Chapter 24: The Enlightened Beast
There are several steps up the platform, and when you go up the steps, there is a stone wall, but on either side of the steps there are two huge bird statues placed in front of the stone wall, and there is a huge stone statue of an animal on the wall.
In front of the huge animal stone carving, there is also a bronze statue of the goddess, the surface of the goddess does not know what material is used, making the surface look like titanium alloy.
The idol is a woman of the Yi nationality, wearing a trimmed or embroidered placket right jacket, wearing a black head, earrings, a silver row flower at the neckline, the cockscomb hat is often cut into the shape of a cockscomb with a cloth shell, and embroidered with dozens, hundreds or even thousands of silver bubbles of size, wearing a "ear rubbing tile" - sheepskin felt, shaped like a cloak, long below the knee, the lower end is decorated with hair tassels, and the lower body is a pleated long skirt.
Wear a triangular purse around the waist, the bag surface is decorated with various patterns, lined with different cloth sewn, the upper end is open, the bottom is decorated with a five-color streamer, hanging on the left waist, the wrist is decorated with gold, silver, copper, jade, stone bracelets, wearing gold and silver or stone inlaid with gold and silver saddle-shaped, cat's eye-shaped rings, wearing gold, silver, copper chains, locks, pendants and other head, chest, back ornaments, a look at the statue of the woman is a married aristocratic woman.
"Xiao Gang, isn't there no other place to go?" Lao Hu looked at the statue in front of him and said.
I'm not sure, but my feeling tells me that there must be a lot of secrets hidden here, and until now, we don't know whose tomb this is, but there is a drought, and the predecessors have hollowed out all their minds to arrange this place, and it is not as simple as making a well-dressed mound.
"I feel that this stone statue is some kind of animal guarding the gate of the heavenly realm, in short, it is a spirit beast with a low godhead, the stone sculpture has a very brave momentum, the body is like a huge tiger, with nine heads and a human face, with a solemn expression, always wide-eyed, as if it is guarding something" Yan Wenbin looked at the huge stone statue behind the goddess statue, and always felt as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't think of what this stone sculpture was called.
"Have you found the code to crack the Bagua Meridian Copper Core Lock"? Leng Bingyan looked at Yan Wenbin and Hu Haitian and looked at the stone statue in front of him intently, but through their eyes, Leng Bingyan knew that Yan Wenbin had nothing to gain.
"This thing is called the Enlightened Beast, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the West Classic of the Sea" says that the huge Kunlun has nine gates, and the one who guards the door is the Enlightened Beast, and the Enlightened Beast looks around Kunlun and does not allow any abnormal creatures to enter Kunlun, protecting the peace and tranquility of Kunlun."
"At the same time, the enlightened beast is a spirit animal that serves the Queen Mother of the West, and has the ability to perceive the future of all things, whenever the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East go out on patrol, the enlightened beast is in front of the guide, and even drives the float for the master in person, so it is loved by the Queen Mother of the West."
"However, it is very interesting that there is a god named Lu Wu above this Kunlun, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas: The Three Classics of the West": "Four hundred miles southwest of Kunlun Hill, the god Lu Wu Sizhi, its shape of a tiger body and nine tails, human face and tiger claws, is the god also, the nine parts of the sky and the emperor's confinement."
Comparing the upper and lower paragraphs of text, it can be found that there is a considerable amount of overlap in keywords such as "nine" and "tiger", and it is unreasonable to use one beast to guard nine gates, and if there are nine songs, it corresponds to the sentence "nine parts of Si Tian", and it is also consistent with the ancient example of "the four sides of the Yellow Emperor" (the Yellow Emperor is the central emperor, and there are four faces to watch the four directions).
"The enlightened beast is not equal to Lu Wu, the two are two gatekeepers, one guards the northwest and the other guards the southwest", Leng Bingyan looked at Yan Wen without the slightest clue, and now he could only tell Yan Wenbin what the huge statue on the stone wall in front of him was called.
"Lao Hu, bring the compass, you stand where the coffin is, and see if this enlightened beast is in the northwest or southwest direction", Yan Wenbin looked at Lao Hu and said.
"Don't disturb them, you go and move all the stones in front of the stone gate, I want to open the Broken Dragon Stone and let the people outside come in, remember, after they come in, they buried ammunition in the corridor, and Staff Officer Li can find here, which means that Liu Dashuai also knows this place, maybe Staff Officer Li was just sent by Liu Dashuai to explore the way", Leng Bingyan looked at his subordinates and said.
"If they can come in, they should bring more weapons and food, and the necessary digging tools should not be less, I think it will take a long time to completely unravel this secret, if there are many people, it is better to fence this place, and the people outside will be the rescuers, and after going down to the grave, everything is unknown."
"My main purpose this time is not to steal the treasure in the tomb, but to come to assist Liu Dashuai, although Liu Dashuai is a Beiyang warlord, but now the country is the time to employ people, and the National Protector Army hopes that Liu Dashuai can join."
Although the revolution overthrew the feudal system, but the country fell into the abyss of warlord secession, Generalissimo Liu, as one of the Beiyang warlords and the largest warlord in Guizhou, and the confrontation with the southwest and southwest national defense army is currently a faction, and he still has a certain influence in the situation of the southwest warlord secession."
"If Liu Xiancheng announced that he would obey the leadership of the Southern Protector Army and go north, wouldn't he be a member of the revolution." Although Yan Wenbin does not care about politics, Guizhou is in the hands of Liu Dashuai, and no one will have a hard time, maybe Liu Dashuai secretly colludes with bandits, and the bandits are a family.
