Chapter 135

Island

The last time Suhangdeng Island was to look for cocoa trees, she probably went around the island and found that although this island is far away from Middle-earth, the terroir and climate here are not much different from those islands adjacent to the coast of Middle-earth

At that time, some natives took the initiative to come and communicate with them, and one of the chieftain-like people held a bead chain and shook it at her, and his mouth was whimpering

didn't know what to say, Su Hang didn't understand and was not interested in pondering, so he accepted the bead chain, left some gifts in exchange for supplies and left. Now that I think about it carefully, when the natives saw them go like this, they all had a look of surprise on their faces......

Returning to the island and seeing the natives again, Su Hang recognized the chief who gave her the bead chain at a glance, not that Su Hang had a good memory, but the chief was too different, with such a large handful of colorful bird feathers on his head, and his face was painted red and gorgeous, obviously different from other bare natives, and it was difficult to forget him after seeing him.

The natives were very friendly to the Han people who suddenly arrived, and they couldn't help but pull Su Hang and many crew members into the tribe, and brought out all kinds of strange food to entertain them, and the chief also arranged a group of bare-bottomed men to dance to help the fun. Su Hang came to ask for something this time, and he was a little embarrassed to stretch out his hand as soon as he came up, so he first obeyed the arrangement of the natives, and at the same time presented the gifts that had been prepared long ago, which were nothing more than some iron tools, knives, fire folds, etc., all of which were good things in the eyes of the natives.

Grandma leaned comfortably to the side, while feeding Xiao Xiaopu to eat fruits, she smiled at Su Hang and said: "The local people here finally know a little hospitality, it's different from other places, Sister Hang should have given them a lot of benefits last time she came over, right?" ”

The giant ship sailed along the way, encountered a lot of island natives, and most of them were full of vigilance after the other party found them, and even some strong tribes would take the initiative to attack, but this natives were hospitable, and when grandma thought about it, it must have been Su Hang who gave them a great sweetness when he came last time, so this time they will be treated as VIPs again.

Su Hang was stunned when he heard this, shook his head and responded: "No, when they came last time, they were also so enthusiastic." ”

What kind of person is Su Hang? How could she care about other people's attitudes, she didn't even care about Jingtai's favor, let alone the local people's opinion of her, in her eyes, there was no difference between the natives holding knives and grinning and smiling and flattering with fruits. So the first time she landed on the island, she didn't care about the enthusiasm of the natives, and she didn't think there was anything abnormal, but now when she heard her grandmother mention it, she felt that something was wrong... It's really too enthusiastic, like an old friend I haven't seen in years.

After a lively meal, the women and children dispersed, and the young men in the tribe began to work on the next meal again, Su Hang, Grandma and others found the chief, and explained the meaning with a gesture; The chief is really not polite, and it is also a big comparison plus Ula Ula's brute words...... The two groups chatted for a while, anyway, Su Hang didn't understand what the natives wanted to say, and it was estimated that the natives didn't understand what Su Hang wanted to do.

In the end, the chief was really impatient, jumped up from his seat, whined and roared to gather a group of clansmen, and waved his hand vigorously to Su Hang and the others to make a 'follow me' gesture, and turned to walk towards the mountains of the island.

Su Hang was puzzled and curious, he didn't understand what the chief was doing, and he couldn't understand it anyway, so he didn't talk nonsense, and called a group of strong crew members to follow behind the natives.

The island where the natives live is never too small, and the place where Su Hang and others are no exception, a group of Han people followed the aborigines and trekked hard, and finally came to their destination: the mountainside of the main peak of the island.

As soon as they arrived at the place, Su Hang, grandma and sailors unconsciously widened their eyes: a courtyard, nine tombs with 'head and tail lines' neatly arranged in a line.

