Chapter 230 The cliff of the book wall The hexagram in the heart
"Book cliff?"
Jia Lan and Miaoyu looked at each other with confusion in their eyes.
"Have you heard of this place?" the two asked each other in unison.
"Um..."
They both shook their heads at the same time.
After a brief silence, Jialan smiled and turned to his little brother: "Brother, have you remembered anything?"
"No..." The little brother shook his head, "It's just that when Fairy Miaoyu mentioned the classics just now, such a place name suddenly appeared in my mind.
Miaoyu asked: "If you recall slowly, can you recall some details or a general direction?"
The little brother closed his eyes silently, trying to relax himself and allow himself to recall better.
But after a while, he shook his head.
Jia Landao: "Apart from this, have you ever thought of anything?"
The little brother frowned and thought hard for a moment, and then said: "I remembered a few words: 'The peak is towering and abrupt, and the stone box at the top is filled with fairy honey. There is a dragon pool below, and the stone chamber for storing books is deep and tight.'
Also, these sentences seem to come from the records in some cave..."
[Dongxuan... No, I should be talking about the Dongxuan Department!]
A flash of understanding flashed in Jia Lan's eyes.
After pondering for a while, he figured out that what the younger brother said should be the meaning of Dongxuanbu.
As someone who often volunteers at Taoist temples, Jia Lan also understands some basic knowledge of Taoism, the so-called Dongxuanbu, which is a Taoist system for classifying internal classics - three caves, four auxiliaries and twelve parts.
Similar to the classics and history subset.
Moreover, the documents that can be classified in this way are likely to be at the "Tao Zang" level.
The so-called Taoist canon generally refers to the general collection of Taoist scriptures.
Taoism is known for being "miscellaneous and multifaceted" and has a huge number of classics. As the number of classics increases, there is gradually a need to sort out the Taoist classics. Otherwise, if this problem is left unchecked, it will lead to unclear evolution and unclear classification over time.
Question.
The Taoist Canon is the result of the analysis and combing of Taoist classics by our ancestors.
In the world of Red Mansion, the inheritance of Taoism seems to have stopped at Taiping Road in the late Han Dynasty, and Taoism has not flourished since then.
Historically, the royal family of Li and Tang recognized Laozi as their ancestor and respected Taoism as the state religion. Since then, they have vigorously developed Taoism. This should have been an important stage in the rapid development of Taoism.
But in the world of Red Mansions, the Li and Tang royal families believed that their ancestor was the flying general Li Guang. They respected the Han family's way of overlordship and imitated Han Wu's exclusive emphasis on Confucianism. It was during the Li and Tang Dynasty that Confucianism in the Middle Kingdom was fully developed.
The development of the Song Dynasty reached its peak.
Suddenly, Jia Lan remembered something, turned around and asked her brother: "Could this book cliff be the place you once told me you were looking for?"
The little brother was slightly startled, thought for a moment, and then shook his head.
"What is that place?"
Jia Lan turned to Miaoyu and explained what "that place" was.
"This is a place I have always wanted to find.
According to his idea, this place should be related to his mission.
But... it is said to be a 'place', but in fact, even we are not sure whether it is a specific location or whether it means another direction..."
After listening to Jia Lan's words, Miaoyu lowered her eyes slightly as if thinking.
Suddenly, Jia Lan's spiritual consciousness was slightly shaken. He quickly raised his head and saw Miao Yu standing up suddenly, looking up at the dusk sky.
Although the brilliance of the sun's disc was slightly weaker, the fire-like brilliance still enveloped the earth. The snow that had fallen all morning had stopped unconsciously, and the snow on the ground reflected bursts of light under the afterglow of the setting sun.
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Soon, Miaoyu turned her gaze back and looked steadily at Shi Zhuoshang.
There is nothing else here except the teacups for three people and the teapot beside it.
Miaoyu reached out to open the lid of the teapot, took out a few tea leaves from the pot with her fingers and put it in her cup. Then she poured in the unfinished tea in front of her brother and looked at the tea leaves in the cup with bated breath.
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"Is this... possible?"
Seeing Miaoyu's behavior, Jia Lan suddenly thought of a certain unreliable plot in a movie he had watched before traveling through time, and inadvertently blurted out the most direct thoughts in his heart.
Miaoyu glanced at Jia Lan, then lowered her eyes to stare at the cup, and explained slowly: "At dusk, morning and dusk change, and darkness changes. The so-called long is short instead of short, and short is long instead. This is the way of heaven. p>
Since it is the way of heaven, dusk is the transition between day and night, which naturally symbolizes change and transformation.
In the afternoon, I said that I couldn't do anything about my brother's request, but just now I had a thought in my mind that maybe I could try this method. This is the last trick my master taught me - Xin Gua."
As the name suggests, the heart hexagram moves according to the heart. Miaoyu learned it from Master Huijing, but she never performed it successfully. Master Huijing only said that the opportunity had not come yet.
Just now, when Miaoyu saw the scenery at dusk, she suddenly felt enlightened and had an inexplicable feeling. Then she realized that this was the time for the hexagram.
As for the tea and water, according to Miaoyu, they are just used to express a little bit of the mind.
Miaoyu poured the tea in the cup onto the table.
The tea flowed on the rough surface of the stone table until it stopped.
"Well..." Miaoyu fell into deep thought again.
Seeing this, Jia Lan couldn't help but have a lot of hope in his heart.
However, after a while, Miaoyu said with a wry smile: "It still doesn't work..."
"But..." Miaoyu pointed to the stone table.
"The only thing that can be determined is that the fate of you, Lange'er, and even me, little brother, is that the fate of the three of us is connected together."
After Jia Lan listened, he looked at Miaoyu silently, and after a moment he said, "Does this mean that the three of us have to stay together from now on, inseparable?"
Inseparable?
As if she thought of something, Miaoyu's face was suddenly dyed the same red as the sky.
"Yes, it shouldn't be..."
Miaoyu waved her hands repeatedly, even her voice was trembling.
The little brother suddenly asked: "In short, do you mean to wait and see what happens and wait for the opportunity?"
As if grasping a life-saving straw, Miaoyu responded repeatedly: "Yes! That's it!"
"Alas..." Jia Lan sighed and sat down slumped.
He is not complaining about Miaoyu.
However, compared to such a wait-and-see situation, Jialan hopes to get some inspiration to make himself somewhat prepared.
Perhaps she was aware of Jia Lan's thoughts, which made Miaoyu feel a little embarrassed. She lowered her gaze and did not dare to make eye contact with Jia Lan again.
However, an inadvertent glance made Miaoyu suddenly make a new discovery.
"Brother Lan, maybe the key point is in this direction!" Miaoyu raised her hand in surprise.
Jia Lan followed what Miao Yu was pointing and saw the tea flowing to the ground along the edge of the stone table. With a thought in his mind, he raised his head and looked at the sky. In an instant, he recognized the direction Miao Yu was pointing to.