Chapter Seventy-Two: The Sacred Tree of Fuso
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Mochizuki laughed and looked at his masterpiece, waited until the flames dissipated, waved his big hand, and drove into the waterhole.
When he saw the lid of the largest bronze coffin, he couldn't hide the excitement in his heart and shouted, "Found it!" ”
Stroking the huge bronze tree carving on the lid of the coffin, Mochizuki trembled and opened the thing that had been wrapped in his hand, and slowly shed the brocade cloth cover on the outside, revealing something that looked like a bronze branch.
This branch is cast in bronze, about half a meter long, and the shape is very simple. Mochizuki excitedly compared the tree carving on the coffin lid, and finally in the upper left, the branch was perfectly fused with the bronze tree carving.
Mochizuki looked at the pattern that had been pieced together and muttered, "It seems that this legend is true." ”
Chiyo Momoi clenched his fists with both hands: "Family master, is this what we are looking for?" ”。
Mochizuki pulled Chiyo to take a step forward, pointed to the lid of the coffin and said, "Look, the bronze tree on this carving has a total of nine branches. According to legend, this tree was supposed to have ten branches, and more than a thousand years ago, our ancestors picked up this thing on the seashore, and it was this one in my hand. ”
Mochizuki looked at the branch in his hand and continued: "The ancestors of the royal family thought that this was a part of an ancient artifact, so they sent the Mochizuki family to pursue the main body of this artifact. ”
When the group heard Mochizuki say that it was the Fuso Sacred Tree, except for Zhuo Laohan, everyone else couldn't help but be overjoyed, as we all know, Japan has always regarded itself as a Fuso person in ancient times, this is because of an ancient legend.
In our Chinese mythology, the Fuso tree is one of the spiritual places, and legend has it that on the eastern sea, the Fuso tree is composed of two large mulberry trees that support each other. The earliest record of it is in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Classic of Mountains and Seas? Overseas East Longitude": "There is Fusang in the Tang Valley, bathed in ten days, in the north of the black tooth. ”
"There is a mountain in the great wilderness, the name is called the evil shaker, there is a buttress, the pillar is three hundred miles, and its leaves are like mustard. There is a valley, called Wenyuan Valley. There is a buttress in the soup valley, one day to come, one day to come out, all contained in Wu. ”
The Yuya is the "valley" mentioned here, and it is the place where the sun rises in myths and legends. As opposed to Yu Yuan, Yu Yuan refers to the place where the legendary sunset. According to historical records, Tanggu is located in the eastern coastal area of Shandong, which is the place across the sea from Japan, the place where the Xihe people sacrificed to the sun god in ancient times, the cradle of Dongyi civilization, and the birthplace of China's oriental sun culture.
According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and "Overseas East Longitude", there is the Black Tooth Country in the north of Qingqiu Country, and there is "Tang Valley" not far from the north of the Black Tooth Country, and there are the Valley of the Rising Sun, Honghong, Junzi Country, the Corpse of Lubi, the Great Adult Country, and the Hum Hill in the southeast. Around the time in the eastern part of present-day China's Liaoning Province, these places were the closest to Japan.
It can be said that the Yuya culture and the Kurogo culture are the birthplaces of ancient Japanese culture.
When Mochizuki and his party found evidence of the existence of the legendary ancient god tree, he couldn't control his excitement anymore, and knelt down towards the bronze coffin, so that Zhuo Laohan was not standing there, nor was he kneeling, thinking to himself Why did the Japanese kneel down and kowtow to the coffin of their ancestors?
In fact, this group of poor Japanese is just trying in vain to steal the culture of our country, Japan was called Wa Guo in ancient times, and Japan was called Fuso after the Song Dynasty. The so-called "Fuso" is actually a pillar of fire, fireballs, smoke and whirling hurricanes that occur when Mount Fuji erupts in Japan. Because it resembles a tree, it is said to be the "sacred tree" in the East China Sea, and the mythical Fuso tree is Mt. Fuji in Japan......
This also confirms that the myth of "Fuso" in ancient China is related to the belief in Mt. Fuji in Japan, and the word "Fujisang" in Japanese is almost exactly the same as the Chinese pronunciation of "Fusang".
