Chapter 339: Completing the Last Wish of the Old Sicheng (3)
In an instant, it was as if a spiritual light was aroused, and Yang Ji became excited. Although he didn't know how Mr. Chen left this imprint, there was no doubt that it was indeed a page character.
Yang Ji couldn't judge anything from the previous numbers, but the words on this page suddenly inspired Yang Ji.
"17? Pages?... Could these things represent book pages? Yes, Mr. Chen must have some basis for making these drawings. And the biggest basis is probably those books. No, it should be those ancient books!"
Yang Ji became excited.
Who was the previous Nongsang Sicheng? He was a completely ordinary person. He had never experienced the previous dynasty, so how did he know that there was a Nongsang ancient treasury in the previous dynasty, and he also knew that there might be a strange valley from the previous dynasty in the ancient treasury.
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Then why don’t you think about it? Of course it’s a book.
Scholars know everything about the world without going out. What do they rely on? It's not just books. Thinking of this, Yang Ji was enlightened. Although he didn't know whether it was correct or not, deep down in his heart, Yang Ji already believed that he was probably right.
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boom!
Pressing his palms on the ground, Yang Jihuo stood up impatiently. The Nongsangsi Yamen said it was not small, but it was not big.
He turned around and walked in through the door from the back of the lobby, walked through an alley, and stopped when he reached an antique room in the depths.
In front of me are rows of bookshelves, filled with books on agriculture, mulberry and water conservancy, as well as many files. Some of the threads are loosely bound, and the pieces of paper are still exposed.
"All the books are here."
Yang Ji thought to himself that it would be very troublesome to find so many books.
"These things are very important, so he must read them frequently. So, if there are any clues, they must be in this area."
Yang Ji first excluded the files. The files recorded this year's farmland water conservancy, harvests, droughts and floods, damage to farm tools, and disasters. It couldn't be here.
Yang Ji quickly set his sights on the books with their pages rolled up.
Whoosh!
Yang Ji took out a book from the bookshelf, opened the pages and began to search.
"17...24...17...24..."
Yang Ji murmured to himself. From left to right, he read each book one by one. After reading it, he inserted it back, "Not this one, not this one... and not this one."
Although he still didn't know what these things were pointing to, Yang Ji had a vague premonition in his heart. He checked each book one by one. About half an hour later, when Yang Ji took out a book again, his fingers suddenly stopped.
This is a very old book, but it is different from what Yang Ji imagined. Except for some warping in some places, most places are quite smooth.
If it hadn't been for long-term reading and no way to avoid some curling, Yang Ji would have almost excluded this book. It can be seen that the people who read this book value it very much and take care of it very carefully.
"Page 17, page 17..."
Yang Ji opened the book and held it on his left palm, looking at page 17 of the book. After just a few glances, his eyes became stagnant.
This is a nostalgic note left by a very old Nongsang Sicheng in the Han Dynasty. Judging from the age of the book, this Nongsang Sicheng probably took office, or even longer.
previous.
The content of the book is actually very simple. In fact, the old farmer Sang Sicheng cared about his young successors, told them some things about farmland water conservancy, and told his successors some of his experiences in farmland water conservancy for decades.
This stuff is very tedious and detailed. It doesn't have much stated value.
The only special thing on page 17 is that the old farmer Sang Sicheng, while tirelessly admonishing him, spoke with emotion about something he heard from an unknown person, earlier, probably at the beginning of the founding of the Han Dynasty.
An anecdote about Nong Sang Si.
It is said that the Nongsang Cave Library in Langya County is not the current one, but another one. More than a thousand years ago, when the Han Dynasty first established its hegemony, the first few Nongsang Sichengs in Langya County managed the Nongsang Water Conservancy.
It's not in this place now. It's somewhere else.
That place is said to be deep in the mountains and belonged to the former dynasty.
The Nongsang Sicheng at that time once lamented that the cave in the previous dynasty was too far away and it was really inconvenient to move it over a long distance.
The old farmer at that time, Sang Sicheng, had also advanced the idea. In fact, the cave was not that remote at first, at least it should not have been that remote during the previous dynasty.
It is only with the vicissitudes of life, land changes, wars, chaos, and dynasty changes that the location seems so remote.
After all, Langya City was also newly built on a barren plain.
Sang Sicheng, an old farmer at that time, said with emotion that he must build another treasury in the future, preferably closer to Langya City, which would be more convenient.
Unexpectedly, the old farmer Sang Sicheng at that time was too old. Not long after he finished speaking these words, he died without explaining anything clearly.
This situation is exactly the same as that of Mr. Chen before Yang Ji.
As soon as the old Nongsang Sicheng died, everything about the Nongsang Ancient Treasury and the large farm tools of the previous dynasty that had been moved out of the Nongsang Ancient Treasury disappeared.
Since then, no one knows where the Nongsang ancient library is or where it is in the mountains.
