Volume 3: Miao Jiang Gu Realm Chapter 43: The Forgotten Seedlings (1)
Temporary Command Interior......
There are a lot of materials piled up on a small table, and some notebooks are old and faded, these are all treasures of literature, and they are full of dazzling. Vertices
I! Professor Ouyang and Professor Tong were concentrating on looking for a pitiful amount of information about the Demon Lord Fan Barbarian in these mountains of information.
Although I know the feng shui phase art of stargazing, wind and water, I can find ancient tombs through this method.
But the premise is that there must be a clear area, which must first understand Fan Manchi's life, and then deduce from it the place where he may be buried, otherwise aimlessly, inch by inch, it will only be half the effort, or even in vain!
The trio were in full swing when they were interrupted by someone who suddenly broke into the tent.
The person who came was the second dog, and he didn't say in a proper way, "Report to Team Wu, I'm coming to the minefield!" ”
At first, I was blindfolded, but when I saw the small amount of flour in his hand, I knew it, so I said, "Be careful, spread a layer inside and out!" ”
"Don't worry! I didn't accept you before, but now I'm serving the five-body projection, so don't worry about letting me do what you arrange! As he spoke, Ergouzi moved the 95 style behind and began to sprinkle the flour evenly!
The second elder didn't understand what this meant, so he consulted me, and I told them one by one.
The people I had assigned them to patrol were still divided into two teams to replace the patrols, and asked them to plant torches in all corners of the camp on the premise of preventing fires.
The reason for this is that those monsters that can be invisible, since we don't know the name, we will call them "hidden children" first.
Because the Hidden Child will reveal a silhouette like water in the fire and strong light.
And the reason for sprinkling flour is that the hidden children are not unclean evil creatures, and they will inevitably leave footprints when they act, and the flour is to print their footprints.
But because there is not much flour, this is all brought by the two dogs themselves to make noodles to eat when they are ready to camp, so we arranged the backpacks to rest in the fat man's tent, and sprinkled some flour outside the tent, and then guarded by two soldiers holding Type 95.
And then there's our temporary headquarters, the same! The entrance was guarded by two heavily armed soldiers.
The Ghost strongly offered to participate in the patrol this time, and I had no objection, and asked each of them to equip their Type 95 rifles.
As for the black boy, I asked him to look at Uncle Liu and Uncle Niu in the four back pockets! I'm always wary of these two men, because their behavior is so suspicious.
I even suspect that the third shadow that mysteriously appeared in the chubby tent before was Uncle Liu, because when something happened to the temporary headquarters, everyone was attracted to it, and I obviously noticed that Uncle Liu appeared in the tent after a short while!
Like these usually leisurely back pockets, my favorite is to join in the fun, but Uncle Niu and Uncle Liu don't seem to be very interested, plus I talked with Xiao Kai for a while before I came to the tent, and I made sure that Xiao Kai was not tired and asleep, but was fainted! So these two have to be suspicious!
Of course, I won't tell Professor Ouyang and Professor Tong about this, but only inform them about the previous deployment.
The second elder nodded with satisfaction, and after a few words of praise to me, we began to continue the brain-burning clue research.
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At present, Professor Ouyang's research is stuck in two points.
One of them is that when Fan Manqi was driven out of the Ba people by Di Jun, he fled all the way to Qianhu Miao Village in Xijiang, Leishan, Guizhou, and learned the clue of Gu art.
The second is the nine-square grid bronze square plate that is said to record Fan Manchi's life.
However, because Fan Manchi is a legendary figure, there is no literature on the official officials, only some of the wild history has rare information, and the two clues they studied are all gossip that we overheard from Lao Jin, so I think it would be too wasteful of time and energy to study these two clues.
When the two elders heard this, they all asked me what I thought, and I pondered for a while and then said, "I think we can try it from reverse thinking!" ”
"What kind of reverse thinking do you mean by that?" The second elder looked puzzled.
I said, "A friend of mine who is a criminal police officer told me a real case of theirs!"
Once they found text messages with his wife on the prisoner's phone.
Letter from wife: You are in prison, no one has turned over our few acres of land, my in-laws can't do anything, I am not in good health, and I have to take care of my children.
The prisoner replied, "Don't turn over the ground, there are guns buried in the ground." ”
A month later, his wife replied, "The police came in three or four batches, turned over our house several times, and vomited blood and didn't find a gun, where did you hide the gun?" ”
The prisoner replied: There was no gun in the first place, and the police * inspector helped turn over the land, so you should hurry up and farm the land. ”
There is also the thinking of normal people who save people who fall into the water is "to save people from the water", but Sima Guang is to "let the water leave people".
This is reverse thinking.
