Chapter 92 Chapter 92: Stems and Earthly Branches

After I woke up, I quickly took photos around with the flashlight. I saw a few huge boulders as tall as a person covering a few dozen meters in front of me, like a screen. bypassed. Unexpectedly, after bypassing these rocks, the future suddenly became clear. Liu Ye suddenly exclaimed, so frightened that I hurriedly held up my flashlight to take a picture in the distance, only then did I realize that there were really two large stone gates about 20 meters in front of us, standing upright. There. Not only Liu Ye, but I also exclaimed immediately, I was so surprised that I couldn't close my mouth, I hurriedly called Da Ya to come over and have a look.

When Da Ya heard me call him, he knew that he might have discovered something, gathered from the side, and looked at the light from my flashlight. After pointing for a long time, he didn't say a word. After a long time, Da Ya swallowed his saliva, and asked me with gestures, is this the gate of the treasure house? At this time, I was also very excited, nodded, and told Da Ya that it probably contained the legendary treasure of King Khan.I really can't imagine what it will be like after opening this door. I was at the front, and Big Ya and Liu Ye walked over carefully. These two large stone gates are tightly closed, the door panels are extremely simple, there are no decorations and carvings, no decorations at all, only two huge auxiliary heads, almost the size of a washbasin.The monster above stared at its giant eyes, opened its mouth wide, and held two huge door knockers with thick wrists in its mouth. It looked hideous and terrifying, as if it didn't want anyone to approach it at all.

Judging from the size and volume of this door, it is estimated that even if there is this assistant head, it is impossible for someone to have the strength to pull it directly. The door knocker is at most a decoration.If the two door knockers can be pulled open, the two stone doors can be pulled open. Either this person's strength is extremely strong, and he has the power of nine bulls and two tigers, so it may be possible to play; or it is the internal design of the door. It is extremely delicate and has a superb power-assisted system, which uses the principle of a pulley block or a gearbox, and can move a thousand catties in fours and twos.

However, the two large stone gates, based on intuition, are not that advanced at first glance. The appearance is thick and simple, and they are solid at first glance, made of roughly processed natural stones. The three of us tugged on one of the knockers and tried to force it, but with all our strength, the door really didn't budge.Our strength is not small, but pulling this door is like ants shaking the tree, it is insignificant, and we can't help this door at all. Da Ya was so tired that he was panting, bowed his waist, shook his head, and said to us: "I said, Lai Liang, sister, this door is probably not so hard, right? This is so powerful, Li Yuanba will have to hold back when he comes Die here, let's rest for a while. We are trying so hard, it is purely a blind man lighting a lamp-wasting wax, let's think about other tricks."

After I pulled it for a while, I also felt that the door was not a matter of pulling it hard, and there must be some special opening mechanism.Thinking of this, my eyes were almost glued to the door, and I searched carefully inch by inch. Liu Ye looked at me and understood my intention, so she held up a flashlight to help me illuminate it. Although Shimen is so high, we know that if there is a mechanism, it is impossible to put it in a place where people can't reach it. It must be the key area within two meters. Nothing was found either. Staring at this big stone gate, there is really no mantra.Just when I was about to give up in despair, I suddenly saw those two copper assistant heads. Could it be that the mechanism will be on these copper assistant heads?I stared at it for a long time, and sure enough, there was a mystery hidden in it.

On the auxiliary head on the left, the outer circle of the base is engraved with "B, B, D, W, G, X, R, and Gui" in very small fonts. The font is elegant. At first glance, it is easy to think that it is a decorative pattern, which is not eye-catching at all; while the one on the right For this auxiliary head, there is also a circle of words engraved around the outer circle of the base of the auxiliary head, but it is engraved with "Zichou Yin Mao Chen Si Wu Wei Shen You Hai". Seeing that I hadn't spoken, Liu Ye lost her temper. She pointed to the assistant and asked me if this was the mechanism to open the door, like the code lock of a safe. The knocker is not for pulling but for opening the door. Is it for twisting?

I leaned against the door panel and looked. The outer edge of the auxiliary head was just embedded in a groove, and the structure inside could not be seen at all, so it was hard to judge whether it could be twisted or not.We are not fully sure about this thing, and we dare not move it lightly. If there is a mistake, I am afraid we will regret it. Da Ya also came over to have a look at this time, pointed at the two door knockers and said to me: "Lai Liang, these two things, aren't they just a 'Heavenly Stem' and an 'Earthly Branch'? The 'Heavenly Stem' and the 'Earthly Branch' It seems to be used to record the year, right? Why are they separated here? The ten days on the left seem to be missing a 'jia'? The twelve earthly branches on the right are missing a 'xu'. What kind of trick is this? Woolen cloth?"

Heavenly stems and earthly branches, referred to as "dry branches".There are ten heavenly stems, which are the two poles of the five elements, that is, the changes of yin and yang in the five elements;As for the origin of these names, it has little to do with the "Book of Changes", which is another system of Yi learning in traditional Chinese culture.The cyclic combination of the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches: Jiazi, Yichou, Bingyin... until Guihai, a total of sixty combinations are obtained, called "sixty Jiazi", and it goes on and on endlessly.

Jiaxu?Could it be the Year of the Dark Nail? I glanced at Da Ya, did the math, and told him that the combination of "Jia" and "Xu" is "Jiaxu Year", and the closest year to us is 1994.The Jiaxu years that are farther away are: 1934, 1874, 1814, 1754, 1694, 1634, 1574... Liu Ye waited for me to finish, thought for a while, then shook her head, and told us that these years should be meaningless. In 1634, Nurhachi was dead; and in 1574, he was just 15 years old.These two similar ages obviously have little to do with Nurhachi. Doesn't it refer to the age?At this time, even I was a little confused. If this "Jiaxu" does not refer to "Jiaxu Year", what does it mean?However, no matter how you look at it, it is obvious that this is the stem and branch of the year, and it will not be abnormal to the month or day, right?That's troublesome, it's tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

The sixty Jiazi of this "dry branch" combination was not only used to represent the year in the past, but also the month, day, and time.Year, month, day and hour are like four pillars supporting the building of "time", so it is called "four pillars".Each column is represented by a heavenly stem and an earthly branch, a total of two characters, so fortune-telling has the saying of "batch horoscope", which is the "four-pillar horoscope" of the year, month, day, and time. The year, but the month, or even the day or hour, then the difficulty will be great.