Chapter 15: The Underground River

The second uncle turned off the miner's lamp, and I and left and right also suppressed the light from the flashlight under us, and everyone lay on the ground to keep quiet. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Stopped," he said, then turned around and pulled a military knife from his backpack and held it in his hand.

"Right, what are you doing?" asked Senior Brother Meiren'er.

"The position seems to be getting lower, let's go any further," replied left and right.

The second uncle couldn't think of any way to deal with it for a while, so the wisest thing to do in front of him at this stage was to continue to move forward, although none of us could predict what else would happen in front of him.

Luckily, my luggage wasn't heavy, but because my back was cut by the sharp corners of the burial chamber, there were a few bloody wounds, and although it wasn't in the way, it was really enough for my physique to walk and rub against the luggage.

I was thinking wildly, I didn't know how long I had been walking, but anyway I came out of one tomb entrance, and then I entered another, and so on. Suddenly the second uncle stopped suddenly, I couldn't dodge, and suddenly hit the second uncle's bag, fortunately the fat man was blocking me behind, otherwise, I would have to fall on my back to turn over if I said anything.

"What's up, second uncle," I asked.

"Look, ahead" I looked in the direction of the second uncle's finger, the field of vision in front became extremely wide, and I heard the sound of dripping water, "It seems to be an underground river ahead," the second uncle said.

We go further, on the bank of the river set up a blue-green stone stele, the stele has a claw head, there is a turtle below, and there is a text engraved in the middle, and the ancients often engraved their life's achievements on the stele to pass on to future generations. Walking all the way to the stele, the second uncle took a small handful of water from the river with his hand and teased it on the stele, and the words on the stele suddenly became clear after the stele was washed by the water. There are a large number of hand-copied texts on it, which seems to record the origin of the Tubo Dynasty, because after I woke up, I told the second uncle and them about the memory of a dream or a ghost to tell the second uncle and them, the left and right did not speak, and the second uncle did not say much, just smiled and said, "Big nephew, great, finally waited, I don't understand what the second uncle is saying, but we have speculated that this ancient tomb belongs to the Tubo Dynasty, so at this moment we are not surprised that the Tubo Dynasty is mentioned on the stone tablet."

In fact, before that, the "Records of Tibetan Princes and Ministers" and "Records of Tibetan Kings" had recorded the history of the origin of the Tubo Dynasty, and later well-known scholars translated the original text into the vernacular for everyone to understand.

"The gods descended from the sky to the world, and in the place where the gods descended from the sky, there were the sons of the six kings of the heavenly father, three brothers and three brothers, plus Chi Dun Zhi, a total of seven people, and the son of Chi Dun Zhi was Nie Chi Zamp Puye, and the gods sent him to be the master of Yadi and descend to this place in Yayu. When he first descended on the Sacred Mountain, Mount Meru bowed deeply for him, the woods ran for him to greet him, the spring water greeted him clearly, and the stones and stones all bent down to salute, so Nie Chi Zanpu came to be the master of the six yaks of Tubo. "Nie Chi Zampu went through a total of seven lifetimes, and returned to the Heavenly Realm after his death. After arriving at Zhigong Zampu, because the "heavenly rope" was cut off, it remained in the world forever, and then passed on for more than 20 generations to Songtsen Gampo" This is the explanation given by scholars at that time.

At this time, this tombstone records that after crossing this river, it entered the range of the Ganduo Sacred Mountain, which was once the place where the gods descended, and the folk legend has that there is an entrance to the heavenly realm in the depths of the Ganduo Sacred Mountain, and the gods of the past dynasties entered the world from the entrance, carrying the memories of the previous life, bringing light to Tibet, and Yuan Buzhi hid the way of reincarnation in the entrance of the heavenly realm.

Each of us looked around with a flashlight and a miner's lamp, and the fat man shot a flare in the direction of the overhead, and in an instant, the place where we were standing was illuminated. I saw a long river in front of us, Er Zhuang said that he had good water quality and took the lead in wading in, this water was not deep, it did not reach the knees, so we went into the water one by one, and walked left and right at the end.

"Damn, what is this, stabbing Lao Tzu" The fat man suddenly stopped in front of me and shouted, and as he said he lifted a foot from the water, only to see a sharp porcelain shard piercing into the sole of the fat man's shoe.

