Chapter 248: Gold Has Magical Power
Located in central Japan, the Hida Mountains stretch from north to south through several prefectures to the sea, creating an axe-like cliff on the seashore – a perfect place to commit suicide by throwing yourself into the sea, and sometimes having to wait in line, making it the perfect place to live after the Suicide Forest.
The reason for the formation of its topography is that after the uplift of small geological plates, it has been invaded by glaciers, and the history is quite ancient, similar to the origin of the Alps, with a large number of glaciers washed into the V-shaped valley, which belongs to the ancient times, the glaciers moved by gravity by huge mass, and slowly accumulated a few centimeters a year.
At the end of the 19th century, the British missionary Weston wrote a book called "Mountaineering and Exploration of the Japanese Alps" about the process and scenery of the Hida Mountains, which compared the scenery of the Hida Mountains with the Alps, and praised it, so the Hida Mountains became famous all over the world as the "Alps of Japan" and became one of the famous mountains in Japan.
Now it is a tourist resort, you can climb the mountain, you can also enjoy the scenery, winter skiing is also good, the western slope is classified as the Central Mountain National Park, and some river valleys in the south have also developed hydropower stations, but because the mountains are too long, the scenery is not charming, and there are several dormant volcanoes, the terrain is quite dangerous, and there are many inaccessible places.
At least Kitahara Shuji led Dongmei and them into the mountain according to the map, and walked at the entrance of the Zeng Chi Mountain branch at the eastern tail of the mountain range, and there were only a few small forestry mountain villages at the foot of the mountain.
Japan's forest coverage rate is 66%, the forest of the Zengchi branch has spread to an altitude of 2,500 meters, there are many heavy trees, shrubs, and many wild small animals, and the snow is the first to open the way with a stick, looking left and right, ready to add meals at any time, Fumi Haruna followed, Kitahara Shuji backpack guarded the tail of the team, and finally everyone walked for more than three hours to a small river valley in the mountains.
The road is very difficult to walk, he carried Haruna for a while, and Haruna's physical strength is still not very good.
Dongmei stood above the river valley with her lips pursed, compared the "ancestral map" taken with her mobile phone, and said, "It should be here, let's go down, be careful." ”
After saying that, she relied on her light body, and tried the road first, jumping in the snow and following behind, Kitahara Shuji and Haruna carefully looked up and down the river valley, and found no one, so they glanced at each other and followed Qiqi.
Eventually, the group reached a safe spot near a waterhole at the end of a river valley. It is a pool of water that falls from a high place, and from here the water seems to have swelled and meandered down the river, presumably into the Kiso River and eventually into the Pacific Ocean.
Xueli looked at the slightly cloudy pool with a serious expression, looked left and right, and asked, "Sister, where is the thing?"
Fuyumi pointed to the waterhole and said distressedly, "Down there." ”
She gritted her little teeth, threw her backpack aside, and said, "I'll go down and check first." ”
Don't believe the words of your ancestors, let's explore the way first.
Kitahara Shuji didn't object, and tied a rope to Fuyumi's small waist, just in case something happened to drag her up, and then Fuyumi jumped down and didn't move for a while.
Yukiri stared nervously at the water, and soon Fuyumi came up again, her lips were bruised, and she said in a trembling voice, "Down...... There is a water, water, and waterway underneath that you can go into, and ...... Same as in the scroll. ”
This waterhole communicates with an underground river, and instead of flowing into the underground river, the water spews out of the underground river.
"Then let's go down together!" Kitahara Shuji had already begun to tie up all the things he wanted to use with a waterproof rain pack to ensure that he would not get wet in a short time, and said to Xueli: "Xueli, you are guarding here, don't run around, if we pull the rope hard, you will drag us all up." ”
The snow is a weighing stone, and it sinks to the bottom when it goes into the water, and she can't swim at all, and she can't do the work in the water, but it's okay to do security work outside, there are really bears...... It's not clear who will eat it!
Yukiri nodded earnestly, and Haruna and Kitahara Shuji also went into the water. Fuyumi led the way first, and the little fart turned over and dived down again, Haruna followed, and Kitahara Shuji dragged the waterproof package to follow behind.
The further down the waterhole dived, the more muddy it became, and Kitahara Shuji barely swam along the rope that Fuyumi was dragging with his eyes wide open, and Fuyumi dived for a short time, then pointed to a large crack in the granite pool wall that only allowed one person to enter to indicate that this was the place, and then she plunged into it.
When Kitahara Shuji swam to the entrance of the crack, he felt that although the water jet was not too strong, there was a lot of fine sand, which made his head, face and eyes sting, and the water temperature was obviously colder than the pool water, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Dongmei swam hard in front like a little mermaid, only two small short legs swayed rapidly, resisting the impact of the current, and felt that the more she swam, the higher she went, and soon she felt that her body was light, her head was exposed to the water, and she reached out and touched the rocks.
She was mentally prepared, after all, the scroll mentioned that there was a large hole through the underground river. She reached out and touched it again, climbed up directly, and reflexively began to drag Haruna and Kitahara Shuji to this side - she didn't dare to use too much force, for fear that Xueli would feel that something was wrong on the other side and be ruthless, and drag the three of them back again, and then it would be in vain.
