Chapter 91: Inscriptions
After returning from fishing outside the village, the weather cleared, and the rainy days passed. Let the villagers in the village who are worried about drying the rice breathe a sigh of relief, and the rice will be smothered if it rains again.
The weather was good, and the farmland under the mountain, the muddy stream also receded, leaving a yellow watermark on the edge of the field, proving that the stream had risen here.
Many vegetables were soaked in the stream for a day, and the whole body was covered with mud, which shows that the water is fierce.
The water receded, leaving small puddles on the edge of the fields, which were more or less full of fish. Walking on the road in the morning, I saw a large group of little hairy children gathered around the small puddle of money, and used a net pocket to net fish there.
The little girl holds a transparent glass bottle in her hand, and puts a green aquatic plant in it, and puts a small fish and shrimp in it, and she will laugh there.
Let it rain heavily, and the dirt road below the mountain is full of mud. There is a thick layer of loess stuck to the slippers. Walking makes you feel like you've grown taller.
On the path outside, many villagers began to spread out bamboo mats on the roadside, and when the sun was good, they hurriedly took out the rice to dry.
On the road, I saw my father dragging a tricycle up.
"Dad, I'm going to drag that to the sun." Hurriedly walked to the back of the tricycle and helped push.
The road was slippery on rainy days, it was not easy to ride a tricycle, and there were several baskets of rice in the body.
Pushing a tricycle to the mountain happy small building gravel road. There is a clearing there, which is very suitable for drying rice.
The two of them carried the rice down, but they didn't bring a bamboo mat at home, but they brought a bundle of plastic film.
Pour out the grain in the basket, and the upper layer has not yet been felt. The millet at the bottom has already started to heat up. If it rains for a few more days, the millet under the basket will sprout small green buds.
In addition to bringing the film, he also brought a bamboo fence, which is similar to Zhu Bajie's nine-tooth nail rake. In the afternoon, it can be used to turn the sun-dried millet evenly.
Own, this year's rice planting is less, in fact, Zhang Niu does not want to plant, more fields and the body is dry, that is, plant some glutinous rice, and you can make rice wine in autumn.
Rural people go out early and return late. Especially those who work hard, at the age of forty, look like they are sixty, with gray heads and hunched bodies.
Zhang Niu will let his father do less, now the body is the most important, and the illness is like a mountain.
The millet is dried on the film, anyway, Zhang Niu is close to here, and you can come and comb it evenly in the afternoon.
The weather is good, and you can husk it in two or three days, and the empty shells of the millet can be selected handsomely.
Zhang Niu, who was fine, returned to Happy Xiaozhu. Prepare to go into the orchard and have a look, it has become a habit now, and if you don't go that day, you feel like you have nothing to do.
Looking at the green fruit on the tree, Zhang Niu pondered that in two weeks, the cherry on the tree would be ripe. I picked a few a few days ago, but my mouth was full of bitterness.
The peaches, bayberry, plums, and pineapples after the cherries are ripe one after another, and I guess I will be busy at that time. The fruit that lives near me grows unusually strongly. And in the remote corners, the difference between the two is really big.
Unconsciously walked to the corner of the backer. This place can be drilled directly into the mountains, and Zhang Niu has never planted a thorn tree here. It is convenient for himself to enter the mountain, and he usually puts some branches here to cover the intersection.
Looking at the sparse fruit in the corner, it seems that he still pulled down a lot of fruit trees and didn't water the space.
Looking at the fruit tree in front of him, he didn't see the bottom of his feet, and suddenly his feet were empty, and the whole person was planted forward and fell directly to the ground. What's going on, we're going to fall down, this is the thought in Zhang Niu's mind when he falls.
Stand up and take a picture of the dirt off your body. Now the place where I stand is a little shorter than the others. No wonder I fell just now.
This piece of land is directly concave thirty centimeters, and now the place where Zhang Niu is standing forms a depression. There is also a lot of yellow muddy water.
Jump up. Zhang Niu sat under the fruit tree. Staring at the hollow in front of you.
