"This strawberry smoothie tastes really good."

After Zhang Zhixiang boiled the bag of strawberries given by the emperor into jam, he asked the kitchen to send a strawberry smoothie to everyone in the house, and he himself took a bowl and gave it to the Heavenly Master himself.

"The emperor's reward contains a total of five kilograms of strawberries. They were boiled at once and put into two cans. I used one can today and the remaining one is Dudu's personal collection."

"Next time I want to eat strawberries, I'm afraid I'll have to ask the Siyuan Bureau for seeds."

“Out-of-season fruits and vegetables always taste worse.”

"Strawberries that are ripe in July and August may be a little sweeter, but they also taste good when eaten directly."

The Heavenly Master looked at his granddaughter hugging the earthen pot tightly, and knew that the little girl must have loved the taste. He rubbed the little girl's head lovingly and said, "Since Dudu likes to eat, why don't you come in this time?"

Jing, please ask your Majesty for some seeds."

"Dedicate a few acres of land to grow strawberries."

"Every year, if you have something to eat at home, you can also send some to the village."

Zhangjia Village is at the foot of Longhu Mountain. It is not only a branch of the Zhang family of Tianshi Prefecture since ancient times, but also the descendants of the resident Taoist priests in the past. There are also some villagers who have migrated here one after another. There are more than 500 households, which is considered a big village.

.

Although Zhang Xiucai's family also has the surname Zhang, it is not from the same clan as Tianshi's family.

The ancestor of Zhang Xiucai's family is the Zhang family of Wu County. During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the world was chopped into pieces like a chopping board. Their branch migrated here at that time. After hundreds of years, they have long lost contact with the clan and are considered a separate family.

It’s a small household.

There are not many "outsiders" like them.

There are about a hundred households, so they have benefited from it. People like Zhang Zhixiang who were born with visions would definitely be in big trouble if it weren't for the Tianshi Mansion.

This connection is not only reflected in major events, but also in life. It is common for people to send things to each other during festivals and festivals.

Life is all about the human touch.

"Shuntian Prefecture is far away. I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the planting after I go to Beijing this time. If I can't eat strawberries in the summer, Dudu won't cry." Zhang Zhixiang said with a smile.

The little girl said dissatisfied: "Who is crying?"

"You~~"

Zhang Zhixiang pinched her cute little nose, and she hummed a few times in protest. The Heavenly Master looked at their childhood sweethearts and also smiled and stroked his beard.

Asked: "Have you asked your parents about going to Beijing?"

Zhang Zhixiang replied: "Well, my father told me to go after spring. By the way, senior brother, my father told me about the relationship between Guibiao photometry and Tai Chi today, but the yin and yang fish in the Tai Chi picture were not drawn."

"It's said to be related to Hetuluoshu, is that true?"

The old Heavenly Master smiled, praised Zhang Xiucai a few words, and then said: "I told you yesterday that the beauty of heaven and earth is great without mentioning it, that there is a clear law in the four seasons without mentioning it, that all things have their principles without mentioning them, that is,

in this way."

"Before you can practice Taoism, you must first learn Taoism."

"We have to know where the Tao of our cultivation comes from, what yin and yang are, what the five elements are, and what the heavenly stems and earthly branches are. Only after knowing these, can we understand that the Tao is not some mysterious thing, but there are traces to follow."

"Telling this to you out of thin air may not be profound enough."

"Just right."

"It's cloudless tonight, perfect for stargazing."

…

Imperial Book Pavilion, top of the pavilion.

The seven-story building is dedicated to the collection of imperial documents and scriptures received by the Tianshi Mansion in all dynasties. There is a tea room on the fifth floor for the Tianshi to drink tea, read and take a nap.

On the top of the pavilion on the seventh floor, there is a two-meter-square star observatory, which can be accessed by climbing a hanging ladder outside the window.

The old Heavenly Master was over sixty years old, but his skills were particularly strong. He jumped out of the window with Zhang Zhixiang in one hand, spun around like a swimming dragon, climbed up with one hand, and almost "floated" up.

The moment he landed, Zhang Zhixiang was still a little dazed.

This skill is so amazing...

"Haha, I have never practiced martial arts, but when I have reached the level of cultivation, I am naturally as light as a swallow. There should be no two people in the world who are faster than me. If it is Feng Xu Yukong, it is not impossible."

Zhang Zhixiang was sent to Versailles, but he discovered the key point.

"Senior brother, can you really fly?"

"I don't dare to say anything, I'm just controlling my Qi."

After saying that, he satisfied his junior brother's curiosity, jumped up, stepped tens of feet into the air, and then kicked back into the sky. Zhang Zhixiang was extremely shocked and fascinated by his immortal-like posture.

The Heavenly Master patted his head and said, "Okay, you can do it in the future too. These are just small tricks, not worth worrying about."

"Let's see the avenue."

The Heavenly Master pointed at the starry sky. This was not the first time Zhang Zhixiang had looked at the night sky in this time and space, but no matter how many times he saw it, the stars all over the sky were so shocking. In modern society, even in the countryside, you can't see many stars. In the city, you can't see many stars.

There are only a few inside...

If the great road is hidden in the starry sky.

So it is not unreasonable for modern society to lose its avenue. People can no longer get close to the stars.

"Have you found the Big Dipper?"

"Um."

"Where's the North Star? Can you find it?"

"that?"

Zhang Zhixiang searched along the line connecting Tianxuan and Tianshu, and easily found the North Star. Just one day after the winter solstice, the handle of the pole pointed directly to the north.

How is this north determined?

We stand facing north. The handle of the bucket points in front of me, which is north, and the handle of the bucket points behind me, which naturally means south.

Therefore.

When the ancients drew a star map, they would go up, south, and down north, because when standing facing north, you need to raise your head to see the south, so south is up and north is down.

The east, west, north, and south in the star chart are all a matter of perspective.

After all, the world is three-dimensional.

Zhang Zhixiang had a lot of modern astronomical knowledge in his head, but the Heavenly Master didn't know what he was thinking, so he didn't pay attention to it, and there was no need to pay attention to it. Those were just tools for supporting evidence.

"Just after the winter solstice, you can determine the positions of the spring equinox, summer solstice, and autumnal equinox based on the current Big Dipper."

"Plus Polaris."

"What did you discover about the connections between these four Beidou diagrams and the North Star?"

Zhang Zhixiang raised his hand and made a gesture, and was stunned. He murmured: "A reversed swastika?"

The Buddhist swastika is right-handed, and this pattern is left-handed. It just so happens that there is another famous being whose flag is this symbol...

"Oh? It's indeed a reversed swastika. Buddhism also has its origins, but the origin is not in heaven, but in the earth."

"Never mind the Buddhist affairs for now."

"The pattern connecting the four seasons positions of the Big Dipper and the North Star in the sky is in a left-handed direction. Can you see it? If you watch the stars all night tonight, you will find that all the stars in the entire sky are turning left-handed around the North Star.

.”

"The sky, the earth, people, everything is spinning to the left."

"It's for...the road turns left."

Zhang Zhixiang said in surprise: "People are also turning left?"

The old Heavenly Master smiled and said: "The "Nei Jing" says: The upper ones go to the right, and the lower ones go to the left. The flow of qi in our body all rises to the left and falls to the right, so naturally it rotates left."

Zhang Zhixiang's understanding of qi movement is limited.

But he suddenly thought of some little knowledge he had seen in his previous life. The amino acids in the human body seemed to be left-handed. The double helix structure of DNA seemed to be the most stable right-handed helix. Isn't it the right-handed helix that is left-handed...
Chapter completed!