Chapter 12: Trouble Has Come (Part 2) Revised Edition

  Sun Simiao seemed to have something to say, but hesitated and stopped.

  He glanced at Zheng Yanqing and thought that he was still young, so he didn't ask any questions. Instead, it made Yanqing feel a little disappointed.

  "It's not far from here, it's the Lingtai of Eastern Han Dynasty, why don't you go and take a look?"

  Du Ruhui hastily nodded in agreement.

  The Lingtai of the Eastern Han Dynasty was a place for observing celestial phenomena during the Eastern Han period. The famous astronomer Zhang Heng once served as an official here and invented the armillary sphere. By the time of the Western Jin, the Lingtai was used by the Sima family. Now it is also deserted like the Imperial Academy.

  Zheng Yanqing had visited the Lingtai ruins in his past life and, to be honest, wasn't particularly interested.

  But since Sun Simiao brought it up, and Du Ruhui also expressed his agreement, he naturally couldn't refuse. The elegance of these ancient people is really not shallow! Xian Qing muttered to himself as he followed Sun Simiao's back as he prepared to leave. Just then, a loud cry of surprise came from behind, and Sun Simiao suddenly let go of Xian Qing's hand. Before Xian Qing could even see how Sun Simiao had moved, he saw him appear beside Du Ruhui, stretching out his hand to support him.

  "Be careful, it's slippery underfoot."

  Sun Simiao finished speaking and returned to Zheng Yanqing's side.

  Yan Qing's eyes widened in surprise, could this Sun Simiao also be a master?

  Since he practiced the Dragon Subduing Technique, his ears became sharper and his eyesight stronger than ordinary people. However, just now, he surprisingly didn't see clearly how Sun Simiao got to Du Ruhui's side. Could it be that the legendary Medicine King is an extraordinary master?

  Think about it, there's nothing strange after all.

  Sun Simiao was later revered as the "King of Medicine" for his book "Prescriptions Worth a Thousand Pieces of Gold", but on the other hand, he was also a Taoist.

  His purpose in writing "Qian Jin Fang" was to seek the art of longevity. Refining Qi and nourishing the body, having a good skill is not surprising. As if he had noticed Yan Qing's thoughts, Sun Simiao smiled slightly and said softly: "I am not skilled in the art of killing. However, since I learned Taoism, I have been practicing the guiding technique, diligently practicing Wuqinxi, and have achieved some results... Yanqing, you are practicing martial arts, so I can teach you this guiding technique and Wuqinxi. Although it cannot achieve immortality, it has a remarkable effect on strengthening the body, toning up one's health and increasing energy."

  Zheng Yan was overjoyed upon hearing the news.

  After Duoduo left, he no longer had someone who could guide him in his practice.

  Although Sun Simiao is not good at killing, if he can learn his guiding technique, it would be a good thing.

  At this time, Du Ruhui also stood firm, muttering to himself: "Just now it seemed like something tripped me up."

  As he spoke, he lowered his head and looked down.

  Among the broken bricks and tiles, a stone tablet seemed to protrude from one corner.

  Could it be that I was tripped up by this stone tablet just now? Zheng Yance didn't mind, but Du Ruhui came to his senses.

  "Mr. Sun, look, is this a stone tablet?"

  Sun Simiao pulled Zheng Yance's hand and walked over to take a look, "It looks a bit like... Ru Hui, you don't think..."

  "Maybe, just maybe!"

  Du Ruhui's eyes were piercing and had a very intense light.

  Zheng Yanqing didn't understand the meaning of his conversation with Sun Simiao at first, but looking at Du Ruhui's current appearance, he seemed to have understood.

  This guy likes stele, probably thinks that this black thing that looks like a stone monument is a relic left over from the Han and Wei dynasties. But with bare hands, how can he take out the monument from the ground? If it's really a Han-Wei monument, this thing has been buried for at least three or four hundred years, wanting to take it out won't be that easy.

  "What a pity! If Zhang Da Hu Zi were here, it would save us a lot of trouble."

  Du Ruhui walked around the stone monument three times and muttered to himself: "That guy has a lot of strength, he must be able to dig out the stone monument."

  Zheng Yanqing couldn't help but laugh, and Sun Simiao also shook his head repeatedly.

  Considering this, the third son of the richest family in Yangzhou is destined to be your servant?

  "It's not difficult to take it out and pour it back, but the problem is, if the stone tablet is too big, how are you going to get it back?"

  Sun Simiao spoke up on the side, "Let me make one thing clear, I won't be your laborer, and neither will Little Brother... You move it back yourself, and I'll help you get this stone tablet out."

  Du Ruhui's eyes lit up, "No problem!"

  "Then you first clean up the gravel here."

  Sun Simiao finished speaking, and pulled Zheng Yance to the side. Du Ruhui didn't say a word, threw away the bamboo umbrella in his hand, squatted down to clean up the broken stones. He was wearing a dark blue robe, which quickly became covered with mud stains, looking very disheveled.

