Chapter 272: The Great Ghost Lord

We looked at Ye Jiuqing excitedly, not only did the Lingshan mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas really exist, but Ye Jiuqing actually knew where the Lingshan was located.

"Although I deciphered the Bashutu language, the origin of this ancient tribe is not mentioned in these difficult texts, but the identity of the tomb owner is revealed." Feng Cheng looked at us and said.

"Who is the owner of the tomb?" I asked eagerly.

"The Great Ghost Lord." Zhao Yan blurted out.

"The Great Ghost Lord?" Tian Ji looked dazed. "Is it a human or a ghost?"

Feng Cheng has always despised people who don't learn and don't know how to do it, he looked at the field chicken with the same eyes as he looked at me, and said in a low voice, the big ghost lord is a title, in ancient times, some ethnic minorities in the southwest were prevalent, and the leader was honored by the big ghost lord, and these big ghost lords used the magic of ghosts and witchcraft to rule.

Don't look at the ship coffin burial is not as grand as the Central Plains burial system, but only people with high status can enjoy the boat coffin burial, because this is the same treatment as God.

"The distribution of the big ghost lord is very regional, mainly concentrated in the southwest region, and there are not many ethnic minorities who are called the leader of the big ghost lord, which also helps us narrow the scope of exploration, presumably the tomb owner once originated from the Lingshan ancient tribe, at least the religious culture of the Lingshan ancient tribe, and then for some reason, migrated to Shu, so that after death, he wanted to return to his roots, so he imitated their god and used the boat as a burial tool." Zhao Yan said to us on the side. "We followed Brother Ye and investigated in the southwest region for a long time along this line, and finally found a place."

"Where?" Xue Xinrou asked excitedly.

"Bingzhongluo." Ye Jiuqing said calmly.

I haven't been to this place, but I once heard Feng Cheng say that he was particularly interested in this place, and checked the records about Bingzhongluo in their respective ancient documents, and it turned out that he was looking for Lingshan Jincheng.

I remember when I was a child, Ye Zhiqiu and I asked Feng Cheng, there is really a fairyland in this world, Feng Cheng told us, if there is really that it is in Bingzhongluo, in the description of Feng Cheng, there are many waterfalls, mountain lakes gathered, known as thousands of waterfalls and thousands of lakes, deep streams and dense forests, island language and flowers, is a paradise-like place.

The snow of the peaks and the white clouds are interspersed, the clouds are steaming, the mist rises, for a time the clouds and snow are inseparable, look at it, the blue sky, white clouds, green mountains, green fields and white waterfalls, as far as the eye can see, the beauty is also like a fairyland.

I hurriedly searched on the map and found the location of Bingzhongluo in the southwest border, which is located in the north of the Nu River, and the terrain is high in the north and low in the south. It is the gateway to the dense primeval forest in the middle of the three major mountain ranges in northwest Yunnan.

"You said before that the person who came to pawn the bronze plate was a horse gang, which just happened to confirm some things, the people of the horse gang walked the ancient tea horse road, but now it is basically invisible, only the horse gang from Bingzhongluo to the southeast region of Tibet is still traveling on the ancient road." Feng Cheng pointed to the map and said to us. "This living ancient tea horse road starts in Bingzhongluo and goes north along the Nu River to Tibet, indicating that the caravan should be near Bingzhongluo when they meet people who come out of Lingshan."

I looked down at the position of Feng Cheng's finger, Bingzhongluo has an area of about 800 square kilometers, such a large place, the horse gang can meet people from Lingshan in any place, even if we can be sure of Bingzhongluo, it is undoubtedly a needle in a haystack to find Lingshan within the range of 800 square kilometers, and these 800 square kilometers, ninety percent of them are inaccessible primeval forests.

"Uncle Feng, there are so many ethnic minorities in the southwest region, why did you finally decide on the place of Bingzhongluo?" I looked up and asked seriously.

Feng Cheng picked up the bronze plate next to it, pointed to the pattern engraved on it and said to us, the pattern of the giant snake around the ancient city, and in the sky above the ancient city, the sun and the moon appeared at the same time, which is consistent with the description of Lingshan in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

In the great wilderness, there is a mountain named Fengfu Yumen, where the sun and the moon enter.

And Fengfu and Yumen actually refer to two different places, Fengfang produces gold, and Yumen produces jade, but in the southwest region, only Bingzhongluo can meet this specificity.

The Gemalo River in the territory of Bingzhongluo is rich in gold, and there are people looking for gold mines here so far, and not far from here, the Shimen Pass and Gongdang Sacred Mountain around the Bingzhongluo Dam are rich in mutton fat jade that is rare in Gongshan Mountain.

"Therefore, it is inferred that the Fengfu Yumen mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is likely to be Bingzhongluo." Feng Cheng talked eloquently.

"Even if these are consistent, the most distinctive feature of Lingshan is that the sun and moon are in the same sky, and since the Lingshan described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is real, the sun and moon in the same sky should not be apocryphal." Gong Jue said.

"This is also the reason why we are completely sure that Bingzhongluo is Lingshan."

Zhao Yan walked over from the side, knocked his finger on the location of Bingzhongluo on the map a few times, and said to us with some excitement in his voice, Bingzhongluo's natural environment is peculiar and spectacular, and the special geographical environment makes Bingzhongluo a wonderful landscape of sunrise and sunset in one day and two days in the south place.

Zhao Yan said while placing the two teacups in a staggered manner, telling him that the two teacups were Gongdang Sacred Mountain in front and Biluo Snow Mountain in the back, and then he slowly raised his fist from Gongdang Sacred Mountain, which meant that the sun slowly came out of Gongdang Sacred Mountain, and at this time, the people of Bingzhongluo could see the first sunrise.