The long depression, about four meters long, happens to be at a very partial angle, and there are not even fruit trees planted, and there are a lot of weeds.
This place is really weird.,I've never heard of a land that will be concave.,Even if there is, it's not possible to be so big.,If you come here at night, you really won't pay attention to this place.。
Zhang Niu, who was sitting there thinking, didn't come out of his head, so he could only give a rainy day, and there was a problem with the soil quality of the ground. When the time comes, I will bury this hollow.
Forget it, go home.
In the orchard, the melon seedlings planted in the middle of the fruit trees are now spreading green canes.
When I went into the house to wash my face, I saw Xiao Budian sitting at the head of the bed, staring at the TV.
I don't know, it's good or bad to buy a TV by yourself and come back. Now the little ones will honestly watch the animal world. Every time you wave your paw at the animal that appears inside.
The last time I saw an Amazon man-eating crocodile on the TV, I squeaked with joy and immediately called out the thugs hiding under the bed. From time to time, it is also compared with the crocodile inside.
Zhang Niu, who was sitting at the head of the bed at night thinking about things, suddenly heard that "Recently, in the suburbs of XX Province XX, an ancient tomb excavated by tomb robbers made people ......"
Ancient tomb, this word attracted Zhang Niu's attention, how to look at himself that it was a bit like the traces of the ancient tomb.
I haven't heard of any celebrities who are officials here, how can there be an ancient tomb, I can't help laughing, I think too much.
I thought about it, but I still watched the TV, which talked about an ancient tomb that was excavated, and all the valuable treasures in it were taken away by tomb robbers, and the country suffered a lot of losses.
Zhang Niu was not very interested in all kinds of stories in it. However, I became interested in the ancient tomb in the pit, and there was an inscription carved on the stone tablet.
Nowadays, archaeological activities are emerging in many places, and there are common enthusiasts who go up to the mountains to explore together in an attempt to get rich overnight, and even the world's top ten treasures have come out, attracting a large number of enthusiasts to go to various countries.
Zhang Niu scoffed at this archaeology. It feels like archaeology is similar to tomb robbing. It's just that the nouns are different, they are all the same to dig the tombs of their predecessors and show off their exploits.
I remember that in the town near Zhangjia Village, there was a family that said that they slept at night and dreamed that their ancestors said that they had buried treasures in their homes. Then the family tore down the mud house. I also invited a construction team to dig down. At that time, Zhang Niu's reading was not closed. I ran there after school.
Pointing and pointing from neighbors. The family didn't care, believing that their ancestors were right. When he dug three meters, there was a passage entrance, and he climbed in with his relatives.
According to later generations, the tunnel in that place is very long, at least a dozen kilometers, said to lead to the mountains, and there are many white bone racks left in the tunnel, and there are not many other valuable things in it are more than a hundred rifles.
Said it was a rifle, nothing else came out. The entrance to the tunnel was then sealed with cement, and a small villa was built on it, and the news spread.
Now Zhang Niu can see the gorgeous villa when he goes to the town.
How did I see this tomb robbery and how could I think of this matter, I can't understand, do young people have this impulse?
Zhang Niu, who dreamed at night, was now holding a large number of antiques and laughing.
In the darkness of the night, a rumbling sound sounded.
The sound made the big wolves rush over to take a look, but they didn't show it.
Early in the morning, Zhang Niu, who got up, was now holding Xiao Budian, vaguely remembering what he was holding in his dream, and Xiao Budian was still familiar with it.
After breakfast, Zhang Niu took a hoe and planned to bury the pit yesterday.
Come to the place of yesterday" Ah, how can this place be sunken down so little after a good night. He muttered. What made Zhang Niu feel strange was that in the middle of the long depression, a stone tablet was exposed.
"Hey, how can there be a stone tablet here?" I have heard that there are boundary monuments in mountains and forests, is this a boundary monument in mountains and forests? Let's go in and have a look.
