Chapter 268: Notes on Knotting the Rope
When I first opened my eyes, my consciousness was a little distracted, and it took a while before I gradually became concentrated.
The faces of the witch and the leader appeared above.
"A Xuan, how are you?" Ao asked.
Shao Xuan sat up with some difficulty, took a glass of water handed over by Wu and drank it. After slowing down, he said: "It's okay."
You don’t look like “it’s okay” like this. Ao Xin said.
After filling a few more glasses of water, Shao Xuan felt that his disappearing physical strength had recovered a little, and then he briefly said what he had discovered in the wooden house. He did not mention his special ability, but said it was intuition.
After hearing this, Ao breathed a sigh of relief, it was not enough that he was attacked.
"That's all?" The witch brought over the wooden plate containing gold powder, and the wooden tube containing gold powder.
"Yes. Where is that leaf?" Shao Xuan asked.
Wu and Ao looked at each other and shook their heads.
"I'll call Guihe over and ask again. No, I'll go to the wooden house in person." Ao said. Guihe would not lie. If there were indeed a leaf with patterns painted with gold powder, it would definitely be brought over, but not.
"I'll go over and take a look, too." Shao Xuan stood up. He was a little weak, but he was fine when he walked around.
"I'll go with you, too." Wu said.
The three highest-ranking people in the Yanjiao tribe went out at the same time. Tower and Guihe both invited people to come over to protect them nervously, for fear of an assassination. The tribe has been so unsafe recently. They were originally guarding against ferocious beasts, but now they found that humans are much more troublesome than ferocious beasts.
When he came to the wooden house again, Shao Xuan pointed to the place where he had held the leaves before. There was indeed no leaf around him.
"Has anyone else come in?" Ao asked.
Gui He shook his head, "It shouldn't be." Recently, people around him are busy drawing a line with the two of them. How could they come into the house? As for the others who followed him, he believed that no one would hide things privately.
The witch walked around the room, then stopped at the place where Shao Xuan fainted, squatted, stretched out his arms, and brushed across the ground.
The airflow driven by the palm blows the dust on the ground, but there is still some dust that is not blown.
"That leaf has scattered," said the witch.
"It's dispersed? When I took it out, the leaves seemed to be newly picked, green." Shao Xuan was surprised. But the witch said it was dispersed, and it really dispersed.
When he returned to the stone house, Wu asked Shao Xuan to stay alone.
"Do you know, your finger movements are before you wake up?" Wu asked.
"I don't know." Shao Xuan shook his head. At that time, even if he beat him into a pig's face, he couldn't feel it, let alone the movement of his fingers.
"You are knotting the rope." Wu's eyes were meaningful.
"Knot rope?"
"Yeah." Wu told Shao Xuan about the history of using knots and conclusions, such as the history of using knots and conclusions. These were mentioned in the precious records left by his ancestors. Although Wu did not understand them very clearly, he could roughly infer from those written records.
"And the leaf you are holding is probably a long live leaf. The rumors will never rot." Wu said again.
"Long live the leaves?" Shao Xuan was suspicious.
"This is not a false statement." The witch dipped the gold powder that still existed in the wooden plate with her fingers and said to Shao Xuan: "These are also powders made from the Long Live Tree where the Long Live Leaf is located."
Shao Xuan did not say anything, and Wu didn't care whether he believed it or not. He continued: "It is reported that a long time ago, leaves, shells, etc. were also tools used by ancestors to inherit. Precious plants such as the Long Live Leaf were the messengers who recorded important inheritances. Shao Xuan, do you know that in the past, the inheritance of Wu had only language and no words.
Even if texts and pictures are popular now, there are many inheritances that do not use pictures and texts. For example, some of the abilities I pass on to Gui Ze in the future. Such inheritances, even if they are recorded with pictures and texts, will be destroyed. They only exist once. When the receiver absorbs them, there will be no texts for others to see in the world. Naturally, no second person will get such inheritance."
"What do you mean is that Long Live Leaf is the inheritance that belongs to him once recorded by a certain witch?" Shao Xuan asked.
"Yes."
"The inheritance should be isolated and rejected between different tribes because of totem and fire, but why am I not rejected?" Shao Xuan said. He glanced at the leaves and fell down. The leaves that people said that long live torn into the soil have dissipated.
This witch couldn't answer, he had many and was not clear about it, and could not give an answer.
"So, I inherited the inheritance on that leaf? I don't know what it is. I only saw a pair of hands holding a rope and tying a knot, but I kept circling it and never completed a knot." Shao Xuan said the picture he had seen in the sea of consciousness, hoping to get some tips from the witch.
Wu stroked his beard and pulled off two of them, but he still couldn't figure out what it was.
"In this way, Ming** goes to Guize and ask her to teach you the method of knotting ropes." Wu said, "The knotting before the text appears, and the inheritance method has been changing until the stone bones and barks appear after the text appears. The ancient knotting ropes are very mysterious in my opinion. In ancient times, divination, literary deeds, recording objects, etc., all used the method of knotting ropes."