  "This guy is really..."

  "Mr. Sun, are you familiar with Du?"

  Sun Simiao shook his head, "I met him at Mount Heng. At that time, he was circling around the stele of Xiang Yu, if it weren't for the fact that the stele was too big and too heavy, I reckon he would have dared to carry it down from the mountain."

  Later we met Zhang Sanlang and happened to be going in the same direction, so we came all the way together.

  Logically speaking, I shouldn't have missed the last bus yesterday. But this guy was dawdling on the road, so that's why we met."

  Yan Qing said: "Du brother, it seems that this stele is indeed good."

  What's there to like? It's simply infatuation...

  "In my opinion, he is more talented than Ou Yang Xiu and Zhi Yong. However, at his age, it's inevitable that people will suspect him of being frivolous."

  Yan Qing understood the implication of Sun Simiao's words, but it was not convenient for him to comment.

  At this time, Du Ruhui shouted loudly that the gravel had been cleared. Sun Simiao responded with a sound, handed the bamboo umbrella to Zheng Yanqing, and stepped forward, lifted his clothes, held one corner of the stone tablet with one hand, and suddenly sank his feet. Following closely, he used force in his arm, and saw a burst of mud and sand flying out, and the stone tablet was dug out from the soil by him.

  Zheng Yanqing didn't pay attention to the stone tablet, but instead looked at Sun Simiao in surprise.

  This legendary medicine king looks thin and weak, doesn't seem strong at all. Who would have thought that he actually has such divine power?

  Du Ruhui, on the other hand, was overjoyed and rushed over to gently wipe away the dirt and dust from the stone stele with his hands, regardless of the rainwater dripping down. He narrowed his eyes and carefully examined it. A moment later, Du Ruhui suddenly let out a cry of surprise, waving his arms and legs wildly.

  "Three Dynasties Stele of Yong, it's actually Three Dynasties Stele of Yong!"

  The stone monument is enormous, about three meters long and over a meter wide.

  Zheng Yanqing roughly estimated that this stone monument weighed at least around a thousand catties. Extremely shocked, he looked at Sun Simiao, and Yanqing secretly cursed to himself. Is this the legendary master of the world? Such divine power is truly rarely seen in the world.

  Sun Simiao was also somewhat surprised.

  No way, is this guy's luck really that good? He just happens to stumble and dig up a tablet of San Li Bei Yong?

  The full name of the Sanlin Stele should be "The Grand Emperor of Jin Longxing, the Three-time Visit to the Imperial Taizi, and the Prosperous Virtue of the Emperor". The whole text is written in Lishu script, erected on October 20th, 278 AD (the fourth year of Weining during the Western Jin Dynasty). The stele has thirty lines on the front side with fifty-five characters per line, and forty-four lines on the back side, recording the events of Emperor Wu of Jin Sima Yan and Emperor Hui of Jin Sima Zhong's three meetings with teachers and students of Taixue, totaling over 1,500 words.

  Zheng Yanqing has some impression of this stone tablet.

  Because of this stone tablet, it was unearthed in 1930 in Jinvillage Town, Luoyang, and later collected in the Luoyang Museum.

  Yan Qing saw this stone tablet with his own eyes during his previous life's period of exchange and study between the two cities.

  But he never thought that a casual outing would bring him 1,400 years ahead of time to see the Stele of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

  "Is this really the Stele of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors?"

  "That's right, that's right...... I've seen its expansion, it absolutely won't be wrong."

  Although most of the stele is covered with mud, **'s place is clear.

  Sun Simiao smiled bitterly: "Ru Hui, you wouldn't want to take it away with you, would you?"

  Du Ruhui lay on the stone tablet, staring with his eyes wide open and said: "Why can't I? This is what I found, it's mine!"

  "This thing weighs at least a couple of thousand catties, how are you going to take it away?"

  "Oh, this one..."

  Du Ruhui's eyes rolled around, and after a moment, he said: "It's simple, anyway, there are many people with big beards, let him think of a way to help me transport it back."

  Sun Simiao shook his head repeatedly, "Zhang Sanlang may not agree with that."

  "I don't care, I don't care!" Du Ruhui said at this time, just like a little kid, "Anyway, I'm going to take it back."

  "Besides, since this thing has already been unearthed, if it's not properly taken care of, who knows what damage might occur. I'll take it back home and keep it safe, isn't that a good idea? Alright, let's go back and discuss it with Big Beard."

  "You're driving me crazy!"

  Sun Simiao had no choice but to turn his head and say to Zheng Yanqing, "Yanqing, let's go back and find someone else. Let this madman guard here."

  Zheng Yanqing didn't mind, so he nodded in agreement.

  Maybe I really got it wrong?

  The Du Ruhui in front of him didn't have half the demeanor of a famous minister that Zheng Yance imagined, and even made people feel like he was just a big troublemaker...