A great place has just disappeared!
According to what has been passed down from generation to generation by the Nongsang Division of Langya County, there are actually a lot of good things in that ancient warehouse. At the beginning, they even planted exotic grains that were drought-resistant and high-yielding.
Just because of the previous war, there were not many foreign grain seeds in the Nongsang ancient library of the previous dynasty. Therefore, every time after planting, the foreign grain seeds would be harvested.
Who would have thought that after only planting it a few times, it would be gone.
Except within the Nongsang Division, the people in Langya County didn't even know that they had grown that special exotic grain.
The old Nongsang Sicheng mentioned in the book that he heard this story from the previous generation Nongsang Sicheng himself, and the previous generation Nongsang Sicheng heard it from the previous generation Nongsang Sicheng... This is true for every generation.
Passed down, it has almost become a practice for Nongsang Sicheng to hand over the inheritance!
Although the news cannot be verified, it should be true. At least every generation of old farmer Sang Sicheng believes it is true, otherwise it would not be passed down from generation to generation.
The old farmer Sang Sicheng sighed in the book until the end.
Yang Ji held the book with his left palm. After reading this page, he raised his head and couldn't tell what he felt.
"I'm afraid this book is the source of everything. It's probably because of this that Chen Sicheng, who took office, worked tirelessly and spent his whole life pursuing this dream."
Yang Ji sighed in his heart.
The palm of his hand gently brushed over the pages of the book, and the stories in the book seemed to exude a smell that penetrated his nose. Yang Ji's eyes penetrated endless time, as if he had seen countless days and nights, Lao Si
Cheng stood alone on the bookshelf, lit an oil lamp, and read this book over and over again. When he was about to retreat countless times, he encouraged himself and drew the motivation to move forward!
Yang Ji let out a long sigh and couldn't explain what he was feeling. He opened the book and turned to page 24.
"Um?"
Yang Ji frowned, and his eyes followed something that fell out of the book and fell to the ground. It was a book page. The pages of the paper were withered and yellow, and they seemed to be older than the book in Yang Ji's hand.
Yang Ji knelt down, picked it up, took a look at it, and immediately discovered something special, "This is a page from another book. Not to mention the paper, even the handwriting is not the same...the two are not the same book at all. "
Yang Ji was secretly surprised. It seemed that Chen Sicheng had pulled it out of a different book and stuck it on page 24. He didn't pay attention when he opened it to that page, and the palm of his hand was slanted. I was holding a book to borrow, so the page suddenly fell out.
Yang Ji put the paper back on page 24, clipped it again, and then started reading.
The Zhang inside is older and seems to have been left by the earlier Nongsang Sicheng. As Yang Ji initially expected, the content in the pages is also about the Nongsang Ancient Cave of the previous dynasty.
However, the content in the book is different from page 17. This page actually records the situation inside the Nongsang Ancient Cave:
"...the entrance there (Nongsang Ancient Cave) is very hidden. There are many gravels and vines covering the cave entrance. In the surrounding mountains and forests, ferocious beasts often pass by."
"Going in from the entrance, there is a corridor. The corridor is more than 20 feet long. The ground is paved with sharp gravel, which makes it very difficult to walk. Once inside, you can see two broken handrails with fist-sized nails on them. Stone unicorns stand tall, one of which is blind in its left eye..."
"There is a thick rock above the head, which is very solid. It is supported by a keel made of steel. The keel is engraved with inscriptions from the previous dynasty. Although it is damaged, it is still intact..."
"The Nongsang Ancient Cave is very huge, with a farm tool room at the front. There is a water wheel as big as a building, which is very precise. There is a large millstone for pounding grains. All the grains and chaff go down from one end, and the rice grains go down from the other end of the pipe. Places on the ground There are many pipes, much like those used for irrigation..."
"Behind the farm tool room, half of the left side is the book borrowing room. The book borrowing room is made of steel and requires a special key to enter. But there are fences and you can see the books and bookshelves inside. Not only books on agriculture, mulberry and water conservancy, but also There are files from the previous dynasty..."
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This is a paraphrase of text, all kinds of things, very detailed. It describes the situation in the Nongsang Ancient Library. Judging from the records in the book, the Nongsang Ancient Library is much larger than Yang Ji imagined.
"It seems that all the records in the back are related to Nongsang Ancient Library."
At this time, Yang Ji felt enlightened. The deceased Lao Sicheng not only read this book, but also put in a lot of effort and read a large number of books.
He found many hidden and similarly recorded contents of the Nongsang Ancient Library in different books, and then he was convinced of the existence of the Nongsang Ancient Library.
Moreover, it was precisely these historical records that inspired Lao Sicheng to spend his whole life tirelessly visiting mountains and rivers, exploring the terrain of Langya County, and searching for the existence of Nongsang Ancient Treasury. (To be continued, please search. Piaotian Literature, novels are better and updated faster!