Mochizuki bowed to Old Man Zhuo again and said, "Mr. Zhuo, I am very lucky to meet you, because of your help, we have found here, and the promise to you will definitely be fulfilled, and now we need you to take us to continue to search." ”
A person who was fierce and vicious just now, why did he become virtuous at this moment? Although Zhuo Yugui is timid and greedy for money, he still understands the truth of dancing with wolves, and hurriedly said: "The old man must do his best, but I don't know what Mr. Mochizuki is looking for?" ”
Mochizuki pointed to the carved Fuso Sacred Tree on the bronze coffin and said, "Help us find this lesson tree here, and your task is complete." ”
Zhuo Laohan looked at the strange patterns on the coffin, looked down a few times, and finally figured out what they were looking for, but this thing was the first time he had seen it, so he looked for it in this ghost place with a carving, how did he know. If you want to say that you don't know, Bacheng has to go into the bronze coffin, so she has to say: "I will do my best!" ”
Mochizuki was overjoyed and asked, "Does Mr. Zhuo know anything about this tree?"
The old man knew about this thing, and said nonsense: "Listen to the old man in the village, there is such a tree in this area, and it is on Qifeng Mountain!" ”
"Qi Fengshan? You can't get in there by walking from above, our ancestors have already tried. ”
The old man had an idea: "I heard that there is an ancient road under the village, which can be walked, but the old man is physically exhausted, I'm afraid he can't go that far." "At the moment, we can only lie one lie after another, and we must not expose the truth that we know nothing, otherwise......
Mochizuki immediately called two big men and made a simple stretcher, Zhuo Laohan turned into a guest, and was carried by someone to rush in front, which was really comfortable at this time, but he was already in a cold sweat behind his back.
When Mochizuki and the group walked to the big rock, they saw the rubble on the ground, and the experienced Chiyuki said, "Report to the head of the family, there was a battle here, and there was a smell of gunpowder. ”
Mochizuki closed his eyes, sniffed for a long time, nodded and said, "You guys should also be careful, it seems that they still have weapons in their hands, try not to conflict with that Taoist priest until they find the Fuso Divine Tree." ”
"Yes!"
The quality of the equipment can decide everything in many cases, Cha Wenbin and his party used rotten wood to build a simple raft and staggered across the river, while Mochizuki and his party were much more advanced.
After a while, two improvised inflatable kayaks were already on the water, and the remaining nine people were divided into two groups, Mochizuki and the Momoi sisters and Zhuo Laohan in a boat, and the five big men in a boat, and they also picked up some wood, split it with a knife to act as an oar, and sailed inside.
They didn't meet the three-legged toad, but on the way, they met the two coffins that had been burned into wreckage and slipped down from the river one after another, Momoi Chiyuki touched it and said that it had just been burned, and Mochizuki said happily: "This Taoist priest is really capable, and he has been opening the way for us haha." ”
When they encountered that fork, they were also embarrassed, judging from the two almost identical forks, they really couldn't be sure which one Cha Wenbin entered, so Mochizuki had to ask Zhuo Laohan.
At this moment, the old man was sleeping soundly on the kayak.
Although Mochizuki was slightly dissatisfied, he still politely woke him up and asked, "Mr. Zhuo, there is a fork in the road, may I ask which way we should go?" ”
Zhuo Yugui stood up, pretended to look at it for a long time, and said, "Right!" ”
Mochizuki looked at the hole on the right, then at the hole on the left, looked at the old man hesitantly, and asked again, "Why does Mr. Zhuo want us to go to the right?" ”
The old man's favorite thing on weekdays is to find people to be foolish, and he naturally makes up nonsense one after another, staring at Mochizuki and saying: "Since ancient times, China has a saying that the left yin and the right yang, the right is yang, so naturally go to the right, is it difficult to send yourself to the underworld?" ”
Mochizuki Kazuki has learned a little fur Taoism, he naturally knows this, listening to the old man's explanation, he couldn't help but believe it, hugged his fists and said: "Mr. Zhuo, let's go to the right." ”
The two kayaks slowly moved along the right side of the dark underground river, which was diametrically opposed to the path Cha Wenbin and them took, no one would know what would happen to Mochizuki without Cha Wenbin's opening path, leaving only the fading lights and a ** water streak in the cave.
At the foot of Qifeng Mountain, by the ancient well, two men in black were pulling the rope that Mochizuki had lowered, and one of them said, "Shouldn't we go down too......" If Zhuo Xiong was on the ground now, he might recognize the back of the person who was diving down was the person he shot at in the village that night......
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