"We can't change the political problems, but my task is to let Liu Dashuai convene a mass meeting, publicize Yuan Shikai's treason, send troops to the Northern Expedition, and participate in the Dharma Protector Movement led by Mr. Sun.
"But what does it have to do with me, whether he is a warlord or a protector, he doesn't have a dime to do with me, isn't it", Yan Wenbin didn't want to have a past with the official, but this time he didn't know if it was a ghost or something, he actually helped Leng Bingyan.
Now Leng Bingyan actually wants to tie up with the great warlord Liu Xiancheng, Yan Wenbin regrets cooperating with Leng Bingyan a little, once Leng Bingyan succeeds, Liu Dashuai's power will be even bigger, and more men will be captured as soldiers.
An inch of blood, 100,000 young people and 100,000 soldiers, it still sounds exciting, but in practice, for millions of warlords and the long war of resistance, 100,000 young people are far from enough to supplement the soldiers, so "strong men" have become the best way for warlords to expand their troops.
Maybe you are working in the fields, tending to your rice, and suddenly a group of people in uniform come, they tie your hands behind your back and take you away, and those who work in the fields, those who do acrobatics in the streets, and those who work in factories may become one of the strong men at any time.
The recruit center was located in a small ravine a few miles outside the city, and it consisted of houses separated by different villages that could be seen from each other, perhaps a long thatched-roof shed with a long dirt floor, and about seventy or eighty people lying on planks in the sheds.
Two or three people were covered with shabby shirts, trousers, barefoot or only straw sandals, some were too sick to get out of bed to urinate, and some were already dead there, as hard as the bed boards.
After the training of the recruits, these strong men will be assigned to various units, and due to the lack of transportation, they can usually only walk, usually hundreds of kilometers away.
This haste was the most terrible part of all the activities of the recruits before they entered the unit, because they could easily die, so the recruits tried to escape, so the escorts treated them as if they were prisoners, and often tied together with ropes, like a string of beads.
Due to the lack of adequate training, many people died on the way to charge, and the officers, who had not undergone command training, put their soldiers' lives on the line again and again to fill every trench and cover every pillbox. In fact, the same goal can be achieved with a simple coordination of troops and firepower.
So, people treat [conscription] as death, and men are taken from the fields, not only does it cause unspeakable hardship to their families, but it can easily spread the sentiment that once they are conscripted, they will never be able to return home.
Such a force, when there is no war, can still unite people's hearts to show bravery, if it is to launch other wars, it will inevitably be defeated, for the warlords, the war is lost, as long as they are still alive, there are no soldiers can still be caught.
But for soldiers, they die when they die, their deaths are like mustards, without the slightest value, and their deaths are only to defend the rights and dignity of the warlords.
The style of the warlord just now, Staff Officer Li, is the best example of this, the style and habit of treating people as if they were not people, preying on the common people, dominating one side, having no laws and rules, doing things as they please, and not guaranteeing the personal rights of soldiers.
"I just carry out the order, and there is no way, but if I really tear my face, I can ask Marshal Liu to spare your life, his staff officer died here, and he will definitely not give up, although Liu Dashuai treats me well, but Lao Hu's grandfather has gone home, and everything in his family Liu Dashuai has also been returned, and from now on, Liu Dashuai's subordinates will not embarrass the Hu family" Leng Bingyan looked at Yan Wenbin's hatred of the warlord, and felt that he was poisoned too deeply by the warlord.
"Lao Hu, your grandfather is back, and he is still not grateful to others, others took your family's things, seized your family's property, arrested your family's people, and finally released your family's people, and returned your family's things, you still have to be grateful to others, what kind of generation is this" Yan Wenbin was sneering at Leng Bingyan, and his subordinates who provoked Leng Bingyan wanted to Yan Wenbin.
Leng Bingyan is a vigorous and resolute person in the secret service, and he is very popular with the people around him, and Yan Wenbin challenges Leng Bingyan's authority, which is to slap the face of all Leng Bingyan's subordinates here, if it weren't for Yan Wenbin's special identity, he would have been beaten up and even shot.
"Xiao Gang, don't be so resentful, it's good that my grandfather is back, originally I wanted to take this thing out for a big yellow croaker to get my grandfather out, but now that my grandfather is out, this thing will be given to you, twenty big yellow croaker, you can get along with anyone, you just can't get along with money", Lao Hu saw that the two were already in a cold war, and immediately pulled Yan Wenbin away.
"Let's say it first, help you find what you want, but you can't move our things, even if you help the landlord to work, the landlord understands that you have to give money, and if you don't have money, you have to exchange it for food", Yan Wenbin felt that the old nonsense was right, this time it was all for money, otherwise they would have left a long time ago.
"Xiao Gang, you are a wooden fish head, you don't see that this Chief Leng is interesting to you, you are taking food and drink, if it wasn't for Chief Leng at the beginning, the two of us would have been killed in the hands of that warlord, none of us who are officials can afford to provoke us, we will accept it when we see it", Lao Hu pulled Gang Wenbin down and whispered next to him.
In fact, in this troubled era, whoever is powerful is the truth, that is, the king's law, either they are harder than these people, they have enough troops, and they can kill each other at any time, or they will be trampled under the feet of the other party, your life and death are not up to you, this is the way of the world, everyone is like this in the troubled world.