Paintings of Terror

"Honorable Mongo Khan, what we advocate is science."

Gu Qingqing heard her own words echoing in the golden tent, as if with an echo, her own shadow on the tent also became darker and thicker with the echo.

The other darker and thicker shadows turned their heads to look at themselves one after another. This was the first time they had heard of the brand new sect of "Science".

Meng Ge Khan did not speak, but made a gesture, which probably meant that Gu Qingqing, who advocated science, would explain his teachings in public.

Gu Qingqing was not in a hurry to say anything, all the words at this time were pale, not to mention that he was facing eloquent and eloquent missionaries, and his words could not convince them.

Even today when science leads the world, these sects still have absolutely loyal believers.

Gu Qingqing's eyes fell on a copper basin beside the table, which was probably a copper basin for people to clean their hands, filled with clean water.

Gu Qingqing looked at the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the table again: "Khan, as a believer in science, I can let this basin of water speak for itself."

All the believers who were still whispering just now fell silent, their shadows were sitting upright, as if they were waiting for something.

Mengge Khan spoke, and the tone was like an ancient Mongolian ballad: "I also want to know what this basin of water has to say."

Therefore, Gu Qingqing decided to use a few existing things to show everyone a scientific experiment.

This experiment was done when Gu Qingqing was in elementary school, and it was nothing complicated.

Gu Qingqing put the copper basin containing water on the table, dipped her fingers in the ink in the inkstone, and tapped it on the water surface in the basin. The ink quickly expanded into a small circular ink spot, and Gu Qingqing was beside her again. Six or seven dots of ink were tapped.

Without waiting for those ink spots to spread, Gu Qingqing quickly untied the hairband on her head. This pure cotton cloth hairband was tied on the front feet of the silver lion just now, and now it was used by the owner again to send out One end of the belt was rubbed by Gu Qingqing at the root of her hair a few times.

The black shadows stared with bated breath, motionless.

Wu You watched from the side, and already understood which experiment Gu Qingqing was going to do.

Gu Qingqing touched one end of the rubbed hair band to the ink on the water surface, and almost instantly, the solid black ink blob turned into a circle, and Gu Qingqing added a circle to the center of the surrounding ink blots. After a few clicks, five or six circles magically appeared on the surface of the water.

Gu Qingqing picked up the rice paper that had been cut on the side, and gently covered it on the surface of the water. Seeing that the rice paper was soaked in ink, she slowly picked it up, and saw that the same pattern appeared on the paper as it was in the water basin just now. , are all large and small irregular rings, and some of them have traces of water patterns.

But displayed on paper, it becomes a magical painting.

The shadows on the tent all sat up straight, seeming to be staring here, but unfortunately no expression could be seen from the black shadows.

"Honorable Khan, what is on this piece of paper is what the water wants to say."

"What did you say? Could the priest tell you something?"

"Big Khan, please forgive me, I have little talent and learning, and the teachings of science don't need to be preached."

"Then how do you believers preach?"

"We are born with two hands and one mouth, so we need to do more and talk less. We who advocate science often learn about the world through experiments and practices." Gu Qingqing said bravely.

Some shadows began to whisper.

Wu You thought for a while, and boldly said: "Khan, the teachings of many sects here are not to be spoken directly, such as Zen meditation in Buddhist Zen, that is 'unspeakable'." I put a circle of rice paper with ink on it, and worshiped it on the table in front of the throne of Mengge Khan with both hands, "We just think that everyone can have their own beliefs. This copper basin, as an 'existence', has been gathered together. A basin of water, this basin of water also serves as an 'existence', if we want to speak, we have to find a way to make it speak, our teaching is as simple as that."

The rice paper seemed to be picked up by someone, and it floated into the air, as if it was showing the pattern on it to everyone.

Meng Ge Dahan said: "I think the words of this basin of water are very interesting. The number of these circles is exactly the same as the number of the priests. They are round and self-contained, solid and self-defense, and they are in peace with each other. intrusion."