Zhao Yan's fist stopped in front of the teacup in the back, because Biluo Snow Mountain was much higher than Gongdang Divine Mountain, so not long after the sun rose, it would be blocked by Biluo Snow Mountain, and after half an hour, it would appear from behind Biluo Snow Mountain again, so people in Bingzhongluo could see two sunrises and two sunsets in one day.

"This may be the origin of the sun and the moon." Xue Xinrou suddenly realized and nodded.

"The sun and moon should refer to the sun and the moon appearing in the sky at the same time, although you can see two sunrises and sunsets in Bingzhongluo, but it is still very different from the description in the Book of Mountains and Seas." I frowned and shook my head, feeling that it was too far-fetched for them to put the two visions together.

"But that's the only thing that bears a resemblance to that description." Ye Jiuqing's voice definitely said to me. "And you said before that Lingshan is a country where people and snakes coexist, because they worship snakes as gods, and in Bingzhongluo is a typical fairyland on earth where people and gods live together, a paradise, there are famous and sexual sacred mountains in the surrounding mountains, and each sacred mountain has its own god, in addition, every strange peak and strange rock, every big tree, and every Jinggou has its own god, which is an extremely pious place to worship God."

It can be said that there are the top and most outstanding people in this room, and they all firmly believe that Bingzhongluo is very likely to be the location of Lingshan, and in terms of tomb exploration, I will never question them, since even Ye Jiuqing is so unswervingly affirmative, the doubts in my heart have gradually disappeared.

"Since Bingzhongluo is similar to the Lingshan described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, what did you track down in Bingzhongluo?" I asked seriously.

Ye Jiuqing sighed and told us that there are not many ancient tribes in Bingzhongluo, but they live in harmony with each other and have no quarrel with the world, when they go to visit, these ancient tribes are hospitable, but to show these ancient tribes the patterns on the coffin, no one knows the origin and origin of the patterns.

It can be seen that in Bingzhongluo, in addition to these ancient tribes, there should be another isolated ancient ethnic group, but inadvertently mentioning the boat coffin, the locals told that in the primeval forest of Bingzhongluo, there is a high mountain called the snake god, and there is a coffin for the rest of the gods on the mountainside.

Ye Jiuqing and the others followed the guidance to find that place, and saw a towering mountain, and there were dozens of hanging coffins on the cliff.

"We looked at it from afar and found that the style of these hanging coffins was strikingly similar to the ship coffins found in Shudi, and I still haven't figured out how these hanging coffins are put in the cliffs that can't go up and down, no wonder the locals think it's the burial mountain of the gods." Ye Jiuqing leaned back in the chair and said slowly. "They feared God and never dared to set foot in that area."

"If there is a hanging coffin, there are people, since it is not put by these ancient clans, it proves even more that there is an unknown ancient clan." Gong Jue said.

"We also thought of it this way, and it took a lot of words, and finally made up that we wanted to go to the mountain to worship, and the people of Bingzhongluo were willing to take us up the mountain, that place was too steep, and if there was no one to guide us, we would get lost when we entered, and we wanted to go to the place where the coffin was hung to investigate, but the person who took us up the mountain said that no one dared to anger and disturb God." Feng Cheng sighed a little disappointed. "If it's in other places, you can sneak around and wait for no one to visit the tomb, but in Bingzhongluo, although the locals are hospitable, blasphemy is their bottom line, and the folk customs are fierce and the knife is not left of the body, and we just do it when we say it, we just stand on the top of the mountain to see in the end, it may be the closest to Lingshan Jincheng."

"And then? You didn't go again? I asked.

"It's the same whether you go or not, you can't explore the hanging coffin, and it's in vain to go, and then this matter is gradually put aside, I didn't expect you to find this place by mistake." Zhao Yan said.

"So, there are only these clues about Lingshan Jincheng?" Xue Xinrou asked.

"Speaking of clues, there is another one, I originally planned to go to Bingzhongluo again, but later because I received an invitation letter, I turned out to be lame in vain, and there are more and more businesses in the Sifang pawnshop, so I also forgot about it." Ye Jiuqing suddenly said lightly.

"Shopkeeper Ye, what other clues?" Tian Ji asked.

Ye Jiuqing tapped his fingers on several cases a few times, and slowly told us that he had carefully paid attention to the location of the hanging coffins in Shenshan, not to mention who these hanging coffins belonged to, but how to put the hanging coffins on it made a tomb explorer like Ye Jiuqing puzzled.

Later, for a long time, Ye Jiuqing pondered, and after thinking about it, he thought of several methods, the first is to build a mountain with soil, but the problem is that this method is very large, and the hanging coffin is hundreds of meters above the ground, which is almost impossible to complete in ancient times when the population was sparse and the culture was closed.

The second is the plank road, which is similar to the way the plank road is built in Shuzhong, but this will inevitably leave the pile hole of the pile paving road in the mountain, but no pile hole is found on the cliff, so this method can be excluded.

The third is the simplest hanging method, which is to lift the coffin directly from the top of the mountain, but Ye Jiuqing has carefully paid attention to it, and there is no trace of rope strangulation on the rock wall at the top of the mountain.

"Then there's one last possibility." Ye Jiuqing slowly raised his head and looked at me. "There must have been a passage into the mountain somewhere at the top of the mountain, and the coffin was placed on the cliff through this passage, but unfortunately I was pressed for time, and I didn't find this passage for a while."