Dialogue between ancient and modern: I create programs, national treasures have spirits

Chapter 140 I'm Cracked

Li's deep eyes looked at Yi Ze who was kneeling beside him.

The tortoise shell engraved with the mysterious eye symbol was suspended in mid-air in a way that violated the laws of physics.

Newton wanted to hit someone when he saw it.

In mid-air, in fact, it was about a foot or two above the ground, and the height was just right to the position of Yi Ze's chest.

Like the blood beads that were slowly spinning before, the tortoise shell was also spinning in mid-air.

It's like a tortoise still swirling in the water.

Li's movements were very gentle, and he pulled a small charcoal fire tripod over.

The small tripod has three legs, and the patterns of various animals are carved around it, which is very exquisite.

If it can be brought back to modern times, it will definitely be an exquisite American treasure that is not inferior to the Siyang Fangzun.

But even such an exquisite utensil is actually only used as a stove at the moment.

Three legs, two ears, and one tripod coincide with the Taoist saying that one begets one, two begets one, and three begets two.

It's just that at this time there was no so-called Taoism in later generations.

Therefore, no one knows what kind of implication this small tripod with three legs and two ears has.

Maybe it's simply because it's so stable.

In the small cauldron, the charcoal fire was raging, emitting orange flames.

It can be seen that the temperature inside is very high.

The action of the calendar is not over.

He took out a bamboo slip from his pocket, and then took out a simple writing brush, and wrote simple symbols on it with cinnabar.

There is no doubt that bamboo and wood slips were the most important writing carrier in the Yin and Shang Dynasties.

As for all the bones discovered by later generations are tortoise shells and animal bones, it is also easy to understand.

More than 3000 years have passed, no matter how tough the bamboo and wood slips are, they will rot with the wind and frost.

Only the tortoise shell and animal bones buried in the ground can be permanently preserved because of the particularity of their materials.

As for whether there was ink ink as it is called today, I don't know now.

Pen, ink, paper and inkstone, the so-called Four Treasures of the Study, were not produced on the same line.

The pen is definitely the earliest one among the four.

The black ink commonly used in later generations was still in the state of natural ink in the past, such as soot, pigment, cinnabar and so on.

On the oracle bones that have been discovered so far, there were traces of characters written with cinnabar.

After more than 3000 years, it is still clearly identifiable.

Later generations often say that Meng Tian improved the brush, making the brush have better writing performance.

But in the age of ancient pottery, people have already created the writing material of writing brush.

Writing with a brush in the Yin and Shang Dynasties is not a strange phenomenon.

Yi Ze was very curious about what Li wrote on the bamboo slips.

He leaned over to take a look, but he didn't recognize any of the symbols on it.

This is very embarrassing.

Yi Ze could only watch helplessly as Li Gong finished writing neatly, and then threw the bamboo and wood slips into the small cauldron.

The fiery high temperature quickly ignited the bamboo slips, and a ball of flames spewed out.

"Maybe this is Shang Da Tian Ting?"

Yi Ze murmured in his heart.

The later generations have about the divination process of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, which are basically based on incomplete historical facts and reasonable speculation.

But because of the incompleteness of the historical facts themselves, no one dares to say whether there will be any omissions in the details.

After all, the words in the history books have undergone more than 3000 years of changes, and no one knows whether someone will add or delete a sentence or a few words in the middle.

As a written history book, the structure is rigorous, and there are basically no vernacular words. What's more, less important information will be eliminated.

Therefore, today, more than 3000 years later, the divination process of the Yin and Shang Dynasties based on reasonable speculation based on historical records is more general and somewhat untrue.

It always gives people a feeling that there is not much sense of ceremony.

It seems that this divination is nothing more than that.

But Yin Shang, as an era of supreme respect for ghosts and gods, how could there be omissions in the details of this kind of divination involving ghosts and gods.

It's like entering a Buddhist temple now, and no one goes in and shouts out the Blessings of Boundless Heavenly Venerable.

The simple details of the ceremony, seemingly inconspicuous, are actually the essence of a belief.

This represents a simple propaganda that is widely circulated, too complicated or completely ignored, it will not work.

What Amitabha, Fusheng Wuliang, Amen, these simple and catchy phrases, in fact, have a strong religious color behind them, and they are also golden signs created by religions to better promote themselves.

