That's right. Liu Li thought, it's still a working day, maybe she is working?
No, didn't she say she was on vacation?
Is that because the phone is on silent, watching movies, playing games, or taking beauty sleep?
Opening the game platform, Liu Li checked and confirmed that she was not online.
She has her own life in reality.
Liu Li felt an inexplicable depression, and the good mood he had just solved the misunderstanding for his friend suddenly dissipated.
"Let's do business first."
Liu Li opened the search engine. Naturally, what he was doing was not translating the Unknown Taoist Scriptures.
He wants to determine the origin of the Unnamed Taoist Scripture!
"According to my previous reasoning, after the client obtained this Taoist scripture, he did not find someone in the industry to translate it, but a friend's translation company. This proves that, first, the client's financial situation is not good and he cannot afford the cost of professional translation. Second, the origin of this Taoist scripture is not correct and cannot be given to knowledgeable people in the industry."
"Based on the fact that she plans to buy a plane ticket and come to discuss Taoism with me, we can basically rule out the possibility of one, which means that the possibility of two is very high."
Liu Li entered "Taoist temple stolen" into the search engine and selected the time within one year.
Then click on the news one by one.
If tangible evidence of the client's crime can be caught, he can directly contact the people in the Taoist temple and let experts who also have supernatural abilities deal with him to minimize his own risk.
Maybe you can also form a good relationship with domestic practitioners or something like that.
"The merit box was stolen..."
"The incense money was stolen..."
What is this? Liu Li is a little crazy. Why didn’t he call the police when the supreme scriptures he inherited were stolen?
"The Taoist priest's girlfriend's underwear mysteriously disappeared...?"
There are so many flaws that Liu Li doesn’t know how to complain.
After looking at it for a long time, I gained nothing.
"Thinking about it calmly, if this Taoist scripture is really a supreme scripture inherited by a supernatural force in China, and it is really stolen, it seems that they will not call the police."
"First of all, calling the police will have a huge impact on your reputation and face. Secondly, it will make more 'colleagues' have a robbing mentality, which will make it even more difficult to recover. They should be searching in secret."
"There is also a possibility that my thinking is wrong. The supreme scripture the client received was not stolen. Is there any other possibility?"
Can't figure it out.
Liu Li simply started translating the "Unknown Taoist Scriptures", which was his job, and he found that translating the Taoist Scriptures was actually a good way to force himself to learn and understand the Taoist Scriptures.
"As it is often said, to judge whether a person understands something depends on whether he can explain his understanding to others in an easy-to-understand manner."
Liu Li chose to translate "Crossing the Bridge and Dividing Lamps to Build the Foundation" first. He believed that this meditation method is the foundation of the entire Taoist scriptures, and he should prioritize deepening his understanding of it.
Then, start looking for information.
Check out proper nouns! Check out related science!
Fortunately, the characters in the PDF document are all simplified characters, not ancient Chinese characters. If they were ancient characters, Liu Li wouldn't even recognize them.
During the translation process, Liu Li felt that his understanding of the Taoist Scriptures had further deepened.
He even discovered many disharmonious places in the Taoist scriptures, and there were obvious traces of deletion.
General outline at the beginning.
The paragraph after "Third Grades of Medicine, Essence and Qi Shen" at the end of Fragment 1 has been deleted.
In the meditation method of "crossing the bridge and dividing the lamp to build the foundation", a paragraph has also been deleted. When Liu Li tried to translate it now, he found that its description of "crossing the bridge" was missing. The missing paragraph was in "Destiny to build a golden bridge, sex "Turn into feathers and light up the lamp" behind.
In the remaining volume 4, there may be flaws in the boxing techniques in the Taoist Scriptures. Liu Li's body ached all over after finishing practicing, which also illustrates this point.
"Alchemy may also have shortcomings." Liu Li thought: "It's just that I'm not familiar with that part, so I can't see it."
The customer is very thoughtful!
Even if the scriptures are handed over to a translation outsourcing company that has no knowledge of spiritual practice, passages are deliberately missing.
His two-dimensional avatar and polite tone are completely disguises!
"The word "Duqiao" is a proper Taoist noun. It is used to let the "soul" cross the "Nai River" and build a "gold and silver bridge" with magical power. The original text even uses the word "duqiao" and adds three points of water, which is intentional Is it different from Duqiao, or is it changed by the customer himself?"
"I ordered Cheng Jie Lin to build the golden bridge. Does fate refer to 'mana'?"
"In Taoist theory, sex refers to spiritual life, which can be understood as soul and the like, while life refers to physical life."
"Then the translation of this sentence is...the body turns into a beetle and is used as a golden bridge to cross the Nai River. The spirit turns into a bird and lights a lamp?"
"Do you have to imagine yourself turning into a beetle or a bird during meditation? This is too weird."
Liu Li thought hard.
Suddenly, he remembered what his client said when he communicated with him.
... Jie Lin, I understand that humans and many creatures on land also evolved from fish. But Mao Yu still doesn’t understand, why isn’t it translated as ‘butterfly moth’?
evolution!
"Ming is the 'life of the body', which can refer to the body. The body has evolved through evolution. Is the word "meta scale" used here a metaphor, referring to the gradual return of the body to its ancestors?"
"Many novels have similar settings. It is said that human DNA contains the blood of many ancient ferocious beasts. As long as the genetic locks that block them are unlocked, one can gain supreme power. Is that so? Right?"
Liu Li wasn't sure. It was outrageous enough that he was practicing with a weird and incomplete Taoist scripture. If he were to refer to the online novels he had read before, it would be scary to think about it.