The courtyard has collapsed and is mostly dilapidated, but it is not difficult to see that its pattern and style come from Middle Earth, and the corners of the roof are corrugated and square, which is completely different from the round thatched houses of the local aborigines. hundred

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Suo quickly entered the station and tried to walk into it, the equipment used by the predecessors was still placed in the same place, and the huge instruments stood on the open space, which was very eye-catching, and the grandmother looked at it while being surprised: "This is the armillary sphere, this is the four-tour instrument, this is... Sun and Moon disks? ”

Grandma used to be the chief eunuch in the Yan Palace, and Su Hang also grew up in high-ranking officials, and the two of them had quite a good insight, but even so, they couldn't identify all the instruments, and only recognized a limited number of three or five of them. However, it is certain that the big guys erected in the courtyard should be used for stargazing and measuring the sky, all of which are from Middle-earth and are inventions of the Han people.

The island is blown by the sea breeze all year round, and ordinary objects are difficult to preserve for too long, so Su Hang and the others turned around the yard a few more times, but they didn't find anything useful except for a tightly sealed iron box. When I opened the iron box, there were just stacks of used 'manuscript paper', which were densely packed with countless ancient calculations, and no one could read them......

On a lonely island, there used to be Han Chinese who lived here to observe the stars, and what stargazers were still calculating, and it is unknown what they wanted to calculate.

Grandma exhaled a long breath and muttered, "There have been Han people on this island for a long time, and those tombs outside should be them." ”

Su Hang nodded and walked out of the deserted house and walked towards the row of tombs.

A column, nine tombs, lined up in a straight line, the tombstones are all standing in the direction of Middle Earth, representing the meaning of homesickness, the inscription is written by Chinese characters, but there is no epitaph at all, the number of words on the tablet is not much, it's just: the tomb of the teacher and a certain prince, not a disciple of a certain standing.

The nine tombstones are all the same, except for two 'so-and-so' whose names have changed.

It's so simple that it couldn't be simpler, not even the year of birth and death.

But if you look a little closer, you can still find some clues: the person who erected the monument of the previous tombstone is the owner of the tomb of the latter tomb.

Master's tombstone was erected by his disciples; The disciple became a master, and after his death, a monument was erected by the next generation of disciples...... The nine graves reciprocated in this example. The tombs lined up in a straight line used to be a lineage of master and apprentice inheritance.

The chief began to gesture to Su and Hangzhou again, pointing to the grave pile and picking a thumbs up, this time it was quite easy to understand, the chief was praising them for being good people.

Things are not difficult to understand, I don't know how many years ago, there were Han people here, nine generations of master and apprentice inheritance, to say the least it will take two or three hundred years, they once lived on the same island with the ancestors of the aborigines, although they did not live together, but they must have had a lot of contacts, and they should get along with each other well. Therefore, instead of being hostile to the Han Chinese, the local natives were still warm.

Counting just now, Su Hang could see the aborigines' demons dancing and eating the strange food of the aborigines, but he was still stained with the light of these predecessors.

Then the chief was busy, both arms were about to dance out of the wind, a good 'tirade', before the two sides 'chat', there was no 'reference', everyone was confused together, but now with these graves, the chief will point to them from time to time, so Su Hang first understood what the chief wanted to say about these predecessors, with a clear premise, and then the exchange will be much more understood, and slowly understand the meaning of the aborigines:

The indigenous people have been passed down from generation to generation, many years ago a big ship came to the island, a large group of Han people climbed the island into the mountains and came here, built this courtyard, set up many stargazing instruments, and then everyone left, only two people stayed, a middle-aged and a teenager, no need to ask them to be a pair of masters and apprentices.

The natives didn't know what they were busy with all day, but then the two sides gradually interacted more, and the Han people were very friendly to them and helped them heal, and when they had a headache and brain fever, the Han people just pressed a few times with their fingers.

While speaking, the chief also stretched out two index fingers and poked them all over the clansmen around him, making Xiao Xiao Su giggle, just like that, Xiao Wa stretched out two fingers to tap Grandma. Grandma smiled like a flower, and praised vigorously: "The little master is sympathetic to me and treats me." ”

Acupuncture and acupuncture pressure were originally the means of the Han Realm doctors, and many of the knowledge in the Han Realm are interconnected, just by these stargazing equipment, you can know that the people who live on this island are Yin and Yang masters, and it is normal for such people to know some martial arts and understand some doctors' methods.

