it is obvious that Ye Xing now has a new understanding of the Gui Zang Sutra.
The text of the "Gui Zang Jing" is also a variant of the ancient text. It may be older than the texts of the previous dynasties, but it can basically be interpreted by referring to the ancient texts and the texts of the previous dynasties.
The second half of "Explanation of Ancient Characters" is the annotations of the characters of the previous dynasties. Ye Xing compared the comparative dictionary of the characters of the previous dynasties that he edited some time ago and gained new insights. Many of the annotations are completely different. This is probably Because everyone has different opinions.
Therefore, Ye Xing also partially revised the dictionary he wrote, so that it might be more accurate and detailed, which would make him more confident in interpreting ancient texts.
Ye Xing's hand speed is extremely fast. He does not write with a brush, but with a newly developed quick-drying ink. It dries almost instantly, and he also uses some on the paper. Special anti-insect measures can protect the dictionary for a long time.
Ye Xing quickly completed all the proofreading of the dictionary, and then copied it neatly into a brand new dictionary.
Ye Xing gave this new dictionary a new name, "General Interpretation of Ancient Characters."
Finally, Ye Xing walked out of the cabin and called the two women to show them the results of his ten days of hard work. The two women were very surprised. They thought Ye Xing was practicing in seclusion, but it turned out to be a study in seclusion. What a surprise.
The two women opened Ye Xing's ten days' work and carefully appreciated it. The dictionary was extremely sophisticated, as big as a mosquito, and the handwriting was delicate. They were both extremely impressed.
Putting the dictionary in the space ring and accompanying the two girls, Ye Xing had his first meal in ten days.
