Chapter 35: A Preliminary Study

Dianchi Lake, also known as Yunnan Nanze or Kunming Lake in ancient times, is the largest freshwater lake in Yunnan Province and is known as the pearl of the plateau. The area of Dianchi Lake is very large, about more than 300 square kilometers, the ancient Dian country that was once extremely powerful is said to be built around Dianchi Lake, and then opened up the territory and expanded the territory. However, the water of Dianchi Lake is not deep, the average depth is only about 5 meters, and the average water depth of Fuxian Lake in Yunnan Province is 95.2 meters, and its capacity is roughly equivalent to 12 Dianchi Lakes, however, its reputation is not as loud as Dianchi Lake.

The area of Dianchi Lake is huge, it is impossible to investigate all of them with the strength of five of us, and the area of Dianchi Lake has been shrinking in recent years, and the water quality has been declining, and even the lake water of Dianchi Lake has become green on the satellite map, so in recent years, the government has made a lot of efforts to maintain and clean up Dianchi Lake.

Duan Yuwen and I both felt that the goal of Dianchi was too big, and Ashuna should have told Bu Jin a more accurate location, but Bu Jin could not express it fluently in Chinese.

At the same time, Duan Yuwen and I feel that it is a bit unreliable to come to Dianchi Lake to explore the secrets, first of all, the reputation of Dianchi Lake is too great, and the salvage work has been in full swing over the years, if there is really any secret inside and outside Dianchi Lake, it will probably have been discovered a long time ago, there is no reason to drag it until now, it is our turn to explore.

At first, I thought we were going to enter the Dianchi Lake, so we bought a map of the vicinity of the Dianchi Lake in the evening and asked Bu Jin to show us the directions.

Bu Jin looked at the map, left and right, and then took Ashuna's suicide note for reference, and finally pointed his finger at a location on the map.

We looked around and were surprised to find that the place her finger was pointing to was not Dianchi Lake, but a place in the southeast of Dianchi Lake, a mountainous area between Fuxian Lake and Dianchi Lake.

We followed her finger and saw that it was not close to Dianchi Lake, and it was surrounded by mountains, and it seemed to be a no-man's land. I took a closer look at the place she was pointing to, except for a few mountains to the north that could be named, and the rest of the place was surrounded by barren mountains and mountains, and in the middle of the depression formed a small depression, and in the middle of the depression there was a village called Dashi Village. And the place that Bu Jin was referring to was a mountain to the east of Dashi Village.

I was stunned for a moment, and then asked Bu Jin: "Didn't you say that you would go to Dianchi Lake, there is a long distance from Dianchi Lake." After speaking, I asked Teng Yi to translate with Bu Jin again, and Bu Jin didn't speak after hearing this, but just nodded heavily, as if to tell us, that's right, the place that Azuna was pointing to was there.

At this time, Duan Yuwen seemed to have some understanding and said to us: "I think it is indeed the shore of Dianchi Lake. ”

I said, "No, although the distance on the map is very close, but in actual life, I am afraid that there is a long distance from Dianchi Lake." ”

"Water level changes." Ryazan interjected coldly.

Duan Yuwen nodded again and again, and said: "What Ryazan said is not wrong, the map of Dianchi Lake we have now is actually the general situation of Dianchi Lake now, and in history, the area of Dianchi Lake is much larger than it is now, almost connected to Fuxian Lake. However, because of this reason, in ancient times, the area near Dianchi Lake often suffered from waterlogging, uh...... If I'm not mistaken, as early as 1262, people in southern Yunnan built the Songhua Dam on the Panlong River, and in 1268 the Haikou River was dug to alleviate the flooding around the lake. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, that is, in the fifties of the last century, the government built more than ten dams of all sizes in the upper reaches of the rivers entering the lake, resulting in the continuous decline of the water level of Dianchi Lake, and the area naturally decreased a lot. ”

After hearing this, I suddenly realized, and it was right to think about it, Ashina's ancient village was isolated from the world all the year round, and my father and they also discovered it under a series of coincidences, and before that, the people in the ancient village almost lived a life like a peach blossom spring, and they had no knowledge of the external world, and probably would not have expected what Dianchi Lake would look like today.

I secretly admired Duan Yuwen's erudition, but as long as a pedantic scholar like Duan Yuwen opened the conversation, he was easily unbearable, and he was suspected of selling his knowledge, so before we could ask, he started talking to himself again.

