Hibiscus trees? What a strange name! There are elms, locust trees, willows, plane trees, and various fruit trees, some of which I have never seen but have heard of by name, such as ginkgo trees, palm trees, mahogany trees, red sandalwoods, and I have never heard of the hibiscus tree.

We followed Uncle Shi around to the side of the big tree, only to find that the tree seemed to be one, but in fact it was only two close together, leaving only a gap of twenty or thirty centimeters in the middle.

Uncle Shi pointed to the big tree, and said in a trembling voice: "Sure enough, it's a Fusang tree!" It turns out that such books really exist in the world! ”

Uncle Shi explained that the "fu" in this fusang tree represents the meaning of support, and it is made of two mulberry trees intertwined with each other to support each other's growth, hence the name. It has a long history of growth, and has been mentioned by famous poets such as Li Bai and Wang Anshi in verses, and has been passed down to this day.

In ancient mythology, the Fuso tree grew on the sea of the East and was a place with great aura. In the past, Hou Yi shot the sun and stood on the Fusang tree. Because the sun rises from the place where the Fuso tree grows, in the story of Kuafu, which is spread to the sun, Kuafu runs in the direction of the Fuso tree.

Zhang Kailong touched the back of his head and asked his uncle: "Old grandson! This Fuso tree is a legendary sacred tree! Could it be that there really is such a tree? ”

Uncle Shi smiled slightly and replied: "I also had an opportunity a few years ago by chance, and I met several old Taoist friends in Yunnan, of course, they also have another identity, that is, archaeologist ......."

Uncle Shi said this three years ago, a few old Taoist friends in Yunnan found him (he was active in Sichuan at the time) and asked him to help him see a few things.

So Uncle Shi followed these Taoist friends to the hotel where they stayed.

When a few people opened a black leather box, some incomplete bronzes were revealed, and when they looked rusty, they knew that these things had a very long history.

Uncle Shi glanced at it a few times, and there were a few things he recognized, which were a class of religious magic weapons in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River in the Xia, Shang and Zhou eras. Speaking of which, this ancient religion still has some roots with our Yellow River Taoism, but in the late Warring States period - about before Qin Shi Huang - this religion mysteriously disappeared.

Uncle Shi's main energy over the years has been spent on studying various ancient religions, so he is also very famous in this circle.

After getting the verification of the uncle, several people seemed to be very satisfied, and at the same time, their faces also showed more puzzled looks, most of the cultivators are simple and natural, and what is on their minds is often on their faces.

Uncle Shi asked why after learning about the origin of these bronze utensils, he was even more puzzled.

Those people did not hide it, pointed to the bronzes in the box and said that these things were excavated in a remote mountain Taoist temple in Yunnan, and the local archaeological community felt that they did not look like cultural relics in the region, so they asked Uncle Shi to verify it. Yunnan and the Yellow River are very far away, especially in ancient times, this area can be described as a barbarian land, Li Bai's poems all say that "you come to 48,000 years old, not with Qin Sai through the clouds."

How could religious utensils from the Yellow River valley appear in the depths of the mountains of Yunnan?

When they said this, Uncle Shi was also full of doubts.

The bronze in the other box was even more strange, like the branches of a big tree, and he looked at it for a while, but he couldn't see why, so he shook his head and said that he couldn't see what it was.

The few Daoists smiled, and then a few people divided five by two, and spliced together the seven or eight bronzes in the box. At this time, Uncle Shi recognized it at a glance, this is a bronze tree with a strange shape!

Those Taoist friends smiled and said that this thing was also found in that Taoist temple, because there was also a stone tablet unearthed at that time, with a description of this bronze tree, so they knew what kind of tree it was.

Those Taoist friends said that this was a Fusang tree.

Uncle Shi was very impressed when he just looked at this tree as a little peculiar, but he also thought that this kind of tree only existed in legends and did not exist in the real world.

It wasn't until he stepped out of this tunnel that he saw that the shape of this huge tree was very peculiar and very familiar, and after thinking about it for a while, he remembered what happened three years ago, and he was a little hesitant at first, so he walked to the side of the big tree, and found that there were two trees close together, exactly the same as the bronze tree he saw at the beginning, this can't all be a coincidence, right?

"The legend of the Fusang tree, in addition to the Han and Miao people, also exists in other ethnic groups, and even other countries!"

Uncle Shi motioned for us to sit down first, and after this toss, several of them were probably tired.

Li Xiaobai seemed to be very interested in these legends, and hurriedly asked, "Which country?" ”

"Japan!" Uncle Shi then asked. "Do you know what the country of Japan was called in ancient times?"

Li Xiaobai replied casually: "Wokou! That's what it was called in the Ming and Qing TV series! ”

Uncle Shi shook his head and said: "The Japanese are just people from our country, they can't beat others, and they get insulting nicknames!" ”

At this time, Xiao Li had already woken up, and his mind was also sober, but he was weak.

She interjected, "It's called Dongying, right?" ”

Uncle Shi nodded and replied: "The most official name is Fusang, which means 'land of the rising sun' in Chinese."

