Wu Dongfang was leaning on the throne, while several Jin men and women took turns chanting, and more than 20 handymen were responsible for carrying and delivering it.
Wu Dongfang didn't need to think for too long about what everyone was reciting. It was all over, over, over, over. There is an idiom called rare and strange. This idiom is very appropriate for the officials who presented these bamboo slips and wooden boards. They don't understand science, and regard many rare and normal phenomena as abnormalities and omens, and they basically report this kind of situation.
There are very few reports about ghosts, gods and monsters. This is because there are a large number of wizards in Middle-earth. They will go to check and deal with ghosts, gods or monsters. People at this time are used to seeing ghosts and monsters, and they don’t notice them after seeing them too much. How strange.
"How is it?" The prince appeared next to Wu Dongfang, holding the wine jar.
"Not very good." Wu Dongfang yawned.
"You go to sleep, I'll do it." The prince said.
"No, it's safer for me to handle this matter." Wu Dongfang said. The prince also doesn't understand science, so he can't distinguish which situations are abnormal and which are normal.
"That's it, you can do it yourself," the prince waved to the rice bucket lying next to the throne, "Let's go to bed."
"Don't leave either. Stay and deal with it with me." Wu Dongfang said. Although the prince doesn't understand science, he is well-informed and can fill in the gaps.
"Okay." The prince looked around.
The people of the Jin clan all recognized the prince and knew that he was the popular person next to Wu Dongfang. Someone immediately moved a seat respectfully. The prince sat on the right side of Wu Dong and waved to everyone, "Continue reading."
After hearing this, Wu Dongfang said "yes" as usual. The prince was the deputy and did not need to pay full attention. He listened while drinking without interrupting.
Since the beginning of writing, there was no fixed writing format for submissions. The bamboo slips were very big, and the wooden boards were also big. Some wooden boards were bigger than door panels. This was not because there were many words, but because the words were big.
Wu Dongfang is now a super official, and his residence is completely regulated by the palace. It is equipped with a lot of logistics personnel. At eleven o'clock, which is midnight, the official in charge of catering brought the supper with the handymen. Wu Dongfang ordered everyone Stopped to fill his stomach first.
"This is not the way to do it, and it will never be finished." Wu Dongfang put down his job. While everyone was dealing with the bamboo slips and wooden boards piled up in the hall, there were still a large number of bamboo slips and wooden boards coming from the outside.
"It will definitely be more at the beginning, but it will be less after a few days." The prince put down the small bowl and took the porridge jar under the table. These rice porridges are filled with honey, and Rice Tong likes to eat sweet.
"Is this really useful?" Wu Dongfang asked, tilting his head.
"It will definitely be useful," the prince nodded sternly, "the five tribes and nine states have reported all the visions that have happened before. It is of course the best to find clues here. Even if no useful clues can be found, the visions reported in the future will It just happened recently, so we have to pay attention.”
"Do you really think there are signs of this happening?" Wu Dongfang rinsed his mouth with water.
"Don't worry, there will be signs of big events." The prince said with certainty.
"Okay, let's go on." Wu Dongfang said. Everything that should be arranged has been arranged now, and there is nothing important for him to deal with. He will just stay here to listen to the report for a few days.
At three o'clock in the middle of the night, Wu Dongfang ordered everyone to stop. He could hold on, but those who were reading and moving couldn't.
There were four people waiting outside to carry lanterns to Wu Dongfang. Wu Dongfang had just arrived and didn't understand the layout here, so he asked. The Tianshi Mansion is divided into three large areas: the East Palace, West Palace, and Middle Palace. There are nineteen courtyards and rooms. There are more than one hundred and seventy rooms, one thousand guards, eighty maids, and eighty palace men. This palace man is not the man who was thrown away from the palace, but the handyman who does the work.
Since these servants were not expelled from the palace, their living quarters were strictly separated from those of the palace maids, and those who visited the palace would be beheaded.
Asking was just asking, and Wu Dongfang didn't make any adjustments. These were trivial matters, not worth his distraction. In addition, this is also the intention of Si Shaokang and Yun Ping. If they refuse, it will make them feel uneasy.
The bedroom is in the second courtyard of the middle palace. The room is similar to the army's auditorium. There is a big bed and a big kang, covering an area of 20 square meters. It is exaggerated and corrupt.
There were more than a dozen maids in the bedroom, lighting lamps, making beds, carrying water, blowing fans to drive away mosquitoes, and even raising the curtains. Wu Dongfang really couldn't enjoy this special treatment, so he kicked them all away without leaving any one behind.
"An elephant can sleep on such a big bed." Wu Dongfang said to the prince.
"My life is worth it if I live like you." The prince threw himself on the bed. It was a soft bed with a thick soft cushion underneath.
"Such a big quilt can cover ten people." Wu Dongfang frowned and looked at the quilt on the bed. The quilt was whole, and it took a minute to get in from the east end and reach the west end.
"Originally, they were not prepared to let you sleep alone." The prince shook himself, revealed his true form, and got into the quilt, and Fan Tong also got in curiously.
Wu Dongfang extinguished a dozen oil lamps in the room one by one, put the wooden box next to the bed, and lay down on the side of the big bed. The bed was equipped with a special summer quilt, which was cool, breathable, and very comfortable.
