Chapter 12 The Rune of Thoth
I slept so badly that night. I climbed the mountain all night and looked at the top of the mountain for a night. When I got up in the morning, I felt sore waist and legs, and my neck was a little bit woody. It seemed that my blood was blocked.
After washing my face, I drank some milk, and ate bread, and finally got a little energetic.
He took out the business card given by Master Dong San and prepared to call Professor Liu.
There is only one landline number on the business card, and there is no other contact information, and even the name is handwritten. I don’t know why the school’s business card was printed like this, so I carefully dialed a string of numbers. After a long wait, the phone finally got on.
The man answered the phone. I heard from me that I wanted to find Teacher Liu and told me that she was not here now and that he would convey it after class, so I left my cell phone number.
It was not until almost two o'clock in the afternoon that I received a text message, which was very simple: Mr. Hu, after four o'clock in the afternoon, the Graduate School of the Central University for Nationalities and the Ancient Chinese Office came to me, Liu Ye.
After reading the text message, it was like a tube of chicken blood. I was immediately excited and quickly cleaned up. Seeing that this kind of cadet cannot be too casual, it is said that they are high-level intellectuals, who pay attention to Confucius and Mencius, and who also study ancient Chinese. They have to dress themselves up for cultural people, otherwise they will lose their etiquette and make people laugh.
After rummaging through the wardrobe for a long time, I finally found a suit that was pretty good and felt suitable. After putting it on, I felt like a young man in a very cultural way. I dipped it in water and flattened my hair. Then I nodded with satisfaction and left the house.
The school was very big, and I kept asking for directions and finally found the Ancient Chinese Office.
The office door was closed, I looked, knocked politely, and then pushed the door open and walked in. The office was not big, with four desks facing each other. Maybe there was no class in the afternoon, and there were only a girl who looked like a female college student looking for information in front of the bookshelf.
I cleared my throat: "Class, is Teacher Liu Yeliu working here?"
The girl didn't move, she turned her head and looked at me, and asked me, "What are you?"
I answered closely, I am Teacher Liu’s friend, and I have something to do to find her here.
The girl smiled and asked me, "Is that so? But I don't seem to know you?"
After hearing what she said, I realized that the girl in front of me was the Liu Ye I was looking for. The professor and expert in my mind were a little caught off guard. I always thought that the person who studied ancient characters should be a gray-haired old lady, or a middle-aged woman with a very charming charm. However, the girl in front of me looked younger than me, and seemed to have just left the campus.
The beautiful long hair, slender body, light red lips and red face are everywhere exuding youthful vitality, like a bud in bud, full of vitality. If you say that fish fall and geese fall, the moon is shy of flowers, the country is beautiful and dignified, but the eyebrows are beautiful and dignified, and appropriate, with a kind of high-ranking temperament.
I was a little embarrassed and said with a scrambled wording: "This is absurd to come here with a name named Hu and Deng. I have always heard of Teacher Liu only, but I have never seen anyone. I thought that only after I have read all the vast worlds and refined them into steel can I have such knowledge. When I saw him today, I realized that he was really shallow and ignorant."
As soon as I said these half-audio words, I thought it was a mess.
However, it seems that she is quite helpful to this. She pointed to the sofa next to me and smiled and asked me to sit down before talking.
After sitting down, I told me what I wanted. After hearing Mr. Dong San's name, she was obviously stunned for a moment, then seemed to remember something, smiled, reached out to take the paper I handed over, looked at it, suddenly her eyes lit up, her brows frowned slightly, but she soon returned to her expression. She did not say whether she knew or didn't know the word "Does"?
I thought about it and replied vaguely: "Oh, this is a bead my friend accidentally got. I was curious about the patterns engraved on it, so I wanted to verify it, Liu Xiao..., Liu Zhuang..., Teacher Liu, is there words written on it?" Even I didn't know how to call her.
