Into the modern comprehension

Sui Erqi and the others finally boarded the boat to Beijing with Fang Xingjian. Although they didn't know if there was an ulterior motive hidden behind his enthusiastic face, they could solve the problem nearby if they kept the danger by their side.

This trip to Beijing has not encountered any twists and turns.

Sui Erqi and the others left the desert in November, but when they came to this small world, it happened to be April weather. Spring was warm and flowers were blooming. Everyone took a boat from the south to the capital city in the north.There was not only Fang Xingjian, a scholar rushing for the exam, but a medium-sized passenger ship with about 20 people in addition to the boatman. Half of them were students rushing for the exam. There were students of all ages.

These people expressed the same welcome attitude towards Sui Erqi and the other four who had different appearances. Even if the exam is imminent, they still have to find a way to talk to the four without delaying the review. What has become of the world.

Sui Erqi wanted to test it out, so he talked about the plane and the train, but the scholars showed no other expressions after they were amazed.When they asked about things outside, they seemed to be asking about a beautiful dream, but they could see dreams and life very clearly, and they would never have the idea of ​​overstepping the limits.Not only the scholars, but also the boatmen responded in the same way. In short, finding the slightest flaw from their exposed faces is beyond the scope of acting skills.

Sui Erqi had to sigh when he returned to the cabin, "I really want to lift the scarf covering the back of my head and see the thoughts on the other faces."

Dabaidan, who hadn't made a sound for a long time after being eggshelled, finally spoke again, "I've already seen it secretly, and I almost fell to the ground in fright. You will definitely have nightmares, so it's better not to look at it."

The big white egg is not willing to be a safe egg, and there are no entertainment activities on this boat, so it can only hide secretly by the edge of the window and seize every opportunity to observe the people in the cabin. Of course, it saw the Haoran scarf on the back of its head Those completely different faces when blown up.

Sadness, jealousy, and hatred are all there, and these are the seven emotions and six desires of human beings.A normal human being, no matter how upright and kind-hearted, is impossible to be completely free from negative emotions, but a double-faced person just never shows negative emotions in front of others, and the face behind the person still has everything that should be there.Perhaps because of the complete separation of emotions, the negative emotions displayed on the faces of these double-faced people are particularly ferocious.

Sui Erqi is too lazy to warn the restless Dabaidan, if you like to take risks, you must be prepared to fall into the pit, and if Dan likes to peep, you must have the consciousness of being broken. Don't blame anyone at critical moments.

"Judging from the chats with these people, people from these two countries are still very welcoming to visitors. No matter whether they have other thoughts in their hearts, they can't be seen in front of others. It's not just Fang Xingjian who is like this, but The whole country is like this. When we arrive in the capital, don’t rush to the Taoist temple, but go to the bookstore and look at the history books here, maybe there are records of those visitors from the earth back then.”

Uncle Xiang also agreed, although almost everyone here said that the way to the outside world is in that Taoist temple, but they have to go to the field to make a judgment, and they can't just go to the Taoist temple rashly.Taking a step back, since I have come to Liangmianguo and know how to get back, I have to buy some special products to take back, and I can’t just leave without shopping anywhere in such a hurry.

In the eyes of many people on the modern earth, history books are tasteless, tasteless, and a pity to discard. People's pace is getting faster and faster, and there is not enough time to make money. How can they read history books at leisure.

Even though it has been heard that the ups and downs can be known by taking history as a mirror, human beings have not jumped out of the vicious circle of repeating history, and reading or not is only a matter for a small number of people.

But when you come to a small world, if you want to understand it as quickly as possible, reading history books is a must.

The characters here are similar to the characters of the Hua Kingdom, Sui Erqi even found a dusty book "An Examination of the Tang Characters" in the bookstore, which compares the characters of the Tang Dynasty in the Liangmian Kingdom and the Great Practice World, It is a dictionary-like book, which compares the similarities and differences between the two in detail.

It also mentioned two famous figures in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang. When the book was compiled, these two monks were also reviewed. Two of them left inscriptions for this book. True or false.

