Chapter 43: Misguided
Zhang Xiaofan was a little confused by the sun pattern on the whole face, what do so many sun patterns represent? Sun worship? Fertility cult? Or is it kingship? He pondered and searched for a way to crack it...
"Zhang Gong, drink some water!" Lao Cai had been sitting on the ground for a while, he was a descendant of the Luobu people, and he was temporarily invited by the team to be a guide. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Lao Cai," Zhang Xiaofan felt that he should relax his nerves, "You tell me about the legend of Lop Nur~"
"Okay, Zhang Gong, then let me tell you the story of Prince Lop Nur." Lao Cai is an ethnic minority, and at the same time, he is also a lover, so he immediately sat on the ground and said without twisting. "Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a prince named Luo Bu Naoer in Lop Nur, he was handsome and chic, and his bearing was extraordinary, and he should inherit the throne, but this prince loved literature and art and liked to dance, he wanted to go to Qiuci to learn singing and dancing, but to go to Qiuci had to cross the desert, he was lost in the desert! Thirsty and hungry and dying, at this time the kind daughter of the god of wind Milan passed by and saved him, Milan fell in love with the handsome and promising boy, and the boy also fell in love with the kind girl, but this matter was known by the god of wind, that is, Milan's father! The god of wind blinded the prince with the wind, broke his daughter Milan's leg, and blew them to the heavens, punishing them never to see each other. Time flies, youth is easy to grow old, the prince is a hundred years old, but the fairy Milan cries all the year round because he misses him, and the tears that roll down converge into a river, converging into a vast ocean of blessings, which is Lop Nur. ”
"Tears gather into a river and converge into a blessing?" Zhang Xiaofan unconsciously read this sentence, and suddenly his eyes suddenly brightened! "Lao Cai! You're really my lucky star! He stood up with a smile and saw the old king drinking water and nibbling on naan cakes.
"Lao Wang, give me your kettle!"
"Kettle? Oh, good! The old Wang Zhanger handed over the kettle in confusion.
Zhang Xiaofan then came to the stone wall with the kettle and poured it along the sandy soil that connected the stone wall to the ground. Soon the stone wall reacted, and a stone brick popped out at the half-human-high position on the right wall, and it turned out to be a hollow stone box! There is a bluestone jade crouching beast embedded inside, and several ancient seals of the Han Dynasty are engraved on the body: Kaimen beast.
"That's not right!" Zhang Xiaofan thought to himself, this ancient Loulan had its own script at that time, and it never belonged between the Han and the Xiongnu, why didn't this gatekeeper use Tocharian language, but Chinese characters? He wondered, could it be that he was missing something? So, he leaned down again, and searched carefully by the wet wall.
Lao Wang had already seen Zhang Xiaofan find and open the stone box, and he and his brothers approached curiously, looking at the jade beast. Last time, after Zhang Xiaofan's reminder, they were very careful and knew that some things could be seen and not touched!
"Found it!" Zhang Xiaofan looked at a small red stone washed out of the ground by the water, and exclaimed excitedly: "Sun worship!" It's sun worship! The sun is red! As he spoke, he pressed down on the little red stone.
There seems to be some kind of movement underground.
"Phew!" On the left wall, a stone box also popped up at a half-height position, and a golden camel lay in it, and the words "Enlightenment Beast" were also engraved in Tocharian language.
"I've finally found the key to open the door!" Lao Wang said, picking up the jade beast in the stone box on the right, "Can this be put away?" ”
"No!" Zhang Xiaofan shouted nervously with a pale face, but Lao Wang had already taken the jade beast in his hand with a blank face, Zhang Xiaofan hurriedly took out the glass bottle in his pocket, opened the screw cap, and poured the liquid in the bottle on the camel...