Chapter 10 Chapter Nine A Thing Hard for People in Tang Dynasty and Modern People to Understand

The eight white-clothed women seemed to be satisfied with Pei Siqing's narration. At that time, Pei Siqing was still unable to move, and his body was still immersed in the cool liquid. Although he didn't like this situation very much, since it was very comfortable , and he did not offer to improve. At this time, one of the eight women in white stood up, holding a jade plate in both hands, came to Pei Siqing's side, and turned the jade plate slightly so that Pei Siqing could see what was on the jade plate, which was the dagger and sheath , the dagger is placed next to the sheath.

The woman asked: "Is this the handle, the golden moon said that the true god gave the king of Persia, is this the handle?" Pei Siqing answered loudly, "Yes!" Naturally, he was absolutely sure, because the dagger had been by his side for a long time, so he would not admit it was wrong. The woman in white retreated, and what happened next, Pei Siqing described, thought it was unimaginably weird.We read his records and felt that things were very strange.People in the Tang Dynasty thought the same as people in modern times. Naturally, it was the matter itself, and it was too difficult to guess the nature of it.

Wen Baoyu's opinion was: "This guy is talking nonsense." Hu Hua was very calm: "He had no reason to talk nonsense. It was his personal experience. He didn't understand it, so he wrote it down and remembered it in detail." Wen Baoyu grunted a few more words, Bai Su and I were also full of suspicion, we didn't know why such a situation happened in what happened to Pei Siqing. After Pei Siqing confirmed that the dagger on the jade plate was the one that Jin Yue gave him, the two women in white walked out. During that moment, no one spoke and it was very silent.Pei Siqing wanted to ask when he could start to act, when he saw the two white-clothed women walking back again, and together they were carrying a rather large jade box, rectangular in shape, which looked like a coffin carved from jade.

At this moment, Pei Siqing couldn't help but feel a little nervous. This rectangular box is reminiscent of a coffin, and it is also frightening. Will he be put in it.Although it can be seen at a glance that the whole piece of big white jade is extremely valuable, but if it is really a coffin, no matter how expensive it is, it is not a good sign. Two women in white clothes carried the jade box in front of Pei Siqing, then turned the box upright, and Pei Siqing saw that there was no cover on the top of the box - when Pei Siqing was carrying it just now, Pei Siqing could not lie down. Moved, did not see the top of the box.

Inside the box was lying—no, the box stood upright, and the person inside the box seemed to be standing upright, and that person was none other than the golden moon he had been thinking about day and night. Pei Siqing really didn't know what happened, he just stared straight at Jin Yue.Jin Yue closed her eyes and didn't move at all. She didn't know whether she was dead or alive. She was completely naked, with big breasts and buttocks, a wasp waist and long legs. She was lively and fragrant. Pei Siqing could still feel her skin was lubricated and elastic. But immediately, Pei Siqing felt very terrified - he is a famous martial artist, and he can make judgments about people's life and death.Jin Yue was inside the long box, motionless, her chest didn't heave, she didn't show any signs of breathing, she seemed to be dead.

What made Pei Siqing even more feel that the golden moon was dead was that one side of the jade box was not without a cover, but had a cover, but the cover was transparent, very transparent, so you couldn't detect it unless you looked carefully. Although Pei Siqing is a rich man, he has never seen such a large and flawless crystal. (Hu Hua and Wen Baoyu had another small dispute. Wen Baoyu: "It's not crystal, it's glass!") (Hu said: "In the Tang Dynasty, how could there be glass?") (Wen Baoyu said "Hey": "Glass has a history of three or four thousand years, and the ancient Egyptians knew how to make glass!")

(Hu said: "Look at the records, such a large glass could not have been made in ancient times.") (Wen Baoyu and Nonsense both looked at me, and I was also very puzzled: "I thought that this kind of coffin, which is convenient for mourners to look at the remains, only existed in modern times. It is incredible that it appeared in the Tang Dynasty!") (Bai Su said: "And it appeared in a mysterious country in the desert, which is even more strange.") (Discussion or dispute, and no result.) Pei Siqing never expected to see Jin Yue in such a situation, so he couldn't be more astonished. He wanted to ask Jin Yue if he was dead or alive, but he couldn't say anything except a strange noise from his throat.

