Chapter 14 The Great Emperor Qianyuan

In fact, I entered the misunderstanding from the beginning, and some of the words are not needed, that is, they do not participate in the combination of passwords, which is a bit similar to Cao Cao's seventy-two doubtful graves, which makes people have no idea where to start, and brings confusion to people.

Song Jin and I came up with the answer at the same time, looked at each other and smiled, and I said the answer: My family washes the inkstone pond tree, and the flowers bloom with light ink marks. Don't let people praise the color, only leave the air full of goodness.

The poet Wang Mian, a painter and poet of the Yuan Dynasty, and even more surprisingly, he was also a seal carver. I myself am also a person who likes seal carving, and the crown can be said to be my ancestor.

Although the poem I am reading now is written by Wang Mian and says "my family", in fact, it quotes the allusion of Wang Xizhi's washing inkstone in the pond, and because Wang Mian and Wang Xizhi are surnamed Wang, Wang Mian directly said "my family", and there is nothing to entangle here. Moreover, the word "Wang" I found on the stone gate just now refers to Wang Xizhi or Wang Mian, or to two people at the same time, which can be said in the past.

At present, the biggest problem is that we can only see a part of the text, and there is no way to determine the text on the stone that is far away from us. After some hesitation, I decided to take a gamble.

Since I came up with this answer myself, I decided to verify it myself. I told the other three people what I thought, and Lao Zhao first disagreed with my approach.

"Brother Ling, this time you come down, although we have all talked about the dangers in advance, if you can, you still don't take too much risk, let Song go in and handle this matter." Lao Zhao told me, and Song Jin also followed and said: "Yes, Brother Ling, I'll go, I've been to a lot of Tucheng, and my life is worthless, let me go, you guide me in the back." ”

I waved my hand at the two of them, "I have taken the hearts of the two of them, but I unlocked this password, no matter what I Ling Yue does, I can't risk your lives." I should have done this, so I shouldn't fight anymore. After a pause, I continued, "If I accidentally break it this time, then you can think of another way." ”

After saying that, I grabbed a flashlight and a probe and was about to step on the road, but when I turned around, I collided with the pit.

"You're insane, stand behind me." I scolded the pit.

"I just want to take a good look at you, in case I don't see you anymore!" The pit said.

"Close your crow's mouth, Lao Tzu will live forever and dominate the rivers and lakes."

"Alas, I was going to persuade you, or go with you, seeing that you are so awesome, I better not bother you."

Your sister, if you persuade me, maybe I won't go. Come to think of it, I'm still going to verify the answer.

With trepidation, I stepped on the first stone "I", and when I stood still, I only felt the stone under my feet sink a little, and the sound of Gragra came from under the stone, presumably the mechanism connected to the stone was moving.

After standing on the first stone for a while, seeing that there was no other reaction, I stepped on the second "home", and the same thing happened, except that the first stone I had just stepped on had been completely reversed and the text could not be seen on the back side up, and it seemed that even if I wanted to return halfway, it would be impossible for me to get it. My current situation is mysterious enough, this is a road of no return, I feel that the stone statues on both sides of the road are watching me, as if they will come to life at any time and pounce on me to tear me apart, and there are still some climbing on the stone statues and the ground, and then I go all the way forward, and slowly relax my vigilance, some of the stones that are far away, and I still need to jump forward. Finally, when I got to a place where I couldn't see the words, I had to check the words on the stone and move forward, but fortunately, everything was as I thought, I found the missing words in the poem, and jumped all the way to the other end of the road. When I jumped off the last rock, as my feet hit the ground, I heard a loud sound behind me, and when I looked back, I saw that all the stones I had not stepped on were also turning upside down, which meant that the back of the original tunnel was now on the surface. And now the side that is exposed, in addition to the simple auspicious cloud pattern, there are only a few words "Dazai Qianyuan", so the mechanism of this "centipede stone" can be regarded as a fluke by me.