Wu You took a peek at Gu Qingqing: Did you design it this way?So far-sighted too!

Gu Qingqing: No, when I was a child, the teacher took us to do experiments like this, and printed several circles at that time. It seems that Mr. Sun, who taught us nature, had a vision.

Some of the black shadows remained silent, while others seemed to sigh.

"Today's debate is over, everyone go back and rest." Mengge Khan said.

This is the end?So fast.

The black shadows stood up one after another, led by the guards and walked out, followed by Gu Qingqing and Wu You.

After walking out of the golden tent, Wu You suddenly found that her shadow was extremely dark on the sun, she turned to look at Gu Qingqing: "Qingqing, I, I can't see you clearly!"

Gu Qingqing has almost become the same translucent state as Wu You, she is also a little anxious, the black shadow under her feet is uncertain.

It was already afternoon, and all the shadows were no longer the black origin at noon, but a group of short and fat people with heads and limbs.

A black shadow of a guard came over and pointed in one direction. After pointing for a while, the shadow turned and left.

"Can we go?" Wu You looked at the shadow of the guard who left, and went away with the other shadows, "Is he showing us the way? If you walk in that direction, you can get out?"

"Try it." Gu Qingqing took Wu You's hand, but found that the other's hand was no longer so real, and the two of them were slowly disappearing into nothingness.

The two of them speeded up their pace at the same time, trotting towards that direction.

"I still don't understand, why did we enter this Khan's palace? What's the point of our trip?" Wu You said as he ran, "I just looked at everything in the palace, and there was nothing wrong with it." Things glow that way."

That kind of light——the moment when the two of them saw the golden hourglass for the first time, that kind of dazzling multicolored light.

"I don't know, maybe we went the wrong way, but it seems that this is the place we must pass through again." Gu Qingqing trotted, already a little out of breath, "We came to this world and appeared under the silver tree Yes, we are already in the Mongolian court, and we are being chased away by the shadow guards, so we must come here."

"What's the use, can the experience just now be a clue?"

"I don't know what clues there will be, but I think this trip will not be useless, there is always a meaning in it." Gu Qingqing looked at Wu You, and through Wu You's body, he could vaguely see the Mongolian court flowers and trees. The exquisiteness of Fushu, the Mongolian Khan at this time is the biggest overlord on the grassland and even in the world, he can naturally make a Mongolian palace have the exquisiteness of Jiangnan gardens, just like the silver tree that does not think of the world, it is not so much a dream , rather a symbol of power.

"Qingqing, tell me, what does Mengge Khan believe in?"

"I don't know. Before the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolia believed in Shamanism more, and later some areas also believed in Buddhism."

"I'm not talking about this, I'm talking about Da Khan himself, what does he believe in? It's not a sect, it's the energy in his heart." Wu Yourao has good physical strength, and he was running panting at this time, but he still insisted on talking : "It's just like the song we sang in Northeast China: live a life and show it to yourself! I think this is also a kind of faith..."

"If you say this, then what the Great Khan believes in may be the sense of conquest of expanding the territory, but I have to admit that he has extraordinary wisdom and mind..." Gu Qingqing couldn't run anymore, and gradually slowed down. After taking a deep breath, he said, "So, the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty was not that simple. Apart from the bravery of the Mongolian soldiers, it is more important to have an excellent commander..."

Both of them stopped in their tracks. They were so tired that they simply sat down on the ground.

"So, the Mongolian Khan thinks more about expanding the territory, and then finding a rich place for their people to live and work in peace, and then there will be the Yuan Dynasty?" Wu You wiped the sweat from his head, and suddenly found that his The "flesh body" is back again, the touch of the back of the hand rubbing against the forehead is so familiar and real, Gu Qingqing looked at his partner, and at some point Gu Qingqing also returned to his original appearance, "It seems that we didn't run in vain just now."