When Sui Erqi went to check out with a stack of books, the shopkeeper frowned at this "Tang Wenwen Kao", he was sure he had never seen this book before, "This is not a book in our store, customers read it." Its appearance is damaged like this, we will not sell books like this, it may be the books left by the bookstore when the bookstore changed hands.

Sui Er Qi thanked him, the storekeeper of the bookstore was honest and generous in this regard, and had no intention of charging him more money by taking advantage of it.Maybe the people of the Two-Faced Kingdom are like this, no matter what they have to maintain a modest and gentlemanly demeanor in front of others, so as to be worthy of their kind face.

Wu Yi insisted on sharing the four piles of books for Sui Erqi, saying that he would not let Sui Erqi carry them alone. When he walked out of the bookstore, he turned his head and saw the shopkeeper's appropriate smile watching them leave, as if Waiting for customers to come to buy books next time.

"Hypocrisy." Wu Yi muttered in a low voice, "I just don't like this place, everyone is laughing, I'm afraid they are also laughing when killing people."

Sui Erqi agreed with Wu Yi's words in his heart, he quickened his pace back to the inn.After they came to the capital yesterday, they received invitations from the national teacher, not to invite them to visit, but to visit the guests from Yuandao at the inn.

The past few days are enough for Sui Erqi to know the status of the national teacher in the Liangmian Kingdom. Generally speaking, the previous national teachers are the emperor's teachers. The Liangmian Kingdom has gone through dynasties, and the emperor has changed several families, but the position of the national teacher has always existed. , Most of them are monks.This made Sui Erqi more cautious about the arrival of this national teacher, would there be anything in these foreign guests that the national teacher asked for?

Uncle Xiang and Feng Feng went to the Taoist temple that is said to have a road to the earth. It is located in the center of the capital, but the incense is not strong, and the gate is usually closed.When passers-by saw Uncle Xiang and Feng Feng, they warmly reminded them that there were people stationed in the Taoist temple for a long time, and they would open the door as soon as they knocked.

Uncle Xiang knocked on the door, and the gatekeeper did open the door, but he didn't let them in right away, saying that they wanted a pass.It is not difficult to do it, as long as the national teacher shows a certificate.The national teacher is very good at talking, and will not embarrass them on this.

Uncle Xiang didn't expect to be able to enter the Taoist temple immediately to find out. Anyway, this is also the connection point of the two worlds, and he can't just go there just like visiting his own back garden. "What exactly does the national teacher think, we will find out in three days."

It is indeed a bit rushed to read the history books of the two-faced country in three days, but they still have to seize the slightest bit of time to understand this strange country, and they must not let go of any clues related to the outside world.

The so-called courteous corporal means that there must be something to ask for.Sui Erqi knows very little about this country. Judging from the side shown by everyone, the two-faced country lacks curiosity about the outside world, and maintains a friendly attitude towards outsiders, that's all .

It was almost no accident, Sui Erqi found some records about foreign visitors in the history books, every time they came, they would leave a note in the history books, and then wrote when they left from the Taoist temple in the capital.The content is just a few sentences, and there is nothing special about it.

From 300 years ago, that is, the beginning of the Hua Dynasty in the Two-Face Kingdom, the records of foreign monks have obviously decreased. In these 300, 180 years, only five cases were recorded, and the most recent one was more than [-] years ago. That is, during the Qing Dynasty when the Hua Kingdom on Earth was located, a monk came here before the book "Flowers in the Mirror" was written, and it was recorded that one of his companions stayed in the two-faced country and never left.

Sui Erqi looked at this record, it was very similar to the story of the Double-Faced Kingdom written in the book "Flowers in the Mirror".It is said that a monk surnamed Yao came to the Kingdom of Two Faces with his little boy. They originally came to find a herbal medicine, which is only for the treatment of eye diseases, so that the blind can see again.However, after ten years of failing to find the herb, Cultivator Yao decided to leave. At this time, his little boy had already grown the face on the back of his head, so he decided to stay, because he would be treated as a monster if he went back.