Lao Zhao and the three of them walked on the road one after another, and no other strange things happened. The pit swaggered in the middle of the road, and tried to tease the pythons on both sides, making a threat of death, but fortunately Lao Zhao stopped him, so the goods would not be sent to the python's mouth.

In the blink of an eye, they all arrived, Lao Zhao smiled at me, expressing his appreciation for the mechanism I had just cracked, and Song Jin gave a thumbs up, but the pit came over and hugged me and howled: "Zero egg, I thought I would never see you again, the Lun family was so worried just now......", I pressed his head with my hand and pushed it away, and by the way, I sent a sentence "Fuck you, you're crying so fucking fake." ”

I finally passed through the Yongdao, and I found that at the end of the Yongdao was a stone gate, which at a glance I knew was much more gorgeous and larger than the previous stone gate. There are reliefs on the surface of the door, and for a while you can't see what it is, but you think that some are people, some are animals, and some things that look like people and non-people, let's call them monsters.

Song Jin repeated his old tricks, climbed up the stone door in three or two, stretched the probe rod along the crack of the door, tried up and down left and right for a while, jumped down, and said in disappointment: "There is no top door stone behind this stone gate, I'm afraid I have to think of other ways." ”

I took two steps forward, looked up at the stone gate, and said in my heart that even if the top door stone was removed, such a big door would not be pushed by a few of us. It seems that it will take a lot of trouble to get through this gate.

In search of valuable clues, I flashed my flashlight and began to observe the reliefs on the door. The relief carving is relatively deep, so you can see it clearly. The whole stone sculpture is a complete painting, and most of the pictures are soldiers with eagle helmets and spears and scimitars, among which there is a man on horseback, standing at the back of the procession, holding a Sulu ingot spear. The Sulu ingot is a unique weapon of the Mongols, and it is not something that ordinary people can use, and those who can match the Sulu ingot spear have this qualification, in my impression, only the best leaders have this qualification. The appearance of the Sulu ingot spear further confirmed my conjecture, this is the tomb of the king of the Northern Yuan Dynasty that I am looking for.

In addition to the soldiers with weapons and the people with Chi Sulu ingots and spears, there are some strangely dressed people standing in the crowd, this part of the people are wearing masks, looking very terrifying, holding not weapons in their hands, but magic weapons, according to what I know, Mongolians believe in shamanism, and these people wearing masks and holding magic weapons should be shamanic shamans. Shamanic shamans are believed to have the ability to reach the heavens, predict the weather, and predict the future, asking for orders from the immortals. For the ancient tribes that are not technologically developed, the wizard is the spokesperson of the gods, and it is an important symbol of faith, and often the things that the wizard decides, even the leader of the tribe cannot change and resist, because the wizard is the representative of the heavens, which also causes the phenomenon that many tribal leaders are wizards, in other words, this is like the divine right of the emperor of the Son of Heaven.

Wizards go out with the army, and do what they do when necessary, in order to seek the blessing of God, has a great effect on morale, so it is not surprising that the image of the wizard appears in the relief.

In the other part of the relief, the situation is more messy. In addition to the soldiers, there are most of the pythons, but these pythons are not with the army, judging from the picture, it is these pythons that the army fights. Some soldiers are holding scimitars and slashing at the python, some are using ropes to cover the python's head, and some python's head has been cut off by the soldiers, and of course, some soldiers have half of their bodies swallowed by the python, only two legs are exposed. The ferocity of the battle is evident.

These are all images that I can understand, and what I saw afterwards surprised me. On the side of the python, there are also some people in armor and scimitar shields, charging at the Mongols, although these people are human bodies, but they have a tongue, and their mouths spit out the letter of taste, their image is very strange, let's call it a snake man. And behind these snake people, there is a giant python, and a snake head of a giant python is bigger than the entire body of a snake person. Perhaps the carver deliberately exaggerated that if there really was such a python, that meal would probably have to eat a pig farm. In addition to the huge body of this python, another unusual thing is that there is a pair of meat wings behind it, which looks a bit nondescript. This image bears a large resemblance to dragons in Western mythology.