At this time, one of the two white-clothed women beside the jade box where Jin Yue was lying asked, "Do you know her?" Pei Siqing wanted to nod, only to remember that he couldn't move, he struggled for a while, before saying: "Yes." The woman in white asked again: "She claims to be Jin Yue? Is she the one who gave you that dagger?" The woman in white didn't ask very politely, but Pei Siqing felt it was too strange, and didn't have time to worry about it. When the woman in white asked a question, he answered "Yes." He still wanted to ask Jin Yue if he was alive or dead, but the woman in white asked him very strangely, preventing him from asking.The woman in white asked again: "Did she say where she lives?"

Pei Siqing was taken aback for a moment: "She... never mentioned it." After he said this, he remembered that when the golden moon appeared for the first time, he said that she was the woman of the Hun bandit. After the Hun bandit was injured, he was carried by a camel and rushed into a crevice of a cliff. Among them, that place may be the residence of the Xiongnu bandit and the golden moon. Pei Siqing said what he thought of, and the two women in white clothes seemed quite satisfied with Pei Siqing's speculation. They were about to lift the jade box again, at that moment, Pei Siqing saw a little more clearly, which made him let out a cry of surprise, and let him know that Jin Yue is dead!

When the two women in white clothes were about to lift the jade box, they first turned the jade box to one side. The golden moon in the jade box, when the box was upright, she seemed to be standing in the box , there is still some space on both sides, so when the box is sideways, her body should also be sideways. However, Jin Yueyue's body did not move at all, and was still in the middle of the box.And when the box was slightly sideways, Pei Siqing saw a shining light inside the box again, which made him exclaim - at first he thought that the jade box had a crystal lid, only then did he know that, What the jade box contained was a whole piece of transparent crystal, and Jin Yue's whole body was tightly embedded in the crystal!