Therefore, as a Yin Shang who respects ghosts and gods to the extreme, he pays more attention to the rituals in the divination process, and there is no possibility of any mistakes.

The complex techniques shown at this moment actually show this point.

Whether it is the special gestures made when trimming the tortoise shell, or the concentration when writing the bamboo and wooden slips and putting them into the small tripod, it actually shows an attitude, an ancient ritual passed down.

It is not clear whether ghosts and gods can see or not, but what people should do must be done well.

The bamboo slips were burned to fly ash, and there was a fresh bamboo smell in the air.

Li raised his hand to take off the tortoise shell, and put the whole thing in the small cauldron.

In an instant, all the flames were suppressed.

Even the scorching heat was completely hidden.

The thin tortoise shell is like a pot lid that suppresses the fireworks at this moment, pressing all the scorching heat under the body and enduring it alone.

Strangely, with such a hot temperature, the tortoise shell didn't crack the moment it entered. Instead, it gradually became somewhat transparent because of the flames.

It wasn't just Yi Ze who was surprised, even the audience couldn't believe it.

"Just now the bamboo and wood slips were burnt when they went in. Why didn't the tortoise shell respond at all?"

"This is really weird. Could it be that this is also a special effect?"

"It's not enough, it's just a fire, there's no need for special effects."

"The tortoise shell feels like it's almost burnt transparent. What's flowing inside is bloodshot?"

The audience stared at the tortoise shell in the small cauldron without blinking.

At this moment, the color of the tortoise shell gradually became lighter, and it seemed to be developing towards transparency.

As for the gradually transparent tortoise shell, the situation inside is also revealed at this moment.

The dense red net-like silk threads are constantly changing, as if they are constantly wriggling bugs.

Yi Ze looked at the strange tortoise shell inside the small cauldron, and at the slightly frowning Li, feeling a little vigilant in his heart.

What the hell is going on here?
Judging by the look of the calendar, such situations seem to be rare.

Could it be that something could go wrong with an ordinary divination?
Yi Ze didn't understand what was the different connotation in it.

The content about divination in the Shang Dynasty has long been lost in history.

What we know now is that divination was prevalent and superstitious in the Shang Dynasty.

As for more accurate things, the people of later generations are completely blinded.

Therefore, Yi Ze's existing knowledge is completely insufficient to solve these problems.

Yi Ze did not forget that he was only here to witness the process of divination, and by the way, to visit the inscriptions on oracle bone inscriptions.

It's just that I didn't expect that when I came here, my identity would be revealed by Li, and a divination was performed in a daze.

Was this an accident, or did Li do it on purpose?
Yi Ze didn't understand, but the divination had already started, and Yi Ze was curious about what the result would be.

Divination is speculation about the future, so what will Yi Ze's future be like?

People's curiosity about the future can never be stopped. The weather forecast can predict the cloudy and sunny conditions within a week, and the workers in the three-point line can see the general flow of their life in the next month, but these are approximate things. As for The fine details, no one will ever know.

Moreover, these predictions are based on certain facts.

Divination is not like this, it is all about giving a proposition and then starting to calculate.

Therefore, even though Yi Ze knew that he would generally continue to broadcast the show in the future, he didn't know if there would be any changes.

The most important thing is that Yi Ze still has a system, what kind of changes will this bring to him, is it good or bad?These are all questions that Yi Ze needs to think about.

Everything is impossible, ask ghosts and gods.

When one is powerless, ghosts and gods will become the ultimate sustenance.

But Yi Ze was just purely curious.

If divination can change the outcome of an event, or predict what will happen in the future, then what is the need for human efforts?
Wouldn't it be free to lie down at home after counting one's fate?

Yi Ze is more inclined to the so-called divination, which is nothing more than a psychological hint.

It is equivalent to a dose of strengthening injection, which encourages people's spirit.

It's like when the teacher was in class when he was a child, facing the shy and timid students who were not good at speaking, he would guide them with an encouraging attitude, or use small prizes to guide them.

Inside the small cauldron, the tortoise shell was gradually burned until it was completely transparent.

The flames below gradually covered the fine red mesh.

Seeing this situation, Li stretched out his hand and sprinkled a layer of fine powder on the tortoise shell.

The movements are graceful, like a nobleman.

However, in the eyes of Yi Ze and the audience, this looks a bit like a skilled barbecue chef sprinkling cumin chili noodles during barbecue.

