It is said that hn's rain child's face, said to change, no, the old man just returned to the village, the rain stopped sparsely, the eldest family breathed a sigh of relief, quickly quickened the pace to change clothes, and estimated the time, there is another hour when the sky should be bright. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he opened the door of the old village chief's house, he was sitting in the house, next to him was Ji Bin with a sad face, and as soon as they saw the old man and Li Lao, they hurriedly let him into the house.

"Boss, as soon as the rain started, I asked my son to bring you umbrellas, but when I went, I found that you were not there, and besides, he said that the sarcophagus was opened, and he was so frightened that he ran back, but you chased the thief?"

The old man hurriedly told the old village chief about the situation at night, the old man was so shocked that he almost fainted, and Ji Bin's legs trembled and his whole body trembled.

"Boss, you want to save our village, if the beetle appears again, and it is next to our village, then what can the whole village do, will it all be eaten? The old man knelt down for you. ”

"Old man, no, since I, Zhou, have promised you, I will definitely fulfill my promise. It's just that there are few people now, if they stay tonight and find that the corpses have not come out, they can conclude that those corpses are in the cave, and the old man has also judged that it is the stone tablet cave, but if there is no perfect plan, I am afraid that if you enter those branch caves, I am afraid that there will be more luck and less. ”

"Do you use the same method as you did back then?"

"Maybe that's all it takes."

"Okay, the old man will arrange it tomorrow, and I can't just let the owner do the work, so that tomorrow I will send the villagers to guard with your two men, and the rest of the little brothers can have a good night's sleep." The villagers don't know martial arts, but there are still those who are bold and strong, and the brothers at the scene of the cave can also recuperate and recover well. ”

The next day, the old village chief gathered the elderly people together and reported the situation, and everyone was stunned, and some of them fainted with fright. In the end, everyone agreed to the arrangement of the old village chief, selected ten bold and strong young men from the village, divided into two groups, and guarded the entrance of the cave with the old man's men, and the rest of the people had a good rest, and then took turns to lead another group of villagers to replace them, and in this way, everyone finally rested steadily for two days.

In the past two days, the old village chief led the villagers to catch mice, while the few people who threw the corpses volunteered to tie the rats with ropes, and the sad and angry expressions on their faces were sad to watch.

Everything was ready, the old man took everyone and the villagers to worship the ancestral hall and walked all the way to the entrance of the cave, before the old village chief and several people in the village who had explored danger in the stele cave described the scene in the cave.

The entrance of the stele cave is concave on the ground, about two people wide, it is covered with vegetation all the year round, inadvertently do not know that there is a cave there, the entrance of the cave is gently downward like a natural step, after entering is the tunnel, to the stele to pass through three large and small caves, the small one can only pass through two people, the big one is enough to accommodate dozens of people, there is no side branch cave during the period, but it is not like the Wolong Cave with a skylight transmitting light, the whole cave is pitch black, and there is a stele in the big cave at the end.

The big cave is gourd-shaped, the inner circle is narrow outside, there are three side branch holes, distributed on three sides, all can easily pass people, the front one is probed into the deepest, the inside undulation is not big, the space is not small, but no one has been to the depth.

The tunnel in the branch cave on both sides is narrow and wide, the undulating difference is very large, and there are many side branches of the size, and the slope in one of the caves is steeply downward, and it is said that there is a big pit below, and the following is full of sharp stones, and some villagers fall down and are inserted to death, so no one has ever entered it again.

In other words, everyone must first reach the stele through the three large and small caves in the tunnel underneath, and only need to be vigilant and pay attention to the front on the way, but when they get to the stele, they must plan carefully, and the exploration and entry of the three side branch caves are the most difficult.

So, the old man ordered the old eight to distribute the weapons to the people, the bear, the short legs, the Lai Yu, the leper head is the strongest and the best martial arts, the distribution of steel knives as the front team, the eighth, the one-eyed dragon and the old man themselves are good at using muskets, especially the one-eyed dragon since the abolition of the eyes and ears after the concentration and quiet is the most powerful, so they are listed in the squadron for long-range attacks, Li Lao and the villagers are holding steel knives, tools as the rear team responsible for placing torches, carrying mice, carrying materials and other logistics work, the old village chief led the villagers as foreign aid to guard the entrance of the cave.