The big ship that transported the Han people to the island was not gone and returned, and it would come back every once in a while, and when it came to this weight, the chief had a way, and pulled a female clansman next to him, and then made a big belly on her, and then stretched out three fingers to Su Hang, and so on several times, Su Hang suddenly realized: a big belly is pregnancy, three pregnant for ten months...... Almost every two or three years, the big ships would come back and bring a large number of supplies to the Han people on the island, without stopping.

After the death of the master, the disciples will bury the master with their own hands, and with the help of the natives, the inscriptions will be erected, and when the big ship returns, the disciples will board the boat and leave the island temporarily, and each disciple after the death of the master will leave the island for a different period of time, some only one or two 'pregnant ten months', some will be seven or eight 'pregnant ten months', but he will still come back after a long time of absence. Back on the island, the former disciple has become a master, and there will be a little doll by his side.

Needless to say, the purpose of leaving the island and returning to the East is to find qualified disciples, and after finding them, they will return to the island and continue their research, and so on, and after the death of the teacher, the disciples will accept the disciples again, and inherit the legacy of the ancestor from generation to generation.

At this time, grandma suddenly remembered something and asked Su Hang: "That's strange, what about the person who dug Liu Xiancheng's grave, where is his grave?" ”

Liu Xiancheng is the ninth tomb, the last of a series of tombstones, and he also has disciples to dig graves for the monuments, but his disciples are not here.

Su Hang had already figured out this matter, and replied with a smile: "This doesn't need to be asked, it must have taken a big boat and left." As she spoke, she also learned the chief's gestures, and her palms danced up and down like waves, like a big ship riding the wind and waves.

Grandma coughed, shook her head and smiled: "It's really such a truth, I'm stupid, I didn't expect such a simple thing." ”

But what he didn't expect was that maybe the chief understood the meaning of what the two were saying, or maybe the chief was about to talk about the things behind the ninth tomb, he stretched out his hand and slashed lightly on Su Hang's hand, followed him to the back of the ninth tomb, and then put his hand on the pergola and looked at the direction of the sea, making a bitter look, and finally spread his hands out......

Su Hang was slightly surprised: "The ship didn't come again?" The tenth man didn't wait for the big ship and was still on the island? ”

How could the chief understand what she said, and then there was another gesture, and his movements and expressions, the more he looked at it, the more he thought it was what Su Hang said, and then the chief whined a few times, and the clansmen behind him all smiled, took out the food and water he carried with him, and began to eat and drink.

Su Hang was made curious by this story, who thought that the natives would suddenly start to have a meal, and they couldn't cry or laugh for a while......

However, the journey of the natives did not end there, after eating and drinking, the chief gave an order and continued to climb to the top of the mountain.

There is no road in the wild mountains on the island, needless to say that it is laborious to climb, and a very arduous journey finally arrived at the peak before dark, this time the natives took Suzhou and Hangzhou, and found a lonely body on the top of the mountain.

The clothes have long since decayed and gone with the wind; The flesh had rotted and turned to dust, and only a skeleton remained, with a stone box in its arms, facing west, staring vacantly at the sea, as if it were still waiting, searching for the great ship that would take him home.

This is the tenth person, the last disciple of the 'Tomb One Line'.

The chief continued to gestur, trying to make things clear.

The island is isolated from the sea, far away and difficult for birds to cross, and the only connection between the Han Chinese and Middle-earth is the large ship that visits every few years.

After the death of the ninth person, ten generations of disciples buried the teacher, he had to wait for the ship to come before he could go to Middle Earth to select disciples, during which he naturally did not wait, and continued to study and calculate from generation to generation, almost more than a year, this person suddenly went crazy, and ran to the native tribe with a face full of ecstasy, drinking and laughing, while telling the natives that the puzzle that the first teacher had finally solved by him.

