They had already set a date for their wedding, which was New Year's Day. The wedding of Jing Song and Jing Feng was held at the same time. Jing Feng decided that in a little more than a month's time, while the construction of the Horse Deity Temple was going on, the old site of the Goddess Shen Ao Temple would be cleared out.
Jing Feng did not leave his side when they were on the ground. From time to time, he would ask Gu Tong to help him load the stones he had picked into the car. Finally, he found the basketball stone that he could not forget, the so-called " Jade King ".
When the entire temple yard was cleared out, Jing Feng picked up more than twenty stones that he thought were ideal. They were of different sizes and shapes. After seeing the appearance and layout of the temple at a glance, he saw that most of the buildings had collapsed. The pillars in the hall were all large logs, but they were tilted and not broken.
Jing Feng specially went to check on the bright pillars. They had been buried in the soil for many years, but there was no sign of decay. He did not know what kind of paint had been used to soak them. This wasn't shocking enough. What was even more shocking was that each pillar had a different carved pattern on it." Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl,"" Black Dragon Stirring Water,"" Green Dragon Rainfall,"" The Clouds Rolling,"" Waves Surging..." It was so lifelike.
Jing Feng had invited an art teacher from the county town who knew how to draw. He had drawn the architectural drawings of the entire structure, layout, and style of the temple. He planned to build the temple after the completion of the Horse Temple.
In the days when he had nothing to do, Jing Feng often went to the old site of the temple of Goddess Shen Ao. His purpose was not just to find a stone egg. In Jing Feng's own words, he felt that there was something there that attracted him, as if it was his soul!
Thus, Jing Feng would go and take a look every few days, rummaging through this place and poking around that place.
"Boss! He looked like a person…How could there be someone like him in the Divine Ao Temple?”Gu Tong pointed at the statue of an ancient scholar that had been smashed into pieces.
"I'm interested in this scholar statue, so I come to take a look from time to time. The statue of the Divine Turtle was in the middle of the hall. There were two followers on both sides, an old turtle and a giant python. This scholar should be out of place here, so why was he alone in the west wing?”Jing Feng had been thinking about it.
Just three days ago, Jing Feng had found this scholar statue in the west wing room. First, he dug out the head of the clay statue, then he found three parts of the body, and the waist was missing!
"Could it be a student who is staying here to take the exam?”Gu Tong suddenly asked.
"That's really possible! However, the candidates had to leave. How could they end up leaving a statue in this Divine Ao Temple? This doesn't make sense!"
As Jing Feng and Gu Tong were discussing, they waved their iron claws in search of the clay sculpture of the scholar's waist. With a creak, they dug out a black wooden box inlaid with iron sheet. The box fell apart. The lid could not fall off, and the bottom had also fallen off. Only four frames were left, and a silk book fell out from inside.
"Don't move! Treasure!" Jing Feng's shout was especially effective on Gu Tong. Gu Tong immediately stopped and stared at the carpenter and the silk book with his small eyes like two small searchlights.
"What kind of treasure is a rag? Tsk! How funny!"
"The black wooden box is valuable! Now that it's rotten, it's worthless!"
Jing Feng picked up all these and brought them home. In the dead of the night, he couldn't sleep, so he took out the book and flipped through it. Jing Feng was stunned when he saw it." What words? I don't know half of them!"
After staring at it for a long time, Jing Feng suddenly thought of something. He jumped off the bed and went to his treasure storage room barefooted to rummage through the cabinets. She was still mumbling," This isn't Chinese or a foreign language. However, I must have seen this language before. Why can't I remember it?"”
When he found a stack of papers in a stone box, he was happy and almost cheered. Because he remembered that it was night, he only jumped a few times.
He compared the words on the paper he found with the words on the silk book. "The language of the underground food race! I will translate this book!”
Jing Feng didn't go out for a few days. Even when Gu Tong came looking for him, he also dived into the house and did not come out. Everyone thought that Jing Feng was still messing around with his beloved rock egg. Ever since Chairman Ji bought Jing Feng a set of stone gambling equipment from the south, Jing Feng had been practicing behind closed doors, playing with his stones repeatedly.