Zhang Niu jumped down the depression, this pit made Zhang Niu feel a little deeper than yesterday, and there was an inexplicable more stone tablet, squatting in front of the stone tablet, stretching out his hand to wipe off the yellow mud on it, who knew that the word boundary monument did not appear.
The boundary monument of the mountain and forest is the boundary monument engraved on the square stone, standing at the boundary of the mountain and forest, and now in many farmlands, you can still see or walk in the alleys of the village.
Erase the soil, it is not a boundary monument, but a dense number of small characters, all of which are ancient characters. Let Zhang Niu sparsely recognize a few.
Zhang Niu, who was squatting there, was stunned and didn't understand. Suddenly, the words "ancient tomb" from last night came to mind. Is this the inscription of the tomb?
The stele is not very heavy, that is, a hundred catties, Zhang Niu threw his strength. Holding the stele, there was some looseness under the "up" stele. Biting the "up" and shouting again.
The stone tablet that was pulled up from the ground was pulled out by Zhang Niu, and he turned around and hugged it flat on the ground next to the fruit tree.
The trail of water under his feet flowed down the hollow he had just pulled up. Out of the ticking sound.
"Empty down there?" I couldn't help but walk to the entrance of the cave just now. Approaching the entrance of the cave and listening softly.
Tick, tick, this time Zhang Niu heard very clearly, "It's really empty below." "But it quickly came to mind. How can there be a cemetery in this orchard?
Now Zhang Niu doesn't know what to do, watching TV There are a lot of treasures in the tomb. But in a blink of an eye, people remembered the arrangement of the mechanism inside, and they broke out in a cold sweat.
Now the dead are burned straight away. It's like in ancient times, you have to choose feng shui, so that your descendants can enjoy happiness, what kind of feng shui treasure. It's a lot of trouble.
Zhang Niu, who returned to the side of the fruit tree, looked at the inscription on the ground. I didn't expect this to appear in my orchard.
If you can see what is written on it, you can find out what it is. Soon I remembered the third uncle in the village, wasn't he familiar with ancient history, and it was right to look for him.
I didn't take the shovel or anything, and I carried the stele on my back. Go home.
The stele is a hundred catties, this road is not far, but Zhang Niu still rested several times halfway.
"What are you carrying back here?"
Turning around, it turned out that Liang Shanhui, who was taking the vegetables, would come, "Don't you just want to see what words are on it." ”
Liang Shan laughed, "What words are so interested, it won't be the tombstone inscription in the mountain." "Just kidding.
This Liangshan guessed accurately! "I'm going to let the third uncle see what the hell is going on."
The third uncle's extensive literacy is unknown to everyone in the village, and he used to be a teacher.
Tie the stele to the back seat of the motorcycle and drive towards the third uncle.
"Third uncle, are you at home?" Standing outside the door and shouting into the house.
"Who's at home, let's come in by yourself if the door is unlocked!" Voices came from inside the room.
There is a door in the front yard of the countryside. Usually it's hidden, if someone else's Zhang Niu would have pushed it in, but he has to be honest here.
opened the wooden door with the top of his head, walked in, and the third uncle who had just come out of the courtyard saw Zhang Niu carrying a stone slab on his back, "Why do you have time to come here." ”
Gently put the stele on the ground and wipe the sweat, "It's not for this stele yet." He pointed to the stone tablets that were covered with loess.
"The stele?" At first, the third uncle thought it was a stone slab, but now when he looked at it, he saw that it was full of yellow mud stained on the stone tablet.
"I found it in the orchard, didn't I let you help me see it?" Scratching his head, he said embarrassedly.
"You, don't you know, there's a well over there, let's clean it first." The third uncle was actually a little curious, how could Zhang Niu take a stone tablet down.
Since you have to look at the words on the stele, the third uncle still has to go back and bring reading glasses.
At this time, the well water came up, warm, standing at the mouth of the well and looking at the well, you can see that there are still a few red brocade fish swimming there. Many people in rural wells like to raise a few into the wells to feed the fish.
