Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Wooden Boat
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Climbing up the waterfall along the bronze chain with difficulty again, Chaozi picked up Leng Yiran without saying a word, Zhuo Xiong looked at his dejected appearance, he was anxious and uncomfortable, he had already guessed the result.
Zhuo Xiong patted him on the shoulder and said, "Chaozi, we promised Brother Wen Bin that we would go out alive......"
Chaozi gently took his hand away, his eyes blinked a few times towards it, his lips trembled slightly, and after a long time, he smiled reluctantly: "It's okay, Brother Wenbin has a big life, let's go out first and wait for him outside!" After speaking, he took the lead and walked out with Leng Yiran on his back.
Zhuo Xiong looked at the generous back, said no more, and walked up.
They didn't have much supplies left, and if they delayed for another day, they would starve to death if they were not sleepy, so Chaozi quickened the pace of his advance.
I don't know how long I walked, until I lost feeling in both legs, and I was just walking mechanically, without stopping for a moment on the way.
"Ahead, Chaozi, look ahead, there's a bright light!" Not far from them, there was a faint light emitting, which made Zhuo Xiong very excited, and shouted loudly to Chaozi.
Chaozi, who had been hurrying with his head down, finally raised his head, he saw it, saw that glimmer of light, or rather, that glimmer of hope, they finally came out! The corners of Chaozi's mouth moved slightly, and he took a handful of the person on his back with his hand, and quickened his steps again, walking towards the hope in his heart.
The moment he walked out of the cave, the long-lost sunlight sprinkled on his face, and a gust of mountain wind blew, and he couldn't hold on anymore, and finally fell. No matter how much Zhuo Xiong shouted and screamed in his ears, he couldn't resist the heavy eyelids, and when he woke up again, he would never think that it was a different appearance.
Anyway, what will happen to Kazuki Mochizuki, who enters the cave on the right? Is it true that as Zhuo Laohan said, this side represents life.
Two inflatable kayaks followed the river on the right, with the five big men in front of them, and Mochizuki and the old man Zhuo behind.
From a visual point of view, this is no different from a normal underground cave, with dark conditions, icy water, and strangely shaped stones.
Relying on the weapons and equipment in their hands and the large number of people, they traveled much faster than Cha Wenbin walking to the left, except for the occasional "dingdong" sound of a few drops of water dripping from the rocks, there was nothing else, this road was indeed as Zhuo Laohan said, unimpeded, at first it was quite vigilant, and slowly relaxed.
After walking for about ten miles, suddenly, the kayak in front stopped, and the one behind didn't have time to brake, and hit it head-on, causing the people on the back to shake back and forth, especially Zhuo Laohan, who was not strong enough, and almost knocked him into the river.
Mochizuki's anger jumped like thunder, and he opened his mouth and was ready to reprimand, but Momoi Chiyo's words made him shut up before he could spit out a word.
"Master, there's a boat ahead!"
Sure enough, directly in front of them, a wooden boat was lying quietly on the water, tied to two chains, blocking their way.
How can there be a ship here? Mochizuki stood up and looked at it carefully by the light, this is a small wooden boat, covered with a layer of wooden cover, the appearance is a bit similar to the common canopy boats in the Jiangnan generation in modern times, but the shed of this ship is also completely sealed, under the illumination of the light, the whole body is faintly glowing with white light.
Mochizuki is an extremely domineering and very self-egoistic person, and when he sees an emergency, he is the first to rush up to see, and the two kayaks are crowded in parallel in this small space, which is very cramped. He pressed the hull of the boat with his fingers, and his fingers were slightly concave inward, "Soft! Mochizuki said.
Several big men also tried to press it with their hands, and as Mochizuki said, they could press it, seeing that the two bronze chains tied to the hull of the ship had long been rusted, and it was definitely not like it had been done in modern times. He has been in China for so long, and naturally understands that wherever bronze artifacts appear in uninhabited places, most of them have a history of thousands of years.
"Mr. Zhuo, you have lived here for so long, do you know what this thing is made of?"
Zhuo Laohan also leaned over, tried to press it a few times with his hand, and then put it on and sniffed it with his nose, and said, "Lend me the flashlight." ”
Receiving the flashlight handed by a big man next to him, Zhuo Laohan observed it carefully, and said affirmatively: "This is 'Snow Cypress', obediently, this person is really generous, and he hit such a boat with such a large piece of 'Snow Cypress'." ”
Seeing that Zhuo Laohan recognized this thing, Mochizuki was very happy and asked, "What is 'Snow Cypress'?" What does it mean? ”
Zhuo Laohan put away the flashlight, returned to the kayak, set up Erlang's legs and said: "As the saying goes, the thousand-year-old 'rampage' of the 10,000-year-old cedar is not as good as the 'snow cypress'. This 'cedar' is a precious wood, I Zhuo Lao Han has learned a good carpentry since he was a child, and has used this fine wood for others to make a coffin, according to the owner's family just the money spent on buying wood can use gold to make a coffin of the same size, you can imagine the preciousness of this kind of tree. ”
Mochizuki only knew the value of sandalwood and golden silk wood, and had never heard of another kind of wood so valuable, and looking at the wooden boat, which was faintly glowing white, it was really the same color as snow.
