Chapter 2182 Flower Struggle (90)

On the way back to Fuzhou, Nick and his party rested in a village near Yanping Prefecture. The weather was very good that evening, so he walked around aimlessly, just to enjoy the fun of walking.

At this time, he saw five people coming from a distance. Their appearance caught Nick's attention, because they did not walk along the mountain path, but walked randomly, sometimes climbing up a small hill, and sometimes running down again.

While walking and stopping, he sometimes looked at the ground, as if he was detecting something, and sometimes looked around, as if he was studying the scenery.

Nick had been wondering what they were doing, but he couldn't figure it out. They were walking around aimlessly and inadvertently came to Nick and the others, but no one looked at them, so Nick followed them, wanting to see

The truth.

There were two people always walking behind, carrying baskets with food and incense candles in their hands. They looked younger and seemed to be apprentices.

The third man was older. He looked anxious and held his breath, his eyes always staring at the compass in his hand.

One of the two people in front was holding a small gong and a bell, and the other was holding a stick, pushing away the grass on the ground from time to time, as if looking for a hidden treasure.

The two old men were talking while walking, but it was impossible to hear what they were saying. Finally, they sat down in a pavilion for resting and shared the food in the basket.

Are they "walking by candlelight at night"?

Nick also entered the pavilion, and it happened to be raining. Taking shelter from the rain was a good excuse, so through "small talk", Nick asked what they were doing.

Man's plight is largely caused by the inability to retrace his life, or, in other words, by the serious flaws in his tool for retracing his life, memory itself.

This was not what Nick said, but was recorded by two old men from an ancient book they saw.

First of all, we need to explain the meaning of the hexagram 47 of the Book of Changes: rising is a good thing for most people. No one hopes that their life will get worse and worse. Everyone hopes that they will get better and better. But when the rise reaches a certain level,

If you try to reach the limit, you will encounter difficulties if you try to rise again. This is the "trap hexagram".

There is another type of people who hope to get rid of their current life, such as those coolies. They are not willing to continue working like this, but how to get rid of this predicament? They need more money, so they continue to increase prices, and after accumulating wealth

Only then will they have the foundation to change careers or go to other places.

The first hexagram of the trapped hexagram is Sheng hexagram, and the last hexagram is the Jing hexagram. No one would want to be like Jia Baoyu written by Cao Xueqin, who suffered a sudden change in his family, from being rich in clothes and food to being stretched thin, as if he had fallen into an abyss.

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However, the extremes of things must reverse, and they will flourish and decline. There is water in the well, and people put down the barrels and lift the buckets up. The water in the well nourishes people, and at the same time, the water in the well can be replenished by the continuous flow of water. Therefore, the well hexagram represents the noble character of "the best is like water"

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To use the Way of Well, one must change, so the next step is Ge Gua, which means that if you want to get out of trouble, you must change. Change is the inevitable law of change in all things. Everything in the world is constantly improving itself during change, so as to survive in change.

Development, reaching the state of "complying with nature and responding to people".

A great man can change like a tiger, a gentleman can change like a leopard, and a villain can change his face. However, the most terrifying thing when you are in trouble is "not believing what you say", or trusting the wrong person. Whether you are stubborn and refuse to change, or you are impetuous, and you may make reforms indiscriminately.

Suffered backlash.

In the Turkish writings written by the Macedonians, a race called the Huyins were mentioned. They were very good at labyrinths and called the labyrinth "Kadim", which means "ghost-binding knot". They believed that straight lines and

The ever-changing transitions and intersections between curves can trap ghosts, as well as their natural enemies - mandrills.

A political scholar once came to Wuyi Mountain to look for clues. He accidentally discovered this book in the library of Istanbul. Ptolemy was originally a general under Alexander the Great of the Macedonian Empire, because he himself was a Greek.

He was particularly envious of the Aristotelian Library in Athens, so he built the Library of Alexandria.