Holding a bamboo brush for washing clothes. "Brushing" brushes the dirt away, revealing small characters arranged there. Washed and presented in front of the white stele, the small characters in many places have become blurred, and the edges of the stele are also broken a lot, obviously this is buried in the ground for a long time.
The third uncle who came out was wearing black reading glasses and a magnifying glass in his hand.
The third uncle who just walked in couldn't help it. Boom came out. At a glance, I knew that this was an inscription for the burial of the dead, "Zhang Niu, this is the inscription, tell me honestly, this is dug up, this is to disturb the rest of the dead." With anger on his face.
The third uncle is actually the least likely to disturb the rest of the dead. I was a little annoyed when I saw it.
Zhang Niu hurriedly stood up and explained, "Third uncle, listen to me, don't worry, you also have to think about it, do I have the courage to dig it." ”
That's a good thing," then you go on, don't say a good treat, don't blame your uncle for being angry. ”
This is also to blame Zhang Niu for not making it clear when he came in, and hurriedly said, "This stone tablet is from my orchard, and the place is concave and exposed in large pieces, so I will move back if I am curious." Rubbing his hands together and laughing.
"From your orchard?" Still a little unconvinced, looking at Zhang Niu to see if he was lying,
Zhang Niu knew the third uncle, but he still didn't believe it very much, "Third uncle, when you look at this tombstone, I will take you over and see how it is, and then you will know if I am telling a lie." "If you can't believe it, it's better to see it.
"It's not that the third uncle doesn't believe you, this inscription, we shouldn't have it in this place, I'd better take a look at it first." The third uncle is still interested in the inscription, and he naturally has that research to see more history**.
Squatted down, moved the magnifying glass over the words one by one, and his face changed several times. So that Zhang Niu on the side didn't know what the third uncle saw.
After looking back and forth several times, he stood up, "The stele you got back here is an inscription from the Tang Dynasty." ”
"Ah, Tang Dynasty?" These words made Zhang surprised for a while, and he took back the stele and said that it was the Tang Dynasty, as if he suddenly told himself that he had won the lottery of five million.
"Well, take the stele to your home. I'll tell you more about it. "Tap your back a few times, turn around and go into the house.
Carry the stele, which was still wet, into the room.
"Just put it in that corner, put it lightly, and there will be a towel to wipe it clean." The third uncle sitting in the chair was obviously a little tired.
"Yes."
Pick up a towel and wipe the stele clean.
"This stele is preliminarily from the Tang Dynasty, and the small characters depicted on it belong to the Tang Dynasty, and the content inside roughly mentions the Tang Dynasty." Sipping tea said.
The inscriptions are generally between 100 and 200 and briefly describe the life.
Zhang Niu listened attentively there.
Seeing that Zhang Niu didn't bother, the third uncle continued to speak.
"This inscription is the story of a patriarch."
"What, patriarch? Zhang Niu thought he was a big man, but who knew that he was a patriarch.
"Well, it's from the southern province, and the life is very simple. It can be said that it revolves around the life of the patriarch, and when he died, it was fifty and one, which is considered a long life. But unfortunately, a lot of the handwriting below is unrecognizable. ”
"I didn't expect that there would be a patriarch in this place, but how could it be buried in this place, is there a writing on this?" Asked curiously.
"That's why it's a pity, the handwriting has been blurred for a long time, so I asked you to move in, and I'll see it later." Speaking of the blurred handwriting, the third uncle was very impatient.
"And what about the objects of stone that you have found around this inscription? Hurriedly asked if there was anything around.
"No, the corner of this stele is protruding from the hollow, so I moved it back." In great detail, I said what I saw there.
"Then let's take a look." I was very excited when I thought of this third uncle, there was a patriarch's tomb in my mountain village.
Zhang Niu was a little worried about the third uncle's health.
The third uncle saw Zhang Niu's worry at a glance, and smiled, "It's okay, it's okay to walk a few steps, don't worry."
Since the third uncle said it, Zhang Niu didn't say much. Pack up your things and head towards Happy Cottage.
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