The three of us were really hungry just now, and when we came to the front, we didn't have the strength to look, but Te Niang's really raised my eyes to look now, but I found that the front was blurry, and the temple seemed to be blocked by something.

When I came back to my senses, I realized that it was snowing heavily.

"Hey, God really takes care of us, and he just lets us lose our gray hair when we are full of food and drink." The fat man laughed.

The snow began to fall silently, and the formation was so big that it seemed to swallow the entire world. We were caught off guard and ran towards the entrance to the temple.

The temple of the Illusory Snow Forbidden City is not a wall, and although it is no different in height from the wall, it is more like a staggered row of pavilions. Each corridor has a width of about seven meters, criss-crossed, and the corridors and pavilions are completely interconnected. On the whole, the temple was supposed to be a ladder structure, narrower in front and wider further back.

No matter how complex the structure of these pavilions is, the dome of the temple is a complete whole, like a huge chessboard, directly covering all the columns.

Although the color of the entire temple was very simple, all red, but when it stood on the top of this snowy peak, that touch of red was perfect.

When the Scarlet Waterfall approached the Forbidden City, I suddenly had this feeling.

We walked through the snow to the dome of the temple, and we couldn't help but look back and forth, looking for steps to enter the pavilion.

The pavilion is about a meter and a half high above the ground, and the bottom is supported by pillars, which I estimate may still be padded with stones in the deeper places, otherwise these pillars alone would not have been able to carry such a huge building.

But when we looked around, we were surprised to find it. There are no steps leading to the inside of the pavilion.

"Did we go wrong?" I asked the fat man.

"No, the place where the stone slab outside is spread out must be the altar, and we have been walking here." The fat man also explained to me the temple in front of him, "Generally speaking, the corridor pavilion and the long pavilion are built between the altar and the temple, that is to say, these seemingly complex pavilions are actually a road to the temple, and it stands to reason that they walk through the altar. The entrance to the pavilion is certainly not in front of it, just on both sides. ”

After listening to this, I looked at it again, "But, if there is no entrance, it just doesn't, this, or we can just go in." ”

The fat man smiled. "Yo, you're really enlightened."

"Then what's the solution?" As I spoke, I began to look at the height above. In addition to the distance between the pavilion and the ground is more than one meter. There is also one on both sides of the pavilion. The wooden fence adds up to nearly three meters, and it takes a bit of effort to climb it.

Then I gave the fat man a look.

The fat man gave me a look back, and then said, "Go and go, damn me want to step on Lao Tzu again." ”

"Why don't you step on you, do you still want you to step on me?"

The fat man shook the fat off his body. I felt that I was right, so I squatted down. But at this time, we saw that the ninth brother was burrowing under the pavilion.

"Brother Jiu, what are you doing?" I shouted.

Brother Jiu ignored me. I still poked my upper body in. He was half-lying on the ground, as if there was something under the pavilion, and I glanced at the fat man and walked over.

"Brother Jiu, what did you find?" The fat man slapped him.

Brother Jiu waved his hand, meaning to let us lie in too. After I walked under the porch with the fat cat's waist, Brother Jiu turned on the miner's lamp. I originally thought there was something on the ground, but as soon as the miner's lamp was turned on, I saw that there were some carvings under the pavilion.

We looked up at the thing in our heads, and I thought it looked familiar, but I couldn't say it.

"Hiss?" The fat man muttered, and then I remembered that this is the cloud and thunder pattern that many bronzes and stone carvings will have, and the one in front of me is the thunder pattern.

The fat man then said, "Damn, this is a thunder pattern, then behind"

Brother Jiu nodded, and then continued to shine the miner's lamp inside, and when we saw it, we were all stunned. According to the cornerstone of the boundless pavilion, there is actually a complete carving, and what we can see now is only the part of some thunder patterns.

Anyone who has seen stone carvings and bronze ritual vessels knows that these things will not be the main purpose of a carving, it is generally the peripheral texture of dragon and phoenix carvings. The size and division of the cloud and thunder pattern must be proportional to the main content of the carving, and will not occupy too large a part. However, the area of the thunder pattern we see now is already more than fifty or sixty square meters, and there seems to be a section inside.

The thunder pattern as a decoration and texture is like this, so how big should the main picture of this carving beneath be? Could it be that the entire pavilion is built on a pair of carvings?

I couldn't help but gasp, just now on it, the area of the temple we saw was at least five or six hundred square meters, and I don't know how big it is. With such a range, make a stone carving, isn't the scale more amazing than the Leshan Giant Buddha?

"Holy shit, where did those people go to find such a big rock in ancient times? I have to move to such a high place. ”

After I said this, the fat man and the ninth brother laughed at the same time, and then, the fat man grabbed my hand and pressed it directly on the thunder pattern carving

I was confused by him, but the moment my hand touched the carving, I was completely stunned.

"I, what the fuck, it's iron!?" I exclaimed.

The fat man snorted, "What iron, this is bronze." ”

"Bronze!" I couldn't help but be horrified. This is incredible, in ancient times, bronze was much more expensive than our current gold, if this is bronze, then who must have the wealth? I don't think even Tang Xuanzong in the Kaiyuan period could be so rich, let alone other emperors.

