"Mr. Jie, since you printed the background picture of" Peach Blossom Spring "on your business card, it is obvious that you are very fond of Tao Yuanming's" Peach Blossom Spring "?"
Su Bai wanted to pour a cup of tea, but he found that he had designed and prepared the rest of the place, but he left out the tea for the guests, because Su Bai did not have the habit of drinking tea.
Very simply, Su Bai took out two bottles of orange juice, one of which was handed to Jie Ling.
"Don't mind it. It's my first day here, and I haven't prepared a lot of things."
"It doesn't matter. I'll ask my secretary to come down and bring you a can of good tea later."
Su Bai smiled and ignored him. Jie Ling definitely did not come to him for his own business. Otherwise, he would not have come directly to the detective firm downstairs of his company with such fanfare. He should be entrusted by others or want to investigate something not very closely related to himself. It was just a social habit of businessmen to get close to him.
Jie Ling took the orange juice in his hand and continued, "I am naturally very clear about" Peach Blossom Spring ", and the full text is also in my mind. After all, I am a person in the business world, and it is inevitable that I will fight and deceive each other in my daily life. So, after a long time, I yearn for the beautiful world in" Peach Blossom Spring ", which is also a kind of spiritual sustenance. Of course, I am also hypocritical.
Mr. Su said that it is an unlucky thing to print the background of "Peach Blossom Spring" on a business card. I would like to hear more about it. "
Su Bai took a sip of orange juice, "In fact, it is very simple. You can interpret it from another perspective." Peach Blossom Spring "seems to describe a very beautiful fictional world, but from some details, with a little personal subjective speculation, it can become a completely different meaning."
"Well, I am very interested in Mr. Su's bad taste."
"First of all, a fisherman fishes for a living. He is a fisherman. In ancient times, an industry was often passed down from generation to generation. It is very likely that the fisherman's father was also a fisherman, so the fisherman should be very familiar with the waters around him. After all, he fishes in the river, not in the sea. If it was in the sea, there would naturally be a lot of unknowns. However, in the river, the possibility of a local fisherman getting lost should be very small."
"Continue."
"After the fisherman reached the source, he saw the entrance of the cave. It was extremely narrow at the beginning, and only then did people pass through. After walking a few dozen steps, the view suddenly became clear. The land is flat and the houses are neat and tidy. ' If one looked at this scene from another angle, one could change the scene. Did the fisherman enter a cave or a tomb? At the beginning, it was very narrow, and only then could people pass through. After walking a few dozen steps, the view suddenly became clear. Wasn't this the conventional construction idea of ancient tomb tunnel design?
The land was flat, and the houses were neat and orderly. We knew that the ancient cities were indeed meticulously planned. Every place and every line was meticulous, but these were all big cities.
For example, on the maps of old Beijing and old Xi 'an, there were many lines and rules everywhere. They were very strict, and no one could go beyond the rules.
However, the fisherman didn't go to the big cities of that time, nor did he go to some important military town. He went to the Peach Blossom Spring, and the Peach Blossom Spring was actually a small village. As far as I know, the villages of the ancient people didn't seem to be so particular. The houses in the village were basically built around the ancestral hall. "
"So, what do you mean by 'the land is flat and the houses are neat and tidy' that Tao Yuanming recorded?"
Su Bai smiled and took another sip of orange juice. "In ancient China, there was one thing that was more important than anything else, and that was the tomb. There were many rules in the tomb, and the ancient people also attached great importance to it. The construction of the tomb often had stricter rules than the living.
If we say that the land is flat and the houses are neat and tidy, it seems a little unrealistic to use it to describe a free small mountain village. Then, if we use it to describe a neatly repaired tomb, wouldn't it be more appropriate? Even if the conditions of the people were poor, they wouldn't dare to be careless in repairing the tomb. "
Jie Dun nodded. "Mr. Su, I'm now more and more interested in your ideas. Please continue. Is there anything else?"
"The word 'Qian' was sometimes used to describe the tomb in ancient times, which can prove my previous speculation. At the same time, the bamboo and mulberry are most flourishing in May and July, while the peach blossoms are in March. Here, there is a huge time fallacy.
There are good fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry bamboos. This sentence has a lot of ambiguity and contradiction with The Peach Blossom Spring. Of course, there is also a poem about the peach blossoms in Jinshan Temple in April, but this is related to the altitude and climate, and the fisherman can't climb the mountain with a fishing boat. This is not realistic.
So, the real way the fisherman entered the Peach Blossom Spring, I think it should be like this: he saw a place full of blooming peach blossoms, and then he saw a tomb, he bent down and walked in. The tomb was narrow at first and then widened, and then he saw a neatly repaired tomb in the depths of the tomb. "
"Then, according to your explanation, how do you explain the blonde hair hanging down the sleeves and the clothes of a man and a woman as if they were outsiders?" Jie Dun asked. "There are people here."
