Gao Moli's words were extremely cold, even full of commanding tones. In the past, such a conversation would inevitably seem disrespectful to the elders, but Gao Mo was more than 2,000 years away from immortality, and the white-bearded patriarch kneeling on the ground was just a descendant of a clan hundreds of generations apart in front of him.

After hearing this, the patriarch wiped the tears on his face with his sleeve, and said excitedly: "The king of Dian is injured? Fast! Come into the house, and I'll get you herbs. ”

We took Gu Yixin from the white bear's back and followed the patriarch into the house. The patriarch's old house looks dilapidated and even dilapidated from the outside, but the inside of the house is clean and orderly. On the first floor, there are baskets and hunting gear, and air-dried bacon hangs on the wall, which looks like a stone storage room. Stepping up the stairs, the wooden house on the second floor is the living room of the patriarch, with wooden tables, low stools, dinner plates, bowls and pots, and a bed against the wall, on which the black bull is lying on all fours.

I called out to the black bull, put Gu Yixin on the bed, and asked the old man: "Old patriarch, she has suffered serious internal injuries, is there any way to heal her?" ”

The old man answered again and again, poured us a few cups of hot water, and walked downstairs by himself. After a while, he came up with a jar like a wine jar.

He placed the jar on the table and took out many large and small bottles from under the bed on his stomach.

The black bull sniffed at the mouth of the wine jar and asked, "Uncle, are you taking out the wine from the cellar and preparing to entertain us guests from afar?" With that, he tore open the seal and was about to drink it to his mouth, when he inadvertently glanced inside, and found that there seemed to be a foreign object wriggling inside, so he quickly put the jar down and shouted, "There is a living creature in here!" ”

The wooden pavilion was suddenly overflowing with the aroma of wine, and after smelling it, I felt refreshed and refreshed, and my blood was accessible.

The old patriarch smiled and said, "The strong man doesn't know, this is my treasured ice toad medicinal wine. Ice toad is a rare thing in the world, when I was young hunting, I stumbled upon a deep stream with silver light, climbed down with great difficulty, and found this three-legged ice toad lying on a boulder, so I caught it back and soaked it in a mountain spring. Over time, the mountain spring turned into fine wine, and the miraculous thing is that after decades in the world, this ice toad that was sealed in the jar is still alive. ”

When I heard this, I suddenly felt strange, and came to the altar to watch: the clear spring in the altar was cold, the wine was fragrant, and a silver-white three-legged ice toad was lying at the bottom of the altar, like a silver ingot, shining dazzlingly in the light.

Tang Xianzu of the Ming Dynasty once mentioned in "The Peony Pavilion: Trouble": "The sea and the sky are long, ask where the ice toad is springing?" The jade pestle is in the autumn sky, who steals the medicine to serve Chang'e? "The ice toad was originally a legendary object, but I didn't expect to see it with my own eyes today.

I helped Gu Yixin to sit up, and the patriarch filled a bowl of ice toad wine, fed it to her mouth spoonful, and said: "According to legend, ice toad is a miracle medicine in the world, which can save lives. ”

I have also heard a little about the legend of the ice toad, according to legend, it has the effect of resurrecting the dead, no matter how powerful the internal injuries and knife wounds, as long as you do not die on the spot, a dose of ice toad, it will be healed. I hope that this bowl of ice toad medicinal wine can save Gu Yixin's life, even if it can't be saved, it can continue his life.

When the black bull heard that the ice toad wine had such a miraculous effect, he unceremoniously poured a bowl, drank it all, and exclaimed: "It smells like wine, but it doesn't taste sweet and spicy at all, but it is slightly sweet, like rock sugar water!" Lao Su, come, you can also drink a bowl and taste it! ”

The black cow poured me most of the bowl and brought it to my mouth, I lowered my head and took a sip, and sure enough, a trace of sweetness suddenly permeated between my lips and teeth, lingering around my taste buds. The toad wine is cool and soft, swallowed into the abdomen, like a clear spring injected into the body, and suddenly feels refreshed and refreshed.

