Chapter 9 Chapter Nine Objects More Valuable Than Gold

At the entrance of the main hall, Master Zhang Yao almost collided with two people who were about to step into the main hall.After a closer look, it was Zhaofeng and another strange man in his sixties.The strange man was wearing white-washed denim overalls, with a shallow crew cut, a little gray hair, and a bookish look on his face.Zhang Yaoye has a feeling of deja vu to a strange man. "Zhaofeng, why are you here?" Master Zhang Yao almost exclaimed in surprise. "Master Zhang Yao, seeing how you are in a hurry, where are you going?" Zhao Feng asked lightly to Master Zhang Yao.

"Take them to get things." Zhang Yaoye said. Zhaofeng didn't pay any attention to Mr. Zhang Yao, but led the strange man into the hall.Master Zhang Yao also turned around. "Professor Bai, let me introduce you. He is Mr. Zhang Yao, the godfather Xiao Yangzi recognizes." Zhaofeng introduced Mr. Zhang Yao to the strange man. The strange man was Bai Ruifeng. Bai Ruifeng's thin face immediately showed a grateful expression, he stretched out his hands to hold Zhang Yaoye's right hand, and said to Zhang Yaoye: "Zhang Yaoye, I'm sorry, Xiaobai has caused you trouble. "

Master Zhang Yao didn't wake up for a while, he hesitated and said, "You are?" "He is Xiao Yangzi's father—Professor Bai Ruifeng Bai." Zhaofeng said. "Oh! So Xiaobai's father is you? No wonder I felt as if I had seen you somewhere when I first saw you. It's not like you don't say it. Let's talk about it, it really looks like you are carved in a mold. The ones that come out, especially the nose and eyes, are too similar." Zhang Yaoye immediately became more talkative, and his face became more radiant.However, Zhang Yaoye's expression immediately dimmed again, and he said, "However, Bai, Professor Bai, I want to review something with you. I...I didn't take good care of Xiaobai, she...she..." Zhang As Master Yao spoke, his throat became a little uncomfortable again.

Bai Ruifeng let go of Zhang Yaoye's hand, patted Zhang Yaoye on the shoulder, and said, "Zhang Yaoye, don't explain anything to me. I already know the ins and outs of the matter. It's not your fault, it has nothing to do with you." It doesn't matter, but we, Xiaobai, have implicated you." Zhang Yaoye said with red eyes: "A family, what are you talking about? It's just...just..." "Okay, Mr. Zhang Yao, I've said it all. You're not to blame for the whole thing, and it's not as bad as you imagined. Xiaobai will be fine. She has the amulet given to her by Wan Zuzu on her body."

"You mean that the Ten Thousand Immortals gave her a talisman?" Zhang Yaoye's eyes lit up again immediately. "That's right! If Xiaobai didn't have a talisman on her, I wouldn't dare to send her to your Woniu Village alone so recklessly! She will be fine." Bai Ruifeng said casually. Zhang Yaoye felt a lot more relaxed all of a sudden, and said: "If I had known it was like this, I wouldn't be so worried. Immortals are immortals, and they see things farther than us." After calming Master Zhang Yao down, Bai Ruifeng turned his attention to everyone in the hall.

Zhaofeng's eyes lingered on Xiangyu's face for a moment, then landed on Yinlu's face, his expression was as flat as a glass of water that had settled down, and he said, "Why are you here?" Yinlu looked at Zhaofeng, her eyes became confused and unreal, and said, "Where I'm going is not a matter of raising one's hand. You're asking..." Zhaofeng didn't say anything more, turned his face to the old monk Jingyuan, and said, "You invited him here, right?" The old monk Jingyuan just said "A-Mi-Tuo-Buddha" in a long voice and remained silent.