I pointed to the giant python with long wings and asked Lao Zhao Ke if he knew what the situation was.

Lao Zhao looked at it for a while and said, "This should be a flying python, but the flying python is just a legendary thing, and no one has ever seen it in reality." ”

"What is a flying python?" I asked.

"The original form of the python was also an ordinary python, but under special circumstances, the python had the opportunity to come into contact with spiritual things, and then it began to develop wisdom. Generating wisdom is the primary condition for a python to become a flying python, which means that pythons have the same thoughts as humans. Lao Zhao paused and continued: "But all living beings have birth, old age, sickness and death, so countless people pursue immortality, and after the python conjures up the wisdom of human beings, in order to further improve, it will consciously create opportunities to get close to spiritual objects, such as the Buddha statue in the temple." As a kind of cultivation, as time grows, the python will gradually break away from the category of ordinary pythons and evolve into a dragon-like state. However, they are only dragons rather than dragons, and dragons and pythons are two completely different creatures in mythology, and there is no fixed transformation relationship between the two. ”

"What's the difference between a dragon and a python?" I asked.

"Although both are python bodies, the image of the dragon has four more claws, and the dragon is also divided into four-clawed dragon and five-clawed dragon. And the dragon's head has horns, and it is a bull's mouth, and it can fly, which pythons do not have. ”

"Eat what you want, eat more chicken, and if you don't say it's good, you will grow claws." The pit said.

"You've eaten so much mutton and you haven't seen horns on your head." I choked on a sentence and let Lao Zhao continue to speak.

"Although the python can also fly, it has a pair of wings more than the dragon. Therefore, the flight of the dragon depends on the qi, and the flight of the python depends on the instrument. The python may be able to transform into a dragon, but that kind of situation is too few and too rare, at least this transformation is a provocation to feudal science and religion. In China's feudal society, the image of the dragon represents the king, and the image of the python is the minister, so the python dragon is equivalent to the minister can be the king, which is really a big rebellion. It is not easy to change into a flying python, and in terms of human society, it is the extreme of human beings. ”

"And what are these human snake heads?"

Lao Zhao shook his head and said, "I've heard of the snake body and human head, and the legendary Nuwa is." As for these, I really don't have any impressions. ”

However, judging from the overall relief situation, the creature with the head of the snake is lower than the level of the python. Although the python cannot be a dragon, it can still be the king and hegemon in a certain area. It's just that I don't know why there was a fierce war between the python world and the human world, so that the leaders of both races had to be present in person, this was obviously not a simple snake extermination campaign. So what is the purpose of this human-snake battle?

Lao Zhao pointed to the pythons crawling around in the entire hall, "This may be the most direct purpose of the human snake battle, to capture these snakes and lock them in the tomb to guard the mausoleum." ”

"Just kidding, after all these years, these snakes should have starved to death."

"As long as there is a fixed source of food, the food needed for the snake to survive is very small, and it is common for a snake to eat wildly and lie on its stomach and not eat for a month or two." Lao Zhao pointed to both sides of the hall and said, "Listen carefully to the sound of running water over there, and the sound of rushing water, which is the sound of fish slapping water in the water flowing down the culvert." ”

Lao Zhao's statement should be credible, the fish that came in along the culvert were the food source for this group of snakes, so they could maintain their immortality for so many years. But I'm not going to really confirm it, I'm not going to tell the snakes to move it, I'm going to see how they live, and if that's going to work, I'd better ask them myself.

Just when I was talking to Lao Zhao, the pit couldn't stay anymore and jumped back and forth under the stone gate. And Song Jin hugged his shoulders and watched the pit walk around. After walking back and forth a few times, I began to study the stone gate in front of me again, and even tried to climb on the relief net.

When I saw his virtue, I dragged him down. "You're crazy, climb when you see the door."

The pit was not convinced, and said: "I will climb when I see the door, I just go up to see if there is any treasure." After saying that, he pointed to the relief on the door and continued: "Look closely, what is that!" ”