Chapter Thirty-Six: The Mysterious Dao Explains the Doubts of the Murals
In the cold and long cave, there is no wind, but the people who look at the painting feel a chill on their bodies, and they don't know if it is because they are wearing wet clothes, although the three of them are very anxious about the meaning of the painting, but obviously there is no text to explain to them, so the meaning of the painting has to guess for themselves. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Yi Han took the lead and walked to the next one, Zi Wei and Ye Lu Chang stayed in front of this painting for a while, although they couldn't understand the meaning, but they also vaguely felt that the person who painted wanted to say something, or it wouldn't have taken so much effort, and after a pause, he walked over to Yi Han.
This fifth painting, the painting is relatively clear, a green meadow, a lot of wolves, many, many wolves, they are surrounded by a monster, that is, the wolf-headed man in the painting just now, the wolf-headed man is standing in the center of this painting, he bows his hands, and he is actually holding a child in his arms.
They all broke out in a cold sweat when they saw this painting, who is this child? Seeing this, Yeluchang actually trembled faintly, his eyes wandered, but his attention was not on the painting, and his breathing became slightly short.
Zi Biao was closest to his cousin, and when he felt the amazing change in his cousin, he hurriedly called him.
Yelu Chang held Zi Wei's shoulders and signaled him not to disturb himself, at this time Yi Han also looked over, with a puzzled expression, Ye Lu Chang frowned and muttered: "Could it be that this monster is the wolf god!" ”
Hearing this, Ziqi and Yi Han were both shocked at the same time, and hurriedly moved their eyes to the painting, although they had seen this monster before, but there were many animals in it, such as tigers, leopards, bears and other fierce beasts, and this painting was full of wolves, Yeluchang seemed to guess the identity of the central monster.
"If I'm right..."Yeluchang exhaled a long breath, and hurriedly ran to the next painting, seeing this, the two of them also followed, and as soon as they arrived at Yeluchang's side, they heard his gloomy voice, spitting out two words, "Sure enough! ”
Ziqiao glanced at his cousin, and his eyes hurriedly moved to the sixth painting, which is still a green meadow, but the grass is no longer the wolf-headed man, but a woman, the first time a woman appears in so many paintings in this cave, it also makes De Yihan and Ziqiao tremble slightly, and then look closely at the painting, this woman has a high belly, she is still a pregnant woman, she is lying on the grass, her face is very painful, surrounded by many wolves, and outside the wolf pack are fierce beasts, Tigers and leopards are the majority, but it is clear that the wolves are hindering their attack, and they all show their fangs and their faces are hideous.
"It's... This is? "Although Ziqiao and Yi Han can understand the meaning of this painting, it is nothing more than that the wolves have protected a pregnant woman, but what do they want to express? How does this relate to other paintings? Thinking about it, he also looked at Yeluchang beside him.
Yeluchang's expression was very indifferent, he didn't have the same doubts as Zi Biao and them, he seemed to know the meaning of this painting, and he was silent for a moment to explain to them: "There is such a record in the family history of my Khitan royal family, my Khitan ancestor mother was attacked by a vicious beast during childbirth and almost died, and it was the wolf who saved her. ”
After listening to Yeluchang's words, both of them nodded, it turned out that the woman in this painting was the ancestor mother of the Khitan tribe, Yeluchang continued: "So we worship the wolf as holy, and the wolf is the most sacred totem and belief of our clan." The first mother was greatly disturbed during childbirth, so she died after giving birth to the child, and our Khitan ancestors were raised by the wolf god. ”
After listening to his cousin's words, Ziqiao seemed to understand the inner meaning of these two irrelevant paintings. Yi Han sighed, gasped, looked at the one in front of him first, and then walked to the fifth, and after a long time, he wondered: "Don't you say that I haven't paid attention, do you think that we seem to be looking at these murals upside down?" ”
Not?
It can really be said that a word wakes up the person in the dream, such a large memorial mural has a strict order, and it is impossible to mess around on this thick wall, no one will be idle to do that, now Yi Han suddenly reminded him, Ziqiao and the two also felt that it was this reason, but they didn't know if there was anything after this mural, that is, they walked forward for a distance, and they didn't see a mural anymore, it seems that the picture of the wolf pack protecting the Khitan mother giving birth should be the last one, oh no, to be precise, it should be the first!
