Since there was oxygen, the master took the lead and went down. I walked in the second one, the stairs are a little steep, each staircase is only half a foot long, you need to get stuck in the back a little bit, otherwise I am really afraid of stepping on the empty foot.

The surrounding walls are no longer made of bluestone outside, but are made of yellow stones, and the steps under our feet are very new, so maybe we will be the first visitors after they are completed, and I don't know if the owner here welcomes us.

This passage was long and narrow, and I tapped the walls with a torch, some of the walls were muffled, and some of them were actually hollow, and Master just looked back at me: "Don't knock, it will fall into your eyes in a moment." ”

"There's no soil." I looked at the passage, it was unusually clean, knocking on the wall, where did the soil come from.

"Xiaokang, your IQ is not as good as day by day, your master is afraid that you will alarm something, and he won't let you knock it, you really think there is soil!" The fourth uncle said complainingly.

We could hear the echoes of our exchanges, and a few taps on the wall could make a difference. But in this case, it's better to listen to his meat to eat. I don't know where this passage is, the gluttony on the stone gate is lifelike with its big mouth open, as if we are here to be swallowed by the gluttony.

After a while, we came to the bottom of the steps, and there was about forty square meters of area below, and then there were several stone gates.

In the center of this empty space, there is a platform with a flag on it.

The flag has taken on a grayish-yellow color, slowly with some holes. And there are a lot of teeth tied to the flag, and the two largest on the edges, about the length of the middle finger. Looking at the shape, they should all be canine teeth, but I don't know what kind of animal they are. The contents of the flag itself are no longer legible.

Master put on his gloves and pinched the flag slightly, and the flag turned into a pile of powder. Come to think of it, it should have been oxidized for so many years, and a little of its original appearance has already burned high incense.

As for the canine teeth, when the master picked them up, the rope that tied the canine teeth seemed to be non-existent. Then the canine teeth were easily broken, and the two fingers were twisted, and then they sniffed gently.

"Master, what do you smell? It's so big, it's not a lion or a tiger, right? I leaned over and looked at the powder of the tooth carefully, and I didn't see anything different.

The master shook his head: "The lion and tiger are rarely used for such occasions, and I suspect that they are the teeth of the lynx." ”

Lynx? I haven't seen it yet, but I've heard that it's very ferocious, and many lynx have been found in remote villages, but the villagers don't know what they are, so they call them bobcats.

The second uncle took another relatively long canine tooth, held it in his hand, and grabbed it vigorously. Directly turned into powder, I guess the second uncle went to boil Chinese medicine, everything to grind into powder, is it just a direct grip, it is simply time-saving and labor-saving. Then the second uncle raised his hands and poured the powder on top of the torch. came out with a lot of Mars, and the master looked at the second uncle with some expectation.

"How's that, brother, this is a lynx, right?" The master saw that the powder of the entire tooth was burned clean, and asked the second uncle curiously.

The second uncle raised his head: "How do I know, I'm just bored and burn something to play." ”

In an instant, there were three black lines in my head, and my master directly gave the second uncle a kick, looking like an expert, just teasing everyone!

"Master, what do you care about your teeth?" I found out that Master is more like a curious baby than me, and I have to study and understand everything I get, and I don't know what it is for, in my opinion, it is a waste of time!

The master looked at the broken tooth, and the old god said, "You can see that this is an altar." ”

I nodded, obviously!

"During the Three Kingdoms period, there were quite a lot of foreign cultural fusions, and the funeral cultures blended with each other led to countless possibilities, we want to figure out the role of this altar, figure out these materials and everything, and then study it according to the style, which is much more accurate than direct guessing." After the master finished speaking, he lowered his head and took out the small tooth and looked at it repeatedly.

"Master, why haven't I heard of the use of sacrifices for lynxes?" I tried to remember the books that my ancestor had left to my master, and it seemed that I had never read them like this.

The third uncle said: "Yes, there was a large tomb in the Eastern Han Dynasty before, and the bones of lynx were unearthed in it. And in that tomb, the lynx is the patron saint. If this is a tomb of the Three Kingdoms period, it may have left the style of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time, and it is very likely that it is a lynx. ”

I nodded, I still didn't know much about the tombs of that period, and while Master was pondering, I began to look at the altar. The altar is a unique structure used in ancient times to worship the gods and pray for protection. The ancestors incorporated their perception of the gods into it, sublimating it into unique concepts, such as orientation, yin and yang, layout, etc., all of which are perfectly embodied in these buildings. The sacrificial activity is a dialogue between man and God, and this dialogue achieves the echo between God and man through rituals, music, dance, and sacrifices.

What is the purpose of an altar on the periphery of this tomb? Do you pray that this tomb will be built smoothly? The altar has an equilateral heptagon shape, which is the first time I have seen it. A circular stone platform raised in the middle was planted with the flag that Master was now looking at.

On the outside of the round platform, facing the seven corners, there are seven grooves. I guess they came to place sacrifices. In the course of many sacrifices, the human body and various living beings were sacrificed as sacrifices. With the various gods and goddesses for whom they are dedicated, a mysterious one-to-one correspondence is gradually established. However, in ancient times, more often than not, people were used for sacrifice. The most used is the human heart, but in the countryside, it is directly killed on the spot to sacrifice boys and girls, although it is dark and bloody, but the spirit conveyed also represents people's yearning for a better life.

From the altar to the top, carved into the table, many small figures, all but one of the priests, kneeling. But the portrayal is so general that I can't see what they're praying for.

I kicked it and found that the stone platform was hollow. The master didn't know when he stopped working on the teeth, and squatted down to look at the little figure carved on the altar with me.

"It's cruel." Master said lightly. Cruel? I really didn't see it. Master circled around the altar, and the longer it went, the more his brows wrinkled.

As someone who is familiar with Master, I know very well that Master is really angry when he moves.