Origin Chapter 47: Translation

After seven o’clock in the evening, the two returned to Mr. Li’s villa. Wan Shanhai and the others were waiting eagerly. Seeing that one of them frowned and the other looked sad, they thought things were not going well.

After Mr. Li came back, he went straight to the study. Wu Zhongyuan wanted to follow, but was stopped by Wan Shanhai, “Hey, how is it?”

“I found the problem.” Wu Zhongyuan said casually.

“Is it difficult?” Wan Shanhai asked.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head, “It’s not very troublesome. This kind of thing is like unpacking a sweater. As long as you find the thread, you can pull it off.”

Mrs. Li and Li Xi were just behind Wan Shanhai. After hearing what Wu Zhongyuan said, the three of them were relieved. Wan Shanhai asked suspiciously, “Since the matter has been dealt with, why are you still drooping?”

“I’m thinking about something else.” Wu Zhongyuan casually said.

“Don’t think about it, just get the business done,” Wan Shanhai said, looking back at Mrs. Li and Li Xi, with a proud expression that lived up to her trust.

Mrs. Li looked at Li Xi with a smile on her face, “It’s getting late, go and call your father and go out to dinner with Xiaohai and Xiaowu.”

Without waiting for Li Xi to rush over, Mr. Li walked out of the study with a stack of photos in his hand.

More cars have the advantage of having more cars. Mrs. Li and others had a car. Mr. Li also took Wu Zhongyuan and handed the photo to Wu Zhongyuan after getting in the car, “It’s all here.”

Wu Zhongyuan reached out and took it, and found that there were more than a dozen photos than he thought.

It was getting dark at this time, Mr. Li helped to turn on the top light in the car.

Worrying about being seen by Wan Shanhai and others, Wu Zhongyuan said, “Close it.”

Listening to what he said, Mr. Li glanced at Wu Zhongyuan with doubts, raised his hand and turned off the overhead light.

Wu Zhongyuan looked at the photos in his hand one by one. The first few photos were of the square stone. When the photo was taken, the stone was already cracked, and it could be seen that there was indeed green rust in the middle of the stone.

The figures and lines on the outside of the stone were also photographed. The square stone has six faces, and it seems that each face has lines and figures.

“There should be six pictures on the outside of the stone, but why are there only two here?” Wu Zhongyuan asked. These lines and figures are very similar to the words written by Wu Zhui, and they should belong to the same language in the same period.

“Can you see clearly?” Mr. Li was surprised. At this time, there was only the faint light of the instrument lights in the car. He couldn’t even see Wu Zhongyuan’s facial features, but Wu Zhongyuan could see the photos clearly.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded.

Mr. Li cleared his throat, “The stone is more weathered, and the graphics in some parts are already blurred. The graphics and lines of the remaining faces are the same, so I will choose the clearest shot. two.”

Wu Zhongyuan nodded again and carefully discerned that the two photos were indeed not the same face, but the text on them was the same.

I then looked at the photos below. They were photos of the iron ball. They were taken from different angles. The iron ball was bigger than he imagined. It was the size of two adult fists. There are also photos of the interior, the interior is smooth and should have been sanded.

The rest of the photos are of the piece of white jade. Some use a ruler to show the size, and some use an electronic scale to show the weight. It’s not very heavy, only about 80 grams.

Although this jade was different in color and size and shape from those he had seen before, he still recognized at a glance that it was the same kind of thing as those before.

Mr. Li waited patiently for Wu Zhongyuan to see the photo before he said, “Xiao Wu, the hope of finding that Taoist priest is very slim.”

Wu Zhongyuan replied casually, Mr. Li didn’t know the inside story, and still thought he wanted to find the middle-aged Taoist priest through iron **** and jade.

The place to eat is not far from Mr. Li’s villa. It didn’t take long for the car to stop at the entrance of a high-end hotel. Wu Zhongyuan didn’t ask Mr. Li’s permission, and put the photos in his pocket.

“Xiao Wu, give me an account.” Mr. Li said.

Wu Zhongyuan naturally knew what Mr. Li was going to do, but instead of telling the other party his account number, he opened the door and got out of the car, “Let’s talk about it later.”

Mr. Li is a smart person, and he did not continue to ask questions. Wu Zhongyuan did not directly refuse, which means that he will ask for money, but he will only accept the payment after the effect is manifested.

Rice is good food, and food is good food, but Wu Zhongyuan doesn’t eat much because he has something on his mind.

Even Wan Shanhai can see that Wu Zhongyuan has something on his mind, and the Li family can naturally see it. They don’t know that Wu Zhongyuan is thinking about their own affairs.

After dinner, Mr. Li personally drove Wu Zhongyuan and Wan Shanhai back to school.

Wan Shanhai was curious and couldn’t help but nag and ask questions. Wu Zhongyuan casually said a few words, but the more perfunctory he was, the more curious Wan Shanhai became.

Back in the dormitory, Wan Shanhai stopped nagging, because Wang Jize had sobered up and was playing with his tablet on the bed.

On the eve of the school year, the dormitory building was noisy, and it was finally quiet until eleven or two.

You can think in any environment, but the best environment for thinking is a quiet environment. Wu Zhongyuan stayed up so late in order to think quietly.

And the question he pondered was naturally the origin of the middle-aged Taoist.

At present, there are not enough clues, so we can only guess, not infer. If you think about it carefully, the biggest possibility is that this middle-aged Taoist is also from ancient times. It is possible to know that there is a piece of jade in the iron ball, and it is even more impossible to know that after the jade leaves the iron ball, the aura it contains will weaken.