After breakfast, he went back to sit and listen to the report. For three days in a row, Wu Dongfang felt dizzy.
On the fourth day, he still listened to the report. Wu Dongfang was not interested in listening. He felt like a cadre who went to Beijing for a meeting. He ate well and slept well, but was very bored and wanted to sleep.
Unlike Wu Dongfang, who became less and less interested the more he listened, the prince had been listening very seriously, and it was hard for him to sit still.
"Yeah." Wu Dongfang snorted as usual. Starting from the next day, he stopped saying "passed" and changed it to "um." Well, that's the next one.
"Uh huh huh huh..."
The prince's guess was correct. After seven days, there were fewer bamboo slips and wooden boards sent from all over the country. I don't know who improved the carrier of information. There were not many wooden boards. Most of them were bamboo slips, written in ink. Gradually become more formalized.
"Yeah." Wu Dongfang said yes again.
"Wait a minute, say what you just said again." The prince interrupted.
The prince has never interrupted him in the past few days. When the prince spoke, Wu Dongfang felt a chill in his heart and changed his sitting position from leaning to upright.
The person who was about to report was a woman. After hearing the prince's words, she immediately re-unfolded the rolled up bamboo slips, "Master Nao Qi of Yuzhou is good at observing stars and divination. He saw the Taibai Star, the Sui Star, the Chen Star, and the Yinghuo Star when he looked into the sky the day before yesterday. The stars gathered in the north are omens, and the lines are straight. It is difficult to tell whether it is good or bad."
"What do you mean?" Wu Dongfang tilted his head and looked at the prince. The Xia Dynasty's naming of stars was different from modern times. He only knew one of the stars mentioned by the other party, which was Venus. The reason why he knew it was Venus was not because He is familiar with history, but has read Journey to the West, in which there is a Taibaijin star.
The prince did not answer Wu Dongfang's words, but said to one of the servants, "Send someone to Yuzhou to bring this Lao Qi here."
The other party responded and left. The prince was only responsible for giving orders, no matter what method the other party used, and the handyman was only responsible for conveying them. There was a dedicated person responsible for communication.
"Are the five star names he mentioned belong to metal, wood, water, fire, and earth?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"Yes." The prince nodded and said.
"Holy witch?" The girl from the Jin tribe who was in charge of reciting bowed and spoke. It was obvious that she was asking Wu Dongfang if he wanted to continue reciting something else.
"Stop reading for now, you can go down." The prince waved his hands to everyone.
Everyone responded in unison, bent over and left.
Wu Dongfang extended his spiritual energy and grabbed the bundle of bamboo slips from a distance and read it again. The writing on this bundle of bamboo slips was more formal. It can be seen that the writer should be the person responsible for communication, not the mage named Lao Qi. .
"This guy's name is very unlucky." Wu Dongfang said casually, Laqi is the same as the day of death.
"Why did the Five Stars Lianzhu appear in the north?" The prince clasped his hands behind his back and stood up to pace.
"This situation is not uncommon. I have heard of it before." Wu Dongfang said. He was not unfamiliar with the term "Five Stars Lianzhu". As the name suggests, the five stars of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth are in a straight line with the earth. This is not a very common phenomenon. But it is not a very strange astronomical phenomenon.
"Before?" The prince turned to look at Wu Dongfang.
"Anyway, I have heard that this situation is not uncommon." Wu Dongfang said. In fact, he heard this term in modern times, probably in the future, but if he said that he heard it in the future, the prince would think that He was delirious.
"Is it not uncommon for five stars to appear in the northern sky?" the prince asked with a frown.
"Shouldn't the Five Stars Lianzhu appear in the north?" Wu Dongfang asked. He only knew about the Five Stars Lianzhu, but he didn't know that there was any particularity in the direction of the Five Stars Lianzhu.
The prince nodded and said, "The five stars in the east are beneficial to China, and the five stars in the west are beneficial to war. As far as I know, the five stars have never appeared in the north."
"Who did you hear this from?" Wu Dongfang asked. There was no word "China" at this time, but the prince's pronunciation was accurately Chinese.
"A friend of my own tribe who lives in the Kunlun Mountains said something like this when I told him about ancient and modern events." The prince said.
"Can you still find it?" Wu Dongfang asked eagerly. China's national flag is the five-star red flag, but that is a modern thing. There are two possibilities for the prince's words. One is that the ancients anticipated the aftermath, and the other is It may be that the designers of the national flag drew on ancient metaphysics.
"I went to look for it when you went to Lingshan," the prince sighed, "Oh, it has been dead for many years."
"Isn't it profound?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"Of course you can't compare to me." The prince does not possess the virtue of humility.
"Then how does it know that the five stars coming out of the east are beneficial to China?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"It also heard what its peers said. No one knows who said it." The prince said.
Wu Dongfang nodded, "Do you suspect that the Five Stars in a row will bring disaster?"
"I didn't say that. What I said was that the Five Stars should not appear in the north." The prince shook his head and said.
"Could this guy have seen it wrong?" Wu Dongfang shook the bamboo slips in his hand. Stargazing has been around for a long time, but now there are no telescopes. They all use their eyes, and the error is huge.
"It's possible, but there's another possibility." The prince frowned.
"What?" Wu Dongfang asked.
"He missed a few..."