"Just a few knots can represent so many things?" Shao Xuan said. But as soon as he said this, he wanted to slap himself.
Stupid! Of course, the matter of connection with the profession of witch cannot be based on the theory of the common sense. Even if they draw an egg, you cannot think that it is really an egg, let alone a few ropes and knots.
I originally thought that what I am now is already considered ancient, but I didn’t expect that there would be something even older.
However, Shao Xuan was really interested in knotting things. He wanted to figure out what kind of information the leaf wanted to convey. The letter used the Long Live Leaf, and the things conveyed on it were, how precious?
The next day, Shao Xuan went to Guize's medicine house.
The witch had already told Gui Ze that when he saw Shao Xuan, Gui Ze put down what he was doing and pointed to some animal skin rolls on the wooden table next to him, "That's all given to you by the witch."
Shao Xuan untied the animal skin scroll and looked at it. It was covered with pictures of ropes and knots, and there were also comments on the current text next to it. The animal skin scroll was still new, and it was only a few years before it was made. It should have been copied by the witch from the ancient books of his ancestors when Gui Ze was studying the conclusion.
Gui Ze brought some straw ropes over again, "I made these before last winter. You can try this with this one, it's convenient to use it."
"Thank you, I'll make a straw rope and call me, I'll help." Shao Xuan pulled out a straw rope and looked at it. These straw ropes are relatively smooth, without so many burrs. Each one is about the same length, about the same thickness as a baby's little finger, and the toughness is also very suitable.
Gui Ze sat down, pulled out a straw rope, and compared each picture on the animal skin roll, telling Shao Xuan how to tie a knot and what kind of knots represent what kind of meaning. Sometimes, the knots that look very similar have a very different meaning. This is probably the knot obtained by conveying hidden information back then.
The Guize Sect Shao Xuan's all are very simple knots, just like the ones drawn on the animal skin roll. When all the animal skin rolls are learned, Shao Xuan can use the rope to write a sentence.
Because it was not that difficult, Shao Xuan had a good memory. After learning some skills, he asked Gui Ze to work on her affairs. There were still a lot of medicines to deal with in the medicine house. He watched it slowly here and tried it step by step.
Seeing that Shao Xuan was indeed making progress, Gui Ze went back to continue pounding medicine.
The snapping turtle lying at the door moved its heavy body, changed places, closed its eyes and continued to bask in the sun.
As time passed by little, the animal skin scrolls on the left side of Shao Xuan's hand became fewer and fewer. After finally trying all the records here, Shao Xuan could also roughly understand some simple conclusions. As for the more complicated ones, Wu did not give them, and perhaps there were not many records of knotted things passed down from the tribe. Wu could tell him limited.
There were still many straw ropes that Gui Ze brought. Shao Xuan thought about it and observed the line diagram in his mind. Soon, he entered that state again, looking at the knot ropes that appeared.
Last time I didn't know anything. This time, Shao Xuan had some basics at least, but gradually, Shao Xuan realized that this was different from the conclusions he had just learned. Perhaps it was going to express another meaning.
According to what the witch said, the method of knotting ropes was used in various aspects when it was older. One thing was not feasible. Isn’t there anything else? There are also knotting, divination, knotting, etc. Since it is not like the usual recordings, then it is impossible to be divination or other things?
Shao Xuan continued to observe the movements of the hands. When he got out of that state, he moved his neck weakly. He felt something was wrong with his hands. He looked down and saw that his fingers were tied up with straw ropes.
I don’t know how it was ripped, but I tied up all ten fingers. Shao Xuan wanted to untie it, but for a moment he didn’t know where to start, so he could only rub the rope off his fingers a little bit.
After all the straw ropes in his hand were pulled down, the straw ropes were already wrapped in a ball and could not be untied. Shao Xuan tied the straw ropes into a big knot and threw them at the snapping turtle.
The snapping turtle, who was basking in the sun, slowly opened her eyes and saw a ball of straw rope next to her, opened her mouth and bit it into her mouth, and chewed it slowly.
Shao Xuan slowed down, recalled the movements of the hands he had just seen, and pulled a straw rope to continue.
fail!
Failed again!
Failed again!
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The straw ropes were wrapped into ununcleaned chaotic grass balls and threw them to the snapping turtle. No matter how fast Shao Xuan's knot rope was, it still maintained its originally slow speed of chewing the straw ropes. Therefore, as Shao Xuan's speed became faster and faster, there were more and more chaotic grass balls next to the snapping turtle.
Gui Ze, who was pounding medicine, glanced at Shao Xuan from time to time and thought to himself: Isn’t Shao Xuan quite smart? How can he tie all his fingers even if he tied a knot?
He stopped when Shao Xuan used only a dozen straw ropes next to his hand.
Chapter completed!