The fat man snorted, pulled out the fragments from the soles of his shoes and continued to walk forward, "Oops, it hurts me" The two buddies of the second uncle suddenly screamed, saying that they also pulled their feet out of the river like fat men, this time it was a larger and sharper porcelain shard that was inserted straight into the soles of the feet of the two buddies of the second uncle, and the blood couldn't stop flowing out.

The second uncle told us to stop moving, and bent down to grope in the river, and then shouted, "It's all debris down here, everyone be careful."

We continued to move forward step by step, and walked for several more minutes, and just as we were about to approach the opposite bank, we heard a creaking sound from the river next to us, as if something was moving in the water.

At this time, I found a lot of iron chains tied together on the shore, and a large number of sharp tools such as pliers and scissors were fixed at one end of the chain, and the end of these iron chains was fixed on a copper pillar, and I saw that the bottom of the copper pillar was hollowed out, and there was a square groove, and the groove was inlaid with a container similar to an upside-down funnel, and there was a tall iron tree fixed next to the copper pillar, and each branch of the iron tree was sharpened and shiny. But due to the lack of light at the moment, I can't see it very clearly, but everything on this shore looks extremely strange in the dim light.

Before I could get ashore, my second uncle grabbed my arm from behind and shouted "Run"

I turned my head and saw that the left and right were also running behind the second uncle to the shore, and I guessed that they must have found something in the river, I grabbed the second uncle's hand, and hurriedly stepped ashore, and when I turned my head, I immediately saw the white bubbles bubbling up in the river, I took advantage of the second uncle's miner's lamp to see that the entire opposite bank was full of iron chains, copper pillars and iron trees, at this time the ancient river was still bubbling, and we kept retreating, just when there was no way back, thanks to the beautiful brother's sharp eyes, Immediately, I saw a long passage on the stone wall behind me, and a line of small characters was engraved at the mouth of the passage.

We retreated to the Yongdao crossing, and did not dare to venture in, so we stopped first to see what was written, but if I said that the painting may still be understood, this word, I have not been to school for a few years, I really don't have a little ink in my stomach, and I really don't know anything written on it, but the second uncle is doing it, he doesn't look at the old man in life, but this ancient word is really admirable in terms of ancient books, the second uncle said that since childhood, grandpa hopes that he will learn to be rich in the future, only eight buckets, As a people's teacher and doing some serious things, he was forced to read books and do learning, so over time he developed the habit of loving reading and pondering, especially for this rare thing in ancient times.

The second uncle looked at the small words on it and explained to us, this is the text of the Tubo Dynasty, he doesn't understand everything, but the general meaning may be that this ancient river comes from the sky, dividing time and space into yin and yang, to nourish all creatures from hell, the gods are about to descend here, if mortals enter the sacred mountain, the soul needs to be purified, and then sacrificed with blood. The second uncle read it from beginning to end, and I generally understood what the second uncle meant, except for the words that he didn't understand.

That is to say, this ancient river divides the space of the entire ancient tomb into two halves, belonging to the two worlds of yin and yang, and the warriors who have passed through the hell experience cross the ancient river to the other side, that is, when the Netherworld Sect Master was appointed by the family Mani to take charge of the underworld, he set up a gate to enter this heaven and need to obtain this purification, and the means of purification is to pass the triple test of hell, which are to go through the hell of pulling out the tongue, the hell of the iron tree, and the hell of the mortar. The hell of tongue pulling out is all living people, sowing discord, slandering and harming people, flamboyant tongues, clever arguments, lying and deceiving people, and after death, they are sent to the hell of tongue pulling, and the little ghost breaks the mouth of the person, clamps the tongue with iron tongs, and plucks it out alive, which is used to purify the person with an impure mouth. The second Iron Tree Hell is to say that all those who are separated from their flesh and blood while in the world, and instigate the discord between father and son, brother, sister, and husband and wife, enter the Iron Tree Hell after death, and the trees are all sharp blades, which are picked up from under the skin of the back of the tree, and hung on the iron tree to purify the people with unrighteous hearts, and the Chungjiu Hell is used to punish those who waste food, trample on grains, and do not cherish the food they have obtained to purify those who misbehave. It's just that we don't know how to interpret this last sentence of blood sacrifice for the time being.