What Zhaofeng said and the expression he showed were abrupt and strange, even Bai Ruifeng looked at Zhaofeng with very surprised eyes. Yinlu was not happy at this time, and said: "Don't put on a disgusting expression that rejects people thousands of miles away. Zhaofeng, it's not that I'm talking about you now. Even though you have become Wan Zhanfei's closed disciple, you know I don't know why Wan Zhanfei didn't teach you how to tell the truth? It's because your baby has a small heart and a small pattern of being a human being." What Yinlu said was inexplicably abrupt.Now not only Bai Ruifeng's eyes widened, but everyone's eyes widened.But Yinlu stares straight at Zhaofeng, and Zhaofeng also stares at Yinlu with the same eyes.Only Xiangyu looked at Zhaofeng and then at Yinlu with panic on his face, a complicated expression flashed across his face.

Zhaofeng swallowed the words that were on his lips, and said, "You're right, I think I'm small. Let's stop here. Let's get down to business." Yinlu murmured: "This is the strength of a man." Then she folded her arms and looked at Zhaofeng. Zhaofeng no longer looked at Yinlu, but Zhaori Wobuji said: "We should hurry to get the things out. My master is still waiting for us to go there." Then he said to Zhang Yaoye, "Zhang Yaoye, you Hurry up and take us to get something." Master Zhang Yao felt more and more the weight of the pile of things he had accidentally buried, he said "oh", and followed Zhaofeng towards the outside of the hall.

A group of people also walked out of the main hall together, only the old monk Jingyuan stayed in Jingwu Temple.He said he still had to deal with a small matter. This is a sunny winter day. Although the air is still chilly and hard, and the wind blows on the face, it feels like being lightly whipped by a thin whip, but the sunshine still reveals a little warmth, making people curl up. Can't help stretching a bit.Even Zhang Ziheng, who had been hunched over and tucked his hands into his cuffs, straightened his back a little, and became much more energetic. A group of people were led by Master Zhang Yao into a vegetable garden surrounded by bamboo fences, where cabbage, spinach and garlic sprouts were planted.The frost formed at night has not completely melted away at this time, and the vegetable leaves seem to be coated with a layer of faint golden powder, which is sporadic in the sun.

In the northeast corner of the vegetable garden, there is a vigorous saponin tree. The severe winter has completely destroyed its leaves, leaving only bare branches.There are two small mounds under the tree, with sparse wormwood growing on them.The wormwood is still dry, shivering in the slight cold wind. Master Zhang Yao led everyone over, and said as he walked: "These two graves are the graves of my father and mother. I buried that pile of things between the two graves. I also know that things are good things, maybe It will be worth a lot of money when it gets better, so I asked my father and mother to take care of this pile of things for me."