In the same way, what we are looking for is Fan Manchi's tomb palace Hades, so it is natural to habitually study this person.
But the problem is that we have too little information about this demon lord at hand, so it is particularly difficult to find out.
But it is precisely the history of the development of the Miao people in this area that we have a lot of information, I just roughly flipped through it, and many old notebooks have bits and pieces of records of the development of the Miao people in this area, so why don't we start with the records of the previous seedlings in this area.
After all, Fan Manqi learned Gu art here! Then he'll be here for a long time! Just imagine, if there is a Ba person who has stayed in the seedlings for a long time, there must be a record, because the seedlings are not in contact with the outside world! Besides, Professor Tong has been studying the Miao people for many years, so wouldn't it be faster to start from this aspect! ”
Hearing this, Professor Ouyang couldn't help but fall into deep thought, and said for a while, "Although it is difficult to find it in this way, and the workload is not small, but with our current deadlock, I think we can give it a try, anyway, we have not made any progress in researching and studying the demon lord of Fan Manchi!" ”
After that, he glanced at Professor Tong and asked, "Old Bronze, what do you think?" Don't you claim to know a lot about the Hmong? It's up to you to take the lead and take us down from this clue! ”
But Professor Tong didn't seem to hear us.
He was muttering to himself, and then suddenly went crazy to flip through the information on the table, and his mouth was still chattering, "I should have brought it!" I remember yes, why can't I find it, am I really confused? It shouldn't be! It seems that you still have to remember to take medicine when you go out in the future......"
He muttered and muttered, and his hands kept moving, sometimes pushing the glasses that had fallen to his nose, sometimes rubbing his temples with his hands, and sometimes touching his chin.
"Old bronze! What are you crazy about? Professor Ouyang said again!
But Professor Tong still ignored us, as if we were not with him, and continued to rummage around, accidentally knocking over the water glass on the table as if nothing had happened.
But the good thing is that the water cup is out of water!
Looking at Professor Tong like this, I can't help but think of what he usually does.
After searching for a while, he finally pulled out an ancient book from a pile of papers, although the book looked old, it could be seen that it was well preserved, "Come on! Look at what is written here! He handed me the book.
I just took the book, and I was dumbfounded before I opened it, all the fucking writing on it is in foreign language, I don't know a few at all, it's okay to deal with ABCDs, but read English books......
A flock of crows flew by......
Professor Ouyang looked at me and asked, "What's wrong with Brother Wu Nian?" Could it be that you don't know English? ”
I lied even more embarrassingly to avoid embarrassment! "Look at what you say, how is it possible! Understand! Understand! Definitely do! ”
"Yes! Did you graduate from college? With a curious expression, he pointed to the book, "Quick!" Open it and see if you have found anything in this old bronze? ”
"Oh!" I answered, and then immediately felt my cheeks burn, and my heart said, I grass! How to step down now!
I didn't want to be looking for information at this time, Professor Tong suddenly snatched the book back, "No! No! This is my collector's book! Take this translated book to read! ”
I breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like I was escaping death!
Then I relaxed and went to read the book, only to see that the title of the book was written "History of the Miao Nationality", and the lower line was written "Guizhou University Press", and the author was Ming: Savina.
Later, after the end of this archaeology, I checked a lot of information about the Miao people, and learned that the original name of this "History of the Miao Nationality" was "History of the Miao People".
The author Savina is a priest, French, before he came to Hainan Island in 1925, he had published the "History of the Miao People" in Hong Kong Nazareth Publishing House, this book is a classic, has a wide influence in the Western world, and even some Chinese scholars believe that the achievements of this book, no one in the field of Miao studies surpassed, 09 years Guizhou University Press published a translated version, translated into "Miao History".
But this is all a later story, and the book returns to the main text.
As I said before, I went to the library when I had nothing to do in college, and I had already practiced ten lines at a glance! I'm flipping through it!
The gist of the book:
It is said that the author himself has conducted fieldwork in the Miao area of French Indochina over the years, and discussed the history of the origin and migration of the Miao people from three aspects: physical characteristics, language, and myths and legends.
The book says: "The Miao people have light yellow complexion, almost white skin, some brown hair or even red hair, so they are not of East Asian race, and the creation myth of the Miao people has stories similar to the Old Testament about God's creation of heaven and earth in seven days, the creation of man from the earth, the great flood, and the confusion of the Babel language, and legend has it that they once went to the northern cold zone with six months of day and six months of night." ”
Therefore, the book suggests that the Miao people are a branch of the Turanian people, who first originated in the valley of the two rivers and the Medo-Persian region, and later migrated northward, passing through Transcaucasia and Central Asia, and then crossing the cold regions of Siberia through the Ural Mountains to Zhun in Xinjiang
Gar Pass, all the way to the east, through Qinghai, Gansu, into the Yellow River basin of the hinterland of China, so the Miao language belongs to a kind of Ural-Altai language.