After ten generations and hundreds of years of painstaking research, the results have finally been obtained.

In this way, when the big ship comes again, the Han people will have to leave here forever. The indigenous people are simple, and they are really happy for the Han people, and they also held a series of grand celebrations... But unexpectedly, the next ten generations of disciples waited for many years, and the big ship that never stopped coming to the island disappeared.

At the beginning, the ten generations of disciples were still patient, but as time went on, he became more and more restless, and simply climbed the main peak with the most precious box, looking at the sea day and night, always hoping that the ship would sail into his sight.

The native took care of his friend, and knew that he would not live long on the mountain alone, and in shifts in the tribe, people set out to the top of the mountain every day to bring water and food to the ten generations of disciples, rain or shine.

But the ten generations of disciples never came down from the peak again, and he didn't wait for the boat after all.

Before he died, he explained to the natives who brought him food that the body did not enter the ground, so he stayed here and continued to look, and then took a beaded chain from his wrist and handed it to the other party, clearly saying that if the big ship came back one day, he would show the beaded chain to the crew, and the other party would understand his meaning and would follow the natives into the mountains to find his body.

As for the wooden box, it was supposed to be handed over to the crew, but it contained the painstaking efforts of ten generations.

Whether the ship will come or not has become unknown. If it comes, the crate will be brought back to Middle-earth by the crew; But if it doesn't come, the ten generations of disciples will hold it until the sky collapses!

Unless you wait for the main master, you are reluctant to let go, the last Han people on the island, the last obsession in his heart, he did not hand over the box to the natives, but chose to hold it himself, and a hug is hundreds of years.

The story about the Han people is basically finished, and the big ship never comes again, until Suzhou and Hangzhou, who launched a great voyage for the chocolate of their dreams, discovered this small island during the voyage.

The last wishes of the ten generations of disciples and the colorful bead chain have been passed down from generation to generation in the tribe, and have fallen into the hands of the red-faced chieftain now.

The big ship was true, but it wasn't the one that the ten generations of disciples were waiting for.

At that time, Su Hang knew these things, took the token as a gift, accepted it happily, and then left; The natives were also honest, stunned to see the tokens they had taken, watching them come and go, and they didn't follow themselves into the mountain at all, only endless wondering......

Fortunately, Su Hang came back again, she wanted a few more auspicious bead chains, but she didn't expect to learn such a thing.

Now, with Su Hang's temperament, how can she hold back her curiosity not to see what is in the box, grandma understands her thoughts, but grandma is a figure from the palace, 'knowledgeable and reasonable', before starting to take his subordinates together to pray silently for the remains of their predecessors, so many years have passed, the sky of Middle-earth has changed a few times, and the big ship that ten generations of disciples are waiting for cannot come back, but their painstaking research will eventually return to Middle-earth!

After the ceremony, the grandmother stepped forward to pick up the stone box.

The texture of the box is clear, the workmanship is excellent, and it is engraved with a cloud fairyland, which is a terrible antiquity at first glance, but after opening the box, it ...... There was a booklet in the box, which was expected, and ten generations of masters and apprentices came to the island to study and not to dig for treasure, and the wealth they left behind should have been the result of relevant research and handwriting. But when I opened the booklet, the description on it was not Chinese characters, one by one, there were many strange characters, some of which were like the symbols drawn by the old Taoist when catching ghosts, but the structure was more complicated, from Suzhou and Hangzhou to grandma and then to the crew who followed, everyone knew what was written in the booklet.

Su Hang pointed to the strange words on the booklet and looked at the chief, who shook his head knowingly, indicating that he didn't know what was written in the book.

There is no other way, wait until you return to Middle-earth and try to find out, is there anyone who knows this kind of writing, Su Hang sent an order, transport the bones from the top of the mountain back to the mountainside, and bury them in the Shimen tombs, after all, they still have to be buried in the ground.

Su Hang opened up a monument and inscription for the ten generations of disciples, and simply held a funeral, and then bid farewell to the Turen, and the big ship sailed back to Middle-earth.