Thinking like this, they also hurriedly returned to the mural area, and looked at it again from beginning to end, except for the first two, because Yeluchang understood the meaning behind the painting, and knew what it meant, but from the third one, they could never guess what the connection was, but after the comparison of the first two paintings, the servants had clearly understood in their hearts that there seemed to be no relationship between these paintings and paintings, just like the first and second paintings, if it weren't for Yeluchang to understand the record of the Khitan ancestors, Even if they tried to, they wouldn't be able to associate the wolf god with a pregnant woman, so there are other stories behind these paintings that connect the whole mural.
The third one so...
The same is true for the fourth...
They still have a lot of things they haven't figured out about these two paintings, who is the minotaur, is he fighting with the wolf god? Could it be the Bull God? Bull God? Haven't you heard of this thing? And who is that kneeling man? Who is the person who is still wearing the emperor's crown?
If these murals can't know the story behind this, they really can't connect them together, this fifth painting, the man is crying at the greedy wolf's double bone halberd, why is this?
Wait a minute!
Yelu Chang was stunned for a moment, he suddenly thought of something again, looked at Zi Biao and asked, "Cousin, do you remember that I told you before, the origin of this greedy wolf double bone halberd?" ”
Zi Wei nodded and replied, "Didn't you say that it is the leg bone of the ancient wolf god..." Transformed! Saying that, he looked at Yeluchang in shock, only to see Yeluchang also nodding solemnly.
Yi Han looked at them suspiciously, she didn't seem to know the origin of the greedy wolf double bone halberd, but she didn't bother them silently. Yeluchang looked at the mural, and then said: "That's right, if the record of the origin is true and accurate, then the leg bone of the wolf god has turned into a greedy wolf double bone halberd, then the wolf god will also..."
"Dead?" After being reminded by his cousin, Ziqiao also felt a little shocked, and looked at the painting and said, "If that's the case, this kneeling man is the ancestor of the Khitan?" ”
Yelu Chang pursed his lips, it seems that it can also be explained in this way, if the wolf god raised him, it doesn't make sense without a little emotion, the wolf god is dead, he is crying at the greedy wolf double bone halberd, is it also a kind of mourning for the wolf god?
Although the meaning of this fifth painting is explained, the ensuing question also arises, how did the wolf god die? And by whom?
Obviously, the answers to these questions came from the third and fourth murals, but they now have no idea about the stories behind the two murals.
With the unraveling of the fifth painting, if the man who knelt on the ground and cried was a Khitan ancestor, then the sixth picture of the Khitan emperor sacrificing a wolf on the altar should also be regarded as a sacrifice to the wolf god.
The subsequent paintings have been blurred, and I don't know why the person who painted them didn't continue to paint, but looking at the dye jars that are falling around, it seems that something has happened, and several people also stayed in place and lost their heads, and with Zi Biao's sudden sneezing, a few people were startled back, Yi Han and Yeluchang remembered that they had just come out of the water one by one, and they were still soaked, and the cave was cold and damp, and if they continued to delay, everyone would have to be infected with the wind and cold.
Forget it, no matter how much you think about it, you can't think of anything, and now the first thing is to find a place to dry this soaked clothes. The servants also summed it up, and they didn't stay any longer, and walked out along the passage again, because the passage was the only one, and they looked at the murals painted on the walls again, and when they understood the meaning of one or two of them, they didn't feel vivid, and the background of the characters was vividly outlined, and when they passed by the third and fourth murals, they all stopped again, these two were the only murals they didn't know the meaning of, but the answers to the questions they summed up seemed to be in these two murals, These two murals are the key, but where is the key to open this key door?
This passage is very long, they walked for a while before they saw the end, leaving the passage to present a grotto in front of them, Yi Han had a deep impression of the grotto, but the cave in front of her was many times wider than the cave she lived in before, at least a place to accommodate hundreds of people to rest.