After feeding Gu Yixin the medicinal wine, I cleaned the wound with warm water. The patriarch mixed together several bottles of paste-like medicine and applied it to the blood hole in my already festering shoulder blades. After the ointment was applied, the pain around the wound suddenly decreased a lot, and I thought that this ointment may contain anesthetic ingredients. Sure enough, after asking, I learned that there was a black paste that turned out to be the slurry of the nine-tailed poisonous bee, which is between honey and bee pulp, and has the miraculous effect of relieving pain and regenerating muscles.

After treating the wounds, we drank some hot porridge with bacon, and the black bull brought a few black bear skins from downstairs and spread them on the ground, and snore to sleep.

Fatigue hit me, and I wanted to lie down and go to sleep, but Gao Moli was still standing aside, ready to take me to the place he had said.

I had no choice but to get up and follow him out of the stilted building and down the street. Except for the neighing of the black horses on the edge of the cliff, only the sound of us stepping on the stone slabs remained, and we were speechless to each other, shuttling under the mottled shadows of the trees, as if we were in a different world!

After walking for a cup of tea, we came to a high-rise compound. The two black gates are as thick as iron walls, carved with a round of sun and a giant snake with its head up to the sun, the shape of the giant snake is the same as that seen in the tomb of the King of Dian before, the snake's head is high, not angry and self-threatening!

Gao Moli stretched out his hand and pushed open the two huge doors and entered the courtyard. The courtyard is extremely wide, the floor is paved with regular rocks, and a stone path leads to the two-story wooden building opposite. In the clearing to the left of the stone path stands a large bronze pillar carved with the pattern of a giant serpent soaring into the air and a strange spell. The copper pillar was corroded and rusted, presumably, this is an artifact used by the descendants of the Dian people to hold sacrificial ceremonies.

I glanced at the bronze pillar a few times, and then walked towards the wooden building with Gao Moli. This wooden building has only two floors, the eaves are warped, and the columns under the corridor are numerous, which has the charm of the fusion of the two architectural styles of the Han-style palace and the wooden building in southern Xinjiang. The whole body of the building is dark, and it faintly exudes the light of Wuxuan under the illumination of the moonlight, solemn and solemn! I was amazed: eighty percent of such a large building was also made of ebony!

As I climbed the stairs, I hesitated at the foot of the porch, pushed open the closed door with both hands, and under the light of the spotlights, a glittering black light came from all around: the entire wooden building, whether it was the building, the walls, the beams and columns, or the floor...... They are all carved from ebony.

As the saying goes, "Ten thousand taels of gold are sent to the underworld, in exchange for ebony sacrifices to the heavenly spirit"! This ebony building must be the place where the descendants of the Dian people used to hold the highest secrets.

On the wall facing the door is a large bronze portrait that depicts the prosperity of the ancient Dian Kingdom: the city is full of shops and pedestrians; Farmers in the suburbs work and plough cattle everywhere; In the distance, copper ore piled up under the mines, and the carriages of transportation shot into a long dragon and walked slowly. The blank space on the copper mountain is carved with the "Bronze Fu" made by the King of Dian, and its font is not seal, but line.

I think that most of this magnificent bronze mural was cast in the Tang and Song dynasties, because during the Tang and Song dynasties, the Chinese script had matured and completed the historical evolution process from oracle bone inscriptions, seal scripts to line scripts.

The line is relatively easy to recognize, and I used a spotlight to watch the song "Bronze Fu" that appeared twice:

"There is a country in southern Xinjiang, which is called Yunnan; The state has an artifact, and all mountains are copper. Heaven and earth are furnaces, and creation is work; Yin and yang are carbon, and thunder and fire are used to melt copper.

Poured into shape, tempered into shape. May it be a instrument of ritual music, and play the harmony of heaven and earth; Or for the tools of farming, to promote the abundance of ten thousand cangs. If it is a sharp weapon, protect the people and Xinjiang; If it is a pillar of God, sacrifice to God! ……”