Chapter 19: The Sinkhole
"it, good mountain, who is full of food and digging such a big pit!"
"Do you kid understand, this is a sinkhole that no one dug it." Lu Dachuan rolled over and got up. I saw that his fire had gone down, and I looked at him embarrassedly: "I know. ”
Lu Dachuan cautiously walked to the edge of the sinkhole, stretched his neck and looked into the pit.
I looked at the bottomless pit and asked, "They're not going to go down into the pit, are they?" ”
"It's hard to say, under normal circumstances, if they go down, they will leave ropes, but now not only are there no ropes," Lu Dachuan looked around, "There is not even a pid or rock plug around...... Besides, what are they going to do in the sinkhole? ”
"But where else can they go if they don't go down?" I was in a hurry, and I opened my throat and shouted, "Sister Keqin-"
Lu Dachuan immediately stopped me: "Don't bark, don't bark, now the situation is unknown, don't invite the wolf again!" ”
"What should I do?" I put up a pergola with my hands to shield myself from the harsh sunlight, and turned my body back and forth to look around, "There is not even a single grass growing on this mountain, if they don't go into this pit, where else can they go?" ”
Hu Xiaoming, who was on the side, panted evenly, and shouted, "Can you do it?" If you want me to say that we will either wait here, or go down, if there are dates or not, let's talk about it, what's the use of grinding and chirping! ”
Lu Dachuan said: "Let's take a look around, we didn't see this pit just now, maybe there will be hidden caves or something somewhere else, I always feel that they are unreliable to go down to the sinkhole." ”
We went up the hill from the right side of the lake, and after discussing and looking for it again, we climbed up a section around the sinkhole and patrolled along the hill to the right. After a while, I was sweating profusely, and my clothes were soaked, not that it was hot, but that the mountain under my feet didn't know how it grew, and I couldn't find a flat place with a big butt from bottom to top, and it was a fucking slope of fifty or sixty degrees, and walking on it was like walking on the roof of a tiled house, and I couldn't be careless at all.
Lu Dachuan, who was walking in front of me, didn't stop taking a step, I didn't dare to say anything if I wanted to stop and take a breath, so I gritted my teeth and persevered. Walking and walking, I couldn't hear Hu Xiaoming's footsteps behind me, and there was only a "hahaha" gasp in my ears, "What's the sound, am I following the wolves?" I thought in my heart and looked back at Hu Xiaoming, where there were still people, it was just a big horse monkey in clothes, with his hands and feet on the ground, his buttocks pouting, and he crawled and gasped three times.
I tried hard to hold back a laugh: "Brother Hu, are you walking, or are you practicing toad skills?" ”
Hu Xiaoming rolled his eyes and gasped: "It's difficult...... No wonder Okawa said you...... You kid talks a lot of, I say you don't just talk...... , ...... And the dog can't spit out ivory in his mouth! ”
Is that really the case? I was secretly surprised in my heart, I quarreled with Lu Dachuan in the last day or two, he said that I didn't feel anything, and now Hu Xiaoming also said the same about me, it seems that I talk a lot, you must know that I used to be a taciturn person, I still remember the first time I saw Lu Keqin, I blushed and didn't know what to say...... Thinking of this, I can't help but sigh, no wonder people say that Shibei should be impressed for three days, it seems that this person is going to change really fast!
"If you want to go, go, don't get out of the way, don't get in the way of your fat master!" Hu Xiaoming climbed up to me and arched me with his head like a dog. I took two diagonal steps up to get out of the way, and he snorted and crawled to the front.
I looked at Lu Dachuan, who had already gone out for a long time, and chanted a poem: "The mountain is not high, the slope is steep and tiring; People are not fat, they are strong! ", hurriedly followed.
No matter how difficult the road is, as long as it doesn't stop, there will always be a head. After a lot of effort, the three of them finally took a closer look at the mountain and found nothing unusual.
Back next to the sinkhole, Lu Dachuan looked up and saw the sun above his head: "It's been half a day, they must be in trouble!" ”
Hu Xiaoming poured a puff of water, put away the kettle, took out the mountaineering rope, hand drill, rock nails, rock plugs, descent and other equipment from his backpack, and quickly started to prepare for entering the sinkhole.
Lu Dachuan folded a glow stick and threw it into the sinkhole, observed the depth of the sinkhole and the topography inside, and then helped Hu Xiaoming fix the rope.
I can't do anything, and I can't help in a hurry.
When everything was ready, I followed their example and fastened my seat belt and put on my headlamp. They taught me how to use the descent device.
"The sinkhole is about thirty meters deep, and although the pit wall is inclined inward, there are raised rocks in some places, so pay attention to it." Lu Dachuan reflexively grabbed the rope, kicked the pit wall with both feet, stabilized his body and said, "Fat man, you are the last, you help Zheng Shuang when he goes down." ”
"Don't worry, watch out for yourself."
Lu Dachuan kicked the pit wall with both feet, and quickly descended, and soon there was only a small point of light.
A few minutes later, Lu Dachuan called the light signal that two long and two short arrived safely.
Hu Xiaoming patiently explained to me the matters that should be paid attention to during the descent. For the first time in my life, I had to hang myself on a cliff with a rope, I was nervous and excited, and I promised Hu Xiaoming "uh-huh" in my mouth, but I was in a bit of a trance in my heart, as if everything was not real.