While thinking hard, he suddenly understood why the client came to interview him. He also had many questions he wanted to ask the client, and he couldn't understand many cultivation terms!
While Liu Li was working seriously, his phone vibrated again. It was Guan Feihan's.
"Thank you, brother." Guan Feihan's voice was full of energy, and you can imagine that he was full of energy.
"I will come back. I have told the landlord that I don't need to find a new co-tenant, but I have to quarantine for a while. Oh, by the way, she said she would come over to stay with me and meet my parents with me. I I’m so touched. I’ll treat you to dinner when you come back.”
Liu Li was happy in his heart, but he could not help but feel some sour jealousy, so he hung up the phone after just a few words of greeting.
"Alas." Liu Li sighed.
He is one year younger than me!
Liu Li felt depressed and continued to translate the Unknown Taoist Scriptures with great difficulty.
The translation of Crossing the Bridge and Dividing Lights to Build the Foundation encountered difficulties. Liu Li simply translated the first recipe, but found that it was not much easier and he had to keep looking up information.
Check if he's hungry.
Fortunately, he had bought a bunch of snacks before, which came in handy now, and he had another meal.
While translating, Liu Li really came up with the idea of making something for himself, and started shopping online for glutinous rice flour, japonica rice flour, dried bean paste, black and white sesame seeds, honey, walnuts, jujubes, donkey hide gelatin...
Big buy special buy.
As for the winter flower wine, this was what surprised Liu Li the most, because he found that the winter flower wine recorded in the Taoist scriptures was actually sold now. He repeatedly confirmed the raw materials and methods and found one that was closest to the description in the Taoist scriptures. You can buy it directly from the store, it’s not expensive!
Moreover, he also got new information.
"Dear, our winter flower wine has a long history. It is drunk after the winter solstice and is the top grade rice wine. The ancestors of the Han Dynasty began to make winter flower wine as early as the Han Dynasty. Based on the traditional winter wine brewed with osmanthus and glutinous rice, With the addition of many health-preserving herbs, our prescription is ancient and authentic, with golden color, fragrant smell, light sweet taste, soft and soft taste, which can relax muscles and activate muscles, relieve muscle fatigue, and exercise the spleen and lungs..."
This is what the store customer service told Liu Li.
"As early as the Han Dynasty, winter flower wine was used to exercise the spleen and lungs..."
This is in line with the spirit of Taoist "eating bait" cultivation technique!
When looking for "food", Liu Li once read an explanation from traditional Chinese medicine. Some people believe that human body exercise can be divided into exercising external limb muscles, or it can also be divided into exercising internal organs and metabolic systems. The practice of "food bait" is to exercise the body. Internal organs!
The two factors confirmed that Liu Li felt that the winter flower wine must be effective, so he bought more.
After finishing shopping, "Very Sweet Snowflake" suddenly replied.
Very Sweet Snowflake: What is so outrageous?
Very Sweet Snowflake: I was just playing an escape room with my friends and didn’t see it.
Escape room? When Liu Li saw this word, his heart skipped a beat.
Are you playing with your boyfriend? Liu Li heard that this kind of game can cultivate the relationship between men and women!
Liu Li was wary, but he didn't say it directly and started typing.
Spring Lightning: My roommate who shared the same apartment with me was suddenly called to communicate with his girlfriend yesterday. He thought that her girlfriend wanted to break up with him, so he drank with me in frustration...
Liu Li briefly told what happened. He hoped that after he told the story here, the other party could also share the situation on her side.
"Pfft." said the very sweet Snow Flower, "Why is this like this? Isn't she afraid of leaving a thorn in her boyfriend's heart?"
Liu Li said: "At least the ending is perfect."
"Not necessarily." A very sweet Xuehua sent a message: "Maybe she changed her mind. She originally wanted to break up, but regretted it. She must know what kind of words will really hurt her boyfriend's heart."
Liu Lishun asked: "It's possible. By the way, how was your escape room experience over there?"
"Hey, the third boss of the division took us to play. It's called team building to cultivate relationships and relax. Didn't he think that team building during the holidays would only delay our rest time? But the secret room is still fun, and I'm a little kid. My partner was so frightened by the ghost he was pretending to be that he screamed, she acted really well."
"We cleared the level at light speed and even broke the store's clearance record. The third boss even told us that we should play more and it would be a loss."
Seeing that it was a company team building and her focus was on speedrunning, Liu Li breathed a sigh of relief.
After chatting for a while, Liu Li told her that if Qingyu would hold an online party tonight, ask for a leave for him, as he has been busy recently.
He has to make complete preparations for the arrival of his customers, which is a matter of life and death.
Later, Liu Li soon discovered that the time he could maintain meditation was very short. If it exceeded half an hour, his attention would be lost, his mind would be distracted, and it would have no effect at all.
He was not idle either and started watching the self-defense instructional videos sent to him by the store selling self-defense umbrellas.
In addition to various small skills, this teaching video actually invites a master who studies sword and shield strikes to explain footwork, line of sight occlusion, techniques for exerting force in swinging sticks, etc.
That night.
Liu Li dreamed of that Taoist temple again. This time when the thin Taoist sang loudly, he sat on the floor and practiced with him.
He found that practicing Taoism in this way was very effective!
Following the "lead singer", he sang along in a low voice, but found that his breath could not keep up, as if his lung capacity was not enough!
When he woke up the next day, his sweat soaked the entire bed sheet and he was terribly thirsty.