genius divination

Chapter 1526 Empty Box

Fan Jiannan said helplessly, "But we still don't know what this 'thing' is."

Long Ge thought for a while and said, "I suddenly wondered, maybe you misunderstood it from the beginning."

"Misunderstanding from the beginning?" Fan Jiannan asked inexplicably, "What do you mean being wrong from the beginning?"

Long Ge said, "Think about it, from the very beginning, we identified this so-called 'thing' as a specific item. It's just like the understanding of ordinary people. But maybe, all this is not what we imagined. The thing, perhaps, is called the thing by its own name."

Fan Jiannan was stunned and said, "What do you mean?"

Long Ge smiled bitterly, "Let me tell you this! For example, there used to be a person in our hometown whose surname was Zhang. Because he was a dog, and he was the second child in the family. So his nickname was Zhang Er Dog. Everyone is used to barking, and he has also been used to hearing it since he was a child.

So when Ergou is mentioned, everyone will know it is him.But if you write these two words on paper, you can show it to people who don't know the inside story.Most people think that these two characters represent two dogs.Instead of thinking, these two words actually represent a person.Do you understand what I mean? "

"I seem to understand, but I don't quite understand it." Fan Jiannan pondered, "You mean, this 'thing' may not refer to a certain item, but the thing itself. So we understood at first. An error has already occurred.

But I think this is simply impossible.For in a sense the thing itself means both directions.Since it is a direction, it is not an item, so how can we talk about lending and returning?

This is like saying, I will lend you East and West.But how is this possible?How can directions be lent? "

Long Ge shook his head and said, "You still don't fully understand what I mean. The Chinese language retains a lot of ancient cultural heritage. Have you ever wondered why we use 'things' in our language, which is an obvious direction? to replace other words referring to objects?"

"This... I really don't know." Fan Jiannan said helplessly.

Long Ge smiled, "This actually has a very ancient cultural origin. For example, we often use a radius to describe an area, a radius of a hundred miles, or a radius of a few miles. This word comes from our ancient people's understanding of the world. In the past, we thought that the sky was round and the earth was round. The earth was square, and the sky was round, covering the earth like a dome. This led to the use of square circles in Chinese to describe the area."

Fan Jiannan frowned, "Then what about the word 'something'? Where did it come from?"

"That has something to do with ancient alchemy. This is related to the ancient theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. This theory believes that the world is twinned, developed and changed under the influence of Yin-Yang and Qi. It also believes that wood, fire, earth, metal, The five most basic conditions of water are indispensable attributes that constitute the world.

These five characteristics support each other, restrict each other, and are in constant motion and change.This theory had a profound influence on later ancient philosophy, such as astronomy, meteorology, chemistry, arithmetic, music and medicine of the Han nationality, all developed with the assistance of the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. "Long Ge explained.

"I know this. Our magic theory was first derived from the Five Elements Theory." Fan Jiannan nodded.

"Now that you know, you should understand the directions of the five elements. The east is wood, the south is fire, the west is metal, the north is water, and the middle is earth. And the word 'thing' comes from this. Most of the items used by the ancients were wood or metal. In fact, these two most common items were used until modern times. That’s why the ancients used the word “thing” in Chinese. Because according to the theory of the Five Elements, East is Wood, west is gold." Long Ge explained.

"It turns out that such a simple word has such a big meaning." Fan Jiannan suddenly said.

"That's why it's hard for foreigners to learn traditional Chinese spells. The most difficult thing is the language. If they don't have a certain knowledge of Chinese characters, they don't know what they are talking about." Long Ge nodded.

Fan Jiannan thought for a while, "Perhaps the 'something' mentioned in the IOU is such a situation, referring to wood and metal, implying that this thing is made of wood and metal. But such a description is too far-fetched .”