"Ziheng, go home quickly and find two hoes to pick up that pile of things." Master Zhang Yao said to Zhang Ziheng. Without saying a word, Zhang Ziheng turned around and walked towards the yard.She Shiyun thought for a while and said, "Wait for me." She also followed Zhang Ziheng. Zhang Yaoye muttered: "This woman She, why are you chasing after Ziheng?" After a while, Zhang Ziheng and She Shiyun came back with a hoe each. Zhang Yaoye took the hoe that She Shiyun handed over, spat in the palm of his hand, rubbed his palms twice, then raised the hoe, swung his arms and dug towards the soil under his feet.Zhang Ziheng also dug down. The things were not buried very deep, only more than one foot was dug out, and Zhang Yaoye's hoe made the sound of digging into something hard.Bai Ruifeng shouted softly: "Be careful, don't hurt anything." Zhang Yaoye said confidently: "It won't hurt, I covered it with stone slabs." As he said that, he and Zhang Ziheng stopped digging and changed to digging. A bluestone slab engraved with vague inscriptions gradually emerged from the blue-black soil.Everyone gathered around. Zhang Yaoye wiped his sweaty forehead, put down the hoe, then squatted down, and began to clean the edge of the stone slab with his hands. The stone slab is not big, it is a broken tombstone, the inscription on it is blurred and incomplete.When Zhang Yaoye lifted the bluestone slab vigorously, an open jar made of clay was exposed.The jar was filled with ashes, and it was impossible to see what was hidden. Zhang Yaoye, Zhang Ziheng, Riwo Buji, and Zhaofeng grabbed the inside of the jar together, shouted "Hey" together, and lifted the jar with all their strength.The top and bottom of the jar are bottomless, so I didn't make too much effort. Zhang Yaoye quickly cleaned out the ashes in the jar with his hands, and then took out the contents one by one. The jar is really like a cornucopia. When the items inside are taken out one after another, everyone is a little dizzy.Colorful and fine workmanship, unique shapes and different sizes of jade vessels are really dazzling. When Zhang Yaoye took out a jade cong with a round inside and a square outside from the jar, Professor Bai immediately took it, raised it above his head, and played with it carefully in front of the sun.Seeing that Professor Bai was particularly interested in this large object, everyone couldn't help but raise their heads to look at it together. This is an extremely exquisite workmanship object, with a composite image of a god, man and animal face engraved on the top and bottom of the straight grooves on the four sides, a total of 8.A single image is about 6 centimeters high and 8 centimeters wide, carved with line relief and fine line engraving.The main body of the pattern is a deity with an inverted trapezoidal face, heavy circle eyes, small triangular eye corners on both sides, a wide nose with curved lines to outline the nose wings, and a wide mouth with two rows of 16 teeth carved with a long horizontal line and 7 short lines .The inner layer of the headgear is a hat, engraved with 8 sets of curly cloud patterns, and the outer layer of the feather crown is engraved with 22 sets of double lines on the edge, and the single line in the middle forms a radial feather ornament.The face and crown are carved in bas-relief.The god-man shrugs his shoulders and flat arms, his hands, waist, and lower limbs are bent, and his three claws are like birds.The limbs are densely covered with patterns made of cirrus clouds, arcs, and horizontal and vertical lines.The animal face is carved in low relief on the chest and abdomen, with oval convex eyelids and bridge-shaped forehead.On the square-shaped convex surface of the jade cong, the corners are used as the central axis. Simplified patterns of gods, humans and animals are engraved every two sections. The four corners are the same, and the left and right are symmetrical, a total of 8 groups.Compared with the ornamentation in the vertical groove, this combination of humans and animals retains the basic composition, omits the limbs of the gods and humans, deforms the crown, simplifies the face, and adds a pair of exaggerated bird patterns on both sides of the animal face.The simplified human-animal combination patterns developed around the corner as the central axis are the basic features of the jade cong decorations of the Liangzhu Culture.On the four sides of the jade cong, there are several magical symbols. Facing the sun, Bai Ruifeng looked at the jade cong very carefully, and murmured, "I never expected that I would find nowhere to find it, and it took no effort to get it!" At this time, She Shiyun saw something, and said: "I remembered, the magical pattern that appeared in the Jingwu Temple, isn't the shape of the inner circle and outer square the shape of this utensil?" Professor Bai immediately asked She Shiyun: "You mean there are patterns in the Jingwu Temple? What patterns?" She Shiyun's heart skipped a beat when she saw Bai Ruifeng's scorching and shining eyes, and said: "A set of mysterious patterns only appeared for a short time." Zhang Yaoye also stopped his work at this time, and said, "Yes, it's amazing. If you didn't see