However, this assumption is also unreasonable. One is that this middle-aged Taoist can tolerate the heavily polluted air of modern times, and the other is that the gold that this person brought to exchange for jade belongs to different ages.

It’s hard to be puzzled, and in the end Wu Zhongyuan fell asleep in this uncomfortable state of suffocation and doubt.

Woke up in the morning and thought about it for a while, but I still can’t understand it, so I just don’t want to, as long as I know that there is such a thing, I will understand it in the future. Maybe the eighteen pages of paper that Wu Zhui left behind There is no answer.

After breakfast and class, Wu Zhongyuan didn’t have the time to go to class. He sat in the corner and copied the text on the eighteen pages one by one.

Transcribing one by one does not necessarily mean transcribing in the order in which it was written. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, he kept the eighteen pages separately, and now he is transcribing odd-numbered pages, that is, odd-numbered pages.

And when he transcribes, he does not transcribe in the order of the content written in each chapter. He will write down different characters. If he encounters the same character in the future, he will no longer write it separately, but in the previous one. Mark below the text.

Don’t say no one saw what Wu Zhongyuan was doing. Even if someone saw what he was doing, no one knew what he was doing. In fact, he did this to determine how many different pages there were in the eighteen pages. Word.

There are forty-two characters on the first page, and some of these forty-two characters are the same.

There are fifty-one characters on the second page, which also have a small amount of repetition with the text on the first page.

There are thirty-six words on the third page, and there are several more words that repeat the first two pages.

In one lesson, I copied three pages, a total of 129 characters, of which there are more than 80 characters without repetition.

This is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but the advantage is security and confidentiality. As long as the eighteen pages are copied, you can determine how many words there are in total, and then disrupt the order of these words and translate them in various ways, even if It is to ask philologists for advice, and there is no need to show others whole sentences and chapters.

In the middle of the second class, an exclamation suddenly came from the classroom. The exclamation interrupted Wu Zhongyuan’s thoughts. He raised his head and saw that the students in front were all turning their heads and looking back.

When I turned around, I saw a young woman walking towards me from the door of the classroom. I looked closely, why is it Zhao Ying? !

Zhao Ying walked over under Wu Zhongyuan’s stupefied gaze. After she stopped, she did not speak, but smiled and looked at the vacant seat next to him.

Wu Zhongyuan nodded blankly, Zhao Ying pulled over the chair, sat beside Wu Zhongyuan, took out the pen, paper and book.

Wu Zhongyuan pulled the book and covered the piece of paper he was transcribing, “Didn’t you drop out of school?”

“School suspension.” Zhao Ying corrected.

Wu Zhongyuan didn’t understand why Zhao Ying was coming back, but Zhao Ying was sitting next to him, so he couldn’t continue to transcribe, he could only open the book, staring at the book and pretending to concentrate.

“Did you miss me?” Zhao Ying asked with a smile.

Zhao Ying smiled very sincerely, at least very true, her identity has been seen through, there is no need to continue to hide.

Although Zhao Ying spoke in a low voice, the classroom was very quiet, and many students heard it, not knowing whether it was out of envy or contempt, there were boos.

Some things are numb after experiencing too much. I was often booed before, and Wu Zhongyuan’s face became thicker, and he ignored those classmates. “I didn’t expect you to come back.”

Zhao Ying smiled, “I’ll tell you after class.”

Wu Zhongyuan didn’t nod or speak, just turned his eyes back to the book.

His eyes are on the book, but his mind is not on the book. What he thinks is why Zhao Ying came back, and what Zhao Ying did when he came back.

He quickly came up with the answer to the first question, because he had contacted Zhao Ying twice before, once asking Zhao Ying to help translate Wu Zhui’s account of the birdman’s identity, and once asking him Zhao Ying helped track down who called Lin Qingming on the day of Huang Ping’s accident.

I contacted Zhao Ying twice to show that he did not hate Zhao Ying, and Zhao Ying naturally knew this, and it was because he knew this that Zhao Ying would come back.

As for the purpose of Zhao Ying’s return this time, it is still unclear, but one thing is certain, that is, no matter what Zhao Ying wants to do, she will put it up directly and will never hide it in circles like before. .

“If you don’t like me sitting next to you, I can sit further away.” Zhao Ying smiled.

Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Zhao Ying and said nothing.

In the second half of the class, Zhao Ying didn’t take the initiative to talk to Wu Zhongyuan, and Wu Zhongyuan didn’t talk to her either, but just stared straight ahead, watching the blackboard assemble the students.

After class, Wu Zhongyuan packed up and left the classroom.

Zhao Ying followed.

After going downstairs, Wu Zhongyuan did not go back to the dormitory, but looked around, looking for a quiet place where he could talk.

At this moment, he suddenly found a person walking on the road to the south. He looked very familiar, and if he looked closely, he was even more familiar. He didn’t expect Wang Xinran to come back, just like he didn’t expect Zhao Ying to come back.

Wang Xinran was wearing a single shoulder bag and a denim jacket. When he saw him, he also saw Zhao Ying beside him. He frowned instantly and rushed towards the two of them.

When I got close, I didn’t even look at Wu Zhongyuan. I reached out to the back and stared at Zhao Ying fiercely, “Believe it or not, I’ll shoot you to death?”

Zhao Ying lowered her right hip, raised her eyebrows and sneered, “It depends on who draws the gun faster…”