Liu Ye heard that I changed my name three times in a row, smiled and told me generously that she could just call her name. She was not an expert, but she had just studied the ancient Chinese characters. For the sake of life, she came here to teach by chance. She was not a formal teacher here, hired by the outsider. After saying this, she looked at me and asked us that it was not convenient for her to let her see my bead.
When he met Liu Ye's clear gaze, he was a little uneasy and could not refuse at all. He took out the sandalwood box from his bag and handed it over.
When Liuye reached out, I noticed that she wore a ring on her middle finger, which seemed to be a totem pattern of a bird. It looked like a totem worshipped by a minority. The style was very simple and simple, not exquisite, and it looked like a street stall product, but it was very well-fitting on her hands and very beautiful.
After taking out the beads, Liuye twisted them with his hands a few times, then held them in the palm of his hand, closed his eyes, and was very focused as if he was feeling something.
After a while, Liu Ye opened his eyes, smiled apologetically at me, and gently put down the beads. Then he told me that the pattern on the paper is indeed an ancient text, a variation of "Totes", to be precise, a coded text based on "Totes", used for runes in sacrifices and other activities. The academic community is used to call it "Toteses".
The use of this "Totes rune" was at that time, and it was only circulated among a very small number of people. According to legend, those who knew how to use this rune were called "Usa" by the locals. They were good at the witch curse art, could communicate with gods and undeads, and had the magical power of stealing the sky and changing the sun, and they could do almost everything. "Usa" had a high status at that time, second only to the king at that time. There were not many people who knew this kind of text at that time. Now, there are probably no five people in the world who know this kind of text.
After saying that, he looked at me stunned, Liu Ye smiled and pointed to the words on the paper and told me that the word "wolf" on the paper is the word "wolf", and the other is the word "ten" in the Chinese character. It is restored to the beads and can be seen as "wolf" written on the front and "ten" written on the back. As for the relationship between these two characters, whether they are one or a phrase, she doesn't know.
I wanted to stand up and applaud and cheer loudly at that time. This talk was full of momentum, which was really admirable.
After hearing her say it, I kept muttering these two words. Liu Ye saw that my demon was talking to herself in a daze, but ignored me. He got up and walked to her desk, tinkered in her bag for a long time, and finally took out a jewelry box, put it next to the beads I brought, and reached out to open the jewelry box.
There is also a white bead in the box, which is almost the same as my bead's visual size, and it is as white as jade. At first glance, it looks exactly the same as mine, but if you look closely, the color is slightly different.
I was a little surprised and said casually: "What do you think are these two people born together?" As soon as I said that, I wanted to take pictures of myself underground.
Liu Ye suddenly said something unrelated to me, which obviously had a bit of a slight hue, but it didn't embarrass the scene in the end and smiled coldly at me: "Mr. Hu is so humorous. These two beads are just the same size and the colors are similar. But the materials are different. My one is from Hetian white jade."
After a pause, I told me that the reason I took it out was that these two beads might have other connections, because the beads were also engraved with words, and they were also "Totes runes". The runes on the front were the "Wu" of martial arts, and the Chinese characters and numbers "Six" on the back. She didn't know anything else, just because of this "Totes rune", she could conclude that these two beads were from the same person.
After hearing him say that, I was stunned at that time. Then I figured out why she was stunned for so long after seeing the drawings I brought. It must be because it was the "Totes rune" again. At that time, she probably guessed that I might have a bead in my hand. In order to verify it, I asked what my drawings were drawn on. Then after seeing the beads I brought, she took out her bead for me to show.
Before I could speak, Liu Ye told me again that the reason why Mr. Dong San asked me to come to her was because Mr. Dong San knew that she had this bead in her hand and knew that she knew that she recognized the words on it. Her bead had also asked Mr. Dong San to help identify it a year ago. It was Mr. Dong San who discovered the pattern on the bead and told her that the bead was called "White Jade Bead".
Chapter completed!