After the arrangement is in place, the man bear the brunt of the first to rush down the hole, just go down, I obviously feel a chill rushing, the way down is indeed like a step as angular and angular, it makes people suspect that it is man-made, but take a closer look, it is indeed a natural flush out.

This section of the downhill is not long, but gradually away from the hole, the sunlight above is gradually blocked, the bear just walked on the flat road at the end, then quickly found a place to plug the torch, the people behind came down one after another, everyone held the torch suddenly brightened, here is the first cave of the tunnel, the stone color is black, barely two people passed, the surroundings are quite regular, the foot is flat, and the height is only one person raises his hand more.

"Man and bear, this place is narrow, if there is no place for fighting, we have to pass quickly."

"Okay, short legs, according to this width, the safest thing is that you and I are half a step away from each other, Lai Yu is in the back to observe the above, inform the owner that they will place torches along the way, put down the materials for the time being, and bring them in when they reach a larger space."

From here, everyone became highly nervous, the first cave was long and narrow, and now it was lit only by torches, and so many people were crowded into the claustrophobic space at once, and each other was even more insecure.

Fortunately, this cave was safe and sound, and everyone walked all the way to the second cave, which was obviously much larger.

"Man-bear, do you feel like we're going down now?"

"That's right, I'm at sea all year round, and I'm the most sensitive to changes under my feet, and we come in from the ground all the way down, and the slope is not small."

After Lai Yu carefully inspected this place, he notified the rear team to bring in the supplies, and the Xiang Yong who followed also knew that the three caves leading to the stone tablet were actually getting bigger and bigger, and there were no creatures in them except flying insects and the like, and the distance was not long. The old man found a middle-aged villager and asked.

"Fellow, how long will it take to reach the stele?"

"It's not far away, this cave is actually not deep, I heard the elders say that the first time I found this place was because the sheep fell into it, and then the bold took the lead and found the stone tablet."

"Man Xiong, since it is not far from the stone monument, simply continue to move forward without delaying the effort, pay attention to each other!"

Indeed, after a noticeable turn in the second cave, it was not long before we came to the third, which was as large as a stage for acting, with a high top and wide on all sides, and three side branches of different sizes on the walls of the cave in front of it and on both sides, and a stone tablet stood there alone, apparently in the middle of the cave.

After the old man instructed Lao Ba to lead everyone to guard, carry and prepare, he and Li Lao walked to the stone stele, and sure enough, there was no text on the surface of the stele, it was more than half a person high, arm wide, rectangular, and there was a hole on the left and right sides of the top. If you look closely, it is actually a volcanic stone carved out of this cave, and dense holes can be seen on the surface of the stone stele, and the color is also gray-black like the cave wall, but as far as the eye can see, there is no protruding stone on the ground in this cave.

The two of them looked at each other carefully, hoping to see something, even if it was lines or something, but no matter how the two of them studied, they could be sure that there was really nothing on it.

"Boss, how do you feel?"

"Please speak first, brother."

"Well, the person who erected the monument is nothing more than to sing praises of virtue, remember identity, mark the location and engrave history, but this stele has no words and no paintings, so I think there is only one possibility, a tombstone or a blood sacrifice tablet for sacrifice."

"Oh, I thought we went together. When I first heard the old village chief talk about this wordless stone stele, I thought that the words had been eroded after a long time, but when I saw it today, there was no text painting at all, and it was a white tablet. But just as the old brother judged, the stele was written from the first emperor, flourished in the Han Dynasty, and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Owner, are you saying that the stele didn't exist since ancient times?"

"Man and bear, you are good at running work, if you follow the owner to do tomb robbery and treasure exploration, you have to learn from your eighth master, you tell him, what is the matter with the ancient system mentioning Zhou Tianzi's six fibers and four tablets, the princes four fibers and three tablets, and the doctor's two fibers and two tablets?"