Li Xiaobai nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked, "Which other ethnic group has a legend about this tree!" ”

Uncle Shi was very patient, and said casually: "For example, the Buyi tribe." ”

Next, Uncle Shi told a beautiful legend of the Buyi people!

In the myths and legends of the Buyi people, it is believed that there is only one sun in the sky, which is completely a symbol and credit of the Lingzhi girl's love, not Hou Yi shot down. Legend has it that on the Fuso tree in the east, there have always been ten suns. Everyone lives in harmony with each other.

Send a sun priest every day to shine his light on the characters. (Nowadays, the work on duty on that day is still called "duty") illuminates the land with abundant crops, six animals are prosperous, and the people are happy and grateful.

The suns are also in order and never erroneous. But one day, a sun on duty returned to the Fuso tree and said that he saw a group of beautiful girls in Shenzhou. He couldn't get near them, and he sighed. It aroused the curiosity of the other nine suns at once.

Early the next morning, the other nine suns that were not on duty all ran from the Fuso tree to the sky to peek. But they didn't know that the ten suns appeared at one time, and the light was too strong, and it would "wither grass and trees, scorch the crops", and not a single grass would grow, and the people and living beings would suffer.

There was a man named Houyi who wanted to shoot down the sun with an arrow to save the people, but the sky was too high, and before the arrow could reach it, it was melted by the sun's rays, so he had to give up. The people thought that Hou Yi had offended the sun, so they sacrificed one after another, burned incense and prayed, interceded for Hou Yi, and asked the sun for forgiveness.

In fact, the suns were fascinated by the beauty of the Lingzhi girl, and kept peeking, forgetting the time, forgetting to go home, and not caring about Hou Yi at all. Only the Lingzhi girls like the light of the sun, because the sun's rays shine directly into their hearts, expressing love. But every sun marries a Lingzhi girl, and there is no sun in the sky.

The people can't work and live, and if they don't, the sun will hang in the sky and peek at it. In the end, the Lingzhi girls discussed and discussed. Nine of the most beautiful Lingzhi girls are selected, and each Lingzhi girl is happy, opens her arms, embraces a sun along with the sun's rays, and returns to the Fuso tree.

Since then, there is only one sun left in the sky on duty, and no one rotates. The remaining nine suns and the nine Lingzhi girls are in love with each other every day (the embodiment of the group marriage system). And the common people are living a good life again because of this.

……

After Uncle Shi finished telling this story, several people present laughed, especially Xiao Li, who actually looked at me with affection.

"Old Sun, this legend can't be made up by later generations, right? It's obviously the opposite of our traditional legend of 'Houyi Shooting the Sun'! Very deliberately provocative! ”

Zhang Kailong said with a smile.

At this moment, even Chen Laosan, who had not been smiling for a while, showed his big yellow teeth.

At this moment, a tiger roar suddenly came from behind us.

At that time, we were all immersed in the beautiful myths and legends told by my uncle, and I was taken aback by this sudden roar, and I hurriedly turned my head.

Thanks to my extraordinary eyesight, I saw a black hole in the wall of a cave fifty or sixty meters away from this huge hibiscus tree, and a pair of green eyes were staring at us from a distance.

"Not good! It's a tiger! Zhang Kailong shouted, and several people quickly stood up.

Looking around, there's nowhere to hide! Where we can go, the tigers can go too, or go back the way we came? Then you might as well face the tiger!

Didn't the ancients already summarize that "Gu poison is fiercer than a tiger".

"Go up the tree! Hurry up the tree, the tiger won't climb the tree......"

Chen Laosan hurriedly shouted.

That's right! This huge Fusang tree is full of vines, among the few of us, it is estimated that only Xiao Li has difficulty climbing the tree, and if the others use their hands and feet together, they can easily climb five, six, seven or eight meters, which is enough to make the tiger out of reach.

Suddenly, there were a few more tiger calls, and when I looked again, there were two more pairs of eyes in the hole, which meant that there would be at least three tigers here. Three tigers? No way! It's enough to bite a few of us to death.

Li Xiaobai climbed to the tree first, which can be regarded as a way out! followed by Uncle Shi, although he is profound, but after all, he is already in his old age, and the years are not forgiving! Zhang Kailong wanted to take Xiao Li up with me, but I refused.

"Brother Long, you go first, otherwise I'm afraid it will be even more chaotic!"

Zhang Kailong nodded, said "be careful", grabbed the vine and climbed up.

Except for Xiao Li, everyone in this group knows that after I ate the dragon egg, my body is very good, so there is no need to be polite.

I used the expedition strap handed by Zhang Kailong to buckle Xiao Li to me, which was very ambiguous. Xiao Li hugged me chest to chest, and was so tightly buckled, the softness of her chest, my crotch. The hardness of the next is shared together.

At that time, I couldn't care about this, so I shouted "Hold on tight" and grabbed the vine and climbed up.

When I had climbed five or six meters high, I looked at the hole again. At this glance, I almost let go of my hand.

The three tigers in the cave have come out, and this is not the point, the point is that the head of these three animals is a tiger's head, but the body is black, which is completely different from the color of the hair on the head, and it is not the body of a tiger.

This body is very familiar! Suddenly it occurred to me that this is the body of a donkey! It turned out to be a black donkey with a tiger's head!