In fact, the best way at this time is to touch it in and see the situation, but we are all a little confused by this carving, and for a while, no one dares to move forward.

"Not necessarily." Brother Jiu said, "The layer we touched is bronze, but I don't know how thick this thing is, in fact, even if it is all bronze, it has nothing to do with us, we can't take these away." Knocking on the next piece may not be sold. The question is, why would such a carving be under the corridor in front of the temple? Figuring out what makes sense of this should be key. ”

Brother Jiu's words are very reasonable.

The pavilion itself is very strange, and without an entrance, it is just a decoration. It's like someone built an overpass, extending in all directions, the road surface on it can't help but be wide, and the environment of flowers and plants is very good, but the people who repaired it sealed the entrances on both sides. What do you mean by him?

If you want to say that the builder of the pavilion didn't want people to enter, it's impossible. Why are people coming up at an altitude of seven or eight thousand meters, and you can still stop it at a height of two or three meters?

After thinking about it, the fat man said: "Could it be that the corridor pavilion above is just an ornament, it has no meaning at all, and there is no mausoleum behind it?" ”

"Huh. I think so. Brother Jiu said.

"But that's too much work." I said in my heart what a luxurious pavilion, just a decoration? People weren't that boring in ancient times, were they?

They felt that what I said was not unreasonable. The fat man said, "Why don't we go inside a little longer?" ”

I can think about it. Anyway, if you find something wrong, just quit. There will be no time waste. Although we have climbed hard along the way, we feel that we may be a little faster than Daddy and them. Because the direction they're going in is so different from here that maybe they're going the wrong way.

But after thinking about it carefully, I feel that it is impossible for Lao Tan to do such an uncertain thing, that triangular road. You should be able to get through here too.

So, the three of us bent on our waists and continued to walk inside. Brother Jiu observed the situation at the front, and the fat man and I kept looking at the bronze thunder carving on our heads.

"Brother Jiu. When do you think this carving technique was made? I think it's the kind of early Western Zhou Dynasty. The fat man said.

"The lines are correct, but I think the techniques of these thunder patterns are more proficient, but to say that it is later than the Western Zhou Dynasty, I think some places seem to be more casual, you look at these" Saying, Brother Jiu also stopped, pointed to a piece of thunder pattern carving and said: "These corners are more concise than the Han Eight Knife, and I even think it has a bit of a primitive taste." ”

"Primitive?" The fat man smiled, "Can it still be from the Xia Dynasty?" Hehehe. ”

But after laughing a few times, the fat man and the ninth brother both stared at each other suspiciously.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Damn, it won't be so evil." The fat man's eyes widened, "If this is not the Xia Dynasty, this is absolutely impossible." ”

I've seen a lot of things about this before, and on the way to Xinjiang, I was still studying these in the car, and Daddy and Erzi also told me a lot.

If someone holds something and tells you what it has to do with the Xia Dynasty, nine out of ten such people are liars, and one is a bad pen.

If you go to a bookstore and put together all the books that introduce Chinese history, you can find documents about the Xia Dynasty, which is definitely the least. A large tome of the whole history, the author squeezed his scalp to write, and he could only draw three or five pages in the chapter of the Xia Dynasty. The reason is that there are too few things left by the Xia Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that there are none.

Let's not mention those myths, in the end, at that time, it was slightly better than the primitive society, so the lack of literature and cultural relics is not difficult to imagine. At that time, the place where our Chinese population gathered was also a section on both sides of the Yellow River, although some documents say that the population at that time was more than 13 million, but many historians are skeptical about this, believing that there could not have been so many people at that time. Even if there is, if you think about it, just a part of the population of our city now occupies one-third of our country's current territory, so how stumbling the population is distributed.

To rely on these people to make bronze carvings of this scale in front of us, uh, we don't doubt the strength of our ancestors, but no matter what you think, it's impossible for him.

Besides, the Seven Star Dragon Yuan is here, so I still think that the Phantom Snow Forbidden City can't go beyond the time frame of the Zhou Dynasty.

I knew this very well with the fat man, so I didn't think much about it. But Brother Jiu didn't know these things, so his thoughts were even richer. Eh, tomb robbing, that's the kind of excitement that you can stretch your imagination before it all is revealed, as long as it's not outrageous. Don't scare yourself to death, that's what you can say.

"You can't really say that." Brother Jiu glanced at the top and looked at us again, "When my master traveled from south to north back then, their gang encountered some strange things, in the area where Tianjin, Jiangsu, Hubei and Shaanxi meet, they all found some small tombs that were buried deep and of average specifications. There were a lot of stone tools in those tombs, and according to my master, they were things that primitive people would use. However, it was also in those tombs that they also found some very exquisite bronzes, all of which looked the same as those from the Western Zhou Dynasty. But if you look closely, it's different, and the techniques are more primitive. But the effect is more exquisite than that of the Western Zhou Dynasty. And the texture of the copper is also much better than that of the Western Zhou. But if you really want to compare it with the bronzes of later dynasties, you can't find anything in common. So, my master has a conclusion that is not very reliable. ”

We listened with relish, but Brother Jiu paused deliberately. "Go on."