This cave is very messy, as if someone has lived there, the ground is full of miscellaneous things, there are weapons, hoes, some torches and armor worn by soldiers, etc., slightly gray, Ziqiu and the servants walked in, and they were also a little stunned when they saw this scene, but then they thought that the army stationed outside the mountain range was also calm, because from the information they found before, it was seen that Xiao Shihan's army had organized troops to enter the mountain, and more than once, so this cave, Nine times out of ten, it was the place where the soldiers rested.
The torch is a good thing, Yi Han picked one up from the ground casually, she had experienced the trouble of not having lighting tools when she broke into the secret passage of the barracks before, this thing is very troublesome to make by herself, and now there is just a ready-made one.
After walking some distance, they saw that there were still many piles of ashes in the cave, presumably left behind by the soldiers to keep warm. "There are so many things here, you can see if you can find the fire fold, so we can raise some fire." Yi Han said to the two of them, she didn't do it herself, she always felt that it was not good to rummage through other people's things, and leave it to them to do such heartless things.
Ziqiao and Yeluchang also knew the importance of Huo Zhenzi, but they didn't think much about it, and they wouldn't care about her careful thinking with Yi Han, they didn't treat themselves as outsiders at all, they all belonged to their own family anyway, so they rummaged around unceremoniously, and now the top priority is to find a way to dry their outfits.
Yi Han glanced at the two of them, and then walked into the cave to see if there were any other things that could be used. Huang Tian lived up to his wishes, and after rummaging for a while, the two of them finally found a lot of fire folds and torches under some piled up armor, and everything was ready to start the fire, in addition to the weapons in this cave, there was only the armor of the soldiers, and the weapons must not be lit, and there was cloth on the armor, which was of course the first choice.
They didn't bother to go to the mountains to find any dry wood, so they separated some of the armor and cloth of some clothes and threw them together, lighting the fire, not knowing if the soldiers were still in the mountains, if they came back and saw their clothes burned as wood, I don't know what kind of expression it would be.
After they burned like this, the hole seemed to be more spacious, the flames of the flames were rising, which also made several people feel a little warm, Zi Yu and the two found some relatively clean soldier clothes to change into, although they were very disgusted but now there was no other way, and found another one and gave it to Yi Han, both of them were a little embarrassed, and they were hesitant for a long time, Yelu Chang said: "Girl, if you change it too, it's better than wearing this soaked clothes, don't be bad if you get caught in the wind and cold for a while." ”
I couldn't see any expression of Yi Han, glanced at the dirty clothes in Ye Luchang's hand, and shook his head, "It's okay, I don't want it." ”
Ziqiao estimated that Yi Han was a daughter after all, and it must be inconvenient for the two of them to change their clothes here, anyway, their clothes were also baking by the fire, and there was nothing else to do here, so he said to Yeluchang, "Cousin, let's go out and let the girl stay alone for a while?" ”
Yelu Chang also understood what Zi Wei meant and nodded, but Yi Han was a little surprised, and the two of them didn't say anything more, so they walked out of the cave, leaving her alone.
Yi Han looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, there seemed to be some strange emotion in his eyes, and the stubbornness on his lips was stubborn, but after all, it was uncomfortable for anyone to wear wet and dewy clothes, so he sighed lightly, cleaned up, and went to the side in the dark.
After a while, Yi Han walked out wearing the soldier's clothes, the clothes were relatively loose, and the size did not fit, but he didn't care about these small details, just for the transition, Yi Han still wore his veil and returned to the fire, wrung out the water in the black clothes he had changed, and shook it evenly, but just after shaking a few times, I saw a white paper slipping out of the clothes.
Yi Han was a little stunned, put his clothes next to the fire and roasted them, picked up the white paper on the ground, and remembered that this was the white strip they had said in the barracks before, and he planned to find a place to throw it away after leaving, but he forgot about it.
Perhaps she was a little idle, but she opened the white paper again, because it had been soaked in water, and it was so wet that with a little effort it might be able to tear it off.
But it doesn't matter if she doesn't open it, as soon as the paper is unfolded, Yi Han's face is pale, and the whole person trembles, and he hurriedly reflects the fire...
This... There are words on it!