I'm flipping through and explaining.
But in his heart, he is scolding this French priest, will this Nima also be like a Korean, nonsense! Obviously, the Dragon Boat Festival is Chinese, but now it is torn off by the Korean stick to be theirs, Qu Yuan listened, and he didn't know if he would crawl out of the river and strangle them.
Professor Ouyang listened with relish......
Professor Kiri, who suddenly found a worn-out notebook, snatched the book from my hand again and said, "I didn't let you look at the front!" ”
After finishing speaking, he held his hand in one hand, tilted his body, let the light shine better on the book, squinted, and turned the pages with his hand, because the lighting conditions were limited, and occasionally put his head a little closer.
Seeing that he was fascinated by the book, he looked like an old gambler carefully and carefully counting the money he had won back with great difficulty.
After flipping through for a while, he seemed to have found what he wanted, and he got up, put the book on the table, flipped through a page or two, and said to me, "Read this content!" ”
I took a quick look.
The gist of the book: More than 5,000 years ago, the Jiuli tribe living in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River was expanding to the north, and the Yandi and Yellow Emperor tribes who went east and south had a violent armed conflict.
Since then, most of the Miao ancestors have been forced to embark on the first great migration, they came to Dongting Lake and Poyang Lake, and established the "Three Miao Kingdom".
Later, as the Sanmiao tribe became stronger and stronger, Yao and Shun repeatedly conquered and suppressed the "Sanmiao", and the Miao ancestors were forced to migrate to the southwest and northwest regions again.
The Miao people in Guizhou are this group of migrants, and then in 47 AD, the Han Dynasty sent an army to exterminate the Miao people, and the Miao people were forced to leave their hometowns again, and the migration was divided into two groups, one of which came to the Leishan of Guizhou and the Miao village of the Xijiang River, and the other did not know where to go.
It wasn't until many years later that I learned that this other Miao people were inextricably linked with our Wu family, of course! That's a story for later.
I was about to continue turning the page after reading these two pages, but Professor Tong once again snatched the book from my hand, spread out a diary, and placed it in front of me, "Look at the contents of the notes on this. ”
I'm still reading ten lines at a glance, and I'm going to read it quickly.
To the effect that the author of the notebook came to Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village 30 years ago, looking for an ancient Miao Village that was isolated from the world and forgotten by time, he found a familiar seedling as a guide in the local area, and after a month of searching, he finally found it.
It is written in the notebook that this seedling is a Gu seedling, for some reason there are only women in the seedlings, and they are all surnamed Ji Ke, I couldn't help but be surprised when I saw this, and then I was happy, and I faintly felt that I was doing the right thing.
The author of the notebook knew that Sheng Miao did not like outsiders to disturb their lives, but he did not want to give up this discovery because it was of high research value!
So he secretly observed this Gu Miao that only had women left, and after a period of observation, he found that there were traces of a foreigner living here in the seedling.
The author of the notebook was puzzled and puzzled as to why Shengmiao, who had never been in contact with foreigners, would accommodate a foreigner, so the author of the notebook decided to investigate clearly, and this may be a study to re-understand Shengmiao.
After nearly a month of secret investigation, he preliminarily judged that the foreigner might be the Ba people, and what was unbelievable was that the Ba people also buried the tomb here, and the Miao tribe, who only had women, still guarded the tomb for him.
The notebook ended everywhere, and the rest was scattered.
Professor Ouyang also finished reading the contents of the notebook, and couldn't help sighing, "It's hard to find a clue, although it is basically determined that Fan Manchi's ten ** Demon Lords are buried in this area, but there is still no specific range!" ”
As he spoke, he threw the notebook on the table and rubbed the Yin Tang with his hand, looking exhausted.
Professor Tong was similar, he took off his glasses and put them on the table, his hair no longer as neat as when they first met, but was clasped around his head like a chicken coop.
I saw that the contents of the notebook seemed familiar, so I rummaged around, and sure enough, I found the English word "ang" written on the first page, as expected, it was really the person Zhao Huasheng was looking for, Wang Qiming's notebook.
At this time, the second elder was ready to regain his spirits and study the nine-square grid bronze square card again, but when he saw that I lowered my head, frowned, and didn't say a word, he comforted me and said: "Young man, don't be discouraged, cheer up!" There are always more ways than difficulties! ”
But I suddenly said, "I think I already know where Fan Manchi's tomb is and where the Hades Palace is!" ”