Chapter 92: The Loulan Relic Family (Part II)
"Bang!" Xia Ruobing looked back, the door of the courtyard of the Zongmiao was closed, there were more than a dozen sturdy men standing in the courtyard, still holding hoes in their hands, the courtyard was surrounded by people on the three floors and the outer three floors, Xia Ruobing and the others were difficult to fly even if they had wings.
The patriarch with a blue face knelt down in front of the stone statue, and there were words in his mouth.
"What are you here for?" After the patriarch finished praying, he turned around, raised a long knife, and asked sharply.
Wang Xingguo felt that the long knife was very familiar, this was an old knife, with a long and straight blade, no knife block, and a big ring at the end of the handle, and two red silks tied to the ring.
"Ring-headed knife!" Wang Xingguo was shocked, there was still a well-preserved ring-headed knife here?!
Seeing that no one answered, the patriarch pointed the knife forward, and pointed the tip of the knife at Mr. Min's chest: "What are you doing here?" ”
"Loulan! We are here for Loulan! Mr. Min was not as flustered as the patriarch imagined, and said very calmly, "You are the descendants of Loulan, the descendants of the Great Wizard......
As soon as these words came out, the patriarch's face changed, and the hand holding the knife trembled, but then, he said sharply: "What else do you know!" ”
"An expedition came here 20 years ago, were they killed by you?" Mr. Min asked rhetorically.
"You're squirting blood!" The patriarch was furious, and he couldn't afford to commit murder.
Mr. Min smiled, at least he wouldn't worry about his life, he pointed to the stone statue: "This is your Great Wizard Qi!" He was expelled by the royal family of Loulan and migrated here with the wizard clan. ”
"How do you know?" The patriarch was surprised, this was a secret that the Loulan remnants had guarded for thousands of years, how could he, an outsider, know?
"I am a scholar who studies Loulan, and like the expedition team 20 years ago, you should remember them, Coffin Mountain is the underground sun burial of Loulan! But what are those ghost eyes? ”
The patriarch looked at Mr. Min strangely, and then at Xia Ruobing and the others, he didn't know what to do with these people.
"Are you a wizard of the legacy?" Mr. Min stepped forward and looked at the patriarch, "Do you still recognize Lu Wen?" ”
"I'm just a patriarch, wizard...... It's been a long time since then. The patriarch seemed to have been hit by Mr. Min's question, and said in a low voice.
"Do you still recognize Lu Wen? The ancient characters of Loulan ......," Mr. Min asked again.
The patriarch shook his head: "Only the wizard knows, but he has been dead for more than a thousand years......"
"I know Lu Wen!" Xia Ruobing said.
The onlookers let out a soft exclamation, and Qi Shushu turned their gaze to Xia Ruobing.
Xia Ruobing pointed to a swaying rune in the temple and said: "This sentence is 'the old country travels more than 2,000 miles west...... but why do you write from left to right? It is written from right to left. ”
"Do you really know these words?" The patriarch was amazed, and even trembled slightly.
"Your prayer just now is to ask your ancestors for forgiveness for not protecting the grave of the great wizard." Xia Ruobing plucked up her courage and said again.
"I ...... That's all I can say...... These words are traced down from generation to generation, and no one can recognize these words, impossible! The patriarch's face was a little pale.
"My parents are Loulan researchers, they are experts in studying Lu Wen, and I can read most of them." Xia Ruobing said again.
"Really?!" The patriarch looked at the little girl in front of him suspiciously, not believing her words.
Xia Ruobing took out the Lu Wen comparison table from his pocket and handed it to the patriarch, who opened it and saw that the dense symbols inside were indeed the same as those in the temple.
"Do you really understand?" The patriarch was still a little unconvinced, and Xia Ruobing nodded vigorously.
The patriarch greeted a sturdy middle-aged man, whispered a few words to him, he nodded, turned around and trotted into the temple.
"Come in with me." The patriarch put away his long knife and said to them.
Walking into the inner room of the temple, the middle-aged man took out a thing wrapped in yellow silk and put it on the table, the patriarch nodded to him, he exited the inner room and closed the door.
The patriarch slowly opened the yellow silk, and inside was a roll of white silk, and some bamboo slips, which were old, the white silk had turned yellow, and the handwriting on the bamboo slips was a little blurry, but it could be seen that these things had been carefully preserved and maintained.
The patriarch carefully unfolded a piece of white silk, and Xia Ruobing recognized at a glance that the dense words on it were Lu Wen.
"Since the death of the Great Wizard, no one knows these words anymore, and our descendants can only follow the rules set by our ancestors, carefully protecting these things." The patriarch said slowly, handing the white silk to Xia Ruobing, "Can you tell me, what is written on it?" ”
Xia Ruobing carefully took the white silk, and after a while, raised his head: "This is the rune of the great wizard praying to the sky - the sky of the goshawk, the place where the wild geese are far away, the direction of the heroic spirits of the ancestors, may the sky give the earth rain......"
The patriarch's eyes flashed with surprise, and he opened a yellowed white silk again: "What about this?" ”
The handwriting on this white silk is a little blurry, it seems that it is the oldest, and it has become brittle in some places, Xia Ruobing spread it on the table very carefully, although many words in it are also the first time she has seen them, but when it comes to other words, Xia Ruobing can also roughly translate it.
"This is the origin of the Great Wizard, the first Great Wizard is called 'Cang', he is the leader sent to Loulan by God, in charge of the prophecies and sacrifices in the world, they used to be one of the most powerful people in Loulan......" Xia Ruobing stopped talking and looked up at the patriarch.
"Yes, that's what the legend of the ancestors says, and this, it's said to be a genealogy......" The patriarch was a little excited, trembling and opened another silk.
Xia Ruobing glanced at it, this is the genealogy of the Great Wizard of Loulan! This is a precious historical material!
From the beginning of Cang, the great wizard has been in charge of the important power of Loulan, in that era of primitive worship, the great wizard is the representative of the communication between the world and heaven and earth, and nature, but when it is passed on to the Qi generation, the contradiction between the great wizard and the royal family begins to become more and more acute, in the 20th year of the great wizard inheritance of Qi, the contradictions between the two sides are irreconcilable, as the Loulan of the exchange and collision of Eastern and Western civilizations, the royal family is more willing to absorb more advanced ideas from the outside, in a power struggle, Qi and his people were expelled by the royal family, To the north is the vast desert, and the fierce Huns, Qi decided to take more than 10,000 people to support him, to the south to find a place to live, three years later, they came here, in the eyes of Loulan wizards, the sun is the supreme god, the mountain is the closest place to the gods, and the coffin mountain is the highest place here, the terrain of the big funnel under the coffin mountain, it indicates that it is the sun on the ground!