Chapter 108: The Book of Suede
Strangely, the water rose to a distance of about a meter from the edge of the well, and then it stopped rising, and then the sound of rushing water came from under the ground.
"There is a passage! There's a passage in this well! After Zhang Kailong understood what was going on, he exclaimed happily.
Seeing that the situation in the well had stabilized, I also breathed a sigh of relief, and turned my eyes to the bronze statue again.
Looking at it again this time, the smile on Nuwa Niangniang's face seems to be even bigger.
"Hurry up and meet Nuwa Niangniang!" Saying that, Uncle Shi was the first to kneel down in front of the bronze statue. We didn't know why, but we quickly knelt on the ground anyway.
After knocking his head three times, when he was about to get up, Uncle Shi suddenly saw a long box full of patina in the gap between the feet of the bronze statue, which looked like it was a few years old.
Uncle Shi was stunned for a moment, and then stretched out two fingers and took out the copper box.
After the box was in our hands, Zhang Kailong and I both got together, and there was a line of red characters on the box, as if it was written with cinnabar or other paints, and the handwriting was very blurry, and I could only barely make out it.
"Senior Brother Gui Ping personally enlightened: the gods are alive, the springs are alive, and the things in the box can keep the Yellow River safe!" The signature at the end is "Fanzhong".
After reading this sentence, I immediately understood that Master had expected all of this as early as fifty years ago.
Uncle Shi hurriedly opened the box, and at that moment we all held our breath, and our hearts beat suddenly. Curiosity was immediately full, and in the half minute that Uncle Shi broke the box, I had already thought of many possibilities in my mind:
Isn't there a very powerful Dao technique recorded in this? (Just like the few books of the Yellow River Passage left by the master)
Could it be a map with something hidden? (Just like what I found in the tomb with Antique Lee before)
Will it be a treasure to ward off evil spirits?
……
Zhang Kailong also stared at the box without blinking, probably thinking about the same as me!
The box opened, and the first thing I saw was a hide, and under the skin was a pile of corn kernels, which looked like the seeds of some kind of plant.
Uncle Shi glanced at the seeds in the box, and didn't seem to understand what they were, so he handed the seeds to me along with the box.
After he picked up the hide, he first sniffed it, and said casually: "This is a suede!" ”
When it comes to suede, many people may not know what it is.
The so-called suede, as the name suggests, is the skin of the muntjac, which is a very strong and soft animal skin, and the wild and natural suede can be preserved for tens of thousands of years (of course, this is only a rumor, and it seems that it has not been verified).
In ancient times, where paper and cloth were scarce, people liked to write very precious and valuable information on animal skins, the most commonly used is sheepskin, Chen Laosan also got a parchment book before, and searched for more than ten years.
Maybe ordinary people don't know, even if they know, they can't afford to use it, there is a better animal skin, this is suede, of course, the information that can be recorded with suede, it must be very precious.
At first glance, Uncle Shi felt that it looked like suede, and then sniffed it again, and confirmed that it was indeed suede.
He carefully opened the piece of suede and saw that it was densely covered with words.
Zhang Kailong and I also wanted to recognize it, but I only glanced at it and gave up, because the words on it were the same as the words translated by Antique Li before, all of them were strangely shaped, horizontal and uneven, vertical and not vertical, and there were a lot of strokes in each word, even if it knew me, it was impossible for me to know them.
Antique Li once said that there are no more than a few people in the world today who can recognize these words, and it can be regarded as my Chen Xiaozhen's luck! In addition to the deceased antique Li, Uncle Shi is also one of these people.
Uncle Shi looked at it, and read out the voice in his mouth, "Huaxia except, Jiuding rises, to the first emperor, there is no trace......"
As I read it, I gradually couldn't hear what he was reading, and at the same time, I also saw that my uncle's face slowly turned red and white.
After reading this suede book, Uncle Shi smiled and handed me the suede casually.
"What's written on it? Old grandson"
I couldn't help but feel curious, and begged.
"A big secret!" After speaking, Uncle Shi laughed a few more times, and actually shook his head and walked towards the stone steps.
Zhang Kailong and I glanced back, and there was nothing else in the cave except for the sculpture of Nuwa Niangniang and the well that was still bubbling with water, so we hurriedly followed Uncle Shi.
"Uncle, just tell me about it!" What's the secret on it? I continued.
"That's right! Old man Sun, you asked us to come here, we can't cross the river and tear down the bridge! Zhang Kailong used words to provoke Uncle Shi.
But no matter what we say, he is full of ambition and seems to understand everything.
When we were almost on the canopy, Uncle Shi paused for a moment and told Zhang Kailong and me that he would tell us everything, but the top priority was to go back quickly.
As soon as we heard that he would tell us, there was no need for us to be so entangled, after all, two young men with bare butts surrounded by an old man with bare butts, and they nodded and behaved, which was really not very elegant.
Soon I arrived at the canopy, and after walking out of the "Demon Suppression Tower", I looked around, only to find that Chen Laosan was gone.
"Where's the third brother?"
I asked hurriedly.
I went around with Zhang Kailong and searched carefully, but I still didn't find any trace of him.
"He's not going to fall off this canopy, is he?"
I said casually.
"Impossible! Not to mention accidentally falling, even if he wants to jump, there is no gap! ”
Indeed, there is something special about the canopy of this big banyan tree, except for a very spacious open space in the middle, the edges of the trees are covered with branches, and there are several layers of dense layers, and people can't fall down at all.
That's weird!
"The only possibility is that he left on his own initiative!"
Uncle Shi pointed to the bronze chains with the thickness of ankles and said.
"No wonder I always feel that since I met Old Man Sun, this old brother has always been weird, it seems that he has something to hide from us!"
Zhang Kailong muttered.
"Xiao Zhen, see if you can use the power of the dragon egg to hear where he is! Rest assured! Even if he had wings, he wouldn't be able to fly out of this ghost. ”
It's a ghost, though I haven't seen a ghost so far.
I immediately secretly transported the heat in my chest, and then slowly moved to my ears, and gradually there were some sounds in my ears.
First I heard the whistling sound similar to the wind blowing on the top of the tree, then heard the "gurgling" sound and the sound of running water erupting from the spring in the cave, and finally heard someone's rapid gasping sound not far from the huge banyan tree.