He cleared his throat, seemed to prepare a long speech, and said: "However, this location is not so much the coast of Dianchi Lake as the coast of Fuxian Lake, as for the underwater ancient city of Fuxian Lake, you have all heard of it." ”

I looked at Ryazan, he lowered his head and smiled and didn't say anything, and Teng Yi had a poker face, stiff to death, I didn't care about any face, I simply shook my head directly, and said, "I don't know what to do." ”

Duan Yuwen smiled mysteriously, their scholars often showed such expressions whenever they encountered some problems that others didn't understand and happened to understand them.

He paused and said, "I really didn't expect that you didn't know anything about such a sensational thing back then. Fuxian Lake is a famous freshwater lake in southwest China, because the water quality is clear, so there are often some diving enthusiasts who play here, among them, there is a person, everyone calls him a plateau water ghost, this person's name is Geng Wei. In 2001, Geng Wei discovered a discovery that shocked the world during a chance dive - the ancient underwater city of Fuxian Lake. There are generally two theories in the academic circles about what age this underwater ancient city belongs to and what it is called, one is that it was the ancient city of Yuyuan established in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the other is that the ancient underwater city was the capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom. ”

As soon as Duan Yuwen's words fell, I suddenly lifted my spirits.

The capital of the ancient Dian Kingdom! This is definitely an important piece of information, because my father and Wang Chengbao had deduced that the people in that mysterious village were the remnants of the ancient Dian Kingdom, and that the ancient village of the Miao people had a certain connection with it, so it was indeed reasonable for Ashina to let us come here.

At this time, Ryazan got up and walked away, and said: "I'm really too lazy to talk to you here, always speculate here and speculate about that, what's the point, I'm a man of action, what is there in that place, let's go and see it tomorrow." ”

We all looked at each other, I looked at Duan Yuwen, he looked a little embarrassed, he was still in high spirits just now, he was splashed with cold water by Ryazan all of a sudden, which was somewhat unbearable for Duan Yuwen, who was already in his fifties.

I admit that my IQ is not high, but I still have EQ, so I hurriedly helped Duan Yuwen save his face, and said, "Uncle Duan, don't bother with him, keep talking, I'll listen." ”

I was in the spirit of being a good person, but when I heard this, I heard that at ten o'clock in the evening, Duan Yuwen was still talking, spitting and flying, and after the last, I couldn't help it, so I stopped him, saying that I would leave tomorrow, and I would rest early today.

After a night without words, the next morning, we put all our luggage in Liu Zhen's hospital, at this time, Liu Zhen had already woken up, was hanging a drip, and the gauze on the left and right layers of his face looked like a mummy. When he opened his eyes, he saw that there were three more people around me who he didn't know, so he asked me what was going on, and I briefly explained it to him. He wanted to come with us, but I insisted that he stay here.

In the morning, we bought some simple equipment, Duan Yuwen is an experienced historian after all, he has done a lot of field work, so he has some experience, under his reminder, we bought a few long knives for opening the road, a few flashlights, some necessary dry food and some other scattered things.

At noon, after we had a brief meal, we drove the broken Santana onto Yunnan Provincial Highway 103 and headed towards the place pointed out by Bu Jin.

The road did not stop, and the car drove fast at first, until we entered the mountain road in the mountains, the car slowed down in the bumps, and this time, when it was dark on Zhilu Road, we arrived at Dashi Village.

We looked at the sky, and knew that we must not be able to rush into the mountains at this time, so we decided to rest in this village for the night.

Dashi Village is not dilapidated, but it is not a new village, it is closed to traffic, and the development is not very good, but this also makes the people in the village still retain their rustic characteristics.

We walked around the village and stayed overnight at a farmhouse surnamed Liu. The Liu family was very enthusiastic, only charged us some accommodation fees, as for the wine and food did not ask for money, we felt very embarrassed, but the Liu family said that the mountains are closed, it is rare to see outsiders, so it is very happy to chat with us and make friends.

After eating, the Liu family was so excited that they hurriedly called their twelve or thirteen-year-old son over to listen to Duan Yuwen talk about history, and warned his son that if he wanted to get out of this mountainous area in the future, he must study hard and learn from Mr. Duan Yuwen.

Teng Yi and Bu Jin sat there, not talking much, but they didn't seem to feel embarrassed when they looked at their expressions, but it was that Ryazan, who spoke out after listening to it for less than two minutes.

I sat next to Duan Yuwen for a while, and gradually, I got tired of his didactic way of speaking, so I excused myself to go to the toilet and smoke a cigarette.

As soon as I opened the door, I was surprised to find Ryazan standing in the courtyard of Liu's house, looking at the dark mountains in the distance in the east, as if he was thinking about something.

"What are you doing?" I stepped forward and asked.

Ryazan seemed to be stunned, and he didn't even notice that I was coming to him, and was startled by my words, but he quickly returned to normal, turned his head and smiled at me: "Daze." ”