Su Bai lowered his head and put his face very close to Jie Dun. Then he deliberately lowered his voice and asked,
"Then, what looks exactly like a human but is not a human?"
Jie Dun's face suddenly darkened. He took a deep breath and spat out a word, "Ghost."
"Yes, ghost. After the fisherman entered the tomb and saw the neatly arranged tombs, he also saw a group of … ghosts!" Su Bai took out two cigarettes and handed one to Jie Dun. Jie Dun shook his head, indicating that he didn't smoke. Su Bai also lit up his own cigarette. "The clothes of a man and a woman as if they were outsiders. Ever since Master Yun escaped from the chaos of the Qin Dynasty, he led his wife and people to this desperate place and never came out, so he was separated from outsiders. I ask what era it is now, but I don't know if there is Han or Wei or Jin Dynasty.
First of all, I'm not very clear about what the clothes of the people in the Qin Dynasty looked like, but the Qin Dynasty fell in 206 BC. Although I don't remember the general time of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I think it should be between 300 and 400 AD, which means there is a difference of five or six hundred years. The style of clothes in ancient times can't change constantly like today, but five or six hundred years is enough for several earth-shaking changes. But the people in the Peach Blossom Spring actually dress like outsiders, isn't it very strange? "
"Why is it like this?"
"First, it's because of the offerings. Someone outside has been burning paper money or clothes made of paper for them. Second, it might be a kind of ability of ghosts to let you see what you think you should see.
Moreover, for five or six hundred years, the people in the Peach Blossom Spring didn't communicate with the outside world. They have been marrying close relatives there. I think Mr. Jie should be very clear about the consequences of five or six hundred years of human marriage. Therefore, logically speaking, this description is actually Tao Yuanming telling people who read this article that the people in the Peach Blossom Spring are actually not human. Of course, the difference in accent is also a big point, because there was no Mandarin in ancient times. "
"The fisherman might have been bewitched, or he might have been coerced. It was written in the article that the people in the Peach Blossom Spring would invite the fisherman to a meal, and they would invite the fisherman to a meal. This description is very interesting, and it's easy to think of another scene. It's a custom, a custom that is still preserved in many villages in China, and that is to perform a ritual and set up sacrifices."
Perhaps, the fisherman was eating the offerings non-stop during those days, and he might even be eating maggots and worms.
This can explain why after the people in the Peach Blossom Spring told the fisherman that it was not to be known to outsiders, the fisherman went to report to the governor as soon as he left. Many language teachers said that the fisherman was greedy for rewards, but if he found out that a small village was taxed a little more, would the rewards be much? Would the benefits be great?
Then, why did the fisherman start to set up marks everywhere after leaving the Peach Blossom Spring, and then go straight to the governor's residence? "
The report continued after Su Bai's words, "Because the fisherman might have realized that he encountered a ghost village. He might have realized it after leaving, or he might have already discovered it when he was inside, so he hurriedly went to report to the governor."
"Also, the peach tree has the effect of warding off evil and suppressing evil. Many Daoist priests use peach wood swords to exorcise evil. The intention of a village surrounded by peach trees is also very obvious. Moreover, Tao Yuanming only loves chrysanthemums. If he really wanted to write about a beautiful imaginary world, why didn't he write it as a chrysanthemum village? In ancient times, there was no custom of comparing the chrysanthemum to a certain organ of the human body, so there was nothing to avoid. "
"Then, according to your train of thought, there is a paragraph at the end of the article: Nanyang's Liu Ziji, a noble scholar, heard of it and went with it happily. But he failed and died of illness, and no one asked about it after that.
Does this mean that because it's a ghost village, no one can find it? "
Su Bai shook his head. Actually, if we think deeper, I think that Liu Ziji really found the Peach Blossom Spring, but the governor's people did not. "
"Why?" the report asked.
"If the Peach Blossom Spring is really a ghost village, and the fisherman's entry was actually a rare chance that could not be repeated, then under normal circumstances, what kind of person would be able to go to that ghost village where ghosts are everywhere?"
The report took out a tissue and wiped his hands. He wanted to wipe his sweat, but he controlled himself. "Liu Ziji died and became a ghost, so he successfully entered the Peach Blossom Spring."
"That's it."
"Actually, your explanation is very far-fetched." The report said, "But I still decided to change the business card."
Su Bai shrugged. "I think so too. I just thought it was fun. You know, opening a detective firm, if you don't know how to be mysterious, you won't be able to scare the customers into paying for it."
The report put down a USB on the table. "This is what I want to ask Mr. Su to help me investigate. There is information in it. If Mr. Su is willing to take over after reading it, I can pay a 30% deposit first. Contact me by phone."
After that, the report left.
Su Bai held the USB, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
On the first day that he changed from a rich young master to a worker, business came to his door.
"I really have to thank Tao Yuanming for the ghost story."
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