"In fact, there are more far-fetched than this. Have you ever read the Taoist alchemy classics? It is extremely obscure. For example, there are many words, such as lead and mercury, cinnabar, golden elixir, and furnace. These are not specific items but other things. Therefore, many people who don’t know the truth, take these alchemy books and start alchemy by themselves. The results are all poisonous mercury compounds. Not only can’t live forever, but they will be poisoned. After eating the alchemy Someone is here." Long Ge said with a smile.

"I understand what you mean. You mean that this 'thing' can only be made of metal and wood." Fan Jiannan nodded. "But I still think the scope is too..." He stood up suddenly in the middle of his words, "Wait! Let me think! Metal and wood products. That box!"

"What is that box?" Long Ge was startled by him, and frowned.

Fan Jiannan hugged Long Ge suddenly, "Long Ge, Professor Long, I admire you so much!" After speaking, he turned around and ran downstairs.

"This kid..." Long Ge was a little puzzled, "Why are you crazy?"

"People are crazy!" Fan Jiannan laughed and waved, "Thank you, Professor Long!"

Long Ge shook his head, turned around and went back to the study to solve his professional problems.

Fan Jiannan came downstairs and grabbed Fatty Zhang, "Fatty, where is that box?"

"What box?" Fatty Zhang was taken aback.

"It's the empty box I took back last time. It's about this big and wide. It's a bit like a small mahogany box for jewelry. The one we brought out from the basement of Miss Li's house." Fan Jiannan said in a breath .

"You seem to have put it in the storage room? Anyway, you didn't give it to me." Fatty Zhang shook his head and said, "I really didn't see it after I came back."

Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "No, I put it here at that time. It wasn't in the storage room."

"Could it be the proprietress?" Fatty Zhang said, "This little box is very beautiful, girls like this. When our girls get married, they always have such a small box as a dowry, put some messy jewelry, gadgets. Yes Could it be that she took it to play?"

Fan Jiannan asked quickly, "Where is Feng Yuan?"

"Should be in her room?" Fatty Zhang shrugged, "I didn't see her coming downstairs."

Fan Jiannan quickly let go of Fatty Zhang and ran to Feng Yuan's room.

"Hey. Boss, you really want to like this one. I know a good carpenter. I'll ask him to get some good wood to make one for you? Do you want red sandalwood or yellow pear wood...or you can ask the lady boss what she likes? No Just a small box?" Fatty Zhang was a little puzzled.

Fan Jiannan couldn't care less about talking to him, so he quickly knocked on Feng Yuan's door.

Feng Yuan opened the door and saw Fan Jiannan surprised, "Why are you sweating profusely?"

"It's nothing, is that box with you?" Fan Jiannan asked quickly.

"Oh, you said that little box? It's not here. I saw that the workmanship is very exquisite, and it's quite interesting. It's placed on the museum shelf in your office as a decoration. Anyway, it's an old object, antique, what's wrong? "Feng Yuan said inexplicably.

"It's nothing, that small box may be something very important." Fan Jiannan sighed, and returned to his office with Feng Yuan.Sure enough, I saw the small box on the museum shelf beside it.

He took a look in his hand, frowned and said, "This is a wooden product."

"Of course it's made of wood, and the carvings are very detailed." Feng Yuan nodded.

"It also used a lot of metal." Fan Jiannan whispered.

Feng Yuan said a little strangely, "Of course some places are made of metal, hinges and buckles, it seems that the four corners are also wrapped with copper. It is really beautifully done. It was originally dirty and could not be seen, but it can be seen after cleaning. .Even the copper skin wrapped around the four corners has very detailed patterns.”

Holding the box in his hands, Fan Jiannan murmured, "That's right, it must be it, it must be it!"

"Jiannan, what's wrong with you?" Feng Yuan looked at him a little confused.

"I know what it says on that IOU, it's this little box. It's never been in the basement over the years, and it's never left that basement. It's not that someone took the 'stuff' and left it The empty box. The empty box itself is that 'thing'." Fan Jiannan took a deep breath and said.

"I'm getting more and more confused." Feng Yuan said helplessly.