Hu Xiaoming slapped me: "Do you remember, this is not a joke!" ”
I quickly steadied myself, repeated in my mind the important points he had told me, and then with his help I hung myself on the rope and slipped out little by little. Maybe there are people up and down to take care of it, or maybe I also have a spirit of adventure in my bones, after descending a few meters, I didn't open at all, and I thought it was fun, so I left behind Hu Xiaoming's repeated warnings to slow down, and followed the example of Lu Dachuan with both feet to kick the pit wall, swing up and quickly descend, and as a result, when I was almost to the end, I hit a piece of rock that came out of nowhere, and smashed Lu Dachuan, who was picking up me below, and smashed the big horse down.
Lu Dachuan gently crawled out from under me, checked my injuries, and found that I was only a skin injury, so he immediately went crazy and kicked me in the ass: "What kind of acrobatics do you kid play!" If you don't get up yet, do you want me to build you a bed? ”
I only felt that the world was spinning, and I grabbed his trouser legs and got up, Hu Xiaoming was already standing beside us: "Are you all right?" ”
Lu Dachuan softened his tone: "Scratch a little skin, apply some ointment to him." ”
Hu Xiaoming helped me to the side and sat down, briefly treated my wound, and patted me on the shoulder: "Don't wilt, it's the first time, you still know how to pull a cushion when you fall off, you did a good job." ”
"Okay, you fat man, I said that Zheng Shuang's honest guy became this virtue in a few days, it turned out that you taught him!" Lu Dachuan shone the flashlight at us.
Hu Xiaoming blocked the light with his hand: "Don't hit a rake in this Zhu Bajie, what do you find?" ”
Lu Dachuan turned the flashlight away: "I haven't found any traces left by them, but there must be something strange in this pit, you look at so many stones, no matter how you look at it, it looks like a Nima pile." ”
After two disasters in a row, I didn't dare to get nervous again, so I stood up and moved my limbs, took off my headlamp, turned on the bright flashlight, and watched the situation at the bottom of the sinkhole.
Don't look at the diameter of the mouth of the sinkhole, which is only four or five meters in diameter, it is really big inside. Except for one side near the lake, which is smaller, the other three sides turn out to be a cave that seems to be bigger than the mountain outside. The top of the whole cave varies from ten to fifteen meters above the ground, the top is flat and smooth, and the ground is densely placed with countless round stone piles of large and small stones from near to far, the largest diameter is three meters, and the small ones are more than one meter, and the height is also different.
Nima pile! I remembered what Lu Dachuan said just now. After entering the Tibetan area, I saw piles of stones piled up in many mountains and at intersections, and I asked Lu Dachuan, who told me that those stone piles were called Nima piles, which were "altars" built by Tibetans living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, also called "god piles". In Tibetan, it means "Duobang", which means to build up stones. The "Duo Gang" is divided into two types: "Blocking Filth and Calamity Duo Gang" and "Suppressing Evil Duo Gang".
Most of the "Gang of Preventing Filth and Disaster" is located at the end of the village, the stone pile is huge, and the lower large and the upper small are built in a stepped shape, and the stone pile contains the scriptures to stop the filth and evil, eliminate the disaster, and pray for peace, and there are grains, gold, silver, jewelry, guns, knives and spears.
Most of the "evil cult gangs" are located on the side of the road, by the lake, at the crossroads, etc., the stone pile is small in scale, the shape is conical, there is no ladder, the right pile contains the evil spell, and the stone pile also hides guns, knives and spears. Most of the stones, slabs or pebbles of the Nima pile are engraved with words and images. The content is mostly Tibetan Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues, animal protection gods, six-character mantras and various auspicious patterns.
On auspicious days, people simmer mulberry and add stones to the Nyima pile, touch it with their foreheads reverently, and pray incessantly. As time went by, the Nima piles rose from the ground, getting higher and higher.
I asked him what simmering was me. He told me that simmering mulberry is the misty smoke burned by pine and cypress branches, and that it is a Tibetan ritual to worship the gods of heaven and earth. He also told me a legend related to the hero King Gesar:
Legend has it that King Gesar made great achievements in the war of subduing demons and destroying demons, suppressing the strong and helping the weak. One day Gesar gathered his elite soldiers and his subjects in charge and sang to the people:
No one is blessed by gods, and everything is against the clouds. If the two are together, everything you want will come true. On the fifteenth day of May, the subjects of the Ling Kingdom please listen carefully, go to the top of the peak of Maga, simmer the leaves of the precious cypress, and sacrifice to the gods and gods of the four directions.
Gesar believed that if he did not simmer mulberry to worship the gods, the protector gods of the Ling Kingdom would not be able to help him subdue the demons, so he decided to simmer mulberry to worship the gods on May 15. At this time, the red steel horn of the demon country ordered the root of the bison to invade the Ling country, because Gesar sacrificed to the gods with mulberry smoke, and the gods liked it, so Gesar won a big victory. Since then, Gesar has started his great cause of protecting his family and defending the country, subduing demons and subduing demons from the mulberry smoke......
Thinking of this, I carefully looked at the stones on the stone piles, and there were no mantras, discerning eyes, idols, or auspicious patterns engraved with them, but they were just round or square stones.
"Zheng Shuang, if you don't keep up, what are you doing there alone?"
Lu Dachuan called me, and I realized that he and Hu Xiaoming had already walked out to the right side of the cave.
"Nothing." I trotted all the way to chase them. I don't know if it's because the shadows of the rocks shaken by the flashlight are getting longer and shorter, or if I feel the rocks moving when I run, but I suddenly feel that those rocks have suddenly become extremely terrifying, like those dirt bags on the mass graves in the mountains behind my house......
When I thought of the mass grave, a thought popped into my head: Could it be that the sinkhole is a cemetery? Are these piles of stones graves?