All Hail Cousin Brother

The little girl stared at her toes, her eyelashes drooping and trembling slightly.

Zhou Linghuai rubbed her hair again. The soft strands of hair made his palms itchy: "Just now when the people from Changxing Hou's mansion came to the door, what did they say?"

Yu Youyao breathed a sigh of relief, and then raised her head: "Apologizing with no face, without any ambiguity, Mrs. Cao also told her grandmother about the past."

Mrs. Cao and her grandmother mentioned things from the past, and she was a person who knew the etiquette.

Between people, once there is friendship, it is necessary to talk about some affection. Whether it is an apology or an apology from the Changxing Houfu, as long as it shows sincerity, the Yufu must take over.

Therefore, Mrs. Cao is a powerful person.

Zhou Linghuai was not surprised.

Yu Youyao thought of the silk book that Mrs. Cao gave her, and hurriedly asked Chun Xiao to get it: "Cousin, Mrs. Changxing Hou gave me a volume of silk books, saying that she has some relationship with Xie Mansion."

Zhou Linghuai was a little surprised: "Silk script is a pre-Qin document. At that time, most of the records were made of leather and slips, and silk fabrics were valuables. Therefore, the application of silk script was not widely used. Only some important documents were recorded in silk script. The silk scroll should have a lot of history, but," he thought for a while, and then added: "It should be because the content of the silk scroll is unknown, or the content recorded is not very important, so the Marquis of Changxing took this thing as a gift to you."

Even so, the Marquis of Changxing gave a silk book that was somewhat involved with Yu Youyao, and it took a lot of thought.

Yu Youyao also thought the same: "Since it is the property of my grandfather's family, when the third cousin returns to Beijing, I will give it to him."

Zhou Linghuai nodded.

At this time, Chun Xiao came over with a silk book.

Yu Youyao opened the box, took out this volume of silk, and unfolded it little by little.

The characters on the top are all inscriptions on oracle bones, probably too old, and some of the characters are a little vague.

Even more confused.

These paintings are all sketched with thin lines, in four colors of blue, red, white and black, but Yu Youyao knew that the pigments in the pre-Qin period were not as diverse as they are now, and among them, blue, red, white and black were the most important ones. expensive.

She looked at it carefully and found that the way of depicting the simple paintings was a bit surprising. The Great Zhou Dynasty had never seen anything similar. It seemed to be some kind of special totem painting. It was a simple structure, but also had different expressions. , or standing or lying down, or running or jumping, all of them are lifelike, but they are solemn and solemn.

Yu Youyao couldn't understand it, so he handed the silk book to his cousin: "Cousin, take a look at it for me. I don't understand what is recorded in the silk book."

Zhou Linghuai hesitated: "It's the old Xie residence..."

Before he finished speaking, Yu Youyao understood what he meant: "Cousin, you are thinking too much, the Marquis of Changxing has a silk book, you may not know how to interpret it. Although the silk book is in my hands, it is an antiquities after all. It is impossible for the Hou Mansion to be preserved without re-engraving, and it is impossible for the really important things to be in my hands."

Since it's not too important, it's okay to look at it.

Zhou Linghuai was indeed somewhat interested in silk books. Hearing her righteous words, she did not refuse and took the silk books to read.

Yu Youyao saw that his cousin was looking at it with relish, and then suddenly realized: "Cousin, you can actually read the content of the silk book? You even know the oracle bone script?"

She didn't know it at all, what she said was very contradictory.

Zhou Linghuai smiled when he heard it: "I have a little understanding."

After a little bit of understanding, my cousin was still as humble as always, and Yu Youyao was speechless.

Zhou Linghuai was amused by her expression, and asked, "You don't know if I can understand the silk book, so why did you just give me the silk book and let me take a look at it for you, as if I would definitely recognize it."

Only then did Yu Youyao react, smacking her lips: "I'm not used to looking for my cousin when I don't understand something, and I don't think my cousin can understand it."

In her heart, she also decided that her cousin would definitely understand.

After all, the cousin is so powerful, he knows so many things.

Zhou Linghuai curled his lips: "The content of this silk book is quite interesting. Come here and I will read it to you."

"Cousin, what is written on the silk book?" Yu Youyao smiled and curled her lips, moved the little twig and sat next to her cousin, next to her, with only her small head in one hand.

Zhou Linghuai looked down at her and pointed to the picture above: "Strictly speaking, this is not an old property of Xie's residence, it should have been recorded by Xie's residence in the past. It records the myths, legends and customs passed down in Chu, including yin and yang, five elements, There are also some celestial phenomena, catastrophes, four seasons, and the taboos of the moon in terms of the induction of heaven and man. Although the silk book is small, it is rich and complex."

Yu Youyao listened with relish.

There are paintings of ghosts and gods on the silk. Whenever my cousin reads it, he will point to the pictures on the silk book and tell her the stories of ghosts and ghosts that have been passed down.

She heard that her eyes were also bright, but she didn't expect her cousin to know some ghost stories in Chu.

Looking at it, Zhou Linghuai's expression was a little dignified, and when he looked at the silk book, there was suspicion in his eyes.

Yu Youyao asked quickly, "Cousin, what's the matter with you?"

Zhou Linghuai stopped reading the silk book, carefully rolled up the silk book, put it in the box and put it away: "Have you heard of Wu Zhu?"

Yu Youyao nodded: "I only know that it is recorded in the book that there have been witchcraft disasters in all dynasties and dynasties. Every time they are involved, blood flows into rivers. The Great Zhou Dynasty forbids witchcraft. Once discovered, it should be executed according to the law."

Zhou Linghuai explained: "Those who serve ghosts and gods are called witches, and those who worship the Lord are called blessings. Witchers are divided into good and evil. The righteous are blessings, and the evil ones are gu. Wuzhu is different from witch gu."

Yu Youyao came to be interested.

Zhou Linghuai continued: "This records the shamanistic culture, praying for good fortune, good luck in the year, anti-seasonal rain, calming the wind and drought, mitigating disasters, and far-reaching crimes, including benevolent governance, farming, astronomical phenomena, art of war, medical skills, etc., but In addition to oracle bone inscriptions, there are also a large number of golden inscriptions and pictographs, several types of characters are not large, many information words are not clear, and the content is vague."

Wuzhu culture is based on gods, ghosts and people.

Forms, postures, movements, rituals, taboos, etc., are only its appearances. In the world, there was witchcraft before Taoism and Confucianism. Both Taoism and Confucianism were influenced by witchcraft culture.

Witchcraft culture is extremely practical.

Praying for blessings and auspiciousness includes benevolent governance and merit, so as to serve gods and ghosts, and get their blessings. Shunfeng also includes farming seasons and seasons. Ningfenghan includes weather and celestial phenomena to predict rain and rain, and disaster relief is even more amazing. Knowing the Qimen shield and armor, arranging troops, and preventing diseases, it is medical skills.

The Gu medicine inherited from the Xie Mansion in Quanzhou is probably of this genre.