Gu Qingqing was thinking about Wu You's words: "The Yuan Dynasty was established... Actually, when I first came to this world, I thought about it. We found the golden hourglass before, and then saw the silver tree. Could it be that the cowhide pocket What is needed is gold and silver?"

"You're right, Jinyin, why didn't we pick a few leaves and go back?" Wu You felt a little regretful.

"Don't worry," Gu Qingqing took out a thin silver carved leaf from his pocket, "I picked it up from under that tree, and it was always in my hand, but after seeing those shadow guards, I had to secretly Hidden."

Wu You looked at this exquisite and unparalleled silver leaf, opened the cowhide pocket on his chest, and tried to put the silver leaf in, but it was as if there was a barrier, the leaf could not be put in the pocket no matter what inside.

The place where the two were at this time was also filled with silver mist. When the mist gradually dispersed, they realized that they had left the Mongolian court at some point.The place where it was located turned out to be a bustling market, and the people dressed up were all ancient people, including Han Chinese and foreigners.

Gu Qingqing looked at it carefully for a while, and unconsciously revealed a look of surprise: "Here, it is already the Yuan Dynasty."

"I don't know much about history. Which emperor was that Mengge Khan just now? Was he from before the Yuan Dynasty?"

"Yes, he is the grandson of Genghis Khan and the eldest son of Tuo Lei," Gu Qingqing said in a low voice. After all, there are many people here, so it is best not to attract attention when two people discuss court affairs. "It was Kublai Khan who founded the Yuan Dynasty. That is, the fourth younger brother of Mengge Khan. After Kublai Khan proclaimed himself emperor, he pursued Mengge as Emperor Xianzong and posthumously named Emperor Huansu."

"Oh, so that's how it is," Wu You also wanted to show some subjective initiative, so he thought about it and said, "Qingqing, let me analyze it this way. The first treasure we found was the golden hourglass, which is considered gold according to its characteristics. Why? To represent gold in the form of an hourglass, does it mean that time is as precious as gold?"

Gu Qingqing thought that what Wu You said made sense, so she nodded and listened carefully.

Wu You continued: "The second treasure we are looking for is supposed to be silver, so the silver here must have a certain meaning, what can silver represent? In my heart, silver is silver, it is money! "

"What did you say?"

"Silver is money. This is not a modern saying. It was also in ancient times. When you watch ancient movies, don't they all say 'silver'? Those nobles go to restaurants to drink and take out a big silver coin." Once the ingot is placed on the table, it can blind Xiaoer's eyes."

After hearing this, Gu Qingqing looked at Wu You with bright eyes, and Wu You felt a little uncomfortable being watched by him: "Qingqing, what's wrong with you, your eyes are brighter than silver."

Gu Qingqing's voice became slightly louder, with excitement: "You are right, it is Yuanbao! What we are looking for is probably Yuanbao!"

"That's not necessarily true, look, we got that silver leaf just now..."

Before Wu You finished speaking, Gu Qingqing interrupted: "Wu You, do you know why Yuanbao is called Yuanbao? In the history of currency in our country, do you know when Yuanbao officially became the name of gold and silver?"

"Why did you make a history of currency..." Wu You felt that he was really weak.

"It's the Yuan Dynasty! In the currency history of our country, gold and silver money was officially called 'Yuanbao', and it was the Yuan Dynasty!"

This is the first time Wu You has heard of this statement: "Because it is the Yuan Dynasty, so it is called Yuanbao?"

"Yes, it also means 'treasure of the Yuan Dynasty'!" Gu Qingqing further explained, "In fact, Yuanbao did not originate from the Yuan Dynasty at first, but from the Tang Dynasty..."

"Let's not pursue the history. Anyway, it was the Yuan Dynasty that silver ingots were officially called 'Yuanbao', right?"

Gu Qingqing nodded with certainty: "Yes."

"Then let's look for the silver ingot, we'll talk after we find it!"