The white powder covered the tortoise shell, quickly suppressing the transparent color.

Yi Ze watched everything in the small cauldron closely.

He was a little surprised to find that the white powder sprinkled on the tortoise shell gradually melted into the tortoise shell under the action of high temperature.

But on the tortoise shell, apart from the mysterious eye symbol, there are no other cracks.

Thinking of the eye symbol, Yi Ze focused his eyes on the middle eye.

He stared at it for ten seconds.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but the eye symbol in the middle of the tortoise shell seems to move slightly.

It was like a person moving his eyes.

Yi Ze looked up at Li, who looked normal, and then at the tortoise shell, which had begun to undergo new changes under the burning of the flames. For a moment, his mind was full of thoughts.

He has a million questions he wants to ask.

For example, why is the process of divination so weird?

What is the special meaning of the mysterious eye symbol in the middle of the tortoise shell?

What the hell is that white powder you scatter?
Why hasn't the tortoise shell changed much until now?
There were many questions, but when it came to his mouth, Yi Ze had to swallow it honestly.

He had a feeling that even if he asked, the middle-aged man with a normal expression in front of him would not answer.

"Ugh."

Sighing, Yi Ze seemed to have a kitten scratching his ears and cheeks in his heart.

But now he can only continue to wait.

Waiting for the end of this time-consuming divination ceremony.

Ka... Ka Ka Ka...

After more than half a minute, there was a crisp cracking sound in my ears.

Yi Ze's eyes instantly fixed on the tortoise shell.

It can be seen with the naked eye that as the flames continue to burn, several cracks have formed on the seemingly indestructible tortoise shell.

In a strange way, with the mysterious eye symbol in the center as the center, the crack just divides the entire tortoise shell into three parts.

Some are like a circle divided into three sectors.

However, the shape of the tortoise shell is more like a smooth hexagon, so the three parts it is divided into are not very uniform.

One piece is extremely small, while the other two pieces are almost evenly matched.

What does this mean?
Yi Ze looked at the tortoise shell, and then at the calendar.

He doesn't understand.

The audience didn't understand either.

This kind of mysterious divination, to them, is blinding their eyes.

Can only stare!
Li glanced at the tortoise shell inside the small cauldron, but did not speak.

Yi Ze understood that this meant that the divination was not over yet.

And with the appearance of these three cracks, more and more cracks began to appear under the continuous burning of the flame.

Unlike the three big cracks that appeared at the beginning, the cracks behind are much smaller.

And even more irregular.

The crisp crackling sound kept ringing.

The tortoise shell in the small tripod is cracked.

But the lotus root was broken, and it never broke into several large pieces.

The sound lasted for more than a dozen breaths.

Then, everything fell silent.

Strangely, as the cracks no longer appeared, the flame in the small cauldron also went out directly.

If it hadn't really come to the Yin and Shang era 3000 years ago, Yi Ze would have begun to wonder if the small tripod was electronically controlled.

Seeing that the flame in the small cauldron was extinguished, Li directly stretched out his hand and reached into the small cauldron.

"Be careful..."

Before Yi Ze could finish his sentence, Jian Li directly took out the cracked tortoise shell from the small cauldron.

Good guy, ruthless iron hand!

Suspicion flashed in Yi Ze's heart, isn't this person afraid of being hot?
This is a tortoise shell that has just been burnt out of the high temperature.

The temperature is hot enough to burn a layer of skin off a person.

But Li, without frowning, took out the tortoise shell.

The tortoise shell is full of cracks. After blowing off the dust on it, it can be found that the cracks are not very regular.

Of course, Yi Ze didn't understand what mystery was hidden in it.

Translating this thing requires specialized talents.

Encrypted letters from ghosts and gods?

Yi Ze laughed at himself, quietly waiting for Li's action.

And Li didn't mean to be tricky, and finally chanted a mantra that he couldn't understand clearly. He chanted it for more than a minute at a stretch, and the speed of his speech was so fast that Yi Ze had to wonder if this guy would directly say hypoxia.

Soon, as Li closed his mouth, his right hand directly landed on the mysterious eye symbol in the center of the tortoise shell.

At this time, a really strange change shocked Yi Ze's heart.

Yi Ze never thought that this mysterious Yin Shang fortune-telling would have such a development.

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(End of this chapter)