"But the Chinese kappa is indeed similar to the legendary Japanese kappa god. ”

"Damn, it looks like a fart!" The fat man was dissatisfied: "If you hadn't said it today, who the hell would have known that this kappa was actually Chinese." ”

"It's not surprising!" Lai Zi said: "During the Tang Dynasty, Han culture was famous all over the world, and Japan, Korea, Siam, and Annam all sent people to learn Han culture, and many of them were brought back to their homeland by them, and finally assimilated into their own national civilization ......."

"A bunch of ungrateful cultural bandits." The fat man remembered the hostility of the surrounding countries over the years, and scolded dissatisfiedly: "I knew that today, I shouldn't have educated them in the first place. ”

"You can't say that." Zhang Shaotu raised his head and explained: "In fact, this phenomenon of cultural outfall has also been clearly explained in Taoism, it is the prosperity of Han culture, the pioneer of Han culture, including the Taoist clan, in order to prevent the Han culture from breaking or declining, deliberately spread the Han civilization to the Siyi, in order to reshape the Han civilization in the future in the Siyi and re-achieve a new prosperous civilization." However, these are all the words of the Daomen family, and it is not certain that they should not be true. ”

Hearing Zhang Shaotu's words, Lai Zi's face was obviously shocked, as if he didn't expect anyone to know this story. However, he quickly covered it up, and continued the fat man's question: "To be exact, these kappa are not ghosts. ”

"Damn, it's not a ghost when you look like this?" The fat man muttered.

"Cut, the Yama King of the Eighteen Layers of Hell has all the hideous faces, which one is not an immortal with hands and eyes to the sky?" Zhao San snorted coldly: "Zhu Bajie's ugly appearance is not Marshal Tianpeng? Who said that immortals have to have a bodhisattva statue? ”

"yes!" The fat man nodded: "When the old bandit said this, I remembered it, why do those immortals in the heavenly court look so hideous?" On the contrary, those monks of Leiyin Temple are all kind? ”

"That's a long story." Lai Zi took a deep breath and sighed: "Gods and demons have no boundaries, but because they have been impacted by foreign Buddhism, in the end, some immortals gradually lost their followers, and slowly became demons in the eyes of the unknown people. In fact, there are many yokai who used to be immortals, and even these kappa are one of them, and they were also the gods of water who were revered by the people a long time ago. ”

"So, these kappa were originally Daomen immortals?" The fat man took a deep breath, looked at the strange-looking kappa behind him, couldn't help but be in awe, and hurriedly confessed: "Little immortals, fat man, I don't know Mount Tai with my eyes, you adults have a lot, don't be like me!" If you want to blame, blame you for not being able to do Taoism, and you are so down-and-out that I mistake you for a little devil for the fat man......"

Seeing that the fat man seemed to agree with Lai Zi's guess, Zhang Meng suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked: "Since these kappa are Taoist immortals, will it have anything to do with Qiu Chuji's Baiyun Immortal Palace?" ”

"You're saying it's very likely that these kappa were arranged here?" Zhao San reacted the fastest and asked immediately.

"It's not impossible." Zhang Meng said: "You think, since Qiu Chuji wants to hide the things in the secret room, it is impossible for him not to take precautions, and this road is the hiding place that leads to that thing, and it is normal to have traces of Taoism along the way!" ”

"This ......"

Everyone looked at each other and seemed to agree with Zhang Meng's speculation.

"In that case, let's take a look at these kappa statues and see if we can tell the year?" Zhao San hurriedly said.

"Laizi, second uncle, you have good eyesight, come and have a look." Zhang Meng hurriedly called Lai Zi and Zhang Shaotu and spoke.

Zhang Shaotu and Lai Zi didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly stepped forward to check them carefully one by one, but to Zhang Meng's surprise, Lai Zi and Zhang Shaotu never confirmed the year of these statues.

"How?" Zhang Meng asked.

Both shook their heads at the same time.

"Can't even see it?" Zhang Meng asked anxiously.

"Without specialized instruments, it is difficult to discern the age of these statues with the naked eye." Zhang Shaotu sighed and said: "But it can be seen that the age is very old, and it is by no means a modern thing." ”

"To be exact, this kind of manual method should be before the alternation of the Song and Yuan dynasties." Laizi thought for a while and said.

"Before the Song and Yuan dynasties? That shouldn't have anything to do with Qiu Chuji......" Zhang Meng was stunned and said disappointedly: "How can this be?" ”

Everyone shook their heads, unable to figure out why.

"At the turn of the Song and Yuan dynasties, Qinghai-Tibet was already ruled by Tibet, and the foreign Buddhist lamas had become the state religion at that time, and Taoism at that time should have no status. If it is calculated in this way, only before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, when Buddhism has not flourished, can there be room for Taoism to survive. ”

Just when everyone was full of puzzlement, Ye Jiu suddenly reminded: "Don't forget, although the Baiyun Immortal Palace is not a real tomb within a tomb, it also has pre-Qin ruins inside. ”

"Brother Jiu'er, do you mean ......" Zhang Meng looked back at the kappa statue in front of him, and said softly: "They are things from the Qin Dynasty?" ”

"It's not from the Qin Dynasty." Zhang Shaotu shook his head and said, "The painting style of the Qin Dynasty is not like this. ”

"Since it's not the Qin Dynasty, and it's not something from the alternate Song and Yuan dynasties, when was that?" Zhang Meng was a little confused, why are these things at the foot of Kunlun Mountain different in years?

"What does everyone seem to be missing?" Brother Jun suddenly looked at Laizi, who had been silent, and slowly reminded.

Hearing this, Zhang Meng felt like an initiation, and suddenly realized: "I thought about it, I know." ”

Looking at the excited Zhang Meng, the fat man scolded confusedly: "I said you Zhang Lacking, what did you think?" Say it quickly! I have to die in a hurry, don't I? ”

"No, I'm thinking about the last words of the secret room." Zhang Meng slowed her breath and said excitedly.

"Qiu Chuji's last words?" Zhao San also turned his head sideways and looked at Zhang Meng in surprise.

"Brother Ah Meng should want to say that what Qiu Chuji said, what he did in the end was not as good as what the Dao Ancestor said in the past." Xiao Lou reminded: "It seems that Brother Ah Meng thinks that these kappa statues are made by Lao Tzu or his disciples at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. ”

"It's still in Xiaolou's words!" Zhang Meng nodded and said, "Yes, I guess these things are probably made by Lao Tzu." ”

Hearing this, everyone hurriedly started to think.

"Lao Tzu probably lived in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. According to what Lai Zi just said, the kappa is from China, but I remembered a record in the "Historical Records" that during the Warring States Period, Ye County of Wei State ordered Ximen Leopard to govern the river. Zhang Shaotu's eyes lit up and said: "Laizi, if I heard it correctly just now, the kappa you said was once called Hebo, right?" ”

"Yes." Raiko nodded.

"So, it's really possible!" Zhao Sandao: "In terms of time, there is not much difference, in terms of origin, isn't the Bayankala Mountains, the source of the Yellow River, here?" ”