"Then why is it soft?" Mochizuki asked.
Zhuo Laohan took a comfortable puff of cigarette, pointed to the wooden boat and said: "This ship is not just an ordinary 'snow cypress' in the old man's view, 'snow cypress' because of the very slow growth, it takes 10,000 years to grow, it is rumored that in ancient times, someone marinated meat, because the jar could not be filled, so part of the meat was put into a wooden barrel made of 'snow cypress' wood." When they took the meat half a year later, they found that the meat in the jar was rotten, while the meat in the barrel was well preserved.
When I first moved to the town, because of the need to build a road for tourism construction, the construction team accidentally dug up an ownerless old grave, and the body in the coffin was very well preserved, but it decomposed soon after the museum opened. The coffin containing the corpse was made of 'cedar'. According to the comrades of the archaeological team, the coffin should be thousands of years old, and the owner is likely to be a Cuban Shu ancestor.
But Mr. Mochizuki, there is no kind of wood in this world that can be soaked in water for thousands of years without rotting except for golden silk nanmu, and there is only one way, and that is to separate the water! “
"Water?" Mochizuki watched the wooden boat floating in the river, looking at the waterline, there were at least dozens of centimeters below, how could this be separated from the water?
"Not bad", Zhuo Laohan continued: "There is a way, you can separate the water." 'Cedar' is a kind of cedar, also known as silver fir, and its color is not white, but creamy yellow. If you use this slurry to coat the periphery of the wooden boat that has been built, and wait until it solidifies, then the ship is actually wrapped in the pulp, much like amber, and the layer inside will not be damaged by the wind and rain, so we look like the ship is milky white, and it is a little soft to press, which means that the ship is coated with a thick layer of pulp.
You must know that a 'cedar' will produce a little pulp after it is cut down, and judging from the materials used in this ship, I am afraid that there are not enough of these wood pulps without dozens of mountains being cut down, in ancient times, a bowl of thick cedar can be exchanged for ten acres of fertile land, how much is this ship worth, Mr. Mochizuki, you should be able to know in your heart. ”
Although Mochizuki Kazuki was born in a Japanese nobleman, and he specialized in collecting treasures for the royal family, he naturally saw a lot of rare treasures, but when he heard Zhuo Laohan say this, he couldn't help but look at this ancient ship with admiration. If this thing is really as he said, it will be a priceless top national treasure when pulled out, and it is so well preserved, but how could such a valuable thing be tethered in such a river in such a good manner?
Mochizuki glanced at his head, stared at the triumphant Zhuo Laohan and said, "Mr. Zhuo, aren't you talking about it?" ”
When Zhuo Laohan saw the scar on Mochizuki's face, he quickly put away Erlang's leg in fright, extinguished the cigarette in his hand, straightened his posture and hurriedly said: "Hey, Mr. Mochizuki, I don't dare to talk nonsense about this, the old man doesn't understand other things, but I am an expert in this wood." Because of the super antiseptic ability, most of this thing was made into a coffin by the magnates, the ship in front, you see, the shed was sealed to death, I think there is something in it, maybe, this is a water burial! ”
"Water burial, don't you Chinese pay attention to entering the soil for safety?"
Zhuo Laohan shook his head again and again, and explained: "We also have a kind of floating corpse burial, which is to put people on a log, put them in the river, and float with him, maybe this is it!" ”
Mochizuki grinned and smiled: "This is easy to do, you guys, go and open the wooden boat, let's see if Zhuo Laohan is lying!" If he lies, stuff him in and bury him in water! ”
After hearing this, Zhuo Laohan felt weak in his legs, and directly sat down in the kayak, how could there be any magic just now, and said tremblingly: "Mr. Mochizuki, Mr. Mochizuki, you are joking, right?" You're kidding the old man, aren't you? I'm not sure what's inside, if it's really a dead man, it's opened, disturbing his peace, it's going to be retaliated by ghosts, I think it's important for us to hurry......"
Mochizuki didn't pay attention to it at all, just laughed wildly: "Open it, let's see the ghost ship of China!" ”
A few big men, for no reason, jumped on the wooden boat one after another......
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