Not many people knew that Jing Feng was translating this book, which was written in a strange language, word by word. Gu Tong was one of the few who knew about it. He came to Jing Feng every day. At first, he wanted to play with Jing Feng's stone balls, but later on, he wanted to read the book. After Jing Feng's translation, he really understood it, and the more he read, the more interested he became. He even found it interesting!
This book was actually an account of a strange and mysterious experience of that scholar. The scholar was called Hua Ben. He had been lonely since he was young and grew up with his sister who had never married. He married and had children. Just as he was preparing for his sister to get married and have a home, his wife, Shi Xiu, passed away from illness, leaving behind a pair of children. They were all from Huaxi Fort, living in the Tianshun to Jingtai years of the Ming Dynasty. The book was written on an autumn day in the third year of Jingtai. After the two-year-old Hua Ben failed the provincial examination, he was too ashamed to go home to see his sister Hua Hua, who had relied on him for survival, and his children Hua Xiang and Hua Fei.
This was what Hanamoto wrote in the book-
The moment I stood in front of the notice without the name "Hanamoto", my ideals and aspirations fell into a helpless state. This wasn't a necessity in my life, but it was also the norm in my life, and it was the truth now. Looking at history, the sadness of not being recognized, the regret of missing the opportunity, and the pain of falling into the secular world could be said to be the reflection of this normal state of life.
He remembered that in the Analects of Confucius, there was a conversation between a disciple of Confucius and someone else: Zilu rushed into the city early in the morning. The guard at the city gate asked,"Where did you come from?"
"From the Kong family," Zi Lu replied.
The gatekeeper said,"Is it the one who knows he can't do it but insists on doing it?"”
Zilu looked at the gatekeeper and didn't say anything. It should be said that the gatekeeper's words indeed summarized and accurately stated the truth of Confucius's pursuit of his ideals. In the era of war, where the vassals fought for hegemony, Confucius 'ideal of restoring benevolence was undoubtedly difficult to work.
Confucius sighed when he was besieged several times, indicating that he understood this point. His unwillingness to give up only showed his unshakable faith in achieving his ideals. We can't always succeed, but not all failures are tragic.
Alright…I made up my mind. After wandering around the Bottomless Pit for four hours, I lost the ambition of a young man as I was disheartened and hopeless. I didn't care about anything and jumped into the Bottomless Pit without any responsibility.
" Crackle, crackle, crackle…" I kept falling, occasionally rolling…In an instant, my face wasn't my face, my hands weren't my hands, and my body wasn't my body…After scraping, cutting, stabbing, bumping, rubbing, falling, and bumping, I finally fell to the ground with a plop, but I also lost consciousness at the right time.
After an unknown amount of time.
" Awoooo…Chi chi chi…"
I was roused by a loud noise, coming from the gaping bloody hole beneath two enormous, swaying green lanterns. The huge thing came and went, high and low, left and right, swaying, spinning, twisting, twisting, bringing with it the wind and rain, as if it wanted to shatter everything and destroy everything. The two large lanterns seemed to be filled with green light as well. They shone brightly in an endless stream, each wave brighter than the last, as if they wanted to pierce through everything and see through everything.
It was obvious that this gigantic monster had been smashed quite heavily by me. It was truly enraged. It was simply unable to contain its anger and was extremely furious. It didn't display its might because of its size, but it displayed its toughness because of its size.
But for a long time, I saw a huge head moving and two lanterns swaying. Neither of them could hurt the other.”After a while, the giant stopped shaking its head. Instead, it opened its mouth and wanted to bite something. It must be trying to swallow the guy who dared to invade her cave, hurt its abdomen, and disturb its cultivation for tens of thousands of years. With its attack, the lantern shone on its abdomen.
So I was curled up there! My face was tilted, my legs were curled up, and my feet were facing that bloody mouth!
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