Pei Siqing didn't know how a person could be embedded in the crystal. What is certain is that no matter who it is, if it is embedded in the crystal, then of course it will no longer be a living person. Before the jade box was lifted up by the two women in white, he stared at it to be sure that he saw it right, and he didn't find any traces of putting together the big crystal. Pei Siqing must have thought about this strange phenomenon for a long time, so he has his guess.His guess is that a large crystal has a human-shaped groove the same size as the Golden Moon Man carved out from the back, and then put the Golden Moon in it, and then put the crystal into the jade box. As for why he dealt with Jin Yue in this way, Pei Siqing also had his own idea: by doing so, the corpse would not rot?When you first see it, it is so lifelike that it is difficult to distinguish between life and death. (At this time, there was another discussion. I will first express my opinion: "This way of handling the corpse is extremely peculiar. But unless there is no space between the crystal and the body, the purpose of preserving the body will still not be achieved.") (Bai Su frowned silently, I looked at Wen Baoyu, and Wen Baoyu also frowned, and said: "This situation only reminds me of amber—transparent amber with small insects in it.") (I know what kind of amber he is referring to. Amber is formed of resin. When the resin seeps out of the tree trunk, if there are small insects that happen to be trapped in the resin, then after tens of thousands of years, amber is formed. Small insects It has been staying in it, and it is still the same as it was tens of thousands of years ago.) (There are also "faux amber" crafts, made by pressing beetles or goldfish into clear plastic.) (Wen Baoyu said that the situation of the golden moon reminded him of amber, but I thought of that craft more.) (I said my own thoughts, and everyone was shocked: "Where did this technology exist at that time!") (The thing is really weird. A Tang Dynasty person doesn't understand it, and we modern people don't understand it either. Moreover, the "guesses" we can make are not much more than those of Tang Dynasty people.) Pei Siqing watched the two women in white carry out the jade box. He always missed Jin Yue very much, so he asked, "Why did she die at such a young age?" When Pei Siqing asked this question, he had already thought that it might be the people in the kingdom of heaven that killed Jin Yue. Be as tactful as possible. No one answered his question, and the dwarf said in a deep voice, "Don't ask anything, let others ask you." Pei Siqing felt extremely uncomfortable, and naturally, a fierce look appeared in his eyes.But after all, he knew that his situation was not good, so he held back and didn't make any more noise.At this time, he just thought: Everything must wait until he can act, and he can't even move his body, so what else can he say? After the jade coffin containing the golden moon was carried out, the two women in white came back and sat in their original positions. The woman in white at the head said again: "From now on, talk about your own affairs, don't talk about other things, and talk about the things you have done against your will in detail." The white-clothed woman's tone became more and more severe, which made Pei Siqing more uncomfortable, and even very angry. He couldn't help but said: "How can you say that I have done something against my will?" The voice of the woman in white was cold and awe-inspiring: "Who can do without?" Pei Siqing gulped down a mouthful of saliva, horrified in his heart, of course he had something against his will, not only did he do it, but there were a lot of it, if you want to talk about it, how can you finish it all at once? The woman in white seemed to know what he was thinking, and gave him another suggestion: "Choose the big one, and don't mention the small things." Pei Siqing let out a long sigh, the big thing, of course, was that after seeing Rou Niang, he deliberately killed the sworn brother. He absolutely didn't want to mention this matter, but when he was hesitating, the woman in white stood up, walked a little closer, looked down at him with extremely sharp eyes, and made him feel cold all over. That kind of gaze seemed to be able to see through his internal organs, so he couldn't help but tell the whole story. It was a very tragic story, and also a very despicable story. Pei Siqing told it in great detail. During the narration, he didn't condemn himself too much. On the contrary, he said that after seeing Rou Niang's beauty, he God does not keep homes.It is "human nature".He also said that if he didn't strike first, and let the other party know his intentions, he would also "be murdered".What's even more shameless is that he said that after marrying Rouniang, he took good care of her and made her life very good. If it wasn't for him, Rouniang would never be as happy as she is today, and so on. For such a despicable thing caused by himself, he can turn black and white and justify himself to this extent. When he saw this record, Wen Baoyu scolded "shameless" so many times, his handsome face flushed with anger, and he clenched his fists, and said fiercely: "This bastard, don't let him take the poisonous oath. It is unreasonable to die of thirst and starvation." Everyone agrees with Wen Baoyu's words. Pei Siqing showed off a lot about his life, so naturally there is no need to describe them one by one. He was immersed in the white jade trough for seven days and seven nights—from the third day on, the dwarf regularly used a rather large jade ladle to pour the water from the jade trough over his head and face, At that time, he can temporarily shut up and not talk about his own affairs. Seven days later, the skin on his whole body began to fall off. After so long of struggling in the desert, the skin on his whole body was as dry as the bark of a hundred-year-old tree. After seven days, this layer of skin, from top to bottom His heels have all fallen off, and the new skin under the old skin is smoother than when he was pampered back then, even he himself would be overjoyed to see it. He was lifted up. At this time, he was able to move, but as if he had just recovered from a serious illness, his whole body was weak, and his movements were also very slow. Eight women in white clothes were always waiting on him. It took another seven days before he returned to normal. When he knew that his physical strength had fully recovered, he suddenly raised his breath and let out a loud roar. He stretched out his body and practiced his most proud fists and kicks. He was incomparably vigorous, and at this time, Pei Siqing, a master of martial arts, could be considered to have fully recovered. Then, there was his marriage with the mistress of the kingdom of heaven. It is said that he should be very satisfied and grateful. words. It may be that the heroine of the kingdom of heaven can't satisfy him, so he misses the golden moon very much. Moreover, he was also puzzled by how the golden moon could "be" in heaven and be embedded in a large piece of crystal. What makes Pei Siqing very dissatisfied is that it can be seen from the description that his actions are not very free.There are quite a few sentences like "It has been six months so far, and I don't know what the kingdom of heaven is talking about".It can be seen that he didn't even understand the geographical environment of this "heavenly