Chapter 866 Snow Mountain, Hidden Stakes
Chapter 866 Snow Mountain, Hidden Stakes
"Yo, thirty-six, you're twenty-two, fourteen older than you?"
Long Eying looked embarrassed.
"Is it not possible?" Liang Qu asked.
"Okay, great! You know how to eat, um... picky!" Lan Jicai flipped through the Gengtie, gave a thumbs up, and spoke in a stream of cannonballs, "Not to mention people like me who study fortune-telling, even ordinary people who don't study fortune-telling know that six years of big clashes, three years of small clashes, and four or seven years of bad luck are auspicious matches.
I am fourteen years older than you, two sevens short, double the luck! If a girl is one year older, gold will fly; if a girl is two years older, gold will grow. You are seven more years older, gold will grow seven times longer, you will live in a golden house and make a fortune, good, good!"
A senior official from the Imperial Observatory personally calculated his birth date and time, and kept talking.
Long Eying understood a little more and listened attentively.
Nine animal lanterns hold up candle flames, burning brightly.
Liang Qu leaned back in his chair and looked around.
The name of the Imperial Observatory is often heard and is well-known. It is a large department that is mysterious and does not do "real work". It has a weak presence on weekdays, and it only sets the calendar and brags a lot. However, when there is a big event, such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, or going to war, it is absolutely indispensable.
The Hebo Office of Pingyang Prefecture also often received "instructions" from the Imperial Observatory, and several campaigns to clear out branches of the Ghost Mother Sect were all completed under its "guidance".
But this is my first time to visit the Imperial Observatory.
Eye-opener.
There is no clue from the outside, it is a regular wooden high-rise building, but when you go inside, you will find that the floor is actually made of pure copper!
The ground, the pillars, the frame, the beams across the head, the arches, all shone like gold, delicate and complex. Just one floor, dozens of feet in radius, I wonder how heavy it is, how heavy it is, how it can stand and stand steadily.
And under the feet of three people.
Thirty-three layers of concentric copper rings are nested and rotate slowly.
Some of the copper rings rotate fast, some rotate slowly. It seems to be irregular, yet there is a beauty that conforms to the rhythm of heaven and earth. Each copper ring is etched with exquisite and profound patterns, one separated from the other, and mercury-like liquid flows in the patterns, like blood and lubricating oil.
As far as the eye can see, it is an unimaginably huge project.
How big a furnace is needed to forge the integrated copper ring? How many masters proficient in divination and astrology are needed to etch the characters on the copper ring?
I don’t know how much manpower and resources it cost!
The most amazing.
The Imperial Observatory has no roof!
There was clearly a roof outside and it was broad daylight, but when I looked up from inside, I saw a clear and vast night!
The starlight poured in like a tide, and it was indeed a bright night.
Four Fields Jingtian Instrument...
Liang Qu looked up and saw a streak of light passing by. A copper ring was spinning above his head and a blue-robed clerk on the high platform was writing down the details.
"It's done!"
"Year is the root, month is the seedling, day is the flower, hour is the fruit, Liang Qu, your year pillar..." Lan Jicai shook his head and rambled on for a long time. Seeing Liang Qu just nodded without saying anything, an idea suddenly occurred to him, "Don't you understand?"
Liang Qu scratched the back of his head and laughed.
There are old toads in the Jianghuai swamps. If there is any movement, just ask them. As a result, he has never added any divination to it. At most, he can use the tortoise shell buried in the pond to make a calculation.
But the old toad is not omnipotent.
For example, when it comes to fortune-telling, it only has a vague understanding and may not even know as much as Long Eying.
"That's all." Lan Jicai was delighted. Without further ado, he handed over the Gengtie with his annotations. "You two have compatible years, days, and four pillars. Your life palaces and three-yuan palaces match. There is no conflict. It's destiny's destiny. Only one or two out of ten couples can be together. After this divination, I won't give gifts when I have a banquet in the future. By the way, do you want me to calculate an auspicious date for you?"
Liang Qu thought about it.
"Could you please, Mr. Lan, calculate an auspicious date for the registration?"
"It's a small matter." Lan Jicai didn't write, but stretched out his right hand to count with his fingers, "The recent days... September 16th, and then the 27th, all are good days!"
"Thank you, Mr. Lan."
Liang Qu and Long Eying bowed.
