Land and Sea Dome Chapter 10: Blackwater City (I)
Long Jinchu suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Devil City is in a northwest, east-west direction, about 5 kilometers long and wide, with a radius of 10 square kilometers and an altitude of about 350 meters above sea level. The www.biquge.info here used to be a huge freshwater lake, the shore of the lake grew luxuriantly planted, and all kinds of animals inhabited and thrived in the water, and then after two major earthquakes, the lake turned into a land Hanhai sandwiched between sandstone and mudslate, and legend has it that there was once a powerful ancient country - the country of black water. ”
Manzi was surprised to hear this, and he asked Long Jinchu, "What do you do, how do you know so clearly, not even many people know about this place, how do you know?" ”
Long Hibiscus suddenly changed back to her original appearance, eating her own food as if no one was talking to her at all. I sometimes wonder how she manages to treat others as air.
Manzi was a little anxious, but it could be seen from his expression that he should take this matter very seriously, or that the "Black Water Country" in Long Jinchu's mouth may be the place we are going to this time.
In order to find out what happened, I walked up to Long Jinchu and whispered to her, "What's the situation?" Didn't you say you didn't know how to get there? ”
She turned her head to look at me, and then said to me, "These words are written on the parchment map I gave you, but you didn't look at them carefully." Also, I really don't know the way there. ”
I was blushed by what Long Jinchu said, and it seemed that I didn't look at the ancient sheepskin map carefully, and Long Jinchu really hadn't been here, and my dependence on them had solidified into a habit along the way, and every time I hoped that they would point to a ready-made path to take me down, it seemed that this time it really didn't work.
Manzi didn't wait for Long Jinchu's answer, but he said to us, "Regarding the origin of this city, my master once told me this: First, it is named after the Black River. A long time ago, the Heihe River passed around the ancient city, and it was named Heishui Country because of its proximity to the Heihe River. The second is the spread of the local dialect. The surrounding terrain of the ancient city of Heishui country is low-lying, the water is ponded, the local people call it Heishui Wo, the nest and the pot pronunciation are confused, and over time, it is called Heishui country. Third, it was named after the Black Hungarian. Folklore has it that the Huns were still dark-skinned and called "Black Huns", and later people called the ancient city they established as Heishui Country. However, there is no record of how the country of Heishui came to be, and who built it, and there are different opinions. ”
"Has this place ever been stolen and excavated?" I asked curiously.
Manzi smiled, "Didn't you study history?" I don't know that there is an old saying called ten tombs and nine emptiness? ”
He continued, "As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Kozlov and the British explorer Stein set their sights on this ancient city, and carried out excavations in 1908 and 1914 respectively, from which Kozlov obtained the extremely precious 42 pages of the Song Dynasty's Liu Zhiyuan Zhugong Tune and other cultural relics. There are countless ancient tombs around the ruins of Heishui Country, which has also become a treasure blessed place coveted by tomb robbers. In 1938, Han Qigong, the brigade commander of the *** warlord Ma Bufang Department who guarded Hexi, because of the legend that "there is a golden moon under the Heishui Country", he waved the banner of building a highway, and mobilized the people to excavate this ancient city, excavated countless ancient tombs around it, and obtained a lot of precious cultural relics. ”
Crazy digging and I suddenly lost confidence in the value of this place!
Because we had to get up early the next morning to hurry, we hurriedly finished eating and prepared to rest. In order to prevent wild beasts from passing by during the night, we lit a particularly large fire, and the four of us men agreed to take turns to watch the night, just in case.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, it was my turn to be on duty, and I had just come out of my tent when I received a strange text message......