"It's not that I'm scolding, I'm afraid that if I say it, you, an expert, will laugh at me." Brother Jiu smiled.

"What's that. Isn't the truth summed up in the experience of failure after failure? Just say, if there's anything wrong, we'll help you correct it. The fat man urged.

Brother Jiu pursed his lips, and then said: "My master just thinks that ah, we are in Chinese history. Perhaps at some point, there was another dynasty that had not been recorded, and according to his understanding, it should be between the Xia and Shang dynasties. ”

It is estimated that Brother Jiu believes in his master, and these things may have been nagged to him by his master every day when he was a child, and they may have become the psychological shadow of Brother Jiu, so he believes in these things very much. After speaking, he was afraid that the fat man would laugh at himself again, so he continued to speak.

"Well, that's not unfounded. There are only a lot of things left by the Xia Dynasty, and in the past five or six hundred years, it is difficult to guarantee that he has not undergone some changes. I think the master said that the disappeared dynasty may have really existed, maybe it died out by itself, or it may have restored the Xia Dynasty. ”

The fat man really didn't laugh at Brother Jiu, and he also pondered it himself. "I've also heard these things you said, and some people in the older generation have found the kind of tomb your master said, which is really the place you just mentioned, but after all, it is a dynasty, and there is really no trace left, and it is too much to say. After listening to that, I thought that there would be another possibility, that is, when the Xia Dynasty existed, there might be another dynasty on the map of our country at the same time. ”

We were all a little engrossed, and we unconsciously lit our cigarettes. The fat man took a puff of cigarette and continued: "At that time, the conditions were not what we could imagine, and the population was crowded in the section of the Yellow River, and even if something big happened, the emperor at that time might not be able to know the way. It may be that dynasty was a little more backward in terms of culture than the Xia dynasty, but they had better bronze smelting techniques, and even I suspect that there was an exchange between the two dynasties. And when that dynasty disappeared from history, the Xia Dynasty actually still existed, because there were no documents left, so after the Shang Dynasty dominated the world, that dynasty disappeared completely. ”

"You're right," Brother Jiu began to talk to the fat man.

When I first heard this, I thought I was quite curious, but when I thought about it, these inferences of the fat man and Brother Jiu were still too unreliable. I~ someone in a surreal country like Atlantis has found out, and you say that a dynasty in China still doesn't have a sound at all. What's more, it was between the Xia Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty, oh, the previous Xia Dynasty still has a bunch of myths and a few pages of information, and the dynasty in the middle has nothing?

Even if the ruling class at that time deliberately wanted to erase all traces of that dynasty, he had to have some stories to pass down among the people. If the words of the fat man and the ninth brother can come true, then what kind of feudal history has to be changed to the Xia Shang Zhou that we know now?

"Huh." I suddenly reacted, "Teniang's is earlier than the Zhou Dynasty, so it can't be the Shang Dynasty?" ”

The fat man and the ninth brother both shook their heads, and the ninth brother said: "The characteristics of the Shang Dynasty are too distinct, at that time, at the peak of the primitive tribal alliance, many things have reached a limit, and the things made at that time have not changed much, and we tomb robbers can see it at a glance." ”

"One more point." The fat man seemed to remember something again, "Have you forgotten, it's the huge word in the corridor." I see that the ghost-drawn thing is really not the font of the Tao that we know, this maybe, is a proof of the existence of that dynasty. ”

I said in my heart that it was really a good time, and the special mother dared to think about anything and dare to do anything. These words should be heard by the old scholars of the Chinese Academy of History, and it is strange that the fat man and the ninth brother must not be angry to death.

The three of them were talking here, and they inadvertently noticed that the light around them was getting darker and darker. As soon as he turned around, he said, "Damn, why is it dark outside?" ”

After the fat man finished speaking, he turned back and looked inside, "Shall we continue to walk?" ”

I shook my head, "I think I'd better go to the gallery first." Even if there's nothing there, we'll wait until dawn before coming in. ”

Brother Jiu also nodded, "I just looked below, and when the sun comes out in the morning, it should be able to shine in a little light, but I don't know if the snow outside the road has stopped." ”

The three of them climbed out and looked at it, and they were immediately stunned.

It was dark outside, but at the same time, the place where we came in was filled with snow. Luckily, we came out quickly, otherwise it wouldn't have been.

However, this snow is not useless, stepping on it, I easily went up to the pavilion. The fat man and the ninth brother said that they were going to pee, and I immediately laughed and said, "You two be careful, don't freeze it into a popsicle." ”

I was joking, but the fat man and the ninth brother took it seriously, and went back to the bottom again, ready to put water in it.

I smiled, but suddenly I heard a rushed, "thump" sound of footsteps coming from the corridor behind me. Picked up the miner's lamp and swept it back, but saw nothing.

After looking at it suspiciously for a while, I suddenly noticed that under the illumination of the miner's light, a strange shadow appeared on the floor behind the pillar of another corridor at the corner. (To be continued......)