Alexandria, which occupied Egypt during the heyday of the Abbasid Empire, also moved some books to the "Palace of Wisdom" in Baghdad.

There is a very ancient symbol in alchemy, the ouroboros, but the Huyin people understand it as a "snake ring". The place where the snake ring joins the end and the end is the beginning and the end.

Their understanding of darkness is also different from that of modern people. People think that the eyes of blind people cannot see anything. In fact, the opposite is true. The eyes of blind people contain the greatest darkness. People think that darkness is deathly silence. This is another ridiculous misunderstanding. Everything in the world

Not only does it not disappear in the darkness, but black is the only color in the spectrum that cannot be attributed to one color. It is a huge theater that is absent of all characters but encompasses all plots.

There are only three things in the gray pupils of the blind man: night, poetry and secrets.

The Huyin people believe that hair is like coral. Every night, countless small insects carry the minerals mined from dreams and move along the hair. When they reach the end and have no way to go, they have to stop and hibernate here, acting as

The next section of paving bricks.

To a large extent, human beings' plight is caused by the inability to trace back their lives, or, in other words, because the tool for tracing back their lives, that is, memory itself, has serious flaws. This saying is passed down from the Huyin tribe.

Their war with the mandrills lasted for who knows how many years. The relationship between the Luyin tribe and the mandrills is like that of a hunter and his prey. The way to hunt mandrills depends on the weather. You can cast spells on rainy days, poison on sunny days, and clouds turn into scales.

It can be burned with fire, and smoke can be used to form a horse's tail. If the wind stirs up the grass, you can cut it with a knife made of fragrant flowers.

You can use the sand tempered by tears to make arrows.

Nick thought he might be talking about things like a woman's beard or a cat's footsteps, but the old man said that the most effective way to hunt mandrills is the maze. In the time created by the Huyin tribe, there is an empty space in the center.

The place where the end and end of the snake ring meet represents the ecstasy array.

There was once a gardener in Tabriz. He walked among marigolds, musk and lilies, with his hands covered with soil and his lips repeating the teachings from ancient scriptures: "Every flower is dedicated to a god."

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A Shia girl, a childish victim, fell into a coma in the garden he managed, and he saved her.

It was during the Crusades, and the gardener may have died in the war, or a shadow struck back, and the girl lived with their children in the garden he planted.

"What is shadow backlash?" Nick asked.

"You can read it yourself." The old man gave a book to Nick. "We are looking for mandrills."

Nick found it amazing and also doubtful that anyone would tell such a secret when they met for the first time.

Then the old man told Nick another story.

There was a painter who had extraordinary talent. He became famous early and won considerable attention in the local area. Some of his paintings were bought by several influential collectors. So this young man with arrogant words and deeds but good temperament

People hung out in saloons and drunkards and quickly contracted syphilis.

He captured several noble ladies, several young ladies and several maids, and infected the wife of one of his benefactors with the disease, who was then fed a mixture of dung beetles, hornbill droppings, galbanum and

With a small amount of medicine mixed with pistachio, his hair, eyelashes, and eyebrows all fell off. His hearing has degenerated into a low-level buzzing sound. His eyes have lost all color, leaving only darkness. His sense of smell cannot determine the attributes of a smell.

, but it was his only consciousness.

He smelled the cold and pain, and another outline of his own human nature. He lay on a dirty little bed, experiencing the unbearable coldness and dampness alone, like a fermented apple, exuding a little bit of...

Sweetness.

He died of loneliness, like a fallen autumn leaf, lying quietly in the darkness.

Nick felt familiar with the second story told by the old man, but the way he died in the end was too horrific.

For everyone, there is only one choice. If you choose one, you cannot choose the other. Nick chose to escape. He took the book and left after the rain stopped.

After returning to the village where he was staying, he asked Captain Yao if it had rained. Captain Yao said it had not rained at all, as if everything he had just experienced was just a dream.
Chapter completed!