kingdom".He also had quite a few guesses, such as the question "everything I see is beautiful jade, why is it in the belly of the jade mountain?" He also mentioned it seven or eight times, so he began to wonder about the situation of Jin Yue, Because the last time I saw her in the big crystal, she seemed to be a stranger. Since everything in the "Kingdom of Heaven" is so weird, the golden moon cannot be revived before it begins. If this is the case, it would be great. From here on, I'm going to make a long story short about Pei Siqing, because if I want to talk about it in detail, it's too long, so I have to pick the important ones. Pei Siqing asked the dwarf first, but every time he mentioned it, a terrified expression would appear on the dwarf's originally funny face, and he was afraid to run away. Ever since Pei Siqing became the heroine's husband, everyone respected him very much.But when he asked the women in white clothes who served him, no one was willing to answer. Pei Siqing knew that there must be a big secret in it, so during a meeting with the heroine, he casually asked about the dagger that Jin Yue gave him, expressing that he wanted to get it back. The heroine's answer was beyond his expectation. The heroine's demeanor and tone were extremely cold (this may be the reason why he missed the passionate golden moon). The hostess said: "This dagger was given to the King of Persia by the true God, not yours, so you don't have to ask again." When Pei Siqing heard this, he couldn't help being furious: "It's obviously my property, why can't I even ask?" The heroine's expression was even more indifferent: "If you died in the desert, what would you ask?" It must not be the first time that the hostess said something like this, most likely whenever Pei Siqing felt dissatisfied or protested, she would say this.Although she once saved Pei Siqing, Pei Siqing is an extremely rebellious person. How much gratitude can there be in this kind of person's heart? Therefore, his dissatisfaction was even worse, and he was very farsighted, because at this time, he didn't even know where he was, and the pain of life and death in the desert was still fresh in his memory, so he didn't dare to move around. The years in the kingdom of heaven are long, Pei Siqing has passed at least another year, and during this time, there are very strange situations, recorded in the cursive script, there is "I have not seen the sun for more than a year" - more than a year He didn't see the sun, and he suspected that he was in the belly of a jade mountain. It can be seen that he has been in a cave-like building. And he hadn't seen any other man, except the dwarf.Except for the heroine, there are no more than twenty women who come and go, they are all those few, well-clothed and well-fed, but he lives a life under house arrest, so Pei Siqing naturally becomes more and more unbearable. Over the past year or so, he has learned to read the weird characters of "Kingdom of Heaven", an extremely strange phenomenon - he understands that kind of characters, but he can't read them, so he doesn't understand the Kingdom of Heaven language.Many times, when the hostess and the woman in white used words he couldn't understand, and they were clearly talking about very important issues, it was as if he didn't exist, because he couldn't understand a word. He once proposed to learn, but was coldly rejected by the hostess.Once he was very angry: "We are husband and wife, and I will live in the kingdom of heaven for a long time. I can't speak, what is it!" The heroine's blurted answer made Pei Siqing think for a long time. The heroine's answer was: "Who will live here for a long time?" After the hostess said this sentence, she quickly covered it up with other words, which made Pei Siqing feel the importance of this sentence even more.But he couldn't figure out the meaning of this sentence. At that time, in order to cover up her slip of the tongue, the hostess even promised Pei Siqing that she could learn some simple languages ​​of heaven.Pei Siqing also pretended to be very happy, as if he didn't pay attention to the heroine's words at all. At this time, Pei Siqing felt more and more that he was in an extremely strange environment. He even suspected that all people were ghosts rather than humans. He felt the eerie atmosphere that existed all the time, and felt that this group of people was mysterious. He was extremely sneaky, but he couldn't tell why. For more than a year, his main pastime was to read the records written on the sheepskin by the eight women in white clothes when he first came for seven days and seven nights when he told his own life experience, and he himself annotated, supplemented, and He also expected that no one could understand his cursive Chinese characters. When he was writing, he was also unscrupulous. Maybe he never thought that after more than a thousand years, someone would study every word he wrote in detail, so when he was writing, he would never keep it. At the same time, it really has a spooky appeal. Another little discussion. Bai Su first said: "It should not be difficult to understand what the heroine said. Nomadic tribes in the desert rarely settle in one place." I sighed: "Looking at what he described, it doesn't look like a nomadic tribe. Those people have always lived there...in the cave." Bai Su thought for a while: "Maybe he has always wanted to leave." I spread my hands and didn't say anything else. We couldn't figure out a problem that a Tang Dynasty person couldn't figure out more than a thousand years ago. After Pei Siqing had a little knowledge of the language of the kingdom of heaven, his situation did not improve much.A few days later, during this period of time, he asked the hostess three times about the situation of the golden moon.According to him, it takes courage more than once, and after asking three times, even he, the rich man in Chang'an, didn't have the courage to ask a fourth time—because every time he asked, the heroine's expression was so ugly , and it gets uglier every time. "It's almost like a ghost Yasha", after all, he is just a "hostess husband" who doesn't have much freedom of movement, and he feels more and more surprised by the situation, so he doesn't dare to make mistakes. However, maybe because he has been here for a long time, there were always a few women in white clothes who followed him like ghosts, but they gradually disappeared, and he could have more freedom of movement. During this time, a more important thing happened: the dwarf died. Before the dwarf was about to die, it was rumored that he wanted to see him. This seemed like a trivial matter, but to Pei Siqing, it was very important—as far as he could remember, he had never seen the light of day after he arrived here. When the woman in white took him to meet the dwarf, he didn't know it was night, because after passing a long corridor, he looked up and saw the starry sky. He tried his best to suppress the excitement in his heart, and followed the point of the woman in white towards a small stone house. The dwarf lived in that stone chamber. At that moment, Pei Siqing greedily looked at the surrounding environment.He saw very high cliffs on all sides.Under the twilight of the stars and the moon, the color of the mountain rocks is white and clean, it seems that they are really all jade. And he himself walked out of a cliff, which made him very proud to have the idea of ​​"being in the belly of Yushan".