"Grass, why the fuck your fart stinks!" Lao Hai said to me. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Is this what your fart smells like? It smells worse than a dead man! I said.

We covered our mouths and noses and tiptoed inside, not to mention, the seal of this building is quite good, even if it was filled with water outside, but there is no sign of dampness here, on the contrary, the small building is covered with dust, and when you turn around, you can see several of our big footprints stacked together.

On both sides is a row of wooden ladder frames, scattered on the shelves with some scriptures and historical records, I roughly scanned, there is no file after the Sui Dynasty, it seems that the seventh master is right, the tomb owner is indeed the prince and nobleman of the Nanzhao Kingdom.

Lao Hai casually flipped through a dossier of unknown age, frowned and said: "This big guy really loves to learn, and he brought so many books to the tomb, could it be that life in the underworld is extremely boring, and he wants to read books to relieve his boredom?" ”

I was not interested in this historical aspect, and I did not make a sound, and walked along the ladder. Walking through the rows of shelves, it felt like we were in a library, and we all unconsciously quieted down.

After walking around, we found that the second floor of the entire small building was full of such ladders, and the number of books in the collection was not less than 10,000 volumes, and I couldn't help but be a little amazed, even now, it must cost a lot of money to collect so many books.

I remembered the rows of stone figures outside, and I wondered, "Could those humanoid stone statues be worshipping these scriptures?" Perhaps this big guy was a famous bachelor before his death, and scholars from all over the world came to see the style of the famous master. ”

Lao Hai teased: "Are they here to worship people or books, I think this building is also a library pavilion, where is the use of the five-body to worship!" Sure enough, it's a bunch of nerds, doing some weird feudal superstitions. ”

"How do you know that this must be a library pavilion, there is a floor above and below, maybe there are other collections." I said.

The fawn walked among the rows of shelves, seemingly interested in the books, when suddenly he stopped in front of a row of shelves, flipped through them at random, and took down one. It was a tattered folded paper, the cover of which was wrapped in a thick silk cloth and covered with dust, and when the fawn blew lightly, the dust raised was so wild that I choked for a long time.

I scolded, "Don't blow at people, do it on purpose!" ”

Xiaolu unfolded the document page by page, revealing yellowed pages, the contents of which were all recorded in the Chinese language, I couldn't understand it, Lao Hai also pouted and said: "Comrade Xiaolu has a deep study of this thing, read a paragraph to listen." ”

Xiaolu smiled at us: "I'm not the seventh master, how can I understand this ghost-drawn character-like text, although some of the Chinese characters are more similar to the current Chinese characters, but according to the current pronunciation method, I can't read it at all." ”

"Then why are you still looking so seriously, preparing for the final revision exam?" I said.

The deer beckoned to me, and I approached to see it, and suddenly realized that the title page was marked with a few big characters "The Secret History of Nanzhao", which is a detailed record of the history of Nanzhao.

"Since this place is a large mound from the Nanzhao period, and your father happens to want to explore some of its secrets, then I think there should be some inspiration from this book, at least you have to find out what your father came here for." Fawn Road.

I was immediately interested, Xiaolu was right, my father would never venture to come because of greed for wealth, he must have other purposes, as for what, I don't know, so the most critical problem now is to find out, what is in the tomb of the goddess on this day.

I followed the deer's train of thought, kept looking at the text in my hand, in addition to the rare and difficult to understand the text, there are a few fine line illustrations, should be drawn with a particularly thin brush, the penmanship is clean and neat, the lines are even and orderly, it can be seen that it is from everyone's hands.

The first few pictures were all about court politics and the like, and there was nothing special about it, but when I turned to the last page, I found a strange picture: it was a monster with a snake face, but it seemed to be a queen, she was high up, holding a book in her hand, and at her feet were the courtiers kneeling, like the stone men outside.

Lao Hai looked at this painting and sighed: "This person can't be a ** mother, these people are all her people." ”

"Who's the mother?" The fawn and I said in unison.

"It's Nuwa Niangniang, the ancients worshiped stone very much, stone is the essence of the earth, and the snake is the symbol of the land, therefore, Nuwa is depicted as a human-faced snake body, with the magical ability to make people from the soil." Lao Hai explained.

I said in my heart that I couldn't see the snake body and thought it was Nuwa, maybe she was a monster!

In fact, the ancients worshiped snakes very simply, first, because snakes have a strong breeding ability, and the ancient times were very respectful of women's breeding ability, so the ancients revered snakes; Second, the ancient living environment was very harsh, and people were afraid of the ability of snakes, snakes have no limbs, but they can crawl freely, and they can survive both in water and on land; At the same time, the snake also has the ability to "come back to life": every spring, the hibernating snake begins to revive and molt and regenerate, so that the primitive people who are coerced by natural forces and have extremely difficult living conditions have great reverence for snakes; At the same time, snakes are poisonous and often mobilize attacks on people, causing harm or even loss of life. Therefore, a fear of snakes also spread among primitive humans, so primitive humans worshipped snakes as totems, believing that in this way snakes would not harm themselves but would defend themselves.

And Lao Hai's human head and snake body of Nuwa is actually the worship of the snake's fertility and the worship of the snake totem, combining the snake and the female image of Nuwa. As the most well-known goddess in the history of Chinese mythology, Nuwa's main contribution lies in the creation of man and the mending of heaven. As a goddess of this gender, Nuwa's reproductive ability is specially endowed with efficacy. "The Classic of Mountains and Seas - The Great Wilderness of the West" Guo Pu notes: "Nuwa, the ancient goddess and the emperor, has a human face and a snake body, and changes seventy times in one day. "Nuwa here is endowed with the body of a snake, not only because of the mystery of mythology, but also because of the tenacious vitality and vigorous fertility of the snake itself, which is a symbol of eternal life.

Although the pattern painted on the text cannot be proved to be Nuwa, it can be roughly judged from the whole scene that people at that time were still very in awe of this image, otherwise this aristocratic tycoon would not have built such a huge blue-scaled stone python in the tomb.

Suddenly, the fawn pointed to the pattern on the paper and shouted, "Wait, look at what is on her neck!" ”