Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 178: Kan represents water, a very ominous hexagram

I looked carefully at the coffin floating in the water.

The coffin had no lid.

Moreover, the draft is very deep, with only a small half of it exposed above the water.

The coffin would have such a draft only if it was filled with heavy objects.

Could it be that in the coffin...

My heart sank, and I quickly walked to the bank of the reservoir and stood on tiptoe to look into the coffin.

I want to see what's in the coffin.

But the coffin was still some distance from the shore, and even if you stood on tiptoe you couldn't see what was inside.

As I was anxiously waiting for the coffin to float over, the sunlight suddenly dimmed.

The sky was originally cloudless, but suddenly a large dark cloud appeared and blocked the sun.

Click!

A flash of lightning appeared.

Thick lightning flashed down from the sky, splitting into countless branches and forming a huge lightning net in the sky.

Rumble.

Thunder followed closely behind.

The sudden change in weather gave me the shivers.

I always feel that these dark clouds and thunder did not appear suddenly, as if they were arranged in advance.

Taoist Master Zhang looked up at the sky with a serious expression.

The thumb of your right hand keeps tapping the other four fingers.

This is fortune-telling by counting on fingers.

When there are no tortoise shells, copper coins or other tools for divination, people with advanced skills can use their fingers to tell the hexagrams.

Use the upper and middle joints of the other four fingers except the thumb as the eight trigrams positions of Qian, Kun, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Dui.

Use your thumb to press the Bagua position for induction.

The first hexagram sensed is the inner hexagram, and the second hexagram sensed is the outer hexagram. The combination of the inner and outer hexagrams forms the hexagrams of the sixty-four hexagrams.

After calculating the hexagram, you can calculate the direction of development of things based on the complex changes of the hexagram.

Of course, the complexity here is not literal.

Instead, it is the alternating hexagrams, combined hexagrams, complex hexagrams and miscellaneous hexagrams formed according to the changes of the original hexagram.

Later, Taoist Master Zhang told me my fortune, and everything he predicted came true.

Unfortunately, even though he had foreseen this and had calculated it long ago, I still couldn't escape the disaster.

Maybe it's all destined.

A master can glimpse the secrets of heaven and tell the future cause and effect.

But it is difficult to reverse the outcome that has already been determined.

Taoist Master Zhang's counting speed became slower and slower.

His expression became increasingly ugly.

Whoosh!

A strong wind blew from the other side.

Wow!

There were huge waves on the water, and the coffin floated quickly with the waves.

I vaguely saw that the coffin was filled with white stuff.

It's bones!

A coffin full of bones!

Skulls, leg bones, arm bones, ribs and other bones were scattered in the coffin.

To fill a coffin with bones like this, I wonder how many graves I would have to dig.

wrong!

These bones must have been dug out from a mass grave!

What exactly did they want to do by digging out the bones, putting them in coffins and placing them in the reservoir?

I looked around nervously.

I want to find the trace of the old man from Xiangxi.

But there was no one in sight.

This feeling of being led by the nose without knowing anything is really uncomfortable.

I hope Taoist Master Zhang can figure something out.

I asked hopefully, "Lao Zhang, have you figured out anything?"

Taoist Master Zhang still maintained the gesture of pinching his fingers, but his fingers were no longer moving.

He stared at the water with his eyes fixed.

But he didn't go to see the coffin floating on the water.

Instead, he looked at the water near the shore.

I frowned slightly and looked in the direction of his gaze.

It was the water surface four or five meters away from the shore.

Apart from the rippling blue waves and rolling waves, there was nothing unusual.

"Old Zhang, what are you looking at?" I nudged Taoist Master Zhang with my elbow.

He seemed to come back to his senses at this moment, frowning and saying, "Kan means water, Kan means water!"

"A very bad omen!"

Kan represents water and is one of the sixty-four hexagrams in the Book of Changes.

Both the inner and outer hexagrams are Kan, which represents two overlapping waters, implying dangers lurking in the midst of huge waves.

It belongs to the worst hexagram.

When I heard the words "great misfortune", I felt a little numb.

Calm down and recall the content of Zhouyi that I had read before.

The Kan hexagram represents water both inside and outside, which is very consistent with the current situation.

The water in the reservoir corresponds exactly to the outer hexagram, and the water in the stream below the reservoir corresponds to the inner hexagram, so there is water both above and below.

Plus this sudden thunderstorm.

Huge waves surged in the reservoir.

And the coffin is about to drift to the shore...

All kinds of strange things foreshadow huge danger.

"Is there any solution to this extremely bad omen?" I couldn't help but get nervous.

When an unlucky hexagram is calculated, the person seeking the hexagram will ask if there is a solution.

Usually fortune tellers will say they have a solution, or pretend to be embarrassed, but their words and actions reveal that the solution can be obtained by paying money.

This is a way to make money by exploiting anxiety.

Often the solutions they give don't have any effect.

Of course, what we are talking about here is the money-swindling tactics of the Jiang Xiang faction.

A truly capable master may not speak out clearly when he calculates that there is danger.

Even if they understand it clearly, they will not take the initiative to help resolve it.

Because resolving the problem involves cause and effect.

Resolving the dangerous cause and effect in one's life is more serious than revealing the secrets of heaven.

Therefore, when you encounter a bad fortune telling that says that money can resolve the problem, it is best to protect your wallet first.

Taoist Master Zhang shook his head slowly with a worried look on his face.

"Nothing can resolve it."

"There is no turning back now that we are involved in the cause and effect. There is only a glimmer of hope if we fight to the death and move forward!"

"First, go find the people at the reservoir and borrow a boat."

I asked in surprise, "Borrow a boat?"

"There's thunder and lightning and it's going to rain hard. Even if we have a boat, it won't be of any use."

If the wind and waves are strong and the boat capsizes, it will be no joke.

What's more, I'm a landlubber.

Taoist Master Zhang pretended not to hear and walked quickly towards the dam.

Miaowan Reservoir is a water storage reservoir for regulating water conservancy irrigation and has no generator sets.

The reservoir will only be fully staffed during flood prevention or irrigation seasons, and usually only two staff members will be left on duty.

The duty officer is responsible for inspecting reservoir equipment and observing the surrounding hydrogeological conditions, which is considered an easy job.

Seeing that Taoist Master Zhang was getting farther and farther away, I had no choice but to run after him.

As I walked onto the dam, I glanced in the direction where the coffin was floating.

The coffin was pushed by the waves to only two or three meters away from the shore. It was estimated that if another big wave came, the coffin would be pushed to the shore.

Once the coffin is brought ashore, we can take a good look at the bones inside.

I was just thinking about it when suddenly lightning struck from the sky.

Click!

Lightning struck the water directly.

Crackling!

The lightning twisted and turned on the water surface, like little snakes transformed from lightning.

I was stunned by this shocking scene.

Taoist Priest Zhang also stopped and stared blankly at the water.

Wow!

The water surface struck by lightning suddenly surged.

A huge vortex immediately appeared.

The coffin floated nearby and immediately followed the current around the whirlpool.

It spins faster and faster, getting closer and closer to the center of the vortex.

puff!

The center of the vortex was like an invisible mouth, swallowing the entire coffin and the bones inside.

"This, this..." I was completely numb.

No matter how I think about it, the appearance of the vortex is too strange.

The coffin was sucked into the whirlpool, which is probably not a good thing!

Taoist Master Zhang's hands trembled suddenly, and he pulled out several strands of his goatee.

"It's going to be bad!"

"Hurry up and borrow a boat to check it out!"