"It's just a small matter. It's easy to tell the horoscope. Besides, it's just right that you come, so I don't have to send someone to run errands." Lan Jicai stood up and said, "There is something that the Holy Emperor asked me to give to you."
"I'll go downstairs first." Long Eying took the initiative to avoid it.
"wait for me."
Stand in the center of the copper ring and wait quietly.
Lan Jicai left and came back, leaving behind three albums.
Liang Qu unfolded it and saw that the first one was a huge map, with both the whole map and its details. The topography was not unfamiliar. "Blue Lake?"
"Yes, it's the matter of the Great Snow Mountain again." Lan Jicai patted the pages of the album, "In more than a year, Jian Zhongyi has eliminated many 'hidden agents'. The Imperial Astronomical Observatory has tried to deduce some other 'hidden agents' based on the scope and activities he has done, and has formulated several methods to eliminate them. I don't know if they will work, so you can go and verify them for us.
In short, do things secretly and report secretly. If the method is wrong, fails, backfires, or even makes things worse, you must remember to clean up our mess."
"……Row."
To eliminate the "hidden stakes" is not simply to destroy and smash things up.
For such a huge plan that lasts for more than ten or even dozens of years, it is impossible to lose everything if one part collapses. The more they demolish, the weaker the pollution will be, and the more they arrange, the stronger the pollution will be.
Disrupt the little things.
What is more important is to prevent the Great Snow Mountain from discovering it and causing further destruction.
Relying on his own special abilities, Jian Zhongyi can not only search for "hidden stakes" and dismantle them extremely quickly, but he can even use the method of the same origin to set up "camouflage" and confuse the Great Snow Mountain. This is the key.
Liang Qu originally planned to take things one step at a time.
He has special methods such as the Heaven Gate and Earth Axis. In theory, he should be able to find some clues about the "hidden stakes" based on disaster energy.
"Oh, kid, let me remind you. Pulling out the 'hidden stake' in the Great Snow Mountain, something of the same origin, might be good for Jian Zhongyi. It's true that you are talented and powerful, but don't always think you are awesome just because you have been promoted."
Liang Qu's eyes flashed.
"Mr. Lan..."
"Your Majesty asked me to prepare it for you. I'm not stupid."
"Teachable."
There are many kinds of magical powers. If Jian Zhongyi also has the [Travel Thousand Miles Away by Water], it would be really troublesome.
"I heard that your master is holding a banquet at Tianbo Tower in early September, right?"
"I don't have many relatives and friends in the imperial capital, so I was planning to invite Mr. Lan to a banquet, but I haven't prepared or sent the invitation yet."
"Okay!"
Lan Jicai stuffed the remaining two copies of the album into the hands of Liang Qu, then waved his sleeves to see him off.
By the Jishuitan Lake.
White lotus blossoms.
Liang Qu and Long Eying walked on the water.
Long Eying turned the two birth certificates over and over, unable to hide her joy, but then she became worried: "When we make the registration, do we need to consider the order? Your brothers and sisters..."
"It's alright. My mother didn't say anything about the order of seniority. Besides, it's the marriage that His Majesty has arranged."
Most of Liang Qu's senior brothers are single, like Xu Zishuai, who is in his thirties.
In this world, warriors, especially those with background and talent, mostly get married late, which is completely different from ordinary people who get married as early as sixteen or seventeen, unless they know that their talent is limited.
The reason is very simple.
The "levels" of wives that can be married vary at different realms. Moreover, warriors live longer, so marrying late and raising children also have benefits.
Otherwise, if you get married when you are a horse galloping, by the time you are hunting tigers, your wife will be in her sixties or seventies, old and ugly. If there were officials in your family in the past, they may have retired and their voice has declined and weakened, so you will no longer be able to provide a future for your children.
There are three main types of marriages: partnership, emotional, and transactional.
Most of the time, cooperative marriages are for the big bucks.
Ordinary people "live together", while princes and nobles "join forces".
Decisions based on emotion are rare, and due to the objective existence of transactional marriages, there are national laws, family rules and even secular constraints on marriage, which make it difficult to divorce in order to prevent someone from making a second "transaction" for profit. The cost is extremely high, so naturally people have to choose the best to marry.
Liang Qu was different. He achieved perfection at the age of 22, and the two were in love and their two families were united.
Long Eying is also a perfect symbol.
The two of them didn't even have to consider the normal practice of "waiting for a good price".
"Wait until September 8th for the feast!"
(End of this chapter)