"When I returned to the owner's house, I vaguely remembered that it was "The Book of Rites. Under the Tan Bow", Zheng Xuan has a note: "The monument, the monument, the big wood for it, shaped like a stone stele, in the four corners of the tree before and after the coffin, wear in the middle, for the deer, under the coffin to wrap around. The Son of Heaven has six fibers and four monuments, and the front and back are heavy Lu Ye. It can be learned here that the stele was first used to lead the coffin in the tomb, and the earlier stele was not a stone stele, but a wooden stele, and it was buried with the coffin after the coffin was completed. ”

"Therefore, you Li Ye can see through, the stele appeared in the late Zhou Dynasty, the princes of the Spring and Autumn Period began to overstep the system when they disobeyed the Son of Heaven, but there was still no writing, until the first emperor ascended the throne, the stele became a carrier of praise for merit, so, if it were not for the heart, this stele probably existed before the Great Qin."

"But the owner, the eighth thinks, just a stone tablet, can it play the role of leading the coffin?"

"Old eight, the means are the means, the regulation is the regulation, the burial is to put the coffin in the tomb after all, but the so-called four monuments, three monuments and the like, are nothing more than regulatory requirements, can the first few pieces of wood be completed burial? It's nothing more than a kind of hierarchy. Brother, you say, what else can be guessed from this? ”

"This cave from the entrance to here is not complicated, straight in, and it is getting bigger and bigger, but it is quite a bit of a smooth road, although the first cave is called a cave, but the surrounding shape is like a road. But even if the Great Zhou Dynasty is in the Spring and Autumn Period, the land of Qiongzhou has no connection with the Central Plains, if the history of GD is linked to the Central Plains, it started until Zhao Tuo at the earliest, and it was after the first emperor. Great Qin unified the world, the division of the tiger and wolf took four years to pacify Lingnan, and then set up counties, hn into the territory of Great Qin, after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising, Chu and Han contended, Zhao Tuo cut the land and stood on its own, for the country of Nanyue, so, how could the culture before Great Qin be introduced to Qiongzhou? ”

"I don't dare to judge, but this stele plus hole definitely belongs to the culture before the Great Qin, and from my experience, this place can be used as a tomb, one is naturally a cave, and it can be so wide, the other is intricate, even today's people dare not enter, three, if the erector of this stele really came before the Great Qin, then the advanced civilization will inevitably rule the backward civilization. However, I agree with what the elder brother said, this does not rule out the smell of blood sacrifice. ”

Indeed, after the Great Zhou Dynasty, the stone stele was drilled in front of the temple for blood sacrifice, and the cattle and even slaves were tied to the stone stele with ropes, and then the blood sacrifice was slaughtered for a few days for the gods. However, this is by no means a place for a temple, and it is inevitably strange to reason like this. ”

"Hahahaha, old brother, if the place where we stand is in front of the gate of the altar of the temple, and these side branch caves are Shinto, then what do you think?"

"That is in line with the requirements of the situation, and I remind the owner that this stele is not in the direction where we are coming, if according to what you said, the three caves are tombs or places of sacrifice, but with a compass observation, it is found that the stele is located in the Gen position, which is the place of the ghost gate, the entrance and exit of the Yin and Yang world, and it is not strange to erect a stele in this direction?"

"Two masters, please be two old, there is a lone stone tablet in this cave, it is hard for the two of you to interpret so many things, I hear my back cold, it is estimated that this monument was there before Daqin, if the means and essence are separated, and this place is regarded as a natural tombstone, it may be a tombstone, but the direction of the monument belongs to the image of the great murderer, but if this is regarded as the place of worship in the temple, and like the blood sacrifice monument, these two speculations, no matter which one, make me feel incredible."

"One-eyed dragon, come here, now except for Li Lao, you are the quietest in your heart, tell me, how do you feel?"

"When I go back to the owner, I have been crippled for a long time, and I am very sensitive, and I think there is a sound in the cave."

"Oh? What was that? ”

"It's hard to say, just after entering here, I listened to the cave wall alone, I can distinguish the noise here, in short, I think the sound is different from ours."

"What do you think, brother?"

"Both the tomb and the temple can be, the coffin and the blood sacrifice can be, is it possible to combine the two into one?"