"Is there anything wrong with this story?" Wu Yi also read this record and found nothing wrong.

Sui Erqi shook his head, "I was just thinking about it later. After this little boy stayed, his descendants became people from the Double-Faced Kingdom for generations. Didn't he miss the outside world? Neither did his descendants." Have you heard him talk about the past?"

Wu Yi couldn't answer, maybe this little boy was just a small person, and his surname was not even recorded in the history books, let alone recorded his later life. "Who will remember the story of a small person, he will not leave a name in history at all. Let alone the matter of this boy, we have probably read all the history books, and there is no record of conflicts between foreign monks and this place. .They all came to find certain medicinal materials, and then left from that Taoist temple. The emperor changed one crop after another, but the Taoist temple has always been there. Did you find anything special from this history book?"

"I don't think this history book is complete." Sui Erqi really saw something wrong. He read history books all the year round. The content may be boring for laymen, but he has instinctively discovered some flaws, "This history book The content of the book takes Huachao, that is, the time when the monks began to gradually reduce their coming here, as the breakpoint. There are some inconsistencies between the previous content and the subsequent content.

During the Hua Dynasty, the regime of the Two-Face Kingdom was transferred from south to north, and the capital where we were located became the new capital.However, looking forward to find the records of this capital in the history books, there are many ambiguities.But on the other hand, although this became the capital of the two-faced country later, it has always been a connection point with the outside world.

That is to say, when recording foreign monks up to this time, the capital must be mentioned, but in other records, the records about this place are always vague.For a country, this is very strange.Whether it was a traffic hub in the past, what kind of talents it produced, and the records in the history books are inconsistent.This point is puzzling. "

Uncle Xiang was flipping through the "Tang Characters" and listening to Sui Qi's analysis, he also raised a very strange point, "I also found a strange thing here. There are many words in this dictionary. The fonts next to the word 目, these are not found in Chinese characters, and they are newly created fonts here. However, I bought some story books and poems that are currently published, and I found that these words next to the word 目 rarely appear again The flow of this text is too capricious."

Sui Erqi looked at the words next to the word "mu" circled by Uncle Xiang, and he also discovered this point. The fonts next to the word "mu" are rarely used in the books of Liangmianguo nowadays.

The evolution of a font will never be sudden, and the creation of characters is not achieved overnight. Similarly, there must be a reason for the former characters to become dead characters, and they will not be cut off overnight, unless the country it belongs to perishes. Like Xixia characters, it has become a dead text.

Before Sui Erqi had the time to figure out the problem, three days had passed, and the national teacher came to the door.

The national teacher is a middle-aged man with a fairy spirit, he looks more kind than all the people in the double-faced country he has seen. "A few friends came from afar, so I should come to visit. Although I know that some of them are in a hurry to go home, I still have the audacity to delay their time. This is just to hear about the outside world, and we have had no one for too long Now that it’s here, I’m bound to be curious.”

Sui Erqi looked at the national teacher, trying to read something from his face, it was absolutely wasted effort.He took advantage of the opportunity to chat with the national teacher for a while, and the content was no different from the content of the chat with other people on the boat. The national teacher's reaction was more than surprised, but he was not interested in getting to the bottom of it.

After chatting for more than two hours, the national teacher took out a letter, "Here is the pass for the Taoist temple, just take it with you. It really wastes your time chatting with me, I wish you all It's been smooth sailing."

Gone?The big white egg hid in the back and eavesdropped on the chat in the front hall, it didn't realize at all what the national teacher was here for, did he really come here to chat casually?

It's not just Dabaidan who has doubts about this, Sui Erqi also has a feeling of punching cotton, as if the national teacher really came to chat. "When we went to that Taoist temple, it seemed that we had to be more careful, in case something went wrong..."

Yang Jie said directly, "Then blow up the Taoist temple. I dare not let go of my voice on earth, because I am afraid that the building will collapse. I don't feel bad if it collapses here."