it with your own eyes, no one would believe it's true. Miss She is still dancing in the middle of that pattern. When she was dancing, there was such a magical light, it was so dazzling, I didn't see the ins and outs of the light clearly, it seemed to be shot down from the sky, and it seemed to be sprayed from the bottom of Miss She's feet. It's so strange Just a moment later, it disappeared, and the group of graphics also disappeared. By the way, Mrs. She said at first that she heard the cry of the milk baby under the pile of ashes. If she hadn’t said that she heard the pile of ashes There is the cry of a milk baby under the pile of ashes, and I don’t know that there will be such a strange pattern under the pile of ashes.” Professor Bai cast his eyes on She Shiyun again, and said, "Is that what Zhang Yaoye said?" She Shiyun nodded. "Extend your palm and let me see." Bai Ruifeng said. She Shiyun extended her palm to Bai Ruifeng's eyes.She Shiyun's palms are fair, but the lines are blurred.Bai Ruifeng grabbed She Shiyun's palm and held it up to the sun.When the blood line on She Shiyun's palm reappeared, Bai Ruifeng's face showed a glow of excitement.He put She Shiyun's palm down and said: "Everything is a coincidence! Everything is a coincidence. If you hadn't appeared, the group of patterns that appeared in Jingwu Temple would not have been discovered, and all revelations would continue to be discovered." Deeply hidden. It's an unmitigated miracle." She Shiyun frowned slightly, and asked Bai Ruifeng: "Then, why did that group of patterns appear and why did they suddenly disappear? You are a professor, can you explain it clearly to us?" "Yes, and that dazzling light!" Seeing everyone looking at him with curious eyes, Bai Ruifeng thought for a while, and seemed to be interested in talking quickly.Only Riwobuji stood aside with a smile and said, "Let the big professor explain to you." Battalion Commander Shi's eyes hung on Bai Ruifeng's face as if hooks had grown out of them, he really wanted to know what happened. Bai Ruifeng cleared his throat, and said: "I can only give you a rough idea, or a concept, and you may not be able to fully understand it, so I will try to explain it in a simple direction. This is actually a very important subject. It is difficult for ordinary people to understand advanced knowledge. If you only see the phenomenon but do not understand the essence of the phenomenon, it is easy to misunderstand. The so-called "mysterious and mysterious door" is a general term that only sees The phenomenon does not understand the essence. The ancients derived all kinds of metaphysics from such general concepts. "The phenomenon you see is actually true and real, but why did such a miraculous hallucination disappear inexplicably? There is a very profound concept in it, which is a Western concept. A psychologist proposed it as 'collective unconscious psychological reaction'. Collective unconscious psychological reaction is the unconscious at the bottom of the personality structure, the genetic traces of the activities and experiences stored in the human brain from generation to generation, including ancestors. The difference between the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious is that it is not a forgotten part, but something that we have never been aware of. The collective unconscious is a human mindset. It is likely to be formed by the individual unconscious in very special cases. Converging into streams, it creates a 'collective unconscious' that makes 'abnormal' phenomena 'normal'. Do you understand what I said?" Bai Ruifeng asked everyone. Everyone shook their heads almost simultaneously and said, "I don't understand." Professor Bai spread his hands helplessly, then shook his head and said, "It's difficult for me to explain this phenomenon clearly to you in a few words." Zhang Yaoye said at this time: "Professor, I don't blame you for this. It's because we read less books and think about the problem a little easier. Let's not talk about collectives and other things. Let's talk about the ones in your hands now." This piece of stuff, why do you just pick up this piece of stuff and look at it so carefully?" Bai Ruifeng said: "Master Zhang Yao, you may have accidentally done an earth-shattering event! The appearance of this thing is very likely to rewrite the development of human civilization history." Master Zhang Yao's eyes widened, and he said, "Am I that mysterious?" Bai Ruifeng smiled and said: "It's not that you are so mysterious. What I said is true. This thing is the key to open another magical world." "The key? Why is this thing a key? It's obviously a piece of jade!" Bai Ruifeng said with a smile: "Master Zhang Yao, this key is not that key. It is a key, and it is the only key left by that world to this world." Zhang Yaoye looked at Bai Ruifeng, and muttered to himself, "I don't even understand you. Why do you all have to say crazy things when the time comes?" Bai Ruifeng smiled at Zhang Yaoye, and Riwobuji also had a relaxed and joyful expression. Zhang Yaoye said again: "Looking at you, I am happier than finding that pile of gold." Bai Ruifeng laughed and said, "This is much more valuable than gold."