"But I'm getting clearer and clearer." Fan Jiannan said, staring at the small box in his hand. "I only now understand why I was holding this box alone. In fact, I have already noticed something in my subconscious mind. I just can't be sure, so I hold that box and don't let go, even put this little one. Bring the box back with Pang Jiajie."

"What does this have to do with Pang Jiajie?" Feng Yuan frowned.

"Pang Jiajie's great-grandfather, Pang Jinsong, and that Miss Li's great-grandfather, Li Yanpu, signed an IOU 100 years ago. It shows that Li Yanpu borrowed something from Pang Jinsong, and it was said at the time that it would be returned after 100 years. But No one thought that the item was actually the box, not the contents of the box.

So after we found out that the box was empty, our first reaction was that the things had been taken away.But I didn't expect that the finger box was the real protagonist! "Fan Jiannan sighed.

"So, this matter is settled like this? It's that simple?" Feng Yuan said with a smile.

"No! It must not be that simple." Fan Jiannan thought for a while and said, "At least this little box is certainly not simple."

"Isn't it? I really don't see anything special about it. Apart from being beautiful and exquisite, I don't feel any magic power fluctuations at all." Feng Yuan frowned.

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "It's not just you, but me too. I didn't feel any magic power fluctuations from above. However, this is precisely a very suspicious question."

"Why?" Feng Yuan frowned, "There is no fluctuation in magic power, but it is suspicious?"

Fan Jiannan nodded and said, "I have a much stronger sense of magic power than ordinary people. But even I didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this small box. This shows that the small box does not have any fluctuations in magic power."

Feng Yuan nodded.

"But in fact, after I found Pang Jiajie and this small box in the basement of Ms. Li's house, I tried many times to use mana to perceive the remaining mana fluctuations of this box. But there was nothing, and it is still the same now. Then I I have used mana on this box before, so there is no mana remaining?" Fan Jiannan asked rhetorically.

"This..." Feng Yuan was stunned for a moment, and she couldn't give any other explanation for this.

"I have used it before, so I should leave my mark." Fan Jiannan said slowly, "This is like a beach. I walked this beach all over to trace the footprints left by the predecessors. The conclusion is that there is no Footprints, no one has walked by. But when I turned around, I found that there were no footprints in the place behind me. Is this a bit abnormal. "

Feng Yuan was stunned for a long time, then nodded and said, "This seems...it seems a little weird."

"There must be a reason for any weirdness." Fan Jiannan mused, "The two senior sorcerers in the Republic of China would not write that IOU for no reason. There must be a deeper reason. However, okay Now that we have grasped the key point, it is this little box."

"Then have you told Pang Jiajie the news?" Feng Yuan looked at Fan Jiannan and asked.

"I just thought of this." Fan Jiannan held the small box in his hand, turned to Feng Yuan and said, "I'll go find him right away and see if he knows anything else?"

Feng Yuan nodded.

Fan Jiannan turned around and went to Pang Jiajie's room, knocked on the door, but there was no sound from inside. "Is he already asleep?" Fan Jiannan frowned.

"It's possible, after all, he suffered such a serious injury. Otherwise, you should tell him the news tomorrow. Anyway, you are not in a hurry, and you don't want to check what time it is." Feng Yuan said helplessly.

Fan Jiannan looked down at his watch and found that it was past eleven o'clock in the evening.He couldn't help but smile wryly, he was indeed a little too obsessed with this matter just now, completely unaware that it was already very late.He could only shrug his shoulders, and smiled at Feng Yuan, "I even forgot the time."

Feng Yuan smiled and said, "That's how you are. It's okay, you've been busy all day today. Go to bed early." After speaking, she gave Fan Jiannan a hug, "Good night."

"Good night." Fan Jiannan smiled, but after Feng Yuan left, he still couldn't calm down.He suddenly realized that he might have fallen into his own weird fate again.Only, this time it was because of an empty box.

(End of this chapter)