Kitahara Shuji and Haruna also climbed onto the rock platform, which seemed to be ten times colder than the water when exposed to the air, and there was even a splash in the water. He quickly took out two dry blankets from the package and threw them to Fuyumi and Haruna, and took out the emergency light from the waterproof package, turned it on directly and shone forward, and was stunned.
The hole is very narrow but very high, there are several large openings in the wall of the cave, and it is spraying water outward, falling to the alcove platform where he is staying, stirring up a splash of water and rolling back, and after unloading most of the strength, he turns around and flows quickly from high to low outside the cave.
And the concave platform is close to the cave wall by the reverse current impact side of the right below, there is a stone nest, which is illuminated by a light, is flashing with scattered golden light, with a layer of shallow gold sand, and reflects the relatively gentle water surface, refracting the golden light full of holes, swaying slightly between the waves, making the cave wall like a galaxy descending to the world, constantly flickering, very dazzling.
Gold has magic, and Kitahara Shuji couldn't help but swallow his saliva when he looked at the gold sand, forgot about the cold for a while, and involuntarily walked over.
He waded through the water and approached as if he was afraid of alarming something, squatting down and touching it very carefully, and his fingers were cold, but his heart was inexplicably a little hot - gold has always been synonymous with wealth, and 99% of modern people have never seen such a pristine gold sand.
Fuyumi and Haruna didn't know when they came over, and Fuyumi muttered, "Is this the 'Golden Nest'?"
This is the heirloom that was discovered by the ancestors of the Fukuzawa family and passed down from generation to generation?
Haruna was much stronger than the two of them, and her tone didn't fluctuate at all, and she replied quietly, "It should be, eldest sister!"
It's really a golden nest, and the name is right...... A pit is full of gold sand.
Her calm words woke up Kitahara Shuiji, and she couldn't help but feel ashamed of herself for a while-she was actually a vulgar person, and when she saw gold, she was stunned, but she still didn't have enough heart, and she was easily moved by foreign objects.
He silently reflected on himself for a moment, and then looked at the nest of golden sand, and his eyes cleared up again - it is no wonder that Fukuzawa Naobi heard that his brother was seriously ill and dying, so he ran back from Kyushu to rob it, he may have heard from his father before, and according to Zuxun, this thing is not his share, and his heart is quite eager for gold, so he ignores it.
Gold really has magical power, it really has the power to make people obsessed, which can only be understood when you really touch this primitive gold, and it is no wonder that the ancients regarded this thing as one of the precious currencies, which is really itchy to look at.
Kitahara Shuji handed over the emergency light in his hand to Fuyumi, so that the little wealth fan who was still in a daze could see enough, and he turned on a flashlight to check the terrain in the cave and study how this miracle of nature was formed.
He looked at it for a while, and thought that it should be groundwater passing through a gold vein somewhere, scouring out some placer gold - possibly buried very deep - and then because of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc., the stone wall here broke, and the groundwater covered with placer gold was divided into several strands and sprayed out from here, and then fell to the platform and rolled back to form a situation of continuous oscillation and impact of multiple streams of water, its strength weakened enough to carry away the gravel and mud sand, and the relatively heavy gold sand sank into the stone nest on the platform......
This is actually a small automatic gold panning field formed by nature, and it can only be said that several, dozens or even hundreds of coincidences have come together to form this small geological miracle.
Kitahara Shuji looked around and probably counted it in his heart, and felt that he could only say that the ancestor of the Fukuzawa family had a good fate, and it was very likely that he escaped by jumping into the water when he was being chased and killed, and he found this magical place when he fell down the river from a high place, and it was also possible that he wanted to catch some fish to eat or even fell into the water, but later found that there was a grain of gold dust on his clothes, and he found this crack under curiosity, and then came in to take a look, and finally found this treasure- The unlucky days in the mountains Dongmei and their ancestors said quite vaguely, it is estimated that it is very embarrassing to lose the battle, and being hunted down and killed is detrimental to their dignity, so they directly used the Spring and Autumn brushwork.
Kitahara Shuji looked at this exquisite natural structure and admired it in his heart, but when the light flickered, he found that there were lines of words on the stone wall, and he couldn't help but walk over and take a closer look, and he was speechless for a while.
There are two people's names carved on the stone wall, and there are two hearts in the middle that are pierced by arrows, and the names of the people are "Naotaka and Gona".
Kona is the name of Fuyumi's mother, this doesn't matter, but isn't this a big secret that only the head of the family knows?Fukuzawa Naokaka also brought his wife here?What about Zuxun?And come here, and show affection, this is really ...... It's really overwhelming.
Kitahara Shuji watched it for a while, and felt the chill all over his body again. Maybe Fukuzawa Naotaka was once young, but he had the impression that Fukuzawa Naotaka was an old man, and this brain supplement was the old man's show of affection...... It can really show off goosebumps.
He turned back again, still speechless, and the little radish head was looking like an ugly money fan, and he was very excited to bag the gold sand, for fear of losing one, and Haruna held the lamp to illuminate her.
It's right to take gold, there's nothing to say, it's really a godsend, if you don't take it, I'm afraid I'll be struck by lightning, but don't you two guard against me? This is gold! I'm so faceless like this, you don't think I don't have the ability to rob, do you?
Why am I so strong in your hearts?
I'm not a decent man, am I? Is this a disguised card for me to be a good person?